Freshman, I mean “First Year,” Orientation this week. Regardless of major, they’re required to sign up for Progressive Indoctrination during their first two semesters (not a joke, they just call it something more anodyne). And a classical music festival has begun, bringing in waves of spectacularly entitled Progs, a prerequisite for Musicians Union membership. Amidst all of this, I am getting the full experience of Retarded Waitress, so if she’s good for nothing else, she at least gives me plenty of material.
Tonight, she had been experimenting with makeup and resembled a younger and thinner version of Mimi from The Drew Carey Show. She came back into the kitchen carrying her notepad to ask questions.
Retarded Waitress: What’s the soup tonight?
Me: Same as yesterday, Nigerian Pepper Soup.
Retarded Waitress: /scribbles furiously
Retarded Waitress: What’s the curry?
Me: Southern Indian eggplant.
Retarded Waitress: /scribbles furiously
Retarded Waitress: What’s the soup tonight?
Me: Same as it was a minute ago.
Retarded Waitress: /gives same look as a dog asked to solve a differential equation
Me: Nigerian Pepper Soup.
I do like my birthdays, and here’s why: today we have a guy who got an orange drink named after him, no small feat; a guy who had basically the right idea, but wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it; a guy whom I blame for the existence of every bad movie ever made; a solid sort of guy who should be everyone’s model; a guy whose books I wore out as a kid; a rather shifty fellow, though likely peaceable; a brilliant director of family-friendly films; a guy whom you could really have a ball with; a guy whose penis took as long to be born as the rest of him; the very worst Stooge ever; a guy who might be STEVE SMITH’s spirit animal; and Lindsey Graham’s stunt man.
Unfortunately, I have to do the Links without a stand-in.
Put your hands on your wallet, here go prices again!
This can’t be true because Canada has LAWS! Maybe the guns came from Indiana.
Zoomers once again think they discovered something new. They haven’t.
Kayfabe. And they’re all very good at it.
How about… I dunno… DISBANDING the DHS? Bush’s gift that keeps on giving.
Why would I want a truck named after a notoriously retarded website/Ezine?
There’s a point in here somewhere, but it’s tough to find amidst the sprawl.
Now here’s a place that would be a fucking nightmare to work at.
And this is the inevitable result of NIMBY meeting market demand.
There’s country music and there’s “country” music. The former is brilliant American art. The latter… well… AI can handle it. AI could never do this.
Kimberley Glifoyle cosplay?
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/fashion/article-15966813/kimberly-guilfoyle-paris-fashion-week-greece.html
Happy 50th Birthday Michael Malice!
Michael Malaise is 54. So old.
today we have a guy who got an orange drink named after him
Happy birthday Andrew Tang!
a guy who had basically the right idea, but wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it
Happy birthday Greg Glassman!
Ooooh. That’s a touch.
I thought you didn’t have peppers. 🌶️
You sure she’s the problem?
It’s Nigerian Pickle Soup.
It takes big bowls to serve that!
Slate truck: Actually looks pretty neat if the price really can be held down to what they claim. It’d make a decent enough short-distance commuter and would be good for the occasional trip to the dump. Not a bad deal as long one’s expectations are realistic (assuming it’s not an unreliable POS which is a big assumption these days).
I like it. And if I was in the market for a city runabout, it would be something I would take a hard look at. But I live in a smallish ag town and often go way past the range of most electric vehicles, so I would either need the extra battery or would need to plan charging into my route, which sucks as they don’t have those in the middle of nowhere.
I could see these as parts runners for the trades. I love how the article compares them to Lucid and Rivian as competition, both of which start over $70k.
There is alsothis coming.
Graham got to spend his last day on earth doing what he loved most – war mongering.
It will be interesting who the outgoing Governor appoints and who will be on the ballot in November.
His primary opponent – Mark Lynch – would be the logical choice. The Lt. Governor, Pamela Evette – who just lost the primary – would be the political choice.
Local news says the Governor appoints the replacement for a few months. Special election for the Republican nomination to see who is on the ballot in November.
Freshman, I mean “First Year,” Orientation this week.
I dont think this is a thing in Europe. You go to university in october when it starts and figure it out.
I recall freshman orientation being the day before the fall semester started.
Ditto. Shock, creech, you ain’t in high school any longer.
Yes. A bunch of administrative stuff, then a kegger at one of the house-dorms.
I remember one day maybe a month before the semester started. The biggest part of the day was registering for classes.
I went to a thai place with friends and usually i order one dish thai spicy. This time I ordered two, a soup first, both extra spicy and my stomach was not 100% happy. I am getting soft in my old age 🙁
I occasionally eat Minnesota Thai, zero peppers, and it’s still spicy hot for an old guy.
Mmmmmm.
There is just something about Thai pepper pain that’s better than other peppers.
You can’t fool me, that’s totally a euphemism.
And the political choice it’ll almost certainly be. Expecting a governor to not award a crony is like expecting the sun not to rise.
Looks like things got a little…
(puts on sunglasses)
Spicy, in Canada.
should be everyone’s model
How do you know these obscure Germans
I’m not Romanian.
Justin Trudeau brutally mocked for dancing like a rabbit in Katy Perry’s viral video
That may be the least objectionable thing he has done.
Shocking “Guardian investigation”!
People forced to do their jobs!! Application of duly enacted immigration law that we don’t agree with!!
That is the one that really gets under my skin. Trump is having the duly legislated law enforced. Both houses and the president signed off on this, all of whom are our elected lawmakers. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t give you the right to be a jackass and ignore this set of laws. No, that makes you the law breaker.
FEELZ uber alles!
Those stupid n—-rs probably just have petty concerns like “jobs” and “wealth”. We should go down there and teach them the error of their ways.
/progs
Not sure why you would refer to people living in the Caribbean as stupid northerners . . . .
naggers?
When The New Yorker admits its connection to reality is fraying, believe them.
Something that was never there to begin with can’t fray.
“”In the age of social media, women have been able to assert new norms for men, both deep and superficial: for one, men should no longer commit sexual assault in the workplace, and, for another, it would be great if men were expected to be really hot, too. Women have gained the bravado and the platforms to speak publicly about men in the way that men have traditionally often spoken about women—with contempt….
Looksmaxxing is a product of the men’s-rights movement, whose adherents previously gathered in fringe corners of the internet, where they solidified their reactionary community around the conviction that women do not deserve equal rights.”
OFFS!
Gee, it’s such a mystery why Gen Z isn’t having sex and the birthrate is crashing…
🤔🔎
I always figured Looksmaxxing was gay gym rats who are too insecure to actually suck a dick…
So the warmongering bottom bitch is actually dead? I saw a bunch of TwiX bullshit about how the Iranians/Russians/Jews whacked him out, but I thought that the world couldn’t be that lucky…
I am not sure if this comment is homophobic or not but i feep 8 should report it just in case
I would have wished that Lindsey is spending eternity deep-throating Satan’s barbed cock in hell…but then I realized that real torment would be forcing him to top…
Where does the hand go now that the puppet isn’t there?
Back in his sock drawer?
Hopefully to the sink for a thorough washing.
Fetterlump?
Slutty Sunday has contempt for you apparently.
https://archive.is/XMvm4
+1 formal wear
There is this tap house and dunno qhy I keep trying though i rarely find anything good. All winter they had no porters or stouts. When warm late spring game they gota bunch of porters and stouts. Now it is hot summer no seesion ipas no pilsners amd a buch of double IPAs. And as usual a bunch of flavored ipas and sours. Who tf drinks sours ( yeah i k ow some people do)
POV you are at a Bucharest taphous. It is 30C ( bout 50% humidity if it matters) and sunny so hot but not very hot. What are you getting
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LW7R72SqdckSsRsQA
Zmeura means raspberry in case of confusion
Double tall Beefeater and tonic?
Contract Prenuptial.
Bummer.
One of my nearby tap rooms is the same way. It’s nice to know that we’re all have the same problems everywhere.
“Dustin Moskovitz, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook and enterprise software company Asana, has talked openly about how he likes to eat meat.
But in a curious twist, the lefty Democratic megadonor has poured nearly a half-billion dollars into activist campaigns that have made it harder to run animal farms and contributed to the rising cost of eggs and meat for millions of American consumers — all while one of Moskovitz’s foundations holds a nearly $89 million stake in plant-based company Impossible Foods — meaning it could benefit if pricier meat pushes more consumers toward meat alternatives, The California Post has learned.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/11/us-news/facebook-co-founder-dustin-moskovitz-funds-anti-meat-campaigns-despite-eating-meat-himself/
CWAA
Protein-starving the peasantry ain’t exactly a new thing.
I’m not sure of the outrage. He’s a private citizen, not a government functionary, and has the freedom to act in his own interests. And the duty to act in the interests of any shareholders in his ventures.
I’m not sure of the outrage.
I’m not sure how you can miss outrage at hypocrisy. Pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t require or imply government action to correct it. If contributing to causes to try and impact *POLITICALLY* the availability of high quality protein to the masses, requiring substitution of low quality nutritional products that you stand to make a mint on should people be *forced* to adopt through the *political* process, in no small part due to your activism, all the while reserving the right to high quality protein for yourself from your dacha doesn’t trigger your hypocrisy meter; I’d bring it in for repair as it’s clearly broken or being subject to some sort of interfering scattering process that’s weakening the signal.
Outrage at hypocrisy and using the political process to restrict my choices is perfectly justifiable and, I would think, pretty obvious.
This is effective altruism – the more altruistic I am, the more effectively I line my pockets!
“Sofía Vergara wows in red-hot bikini while celebrating 54th birthday in Italy”
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/11/celebrity-news/sofia-vergara-wows-in-red-hot-bikini-while-celebrating-54th-birthday-in-italy/
Speaking of birthdays, that’s a great 54.
I hope i look that good at 54 in a bikini
I don’t
Of course the DailyFail has to play the salacious angle on this, but there are a lot more reasons to fear the Panopticon than just how it’s more difficult to get away with banging your secretary.
https://archive.is/Th3Sy
You’re right! The suspicious activity you told me about was, in fact, your husband planning a surprise getaway for you both, and not evidence of an affair as I previously concluded. I deeply regret my error, and you’re right to call me out on it.
Would you like help determining what to pack for your vacation?
“Every location ping, toll road record, license plate scan, credit card purchase, deleted message and security camera recording could become another breadcrumb leading back to a secret romance.
Even affairs that ended years ago may not be safe, as AI gains the ability to comb through decades-old data breaches in minutes.”
Looks like the problem is that AI can access all this information.
““Today I was brutally ASSAULTED dozens of times by domestic terrorist SCUM ANTFIA in Downtown LA!!!!” Lang wrote on X Friday.
“I was simply holding a sign saying “SPENCER PRATT CAN SAVE LA FROM COMMUNISM.” For this I was once again LYNCHED by illegal immigrants and radical leftists!!!!”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/11/us-news/spencer-pratt-rally-descends-into-chaos-as-blows-traded-outside-las-union-station/
Pretty sure that’s not what lynched means.
I guess the word has been diluted much the same way as racism.
FFS. Can the not-communists come up with anything better than that trash?
It’s a company that received 800,000 job applications last year—and made 286 hires. The acceptance rate of top schools is around 4%. At Bending Spoons BSP , it’s below 0.04%.
How many of those applications are from real people?
AI slop fed into AI HR process?
Did this thing just crash?
No, just you
I got a couple minutes of error and then i had to select motorcycles
Same here.
Yea, it did. It’s been sputtering for a few days before the failures started.
Get ready for bourbon to really tank. But hey, its for old people
Export it to romania at msrp.
“Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding her death and have not ruled out the possibility of an accident, suicide, homicide or femicide.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15967687/Mystery-influencer-model-27-plunges-death-27th-floor-Dubai-skyscraper.html
What’s the difference between homicide and femicide?
“Femicide” is probably one of those “hate crime” things.
So it’s homicide if someone murders a woman they like?
So just like homocide.
Femicide is what killed Lindsey Graham.
The use of the word femicide is dehumanizing to women by excluding them from the Genus Homo. This is retarded, and also Gay.
Steve Stewart-Williams
@SteveStuWill
A new synthesis of 14 meta-analyses covering more than 1,600 studies and 30 million people suggests that, when controlling for publication bias, the effect of nudging is statistically indistinguishable from sweet FA.
Dr. Karen Stenner
@karen_stenner
Today I learned that Americans — alone across the English-speaking world — don’t know what “sweet FA” means.
You guys seem to miss out on all the best bits of the language.
Posted to early. Who here knows what sweet FA means?
I prefer off-dry FA.
Sweet fermented apples?
Sweet floral aftershave?
Sweet foreign arbitrage?
Sweet final assessment?
Sweet flung avocados?
???
Normally I say “67% of FA.”
Who here doesn’t know what it means?
Feteasca Alba is usually made rather dry
I have no idea.
Sweet Fuck All
“Walter Downing, an Australian soldier who fought in Europe in the First World War, wrote an glossary of WWI soldier’s slang called Digger Dialects in 1919. He is the first to record the link between F.A. and Fanny Adams”
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sweet-fanny-adams.html
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2076307369420542441
I am getting a fail.
I’m not.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2076309659099471905
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2076309867665514826
Works fine for me
Yikes!
“In her opinion, Jackson underscores that the Trump administration and its apologists – justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito – seek to reinstate the Taney notion of “blood” as the basis of citizenship. “Of course,” she writes, “the ultimate irony is that for all the talk about the detestable Dred Scott decision, the Government and the principal dissent propose a return to its core tenet … It is that odious conclusion that the Citizenship Clause plainly rejects, as the Court explains. I add only that the Fourteenth Amendment’s universalist aims should forever be the death knell for this kind of claim–one that seeks to make bloodline the marker of birthright. The America that was reborn from the rubble of the Civil War simply does not countenance that inequitable result.””
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/12/stephen-miller-birthright-citizenship-arguments
That’s retarded.
Reads like a teenager asked their college bound older sibling write their paper for them.
Complete with linking Donald to Adolf. Stay classy, The Guardian. But the American people did not vote for your vision of being a dumping ground for the world’s trash.
Had umbical surgery on Wednesday. They said I was scheduled for noon, but they were hoping for 11:30, so I got there at 9:30. I didn’t actually get into surgery until 5. My sciatica pain from lying on the cot for 9 hrs was considerably worse than the pain from the surgery itself. Meanwhile, the misses is in the waiting room and has no idea what’s gong on and convinces herself that I must be dead. Good times! Also, I’d rather deal with pain than with constipation due to pain killers, said constipation making sciatica worse. So, I stopped taking pain pills, finally pooped, and am ready to wrestle a grizzly bear.
Good your feeling better! And all went well.
You’d think Drs. of all kinds would be better at scheduling. But when I run into delays, I try to think of the patient delaying them – it’s good the Dr. is taking the time to address that patients needs thoroughly. So I tell myself.
Re: Pain killers. Some times our aversion to discomfort – a perfectly viable evolutionary adaption that might not scale – can lead to bad things(tm), constipation being perhaps one of the more minor. Not to diminish your experience of it.
Incidentally, shouldn’t all the umbilical stuff be taken care of at the moment of birth? Seems like a pretty long delay in treatment; Canadian?
I forgot the word “hernia”
Glad you are recovering. Here’s hoping your next poop is a good one.
Glad everything came out OK.
Glad to hear things are improving.
⬅️
Umbilical hernias are awful.
Glad you’re okay. [poop joke deleted]
Thank you. Abdominal hernias are not the worst: 25 years ago I had double inguinal hernias- that was worse. Of course, I was 25 yrs younger. I am actually surprised by how easy and fairly pain free the abdominal hernia surgery was.
Speaking of suspicion, Bob is paranoid. Wild baseless accusations of things and people I didn’t do and never wanted to. Am not looking for any sort of romance! Everything I do is wrong apparently.
Sorry, just wanted to vent while this farkatke site is working and while he’s disc golfing. Back to it–
Be safe.
“Racism and white supremacy — not “working class” anxiety — lifted Trump to the White House twice. The president is fluent in crude racism and white racist conspiracy theories, and he has been explicit about his role as defender and champion of White America and MAGA.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/12/trumps-economic-war-on-black-america/
Has anyone been able to find these white supremacists?
“The real numbers are quite different. Black unemployment did hit a record low of 5.3% during Trump’s first term — the lowest the Bureau of Labor Statistics had ever recorded — until Joe Biden brought it down to 4.8%. Since Trump returned to office, the Black unemployment rate has only gone up from 6.2% in January 2025 to 8% last fall, according to the New York Times.
A large portion of the blame for that can be laid directly at the feet of the president and congressional Republicans. Government employment has long been a ladder to economic security for Black Americans, but Trump kicked it out from under them. Draconian budget cuts and other policies by MAGA Republicans have devastated the Black professional and managerial class. Black women have suffered a disproportionate amount of this pain; more than 300,000 have left the labor force since June 2025.”
I wonder what could have happened while Biden was President?
Its true…we just went around firing black folk. Well, not fire. Offered up a generous serverence plan with rehire rights after 18 months.
Totally not racist at all, Salon.
Only the government can lift up those that the government keeps under it’s boot.
But rejecting 99.9% of applications isn’t even the wildest thing about the company’s hiring process.
“If people looked under the hood at how we do this, they would think we’re crazy,” said CEO Luca Ferrari. “Hopefully in a good way.”
And the WSJ siccs the EEOC on Bending Spoons. Maybe the ACLU as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/gaGdyOmx3x
Cat Vs cobra
Autoerotic asphyxia?
Retarded waitress type question: “Mr. Candy, how many Nigerians go into a pot of pepper soup?”
Are they free range?
“YIKES! Bison at Yellowstone National Park Sends Man Flying Through the Air With Headbutt (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/yikes-bison-yellowstone-national-park-sends-man-flying/
Sometimes I just like the photo.
Ouch. I hope he’s ok.
“As the Gateway Pundit has reported, Graham Platner did not just decide to run for U.S. Senate, he was recruited by a pair of Ivy League educated DSA activists who were looking specifically for someone with a blue collar image.
Now that Platner has dropped out of the race over allegations of sexual assault and rape, it is comiing to light that one of the activists who recruited him has also faced complaints about sexual misconduct. You couldn’t make this up.
Daniel Moraff is the grandson of the founder of Toys R Us. In 2022, he was barred from the campaign of Summer Lee after other volunteers and staffers complained about unwanted sexual advances.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/irony-one-dsa-activists-who-recruited-graham-platner/
STEVE SMITH UNITE WORKERS OF THE WORLD
He’s behind them all the way. One by one.
You don’t have to make anything up because the DSA is composed entirely of trash.
“A 15-year-old Dutch girl has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing her parents to death inside their home during the early hours of June 18 in what authorities are investigating as a double murder.
The suspect, who reportedly first identified as a boy and later as a dog, allegedly attacked her mother and father, Johan Enting and Mathilda Diemel, both 53, in their Meerstad residence, according to Dutch News.
She also reportedly stabbed the family’s pet golden retriever during the rampage.
In a sickening detail that has horrified the community, the girl allegedly took photographs of her parents’ blood-covered bodies and sent the images to classmates via WhatsApp shortly after the killings, the Telegraaf reported….
Dutch police have confirmed a minor is in custody but have not disclosed a motive.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/nightmare-netherlands-15-year-old-girl-who-identified/
She was jealous of the dog?
Mental illness isn’t a “motive”.
Lindsey Graham was only 71? I thought he was much older.
I hope he gets buried face down. That way he can get fucked even after he’s dead.
He just seemed eternal.
Yesterday I saw gas for a mere $3.80/gal.
Stock up now.
Along I-81 in Virginia, I got diesel last week at $4.19/gal.
$3.15 on average here.
https://babylonbee.com/news/candace-owens-confirmed-to-be-a-jewish-plot-to-make-antisemites-look-retarded
LOLOLOL
Needs more lane assist
Many of the 60 provisions in the wide-ranging bill are regulatory in nature, such as streamlining environmental impact reviews and reducing the frequency of inspections for homes with tenants receiving federal rental assistance. Others seek to make it easier for homebuyers to acquire financing.
These elements and more could help move the needle on the nation’s housing morass.
But as housing policy scholars, we believe the improvements will be only marginal. That’s because the reforms do not address the main source of the nation’s housing problem: that millions of renters and homeowners lack the income necessary to cover their housing costs.
I’m sure these people have the best plan to make us all rich.
“that millions of renters and homeowners lack the income necessary to cover their housing costs”
No, it’s mass immigration and over regulation.
Thanks, Captains Obvious.
To further facilitate housing construction, the bill requires local governments that receive federal funding for community development to publish a “searchable online database of undeveloped land parcels,” which is intented to make it easier to identify potential low-cost development sites.
Eminent Domain those parcels into the hands of those who will put them to the most productive political use.