cartoon medley #12
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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
Know it all one is funny.
Guy I knew was an unemployed pothead who claimed to be a polymath on his blog.
He assumed room temperature and his family all clapped like seals because he ended it.
Canadian import so I guess they thought suicide was a positive.
Who determines the criteria to declare somebody a polymath?
No one, but in general people are going to laugh when a bum who has done nothing starts calling themselves one. He could be brilliant. Probably isn’t though.
I’m stuck in LAS so I don’t have access, but the requirements are in the Master’s rules DMG.
I thought polymath was defined in the 2nd edition Psionics Handbook.
The polymath of course!
I thought it was in the C of the BECMI.
I like the alien priest.
1. Don’t trust righties.
2. Solid, best here by far.
3. I don’t want to have sex with this. Kinda a more fucked up, roundabout-heavy, medical traffic system.
4. I very much could have sex with this. Flame shoulda been more, she does makeup like that for Halloween. *deepest swoon*
5. Futuristic alien chaplain. Hmm. Need more context to consider.
It feels like something out of the Hyperion Cantos.
When you make first contact and learn that they have their own crucified messiah story.
So, he is gonna have a cross living in him?
I don’t trust right handed people either.
And yet, it is left handed people who are sinister…
I’m ambidextrous. Born that way (left handed) but was then rehabilitated (broke my left arm twice)
Why do you hate me?
/using mouse left handed
I do everything right-handed except I grew up writing left-handed but trained myself to write awkwardly right-handed in HS. To this day I cannot draw a straight line with my right hand so I switch to my left hand when I have to draw something.
And also it came in handy when I broke my left arm in college. I had just got a job checking groceries lol. That was fun wearing a cast.
I’m left handed -write, eat, shave, smoke, play pool and shoot.
Right armed – hit, throw, punch, drum, play hockey
Bowling’s a fun one cuz I don’t know which I should use, still. Most comfortably, I’d play guitar left handed but bass guitar right handed. (I’m right fingered, particularly w piano, etc.)
I’m pretty sure I just picked a hand at random for new tasks as a kid. I guess I’m pretty ambidextrous? Better than most, for sure.
Just because we are about half of death row despite being only 13% of the population.
everything right-handed except I grew up writing left-handed
Right handed in the sense I write right-handed and it’s my ‘strong’ side, but guns and pool, left handed. I assume it’s an eye dominance thing, but it feels totally natural. Very uncomfortable shooting right handed and equally uncomfortable writing left handed.
I’m left handed.
Eat
Write
Pick my nose
Use a knife
Musical instruments
I’m right eyed
So i shoot right and can’t swing a bat or throw left handed to save my life.
Can’t use left handed sissors either.
Right handed only for screwdrivers.
I weld with either hand,
Use most power tools with either
*Southpaw/ambidextrous guy waves Righty*
Pool left handed too.
Right handed but goofy footed.
But my mother, my brother and my son are all lefties. I know to keep a side eye on them.
#2: Is he mathsplaining?!
That would be better than mathterbating.
There’s a brouhaha online over whether you should bring an (iced) coffee to a job interview. The divide is obvious – it doesn’t fucking matter versus professionalism.
I wouldn’t do it because I’m not a tard and I know the game and that the assholes I’m talking to are looking to dissect and pick apart the dumbest shit about me. That while they have the power, they’re basically mouth breathers who play pretend work all day and that they have an idea of what ‘professionalism’ is and it has little to do with actual ability to perform.
I hate the word professional itself. It’s some word corporations started throwing around to make ever increasingly stupid demands of employees with regards to things that don’t have anything to do with getting shit done. But let’s be blunt, when it comes to the world of the corporate drone it’s not really about productivity or skill really.
So much of our daily interactions with one another are make believe pretend bullshit and I don’t think many people really grasp that fully. Sure they recognize that there’s different behaviors for different settings, but it goes beyond that. So much of it is just fake. So many people get paid to basically do nothing.
“So many people get paid to basically do nothing.” This is why I didn’t like my 8 years in financial services. I basically got paid to help people navigate the barriers my company was putting up. It was very unfulfilling but paid well. I can actually see the difference I make as a mechanic. Car doesn’t start when I get there, but does when I leave.
I flip bits for a living but at the end of the day it either pays out to customers or doesn’t if they don’t deserve it. And we make a profit. Everyone wins so it is a “difference” of a sort.
It’s just more entitled Gen Z or Alpha or wherever the hell we are now.
Pro tip, kids: Don’t do it. I don’t know why this is even a thing that needs a “conversation”.
“Mind if I smoke?”
*flips over table* That’s it! Next time, I’m just gonna strut in there and piss in the INTERVIEWER’S cup! See if they like them apples! My OWN juice! That’ll learn ’em.
*pointing two fingers to my blazing eyes* I’m the interviewer, now.
I suppose we can skip the background check, the police will escort you out. Do not contact us again.
I think it would show initiative. That you’re a go-getter.
Nah, Bro’s got it right. Shows I can take care of everything. I both show, and their drink grows. Upward. All strong, powerful things I demonstrate.
Big ideas, I have.
You know, you are supposed to do that at the drug test, but if you are doing it now, it seems you failed that part too.
Nah, I’ll scout it out first. Get the recon, then I’ll target the perimeter. I may have a few focal points. We’ll see.
I wanna do this right.
I can’t imagine walking into an interview with anything in my hand but a briefcase. And that went out of style decades ago.
For fuck’s sake. Put on your best show for the first 15 minutes, then play it by ear.
I was just watching some old TV last night and was mourning the loss of “How do you do?” and most other basic manners.
I still have a Halliburton aluminum slim briefcase.
I always brought a pad of paper and pen, and if I thought of anything to ask latter in the interview I took note of it. Always seemed appreciated.
That’s hawt Sean.
See our disagreement on AR680-1
670. Damn giant thumbs.
Oh I was thinking of the military when I wrote that.
Clean boots don’t win fucking wars. Time and time again in US history the men who are promoted in peace time fail miserably when the real bullets start flying and it takes several disasters before the right people are finally put where they need to be.
Green monster and Marlboro Reds at the interview.
You are interviewing for the roofing or concrete jobs right?
Derpy, have you tried to create a toon in the style of Larson, Watterson, Breathed, Schulz, or anyone like that?
If you have, did you like it?
Oh yeah, my fave is #2.
No, but I’ve done some Family Circus parodies. Lately I’ve been experimenting with this guy’s style:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/09/arcimboldo-tributes.html
Those are interesting
No noodz?
I kid. Certainly a different take.
Yeah, I had no idea of that guy. Fascinating stuff from so long ago.
The butterfly one Is good and creepy.
Why send warm bodies across the border when you can plot an invasion from afar and get Republicans on board with it somehow?
I saw some congress critter posting clips online of an interview he did with some Pajeet doctor from Miami who advertised this sort of service for foreign nationals. Said he’s delivered thousands of anchor babies on his website.
He took the fifth. His business or website was called “Have My Baby in Miami.” He organizes the travel to and from the states along with any medical care and housing while here.
I’m getting to the point where I don’t even really care about “skilled” immigrants. There’s a point where you have to ask if this person has any fucking loyalty whatsoever to your country or principles of any kind.
And when I see all these American tech companies ending up with Indian CEO’s and they start hiring a bunch of H-1B’s from India you have to ask if it’s not a fucking suicidal letting them in.
The left will just natter on about how all the innovators throughout American history were immigrants and you’re a fascist for noting what’s going on now under completely different circumstances. Shut up racists and we’ll pay you to sit around playing Xbox all day while the smart people get stuff done.
Treason.
It’s possible to be knowledgeable about many topics. That’s how people win Jeopardy! and suchlike.
But there are very few true polymaths. That is the realm of Da Vinci, Newton, Franklin, etc.
Where are the modern polymaths? Current power structures seem to aggressively filter them out.
I like the way Schopenhauer explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci7VK75sMsY
gist: if you show your intelligence, people will think you think they are stupid, and so they will hate you.
So kind of like what you said.
Also, when everyone has the internet in their pocket, there is less utility and prestige in being knowledgeable.
When I was little, ca. late 70s, I was shuffled through all kinds of tests and programs and stuff because I was smarter than the average bear. There was just lots and lots of attention being paid to nurturing that in kids. And I was just a lower middle-class kid growing up in “urban” schools.
I wonder if that still happens?
They did it in the 80s here in Idaho.
Called it the Nova program.
My sister did a couple years of it but by the time I was her age and tested they had ended it. Likely because it was discriminatory. About the same time they mostly stopped failing kids and having them repeat grades.
I was in the “gifted” program, because I’m smart but I don’t think it made much of a difference overall.
I’m convinced my IQ was higher when I was little and slowly declined over time. I never became a genius or anything. It probably takes way more dedication than I was ever interested in putting into, well, anything.
Rhy I know I was smarter before I spent about five months on gabapentin. That shit screwed with my long term memory.
Gabapentin is a godsend. I am on some other stuff that gives me terrible neuropathy, to the point where I couldn’t sleep at night – the gabapentin mostly makes it go away.
Mi got up to 2500mg a day and it simply stopped working for the pain.
And my thinking got sluggish as hell. So I quit.
Holy shit. No, I stopped at 300mg a day. It’s been nothing but positive for me.
I am on about 900mg of Gabapentin. It, along with Ropinirole, are what keep massive muscle spasms and cramps at bay.
Interesting. I wake up with the occasional leg cramp at night. Not often enough to seek treatment for it but filing that info away.
Gabapentin for the occasional leg cramp? Dude. You just need more electrolytes. Pater Dean takes a swig or two of pickle juice in the evening and swears by it for keeping leg cramps from bothering him at night.
Have you been to the Thomas Jefferson Library?
It ain’t very big. In fact, any given university library has more material on lawnmower engines than he had on all human knowledge.
The weekend morning links seem assembled by a polymath.
Chemist, audiophile, wine expert, chef…
You may be on to something.
Most people with legitimate science PhDs are like that. I know my father and uncle were. They just get interested in something, and go balls deep into it.
Nice. I get interested in a lot of things but not as deep as I would like in any of them.
Holy fuck the insane comments on the cable cut that caused the frequency outage is insane.
We are a broken country magnified by the internet.
I heard all 3 NYC airports were kaputt but was out most of the afternoon and mostly crickets in the MSM. What’s going on?
Ill have to look up logs tomorrow, but GT posted the info.
An Amtrak crew causes flights in the Northeast (where Amtrak has its strongest concentration) to be postponed. Hmmmm…..🤔️
Guess all those wires are bundled…? Or located near each other? Cut the red wire, knock out train service – cut the blue wire, knock out the internet.
Well, they bundled and saved, so it was worth it.
We diversify services usually on T1 or T3 backbones.
My favorite response:
Sensurround
@ShamashAran
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6h
If you are ever lost, keep a length of fiber optic cable with you, and bury it.
You can get help back to civilization when the backhoe operator arrives.
Ha. Actually funny
a song about the importance of a cable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDRBVaH6Rc
My neighbor (worked for the city road crew and knew better) called locate and had the lines marked but trenched the phone cable up anyway. Then a year later didn’t call locate and ran an auger through it putting in a fence.
This is why I no longer have a land line.
Obviously Trump’s fault, isn’t it?
The pilot announced that if we can’t get off the ground in 25 minutes we’ll need to delay for a new crew.
Fuck.
Stuck in LAS?
Yup. Been here since 06:40.
zOMG that sucks.
Damn. Most of my contacts there have died or retired.
Aaaand, deplaning!
It was the train people cutting coms cables. Per the news.
This is because Trump gutted the Amtrack budget!
I feel ya, man. Twenty odd years ago I got stuck at DFW for a day because the TWU decided to go on strike that day. Ended up missing my grandfather’s funeral by an hour.
After jerking us around for a while, my flight has been rescheduled to 10:30 tomorrow morning. Cancelled it, booked one on Delta leaving midnightish. Now hopefully I can get my baggage, recheck it, redeclare, etc. before that one leaves.
That’s sucks.
And no penny slots in the airport anymore to pass the time.
Definitely not in baggage claim, where I’ve been waiting for more than an hour.
The flight crew timed out waiting for the baggage to be loaded. Now there’s a problem getting the baggage off.
Damn. Damn damn. Best of luck. I’d like to imagine that’s a pretty nice airport. *crosses fingers*
I seriously might miss my next flight because they are incapable or retrieving my luggage. And then BILLY CORGAN’S SCREAMING BABY is not even vaguely helping me maintain any semblance of chill.
Dude is… *checks*… 59 years old. WTF is he doing running around with a screaming infant?!
Assuming that’s the mom and not the nanny, a young Asian woman is involved.
Speaking of interviews going well, I ‘got’ the job Sept. 3. Drug test the 8th, got results the 19th, today work says they need “at least 3 business days” to process, so I’m guessing Mon. Sept. 28th will actually be my starting date, but TBD.
Fired Aug. 3, so that’s kinda interesting. More so, and I only ‘thought’ about it a min ago: Tomorrow is the 7th Anniversary of The Incident. Kinda an odd emotional reality slap just hit me, with that. Quite literary that, being the first day of Fall. (Damn. Timely timing is well timed.) Tomorrow may bring that up, especially as if she doesn’t do it first, I’m gonna message Kylie something sweet and thankful. Not sure where she is. Last I heard in S. Africa but trying to go back to Thailand, but realizing Korea’s where more money’s at. *shrug* True Saint, during that time, was she.
Ha! Work did say they’ll send the dress code. She remained silent on other perhaps helpful literature they may also have.
*petulant shrug* Yeah, you see me Toyna, CEI-Atlanta-CON. Maybe I will need that Hawaiian shirt.
I imagine “dress code” will be business casual. These days that just means slacks and a polo shirt or similar.
I remember at the beginning of my career ca. 2000 it was long-sleeved shirt and tie. I don’t miss those days at all – I hate ties.
I think that dudes mostly hate ties because they mostly don’t have shirts that fit correctly.
Eh, I’m just joking about that. I’m quite certain I have more than I already need. Going into new work is just goofy and was seeing if they’d have anything I can read, etc. *shrug* I like that this is now my SECOND office to move into. The office is quite small. Well, that one part is. Like, ‘I’m glad I’m small’ small.
It’s goofy, but I feel much better now. Still felt easier in Korea, where everything being nutty was to be expected.
(Narrator: Evan’s just nutty.)
I mostly hate ties because they seem to be a totally useless, non-functional piece of accoutrements.
Watching the MNF – there was a fumble and a scrum – all the officials dive in head first pushing and pulling to get to the bottom of the pile and see what’s going on. Except the female ref, she’s just sort of leaning over the pile timidly tapping guys on the shoulder – “Please sir, can you please move from the pile?”. I found it to be funny imagery, maybe cartoon worthy.
useless, non-functional piece of accoutrements
Also:
– suit jackets
– collars
– cuffs
– lapels
– etc.
We can just all wear Mao suits, I suppose.
TBF, I don’t wear them a lot, but I don’t get the tie hate.
Yeah, there is that. Nothing “off the rack” fits my fat neck.
And TBF I like the look. I bought shirts that actually fit in advance of trying to get a job after a long spell laid off. That was in January 2020. I wore one to one interview before the world turned upside down.
Many of those have some function that may no longer be manifest – cuffs make it easy to put shirt on and still seal after its on. Suit jacket, easily removable to adjust thermal balance. Collars have a similar argument to cuffs. Of course they got ornamental beyond any function as one would expect; I just don’t know of any functional value to a tie?
Of course my wardrobe consists of jeans, polos, and underwear from costco, occasional tshirts that have turned into essentially disposable DIY/woodworking clothes so I won’t claim to have any appreciation or understanding for clothes or fashion.
Nothing “off the rack” fits my fat neck.
100%
Having some shirts made-to-measure was a revelation. I’ll happily wear a tie all day with those.
(or would – downside of dropping ~ 30 lbs. is that the whole wardrobe is useless. High-class problem).
I don’t have that “problem”.
Ties, suit coats, et al have a very important function: they show you are making money to the opposite sex. This will get you laid.
As Mojeaux would say, suits are lingerie for men.
I like business casual. I look good in it. Mentioned before, but it also inherently, inwardly, *feels* better. The shoes, as well. A trivial cultural reality with me, but it’s cute, in the ‘fun, mostly meaningless cultural traditions of dress’ cute.
Meijer didn’t have much of a dress code, but there was a name tag, and Walmart just had ‘No jeans’ but I had a blue vest to wear. (The pockets on those? Oddly useful.) I think that best explains my finding dress codes cute. Kinda a big rung up the ladder of what I’ve been doing.
I did a very good job getting shoes, and I’ll say my ‘nice’ shoes I wore at escrow were very childishly fun. I got a Take (myself) to Work Day! Felt funny getting groceries afterwards. ‘Of course she was staring at me. She liked what she saw.’
Ha! News ya can use, folks.
As Mojeaux would say, suits are lingerie for men.
She is wise.
Worst part of the weight loss was my two, good made-to-measure Samuelsohn suits are a loss – one of which is quite new and only wore a couple of times, the other was my wedding suit.
I haven’t quite been able to pull the trigger and sell them yet (though I did get a Brioni and 2 Zegna jackets in my new size from them).
Zwak bundles and saves again, with a pair of internet victories here and above.
As Mojeaux would say, suits are lingerie for men.
Sure that’s because of what they have become to represent. But that’s pretty subjective and only downstream of who has been wearing them historically; anything can assume that function. I just don’t know the underlying function that allowed the to take that signalling function on. And since I don’t like them, don’t think they’re functional, and don’t care to signal anything to females at this point beyond what my rugged good looks and rockin’ body do, I’ll pass.
I do recall getting tailored for a wedding not too long ago… that was something else. Clothes that fit properly were a novelty for me.
Hasan Piker should release a clothing line and get rich(er).
Don’t forget your smoldering intensity, Putrid. Chicks dig that.
Guy at AIT tied my tie for me.
22 years later it’s still tied.
I hate ties.
They are useless and ugly.
Pretentious. Like a suit they are a part of it.
I got a fairly ridiculous, but not in a ‘can’t wear’ fashion, jacket hand-sown in Vietnam. Got to pick all the fabric and everything, three fittings that day and finished. It still fits. I am upset its matching handkerchief is AWOL, but so it goes. I think $100 or something. I love it.
I generally only wear that on special occasions. I may have to wear it tomorrow if it somehow comes up. *thinks of ways he could make it come up*
Nope. I don’t want a noose around my neck.
Slum has a point in that you don’t notice it if you’re wearing a shirt that fits right.
PON for the true reason.
I have one T shirt that dosent fit right.
If I wasn’t cheep I’d throw it away but it’s probably got another two years before it’s garbage so I’ll wear it out.
I wore long sleeve shirts and ties (and jackets) long after it was “required” for my job. Reasons include:
When they fit, they are as comfortable as slobbing around in Dockers and hoodies.
Ties add a little color and interest. And yes, they are a status marker. So are blazers/jackets, for that matter.
I was an adult with an adult’s job. How you dress signifies things, and is a sign of respect for the people you encounter in work/professional settings.
Rolling the dice thinking that MA judiciary won’t hold him accountable or do you think they dug up something on the holdout?
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16149019/Lindsay-Clancy-lawyer-phone-metadata-holdout-juror.html
That seems as unethical as you can get. I know a defense lawyer is supposed to do anything and everything, but that is beyond the pale.
Execute the lawyer too.
Even if they got something on the juror, what’s the point? They aren’t going to cancel them mistrial and cut her loose.
Is this just pre-intimidating the next jury? I can’t think of any other reason to do it.
He should be disbarred, or at least have his license suspended.
The crazies will ensure that their brand of justice is served when he is properly doxed.
The next jury will be more compliant.
In a Kentucky Walmart near you: “$A $167 million Kentucky Powerball winner was arrested after he was found boozed up and asleep in a sports car — the fifth time he’s been cuffed since taking home the big prize, according to reports.
James Farthing was cuffed after a caller reported seeing a white Ford Mustang stopped in the middle of an intersection just before 3 a.m. in Georgetown on Sunday, Lex18 reported.
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He also faces charges of battery on a law enforcement officer after allegedly kicking a Florida deputy in the head in April, 2025 — just days after his lotto win.”
His mugshot shows him in deep thought over his poor decisions, and reveals he’s been making them for a long, long time.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/21/us-news/167m-powerball-winner-arrested-for-fifth-time-after-hitting-jackpot-for-public-intoxication-in-walmart-parking-lot/
Some people just aren’t cut out to be suddenly rich.
Me, I’d be good. I’m eager to put that to the test.
My mugshot would include the two very expensive hookers I hired.
Scoop of vanilla, scoop of chcolate.
Winston’s Mom and…
’Murica!
Dude is only 51.
Yeiks.
The lottery is the stupid tax. People with good impulse control and good budgeting rarely buy them.
$167 million and driving a fucking Mustang. Probably drinking fucking Bud or Coors, too.
Probably wiser than any of the other choices he has made in twenty years or so.
That *could* actually be the smart play. Leave the Aston at the Kiawah Island house, and the Bentley at the Palm Beach place, and the G-Wagen in Jackson Hole. Driving a posh car in a place like Georgetown, Kentucky (they make Toyotas there, and F-series trucks and SUVs down the road in Louisville) guarantees you stick out like a sore thumb, and could invite trouble. No sense taping a sign to your back that says “Please Rob or Kidnap Me.”*
He can afford the good bourbon now, but his body isn’t set up to handle it yet. That’s why he keeps getting in trouble.
Guy needs to hire himself a full-time driver / handler. Judges won’t put up with the “redneck with too much loot” foolishness for very long.
*You’re probably right — just a garden-variety dumbass whose idea of a nice car is a goddamn Mustang
I’m old. But heaven forbid I’m tasked with doing actual interviews again… a Gen Z or 20-30 something shows for an entry level job and has a drink with them? OK- sign of the times. “Please sit your “Rockstar” on the floor.
If I’m interviewing someone for an advanced position like a project manager and you walk in with a drink in a cup? Nope.
If I want you to have a drink handy I’ll offer you one. But dont bring that in my office, son.
No one got back to me from earlier!
1) I had my leather, Indiana Jones computer bag with a notebook and folder, etc
2) My Gatorade was in a BOTTLE, not a cup! What weirdo walks around with a drink with a straw? Or an open lid?!
I’m not (really) Christian, but I summon an older, wizened black woman to come before y’all and tell you’s good and loud to find, if not Jesus, some humility and grace when pondering over this shit.
You’re the whole reason that poor child was so over-bent out of shape to begin with! No one frothing ’bout this has any goddamn sense to ’em! I don’t know if you’re gonna have a drink for me! Why would I presume such?! And I only drink abandoned orphan tears, so fuck your fancy coffee shit!
Judge a person by the content of their character, not the content of their cups! PRAISE JEEESUS! Christ, Ev! Some weirdos ya’ve got ’round here! *exasperated exhale* Nails, now, sug. Call me later, ev, we’ll get back to your booty duty.’
If somebody walks in with food or a drink for an interview, depending on what it is I might ask them about it. See how they respond. You might just learn something about them that way.
Interviews aren’t about “can you do the job” – that’s what resumes are for. Interviews are for “will you fit in here/be a problem”.
I will have eaten, hydrated and used the bathroom prior to any interview so as to not be that guy.
As the boss, I’ve done a bunch of interviews recently. I’m regularly surprised by the number of people (all lawyers) who haven’t done basic preparation for their interview.
Black woman behind 1619 project claims she put her daughter in shitty black schools to fight systemic racism.
Don’t know what the actual logic would be here. Like ignore the idea of sacrificing your daughter’s education for some greater cause for a moment. What actual change would this actually produce?
It the progressive utopia of New York City, being a minority is grounds for labeling one special needs.
Mind you, and they mention this late in the story, her article on enrolling her daughter into shitty public schools despite having money and connections is what launched her career as a public figure. Her story on that went virile and garnered attention which got her into the NYT’s.
The public schools are supposedly underfuned. NYC public schools some of the most expensive per student spending in the country by far. She claims in the 4th grade she realized her teachers weren’t even grading her daughter’s homework and that she was labeled a “proficient” student just for the feelz. She didn’t realize meanwhile her daughter couldn’t read, write, or do math.
Like lady, you’re a dirtbag so I doubt you have any principles or genuine beliefs, but maybe you should self-reflect a bit on how you used your daughter and the political beliefs you support which have helped produce this disaster in public schools.
Final point – if she herself was truly some great intellectual, TEACH YOUR OWN FUCKING CHILD HOW TO READ, WRITE, AND DO FUCKING MATH. Help her along and actually monitor her work yourself. I’m sure she was busy on the cocktail circuit networking with rich white progressives though. No time for actual parenting.
The number one factor in a child’s success isn’t the school. It’s the fucking parent.
The caveat to “it’s the parents” is that there are a lot of things parents used to do that were considered good parenting that will now get you thrown in jail.
Between the Karens and the overeager mandated reporters and anybody whose toe you’ve stepped on within the last 20 years, parenting with anything more harsh than a whined, “Oh, honey, stop that,” is abuse.
I was only speaking towards academics. And I also realize that there’s no guidebook on how to raise a kid.
But if your daughter is in the 4th grade and you think she’s brilliant because the school tells you she’s doing great, and you suddenly realize she can’t do basic math you really weren’t paying any attention to what she was doing academically and with this one I suspect at all.
I don’t believe that for a second.
They also “graduate” 80+% of students and half of them or more can’t read or write.
Whole generation of them is coming up worse than ever after Covid. The first batch of Covid grads are also the ones who first got their hands on AI to cheat in college.
We have this tech that’s evolving rapidly and making workers expendable. It’ll only get worse. Yes, I know a lot of it has been premature, but it is coming. It’s an inevitability.
At the same time, there probably hasn’t been a generation in American history less capable of competing with the AI.
Not a good mix.
And “special needs” is often a cover for hyperactive, non-feminine boys these days.
Here is where I had to get older to realize that truth. I was completely self-motivated at that ago – my mom didn’t have to put any effort at all into getting me to study. But yeah, normally that is true.
That whole piece was wonderfully disgusting. What a fucking cunt, and her own daughter calls her out on it, and she writes she can’t even answer that to herself. She’s that fucking clueless. And your daughter’s correct to resent your fucking motherhood. By the end, I was thinking she’d be a ‘good’ example of a kid seeking revenge on their own parent for putting them through this bullshit.
And yet when I bring it up, when it comes out, to my family that US schools happily graduate students, 30% of whom are illiterate. None of this brings up any anger in the system, but I know they think the faults are all external. Somehow. Just like the Bastiat quote, being against the State doing edu means being against edu, that simple.
She fucked her daughter’s education up to make her feel good, a religious burden she went through, in her words, to help elevate the world through her own example. A generation of kids needs to make an example of their parents brainwashing ’em, perhaps especially though trans mutilation, so other kids will follow their example. I usually whisper that part when no one’s listening.
And I also realize that there’s no guidebook on how to raise a kid.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/The_Common_Sense_Book_of_Baby_and_Child_Care_%28hardcover%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled
Part of the problem.
Men in clothes: Time and place. Time and place.
If I see a man in an expensive suit that looks fabulous on him on a farm talking to a farm hand, I’m going to think he’s either trying to cheat somebody or too stupid to know how to dress for the occasion.
Fair point.
And there is NOTHING attractive about a fabulous-looking man in an expensive suit standing there looking like a shark or a fool.
This seems fairly straightforward. In that setting, it would visually help if the farmer’s clothes reveal the labor he’d done that day, preferably well-fitting to exaggerate any striking features he may possess. That maiden over there, I do say…
And no one looks good dressed out of place. Nixon wearing his dress shoes on the beach. Also, Nixon was an ugly, ugly man.
I think Mo’d think I look fabulOUS. Not always entirely positive, but I may radiate a powerful ‘stray kitty’ vibe. Other people’s moms wanna feed me, but in a cutesy way, not the desperate orphan variety.
I’m also technically on ‘vacation,’ so that sweetens this evening. Gotta put this free week to use, somehow. Hmmm. *hopefully soon-sleepy quizzical face*
But a suit does do wonders, I have to admit.
YEESH! Next thing I know, you’ll be gushing about the perfectly creased seam in Kissinger’s pant leg!!
Go back 100 years and everyone wore suits.
It tended to be the one nice outfit you owned.
Look at old homes, they didn’t have closets because people did t own much for clothing as it was expensive.
Clothes are cheep and abundant now.
Billy Corgan was on my flight, now he’s walking around with a cranky baby and bitching at people taking pics of him. His taste in clothes hasn’t changed.
I understand rich, famous folk living in gated communities and never being in public. Especially now, I’d be out in disguise.
He can’t stand the everlasting gaze from strangers.
Maybe you can disarm him with a smile?
I noticed whenever women talk about leaving a “good guy” online, there’s the usual where they quietly attack them and still have to blame them. It’s never just maybe it wasn’t right, though they obviously throw in the bullshit about not feeling right. They NEVER get specific about the actual flaws. Some women pretending as if she’s just casually putting on make-up and doing her routine while talking into a mirror saying she kept telling him he had to change this or that. Never what it was though.
In general it’s like these younger women have completely ridiculous notions of how a long term relationship is going to actually feel after a while. Let alone a marriage after it’s spanned a decade or two.
As I get older, I don’t feel a “spark” for anyone. I haven’t had butterflies since I was fucking 20. I’m also not a child. Like any drug, you feel it once and then you are stuck chasing that high the rest of your life and a lot of these women can’t wrap their brain around that. Even with the same person that shit is going to fade. It’s scientifically proven.
And NO relationship is going to be all sunshine and roses. And fuck the narrative that the children are better off seeing you happy than seeing their parents stick it out. The evidence all says that’s bullshit in all but the most ridiculous/extreme cases. It’s adult children justifying their selfishness and not much else.
Yes.
Have you ever considered that your withering contempt for the people you work for might contribute to your, erm, colorful employment history?
Oops. Wrong Bro post.
Even a TSA goon finds a nut 6% of the time.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/frightening-object-caught-tsa-inside-passengers-baseball-bat-shaped-flashlight
Better than a baseball bat-shaped Fleshlight.
On a midnight flight to Detroit.
Not really a country song, maybe a lost Simon and Garfunkel track?
Gangster rap, I think Dre and Snoop teamed up on that one in the mid ‘90s.
Gladys Knight and the Pimps.
Wakey, wakey Glibberonis.
🛌🥱⏰
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgUiR31m-Y
🎶🎶
How can I wake up if I never slept?
Still stuck?
In Detroit which is a lot closer than Vegas was.
I was supposed to arrive home last night and pick up Lily at 7:00. That ain’t happening. Hopefully they don’t charge me for an extra day.
Oof.
Good morning, Sean, Grumble, NA (so sorry about your current travel nightmare!), OBE, Ted’S., and homey!
I wonder about the demographic check-boxes of the people involved
suh’ fam
whats goody
The gate agent seems like she’s been suffering since Kennedy was shot.
Which one?
Shoot them all just to be safe?
There were six of us that were going to Albany that tried to get on this alternate route. Two failed since they bought tickets leaving from LAX instead of LAS. The others made it on to the plane to Detroit… but I don’t see them here at the gate. I assume they didn’t see the gate change.
You knew karma was going to bite you after winning free shit.
Nothing is free! But seriously good luck!
I thought the winning was to balance out the failure to feed on stage 18!
There has been a lot of surrealty on this trip. Being the “final survivor” of the group of Albany pilgrims would just be one more.
+1 Damnation Alley
Plane muzak: “More than Words.” Which was awfully close to muzak to start with.
Just trying to soothe you into submission.
Time to start pounding coffee to stay alert for the eventual driving leg of returning home.
Well, that statement certainly seems Extr– nah, too easy.
Yes. II easy.
Get the funk out!
Good. Run him over again.
So glad I got to see him get checked.
Early daily ray