Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks: Biting edition

by | Apr 13, 2022 | Daily Links | 239 comments

My Wife Made a Drunken “Joke” About My Size. I’m Not Over It

Dear How to Do It,

My wife and I have been married 19 years. Last week she came home from girls night out pretty drunk. She climbed into bed and tried to initiate sex while I was asleep. She started kissing my hand and fingers. Each kiss was becoming more and more arousing. And then it took a really weird and painful turn: Out of nowhere, she bit my finger. Hard. And wouldn’t let go. Then she started laughing and said, “You’re so tiny.”

Run, bro. She gonna bite your dick off!


 

Gov. Youngkin proposes banning sales of Delta 8-THC in Virginia

NORFOLK, Va. – Gov. Youngkin has proposed banning sales of Delta 8-THC hemp products in Virginia.

Youngkin made the recommendation to a bill passed by the General Assembly that puts more restrictions on hemp derived products.

These products are in the form of vapes and edibles and are sold at many CBD and vape shops in Virginia. They give users a buzz, but not as strong as one from regular marijuana.

“Delta-8 is in fact basically marijuana and marijuana is prohibited from being sold right now. There’s not a market, so this was a good clarifying amendment in order to treat Delta-8 along with Delta-9 in the same category, while preserving all the access for CBD products,” Youngkin told News 3 on Tuesday morning.

Youngkin also has proposed limiting the sales of CBD to people 21 and older.

 

They always let us down in the end. Can’t you just stick to grinding down the teacher’s union, bro?


 

Ex-soldier exposed her penis and used wheelie bin as sex toy in public

Chloe Thompson, 42, was caught rubbing herself on a public wheelie bin before using a sex toy on herself in an alley in Middlesbrough, Teesside, on August 13 last year.

A couple shouted at her and she ran away.

On the same day, she exposed herself on the street where she lives and thrust her hips into a fence.

A witness said Thompson looked at her and the group she was with ‘as if Thompson wanted them to notice her’.

Once she was inside her house, she exposed her bum and thrust against her window – which three children saw as they were in a car driving past.

Thompson was already on the sex offenders’ register before she had come out as trans when she was legally named Andrew McNab.

She has 17 convictions for 22 offences, including sexually assaulting an underage girl in 2011.

Before Thompson’s most recent crimes, she had to appear in court last May for opening a TikTok account without informing the police.

This was something she had to do according to the 10-year notification requirement imposed on her after the sexual assault case.

It was at this point the authorities discovered she had changed her name by deed poll – a legal document expressing an intention. Thompson was handed a suspended sentence for breaching the order.

Teesside Crown Court was supposed to sentence her on Tuesday but the judge said he wanted to first investigate if ‘structures can be in place to protect the public from such behaviour’ if he decided to suspend Thompson’s jail sentence.

 

I just wanted to know more about the wheelie bin and The Metro let me down, bro.


And in honor of Ukraine’s bid for full-on proxy war:

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239 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • UnCivilServant

      Shouldn’t you be asleep?

      • Tres Cool

        You’re partially correct. Tonight is my d̵a̵y̵ night off. I still tend to maintain my usual sleep schedule, but its like not having school in the morning.

  2. Ownbestenemy

    A bunch of NOAA/FAA/USAF geeks talking weather radar. If I wasn’t a radar geek I would be bored out of my mind.

    • Tres Cool

      Considering Im a slack-jawed moron, can you in retard-terms explain to me (briefly) the difference between “weather” radar and say, my microwave ?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well….the principle is the same in the transmitter…transmits RF. Weather radars utilize the doppler effect on the returns to calculate and determine where precipitation is at. The real magic occurs in the algorithms in the product generator (processor). Other magic occurs later with that base data with various news agencies with their DOPPLER 5000! Which is just software that takes that base data and applies its meteorological algorithms.

      • kinnath

        There will be errors in this (cause I ain’t an RF engineer but I do work with the on occasion).

        1) Broadcast (transmit) RF. If the RF is absorbed by something and heats up, you are cooking. Applies to many practical areas (like superfast kiln drying of wood) than just nuking your dinner.

        2) Something reflects the RF and it comes back to a receiver. Measure the elapsed time and you can compute distance to that thing (useful for blowing up tanks or detecting rainfall).

        3) Observe the phase change (I think, this is the part that is fuzzy to me) in the returned signal (doppler) and you can determine if the thing that reflected the RF is moving and which direction and how fast.

        Add magical software and you can do fancy things like detect tornados.

      • rhywun

        That site looks like it hasn’t had an update in 20 years.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That’s why I use it! Radar technology hasn’t really changed for the basic principles. Sure there are some really awesome engineering moving it forward, but the RF to IF to Video concept is always the same.

      • rhywun

        I especially love the jaunty starburst hanging out in the corner.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The biggest change in RF is ever increasing baseband frequencies made possible by faster and faster silicon.

        In the old days, you’d have to mix the signal down in frequency using multiple stages. Each stage added distortion and noise as well as a lot of failure points.

        Now you can sample the signal at a much higher frequency and perform digital signal analysis on it to get to the actual “message”. This is why cellphones have been able to get smaller and smaller.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Observe the phase change

        There are a lot of ways to do this, and each has its own uses.

      • kinnath

        I am somewhat familiar with the product my company sells, but not all ways of solving the problem.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, not trying to undercut your point. Just making the additional point that various technologies (pulses, frequency modulation, continuous wave measurements, etc.) are useful in different applications.

      • Ownbestenemy

        As a RF grunt, pulse compression is magical to me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Weather radars utilize I & Q for their phase difference.

      • kinnath

        I recognize those letters, but that’s it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        In-phase and quadrature. Spilt the two, flip one 90deg and then do some mumbo-jumbo with amplitude(or frequency) modulation. This is why we call it an F(ucking) M(agic) box.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Generally speaking, there’s multiple paths for the signal to follow but only one that is the shortest. You’re performing analysis against the reference signal to determine what happened to the others.

  3. Count Potato

    “Then she started laughing and said, “You’re so tiny.””

    Did she mean him or his dick?

    And no, I’m not going to Slate for sex advice. That’s like going to the Dollar Store for auto parts.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Run, bro. She gonna bite your dick off!

      Too late, he cut it off when he contacted Slate for sex advice.

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Ex-soldier exposed her penis and used wheelie bin as sex toy in public

    A pretty good metaphor for life in the US right now.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I read that a couple of times and just got more corn-fused each time.

    • Lackadaisical

      I don’t get why they plan the name game with these criminals. He is an asshole and it depends like they ought to let him rot in jail until he expires.

  5. Rebel Scum

    They always let us down in the end.

    *sigh*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Gotta keep those soccer moms happy. That’s how he got elected.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      STEVE SMITH NOT LET YOU DOWN IN THE END!

    • Lackadaisical

      Overall republican response to all this has been surprisingly muted.

  6. Count Potato

    “There’s not a market”

    Then you wouldn’t need to ban it.

    “They always let us down in the end. Can’t you just stick to grinding down the teacher’s union, bro?”

    Socons gonna socon.

    • Tonio

      He doesn’t particularly have a reputation as a socon, but he’s not above pandering to them and the abovementioned soccer moms.

  7. Yusef rides a Bike

    I get to start a new job in an hour or so, 5:15pm til 3:45am, Heyoooo! Tres!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Gooooooooooooooo Yusef!

      • Yusef rides a Bike

        Building lights for Teslas and Fords, easy enough, boring, 4 tens is cool too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Work sometimes is work.

      • hayeksplosives

        Nice! 4 10s is a nice work week. Although sometimes i look at my watch a lot if I don’t have enough to do.

    • Tres Cool

      HEY YUFUS!
      I’m off tonight but ripping my way through Small Cans™.

      • Tres Cool

        Jugsy already be like “come watch a movie with me”.

        /considers melatonin OD

      • Yusef rides a Bike

        I got a few Nattys for after work, expecting Tstorms right when I get off, Rain Bikes!11

    • Count Potato

      Good luck!

    • Tundra

      Good luck, Yusef!

    • TARDis

      Best wishes! Knock ’em dead and all that.

    • rhywun

      Sweet!

      I just got out the most boring, worthless meeting of all time and now I have 7 days off. Well, 5 of them are officially “training” but at least it’s not work-work.

      Now I need a nap before any festivities begin.

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Zelensky, hero of democracy and all right thinkers

    https://news.antiwar.com/2022/04/12/kyiv-captures-and-arrests-former-leader-of-ukraines-largest-opposition-party/

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a photo online of Medvedchuk in handcuffs wearing a Ukrainian military uniform. “A special operation was carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine. Well done!” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

    Medvedchuk has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and has long called for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. His party, Opposition Platform – For Life, was banned last month by Zelensky over allegations of having “links” to Russia. At the time, the party held 44 seats in Ukraine’s parliament.

    After Medvedchuk escaped house arrest, Opposition Platform – For Life removed him from party leadership. The party also condemned Russia’s invasion, but it wasn’t enough for Zelensky. In total, the Ukrainian leader banned 11 political parties. According to Al Jazeera, three of the parties participated in the parliamentary elections in 2019 and combined received about 2.7 million votes, or 18.3%.

    • Drake

      Did Zelensky do a victory dance?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huh. So Ukraine is in such an existential struggle that they have the time and manpower to round up political opponents. I’m sure President T-shirt is think it would be a shame if the Russians air striked him in the back of the head with a small caliber pistol bullet.

      • Tundra

        This is the same cuntface who declared all opposition parties illegal and nationalized media.

        And who was recently doing a war-LARPing photo shoot.

        Fuck him.

  9. Count Potato

    “A trans sex offender lifted her skirt and exposed herself three times in one day. ”

    To be trans this person would have to transition.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Crossdresser. When did that become a dirty word?

      • Bobarian LMD

        This sounds like a pervert who claimed trans status to get out of trouble for a previous case.

        ‘The only thing I need to find out is whether it could be suspended, given the challenges you faced and the time,’ [the judge] said.

        Sounds like it is still working.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, there is a world of difference between transvestite and transgender.

        And what happened to the very clearly understandable “sex change operation” as opposed to “transitioning”? Some “trans” dress up as the opposite gender, some also take hormones, some get significant surgeries.

        But there is only one acceptable word: “Trans”. This makes no sense, considering how many other words are available in the LGBTQI acronym.

        Check this out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10716417/Two-women-female-New-Jersey-prison-PREGNANT-trans-inmates.html
        “Two inmates at all-women’s New Jersey prison are PREGNANT after both had sex with the same transgender inmate after local ACLU chapter won battle to house trans inmates in women’s prisons”

        That guy is not transgender. He clearly still has his wedding tackle.

        Contrast with Bond girl Caroline Cossey, who was clearly committed to the process of changing her gender. And had to go through a lot of psychiatry sessions to make sure it was the right thing for her. Seems to have been absolutely right for her. And I am happy to call her “her” because she earned it.

      • Count Potato

        It was changed from “transsexual” to “transgender” for a number of reasons, but since a person can’t change their biological sex, the former was considered inaccurate.

        Transvestite is still an acceptable term as there are many different types of cross-dressers who are not transgender, and identify as their biological sex (eg. drag queens, cross players, autogynephiliacs (not the Blanchard nonsense, just dudes who get off on looking like women)).

        “That guy is not transgender. He clearly still has his wedding tackle.”

        I don’t know about that person, but someone can be transgender and still have their wedding tackle. Also, female-to-masculine can’t add wedding tackle.

      • hayeksplosives

        It seems to me that a dude who still likes to fuck women shouldn’t be in an “all female” prison just because he says he’s trans-something.

      • kinnath

        maybe he doesn’t like it.

        maybe he was raped, at least twice.

      • hayeksplosives

        The article says “had sex” so I took that as consensual, or at least transactional.

        Whatever. I feel bad for people with real gender dysphoria. I also feel bad for kids who are pushed into thinking they have it. And for victims of a system that refuses to question whether gender dysphoria is being used as an excuse to justify abuse.

      • Count Potato

        That’s motte and bailey.

    • Tonio

      I think we have finally found that person progs claim does not exist — the person who conveniently claims to be trans but isn’t.

      • SugarFree

        The Wheelie-Bin Bandit: Will Your Trash Be Next?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        rubbish

        /armchair sub-editor

      • Count Potato

        Oh, there are plenty of them.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Are we the baddies, Hans?

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cia-rendition-torture-programme-just-kill-them-book-claims

    In the early years of America’s war on terror, during an undisclosed meeting of the top brass of the US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior intelligence officials gathered to discuss what to do with the individuals subjected to rendition and “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

    After looking at a number of options, including keeping them in detention, sending them to another country, and prosecuting them, one senior official asked, “Why don’t we just kill them?”

    • Lackadaisical

      Eh, some of them, assuming they were really terrorists, probably a legit question. Following a proper trial of course.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I would be willing to bet that the context of the question was “Now that we’ve illegally detained and tortured these guys, how do we deal with the fact that they can incriminate us?”

      • Gustave Lytton

        How many Gitmo trials have been completed now?

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    About those chemical weapons attacks….

    https://news.antiwar.com/2022/04/12/us-kyiv-cannot-confirm-claims-from-ukraines-neo-nazi-azov-battalion-about-russias-alleged-chemical-weapons-use/

    Both US and Ukrainian officials have said they cannot confirm claims from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion that Russia dropped a “poisonous substance” on Mariupol.

    Andriy Biletsky, the leader of the Azov Battalion, which is part of Ukraine’s National Guard, claimed three people had signs of chemical poisoning, although he said there were no “disastrous consequences” to their health.

    • Drake

      Mkay… The Russians are using chemical weapons in the area of the Ukraine with a big Russian population?

      • Ted S.

        Well, Putin has claimed the Ukrainians and Russians are one people, so technically they’re all Russians.

        There’s also the Nord-Ost theater….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In a city that is already effectively captured…

    • Warty

      It was Zyklon-B

      • Tres Cool

        Keeps my shower really clean tho.

        /Heyyyy-Ohhhh

      • Rat on a train

        We have to do whatever it takes to get to zero-COVID.

    • wdalasio

      claims from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion that Russia dropped a “poisonous substance” on Mariupol.

      Their troops have been eating borscht and drinking vodka. What further evidence do you need of poisonous substances?!

      • Rat on a train

        They’re probably drinking more samogon.

  12. Count Potato

    “I caught the Brooklyn subway gunman! Security worker, 21, beat the NYPD to spot suspect Frank James at East Village McDonald’s – as New Yorkers praise him as a hero and demand he be given $100k reward”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10716455/Security-worker-21-tells-spotted-Frank-James-East-Village.html

    “How was gunman able to roam NYC for 29hrs? Embarrassing questions authorities MUST answer”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10715429/The-eight-questions-authorities-answer-Brooklyn-subway-shooting.html

    • Tonio

      Oh, there are more than eight questions government should answer about this, particularly the FBI.

    • Count Potato

      “Why did the FBI clear the suspect and take no action over the hateful videos he shared?”

      “Why didn’t YouTube react to suspect’s unhinged videos?”

      Because he was black?

      • Tres Cool

        He’s a white guy. He just has re-vitiligo.

    • rhywun

      Why were subway doors locked so passengers couldn’t escape?

      Because that train model has never allowed passage between cars. The door leads to the driver cab, which takes up the entire front and back of each car.

      On the numbered lines, which do allow passage between cars, passage is prohibited due to the routine deaths that occur when people slip and get run over. (Though I have traveled between cars many times myself – everyone does it).

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Some day we’re gonna get nuked and nobody will be able to say that we weren’t asking for it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ward Churchill vindicated.

      • Compelled Speechless

        2004 called and wants it’s reference back. Remember a time when this guy was on the controversial end of the academia spectrum. Now days he’d get called a far-right nazi.

    • Gustave Lytton

      As just like that, Real ID and the like are shown to be the fraud that they are.

      Cover Acquisition Management System, a super-secret register of false identities where the “mechanisms” used by clandestine operators are logged

      Dollars to donuts foreign powers have already penetrated that DB.

      • db

        nope nope nope

    • Tres Cool

      I’m skeptical based on the pic. This POS looks like something I’d put together..

      • Tres Cool

        Also, if they’re trying to hide someone’s identity this pic show’s dude’s forearm tattoo, most of the other guy’s face, and a bag of sorbent in the back. Id bet they’re not in Syria.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m not skeptical. I know some. There’s a lot of them in the Norfolk area.

        I was not aware the program was as large and distributed though.

    • Drake

      Maybe I’ll be on the jury when her dad shoots that guy a dozen times. If so, he did nothing wrong.

  13. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    VA legalized weed a year ago. They’re never going to set up a sales system (not that the govt should be involved in any way, but generally other states have been involved in who/what/where of sales after legalization)

    • Tonio

      Oh, and to make matters worse, Youngkin wants to recriminalize possession of more than two ounces, which effectively outlaws growing.

      • R.J.

        What the fuck? Who eats up marijuana criminalization? He’s not making any froends that way.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Yeah, aren’t today’s wine moms tomorrow’s dispensary moms? or possibly concurrent…

    • Tonio

      The Republicans are dragging their feet about setting up legal markets and supply chains, the Dems want to give all the licenses to their friends.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      82%?

      JFC

      • Ownbestenemy

        Luckily I haven’t seen the 82% in our veggies. Eggs on the other hand….

      • grrizzly

        They say it’s the bird flu. I think only Costco didn’t increase egg prices.

      • Count Potato

        That will do wonders for our nation’s health.

    • rhywun

      inflation emerges as a top voter concern

      It’s annual review season. Wait til all of America has found out they’re getting a pay cut.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yup. By a similar token, I think there’s going to be some ugliness on the corporate side too.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Good thing Biden is pushing to put more food in our gas tanks.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Imagine…just 2 years ago there would be stories of a person drinking gasoline that was E-85 thinking they will be eating corn.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I sense a plotline for Joemala.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I know I am.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I just take ears of corn and shove them in the tank.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Eating a bullet is becoming cheaper by the day.

      • EvilSheldon

        Have you even looked at what bullets cost lately?

      • Sean

        *Kif sigh*

        I have.

  14. Tonio

    Tulip is otherwise occupied, so I’ll host the Wednesday Night GlibZoom starting at 8:00 PM Eastern.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hmmm..maybe..just maybe I might make it tonight.

    • Tres Cool

      If I manage to wake up Ill be there. Sadly, when I do bother its a sausage party with me and OwnBest.
      I so love ya’alls company

  15. Count Potato

    “Gonorrhea and syphilis cases surged to a 30-year high in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed.

    There were 678,000 infections with gonorrhea — which leads to pain urinating and unpleasant discharges from the genitals — detected in 2020, the latest report showed, the highest number since 1990 and up ten percent from the previous year.

    For syphilis — a condition that can triggers painful rashes — there were 144,000 cases spotted over the same period, also a record for the last three decades but up just three percent in 12 months.

    Total cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) hit 2.4 million in 2020, down six percent from the record 2.5 million in 2019. But CDC officials warned total infections were likely still rising, arguing a fall was only recorded because fewer tests were carried out in 2020 as resources were re-directed to fighting COVID-19.

    People in black and American Indian groups had the highest rates of STDs in America, the report showed, while gay and bisexual men had the highest rates of chlamydia. Mississippi had the highest rate of STDs in the country.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10715269/US-cases-STDs-gonorrhea-syphilis-surged-30-year-high-2020.html

  16. Count Potato

    I’m confused. There are two movie posts tomorrow night, and one of them is a TV show?

    • R.J.

      Meh. I have Aquabats tomorrow, usual time. Car post tonight I think.

      • Count Potato

        OK, it looks like someone edited the Calendar. About an hour ago, it read “Movie night with Riven” and your Aquabats show, both at the same time.

        Did Aquabats make a movie? Or are you picking a particular episode?

      • R.J.

        I talked about them in general, and picked two full episodes and one of the Radventures (the one with Zardoz). Movie night with Riven sounds good! I’d go to that. I did a count, I have done 30 movies posts in 30 weeks.

      • Count Potato

        “I have done 30 movies posts in 30 weeks”

        Wow.

        What are the episodes? I’ll go dl them. I hate streaming.

      • R.J.

        Hmmm…
        Laundry Day, Cowboy Android, and from YouTube Radventures – The Mauler
        I think. I wrote it super late and fast (again) due to work commitments so I am not surprised Tonio scheduled something else until I ponied up. Tardy is farty!

      • Tres Cool

        We have a calendar?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Based on the original Cimmerian.

      • R.J.

        “Kill your enemies, and hear the lamentations of the calendar!”

  17. Brochettaward

    Someone on this site, who shall remain nameless, earlier suggested that my First would be the last First. And that this would be a good thing.

    I am here to inform everyone that this is not th ecase. That Firsting will never die. It will continue long after I retire. Long after I’m in the grave.

    • Brochettaward

      The real question is which of you fools wishes to join me in Firsthalla!

      • Sean
      • TARDis

        A few times he’s been around this track
        But it’s not just gonna happen like that
        ‘Cause he’s a hallaback boi
        Just a hallaback boi

      • R.J.

        Will my broken toe be healed in Firsthalla?

      • Brochettaward

        In Firsthalla, you are able to First all day and not even feel the effects of it. You can fuck, First, and drink all day everyday with no repercussions.

      • Tundra

        Sold.

      • R.J.

        Coming!

      • MikeS

        Do I need to bring a gift or anything?

  18. TARDis

    Crappy day at work, didn’t get to post my goof off time.

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    • Ownbestenemy

      Probably missed the cutoff.

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  19. Tundra

    SF, that is a great fucking song.

    I literally mean that. It’s a great song to listen to while fucking.

    So thanks!

    • SDF-7

      Songs that aren’t — the theme from Animaniacs. No further comment.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        At first I was pissed that I got Rick-rolled, and then I thought, “Ah, what the Hell.”

      • Tundra

        Could you fuck to that song? Bet ya can’t!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The beat’s all wrong for my mojo.

        On the other hand, How I Met Your Mother had an episode where two of the characters claimed that this was their “in the act of flagrante delicto” song, so who am I to judge?

      • Tundra

        I guess that could work, but why bother when this exists.

        (Trust me, it’s safe. Well, maybe not for the missus, IYKWIM)

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Oh no, she loves The Gaye. Gets her giggling every time. Well, Marvin and Barry White, ackshually.

      • Tundra

        I didn’t mean that she wouldn’t like the song…

      • TARDis

        Is this a regular thing? I like it.

        Also, this just made me remember I need to pay my annual “freedom” fee to the IRS. It’s more of an indoor fucking though. I’ve been holding off.

      • pistoffnick

        In Minnesoda, May 1st is usually a little nippy, and moist…but a little friction generates heat.

      • TARDis

        Go for it. Just don’t end up on the sex offender registry.

      • Ted S.

        Isn’t he already on it?

  20. Grummun

    While you are 100% correct, I’ll still going to have to ask you to burn in hell for that link.

    • Grummun

      er that is “I’m still …” and meant as reply to Tundra.

    • TARDis

      Dude’s morphing into Dr. Evil more and more everyday. 10 years from now he’ll be Klaus.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A Meta spokesperson tells CNBC that the company will take an overall cut of up to 47.5% on each metaverse transaction.

      What is a Metaverse transaction? Are you buying Meta sheep for your Meta Farmville?

      • R.J.

        Meta dildos.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Creepy-looking mofo.

      Never been one of his dumb fucks, never will.

    • Sean

      Yikes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now it is time to question whether we, as seers of paintings and landscapes, want to continue an exclusionary myth of Canada marked by its rugged landscape and rugged painters. The recourse is to reject the colonial gaze: to see things as they are, blemished by the cruelty of history.

      Blah, blah, blah…. Here have a blanket.

  21. Raven Nation

    Congratulations to Fort William FC who won today (4-2 vs. Strathspey Thistle in Scotland’s Highland Football league). Why is this worth my time?

    In the last pre-covid season, FWFC played 34 games, won 0, drew 2 and lost 32. They scored 21 goals, conceded 245 for a goal difference of -224. They actually ended the season on −7 points after being deducted points for fielding ineligible players.

    This year, they were already doing better: 4 draws against 27 losses and a goal difference of “only” -100. But now they have a grand total of 7 points and a GD of -98. They’re still going to finish last of course. But, as always, they do get to play on one of the more scenic “stadiums”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_F.C.#/media/File:Clagganpark.jpg

    • robc

      I assume that is the bottom of the Scottish pyramid.

      What is the point of deducting points from a team that is that bad?

      • Raven Nation

        Used to be at the bottom. But now the Highland League is Level 5 and there are three leagues on the Highland League side of the pyramid that sit at Level 6: North Caledonia League, Midlands Football League, North Superleague. Theoretically, the winners of those three leagues play-off against each other and the winner of the that would play the last-placed team in the HL. But, to give you some idea of the smallness of all this, two of the three league winners were ineligible for the playoffs because they don’t meet the minimum requirements.

  22. The Hyperbole

    Last call for Quordle scores, QDR goes live at 7am CST.

    • Rat on a train

      1 √2
      ? i

    • The Hyperbole

      DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
      #79
      Men’s Division
      Champ(s)
      Ted S. 19
      Winded 19

      Ownbestenemy 20
      TARDis 20
      l0b0t 20
      Bobarian LMD 21
      Ghostpatzer 21
      Plisade 21
      rhywun 21
      Rat on a train 22
      Tundra 22
      The Hyperbole 23
      db 24
      Grumbletarian 24
      Not Adahn 24
      Raven Nation 24
      SDF-7 24
      trshmnstr the terrible 24
      kinnath 26
      MikeS 26
      Translucent Chum 26
      Grummun 27

      Chump(s)
      Sean 28

      Winded comes outta nowhere to steal a solo win from Ted S., Sean is our first two digit chump in a while. I’d like to think it’s due to my gentle admonishments of you jerks but I’d wager today’s Qourdle was just really easy, I guess we will find out tomorrow.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Allow me to add:

        Ultra-super-hyper-mega-CHUMP: BEAM (screwed up so badly this A.M. that even supercomputers cannot compute the score)

        I’m the anti-Bro: always Worsting.

      • Tundra

        Do you want the three-word strategy that gets me 22 almost every time?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Sure!

        (Er, is it like that “one weird trick” that the click-bait sites are always ragging on about?)

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        And I believe you have my private e-mail, if’n you wanna keep it from the hoi polloi.  ;-)

      • Tundra

        Nah, I’ve already posted it (since I cribbed it from someone else).

        TRADE
        SPOIL
        MUNCH

        I was done in just a couple minutes today. Best I’ve finished so far is second, but I haven’t chumped since I adopted it.

      • whiz

        I just started today, but I’ve been using:

        DRAIN
        STOLE
        HUMPY

        It has your letters, except Y instead of C. You can also try HUMPY instead of BUMPY if you want to do a B instead of an H.

      • whiz

        Another possibility is:

        GRACE
        SPLIT
        MOUND

        which takes Tundra’s letters and replaces G for H (G is more prevalent than H if you believe Scrabble scoring).

      • The Hyperbole

        C’mon post your failures (this goes for all you losers). We all need a laugh now and again and you might get the triple (or dare I suggest quadruple) fail named after you.

      • Tundra

        I chumped before you started the ROUNDUP™©®. I was using DAILY as my starter word and it failed me.

      • Tundra

        What might be interesting is for everyone to use the same starter word. That could get interesting and create many shit-talking opportunities.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Oooooh, I quite like that idea.

        Votes for the Ultimate Starter Word?

      • Tundra

        Yes, that might get the coveted Triple-Chump!

      • rhywun

        I almost withheld my second double-chump in a row yesterday until I saw several others double-chumped and decided to ’fess up.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, there’s something…untoward about only posting when you do well.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        HAH!

        I don’t post when I do poorly and when I do well!

      • MikeS

        Consistency is the key! ?

      • grrizzly

        Where is my result? I posted it in the morning lynx.

      • The Hyperbole

        Shit, I remember adding it to the database, I must have inadvertently deleted it when formatting the DQR

        Grrizzly- 22

      • grrizzly

        Thanks!

  23. Winston

    https://www.aier.org/article/is-america-in-decline/

    Fact Five: The American high school is a joke in bad taste, but we make up for it. True, some illiterates graduate from the American high school. True, Dr. Feelgood runs the place. True, even West High School in Iowa City, filled with faculty brats with IQs in the stratosphere, announces without shame that students have two hours of homework—two hours a week. But we make it up later. The great American second chance is college. American colleges from Kirkwood Community College to Cal Tech are the best in the world at developing talent.

    America by contrast is the great land of goofing off followed by a second, third, fourth chance. It’s economics: You can’t have both tough high schools and second chances.

    American high schools should insist that students read, and the schools should operate longer during the year. If we can fool our children into believing that high school is serious, all the better. But our high schools are not a source of serious decline.

    ….

    The world is converging. No one is going to be Top Nation in that happy era when the whole world has an American suburban standard of living and more. America will go on growing, as it has slowly for two centuries, and the latecomers will join the parade. That’s good news, enriching us all. Give thanks: The sky is not falling.

    Aged like fine wine…

    • robc

      If an author changes their name, should the article change it or keep the name it was originally published under?

      Because Donald McCloskey wrote that article in 1990, not Deirdre McCloskey.

      • Winston

        You expect the AIER to deadname?

  24. Evan from Evansville

    Folk around?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Naw, just us ghosts. How you?

  25. Gustave Lytton

    Well SXM isn’t budging on their renewal discount, so cancelled entirely. I imagine there’s going to be more of that going on.

    • Tundra

      I dropped it years ago. I prefer Spotify anyway.

      • R.J.

        Yep. Even iTunes. Or podcasts. Anything is better.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, the stuff I listen to is almost all on RSS feeds.

    • rhywun

      Howard Stern hardest hit.

      Guy probably sucks up half their profit.

  26. Evan from Evansville

    Lady, ex that I sleep with, without sex nor drama, needs to rest for several more hours.

    I have to go to Immigration for an 11:24 appointment. Gotta check I got my stuff all together. (I do. Lady isn’t a lefty and has better handwriting. Mine is somewhat better than my dad’s, and that’s embarrassing. It’s shockingly bad. Just gotta check but can’t turn the lights on.)

    Need to extend my visa and it should be remarkably easy. Let me just say that the 9 1 1 officially got in touch with me! I lost my virginity! And it’s all absolute horseshit. Kinda in a funny way. But mostly in a good way. They did not even attempt, or have the ability, to go after me in the way they wanted to. Showing their hand. Revealing.

    Do not tell me that I shouldn’t talk about it. It is now in paper and a fact. I am not talking about it, just revealing what came in the mail.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Errr, I grokked your first two grafs…

      Prepare yourself for the reverse culture shock, although if you’ve been back for a visit recently (IIRC), it shouldn’t be too bad.

    • hayeksplosives

      ?

      I don’t understand anything in the last 2 paragraphs. You don’t have to share if you don’t want to, but you seem to want to share something with somebody.

      • Rat on a train

        He shot JR?

      • R.J.

        I’m fine.

      • Evan from Evansville

        *Points*

        Humor.

      • Count Potato

        But now you have dyslexia.

      • Evan from Evansville

        @Toxeth: Oh, the reverse culture shock is going to be BIG. But, I have support and ways around it. It will be exciting. It’s fantastic that my RETURN to my place of birth is my next Indiana Jones adventure. My life is strange. I like it.

        @HK: Here’s part of my angry email to my parents.

        “Destruction of property.”

        I fucking tore a piece of paper. I am not charged with hurting anyone, assault, or anything. “DESTRUCTION. OF. PROPERTY.” This is fucking bullshit and I’m sorry that I’m ranting about it right now but it needs to be done. Messages have been sent to lawyers and they have pictures of all documents the police sent here, to [Lady’s] place.

        I tore a fucking piece of paper. That is IT. I’m sure she had it on her computer. She wrenched my copy out of my hand. NOT HANDS. JUST ONE. I wasn’t dumb enough to even attempt to touch them.”

      • Evan from Evansville

        My visa is up April 15…tomorrow. So I need to extend my visa. Worst-case-Ontario, I may have to pay $1k if I have to stay here for a month or two. Nothing terrible. Not pleasant, but not a nightmare.

        I get to go to immigration in a few hours and show them that I have a very specific reason why I need to stay. We filled out all the documents and I just have to show up, and if I need to, I’ll show them the police reports against me, which are bullshit.

        I tore a bullshit resignation paper. I also have evidence of my boss’s lies about my contract to the government and not paying my taxes, healthcare and lying about how I am paid per my visa status. It’s kinda fun. Even Lady, who has nothing to do with any of this, if FURIOUS about how I am being railroaded. I am LIVID. It is not an emotion that I am used to. I am famously chill and serene. I want a baseball bat and I want to destroy a tree. There are plenty more. I want to destroy things. I was literally crying in anger yesterday at the news.

        I am calm, now, I just have things I need to do. Indiana Jones, Evan, hilariously, needs to get back to Indiana. I don’t like saying goodbye to Lady. She has a all-paid invitation to come and visit the US for the first time. We shall see what she does with that. *Shrugs*

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What??!! Are you Otto Warmbier? We are missing some back story. This is out of my league. Didn’t you say recently something about having a local lawyer? Do they recognize disability there? Oofda!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Rereading, still confused. Have you talked to your parents in the last day or two?

    • rhywun

      “They just need to check in with INS every once in a while.” *wink*

    • MikeS

      Nah, it’s fine. When it’s time for their hearing, I’m sure they will go back to Texas to attend.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I read the “Nah, it’s fine” part in The Critical Drinker‘s voice.

    • The Hyperbole

      What’s the problem with what she said?

      • Tundra

        LOL.

        Hyp, never change.

        You know goddamn well that this isn’t fucking Ellis Island immigration.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      starting to?

    • MikeS

      Helen Conomy
      @Helen_teacher
      Mar 15
      Watching The View is like doing playground duty and overhearing a group of Year 9 girls bitching about another group.

      haha. yup

      • Tundra

        She has two tweets since 2009 and just crossed 100 followers. She woke up to quite a surprise this (well, tomorrow) morning.

  27. Hyperion

    “Run, bro. She gonna bite your dick off!”

    1. She was drunk.

    2. She was out with the other wiminz and girl locker room talk is way worse than us guys.

    3. It was a joke, duh, she was talking about your finger.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Or you should kill her and bury her in a shallow grave in your backyard, and then throw yourself on the mercy of the court when they finally find you and punish you for your heinous crimes. And then marry some rando female who writes you love notes in prison.

      Or did I just dream it all?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I vote 3 and 1, in that order.

  28. Hyperion

    OMG, I am fucking tired. I spent all day in class, and then tried to do some work, and then I finally did our taxes. You know I wait until the last minute because I typically have to pay in and I am in no hurry to do that. And now, it is time for a hipster juice! Yes, I moved to WV and then I fell and hit my head on the bottom of the concrete pond. You know, because there is no water in it, because I don’t want it. Maybe I should just fill it in with dirt, because that’s what we hillbillys do.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ??!!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Don’t forget the bottom layer of dead bodies of your enemies. And some quicklime sprinkled on top.

      • Hyperion

        Thanks, that’s a great tip! And up the holler here, they’ll never find them, bwaahhahhhhaa!!!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Water the soil regularly. In a short time, they won’t even have recognizable DNA. Gotta be generous with the quicklime, though.

  29. Hyperion

    “Gov. Youngkin proposes banning sales of Delta 8-THC in Virginia”

    You see, Guv, let me splain this to you. This is why Republicans are known as the stupid party. You have all these tailwinds helping you out, and you’re going to fuck it up, ain’t you?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      You have all these tailwinds helping you out, and you’re going to fuck it up, ain’t you?

      Why yes, I am! How ever did you know?