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Overnight Open Thread (4-7-2016)
Southwestern University in Texas has canceled its annual production of "The Vagina Monologues" because its author, Eve Ensler, is white - and featuring a performance written by a white lady would just not be inclusive to women of other races.
It registered with them right away. It was so ambitious to try and do an all-comedy channel: They needed a show like ours that was 90 minutes long and filled a lot of time.
-- Joel of MST3K on why they got picked up by Comedy Central
"Heavy metal rules! All that punk shit sucks! It doesn't belong in this world, it belongs on fuckin' Mars man! What the hell is punk shit? And Madonna can go to hell as far as I'm concerned! She's a dick! Seriously! [Hits self in mouth with microphone] Ow! Heavy metal definitely rules! Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, Dokken, Ozzy, Scorpions. They all rule! [Takes break from rant to acknowledge nearby stoner girl] Yeah, she's tripping Jack Daniel's. [Resumes rant] It all rules! All that shit rules! This punk shit, circle shit and the dicks and all, that can all go to hell! I don't care, you know? I don't really give a shit about that kind of punk fuck!"
-- Zebraman
Heavy Metal Parking Lot - The Original Viral Video
In 1986 two aspiring filmmakers who worked at a local cable channel in Maryland took their equipment out and filmed people partying in a parking lot before a Judas Priest concert. They edited the video down to a 16 minute 'documentary' and passed out VHS copies trying to get some interest. Soon people started making their own copies and passing them along to friends and within a few years it had become a pre-internet viral video. At some point Kurt Cobain got a copy and started playing it on the Nirvana bus to get everyone pumped up before a show. Since then it has become an internet cult video with its own website. Where else can you find original footage of 80s homo metallicus roaming free and paaarr-tying it up! in their native habitat?
And watching it I feel like I totally went to high school with these people. Maybe they weren't in my classes but they were definitely in my wider social circle. In fact looking back on it I realize now that the metal heads were one group that overlapped with pretty much every other social group in high school from the jocks to nerds to AVers to band geeks. You were probably only a degree or two away from anyone else in school via some metal head in common. And remember that this was back in the Tipper Gore PMRC era when a good number of adults assumed that heavy metal was pretty much the precursor to full-on Satanism or possibly just a stint in juvie. Now to be fair the metal heads may not have been the best guys to have on the opening shift at your restaurant but they were generally decent folks who just wanted to have fun and would help you out if you got in a jam.
Apart from the mullets and big hair one thing I notice in the video is a certain amount of un-self-conscious glee - along with a lot of drinking and smoking/toking in public. There's not a camera to be seen and they're enjoying the moment using the original social media - direct face to face partying. There's a joie de vivre in their just hanging out partying before rocking out at a concert that I'm not sure you see as much anymore.
What's fascinating about the video is that the people in it have become so well known that they now have their own nicknames - Barefoot Girl, Graham of Dope, 13-going-on-20, the Rabbi, and of course Zebraman. And the makers of the film have actually been able to track many of the characters from the original video and follow-up on them 10, 20, and now 30 years later with more HMPL reunions planned. It's become a heavy metal version of the film series Seven-Up. Most of them have gone on to get married, have careers and families, and become decent upstanding citizens. And generally they seem to have gotten more attractive as they got older too. Zebraman went on to became a plumber, got married and is now a grandfather. He went through a long country phase but says he's back into metal again. You can see a video of where they were at back in 2006 here and yes Michelle is now a bonified hottie..
So here it is in all its metal glory.
California Raids the Home of the Activist Behind the Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos
It's clear now that to embarrass the prevailing abortion orthodoxy is to bring down the full force of the government on you.
The Original 1999 Dunning-Kruger Paper
In which the authors described what became known as the Dunning-Kruger effect in which it was shown that dumb people were quite often too dumb to even realize how dumb they were.
Since then the paper has become something of a cult classic among psychologists and for good reason - it was well-written, used innovative methodologies, and was often funny while capturing some insights into human nature that everyone recognized once they were pointed out. Here are a few snippets.
Failure of feedback
France Makes Prostitution Legal, But Paying For It Is Now a Crime
Meanwhile It's Now Legal to Shack Up in Florida
12 Lesser-Known Historical Friendships
Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?
What Went Wrong With American Idol: An In Depth Analysis
Friends of Dinah: 20,000 Lesbians in the Desert
(thanks to Political Hat)
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 07, 2016 11:27 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 07, 2016 11:28 PM (ZZcmr)
Needs a shorter name... Blind leading the blind?
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 07, 2016 11:29 PM (T78UI)
The focus this time: On and on, South of Heaven
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11480
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 07, 2016 11:29 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 07, 2016 11:30 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Farmer at April 07, 2016 11:31 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Alana at April 07, 2016 11:32 PM (Dhq5N)
Posted by: Splunge at April 07, 2016 11:32 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2016 11:33 PM (XdfIf)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 07, 2016 11:34 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2016 11:34 PM (XdfIf)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 07, 2016 11:34 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2016 11:35 PM (XdfIf)
Loveland, up near the continental divide, above Georgetown, CO.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 07, 2016 11:35 PM (U6f54)
They want to have a baby together:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mother-says-sex-son-incredible-7712560
And I'm betting if you don't bake them a cake you will lose your business, your life savings and your home will be vandalized.
Posted by: RKae at April 07, 2016 11:35 PM (nDAnq)
They want to have a baby together:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mother-says-sex-son-incredible-7712560
Hard to decide which is sicker -- them doing that, or them wanting to be in the newspaper, doing that.
Posted by: Splunge at April 07, 2016 11:37 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Draki at April 07, 2016 11:38 PM (F6/Mp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 07, 2016 11:38 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 07, 2016 11:38 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:39 PM (ij8eu)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at April 07, 2016 11:39 PM (AoK0a)
Finally, some good news.
The amazing thing to me is that feminists push all this shit and then bitch that Freud said "Biology is destiny," and they complain that others - OTHERS, mind you - consider them cooch life support systems on the hoof. Do they ever talk about anything else? Ever?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 07, 2016 11:39 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: kraken at April 07, 2016 11:40 PM (sdxPm)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 07, 2016 11:34 PM (OQ9R7)
Nein!
(again) *chuckle*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2016 11:40 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 07, 2016 11:40 PM (2RBkF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2016 11:34 PM (XdfIf)
Too benign, doesn't put enough emphasis on the overly self-confident take-charge ignorant which is the keystone of Dunning-Kruger.
And I think of lemmings as being more end time.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 07, 2016 11:41 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:42 PM (ij8eu)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2016 11:42 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 07, 2016 11:42 PM (U6f54)
I know, right!
Just look at Joan Crawford and Betty Davis ...
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at April 07, 2016 11:42 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 07, 2016 11:42 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: :-) at April 07, 2016 11:43 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 07, 2016 11:38 PM
For some reason Lucy Ball dying bothered me more than other celebs. Maybe it had to do w/ my loss of good childhood memories.
Posted by: Farmer at April 07, 2016 11:43 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2016 11:43 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: kraken at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (sdxPm)
Posted by: Randolph Bismuth at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (doqkB)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (vaR50)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (ij8eu)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 07, 2016 11:45 PM (hVdx9)
When she was doing some of that spontaneous, slapstick, crazy stuff that would have you rolling in the floor, it was all carefully planned out.
They said she truly didn't know when she had something perfected, truly funny. They had to tell her, that's just right, Lucy, do that.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 07, 2016 11:45 PM (DW+jj)
But he's probably about 95 I.Q. at best, and has absolutely no wisdom, judgment or sense of his own limitations.
Multiple business failures, employment churn, you name it. Big dreams, Walter Mitty dreams, all the time. But, he never quits, always is there for his wife n' kids, and is a good hearted guy all the same.
I'd like to see him catch a lucky break, just for his family's sake.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2016 11:45 PM (McRlu)
Thank you, tsrblke!
Congrats and may you have many more, Polliwog!
Posted by: Adriane the Warp Thread Speed Critic ... at April 07, 2016 11:46 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 07, 2016 11:46 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: RKae at April 07, 2016 11:47 PM (nDAnq)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 07, 2016 11:47 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Splunge at April 07, 2016 11:48 PM (iMxBJ)
Amazing how they became friends.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:48 PM (ij8eu)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 07, 2016 11:49 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 07, 2016 11:49 PM (8AdYN)
It is. Didnt' read far enough to see whether any of those Lewis, Maxims, and, Brownings were legal, operable unit.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:50 PM (ij8eu)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 07, 2016 11:51 PM (KlVdw)
Yesssss...more. More!
More mortals drawn into my web; a great feast of souls is about to commence!
Posted by: Slaanesh, the Chaos God of Excess and Decadence at April 07, 2016 11:52 PM (s87AC)
Posted by: RKae at April 07, 2016 11:52 PM (nDAnq)
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I saw that article earlier today when I started prepping tomorrow's dump. I thought I would leave it untouched
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 07, 2016 11:52 PM (voOPb)
I'd like to see him catch a lucky break, just for his family's sake.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2016 11:45 PM
That's cool Jim. I know some like that.
Posted by: Farmer at April 07, 2016 11:52 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 07, 2016 11:45 PM (hVdx9)
Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't ya!
Posted by: Burt Gummer at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (EY6Re)
Posted by: rickl at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (sdi6R)
Thanks Adriane. My goal is to bring purchasers things they really want/need while helping to grow small businesses, and bring previously unknown artists to a wider market while providing funds to prevent human trafficking (or for recovery, but prevention is always better) by offering economic opportunity. Any feedback I can get on what people would like to see available is very welcome.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: eman at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Splunge at April 07, 2016 11:48 PM (iMxBJ)
He KNOWS he is smart because he got good grades in prayer rug exercises in grade school and that he was elected president, but mostly because he remembers something about being good at prayer rug exercises.
Calculus, history, throwing a ball, writing a symphony or a speach, etc? Yeah, he knows he can do those too, just as easy as prayer rug exercises, but why bother.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 07, 2016 11:54 PM (T78UI)
http://www.thescale.info/news/uploads/p-51a-colour-raf.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 07, 2016 11:54 PM (XdfIf)
Posted by: Burt Gummer
Damned if I didn't watch that last night. I had never seen it.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 07, 2016 11:54 PM (qtpPt)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 07, 2016 11:55 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2016 11:55 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Thrawn at April 07, 2016 11:55 PM (s87AC)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (ij8eu)
Remember that famous "candy line" scene where Lucy and Ethel were stuffing their clothes and mouths with the candy? They had a hired a real-life candy dipper lady, who had worked for 30 years on a candy line. The script called for her to slap Lucy in the face, and the woman was reluctant to do that. Lucy was afraid she would hold back and ruin the scene so she made sure to tell the woman to really slap her.
Well, she did when the cameras were rolling for the real take, and hit Lucy so hard Lucy feared she had broken her nose. Lucy kept right on going through, with the surgeon-like precision, and only got it checked out after the scene was done.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (1JnAL
I was at a baseball game, sitting maybe 15 feet behind home plate, when the gal next to me was fixated on her effing phone. The ballplayers could all have stripped off and been playing in their birthday suits for all she knew. I asked her if she could get the ball game on that thing. She didn't get the
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Thrawn
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It's all fun and games until someone loses his soul.
Posted by: RKae at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (nDAnq)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (GDulk)
It was halfway down my back and it took a lot of work to maintain.
When I moved, a considerate buddy told me it was time to cut the hair. I told him if he could find the scissors in all the moving boxes, he cold do it.
He looked for over a half-hour and finally found them.
*snip*
...gone.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (OQ9R7)
http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
It has passages like this, for example:
"It is not difficult to understand how social, political and institutional power enhances the damaging potential of a stupid person. But one still has to explain and understand what essentially it is that makes a stupid person dangerous to other people - in other words what constitutes the power of stupidity.
[ . . . ]
With a stupid person all this is absolutely impossible as explained [, a] stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any plan or scheme and at the most improbable times and places. You have no rational way of telling if and when and how and why the stupid creature attacks. When confronted with a stupid individual you are completely at his mercy. Because the stupid person's actions do not conform to the rules of rationality, it follows that:
a) one is generally caught by surprise by the attack; b) even when one becomes aware of the attack, one cannot organize a rational defense, because the attack itself lacks any rational structure."
Posted by: Kindltot at April 07, 2016 11:57 PM (6DMur)
The Mk IAs..... pair of 20mm in the wings?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2016 11:58 PM (McRlu)
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I'd actually attend the games.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 07, 2016 11:58 PM (rlfds)
How are your folks doing? You holding up/
Posted by: Farmer at April 07, 2016 11:58 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 07, 2016 11:58 PM (uZNvH)
Lucille Ball - originally Frankenheimer wanted her for the mother role in The Manchurian Candidate that went to Angela Lansbury.
Bonus - evidently Sinatra really wanted the role of Tavyed (sp?), the father in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof.
Posted by: vertov at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (RTOcO)
Congrats on your sale & good luck writing
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (ij8eu)
Dead of winter, open buggies. Umbrellas to shield them from the snow and wind.
With open carts, if there were kids on board, they might be looking back at me over the seat, me behind them in my truck.
I would wave, I would grin, make faces, to see if I could get a reaction.
Never did. They act as if you aren't there.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper,
Agree.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:00 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:00 AM (OQ9R7)
Vertov, Martin Scorsese actually wanted Johnny Carson to play Jerry Lewis' role as a late night TV legend in The King Of Comedy in 1982. I've read Carson really seriously considered it before finally turning it down.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:00 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:00 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: vertov at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (RTOcO)
Wut?
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 12:00 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: MAx, internet duff guy at April 08, 2016 12:01 AM (LAliD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:01 AM (ntObR)
Need to enbiggen that image to the whole screen, I guess. Oh well, needed a new wallpaper on the 'puter, anyway!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 12:01 AM (McRlu)
Posted by: vertov
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Tevye
Posted by: RKae at April 08, 2016 12:02 AM (nDAnq)
Posted by: eman at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (MQEz6)
I got saddled with straightening out a problem guy who was not cutting it as a scientist, was clearly not very able, and who basically was on Death Row, with my remit being to rehab him if possible, but if not ...
At his performance appraisal I was required to ask what he considered his strengths to be. He replied, "My great intelligence."
I almost spat coffee all over the table, since he was by far the dumbest guy in the place. How he got a Ph.D. in chemistry I'll never know.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:02 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 07, 2016 11:44 PM (ij8eu)
Not really.
Frank had access to all the fine Hollywood scamper, and JFK wanted access to all the fine Hollywood scamper.
Frank and most of the Rat Pack became Republicans after JFK had RFK tell Sammy not to bring his wife to a White House function. It seems JFK/RFK didn't think it would sell well with some Democrat voters a black man with a blonde white woman. Pissed Frank and the boys off big time.
Sammy and his wife did make it to the White House several years later when Nixon invited them.
And Dean Martin? Dino was a Republican the whole time. He had no use for JFK/RFK.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 12:03 AM (1JnAL)
The Mustang Mk I had 4 .30cal and 2 .50cal in wings along with 2 .50cal in the cowling bottom.
The Mk IA replaced all those guns with 4 20mm cannons. When the USAAF took over 90+ of the Mk IAs, they were simply designated P-51. Two of these P-51s became the USAAF test beds to fit a Packard built V-1650 Merlin.
The Mk IA/P-51 saw extensive action from 1942 forward and some were still on hand in February 1945. In North Africa the RAF even borrowed back some of the USAAF P-51s.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:03 AM (XdfIf)
Posted by: kraken at April 08, 2016 12:03 AM (sdxPm)
They also look up facts about players, so we can yell stuff, as well.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:03 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: eman at April 07, 2016 11:53 PM (MQEz6)
I got saddled with straightening out a problem guy who was not cutting it as a scientist, was clearly not very able, and who basically was on Death Row, with my remit being to rehab him if possible, but if not ...
At his performance appraisal I was required to ask what he considered his strengths to be. He replied, "My great intelligence."
I almost spat coffee all over the table, since he was by far the dumbest guy in the place. How he got a Ph.D. in chemistry I'll never know.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:02 AM (oKE6c)
Maybe his school said, "Here, take it, go, now."
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (MQEz6)
- Julia Roberts' role in Pretty Woman; and
- Demi Moore's role in Ghost.
I personally think she would have been great in the latter and horrible in the former.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (ntObR)
Thanks. I like sharing information, probably why I like teaching needlework, but writing something interesting is still a *lot* more work for me than knitting or crocheting an item for sale. It *feels* like work where the other doesn't.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (GDulk)
Minus the mega-mullet but yeah.
Posted by: md at April 08, 2016 12:05 AM (uKJIC)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 12:05 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:05 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 12:05 AM (ij8eu)
Hey, it's not that much more surreal.
Posted by: Splunge at April 08, 2016 12:05 AM (iMxBJ)
79 Bonus - evidently Sinatra really wanted the role of Tavyed (sp?), the father in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof.
Posted by: vertov at April 07, 2016 11:59 PM (RTOcO)
Wut?
Yeah, no kidding. I'd have loved to see it. Sinatra singing If I was a Rich Man with a martini in one hand, a smoke in the other.
Check out sometime the people considered for roles in The Godfather. Don Vito - Ernest Borgnine.
Yeah, I believe I'd heard that about Carson. Too bad he didn't do it.
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (RTOcO)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (MQEz6)
There's more to the story. My boss had been his thesis advisor back when the boss and I had both been in academia, and the boss felt a certain loyalty to him because of that. Hence the boss's asking me as a personal favor to see what I could do; anyone else would have been disappeared long since.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 12:07 AM (ij8eu)
The murderer was likely a black vagrant. For some reason UT allows hobos all over its campus. When my husband worked there we used to play "hobo or professor". They were indistinguishable..,especially when the hobos started carrying laptops. I made the mistake of going to the McDonalds on the strip. Once.
Anyway, the poor girl had posted earlier this year that "guns don't belong in a learning environment" and this is how SJWers get people killed. The girl was living in la la land thanks to adults feeding her that garbage all her life. Now, she was too young for a CC license anyway, but some mace could have served her well.
I know I don't have to tell the horde this, but for all that's good, please teach your daughters how to defend themselves.
That is all.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:07 AM (hbefS)
That is all.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:07 AM (hbefS)
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Done.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:08 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 08, 2016 12:08 AM (xq1UY)
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Yeah, the Drag is full of bums and hobos. College kids are easy marks, they know.
That poor girl.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 12:08 AM (lutOX)
Dino. What a guy.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 12:08 AM (ij8eu)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (MQEz6)
That happens all too frequently. I have one of those myself, thanks to the university bureaucracy.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:08 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 08, 2016 12:09 AM (R+30W)
There is something about knee and hip surgery that is bad to cause blood clots to form, and dang it, it happened. They had given her a blood thinner in the hospital, some damn injection form, but didn't afterwards. Why I don't know, maybe something about her overall condition made them not want to unless they had to. With me and my hip, they had me on a blood thinner for 6 weeks afterwards.
Now, my father. He still gets dizzy and has trouble with his balance, although he's improving. Slowly. It's the worst when he gets up from sitting or lying down. He'll be teetery for a few moments. But after that, he can amble along. He's taken to using a cane rather than the walker. I'm a little worried, but he's going to do what he wants to do.
And I can't complain, because I'd be the same damn way, likely worse. I'm my father's son, and we're just alike, even more so as I get older. And the thought of some young whippersnappers hanging around me telling me to be careful and fussing over me would drive me insane.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:09 AM (DW+jj)
also, I love MST3K, I have every episode and still watch them from time to time.
Shoey's top 5 list of MST3K's
1. Eagh!
2. Secret Agent Super Dragon
3. Killer Shrews
4. Manos: Hands of Fate
5. Swamp Diamonds
Posted by: Shoey at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (vA94g)
Has anyone done a study on how bubble-wrapping children from all harm makes them sheep?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (XdfIf)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:04 AM (MQEz6)
There's more to the story. My boss had been his thesis advisor back when the boss and I had both been in academia, and the boss felt a certain loyalty to him because of that. Hence the boss's asking me as a personal favor to see what I could do; anyone else would have been disappeared long since.
Well, it sounds like your boss might have some 'splainin' to do.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (MQEz6)
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Unconscious incompetence.
See: Teh JEF
Posted by: Mike Hammer, scrapping off barrel slime at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (9mTYi)
"The High Cost of Pickles and Onions"
http://tinyurl.com/hkwvxz7
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:11 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 12:11 AM (VdICR)
Nice site and layout.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:11 AM (8AdYN)
Geez after getting bit by a cobra, go get treatment. Not sing for another 45 minutes.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:12 AM (XdfIf)
Vertov, would have been interesting to see if Carson could actually act.
I'll bet he could have. My understanding is that he was a VERY private guy, so much so that the whole Tonight Show thing was basically an act. And he had a lot more show business experience that most realize.
Another one - they originally wanted Doris Day for Mrs Robinson. Evidently she was mortified at the offer.
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 12:12 AM (RTOcO)
OTOH, If she had done 'Pretty Woman' she wouldn't have needed Shelley Michelle to be her body double. Julia Roberts scrawny frame in the opening sequence was fixed by inserting the double putting on the same outfit.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 08, 2016 12:13 AM (IdCqF)
It's really scary. I think these kids have never faced even the slightest hint of danger so they don't have any understanding that the world is dangerous.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:13 AM (hbefS)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (MQEz6)
Yeah. He was a very able guy, and a good guy, perhaps a bit overly loyal in a Nixonian kind of way.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:14 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, scrapping off barrel slime at April 08, 2016 12:14 AM (9mTYi)
If I could go back in time, one thing I'd want to do is hang out with him and the rest of the Ratpack back in their Vegas heyday. Even if I was just a fly on the wall, I'd love to just be there and watch them in action.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:14 AM (DW+jj)
Doris Day would *not* have worked. She was actually too good looking at the time IMHO. Bancroft was much better, she had a much more 'lived-in' face already (although she wasn't very old IRL).
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718112974997753856
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113104840769536
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113258541068288
Posted by: kbdabear at April 08, 2016 12:15 AM (Q2MND)
Thanks, I have to credit SquareSpace with having made a *really* good template so all I had to do was remove their example and add our own content.
We should have items from a couple other artists pretty quick here, I'm learning that everything takes longer than initially estimated.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:15 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:13 AM (hbefS)
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Too much Barney.
That purple fucker was a menace.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (MQEz6)
I should add that it's common for faculty members to have almost father-son relationships with their grad students, for good or ill, and for people to refer to the student as an "academic son/grandson" of someone else. It's hard to convey, but there can be a pretty strong emotional bond there, so there's that.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (oKE6c)
He sure was. Every once in a generation you have someone like that. In control and totally cool all the time. While not an asshole.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (ij8eu)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113417761046528
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113570219798528
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113745218744320
Posted by: kbdabear at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (Q2MND)
131 Vertov, yup. Carson was extremely private... and had a reputation of basically 'using up' people. He'd meet them, fall in love with them, hire them... then five years later, find some reason to dump them, and do so.
Doris Day would *not* have worked. She was actually too good looking at the time IMHO. Bancroft was much better, she had a much more 'lived-in' face already (although she wasn't very old IRL).
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
Yeah, Bancroft looked like she could fuck a football team and not spill a drop of her martini.
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (MQEz6)
IMHO a *real* star is willing to do a few shots that don't necessarily show off their face.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (ntObR)
That purple fucker was a menace."
-Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (rlfds)
As far as I'm concerned, Barney, Canadian Geese and Spinach can all go to Hell.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:17 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Avalanche at April 08, 2016 12:17 AM (UeCJN)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718113912642801664
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718114095388631041
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/718114285352853504
Posted by: kbdabear at April 08, 2016 12:18 AM (Q2MND)
What on earth is a "gold star"' a "hardcore" or a "normcore"
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 12:18 AM (zOTsN)
135 Well, it sounds like your boss might have some 'splainin' to do.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:10 AM (MQEz6)
I should add that it's common for faculty members to have almost father-son relationships with their grad students, for good or ill, and for people to refer to the student as an "academic son/grandson" of someone else. It's hard to convey, but there can be a pretty strong emotional bond there, so there's that.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 08, 2016 12:16 AM (oKE6c)
Yeah, we are all human.
Posted by: eman at April 08, 2016 12:18 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 07, 2016 11:38 PM (EZebt)
Sometimes when I'm down in the dumps I go on youtube and watch the movie parodies that Carol Burnett did. They're hilarious.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 08, 2016 12:18 AM (+lVUW)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:19 AM (rlfds)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zhepfnd
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:19 AM (XdfIf)
Well, she did when the cameras were rolling for the real take, and hit Lucy so hard Lucy feared she had broken her nose. Lucy kept right on going through, with the surgeon-like precision, and only got it checked out after the scene was done.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 07, 2016 11:56 PM (DW+jj)
Lucy was a very shrewd woman, but Desi was the man.
CBS didn't want a multi camera setup of I Love Lucy, so Desi built the studio to do the show. One large enough for a live studio audience.
CBS didn't want to use film to tape the show preferring it to be live and then distributed by Kinescope. Desi picked up the expense of filming it, but only if he kept the rights to the show. From that, he was able to later sell the show to stations in syndication, and he started the re-run.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 12:20 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
How do you pick the artist/sellers? Is it open or just people you know?
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:20 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:20 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2016 12:20 AM (0mRoj)
>> and not spill a drop of her martini.
And wasn't it Mel Brooks administering the shlong at the time?
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:20 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (ntObR)
I thought "gold star" was the family who had a military member die in service. Would be typical to steal something like that for SJW purposes.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (GDulk)
-Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:19 AM (rlfds)
*doffs cap*
Howdy, ma'am.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (o+SC1)
***
An Englishwoman, you mean?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 12:22 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:22 AM (8AdYN)
Isn't that a woman as frigid as a Korean refrigerator?
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (o+SC1)
Now they prefer to be called LG lesbos. :-)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 08, 2016 12:22 AM (pAlYe)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (ntObR)
Heavy Metal does rule. One of the greatest......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmrIydnXIs
\m/
Posted by: Avalanche at April 08, 2016 12:17 AM (UeCJN)
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Ha! Dickinson mentions the Long Beach arena show in '84. I was there on the 4th night. What a show!
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (KlVdw)
Oh, agreed. So many of these were such ridiculous ideas, you wonder who thought of them? However, watching them try could have been hilarious.
On the other hand, McQueen was very wary of doing Bullitt. He was almost sorry from the begining. After all, what could be less cool than playing a cop in '67-'68?
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (RTOcO)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (ij8eu)
Posted by: Jack at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (/haNQ)
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:24 AM (8AdYN)
man. A silverstar lesbo is one who tried it with a man just once, and
then didn't like it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:24 AM (DW+jj)
Clarity in communication is key.
Fan Girl: You sure you don't have HIV?
Charlie Sheen: I'm positive.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 08, 2016 12:25 AM (KlVdw)
I heard Ensler interviewed on public radio a number of years ago.
She was talking about the enormous gang rape epidemic going on in the Congo, and she had the whys and wherefores of the whole thing figured out, she said.
The rapes were because of... dramatic pause ... drumroll... THE PATRIARCHY.
Of course! So simple! Why didn't the rest of us think of that?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 12:25 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Burt Gummer
****
Arrrg! I'm not a Graboid and I'm just lost! Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 12:26 AM (hVdx9)
Isn't that a woman as frigid as a Korean refrigerator?
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (o+SC1)
++++
North or South?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 08, 2016 12:26 AM (R+30W)
>> the 1960s and stayed together right up until Bancroft died
>> just a few years ago.
Somehow I can imagine him whistling a penalty for 13 men on the field...when he's the only one in in the bed.
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:26 AM (o+SC1)
Artists/creators in Texas get preference, then it's small businesses in the west, then national. I'll have to fill in with large companies when the brick-and-mortar opens. Also, orgs producing finished handicrafts as a way to help women gain work experience and financial education get preference for that item.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:26 AM (GDulk)
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The head of the EE Dept. at one (don't ask) of my schools was revered by the students. There were a number of VN Vets in school at that time, and we had a Vet's organization. The primary function of the organization was a monthly keg party. Imagine that.
Anyhow, the EE head always stopped in at those keggers and had a few beers. He was a WWII Vet himself, and enjoyed being just a guy with his older students.
He passed away about 10 years ago, and the attendance by ex-students at his funeral was astounding.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, scrapping off barrel slime at April 08, 2016 12:27 AM (9mTYi)
>> and then didn't like it.
A silverstar lesbo is one with blue headlights.
Posted by: JEM at April 08, 2016 12:27 AM (o+SC1)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 08, 2016 12:28 AM (McRlu)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (KlVdw)
I was at that show too. And yes, a great show.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 08, 2016 12:28 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 12:21 AM (ntObR)
And a damn patriotic American.
His f'n bongo drums had more patriotism in them than most of Hollywood put together today.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 08, 2016 12:29 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 08, 2016 12:29 AM (iQIUe)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/P-51A.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:30 AM (XdfIf)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 12:30 AM (zOTsN)
although he's improving. Slowly. It's the worst when he gets up from
sitting or lying down. He'll be teetery for a few moments."
Orthostatic hypotension. Common in the elderly. Common source of injurious falls in the elderly. Ticker trouble, medication side effect, or both simultaneously. Other possible causes, but heart and meds most often.
Get him to pay attention to this. I've seen some BAD falls happen from it.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 12:31 AM (noWW6)
Desi was a horn dog. And I admired the hell of out him.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:31 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's
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Conga-drums.
Bongos are for hippy-dippy stoners.
Posted by: Desi Arnez at April 08, 2016 12:31 AM (9mTYi)
local yokel robs only game in town grocery store,
then goes the next day to the car dealership and
tries to buy car in cash.
shortly after, heads to prison.
Posted by: concrete girl at April 08, 2016 12:31 AM (ceWrl)
I'm willing to consider them as I don't have anything in needlepoint right now. I'm looking into getting handloomed sewn items from a Fair Trade place in Sri Lanka that a local artist knows, so that would shape what was needed. They can contact me at the email at the bottom of the webpage if interested.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:31 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: vertov
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John Wayne was offered the role of Dirty Harry, but he didn't like the idea of a violent cop like that. After the movie came out, he admitted he was was totally wrong and made McQ, where he plays a cop with the biggest baddest gun in history. Cool, cool, cool flick!
Posted by: RKae at April 08, 2016 12:32 AM (nDAnq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 08, 2016 12:32 AM (XdfIf)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 08, 2016 12:30 AM (zOTsN)
That's a lesbian who secretly wants to do a specific regular on the sitcom "Cheers!"
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 12:32 AM (EzgxV)
Isn't that a woman as frigid as a Korean refrigerator?
I thought it was a chick who lost her clitoris to combat in World War II.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 08, 2016 12:33 AM (sl+zA)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 08, 2016 12:23 AM (KlVdw)
Damn that's awesome! It's amazing they sound as good still and they're selling out shows now. And they're all over 50. There's only one explanation: God loves Iron Maiden.
Posted by: Avalanche at April 08, 2016 12:33 AM (UeCJN)
Posted by: publius
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I love Dino! ...But my dictionary has Bobby Darin next to the word "cool."
Posted by: RKae at April 08, 2016 12:33 AM (nDAnq)
I inherited a Llama .380 that was made back in the mid 70's. My dad loved shooting it. They still go for about $300 on Gun Broker
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 12:34 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:36 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 08, 2016 12:36 AM (FkBIv)
idea of a violent cop like that. After the movie came out, he admitted
he was was totally wrong and made McQ, where he plays a cop with the
biggest baddest gun in history. Cool, cool, cool flick!
True - in fact, the original script called for Harry to be a much older guy. Damn, I'd like to have seen a John Wayne Dirty Harry.
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 12:37 AM (RTOcO)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 08, 2016 12:37 AM (rlfds)
His heart (he's had stents put in and is on various medications) was perfectly normal. They suspected a small stroke or TIA. But they found absolutely no evidence of it. Their official guess-nosis was "possible TIA".
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:37 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
They both have sucessful careers and do sewing/needle point out of love. They would be interested in browsing your sight though.
I asked thinking maybe it was a sight to share ideas, techniques, etc. Is it that too?
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:38 AM (8AdYN)
Honestly didn't like it very much. Like a lot of .380's it just wasn't much fun to shoot. In retrospect, I think it was primarily because of a high bore centerline.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, scrapping off barrel slime at April 08, 2016 12:39 AM (9mTYi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xB7usNSPo
Well have you heard this man's invention that they call atomic power?
We're all in great confusion, do we know the time or hour?
A terrible explosion will ring down upon our land
Bringing horror and destruction, blotting out the works of man
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 12:39 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 08, 2016 12:36 AM (FkBIv)
++++
There were 4 sequels, but 2 of them came after Wayne's death in 1979.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 08, 2016 12:39 AM (R+30W)
So a normcore lesbo would be one who dresses like that, whatever the fuck it looks like.
Again, this planet needs a Great Reset. The herd needs some cullin' or the stock is going to go bad and die.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:41 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: PabloD at April 08, 2016 12:41 AM (6zbVX)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
Got ya. Will send them the link. At the very least, I'm sure they'll love looking at the various pieces you have pictures of.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:43 AM (8AdYN)
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 08, 2016 12:45 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: PabloD at April 08, 2016 12:41 AM (6zbVX)
***
It's funny - I think that's a common game.
My mentor, however - born in the British Mandate of Palestine to Hungarian and German Jewish parents - was always dapper to a degree. Almost a dandy.
I recall when I visited him in the hospital after his first heart attack. (Yes, I was his 'academic son.') We talked for a while, mostly about my studies of Maimonides, and then he stopped.
'Would you, please?' he hasked, and nodded toward the closet.
I took out his dress-shirt (he had them made by those travelling Hong Kong tailors), tie, and jacket, and helped him into them.
His tie knotted, he leaned back on the pillow and sighed and smiled.
'Much better.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 12:45 AM (lutOX)
I'm not quite sure how to make it an actual *social* site, although I try to remember to enable comments on each blog post. If they are on Ravelry, a needlework oriented social site, we have a group there specifically for the shop. Ravelry allows for various threads to be available at once so it is easy to start a new topic or ask a question without needing to be a group admin. I also have a shop account on Twitter where they could interact, and a page on Facebook if they feel more comfortable being able to use full sentences.
I'd really like to create a community atmosphere somehow, but am still learning how the site works myself and haven't found a way to make that happen yet.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 12:48 AM (GDulk)
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
I'm outta here too. I've done more commenting today than lurking so my typing finger is tired. Good night to everyone.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:49 AM (8AdYN)
And there's the sneaky part. Orthostatic hypotension can and will produce a brief drop in BP (and oxygen to the brain) upon standing or rising, but then go back to whatever background "normal" might be for that individual. Even if their normal is high BP.
Best way to puzzle this out is to get one of those automated home blood pressure cuffs (read reviews, some of them are junk). Forty bucks for a good one.
Have him resting quietly and prone for a few minutes. Take an initial reading in that position.
Then have him rise (unaided) to a standing position, and immediately repeat the reading. Start the cuff re-inflating as he's in the process of getting to his feet. It takes the device 30 seconds or so to cycle.
Be prepared to catch him if he clocks out, obviously.
If his systolic BP is lower on the second reading, bingo! You've found it. Go let his doctors know.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 12:49 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:50 AM (OQ9R7)
Ha! We have a friend who's a math professor. He's endeavoring to wear a new tie knot every day. There have been some really crazy ones.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:50 AM (hbefS)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 12:51 AM (OQ9R7)
So the famous Llama quality control will be unaltered.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 12:52 AM (noWW6)
They put him on an EKG right there and it showed dead normal. His color was vary pale, "pallor" was the word, plus "cold and clammy" skin. I thought it was his heart and that's what the EMS guys thought. But normal cardiac everything.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:53 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: torquewrench
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What are a few coarse rasp marks here and there. Big deal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 08, 2016 12:54 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:55 AM (hbefS)
I inherited a Llama .380 that was made back in the mid 70's. My dad loved shooting it. They still go for about $300 on Gun Broker
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale
So hoping for a .30 carbine AMT 1911 with picatinny isn't too far fetched?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2016 12:56 AM (A/3fN)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 12:41 AM (DW+jj)
I'm fit, rested, and tan - ready to go!
http://tinyurl.com/zv9b46e
Posted by: Planet Nine at April 08, 2016 12:56 AM (s87AC)
Ha! We have a friend who's a math professor. He's endeavoring to wear a new tie knot every day. There have been some really crazy ones.
Posted by: Lauren at April 08, 2016 12:50 AM (hbefS)
***
Dr. M taught me a few, but, because of him, I still wear the full windsor exclusively. 'It suits your face,' as he said.
And he gave me the best bit of advice I'd ever received in terms of picking out clothes. He said my untutored choices tended to make me look like - his words - 'a russian undertaker' - and that I needed guidance.
'Go into Neiman Marcus, to the men's department. Find the best-dressed older homosexual man working in the place and ask him what you should wear.'
Sage counsel.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 12:56 AM (lutOX)
I'll tell them. Sounds like something they would be interested in. They even plan vacations around this type of stuff.
True story: My sister hosted a small convention a few years ago and had to leave it and travel over two hundred miles one way and bail me out of jail due to a bartender overserving me.
She was not amused!
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 12:58 AM (8AdYN)
I'm fit, rested, and tan - ready to go!
http://tinyurl.com/zv9b46e
Posted by: Planet Nine
Wasn't that an Ed Wood Jr. movie?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 08, 2016 12:58 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: torquewrench
****
Allegedly they will have better materials and quality control. They make some good 1911's there. Wish I had bought a few RIA's when they were cheaper.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 12:59 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 08, 2016 12:58 AM (FkBIv)
***
Plan Nine, you're thinking.
Planet Nine - since those bastards demoted Pluto - is assumed to be Nibiru, Marduk, or, for Lars von Tier fans, Melancholia.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:00 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 08, 2016 01:00 AM (GDulk)
Posted by: Slapweasel
That was a false alarm but now I'm really signing off.
Thanks Slapweasel.
Posted by: AmeriDan at April 08, 2016 01:01 AM (8AdYN)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 01:01 AM (OQ9R7)
I was at one of those, though I don't recall which night. I was kind of there under duress as I wasn't a metal fan but was the only available driver to take the sons and their friends of the guy who was letting me stay at his house at the time. It was treated as a big favor to me since I was getting a free ticket but I really don't like getting ear blasted by a band I like, never mind one I was indifferent toward.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 08, 2016 01:01 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 01:02 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
****
Wouldn't mind seeing those made again. I'd probably grab one if they weren't insanely priced.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at April 08, 2016 01:02 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at April 08, 2016 01:04 AM (iulfl)
People like that usually catch a break eventually.
Persistence pays.
Most of my own life, the only reason I eventually prevailed is because I stuck to it.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:04 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 01:08 AM (RTOcO)
Most of my own life, the only reason I eventually prevailed is because I stuck to it.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:04 AM (8QGte)
***
yep, absolutely true.
Martinis, persistence, and a smile, as the fellow said.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:09 AM (lutOX)
*-Usual disclaimers apply.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 01:10 AM (OQ9R7)
my family's unofficial motto is "One day longer."
And then there's Churchill: Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:10 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: GOP Expert Election Expert, Cert. Election Expert Grade B at April 08, 2016 01:11 AM (+odqz)
Cool if true, yes?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at April 08, 2016 01:12 AM (5csB/)
I actually, really, sincerely think that this could be The Cubs' year.*
*-Usual disclaimers apply.
Well - I'm not sure if it will be their year. But I'm expecting one hell of a lot of fun. Tonight was crazy. After 1 they were down 3-0. After 3, they were down 6-4. They won 14-6. Whoa, Nellie!!!
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 01:13 AM (RTOcO)
Cool if true, yes?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at April 08, 2016 01:12 AM (5csB/)
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Shakers. I think you mean the Shakers. I've been in the antique business, in a small way, and we had occasion to repair a few REAL Shaker pieces, and, yes, there was always an obvious - to a trained eye - flaw in the execution.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:13 AM (lutOX)
Now, she's dating some French chick, some singer, and they were in the Daily Mail making out all over Paris the other day (except in the Muzzie no-go zones, I'm certain). That chick looks to be goldstar.
So they would make a goldstar and normcore pair.
And I must comment that my one Mr. Happy definitely does not like "normcore" from the examples. Nor goldstar.
And the fact that this bullshit has occupied my time makes me want to throw myself into a black hole.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:14 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 01:15 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 01:16 AM (RTOcO)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:14 AM (DW+jj)
***
With age, I've grown tolerant, I find.
I think it good policy to let each go to Hell in his or her own way.
But I confess, I find myself sympathetic to so much that befalls us poor, deluded barrows of clay. It's odd...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:18 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:19 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:19 AM (VdICR)
***
The ultimate fusion of Seattle grunge.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:20 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:13 AM (lutOX)
Could you elaborate? What kind of flaw that a trained eye would notice?
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:19 AM (VdICR)
Sucks everything?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (EzgxV)
His ball bounced on the water hazard (yes) like a stone skipping across a pond, then on to the green, overshot the pin, then rolled back in to the hole.
That is some serious golf fu.
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (8QGte)
Until we meet again...
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 01:23 AM (OQ9R7)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chako_Paul_City
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at April 08, 2016 01:24 AM (5csB/)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:13 AM (lutOX)
Could you elaborate? What kind of flaw that a trained eye would notice?
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (1D4Ef)
I believe the Amish do the same thing. Things like, on a quilt, where the quilting is eight stitches per inch for the thousands and thousands of stitches....but there's a part where it's four stitches per inch.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 01:24 AM (EzgxV)
Cool if true, yes?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at April 08, 2016 01:12 AM (5csB/)
The Shakers certainly did this, and I believe some of the Amish as well. I think the Shakers were better quilters by far, and Amish quilting varies widely in quality, so some of the Amish mistakes might be unplanned.
As a quilter, I always say the turned square is a blessing--we always remain humble. That way, when I screw up, I can count it as a star in heaven.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2016 01:25 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (1D4Ef)
***
Sure. On a rocker we had to repair, I noticed that the pins holding the m&t joints on the back were not spaced the same on the left as on the right. There was a lack of symmetry that could only be explained by neglect or willful intent, because any decent woodworker would mark both joints for their pegs with the same setting on his gauge - but whoever did this clearly shifted his gauge, and so the pins on the left and the pins on the right were not in perfect alignment, as they ought to have been.
Or, on a spice box, I noticed that the dovetails on the drawers were not all laid to the same pitch. Again, there's no reason for that to happen unless the man building them was incompetent - the rest of the work showed he was a master - or he did it deliberately.
Shakers built beautiful things.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:26 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: vertov at April 08, 2016 01:08 AM (RTOcO)
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They haven't lost a single game all year!!!
And at this rate, Rizzo is on pace to hit 104 home-runs!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2016 01:26 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 08, 2016 01:22 AM (1D4Ef)
A small square that is pieced backwards, or turned when sew in, or even so much as an error in the quilting pattern (the stitches that hold the layers together, which is usually decorative). Sometimes it is a tiny piece which was cut from the wrong fabric. It varies on the individual quilter.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2016 01:27 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 08, 2016 01:27 AM (ntObR)
Hmmmm. Okay, keep us posted on developments.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 08, 2016 01:28 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 01:29 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at April 08, 2016 01:30 AM (5csB/)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:30 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:30 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:31 AM (DW+jj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYi9Vr8bHJY
Yo-Yo Ma and Allison Krause 'Simple Gifts'
Aaron Copland cribbed it, it's so good.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:31 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:30 AM (VdICR)
***
Good thing I bought all my ties in the Clinton years. Good thing.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:33 AM (lutOX)
Here is the album Stained Class by Judas Priest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArmjbRLhCk
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 08, 2016 01:33 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:31 AM (DW+jj)
***
Not all are as broad-minded as I'd like them to be.
Maturity - or at least wisdom, or some piece of either - is realizing that you would not want everyone to follow your path or approve of your choices. It takes time and experience to arrive at this place.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:34 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:35 AM (VdICR)
What bothers me about each going to Hell in his separate way is they
want the damn culture, the law, to not only tolerate it, but actively
celebrate it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:31 AM (DW+jj)
Like the old Soviets. Whoever stops clapping first gets sent to the camps.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:36 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:34 AM (lutOX)
There's also wisdom in realizing that the solutions that work for you don't work for everybody, and forcing everyone to do things your way would only end up making most people miserable. The solution is worse than the problem, so it's best to do nothing.
But meddlers gotta meddle. It's what they do.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:38 AM (J+mig)
want the damn culture, the law, to not only tolerate it, but actively
celebrate it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:31 AM (DW+jj)
And they want our children to actively participate in it. Why else would they be teaching the fine art of fisting to third grade kids in public school?
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 08, 2016 01:38 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Chi at April 08, 2016 01:39 AM (QWbr+)
But meddlers gotta meddle. It's what they do.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:38 AM (J+mig)
***
Yep. Tolerance - the real thing, not the trained-seal clapping of the modern age - is a two way street. Let a hundred schools contend, and a thousand flowers blossom is wisdom, and yet....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:39 AM (lutOX)
I mean, tolerance and all that, but there are things that I just don't get. Can't even conceive of how anyone could get off on.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:44 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:39 AM (lutOX)
This is also why the states were supposed to have the majority of domestic policy powers - because with as many states as we have, someone would eventually get it right and everyone else would rush to copy them or try new competing ideas based on their results. Instead, we get one-size-fits-none top-down bullshit just like everywhere else.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:46 AM (J+mig)
Will never work in real life. Pattern recognition is an innate human trait that is critical to our success. Creating kids incapable of noting differences in their peers will only work if you're satisfied to have children who are incapable in general.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 08, 2016 01:46 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:44 AM (DW+jj)
***
The world was a far better place when the degenerates, freaks, and pervs, embraced their status as outsiders and reveled in it.
But it's not enough for some, and so we have to 'accept' them, which rather defeats the whole point of their being transgressive, I'd think, but what do I know?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:46 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:47 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:46 AM (J+mig)
***
Burroughs was right - a junky can kick junk, but a power-addict can never give up power.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:48 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:30 AM (8QGte)
Blasphamy. Bruce Wayne in Dark Knight had a cleft in the exact middle, like Kirk Douglas chin. That's the mark of a dapper man, with prudential and stately business cards. The Joker had half-windsor, naturally.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 01:49 AM (VdICR)
But it's not enough for some, and so we have to 'accept' them, which rather defeats the whole point of their being transgressive, I'd think, but what do I know?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:46 AM (lutOX)
Not only accept, we have to adore them, fawn over them, and validate their bullshit constantly. Mere acceptance is not enough for them, they want to be held up as virtuous.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:52 AM (J+mig)
In my own case, I'm a lech, albeit one with some vestigal sense of morality.
But I certainly don't expect the world as a whole to accept that my choices are as acceptable as those of a man who married his high-school sweetheart, has never been with another woman, and could never even imagine wanting that.
I'm an outlier - the tolerance and forbearance of society at large proves that the underlying, normative culture is strong enough to endure the likes of me.
But I'd never expect to be 'accepted' or even celebrated for what I do.
This is simple stuff - why others don't get it escapes me.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:53 AM (lutOX)
I just have to say, Jedidiah is hot as freakin' hell. My XXX mind eye is going wide open with her, and throw Jessica in too, what the hell. Damn "Aunt Jed" is smokin'.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:53 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 01:54 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:54 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:54 AM (8QGte)
***
Good Lord - this is Chickology 101.
The difference is a result of different muscular structure, based on the dominant hand.
A left-handed chick will have a larger right breast, and vice versa.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:56 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 01:56 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: Adriane the "Science!" Critic ... at April 08, 2016 01:58 AM (AoK0a)
And Uncle Palp, sounds like you're normal to me.
Normal men want to spread their seed around as far and wide as possible. Literally. It's just that genetic drive doesn't go too well with making stable societies for raisin' the young 'uns, so we have the "norm" of being monagamous that the larger collective evolved to impose on us.
Dammit.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:58 AM (DW+jj)
If she's left-handed, kiss her right ear. If she's right-handed, kiss the left.
This is applicable in all cases, and in all areas.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 01:59 AM (lutOX)
TFA relies on some projected continuity, and isn't spontaneous like the OT. The same problem as the prequels but by a magnitude less.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2016 02:00 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: navybrat at April 08, 2016 02:00 AM (8QGte)
Really? That's the reason? Not because it is disgusting and way past its sell-by date?
Posted by: MathMom at April 08, 2016 02:02 AM (L4G9B)
The bolt-ons are messing with the natural order, I think. One unfortunate thing I've seen is the so-called "uniboob". The implants don't do right and try to blend together and make one big hump.
Some of these young starlets you see in various venues I wouldn't know anything about became I'm so pure and only know because a friend told me, get substandard boob jobs and shit like that happens. Take some pretty young thing and just ruin her boobs. All of them think they need big 'uns, and hell, all the different shapes and sizes are what makes life wonderful.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 02:02 AM (DW+jj)
Normal men want to spread their seed around as far and wide as possible. Literally. It's just that genetic drive doesn't go too well with making stable societies for raisin' the young 'uns, so we have the "norm" of being monagamous that the larger collective evolved to impose on us.
Dammit.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 01:58 AM (DW+jj)
***
My angel, the Future Empress, gets it.
She understands the 'nieces' are just a part of mammalian evolutionary drives. That I have a rule with them - we do not sleep beside each other, nor can they use the 'L' word with me - is enough for her.
'I have your heart and soul; they only have your body,' she says.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 02:02 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 08, 2016 02:02 AM (NnsSp)
I guess one nice part about how our movement has collapsed on itself is that the various Lefty radical groups are now picking fights with each other.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 08, 2016 02:03 AM (J+mig)
If she's ambidextrous, kiss her on the top of the head?
Posted by: Adriane the Critical Theory Critic ... at April 08, 2016 02:10 AM (AoK0a)
Some times it's not too nice, though.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 02:10 AM (DW+jj)
Goood evenin', y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - yeah? yeah? yeah? at April 08, 2016 02:13 AM (macz7)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 08, 2016 02:02 AM (NnsSp)
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Yeah, it assumes that all women have vaginas, which is obvious bigotry. That why some schools like Mt. Holyoke banned it.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2016 02:15 AM (T/5A0)
And there's more lost seamen than in Davy Jones' Locker.
Posted by: Sandra F. at April 08, 2016 02:15 AM (H9MG5)
If she's ambidextrous, kiss her on the top of the head?
Posted by: Adriane the Critical Theory Critic ... at April 08, 2016 02:10 AM (AoK0a)
***
Nope. Enjoy the Edenic experience of perfection, and head south as fast as you can.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 08, 2016 02:15 AM (lutOX)
Force Abrams, but this new teaser (we still have two trailers coming)
looks really fantastic.
---
The visuals are pretty awesome, as is the prospect of Vader showing up to kick somebody's ass.
I'm not really sure I need to spend another $10 on "any random chick picked off the street is better at the vital universe saving task than an entire galaxy of men are and it's so obvious we're not even going to question it".
Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, now apparently non-voting democrat at April 08, 2016 02:19 AM (ZbV+0)
Goood evenin', y'all."
-Posted by: mindful webworker - yeah? yeah? yeah? at April 08, 2016 02:13 AM (macz7)
*un-static*
Oh, Dear Lord...
-Don't.
-You.
-Dare.
Go listen to some Stryper, padre!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 08, 2016 02:19 AM (OQ9R7)
house went dark last night, just before 2100.
power came back about 1230 today.
thank you LA DWP.
for nothing.
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 02:22 AM (YBR3Y)
Some times it's not too nice, though.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 02:10 AM (DW+jj)
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble....
Posted by: Three Witches' vaginas at April 08, 2016 02:40 AM (EzgxV)
In about 7 hours I'll be popping the seals on some Drambuie and Crown and later going out to eat with my favorite red head.
And now its back to lurker status, ya'll daywalkers behave.
Posted by: Gmac-Celebrating another year of cheating death at April 08, 2016 02:40 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: 2nd witch's vagina at April 08, 2016 02:41 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 08, 2016 02:44 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Valentina Vassilyev's vagina ... at April 08, 2016 02:48 AM (AoK0a)
Learned some things I'm glad to have learned.
Learned some things I hope I can forget.
Off to bed, then.
Would "light metal" music be, like, Aluminum?
zzzz
Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for this one at April 08, 2016 02:49 AM (macz7)
That is all.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 08, 2016 02:44 AM (YLidQ)
Banquo's ghost does not go "BOO!"
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 02:51 AM (EzgxV)
Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! / Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; / Thou hast no speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with!
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 02:55 AM (EzgxV)
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Contemporary-Quilts-Quilters-American/dp/0764348744
I thought of the BH ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 02:57 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 08, 2016 02:57 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Valentina Vassilyev's vagina ... at April 08, 2016 02:48 AM (AoK0a)
Once a King, always a King; but once a Knight is enough.....
Posted by: Baroness Lili von Schtupp at April 08, 2016 02:58 AM (EzgxV)
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Contemporary-Quilts-Quilters-American/dp/0764348744
I thought of the BH ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 02:57 AM (AoK0a)
Pretty much the entire time we've been together, the fiancee has taken days off of work to attend PIQF, here in our home town -- https://www.quiltfest.com/ upcoming-shows-and-events/ pacific-international-quilt-festival/
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:02 AM (EzgxV)
I wish I could sew & I wish I had the time to sew if I could ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:12 AM (AoK0a)
on my end, Resident Evil prefers things that go BANG instead, so she does sporting clays and such...
po' me.
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 03:15 AM (YBR3Y)
But sometimes they're white,
Wishing everybody,
A Safe & Good night ...
Tulips are yellow,
& Sometimes they're pink,
Have a good day tomorrow,
It might be better than you think ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:17 AM (AoK0a)
I wish I could sew & I wish I had the time to sew if I could ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:12 AM (AoK0a)
Believe it or not, the fiancee is highly paranoid about sewing. She takes a lot of classes she probably doesn't need to, and is hesitant to figure stuff out by herself or experiment. By contrast, I'm the sort of person who -- once shown something -- would attempt to run it backwards to see if it would work in reverse.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:18 AM (EzgxV)
wish I had time for that, too ...
: -)
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:19 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 03:21 AM (YBR3Y)
My mother was a 'family & friends' seamstress. Very good. I was hoping to start with quilting 'cause if the seam wasn't exactly straight, the bed wouldn't complain.
Am going to do some tie dye & the book link came up from an Amazon search on shibori & batik.
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:22 AM (AoK0a)
i was on one with RE, and the other two shooters were about as far apart as you can get.
Geardo with all the accessories, and the $10K+ O/U shotgun, and Regular Joe with his old 870 with the adjustable Poly-Choke, likely a Western Auto sale item purchase by his dad, back in the day...
guess who out shot who, leaving us out?
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 03:25 AM (YBR3Y)
My mother was a 'family & friends' seamstress. Very good. I was hoping to start with quilting 'cause if the seam wasn't exactly straight, the bed wouldn't complain.
Am going to do some tie dye & the book link came up from an Amazon search on shibori & batik.
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:22 AM (AoK0a)
The fiancee also has done tie-dye. She's a little less inhibited about that.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:26 AM (EzgxV)
as for tie dye, i tried to get into that as a kid, but borked it. #duh.
would like to try again, if anyone has pointers.
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 03:31 AM (YBR3Y)
Am going to have a tie-dye party!
Just after the lawn chairs get re-slung, the grass gets planted & the loan application goes through & I get a few home made bread loaves started & repair the sliding glass door, install the new ceiling fan ...
But anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gydh3a_5oGM
probably with Jacquard instead of Tulip, but what the hey ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:31 AM (AoK0a)
I wish I could sew & I wish I had the time to sew if I could ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:12 AM (AoK0a)
Believe it or not, the fiancee is highly paranoid about sewing. She takes a lot of classes she probably doesn't need to, and is hesitant to figure stuff out by herself or experiment. By contrast, I'm the sort of person who -- once shown something -- would attempt to run it backwards to see if it would work in reverse.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:18 AM (EzgxV)
One of my earliest memories is in a department store (May Company?). I go to my mom and reach *up* to tug her skirt for attention. Once we have eye-contact, I ask, "do you know what happens when you push the red button on the escalator? [Had trouble pronouncing the word.]
Various emotions crossed my mom's face as she thought through the implications of "oh, crap -- he's going to tell me." Before she could come up with anything too horrific ("flaming napalm drops from the ceiling"), I blurted out, "It stops!" For me, it was a nice exploration of consequences -- it's not like a dozen pregnant women were thrown from it and half suffered miscarriages....it was this mechanism that I now knew more about than most people.
Then we went and found the floor manager to get the key to restart it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:37 AM (EzgxV)
Aw, you guys are nice!
I can get to Ben Avery, over in North Phoenix...
Have a 20 gauge Mossberg, but I need to butt it or pad it better. Im pulling as tight as I can & I still bruised up the collarbone.
I do like the recoil-less-ness of a Remington 760 (?) but too expensive for now...
Or maybe I just need to practice. duh! I might be softening the pull just as I pull the trigger in a flinch of sorts.
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:39 AM (AoK0a)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2016 03:40 AM (HGc3Y)
Your mom was lucky. : -))
Some escalators in arenas & the like can run backwards for crowd control / evacuation ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:41 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:43 AM (AoK0a)
Your mom was lucky. : -))
Some escalators in arenas & the like can run backwards for crowd control / evacuation ...
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:41 AM (AoK0a)
This would have been +/- 1967. Not that sophisticated.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 03:43 AM (EzgxV)
hey now. The Egyptians build the pyramids way before 1967 ...
: -))
And they did indigo tie-dye!
Don't think they did sporting clays, though.
Oy.
Really do need to hit the hay.
Posted by: Adriane the Sewing Critic ... at April 08, 2016 03:46 AM (AoK0a)
I do like the recoil-less-ness of a Remington 760 (?) but too expensive for now...
Or maybe I just need to practice. duh! I might be softening the pull just as I pull the trigger in a flinch of sorts.
as for flinching, we have these.... they w*rk.
http://shooterpads.com/
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 08, 2016 03:55 AM (YBR3Y)
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2016 04:00 AM (HGc3Y)
Article at Hotair
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2016 04:04 AM (HGc3Y)
Article at Hotair
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2016 04:04 AM (HGc3Y)
As if anyone goes there anymore.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 08, 2016 04:10 AM (EzgxV)
The show was great but the faint aroma of tuna hanging around the arena was off-putting.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 04:40 AM (QWtgr)
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2016 05:06 AM (HGc3Y)
Posted by: Obamaisacommunist at April 08, 2016 05:14 AM (AnkaJ)
I'm watching Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Okay, which one of you reprobates was the soon-to-be Zoomie blonde guy with the jailbait girlfriend? Fess up.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at April 08, 2016 05:21 AM (jR7Wy)
Yeah you would, you ginger minx. Classic 80's GB.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at April 08, 2016 05:23 AM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 05:32 AM (QWtgr)
Posted by: The ONT at April 08, 2016 05:36 AM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 05:40 AM (QWtgr)
Posted by: fluffy at April 08, 2016 05:48 AM (2hcmo)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 04:40 AM (QWtgr)
I'd have thought you'd find it enticing.
Posted by: angela urkel at April 08, 2016 05:52 AM (NnsSp)
Posted by: Diamond REO at April 08, 2016 06:02 AM (2hcmo)
Tastes vary. Sabbath and Deep Purple (though the latter might not be considered metal), oh yeah.
The 80's stuff and later? No thanks.
And tonight, I'll be checking out The NG Dirt Band on their 50th anniv tour. Probably see them again since they added some tour dates closer to home.
Posted by: teej at April 08, 2016 06:03 AM (VIWDj)
Posted by: angela urkel at April 08, 2016 06:06 AM (K7Mcs)
Normally, yes, but just prior to the show I'd eaten my way through a large school of blue fins and I'd really overdone it.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 06:09 AM (QWtgr)
In a class by himself, martial ability wise, to this day.
Posted by: teej at April 08, 2016 06:10 AM (VIWDj)
So, Morning all.
And, speaking of Norwegian Blues, here is something that isn't pining for the fjords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AIdYoMpINQ
Posted by: Kindltot at April 08, 2016 06:20 AM (6DMur)
Questions, questions.
What is the outer boundary of the universe? Is it the location of the farthest star, or is it the ever-expanding point that star's light reaches?
Understanding the concept of entropy, can any serious person believe that insanely complex living organisms life created themselves out of nothing through random mutations and chemical reactions happening over enormous periods of time?
How is The Big Bang Theory's "the universe exploded into existence from a infinitely dense, infinitely hot, infinitely tiny point in space" different than "let there be LIGHT!"?
I think too much but it takes my mind off of being under the weather.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 08, 2016 06:22 AM (QWtgr)
Posted by: Diamond fluffy at April 08, 2016 06:26 AM (2hcmo)
There are also video on installing a newer generation of LCD screen for a remarkable improvement in display quality.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 08, 2016 06:28 AM (IdCqF)
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Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 08, 2016 02:00 PM (Sda6L)
Well the welding gig didn't go so well. So the guy robbed a liquor store three blocks from the couple's apartment. Got caught, convicted and sent off for a year in one of the California state prisons. Got released, came back home, and within two months went to the same liquor store, robbed the same clerk, got caught, convicted and was given a two year jolt in prison.
Came back home--rinse and repeat--robbed the same liquor store a third time. Got caught and convicted--and sent to prison. This was maybe 15 years before the California three strike law was enacted. A good thing because that third armed robbery conviction would have meant a "life" sentence. Don't know if the dude continued his rather mad path to self destruction.
If he's still alive, he would be in his mid 70's now. He's already served a life sentence of terminal stupidity.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 08, 2016 02:26 PM (Sda6L)
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