“Does the Epstein List even exist?” the hair asked.
“I’m not sure anyone knows,” the hat said.
“I said I would release it,” Donald said. “Pammy has betrayed me.”
“How much sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a disloyal henchman,” the hat misquoted.
“Henchwoman,” the hair muttered.
“No feminist bullshit in The Oval Office,” the hat snapped.
“Kashie too,” Donald said.
“I don’t think it exists,” the hair said. “It would be very incriminating evidence if it was being used for blackmail. It makes sense that he would have destroyed it when arrest was imminent.”
“The hands of every man are turned against me,” Donald said. “A fortune cookie told me that.”
“I didn’t know you ate Chinese food,” the hat said. “I’ve never seen you eat Chinese food.”
“Before your time,” the hair said. “It was an Asian girl he was banging called Fortune Cookie.”
“Ah,” the hat said. “That’s cute.”
“Not really. It was because he couldn’t pronounce her name,” the hair said. “She was very attractive, even with being crosseyed.”
“Rubio, Pam and Kash,” Donald said. “I’ll just clean house.”
“I’ve never been on the head of a cute Asian girl,” the hat said. “Is it true that they have sideways vaginas?”
“Jesus, that’s like some shit from the 1880s,” the hair said. “Update your racial myths.”
“I heard it when I was a cowboy hat,” the hat said defensively.
“Have you really never seen an Asian girl’s vagina?” the hair asked. “I know you watch porn when I’m not around.”
“I only like pretty White girls that you know went into porn only because her parents didn’t get her braces,” the hat said.
“OK, very specific,” the hair said, with a hint of disgust.
“I also like it when they get trapped in the dryer,” the hat said.
“I can’t even hear myself think with you two chattering,” Donald said.
“I like looking at women’s hair,” the hair said. “Especially of other world leaders.”
“Ew,” the hat said.
“I get a bit turned on my helmet hairstyles,” the hair said dreamily. “Angela Merkel… so hot.”
“Stop,” the hat said.
“I branch out,” the hair said. “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hair is so shiny.”
“I need help with my cabinet, dammit,” Donald said.
“I’m going to be sick,” the hat groaned, and then vomited a pile of half-digested buttons onto the Resolute desk.
Why does so much of this seem familiar…
Because SF was writing about you?
Wait. It’s biographical, isn’t it?
I’m at the theater, late, halfway through the movie, it seems
“How much sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a disloyal henchman,” the hat misquoted.
Goodest.
“I get a bit turned on my helmet hairstyles,” the hair said dreamily.
What about beehives? Lacquered towers of hair.
Now you’ve piqued my interest, Brooksie.
Why is ‘Love shack’ suddenly my ear worm?
You are a trichophile?
What about the Chelsea haircuts?
We talking 90s, 00s, 10s or 20s Chelsea? Inquisitive minds are wondering.
OBE:
I haven’t seen much of a change honestly. But they’re much rarer now than they were back in the 90s/00s.
Ladybird and her daughters??
“Before your time,” the hair said. “It was an Asian girl he was banging called Fortune Cookie.”
“Ah,” the hat said. “That’s cute.”
🙂
*polite applause*
So do Seth Rich’s and Anthony Weiner’s laptops exist or were those big hoaxes too?
You are teaching the fifth grade. You excuse yourself for two minutes to go piss. Just before you go back into the class you hear loud whispers, lots of shuffling around and chairs squeaking on the floor. When you walk in all of the kids are sitting in their seats, upright, silent and still as stone.
You think “They put a whoopee cushion in my chair, didnt they”
You go look at your chair. Yep. Whoopie cushion.
Do you really need all of these big reveals and official investigations and announcements? They have been up to just what it looks like they have been up to.
Greetings from New Hampshire!
Why is Old Speckled Hen so delicious?
I took the opportunity to pre-shop for my employee discount and I think I have found my L10 gun – a p220 legion. The safety on the SAO version is too small, and I refuse to spend an additional $800 to get the fancy version with the excellent safety, so it’ll be the DA/SA version. Extra 10 round mags are $50 each because fuck you SIG.
P220 porn
Now I need to shop holsters and mag pouches. Fortunately I have a few belts from last time Shooter’s Connection had a closeout.
I just remembered that I picked up a left-handed CR Speed race holster off the prize table a year or two back.
“Why is Old Speckled Hen so delicious?”
On tap?
Yup.
Creamy, malty, sweet, bitter, and hoppy all at once.
You’re making me thirsty. I need to see if my local attempt to recreate an English country pub in NoVA has the OSH on tap…
“Best we’ve got is the Foul Fowl.”
They do, and it’s a permanent tap no less!
https://www.hawkgriffin.com/
From the menu – “Originally brewed to commemorate 50 years of MG Motor Cars…”
That place looks great, if it wasn’t 3 1/2 hours away, I would definitely check it out.
That (Old Speckled Hen) used to be pretty common here, it’s since retreated to being a rare handle, usually only seen at Irish pubs.
This place has a lot of UK/Irish beers/ciders on tap.
Tomorrow night they’re having a $4/pint on a local(?) Cider company. Don’t know if my schedule will let me attend though.
My old regular place has had it on tap for years and years.
I have one and it is a nice piece in 45 cal. The shop had a collector trade in one of each Legion variant and this was the one for me.
This place (Just outside of KBJC airport)
https://theburnspub.com
Has always had Old Speckled Hen on tap. We always drop by when we fly in to Denver to stay with friends.
The problem with good beer near airports is that you need an overnight to partake (as pilot/crew)
Just fly the plane upside-down.
Someone, maybe Ernest Langdon, won a bunch of national championships with a SIG P220 back in the early Production era. Good choice.
Why is Old Speckled Hen so delicious?
My guess: It uses English hops and doesn’t overuse them.
Bravo good sir, bravo
Sorry for OT (after 30 min) – just submitted a post.
No worries.
Job one
This is Ford’s 88th vehicle recall filed with the NHTSA since January of this year, topping all other automakers in the number of recalls filed. Ford has struggled with its quality for the past several years, in fact, it’s been near the top or led in recall filings since 2020, according to NHTSA data.
When Jim Farley was appointed as Ford CEO in October 2020, he listed fixing quality and lowering warranty costs as a top priority. So far, he’s paid for not achieving it. His compensation fell by $1.6 million to $24.9 million in 2024 compared to 2023 because he failed to hit company-set quality improvement targets.
It’s just a high pressure fuel leak.
My ’04 F150 is still problem free, no recalls, because there probably isn’t too many left to recall.
Non-faulty fuel leaks are OK, however.
Days without
an injurya recall: 0Poor baby…
Job One begins in August with the new model year. Job Two starts around January so it fits.
https://www.f150forum.com/f129/what-does-job-1-job-2-mean-522800/
“I’m going to be sick,” the hat groaned, and then vomited a pile of half-digested buttons onto the Resolute desk.
Not only a comic ending, but reveals something new about the hat. I think?
I’d have guessed the Hair was the button man.
It has been established that the hat eats buttons and the hair feeds on dead skin flakes and Rogaine.
I need to make a series bible. I’m very good a canon and continuity, but a series bible would be funny.
Regular buttons or squatchees?
Squatchees are a little too close to cannibalism.
The old testament has lots of scary stories about Hillary in it.
The new testament? Matt, Marco, Pete and Scott.
Matt became heretical and was replaced by the Book of Pammy.
The last book of Bannon has lots of scary predictions in it.
p220 legion.
Good choice. One of only a couple of guns I would actually consider buying. I haven’t shot any of the ones I already own since I moved, however…
Was Portia di Rossi’s hair particularly attractive since he could “turn” it?
Another bonus of direct injection- extremely high fuel pressure so leaking fuel is thoroughly atomized for better combustion.
Just add some kind of drip guard and an ECU firmware update that will make the car undriveable if it detects the slightest variation in expected fuel pressure.
It will be much cheaper than replacing defective parts.
“I only like pretty White girls that you know went into porn only because her parents didn’t get her braces,” the hat said.
“You can imagine where it goes from there.”
“He fixes her teeth?”
I know that medical fetishism is a thing, but dentist porn is something that I can’t even imagine. And my impagination is broad and deep…
Open wide, here comes the deep drilling!
Trump saying this while standing beside Jeffery Epstein’s next door neighbor… can’t make this up.
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1945254920568873156
At this point I’m just going to assume he’s on the list and a kid banger. I hope he gets impeached again if only for the lulz. Vance’d be a better President anyway.
We’re getting speed cameras.
The big money would be made placing these on I-95, especially with the variable speed zone.
“I wasn’t driving, prove otherwise.”
I believe most traffic courts have said “Fuck you, you own the car, you do the time!”
Sort of, what they actually did was pretend that fines for traffic offenses are purely administrative and can be levied against the person to whom the vehicle is registered without the need to prove personal responsibility for the action. Basically they said oh it’s ok, it’s a civil matter, so they can fine you, but jailing you would require proving you were responsible. See, all your rights are protected! Fines don’t violate them!
In Iowa at least, speed cameras tickets are treated like “parking tickets”. They are issued to the registered owner of the vehicle.
They are not moving traffic violations. Therefore, they do not need to prove who the driver was. Thus, they don’t need an officer to pull you over and get your driver’s license.
They are a money generating device and nothing else.
As bad as they are, at least here you can send it back and attest it wasn’t you without requiring you to provide the actual driver (though they do ask). If the license photo doesn’t look anything like the speed camera photo, they do bin it.
Yes they are.
I was happy when my wife got one in a construction zone.
I had been to Baltimore for work and a couple weeks later we got an envelope in the mail with a return address of Baltimore and something about a traffic fine.
She started giving me a hard time about speeding.
I opened the envelope and there was a picture of her Corolla doing 50 in a 35 construction zone.
I laughed so much when she saw it and went from teasing me to crestfallen.
It’s the little things that makes it all worth it.
“Basically they said oh it’s ok, it’s a civil matter, so they can fine you, but jailing you would require proving you were responsible.”
But they can jail you for not paying the fine.
I was in western Mass this weekend and I swear the speed limit changed every mile and a half for no discernible reason.
The reason is obvious – to entrap drivers.
What caliber is best? .22lr seems sufficient if you can hit the lens.
Just put on a hi-vis vest, throw some cones around and cut the camera off. No one will even challenge you.
Wear a hard hat and a face buff, if you’re really considering this act of civic engagement. Cameras have cameras.
Locally, the suburb of Lakewood had issues with scofflaws going around in pick up trucks with someone in the bed with a paintball gun. They would drive through the city at night, taking out the cameras as they went by.
Heroes we didn’t deserve.
We have those in Suffolk.
They are all conspicuously labelled, only an idiot not paying attention would get caught by one.
So far they are only in use for the school zone times.
How long before they succumb to the temptation to use them all the time?
Near schools I mostly see cars speeding into the staff parking lot.
Locally, we’re getting Flock cameras (automated license plate readers, but I’m sure the raw video will eventually be stored and processed by other AI overlays). Private service sold on a service contract and oh, it can be used by any other flock customer so can locate a wanted car in another jurisdiction or ICE can locate an illegal based on license plate date. Two such uses publicly disclosed so far).
We dont have cameras. You cant confront your accuser in court.
Traffic cameras are a transparent scam…why any states allow them is beyond me. Money, of course it is the money.
It has been established that the hat eats buttons
Like this rare delicacy?
He’s tan, rested, and ready.
It’s National Hot Dog Day
Tube Steak Boogie – ZZ Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCUCSqcSnac
The girl I hung out with at Fort Sill before I went to Okinawa was 100% convinced this was true.
I was pretty sure there would be no way for that to work, but she was adamant I was wrong.
Instead of missionary, you do it at a 90° angle.
They aren’t sideways. They are flipped left-right.
No, no, no. That’s just the Filipinas.
“Originally brewed to commemorate 50 years of MG Motor Cars…”
Served warm and flat?
With a little electrical smell?
Hah! Yes, it should be smoked with Lucas Wire Smoke.
If it ain’t dripping oil, it means it’s empty.
In a leaky glass.
With a little electrical smell?
With a Castrol 20-50 depth charge.
Just for Neph
Boss of Guinness-owner Diageo suddenly steps down
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xv21n2ky9o
A lot more than just Guinness.
Yup. I checked her resume on Wiki. Surprisingly, she had long relevant experience. I wonder who she ticked off.
Mind you the stock has declined 40% during her tenure so Wall St. for sure. But CEOs have survived worse as long as they kept the board’s approval.
The outlook is particularly bad, I think. There’s speculation on the scotch boards about another whiskey loch bubbling up. Meanwhile the distillers have jacked prices way up (part due to cost, but also wanting to capture the markup premium from when there was demand increase during covid and an unwillingness to float prices down as Trump’s first term tariff expired and stock started piling up). Trying to premiumize formerly midrange and low range lines, often with gimmicks. I think bourbon is in the same boat and probably other spirits.
Gustave Lytton:
There’s been a big contraction in the alcohol industry that started back in about 2018. With the growing range of THC products out there, that’s been a huge impact to the industry. I know of several local breweries that have started dabbling in the THC seltzer business to keep up.
The rinky-dink liquor store I shop at rarely has the same brands of vodka available during consecutive visits, and the available prices vary wildly.
Currently I’m drinking the dirt-cheapest brand I’ve ever seen and it’s fine with me – I don’t drink martinis so who cares. The supply chains are still fucked up it seems.
Omens and portents
“It really does beg the question of what do creators do if the economy isn’t there to support them?” Sam Ogborn asks. Ogborn is a content creator and marketing strategist who has worked with brands like Red Bull and Walgreens. “If they’re so reliant on fans to buy from them and support them, what happens when that starts to go away?”
Posts sharing luxury handbag collections or exotic vacations were once popular on TikTok and Instagram, but now influencers are facing backlash in their comment sections for what some followers see as excessive displays of wealth during an economic downturn.
It comes as a majority of Americans say they feel “stressed” or “concerned” about their finances, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll. Over half (54%) said they feel the economy is doing poorly. And it has impacted what audiences want to watch online.
Peyton Knight, a marketing executive at Ladder and founder of Last Digital, which assists companies in managing their social media presence, says the financial anxiety has contributed to a decline in trust between followers and content creators. She says, “The consumer is what really dictates what’s happening in the market. And I think the consumer has pushed back and said, ‘Enough.'”
The “influencer economy” is in trouble? Canary in the coalmine.
The Feds need to subsidize them.
It really does beg the question
The rampant misuse of this phrase is a huge pat peeve for me. Begging the question is not this. The writer is positing a question, our the situation poses or asks a question.
It begs the question (in the sense you mean) of whether an influencer without influence is actually an influencer. But I am kind of a heretic on this one because the English formulation “Begging the question” seems to literally mean asks that the listener raise the question more than it means either assumes the unestablished premise, or assumes the conclusion. This is what you get when you translate names of debate scoring rules from language to language for 2500 years.
That should read questions the unestablished premise not assumes. The originally meaning was not the fallacy of circular reasoning, it was a debate rule that said the responder had to assume the premise was true in their attempt to refute an argument because it wasn’t interesting to simply question the premise.
This.
My usual procedure is when someone uses that phrase incorrectly, which is the vast majority of times, I stop listening.
From ded thred: secondhand experience w/ oxycodone
1) hospital hands it out like candy when prescribed. “What’s your current pain level, 1 to 10?” “0” “ok, here’s your 2 oxy. Back in 3 hours.”
2) zero effort to educate non-users or taper them off prior to discharge. Convalesce at home.
3) ridiculous easy to pick up prescriptions on behalf of another person. No photo ID. Scrawl on card terminal just like for a credit card.
4) idiotic rules. Some pharmacies will dispense under a hospital’s DEA number . Others won’t and need individual physician’s DEA number. Fuck you if you come from a teaching hospital filled with residents.
5) pretending Walgreen’s stores (or CVS or Walmart or any other chain) are separate pharmacies rather than one giant pharmacy with different windows. It would be ridiculous if you had to have a script sent to a specific cashier at a Walgreens and couldn’t pick it up at the next one over because the original one is closed.
6) every part of the pharmacy experience is anti patient, at least at Walgreens. Add automation so you don’t have to call a patient if insurance says too soon to refill (duh, it’s a holiday weekend and the pharmacy will be closed for 3 days) and see if they want to pay cash instead ($20 cost). No fallout process if any step ends with fails to fill script. No one cares if you’re in pain or need a medication. No penalty for not have a prescription ready. Open 5 minutes late but close promptly at 6pm (3/4 of the pharm tech staff was closing up for the last 20-30 minutes despite a line so the shutters promptly come down at close). No one is going to stay late if they fuck up. Take some Tylenol. Or go to the ER.
I suspect the occupational license to disburse medications isn’t issued to Walgreens the company, but the individual pharmasists they hire, which would make each site a separate pharmacy from a regulatory perspective.
There are multiple pharmacists at a single location. Any can fill any script sent to the location.
7) like social security disability, the ones who sail right through and get it right away are the ones who have experience. Which scammers and junkies have.
My experience with oxy….well, any ‘pain killers’ – I have watched a number of people be destroyed by that garbage.
I have RA.
My Doc: “Do you want anything for pain? You can have whatever you want”
Me: “No thank you.”
Doc: “I can give you…”
Me: “No, thank you.”
Doc: ” But…
Me: “NO. I do not want any kind of dope at all. That shit is the road to hell and I am not taking it. If I have a bad day I will just tough it out.
Mind you, toughing it out can be…tough. Such is life. I make it through and get on with my life.
That’s my outlook. I had an unused bottle of codeine from wisdom tooth removal. Took otc and slept instead.
When I had my wisdom teeth out I took the codeine not knowing better. It turned me into a drooling moron for 12 hours. I layed on a bed and stared at the ceiling with exactly zero going on in my head. Never touched anything like that again. FUCK. THAT.
How long ago?
My recent experiences have been very different. Pain meds come on a schedule. If you’re screaming, suck it in.
Prescription? You have to see a counselor every 90 days.
Glad I am not on that type of shit now. It’s a huge burden.
But yeah, dealing with pharmacies sucks. I have had prescriptions that can only be filled at a “specialty pharmacy” and require lengthy phone conversations every month. Off of those too, for now.
Today I learned that the 404 page on the Service Now site hosting our ticketing system is a game of breakout. It only has the one level where the blocks to break form the 404, and is pretty slow, so it is trivial to win.
I may or may not have wasted a few minutes on a 404 page…
We use SN and have yet to get that page. That would be an improvement over the working product. Not a fan.
I’ve had to deal with it since 2012, but today was the first time I saw the 404 page.
I would kill for ServiceNow at this point. My company is using fucking Salesforce and Teams for ticketing.
Contemplate that on the tree of woe.
We use SF also. I hate both.
We have been moved from on-prem SN to SaaS SN….
Feature X that you based your workflow on?.. gone.. Perhaps we will make it available in the future. no promises.
SAAS and web pages instead of applications are cancer.
SN has long been webpages… just that the DB and server were on prem… now its in the “cloud”.. oh you don’t want the new version… so sorry… forced updates.. welcome to SaaS.
Dr. Mossy Lawn:
Well aware, I’m in the SAAS business right now supporting it (SAAS).
even with being crosseyed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudostrabismus