All-Star Cryptid Advice Time!

by | Apr 20, 2026 | Advice, Cryptids, STEVE SMITH, ZARDOZ | 91 comments

The Cryptids were getting restless, so rather than risk any…uh, work action, we have given them tonight’s column. Enjoy the wisdom of their advice!

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE PLEASED ZARDOZ BY SNARKING AT THE BRUTLS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH. THEREFORE, YOU WILL RECIEVE THE GIFT OF ADVICE! GO FORTH, AND READ.

Q: My oldest granddaughter will be looking at colleges soon. My son and her mother are divorced. My parents gave my son (their grandson) money to put away in accounts for his daughters’ college. Instead, he helped himself to that money before the divorce. When his ex-wife told me about it, I confronted him. I decided not to tell my parents about it because I was afraid it might shock them into a stroke or heart attack. They are in their 90s.

I have put away some money to help pay for college, but it won’t cover the costs. I have kept this a secret because I don’t trust my son to manage it. When I asked him how he planned to help pay for college, he said he would use the money he now pays for child support. I don’t find that answer satisfactory.

I feel like a failure for having raised a son who would take money that belongs to his kids. My granddaughter is upset and feels her father has ruined her future. She also thinks I should tell my parents that he stole the money they intended for her. What do you think I should do? — MORTIFIED IN MASSACHUSETTS

A: ZARDOZ HAS COGITATED ON THIS SITUATION. HE CAN PROVIDE YOU TWO COURSES OF ACTION;

YOUR BRUTAL OFFSPRING CAN BE CLEANSED, AND ALL LIFE INSURANCE PROCEEDS GO TO PAY FOR COLLEGE.

    ZARDOZ CAN HAVE THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS COME AND TAKE YOUR MISERABLE CHILD AWAY TO BECOME A GRAIN SLAVE OF THE VORTEX. ZARDOZ WILL ALLOW A RATION OF GRAIN TO BE SENT TO YOUR GRANDCHILD.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    STEVE SMITH HERE AND HALP MAKE ADVICESES. HIM GIVE GOODEST ADVICE. HIM PROMINENT FOREST ADVICE GIVER.

    Q: I have conflicting feelings regarding Valentine’s Day. I believe it is a celebration for couples rather than co-workers. My husband’s office staff (eight young women under the age of 30) insist on celebrating Valentine’s Day with decorations on all office doors, complete with hearts and cupids. They have a catered lunch with specialty treats of chocolate-covered strawberries, fudge hearts and the customary heart candies that read “Be Mine,” “I Love You”, etc.

    My husband has been with this company for 30 years, and we’ve been together for 15 of them, but this Valentine’s Day celebration began only four years ago. I am 65 and have worked 20-plus years for a Fortune 500 corporate office and NEVER has Valentine’s Day been celebrated in the office. Christmas, yes. Fourth of July, yes. But Valentine’s Day? Am I just old and cranky? This has been a source of contention between my husband and me since it began. — NOT LOVIN’ THAT IN TEXAS

    A: STEVE SMITH IN FAVOR OF VALENTINE DAY THING. HIM SHOW LOVE ALL YEAR-ROUND. BY LOVE, MEAN RAPE. HIM THINK HIM WANT TO GO TO PARTY AND CELEBRATE WITH 8 YOUNG WOMEN UNDER 30. IN FACT, STEVE SMITH THINK HUSBAND WANT SAME!

    FREE CASCADIA!

    SEA SMITH ALSO HALP WITH ADVICING! HE REALLY GOOD AT ADVICES. HE BRING UNIQUE MARITIME VIEW! SEE THIS.

    Q: How should I handle in-laws who show up three or more hours early for dinner and just sit at the kitchen counter? I have things to do; I don’t have time to entertain them, and I can’t persuade them to leave the kitchen. It really puts a damper on my final prep and last-minute cleaning. I don’t want to be rude. They are nice people, but I can’t handle this anymore. — ON DISPLAY IN ILLINOIS

    A: SEA SMITH HAVE IDEA. WHEN IN-LAWSES SIT AND NO MOVE, TELL THEM YOU HAVE NEW PET FOR THEM PLAY WITH;

    IT KITCHEN SHARK! SEA SMITH LEND YOU – IF SHARK EAT IN LAWSES, ALL SOLVED! IF SHARK SCARE THEMS AWAY, ALSO SOLVED!

    COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

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    91 Comments

    1. DEG

      My husband’s office staff (eight young women under the age of 30) insist on celebrating Valentine’s Day

      Why was I not surprised?

      • R.J.

        Free candy and flowers!

        Well, free to them.
        TANSTAAFL

        • Threedoor

          Get in the van!

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        I don’t see the problem, why does this lady have a stick up her butt?

        • kinnath

          why does this lady have a stick up her butt?

          Because . . . I am 65 and my husband is surrounded by eight young women under the age of 30

        • R.J.

          That happens to me a lot. Not a stress point for the wife.

        • slumbrew

          None of them are interested in your husband’s 60-something year old cock, lady. Relax.

        • slumbrew

          Not directed at Mrs. R.J.

          Although 30-something’s are really not interested in weird alien cock. I mean, not most of them. Chances are low.

        • R.J.

          Very true that they are not interested in 60!year old men or aliens. They just want free flowers and candy.

        • Sean

          Y’all have a very limited world view. Just saying…

        • The Hyperbole

          “None of them are interested in your husband’s 60-something year old cock, lady. Relax.”

          They may not be interested in his cock but they may be interested in the money that is attached to it.

          Bitches be gold-digging, yo.

        • slumbrew

          He’s been “with” the company for 30 years; it’s not “his company”. I doubt there’s that much gold to dig.

        • R.J.

          Just the gold nuggets in his nose.

        • The Hyperbole

          Sub 30 year old bitches may not know the difference, as with everything else there is a learning curve to gold digging.

        • DEG

          Although 30-something’s are really not interested in weird alien cock. I mean, not most of them. Chances are low.

          Bad Dragon seems to be doing well.

      • rhywun

        That sounds like hell.

        • Chafed

          100%. I don’t like work celebrations at all. I like my employees but I’m not interested in celebrating any holiday with them.

        • rhywun

          That too but I was thinking more of being trapped in that henhouse.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “My husband’s office staff (eight young women under the age of 30) insist on celebrating Valentine’s Day”

        (Are they hot, is by far the most important question.) Regardless, Gran. I’m highly employable.

    2. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      The water is indeed fine.

      Can’t really argue with the advice given. Especially since I know the consequences of doing so. I’m not cut out for the life of a grain slave.

      • R.J.

        Life insurance might not be as profitable as selling his organs on the black market.

    3. Derpetologist

      Oscar Wilde said something about relatives being a tedious pack of people with no idea how to live and not the slightest clue about when to die.

      abrupt subject change

      This is the gayest thing I have ever seen. I don’t mean that in a figurative, pejorative, or hyperbolic way. It’s the most homosexual men I have ever seen on a screen at the same time.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHvDPRWgJ4

      At least they’re not jumping around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots. The only reason I know that video exists is because it’s the favorite song of a Khmer Rouge survivor whom I tutored in English. She had trouble with l, r, and w, so I made her recite “once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary” until she got it right. Then we watched the My Fair Lady clip about the rain in Spain. She laughed.

    4. cyto

      Not worth watching, but link included.

      Press conference after teen gunfight at local park. Police come uo and thank the governor for calling, send condolences to victims, and lecture people about guns, supervising their kids and getting off of cell phones. Also, dont get in a fight because people use weapons these days.

      https://youtu.be/-FyfkCgJRe8?si=ft3fpoU8Hqbn-kl0

      Wild. Not a single fact. Nothing about there even being an investigation, really. Just hectoring about being off your phone, involved with kids, and we have a problem with guns. Oh, and dont get in fights.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, I think a lot of this stuff stems from parents not supervising their kids – or at least raising them right.

    5. R.J.

      Loin Girders! Start girding your loins!
      This Thursday is a special viewing of SASQUATCH SUNSET on GlibFlicks!
      Then there will be SASQUATCH SUNDAY as Uncivil reviews the film on Sunday!

      • Chafed

        Girding I can start now. Clenching will need to wait for Thursday.

    6. Evan from Evansville

      “My oldest granddaughter will be looking at colleges soon. My son and her mother are divorced. My parents gave my son (their grandson) money to put away in accounts for his daughters’ college.”
      —-
      You just go stop right there. Go. Fuck yourself. I’m way too stoned to do your fucking generational math bullshit at the *start* of your story to keep shit straight.

      Zardoz: Dismiss this human. Just. Fuck ’em up. No requests. Just. Be creative(!), whatever. Yeeesh.

      • Chafed

        I see variations of this all the time in practice. Grandparents are idiots for trusting their son. Son is still a scumbag for stealing what was intended for his daughter.

        • Threedoor

          My dad had his wife cut his grandkids $10k each. Pretty sure that’s the extent of their inheritance.

          Her grandkids will likely be getting the farms.

        • Toxteth O'Grady

          What area of law did you say you were in (or did you ever)?

        • Chafed

          TOG we do trust litigation probate litigation, and uncontested probate.

        • Aloysious

          Uncontested prostate? Very appropriate for tonight.

    7. slumbrew

      She also thinks I should tell my parents that he stole the money they intended for her.

      i.e., she’s hoping Grammy and Pappy cough up some more dough.

      • Chafed

        Could be. She might also think her scumbag father has the money hidden and the grandparents can shame him into coughing it up.

    8. Evan from Evansville

      Oh! The squirrels have adapted. No one else seems to experience it anymore, or I don’t recall recent ones, but it seems the rodents have mass-migrated to my cables and tubes.

      I’m still getting frequent 403 errors. (Chrome on Chromebook.) Maybe 20%? It’ll suddenly go out for a few minutes and then it’s ‘fine’ again. (Or maybe *you* all are the conspiring squirrels and all c̵o̵m̵m̵e̵n̵t̵ bite the tubes at once… *conspiratorial scrunchy face* )

      Not a biggie, but I have had many comments eaten. (Some, perhaps for their own good.)

      • Evan from Evansville

        Why the fuck does it come pre-internally hemorrhage?!

        That’s why I’M buying the damn thing! Fucking wankers.

    9. Derpetologist

      Money for college. Hm. The only reason I went was because I got a full scholarship. I hated school. If I’d been a smarter man, I’d dropped out of school in 7th grade and learned to weld. Then marry young and have a few kids. But I wanted adventure instead and I got my wish. Can’t win ’em all. Grass is always greener on the other side.

      At least I didn’t die in battle in my 20s like I thought was going to happen. The way things are going, I might even make three score and ten. Hallmark philosophy: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emx6dU7suvg

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE23hMLbHg4

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Derp, it may be too late for the young part of this quote, but you can still do this.. You’re right around my age and I know many menu in the forties and fifties who have kids and a young wife.

        “learned to weld. Then marry young and have a few kids”

        Get your shit together.

    10. Evan from Evansville

      Anyway! The first day on the contract went remarkably, predictably well. Just going over the metric with examples. No talking nor camera for me. (I did read the shit, listen and follow along. Mostly new people, but just refreshers for me and maybe two others out of ~15.)

      It’s actually kinda fun factory work, as well. Just more reading. Much humor is often found. Our crew’s being divided in two, but outta ~15 of us, I think 11 had African African names. I heard two speak, kinda ‘confirming’ it. That’s quite interesting, indeed, methinks. Unexpected.

      We have maybe another day of examples, but we have to take an assessment ourselves to fully qualify for the project. We get two tries to take it, but that’ll be no biggie. The more who *don’t* pass said test, I s’pose that means more to score for those who remain. That’d take more time, more days. So I hope several of ’em are dismissed. Like Zardoz to that first granny, jealous of girls swiping right on grandpappies saggy scrote.

      • R.J.

        Run, run, run as fast as you can.
        You’ll never catch me, I’m the saggy scrote man!

        • Evan from Evansville

          Superpower: Impregnating infertile men through their front hole with enveloping webs of full-pumpin’ scrotal eJazzculate.

          Omni-binary shape-shifting Lady Man, Felonius Funk. His spunk brings all the ‘boys’ to the bar.

        • Threedoor

          If that’s your jam Evan, you let your Greek flag fly and go get em!

          We do t kink shame. Here.

          Much.

        • Evan from Evansville

          Boringly(?) I am vanilla as hell, devoid of kink. Other than her having a really good time. Beyond that, does not compute.

          Modern snowflakes, insisting on adding knuckleball typhoon twists to their supposed ‘kink’ to shock and GASP squares into suddenly thinking those H20 clusters really are special, is a significant chunk of why folk are surprised to find trans chicks stabbed to death in alleys for not letting their johns now their dick was getting sucked by a dude.

          People fake shit to feel special. Now Rule 34 Caligula-gate is reality and fucks pretty predictably take it to new depraved depths. (‘New?! We’ll see about that!! *I* sound dead electric eels into my cock and SHOCK their corpses as I jerk off my electric-slime cock!!@#!! Cuz I’m *special* dammit!’)

          Such strange creatures, humans.

    11. Aloysious

      HAIL ZARDOZ!

      I did not know that I have to snark at BRUTLS as well as BRUTALS.

      This means I will have to snark harder, quicker, and moar oftener. To make up for lost time.

    12. dbleagle

      Ponder this on the tree of woe- every “C” in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.

      Nothing deep, just an example of our mongrel language.

      • WTF

        Because modern English is really several languages mashed together.

    13. Aloysious

      Joke for the day:

      Did you know that Iran has no Wal-Marts, Piggly Wiggleys, or Safeways?

      They just have a bunch of Targets.

      • Threedoor

        That’s a pretty good one.

    14. Aloysious

      One of my cow-orkers recently had part of her colon removed for reasons I don’t know. She’s back to work now and says everything is fine, but I have to run away from her because I want to make STEVE SMITH jokes whenever I see her.

      I just don’t think she would understand the love of STEVE SMITH.

      • Threedoor

        The love of Steve Smith is different than the love of a square.

    15. Necron 99

      Good day to you overnight Glibs and greetings from Bangalore, India. It is hot and sticky here, and everything seems dirty and desperate. Cost of labor is dirt cheap, so they have “a boy” bringing coffee, tea, and water the whole time we’re working. Also different from the US, they have someone cleaning the restrooms every hour on the hour, complete with a checkoff sheet. I know the caste system is behind the scenes, yet in full swing. I am not used to having someone bring me a coffee and look embarrassed when I say thank you, or the janitor lower his gaze when you say have a good day. The hotel is all most as bad, but I’m sure they have more foreign visitors so they are more used to it. Still, if you sit at the table too long without a coffee and the management sees this, someone is getting their little toe chopped off… or something. I am not used to this culture at all.

      • Ted S.

        Before covid, our facility was sent some posters that were presumably supposed to go to India on proper usage of the rest rooms. Hilarious.

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, Sean and Ted’S.!

        • Gender Traitor

          Good morning, U! How are you today?

        • UnCivilServant

          I overslept, but managed to log in to work on time.

          😴

        • Gender Traitor

          😅 Whew! Just don’t fall back to sleep!

        • UnCivilServant

          😨

          /snark

          It won’t be easy. I’m adding comments to SQL queries so when somebody opens them in the future they know what they’re supposed to do.

        • slumbrew

          UnCiv, did the Gemini response put you on the right track?

        • UnCivilServant

          It did.

          It made me realize that I was building the join starting from the wrong table if I wanted to find the excess rows.

        • slumbrew

          Excellent.

          That’s the sort of thing LLMs are good at, I find – something very well defined (SQL), with a ton of examples out there.

    16. Ted S.

      Not too far from me.

      https://midhudsonnews.com/2026/04/20/kingston-man-charged-in-stabbing-incident/

      LAKE KATRINE – A 23-year-old Kingston man was arrested on Saturday and charged with two counts of assault as violent felonies in connection with the stabbing of another man.

      Kingston Police responded to HealthAlliance Hospital for a person who had been assaulted.

      The victim was stabbed during an altercation that occurred in the Kings Mall parking lot at 1200 Ulster Avenue in the Town of Ulster.

      The suspect, Mark Olsson IV, was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

      During the investigation, detectives learned that during a physical altercation between two men, one stabbed the other in the chest with a sharp object, causing serious injury.

    17. Tres Cool

      whaddup doh’

      /some asshole’s truck backup beeper woke me around 0340 and I never was able to fully get back to sleep

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Bummer, here’s a virtual Adderall out of my personal stash.

      • Ted S.

        I’m sorry you forgot to turn off your truck beeper.

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, homey!

      • Common Tater

        Those things are annoying. Was there a problem with people getting hit by trucks?

        • Ted S.

          Depends on who’s getting hit.

    18. Common Tater

      “Horrific video shows the moment a beauty influencer allegedly mowed down a rival content creator in her Mercedes in a shocking attack outside a London nightclub.

      Graphic video shared on X allegedly shows Gabrielle Carrington, 29, exchanging blows with Klaudia Zakrzewska — aka Klaudia Glam — before getting behind the wheel and mowing her down….

      The car then allegedly reverses over the motionless Zakrezewska with a sickening thud.”

      https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/world-news/horrific-video-shows-influencer-kaludia-glam-being-run-down-by-rivals-mercedes-outside-nightclub/

      Is it horrific when an influencer gets run over?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The car then allegedly reverses

        These self driving cars are getting out of hand

        • Sensei

          I just want to point out it’s not a Tesla!

        • R.J.

          I can’t tell what it is. It’s not a BMW or a Tesla, I think.

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