And I ain’t talking this Union.
Yep, Sloopjos is once again absent due to a desire for obscene profits. Something we here at Glibertarians.com thoroughly approve of.
Links?
Ima just set this down right here and back slowly away.
I think it might be awhile before we actually figure out what Covid, and the fucking vaccine, actually did to us. Although at this point, I think we can safely use Sweden as a control group.
But has he increased toilet paper production.
Oh wait, they were terrorists too.
Well, of course it’s a terrorist attack…
Wrap the rascal, ya old geezer!
All righty. Time for y’all to get on with your day. Have a good one.
Family, community, a sense of purpose and continuation into the future and oh… doing the sort of thing wired into us as a species for millenia make people happier?
Gasp!
I do declare!
I know Nikki (!Six [Sixx? Whatever]) would disagree — as would the “poison frog” contingent as someone wonderfully put it… but “Duh!” from the rest of us.
Next study: “Loving homes with male and female parents and emotional stability good for children”….
Morning, all.
I would imagine the numbers for men are nearly the same.
The best part of being married is being able to tell your buddies at 1am that you have to go home or you will be in dutch with the wife. Even if she is home sleeping. Then watching your single buddies roll into work the next day with Force 10 hangovers because they stayed out until 3.
But yeah, I was amazed at how our kids became the entire world for my wife. I thought they were pretty great, but no where near what my wife felt.
It’s definitely different for the ladies, but family gives men purpose, Lord knows that it did for me.
That’s the best part?
Jimbo likes sleeping on the couch.
I’m a simple guy with simple tastes.
My kids never became my entire world. That “I am my kids’ mom” Dr Laura bullshit didn’t fly. I am ME. I did my best for my kids (although my husband accuses me of being a touch), but I watched my friends and SIL lose their entire identities in their kids and I wasn’t going to become “XX’s Mom” or “XY’s Mom” (or even “Dude’s Wife”) because I’m my own person with my own things, and that didn’t die just because I had a baby.
Koreans tend to refer to people by who they were the parents of. So I was always Altar Girl’s Daddy. It led to a few amusing situations. I remember running into a couple of acquaintances (one married to a Korean and one not) and having to introduce them as “Bruce this is Tiffany’s Daddy, Tiffany’s Daddy this is Bruce”.
I think my wife had a lot of cultural reinforcement to go along with her maternal instincts when it came to her kids. Since they all turned out pretty darn good, I’m glad.
I was Mom and Dad to my kids, ’cause life’s circumstances.
Yeah, that “I am my kids’ mom” Dr Laura bullshit didn’t fly with my mom either.
She bailed when I was 13.
I thought the happiest people ever were single, childless women in their late middle-age looking forward to getting old and dying alone?
And don’t forget a bunch of abortions.
Is dying with 18 cats just waiting to feast on your corpse really “dying alone”?
They eat the cheeks and eyelids first.
This is what Scott Adams likes to call “Things you should have asked me first.”
Who expected this from the Daily Mail this morning?
Nikki Sixx has quite a few kids, so he doesn’t agree with Nikki-the-Worst’s anti-natalism.
And Nick Cave (had) six kids.
There has been one good board game movie.
Communism is never just a red herring.
Amazing film.
Don’t give away the endings.
Pbbbbbttt! 😉
Clue Is in my Upper Echelon. One of the craziest and best films of all time. Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennen, Martin Mull, Michael McKean, and other Up There names. HOW the fuck they got Clue/Parker Bros(?)j etc to do that film…and have THREE ENDINGS, of which the original audience only saw ONE, not all three like ya see on TV. So audiences could STILL argue about the mystery of Who killed Mr. Body?
Many jokes are funnier/better understood/noticed each time, and Madeline is smokin’ in it, as is….DAMN. Colleen Camp as Yvette? Uh. DAMN. Evan want much, please. If ya haven’t seen, I suggest you do. The amount of coke blown in the pitch/writing sessions were undoubtedly early 80s finest…is marvelous to envy.
I honestly don’t know how the pitch could have gone any differently. Me pleased.
It’s perfectly written, acted and delivered. Amazing concept and execution. It’s not well known in my generation, apparently. I strongly recommend it to all. Fantastic date/party/family night flick.
You’re not even going to mention Lee Ving?
I didn’t know who he was. Still don’t read a bit.
I just loved his name, ‘Leaving,’ is pretty perfect for Clue.
He’s the front man for the band Fear. And was in a few movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyM4uAJBujA
Also a jazz musician.
He does seem cool. I still love my childish instant: “Mr. Boddy is leaving…” It’s just too damn good.
Some DINKs decide to attempt to gain the benefits of a family by adding a dog, upgrading their status to Dual Income No Kids With A Dog.
I did not make that up. DINKWAD is an autonym.
Please tell me there are people unironicly using this to describe themselves.
Yup.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/dinks-married-couples-child-free-tik-tok-9747783a
I laugh lest I cry.
If you’re insufferable enough to embrace DINK as a term, DINKWAD is not that much worse.
“As one of the most iconic games in the world, Monopoly provides an incredible platform for storytelling opportunities.”
How? I just don’t get it at all.
After they made a good movie based around Legos, I’m withholding judgement on all seemly stupid movie ideas.
(It will still probably be stupid)
They made a good movie, I didn’t really care for the sequel or the spinoff. I’ve seen some rumblings that they’re going to try to “reboot” the Lego movie franchise.
I think I saw an ad for yet another Planet of the Apes movie.
Innovation, imagination, originality and creativity are dead. Congratulations leftists.
Rebooting is consistent with Legos.
Sequels are never as good, but it wasn’t terrible for a kids movie. Ninjago was forgettable, but Lego Batman was solid. Probably better than most super hero movies (low bar).
For a long time, the standard refrain for super hero movies was the first one would be good, the second would be the best, the third would be overstuffed and bad, and if there was a fourth it would kill the franchise for a while.
What number is Madame Web?
CPA:
Depends on how you count.
Madam Web movies – 1
Sony Spidey villain movies – 4 (Venom, Venom 2, Morbius, Madam Web)
Sony/MCU… thing – 7-ish (Three MCU Spidey movies + Sony verse ones; Civil War and the later Avengers games could be thrown in here as well)
And that was the movie Margot Robbie should have been in, what with her square head.
Having grown up outside of Atlantic City, NJ I can tell you a story about something bad that has happened on just about every property on the board!
The Search for Marvin Gardens.
Robot Chicken has got you covered (language NSFW)
Sigh.
Oh wait… different Robot Chicken…. carry on. 😉
And his is even in English, God’s own language.
:blush: Oops… I did not notice that. Dumbkopf!
“Why are you assuming my boss is a man?”
Priceless
Boardwalk Empire?
They will tell the story of how evil kkkapitulizm destroys everything and how communism is just another word for sharing.
“Battleship” was a movie.
I’m good friends with one of the “stars”. It could have been a decent transformers type movie if they hadn’t forced in the game and some terrible acting.
Maybe — I don’t think they would have done it intentionally if it is nefarious (because they wouldn’t want to chance it affecting them — but shedding / “vaccine” effects jumping into the non-vax’ed seems likely. The downside to screwing around with mRNA.
But yeah — there’s a significant part of my brain that tries not to be tin-foil-hatty but then looks at the depopulation cult members who are also big, big vax promoters and can not help but see a connection there with the side effects. And wonder what it was really meant to do, frankly.
Hope all of y’all who were forced to take it (or took it assuming the medical establishment had some idea of what it was talking about initially as I probably would have eventually if they hadn’t gone Full Draconian so obviously) stay well.
“…wonder what it was really meant to do…”
You have to wonder? I think the more honest lunatics openly admit it. They have been saying it for years…
I didn’t touch the stuff, I wonder if that was an effective strategy.
Well, let’s be honest — if it were meant to be a depopulation technique, they could have done a much, much better job. Maybe it is still building with the concentration in the sexual organs (so it is effectively slow mass sterilization), granted… but otherwise I think they’d be overall disappointed in the effort and plan on doing much better next time (bird flu! weasel flu! Scary-scary-flu! Aaah!)
“They could have done a much, much better job.”
Maybe we are just lucky the enemies of humanity are morons? I mean really, what kind of lunatic would come to that conclusion? How smart/sane can they be? I am thinking Ehrlich and Mead malthusian level stupid/insane. Of course they fucked it up.
Besides that, if it was ‘too effective’ it would have been a lot harder to actually get people to use. Maybe they got it just where it needs to be- causing all sorts of minor problems that are hard to tie back to their treatment.
You’d definitely have to have it kick in after a year probably. Long enough for everyone (or almost everyone) to get it, not so long for it to mutate / spread to you or people you wanted to keep / be discovered, I expect.
Not something I’ve really tried to think about / study too much.
Russell Brand earlier this week was talking about the giant white clots still being pulled out of corpses and occasional surgery patients. Nobody in the official medical industry seems interested.
I see stories about cancer rates increasing dramatically and know a number of people recently diagnosed. Once again, nobody is allowed to connect the dots.
Why would I ever trust these people again?
‘I see stories about cancer rates increasing dramatically and know a number of people recently diagnosed. Once again, nobody is allowed to connect the dots.’
I believe this is possibly connected to delayed screenings. Though I guess having a bunch of inflammation all throughout your body isn’t good either.
This is the most likely answer.
Generally I have a fairly good sense for con. Five seconds after they started the cootiebug hysteria my radar went off and I heard sirens and saw flashing red lights. I wasn’t sure exactly what was wrong but I knew something was seriously wrong.
Mrs. and I haven’t touched the stuff.
First thing I did was check the mortality tables. Flu was missing, old people dying as usual. No more made up medical miracles for us either.
My first flag popped when I thought “Wait a minute, that is not how viruses work AT ALL.”
Same here on detecting the con. Also person experience with the experimental anthrax vax.
A retired friend who worked for pharmas also warned me off. Four years ago he was predicting heart problems followed by cancer from these things.
Supposedly, the big mortality studies aren’t showing that much of an increase in heart disease and I think maybe a little more of an increase in cancer. As near as I can tell, though, there is a serious problem with most of them, in that they don’t (can’t?) distinguish between vax and COVID. What I do know is I don’t trust any of the public health fuckers and never will.
My sister in law died of a very rare and very aggressive form of breast cancer that she was diagnosed with about a year ago. She basically lived in and out of M D Anderson for the last several months, so she was getting the best care available, too. She was deep in the bubble, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she got one or two boosters. I’ll never ask, of course. Since the vax provided no measurable protection against COVID mortality, though, a very small increase in vax-related fatality would tip the risk/benefit equation to “nope”.
Given my suspicions this is the least surprising thing I will hear today.
Sorry about your sister-in-law.
I was minimally compliant and got one J&J shot. I think that had more immediate side effects.
Same here. I took the J&J as the only way to not get fired and still avoid mRNA products. About three months later my inherited A-fib got much worse. My cardiologist acknowledged that this was a known phenomenon.
Baby, five minutes after birth: “Awww shit! This place? What the fuck am I doing here?”
Creator: “Passing on your genes.”
Baby: “That’s all? I thought for a minute it was gonna be….”
Creator, interrupting: “No, trust me. It is a lot more complicated than it sounds. Good luck!”
Women are happier and more fulfilled by accomplishing the most human of human things? Ya’ dont say.
This reminds me of the study a few years ago concluding that women like bigger dicks.
*facepalm*
I wonder what ever happened to Johnny Longtorso. He is probably busy.
Yup… not to mention – regular, small quakes == goodness when it comes to major fault lines. I’d worry one hell of a lot more if there was a year or two of no activity, because that would mean something is binding and the pressure is building up — so a really big one when it lets loose. (Isn’t that one in the Ozarks overdue?)
You mean New Madrid? When it blows it’ll probably do a lot of damage just because building codes aren’t the same there.
SDF gets it.
Been done. And likely better than they will.
Barbie was a one off “every girl played with them… lots of girls will see the movie”. Thinking that means toy lines / board games are the next MCU (again…. Battleship anyone? F’ing Pixels?) seems over optimistic. But no one accused the entertainment industry of groundbreaking artistic vision most days.
I still remember being surprised as hell when the first Mortal Kombat movie was actually GOOD (especially based on expectations). I remember the long line of “based on video game movies” that were just… terrible. A cheap license slapped onto an unrelated movie because “kids like the video games these days”. Even now, I can only think of a handful of video game movies that are solid (Resident Evil, Five Nights at Freddy, Mortal Kombat, Mario Brothers – animated).
Same. The second MK movie quickly convinced me that the first was an absolute fluke. Which is a real shame — the first one is still a guilty pleasure.
The second one had a whole group of us excited to see it in the theater. After the first scene, there was much booing.
When they immediately killed the best character from the first movie? Quelle surprise
This is where they fall down.
(I admit I like Liu and certainly the actor portraying him did very well with what he was given… but character wise, he was rather flat and his arc was kind of laughable. Johnny (and to some extent Sonya) really carried the first film.)
You left out Super Hornio Brothers.
Resident Evil? Neph, did you just have a stroke (and not the ‘watching Mila Jovovich shoot zombies from a motorcycle’ kind?)
The first movie with Mila was a serviceable action zombie film. I didn’t say it was great, just solid.
Oh, you said VEST. No thanks.
Was it made from real gorilla chest?
Are Modi’s loafers real gophers?
Of course — he never knows when he might need gopher chucks!
I forgot that existed. Might have to torture Mrs. F with spoof movies soon.
‘Marriage and babies really DO make women happier, says top researcher who’s spent 20 years studying relationships
Married women have better heart and mental health than single women
Yet, young women are choosing to forego marriage at all time highs’
This isn’t exactly news.
And the rejection of traditional marriage has coincided with a general decrease in happiness (only for women, men on average stayed the same). The real problem is everyone who isn’t being upfront with young people about the most likely way to achieve happiness and purpose in their lives, and instead encouraging ‘alternative lifestyles’.
Somewhere along the way the partnership thing was transformed into a competitive free for all. “The Great Society” may have been the beginning, where rewards were (are) being passed out with the lack of a marriage license. It also freed men from the responsibilities of providing financial and emotional support for their deeds. Birth control innovations were going to be the salvation of youth and yet abortion seems to be the biggest political determiner for many of the gentler sex.
Life is tough.
Everything’s about tearing down the patriarchy and destroying traditional social norms these days. Because it’s all white supremacist or something. The smartest people in the world told us that.
Cultural wars are always about destroying the existing culture and introducing a new one for the purposes of having power switch to those waging the war.
Currently we are seeing an all out war to snuff out the enlightenment. The enlightenment…the rise of the notion of natural rights…is not conducive to total power for some, enslavement for everyone else. It is not conducive by design. It must be destroyed.
‘All three sons were part of Hamas’s so-called military wing, Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, and Israel is ready to go after any member of Hamas involved in violence, the official said.’
So, headline could also read ‘three soldiers killed in war’
Still a tragedy of sorts, but a very different one.
They may not be journalists, but they do have skill at being deceptive.
Would you like to see the slowest, most resource intensive and hard to read web design possible?
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/the-billionaire-behind-trumps-175-million-bond-is-no-stranger-to-risky-deals-484bbde4?st=whb2jvcvj6iq92o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
dumb.
also: ‘Bhakta said Hankey, despite his advanced age, is in the office before sunrise almost every day, often by 5:45 a.m. “He tries to be the first one here,” he said.’
That isn’t even that early.
How ’bout “because of his advanced age”? The older I get, the earlier I naturally get up. And one of my earliest memories of note was how grandparents were always up super-early.
GF’s kid is a wierdo. He’s asleep by 8:00 and up at 4:30.
Heh… I’m asleep by 7 and up at 3. I just choose to view it as remaining on EST instead of PST (it made driving in when I did the commute a hell of a lot easier!)
Going to work means going to a destination rather than what happens upon arrival.
1. Arrive early
2. Make coffee
3. Chat with the other early birds
4. Someone shows up with fresh doughnuts, second cup of coffee
5. Boss/manager shows up, BS time about what daily accomplishments are intended
6. Ooops, time to start heading to place of production, now after about 45 minutes on the clock
For me it was always the opposite.
1) Arrive early
2) Get lots of work done because no one is around to bug me
3) Slackers start showing up
4) Coffee and BS
5) Boss shows up and real non-production starts
I have to say that that sounds rather familiar….
Yep, my best production in a corporate environment was always the first 2 hours of the day. It fell off rapidly after that.
‘Speaking to NBC News, Texas A&M professor Matthew Lee Smith said that this increase could be due to a lack of sex education among the impacted generation.
He said: “Back in the ’30s, the ’40s, the ’50s, traditional school wasn’t really doing sexual education very formally.”
Okay, but we’re talking about a recent uptick in STDs among those 55+. Someone 55 today was born in… 1969.
They went to school in the 80’s for god’s sake. I guess ‘sex ed’ doesn’t work, because the older generation didn’t have this problem to the same degree.
‘Experts’ never cease to amaze.
Nah. The real key is the same sentiment in those WW2-era Army hygeine posters that say things like “She may look clean….”
They (and most of us) have mental models that STD risk comes with a certain type of people and lifestyle, and to outward appearances, all these retired widowed prosperous-enough clean-looking grandmothers and grandfathers are of course “not that type”. No, these are NICE people, like me…
Eh, the ’80 was pure STD terror education-wise. AIDS was asymptomatic for TEN YEARS! But you can pass it on within DAYS of infection! Always wear a condom for everything!
My pet theory is that modern oldsters are less likely to be in a permanent relationship, much less likely to meet affair partners at work, and have a vastly expanded access to hookups via the internet.
‘My pet theory is that modern oldsters are less likely to be in a permanent relationship, much less likely to meet affair partners at work, and have a vastly expanded access to hookups via the internet.’
Much better theory than ‘oldsters never heard of STDs!’ maybe you can become a professor somewhere.
Welcome to the Villages. Evening entertainment for folks just like you…
Ok, now that is funny.
I just saw Eric Estrada plugging one of those places on a TV ad last night.
“Over 70? Join our swinger’s club!”
“Yeah….that hot tub in the clubhouse….I am not getting in there.”
WSJ Editorial Board remains true to form!
Trump Blows Up Anti-Terror Surveillance
Republicans defect from a key national security vote on FISA renewal at his command.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-fisa-reform-bill-section-702-surveillance-terrorism-5f5a2ffe?st=4l6dsfi6fki1itr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Lucy with her football punting record would look on the FBI with shame at this point…. “No, this time we really mean we’ll follow the rules and not lie about it!”
As stated yesterday, I fully expect this will weasel in right on the deadline (but we’ll have the nice performance like this first) – but it would be a good start and only a good start if it happened.
So, the same as last time and the time before….
The R’s truly are the Lucy party. That reminds me, where is my fucking Obamacare repeal?
It’s Lucy’s all the way down.
They just need a replacement for it first…
I am guessing many of the ‘nay’ votes were from freedom caucus members who would have voted against regardless of Trump.
The real stories out of this:
1. So many Dems voting against it. Why?
2. Why is the media giving Trump credit for this? Will there be an attack before the election and they need him as a scapegoat? I think that is Biden’s clearest path to victory.
Yeah — I haven’t heard anything about why the Dems teed it up… red meat to the Antifa base maybe? Again, I expect them to weasel it through in the dark of night when needed, so I assume all of this is just posturing.
“red meat to the Antifa base maybe?”
Doubt those people vote, and they are mostly in blue cities in blue states.
That’s 209 Democrats out of 213. The complete lack of mention of any Dems voting for it makes me think they went lockstep on it, with four absent.
This might be some “Trump will be a dictator”. They might be scaling back things he might use against them. Which is a big win.
In my dream world, Trump wins and declares he’s going to institute the Disinformation Board full steam ahead. And he’s putting Rudy Giuliani in charge. The lying leftists better look out! Then after two weeks of wailing, he says no, he was just kidding, we’re getting rid of the entire thing and this is exactly why we shouldn’t have it in the first place.
1. Like all commies they finally figured out that they are victims too?
I like the design of this rug, but do you have one without dog hair?
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1778088922808975399
Grin… thanks for that moment of pure joy, you impeccably chapeau’d rodent!
As a dog owner, you know full well that your options are “some dog hair” or “lots of dog hair”
She’s goat a Pyr coat, so that first isn’t even an option for me.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good advice from the coach, could have added this
…and put the toilet seat back down for your sister..
Thanks, Jimbo
—“and put the toilet seat back down”—
My (ex)wife got on about this, so I started closing the lid. If I had to lift before peeing, so did she. Name ONE other place in the entire world that a woman would into a room, pull her pants down, and sit down without looking where she is sitting. Hell, my (ex) wife would look at the bed surface before sitting down, even with clothes on.
Give it a rest, ladies.
Women don’t even get into cars without looking at the back seat.
Good news everyone! We only have to care about Global Warming for two more years!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-climate-chief-presses-for-faster-action-says-humans-have-2-years-left-to-save-the-world/ar-BB1lopyG
How can anybody take these assclowns seriously?
Ok, even if you are all in on ACGW and believe the effects to be quite severe – the world will end in 2 years?
Fucking dumbass – you make it 10 years. 10 is close enough to be scary, and far enough out to not look like a dumbass when the world doesn’t end next week.
Remember the ‘scientist’ that went to Antarctica and announced that it was already too late? They shut his ass up in a hurry. Dumbass true believer doesnt understand that doom must always be just around the corner in a good con.
What a huge success story! Fed money is going to make everyone rich with this new recycling center.
They won’t have to drive several miles! What could possibly go wrong?
Pay no attention to the last “can’t miss” recycling project that the govt invested in.
A more suspicious person than I would think that maybe these projects are a scam to rip off tax payers.
“Recycling doesn’t work on its own. Collaboration is key across the supply chain,” Myplas’ CEO at the time, Andrew Pieterse, said in December”
Reality sets in quickly
Collaboration? I think he meant coercion.
Watched The Zone of Interest on Max yesterday. A weirdly slooow beginning, with nothing seemingly happening, where I was thinking WTF. Then it gradually snuck in what they were doing with almost all the action taking place off camera – showing how the unexamined beliefs of these Nazis allowed the banality of evil.
And the viewing audience likely missing the point by not examining their beliefs that this isn’t what socialism leads to, or that these totalitarian fucks aren’t Real Socialists, because socialism is good, yah?
What…. devaluing individual freedom and lives in favor of a “Greater Good” determined solely by those in power at the top of the hierarchy has always worked out wonderfully every time it has been tried, right?
The wants of the many outweigh the rights of the few.
The girlfriend watched that over the weekend. She was confused by the structure, and felt that it didn’t really have a narrative beginning/ending.
They had the Nazi blank screen colors in four different parts of the movie, starting and ending with black.
The beginning was the happy family enjoying the good life, with the slow reveal of the horrendous deeds behind that life.
Ended with the commandant’s body involuntarily retching and gagging, despite the earlier scene with the doctor showing nothing physically wrong with him, showing that some part of his subconscious was reacting to his deeds.
It was a bold narrative approach, definitely aimed at a cerebral audience.
Modi’s training video?
So I hate companies that abuse customers with little recourse as well as the state when it does the same to its citizens. So I’m really torn here with KAHN abusing her position. OTH, MGM deserves this too.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hacked-by-criminals-probed-by-the-ftc-cyberattack-mgm-resorts-khan-a2a51497?st=s8ntfb0pd38o9t7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fuck Lina Khan and the FTC, they’re completely in the wrong here.
MGM’s idea of data security when it comes to PII is atrocious. I would suggest not dealing with them if you can avoid it.
From the Modi story: ” These trends have a disproportionate impact on Indian women, who have made remarkable progress in getting access to higher education and now make up more than 40 percent of all STEM graduates but just about a quarter of the STEM workforce. “Indian women are rising with clear aspirations,” said Debjani Ghosh, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies.”
OH. MY.
Leading indicator is trailing trailing indicator. Women and Minorities hardest hit. I wish every journalist who cites stats like this would be fed face first into a woodchipper for their sins.
SBF got an easy sentence!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-property-tycoon-truong-my-lan-death-sentence-fraud-embezzelment/
Seems fair, given the amounts involved.
‘”The defendant’s actions… eroded people’s trust in the leadership of the (Communist) Party and state,” read the verdict at the trial in southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City.’
Oh. The real reason.
Paging Tundra Paging Tundra.
Morris Day and Time or forget it.
O-E-O-E-Oh!
That shit is the MAD notes!
Oh that sounds fantastic. BTW have you seen Tundra lately? I haven’t texted him in a while.
We’ve texted a few times and sent some emails. He’s doing great. Just too busy for us scum.
Hah. I had no idea this was Honda.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/04/11/zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-robert-pirsig-bike-museum/72836292007/
You meet the nicest people on a Honda.
Good book EXCEPT for the 2 chapters on classifications.
I also did not realize it was a Honda. I gathered that his riding buddies were on a BMW, though.
“She also posted a photo from the end of the night, which featured her enjoying a slice of pizza; as she leaned towards the camera her busty chest nearly spilled out of her risqué dress.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13296955/lauren-sanchez-corset-dress-white-house-state-dinner.html
But what kind of pizza?
He face is so weirdly dented up from plastic surgery, I can’t look away – even at the fake boobs.
Whatever happened to just marrying a 20- or 30-something?
“Robert De Niro and his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen (left)”
Oof. Maybe being rich and famous isn’t all it is cracked up to be.
She reminds me of Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Brothers.
LOL yes
Dafuq is wrong with her face, and wtf is Bezos doing with her?
On one hand he can do better. On the other, perhaps on brand for a billionaire megalomaniac?
See my comment above. She is Dr. Girlfriend to his Monarch.
Looks like Detroit style pepperoni.
The third article picture (for me at least) doesn’t do her any favors. Probably the way she’s holding her arms — makes them look extra wrinkled which highlights how much work she’s done elsewhere (fake! fake! it screams). Then her eyes… they’re black and dead… like doll’s eyes… In general she looks like the last killer bot in Westworld or something.
But I’m not generally a fan of plastic surgery, honestly… I think it ruins most people’s looks that do it and they’d be better off just aging naturally and gracefully.
In the article pictures below, Bill Clinton is starting to look like Dick Van Dyke.
Meh… at least I didn’t break down and take hints. Took me two hours on and off though, so I’m not proud.
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Some days you just want to finish fast.
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Anyone going got be in Philly next week? We have sled hockey nationals. So far the tournament is too expensive and poorly organized. But my coach tried to drop us out and couldn’t get refunds on everything. So Philly here we come!
I’m an hour north and I don’t go in to Philly.
Good luck!
I’ve seen the Liberty Bell and toured the mint, so I’m good. Have absolutely no desire to ever visit again.
No Reading St. Terminal?
It’s been a long time, I think it was pretty run down back then.
Would like to be in Philly next week, but won’t be.
“A Planet Fitness member in North Carolina allegedly entered a ladies’ locker room at the gym and stripped down “completely naked,” claiming that he identified as a woman, according to police and 911 callers.
Christopher Miller, 38, was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure and booked into the Gaston County jail last Thursday, with his online inmate entry identifying him as a male.
His mugshot showed the suspect sporting a light-colored beard and mustache.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/planet-fitness-member-arrested-after-going-to-ladies-locker-room-claiming-he-identified-as-a-woman/
“Without talking to Miller, there’s no way for Channel 9 to know whether Miller truly is transgender.”
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/suspect-accused-exposing-themselves-inside-womens-locker-room-planet-fitness/K6ETD7O6I5ERJJK7LBRJN7NK4A/
Because everyone at Channel 9 is truly retarded?
Sometimes it takes a legal case to end the madness. Maybe this will be the one.
I don’t think the man in the other Planet Fitness case is being charged (he was fully dressed, afaik). In the other two cases, Wi Spa, Los Angeles and YMCA, Xenia, Ohio, they were.
This guy will go to trial, he’s booked. His case could end up changing the trajectory of this.
I don’t think there is much of a trend in the first place.
Xenia Y guy got off. 😒 https://www.whio.com/news/local/transgender-woman-found-not-guilty-charges-related-using-female-locker-room-xenia-ymca/WQPOGQSVLNBEDNO34WQKKHSABI/
Weird ruling that he was so fat no one could see his junk.
Also, he was found not guilty.
I’m sure this will provide the big boost to membership they so badly need.
Wrong sort of victims. The case has to be the actual rape of a daughter, wife, or celebrity female athlete in the locker room of one of these places. Only when the ruling class gets burned do those in charge instruct the media to change course.
Maybe he thought he was in Mecklenburg Co.?
I don’t get that reference.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/asia/pacific-castaways-pikelot-island-us-rescue-intl-hnk/index.html
Articles like this is where I apparently differ from current right-wing media. No, we don’t need to do something like TARP. Yes, there likely will be economic impact — but that’s how the market works. Propping up failed ventures / attempting to keep these cities “vibrant” by forcing people to go to them or feeding them money is just fighting the ocean. If people no longer want to live there or work there such that they aren’t sustaining… let them die. Something else will replace them, that’s how humanity and market works. Maybe all the suburbs will get better community theaters (distributed arts) as the tax base stays where they live. Maybe the online collaboration will work out. Maybe it won’t — and “smart people” will start clumping together… and then marketing folks will be needed, then artists… and suddenly you’ll have new small cities without the cruft of generations past (union contracts). We don’t know.
But stop trying to force “too big to fail” stuff to stay alive, be that cities, companies, banks or governments. Like forestry management — sometimes these things have to die of their own internal rot to clear the way for something new. (Hell, and I’m naturally conservative [in the Jordan Peterson sense] and even I know that you have to allow some changes to occur!)
Stop it! You are ruining their DOOM buzz.
Suthen — when did you get influence in the Louisiana House? This sounds like a bill we’d write ’round these parts…
That’s a good bill. Deceptive article title. Allows for self-defense against aggressive protestors in a traffic situation.
The title is a hostile lie by omission, not mentioning self-defense.
You know me too well.
Maybe we spend too much time here….what with knowing fellowing commenters better than people in RL.
This bill seems in line with our carjacker law. Shoot someone trying to car jack you, all is well.
We dont have a lot of car jackings.
Do you want to see my shocked face? Sad, however.
Hawaii-born sumo champion Akebono Taro dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Japan
https://sports.yahoo.com/hawaii-born-sumo-champion-akebono-045734738.html
Do any sumos make it past their 50s? Considering the body fat percentages and the insane diet they eat it’s got to be rare.
RIP
Anecdotally I’ve read mid 60s. No idea how that figure came to be.
I imagine some sumo nerd has tallied the ages of death of all sumo wrestlers and found the median.
Dying on average at 65 instead of the median 80 for Japanese males seems like a pretty big downside. Course, Akebobo wasn’t Japanese – Native Hawaiian men have an average life expectancy in the high 60s.
I watched a documentary about him. They filmed him sprinting down the beach. That big boy MOVED.
I like watching sumo wrestling.
RE: Marriage (and housing)
Looks like in 1970 46% of the population lived in a single or two person household.
Now it is 64%.
My niece was dxd with POTS long before COVID. Thankfully, my brother had the time and money to take her to specialists to get a dx and get treated. Also, she’s not an athlete. I think it’s one of those diseases where the kid and mom just get dismissed a lot. It only takes a couple of impatient, persistent dads with money to get the ball rolling on calling out a dx that’s been going on for a while.
Look if it isn’t at least a 5″ dual purpose, the Navy doesn’t need to know how to handle it…. Rifles are for Marines, after all.
I can’t wait to see how this squid handles his gun.
I know this has been noted yesterday, but I wanted to reiterate to everyone that wearing a seatbelt can save your life!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/2024/04/10/dexter-reed-killing-questions-chicago-police-reform
Yeah — my immediate question is “Why did it take 5 officers for a seat belt violation”, and I suspect the answer is “Because it was pretextual to mess with a known gang member and it went south when he got spooked” (supposedly there’s bodycam of him shooting first — as opposed to an oak tree too close to the traffic stop… I don’t want to watch people getting shot so I haven’t checked).
Second reaction is even if he did shoot first… your cops need some serious range time apparently — or (and you can guess which I think is more likely) this was to send a message to a particular gang — which makes your police force look like just a bigger, better funded gang, frankly. I know that opinion will be completely out of line here (/sarc).
More range time isn’t going to solve massive volumes of police fire in public. Us normies don’t do that because we’re responsible for every bullet. Make that the rule for cops, too, and you’ll see this go away after a few prosecutions for mag dumping into bystanders. Of course, there won’t be as many prosecutions as there should be, but there will be a few.
Recently one of my old mentors from the business world died in a car accident. The headline made a note that he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt.
Lots of comments at the funeral about what dicks the newsmen were.
“Meta to blur Instagram messages containing nudity in latest move for teen safety
Meta said the protection feature for Instagram’s direct messages would use on-device machine learning to analyze whether an image sent through the service contains nudity.
The feature will be turned on by default for users under 18 and Meta will notify adults to encourage them to turn it on.
“Because the images are analyzed on the device itself, nudity protection will also work in end-to-end encrypted chats, where Meta won’t have access to these images – unless someone chooses to report them to us,” the company said.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/meta-to-blur-instagram-messages-containing-nudity-in-latest-move-for-teen-safety/
As it blurs a picture of the roof of the Sistine Chapel …
Not hotdog.
“Members of a regional women’s country line dance team were reportedly kicked out of a Seattle dance convention after organizers claimed their American flag-themed shirts made some attendees feel “triggered and unsafe.”
Over the weekend at the Emerald City Hoedown in Seattle, the Borderline Dance team was set to perform, but were essentially told they weren’t welcome by organizer Rain Country Dance Association, an LGBTQ+ dance community, over their matching American flag themed shirts, Jason Rantz reported for 770 KTTH.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/seattle-dance-squad-says-they-were-told-american-flag-shirts-made-audience-members-feel-triggered-and-unsafe/
https://mynorthwest.com/3956973/rantz-seattle-dance-america-flag-shirts-unsafe-triggered/
OFFS!!
I see you trying to trigger me to say something like “Seattle should suffer a Biblical wrath where all residents are reduced to piles of salt.” It won’t work. I won’t take the bait.
Good thing you didn’t type the words inside the quote marks. Admirable restraint, sir. 😉
Thank you for your kind words. I am practicing the teachings of the Stoics daily. With a little Don Rickles thrown in for good measure.
The response per Alinsky should be to complain that the alphabet people’s rainbow shirts make you feel triggered and unsafe.
Bigots SHOULD feel unsafe!
#bashafash #nightnightaltright #byanymeansnecessary
#NoToleranceForTheIntolerant
They’ll allow the word “hoedown” which has been associated with white supremacy and minstrel shows? FOR SHAME!!!
Can’t get more white than Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
I read that entire WaPo article and learned nothing. They managed to write all that and avoid any mention of the “vaccine”. That was interesting.
Maybe happier women are more likely to get married.
::points at RPM, points to own nose::
So I should be telling women to smile more?
/runs away
Obligatory (NOT Roger Rabbit): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=arbD3ZBNfik
I was expecting this.
Heh. Great avatar.
Phew.
Car problem was just something loose knocking about. Not something indicative of more serious issues.
Naturally, in the manner of mechanics everywhere, they did find something else they could work on…
Sounds like you might get featured on ‘just rolled in’.
???
In addition to feeling both sad and foolish the guy is going to be hit with a nice bill. Most of this is insurable, but depending on the carrier I wouldn’t 100% bet they’ll pay without hassle on the “environmental damage”.
The Packard was towed from the lake after several hours. Riverside County environmental health workers were called to the lake to handle the clean-up.
During proud owner’s photo shoot, classic car rolls down ramp into California lake
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/10/classic-car-rolls-into-california-lake/
OJ Simpson is dead from cancer.
Hope it was painful.
It’s so sad that he’ll never be able to find the real killer.
He’s slashing Nicole Brown in heaven now.
You really think he’s in heaven?
DEI is everywhere now.
I watched The Godfather last night. Probably the first time since high school. It was better than that Bronx Warriors thing the other night, with end-of-the-world gangs who all looked like ’80s gay dance party extras. I had forgotten what a wasteland the Bronx was in the early ’80s. Lots of post apocalyptic street settings.
That movie (1990- The Bronx Warriors) is totally suitable for Glibflicks.
I saw a bit of Beat Street the other day; ditto (Brooklyn, I guess). I think the “I learned it from watching YOU!” dad was in it.
That’s a good one. I have one more film classic this week, then we are diving to the bottom of the stinking trash with Repligator. I will add your suggestion to the list.
I watched ‘Range 15’ last week. It was gloriously terrible.
Loophole closed
The rule was issued under a provision of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It requires that anyone who sells guns for profit to have a license and that buyers be subject to a background check, including at firearms shows and flea markets. The administration had been working on the rule since last spring. Once publicized, it will take effect in 30 days.
The so-called gun show loophole has for years allowed unlicensed gun dealers to sell firearms without background checks at gun shows, on the internet and out of their homes. The new rule, the most sweeping expansion of firearms background checks in decades, will apply to more than 20,000 individuals engaged in unlicensed gun dealing and affect “tens and tens of thousands of gun sales” each year, an administration official told reporters during a call previewing the announcement.
Take that, Indiana man!
Why you gotta be like that Brooks? *sobs*
Sweet link.
“The so-called gun show loophole has for years allowed unlicensed gun dealers to sell firearms without background checks at gun shows, on the internet and out of their homes. ”
Bullshit.
“This single gap in our federal background check system has caused unimaginable pain and suffering,” Vice President Kamala Harris said on the call.
Un
fucking
imagineable.
Millions of lives will be saved.
I don’t have time to look it up right now, but recently there was a story analyzing FBI data and they found only a small percent of crimes were done with guns bought at a gun show. Which will shock nobody here.
Today, in meaningless gestures
A Pulitzer Prize-winning political photographer resigned Tuesday from the board of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, blasting the group for cowardice in rejecting Trump critic Liz Cheney as the recipient of its top yearly award.
David Hume Kennerly claimed in a letter to fellow trustees that Cheney’s nomination for the Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service was nixed largely out of fear that Trump would retaliate against the organization if he’s reelected. Cheney, herself a trustee, was rejected three separate times, Kennerly wrote, as other potential honorees declined the award.
If we don’t give her this totally meaningless “prize” democracy will have failed.
What’s the point of going to bullshit trustee meetings if you can’t give yourself awards?
Was he wearing a helmet?
A 21-year-old man has died while attempting to perform a “high-risk skiing stunt” trying to jump the width of a U.S. highway in Colorado, authorities say.
The incident occurred on Tuesday at approximately 3 p.m. when the Grand County Communications Center in Colorado received a 911 call regarding a skiing accident on Highway 40, just west of Berthoud Pass Summit about reports of a 21-year-old male skier who was found “unconscious and not breathing,” according to a statement from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office released on Wednesday.
My immediate reaction when I saw the headline was “Berthoud Pass?” That has been going on for decades.
Article I read about this Darwin candidate DID note that he was properly wearing a helmet.
He should not have used Boeing brand skis.
I don’t have time to look it up right now, but recently there was a story analyzing FBI data and they found only a small percent of crimes were done with guns bought at a gun show. Which will shock nobody here.
If it can stop just one nut from getting his mitts on a gun, it will be worth it!
“OJ Simpson dead at 76 after cancer battle: Football legend turned notorious double-murderer dies ‘surrounded by family’ in Las Vegas just two months after diagnosis”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13297835/OJ-Simpson-dies-aged-76.html
“Developing story, check back for updates..”
Zombie OJ?
Everyone’s waiting for a description of the hearse.
He found evidence that the real killer was Hillary Clinton.