Duude…. Bogus selection this year. BTW, Home Depot is selling this stoned pumpkin.
Let’s have some fun!
Semi-annually I host a contest amongst friends to find the crappiest “sexy” costume. I put this contest on hiatus when my office closed and it is long past due to come back. There have been some doozies since I stopped the contest, such as Sexy Hand Gel and Sexy Trump. I was looking forward to Sexy COVID but nobody made it.
The only rule is it has to be a full costume, in a package, currently being sold, with a link to the listing. This year the pickings are thin. I think a lot of fun companies went out of business, and other companies are just not taking chances in this polarized environment. Nobody wants a psychotic liberal basket case burning down their business.
So I am bringing this contest to you! Last time I got a chance to do this in 2019, the prize was a giant 1 1/4″ Allen wrench (diameter, not length. It weighed over a pound). Not sure what the prize would be this year, or how I would get it to anyone.
Without any further ado, here is a selection of awful costumes which would not get you action on Halloween no matter how good you looked:
Men:
Sexy Male Unicorn: It’s just not working. The model is really trying but the costume is lacking.
Sexy Mad Hatter: There’s enough of those for real. Dude looks so stoked to be in that costume.
Sexy Vampire: Dude looks like Borat in that outfit. Will not score.
Sexy Clown: Will not score.
Sexy Slimer from Ghostbusters: This costume says “I just came from a kid’s party.”
Women:
Sexy Moth: Looks nice, but why a moth? “Hey baby, circle my bulb?”
Sexy Banana Bread: “Hey baby is that scratch and sniff?” Even if it was, do you want to smell like banana bread?
Sexy Bob Ross: OK maybe.
Sexy Clown: Do better, Leg Avenue.
Sexy Pencil: Are there any applicable pick up lines? “Baby, you can sharpen my pencil anytime..” No. Doesn’t work.
Sexy Sold Out Chicken Sandwich: Who buys this?
Sexy Miss Justice: If you want to guarantee you will get no action from either side of the fence, just wear this.
Sexy Tariff: Yes, you read that right. You know, that just might work in some circles…
So what can you folks find?
Two snaps up!
But where the hell are his knees?!
I know! He has cardboard cut out legs!
You know how to bring the pain RJ.
I thought you’d love Sexy Tariff!
She can impound my imports any day.
She can Smoot my Hawley IYKWIM.
I don’t tariff you think these are funny or not, Swissy will not be pleased.
Apologies as necessary to our non-straight friends but everyone of those men’s costumes look gay AF.
And the ladies? What the hell were they thinking.
There is good gay outfits, then there are these. These are bad.
The sexy justice lady just seems confusing. Like if a straight woman was wearing that it seems like it would just be easier to switch teams than explain her costume.
On Topic
AKB48 Halloween Night
Slutty, er, slut?
They are J Pop idols. So chaste sluts.
https://archive.completemusicupdate.com/article/j-pop-no-dating-clauses-ruled-unconstitutional/#:~:text=%27No%20dating%27%20and%20%27no,those%20agreements%20have%20been%20broken.
https://directjapan.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/takai_mamiko1.jpg
+1 Noriko Sakai
What a rough life. Victor has released a number of her early PVs on YouTube. The Bubble Era is on full display, albeit indirectly. Let’s fly a 17 year old to Hawaii and film a music video! Also, do a CM at the same time!
https://youtu.be/_yDvSEim2_Y?si=P6ZyZMnskzFMb_Iu
Reminds me of visiting my grandparents in CA in the 80’s. Same lightings, colors, clothing. I swear they had the same frosted glass top patio furniture.
Yup.
Although we got Chisato Moritaka out of the deal too.
It’s too bad YT took down tofubeat’s remix of The Miha. Takes crazy and turns it up to 11.
Good Lord, that sucked. On so many levels.
Legit LOL.
Try the staff version!
https://youtu.be/nCNI3JUEP3Y?si=ct3dIdzkldUYFggk
AKB is huge with support and sister groups all through Japan and Asia.
We broke those people.
https://youtu.be/sr–GVIoluU
Sexy little green alien from Toy Story.
Excellent! That’s the spirit!
Winner. The butt shot really makes it.
More like sexy little thicc alien.
While we’re at it, here’s Thicc Leeloo
If you didn’t mention Leeloo you could sell that as a regular dress for $300.
That is a goddam abomination. Leeloo was a goddess. Mila still looks good.
Mila is the poster girl for “good genes”.
Having finally watched Maverick , you can add Jennifer Connelly to that list. Damn, does she look good at 53.
She got too skinny. Before that…oh my.
+1 Elizabeth Hurley
Hurley doesn’t have good genes.
She obviously has made a pact with unearthly forces.
Her hotness at her age is supernatural.
The first Austin Powers movie taught me a few things. First, Hugh Grant is an idiot. I don’t care if that woman is a raging psychopath; I can deal with it for a few years. I give you my my marriage as proof.
Second, Mike Meyers is not as stupid as he looks.
Connelly has a special place in my heart. I remember watching Labyrinth and being like, ‘Oh hey puberty just kicked in.’
I like the price of the Banana Bread costume
but for something really scary I have to go with this
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ruth+bader+ginsburg+halloween+costume&atb=v198-1&ia=web
Nice. Sexy Ginsberg. The only action that girl will get is banging her own gavel.
Gah!
That’s a kink that deserves to be buried with its focus. Not judging.
Midgets that work in produce at the supermarket may seem strange…let it sink in…
I’ve lost the will…. to… live…
Bent over on their stool. Barely able to reach the back of the melon section. Stretching so very far…
Let’s not even get into the stiletto pumps.
HA!
I can’t go on.
Or can I?
The official yearly posting of “Spooky Sexy” is below:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q_i0sklrjX4
Machen mit der Dancen!
Bist du ein hübscher Hund?
Well, have you seen her video of “Fuck me, Ray Bradbury?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM
OMG that is fantastic!
In many places, this costume will get you a free ass-kicking!
Ya know, I’d actually be happy with a 1-1/4″ hex wrench. Just sayin’
I don’t know where I’ll find another. Made a great paperweight, it was around a pound.
Combine that with a rainbow afro wig and a rubber dildo, you’d pass for a Kindergarten teacher.
Ha! I wonder how down sales for that costume will be this year.
Slap a ‘Tranny Fluid’ label on it and it’ll sell like hotcakes.
I’m old enough to rember when blowing a tranny meant something completely different.
“Looks like you blew a seal…”
Naw, it was a dolphin. Badum
Sexy Bob Ross, RJ? No, just no. There is nothing sexy about that. I’ll bet even Mrs. Bob Ross didn’t describe him as sexy.
The model worked for me. It’s those shorts.
Yeah, I don’t think he clicked the link.
Shut yo mouth!
Ha! Yes, didn’t really look like Bob Ross. Totally a Superfly girl.
Get a load of the cross on this one.
https://www.halloweencostumes.com/sexy-priest-mens-costume.html
Ha!
I expect to see that one at the next Pride parade.
Did you steal your kids costume?
You wore your PJs to a costume party?
$50 for that jack-o’-lantern snuggie?
*clears throat*
I hate Halloween.
What’s the Scrooge equivalent for Halloween.
Roman Catholic who thinks Vatican II was an error?
+1 FBI identified domestic terrorist.
-1 sexy Archbishop Lefebvre cassock
Lapsed Catholic married to one of (((them))).
At the risk of offending the Halloween enthusiast Glibs – it’s a child’s holiday that in my lifetime has morphed into an amateur night on par with New Years and St. Paddy’s day.
Obnoxious behavior just because you’re in a costume is still obnoxious.
Disclaimer: I have spent my adult life in America’s biggest college town, so my experience may be atypical.
No, i think you’re absolutely correct.
Yeah. It’s morphed into another night where hedonism and debauchery have become acceptable.
Heh, the billboards for the Fetish and Fantasy Ball start popping around Las Vegas about mid July.
You’re not wrong.
Counterpoint, it’s a holiday where women dress slutty, get drunk and do a walk of shame on the 1st. As you get get older, it isn’t as fun, especially if it is your daughter dressing like a stripper and getting plastered.
You have 364 days out of the year to tell rambling stories that go no where. Tie an onion on your belt and let the kids enjoy their bacchanal.
I’m not advocating for the elimination of Halloween or, more importantly, college girls deciding “Slutty X” is the right costume (see, also, residence in America’s largest college town).
I just don’t want grief about “why aren’t you wearing a costume?!”.
And I also want a lack-of-grief about going out for it. Like New Year and St. Paddy’s, I’m content to let the amateurs go at it. I can hose their results off the sidewalk the next day, if needed.
Somehow, Halloween is the one that gets the “why aren’t you coming out/wearing a costume”?!?
Fair enough. We have different experiences. I just hand out candy and dress like Homer Simpson for Halloween. As a fat bald guy that costume takes zero effort.
St Paddy’s sucks. I go to work and then people try to shame for not wearing green. I’m wearing the normal work clothes and somebody wants to pinch me.
Then I explain that’s assault according to HR. Or if they want to press the issue I can commit assault. So nobody pinches me, and I have psycho rep.
Been decades since we have gone to any adult Halloween party.
Will stick up for the holiday though because the kids and I had so much fun carving jack-o-lanterns and wandering the neighborhood getting candy. In our backwater neighborhood the parents would mob up and let the kids run door to door. The parent usually had a toddy and there were a few houses along the route that would add rum to the hot cider they were giving out.
So yeah, I like Halloween.
You could go dressed as Van Helsing, I guess.
I like that.
Old man yelling at clouds?
An onion on the belt is a cheap costume.
And good for you!
Flanders?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1wP_YYpYGE
Sexy I’ll bite your dick off!
I can’t decide if I’m turned on or frightened.
Those eyes… it definitely bites.
OT: Heroine?
That’s how you do it. I see that Israel is now handing out rifles. Hindsight is 20/20.
Reserving judgement – got a Ghost Of Kiev vibe. But I hope it’s true.
Heroes will always appear.
One hopes.
If she passed out guns and shot just one, I’m still going with heroine.
My mothers closest cousin was Kibbutzim. No way she would have ever had the stones to do that.
Many points if she did what is reported. But remember that Jessica Lynch wasn’t a “Ramba” despite early reports. I do give her credit for pushing back on the story and telling others about those who were warriors during the fight.
Very true.
Safe for for work…I swear:
INDIAN CHOKER
Princess Poke a Hot Ass…
I saw that one, it was good.
I got your choker
https://www.amazon.com/tyoungg-Ginsburg-Dissent-Courtroom-Halloween/dp/B07YBWN7J4/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2HJT020M49LMW&keywords=ruth+bader+ginsburg+costume+adult&qid=1696986776&sprefix=ruth+bader+ginsburg+costume%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-5
You seem to be on an RBG kick tonight. Is there something you’re trying to tell us?
No kink shaming.
So, the northern plains version of a Cleveland Steamer?
For those who enjoy my fiction, here is the most popular short story on my blog:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/09/planet-of-triffids.html
The others there are under the label “short fiction”. I’ve written 17 since September 15th. 35 to go til I hit the quota for Bradbury’s rule.
That’s a good one. Thanks for sharing!
“Sexy Sold Out Chicken Sandwich: Who buys this?”
Jessica Simpson?
You can tuna piano, but you can’t make a chicken of the sea cross the road.
You leave her alone. Back in the day, someone that hot and that addled was gold nuggets at your feet.
It is a sign of intersectionality. The intersection of the hottest girl with the lowest self-esteem.
That is called Heaven. Or as close as one can get to on this particular plane.
With the placement of the text is she saying she is booked for the night?
Tom Cruise bought one of these.
https://www.costumesupercenter.com/collections/sexy/products/womens-sexy-flight-school-costume
This seems like on of those costumes where there is no in between. She either looks hot in it, or delusional.
Maverick Flight Costume for Women
She won’t fit in a cockpit.
I leave the comment there…naked…vulnerable.
No you only see the cockpit if it came with a short skirt.
I’d be curious to hear any savvy investing Glibs’ opinions on this article. I’ll probably also ask again in the AM links when there’s more of a crowd.
These Stocks Are Screaming Recession. It’s Almost Time to Buy Them.
Smells like market timing…
Bogleheads would not approve, unless it’s already part of your written investment strategy.
Individual stocks or stock fund?
If I had some inside info, either direction, I wouldn’t tell anyone. Since I don’t, I lean towards stock fund, hoping the managers will take care of me.
‘n the 12 months after a recession was declared ‘
I don’t know if we’re ever going to have another recession declared.
Wherein Schumer scolds the Chinese for not clapping hard enough for Tinkerbell:
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Chuck Schumer, the leader of a group of United States senators currently visiting China, expressed his “disappointment” with Beijing’s response to the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Chuck Schumer reacted with these words during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, which took place on Monday. Reuters Agency reported this information.
“China has not shown empathy”
Schumer noted that China “did not show adequate empathy” towards Israel in the face of the difficult situation it found itself in.
– The recent events taking place in Israel are terrifying. I appeal to you and to the entire Chinese nation to stand with Israel and condemn these cowardly and brutal attacks – said Schumer during the meeting with Wang in Beijing.
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It’s amusing to watch Democrats pretend they run the earth. There is no limit to their hubris.
No politician in America, other than Pelosi, has said squat about genocide about Armenians. Why is that different? Is it just because we can’t use that conflict for a wider war?
Biden actually called it a genocide too. As an Armenian, I remember it as one of the few decent things the man has done.
From dead thread:
When the hell did I say that? The one article listing all the bad things Jews have done to Christian and Muslim sites while completely ignoring what Muslims have done to Christian and Jewish sites was interesting. However, when did I say I thought they were lying? You make-up an argument for me, and then use that to make a judgment as to my reasonableness.
My question about if the problem wasn’t with Christianity per se, but rather the flavors of it was legit. Sure I have my biases, but I’m genuinely curious. But you can’t handle even a whiff of criticism of the “The” church and go on the attack.
Some of you Catholics sure can be touchy about the whole anti-Semitic history thing.
I’ll rephrase my question: when you say it’s common for Christians to get spit on in Israel, do you mean “Christians” or “Catholics”?
The kind of Jews who would spit on Christians don’t find that distinction meaningful. They’re a minority even in Israel, although you’ll certain find a lot more of them there than anywhere else on earth.
Thanks Pat. That kind of gets at what I was assuming and was (poorly) trying to express by my “So there’s assholes everywhere” comment. We shouldn’t let actions of small minorities of one demographic color our view of the larger population. Pretty basic, but it’s easy to forget when passions are raised.
Ugh. I’m tired of all of this. I’m gonna go watch videos about ham radio and fall asleep. This shit is too fucking depressing.
That’s where I am. On a lot of subjects.
Woo boy. Now I have to go back and read some stuff.
I love this place.
I hate the virtue signaling but I guess it’s better than the other thing legislators do.
Pass shitty laws?
correct.
Steal money?
also correct
Virtue signal on the opposite of the spectrum of the original virtue signal?
LOL like China gives two shits about Jews or Israel.
If they can’t plunder the place for resources, they ain’t interested.
The reason why US politicians ignore the Armenian genocide is because Turkey hosts a US military base, is part of NATO, and has been fighting the Kurds, our recent allies, for decades and we don’t want to antagonize them further. For some reason, the CIA helped capture a Kurdish leader:
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He was taken captive in Kenya on 15 February 1999, while on his way from the Greek embassy to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (Turkish: Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı , MIT) with the help of the CIA.[85] According to the Turkish Vatan newspaper, the Americans transferred him to the Turkish authorities, who flew him back to Turkey for trial.[86]
Following the capture of Öcalan, the Greek Government was in turmoil over Öcalan’s capture and Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, Interior Minister Alekos Papadopoulos and the Minister of Public Order Philipos Petsalnikos resigned from their posts.[87] Costoulas, the Greek ambassador who protected him, said that his own life was in danger after the operation.[88] According to Nucan Derya, the interpreter of Öcalan in Kenya, the Kenyans had warned the Greek ambassador that “something” might happen if he didn’t leave four days prior and that they were given the assurance by Pangalos that Öcalan would have safe passage to Europe. Öcalan was determined to travel to Amsterdam and face the accusations of terrorism.[89] Öcalan’s capture led thousands of Kurds to hold worldwide protests condemning his capture at Greek and Israeli embassies. Kurds living in Germany were threatened with deportation if they continued to hold demonstrations in support of Öcalan. The warning came after three Kurds were killed and 16 injured during the 1999 attack on the Israeli consulate in Berlin.[90][91] A group named the Revenge Hawks of Apo set fire to a department store in Kadiköy Istanbul, causing the death of 13 people.[92] In several European capitals and larger cities[93] as well as in Iraq, Iran and also Turkey protests were organized against his capture.[94]
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It sure would be great if we could just pick a side and stay on it. It would be even better not to get involved at all.
Yes.
I don’t actually give that much of a shit about it some dumbass politician acknowledges the genocide. But I also don’t give a shit about America’s military base.
Speaking of Van Helsing up there, I am watching the steam punk Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman tonight.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W6C6qcCW2JE
The wife just said “I need three joints to watch this.”
I agree. It’s more of a 3D interactive thrill ride kind of thing than a movie.
Kate Beckinsale in leather. Again.
I leave that here to do with what you will.
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Brown University students raised some eyebrows, as the recent poll showed that 38% of them referred to themselves as non-heterosexual, three times higher than in 2010.
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What planet am I living on? There’s a Fritz the Cat clip for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9RELuqHA4
I choose to interpret that as more than a third of Brown coeds would double up on you.
Even if I didn’t have a million dollars?
WC Fields buys Alison Skipworth a K car, a nice reliant automobile.
Near the end of WW2, there was a sharp rise in pro-communist Italian partisans, many of whom had been fascist partisans. Of course, first they had to hide in basements for a month and grow beards so that they could claim to have been hiding in the hills the whole time. I see a similar pattern here.
Curzio Malaparte approves this message.
Planet Mass Hysteria.
I think part of it is that, for them, “non-heterosexual” doesn’t mean what we think it does. It’s more like “I’m weird” rather than “I am sexually attracted to members of the same sex”.
It’s basically like when the goth subculture caught on in the mainstream in the ’80s, or the rap subculture in the ’90s, or the internet subculture in the ’00s, and probably hundreds more that predate my lifetime.
The Troglodytes! It even had its own candy, and a short lived subculture.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNS42Na2mpc
I think it’s more like “I’m trendy” and the exact opposite of non conformity.
Agree – I did not mean to imply non-conformity with “I’m weird”. I mean, they’re all saying it.
https://imgur.com/a/9ymtJZO
I hate Halloween, and I hate wasting resources. But hell, the kids like to do this so we do it every year.
Dawwww, adorbs.
Took me about an hour to scrub the spray paint off her fingers.
Wonderful!
Lots of those down here in Vilonia. Good for you.
Didn’t know you were an arkansas man. Fist bump from rural river valley area.
Born and raised. Northeast Arkansas. Escaped many years ago from there.
Moved to tornado capitol of everywhere that is not Moore, OK. I’m not very smart.
My hometown is half the size it was when I left.
Rust belt is a thing even down here.
There is a revival in NE arkansas.
When nucor finishes building the plant it is working on, Mississippi County, Arkansas is going to be the largest steel producing county in the United States.
I’m from Newport. I know there is a Nucor plant there. Used to be Revere when I was younger.
Heard about any plans there?
Goodonya. Fun with the kiddos.
I agree with the NoDak! Halloween is fun with kids.
I have a couple pics of one of the Altar Boys in a complete meltdown because we wanted him to wear his costume to go trick or treating. The next pic is him and the dog in their hiding spot behind a couch going over a big bag of candy together.
posted in wrong thread by mistake
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Turkey’s Erdogan says U.S. sending aircraft carrier closer to Israel to commit massacre in Gaza
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Can we please just leave NATO already? I’m sure the rest of them will manage just fine without the US.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
60K dead later, an estimated 2 M VNs, we leave VN from the embassy by helicopter
The building of that famous photo was the CIA annex, very close to the embassy.
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Conrad “Connie” Edward LaGueux was one of the last Americans to leave Saigon—a moment that marked the end of the Vietnam War.
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On the morning of April 30, 1975, LaGueux, Polgar, and the Ambassador were among just a handful of Americans left in the Embassy as the North Vietnamese arrived at the outskirts of the city. In the early morning hours, Polgar cabled to CIA Headquarters, “…this will be the final message from Saigon … It has been a long and hard fight and we have lost.”
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https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-last-days-in-saigon/
NATO is dead without the US. Much like the UN and 99% of all the global orgs.
I dream about someone here having the spine to tell of them to go fook themselves and leave.
It may hasten a war. Or not.
Experts say a lot of things. They are human, just like us. They have no idea what will happen.
What happens when we die? Well, princess. I have no idea.
You will never hear a politician answer that question, that honestly.
Sexy Cartman. Shut it down.
Pat wins.
Yeah. I’ll find you some kind of absurd tool and deliver it to you this year.
Huzzah! I doff my hat to you.
Thank you and good night!
I want to be your sidekick.
I didn’t think it was possible.
From Al-Jazeera:
“Israel would rather kill than liberate its captured soldiers. Israeli officials want to implement the Hannibal Protocol.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCEvSqD7pzw
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The Hannibal Directive (Hebrew: נוהל חניבעל) (or “Procedure” or “Protocol”) is a controversial procedure that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have used to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces.
It was introduced in 1986, after a number abductions of IDF soldiers in Lebanon and the subsequent controversial prisoner exchanges. The full text of directive has never been published and until 2003 Israeli military censorship even forbade any discussion of the subject in the press. The directive has been changed several times. At one time the formulation was that “the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces.”[2]
The Hannibal directive has, at times, apparently existed in two different versions, one top-secret written version, accessible only to the upper echelon of the IDF, and one “oral law” version for division commanders and lower levels. In the latter versions, “by all means” was often interpreted literally, as in “an IDF soldier was “better dead than abducted”. In 2011, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz stated the directive does not permit killing IDF soldiers.[3]
The Hannibal directive has not prevented the capture of a single Israeli soldier.[4] Among the 11 Israelis involved in the seven reported Hannibal incidents, only one soldier (Gilad Shalit) survived. In his case the declaration of Hannibal occurred too late to have any influence on the cause of events.
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An Israeli MP has already called on Twitter for Gaza to be obliterated with Jericho nuclear missiles. That’s interesting since Israel has never officially admitted to having nuclear weapons.
We sunk unmarked Japanese ships suspected of be able to carry our PWs, sometimes we were unfortunately correct.
We did not quit bombing raids because of the suspected, or known, presence of our PWs in the city.
War is horrible, some days are more shitty than usual. I expect the IDF will try to get back what PWs it can, but not stop attacks on vital targets because of the presence of IDF or civilian prisoners..
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Hell Ships were cargo ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army to transport Allied prisoners of war and Asian forced laborers during World War II. The ships had inhumane living conditions and many were attacked and sunk by Allied submarines and aircraft, resulting in the deaths of over 21,000 people. The term “hell ships” was also used during the American Revolutionary War to describe British ships that held American prisoners of war.
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The Hannibal directive sounds like fairly smart policy.
They have done it with planes also, for the very same reason. When skyjacking was common in the sixties-seventies, it was a good way to ensure that El Al planes were not targets worth taking. That, and sealing off the cockpit from the cabin.
Is that Hannibal policy that much different than our “we will never negotiate with terrorists” policy?
I suspect that Israel’s reluctance to admit it has nukes to be our government’s insistence that they do not ever mention it.
Holy crap. The longer I remain alive, the more i come to the realization that I am a citizen of THE EMPIRE.
I know that empires must make hard decisions about various matters. I also know that when the handlers decide that the people of the empire are another problem to be solved…the clock is ticking on the empire’s end. Where is our Augustulus Romulus?
So glad to be here for it. Fat. Old. Fodder.
Kind of glad I’m in my mid-50s here.
Much younger and I feel like, fuck, I have to live though this shit?
I brought up Augustulus because he stormed the gates and disappeared. Never found his body.
I like to think that he lived a long life, very far away from the insanity.
Not likely…but I am the one buying a Powerball ticket this morning. My firm grip on reality is suspect.
59 here. I feel the same way.
We are in that weird slice where we are youngish, and not really that young.
Just heard about a couple of former co-workers that have passed on. 52 and 61.
Yeah…I’m not feeling all that young, thanks.
Like I have said before – the end of the world is easier when you are Conan the Barbarian or Mad Max. They sure as hell are not fat and 59.
I had a choice about the fat thing. Not the other.
Although, I am down nearly 30 pounds! The stress of passing a 7mm kidney stone and trying to make ends meet on a fixed income is the best diet I have ever experienced.
Good man.
Fat and old is harder than just old.
*pats belly*
I’ve been slacking on the rowing and… the opposite of slacking on the wine.
But I rowed today. Baby steps, Bob.
Keep on keeping on, brother. Row your boat.
I mean, “good on the weight loss”, not the kidney stone.
They’ve been a frequent, recent topic among the Glibs and sound horrible.
Diet/lifestyle or just genes?
Not sure. My father has suffered through them so it might be genes.
I had my first back in the mid 90’s. Passed it at the ER when they gave me the tracer/painkiller IV drip. It dropped into the bladder. Didn’t pass for a few months. That is another story. Oh boy, is that is another story,
I was working outside at that time, back then. Young, and stupid. Not hydrating.
This time…not young and hydrating. Still happened.
SAY LA VEE.
Damn you for putting an earworm in my head.
On the plus side, that video is filled with smoke-shows.
Row your boat
I am 56 and am now depressed because PJ Fleck will not make the Golden Rodents a football power. My dad at least experienced THE U of M win a national championship. I’m starting to think I will never see the Gophs or the Vikes win it all.
Yo, Milo. You passed the stone, I hope. Good to hear.
AlJazeera is Qatari propaganda.
Statistics and propaganda are like bikinis: what they reveal is intriguing but what they conceal is vital.
Qatar also hosts a US military base, so the US government ignores their propaganda.
The US provides their propaganda.
Could be some of both.
RJ is pretty fly for a second guy.
I truly admire your sticktoitness.
I still do.
Maybe expand it a bit. Third…maybe fourth…why stick to Seconds.
Not kidding. I do admire your resolve.
More Arab media:
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Video shows captured female Israeli soldier given water and being treated well in a safe place while still wearing the same clothes she was captured in. But Israeli and western media say that she’s just female civilian who was captured. Who stands to benefit from stoking this controversy?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9CIhIvt_A
I should clarify that the video uses “captured” when referring to the POW but “kidnapped” when referring to Israeli and western accusations.
The proper pick-up line for the pencil?
“Hey Babe, can I borrow you eraser, I need to wipe out a few lines.”
Be in a Scarface costume.
The trannie version of that costume reverses the eraser and point.
An interesting comment from an Al-Jazeera journalist:
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Looking at the states holding leadership positions in the global arena – states that have a say over the fate of Palestinians, there is one clear thing: these states, including Israel, and its main protector the US, achieved their positions of influence, power and security through organised state violence. No state or actor in this current system can gain enough authority and power to ensure its safety and dictate its will on the global community by merely speaking of higher ideals. In fact, higher ideals are proclaimed in this wretched world order only to conceal the brutal violence required to gain and maintain any authority whatsoever.
As such, mirroring the behaviour of the states oppressing Palestinians through acts of organised violence emerged as a rational way forward for the Palestinian struggle.
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The author is A. Muhannad Ayyash. His middle name, Muhannad, means “sharp sword”. It was the name I was given by an Arabic teacher at DLI.
The literal meaning is “[sword from] India”. At the time, India had a reputation for excellent swords.
Nope.
No Hamas apologists gets to claim moral authority. They party over raping and killing babies. My morals are fairly flexile but when you’re partying over beheading babies you can sit this one out.
Rabid dog at least have an excuse . What’s yours?
Cool story, bro. What do you say about the babies killed by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings?
This is sad: Mary Lou Retton has been hospitalized for a week with a “rare form of pneumonia” and can no longer breathe on her own. She’s 55.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/38627519/gymnast-mary-lou-retton-fighting-life-daughter-says
I’m just glad the Honey Harvest is in September and we don’t have to see Fourscore in his sexy beekeeper costume.
Uffda. The internet has changed. In the Olden Days searching for “Tasteless Halloween Costumes” would have brought back a lot of really funny and clever costume ideas. Now? Fucking one boring ass list after another telling you what you cannot dress up as (or let your kid dress up as). Fuck those scolds.
Personally, I always keep it simple. I simply tie a potato to my cock. A dick tater! Get it?
Can’t believe I have to go to Ebaum’s for a decent laugh. (The Vikings one did make me chuckle)
The effective monetization of the internet along with the rise of social media killed it as an interesting platform for those that like off the wall stuff. Most of the websites are designed, curated, and moderated by soccer moms or their AI equivalent now.
Hump day! Wake up Glibs!
☕
Love song Wednesday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-c79K8USmWY
🎶🎶
Just a fantastic cover.
Good morning all!
Something a little different. Here’s Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club, who spawned a more famous/successful band.
In My English Garden.
Video Killed the Radio Star.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau, Sean, Your Holiness (if you’re still insomniacal and here,) and Derpy!
Mornin’, reprobates!
As always, thanks for the morning tunes Sean & Beau.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Health still improving, I hope?
Mornin’, GT! Just trying to get through two more days before the stent is removed Friday morning. I need to get back on track, Mrs. Patzer is trying to do too much and needs to take it easy herself.
So your stint with a stent is nearing completion?
He should tell the doctor to pull the stent, but don’t pull any stunts.
LOL, both of you.
That’s a start, a stunt on the stint will resolve the problem with the stent
Morning!
Apparently the Rangers won a game and this is cause for celebration.
A game of fifty-two pickup?
Something about sports balls.
Hockey season is just starting, this might be a good omen.
I meant the baseball team. Remember them? Used to wear baby blue outfits?
Oh, I know. When was the last time the Rangers won a World Series? The last time the Rangers won a Stanley Cup? The stars are aligning…
Morning, Glibs.
Mornin’, UCS.
Woke up on time today?
I was marginally behind schedule, but not so much so as to cause any issues. It was after 5:30, which only gave me enough time to get ready to leave and none to sit down and say hi here before reaching the office.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
My house was out of caffiene, I had to get cash so I can pay my barber, since I have an appointment after work, I haven’t spilled anything so far, and I’ve made it to work safely.
My spillage record might fail when I water the lavender later today.
Easy on the water with the lavender. They do not like their feet to be too wet.
It was last watered last wednesday.
*friday
I forgot I added a session only because my miniature 3d printed water can had leaked wednesday and I needed to seal it.
Either way, it’s been several days and the peat in the pot is dry.
My intent is to water it on wednesdays, the friday watering was an aberration.
Guten Morgen
Papers, please.
Papieren, bitte. Get with the program.
Negative. If he’s going to speak foreign, we have to check his immigration status.
Yes, I do prefer bitters in my bourbon. How did you know?
Wie geht es ihnen?
Du fährt zur Toilette?
Nein, scheisse.
Sei ernst, Furzklopfer
Mir geht es gut
Mein Bleistift ist rot.
Mein Hovercraft ist voller Aale
Have you ever worked with PETG filament? I just got a spool and a dry box for it last night. I haven’t taken the filament out of the plastic, so as to not expose it to any humidity while figuring out how best to set it up.
I forgot until you asked, but yes. I bought a spool and tried it once. I know I had trouble, but honestly don’t remember exactly what was going on. I put it away until I had time to troubleshoot it…which I apparently forgot to do. Sounds like a good winter project.
I wonder if it wasn’t stringing badly. I had that issue to varying degrees with all my prints until I upped my pull away speed. I should try the PETG again…
Good morning, Mike! Did you see the additional SMITH crossing that appeared by our house yesterday?
Why did a popup advertising World Mental Health Day appear over that image?
Dunno. An Imgur thing? Tried to link directly to the JPEG, but Imgur probably has ways of sticking their nose in.
I did! That’s pretty sweet. I wonder how many more will show up.
And that official sign…I feel like it’s entrapment. The urge to borrow it might be too great for me.
Huh, I was setting up the bookmarks on a new browser and I came across this from Wikipedia:
“The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is an American far-right[2] fake news website.[1] The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.[34]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit
Any more fake news than CNN, MSNBC, or the NYT I wonder…Wikipedia has morphed into a trashbag full of woke garbage.
That does not sound like an article written from a neutral perspective.
By neutral they mean they don’t favor any specific implementation of socialism.
You just noticed?
something something any institution not explicitly conservative something
Ugh.
It’s noisy coworker’s in-office day. She’s already started yammering.
Paging Tonio…
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/10/105-bears-killed-in-nj-on-1st-day-of-hunting-season.html
On the first day of New Jersey’s bear hunting season, 105 bears were killed, nearly equaling the entire total for last year’s shortened season, officials said.
It’s going to be a cold, lonely winter.
So, same as last year. Sow I won’t boar you with the details