NOTE: This review started as a crossover with Glibflicks, but Tubi has removed the movie from free viewing. Rather than waste an already written review, it’s here as a standalone.
The Glass Bottom Boat
Genre – Spy Comedy
Runtime – 1 Hour 50 Minutes
Spoilers – Sure, why not?
Sure, why not? Why not agree to the random idea of reviewing the Glib Flick? I’m going into the having only seen the trailer, so I know it is a spy comedy from the 60s. And that’s it. I’d never heard of this movie before, and I have to get this in before the other article series we’re crossing over with goes live so that we can get it scheduled for a reasonable time for the audience to remember. Of course by now, I expect many of you will have seen the film and will disagree with my stream of consciousness assessment of it. Please do, I get paid the same either way… not a jot.
We open with a boat in coastal waters. It is a glass-bottomed boat for tourists to view sea life. A woman working for the tour guide dressed as a mermaid tries to swim under the boat, but gets snagged by the fishing line off a different boat passing nearby. As this is a comedy, the hook snags her zipper and takes off the bottom of her mermaid costume. After a verbal argument with the fisherman, the opening credits roll.
We return to see what I took to be a spaceman in training, but was really a “gravity test” according to the newspaper that took over the screen. Shockingly, when I paused it, I was able to read every article and they were at least somewhat coherent. I was looking for the date, but the newspaper lacked on. So they’ll charge me ten cents for a paper and not tell me which day’s edition it is? How long does this rag sit on the stands unread?
Our expository reporters tell us that this machine is for artificial gravity in space. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they got the spaceman to float by putting their artificial gravity machine on the ceiling and counteracted the natural gravity. They call the widget a GISMO, so Widget it is. A woman who I believe is the mermaid from the opening shows up as the lead scientist heads off to deal with an unspecified issue that had called him away from the press conference. She’s leading a tour of extras in African garb through the grounds of the facility. The head of PR commits what would be HR violations some sixty years on. While not amenable, mermaid doesn’t seem particularly bothered. Given the mildness of his advances, it does seem like a more reasonable reaction than what one would expect nowadays.
Okay comedy, you’re getting me too contemplative, lets go find something funny.
As if to answer my request, as soon as I unpause it the mermaid borrows a dime to call her dog. The explanation afterwards is rational, but at least the exchange lifted my spirits. Getting her back onto the plot, she talks to the still ringing phone, and it turns out her dog’s name is Vladimir. She continues taking the extras on the tour past a clean room where none of the people inside have masks on, meaning they’re ruining the environment with every exhalation. But the joke isn’t about bad clean room protocols, it’s about her getting stuck in the dust-shaking grate. This compounds to a run-in with the fisherman, then some slapstick involving the now-removed grate exposing a pit deep enough for someone to fall in.
Mermaid hides very poorly from fisherman, and we get positive confirmation that he is guy who invented the widget. We get a few more bits of slapstick and a bout of inflationary dissonance as the widget’s air force contract is said to be seventy-five million dollars. In a day and age where seventy-five million buys one learing center, I don’t intuitively register 1960s money. Internet says that the inflation makes that about $765 Million today. So not even a Minnesota of learing centers, and half of a jet program. I’d think an artificial gravity widget would bilk the government for more than that.
Fisherman decides to give himself more opportunities to get to know mermaid by assigning her to a make-work project collating a biographical dossier on him to field press questions from – something which should already exist but gives him an excuse to keep her nearby.
I keep getting distracted by little details that I don’t think are meant to be jokes. There’s what I think is a vending machine bearing the slogan “Have a Coke” with buttons for “Coca Cola”, “Squirt”, and “Pepsi Cola”. I was initially distracted by Pepsi being in a Coke machine, but then I realized none of these three are made by the same company. I need to stop getting distracted, I’m only twenty minutes in. We have a montage leading into the introduction of a CIA dude. Just in time, we could use a pastry chef as slapstick destroys the mermaid’s cake and nearly kills the audio repairman. Slapstick does seem to be the main comedy element as the mermaid and repairman get stuck in the same wastebasket.
I got distracted again by the kitchen computer, which is missing between one and three tape spools, and is in an awkward position for anyone to operate it. But it’s just part of the obligatory “inventors gallery of impractical home gadgets” every character of the archetype had for decades.
Turns out the repairman was a spy, but he gets the wrong formula. He’s such an inept spy that he takes the first picture with his camera facing the wrong way. Mermaid is left alone in the gallery of gadgets, and we get a slapstick sequence which is perfect fodder for a horror re-edit with a new soundtrack. After some more flirting and slapstick, fisherman tries to get mermaid killed by not just cutting speed on his radio-controlled boat. It doesn’t work.
I have to stop the play by play on the slapstick, otherwise this review will be a novel. Let’s just say that slapstick is the largest component of the comedy. The romance plot is being played straight, which does lead to some tonal whiplash between the two. What is a bit absent is the spy plot, which has been only a few minutes of the first half of the movie. I know you have nearly two hours to work with, but you sold me a spy comedy. I expect a bit more spying.
As if on cue, the Culinary team informs fisherman that his company is leaky, and they suspect mermaid of working with the spies. This rattles fisherman badly. This does lead into something I never thought I’d see in a movie – a misunderstanding where the characters actually talk it out like human beings afterwards.
I need a fainting couch. Dammit, I don’t own a fainting couch. Where am I supposed to swoon to? There’s the swivel chair. This swivel chair has a broken wheel…
Oww, it dumped me on the floor.
Anyway, the Rooskies realize the repair man sent the wrong formula and start moving to correct the situation. We get an espionage montage as everyone is spying on everybody else. We get some comedy bits and typical movie misunderstandings. It makes the culinary team think mermaid is even more guilty, while we get the typical third act fracture in a romance. While I hyperbolically overreacted to the reasonable resolution of the earlier misunderstanding, it’s because I really dislike it as a plot device. Viscerally so. In a nice twist, Mermaid uses the power of misunderstanding to send the culinary team off on a wild goose chase and twist up those still nearby. This leads to a fight with Fisherman who locks her in a pantry. Good thing it wasn’t a closet, that would ruin their chances.
The actual mole does what I fully expected to happen with the voice lock and used a tape recording to open it. The chaos proceeds to unfold. The mole uses mermaid to smuggle the secret info out of the house. The repairman manages to incapacitate himself while trying to threaten mermaid with a water pistol. The real mole turns up with an actual gun as everyone converges on her house. We get a slapstick fight between the mole, mermaid, and occasionally the repairman, but he doesn’t fare so well. I kinda feel sorry for the guy. I know he’s a comedy bad guy, but he’s too pathetic to be taken seriously.
To give a summation – I appreciate the exploitation of misunderstandings to sow chaos at the end. I only cringed at a handful of junctures, and enough were more reasonably handled. On the downside, slapstick just doesn’t get a laugh out of me. I know it is the main form of humor in the work, but it was moments like the leading lady politely closing a broken door in the middle of a chase that worked better for me. There were times when it was dragging and could have used to trim some of the runtime to tighten up the pacing a bit. On the plus side, there were no particular plots that needed jettisoning wholesale.
On average, you could do a lot worse. But you’ll enjoy it more if you laugh at slapstick.
A bit of slapstick in the review is appropriate for such a slapstick movie. Nice touch.
I’m virtually certain this movie was on TV (at least) once when I was a kid, but literally the only thing I remember about it is the opening theme song, to which I will not link here because I’m not a monster. (I’ll leave that to Ted’S.)
…and now, even without seeking it out, that theme song has become my current earworm. 😒
So you’re saying I make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day?
And yeah, I know you’re more into Rod Taylor.
I never knew she was Lunchlady Doris from the Simpsons. Wow. Day was indeed a cutie. Funny how she also did a good job in the show.
*searches* Oh. That was Doris Grau. Also an interesting chick. Did many things I didn’t know about, and was a “script supervisor” for a number of flicks, including “Clue,” my spirit flick.
Doris Gray. 🙂
Grau, that’s what I thought, too! Search changed it and Wiki’s telling me “Grau.” I’m aware of them being frequently wrong, and I’m now filled with further confusion. (Maybe the credits?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Grau
Auf deutsch.
“There’s very little meat in these gym mats.”
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E21/284016
Ha! So they are. I even lived in Germany. My German was shit and is worse now, but even I remember grau=grey.
Silly brain, be more better!
From dead thread:
A number of companies were pretty explicit and exact about how much they’d raise prices to pay for the tariffs. So, they’re own public statements to start with.
But I’d guarantee that every company has internal docs on how much extra they’d charge in response to the tariffs and that includes Nintendo. So while they publicly claimed that they wouldn’t jack the Switch 2’s price point up further because of Trump’s tariffs (it was announced before they were officially in place), you can bet your second ass that they built that price point initially in anticipation of them and it’s all documented in their private communications.
But there were products that Nintendo jacked the price up on directly after the tariffs. This included original Switch’s and accessories.
I don’t know how far this lawsuit will go. Nintendo could offer the two guys suing a kickback to drop it. Or the courts could toss it at some point. But if it were to get to discovery, it’d be easy to document how much extra Nintendo collected per console because of the price increase they themselves attributed to tariffs.
I saw some former Nintendo lawyer argue that companies are under no obligation to keep margins low. True enough. You can generally charge what you want for your services. The lawsuit does a pretty good job of making a point for consumers, though.
You don’t have to be a commie to be fed the fuck up over the way corporate America fucks people over and it’s usually done with the support of the government laws and regs which pretty clearly favor them.
So, here were the Switch 1 price increases post-tariff announcement:
Switch – $300 to $340
Switch OLED – $350 to $400
Switch Lite – $200 to $230
Stuff was already on the market and for a while. They were releasing a new system. Still jacked up prices even if the announcement specified the state of the market rather than tariffs explicitly.
And yes, the price increases listed above remain in effect even with the tariffs being removed.
Because the tariffs were an excuse, the cause was the price pressure on GPUs, CPUs, and memory.
See also: Steam Box and Steam Deck.
Ha. I suppose they could just brush it off as ‘conforming with inflation’ and further concerns.
It is tricky arguing for ‘free markets’ when corps *will* do what they can do fuck customers, carefully maintaining a ‘minimum’ or something that the customers ‘won’t walk away from.’ Gov regs play a part, for sure. Had a conversation with an old friend yesterday and I tried to explain a fundamental disagreement with ‘And what do all [these corrupt systems and orgs] have in common? *People.* And how people and groups of ’em will always have issues, largely greed.’
‘Mammals want more resources. News at 11,’ pretty much. Do our best with courts, not push things into black markets, etc. He brushed it off, which is typical of him, particularly when he talks to someone who disagrees who can actually put coherent thoughts and arguments together.
To be fair, it’s a harder reality to pitch than ‘Greedy corps rip off everyday folk.’
In that case the plaintiffs should get on the bandwagon and sue AI fatcats.
Even more reason to get the internal communications that almost certainly exist.
I think there were a combination of reasons that Nintendo jacked up prices. The OLED being 50 dollars cheaper than a new Switch 2 and staying there basically means if you want a Switch, it’s gonna be a Switch 2 at that kind of price difference.
But yea, they and most of the internet blamed Trump’s tariffs.
This is a long-ass read, perhaps it should be summarized as an article, but no matter what you think of the SPLC, you don’t understand how fucking much reach they have (pending the conclusion of the criminal case). Most importantly, even if SPLC ceases to exist – another entity is absolutely certain to arise in it’s place, because it fills an eco-system niche. That eco-system is the issue far more than the assholes at SPLC.
The case against SPLC is probably not that difficult to prove once they get their internal documents and communications.
The willingness of the DOJ to carry out that prosecution is another story. I suspect the goal will be to drag any proceedings on until orange man is gone and then the political heart needed to prosecute will disappear.
When it comes to moving money around, most wealthy people have done some shady shit I’d wager. The desire to go after all of them isn’t there for obvious reasons. The cases cited are those exceptions.
The current head of the SPLC is a lawyer. It’s fun when people from that class pretend they don’t know they were breaking one of the many laws in our byzantine system.
Novel and clever, or just politically favored to do an endaround for the government?
So yea, this case is obviously political. Just as political as the protections and privileges granted to the SPLC for years. Something will take its place if it goes down, but really we probably don’t even get to that. They’ll probably fire the DOJ lawyers who even touch this sometime down the road even if they intentionally tank the whole thing just for appearances sake.
Holy cow that is a long read. I’m bookmarking it for when I have the time.
Brochettaward (I think) said something the other day about white identitarian politics making a comeback and displacing MAGA. Well, looks like that day is here. The Maryland College Republicans invited “white advocate” Jared Taylor to give a speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39N6rTPnig
Taylor makes a lot of good points, but his goals are impossible.
The US is a multicultural country and that isn’t going to change. I’m in favor of whatever helps keep the peace, for the most part.
If keeping the peace means aggressive “hate speech” laws, something else has to give.
Were we all that multicultural prior to the last generation or so? In 1990, we had under 1/4th of the illegals in the country even with the low end estimates of how many are currently here. 3% of new births were the result of the illegal entry. That’s up to ~9%. The non-white population (and it’s not the blacks who are growing) has jumped to 40% from 20% in 1990.
But illegal immigration is only part of the story. There was the change in the mix of legal immigrants, but then the growth of economic migrants claiming asylum at the border after passing through 6 other countries on their way here. There’s anywhere from 2-5 million of these in the country right now and they aren’t counted among illegal immigrants.
We have the highest portion of the population that is foreign born in US history. It surpasses the previous high set back in 18-fucking-90. Just 10% of that number comes from Europe.
This didn’t happen organically but as the result of systematic policy decisions from both parties across decades.
So I’m not really rebutting your point, but more the idea that we should just, ya know, accept it and live and let live.
The third world is coming here and it’s going to accelerate our rapid decline. There will be no rebuilding with what comes after.
You know, I say this, but the one group I hate to interact with the most is…Germans. Those are maybe the most obnoxious motherfuckers on the planet. And I’m either German or Polish on one side so…
Funny how often we hate most in others what we hate the most in ourselves.
Germans have a collectivist mindset. And that’s our real issue with immigration – we aren’t importing people that are fed up with their native culture and want something different. We used to, but then we got all humanitarian and shit. Now we import people that drag their culture along with them rather than leaving it behind. We don’t even need that from Germans.
The natural reaction to “Hate speech” laws should be violence.
When I hear a German start to talk, I reach for my gun.
I couldn’t care less about the “cultures” coming here except: (1) they need to adapt our culture instead of reject it and (2) they need to pay their own way instead of helping themselves to the contents of my wallet.
Both of these problems are deliberate choices of one of the two major political parties so I guess that makes me a Hitler or some shit.
I liked interacting with 80s Germans when I lived there. These days, probably not so much.
Trump is shooting himself in the foot by backpedaling on deportation. He’s either getting stroked off by the deep state or they gave him the unredacted manila folder.
You are right GL. And if he started with convicted felons and people with final deportation orders, then he would be on the right side of an 80/20 issue.
The left has expertly capitalized on this issue – a couple martyrs helped.
The reality is there is no acceptable way to deliver this promise without some broken eggs and the GOP got playyyyed.
The reality is that the Democratic cities were NEVER going to play ball with Trump on this. It’s literally impossible to do this with positive headlines. They won’t even hand over the hardened criminals to start there. Mass deportations without the heavy handedness are off the table.
Then the left sits there and shrieks about ICE lowering standards to meet the recruitment goals that Trump put in place. They can pass legislation all they want to increase an agency, but doing so in a quick manner is going to necessitate the lowering of standards.
Does anyone think the IRS found 25,000 new qualified agents under Biden?
But yea, the media isn’t going to run sob stories on the people who get fucked over by incompetent and/or lazy IRS employees. Or even the people inconvenienced by them next doing much of anything even as simple as answering their phone call backlog. If such a story gets printed, it’s in the prism of OH GOSH WE NEED MORE IRS EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY’RE OVERWHELMED.
Border patrol and ICE have been “overwhelmed” for decades as NGO’s funded by other parts of the government help people flood over illegally to violate our laws.
And just to remind people – Bush The Lesser was pro-illegal for the most part. Most of the GOP was publicly soft on the issue prior to Trump. The GOP didn’t get played. Trump has been played.
Embrace the power of AND. Trump went from MAGA to nominally embracing this role of international statesmen. A lot of second termers retreat to foreign policy for legacy because by that point they have lost the political capital and power to achieve anything domestically.
Trump’s second term was following a sweeping victory for his party. At first I thought someone was in his ear telling him that he could win a Peace Prize and appear like a great man bringing world peace. But then he started dropping bombs on Iran in a level of fealty to Israel that we’ve never seen before.
The most plausible explanation for how rabidly pro-Israel he has become is the conspiracy as far as I’m concerned.
It’s how you get hundreds of organized rioters swarming out of nowhere to defend a violent illegal alien.
The opposition is sooo much more experienced at this stuff that the “80” can’t possibly keep up with the “20”.
The reality is that the Democratic cities were NEVER going to play ball with Trump on this. It’s literally impossible to do this with positive headlines. They won’t even hand over the hardened criminals to start there. Mass deportations without the heavy handedness are off the table.
Ignoring this makes it so much easier to virtue signal.
I watched this relatively recently. Good old Doris and ’60s absurdism.
The flick doesn’t seem to take much time on the boat. Or are they testing the GISMO and anti-gravity there? That doesn’t make sense. But if it’s elsewhere at a facility on land, uh, why are the fisherman and mermaid involved? Much sense, not being made, here.
I assume the blonde pictured is the mermaid. Who’s shirt is she wearing? Too big for him. Or… an oddly just-woke-up-in lab coat. (Kinda thinking she’s not wearing pants, further correlating with the ‘glass bottom’ theme. That haircut works well for her, from what I can see.)
Ooh, aqua. Stainless fridge with bottom freezer!
Aqua?
I remember when industrial policy was all the rage
President Donald Trump said he would increase tariffs charged to the European Union for cars and trucks to 25%, without saying what authority he would use to raise the levies.
“Based on the fact the European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal, next week I will be increasing Tariffs charged to the European Union for Cars and Trucks coming into the United States,” he wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “The Tariff will be increased to 25%. It is fully understood and agreed that, if they produce Cars and Trucks in U.S.A. Plants, there will be NO TARIFF.”
Once Cartoon Villain is gone it will be cool again.
The American left today is probably more conversant with the amount of tariffs applied to every individual product than anyone has been in history.
Funny how they share that obsession with John Calhoun.
Chicken tax.
I’d tell the media it’s part of penal code 257-2.4’s FYTW clause that gives broad and sweeping power.
“The film was an attempt to appeal both to Day’s traditional fans and to a younger audience. It was a success financially, earning $4,320,000 in North American rentals by the end of 1966.”
Um. People were renting movies in the mid 60s? Uh. Few decades early, there… But maybe the theaters rented the reels?! As is often the case, perhaps I’m renting my ignorance. (I can keep doing that, right?)
We got film from the library from time to time in the early 80s.
Back in the olden days before home video, it WAS possible to rent film movies. It was probably expensive enough that it was usually done to show at a club meeting or in the church basement to a larger group. TT had a job at a film rental place where his job was to sit in a little booth and watch returned films, checking for damage to the film stock. He says he’s lost count of how many times he had to watch Bridge on the River Kwai.
As a result…we don’t go to many movies.
Oooh. Also reminds me in Simpsons, etc when someone would pull in a reel-to-reel and play it, usually for some old govt video to show kids about farming, or something.
I suppose this makes sense. I guess all ya’d need is a reel-to-reely thingy, a projector and a wall. We had at least one of those growin’ up.
My understanding is that “film rentals” in this sense is the theaters (exhibitors) paying the distributor for the right to show the movie, as opposed to box office.
+1 that was my guess too
I made some post basically pointing out the absurdity of transing children by calling it a fad in so many words. Got banned from posting there only to be invited to a page called “Lesbitarianism.”
No female can resist the First no matter her claimed sexual preferences. I’m going to turn them all.
Get in there Bro.
Elbow deep.
Eeeeew!
/teenage girl
Give me a card carrying vegan and lesbian member of antifa and I’ll have them eating sausage and saying HEIL BROCHETTAWARD by sunrise.
Now that would be funny… for UCS to watch.
Aloysious:
It would still likely be better than Yoga Hosers.
Neph:
True.
Maybe we can have UCS watch both. It might build character.
Ask the parents who are transing their kids why they would rather have a fake girl or boy than a gay boy or girl and see what they say. I won’t interact with that crowd but I am curious what their thinking is.
Homosexuality is passé. You’ll be lucky to die without being forced back into the closet (by your supposed “allies”).
I actually made that point in my response. A lot of the people who are being called trans today would have just been gay yesterday. There was no response to that. I had kind of phrased the argument i was making sarcastically which confused some of the responses. I said that the sudden surge in young white girls in particular identifying as non-straight must be because of suppressed desires and they happily agreed. It’s the exact same thing as when people couldn’t be openly left handed I’m told.
I mean, they won’t respond to it is my general point.
The follow-up response when I thought i was banned was going to point out that there are people who are transing who are still attracted to people of the sex their transing to.
So a boy who becomes a girl who is attracted to…girls. But they fully pretend that this stuff all makes sense. If you are changing your body’s chemistry and potentially mutilating yourself in a way that makes sex with your intended desire more difficult…what the hell are we even doing?
And I’d point out again that when I was growing up, you were told that no one would choose to be gay yet we have people making active choices to turn their identity into that of a gay man or lesbian women? For no real benefit that I can see?
Trannies were always looked on as a sort of “side show” or an entertainment act – not an “orientation”. This was before “activists” got them boosted to the top of the stack.
I don’t interact with anyone who claims to represent “the community” any more, just old farts like me. But… I suspect the thinking isn’t a lot different – just buried by activist claptrap that is not particularly representative.
I haven’t had the opportunity to use this in public: “You’re not a *boy!* You’re a GIRL! NOW, you can suck all the cock ya want, like a good little girl!” Or like some celeb (or whatever) ‘knowing’ their little kid was truly the opposite gender. Trans Munchausen, as someone here called it. (I’ve stolen it.) Seems to overlap considerably with the ‘pray the gay away’ mindset. Just chop off their dick and *make* them a girl!
It’s absolutely a fad. I’d pretty much say all of it. Passing and not making a big deal about it, helping you pass even more, is kinda an *inner* big deal. Everything for attention reveals narcissism as the ’cause.’ Trans is just the outlet. The cause remains the cause.
Total coincidence that the massive increase came with the rise of social media.
These people would reject even the idea of one person transing because it’s a fad.
The rate of transgenderism among the children of Hollywood is kind of all anyone with a functioning brain would need to see. But it extends to any rich blue enclave.
Charlize Theron had her adopted child diagnosed as trans at the age of fucking 3.
@Bro: Ah! Theron! That’s who I was thinking of, not Paltrow. Just… remarkable. I really hope that within my generation’s lifetime, folk who Celebrated(!) this shit see how they were taken for a fucking fanatically fucked up delusion of Diversity. “Diagnosed” at age 3? “Paid off” is more clear. Or just “hired.”
I kinda don’t think that’ll happen. The SPLC is a good start, something that may actually get folk angered. (“My money was funding the KKK!”) But I highly doubt it. Crickets, so far. ‘We have to fund the racism we see everywhere so we see it everywhere!’
People will never let themselves realize they were (easily, willingly, proudly) used to normalize child genital mutilation, to the extent they celebrate such mutilations and the sick fucks pushing ’em.
I only see the social media contagion that drives all of this craziness getting ever worse so… I shudder to predict where it all leads.
The SPLC is a good start, something that may actually get folk angered.
See, that’s exactly the point of that deep dive. The case really has little to do with the SPLC running a private intelligence agency (which should be rather horrifying). It is stupid simple – the SPLC lied to their bank(s), and believe it or not THAT is the federal crime. It gets worse from there.
Almost two decades ago I read a piece in the Advocate talking about trans. At the time they claimed there were around 30,000 in the U.S. that identified as such and that any research on the group would be especially hard to do as geting a sample size large enough would be nearly impossible.
A year or two ago I read that in the high school demographic alone something like 200,000 a month were self identifying as trans.
Isn’t that always the way? Prosecuting on a technicality rather than the obvious illegal shit everybody knows is going on?
rhywun:
My favorite part is the indictment includes a copy of an e-mail from the SPLC admitting to the exact items that constitute fraud.
An individual identifying himself as Guido Reichstadter previously posted on X, claiming to be the person on the bridge, but police have not verified that claim.
He’ll come down when his phone battery dies.
He can sit on that flagpole ’til Hell freezes over for all I care.
I wonder how much Soros pays for that kind of “action”. Does he get overtime?
Spend your money as you wish but I’m not sure Spirit Community Airlines is a solid investment nor use of one’s monies.
I was going to respond with a commie “People’s” joke and then I clicked the link. 😂🤣
Then the link had to besmirch the Green Bay Packers by saying this “people’s” is like the NFL organization.
One bright side is that the reborn airline can save on bullets and trench building time by flying Kulaks and wreckers into the ocean at high speed.
I find the idea of an airline running with the same kind of flexibility and business sense as, say, the Park Slope Food Coöp to be supremely amusing.
Behind the green and yellow, we all know Packers fans bleed red.
What the fuck kind of true American-blooded NFL fan doesn’t have fealty to a billion dollar owner?
Packer fans are just as likely to bleed beer.
The Packers model is not particularly unusual in Europe and it’s not really a commie thing either from what I can tell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Or curds.
Embrace the power of “and.”
I was raised a Packers fan in AZ by former “sconie” parents.
BTW OMWC if you are reading this. The kick was good!
As a life-long Packers fan, the whole thing is a sham. No shareholder dividends; no market to trade the stock; no voting rights. You give us money, we give you a piece of paper and we keep all the revenue and ignore your input.
https://x.com/OrwellNGoode/status/2051059363322732674
LOL
Behold the power of crocodile cloaca.
Me tomorrow
https://x.com/jpbeem/status/2050832269578039466
If the poster has realistic, productive replacements for all of those things I’m all ears.
Different job that dosent include talking to people or using a desk?
Yes. It’s called retirement.
I’m re-tired every evening about this time.
Getting closer…
rule 3. don’t retire.
No one liked that one the other day. 😉
If I wasn’t retired, I’d have to deal with people that I prefer not to deal with. There isn’t enough money to justify that. I don’t mind if work, works for you; just the idea that you must continue with it is bullshit for me.
OMG I can’t wait.
Those weirdos who wanna work until the end of their days… I don’t get it.
Sorry.
I hate work and I cannot wait to stop doing that, buddy.
I have other interests I would much rather pursue.
I don’t plan on ever retiring Kinnith.
I intend to retire from this wretched corporate job and do something I actually enjoy to make money.
Though I do nothing to speak off I can’t believe how fast the days go by. I have a few little chores but somehow evening comes quickly. It’s hard to remember that I had a job and went to work early, often stayed beyond regular hours and still maintained a family life and got everything done that was necessary.
Now I have to plan so I can go to the post office twice a week to get mail. Sometimes I talk to people there.
I picked up 2 trailer loads of tree limbs today, about 45 minutes a load. I’m worn out. No stamina plus the legs don’t work quite so well, knees don’t bend.
Could be a lot worse though but the Glibs pick me up every day.
I have much work to do before the idea of ‘retirement’ is ever even more than a shimmying oasis(?) out there. Having said that. For ‘normal’ folk, who wanna retire and do their own thing? I’m with ya. But honestly, I’d probably get a part-time gig at Walmart etc if I didn’t have enough money to travel around all the time. Not talking about working for money, but a reason to get up and walk around all day. Keep yourself ‘in the game’ enough that you don’t just rot into (possibly really dumb, expensive or dangerous) hobbies. (I’m kinda thinking hoarding, but plenty similar dives.)
Without a job, though, one best have a hobby of some sort. Schultz died like three days after his last Peanuts strip.
(Moral of the story? I ain’tcha papa. Do what you do.)
I’m rather curious as to where employment, to begin with, will go moving forward. Shit. This contract’s projected end date is fucking May 27. May change, sure. But lowballing their previous estimate, I was thinking it’d go til early or mid-June.
Hrm-diggity doo-da. The top of my resume’ll look better.
Fourscore, we’re like the pick me up that is an athletic supporter.
What a world. Cigarette advertising has been banned for decades but it’s perfectly acceptable to advertise pot on television now – a Buffalo “dispensary” advert just appeared during an episode of ST:VOY on Pluto. And of course it was all jokey like everything surrounding that product is.
I won’t even touch that shit anymore it’s so much more powerful and kind of not “fun” now.
Not here in Ohio. Advertising for dispensaries is strictly regulated and nearly non-existent.
It’s only a matter of time.
I still saw *only that one* ad for cigarettes a few months back. On cable TV. Full of cherries, blowing smoke, and ppl hanging out, having a good time. I wonder if….
AHA! Easily found in my notes. From Feb 18: “I’m reading stoic and had something to say, but as typing I’m casually watching Slap Shot in the background.. Knew of, never watched. And it’s 2:30(am), and Paul Newman’s in bed with a chick and we get full tittays. And fuck and queer and all language is a-ok. This is like that one time I saw a legit tobacco commercial with smoking, cherries, everything. (Still haven’t seen that one again.) I strongly approve of this.”
Oh. Well. I actually saw that commercial. That occurred. Frumpy McFrumplstein, over here.
The left can’t just allow someone to do something. If they are legalizing something, they must also enthusiastically endorse it as a great good for humanity. Conversely, anything they oppose has to be painted as a moral failing. And anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically agree in either case is a fascist.
It’s one of the many reasons it’s better not to give them an inch.
People have deluded themselves about the health benefits of marijuana far more than anyone ever did cigs.
I’m hearing rumblings about the dangers of excessive pot use – it’s so fraught with politics I have no idea WTF to believe.
But it’s such a cash cow for the left now I have no expectation of hearing the truth any time soon.
I’d say weed legalization, and the WoD in general, won’t happen cuz far too much power would have to be ceded for it to not end up like Hamsterdam in The Wire, and that’s if we’re kinda lucky.
The Govt, at all levels, won’t give up that power. And yep, when they vaguely do, they have to control the licensing and all the stupid, pointless rules that go along with it, all to get their share of the loot. Hilariously, they adjusted the taxes in Illinois to where it was the same price at the dispensaries as it used to be on the street. Just more readily available. Michigan was better so I switched states to run off too. It’s gotten far better than it used to be. A gram cartridge (I can’t remember the last time I “smoked”) that’ll last a couple weeks) is $10. *swish*
Foreign nations and their illegality will fuck up things, too. Drug tourists for one, and those cartels won’t be happy to cede their authority. They’ll back favorable political policies, etc.
And no one, other than us, cares there was an Amendment for Prohibition and Mayer and Coca-Cola didn’t have open turf wars and violence when they were slangin’ coke and heroin on the literal fucking streets.
It’s not healthy.
Consuming vegetable matter isnt in general, the secondary compounds are poisons created by evolution to get animals to stop eating the plant.
Fruit ‘wants’ to get eaten so the seeds spread. Eating the buds of a flower reduce the plants fitness and ability to produce seeds, so of course it produces a poison on those buds.
I wrote my bachelors thesis on how progressives started the drug war and that it was unconstitutional.
Little douche gave me an A- with no marks. He really didn’t like in class when I tied it to the Filburn ruling and told the class (who were clueless) that it was a decision that said the government could regulate your “commerce” even if you didn’t engage in any commerce.
I do love that according to our Supremes that wheat is fungible but money isn’t (always). Not selling all your wheat, but still growing more than pertains to a government mandate? FUCK YOU. Tax dollars going to fund abortions as long as the money is kept in a separate account? FUCK YEA.
Looking up that case again, I had forgotten that the Supremes also used it in 2005 to justify the federal regulation of weed grown for personal use. Because it competes with weed that travels across state lines.
The feds still to this day have a federal prohibition on weed of course and I don’t know which federal laws would actual regulate its passing of state lines beyond just banning the act even harder.
I remember people on Reason and elsewhere noting that the “SJW” types were the new puritans.
You really get a grasp of that when you see the middle aged fat feminists shrieking about “child” marriage being legal in the US. It’s an outgrowth of their fear mongering over age gaps in relationships. I’m fine with a hard limit of 18 on marriages, though that’s obviously up to the states.
The average age gap in a “child” marriage is 4 years. 96% of the women who were minors who married between 2000 and 2020. were 16 or 17. There are are a handful of horror stories on young kids in Tennessee as far as I can tell, and Tennessee closed any loopholes that allowed that to legally take place in 2018.
It’s ironic that they try to paint this as a problem with American men. First, there are very few marriages involving minors of any kind. 300,000 over a 20 year period that was looked at by the big study that gets cited (which stopped at 2020). I don’t have to tell you who was more likely to be represented and it obviously wasn’t white Christians.
You lift the age to 18, they’ll still be howling every time they see some dopey young girl dating a 40 year old and call them a pedo.
I’ve been noting for some time (not the first person to do so) that the batshit woke left, but in particular feminists, substitute moral outrage in the place of rationality. They don’t care if they are factually correct. They don’t care if they make any sense. What’s important is showing that they care through righteous indignation (that leads to no action whatsoever because their shrieking does nothing but annoy the fuck out of anyone sensible).
A 17 year old marrying a 21 year old with parental consent and a judge signing off on it is not a fucking “child marriage.”
I think this is what lead me getting banned from TwiX.
Started with this opinion and lead to a gaggle of fags accusing me of being a pedophile. Not one of them could define what a child was. They thought that a legal minor was a child.
And Muhammad marrying a six year old in his fifties is fine with the same crowd.
Or California Democrat politicians legalizing gay sex with minors and removing the penalty of infecting them with aids is also just fine.
They dont approve of the marriage part.
Just like worshipping the state and current year morality while smugly dunking on Christianity.
On that note, I was legit annoyed when Milo got called a pedo. It was an alliance of the left and mainstream converstavies working together to take him down. How are you going to attack a guy for stating a fact of life about the gay “community” and telling you that his experience with age gaps was being on the wrong end of one when he was a minor?
Guy per their definitions was saying he was abused, and got cancelled for it. So many people clapped for that one because they hated him.
That shit broke him.
we get the same shit with complaints about rates of teen marriage or teen pregnancy without mentioning which ethnicity accounts for a majority of those.
My dog sleeps with his paws on me at all times.
He’s developed a habit of barking at men. I feel like he’s telling them that I’m HIS bitch and stay away.
https://youtu.be/AyZNLOHPk2E?t=232s
Congressman Randy Fine is pushing a bill to ban people with dual-citizenship from Congress.
He is currently being primaried by Dan Bilzerian who holds American-Armenian citizenship. Blizerian’s platform is basically to go after the Israel-first sector of the GOP (which let’s be blunt – is most of them seemingly and not going to work out well).
Funniest part of it is that Fine has pictures of his office. He’s flying a good old fashioned American flag right besides an Israeli one. He made sure to mention that dual citizens of Israel should also be banned from Congress.
The Israelis flag is slightly higher than the American one (which has a shorter pole) in the picture I saw.
That would likely require an amendment. The qualifications for Congress are in the Constitution.
Or, we could just outlaw dual citizenship like a sane country. You either are or are not a citizen of this country. You are not both a citizen of here and of somewhere that is not here.
I am all for allegiance to one nation only. “Dual citizenship” is a mockery of the whole setup.
Back to work, slackers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-oh-tP6RvA
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Nope.
I took today off.
You’re early.
Good morning, Sean, U, Teh Hype, and Ted’S.!
Morning!
Hey there, U! How are you today?
I zonked out after I got back from the funeral, woke up in the middle of the night and have been up since.
Back to slacking, workers.
BWahahahaha and a good morning to you.
https://abc7ny.com/post/united-flight-strikes-light-pole-landing-newark-airport/19030820/
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United breaks light poles.
You call this a cache?
Cache doesn’t mean qunatity, just that it was hidden somewhere to be recovered later.
Well, the guns *were* being transported.
And the idiot was dumb enough to let the cops search his car.
Hidden in plain sight. Open carry.
Hundreds of rounds of hollow point ammo. IOW a brick of 22 LR hollow points.
My brother showed up one day with 10 bricks of LR. Other brother worked in a gun shop in IL with an indoor range. LE did their target shooting.
The stories go on and on and mostly accurate, as opposed to some of the shooting.
suh’ fam
whats goody
/Im working @ tOSU this week- alert Sloopy
My condolences on having to go to Columbus.
And the idiot was dumb enough to let the cops search his car.
Having recently served on a grand jury, I can tell you that much of the evidence in many cases was obtained either by people making statements to the cops or agreeing to searches. If they had just said no and shut the fuck up the cops and prosecutors would often have had very little evidence.
Article title is especially appropriate this week!
I was unaware of the calendar until I walked into the cafeteria, at which time I noticed they were having a lunch special: A grilled ham-and-gruyere sandwich entitled “Ham Solo and Greedo.”