We attract some remarkable assholes at our little café/bistro. Today’s winner: guy comes to the counter and asks our girl, “Can I get change for a ten?”
“Sure, a five and five ones OK?”
“Perfect.”
So as she’s handing it to him, she asks, “Are you dining in or take-out?”
He responds, “Neither, I’m having dinner at the place across the street. Thanks!” and walks out.
Birthdays could be less enraging and there’s a shitload of them being celebrated today, including that of a nepo baby; a guy who rode the backs of cowboys; the most influential guy on American youth who you never heard of; a guy whose fame was deadpan; Jim Bouton’s best buddy and inspiration; a guy who would not have gotten along with Diane Fosse or Jane Goodall; an absolute maestro of lunacy; a guy who fucking owned the corner of the endzone; the pioneer in a genre of fiction I despise; a race hustler from before we even had the term; a squish who was the wrong guy at the wrong time for the wrong president; one more brainless actress who never let her vacuity stop her activism; and someone who has not done her job given that there’s still a job to be done.
My job is Links.
Oh, and H/T to Fourscore. He knows why.
Is there a word for “whistling past the graveyard that you dug?”
Here’s a look at some of those graves.
“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really stupid and futile gesture”
I think we’ve seen this show before.
Proof that “thinkers” on the Right can be absolutely as retarded as the “thinkers” on the Left.
I note that Spud did his house in Midcentury Modern.
This confirms everything I believe about pop music.
Tony Rice’s version of this song is iconic. But… Norman Blake’s might be a bit more soulful. Listen and decide.
*checks links*
Everything is still stupid. Noted.
whaddup doh’
L’Chaim!
I note that Spud did his house in Midcentury Modern.
It’s gone to cringey because it’s Boomerporn?
All I got from that is that the WSJ can cough up tedious thumbsuckers with the best of them.
“ Micks vs. Hebes. “
🤦🏻
And in local jewz newz: https://6abc.com/post/police-investigate-anti-semitic-racist-graffiti-glenside-playground/19905415/
OFFS. I hope there are enough fainting couches to go around.
I was expecting something on “class size”. The unions keep yammering about that for some reason.
“advocates say the move will reduce support for parents, create bigger class sizes, herp derp”
Oh there it is.
Somehow, in the Olden Days, class sizes of 30 or so was the norm, with no assistants.
Miss Koltoff took no BS from Robert Foress or Elroy Selg. They sat down when she said “Sit Down” in a firm Drill Sergent voice
’cause the next command included a trip to the “office”, a call to the parents with the instructions to pick up their kid.
Bigger class size, fewer teachers – might be the only math the union members understand.
Sorry – I don’t find this retarded.
“The better answer is not a return to Victorian hypocrisy, nor a regime of pervasive surveillance and enforcement. It is the recovery of an older and saner ideal: freedom disciplined by responsibility.”
Emphatic +1
Is there any word in our culture more abused than ‘free’?
Freedom or democracy, your choice.
#meneither
Here is the deal:
A lot of that Victorian hypocrisy goes away if you recognize the difference between a private realm (where its nobody’s business) and a public realm (where decorum is required). Childish minds see that as hypocrisy. Ore developed minds see it as a healthy balance.
Probably depends on the ore. Lead for example takes you right back to childish.
All actions have consequences, and that is what the cultural rot tries to deny. Since it is a fundamental reality, all attempts to deny it demand even greater attempts to ignore those consequences when they appear. You are a bad person for accepting reality as it is.
Don’t leave out predictability. Actions not only have consequences, it is possible to predict which actions will have which consequences with a reasonable degree of accuracy, and to formulate guidelines for behavior from this information. You can even take this a step further and allow your understanding of this to guide your empathy and charity by giving preference to those who find themselves in a bad way due to happenstance over those who ignored all the guidelines and ended up in predictable misery.
Fall foliage
I visited your area once at this time of year. I had never seen the fall colors that stretched for miles and miles. It truly was spectacular.
We stopped at a little store, place was warm. I asked the shop keeper what kind of wood he was using. When he told me,
“culled apple trees” I was aghast ’cause I was buying little bags of apple wood to use in my smoker.
Proof that “thinkers” on the Right can be absolutely as retarded as the “thinkers” on the Left.
Disagree. This is not quite up to peak retard on the left
‘peak retard’ and ‘peak stupid’ are mythical beasts
When I have to create forms at my job, I try to make them idiot-proof, but they keep making better idiots.
Speaking of tedious thumbsuckers . . . .
I guess I am peak retard, I didn’t see anything I objected to in my skim of that piece.
I still think the whole shit show is an October surprise.
I note that Spud did his house in Midcentury Modern.
No point in labels as long as there is a well stocked bar in a house
OK, Jan.
Perhaps the problem is that the Party has flooded the field with so many repellant communist assholes that it becomes harder to focus on just one.
Let us do notice that they only win in very particular precincts. When one of them wins say in Florida or Oklahoma, that would be noteworthy.
Nobody painted moonlight like John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Nobody.
https://x.com/the_culturist_/status/2106388710438895752
In the replies there are basically paintings with moonlight. So what is the official glibertarian opinion on who painted the best moonlight?
Bruce Blackman
China has perfected the art of the ‘Smurf Minority’. More Smurf ethnicities in traditional Smurf costumes living in Smurf villages and doing silly Smurf dances than any other country on the planet. The ‘Smurfification’ of peripheral groups, redefined to their Smurf-like features
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2106292220739322284
It wears the costume and does the dance or else it gets the gulag again.
Trump really seems to have lost touch with the coalition he built. Maybe he is senile, maybe the polls are such bullshit now that he can’t see what’s coming. They are partisan propaganda until the last week – when they will dive towards reality
The last non-partisan pollster?
https://rumble.com/v7g8zbw-trump-faces-removal-risk-if-blue-tsunami-hits-w-rich-baris.html
If there is a blue tsunami, then the country really is a goner. And not because Team Red last a midterm. Because Team Blue blew them out with freaks and commies and no (domestic) fundraising support. That doesn’t happen without a big fraction of the country living in a counter-reality bubble and hellbent on forcing their retardation on everybody.
And there’s no fixing that without a crisis that creates a total cultural and social reset.
You mean like the failure to persuade slaveowners to give up on slavery?
Your players made it all about politics, with generous support from Antifa shitbags in your country.
Did we discuss Candy O’s alleged lesbionics?
Amusing video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4jcqssAOE
X thread here
https://x.com/EsoShaggy/status/2104589253778825695
https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/EsoShaggy/status/2104589253778825695