Who doesn’t love a little Sydney Sweeney…
“Jax Taylor claims his face was used on the box art for Ubisoft’s action-adventure game”
“And yet, Sydney Sweeney goes all in.”
“In some ways, this relaunch appears to be a return to a more traditional status quo for the X-Men.”
Not sure if I’ve shared this one with you before; it’s worth sharing again, if so.
:raises hand: I have no idea who the hell Sydney Sweeney is (nor do I hugely care, honestly…)
I also have no idea who that is.
:skims the article: — Oh wait, part of the Madame Web super-flop and hosted SNL? Is she the “Slate’s jealous of her cup size” lady then? Ok…. still don’t care all that much. 😉
Largish boobs, unremarkable face.
Yeesh, y’all are a tough crowd. She’s cute enough.
I’m sure she is — but a) I’m married and it is really, really dumb to talk about how cute or not particular starlets are… and b) Starlet flavors of the week come and go. Doesn’t mean I have to pay close attention to them.
There are few actors or actresses I probably do know by name at this point… and the ones I do are almost certainly not a matter of their being cute or anything…
You collect Legos.
That’s actually not one of my vices.
I’m pretty sure the only thing I’ve seen her in is a bit role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Glibs who comment that they don’t know things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2XiCq7dqY
bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! One would of thought it would be abundantly clear from just my comments around these parts, much less real life — that “cool” is something I’m light years away from.
We’re all guilty of it. One glib in particular does it all the time, I will not name them now.
I for example never know who OMWC is reminiscing over.
My interests are disparate but each narrow in scope. I have near zero interest in pop culture or flavor of th week. Most of the popular culture people I know are dead from old age. If I say I dont know something it’s because….I dont know or care.
*Background right now…my better half Is watching FBI again. Scene: Boss walks into office….music is deep slow doom drums, slow deep cello, dramatic violin tempo….Boss glares at crew “Someone ate my tuna salad sandwich from the fridge in the break room!”
More dramatic music.
Worst propaganda on TV. That’s a big part of why I hate popular culture.
And it will turn out to be J6 protestors, right?
*smacks forehead*
Gah! Of course it will. Stupid me.
I don’t really know either, but I’d go all in with her.
Hot actress. The whole story is of course a publicity piece.
Who?
And I’d not be surprised if Ubisoft did something awful again.
I like the X men
Looks like yet another Marvel “We rebooted the Mutant continuity”, frankly. Expect another reset (and fresh set of #1 issues! Collect them all! They’ll only go up in value! No… seriously!) in a year or two.
More likely it’s a tie in to the X-Men ’97 show that’s dropping on Disney+ next week.
If they were going to do that, at least one of the lineups described should match the TV team (Cyclops, Rogue, Wolverine and Gambit at least… Jean Grey is admittedly a continuity mess waiting to happen — and I’m assuming from the title descriptions Prof X must be dead again or something, because he’s obviously written out). Instead they look to be split across the teams… so it doesn’t seem very tie-in.
The girlfriend has been rewatching the old X-Men cartoon to prep for the continuation. She had forgotten that there’s a lot of lackluster episodes.
Personally, I laughed that after all the sturm und drang about them going woke by including a non-binary character (to the collective shrug of comic book geeks), for the reveal that it’s Morph (ignore Mystique after all).
I thought Emma Frost was try-sexual (as in she’d try anything and anyone), but I’ve never paid all that much attention to Marvel, really.
“And yet, Sydney Sweeney goes all in.”
I thought she was letting it all hang out?
Not quite yet. Just wait for her movie deals to start drying up.
If they had — it would have been explosive.
But it would have been a sweder experience for him.
Salma deserves better!
Short fuse but still would be a blast
Amazon tells stressed workers to close their eyes and think happy thoughts.
I hope that’s not what they told the drivers.
I’m wondering how many of the warehouse workers’ happy thoughts involved workplace violence….
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/9z5qpyxRR-A?si=vzkgDKBA54zjZG7J
I don’t see anything objectionable at all. “Feel good” has been a part of every “wellness” package for a couple decades.
They’re just fucking jealous losers.
I’m pissed off at the Texas AG, taking down PornHub in Texas under some unconstitutional edict.
If ever there was something that would turn Texas at least temporarily Blue, yanking access to porn outta do it.
But if Texas does go temporarily Blue, you know they’ll be having some balls.
They will be ordering their steaks blue now.
They’ll eat like Yinzers?
Damn… next they’ll open a Skyline down there.
*whispers “VPN”*
I have a hard time getting worked up (well hello) over this when the end result is fewer kids watching step sibling pron and those that really want it learning how to use a VPN.
Aaaaaand … got a VPN installed, and PornHub back up.
The yutes are gonna bypass this just fine. It’s the olds who are gonna get fucked over (so to speak).
Wasn’t it PornHub that shut off the access to Texas, and not the AG?
It’s an interesting counterpoint to the social media laws that keep getting passed.
Wasn’t it a bill to get age verification for porn access? Am I missing something?
Yeah, putting the responsibility for age verification on the site. Since PornHub didn’t want to set up age verification systems, they blocked access based on geolocation of IP address.
At least that’s my basic understanding of it.
Were VPN companies his biggest campaign donors?
You, sir, win the Most Cynical Comment on the Intertubes during 3:41pm for that beauty.
So, you are saying people will see red over not seeing blue?
They’ll take my “Booty Boobs N Black” playlist over Ken Paxton’s [insert something here].
PornHub cut Texas off, not the other way around. PH didn’t like the method legislated for verifying age.
On topic: I finally Started BG3. I like it. It’s a BG game. 4-character parties are less than ideal though.
I’m still holding off until there’s a better sale/definitive edition. I’m trying to be strong damn it!
Sing a sad song in public.
The discussion of him and his inventing that machine was a large reading and set of discussion questions in my current Japanese textbook.
I was one of those rare readings that was fun to read and discuss.
Without him, we’d be without the genius of Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.
This is likely my favorite.
Likely nostalgia. I had an older cousin that played that stupid Terry Jacks end on end.
Gah!! Leave it to Rod McKuen to screw up a perfectly good Jacques Brel song.
Your preferred version is definitely an improvement over Terry Jacks’s, if only because the faster tempo means it’s finished sooner.
Apropos of nothing except songs on that general topic, which is the better song about a dying guy, “A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request” or “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”?
I bet the current version doesn’t have “Let me abos go loose, Lou.”
Yeeeeeah…prawblematic, what, mate?
We stopped singing that verse at summer camp eventually.
St. Paul mayor: Please stop giving me credit for my policies
The Mrs. was complaining about corruption today. I explained to her the meaning and origin of the expression ‘The Pope’s Nose’ to illustrate it has always been this way.
This story reminded me of O’Rourke – “All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum.”
I hope this motherfucker’s hubris is rewarded by his choking to death on the next hamburger he buys. If there is any real justice in the universe a giant fat slob will try giving him CPR and the last thing he feels will be his rib cage being crushed.
” giant fat slob will try giving him CPR”
You are talking about Gov Walz, right?
Imagine fading to black and hearing Chris Christie, hoagie in hand, saying “Ill save you!”
The man’s obviously a messaging genius, telling restaurants to raise their prices due to his new policy.
Because everybody has been saying lately that prices are so low, and seem to be getting lower, dang it! I want to pay more for stuff, I tells ya!
I’m sure that the waitrons are also mad about the surcharge on the bill because it gives us cheapskates an out for tipping.
“Well if you are getting a livable wage, you are just like other workers and don’t need tips”
the left has been trying to kill tipping for years. My personal theory is that tipping is merit based. Some workers make quite a bit of money, some nearly none. Equity is demanded.
They’re almost explicit that it is their goal.
What they don’t hunt at is that it will make things worse for everyone. *Shrug*
Yes, in their eyes two birds…
Yep. The equity rot is pervading salaried jobs too. I can’t begin to describe the hoops I have to jump through to hire on merit.
My HR recruiter is cool at least. His two most common phrases are “you didn’t tell me that” and “don’t put it in writing”.
Eating out is a privilege to be bestowed upon the right classes anyway.
True.
If you can’t afford to tip 25%, you can’t afford to eat out.*
* Real things lefties say
Ellen DeGeneres agrees.
Dear St Paul Mayor,
Please take some time to read Hayek’s book, “Road to Serfdom” before you drive all the businesses out of business.
Thank you!!
Sideny Sweeney has nothing on that adorable, spastic, wood working girl someone linked to her YouTube.
I pay very little attention to pop tarts in any media, but the little I have seen of Sweeney she at least has a bubbly, happy persona, which contrasts with the little I have seen of many of her peers.
‘wood working girl’
Phrasing?
We’re not even trying anymore, are we?
I fart in your general direction
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I may show up later. My only visit I found amusing. Who doesnt love drunks yelling at clouds?
“…drunks yelling at clouds.”
Around here I just call that “breakfast”.
Accurate
Hey, “Chicken Nugget” the series just came out on NetFlix. The story of a young girl who gets transformed into a chicken nugget.
Trans nugget?
I thought they banned transfats.
I am trying to figure out how that could the premise for an interesting plot. It seems the story would be short and tragic. Other than something super lame I got nuthin’.
No idea yet. Still, I am watching it.
So, it is based on a webtoon series. It is not terrible. It is very Korean.
OH…first thing that popped in my head…lame, as I said…..
Pubescent girl walking home from school. Stops and pulls bottle from the dirt, rubs the dirt off of it to get a better look.
*POOF* – Genie appears. “Young lady you are granted three wishes!”
Girl – “Wow…ok……I just need one!” Gives genie a knowing wink wink look. “I want to be eaten every day and night, I mean by a real pro”
Genie shrugs. “Ok”
Girl: “Wait, I mean….”
*ZAP* Girl transformed into a chicken nugget at a nugget eating contest.
Genie: “Wish granted. *mumbles as he crawls back into the bottle* “Some people…go figure”
“Jax Taylor claims his face was used on the box art for Ubisoft’s action-adventure game”
The dead guy on the art?
“She played Reality Winner in Max’s Reality, a grittier acting showcase that felt like a classic made-for-TV movie.”
Stealing roles from trans?
She’s not great looking, but damn.
Apropos of nothing other than St. Patrick’s Day:
Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole – Drinking Stories
At some point on Sunday, I’m hoping to see these guys. In the before times, they had shows booked from 0900 – 2300 on St. Patrick’s Day, by the end of the day the lead singer was about half as drunk as Shane.
Actually this one is much better.
I’ve seen that before and it’s great.
Peter O’Toole
Of course, you know what the link for Richard Harris is.
He owes Johnny Carson for making that famous.
Kinda like Dr. Phil and Gayle King owe Oprah for their success.
“Free’ speech? In Limeyland?
The British government has published a new definition of extremism in response to a surge in hate crimes following Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, a move critics warn could threaten free speech.
The new “more precise” definition deems extremism to be an “ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance” that has several aims, such as to “negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.”
Groups or people who meet that definition will be prohibited from working with or receiving funding from government departments. The new definition has no legal standing and does not affect current criminal law.
——-
“The pervasiveness of extremist ideologies has become increasingly clear in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks and poses a real risk to the security of our citizens and our democracy,” Michael Gove, a senior British cabinet minister, told parliament as he unveiled the new definition.
“This is the work of extreme right-wing and Islamist extremists who are seeking to separate Muslims from the rest of society and create division within Muslim communities.”
Ban gibberish.
Few here think of it as a totalitarian society but the limey’s definitely have a heavy dose of it. They have always been that way. I remember some wild theories about Christopher Marlowe being murdered cuz his pen name was W. Shakespear blah blah blah. They have always had authoritarian tendencies. I suppose collectivism is a by-product of having high population density.
Marlowe was a legit spy, so he had a couple of different reasons to have been murdered.
Doubt he was Shakespeare though. Faustus doesn’t read like Shakespeare’s work.
But they did lock up John Cleland for Fanny Hill. And censorship of erotic material has a long history in the US, too.
Marquis De Sade much?
Quills is one of our favorite movies.
This shuttered vast swaths of the British govt, as their negation of rights and freedoms prevented them from working with themselves, right? RIGHT?!
My internet is down. Has Cal commented on Aaron Rodgers lately?
https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/cal-athletics-mum-aaron-rodgers-recent-remarks-19077533.php
Cal 10
Rodgers 0
They have always had authoritarian tendencies.
Subjects (of a king by divine right), not citizens.
That sounds… what’s the word? Stupid.
— “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s election-year provocation, debuted Thursday at the SXSW Film and TV Festival, unveiling a violent vision of a near-future America at war with itself.
“Civil War,” reportedly A24’s biggest budget release yet, is a bold gamble to capitalize on some of the anxieties that have grown in highly partisan times and ahead of a potentially momentous November presidential election.
The film, written and directed by the British filmmaker Garland (“Ex Machina,” “Annihilation”), imagines a U.S. in all-out warfare, with California and Texas joining to form the “Western Forces.” That insurrection, along with the “Florida Alliance,” is seeking to topple a government led by a three-term president, played by Nick Offerman.
In drawing battle lines across states blue and red, “Civil War” sidesteps much of the politics that might be expected in such a movie. And the story, too, largely omits surrounding context for the conflict, focusing on the day-to-day adventures of a group of journalists played by Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson, who are attempting to document the fighting.
A Limey writes a completely ignorant contextless fairy tale about how awesome journalists are. I cannot wait to see it.
Why not just secede instead of topple?
LOL
After Texas is finally overrun by illegals and CA transplants it’s not so far fetched.
Reading about Reality Winner, I need someone smarter than me (which is usually everyone) to answer something. Ideally Derp or someone with DLI experience.
From Wiki (I know, I know): “Assigned to translate documents relating to Iran’s aerospace program in Persian,[18] Winner was employed by Pluribus International Corporation at the time of her arrest.”
Do the DoD language schools take the time to teach another language in both written and spoken? I mean it makes sense, but in my ignorance I always just thought of a linguist or interpreter for the gov’t to just speak/listen.
Doesn’t most language instruction involve reading it? Teaching a language entirely orally seems like it’d be more difficult, even if that’s how everybody learned to speak before the predominance of literacy.
California and Texas joining to form the “Western Forces.”
Has that fucking dummy ever looked at a map? What happened to Arizona and New Mexico? And Utah and Nevada and…
I have stumbled across another cover band that must be seen to be believed. Mac Sabbath.
And Im still not sure how I feel about Zepparella.
For me, the best Zep cover band is always Dread Zeppelin.
I like the Iron Maidens, especially because they take the time to get the hairstyles right.
Its not bad, but its bad (or good) that I let my convictions bias things like music.
Once I read about her politics I pretty much checked out.
I really want to like those guys but their singer is terrible.
He’s just British
Ahh yes! I saw them. Great band. They performed with the Howdiddly Doodilly Ned Flanders band. Hell of a show.
I dig the The Little Richards, a punk Little Richard cover band created by El Vez himselfs.
Nephilium on March 15, 2024 at 3:38 pm
They’ll eat like Yinzers?
Damn… next they’ll open a Skyline down there.
I’ll be up there Wednesday….
If you want to meet up, hit me up at Google’s mail service at my handle.
Im gonna try to make a double-header out of meeting to prospective employers in one day.
However, if I stay over and hang around Brecksville…..you’re buying.
Avgeeks: Constellation walkthrough and engine startup at 8pm ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXaZKQFfy8
My Uncle was a pilot for TWA after the war, and was a big part of getting a Connie preserved, along with a bunch of other pilots.
Remember, halides will poison you, bromides cause you serious harm, cyanides will kill you even in small doses.
So beware the -ides of March.
I find this comment reactive and caustic.
*NARROWS GAZE*
MESSAGE TO ALL ZOOMERS: Deadhead checked in from White Sands Missile Range…he is in the Bataan Memorial tomorrow, and will try to check in afterward.