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Derpetologist

Derpetologist

The world's foremost authority on the science of stupidity, Professor Emeritus at Derpskatonic University, Editor of the Journal of Pure and Theoretical Derp, Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society, and Senior Fellow at The Dipshit Doodlebug Institute for Advanced Idiocy

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    • Fourscore

      Bag full of Treasury notes and bonds. Doesn’t matter if the bag tears and they get blown away in the wind. Easy to make more.

  1. Grumbletarian

    That fourth angry dude needed a hammer and sickle lapel pin.

  2. Brochettaward

    There are no tops or bottoms in Firster intercourse. Dominance is established sheerly through the act of the First itself. It is the ultimate end goal of the act itself. You are either First or never. It is an unforgiving affair.

  3. Gustave Lytton

    David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry died. As his eldest son is illegitimate, the title passed to the second son. Per the rules.

  4. rhywun

    I like the robot Host.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Agreed. That’s very cool.

  5. The Hyperbole

    1. Not sure I’m groking this… circuit boards are the body of robots…so that’s like the Eucharist?
    2. The Rednecks are winning all the fights?
    3. Okay you got a pun, still more of a “Hang in There Kitty” than an actual joke
    4. Yeah, I’ve never seen an angry Religious leader… were you going for – It’s funny because it’s not true?
    5. Who served? Why would they be volleyball-ing a bag of money instead of Steve Miller Band-ing it?

      • UnCivilServant

        If you’re including the intert package the chip is embedded in, only the biggest chips are that big.

        Most these days are smaller than your fingernail, including the intert insulating package.

        BGA is a bitch (to solder)

      • The Hyperbole

        The Medusa one’s pretty good.

      • Derpetologist

        hot dog! Praise from Caesar!

      • Threedoor

        That is pretty funny.

      • Aloysious

        I liked bas relief.

      • rhywun
  6. Derpetologist

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jewish-villains-out-to-destroy-jesus-are-a-staple-of-ukrainian-catholic-church-pageants-in-the-us-the-vatican-has-remained-silent/ar-AA28mYy0

    Jewish villains out to destroy Jesus are a staple of Ukrainian Catholic church pageants in the US The Vatican has remained silent

    ***
    The Forward compiled and reviewed video of 10 pageants in the U.S. since 2020 that feature a Jewish character named “zhyd,” “Moshko” or “Chaim,” and sometimes his wife, usually named Sarah. All were posted to social media, in many cases by the churches themselves.

    The pageants mix and match a few motifs, all showing these two Jews in a negative light as they try to lure Christians to commit sin. Some tempt the faithful with goods, loans or liquor. Some mock believers for worshipping Christ; curse Christians; summon and collude with the devil, or betray baby Jesus to King Herod, who is seeking to kill him.

    Most of the actors playing the zhyd role wore what look to be peyos, the sidelocks traditionally worn by Orthodox Jews. In one instance, the character wore an exaggerated fake nose.

    The Forward located photos from an additional eight pageants for which video is not publicly available that show actors with what appear to be peyos or a fake nose.

    Those U.S. pageants are part of a global phenomenon, centered in Europe. A Forward review of more than 200 videos of recent verteps internationally associated with the Ukrainian Catholic Church found that when a Jewish character was included, that character in nearly every case was portrayed in a negative light.

    The verteps with offensive scenes are almost exclusively performed in the Ukrainian language and have gone largely unnoticed by Jewish organizations in the U.S.
    ***

    “Throw the Jew down the well!”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Paging Eddie..

      How dare the Vatican not respond to an issue within a church that’s only nominally under their thumb!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Look at the minor Catholic sect! They’re the antisemites! Not the pro Arab/anti American faction.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sounds pretty rough, better send them some weapons.

    • Threedoor

      They ARE is Wisconsin.

      • Evan from Evansville

        The Whiz cons sinners is in his coonskin.

        Think about it.

      • whiz

        Excuse me?

      • RAHeinlein

        Iowa can encompass Idaho, Iowa, and Ohio – NOT Wisconsin!

      • Evan from Evansville

        Oooh, so timely! Don’t worry. You’re classy when ya do it, like Ben Franklin playing it up for the French.
        *smears spray cheese into mane*

    • Aloysious

      They’re saving their cheese hats

    • CPRM

      Well, Maryland Dad can do no wrong, so I’m sure the same is true for Michigan Dad.

    • Ted S.

      Will people make excuses for this like they did for the Mechanicville killings?

  7. rhywun

    lol Commie Mamdami’s enemies list includes a lot of his supporters. I wonder if his foot-soldiers will be as equally undiscrimating when they decide to terrorize The Rich.

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      – “One address appearing on the list is the Breezy Point Shopping Center in Rockaway, Queens, a small outdoor mall containing several shops, which is definitely not a vacation home.”

      Good enough for government work.

    • Evan from Evansville

      The ratchet only goes one direction? Duh, that’s why we always OVER count! It’s just common sense tax cattle-ing!!

      “Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and Hochul initially sold it to the public.”

    • Aloysious

      I am so goddam sick of seeing pictures of his stupid fucking face I could throw up. Stupid fucking voters.

      • slumbrew

        That smarmy nepo baby has the most Backpfeifengesicht

      • rhywun

        You and me both. FWIW I enjoy that in every pic of him he seems to be drenched in flop sweat.

        Small comforts.

      • Raven Nation

        Well, Cuomo was the other “viable” choice.

      • creech

        +1 King Henry II

  8. rhywun

    Your tax dollars at work, providing luxury apartments to drug dealing addicts. Much success.

    Same shit in my town only multiplied many, many times over.

    • whiz

      Not surprising. In our town, the brand new 18-unit apartments built for homeless has similar issues, although not as severe. The problem is that the clientele are a mix of mentally unbalanced, drug addicted, and/or incorrigible people.

      Glibs might remember that my wife started a non-profit that runs a program for the homeless, where people stay up to a year in one of our units as they get a job (or better job), learn how to interact with a landlord, and hopefully leave the program in a better financial position and with a recommendation from us that leads to more permanent housing. The units have a partial subsidy, paid for by local grants and private donations. We have strict rules for the tenants (no drugs, communicate with your landlord, pay your rent on time, etc.) and if they are not followed we will terminate them from the program (it’s a month-to-month lease). We have about a 50% success rate, as some people appreciate our help and strive to do better, but others are just there for the subsidy and don’t care to do better, or have mental problems that keeps them from succeeding.

      • Evan from Evansville

        You do good work. Respect.

    • Chafed

      The rage over this in California is white hot. Even some lefties are asking questions about these housing programs.

    • CPRM

      At least they look better than Cabrini Green, for now.

    • CPRM

      Hey! Sounds like Green Bay is finally playing big city ball!

      FOX 11 Investigates: Green Bay Police dub new apartment building a ‘chronic nuisance’

      “Through an open records request, FOX 11 Investigates learned there’s been 368 police calls for service at The Fort since June 1st, 2025. 57 were labeled as a disturbance, 45 as welfare, and 37 as noise complaints.”

      buried deep in the story: “187 of the 233 units, or 80%, are supposed to be for people making less than 60% of the area’s median income.

      Originally, all units were supposed to be market rate. The change was made to land state tax credits to help pay for the project.

      • rhywun

        +1 poor door

        Yeah, you can’t build anything in a “progressive” city these days without getting the middle class to pay more to support the poors.

        The one across the street got so bad they had to lock the front door. I guess there is someone waiting inside but you can’t tell because the new door is thick metal.

        Also fun – the ground floors are a convention center of sorts. There are complaints of vermin infestations coming from the residents above.

    • Shpip

      Homeowner Raphael Swann said he purchased his townhouse in 2019 just a few doors down after reviewing plans for what he believed would be a luxury apartment development.

      Instead, during the pandemic, the project was converted into homeless housing before it ever opened.

      “It’s incredibly demoralizing,” Swann said. “The city does absolutely nothing.” He said neighbors were never consulted before the conversion and have never been invited to meetings to address ongoing concerns.

      Interesting choice of words. Demoralization, after all, is the point.

  9. CPRM

    I work 2nd shift; so I sleep in. Woke up at 10am to the sound of golfball size hail hitting my metal roof. No damage to the car; although my niece who has my other car texted me asking if the insurance covered hail damage, but no details. I’ll have to get someone up on the roof to check it over at some point.

  10. J. Frank Parnell

    Just got back from seeing The Odyssey.

    It’s okay. Slow and long, which I guess fits. I almost feel like they should have expanded it out to 8 hours and made it an HBO miniseries.

    I felt like Eliot Page was miscast because his character is supposed to be a teenage boy, which Page has the body for but not the face.

    Also, Tom Holland looks and acts like a teenager, but should be a fully grown man.

    Somewhat weird costuming, as you’ve got Agamemnon’s armor which is completely over the top, but then when Menelaus and Telemachus go out hunting together they look like they just pieced together random clothes at a renfair.

    • CPRM

      One of the defenses of the film I’ve heard is “It’s a myth, it’s fictional, accuracy doesn’t matter!”; but I’m sure many of those same people would complain about anachronisms in Hercules the Legendary Journeys or Xena Warrior Princess.

    • robc

      Fun reddit story: I got permabanned from the r/AustrianEconomics (which was pretty awful to begin with, the mods were not very Austrian) because I posted on r/Georgism.

      Especially ironic to me, because it was reading Mises that led me to agreeing with George.

      reddit mods are weird.

      • UnCivilServant

        Reddit Mods are there to inforce conformity with their perssonal viewpoint and biases.

  11. Ted S.

    In a bit of sane news: County executive vetoes gardening grift

    But it’s only a bit:

    KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger nipped a proposed victory garden program in the bud on Friday, vetoing a resolution that would have taken $100,000 from the county’s contingency fund to kickstart the pilot program.

    It was only the second veto Metzger has issued since taking office in 2022.

    In her message accompanying the veto, Metzger said her decision wasn’t an indictment of the program, but rather her opposition to tapping the county’s emergency fund to bankroll the project.

    Get the grift from another line in the county budget, please.

    If you don’t remember what the grift was about:

    Earlier this month, legislators voted 12-11 to approve the creation of the “Victory Garden Preservation Program,” which Legislator Chris Hewitt said would bolster local food access, community resilience, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing through the planting of fruit and other trees and shrubs at community centers throughout the county.

    As envisioned by Hewitt, D-Rochester, either the county or a third-party organization would have worked with four local municipalities to plant and cultivate fruit and nut trees and shrubs at community centers that have a commercial kitchen, develop educational programming that would focus on preserving those foods and work with the organizations or individuals to teach canning and other food preservation skills.

    If it’s such a good program, start it without the government funds.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We are the Victory Garden Preservation Society
      God bless political grift
      And all the different varieties

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, U, Sensei, Ted’S., and Stinky!

      • UnCivilServant

        Morning, GT.

        How goes things this morning?

      • Gender Traitor

        So far so good. Just got done watching a cute cat video. This morning, I need to take my car in to the dealer for new brakes. Luckily, they promised me a loaner so I don’t have to sit around there for hours.

        How about you?

      • UnCivilServant

        I may have to recreate the template of interview questions I used last time, since I can’t find it, despite having all of the individualized paperwork for the candidates. I hate recreating work already done, and it’s essentially the same role, so using the old template as a starting point would have saved so much time.

      • Gender Traitor

        Is any of the completed paperwork in a form you can easily edit, or is it all…on paper?

      • UnCivilServant

        The completed paperwork has none of what I actually need. Those are all arcane HR forms.

        I’m looking for my notes where I wrote down what I want to ask the candidates.

      • UnCivilServant

        I know better than to follow any of those links.

      • Not Adahn

        Arcane HR forms? That can only end in grief.

      • UnCivilServant

        The HR-12 is declination of Interview with reasons which may or may not invalidate you on the eligable list.

        The S-1000 is the formal application for the job, only filled out after the interview request.

        The “Ten Day Letter” is “We haven’t heard from you, you’ll be invalidated if you don’t respond” It lets us file the HR-12 on behalf of the candidate.

        And so on.

      • Fourscore

        Morning Allya’all

        Up for an hour and a cuppa down. Now to face the day/Glibs

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