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Jeez! I drive home for one second, and Swissy has to first his own post.
I have yet another road trip, starting tomorrow. After that I am left alone, finally. I can push out all kinds of stuff. I was surprised to see the emergency post used so fast. I was hoping it was a mistake.
I hereby challenge Bro to put forth his first post and to put aside his childish ways, for at least a short time.
No joke. He needs to do it.
Good lord no! He’s been beating the same three dead horses for ages. And they aren’t even his own dead horses, he drags them in from a handful of youtubers, If he ever has an original thought it’ll probably give him a stoke.
Sounds about right.
This site prints your weekly column. The bar isn’t that high.
Ayup.
My opinions diverge from those (entertainment) Youtubers more than most of the people on here who post links to those same people. I disagree with The Drinker frequently. There are a number of their movie recommendations I’ve hated, many a review of older movies I hate.
And what you consider regurgitated is still a minority opinion. It just happens to be a majority in this bubble. Hence your attack on its “originality.” When it comes to politics, I don’t follow a single talking head or Youtuber. I don’t watch or use any single source of it. Most of the news I read comes from links posted here, or just shit I come across on other sites. Again, the opinions I hold are a minority in the general population and simply a majority here. But no one can accuse me of simply repeating the same shit other people here say.
It is funny to me that the guy who runs around being a contrarian, someone who usually can’t even support his objections with facts or sources, is going to come at me about my originality or lack thereof to begin with. What original opinion have you ever brought to the table?
I can find the same objections you offer around here from any NPC egg-avatar Twitter account. Hurr dee durr Trump shouldn’t have broken the law if he didn’t want to be prosecuted! What a gem that one was. How original. Much applause, Hyperbole. You can’t actually point to the laws he broke or explain how he broke them, but by god you know he broke them because CNN said so and because we all believe he didn’t really do much at all. Walk outside your shithole of a house in Cleveland and I’m sure you’ll find plenty of hipster douches who would agree with your stunningly original take.
Not much if any thought is original to begin with. But the opinions I hold are not easy ones to have in every day life because you are going to find overwhelming hostility to those ideas from general population. Even from conservatives. But tell me some more about how “unoriginal I am.” There isn’t anyone on this site who consistently or really ever offers up an opinion I haven’t been exposed to before. After years of being here, just about everything has been said already by multiple people. This isn’t an insult to the people who post here at all. It’s simply recognition of the fact that this is a political echo chamber.
You are a douchy ass who is too weak to actually hold a strong opinion that would actually invite a hostile backlash. You are an actual fence sitter who mistakes being neutral for being fair minded. That’s the most boring, unoriginal place a person can be.
The day a Firster like myself feels threatened by someone with your intellectual capacity, I’ll hang up my Firsting cape for good.
So what is the movie on Thursday?
Didn’t we discuss this two posts ago? Or was that an imposter?
Was I drunk? Let me go look.
I will spare you. It’s Vampire Ecstasy, aka Devil’s Plaything. The Devil’s Plaything version has a little more run time of naughtiness, supposedly.
That must have been an imposter then.
Damn good imposter. Kinda scary.
“Damn good imposter. Kinda scary.”
Huh, wonder what is happening.
Addressed you during Winston’s Mom post, July 11, 2023 at 12:21 pm. I ended up talking to MikeS and not realizing it because I was busy at work.
😐
I’m sorry that the Movieland app got pulled from Roku, so my last suggestion (Battle of the Godfathers) no longer seems to be streaming anywhere.
It’s ok. It is a never ending search for interesting content. Something else will come along. I have been very short handed this summer, I haven’t even been able to plan two weeks’ out. That ends after this last road trip.
The Devils Plaything (1973)??
Yes. Pull that, would be nice to compare run times.
OK 🙂
Don’t you dare suggest Swissvale can First, Felicia.
Sorry. Enjoying SoCal with the family. I may have finally convinced cousins to visit Virginia next year. I would like to help them escape but then I wouldn’t have a reason to visit.
Thanks for the reminder to get mine posted.
I have been unable to submit anything worthy. I will see if I can come up with something that doesn’t suck.
I guess I’ll write that shitty day-in-the-life thing that’s probably not very interesting but better than nothing ?
Tall Tales of Texas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5OfviJJTHo
Ok, I’m through the two times a week giving IV fluids to my now sadly deceased cat and my Japanese class has been shitcanned because of instructor availability. I’ll bite.
Would folks be more interested in learning about a Japanese comedy style and language dialect through
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Master_Has_No_Tail
Or
The new, new thing that lets me explain some slang usage, the hell that is the Japanese entertainment system and also the property that spanned a Billboard ex US global top 10 (may have gone to 1) hit song?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshi_no_Ko
YOASOBI「アイドル」 Official Music Video
https://youtu.be/ZRtdQ81jPUQ
To say it was not beloved by my Japanese friends interested in music would be an understatement.
Sorry, about the cat.
Me too. Very sad. I loved all my cats. I love my new kitties but know they will make me sad someday.
As far as your ideas, how about a memorization article on common phrases like “Where is the bathroom,” or “Help me! My foot’s been cut off!”
News we could use.
So my experience here has been that there isn’t much interest in the language proper so I’ve tended to focus on history and culture or linguistic properties like dialects and masculine or feminine speech patterns.
If there really is interest in phrases I’d be happy to do it, but there are plenty of them on the web.
Yes, but I like it when you write it. That said, whenever I take anyone’s advice on movie posts, nobody shows up. So you may have something there, write what you enjoy.
That’s because you haven’t posted Big Tits Zombie.
Zombie toilet of the damned is finally available.
Zombie Ass Toilet of the Dead (2011) is not good. And I’m someone who has seen Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl three times. There are way way better examples of new Japanese gore.
For example, last I checked, Big Tits Zombie was on YT 🙂
I wonder what archive org’s upload policy is? I know it’s not a file host like mega whatever, but getting something there would be a way of sharing it.
はい。
Sorry to hear about your cat and class both.
Unrelated, noticed that most of the audience is unmasked at this months sumo basho. A little more masking than before times but not the universal it was just a short time ago. Not mostly westerners or obvious foreigners either.
Here in NYC the Asian and especially female Asian masking is more the norm than any other group. However, blacks are a close second.
I hadn’t noticed any difference between blacks and whites though TBH there are very few of the former in my neighborhood. The MENAs who dominate here pretty much follow whitey patterns of maskage or lack thereof.
But yeah, the Asians… there is a big population of them in my neighborhood too and they are basically 100% masked at all times.
More masking at Asian grocery stores around here, but not as much by college kids (largely mainland Chinese). S Asian tech bros are close to zero.
Sort of strange, as my wife is Asian and only ever masked when she went to see a doctor/dentist. We knew it was BS from Day 2 and the vaccines were totally avoided as well. We were the target audience but knew it was a trap.
Obviously, you’ve worked your tricknology on her.
She is powerless before his bleach-demon influence.
Sorry about your cat Sensei. I like our second choice.
Sensei, if you see this, I’d be interested in your second idea.
So, if I’m hearing you, my stupid hiking article is due?
Yes?
It’s not really stupid. It’s more of an add-on to Chafed’s GlibFit article with more detail, etc.
Fuck it. I’m flying solo for a few days this weekend. I’ll endeavor to persevere.
Oh, it’s not due, it’s way over due.
Duh.
I had a couple of articles for Pride Month pretty much finished — pictures resized and everything. Then I couldn’t post anything. Now it’s July. I have a couple of other articles nearly done. This huge article in response to a Astral Codex Ten post that I will never finish. Then a couple others that are just silly. I just need to find the time…
Oh, my!
Don’t blame me. Blame wordpress or whatever the fuck happened.
Anyway, the titles were “Patriot Front Are A Bunch of Fags” and “Should the Non-Binary Be Rounded Into Camps?”
What kind of fag are you – I was channeling George Takei.
That confirms my suspicion.
Sounds* like it is time for ZWAK MUSIC!
*like that?
Thus Spoke Zwakthustra.
Heck yeah. Extended Zwackiverse music article.
https://www.planters.com/product/planters-dill-pickle-cashews/
Why? Everything seasoned cashews uber alles.
That’s nuts.
Deez nuts?
You’ll love my nuts!
+1 shamwow
That guy bit a hookers face on coke.
lol I knew there was some controversy there but couldn’t remember what.
Dude was funny as hell for awhile there.
The pickle madness must end.
I think I would eat the hell out of that. I have never seen an “everything seasoned”.
I get them at the Fresh Market. 2nd biggest snack obsession after pistachio butter.
I have no idea what that is but I’m guessing not a Planters product?
But yeah, cashews are my favorite nut by a wide margin. It is difficult to stop eating them.
But they let you know when you’ve had too many…
Our sweet next door neighbor gave me a big bag of hazelnuts, which I’d never eaten by themselves before. I munched on a bunch of them and came to regret that the next day.
Semi-related: I need some (simple) ideas for what to do with a bunch of hazelnuts.
Dredge them in melted chocolate and caramel.
Thanks! Sounds delicious!
I just got a cookie notification at that link, but it’s OBVIOUSLY candy.
https://www.thefreshmarket.com/
Ah. Not near me.
I’m moving to Wegmans-land – kind of stoked. The “supermarkets” in most parts of the outer boroughs of NYC would make most Americans laugh.
Weirdly, there are some decent supermarkets in Manhattan, mostly in giant super-block developments of the kind the mostly don’t exist in the outer boroughs (except some parts of Queens).
Local Wegman’s is good. Local Fresh Market is personal. TFM asks about my gf if I’m by myself.
I’m almost sad that I quit nicotine if only because I have no reason to visit the minimart where I’d bought it for the last 15 years. Hell, I watched the counter dudes grow up.
Would.
Look, next to salted cashews, I like honey-roasted cashews. I’m not gonna go getting all fancy with other flavors. Cashews are nummy on their own.
The local farmers market fresh roasts them. Happiness is warm nuts…err seeds.
So much better fresh.
Nice. I have beer nuts cashews and some beef jerky for tomorrow’s drive.
I can’t tell if that would be terrific or terrible.
Still have another post I need to write based on my vacation last month – maybe this weekend.
Yusef – sent you another note in post last thread.
I’m so overwhelmed with everything else in my life that the thought of writing is horrifying right now.
Besides the fact that my attention span is approaching Sleepy Joe levels.
Writing always terrifies me, work has me slammed too. Work buddy and peer has been having a tough time of it and started checking out, so there’s a backlog while the normal project flow gets turned up to 11. Trying to keep on top of it before some jackass starts throwing unqualified bodies at it and ends up causing more long term problems.
Good news is I’m working in downtown Portland again this week. Junkie laying on the sidewalk was shooting up when I pulled in this afternoon. Awesome!
Nice!
I’m still waiting on approval for remote work. I’m moving anyway so it’s not like there’s any question. Well… the question is, do I have to resign or not.
I love how these things are crafted. Also that the media will essentially print the whole press release too.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/white-sox-all-star-pitcher-lucas-giolito-wife-file-divorce-four-years-marriage
I’ll have to see how she looks before I decide whether I should care.
And nope. I don’t care.
Lol. That’s what I was thinking.
I have no idea who those two are but I’m still going to guess that neither one of them had any input on that boilerplate copy.
How about an article on the libertarian overtones of “Gary Busey: Pet Judge?”
Pet Judge as in “judges pets” or as in “RBG?”
Northwestern fired their head coach who they believe had no knowledge of the hazing going on in his program.
It is striking to me that we hold a football coach responsible for the culture of his team and what he should have known, but not, say, the president who can say he found out about some scandal in his administration in the newspaper along with you.
The college football coach isn’t leading us to Utopia the way President Most Popular Votes Ever is.
Unanswerable question for Obama supporters:
“Obama is the smartest guy who has ever been president?”
“Yes”
“Being smart, he is also a good leader?”
“Yes.”
“And you’re sure that he knew nothing about scandal X until he read it in the newspaper”
“Yes”
“So the smartest guy who’s ever been president has no idea what’s going on in his own administration.”
Response 1: unanswering silence.
Response 2: “well, the government is so big that no matter how smart someone is, they can’t be responsible for everything.”
“So if the smartest president ever doesn’t know what’s going on, might that suggest the government is too big?”
The inquiry should have ended there.
Correct.
The evidence for that is entirely based on credentialism. And even then he falls short.
Nuh uh: Penn Gillette assured me Obama was SO much smarter than even Gillette was.
So, Penn admits to having a room temperature IQ?
What a disappointment Penn turned out to be.
I’d like to credit whoever wrote that for him.
That is a fantastic line.
Ted Sorensen maybe?
Obama isn’t even the smartest black president. That would be Bill.
Oof.
*golf clap
Scandal X was just some made up BS from Fox News. Obama’s only scandal was wearing a tan suit.
Common Tater: download “Kung Fu Wonder Child” here. Will play it soon. No words to describe it yet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXujLKu_N6E
Those MBAs really know what they are doing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bud-light-plummets-14th-place-210130892.html
That CEO stepping down would do a hell of a lot more for those 65,000 employees who work for him than his pleading.
Taken full responsibility by doing nothing but saying he’s taking responsibility. Just like a politician! He’s taken no actions to rectify the matter. He never apologized for the promotion which is really all he had to do. But a guy with a lick of sense could have ended this within two weeks of the Mulvaney incident and it would have blown over by now.
No, no he did not take responsibility and now the only course forward is for his sorry ass to be out of a job.
There’s no sense of shame or honor. When’s the last CEO that fell on his sword instead of being pushed?
He really is remarkably (deliberately?) obtuse about his failure to offer a full throated apology. I agree this won’t turn around until he resigns or the board of directors fires him.
What exactly is he taking responsibility for?
Good! Keep tranny fluid front and center and fresh in people’s minds. A misbehaving dog has more sense than he does.
This is exactly what the result will be. Continuing to push Bud Light into the ad/news cycle at this juncture is beyond stupid.
Back off the advertising for a while, offer an actual mea culpa, and wait for it to blow over before attempting to rebuild the brand. I’m not a marketing exec and I could tell you that.
I have something in the works for y’allins,
Cheers
Potential gaining manager contacting my manager. My guy said they sounded excited, happy with my technical background and are looking for a mentor for younger techs and I fit that.
Now the wait to see if they follow through.
Good luck! We’re all counting on you!
Hmph. I am a niche nerd in a niche nerd professional specialty. I will contemplate ways in which I can contribute.
For now, I’ll be scandalous and tell you that my non-authorized fraternization with my my colleague continues apace. He’s currently snoring away as I type. He gave me a lovely back scratch and rub so I am content. Sunday and Monday I left him before midnight so we could both sleep well alone.
Tonight-fuck it. He’s on one queen bed snoring and I’m on the other queen bed with earplugs. He’s had 2 epic— well, let’s just say I have a particular set of skills. He’s happy as a clam. So am I . Peace out, friends!
I’ll try to think of something that will have broad glib appeal.
Good morning, lurkers!
::glances around, resumes scouring the Interwebs for images to illustrate the potential post she’s been fiddling with for far too long::
Look, I overslept, then in my haste I forgot both breakfast and caffiene.
Now I’m sitting at my desk trying to figure out where to acquire something to drink at the office.
Even if any place were open at this ungodly hour, I wouldn’t know where it was. I don’t shop in the city.
You forgot caffeine??? You poor thing!! 😧
I guess your office doesn’t have someone like me who keeps the break room stocked with snacks and soft drinks, available for purchase under the honor system. My greatest challenge lately has been trying to keep the average price per serving for the supplies I buy remain in the neighborhood of fifty cents.
I guess there aren’t even vending machines to help you out?
If there are vending machines, I’ve never seen them.
🙁 McD’s is open. It appears to be the only place that doesn’t require crossing a neighborhood of questionable safety.
If the caffeine is flowing and you can duck away long enough, go for it!
Now I want a breakfast burrito.
The last time I had McD’s the year started in 201, and I picked it because… there was nothing else open.
Ugh.
Paper straws. I thought that fad had passed safely. At least New York was too distracted to pass a ban on real straws.
At least I have caffiene.
::raises own travel mug of caffeine in salute::
Sorry Z, you were warned. You fucked up and trusted us.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1678915489005993984
And the memes are already coming
https://twitter.com/c_fuscovirens/status/1678919694529568775
https://twitter.com/Face_de_Fact/status/1679007547083071488
He’s almost as snappy a dresser as Fetterlump.
Not a fan of Zelensky but that’s a brutal pic that sort of says it all. They, meaning the West in general, sold him a pipedream that got his country completely shitmixed while they used him like a dog. Then again, it ain’t over till it’s over (but come on…it’s pretty much over).
The Brits and the Poles are still wildcards for the next few weeks. Them doing something exceedingly stupid to escalate the conflict is not out of the question.
True, we shouldn’t underestimate their capacity for idiocy.
Mine is still in limbo. TPTB, let me know if more needs to be done. Working on the next installment of the rifle-building business. Construction and setup are almost done for the inside-the-house shop. I now have the laptop running, so I can do much more of the typing/inserting pics/formatting.
Mornin’, reprobates!
*checks outside
Yes it is!
*looks at heat index, contemplates day trip to Mustang Island State Park for some beach jeeping
looks at heat index
Texas ain’t no place to be in the summer.
Don’t Texas take their summer vacations in Hell for the cooler weather?
Yes we do.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Wie geht’s?
Nicht schlecht, und dir?
My boss is working from home today, and I’m just about done with the spreadsheet calculating the midyear incentive most employees (including me) will get with our pay next week. So…looks as if it will be an OK day!
Do you get a bonus to your incentive because you control the spreadsheet? Or do they audit your line item more carefully?
Well, I WILL be sending it to my boss once I get the final entries in, so any hanky panky on my part could be reflected in my imaginary evaluation.
Good morning people!
Late start, as I took the day off. 😛
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ao2u7F_Qzg
🎶🎶
Have a great day y’all.
Have a great day y’all.
Some of us have to work today, but I’m sure you’ll have a great day. *grumbles*
Good morning, Sean!
::calls off wellness check::
Trivia: this video was shot in Bucharest.
Where’s Pie?
Looks like daytime to me. Pie wouldn’t be around until sundown.
You get government monies, now you’re taking days off.
We’re clearly a bad influence on you. 😛
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds-on-the-hunt-for-suspects-who-stole-eggs-from-nests-of-threatened-piping-plovers-on-long-island/ar-AA1dJuQm
Oh noes! Not the piping plovers!
The perpetrator. Wearing a mask, like a proper bandit.
Yeah, I don’t know if I would leap to the conclusion that it was a human.
Depends on thetracks left, I’d assume.
I can’t assume there were any tracks