STEVE SMITH RESTING UP FOR BIG WEEK. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ECLIPSE TO SURPRISE PEOPLE OUT WATCHING IT. SO YOU GET LINKS BEFORE STEVE SMITH GO BACK INTO WOODS AND PRACTICE RAPE SOME HIKERS
- MAYBE SPAIN AND FRANCE SHOULD HAVE STEVE SMITH HELP. HIM GOOD AT HUNTING PEOPLE!
- MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW STORY, MAYBE STEVE SMITH WILL BE FEATURED!
- THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH WANT TO RAPE CCP LEADERS.
- STEVE SMITH THROW BULLSH#T FLAG ON THIS.
STEVE SMITH THANK TRIGGER HIPPIE FOR THIS
NO ONE WANT BE FIRST ON STEVE SMITH LINKS, FIRST MEAN RAPE.
STEVE SMITH RAPE FIRST THROUGH HUNDREDTH.
STEVE SMITH CAN ONLY RAPE ONE AT A TIME AND SOMEONE HAS TO BE FIRST.
STEVE SMITH NOT CONCERNED WITH SEQUENCE! STEVE SMITH RAPE IN ANY ORDER.
So it is sort of a rape Pokemon?
“GOTTA RAPE ‘EM ALL!”?
If you say so. I don’t know dick about Pokémon
STEVE SMITH NOT WALK DOWN HILL, RAPE ONE; STEVE SMITH WALK DOWN HILL, RAPE ALL.
Honestly I’m OK with having had sex on Molly. Poor Steve Smith though.
I can relate to being effected by movies/reviews as a youngster. When Jaws came out my parents took me to it. I must admit I had trouble swimming in the deep end of a pool after that movie. I had to search to be certain what year it came out and I now wonder what the hell my parents were doing taking a 10 year old to that movie. It scared the fuck out of me.
Weird name, but apparently it’s some sort of pre-halloween ghost ride? (possible link)
I couldn’t even make out what was going on there.
When I was a little kid, like 4 years old, my uncle and his friends would turn on some scary movie, like the blob. Yeah, that was scary for a 4 year old when they’re telling me that the blob is right outside and is coming in to get me any minute. As an adult, I wouldn’t consider any movie as scary, but some VR, like the T-rex in one of the demos will freak you the fuck out, seriously.
Silly Hyperion, VR is only to be used for porn.
I still have not seen any porn after one month. I spent like 3 hours Friday getting webVR working and there’s nothing to fucking see.
Between sexbots and VR porn, we may not have to invent the Holodeck to cause human extinction.
I just imagine a future with no screaming kids and no SJWs. Paradise.
srsly?
I remember going to see Ghostbusters in the theater when I was 8. The scene in Dana’s apartment when arms pop out of her chair and grabbed her scared me pretty good. Yes, I was a wussy kid.
First movie i went to without adults, with the girl next door. We were maybe around 10.
The librarian scene gave me a good scare.
I watched The Shining and Creepshow when I was 10.
Yeh. Not good.
Alien and Deliverance here. Brrr.
Holy shit. To this day I won’t watch the Shining alone. I am kind of a pussy with scary movies for sure, but If I saw that when I was ten I bet I would be in an institution.
My mom wouldn’t let me see Jaws when it came out but she had no problem with me reading all her Stephen King books.
I watched Salem’s Lot when I was about that age. I think for about a month every time I tried to sleep I would see that final scene where they’re trying to put a stake in the heart of the Nosferatu-looking guy.
I snuck into the living room after bedtime when I was eight or nine and watched the Chucky movies on USA when I was 7 or 8. I’ll have to admit, I went to bed scared every night for a long while after that.
I was 8 when that came out. Just the previews and the posters in the rental stores were enough to freak me out and not be able to sleep. But then, I had had recurring nightmares about a doll that came to life when the adults left the room for a while before that.
Night Stalker when I was about 14. Couldn’t sleep after that.
Re-watched them on Netflix, kind of hokey.
Phantasm.
*shivers*
There is an eclipse on Monday? I hadn’t heard.
You can totally look at it with no special glasses. It won’t hurt your eyes. Super cereal.
I’m planning on taking some video of it. I’m WFH on Monday.
Yeah, in the US. I remember the last one, it was in the 90s, but I can’t remember the exact date. I was at work and we went back to the maintenance dept and we were looking at it with welders masks the guys had. It got dark as a moonless night and the temps dropped a lot very quickly and it got windy. Was pretty cool.
I remember it really well because my dad was building an overhang over our patio. I don’t think he stopped to even look at it. I remember him up on a ladder hammering while the sky was all red. This time I live in the exact totality, so I can just go out in my backyard and enjoy. I’m not leaving my house (apart from going in the backyard) for the next week, though, there’s a bajillion people descending upon us like locusts. All the gas stations have been out of gas for days, it’s the damn apocalypse.
Market opportunity… sell the invading hordes beverages at stadium prices
Apparently, some people in Lincoln, NE are renting tent spots in their back yard for $300/night.
Current forecast in Lincoln for Monday is 40% chance of showers.
I’m reasonably close to SE Nebraska. Even with clouds, I might make the drive to get in the zone.
I’m WFH on Monday, so I’m going to try to get some vid of it. Not sure how it’s going to look here in MD, the last one I was in Indiana and that was the real deal total eclipse.
Ok, I see we’re only getting a partial. Oh well. No Trumpocalypse for us.
Just the regular everyday version of trumpocalypse for you
Not sure how it’s going to look here in MD
Hopefully it’ll be decent. Anything above 80% totality should be a good show.
the last one I was in Indiana and that was the real deal total eclipse.
I was in Indiana, too. I remember my teacher telling us not to look at the sun. We looked anyway.
I may have to make a trip to visit my dad in 2024 to see that eclipse.
It will be at 25% as it rises here on Oahu. Not a great show but should make a decent sunrise.
The last total eclipse in the US was in 1979. It crossed a few states in the Northwest. The last total eclipse like this was 99 years ago. There is another one in early April in 2024. That one goes from Texas through Ohio. The other ones you remember were either partial or annular (moon is far enough away it doesn’t totally eclipse the sun, you see a ring around the moon).
For the record I’m driving 300 miles tomorrow so I got a chance of seeing it. I’ve been planning this trip for about 10 years.
Took the kids to the Baja totality back in 93 (?) and they still talk about it as adults. I had planned for years to watch this one in WY but life got in the way earlier this summer. Bummer, now I have to stick around for 2024.
I’ve traveled the last two weeks for business. Rearranged one trip so I could make it. Was originally planning on seeing it with my Dad except he didn’t live long enough. Seeing it — and the weather looks promising — with some of his old friends.
Hmm, Monday is named after the moon, and the moon is going to eclipse the sun… Conspiracy?
Trump, the KKK, Putin and a cabal of reanimated Confederate slave owner zombies saw to it.
I thought Monday was named after Man because patriarchy. As in Manday and is why there is Monday night football.
And it’s the day Bonnie Tyler opened for Heart.
She blew them away. Nothing left to say. Totally eclipsed Heart that night.
I’m roughly in the path of the eclipse. about 90%. I plan on looking at it through my welding hood. I don’t know if that is an approved lens or not, but if I can look at an arc with it then I’m sure the Corona of the sun won’t be a problem.
Here’s what NASA says about that:
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety
tl;dr “Experts suggests that one widely available filter for safe solar viewing is welders glass of sufficiently high number. The only ones that are safe for direct viewing of the Sun with your eyes are those of Shade 12 or higher. These are much darker than the filters used for most kinds of welding. If you have an old welder’s helmet around the house and are thinking of using it to view the Sun, make sure you know the filter’s shade number. If it’s less than 12 (and it probably is), don’t even think about using it to look at the Sun. Many people find the Sun too bright even in a Shade 12 filter, and some find the Sun too dim in a Shade 14 filter — but Shade 13 filters are uncommon and can be hard to find. “
I know that comes from nasa, but I’m calling bullshit. An electric arc 6 inches from my face is way way way brighter than the sun.
Yeah, I have no way of knowing if it’s correct. One thing to keep in mind is that I think it also depends on wavelengths not just brightness.
OT: Last week was good for the Dees, and with Brisbane coming up, continues to do so. Your Blues did well yesterday (or today, I don’t know how time zones work beyond the US).
I’m actually kind of surprised, but with the other shakeups, and the weak schedule they have to play out the rest of the season, it looks like the Demons will make it into the final 8. (Not holding my breath, given their 2 losses to NM). If the Blues could manage to upset the Swans, that would be a nice cap to the season for you, although that’ll be a tough match – since someone took the Valium out of Sydney’s water supply after their 0-6 start, they’ve been matching the pre-season hype .
I think the Swans will win easily against Carlton – especially since it’s at the SCG. Melbourne should be OK but who knows. That said, it’s hard for me to see anyone other than the current Top 5 winning the flag. And Adelaide, despite losing yesterday, should win it.
Don’t know if you saw, but the first coaching casualty happened this week: Suns.
Fuck Sydney. That is all.
RN: I hadn’t heard, but I’m shocked they were unhappy with the current…what? 7 game loss streak? Including getting drubbed by Brisbane?
I agree with you on who’s likely to win. (I certainly don’t think the Demons have much of a chance.) I’d actually be a bit surprised if the Power took it, but they are better bets than the Dees or the Dons.
Rhywun: Collingwood sure did earlier this year. I don’t have your antipathy, but I’ll admit their loss streak to start the season was amusing, especially since they were pretty much the consensus #1 starting the season. (At least among the bookies).
also: “continues to do so.” in my first comment s/b “it continues to look good”. I re-wrote part of my comment, but not enough.
Wat?! I’ve only been paying attention for 3 or 4 years but they’ve sucked balls every year.
This year I watched them lose like 5 in a row by single digits and then my carrier decided to ignore them. Finally saw them again last week and… the usual. Not terrible, not great.
Well, since their crappy start, they’ve managed to beat all the other teams in the top 8 (except Port Adelaide), so even if those are razor thin, they’re still winning. They’ve managed to start doing something right with their talent.
It’s not the brightness, it’s the UV/radiation. There have been cases of people getting the image of the eclipse burned onto their retina, so be careful.
Exactly! Arcs do not give off much UV. The sun projects lots of UV.
Don’t do it.
UV you say. So I am good with my Ray Bans? They block a whole bunch of UV so they claim.
I was going to do the same, but I’m thinking the sun isn’t near as bright as a torch, and you may not see anything
After reading above replies: the more you know
You might be right. hoods block out everything until an arc is struck. They are dark as fuck. They might not even let me see the eclipse.
Most hoods are in the 10-12 range I think? Should work good. But as others have said, UV rays are something to be careful of. I’m wearing my UV blocking sunglasses under my welding hood.
The welding glass will stop UV. Even good autodarkening helmets block UV when not triggered.
I thought that was the case, but not being sure about my hood I thought I’d be better safe then sorry. I was looking at Forney welding goggles today as a second option for the wife and they said they did not block UV.
Welding goggles are mostly going to be used for gas welding which doesn’t produce much UV. A one piece goggle with an arc welding plate would block the UV.
It isn’t the brightness it’s the way you eyes work. Your eyes see the darkness and your pupils dilate and get burnt by the Corona.
White supremacists everywhere!! I can’t even leave my house!!!!!
You’re sheet is the wrong color.
Imagine poor shreek. He couldn’t even leave Tony’s mums basement before Trump because of the roving bands of Christian Tealiban.
I have been checking for nazis under my bed every night for years. I have only caught one so far. I imagine that I will catch more now that the trumpocalypse is in full swing
On another note, the right is getting really good at this trolling thing.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/charlottesville-boston-aims-avert-violence-free-speech-rally-100741879.html
So lefties can pat themselves on the back for shutting down a free speech rally? Optics?
“27 arrested for throwing rocks and pee at police.”
500 police deployed for an event that drew a couple dozen people.
Up is down
Bunch of fucking racists for sure. I didn’t put together who that guy is. That is the dude running against Elizabeth Lies Through Teeth Warren.
First class troll too. He sent her a 23 and me DNA testing kit as a gift.
He seems to be a bit of a nut job, but yes, that was a first rate troll there.
You mean “free speech”. It’s going away soon, so you might as well employ the scare quotes that every MSM writer is.
Coming soon to the AP style sheet!
Gilmore linked a Reuters article last post. They didn’t even do the quotes. They were protesting Hate Speech. I have taken this all as a big joke until now. 40,000 people were able to be convinced a harmless free speech rally was racist and bigoted. That is not a good sign for the future.
I can only admit that I don’t know anything about the actual event – was it really about free speech? or was it Nazis? Who the fuck knows and the MSM sure as hell isn’t going to tell us.
The anti protesters were muttering beforehand about Libertarians being somehow involved with this event
From what I can tell it was actually about free speech. No Nazis. This was planned prior to what happened last week. I didn’t know anything about it either.
Vox talks to 9 of the several dozen attendees
Get with the times man. Free speech is just a dog whistle for ultra-nationalist, right-wing, Nazi, hate criminals. The whole Bill of Rights was written, like, over 50 whole years ago by white, cis-hetero, slave owning, transphobic, oppressors. Time to get rid of all of it and replace it with common sense thought control. For the children.
kek <- this one
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Oh fuck you.
That’s why he agrees with the president that “both sides” were to blame for the conflict in Charlottesville (even though evidence shows the Nazis and white supremacists instigated the conflict).
Note: his evidence doesn’t show what he thinks it shows, unless he thinks their “violent ideology” is enough to instigate violence.
Stupid Chinaman kids. You should celebrate a loss of freedom and protest free speech like we do in enlightened US of A.
I wonder if this has anything at all to do with importing large numbers of people who have a problem with (((them)))?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/one-three-british-jews-consider-11016650
They’re obviously scared of teh nazis.
Meanwhile, in my neighborhood which is like the Little Egypt of NYC, there is a prominent “Chabad House” near me. “Learn Hebrew!” – the works. And nothing else happened.
Whatever they’re doing in Europe, they’re not doing it right.
In 2024, an eclipse is predicted to originate in Mexico and sweep across the Eastern US. Stay calm, citizens! Trump’s wall will keep us safe!
Because, as we all know, G-d may be many things, but first and foremost he is a racist.
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2017/08/excruciatingly-woke.html
Read elsewhere that 92% of the counties the eclipse passes over voted for Trump.
Trumpocalypse?
I wouldn’t worship a God who wasn’t worse than Hitler.
Wow.
That has to be a joke. I mean, come on.
Ok, I thought of a phrase today, and not sure what I should do with it: Hobos for Jesus
So, is it a band name, or should i really start an organization that encourages the homeless to proselytize while pan handling?
Ironic name for a swingers club.
Is Steve Bannon the leader?
I have been drawing a blank on an idea/phrase to try to print on a beer coozy. Perhaps you need a Hobos for Jesus beer coozy?
Um… have you been on a NYC subway lately?
No. Never, actually. Is that a thing?
Among some of the more lucid ones, yep.
I’m thinking the next episode of Secret Nazi President will feature Random Drunken Asshole wearing an Exorcist style crucifix.
Roger Taney was not a Confederate so how do we really think this will only stop with Confederates?
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/five-confederate-statues-in-maryland-will-be-removed-here-are-some-candidates-to-replace-them/2017/08/16/1681478a-8299-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html
WaPo writer ignores that his hero was a Know-Nothing.
If Taney’s ruling was unconstitutional, then why was it necessary to amend the constitution?
Hello,
Long time lurker (here and elsewhere), first time poster.
Found this today via derpbook: What the Alt-Left was actually doing in Charlottesville. tldr: apparently they were only there to defend innocent people from the evil Nazis.
The real standout bit of derp is in the last paragraph:
They were tools alright.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_WKwbueG8
In defense of tool and free speech.
The kind of link Tulpa would post…
Yes, I’m Tulpa, although I also identify as Poppy.
I’m Poppy
Yes this kindly man was just trying to prevent the evil nazi from using his brain to have nazi thoughts with
If you think about it, he’s not really even hurting the guy, just disarming him of his weaponized badthoughts.
Community defense tools = strong acid and aerosol can blow torches . Gotcha.
Sure, try that with the ATF. “No sir, this is not a sawed-off shotgun. Its a community defense tool and nothing more.”
Sure, whatever Tulpa.
Forts Bragg and Hood might be next. Will the GOP cave?
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/military-bases-confederate-names-241799
Of course they will. I don’t really give a shit but that’s the point – you can be sure the re-education won’t stop there.
Fts Lee, Benning, Rucker, Gordon… hell Ft Belvoir is named for a slave plantation. Next will be to strip battle honors and lineage from National Guard units.
Funny how the progs are glossing over the fact that Washington and Jefferson did up take up arms against their country. Washington was a British officer. Did they poll their slaves?
Also how many of those guys who crushed the CSA always killed Indians?
And didn’t the Indian tribes rebel against the US?
Look, if you want them to hold a coherent world view, we’ll never accomplish anything.
“Between June and August, detectives conducted an undercover operation into their massage business.”
So 3 months of taxpayer funded “research”?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/19/mother-daughter-duo-busted-in-erotic-massage-parlor-sting.html
It takes time to, you know…
gather evidence.
1 arrested for not having a license. Search warrant led to discovery of massage oil. Light the ENB beacon
The one on the right is the daughter? She is 30? Yikes!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-confederates-not-the-only-racists-in-us-history-20170816-story.html
I like this trolling. Defeating the CSA and killing Indians were part and parcel of the agenda.
Posted this on last thread. Dude in second video is carrying.
http://nbc4i.com/2017/08/19/protesters-call-for-removal-of-christopher-columbus-statue/
ERASE ALL THE HISTORY! SMASH ALL THE THINGS!
I can’t tell if it’s serious or not. So… yeah.
If we had only kept the Amerinds strong, we could make America great again by killing them all
If there’s anything that can heal this fractured country, it’s boobs.
http://archive.is/aiK6J
8, 41 and 44 for me.
If I were a chick, I’d protest topless with “AntiFa” written on my left boob and “White Nationalist” on the right one.
23 and 44. Would all though.
You are doing God’s work.
6, 23, and 25. Yummy
How did they get so many boobie pictures of delegates to the last Libertarian Party convention?
Those aren’t pictures of boobs; those are pictures of cloth covered boobs. Big difference
Need some Glib advice. Where is Zardoz when you need him? I have the opportunity to interview for a job in the health insurance industry. I am weary about taking a job in the field thanks to the current situation. Do you think it’s worth it to get into the field?
The questions I’d be asking are:
1. Is the job interesting and a good fit?
2. Am I gonna grow marketable skills?
3. Is it a step up from my current gig?
I wouldn’t worry so much about the industry; as long as the answer to question 2 is yes you can always find another job. And if 1 and 3 are yes, then you’re in a better position either way.
I think if it’s a job your interested in then go for it. Skills are transferable.
Yes. That is all.
Health insurance is the root cause of the problems in our health industry. If you think you can make a buck, then sign on. Just realize that you are actively killing Americans when you go about your day to day business. 🙂
Bonus!
Please only kill the assholes, k thanks
You mean the NAZIs/alt-right?
The thing that really annoys me about the civil war debate is that we have returned to the contemporary Republican attitude toward it in that it was amazing and wonderful.
This is bizarre when you see the progs gush over guys who wanted to kill the Indians.
And libertarians gush over anti-immigrant protectionists who engaged in corporate welfare.
Also libertarians complain about censorship, draft, income tax and military policing all of which done by Lincoln.
Where Lincoln, Grant and Sherman the only American Top Men?
And if war is so bad then how can one that freed the slaves be a bad thing?
The thing is that very few people (myself included) have studied the history, politics, culture and economics of the era to truly understand the complexities of the war. We have a cartoonish understanding of what led up to it and the circumstances surrounding the decisions made. Humans like simplicity. It’s much more difficult to understand subtlety and that each individual making up a nation has a mix of good and bad. It’s so much easier to just let it become an extension of GO TEAM.
Lincoln was one of the most draconian presidents we’ve had. His American sainthood absolutely white washes his worst abuses of power. In some respects it an ends justifies the means mentality that forgives executive abuses of power that libs would rail against today.
It’s interesting because if Lincoln hadn’t done what he did we may not be the country try we are so does that absolve his political sins?
Any books or movies been done about a history without Lincoln that anyone knows of?
I want to read the alt-history version where :
a) there is no war
b) there is no split
But it seems like most of the literature was written by people who for some reason (…) have a boner about the idea of the war being differently decided, but everything else stays more or the same…
You didn’t denounce Jeff Davis, slaver.
I’m not convinced either side was better off with a war. Peaceful split would have worked fine.
Lincoln was a flawed man who ran to be elected into an impossible situation.
I used to have much more… animosity?… towards him. But he really was in a very difficult situation. I mean, you’re the president and the nation is literally dissolving on your watch. What would you have done?
(Remembering that Lincoln was not that into equality between blacks and whites, but was running as the nominee of the brand new “slavery is bad” party, and absolutely was more concerned with keeping the Union whole than anything else? Let the Confederate States succeed to be a slave empire (thanks Eddy, for that but of knowledge from your post about filibusters)? And to be a constant competitor in the manifest destiny of killing natives, buffalos, and praries dogs while mining gold and silver from Colorado to California?
Seriously, what would you have done?
Well Lincoln being an actual TOP MAN and war being a good thing for once does throw a big wrench in libertarianism.
I mean by that reasoning shouldn’t LBJ, Wilson and FDR get a pass?
Also Lincoln wasn’t the first guy to face a civil war or attempted secession so should we give those guys a pass?
Stick a fork in Hong Kong – it’s done.
What does Paul Krugman think?
Did anyone think this wasn’t going to happen?
Krugman probably thinks they’ll be better off fully under the boot of the ChiComs.
I saw this story today and has the opposite reaction. Maybe Tiananmen Square was to early; maybe the British giving Hong Kong back to the Chinese was a Trojan horse of Chinese free people that will take down the Communists?
Except the Communists have all the guns and they outnumber the formerly free people by like a thousand to one. No, there was never any other way this was going to end other than the complete end of freedome for the Hong Kong people.
/GET OFF MY LAWN VENT RANT.
My fucken neighbour’s daughter and her friends get on my nerves. He bought the house next to his and they have the entire front end of their homes PLUS driveways that fit FOUR or five cars to have their friends park.
Where does one of them go? RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE and take up the ONE tiny space I need for one of my cars because I have a one-car driveway.
And it’s going to be there all night because it’s Hotel Sleeporama over there.
My wife doesn’t give a shit and probably secretly hates me for it. But she does admit it’s strange.
Fin rant.
Good thing it’s not an Eclipse Sleeporama- you’d be hosed ’till Tuesday
Get back by staring into her window while you jerk off on to it.
That’s what I’d do.
I’m trying to her burn her tires with my eyes but it’s not working.
You could masturbate and ejaculate on the car tires, Windows, roof, hood, bumpers, side mirrors, door handles, and leave a hanging jizz-snot on any hood ornament if applicable. I’d listen to HM’s sound advice if I were
Canadianyou.I’m gonna cum on her window and write, ‘CALL ME’.
?
Good Lord man, would you have poor Rufus die from exhaustion?
The total solar eclipse hates Black people
Funny how it also passes over the historically most Unionist part of the South
This was supposed to go at the bottom of the page.. Consider it a consolation prize for the vintage jailbait foundation garment slumber party advertisement that was supposed to go here but I decided AGAINST posting.
Hotel Sleeporama
Pillow fights? Go on…..
Don’t make me get perverted. I already ignored HM.
So Québecois are indeed the trailer trash of Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Niggers_of_America
He retracted that silly book if memory serves me correct.
“French Canadians have been kept in a position of exploited workers by the English upper class entrepreneurs”
And?
They have the Catholic church to thank them for that. The Church always told them not to get into business and be like the materialistic and ‘greedy’ Anglais. Among nationalists this line of thinking has been taken over by the socialists except now they replace the English with Americans and English-Canada as being of low culture and greedy.
Yes, they think they have *more* culture than the English speaking species.
It gets even more interesting – thus pointing more to how misguided his argument was – when immigrants climbed the social and economic ladder quicker than the native French-Canadians.
There’s nothing wrong with not being industrius as long as you can take care of yourself and your kids. The problem is when your not industrious and you think you deserve to have what those who are industrious have.
French-Canadians are more small business owners as they tend to be big in the trades and stuff like that. They’re pretty industrious and self-sufficient in my view. It’s just the stupid nationalism that messes us up good.
Trailer trash terrorists who forced the mighty country of Canadian to impose French on everyone.
I can’t stand the linguistic nationalists and their punitive language laws (which are discriminatory because they fine people for it which is unheard in Western jurisdictions as far as I know) because it prevents them from doing the right thing.
For example, stop busting over store signs. Or having important safety road signs given, you know, we’re in NORTH AMERICA. It’s only respectful and wise to do do. They have French signs in Vermont and Ontario but no English in Quebec. I think that’s telling. They’re insecurity shouldn’t prevail over safety in my view.
It’s forbidden for to speak English in some of their universities – I think UofM. And idiot students accept that prejudicial crap. My friend was telling me she and her American friend had to speak French to each other. I told them they both lacked pride for doing it.
I have no doubt this nuttiness does have an impact on our struggling economy.
Noticed that a Frenchy Canadian municipal website was solely in French with no English and no button to switch to English. Surprised me at the time given how the rest of the country bends over backwards to have everything be bilingual.
That’s crazy. As a language geek, I’m all for promoting “minority” languages but I have never seen it carried to that extreme. Like for example if you visit Barcelona you’ll see both Catalan and Spanish – always. There’s no Catalan-only bullshit.
The average French-Canadian is somewhat surprised whenever they hear the language police actually fine people. When it’s explained to them they kinda don’t like it. They ‘get’ why it’s not good to do that to people. They also don’t realize how Bill 101 fucks them over as they have no right to send their kids to English school if they decided. Only nationalists and soft-nationalists who buy into the ‘surrounded by 360 million English speakers’ fear-mongering tend to justify these discriminatory act. The people in the language police? More petty and pathetic a bunch you ain’t gonna find. Fuck them. Quebec hasn’t evolved on the language front and it has many common traits with the American south. But French-Canadians aren’t stupid. I was reading the comments about Michelle Jean (the former Governor-General and now head of the Francophonie) who has a penchant to pretend she’s royalty spending tax dollars to fund her lavish bull shit. They were mocking her job. And if you spoke Quebecois and understood their humour it’s stuff that leaves you in stitches. Something along the lines of ‘Yeh, now there’s a job promoting ‘French culture and language’ with a bunch of failed African countries. Tabernak! They call a spade a spade Quebecers like no other in Canada and for that I tip my hat.
http://www.ville.sorel-tracy.qc.ca
http://www.ville.contrecoeur.qc.ca
One of my favorite 80s bands is from Quebec. They sing exclusively in English 🙂
Tho to be fair they put out a side project a couple years ago in French :O
What band is that?
They have some good stuff.
Personally, I like Pagliaro but he goes back to the 70s.
Also. Fun fact. I think the town I’m in is the only officially bilingual city in the province. A quirk in the purge.
Sigh. These kids today. All about the jizz. Nobody can just slash a tire anymore.
And Then Millions Will Die
Oasis of the Sea. Hitting an iceberg would be fitting and if they take Oasis down with them, bonus. The only band that I genuinely hate.
-1 Wonderwall
It’s like I don’t even know who you are anymore.
I’ve done this a couple times to people:
“Wanna hear my Oasis impression?”
“Sure”
*Leans in close to their ear and screams “Today is gonna be the day that I …”
Nobody laughed. Except me.
I’m laughing right now. That band is seriously bad
She’s… Welsh? That song was always a guilty pleasure, but now… oh!
Pass
You can’t pass. No one will pass. This entire dimension is going to implode.
So I have to have sex with Bonnie Tyler? Anyone have a time machine?
For you or her?
I was talking about her but to be fair I could use one myself.
If Gilmore would stop posting eye cancer i could picture her still young and pretty singing that. Thanks, Gilmore, you dick.
Look i didn’t realize you preverts thought whatshername was a sex object, i thought it was just being nice to inform you that she’s going to cause the world to end.
http://amp.freep.com/amp/570025001
I don’t get it? I thought the left is the party of science. This is pure tabloid territory.
GMOs, CAGW, Antivaxx, the new racialism; the Left is on top of all the truthy sciency stuff.
+ vagina rocks
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kfj4mqUL4xo/VT90c7p7OPI/AAAAAAAAIMM/XjqppFzY9wQ/s1600/curiosidade-forma-fenda%2Bna%2Brocha.png
She better get that checked out
I looked at that picture so long I made myself uncomfortable. And I am a pig. That never happened before.
Been there, done that
Yes it does.
Um… this article is real? I was actually considering making a parody comment along these lines when I was reading about the eclipse but I guess I got beaten to the punch. Reality-based community indeed.
Had this been posted?
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/
I like how the is not a single positive comment. Is that common there?
I posted a commentary on it, but it’s nice to have the source in all its insanity.
And the best part is it’s The Atlantic so it’s walls of insanity.
I posted it above but after you.
That and the free silver table ware and southern-belle pussy
Never Trust a Vegan
Way ahead of you.
I take it SIV stands for single issue voter. What’s your issue?
Studiously incestuous vagrants.
TRUMP
cockfighting
It’s been a very mild summer up to this point. This morning I took off on the tractor and put the disk to about an acre and a half of my land. I then spread wheat seed for the upcoming dove hunt.
The mild summer decided to give way today. Fuck. it was 99 with humidity that is way above the normal august average here. The real feel was in the 110+ range.
“spread wheat seed for the upcoming dove hunt”
Excellent euphemism.
euphemism or not, dove hunting is one of my very favorite things in life. Of any of you Glibs can make it to NW arkansas on September 2nd, you’re welcome to come shoot those evasive little bastards with me.
Wish I could make it. Sounds like fun.
It does sound like fun, maybe next year.
I went once years ago. They really test your marksmanship. Very fast (and tasty) birds.
*I assume we’re talking Mourning Doves?
yes, mourning and eurasian. They are damn hard to hit.
Eurasians are pretty rare up here, but Mournings are plentiful. I have many on my 10 acres. Maybe I should try to get back into it
We have about a 50/50 between mourning and eurasian
The eurasians are bigger and provide a larger breast if killed.
I would encourage anyone to dove hunt. It’s fun and it really tests ones ability with a shotgun. They are hard to hit.
You eat em? It always seemed plucking and pulling out the shot would be more effort than its worth. Like eating pomegranates.
Pull the breast out amd sever the wings. Get a jalapeño out of the garden and place in the center of the breast. Wrap the breast in a half piece of bacon, then grill over charcoal.
Whut?
Half piece of bacon? What kind of savage are you? Half?
To elaborate, no plucking is necessary.
Place your thumbs in the center of the breast while holding the back of the bird with your other fingers. Apply pressure and pull your things away from each other to break the skin and peel it away. Then grab the exposed breast meat with one hand and tear it out of the bird while holding the wings with the other hand.
It’s the easiest game in the world to clean.
You make it sound like peeling boiled shrimp… but with feathers.
it’s not disimilar
You just gave some vegan SJW lurker an aneurysm and probably ended the family friendly rating. Good job Lachowsky.
i would like to meet a vegan SJW who lurkes this site. That would be an interesting individual.
FWIW, there are ethical vegetarians who have no problem with eating wild hunted foods…
Wait until they read about the ortolan.
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I had a dove lease last fall in N. Tx, and we saw maybe 15 or 20 doves the entire season. We saw pigeons by the thousands, though. No matter how much people say that the flavor comes from the diet, I’m not eating a flying rat.
So is the wheat seed purely for feed for the doves? Nothing to do with actual planting?
Today I learned that the standard drink of Roman soldiers was posca- a mixture of water and vinegar, with honey and wine added when available. The acid in the vinegar killed bacteria and masked any bad flavor in the water. It also promoted a feeling of fullness by increasing the acidity in the stomach.
Yeah, that would not sit well with me. Although if I were a Roman soldier I’m sure that would be the least of my problems.
I wonder how much they were allotted each day? Ithe always blew me away how much the average British sailor drank… I want to say it was half a quarter of rum per day which would get watered down into grog.
*Quart
My understanding is that this is what was referred to in the Bible, when it says the Roman centurions gave Jesus vinegar to drink.
A lot of people assume that was an additional form or torture, or something, but it was actually like an act of kindness. Either that, or they wanted to give him enough energy to drag that cross up the hill after they’d scourged him.
Goddamn Bible teacher wanted us to drink vinegar to see how Jesus felt. I was like, “a) it wasn’t that kind of vinegar and wasn’t torture and b) Jesus did it so I don’t have to, you know? What are you going to do next, nail my feet to the floor so I can know what that felt like, too?
That’s when he broke out the hammer and nails and . . .
Just kidding about that last part.
In all seriousness, though, I did make it to second base with his daughter.
The Romans made a lot of wine and sometimes it went bad. So there was a lot of cheap vinegar. It was something cheap to give to the soldiers.
My understanding is that regular wine back then tasted awful by today’s standards.
Probably back then, too.
They mixed it with honey and herbs and mint and things to make it palatable.
I think when they were parched, it also acted like a lip balm.
It was probably close to what we call “Red wine vinegar” at the salad bar–only alcoholic and concentrated.
I drink raw unfiltered vinegar every morning. Usually with soda water, but I have started blending it with an apple into some sort of apple vinegar thing that I thin out with some soda water. Threw some pickled beets in there a few days ago. That was……….interesting.
Vinegar drinks in the modern age are great. This is my favourite.
People assembling in public to protest a free speech rally. Is that ironic or perfect?
Both, plus sad.
diet of Irish workhouse inhabitants in 1840
Men
breakfast 4 lbs of potatoes, 1 pint of skim milk
lunch the same, with herring in place of milk in winter
dinner not always provided
Women
breakfast 3 lbs of potatoes, 1 pint of skim milk
lunch the same, herring if no milk
dinner not always provided
https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/food-in-ireland-1600-1835/
You can see how not having potatoes might have caused a famine. Lucky for them that never happened!
I prefer herring to milk.
4 pounds of potatoes? Unless I’m misunderstanding something, how is it even possible to eat that many potatoes at one sitting?
Isnt that that the quantity in a bag of potatoes from WalMart?
No idea but 5 pound bags are common and that’s like 10 to 12 medium potatoes. Maybe it’s per family not per person…? But then why different amounts for men v women.
It’s like you didn’t even read SF’s piece on Vaginal Feeding.
Probably didn’t if it was posted during work hours where I don’t get Glibs.
From time to time, I like to have a 7 course Irish dinner, which is 6 pints of Guinness and some french fries.
Bread, butter, beer- my holy trinity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stout.jpg
Blood pudding was also a staple, but of course, you had to eat your meat. You can’t expect to have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.
There’s ways around that.
[sustained applause as monocle falls from eye]
conversion during the Irish Potato Famine
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“Soupers”
Some of the Protestant charities running soup kitchens demanded that people convert from Catholicism before receiving help. For many of the Irish, clinging to their faith when all else seemed lost, this was a dreadful proposition. The conection between saving lives and proselytising led to much bitterness and was denounced by many Anglicans. Those whose hunger outweighed everything else and who did convert, probably without much conviction, were derided and referred to as ‘soupers’.
The term persisted long after the famine and for generations whole families would be known in a locality as ‘soupers’. It is still occasionally used to describe a person who ‘sells out’ on their beliefs and is considered a gross insult.
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https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/the-irish-potato-famine-1846-1850/
I will at least have the satisfaction of watching the atheist mods delete the Resurrection services – symbolic!
I’m pretty sure at least a few of the mods are Christian, including the site founder…
Don’t go man. No two of us agree completely on anything. It’s our nature. Please stick it out.
This, but tone down the drama queen routine Billie Jean jelly bean.
Agreed…maybe. It’s awfully tough to tell how much a DQ he was when everything got memory-holed ala Reason.
Meh. The imagined receipt of legal threats and issuing of an ultimatum on someone else’s turf is over the top. Like straff says though, good popcorn viewing.
I missed that part with of legal threats and ultimatums in the original chunk of argument I read. Not to rehash the hash, but it sounded like a whole lot of over reacting by every one to me. We live in strange times though. 40,000 people marched to protest the speech of a couple dozen harmless people in Boston today.
I’d love to comment on that, but unfortunately I wasn’t online that day. Since I wasn’t there that day, I haven’t been able to read it.
I still don’t understand how a bunch of people who profess to hold freedom of speech paramount, and censorship to be evil, think it is all fine and dandy to delete an entire conversation that has a (formerly?) valued member of the community very upset.
And I don’t understand how the rest of you, regardless of how you feel about Eddie, think that is ok.
I’m afraid your comment will either look lonely after my comment is deleted, or else be deleted with the rest.
Really, it’s not the end of the world, though it is a bit sad, but not as sad as a bunch of stuff that’s sadder.
I hope this is some new running gag because it’s funnier than fuck all.
I feel like I missed something.
It appears Eddie is pulling another, “This is my last post ever!” but is doing it full bore. If this was the plan, I’ve gotta hand it to him, John T and the mods for the best joke I’ve seen on the internet. Even if it wasn’t planned, they should say it was and we can get back to business.
I’m not around much during the week, maybe I missed whatever happened then.
Exactly!
Smoooooooooth
Jeezus! Shouldn’t posting shit like that be an automatic cat-butting? At least give a trigger warning
Hey, it was honest advertising.
That is worse than Japanese cat outfit dance team stuff right there.
There was Japanese cat outfit dance team stuff and I missed it? Damn.
The first time I heard Josh Groban, I thought it was a parody act. It’s hard to tell whose the worst: him, the no-talent assclown, or this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHvDPRWgJ4
Just look at those sad sacks. Did they really need the money that badly?
S’lotta money.
I would have said Michael Bubble.
Let me get this straight, you posted that, when you could have posted this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
?
I, for one, am glad to see you.
Hey Ed. This is for you
Not so fast..
Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Nor never met – nor never parted,
We would never have been sae broken-hearted.
LOL, seriously, it was nice knowing you guys.
SF’d link on your ultimate post. Too bad. You meant to post this
Best of luck to you, Eddie. You’ll be missed.
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We grab our plates and cups, and wait for no second invitation. We each get a piece of meat and a potato, a chunk of bread and a cup of coffee with a spoonful of brown sugar in it. Milk and butter we buy, or go without. We settle down, generally in groups, and the meal is soon over… We save a piece of bread for the last, with which we wipe up everything, and then eat the dish rag. Dinner and breakfast are alike, only sometimes the meat and potatoes are cut up and cooked together, which makes a really delicious stew. Supper is the same, minus the meat and potatoes.
– Lawrence VanAlstyne, Union Soldier, 128th New York Volunteer Infantry
The biggest culinary problem during the Civil War, for both the North and the South, was inexperience. Men of this time were accustomed to the women of the house, or female slaves, preparing the food. For a male army soldier, cooking was a completely foreign concept. Thrust into the bleak reality of war, soldiers were forced to adjust to a new way of life—and eating—on the battlefield.
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http://www.pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/civil-war-cooking-what-the-union-soldiers-ate/
Right… I guess single men just starved to death.
My understanding is that for most of history, it was rare for single young adults to live alone. That was less of a problem as people married younger.
Today in many parts of the world, unmarried young women who live alone are assumed to be prostitutes.
Fair enough. I still find the idea than a man can’t cook a potato to be ridiculous. It sounds like typical PBS nonsense.
Well, the claim isn’t that they couldn’t cook, it’s that they didn’t cook.
I can only cook a few things. Never was interested in fancier stuff.
Bacon, eggs, pancakes, spaghetti, rice, burgers, steak- that’s about it. Heating up a pizza in an oven does not count as cooking in my book. I’ve baked bread a few times. Slaughtered a chicken once.
I ate a lot of bacon and egg sandwiches in college. On rye bread with some nice cheese? That’s the best. Especially Jewish rye. I think the blasphemy makes it taste better.
Well, that’s cooking of a sort. They’re making it sound like I Love Lucy where the men were too stupid to figure out how to operate a stove. I just don’t buy it.
That’s not nearly blasphemous enough to get you in trouble.
Now, if you ate a ham and cheese on white bread in a Synagogue on Yom Kippur…
Not quite blasphemous enough. Better add some Mayo.
Better yet, Just “Mayo”.
But they would drive cattle, go hunting, hell even trips to market had to be several days. Surely they still are on trips like that. And we are not talking about a skill like fixing cars that requires some expertise, and may only need to be done a few times a year. People eat every day, several times a day.
Cooking most things hardly requires more than holding it over a fire. I don’t buy it. Maybe a few 14 year olds had limited knowledge but the story reeks of bullshit.
I’d imagine in field conditions back then soldiers would be hungry enough to eat shit. I doubt theyd care if the rabbit they shot was cooked well, just enough to be safe to eat.
Even in societies where people lived with their families, you still had death by childbirth pretty high up there on the list of causes of death. So unless widowers were getting remarried within 12 hours after their previous wife bled out, some of them must have figured out the basics of cooking. I mean it’s not like bachelors today are known for their culinary skills, and neither is modern army chow.
AFAIK, my HS cafeteria was staffed entirely by women, and the food could charitably be described as edible. Pretty sure once you’re buying bulk based on cost per unit rather than quality, then it seems obvious quality is going to go down. Add in lack of refrigeration, and how long it will last without spoiling, and you’re probably not going to get any meal worthy of a Michelin rating.
My uncle is like that. My Aunt prepares literally everything he eats. Of course she’s also from Mexico (yes, legally) so gender roles are pretty clear in that house.
I bet eating lunch at her house is great. Jealous.
Sort of, shes also a Jehovas Witness, so theres a looooooong prayer beforehand.
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200 B.C.
The vending machine was probably invented about 200 BC when Hero of Alexandria described a coin-operated device designed to vend holy water in an Egyptian temple.
***
Really? I though all the machines were powered by talking animals back then.
“Eh, it’s a living.”
https://allthatcooking.com/history-of-cooking/
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1765
Public eating places have existed since ancient times, but the modern version of the restaurant (from the French restaurer, “to restore”) did not appear until the 18th century. The word was first applied in its current usage by A. Boulanger when he opened an eating establishment in Paris in 1765.
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Neat. I always wondered about that.
That’s interesting. Taverns existed decades before that in England but they served multi-purposes.
Who shook my etch a sketch?
InstantMartyr
It honestly doesn’t bother you that these conversations keep getting
deletedmoved into “moderation?”Not particularly. It’s private property. I’d probably let it ride if it was my site though.
It’s kind of bordering on spamming at this point. Eddie had his say, told us how he’s not coming back, then keeps coming back to say why he’s never coming back.
If he just came in and started arguing about deep dish vs pizza or antifa vs nazis and the mods were censoring him, then I would say the mods were censoring him. They gave him a platform to state his position, and he hasn’t been unpersoned. Last I checked, the whole stupid argument that started the mess is still there as well as his follow up arguments in other threads.
When did you last check?
Like 24 hours before I made that statement. As of about 2 hours ago, they cleaned it up. So much for assumptions.
He requested his comments and articles be taken down.
Depicted.
For my part, I enjoyed his content and even his “trolling.” Even though I disagree with him on some fundamental stuff…
… I have been around less lately (because I have to disconnect from news to remain sane) but what happened?
I’m the rare double martyr. The old site did it me twice.
I have no idea what’s going on either.
Look, the (((elders))) took notice of this site, so (((we))) just had to do a little cleaning until the heat dies down. Nothing big.
Seriously? Entire comment-threads that may be embarrassing to the site are now being deleted? On a site that professes to value free speech above any other right? You are the people that taught me, and others, libertarianism. What is going on?
They are in moderation, not deleted.
Oh, come on.
Have not decided what is going to happen yet. There is stuff going on you do not know about.
SP has my address. Feel free to fill me in. Better yet, just tell us all what is so mysteriously importnt that comment threads need to disappear.
This monkey is tired of dancing for today. Everyone feel free to bitch about the site and complain about how it is set up, and run.
Whycum no Edit button?
Completely unrelated, All Black great, Sir Colin “Pinetree” Meads has died:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11896202
Come on, man. You honestly think I am overreacting about the “moderation” of entire comment threads? The persona of one of the mods is a child rapist, but we have to remove threads where two guys devolve into name calling?
I am not Eddie’s best best friend, I’m just disappointed. I think this place is great. However, the actions of the staff over the last few days are honestly shocking to me to me.
I don’t care, Mike. I am weary of this. Be shocked all you want. I have spent a whole bunch of time and effort on this site…and you do.not.know.what.is.going.on.
I was hoping we could’ve turned the whole shitstorm into a parody. We’d laugh in five years time about it all.
I wish (hope) that were the case
Let’s be fair. If someone said to you, “I’ll apologize if you [some kind of demand]” what would you tell them? If you fucked up, apologize without condition. That was a cunt move by Eddie and I like Eddie.
If that were exactly the case, yes. But according to Eddie he received no private communication and only saw a very public (now deleted) admonition with a slap on the wrist to Titor. (A lurking friend contends Eddie is correct about the mod note. I didn’t, and can’t, see it)
Also; said note (allegedly) said an apology would not be enough (but apparently was enough for Titor). And allegedly before any contact was established with Eddie he was punished by having his article publish date pushed back (which seems exceedingly petty, BTW)
Eddie shitting up the theads recently was unfortunate. But I feel for him. The way everyone is accepting comments being
deletedmoved into moderation is shocking to me.Feel free to keep complaining.
That’s why I said in my post below that a misunderstanding ensued. You can’t clear that up by filling a thread in public with dozens of explanations. “Sorry about what I wrote in my exchange with John. Just saw your email saying an apology isn’t enough. Something happened and I didn’t get your other emails. I hope we sort this out and I’ll watch what I say in he future.” Then stop and let them digest it for a few days. It would’ve been fine is my guess.
All I got was the farewell. The mod orphans must be exhausted.
Did you look at the original fight and then the links thread when it gushed forth in a drama filled bitch session? Sounds like Eddie didn’t get an email and a misunderstanding ensued. Instead of being cool about the whole thing and letting time heal all wounds, it had to go all brinksmanship. Not a smart move when it’s not your site.
I haven’t the slightest idea of any of this. Whatever happened, I missed all of it. Was it today, some other day?
It started in Thursday’s “Sex? Gender? Bit of Both?” post. As Swiss noted above, a lot of comments are in moderation so it looks “cleaner” now than it did when everything was happening in real time.
That so many of this crowd just accept that, is what is so damn confusing to me.
Mike. HE ASKED US TO TAKE IT DOWN.
Capise?
I am done for tonight.
John Titor was being a dick, as we all are at times, and Eddie punched back in kind. *Mods and Eddie have email mix up*. Eddie floods links thread with (whatever) and mods tell him they appreciate him and his work, but that he needs to drop it. What they’re talking about in private, I have no idea.
*researches*
Ah, weekday stuff.
Y’all are blocked at work so I missed all of it.
Meh. Boring stuff, honestly. Who knows the full story? I usually when stuff like this happens.
My policy is generally not to get involved. Especially when you’re only getting one side of the story. I’ve gotten burned by some buddy after getting dumped. He told me a sob story about how much he loved her and wanted to be with her always, so I bought him a beer and told him, “Hey, fuck her, I never really liked her, but she made you happy, so my opinion didn’t really matter. There are plenty of other fish in the sea.”
Then it turns out she caught him banging her roommate and dumped him on the spot. Six months later they get back together, and I’m now the guy who hated who hated my buddy’s girlfriend all along, and I’m suddenly the asshole.
I think I’ve spotted the moment when things went off the rails.
If you don’t have dumbass friends that hooked back up with their exes to go back into their toxic relations. You probably grew up in a monastery. Or a nunnery. And I’m not exactly one to talk. I’m as dumb as the next fellow when it comes to the one that got away.
Schopenhauer has some interesting theories on how love brings you close to people you’d otherwise hate. Sounds about right for those two.
Thursday, https://glibertarians.com/2017/08/sex-gender-bit-of-both-neither/ Although the Offending argument is now pending further moderation. Personally I think the argument should be left up, if for no other reason as an example that even people who ostensibly agree with each other can violently disagree with each other over issues of orthodoxy.
Basically Eddie and John Titor got into an argument over the logic of shutting down public bath houses at the beginning of the AIDS crises. They both went on TL;DR rants and it got really damned personal, to the point where the mods had to break it up. Then there was some behind the scenes stuff arguing us plebes weren’t privilege to see, but Eddie walked away angry after the exchange and threatened to walk away.
Literally laughed out loud and nearly spit beer all over the wall.
i have witnessed some stupid pissing matches over nothing, but nothing quite that nothing.
Yeah. I don’t understand how that pissing match was even notable, much less result in a big thing with the mod’s issuing an editors note, and then later deleting the editors note and pretending it never happened. We have sugarfree, and we have OMWC pretending to be a pederast, but some overheated name calling that most people likely just skipped right over is beyond the pale. Weird.
It got personal over….Aids and bath houses?
So 1980s!
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Chew time
The researchers measured the tooth sizes and body masses of four extinct hominids, modern humans, chimpanzees and other modern apes, using this information from modern animals to estimate time spent chewing in the extinct species. Chimpanzees, they found, spend 10 times longer chewing and eating than humans do, 48 percent versus 4.7 percent of their days.
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No wonder their teeth and jaws are huge.
https://www.livescience.com/15688-man-cooking-homo-erectus.html
I gotta get back to work. Peace out. Leave this here.
Umm, yeah I got nothing.
Tijuana shows hit hardest.
Keep working! Millions of retirees are depending on your efforts today! Google translate offers 「Kuni no unmei wa anata no kata ni kakatte imasu」
The fate of the country is on my shoulders? Maaan are they screwed. *Shrugs*
Was Batboy JR.one of those teens?
Fun fact: “concentration camp” came from the UK in the Boer War who got the term from “reconcentration camp” from the Spanish in Cuba. And General Weyler said that tactic was inspired by Sherman and Sheridan.
If you gotta get in your car and drive 3 hours just to catch a glimpse of a Nazi, I don’t think one is hiding under your bed.
https://youtu.be/_jkGeYvMkUg?t=7m34s
(Lt Fish- that’s apparently how you avoid the auto video censors)
It gives writers some material though. The most telling statement I read in the NYT reporting on the Boston rally was in the comments.
1) anyone who disagrees with me about donald trump in any way is a nazi
2) the correct way to respond to nazis is by punching them
3) anyone who doesn’t agree with punching nazis is also a nazi
Clearly, these people are the “decent human beings” and those who don’t want to punch people who disagree with them are the Nazis.
The number of my supposed “friends” who decided to watch “Inglorious Basterds” so that they could virtue-masturbate to the killing of “Nazis” has sadly surprised me. They clearly don’t realize that their standards have rendered me a “Nazi” and that they are literally talking about enjoying watching my simulated murder. They also apparently do not have enough self-awareness to realize that they’re LITERALLY WATCHING SIMULATED MURDER AND CHEERING FOR IT. GEE ISN’T THAT GREAT AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE BEING MURDERED AREN’T “decent human beings”??? THERE IS NO COST WHATSOEVER TO OUR DECENCY WHEN WE CHEERLEAD BRUTAL FANTASY VIOLENCE AGAINST OUR ENEMIES. WE REMAIN “decent human beings” REGARDLESS OF THE DECENCY OF OUR ACTIONS.
AFTER ALL, THE AMERICAN NAZIS OF 2017 ARE COMPLETELY THE EQUIVALENT OF THE NAZIS OF 1942.
Sure, one of the two was the ruling party of one of the most powerful countries in the world and had declared total war against half of humanity. The other is 200 random civilian dudes in khaki pants. But clearly the “inglorious basterds” treatment is the only correct response to both. The fact that modern Nazis are in no, shape or form engaged in total war should not trick us into restraint, because, as previously stated…
THE AMERICAN NAZIS OF 2017 ARE COMPLETELY THE EQUIVALENT OF THE GERMAN NAZIS OF 1942.
IF YOU DISAGREE, IT IS CLEARLY BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.
I was just perusing some reddit. There is some very frightening things said on some boards there. Fascism=speech that might state or imply fascist beliefs. There is no distinction between action and speech. Therefore fascist speech should be banned. If you do not agree with that, you are obviously a fascist. If you disagree with that conclusion it just means you are a bigger fascist.
OK, at least the mods will see this:
OK, it’s Sunday morning, and I apologize both for my tone and for my style.
-I’m sorry for the tough-guy posturing (“don’t mess with me”)
-I’m sorry for the imputation of dishonesty (lying, etc)
-I’m sorry for not taking people at their word when they say they want to be nice
-I apologize for the profanity, personal insults, and so forth.
OK, I shan’t bother you again.
This really is my last post, things simply haven’t worked out, and I’m sorry for my part in that.
This applies to public and private statements.
I made an angry decision that these friendships weren’t preserving, and I accept the outcome of that decision, so please don’t be pestering the mods – which isn’t the same as endorsing their behavior, just don’t want them to have to publish self-justificatory stuff to show how bad I am.
It didn’t work out, and I’m sorry, but since I can’t pretend I didn’t say what I did privately and publicly, there’s really no point even trying for a fake truce. Sorry.
I hope that for future commenters, concerns with them be raised more carefully, but as a believer in property rights, the mods run the site, I broke off relations with them, I can’t expect them to give me a platform. Of course, they have (non-exclusive) rights to my writings, who knows how that will turn out.
I don’t speak for the mods, but I would hate to see you leave over some kerfuffle. And I disagree with you a lot.
The world already has vanishingly few places for people with outlying opinions to find each other. I want this place to stay one of those. Sigh.
Sorry, I think a mutual separation is for the best, as they say. I really laid into them in private, which is like saying goodbye in practical effect.
Yep. Eddie is a plus to the site.
Right, but I didn’t act like it, and if you blame the mods they’ll have to explain all the awful things I said to them and how it was my decision, and that would be an additional cause of irritation when their cup is already full.
I really took it too seriously and too personally, which isn’t to say I was in the wrong as such, just that I could have walked away without fussing and bawling about it, and then I’d have to worry about escalation and them getting the blame for what I decided to do.
And like someone said. I didn’t act like St. Thomas de Sales (see image) would have done, and I need to be accountable for not meeting the standard I set, if nothing else.
St. Francis de Sales
Also the mods need to know they won’t have to put any more attention to the issue of me, so we can genuinely be out of each others’ hair.
I don’t think here I’m fully blaming myself, nor yet indulging in self-justification, so I hope these comments don’t get banned.
Dude, are you alright? Fuckin’ A, I had to cut out two nieces, a nephew and two sisters out of my correspondence this week because they went batshit crazy with NAZI! shit all over my FB. Shit happens and tomorrow, who knows? Take it easy, man.
I just want to be careful. I was the monomaniacal guy who others don’t want around, and the issue was style, I decided the former friendships should end and I spoke to them accordingly. Monomania, even if I have a good point, but express it abusively, soon turns one into the crazy dude people want rid of – once one discovers one is “that guy” one needs to disentangle oneself or end up as the bad guy.
And eventually the annoying Internet monomaniac loses whatever good is in his cause and is just another jerk on the jerk plate, to be eaten up with the rest. I’d rather not be eaten.
Oh shut up and stick around.
Same for Titor.
One less Canadian around here and this place will turn to shit.
All I will say on the matter, is I am sorry it happened and wish it hadn’t.
So do I but it did, I’m really sorry for becoming An Issue.
No worries man. I have been an issue most of my life. Maybe it can be worked out over time.
This always brought us together. https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-oregon-man-dies-trump-impeached-20170418-story,amp.html