– juris imprudent
Don’t even start disagreeing with this. It’s an iron law that George C. Scott was the best Scrooge.
Links?
And here I thought the prisoners were more intelligent that their British jailers. Oh well.
An apt reply might be, “gfy, read the Constitution”.
Trump isn’t starting a war in Syria. He’s continuing what he started in the first term. Now here, he’s sending a distinct message.
Along with a new woman in my life came her 19 and 22 year old children. It’s an interesting dichotomy in that they have more stuff and do more things than I could ever afford at that age, but still think they’re not better off than previous generations. Marvelous children, but this is a generation that has no frame of reference on what things were like not that long ago. I’m trying to do a little redirection with these two, with some positive results.
I’m detecting a micro penis here.
Yeah…no. What the fuck is wrong with New York?(I know, rhetorical).
Fix, or not, it was a good beat down.
Okay, that’s it for me. Peace out, Glibiies. Have a great Christmas.
Venture capitalists want to build their own tech utopias, and have been cutting deals with governments, mainly in lesser economically developed countries, to start building luxury towers and golf courses in de-regulated zones where, in some cases, they get to decide what’s legal.
It is “borne out of a dissatisfaction with the current political systems,” according to Mark Lutter, founder of the non-profit Charter Cities Institute
“It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” — Biggie Smalls (I think)
Mrs Fourscore thinks the Shpips must really like cats.
A couple of them enjoy hanging out with me.
So having flirted with Progressivism, they’re now reverting back to Objectivism?
I’ll take it.
As Disney found out, government giveth and government taketh away.
Toopack yo.
Zarouri is one of around 200 women to have accused Negre, a former human resources manager, of having spiked their hot drinks to belittle them.
They say he watched his female interviewees writhe in pain, some to the point of relieving themselves in front of him.
I was told there would be no kink shaming.
Aren’t all HR managers like that?
“I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”
Ooh, good one. Congratulations on your invincible certitude.
I would’ve gone with “Have you tried being less muddle-headed?”
Which is why I’ll never have an advice column in the Grauniad.
“I know how to do it, I just can’t explain i”
Whatever you do, don’t try to understand their position or consider for a moment that they have experienced things that you haven’t or know things that you don’t. You’re definitely in the right here and they need to defer to your knowledge and wisdom, so please continue to be blithely dismissive of their opinions.
Or, maybe, he could just not talk about politics.
Crazy, I know.
Nothing builds trust like condescension.
“It’s sickening and I’m bitterly disappointed in our political system whereby the voices for tighter gun laws and public health aren’t listened to until there’s a major event like this,” he added.
Common sense wog control would do more for the Aussies than any further victim disarmament measures.
The wogs start at Canberra?
We spend a lot of time dissecting politics in terms of beliefs – the what – but I think a neglected part of our political differences is whether we know how these things feel.
Appeal to emotion. At least you didn’t stoop to fuzzy thinking.
Mrs. DenverJ regresses every Christmas to around 9 yrs old. I have watched every single Cristmas movie ever made at least 3 times now (except Die Hard). Did you know there are at least 5000 different tellings of A Christmas Carol?
None of them any good.
Don’t be retarded.
The Muppet Christmas Carol exists.
The Sanford & Son and Bionic Man Scrooge episodes were fucking great too.
You need to get out more.
Anna and the Apocalypse?
Fatman?
Rise of the Guardians?
Violent Night?
A Christmas Horror Story?
Santa Jaws?
Hogfather?
Go?
Gremlins?
Miracle on 69th Street?
Don’t forget Lethal Weapon. A very heart warming Christmas movie.
Daddy’s home II
DenverJ!
What do you get when you combine a female deer and a pickle?
A dilldoe.
Now I know how you get all the ladies.
Some “world leader”. 🙄
Do better, Australia.
I bet there’s close to that many in the Houston metro area.
Oh common. The Houston metro area has got to have more than that.
Excellent music choice.
I really enjoy his Christmas album.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Reverend Horton Heat, and Los Straightjackets all have Christmas albums that would fit in that same wheelhouse.
Or move to a country that has one (and follows it). They seem to be Australian. And Guardian readers LOL.
They described feeling that the basics of a middle-class life — owning a home, providing for the children, dining out occasionally — seemed unattainable or required unpalatable trade-offs.
*dabs tear*
But I need a dozen subscription services, the latest iPhone, and all those plushy toys that guy was pictured with.
You mean I might have to delay gratification? Goodness, for how long?!?
Unpalatable trade offs – not being able to have Starbucks every morning (and I don’t mean the grocery store shit, it tastes different without the tears of a barista’s broken dreams in it.) Having to live in an icky starter home with linoleum for flooring instead of hardwoods, tile or marble flooring or worse, renting an apartment for several years before buying said starter home. As if.
I don’t mean the grocery store shit, it tastes different without the tears of a barista’s broken dreams in it.
Those tears are what makes it taste so good!
That, and the barista might be good looking.
HEY! It happens.
On a serious note, I’ll grant to younger folks that government programs like Cash for Clunkers and government spending leading to inflation have fucked up the economy in many ways. But those ways apply to everyone, not just young people.
The grocery store cold brew is better.
I shared a roach-infested shithole in Queens with a buddy for seven years until I was able to move out on my own in my 30s.
When I left there was a hole straight thru the kitchen wall to the outside.
Behold.
LOL I attached those street number stickers myself in 1998. That window AC on the top left looks like the one I left in my bedroom window when I moved out.
None of the buildings over three stories you can see to the left or right existed when I lived there. And someone added some new siding. Nice.
“Upward mobility is sort of dead,” said Gray Thurston, 27, an electrical engineer in Philadelphia, who earns about $90,000 a year. His parents are baby boomers. “My parents’ generation did great. Everybody I work with at that age has big retirement accounts, are taking vacations and own multiple houses. Good for them.”
And everyone knows they bought those multiple homes in their 20s while they were on one of the many vacations they take a year while the rest of their monstrous paychecks went into their IRAs, yup yup.
At least I didn’t have to wade too far into that NYT pile of garbage to get to the real issue.
Envy.
What a fucking surprise.
Maybe my opinion is influenced by living in California, but the cost of housing is a real problem. But few in the media want to talk about how immigration has increased demand and regulations have stifled supply.
SF was outrageously expensive when I lived there in the 90s. People figured out how to deal.
I can’t really comment on whether it’s getting worse since I’ve moved around a fair bit and I always live in expensive shitholes.
Along with a new woman in my life came her 19 and 22 year old children.
Being alone ain’t that bad.
inorite
I just went through five years of solitude. I was ready for a change.
Good for you Spud. If you are happy, that’s what matters.
They have absolutely no reference to economic hardships, thus inconveniences trouble them.
I can’t bleive you people are so insistant on being wrong about best scrooge.
Source: YouTube https://share.google/nElNcv523HEftlPzu
I can’t believe you don’t like the story.
I can. He doesn’t like anything, not even Life cereal.
*low whistle*
He wasn’t wearing the proper gloves when he watched it.
I don’t believe a word of the “wooden box for children with disabilities” article.
Accusations and not a shred of proof. “Just so” appeals to past trauma.
Red meat for NYT readers.
Another source.
https://www.wcax.com/2025/12/18/salmon-river-educators-placed-leave-over-allegations-that-students-were-locked-box/
Who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would like them to answer if it would have been any better/worse if it wasn’t “special needs” and/or “native Americans”. Maybe offer some better alternatives for problem children. Instead we get emotional manipulation.
Yeah, a quick search found a number of different local outlets reporting on the story. But it’s another “wait and see” situation.
Alice in Chains hardest hit.
“Go to the box, feel shame”
Bring back the Dunce cap.
Those kids shouldn’t be in government schools with normal kids as they drag the latter down.
Odds are if they are there the box is the appropriate place for them. Needs sound deadening material, at least the studs are on the correct side.
Prospera already has some 1,000 residents living in what appears to be your typical upscale gated community with its own beach and golf course. Some of the financing comes from mega-investor Peter Thiel, but it was founded by Erick Brimen, a Venezuelan money manager.
Prospera has been talked about in libertarian circles for a while. It’s come up at FreedomFest and I think also the Tom Woods show.
Oliver Janssens made multiple millions out of cryptocurrency and was able to purchase 4-square-miles of property on the Caribbean island of Nevis. He hopes to sell 1,000 units per year with one ambition: Making it a family friendly retreat.
Bonus: the St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship by investment program.
There will be a park that is larger than Central Park, and each neighborhood will be centered around a local shopping street,” the spokesperson added.
Sounds like The Villages, but in California, so I expect it will be no bueno.
db: On that beer Mexican Sharpshooter reviewed: Dammit, if I had known about that before Thanksgiving, I would have stopped in Mifflinburg as I was in Central PA for a bit.
Apt description – it’s a good two hours from me and I don’t live near anything.
I was in the Philly area for most of Thanksgiving. One day I was up in central PA. If I had more flexibility, I would have let you know I was in the area.
Bummer. Next time I’m at the store I’ll see if they’ve made a new batch. Most of their beers are seasonals; you can only get them each for about 3 months a year. Makes you anticipate them more, I guess.
From the billionaire article on setting up cities article “…Friedman, who was a pro poker in the early 2000s.” So, he banged hookers or was a male porn star?
Either way, sounds like a cool guy.
I don’t have an opinion on the merits of any of the multitude of Scrooges. I just know there was an animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol when I was a kid in which Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come creeped me right out. 😳 (I had a fairly low threshold of creep-out when I was little. The “Johnny Smoke” anti-smoking PSAs gave me the heebie-jeebies. 😨)
Mr Magoo?
No, this one played it pretty straight. I remember Mr. Magoo (kinda,) but not him as Scrooge.
There have been Scrooge stories warped around every character imaginable, including Magoo. At one point in the early eighties it almost became a rule like Rule 34.
And for a title I mentioned in the previous post, The Passions of Carol is a porn retelling of the story, with a female editor of a Playgirl-type magazine treating her employees badly, only to learn the true spirit of Christmas. (As one of the IMDb reviews says, “Why do all of her Christmas memories involve hardcore sex?”)
Didn’t involve Disney ducks?
Jim Backus was the best Scrooge. Anyone who says otherwise eats paste.
He was typecast.
+1 Lovey Howell
Jim Backus
When you wrote earlier that you were “tossing in a pot roast,” I nearly gagged
It’s an interesting dichotomy in that they have more stuff and do more things than I could ever afford at that age, but still think they’re not better off than previous generations.
Luxuries are cheap, necessities are not.
If you have $1k, you can buy a new phone, or you can be 4% of the way to a late model used car.
My first smartphone back in 2015 cost about $130 for the phone and the first month of a plan.
When I replaced it in 2022, I think I spent about $160 for a bigger phone with more memory.
The smart kids do that too. The less smart ones spend a grand on a phone because they feel hopeless about saving $30k for a car or $100k for a down payment on a house.
I remember into my 30s there were still multiple levels of cold cuts at the supermarket deli counter. Young people like me bought the cheap ham or turkey and it was sort of edible.
I haven’t seen a range of choices like that in many years. It’s all the most expensive brands now.
Well, at the *counter*, sure. Oscar Mayer is still in the cold cases with the weenies.
obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXep_sMhgTo&t=52s
Welp, that was exciting. And I don’t care about the Bears or Packers.
Packers have forgotten that football is four quarters and not three periods. All season they have played like shit for the last 15 minutes.
Wut?
Oh, I forgot they do Saturdays sometimes. OK, then.
Tis the season for Saturday pro football
I might have watched it but I was watching Columbo instead and playing Donkey Kong.
Nut punch from the punch bowl. DEA agent rolls through stop sign, kills bicyclist with right of way, gets charges dismissed due to federal supremacy and immunity. Ho! Ho! Ho!
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/25-447/25-447-2025-12-11.html