The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

Oh, Chicks is Chicks, and Dudes is Dudes, and never the two shall meet; and if they do, I'm throwing poo! (Stuff Rudyard Kipling Said: Volume II)

No Gender December rolls round again

And I for one am tremendously excited to blur the genetic and cultural roles that two separate sexes have fit in rather nicely for...oh...our entire natural history. Because only good will become of that. For starters, we won't have war, or for that matter any violence, because it is the heteronormative patriarchy that is the corrosive effect on our culture. Get rid of that, and its unicorns and skittles!

In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim to end what they call 'gender-stereotyped toys'. They believe that with correct parental conditioning you can actually defy biological reality and scientific studies and make boys like girl's toys and girls like boy toys. Last year they were successful in lobbying major Australian retailers Big W and Target to end having gendered toy categories in their stores.

I have a cousin by marriage who is an Aussie. He is in his early 90s, fought in the Pacific and then Crete, was transferred to the British Mandate of Palestine, where he met my cousin. Got married, built a business, raised four kids, and now grows peaches in Colorado.

I think he is pretty confident of, and comfortable with his gender, and his wife's gender, and his daughters' genders. I'll bet he isn't confident of the future prospects of Australia though!

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Chris Matthews: 'The Worst You Can Say About Democrats Is They're Too Pure'

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said Thursday that Democrats are setting such a high standard for personal property that they can only be criticized for their purity.
Matthews described the pain that Democrats went through to "sacrifice" the "respected" Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) in the service of purifying the party. Franken announced his resignation Thursday in the face of mounting allegations of groping, although he focused his speech on accusing Republicans of wrongdoing and insisting that he is not guilty.
Matthews ascribed Franken’s resignation to Democrats’ strong support of women’s rights, and he asked his guests if this would cause more Americans to support Democrats.

What the hell is there to say about this? The man may be the Democrat's best and most consistent shill, although I freely admit that the competition is fierce. But the sheer volume of intellectual contortion needed to think of this and then, wonder of wonders, actually speak it aloud is just phenomenal. I have to give the man credit, he is ferociously dedicated to his craft. And the bottle of Jameson's in his dressing room.
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Feinstein Urges Trump Not to Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Despite Voting to Move Embassy to Jerusalem

Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem would be in line with a law that Congress passed in 1995 requiring "the relocation of the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem." The measure, which also called for the U.S. to recognize the city as the undivided capital of Israel, passed the Senate by an overwhelming 93-5 margin.
Among the senators who voted for the initial Jerusalem Embassy Act was one Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein actually played a key role in getting the bill passed by inserting a provision that would allow the president to issue a waiver to delay the embassy move six months at a time, if the president determined it was in the U.S. national security interest.
Feinstein's move led 10 additional Democratic members to support the bill, giving it a veto-proof majority.

Shut your corrupt whore mouth. And while you are at it, why don't you rein in your corrupt thief of a husband. And get a new fvcking hair style: that one has been old for about 35 years.

Israel is a sovereign nation, and it is nobody's business but their own where they put their capital. That it is an issue is a testament to the hatred that the world holds for Jews, Judaism, and their current incarnation, The State of Israel. Everyone is just so, so disappointed that Hitler didn't finish the job, and the world still has some Jews floating around causing trouble. And they even had the balls to recreate their own country from the ashes of its first go-round, which lasted about 1,000 years in a little corner of the Middle East. You know, where their culture and religion started.

The "Palestinians" are a convenient excuse for Jew-hate, and in fact their cause is an entirely fictional one, created by the Arab League before Israel fought and won the Six Day War, and took back some of its ancestral territory.

And Diane Feinstein buys into that, or it's just a naked political play to criticize President Trump. Either way, she is a harridan and a thief and a destructive influence on any sort of coherent foreign policy.

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Posted by: CBD at 11:32 AM

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Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:29 AM (/0IRq)

2 Dumb luck. I'll fetch the others

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:29 AM (/0IRq)

3 So give the Moron Cookbook as Christmas presents.

No gender invovled. Though cooking abilities might be needed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 11:30 AM (z/8Yh)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (Fb9aZ)

5 So it's Trump's fault that a peaceful muslim tried to blow up a NYC subway station, right?

Posted by: #neverskankles at December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (SapVv)

6 At last we know who was phone!

Posted by: Randy at December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (jBwOG)

7 I'm sewing up my genitalia for December. YAY!

Posted by: Virus at December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (hyZqB)

8 LOL! at that last pic!

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 11:33 AM (Enq6K)

9 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" & "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:33 AM (7HtZB)

10 Bwahaha! Throwback selfies! Took me a while to get that.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:34 AM (RD7QR)

11 Don't like stereotypes? Don't live it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:34 AM (rGtm/)

12 That's not how it works. It's not how many of this works!

Posted by: Virus at December 11, 2017 11:34 AM (hyZqB)

13 ANY

Posted by: Virus at December 11, 2017 11:34 AM (hyZqB)

14 I'm waiting for the Dems to present people of color who accuse Trump of holding them in bondage.

Which, as it turns out, is mostly they failed to get a raise at one of his hotels or reminded to show up on time.

Just like slavery.

Posted by: Ripley at December 11, 2017 11:34 AM (MxEKc)

15 9 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" & "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.
Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:33 AM (7HtZB)

Do. Not. Put. It. In. Crazy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (RD7QR)

16 No gender ? Aren't we required to adress people by their chosen gender?

Posted by: rifraf at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (RiEBD)

17 Is that one of those "no contract" phones?

Posted by: irright at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (RVcmP)

18 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" & "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.
Posted by: josephistan

Every boy loves that training aid and toy, "My First Douche".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (rGtm/)

19 Trump should move our embassy from London to Liverpool, from Berlin to Munich, from Paris to Calais. Jst for the lulz.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (/0IRq)

20 Well, that cell phone sure is retro.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (tVWQB)

21 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (mynhJ)

22
Every boy loves that training aid and toy, "My First Douche".
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I am everything I am today because of it.

Posted by: Shep! at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (vg8iE)

23 The way the Ds are going, they'll only have dick to run on in 2018.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (cAXIk)

24 So today is the day the Democrats up their game and go after DJT again on mish-grabbing. They will never learn, will they?

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (ylUqT)

25 18 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" & "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.
Posted by: josephistan

Every boy loves that training aid and toy, "My First Douche".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (rGtm/)

Mommy, what's a tampon and why did crazy Aunt Starflower give me one?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

26 19 Trump should move our embassy from London to Liverpool, from Berlin to Munich, from Paris to Calais. Jst for the lulz.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (/0IRq)

Then wait a year and move them all back again. For more lulz.

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (Enq6K)

27 Woo hoo!

Hmmm - what's with the creepy guy with the phone in the mirror?

Hello Ms. Feinstein? Its a collect call for you from a "Mr. Nobody Gives a Fuck About Your Ridiculous Changed Position on Jerusalem"

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 11:37 AM (Fb9aZ)

28 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?
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Excellent point, we're starting on an essay right now!

Posted by: Buzzfeed writers at December 11, 2017 11:37 AM (aT+Bx)

29 You've heard of Obamaphones? Well, that's the new Biden phone.

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at December 11, 2017 11:37 AM (ylUqT)

30 You...ahhhm...tell 'em, Chris. Just because there's...ahhhhm...a dead girl in your...ahhhm ...underwater car doesn't mean you aren't...ahhhhm...pure!

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (O5Q3r)

31 23 The way the Ds are going, they'll only have dick to run on in 2018.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (cAXIk)

Are you kidding? There won't be a dick left in the entire party by that time.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (KUaJL)

32 21 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (mynhJ)

Well, the whole "no dick" thing is pretty unrealistic for most boys.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (RD7QR)

33 Heh....Robert Cornelius is credited with the first 'selfie.'
Daguerrotype, bishes!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (fA1SL)

34 >>Trump should move our embassy from London to Liverpool, from Berlin to Munich, from Paris to Calais. Jst for the lulz.

Put all embassies in RVs and keep them on the move. Keep everyone's head on a swivel.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (/tuJf)

35 You just know that those Progtards who say, "Don't stereotype people, that's bad" will be the first ones to complain about "white priviledge," "toxic masculinity," "Republicans are all _____," and various and assorted other SJW BS.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (tRaq7)

36 Well, the whole "no dick" thing is pretty unrealistic for most boys.
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Speak for yourself!

Posted by: Chaz Bono at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (vg8iE)

37 You've probably all seen the viral video with the bullied boy who's getting all the celebrity invites.

Sean Hannity and Donald Trump, Jr. among them.

Just reading several MSM articles that manage to list celebrity after celebrity who has offered to help the kid out or invite him someplace cool...but they all manage to leave out Hannity and Trump, Jr.'s offers.

Strange, that.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (ul9CR)

38 Yeah more on gender and toys...

There were twin boys born in Canada. On one the electric circumcision went badly cauterizing away his sword before he even knew what it was. "Lo!," yelled with maniacal glee Dr. Money out of Johns Hopkins, "treat him as a girl and call him Brenda."

Well the parents, believing doctors to always be right, tried to do that. And Dr. Money started writing papers on how successful his experiment on a human child was going. So he got famous.

Brenda meanwhile was a very very sad child. Dolls did not interest Brenda. Brenda wanted to play with toys for boys. But Dr. Money kept telling the parents and the world what a success the experiment was.

Until Brenda got to be 11 or 12. After battling depression and other mental woes, Brenda was finally told the truth. Brenda tried to put his life back in order and took the name David. But you see Dr. Money had damaged him. So David took his own life.

As for Dr. Money. He is also dead and hopefully getting reamed on the flaming barbed cock of Satan for what he did to one innocent child.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (z/8Yh)

39 Love listening to Nikki Haley's simple coherence in the insane vortex which is the UN. What other country doesn't get to determine where it's capital city is? What other country is there where we don't locate our embassies in the same city that the country has its government in? Imagine a world where the press were honest for like an hour a day. That's really all it would take to shake us free of all the crap the left foists on the world.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (qcIL3)

40 My first cell phone wasn't much smaller than the phone in that pic.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (/0IRq)

41 Crowder's "Change My Mind" on gender is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtftZPL-k7Y

These people cannot perform basic logic/reasoning, they can only repeat talking points. "Misgendering is violence!! Well, no, it isn't a crime, but....it's violence!! Unless it's unintentional, and then it's...it's....well, it's violence!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (W+vEI)

42 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (mynhJ)

And kung-fu grip.

Posted by: Joey Biden at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (jBwOG)

43 Last year they were successful in lobbying major Australian retailers Big W and Target to end having gendered toy categories in their stores.

You know, I once thought of the Aussies as being a jovial, yet hardened and brawling sort. Apparently not.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (NWiLs)

44 Under the oh FFS category, Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be brainwashed.

Because apparently, standing up for your boss and speaking the truth is a sign of mentally instability, or something.

So not only is she a filthy whore, according to Chelsea (who actually is one), but she's a brain-dead cultist, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (ptqGC)

45 As for Dr. Money. He is also dead and hopefully getting reamed on the flaming barbed cock of Satan for what he did to one innocent child.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (z/8Yh)

Amen and amen. That fucker was evil.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 11:40 AM (NWiLs)

46 >>>>There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.
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.Mancard rule #7, never stick your dick in crazy.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 11:40 AM (+Dllb)

47 Hmmm - what's with the creepy guy with the phone in the mirror?

Old school bathroom mirror selfie.

Get if?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (rGtm/)

48 My husband was telling me a story about when my stepson was about 3. They were meeting at my BIL's house to caravan to a funeral, and 3yo stepson was hanging with 4yo niece. Niece showed him her baby doll in a carriage, and he got super excited ... and took the carriage and starting vrooming around the house like a race car, making loud noises. Niece got all freaked out, and BIL asked her, "boys are crazy, aren't they?" And Niece just nodded, with huge eyes.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (QAOZh)

49 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

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Don't just assume xer gender!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (KUaJL)

50 Good morning all.

The Fire here made a huge jump Saturday night and yesterday. Voluntary evacuations for parts of the city of Santa Barbara. Mandatory evacs for the foothills. Winds were not bad last night so things are better today as the fire heads to the interior side of the coastal foothills. Soon it will meet up with the burnt areas from the fires last year. So we got that going for us.

I'v heard crazy talk that we should go back to "controlled burns" and firebreaks like we had up until the early 80s. Sure that worked but the watermelons will never let that happen. Better we have huge fires and terrible air quality. It is a price that the watermelons are willing to make the rest of us pay.

At Casa Jukin we did our best to fight the fire by getting all of our valuables ready and the RV set up to bug out. That alone I'm sure stopped the advance. Took quite a few hours.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (3BFzK)

51 About that Times Square bomber ...

Hoist on his own petard!

Shakespeare for blown up by his own bomb.

Usually used figuratively.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (cAXIk)

52 >>There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

So....safe to say she is childless, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (W+vEI)

53 Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be brainwashed.
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Barbara Boxer: Unethical in and out of office!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (vg8iE)

54 Mommy, what's a tampon and why did crazy Aunt Starflower give me one?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

It's a field-expedient medical device used to slow or stop bleeding from gunshots or other penetrating wounds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 11:42 AM (NWiLs)

55 Yeah, pure. Ah think that' s why that woman, Miz Lewinsky, did not have sexyall relations with me.

Posted by: Bill Clinton, The Father of Modern Sexual Harrasment at December 11, 2017 11:42 AM (O5Q3r)

56 Much like Trump driving many/most on the left batty, this Handler person seems to have latched onto Sanders as a personal bugaboo.

Posted by: irright at December 11, 2017 11:43 AM (RVcmP)

57 >>Under the oh FFS category, Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's
failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee
Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be
brainwashed.

Uh, she's doing her freakin' job. Tell me Josh Earnest, Bob Gibson, etc. were not "cultish" in defending Obama based on Boxer's characterization.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:43 AM (W+vEI)

58 52 >>There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

So....safe to say she is childless, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (W+vEI)

Yes. She was shopping for her nieces & nephews.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:43 AM (7HtZB)

59 Not only should he move our embassies, Trump should rename heads of state.

Your name is Angela? No, that won't do. From now on your name is Bob. Theresa, your name is Pinto. Macron, your name is Flounder.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2017 11:43 AM (/0IRq)

60 At probably 2 years old my son pulled a toy pistol out of a pile of used toys and started shooting people with it. We're gun folk (in fact a Ruger 10/22 is finding its "forever home" with him this Christmas) but at the time we had not exposed him to firearms in toys or media or any other way. He just instinctively knew. And in the same way girls toys have never been an option for him. Absolutely NO interest.

Posted by: Keith at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (USf3s)

61 At Casa Jukin we did our best to fight the fire by getting all of our
valuables ready and the RV set up to bug out. That alone I'm sure
stopped the advance. Took quite a few hours.
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That's actually a really good idea. I'm a big fan of "preparedness."

Stay safe, and remember, if things get rough, hobo meat is fine, but liberal meat is toxic.

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (aT+Bx)

62
I'v heard crazy talk that we should go back to
"controlled burns" and firebreaks like we had up until the early 80s.
Sure that worked but the watermelons will never let that happen. Better
we have huge fires and terrible air quality. It is a price that the
watermelons are willing to make the rest of us pay.

At Casa
Jukin we did our best to fight the fire by getting all of our valuables
ready and the RV set up to bug out. That alone I'm sure stopped the
advance. Took quite a few hours.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 11, 2017 11:41 AM (3BFzK)

Goobenor Moonbeam sez wildfires in CA are just a way of life from now on.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (ptqGC)

63 There is a rotary dial phone on our kitchen wall. Better sound than our cell phones. We use it for all local calls. Its gender is black.

Posted by: colfax mingo at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (rWYtq)

64 I was at Barnes & Noble yesterday and noticed that Teen Vogue is guest-edited by Felonia Von Pansuit this month and features an all woke resistance cover.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (7HtZB)

65 Hey, Gov. Brown!

Defensible space.

How does it work?

Posted by: Bill Wynn's Undies at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (3myMJ)

66 Another note on the fire here. Eight days of fighting the fire. 4-6000 firefighters, two big airplanes (7474 and DC10) lots of smaller planes and thirty helicopters, and hundreds of fire engines/trucks. It has cost 4 times more than the Mueller witch hunt. So we are getting good value here. WDC not so much.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (3BFzK)

67 Franken said that he would resign, some time in the future. He hasn't resigned or announced a resignation.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (QQ+il)

68 Bittersweet day here in Philly as the Eagles clinch the division, but Carson Wentz, one of the NFL's true good guys, goes down with an injury. Fat liberal guy at the office was going on about the Eagles should sign Kaepernick. If they did, I would never watch another game.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (mynhJ)

69 Given the general state of things, my wife has gone from asking me, "how much ammo can one person have?" to "are you sure you have enough?".

Posted by: rammajamma at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (AjNMO)

70 A lot of voting is just theater for the benefit of the rubes. Feinstein on Israel's capital, the GOP on repealing Obamacare . . . .

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (ppBhU)

71 Everyone is just so, so disappointed that Hitler didn't finish the job, and the world still has some Jews floating around causing trouble.

Heck. I'm pissed the world still has some white people floating around causing trouble.

Posted by: Jeremiah Wright at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (/qEW2)

72 Uh, she's doing her freakin' job. Tell me Josh Earnest, Bob Gibson, etc. were not "cultish" in defending Obama based on Boxer's characterization.
Posted by: Lizzy

_________

What's funny is I feel Trump's fans almost play it up like a joke with the "god emperor" stuff.

Obama's fans really believed he was a messiah.

Posted by: Maritime at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (lKmt3)

73 The man may be the Democrat's best and most consistent shill, although I freely admit that the competition is fierce. But the sheer volume of intellectual contortion needed to think of this and then, wonder of wonders, actually speak it aloud is just phenomenal.

In fairness, Matthews was drunk at the time.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (QQ+il)

74 Yeah, nothing sez "pure" like dick pic selfies sent to underage chicks!

Posted by: Anthony "The Weiner" Weiner at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (O5Q3r)

75 That last pic looks phony to me.

Posted by: Johnny at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (kUotE)

76 Goobenor Moonbeam sez wildfires in CA are just a way of life from now on.
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I heard that the other day.

Way of life.

Just like terrorism.

Nothing we can do. Just lay back and take it.

/yes, we are getting raped by certain elements of the government.

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (aT+Bx)

77 63 There is a rotary dial phone on our kitchen wall. Better sound than our cell phones. We use it for all local calls. Its gender is black.
Posted by: colfax mingo at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (rWYtq)

Let's see if anyone else will post the joke I'm thinking of

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (7HtZB)

78 57
>>Under the oh FFS category, Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's

failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee

Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be

brainwashed.

Uh, she's doing her freakin' job. Tell me
Josh Earnest, Bob Gibson, etc. were not "cultish" in defending Obama
based on Boxer's characterization.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:43 AM (W+vEI)

It's hilarious that some (all?) on the left are trying to get Trump ousted because they think he has dementia and because 25th Amendment.
These moonbats are one full moon away from being involuntarily committed themselves. And if they keep it up, they'll get it - with 7 more years of Trump for the #win.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (jxbfJ)

79 If you give a girl four matchboxes and a playschool garage and she names the cars Mommy, Daddy, Sister and Brother, and calls the garage home, puts them to bed and tucks them in, should you tell her she is doing it wrong.

The cars should vroooooom screech and crash and fly off the top of the garage explode and burn, right? I mean that's how it's done right?

My daughter would make a family out of driveway stones and a house in the cranny of a stone wall. Hammer for the playschool workset was a magic fairy wand.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (ymnmz)

80 64 I was at Barnes & Noble yesterday and noticed that Teen Vogue is guest-edited by Felonia Von Pansuit this month and features an all woke resistance cover.
Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (7HtZB)

And that's as close as she'll ever get to being POTUS.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:46 AM (RD7QR)

81 >>Yes. She was shopping for her nieces nephews.

Oh, so she's least favorite aunty when it comes to presents, then?

Boys and girls are different, the just are. Feminist textbooks and feminist Tmblr can't make it not so.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:47 AM (W+vEI)

82 Franken said that he would resign, some time in the future. He hasn't resigned or announced a resignation.

There's no time like the present.

Somebody needs to snatch his Prog ass out of there toot sweet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 11, 2017 11:47 AM (tRaq7)

83 >>>>
Franken said that he would resign, some time in the future. He hasn't resigned or announced a resignation.
.
.
.And he isn't going to resign. When Moore wins I expect him to make an announcement from the Senate floor withdrawing his resignation and calling out mcconnell to treat him fairly.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 11:47 AM (+Dllb)

84 At probably 2 years old my son pulled a toy pistol
out of a pile of used toys and started shooting people with it. We're
gun folk (in fact a Ruger 10/22 is finding its "forever home" with him
this Christmas) but at the time we had not exposed him to firearms in
toys or media or any other way. He just instinctively knew. And in the
same way girls toys have never been an option for him. Absolutely NO
interest.

Posted by: Keith at December 11, 2017 11:44 AM (USf3s)

Our son made his first toy gun out of Duplos (Legos for preschoolers). My MiL was horrified.

I was at Walmart buying toys for needy kids the other day, and there was a display with a lil' pink kitchen and a little black boy playing with it. A PINK kitchen.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 11:47 AM (ptqGC)

85 Goobenor Moonbeam sez wildfires in CA are just a way of life from now on.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Punishment from God for voting for not guilty for Kete Steinle's murderer.

Just like they said hurricanes were God's punishment for voting for Trump.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:47 AM (rGtm/)

86 MeAgain at it again with the DJT bashfest. I'm getting tired of her. Only reason it's on is cause the wife had it as background noise.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 11, 2017 11:48 AM (2WfB0)

87 Jane D'oh: there are a lot of psychologists with books out "diagnosing" Trump and his supporters. Spoiler alert: they say we're nuts and evil.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 11:48 AM (6FqZa)

88 -

Let us put our purity in you.
Or at least on your ficus.

Posted by: da Dems at December 11, 2017 11:49 AM (RVcmP)

89 The perpetrators are suing the other perpetrators and the taxpayers will pick up the tab. Where else? California!

Leftists Suing California Schools: 96 Percent Of Kids Can't Read

http://bit.ly/2Bb77jJ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 11:49 AM (+y/Ru)

90 I am sure this has been noted, but since we know so much about NYC bomber he must be a known wolf, right?

Posted by: blaster at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (WonQS)

91 Public health officials said to keep hydrated and stay indoors.

Looks like I'm popping my first beer sooner than normal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (3BFzK)

92 Leftists Suing California Schools: 96 Percent Of Kids Can't Read
=======

They may as well include themselves in that lawsuit. They made it ALL happen.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (vg8iE)

93 If anybody bought one of my sons a gender neutral toy they would probably try figure out a way it could be used as

1. A weapon.
2. A skateboard ramp.
3. Something to start a fire with

I'm very proud of them.

Posted by: Ripley at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (MxEKc)

94 there are a lot of psychologists with books out "diagnosing" Trump and
his supporters. Spoiler alert: they say we're nuts and evil.
---

why are we not optimizing this in the world?

"We're American's. Our president is Worse Than Hitler, we have a lot of nukes, control the weather and we effing OWN the moon. So STFU."

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (aT+Bx)

95 66.
'...and thirty helicopters....'
**
Let me know when yall are done with them, 'k?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (fA1SL)

96 67 Franken is waiting to see whether Roy Moore wins tomorrow. If I were a betting guy, I'd bet Franken reneges on his "resignation" if Moore should lose, for the women or something.

Posted by: jayhawkone at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (ZD+J8)

97 Leftists Suing California Schools: 96 Percent Of Kids Can't Read

Your government atwerk.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (tRaq7)

98 MeAgain at it again with the DJT bashfest. I'm getting tired of her. Only reason it's on is cause the wife had it as background noise.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 11, 2017 11:48 AM (2WfB0)

Her ratings are not low enough?

Posted by: blaster at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (WonQS)

99 The shareholders at NBC must be so proud - Lauer up in flames, lawsuits no doubt coming and $20 plus million on Kelly for zero return. That's capital management folks!

Posted by: rammajamma at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (AjNMO)

100 67 Franken said that he would resign, some time in the future. He hasn't resigned or announced a resignation.
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That announcement was so last week. He will leave the Senate when he is forced to leave, and not a day earlier.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (W+kMI)

101 there are a lot of psychologists with books out "diagnosing" Trump and his supporters. Spoiler alert: they say we're nuts and evil.
========

If only there was an association of professionals who monitored unethical behavior of mental health practitioners and professionals.

If only.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (vg8iE)

102 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

Cute, but stupid.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 11, 2017 11:52 AM (IcT7t)

103 90 I am sure this has been noted, but since we know so much about NYC bomber he must be a known wolf, right?
Posted by: blaster at December 11, 2017 11:50 AM (WonQS)

If the French are any indication they know all of them and did nothing about any of them.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:52 AM (RD7QR)

104 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?

My son had a GI doll and if I remember correctly it was missing a certain body part. I glad my son didn't want to change his anatomy to look like that GI doll.

Posted by: arieswoman at December 11, 2017 11:52 AM (fwWWI)

105 68 Bittersweet day here in Philly as the Eagles clinch the division, but Carson Wentz, one of the NFL's true good guys, goes down with an injury. Fat liberal guy at the office was going on about the Eagles should sign Kaepernick. If they did, I would never watch another game.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (mynhJ)

Was it the Eagles or the Ravens that already offered him a contract but his SJW girlfriend said 'no'....cuz plantation owners or sumthin'.

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (Enq6K)

106 >>At probably 2 years old my son pulled a toy pistol

out of a pile of used toys and started shooting people with it.

I gave my parents an old toy set of my son's that they use to entertain young visitors (along with some other toys). It's a set of bright plastic pipes, like plumbing pipes - some straight, some curved, some joins. Every single kid that has ever played with that set over the years - every last one, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity - has made a gun and pretended to shoot people with it. It is hilarious.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (W+vEI)

107 Cute, but stupid. = Cupid???

Posted by: andycanuck at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (QCX64)

108
I am sure this has been noted, but since we know so much about NYC bomber he must be a known wolf, right?
--

1. Lone Wolf
2. Nothing to do with Islam
3. Triggered by Trump
4. Triggered by Islamophobia in NY
5. Mentally Ill
6. Misunderstood Islam
7. Muslims fear backlash
8. Must bring in more ISIS into the US to prove we are not prejudiced
9. Radicalized by Fox and Trump
10. We will never know the motive

/did I get all the talking points? Do I win something?

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (aT+Bx)

109 Better GI Joe than Preppy Ken whom Pajama Boy Ethan Krupp patterned xirself after.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (z/8Yh)

110 104 While we're talking about gendered toys, can we talk about how GI Joe gives young boys unrealistic body standards?

Especially after young boys light them on fire with their lighter fluid "flamethrowers".

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (7n4KQ)

111 My son had a GI doll and if I remember correctly it was missing a certain body part. I glad my son didn't want to change his anatomy to look like that GI doll.

GI Joe's crotch changed my life.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (zmvwV)

112 Ben Shapiro is a c*^ks#@^er.

Just wanted to get that out there.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (ty7RM)

113 68 Bittersweet day here in Philly as the Eagles clinch the division, but Carson Wentz, one of the NFL's true good guys, goes down with an injury. Fat liberal guy at the office was going on about the Eagles should sign Kaepernick. If they did, I would never watch another game.
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Good luck in the playoffs, Biggs. As a Bungles fan of long standing I understand the dubious pleasure of the home team making the playoffs with key players on the injured list. And you are safe with Kaeperdick, he has been signed by an indoor arena league team.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (W+kMI)

114 We had wildfires in S. GA several years ago around the Okefenokee Swamp that destroyed a number of rural homes and businesses, and the ash and smoke made its way up here and made breathing interesting for weeks.

Stay safe all you CA morons and 'ettes. Prayers are with you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (ptqGC)

115 We used to be 12" too.

Posted by: old G.I. Joes at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (QCX64)

116 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" & "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.
Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 11:33 AM (7HtZB)

Do. Not. Put. It. In. Crazy.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:35 AM (RD7QR)

Yeah, but you gotta admit: the crazy nutjobs are good in bed.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (7uYFy)

117 We only voted for the embassy move because we dodn't think anyone would be elected that would actually DO it!
Dianne Feinstein

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (LiyEm)

118 And you are safe with Kaeperdick, he has been signed by an indoor arena league team.

Lingerie football is still in season?

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (7n4KQ)

119 Frank Rizzo - a true Moron, and, may I add, a true son of Philly:

https://youtu.be/0HWHhev-aag

The whole world stayed off his lawn, ya buncha crumb bums.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (fA1SL)

120 Not Cupid, him and Eros are running/flying away as fast as possible from all these scary non-gender specific Snowflakes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (z/8Yh)

121 89 The perpetrators are suing the other perpetrators and the taxpayers will pick up the tab. Where else? California!

Leftists Suing California Schools: 96 Percent Of Kids Can't Read

http://bit.ly/2Bb77jJ

Girls have a vagina and boys have a ....vagina.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (r9UYA)

122 Your name is Angela? No, that won't do. From now on your name is Bob. Theresa, your name is Pinto. Macron, your name is Flounder.

I thought they were Mohammed, Mahmoud, and Ullah.

I marvel at Piers Morgan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5167331/

He's a man of his environment, of his history, and yet he's far more accurate than most of the broken clocks of media.

Though Jeremy Clarkson's mot about Morgan is still funny as hell.

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (O4cUV)

123 1. Lone Wolf
2. Nothing to do with Islam
3. Triggered by Trump
4. Triggered by Islamophobia in NY
5. Mentally Ill
6. Misunderstood Islam
7. Muslims fear backlash
8. Must bring in more ISIS into the US to prove we are not prejudiced
9. Radicalized by Fox and Trump
10. We will never know the motive

/did I get all the talking points? Do I win something?

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (aT+Bx)

11. Gun control

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (KUaJL)

124 We used to be 12" too.
Posted by: old G.I. Joes at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (QCX64)

I had the 12" Hard Hat Diver model. My sister's Barbie couldn't get enough of him.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (zmvwV)

125 G.I Joe figures are missing a certain part because of excessive use of the Kung-Fu Grip.

Posted by: Miklos, a Molnar at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (zCyNd)

126 Especially after young boys light them on fire with their lighter fluid "flamethrowers".
And then perform facial reconstruction surgery using a sister's Ken doll's head.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (QCX64)

127 Was it the Eagles or the Ravens that already offered him a contract but his SJW girlfriend said 'no'....cuz plantation owners or sumthin'.
Posted by: Tami

Ravens, iirc.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (rGtm/)

128
Well, the whole "no dick" thing is pretty unrealistic for most boys.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 11:38 AM (RD7QR)

Wake up, sheeple!!111!!!

Big Transgender has been controlling Hasbro for years!!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (NyJwR)

129 68 Bittersweet day here in Philly as the Eagles clinch the division, but
Carson Wentz, one of the NFL's true good guys, goes down with an
injury. Fat liberal guy at the office was going on about the Eagles
should sign Kaepernick. If they did, I would never watch another game.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 11:45 AM (mynhJ)

We were at the game yesterday and sat behind the funniest Eagles fans ever - we had some good laughs together. Though Rams lost, I do hope Wentz is back to play soon or at least in the playoffs. He is pretty damn impressive.

Posted by: IC at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (a0IVu)

130 Last year they were successful in lobbying major Australian retailers Big W and Target to end having gendered toy categories in their stores.

========

These stupid fringe groups "lobby" these retailers, and the companies don't have the fortitude to tell them "get stuffed". That's kind of pathetic. At least kids will still basically be choosing what toys they want, categorization or not. The left hasn't gotten around to enforcing rules for playtime yet, except for that kindergarten teacher who wouldn't let boys play with legos.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (/qEW2)

131 >>>>Especially after young boys light them on fire with their lighter fluid "flamethrowers".
And then perform facial reconstruction surgery using a sister's Ken doll's head.
.
.
.You left out the part with the firecrackers. They made splendid scale grenades for GI Joe.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (+Dllb)

132 We used to be 12" too.
Posted by: old G.I. Joes at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (QCX64)

Yeah, but Barbies have always been 9".

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (7uYFy)

133 Well, I have 2 girls and 2 boys, all very different from each other. And I grew up in a 3-boy, 3-girl household. The sexes not only have different tastes in toys but play with unisex toys very differently.

I got a real kick out of those Little People sets, which my firstborn (a daughter) loved. She played with them PROPERLY, making the little people walk around and do things and talk to each other.

Second kid (a son) loaded the little people into his dump truck like lumber or projected them across the room like hand grenades. C'mon, you Y-chromosome-poisoned brat! They're little PEOPLE!

Same thing happened with the next daughter and son.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (0jtPF)

134 We only voted for the embassy move because we dodn't think anyone would be elected that would actually DO it!
Dianne Feinstein

Sort of like how the GOPe boldly voted to repeal Obamacare. That is, when there was no chance that Obama would sign it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (zmvwV)

135 108. Favorite spoonerism?

Cupid stunt.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 11:57 AM (fA1SL)

136 I saw Big Transgender open for Wham in Central Park back in 1985.

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (7n4KQ)

137 108
/did I get all the talking points? Do I win something?
======
You win a handshake and "Attaboy!" from His Redness, the ostrich-identifying Mayor of NYC.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (W+kMI)

138 Yeah, but you gotta admit: the crazy nutjobs are good in bed.
---

When crazy chick starts stalking you, poisons your dog and burns all of your clothes because you didn't reply to her text fast enough, don't bitch to all your normal female friends about it.

We saw it coming. We warned you.

You chose crazy. Reap/sow.

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (aT+Bx)

139 Last year they were successful in lobbying major Australian retailers Big W and Target to end having gendered toy categories in their stores.

----

Retailers going with the plan of "making things more difficult to find what you're trying to buy."

It's a bold play, Cotton. Let's see how it works out for them.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (KUaJL)

140 112 Ben Shapiro is a c*^ks#@^er.

Just wanted to get that out there.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (ty7RM)

What did he do this time?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 11:59 AM (NWiLs)

141
And get a new fvcking hair style: that one has been old for about 35 years.

Actually that hairstyle was old when she was young.I'd bet her mother wore her hair the same way.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 11:59 AM (lKyWE)

142 134 Yes,exactly that.Along with the border wall etc etc...

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 11:59 AM (LiyEm)

143 among the numerous nazi's who advised the egyptian government and military after the war was otto skorzeny, who led the raid that freed mussolini. he trained arabs for terror attacks on israel, including yasser arafat.

according to wikipedia, mossad enlisted skorzeny in the 60's for intelligence and ops against nazi's in the arab world, perhaps out of fear of assassination himself, even though he was a dedicated nazi.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 11, 2017 11:59 AM (Pg+x7)

144 Yeah, but you gotta admit: the crazy nutjobs are good in bed.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (7uYFy)

Eh, I don't know about that. . .

Posted by: John Wayne Bobbitt at December 11, 2017 12:00 PM (kqsXK)

145 And then perform facial reconstruction surgery using a sister's Ken doll's head.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (QCX64)

I saw Ken Doll's Head open for Pearl Jam once.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:00 PM (7uYFy)

146 I had the 12" Hard Hat Diver model. My sister's Barbie couldn't get enough of him.
Posted by: Cicero

I grew up during that certain time period where one had every GI Joe, the wooden footlockers, and all accoutrements.

Pro tip: 3 or 4 of the big, fat bottle rockets only got joe about head high. (There was no way, to our uneducated minds, to get all of the rockets to fire at the same time)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:00 PM (rGtm/)

147 No Pussy Riot for you Ken...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:00 PM (z/8Yh)

148 As for Dr. Money. He is also dead and hopefully getting reamed on the flaming barbed cock of Satan for what he did to one innocent child.
___________________

It wasn't just one child. He destroyed that whole family. The parents, when they realized their mistake in trusting the idiot perv doctor, were consumed with guilt. The other twin also committed suicide, but not before the twins revealed that, during their "sessions" with Money at Johns Hopkins, he was molesting them. He was also forcing them to sexually molest each other, while he photographed them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 11, 2017 12:00 PM (fqUgw)

149 Yeah, but you gotta admit: the crazy nutjobs are good in bed.

--

I'd say that's subjective. They're certainly more adventurous, but if you don't get off to roleplaying, bondage, or whatever, then it's not appreciably better.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:01 PM (KUaJL)

150 I gave my parents an old toy set of my son's that they use to entertain young visitors (along with some other toys). It's a set of bright plastic pipes, like plumbing pipes - some straight, some curved, some joins. Every single kid that has ever played with that set over the years - every last one, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity - has made a gun and pretended to shoot people with it. It is hilarious.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 11:53 AM (W+vEI)

Legos too. Just about ANYTHING. Hell I can remember back 45 years doing exactly that myself (and I can't remember all that much anymore).

Posted by: Keith at December 11, 2017 12:01 PM (USf3s)

151 Why Africa is such a shithole?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or great value tibet at December 11, 2017 12:01 PM (U4PcL)

152 If anybody bought one of my sons a gender neutral toy they would probably try figure out a way it could be used as
=====

That is one of the biggest scams going right now. Bunch of duplos/legos 'color coded' for playtime fun. With my four, only one liked baby dolls and barbies, the other three were rather what can we make it 'do'.

The dolly kid was furious with me because all I could find was a blue bike -- no such thing as a red bike in my price range (she didn't want pink or purple). It think it is even worse now (than in early 90s).

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 11, 2017 12:01 PM (MIKMs)

153 >>>>I grew up during that certain time period where one had every GI Joe, the wooden footlockers, and all accoutrements.

Pro tip: 3 or 4 of the big, fat bottle rockets only got joe about
head high. (There was no way, to our uneducated minds, to get all of the
rockets to fire at the same time)
.
.
.A D size Estes model rocket engine strapped to Joe's back and tied to a stick worked fine.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (+Dllb)

154 118 And you are safe with Kaeperdick, he has been signed by an indoor arena league team.

Lingerie football is still in season?
=====
Naww, Kaeperdick will play indoors with a shiny silver football, to show it's the game of the future!

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (W+kMI)

155 Yes Ben Shapiro sucks cock by choice. His NeverTrump shtick is back on and turned up to eleven.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (r9UYA)

156 147. Cossack out front shoulda toldja:

https://youtu.be/ivT-I-yxtdY

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (fA1SL)

157 Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be brainwashed.

-
And Babs "Dog" Boxer and Chelsea "Snake" Handler are paragons of sanity.

Meanwhile, the source of Snake's Trumphobia may have been located.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
.@chelseahandler--stop calling my office for me to do your rather "gross" show--I have less interest in you than Andre.
9:22 AM - Nov 19, 2012

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (+y/Ru)

158 In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim to end what they call 'gender-stereotyped toys'. They believe that with correct parental conditioning you can actually defy biological reality and scientific studies and make boys like girl's toys and girls like boy toys. Last year they were successful in lobbying major Australian retailers Big W and Target to end having gendered toy categories in their stores.

Haven't they tried this shit before? Didn't they give boys Barbie dolls and girls more boy type toys, and the result after all their efforts ended up being that the boys treated the Barbies like guns and the girls treated the boy toys as doll babies.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (cAnNx)

159 And you are safe with Kaeperdick, he has been signed by an indoor arena league team.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 11:54 AM (W+kMI)

He will look quite fetching in a lace teddy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (oPNmq)

160 When crazy chick starts stalking you, poisons your dog and burns all of your clothes because you didn't reply to her text fast enough, don't bitch to all your normal female friends about it.

We saw it coming. We warned you.

You chose crazy. Reap/sow.
Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (aT+Bx)

Yeah well, guys have always warned women not to go out with the homicidal maniacs, serial cheaters and narcissistic psychopaths , but do they listen?

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:03 PM (7uYFy)

161 I had an 'Erector' set when I was a kid.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:03 PM (r9UYA)

162 Now for a musical interlude

https://youtu.be/YNSxNsr4wmA

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (z/8Yh)

163 119 Frank Rizzo - a true Moron, and, may I add, a true son of Philly:

https://youtu.be/0HWHhev-aag

The whole world stayed off his lawn, ya buncha crumb bums.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 11:55 AM (fA1SL)

And thanks to some bint from Seattle on the City Council, they'll be moving his statue facing City Hall to somewhere to be determined.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (7HtZB)

164 89 The perpetrators are suing the other perpetrators and the taxpayers will pick up the tab. Where else? California!

Leftists Suing California Schools: 96 Percent Of Kids Can't Read

http://bit.ly/2Bb77jJ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 11:49 AM (+y/Ru)

Ironic considering it's their own damn fault Johnny Can't Read.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (NWiLs)

165 For any of you who missed this on the art thread, Mario Batali is off "The Chew" because of sexual harassment. Apparently he's been grabbing boobs and butts for a while now.

I always thought the fact he wears a greasy ponytail and orange crocs was reason enough to hate him.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

166 161 I had an 'Erector' set when I was a kid.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:03 PM (r9UYA)

I've still got one, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (NWiLs)

167 From a topic on the previous thread on crockpot cooking.

It is my experience that if you make sure the meat stays above the liquid that will come out during cooking it will brown in the crockpot. Not a hard crust as the environment is moist but it does brown.

Posted by: geoffb at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (zOpu5)

168 Pretty funny they dare mention cult like defense of Trump considering their truly cult like devotion to Obama.The masters of projection.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (LiyEm)

169 12. The Crusades.

Posted by: Barry Wom at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (loZXu)

170 126
Especially after young boys light them on fire with their lighter fluid "flamethrowers".
And then perform facial reconstruction surgery using a sister's Ken doll's head.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 11, 2017 11:56 AM (QCX64)

My daughter had a playhouse doll - guy dressed as an equestrian rider. Jointed at the head and waist. I used to contort it and tell her its name was Christopher Reeve.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (jxbfJ)

171 131
.You left out the part with the firecrackers. They made splendid scale grenades for GI Joe.
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My parents wouldn't let me play with lighter fluid or firecrackers when I was a kid. So my Guns of Navarone playset is still intact. I really ought to see what the going rate for one of those is on eBay.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (W+kMI)

172 Howdy. Just got here. A pause for AoS amid morning stuff.

The more I want to shift my days to start early-morning, the later I seem to go the other direction.

Maybe... thinking outside the box springs here... maybe if I get up for the ONT and stay awake through the Morning Rant, then sleep through the day. It's not like there's anything going on in the blog on weekdays, is there?

Ho ho ho.

It's still morning in the middle of 'Merica.

Posted by: mindful webworker - play it backward at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (exNvx)

173 163. Helen Gym, if memory serves. What a shame.

She brings shame upon herself, and dishonor to her ancestors.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (fA1SL)

174 I had the 12" Hard Hat Diver model. My sister's Barbie couldn't get enough of him.

A buddy of mine's little sister had a Divorcee Barbie: it came with all of Ken's stuff.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 11, 2017 12:05 PM (tRaq7)

175 That boys squeakhole was too pure until I defiled it. Thank goodness my Democratic smear machine branded my critics as homo h8terz cause that would be wrong. Mark Foley should have taken better care when choosing political parties when running for office. He could have been ranking memeber on the sodomite caucus!

Posted by: Gerry Studds at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (pCOkh)

176 I marvel at Piers Morgan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5167331/

--

Nice article.

I suspect that Morgan is, to some extent, friends with Trump. He did win Celebrity Apprentice one year.

I also suspect that his position in the media means he can't really support Trump, even if he wanted to.

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (aT+Bx)

177 111,

Thanks for giving me a bigly laugh.

Posted by: colfax mingo at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (rWYtq)

178 160 When crazy chick starts stalking you, poisons your dog and burns all of your clothes because you didn't reply to her text fast enough, don't bitch to all your normal female friends about it.

We saw it coming. We warned you.

You chose crazy. Reap/sow.
Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 11:58 AM (aT+Bx)

Yeah well, guys have always warned women not to go out with the homicidal maniacs, serial cheaters and narcissistic psychopaths , but do they listen?
Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:03 PM (7uYFy)

No, they most certainly do not. But they certainly expect you to wife them up after they've finished riding the carousel and are about to hit the wall.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (NWiLs)

179 Why Africa is such a shithole?

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Don't answer! It's a trap!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (+y/Ru)

180 179 Why Africa is such a shithole?

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Don't answer! It's a trap!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (+y/Ru)

White colonialism!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:07 PM (NWiLs)

181 No, they most certainly do not. But they certainly expect you to wife them up after they've finished riding the carousel and are about to hit the wall.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:06 PM (NWiLs)

Yup.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:07 PM (7uYFy)

182 Our son's old GI Joes are stored away in a closet. Hopefully, he'll have a son of his own some day who will enjoy them.

My husband and his older brother used to use a magnifying glass and the sun to light their little plastic army men on fire.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 12:07 PM (ptqGC)

183 My daughter had a playhouse doll - guy dressed as an equestrian rider. Jointed at the head and waist. I used to contort it and tell her its name was Christopher Reeve.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

ISWYDT.

LOL

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:07 PM (rGtm/)

184 When crazy chick starts stalking you, poisons your dog and burns all of your clothes because you didn't reply to her text fast enough, don't bitch to all your normal female friends about it.

+++

Ah, jeez now I miss my ex

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at December 11, 2017 12:08 PM (tAZa2)

185 155 Yes Ben Shapiro sucks cock by choice. His NeverTrump shtick is back on and turned up to eleven.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:02 PM (r9UYA)

It was apparent (at least to me) that right before his split with Brietbart he felt he had outgrown them and was ready to be a star in his own right (with nothing but a Harvard law background and some very minimal dues paying). He was the boy wonder. And that big future as the next Hugh Hewitt only happen through the now failing GOPe punditry cabal.

Posted by: Keith at December 11, 2017 12:08 PM (USf3s)

186 Our son's old GI Joes are stored away in a closet. Hopefully, he'll have a son of his own some day who will enjoy them.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

It's okay for them to come out now. Gay is King these days...

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:08 PM (7uYFy)

187 For any of you who missed this on the art thread, Mario Batali is off "The Chew" because of sexual harassment. Apparently he's been grabbing boobs and butts for a while now.

I could stand being sexually harassed by Giada de Laurentiis.

Posted by: John Wayne Bobbitt at December 11, 2017 12:09 PM (kqsXK)

188 Dammit. Off, sock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:09 PM (kqsXK)

189 133 Well, I have 2 girls and 2 boys, all very different from each other. And I grew up in a 3-boy, 3-girl household. The sexes not only have different tastes in toys but play with unisex toys very differently.
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Oh wow.... Little sister (now married mother of two) had a Little People set or two as well which she had to share with me. (Or vice versa, since toys for very young me also were used by very young her.) We played with them in much the same way as your kids did.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:09 PM (W+kMI)

190 I could stand being sexually harassed by Giada de Laurentiis.
Posted by: John Wayne Bobbitt at December 11, 2017 12:09 PM (kqsXK)

She can sexually harass all day and then cook dinner each night.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (7uYFy)

191 Guns of Navarone playset on eBay?

One seller wants $70 and another wants $700.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (z/8Yh)

192 >>>>Why Africa is such a shithole?

-

Don't answer! It's a trap!
.
.
.Why that Continent is such a $hit hole remains a mystery to this very day.

A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (+Dllb)

193 184
When crazy chick starts stalking you, poisons your dog and burns all of
your clothes because you didn't reply to her text fast enough, don't
bitch to all your normal female friends about it.

+++

Ah, jeez now I miss my ex

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at December 11, 2017 12:08 PM (tAZa2)

It's all OK until a bunny gets boiled.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (jxbfJ)

194 I could stand being sexually harassed by Giada de Laurentiis.
Posted by: John Wayne Bobbitt

Is it still considered harassment if it is welcomed and looked forward to?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (rGtm/)

195 Daddy, why does the new GI Joe have a manbun?

Because the NoGenderDecember folks have instituted a draft board.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2017 12:11 PM (0tfLf)

196 I doubt you could make this commercial today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49v=uXdFKcETEPg

Posted by: tu3031 at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (O5Q3r)

197 My father didn't believe that boys should play with dolls, so we never got GI Joes. But one year a relative gave me and my brother a "Big Jim" doll---his selling point was that he had big muscular arms that could flex.
He really was gay-looking though.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (7uYFy)

198 It's all OK until a bunny gets boiled.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (jxbfJ)

Maybe she was making hasenpfeffer.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (NWiLs)

199 192 >>>>Why Africa is such a shithole?

-

Don't answer! It's a trap!
.
.
.Why that Continent is such a $hit hole remains a mystery to this very day.

A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (+Dllb)

War, pestilence, famine, death - the Apocalypse is just a day that ends in "y" in Africa.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (7HtZB)

200 exdem, Guns of Navarrone playset? Outstanding. And yes, the USS Hornet, an Ontos, a seaplane I can't recall exactly, and I think a cruiser or battleship fell to firecrackers and lighter fluid (my version of scrapping surplus military hardware). So you've got the precious item, but missed out on blowing s**t up. Life is full of trade-offs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (QDnY+)

201 Heh.....imagining Ace there with the complete Ewok Village playset propping up one end of a wonky and teetering shelf.

'It's not a toy, damn it! These are architectural models!'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:13 PM (fA1SL)

202 I won't be enforcing gender stereotypes this Christmas. I will be giving gifts to individuals who choose to live their lives as the SEX THEY WERE BORN WITH, thank you very much.

Gender is a designation of a noun in language.

Sex is the descriptor of the parts of you that differ from, you know, the opposite sex.

So, I say, fuck all to the "gender" studies departments and social justice warriors who can't tell a dick from a cooter, and who foist this absolute nonsense on our kids and our society in general.

/morning rant out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:13 PM (7UW64)

203 The gropees are coming out of the woodwork!

Posted by: Little Al Franken at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (vtcmf)

204 Guns of Navarone playset on eBay?

One seller wants $70 and another wants $700.

Anna, I believe the prices are tied to the condition of the boxes for all those old toys.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (rGtm/)

205 A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Marxism and Tribalism, a deadly combination...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (AM1GF)

206 194 I could stand being sexually harassed by Giada de Laurentiis.
Posted by: John Wayne Bobbitt

Is it still considered harassment if it is welcomed and looked forward to?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (rGtm/)

My husband often offers to harass me in that fashion.....

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (7UW64)

207 147 No Pussy Riot for you Ken...
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Ken was always the nice-guy herbivore who got dumped for G.I. Joe or the Lone Ranger or Luke Skywalker. Little sister used to raid my stuff for her dolls' dates.

And I love that video Anna, it is a wonderful gendered gift.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (W+kMI)

208 As a father of 3 daughters, I have to admit I love "Lego Friends". They're so darned cute, yet they're still Legos!

Posted by: Chris M at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (eAZVt)

209 According to Vivid Seats, an NFL ticket reselling site, seat prices at most NFL stadiums have bottomed out, leaving fans able to snag a lower level seat for a Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars. Tickets at center field, right on the fifty-yard line (typically hard to find), will run you around $30.

Obviously, seats for the Bills (who are 6-6) and the Colts (who are even worse), aren't among the most in-demand tickets in the NFL. But even big-name teams aren't faring much better. Tickets to see the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field are going for around $20. Tickets to see the Green Bay Packers start at around $10.

http://tinyurl.com/y7dn7q7k

Well done, Goodell....well done!

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (Enq6K)

210 "Corrupt whore mouth"

Posted by: tmitsss at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (ZYgGF)

211 gender nuetral shit goes right down the toilet as soon as the 12 year old boy finds pron on his ipad. unless he's into alternate lifestyle shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (KP5rU)

212 200 exdem, Guns of Navarrone playset? Outstanding. And yes, the USS Hornet, an Ontos, a seaplane I can't recall exactly, and I think a cruiser or battleship fell to firecrackers and lighter fluid (my version of scrapping surplus military hardware). So you've got the precious item, but missed out on blowing s**t up. Life is full of trade-offs.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (QDnY+)

That's what my best friend's wife said when we were lamenting all the toys we blew up that would be worth something today. At least we have the good memories of blowing stuff up together.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (7HtZB)

213

before his split with Brietbart he felt he had outgrown them and was ready to be a star in his own right (with nothing but a Harvard law background and some very minimal dues paying).

Still my opinion that Harvard has done more harm to this country in the past forty years than any other entity, including Al Qaeda, etc.

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (O4cUV)

214
205 A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Marxism and Tribalism, a deadly combination...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (AM1GF)

The problem with Africa, as demonstrated by the decline of S.Africa, is that it is full of Africans.

/I denounce myself

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (7UW64)

215 208. Your agonizer, please.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (fA1SL)

216
59 Not only should he move our embassies, Trump should rename heads of state.

Your name is Angela? No, that won't do. From now on your name is ~~Bob~~ Bruce. Theresa, your name is ~~Pinto~~ Bruce. Macron, your name is ~~Flounder~~ Bruce.

fixt

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (sGtp+)

217 200 exdem, Guns of Navarrone playset? Outstanding. And yes, the USS Hornet, an Ontos, a seaplane I can't recall exactly, and I think a cruiser or battleship fell to firecrackers and lighter fluid (my version of scrapping surplus military hardware). So you've got the precious item, but missed out on blowing s**t up. Life is full of trade-offs.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (QDnY+)

Yeah, if only I had left my old HotWheels in the plastic I would be a wealthier man now.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 12:16 PM (RD7QR)

218 209 According to Vivid Seats, an NFL ticket reselling site, seat prices at most NFL stadiums have bottomed out, leaving fans able to snag a lower level seat for a Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars. Tickets at center field, right on the fifty-yard line (typically hard to find), will run you around $30.

Obviously, seats for the Bills (who are 6-6) and the Colts (who are even worse), aren't among the most in-demand tickets in the NFL. But even big-name teams aren't faring much better. Tickets to see the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field are going for around $20. Tickets to see the Green Bay Packers start at around $10.

http://tinyurl.com/y7dn7q7k

Well done, Goodell....well done!
Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (Enq6K)

The bills game this weekned was probably an outlier, since it takes a special kind of crazy to sit outside in a literal blizzard.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:16 PM (KUaJL)

219 199 192 >>>>Why Africa is such a shithole?

-

Don't answer! It's a trap!
.
.
.Why that Continent is such a $hit hole remains a mystery to this very day.

A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (+Dllb)

War, pestilence, famine, death - the Apocalypse is just a day that ends in "y" in Africa.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (7HtZB)

I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (cAnNx)

220 PJ O'Rourke (spit), before he beclowned himself by supporting the stupid, sociopathic criminal carrying the banner of the racist authoritarian party, had a great couple chapters in one of his books years ago that addresses the "why is Africa so effed up?" issue.

One chapter was entitled. "Tanzania: From Everything, Nothing", the next chapter "Hong Kong: From Nothing, Everything". As I recall, it simply explained how human behavior, standards, some magic fairy dust called integrity of institutions were of course the "secret" ingredient to economic and social progress. Something like that. Anyway, his chapter titles all by themselves made/make most of that point.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (QDnY+)

221
That's what my best friend's wife said when we were lamenting all the toys we blew up that would be worth something today. At least we have the good memories of blowing stuff up together.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (7HtZB)

Ah, yes, the black powder adventures....

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (7UW64)

222 216. University of Wallamalloo! Go wattles!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (fA1SL)

223 Crockpot, very willowed:

I like to slice a london broil and brown it in a pan before putting it in to slow cook. Make 2" or so slices and give it a bit of color/flavor, then let it bubble all day.

You wouldn't think it, but a pack of ranch instant dressing mix gives it a great flavor, too. Sometimes I do one pack ranch, one eye-talian.

Like so many others, I've moved on to an instant pot and will never look back. Saute the meat in the same container it will slow cook in later? Yes, please.

That guy deserves to be a multimillionaire. It's a great invention.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (y8m+O)

224 No Gender December is how Ralphie got that pink bunny outfit for Christmas.

Posted by: Dang at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (8b+oT)

225 209: cause for celebration. now, the great unwashed and ebt dwellers can finally afford to see a game in person. social justice kicks ass.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (KP5rU)

226 163---And thanks to some bint from Seattle on the City Council, they'll be moving his statue facing City Hall to somewhere to be determined.
Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:04 PM (7HtZB)
-------------------------------
That really disgusts me.
I spent 2 years in Philly when I was a spring chicken, teaching public school no less.
Without Frank Rizzo that city would have been hell on earth.

Okay, it wasn't so great WITH him, but still....

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (0jtPF)

227 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

228 I missed this at the bottom of the NFL tickets article:

Things are getting so desperate, reportedly, that some NFL broadcasts are hiring extras to pose as fans. The listing is unconfirmed, but one Philadelphia newspaper claims that FOX advertised for "actors, models, and talent" to work Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers.

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (Enq6K)

229 War, pestilence, famine, death - the Apocalypse is just a day that ends in "y" in Africa.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (7HtZB)

I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.
Posted by: buzzion

And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (rGtm/)

230 227. What have I been telling you people about Generation Zed, Zed for Zardoz?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (fA1SL)

231 Things are getting so desperate, reportedly, that some NFL broadcasts are hiring extras to pose as fans. The listing is unconfirmed, but one Philadelphia newspaper claims that FOX advertised for "actors, models, and talent" to work Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers.

Bwahahahaha!
Posted by: Tami

Why? CGI is cheaper.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:20 PM (rGtm/)

232 >>>>200 exdem, Guns of Navarrone playset? Outstanding. And yes, the USS
Hornet, an Ontos, a seaplane I can't recall exactly, and I think a
cruiser or battleship fell to firecrackers and lighter fluid (my version
of scrapping surplus military hardware). So you've got the precious
item, but missed out on blowing s**t up. Life is full of trade-offs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (QDnY+)

Yeah, if only I had left my old HotWheels in the plastic I would be a wealthier man now.
.
.
.My cousin started buying all of the model car kits he could back in the 1960s and he saved the vast majority of them. He had well over 500 different mint still in the shrink wrap kits in his basement when he passed away. Shelf after shelf inventoried and catalogued.

He traded, bought and sold all over the world with different people for those things. Some of those kits were selling for over $1,000 each.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:20 PM (+Dllb)

233
As a father of 3 daughters, I have to admit I love "Lego Friends". They're so darned cute, yet they're still Legos!
Posted by: Chris M at December 11, 2017 12:14 PM (eAZVt)

I've stepped on too many Legos barefooted to ever call them cute

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 12:20 PM (lKyWE)

234 218 209 According to Vivid Seats, an NFL ticket reselling site, seat prices at most NFL stadiums have bottomed out, leaving fans able to snag a lower level seat for a Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars. Tickets at center field, right on the fifty-yard line (typically hard to find), will run you around $30.

Obviously, seats for the Bills (who are 6-6) and the Colts (who are even worse), aren't among the most in-demand tickets in the NFL. But even big-name teams aren't faring much better. Tickets to see the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field are going for around $20. Tickets to see the Green Bay Packers start at around $10.

http://tinyurl.com/y7dn7q7k

Well done, Goodell....well done!
Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 12:15 PM (Enq6K)

The bills game this weekned was probably an outlier, since it takes a special kind of crazy to sit outside in a literal blizzard.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:16 PM (KUaJL)

Eh, Buffalo. They probably considered it balmy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (RD7QR)

235 The bills game this weekned was probably an outlier, since it takes a special kind of crazy to sit outside in a literal blizzard.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:16 PM (KUaJL)

But isn't that kind of always the case with Bills games in December? And let's face it, they haven't exactly been a team in the thick of a playoff hunt for a number of years. When was the last time you could get good seats for less than $5 at even a Bills game?

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (cAnNx)

236 I was watching Giada's "Cooking with Cleavage" show and they cut away to a commercial for a Mario Batali turkey baster.

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (7n4KQ)

237 exdem13, I have an anime figure. If I had left it on the cardboard, I could be trying to sell it unsuccessfully on eBay for $299.

Another if I had an original Alpha instead of a recast, someone on eBay is trying to get $2,499 for. Geez.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (z/8Yh)

238 227 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

Machetes are a bit pedestrian. Get 'em kukris.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (NWiLs)

239 Chrissy My Leg is a little pissy Matthews knows where the bodies be buried!

Posted by: Don Lemon Squeezy Lemon at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (pCOkh)

240 191 Guns of Navarone playset on eBay?

One seller wants $70 and another wants $700.
======
Shoot someone is selling the frickin' yellow ladder for $14.95. Gonna tell Dad he has permission to clear some basement space!

The best related auction so far is this one.
https://tinyurl.com/ydedjds3

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (W+kMI)

241 238. Let kids learn at their own pace.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:22 PM (fA1SL)

242 Okay, it wasn't so great WITH him, but still....

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (0jtPF)

You have to give the guy credit for trying....he actually bombed his own city.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2017 12:22 PM (wYseH)

243 I know everyone is enjoying The Cookbook reviews, but don't miss the "customers also considered" suggestions, too. I think it's even better. Mine had a book on lockpicking, a book about George Washington, some socks with something written on the bottom, etc.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to tilt it towards adult special interest motorized novelty items...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:22 PM (y8m+O)

244 227 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

Well, just as long as they don't use them on each other, you're good to go. Nobody else is gonna indulge them like that.

The only rule in my house is that you ask before you give a toy that makes noise. Otherwise, it's all fair game.

Of course, the boy is into Legos, model trains, the occasional stuffed animal, avengers, star wars, hockey and baseball, and, oddly enough, knitting. He knit a sleeping bag for his favorite stuffie, and coasters for his grandma, and that may be the extent of it, but what the heck.

And, I might add, the boy is not "genderless." He has an outie, so, boy. All boy. Smells like one, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:22 PM (7UW64)

245 At least Guy Fieri won't ever get accused of sexual harassment. He's always too busy stuffing food into his face.

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (7n4KQ)

246 get a load of Dumbledore's Army at CFPB:

https://thenationalrealestatepost.com/cfpb-employees-in-trouble/

these are the people that would regulate men.

Posted by: x at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (nFwvY)

247 Is that an old pic of Robert A. Heinlein?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (HQ28E)

248 >>>>War, pestilence, famine, death - the Apocalypse is just a day that ends in "y" in Africa.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (7HtZB)

I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.

Posted by: buzzion

And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no
one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?
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.Uh guys? They had domesticated onagers about 5-7,000 years ago, which are pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (+Dllb)

249 You know, at some point were going to have to get medieval and do some serious cleansing in this society.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (aMlLZ)

250 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

Machetes are a bit pedestrian. Get 'em kukris.
Posted by: Insomniac

Machetes & tires.

The Winnie Mandela Celebratory kit.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (rGtm/)

251 235 The bills game this weekned was probably an outlier, since it takes a special kind of crazy to sit outside in a literal blizzard.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:16 PM (KUaJL)

But isn't that kind of always the case with Bills games in December? And let's face it, they haven't exactly been a team in the thick of a playoff hunt for a number of years. When was the last time you could get good seats for less than $5 at even a Bills game?

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (cAnNx)

In Green Bay, that's considered a nice day at the park.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (7UW64)

252 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

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My son saw some cartoon character use a bow and arrow, rope, and plunger to scale a wall, and he wrote "plunger" on his list to Santa.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (y8m+O)

253 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of
civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over
5,000 years?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (rGtm/)

African wildlife seems to be stubbornly resistant to domestication. Asian elephants get tamed, African not so much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (oPNmq)

254 249 You know, at some point were going to have to get medieval and do some serious cleansing in this society.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (aMlLZ)

If we don't, nature will.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (7UW64)

255 249. 'Wait! My brother Barron is coming with many MAGA warriors. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (fA1SL)

256 Stereotypes aren't random.

Posted by: typical white woman at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (MTWhU)

257

PJ O'Rourke (spit), before he beclowned himself by supporting the stupid, sociopathic criminal carrying the banner of the racist authoritarian party.

I was disappointed in O'Rourke's backing Clinton, his remark that "She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters" belied a complete cluelessness of the issues at stake. She was not just wrong, she was and is crooked to a degree that makes Watergate look like a summer-camp shower-peeking prank.

Of course, these days, that's probably enough to get you thrown out of office...

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (O4cUV)

258 Machetes & tires.

The Winnie Mandela Celebratory kit.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:24 PM (rGtm/)

And pink Hello Kitty gas cans.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (NWiLs)

259 African wildlife seems to be stubbornly resistant to domestication.

*types*
*deletes*
*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (7n4KQ)

260 245 At least Guy Fieri won't ever get accused of sexual harassment. He's always too busy stuffing food into his face.

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (7n4KQ)

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Never liked the guy, but I'm told he's a lot like Trump in that he's super great to people around him and just has a public persona to sell his brand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (y8m+O)

261 Vivid Seats? You can watch porn being filmed?

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (7HtZB)

262 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

Some of the local chiefs (or kangs, whatever) did do that, I think, but not on a large scale. Like how certain of the Mesoamerican lords domesticated deer. It didn't go large-scale because deer don't have a lot of meat on the hoof and it's more fun to hunt them.

In Africa certain of the larger antelopes have proven domesticable as well, though. They'd make good cattle.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (6FqZa)

263 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no
one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?
.
.
.Uh guys? They had domesticated onagers about 5-7,000 years ago, which are pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017
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From what I've read, the zebra is hard to domesticate, or even tame. They bite, and they dodge lassos. There was somebody in Victorian England who managed to harness a pair of zebras to his coach, or something like that -- but that was unusual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (HQ28E)

264 Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars.

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A three dollar Bill?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (+y/Ru)

265 In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim to end what they call 'gender-stereotyped toys'. They believe that with correct parental conditioning you can actually defy biological reality and scientific studies and make boys like girl's toys and girls like boy toys.

Fun fact: stereotypes generally have at least a germ of truth in them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (Z1eux)

266 256 Stereotypes aren't random.

Posted by: typical white woman at December 11, 2017 12:25 PM (MTWhU)

Nor are they some sort of conspiracy to keep the downtrodden underfoot.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (7UW64)

267 Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (r9UYA)

268 245 At least Guy Fieri won't ever get accused of sexual harassment. He's always too busy stuffing food into his face.

As an aside, I live in the area Fieri is from and he is very generous to the Community...But he does seem to be "eating" all the time.. Of course that is his job

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (O2RFr)

269 Uh guys? They had domesticated onagers about 5-7,000 years ago, which are pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Asiatic wild ass, aka, One Night in Bangkok.

They may have had them, but they didn't use them in Africa.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (rGtm/)

270 I was watching Giada's "Cooking with Cleavage" show and they cut away to a commercial for a Mario Batali turkey baster.

Posted by: Roy at December 11, 2017 12:21 PM (7n4KQ)

Cooking with cleavage:

https://tinyurl.com/y8tr2y3y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (kqsXK)

271 Have to go look - two dozen or so Matchbox cars, in their original boxes (mostly), in a See's box. Excellent condition (didn't blow those up, or burn them, or launch them into the canyon off our various ramps and other constructions).

Which reminds me, if I can overcome my lack of enthusiasm, time to get out the post-war Lionel train and set it up before the tree goes up.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (QDnY+)

272 242
You have to give the guy credit for trying....he actually bombed his own city.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2017 12:22 PM (wYseH)
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Damned straight!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (0jtPF)

273 Is it still considered harassment if it is welcomed and looked forward to?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (rGtm/)
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Sure, if they have a million dollar slush fund you can tap.

Posted by: wth at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (HgMAr)

274
264 Buffalo Bills game for an astounding three dollars.

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A three dollar Bill?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:26 PM (+y/Ru)

You a friend of Muldoon's?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (7UW64)

275 NY Post says the bomber was motivated by revenge - we'd been bombing his country, you see.

The dude's from Bangladesh. I didn't know we were bombing Bangladesh.

Let me guess - to him, ANY muslim country is HIS country.

Posted by: weew at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (EaEMG)

276 All this eBay talk, I probably should list on eBay my store display Poe Damon Lego X-Wing that I got for nothing. But hard to figure out shipping.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (z/8Yh)

277 Apropos of nothing, but David Frum is a super-duper douchbag.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 11, 2017 12:28 PM (jjaLl)

278 Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

Hot Wheels.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:28 PM (rGtm/)

279 When my first son was about a year old, before he'd ever had a gun toy, he got mad at me, pointed his finger and yelled: "bow, bow". Boys inherit gun love genetically.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders is a crazy hobo at December 11, 2017 12:28 PM (6UYA5)

280 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (rGtm/)

Just because they're similar animals doesn't mean its possible. Can you domesticate a lion just because we have cats? The domesticated horse could have been very unique. I mean its probably a multitude of factors, maybe even including that the Romans were busy wiping out most of Europe rather than most of Africa and that allowed Europe to eventually grow while Africa stagnated. I mean pre and post Roman Empire, how much different was Europe from Africa? Largely tribal. Mostly illiterate. Not really building large cities of stone and brick.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:28 PM (cAnNx)

281
What the Bills lose in ticket prices during a blizzard they make up in beer sales

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (lKyWE)

282 Fun fact: stereotypes generally have at least a germ of truth in them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (Z1eux)

Agreed. But....

Most people are too stupid to understand that stereotypes are essentially statistics: they describe populations, not individuals.

Yes, yes...I know. No math.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (wYseH)

283 265 In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim to end what they call 'gender-stereotyped toys'. They believe that with correct parental conditioning you can actually defy biological reality and scientific studies and make boys like girl's toys and girls like boy toys.

When the Kids were little we lived across the street from some Montessori, vegetarian, types who forbade their boys from playing with anything "boyish" Of course Our son ran around with his toy guns etc. What did their kids do? Carved a gun out of a piece of wood...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

284
African wildlife seems to be stubbornly resistant to domestication. Asian elephants get tamed, African not so much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017
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The ancient Carthaginians managed to tame the African elephant. Hannibal's army, when it crossed the Alps, started out with a bunch of them. They were the ancient world's version of the tank.

Unless they somehow managed to obtain some Indian elephants -- which seems a little unlikely. The big trade all through the ancient world, including with India, only got started after the Carthaginians were history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (HQ28E)

285 LOL. Woman gets arrested for smoking in bathroom on Southwest flight, getting caught, then threatening to kill everyone on board: https://tinyurl.com/y77hwf8h

And this looks to be the "chick" in question: https://tinyurl.com/y7u4bls2

Yeah, bet her "anxiety" was that she just had to have a "joint".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

286 That picture cracks me up.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (2z74n)

287 From what I've read, the zebra is hard to domesticate, or even tame. They bite, and they dodge lassos.

Same with feral horses after a few generations. As for cattle, the auroch is one GROUCHY large animal. Like the bison - in fact I think the bison might actually be a breed of auroch rather than a separate species (like that coyote / wolf / doggie distinction).

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (6FqZa)

288 212 200 exdem, Guns of Navarrone playset? Outstanding. And yes, the USS Hornet, an Ontos, a seaplane I can't recall exactly, and I think a cruiser or battleship fell to firecrackers and lighter fluid (my version of scrapping surplus military hardware). So you've got the precious item, but missed out on blowing s**t up. Life is full of trade-offs.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 12:12 PM (QDnY+)

That's what my best friend's wife said when we were lamenting all the toys we blew up that would be worth something today. At least we have the good memories of blowing stuff up together.
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When we were young there was no spurious nostalgia-driven collectors' market yet. We had toys, we played with them, we sometimes played with them rough. We read our comic books until they fell apart and left our movie posters on the wall or closet door until they were in tatters. Then we got into cars and girls and playing D&D on weekends because we didn't get the girls.

I remember the Big Jim/Big Josh toy series too. Basically G.I. Joe and friends in their post-Vietnam burnout phase with Seventies hair and whiskers, camping out in the wilderness and stuff.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (W+kMI)

289 Speaking of Legos, here's the outrage of the day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-5167035 /Lego-dressed-Nazi -SS- soldiers-sale-Amazon.html

(remove spaces, I can't use URL shortners at work)

Posted by: Country Singer at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (uiwCw)

290 I wonder if the animals accuse each other of groping? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Little Al Franken at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (vtcmf)

291 I can't believe you guys are so cruel. Africa was just turning its life around and was thinking about enrolling in a local community college to major in rapping...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (3b9db)

292 Let us read read from the Third Chapter of St. Karl of Our Perpetual Grievences:

3:1 Lo, and in those days the Orange Scalp Weasel will not believeth in that which was known to our grandfathers as Global Cooling,

3:2 and to our fathers as global warming,

3:3 And to us as climate change.

3:4 So much unbelief that he withdreweth from the agreements of Frg, that which is known by 98 per cent of all men of science, be they climatologists.

3:5 Or be they phlebotomists, alchemists, or astrologers, or phrenologists.

3:6 For his utter unbelief that carbon can be spunnetheth into gold for the righteous.

3:7 Donald of Scoops Twain betrayeth his own conscience

3:8 And sheweth a lack of the Fear of the Lord. Amen and amen. And amen.

Posted by: Rightious Most High Holy Great Vicar Pontiflex (and Governor of California) Jerry Brown at December 11, 2017 12:31 PM (A3b6q)

293 The dude's from Bangladesh. I didn't know we were bombing Bangladesh.

Chittagong maybe? They live in Bangladesh and are like Bengalis but not. They're more akin to the Rohingya.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:31 PM (6FqZa)

294 Woman gets arrested for smoking in bathroom on Southwest flight, getting caught, then threatening to kill everyone on board:

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Honorary platinum member?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:31 PM (y8m+O)

295 Cooking with cleavage:

https://tinyurl.com/y8tr2y3y
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017
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I hate to say this . . . but Jordan Carver is a little too well-endowed even for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (HQ28E)

296
Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

All three for me.

But Hot Wheels were the most fun. Wish I still had those and my 1960's Tonka Toys...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (wtvvX)

297 .Why that Continent is such a $hit hole remains a mystery to this very day.

A Continent that has more natural resources than North and South America combined but continues to be mired in poverty, starvation and constant Civil War.

It boggles the mind.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:10 PM (+Dllb)

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It's because they are not diverse enough. We should put pressure on African nations to accept Mexican illegals from here, in fact all illegals whose nations of origin will not accept them back.

They could also take any Muslim "refugees" such as Australia has tried to pawn off on us, along with their "chain" relatives.

It would be easy to pressure such nations, and it would be for their OWN good, since diversity will always strengthen a nation and bring about peace and economic and technological advancement. We need to give them the gift of diversity, which they do not realize that they are in desperate need of.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (/qEW2)

298 Re: Africa

I'm pretty sure there's an environmental "sweet spot" for civilizations. If you're living in the Garden of Eden, there just isn't any need to develop much sophisticated technology or societal organization. Obviously the harsher the climate, the harder it is just to survive and difficult to actually create agriculture, so there's a middle ground. You need to have enough resources that you aren't going to die every year, but not enough that it makes sense to try to start domesticating animals and trying to plant crops because they might not be there next year.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (KUaJL)

299 In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim...

And blah, blah, blah. How is being a looney-tunes loser going to change the liberal stereotype?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (2z74n)

300 Africa had domesticated cattle - now, an ox is not a horse, but it can pull a cart.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (fA1SL)

301 "I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse."

Zebra's really can't be domesticated, but Africans had plenty of contacts with places that did have horses over the millenia. Remember that even though the American Plains Indians were still effectively living in a stone age society, within 100 years of coming into contact with white culture, they had developed what many described as "The finest light cavalry in the world". They saw what horses could do for them almost immediately, and used them with devastating efficiency.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (k1TUh)

302 Woman gets arrested for smoking in bathroom on Southwest flight

That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Little Al Franken at December 11, 2017 12:33 PM (vtcmf)

303 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no
one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?
.
.
.Uh guys? They had domesticated onagers about 5-7,000 years ago, which are pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017

Aurochs. They've been using them for millennia. Africa has problems but that's not one of them.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 12:33 PM (RD7QR)

304 Under the oh FFS category, Babs Boxer appeared on Chelsea Handler's failing show, and told her a psychiatrist friend told her Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears to be "cult-like" in her defending PDT and may be brainwashed.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 11:39 AM (ptqGC)

If you washed Boxer's brain (or Handler's) you wouldn't need a washing machine. You could do it in a sink. Hell, you could do it in a thimble.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:33 PM (Z1eux)

305 Anti-muslim backlash speech coming in 4...3...2...

Oh wait! Different president.

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at December 11, 2017 12:33 PM (ylUqT)

306 I hate to say this . . . but Jordan Carver is a little too well-endowed even for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (HQ28E)

As Grandfather Poppins was wont to say, "More than a handful isn't nearly enough."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (kqsXK)

307 The thing is, leftists don't want any single individual to be hurt ever. If a parent won't let their boy/girl look at toys in the wrong aisle and scolds the kid for wanting to play with girl/boy toys, all toys must be relabelled.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (zsUWe)

308 From what I've read, the zebra is hard to domesticate, or even tame. They bite, and they dodge lassos.

It is. But when you have 5,000 years to work it.....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (rGtm/)

309 There was a girl at work who was in an uproar one day over "boy's toys" "girl's toys." Not bad looking but a nutjob.

Is "she" a tranny? You sure "she's" not? REAL sure?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (Z1eux)

310 306 I hate to say this . . . but Jordan Carver is a little too well-endowed even for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (HQ28E)

As Grandfather Poppins was wont to say, "More than a handful isn't nearly enough."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (kqsXK)

I could die a happy man being smothered by those funbags.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (NWiLs)

311 293. Rohingya - when even the Buddhists decide to REMOVE KEBAB.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (fA1SL)

312 223 Crockpot, very willowed:

I like to slice a london broil and brown it in a pan before putting it in to slow cook. Make 2" or so slices and give it a bit of color/flavor, then let it bubble all day.

You wouldn't think it, but a pack of ranch instant dressing mix gives it a great flavor, too. Sometimes I do one pack ranch, one eye-talian.

So... spaghetti western?

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (v3pYe)

313 ah, so, the attempted terrorist attack terrorist worked for an electrical company. nice.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (QC/4S)

314 gah! sock off!

Posted by: Anachronda at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (sGtp+)

315 >>As an aside, I live in the area Fieri is from and he is very generous to
the Community...But he does seem to be "eating" all the time.. Of
course that is his job

Yup, sounds like he's a good guy. While I don't watch his shows, I'll take him over arrogant Bourdain or (apparently?) pervy Batali. Guy Fieri isn't going to visit a diner in Cuba and then laud the country's healthcare, soft-pedal Communism.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/hosdu7w

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (W+vEI)

316 237 exdem13, I have an anime figure. If I had left it on the cardboard, I could be trying to sell it unsuccessfully on eBay for $299.

Another if I had an original Alpha instead of a recast, someone on eBay is trying to get $2,499 for. Geez.
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There is a special kind of stupid wishful thinking involving any anime collectible even remotely related to Robotech. That special combo Mega Zone 23 DVD set was a very guilty pleasure whose price I shall not reveal here.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (W+kMI)

317 Cooking with cleavage:

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I always liked ihat Italian brunette with the strangely large face who looks kind of like the popular deaf actress hottie.

Her show was fun, too. Not just cleavage here and there, but overly mic-ed squishiness of the food she was making.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (y8m+O)

318 I hate to say this . . . but Jordan Carver is a little too well-endowed even for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (HQ28E)

Man Card status: Revoked.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (r9UYA)

319 Just because they're similar animals doesn't mean its possible. Can you domesticate a lion just because we have cats? The domesticated horse could have been very unique. I mean its probably a multitude of factors, maybe even including that the Romans were busy wiping out most of Europe rather than most of Africa and that allowed Europe to eventually grow while Africa stagnated. I mean pre and post Roman Empire, how much different was Europe from Africa? Largely tribal. Mostly illiterate. Not really building large cities of stone and brick.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:28 PM (cAnNx)

The Roman Empire included a great deal of Northern Africa, but certainly did not cross the Sahara. Of course, most of that was wiped out by the mohammedans and sent right back into the stone age, but for a while there, North Africa was just as civilized as could be.

Most of the issue is cultural.

Look at North and South America pre-Columbus. Stone age. No wheel. Very little technology.

Same deal in sub-Saharan Africa.

And Australia.

The difference in the long run was that everywhere except Africa embraced imported tech. Africa passed. That is the result of tribalism, i.e., if I don't have it, you don't get it either, I keel you. No matter how much money we pump into Africa, and we have pumped in plenty, it will leak out like a sieve and nothing will improve.

Consider the American Revolution, for instance. There was no guarantee of success, and yet, it was tried, to great effect.

Africans whine about colonialism, but where the Europeans pulled out, they installed dictators.

Choices matter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2017 12:35 PM (7UW64)

320 295
Cooking with cleavage:

https://tinyurl.com/y8tr2y3y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017

1 Double-D cup of flour....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2017 12:36 PM (wtvvX)

321 1 Double-D cup of flour....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2017 12:36 PM (wtvvX)

Recipe calls for milk.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (KUaJL)

322 Africa is not a shithole.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (RrtlF)

323 http://www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-5167035 /Lego-dressed-Nazi -SS- soldiers-sale-Amazon.html

(remove spaces, I can't use URL shortners at work)

Posted by: Country Singer at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (uiwCw)

Heh. The "Nazi medic" figure is toting a Mauser Broomhandle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (oPNmq)

324 >>Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

Oh, we loooooved Corgi cars, those were the best.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (W+vEI)

325 Africa had domesticated cattle - now, an ox is not a horse, but it can pull a cart.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (fA1SL)

I can pull a train. Wanna see?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (kqsXK)

326 .Uh guys? They had domesticated onagers about 5-7,000 years ago, which are pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 11, 2017 12:23 PM (+Dllb)

And there's also the camel, and the donkey. But they're not a horse. And I am by no means any expert and just wildly speculating. But it almost seems like the domesticated horse could be one of those components that is necessary.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (cAnNx)

327 And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

I wouldn't call Africa the cradle of civilization. The cradle of the human race, certainly, but not civilization.

And never mind the zebra. No one there ever thought to represent concepts with symbols, or to build a two-story building. No trees in Africa, either?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (Z1eux)

328 Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

Hot Wheels.

Posted by: rickb223
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Corgi or Dinky.

Posted by: Dang at December 11, 2017 12:38 PM (8b+oT)

329 227 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.
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Regular machetes or tactical machetes (updated falchions) for smacking down zombies and space aliens? But yes, they are definitely unisex!

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:38 PM (W+kMI)

330 Recipe calls for milk.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

milk milk lemonade

in the back is where the fudge is made

Posted by: Rick in SK at December 11, 2017 12:38 PM (FZYNt)

331 289 Speaking of Legos, here's the outrage of the day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-5167035 /Lego-dressed-Nazi -SS- soldiers-sale-Amazon.html

(remove spaces, I can't use URL shortners at work)

Posted by: Country Singer at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (uiwCw)

Far too many millennials fetishize the Nazis because "the uniforms were sexy". *vomits*

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 12:38 PM (WDCYi)

332 Guy Fieri isn't going to visit a diner in Cuba and then laud the country's healthcare, soft-pedal Communism.

I assume anyone who goes to Cuba is there for the underage girls. If they just wanted ho's they could go pretty much anywhere else in the Caribbean, not run by a criminal gang.

(Yeah, I know, there are Jamaicans and maybe 'Ricans who would say to that, "good luck with that last bit"...)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:38 PM (6FqZa)

333 AoP, don't forget the mortar and MG-42. If the dude dropped the black uniforms...

Exdem13, somethings can be valuable. Others not so much like drooling fans getting Maria Kawamura to sign their DVDs of Slayers.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (FX/O0)

334 228 I missed this at the bottom of the NFL tickets article:

Things are getting so desperate, reportedly, that some NFL broadcasts are hiring extras to pose as fans. The listing is unconfirmed, but one Philadelphia newspaper claims that FOX advertised for "actors, models, and talent" to work Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Wow, we have gotten to the Caracalla-in-the-ring level of bread and circuses in the NFL these day.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (W+kMI)

335 I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.
Posted by: buzzion

And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

How far away was Spain? Roman North Africa?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or great value tibet at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (U4PcL)

336 267 Corgi Toys, Matchbox, or Hot Wheels?

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:27 PM (r9UYA)

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I've noticed that Hot Wheels is more race car / amazing little kid fantasy cars, and Matchbox is more interesting working vehicles like dump trucks, road graders, etc.

I'm not sure if it has always been this way, but it's neat to sort of know where to look if you're trying to find something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (y8m+O)

337 In 2014 a group called Play Unlimited founded No Gender December with the aim to end what they call 'gender-stereotyped toys'.

What the left wants for all kids is what those demented parents are doing to their 10 year old kid the "fierce tranny" who was written about last week. Every kid a total mess like that.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (SiINZ)

338 a place guy fieri visited for diners, drive ins, and dives, burned to the ground. guy was the first one there with a check to help them rebuild. still checks on them to make sure everything is going good. so, all in all not a bad guy.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (KP5rU)

339
Oh, we loooooved Corgi cars, those were the best.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (W+vEI)

We had all three. Corgi's and Match Box were for the sophisticated kids. The little dago bastards down the street played with their Hot Wheels in the dirt.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (r9UYA)

340 i find it interesting that he is a Bangladeshi, that is an outlier, they must be running out of volunteers

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 12:40 PM (QC/4S)

341 We might as well go ahead and say the Great Politically Incorrect Unmentionable: That in all the millenia of sub-saharan Africa, the best and most prosperous times it has ever seen where when the Europeans took over and ran things. And didn't give anyone there a say as to how.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2017 12:40 PM (k1TUh)

342 The Sahara only got the camel under the Romans, IIRC. Hard to domesticate an animal that isn't even there.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:40 PM (6FqZa)

343 buzzion, Africa never had any domesticated animals. North Africa had some imported from Europe and Asia / the Middle East, but they only recently domesticated any animals (and they're fowl). They also never had any organized agriculture, the wheel, permanent building, or written languages. So, to answer your question, post-Roman Europe was LIGHT YEARS ahead of Africa, and not only Africa of 500 AD but Africa of 2000 AD.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (QAOZh)

344 What the left wants for all kids is what those demented parents are doing to their 10 year old kid the "fierce tranny" who was written about last week. Every kid a total mess like that.
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Seems they have moved on from adopting African babies as the accessory du jour.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (1mXjg)

345 I bought my oldest son a boy doll thinking he'd nurture it. He took its head off and filled it with matchbox cars. Later he put headless baby on a zip wire and crashed it into the wall. Yet, he's a normal adult.

I woman I new in a playgroup back then wouldn't buy her daughter "girl" toys so the child put napkins in her dump truck and used a stuffed animal as a "baby" so she could push it as a stroller. Shoulda given her headless zip baby.

Posted by: dagny at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (eO5CB)

346 252 Grandnieces (12 and 10) want machetes for Christmas. Seems gender neutral.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 12:18 PM (e1mEI)

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My son saw some cartoon character use a bow and arrow, rope, and plunger to scale a wall, and he wrote "plunger" on his list to Santa.
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Now that is a precious parental memory.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (W+kMI)

347 My third son came out of the womb asking for a toy train.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders is a crazy hobo at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (6UYA5)

348 I've noticed that Hot Wheels is more race car / amazing little kid fantasy cars, and Matchbox is more interesting working vehicles like dump trucks, road graders, etc.

I'm not sure if it has always been this way, but it's neat to sort of know where to look if you're trying to find something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (y8m+O)

Back in the 90s at least, Hot Wheels cars were about setting up tracks and running them through loops and seeing how far you could launch them off the track out the window or into the pot that mom had on the stove or whatever.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (KUaJL)

349 340. Last one in NYC was a rotten Uzbek.

Funny, innit? Not radical in their homelands, by & large. Something here in the West seems to make them go rogue.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:42 PM (fA1SL)

350 I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.
Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (cAnNx)

Wait, I could have used horses? Crap.

Posted by: Zombie Hannibal at December 11, 2017 12:42 PM (jBwOG)

351 >>Heh. The "Nazi medic" figure is toting a Mauser Broomhandle.

Probably from Brick Arms: http://brickarms.com/index.php
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>>I assume anyone who goes to Cuba is there for the underage girls. If
they just wanted ho's they could go pretty much anywhere else in the
Caribbean, not run by a criminal gang.

Bourdain did an episode on Cuba, and spent time chatting with an American who moved to Cuba ~40 years ago and opened a restaurant. Bourdain gave Castro a pass,with a toss-off comment along the lines of , "There may be [bad things] here, but man, they have good healthcare, classic cars and baseball!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 12:42 PM (W+vEI)

352 buzzion, Africa never had any domesticated animals. North Africa had some imported from Europe and Asia / the Middle East, but they only recently domesticated any animals (and they're fowl). They also never had any organized agriculture, the wheel, permanent building, or written languages. So, to answer your question, post-Roman Europe was LIGHT YEARS ahead of Africa, and not only Africa of 500 AD but Africa of 2000 AD.
Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (QAOZh)

seriously ? is Egypt in Africa ? and nothing from that agrarian society remained in the AD ???

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 12:43 PM (QC/4S)

353 349 340. Last one in NYC was a rotten Uzbek.

Funny, innit? Not radical in their homelands, by & large. Something here in the West seems to make them go rogue.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:42 PM (fA1SL)

Certain imams in certain mosques. Don't go for the footsoldiers, go for the recruiters.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 12:43 PM (RD7QR)

354 285 LOL. Woman gets arrested for smoking in bathroom on Southwest flight, getting caught, then threatening to kill everyone on board: https://tinyurl.com/y77hwf8h

Portland to Sacramento's what, a one hour flight, maybe two at most? Geez. Willpower, lady.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 12:43 PM (ul9CR)

355 293. Rohingya - when even the Buddhists decide to REMOVE KEBAB.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (fA1SL)

========

Heh. I noted that on the art thread. Myanmar has suffered two terrorist attacks from them over the past year and ... that's about their limit. A lot of Rohingya have been driven into Bangladesh, where I suspect they'll integrate much better. We could learn a lot from Myanmar.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 11, 2017 12:44 PM (/qEW2)

356 @349, is it that they're not radical there or that their radical crazy just seems normal? And maybe they're coming here *because* they're radical, as opposed because they're, um, normal.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 12:44 PM (QAOZh)

357 The ancient Carthaginians managed to tame the African elephant. Hannibal's army, when it crossed the Alps, started out with a bunch of them. They were the ancient world's version of the tank.

Unless they somehow managed to obtain some Indian elephants -- which seems a little unlikely. The big trade all through the ancient world, including with India, only got started after the Carthaginians were history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (HQ28E)

Apparently the African elephants that they tamed were a smaller subspecies that is now extinct than the African elephants we see today.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:44 PM (cAnNx)

358 Holy crap. That guy is painting Nazi stuff on the non-Lego men? I'm guessing there's a big market for custom warlike Lego guys, because there aren't any from the factory as far as I know.

Grown ups enthusiasts wanting to geek out in their basements with dioramas (or whatever it would be called) are probably eating this stuff up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (T4n7S)

359 And there's also the camel, and the donkey. But they're not a horse. And I am by no means any expert and just wildly speculating. But it almost seems like the domesticated horse could be one of those components that is necessary.Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:37 PM (cAnNx)

In "Cultures and Civilizations" Sowell says that sub-saharan Africa didn't have beasts of burden because they can't survive the tse-tse fly. He goes on to note that the geographical layout isolates the interior (so much wider than long) and that there were no navigable rivers. Still doesn't explain no writing for them or the indians.

Posted by: dagny at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (eO5CB)

360 The difference in the long run was that everywhere except Africa embraced imported tech. Africa passed.

Compare and contrast sub-Saharan Africa with Japan.

Japan evolved an elaborate albeit feudalistic society, where IIRC the first novel was written (by a Japanese noblewoman).

In 1858 Perry forces Japan to open to the West. The Japanese go, "Holy smokes, we've got to get cracking!" and less than 50 years later had built a modern army, navy, and economy, and kicked the shit out of major European power.

Africa, not so much. Tribes still scampering around in G-strings, pretty much still in the Stone Age. Europeans barely set foot in Africa until circa 1870 ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), so Africans can't blame their backwardness on Europeans.

In fact, most of their progress came from being colonized. And now that the colonization era has ended, they've sunk back into the morass they started in, it's just that now they have cell phones.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (Z1eux)

361 I beat the living shit out of all my toys, especially Matchbox cars and GI Joe stuff. Nothing survived.

I even shaved the stupid hippie beard off my GI Joe. For realz.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (ul9CR)

362 seriously ? is Egypt in Africa ?

I think they're talking sub-Sahara, not the Copts and Berbers along the northern sea.

Also Nubia and Ethiopia were keeping more-or-less in step with the Late Antique world (literacy, ability to conquer Arabs, etc) until Islam shut down the Red Sea and Nile.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (6FqZa)

363 301 "I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse."

Zebra's really can't be domesticated, but Africans had plenty of contacts with places that did have horses over the millenia.
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The Saharan and Sahalan Africans did and still do have horses, which they bought and bred on their own. They then rode those horses southward and eastward to plague others and keep the Nubian Slave Dealership in business and keep the market in Ghanian gold high. Some of them were so good at the raiding and slaving they were hired by the Roman Empire and Muslim Egypt.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (W+kMI)

364 357 The ancient Carthaginians managed to tame the African elephant. Hannibal's army, when it crossed the Alps, started out with a bunch of them. They were the ancient world's version of the tank.

Unless they somehow managed to obtain some Indian elephants -- which seems a little unlikely. The big trade all through the ancient world, including with India, only got started after the Carthaginians were history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:29 PM (HQ28E)

Apparently the African elephants that they tamed were a smaller subspecies that is now extinct than the African elephants we see today.
Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:44 PM (cAnNx)

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It was a distant relative of the Indian Elephant. That species tends to be far more amenable to domestication than the African species.

Posted by: Jackal at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (cGbl2)

365 @352, I'll clarify, then -- sub-Saharan Africa.

Egyptians aren't ethnically the same as black Africans, and Northern Africa has been ruled by the Greeks, Moors, Spaniards, and French, so it's not exactly comparable to, like, Tanzania.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (QAOZh)

366 In fact, most of their progress came from being colonized. And now that the colonization era has ended, they've sunk back into the morass they started in, it's just that now they have cell phones.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (Z1eux)

They already HAD all that stuff, then the Greek homos stole it all.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (NWiLs)

367 >>And maybe they're coming here *because* they're radical, as opposed because they're, um, normal.

If you look at what's happening in Europe, it could be that they are coming here and they're too stupid/lazy/entitled to try and make a go of it, so then they get angry and the ISIS videos and their friends down at the mosque tell them there are outlets for that anger....

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (W+vEI)

368 We had all three. Corgi's and Match Box were for the sophisticated kids. The little dago bastards down the street played with their Hot Wheels in the dirt.
Posted by: Under Fire

Corgis and Matchbox was like Glocks - snobs.
Hot Wheels was like 1911 - it just worked.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (rGtm/)

369 I didn't know we were bombing Bangladesh.

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We aren't. It always looks like that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (+y/Ru)

370 Micro Machines.

They work well with HO scale.

Posted by: Johnny at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (kUotE)

371 I've noticed that Hot Wheels is more race car /
amazing little kid fantasy cars, and Matchbox is more interesting
working vehicles like dump trucks, road graders, etc.

I'm not sure if it has always been this way, but it's neat to sort of know where to look if you're trying to find something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (y8m+O)

IIRC, Hot Wheels were sort of fantasy cars, or hot-rodded copies of actual cars. Corgi, Matchbox, and Dinky toys were more like scale models, and tried to be authentic to their prototypes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (oPNmq)

372

The best thing about Africa is... umm... ughh... wait... oh ya, Chimps and Gorillas!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 11, 2017 12:48 PM (T/KY7)

373 355 293. Rohingya - when even the Buddhists decide to REMOVE KEBAB.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:34 PM (fA1SL)

========

Heh. I noted that on the art thread. Myanmar has suffered two terrorist attacks from them over the past year and ... that's about their limit. A lot of Rohingya have been driven into Bangladesh, where I suspect they'll integrate much better. We could learn a lot from Myanmar.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 11, 2017 12:44 PM (/qEW2)

A kid in my son's small private school class of 24 is going to Myanmar for Christmas break. Parents booked it before uprisings and plan to still go. They're super libs and the kid thinks he's a communist (which amused me during confirmation last month). Up front exposure to "who would go there now?" example. Hey! Let's hitchhike in Afghanistan!

Posted by: dagny at December 11, 2017 12:48 PM (eO5CB)

374 @367, yeah, I honestly don't know. I think the only thing is that there are (relatively) a lot fewer native-born Muslims that suddenly go lone wolf. Like, maybe the mosques only cater to foreign-born Muslims? I have no idea what is chicken and what is egg there.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 11, 2017 12:48 PM (QAOZh)

375 My son saw some cartoon character use a bow and arrow, rope, and plunger to scale a wall, and he wrote "plunger" on his list to Santa.
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Now that is a precious parental memory.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:41 PM (W+kMI)

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It really is. We've already bought a little plunger for him, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:48 PM (y8m+O)

376 I had 6 of the 8 original Hot Wheels. In decent condition. Along with close to 100 Matchbox cars. When my folks moved during my high school years, they donated all of the toys. $$$

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 11, 2017 12:49 PM (7ZVPa)

377 seriously ? is Egypt in Africa ?

I think they're talking sub-Sahara, not the Copts and Berbers along the northern sea.

Also Nubia and Ethiopia were keeping more-or-less in step with the Late Antique world (literacy, ability to conquer Arabs, etc) until Islam shut down the Red Sea and Nile.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (6FqZa)

I was thinking of nubia and ethiopia as well; decline by 7th century with advance of islam. i think the commenter referred to all of africa as lacking the basics; which is weird because Egypt was the breadbasket of Rome and retained a lot of its knowledge going into AD. i thought...

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 12:50 PM (QC/4S)

378 FWIW, he got a youth bow last year, and I've got a bowfishing rig I'm hoping we can attach.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:50 PM (y8m+O)

379 362 seriously ? is Egypt in Africa ?

I think they're talking sub-Sahara, not the Copts and Berbers along the northern sea.

Also Nubia and Ethiopia were keeping more-or-less in step with the Late Antique world (literacy, ability to conquer Arabs, etc) until Islam shut down the Red Sea and Nile.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:46 PM (6FqZa)

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Traditionally, North Africa, Nubia, and Ethiopia were more a part of the Middle east/Medeterranian cultural sphere. Just prior to the arrival of islam you had Berber kingdoms in north africa that were HEAVILY infuenced by the Romans.

Posted by: Jackal at December 11, 2017 12:50 PM (cGbl2)

380 335 I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.
Posted by: buzzion

And in the breadbasket of the world, the cradle of civilization, no one thought to try to domesticate the zebra in over 5,000 years?

How far away was Spain? Roman North Africa?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or great value tibet at December 11, 2017 12:39 PM (U4PcL)

How far away were they? Oh only about One Sahara Desert away.

Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:50 PM (cAnNx)

381 I almost wonder if its just a case that it all boils down to that they didn't have the horse.
Posted by: buzzion at December 11, 2017 12:17 PM (cAnNx)

http://tinyurl.com/zg7592a

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:51 PM (Z1eux)

382 Speaking of Legos, here's the outrage of the day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-5167035 /Lego-dressed-Nazi -SS- soldiers-sale-Amazon.html

(remove spaces, I can't use URL shortners at work)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 11, 2017 12:30 PM (uiwCw)

IIRC, back in the '60s, GI Joe had German uniforms for the GI Joe action figures maybe even Japanese too. But that was before everyone was hyperventilating over everything

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 11, 2017 12:51 PM (SiINZ)

383 I did want an EZ Bake oven as a kid, because the commercials led me to believe you could have cookies whenever you wanted, nothing Mom & Dad could do about it.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:51 PM (7HtZB)

384
FOX advertised for "actors, models, and talent" to work Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers. ====

They played the Rams not the Chargers but yeah Ram games have been sparsely attended all year and they're in first place in the NFC West. I thought with beautiful weather and the Eagles in town they would sell out but there were plenty of empty seats for Sundays game.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 12:52 PM (lKyWE)

385 I'm guessing you can still buy fully-marked model Nazi airplanes, tanks, figures, etc., right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:52 PM (y8m+O)

386 My final comment on Africa's lack of development is based on a comment I made about the MCU's Black Panther. He is a dynastic royal acclaimed by his people, with a university education, an interest in economics and national security, who wants what is best for his people. He is thereby a fictional character.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:52 PM (W+kMI)

387 The necessity for writing is believed to have come about because of the necessity of proving ownership in a society where all wealth was derived from working the land in various ways. This is thought to have been especially true in Egypt, where the flooding of the Nile erased most physical field makers each year, thus requiring some external method of recording property boundaries, as well as making it useful to develop some form of centralized authority that could decide disputes and enforce its rulings, leading to the rise of the Pharaohs.

The oldest cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia are not tales of kings or gods, but rather extensive warehouse inventories made by clerks who were responsible for taking care of the goods of a number of different owners.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2017 12:53 PM (k1TUh)

388 IIRC, Hot Wheels were sort of fantasy cars, or hot-rodded copies of actual cars. Corgi, Matchbox, and Dinky toys were more like scale models, and tried to be authentic to their prototypes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:47 PM (oPNmq)

I never really played with toy cars when I was a child, but for some reason I had a Matchbox copy of a 1908 Thomas Flyer, which was the car that won the first around-the-world race.

Here's the restored (real) car:

https://tinyurl.com/ybjq2te2

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:53 PM (kqsXK)

389 #CountryOverUniparty

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2017 12:54 PM (2z74n)

390 it's too bad about Africa, incredible resources; but now that they are good friends with Israel, they may get a lot of agricultural advice and equipment, suitable for that region

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 12:54 PM (QC/4S)

391 Africa had domesticated cattle

The Greek Homos stole them?

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 11, 2017 12:54 PM (xBSm0)

392 I never really played with toy cars when I was a child, but for some reason I had a Matchbox copy of a 1908 Thomas Flyer, which was the car that won the first around-the-world race.

Here's the restored (real) car:

https://tinyurl.com/ybjq2te2

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 12:53 PM (kqsXK)

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That reminds me: We watched Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang with the kids for the first time during the snow. I'm not saying it's high art, but it's a very charming movie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:55 PM (y8m+O)

393 387 The necessity for writing is believed to have come about because of the necessity of proving ownership in a society where all wealth was derived from working the land in various ways. This is thought to have been especially true in Egypt, where the flooding of the Nile erased most physical field makers each year, thus requiring some external method of recording property boundaries, as well as making it useful to develop some form of centralized authority that could decide disputes and enforce its rulings, leading to the rise of the Pharaohs.

The oldest cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia are not tales of kings or gods, but rather extensive warehouse inventories made by clerks who were responsible for taking care of the goods of a number of different owners.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2017 12:53 PM (k1TUh)

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Linear A in Crete is the same way. Incidentally, that's why we know damn near nothing about the language it encodes: It's all inventories, no prose or poetry.

Posted by: Jackal at December 11, 2017 12:55 PM (cGbl2)

394 Remember, the Sahara was much better then. Climate change!

Posted by: Jean at December 11, 2017 12:56 PM (8kEbO)

395
I'm guessing you can still buy fully-marked model Nazi airplanes, tanks, figures, etc., right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:52 PM (y8m+O)

I'm sure you can, and if I were into creating dioramas of war scenes, I would be using realistic figures, not Legos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:56 PM (oPNmq)

396 I had a Cox model gas car that went like 100mph... until it hit a concrete curb head on. Three runs and it was in a thousand pieces.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (r9UYA)

397 Africa had domesticated cattle
The Greek Homos stole them?

I, for one, would blame the Irish.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (6FqZa)

398 385 I'm guessing you can still buy fully-marked model Nazi airplanes, tanks, figures, etc., right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:52 PM (y8m+O)

Not ones made in Europe. The swastikas are either printed split in half to get around the restrictions, or aren't included at all. You have to buy decal sheets from a third party for them.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (7HtZB)

399 Feinstein is 84. My mom is 79 and needs help rebooting her kindle. There are people 35 yo never not been represented by diane. Why not live in cuba?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (wF9bJ)

400 Probably from Brick Arms: http://brickarms.com/index.php

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Perfectly OK as long as you give them to girls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (+y/Ru)

401 397. Gypsies.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 12:58 PM (fA1SL)

402 Linear A in Crete is the same way. Incidentally, that's why we know damn near nothing about the language it encodes: It's all inventories, no prose or poetry.

Ayep.

Cyrus Gordon thought the terms for "total" and such were Semitic. Unfortunately, even if he was right... those are exactly the terms that might be loans. Like our word "total" which is Latin.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:58 PM (6FqZa)

403 385 I'm guessing you can still buy fully-marked model Nazi airplanes, tanks, figures, etc., right?
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Yes, because modelers are period-detail nerds who sneer at SJW pretensions. That and Tamiya is a Japanese company who really could care less about that sort of thing.

About 10-15 years ago in the time of Bush II there was an entire line of historical-accurate G.I. Joes aimed at the adult collector. A couple of German WW II types were in that line.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 12:59 PM (W+kMI)

404 You can avoid the whole gendered toys problem by getting your kids sex toys. Boys and girls alike love a rubber phallus, and it's one size fits all. A 12-inch artificial penis for everyone!

Posted by: Teen Vogue at December 11, 2017 01:00 PM (HIDKl)

405 It doesn't surprise me that the mentally disturbed keep trying to state that girls and boys are different. They are a mess in the head.

http://tinyurl.com/ybo6eypm

What confuses me is why so many people want to go along with it. In the early 90s thing they went crazy with this, a huge push about how there's just no difference between girls and boys innately, that they are forced into the roles by cruel tyrannical adults.

Yet over and over and over scientists and studies show that there are inescapably innate differences in children, that babies do choose things that match their gender, play in ways that match their gender. Yet here we are again, and here the culture and academia and news keep pushing it, again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:00 PM (39g3+)

406 That reminds me: We watched Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang with the kids for the first time during the snow. I'm not saying it's high art, but it's a very charming movie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 12:55 PM (y8m+O)

I love the movie. I hate the stage musical.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:00 PM (kqsXK)

407 Jerry Brown: 'I Don't Think President Trump Has a Fear of the Lord'

Now that's rich.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 01:02 PM (r9UYA)

408 I never really played with toy cars when I was a child, but for some reason I had a Matchbox copy of a 1908 Thomas Flyer, which was the car that won the first around-the-world race.

Here's the restored (real) car:

https://tinyurl.com/ybjq2te2

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at Decemb

Had that one too. Beautiful car. And look how far the automobile had advanced in such a short time....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 01:03 PM (7uYFy)

409 I'm sure you can, and if I were into creating dioramas of war scenes, I would be using realistic figures, not Legos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 12:56 PM (oPNmq)

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I'd bet there's something to be said for trading off sort of goofy looking small figures for the ability to customize the battlefield in any possibly way you want, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:03 PM (3b9db)

410 That reminds me: We watched Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang with the kids for the first time during the snow. I'm not saying it's high art, but it's a very charming movie.

Had the Chitty Hot Wheels car. Even had the orange plastic "wings" that came out from under the car.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:03 PM (rGtm/)

411 396
I had a Cox model gas car that went like 100mph... until it hit a
concrete curb head on. Three runs and it was in a thousand pieces.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:57 PM (r9UYA)
I had a battery operated remote control car. Worked great except for one problem. The remote used the same frequencies as CB radios. You could make out some conversations from nearby high powered home setups. Plus watch the car dart in every direction uncontrollably.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2017 01:04 PM (jxbfJ)

412 Possible, also.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:04 PM (3b9db)

413 there's cuomo on cnn describing the bomber as a "taxi driver who became disgruntled".

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 11, 2017 01:04 PM (Pg+x7)

414 >>That reminds me: We watched Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang with the kids for
the first time during the snow. I'm not saying it's high art, but it's a
very charming movie.

OMG, the guy who rounds up and jails children gave me nightmares.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (W+vEI)

415 413 there's cuomo on cnn describing the bomber as a "taxi driver who became disgruntled".
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 11, 2017 01:04 PM (Pg+x7)

You talking to me?

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (7HtZB)

416 402 Linear A in Crete is the same way. Incidentally, that's why we know damn near nothing about the language it encodes: It's all inventories, no prose or poetry.

Ayep.

Cyrus Gordon thought the terms for "total" and such were Semitic. Unfortunately, even if he was right... those are exactly the terms that might be loans. Like our word "total" which is Latin.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 12:58 PM (6FqZa)

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"Kuro", IIRC. They've also managed to tenatatively the word for wool, I think: "Maru", which may be of Semitic extraction as well. The Linear B corpus is predominantly composed of inventories, however more lingusitic info was extracted because
1. Linear B doesn't fit Mycenean Greek well, so it's written more phonetically, with fewer ideograms.
2. The Myceneans had the decency to list deity names and political titles.

Posted by: Jackal at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (cGbl2)

417 411 ah yes good old 27-29 mhz.

Posted by: Johnny at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (kUotE)

418 The swastika on model airplanes? It depends.

There are Hasegawa kits out there with cover art showing the swastika and others it is missing from the tail, but on the decal sheet are full swastikas.

Eduard, which is a Czech company, omits the swastika on their box art but on the decal sheets are full and split swastikas.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (FX/O0)

419 407 Jerry Brown: 'I Don't Think President Trump Has a Fear of the Lord'

Now that's rich.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 01:02 PM (r9UYA)

You have to remember that to the Commie Left, "The Lord" is Obama/ValJar.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (CMbMd)

420 I had a Cox model gas car that went like 100mph... until it hit a concrete curb head on. Three runs and it was in a thousand pieces.
Posted by: Under Fire

Same with the planes until the guide strings broke.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (rGtm/)

421 Yet over and over and over scientists and studies show that there are inescapably innate differences in children, that babies do choose things that match their gender, play in ways that match their gender. Yet here we are again, and here the culture and academia and news keep pushing it, again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:00 PM (39g3+)

I suspect that that is because many of those pushing this nonsense have never had children. They therefore presume that a child is a tabula rasa, and will adopt and play with any toy provided.

This alone proves they've never had children, or ever been around them. Provide a child with a toy he isn't interested in and watch the result.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:07 PM (Z1eux)

422
OMG, the guy who rounds up and jails children gave me nightmares.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (W+vEI)

--

This weekend was that, the original Star Wars, and Nightmare Before Christmas. You could see the gears turning in their heads in the spooky parts when they realized that their regular TV shows/movies don't offer that sort of "danger" that the good guys overcome.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:07 PM (y8m+O)

423 there's cuomo on cnn describing the bomber as a "taxi driver who became disgruntled".
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So does that mean Cuomo thinks that bombing the Port Authority is an appropriate response to being "disgruntled?"

If that were the case, I would have blown up most everything by now....

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 01:07 PM (vg8iE)

424 I never had the Chitty Matchbox car, but I do have a 14" plastic replica (with front, back and side wings) that were sold during the run of the stage musical. They go for about $400 now on Amazon:

https://tinyurl.com/ycucutk2

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (kqsXK)

425 there's cuomo on cnn describing the bomber as a "taxi driver who became disgruntled".

Someday, a real rain will come...INFIDEL!

Posted by: Mohammed Bickel at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (O5Q3r)

426 Africa, not so much. Tribes still scampering around in G-strings, pretty much still in the Stone Age. Europeans barely set foot in Africa until circa 1870 ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), so Africans can't blame their backwardness on Europeans.

In fact, most of their progress came from being colonized. And now that the colonization era has ended, they've sunk back into the morass they started in, it's just that now they have cell phones.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 12:45 PM (Z1eux)

In the guitar world, honduras mahogany is like the king shit wood for guitars. The best stuff is considered long gone because of all the development, and the old growth stuff is pretty rare. One of the rarer woods Gibson used, and is still a bit hard to get is African white limba, or what they call Korina.

I was talking to a another guitar builder one day and we were talking about how Korina today even though a little harder to get is still basically as good as the older stuff. The dude asks I wonder why.

I told him its Africa, nothing changed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (aMlLZ)

427 306 I hate to say this . . . but Jordan Carver is a little too well-endowed even for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 12:32 PM (HQ28E)

As Grandfather Poppins was wont to say, "More than a handful isn't nearly enough."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017
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*
Normally I'm, uh, all over that. But Jordan just seems to be too much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (HQ28E)

428 "Forget it Jake, its Africatown."

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (FX/O0)

429 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a great movie

By Ian Fleming, oddly enough. Although it was adapted by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate factory etc) for the movie and changed the story notably.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (39g3+)

430 there's cuomo on cnn describing the bomber as a "taxi driver who became disgruntled".

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 11, 2017 01:04 PM (Pg+x7)

Clearly, New York needs to have mandatory gruntling clinics for cab drivers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (oPNmq)

431 OMG, the guy who rounds up and jails children gave me nightmares.
Posted by: Lizzy

Me too!

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (8ikIW)

432 Cyrus Gordon thought the terms for "total" and such were Semitic.

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How about "wholesale"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (+y/Ru)

433 Toys that celebrate environment-polluting vehicles? I'll send you to camps by light rail. Your going to love your hemp uniforms.

Posted by: Jerry Brown, My Aura Smiles and Never Frowns at December 11, 2017 01:09 PM (HIDKl)

434 NYC needs dis-disgruntling clinics...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:10 PM (FX/O0)

435 390runner ..."africa, now that they're friends with israel they'll get agricultural advice..."

it's pretty much a colony of china now.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 11, 2017 01:10 PM (Pg+x7)

436
Same with the planes until the guide strings broke.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (rGtm/)

The life expectancy for a Cox PT-19 pilot was very short

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 01:11 PM (lKyWE)

437 I suspect that that is because many of those pushing this nonsense have never had children.

I think that's 99.9% accurate. I bet there are a couple who have kids or have been around them but yeah. Single child households, not around babies their whole life, if even in a couple, the kind that doesn't have kids because "overpopulation, Trump is president, blah blah lame excuse"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:11 PM (39g3+)

438 NYC needs dis-disgruntling clinics...

Just go up another buck on the cigarette tax to pay for it.
For "the children".

Posted by: tu3031 at December 11, 2017 01:11 PM (O5Q3r)

439 Crap. It's an ancient languages thread that's going to get willowed before I can catch up.

*pouts*

(I'll read later, I have nothing to contribute anyway. Still, things are more fun in real time).

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:12 PM (fuK7c)

440 420
Same with the planes until the guide strings broke.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:05 PM (rGtm/)
Dad helped me with mine. It didn't end well.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 01:12 PM (r9UYA)

441 Thank you all for your love and prayers last week.

I've tried to return as many emails as I could.

-Thank you

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (Ckg4U)

442 My gruntle had been waning for a while, Then Trump! became President.

Full Gruntle now!!

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (8ikIW)

443 Toys that celebrate environment-polluting vehicles? I'll send you to camps by light rail. Your going to love your hemp uniforms.
Posted by: Jerry Brown

Celebrate?
Hell, they USED environmentally polluting chemicals.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (rGtm/)

444 Nood nuffin

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (fA1SL)

445 Open NOOD

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (7HtZB)

446

Everyone has butts, thus everyone loves getting vibrating butt plugs!* All ages and all 1,136,009 known genders (and still climbing!) love a good high hard one!

*your mileage may vary don't forget batteries which are not included it is highly recommended you attach a string in case it migrates north gray models available for the color blind non petroleum solvent lube is suggested do not use to insert gerbils throwing on stage at melisa ethridge concerts may cause rioting consult owners manual for periodic maintenance schedules do not remove ball bearings.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (T/KY7)

447 It's a nood about nothing

Posted by: tu3031 at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (O5Q3r)

448 434 NYC needs dis-disgruntling clinics...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:10 PM (FX/O0)

"If you'd just give up more control of your life and finances to the Muslims, none of this would ever happen!"

--Somebody that needs to be beaten in the balls with a nail bat

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (CMbMd)

449 My gruntle had been waning for a while, Then Trump! became President.

Golden-haired boar in a china-shop . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (6FqZa)

450 Cab driver, one bomb to the dock

Never mind the ticking of the clock.

Posted by: Not The Mills Brothers at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (oPNmq)

451 Dad helped me with mine. It didn't end well.
Posted by: Under Fire

I had the Stuka. After that hit the ground and broke, I built my own trainer plane.
Did you know that at 10 you can get high as a kite on the dope you paint the model with?

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (8ikIW)

452 I missed this at the bottom of the NFL tickets article:

Things are getting so desperate, reportedly, that some NFL broadcasts are hiring extras to pose as fans. The listing is unconfirmed, but one Philadelphia newspaper claims that FOX advertised for "actors, models, and talent" to work Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers.

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 12:19 PM (Enq6K)

Throw in the free beer and hotdogs and I AM ALL OVER IT!!!

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (mKDza)

453 I know Trump's Travel Ban not a muslim ban (the Left's characterization), but how is now blaming today's botched terror attack in NYC on Trump's Jerusalem announcement last week not proof that it is the muslim ideology, not country of origin, that animates terrorism?

The guy was not Palestinian. He was from Bangladesh.
Why would a Bangladeshi care about what's going on in Israel, to the point that he was willing to perform a suicide bomb attack? Why are there protests all over Europe, in NYC's Times Square, about the Jerusalem recognition?

You can't have it both ways - say you can't temporarily ban muslim vistors/immigrants to stop terrorism wile ALSO claiming Trump's recent announcement is to blame for today's and future terror attacks.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (W+vEI)

454 I told him its Africa, nothing changed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (aMlLZ)

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (mKDza)

455 I told him its Africa, nothing changed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 11, 2017 01:08 PM (aMlLZ)

But the story tellers are much hotter, no?

Posted by: Shakira at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (mKDza)

456 The life expectancy for a Cox PT-19 pilot was very short

He had a tendency to be decapitated.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (WbIyz)

457 161
I had an 'Erector' set when I was a kid.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 12:03 PM (r9UYA)

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In the 5th grade Mary Ann Westerman had an erector set.

Posted by: Javems at December 11, 2017 02:26 PM (yOqwj)

458 "high standard for personal property"?
I doubt that could ever be said about Dems (or any politician).
I'm guessing he meant "personal propriety". Which is still laughable, but at least makes for internal coherence in the paragraph.

(And, no, Spellcheck does *not* count as an editor.)

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2017 02:39 PM (bPZSS)

459 You lose every time when you use the term gender in place of the term sex. Just stop it and please don't say the terms are interchangeable.

Posted by: Wendy at December 11, 2017 02:52 PM (bpemY)

460 CBD, Feinstein's just a typical Democrat. The Democrats passed, and Bill Clinton signed, a law in 1998 requiring the United States to remove Saddam Hussein. 4 years later it had disappeared.

Posted by: SDN at December 11, 2017 02:56 PM (z3gg+)

461 It's simple. Deny Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, deny historical Israel. Deny historical Israel, deny Jewish claims to the land of present Israel. Deny Jewish claims to the land of present Israel, delegitimize Israel.

Posted by: beck at December 11, 2017 03:24 PM (CcIgv)

462 "Yeah, but you gotta admit: the crazy nutjobs are good in bed."
They're good on the couch, floor, table, car, hanging from the ceiling.......
Not so often in bed.

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2017 04:34 PM (bPZSS)

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