Wednesday Morning Rant

The Fifth Floor

If you've spent time in one of America's decaying and formerly-great cities recently, you may have noticed how bifurcated they are. The great cities are in fact two cities within the same space. There is the nice city, and the awful city. They are the same city in fact, but not in spirit. They occupy the same acreage, but at different elevations.

On the surface, the cities are hellholes. Walking down the streets, you will be treated to the stench of urine and learn to dodge aggressive vagrants and various drifts of refuse both human and artificial. You will see plenty of graffiti-covered plywood and the deep filth ground layer by grimy layer into the sidewalks while wondering if your car will still be there when you get back.

Then you go inside, enter an elevator and increase your elevation.

Once you go above the fifth floor, the city changes. The elevator was a portal into a parallel universe. Gone are the filth, piss, aggressive bums, drug detritus and the various flotsam and jetsam of the surface. When you look out the window - so long as you hold your eyes level or cast them skyward - the outer world reflects your interior surroundings. These are third-world cities, devoid of a middle class. They are glittering islands of wealth and power erupting from a sea of crime, filth and poverty.

Outside of the binary cities, it is yet another world - and one about which the men of the fifth floor know far less. It is even more "other" than the urban jungles between the towers. It is utterly alien. They fly over those areas, hopping from one fifth floor directly to the next. They look at the patchwork of fields, towns and minor cities as if looking out upon the surface of the moon, an interesting and unsettling curiosity of no great importance to their plans. They - like Google executives discussed in their 2016 post-election company meeting (approx. 33:20) - see "diversity" in places just like their own. They aren't "coastal elites" because they have offices in Chicago, Austin, Ann Arbor and Boulder.

The world of the fifth floor is insular, and they think everything is like their world because they never move outside of it. The further they are from the world of the surface - in industries like tech, media, government, etc. - they more they believe their own assertions and magnificence. Why don't the rubes get it? Why do they think things are bad? Can't they look around and see that things are great and primed to get even better? Why don't they believe what we believe?

They are so isolated that they know nothing of the world outside their shining towers and carefully manicured suburban campuses. They do not work among the rubes. They do not socialize with the rubes. They do not live amongst the rubes, and so cannot figure out why their plans fail and why people don't believe them. Some are evil and know it, but most simply live in a world where it is all true and they are confused as to why others can't see what they see.

One of the more valuable things they can probably do is to simply leave the fifth floor. They need to "touch grass," as the kids say - take the elevator to the surface, get off the internet, go outside and see what it's like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:00 AM (WSTFK)

2 -- One of the more valuable things they can probably do is to simply leave the fifth floor. They need to "touch grass," as the kids say - take the elevator to the surface, get off the internet, go outside and see what it's like. --

They could never abide the stains on the soles of their cordovans.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at January 24, 2024 11:01 AM (Nmmyc)

3 first?

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:01 AM (xhfG9)

4 The Roaches and the Rats still make it up to the 5th Floor.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:01 AM (mdhFC)

5 Thanks Joe - great topic.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:01 AM (WSTFK)

6 Perhaps you're right, but I suspect there's also a strong element of Saruman in his tower, looking down at the orcs and reveling in his status.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (CsUN+)

7 That sums up Washington, D.C. and its environs nicely.

Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (I8Xka)

8 Yell "JUMP!"

They like it when you do that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

9 You really don't get to see the real scum until you get to the top few floors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (9UlRk)

10 Perhaps you're right, but I suspect there's also a strong element of Saruman in his tower, looking down at the orcs and reveling in his status.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (CsUN+)
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For some of them, surely. Those at the top are uniformly evil. Many, however, are just cogs in the machine with no clue whatsoever that the other world exists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (mwCIn)

11 "The great cities are in fact two cities within the same space. There is the nice city, and the awful city."

They were divided by "racist roads."

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:03 AM (MvF+J)

12 Aren't "they" doing their work via computer while wintering in their home located on Antigua? They're touching grass, just grass that is manicured by the help.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2024 11:03 AM (JeYYB)

13 I think Joe's theme is summed up in Elysium.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (MvF+J)

14 For some of them, surely. Those at the top are uniformly evil. Many, however, are just cogs in the machine with no clue whatsoever that the other world exists.

Also true. The ones you describe are the Yertle the Turtles, being on top of a stack of other turtles, and thinking that you rule the world.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (CsUN+)

15 About that Tim Scott "engagement" . . .

1. He's not gay? I would have bet money he's gay. I would still take that bet.

2. Omg, the whole thing was so staged and cringeworthy. He's on a beach on his knees proposing, the girl has her hands in her pockets and looks bored, and some rando is standing off to the side taking a picture of it. Seems real fake. See my comment #1 above.

3. He's a serious candidate or even front-runner for VP, or at least he thinks he is. The timing of this engagement isn't a coincidence. Kamala did the same thing -- or sorta -- when she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

16 Aren't "they" doing their work via computer while wintering in their home located on Antigua? They're touching grass, just grass that is manicured by the help.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2024 11:03 AM (JeYYB)
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Some of them, but that's the same thing. It still isn't the world outside their insular bubble.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (mwCIn)

17
The more Democratic a city or state is, the greater the level of income inequality. Fact.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (MoZTd)

18 7 That sums up Washington, D.C. and its environs nicely.
Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2024 11:02 AM (I8Xka)

Imma say not so much. I don't see elevation as the boundary. If one were to venture into DC and not boycott it on principle because, you know, they might jail you for being a Trump voter, you would find places that are generally habitable and walkable and actually fine. And places where you just might get shot. The tall buildings over in Arlington aren't lifting you out of public poverty.

The bad places are easy to know and avoid.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (xhfG9)

19 Eloi and Morlocks.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (MvF+J)

20 When they go down to 'touch the grass' they get robbed, assaulted, raped, and killed.
They then (except in the last case) try and spend more of other people's money 'fixing' the problems on the streets.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (MG2xz)

21 FIRST!

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (VTu1l)

22 I think Joe's theme is summed up in Elysium.

Other examples include Alita: Battle Angel and Altered Carbon. It's a common trope in dystopian sci fi.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (CsUN+)

23 The more Democratic a city or state is, the greater the level of income inequality. Fact.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (MoZTd)
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Income inequality is a problem of capitalism that can only be solved through technocratic rule, comrade.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (mwCIn)

24 The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster, 1909. Prescient, well worth reading. The "touch grass" remark reminded me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (tkR6S)

25 My trip to Denver in October - Very nice, high-end restaurants in downtown the streets were clean, no hobos/illegals/drug users in sight. Several blocks down, filthy and full of human depravity. The Police take care of the "nice" side of town because that's were the Mayor and Gov. like to eat and shop and let the rest go to hell.

Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (oiNtH)

26 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

27 The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster, 1909. Prescient, well worth reading. The "touch grass" remark reminded me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (tkR6S)
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"The Machine Stops" is a good, quick read.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (mwCIn)

28 Good post Joe Mannix. Basically you're saying our cities look like the city in Blade Runner. Only the sexbots aren't that good yet .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (3B9my)

29 My trip to Denver in October - Very nice, high-end restaurants in downtown the streets were clean, no hobos/illegals/drug users in sight. Several blocks down, filthy and full of human depravity. The Police take care of the "nice" side of town because that's were the Mayor and Gov. like to eat and shop and let the rest go to hell.
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (oiNtH)
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And the island of "nice" is (or was) shrinking markedly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (mwCIn)

30 Good post Joe Mannix. Basically you're saying our cities look like the city in Blade Runner. Only the sexbots aren't that good yet .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (3B9my)
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Give it time.

Posted by: Japanese engineers at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (mwCIn)

31 I avoid cities in any form. Any town I can't be out of in 5 minutes makes me feel like a trapped rat. I am on edge every minute I am in the trap and cannot wait to bolt.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (pohLc)

32 Kamala did the same thing -- or sorta -- when she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

Holy shit! Are you saying she PAID someone to make her look like that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (z99Zw)

33 Party and Proletariat.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (MvF+J)

34 Willowed, for fun:

SCTV: The Leutonian Hour
http://tinyurl.com/4nvapjyu
1:44 minutes

Hilarious and bannable today. Only one "it's offensive" dick in the comments although not of the screeching, pink-haired variety at least.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (2yu8s)

35 A valid point.
Market street in SF is pretty much a hellscape.
But over at the Four Seasons hotel (on Market st.) things are pretty nice.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (MeG8a)

36 Basically you're saying our cities look like the city in Blade Runner.

Oooh, Blade Runner. I forgot that one.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (CsUN+)

37 the girl has her hands in her pockets and looks bored, and some rando is standing off to the side taking a picture of it. Seems real fake.

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"Girl" seems charitable, she looks like somebody put down the ugly stick and picked up the ugly sledgehammer instead to wail on her face

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (VTu1l)

38 Joe's rant reminds me of a quotation I once saw in a history of the Russian Revolution.

It was a quotation from a late Tsarist-era bureaucrat after the Revolution, and was along the lines of "We knew more about the interior of Africa than we did about our own provinces." All they really knew were the two capitals of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (9yWhg)

39 Crap. I work on the fifth floor.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:09 AM (CgVac)

40 "Girl" seems charitable, she looks like somebody put down the ugly stick and picked up the ugly sledgehammer instead to wail on her face
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (VTu1l)

Well Scott isn't exactly Adonis and I say that being a fan... I hope for the best for Him

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:10 AM (n2vyf)

41 It was a quotation from a late Tsarist-era bureaucrat after the Revolution, and was along the lines of "We knew more about the interior of Africa than we did about our own provinces." All they really knew were the two capitals of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (9yWhg)
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They never go there. It's just there, existing, getting on and subject to their authority. Why bother knowing anything about it? It's not going anywhere and it's not like it matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:10 AM (mwCIn)

42 And if you really want an eye opener, go all the way up to the 9th Floor …

Posted by: Anne Francis at January 24, 2024 11:10 AM (4Winp)

43 The Police take care of the "nice" side of town because that's were the Mayor and Gov. like to eat and shop and let the rest go to hell.
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (oiNtH)

If that were true then someone might come to the conclusion that the police - be they local or federal - are nothing more than taxpayer funded bullyboys for the syndicate bigs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:10 AM (z99Zw)

44 Well Scott isn't exactly Adonis

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Yeah but he's rich so it shouldn't matter

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:11 AM (VTu1l)

45 And if you really want an eye opener, go all the way up to the 9th Floor …
Posted by: Anne Francis

I'd go to the floor with Anne Francis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:11 AM (9yWhg)

46 That sums up Washington, D.C. and its environs nicely.
Posted by: MkY

DC has always left me cold and lifeless. The supposed grandeur of it all instead seems over the top and designed to belittle the individual citizen, not build up our beloved country.

Coupling that with the unimaginable level of greed, waste and hubris of the District leaves an monumental emptiness for me.

My .$02.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:11 AM (WSTFK)

47 Are the cities as Joe Mannix describes a metaphor for America?

Shit...I hope not.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (gSZYf)

48 Market street in SF is pretty much a hellscape.
But over at the Four Seasons hotel (on Market st.) things are pretty nice.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (MeG8a)
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San Francisco is where I first noticed the elevation thing. Look down from the window and it's tents and dirt and bums and graffiti. Look dead ahead or up, and it's a glittering complex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (mwCIn)

49 "There is the nice city, and the awful city. They are the same city in fact, but not in spirit. They occupy the same acreage, but at different elevations."

I've been screaming this from the rooftops for a long time. The shithole areas of NYC are largely confined to poorer or commercial areas. The affluent decision-makers don't live there. They live on the Upper West or Upper East, or on "Millionaire's Row" or similar. Usually, as you point out, at higher elevations which even further isolate them from any dysfunction below.

Nothing will change -- nothing -- until the decision-makers have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

50 Kamala did the same thing -- or sorta -- when she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

***

I'm good at that.

Posted by: Willie Brown at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (ZV+pB)

51 Joe's rant reminds me of a quotation I once saw in a history of the Russian Revolution.

It was a quotation from a late Tsarist-era bureaucrat after the Revolution, and was along the lines of "We knew more about the interior of Africa than we did about our own provinces." All they really knew were the two capitals of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

I just finished a book on the Franco-Prussian war, and the French Civil War in Paris that immediately followed. The initial cause was that Emperor Louis Napoleon was throwing lavish parties for the Germans, including Bismark, while the workers in Paris were starving. After Bismark took Paris and then left, the elites sort of had an idea that things could get sporty, but didn't do much to head it off. Tens of thousand of dead Parisian workers was the ultimate cost of their ignorance.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)

52 15 About that Tim Scott "engagement" . . .

1. He's not gay? I would have bet money he's gay. I would still take that bet.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

Everybody that is insufficiently conservative is gay.

That's it, that's all, that's the post.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (sm6Pk)

53 "Girl" seems charitable, she looks like somebody put down the ugly stick and picked up the ugly sledgehammer instead to wail on her face
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (VTu1l)

There is more to love than appearance. Most guys really appreciate that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (z99Zw)

54 "No one voted for him"

It just means no one you know voted for him. But millions of other people did vote for him. And you called them "no one". They aren't real to you. They aren't people to you and they don't matter.
People above the fifth floor do not understand what the surface people are concerned about because those people don't exist. The surface is an illusion. They live in a sci-fi fantasy world.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2024 11:13 AM (cRrcX)

55 Touching grass >Touching cloth

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at January 24, 2024 11:13 AM (5AVMW)

56 The military used to have a genuine "mixing" effect b/c during the draft years, rich and poor alike would spend time in the same unit at the same relative rank. Nothing like that exists anymore and now the "elite" never rub elbows with anyone but other elites.

Sure, some people make it up the ladder from the middle class or even lower, but they are immediately co-opted by the "elite" b/c they want to fit in and be elite.

So, nobody in the ruling class anymore has any experience with the real world. They seem to truly believe "green energy" can become a thing just b/c the gov't wants it to. Just like they seem to truly believe that importing millions of poor illegals doesn't cost Americans anything.

Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at January 24, 2024 11:13 AM (ky+MF)

57 DC has always left me cold and lifeless. The supposed grandeur of it all instead seems over the top and designed to belittle the individual citizen, not build up our beloved country.

At least DC has that rule that no building can be taller than the Washington Monument. So it doesn't have skyscrapers, which is kinda nice.

Crystal City, on the other hand...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:13 AM (9yWhg)

58 32 Kamala did the same thing -- or sorta -- when she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

Holy shit! Are you saying she PAID someone to make her look like that?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (z99Zw)
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Yup, she had a very obvious nip-n-tuck kinda thing, right before she was picked as VP.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

59 They are so isolated that they know nothing of the world outside their shining towers and carefully manicured suburban campuses.

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That speaks of virtually everyone in the global warming cult. They have no idea of how much open space exists, nor that there are more trees in North America than when Columbus landed. I have traveled extensively, and have seen vast empty spaces that one can cross without encountering another human being in a day. Without that perspective, how can anyone preach about overcrowding?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)

60 I think Scott's fiancé is very pretty. I also think that this marriage is a business arrangement. 58 & never married - certainly possible but not likely. He's been on the DL for quite some time and is looking for higher office. He could do that and be openly gay but has his reasons for not doing so I guess.

Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (oiNtH)

61 >>Are the cities as Joe Mannix describes a metaphor for America?

The French Revolution.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)

62 Fifth floor I can handle, but I don't wanna go down to the basement. There's something down there!

Posted by: Zombie Joey and Dee Dee at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (V5BDR)

63 There is more to love than appearance

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Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (VTu1l)

64 It's not going anywhere and it's not like it matters.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Until it does.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (ZcPYF)

65 Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (VTu1l)

I guess they can stay home with their cats

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (n2vyf)

66 That speaks of virtually everyone in the global warming cult. They have no idea of how much open space exists, nor that there are more trees in North America than when Columbus landed. I have traveled extensively, and have seen vast empty spaces that one can cross without encountering another human being in a day. Without that perspective, how can anyone preach about overcrowding?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)
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I think that most people should take a cross-country road trip at least once, and make only periodic use of interstate highways. Go see the country. Eat in local restaurants. Talk to people.

This is a vast and diverse (in the real sense) country and tons of people have never experienced it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (mwCIn)

67 Whenever I have visited DC a profound sense of dread comes over me. It's been that way my whole life. I wish it didn't but I can't control it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (MeG8a)

68 62 Fifth floor I can handle, but I don't wanna go down to the basement. There's something down there!
Posted by: Zombie Joey
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The IT Crowd is there.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (ZcPYF)

69 I'm sorry but Tim Scotts fiance isnt ugly. Shes older and has 3 kids. Not everyone is a God or goddess.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (eHeEM)

70 That sums up Washington, D.C. and its environs nicely.

Posted by: MkY

Listen to any congressional candidate who is running for the first time, versus one running for reelection. The first timer relates what his neighbors want, and the existing congressman relates what his focus group told him to say.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (lTGtQ)

71 56 Good point.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (MvF+J)

72 About that Tim Scott "engagement" . . .
. . .

2. Omg, the whole thing was so staged and cringeworthy. He's on a beach on his knees proposing. . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade

And that's another thing - even if this announcement is on the up and up - 'Knelling'?

This has always struck me as begging or posing for the camera. I shan't do it.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (WSTFK)

73 Until it does.
Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (ZcPYF)
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Right, which tends to end in disaster. I'd much rather that the workaday ruling class and their adjuncts go see what's happening and reach some conclusions *before* it ends in a sudden catastrophe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:17 AM (mwCIn)

74 "Girl" seems charitable, she looks like somebody put down the ugly stick and picked up the ugly sledgehammer instead to wail on her face
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:08 AM (VTu1l)

Your girlfriend, umm, Morgan Fairchild, thinks she looks gross!

She's not ugly. But a supposedly gay man marrying an interior designer? How cliche!

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:17 AM (xhfG9)

75 >>Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum

Be fair. Nobody likes a manlet.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:17 AM (mdhFC)

76 I think Scott's fiancé is very pretty. I also think that this marriage is a business arrangement. 58 & never married - certainly possible but not likely. He's been on the DL for quite some time and is looking for higher office. He could do that and be openly gay but has his reasons for not doing so I guess.
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (oiNtH)

Yeah. She is a One. And I don't know enough about either her or Scott to be speculating on their reasons for getting hitched. But i wouldn't kick her out for eating crackers in bed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (tkR6S)

77 I'm sorry but Tim Scotts fiance isnt ugly. Shes older and has 3 kids. Not everyone is a God or goddess.

Concur. She's very attractive.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (CsUN+)

78 Nothing will change -- nothing -- until the decision-makers have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

But the sh*t is creeping into even the wealthy areas of NYC. Look at the wetbacks swarming all over Vanderbilt Ave! Muggings on the UES (a friend broke some ribs a few months ago), bums all over the UWS. Traffic laws are not enforced even in midtown...garbage all over the place.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (gSZYf)

79 1. He's not gay? I would have bet money he's gay. I would still take that bet.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

***

Heh

Posted by: Fiercely Heterosexual Corey Booker at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (ZV+pB)

80 Then you go inside, enter an elevator and increase your elevation.

Assuming the elevator works.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (W/lyH)

81 This is a vast and diverse (in the real sense) country and tons of people have never experienced it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (mwCIn)

And an awful lot of those flown over people are quite familiar with cities and their denizens, having seen them in media, visited them for work or vacations.... So who is the cosmopolitan, and who is the provincial?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (9UlRk)

82 Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (VTu1l)

Dude, I had a 5% success rate on the apps, which is considered exceptional. I considered it a waste of time, so I ditched it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (pohLc)

83 69 I'm sorry but Tim Scotts fiance isnt ugly. Shes older and has 3 kids. Not everyone is a God or goddess.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 24, 2024 11:16 AM (eHeEM)

Just looked her up... Nothing wrong with her looks... She's older

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (n2vyf)

84
I work on the second floor. For certain values of "work".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (MoZTd)

85 I'd say the rot is pretty much on every floor. It's just that the higher the floor, the thicker the patina on an endless ocean of turds.

There's a lot of collapse in Western Culture going on right now even though it's technically (as in tech) ascendant. It will continue if our culture doesn't fight for itself. It could well fail though no one really wants to think about that and assumes that which is will continue forever. History provides countless lessons of failure.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 24, 2024 11:19 AM (aXxgO)

86 Just get me my flying car and an Orbit City like George Jetson, already.

Posted by: Rex B at January 24, 2024 11:19 AM (vpULL)

87 So, nobody in the ruling class anymore has any experience with the real world. They seem to truly believe "green energy" can become a thing just b/c the gov't wants it to. Just like they seem to truly believe that importing millions of poor illegals doesn't cost Americans anything.
Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at January 24, 2024 11:13 AM (ky+MF)

Social media.

Girls join OnlyFans because some chick made millions there. Doesn't matter that the average is $180/month and it'll ruin their life.

People are dissatisfied with their lives because they look at other people's Instagram and think it reflects reality.

Very few people in 2024, and almost no one under the age of 40, has any connection to the real world. They live in a kaleidoscope of lies surrounded by the bubble of the algorithm.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:19 AM (z99Zw)

88 Nothing will change -- nothing -- until the decision-makers have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

That's kind of the point of being an elite: you rarely have to pay for the consequences of your actions.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

89 I think Scott's fiancé is very pretty.

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Im trying to be charitable here, so here's a nice pic of her: http://tinyurl.com/mw4me5zu

Her face seems too mannish to me, and I swear it resembles an actor whose name escapes me

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:19 AM (VTu1l)

90 Sorry for the OT again but I had to bookmark this YouTube playlist for "sctv leutonians" -- they're all golden even the, ironically, OT ones like the Brooke Shields Show.

http://tinyurl.com/yckbxjyu

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (2yu8s)

91 Be fair. Nobody likes a manlet.

*************

I'm 5 foot 12

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (VTu1l)

92 "vast empty spaces that one can cross without encountering another human being in a day."

I hope that such wildernesses continue to exist forever. I know there are a lot of anti-Malthusians here, but there's gotta be someplace where one can get away from people for a while.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (MvF+J)

93 when she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.
Posted by: Elric Blade
***

I'm good at that.
Posted by: Willie Brown

She was hoping for a comeback.

No, wait. That was one of the Kardashians.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (WSTFK)

94 There's Farmers Only dating app. Shouldn't there be a Midgets Only app?

Posted by: Head and Shoulders Above the Fray at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (V5BDR)

95 This is so much different than the "eat shit and die" take of the subject I would've given it.

Posted by: look whats not at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (nakGR)

96 They live in a kaleidoscope of lies surrounded by the bubble of the algorithm.

Kaleidoscope of Lies would be an excellent name for a punk band.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)

97 Right, which tends to end in disaster. I'd much rather that the workaday ruling class and their adjuncts go see what's happening and reach some conclusions *before* it ends in a sudden catastrophe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Excessive pride is one of the sins that inevitably leads to downfall whether of an individual or a whole ruling elite.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (ZcPYF)

98 I work on the second floor. For certain values of "work".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:18 AM (MoZTd)

Yes, I think you've seen me before.

Posted by: Luca at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (5AVMW)

99 Just looked her up... Nothing wrong with her looks... She's older
Posted by: It's me donna

Meh. Sarah Jessica Parker face without Sarah Jessica Parker rack.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

100 >>But the sh*t is creeping into even the wealthy areas of NYC. Look at the wetbacks swarming all over Vanderbilt Ave! Muggings on the UES (a friend broke some ribs a few months ago), bums all over the UWS. Traffic laws are not enforced even in midtown...garbage all over the place.

I had a meeting at Logan Airport yesterday. It has now become a shelter for illegals just like O'Hare and other airports.

Things like this can't go on so they won't. Only a matter of time.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)

101 I hope that such wildernesses continue to exist forever. I know there are a lot of anti-Malthusians here, but there's gotta be someplace where one can get away from people for a while.
Posted by: gp
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Perfect example of why we need to get off this planet and into space.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (ZcPYF)

102 ARE YOU KIDDING? It's DANGEROUS down there...

Posted by: Richard Sean McEnroe at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (8fxF+)

103 Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (VTu1l)

They have been lied to. They cannot be told the truth. They will discover it in their own time, likely when it is too late. If I were a theorist I might suggest this was a conspiracy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (z99Zw)

104 Whenever I have visited DC a profound sense of dread comes over me. It's been that way my whole life. I wish it didn't but I can't control it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour

I was there several years ago, and it felt like the city was full of demons. Spooky.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (lTGtQ)

105 I appreciate women who won't date anyone under 6' (although I'm long married, so I have no skin in the game). It's always nice when people you wouldn't want to be associated with, much less married to, self-identify.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (CsUN+)

106 She was hoping for a comeback.

No, wait. That was one of the Kardashians.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (WSTFK)

I don't think her back is involved...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (tkR6S)

107 I had a meeting at Logan Airport yesterday. It has now become a shelter for illegals just like O'Hare and other airports.

Things like this can't go on so they won't. Only a matter of time.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)
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That's why we're asking our wealthier residents to open their homes to asylum seekers!

Posted by: Government Official at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (mwCIn)

108 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

Posted by: monkey at the typewriter at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (AA8bA)

109 There was an article that I read last year that I wished I had saved. An American woman working for a big PR firm was assigned to work in London. For twenty years she was at every elite event, Royal celebration, political events, etc. She said that it would shock most people how the majority of the elite are - dullards, lack any sense of humor or wit, live in echo chambers inside their bubbles and have no idea about the real world. They are lizard people wearing human suits. The only world they know is "theirs". She is very grateful to be retired now.

Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (oiNtH)

110 I think that most people should take a cross-country road trip at least once, and make only periodic use of interstate highways. Go see the country. Eat in local restaurants. Talk to people.

This is a vast and diverse (in the real sense) country and tons of people have never experienced it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:15 AM (mwCIn)

Would have wanted to.

Will never be able to afford to.

Nor be allowed to take enough time off to.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (sm6Pk)

111

What they REALLY need is a really good anal rogering! That will wake 'em up...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (O9f/L)

112 I always loved chicks who would only date 6' guys.

It helps that I'm 6'2, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

113 Things like this can't go on so they won't. Only a matter of time.
Posted by: JackStraw
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The longer it continues, the worse when the inevitable backlash occurs.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:24 AM (ZcPYF)

114 She was hoping for a comeback.

No, wait. That was one of the Kardashians.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (WSTFK)

I don't think her back is involved...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:22 AM (tkR6S)

***

She could have been 'on' it

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 24, 2024 11:24 AM (ZV+pB)

115 I do not think that this portends a VP move. This is my analysis: She's VERY Low Country. She graduated from College of Charleston, she had three brothers who graduated from The Citadel, she lives on Isle of Palms. She's not moving to the Naval Observatory in DC.

I bet TJM agrees.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:24 AM (xhfG9)

116 the 5th floor is a great analogy....and it goes even farther...in a city like my own(baltimore) 9/10 of the city is a vast urban wasteland....inaccessible to certain segments of the population...total no-go zones...

and then there is the inner harbor...replete with shopping areas and baseball and football stadiums....like a different planet...policed properly....clean...orderly...right next to one another...a louisiana purchace sized dichotomy...

but,the people who populate the wasteland continue voting for the pols who perpetuate their misery...

what a weird world we live in...

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at January 24, 2024 11:24 AM (8iAeH)

117 Would have wanted to.
Will never be able to afford to.
Nor be allowed to take enough time off to.
Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 11:23 AM (sm6Pk)
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I understand that. It's really hard once you're a grown-up. Too many obligations and responsibilities. Never say never, but there are a ton of obstacles.

The right time to do this is probably just after graduating high school, when most people have time to kill and few responsibilities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:25 AM (mwCIn)

118 >The further they are from the world of the surface - the[...] more they believe their own assertions and magnificence.

If urban air mobility becomes a thing, then they're never going to take the elevator down anymore; they'll go to the roof helipad to catch their Joby air taxi or their Archer Midnight to the airport and reverse the process at the destination.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at January 24, 2024 11:25 AM (DSTSG)

119
Reading about job cutbacks in journalism is like reading about job cutbacks at Buchenwald.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:25 AM (MoZTd)

120 Who are all these weirdo chicks who only want to date arachnids? I've never come across one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 11:25 AM (9UlRk)

121 It helps that I'm 6'2, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'm 6'2" (or at least "was"). I once dated a woman who was taller than I was.

Gotta say, it was weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:26 AM (9yWhg)

122 Watching Varney this morning. Hollywood wants to make an all black version of It's A Wonderful Life.

I say make it in Oakland

Posted by: mpfs, Burn Mouse Burn at January 24, 2024 11:26 AM (QTuUl)

123 she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.

LOL

Posted by: Willie Brown at January 24, 2024 11:26 AM (Vu7A1)

124 Don't be fooled, trump and rethugs have no intention of winning a free and fair election. They have a plan to manipulate or steal the election.

This is why i'm tired of people saying let the election process run instead of taking Trump off the ballot. He doesn't qualify under the constitution because he has proven he cannot participate fairly in an election. This is what the ammendment is for.

if Biden was 20 or 30 points ahead (as he should be) then maybe we could overcome their shenanigans. But they only have to steal a few thousand here and there. Shut down certain polling locations. Maybe refuse to certify electors and through it to the House. putin and the Electoral College are already there to help.

That's my concern as well. We can't assume a free and fair election after everything that has happened. That's why I do not want trump on the ballot. He needs to be kept off the ballot, per our Constitution.

They stole it from Gore and Clinton was president at the time. What are we going to do if SCOTUS takes the case for Trump and vote him in like they did W? SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased then back in 2020.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

125 The Machine Stops as pdf

https://bityl.co/NlVx

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (aD39U)

126 she very coincidentally got a face job right before being selected as VP.
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LOL
Posted by: Willie Brown at January 24, 2024 11:26 AM (Vu7A1)
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Nicely done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (mwCIn)

127 If I were a theorist I might suggest this was a conspiracy.

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Makes you wonder, since 2014 the number of young women who identify as liberal over men has grown to where it exploded in 2020 onward to 40%, compared to 20% of young men

Prior to 2014 the difference was only 5% on average

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (VTu1l)

128 "Don't be fooled, trump and rethugs have no intention of winning a free and fair election. They have a plan to manipulate or steal the election."

I sure hope so.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:28 AM (MvF+J)

129 ... That's my concern as well. We can't assume a free and fair election after everything that has happened. That's why I do not want trump on the ballot. He needs to be kept off the ballot, per our Constitution. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)
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Yup. The well of trust is so poisoned and the propaganda divide so complete that no matter what happens in November, a third to a half of all people are going to utterly certain that they were done dirty.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:28 AM (mwCIn)

130 >>If you've spent time in one of America's decaying and formerly-great cities recently, you may have noticed how bifurcated they are.

The last time I was in NYC was the summer of 21 and the place reeked of piss, urine, garbage and there was graffiti everywhere.

I know people get all misty for 70's NYC, but let me tell, it sucked.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:28 AM (XV/Pl)

131 I sure hope so.
Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:28 AM (MvF+J)

"Those bastards are actually trying to get more votes than us! That's disgusting!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 11:28 AM (9UlRk)

132 >>Makes you wonder, since 2014 the number of young women who identify as liberal over men has grown to where it exploded in 2020 onward to 40%, compared to 20% of young men

Check University Enrollment for your answer.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (mdhFC)

133 I'm 6'2" (or at least "was"). I once dated a woman who was taller than I was.

Gotta say, it was weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

A woman of my acquaintance is 6' 3". She relates hilarious 'tall girl' stories 3-4 drinks into the evening.

Hugs from a new friend tales are particularly funny.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (WSTFK)

134
She said that it would shock most people how the majority of the elite are - dullards, lack any sense of humor or wit, live in echo chambers inside their bubbles and have no idea about the real world.

Essentially, this has always been so. Like the staff officer who went to the front lines during Passchendaele and seeing the squalid flooded trenches burst out, "Why wasn't I told it was like this?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (MoZTd)

135 Here's an interesting article on why inflation is probably going to go back up. In short, the Fed is done with quantitative tightening, because America's downtowns are turning into derelict ghost towns, and lowering interest rates is all they can think of to protect America's banks, which currently have huge amounts of devalued property in their portfolios.

http://tinyurl.com/mwyjzhxr

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

136 104 Whenever I have visited DC a profound sense of dread comes over me. It's been that way my whole life. I wish it didn't but I can't control it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

I was there several years ago, and it felt like the city was full of demons. Spooky.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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I lived in DC for awhile decades ago and each time I go back for professional or personal reasons (family lived in the area), it gets worse as far as the vibe. Ride the Metro during the day and watch the smug self important cogs of the machine scurry to and fro. The endless security theatre nowadays is also depressing.

Meh.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (ZcPYF)

137 Terrific Rant. And, yes, they do, but they won't.

Not to keep bring up a group but, for the sake of convenience, see Welcome dot US. Its Partners include a Welcome Coalition, Welcome Funders, Welcome Businesses, Welcome Campus Network; national and local nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, businesses, educational instructions, civil alliances and democracy groups.

Allegedly, they stand for fair and transparent elections, improving neighborhoods by volunteer work, improving Democracy from the ground up, yada, yada.

They're better folks, not the common Middlers, and have their friendly, collaborative contacts that form mutually beneficial relationships. Until.

CBO: Net immigration increasingly drives population growth and accounts for all population growth beginning in 2040, in part because fertility rates remain below the rate that would be required for a generation to replace itself in the absence of immigration.

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (GshMh)

138 They stole it from Gore and Clinton was president at the time. What are we going to do if SCOTUS takes the case for Trump and vote him in like they did W? SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased then back in 2020.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

Wait wait wait - last I heard it was unAmerican and fascist to question the integrity of our voting system!

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (xhfG9)

139 I'm 6'2" (or at least "was"). I once dated a woman who was taller than I was.

************

I saw a couple once, the guy looked like he was nearly 7 foot tall and his wife looked about 6'5

I thought the Nephilims had landed

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:30 AM (VTu1l)

140 Essentially, this has always been so. Like the staff officer who went to the front lines during Passchendaele and seeing the squalid flooded trenches burst out, "Why wasn't I told it was like this?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Blackadder Goes Forth (Series 4) does an excellent job of showing that.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:30 AM (ZcPYF)

141 Things that make you go "Hmmmmm": ordained Jewish Rabbi Soloman Friedman is the founder of Ethical Capital Partners which owns Pornhub.

Posted by: Green Needle at January 24, 2024 11:30 AM (PWI4f)

142 What was that short story about the war between the drivers and pedestrians?

I just remember the line about the old lady, caught in the crosswalk as the light changed. In her younger days she might have made it to the curb but was too slow now so she pulled the 357 from her purse and rode the recoil like a big game hunter until the sedan mowed her down..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (aD39U)

143 121 I'm 6'2" (or at least "was"). I once dated a woman who was taller than I was.

Gotta say, it was weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:26 AM (9yWhg)

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Dolley is taller than me when she's in heels. She doesn't wear them often. We were once walking in front of another couple out of a movie theater and we could hear the guy say, "Well, now I feel really short."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

144 >>I'm 6'2" (or at least "was"). I once dated a woman who was taller than I was.

Same here.

But, most of the women I have dated are under 5'4".

Easier to do laps around the house when you can pick them up and throw them around.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (mdhFC)

145 That's my concern as well. We can't assume a free and fair election after everything that has happened. That's why I do not want trump on the ballot. He needs to be kept off the ballot, per our Constitution. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)
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Yup. The well of trust is so poisoned and the propaganda divide so complete that no matter what happens in November, a third to a half of all people are going to utterly certain that they were done dirty.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Except Trump hasn't been convicted of ANYTHING.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (CgVac)

146 Great job Mr Mannix.
This is how many take vactions, especially overseas.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (/1HxO)

147 Except Trump hasn't been convicted of ANYTHING.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (CgVac)
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Doesn't matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (mwCIn)

148 This is a "feature" of the third world.

The third world is not universally poor. It has opulence beyond your imagination right next to the abject poor.

And armed guards defending it who aren't afraid to use those weapons.

The defining feature of the third world is the lack (or bare existence) of a middle class.

That's the world our "betters" want. Where they live in luxury and riches and the underclass lives in squalor like they deserve.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (JMAcK)

149 gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work: They have a plan to manipulate or steal the election.

"I sure hope so."

Actually, it doesn't even need to be our plan. We can just borrow theirs. We can even give them credit for the design.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (aXxgO)

150 138 They stole it from Gore and Clinton was president at the time. What are we going to do if SCOTUS takes the case for Trump and vote him in like they did W? SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased then back in 2020.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

Wait wait wait - last I heard it was unAmerican and fascist to question the integrity of our voting system!
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:29 AM (xhfG9)
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"SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased" . . . after 3 years of Biden and that idiot far-left fake-African appointed to the court???

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

151 124 Don't be fooled, trump and rethugs have no intention of winning a free and fair election. They have a plan to manipulate or steal the election.

They stole it from Gore and Clinton was president at the time. What are we going to do if SCOTUS takes the case for Trump and vote him in like they did W? SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased then back in 2020.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the I

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1. Illegally sending out 250,000 illegal mail in ballots by the Democrat PA Secretary of State in 2022 was just jawboning.

2. This sounds like election denialism and insurrectionism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

152 Fifty-three minutes of pretty flute and guitar.
youtube.com/watch?v=PKggMcGSNmA

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (MvF+J)

153 SCOTUS is much more corrupt and biased then back in 2020.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 24, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

And the only "addition" is a black lady. Racists.

Posted by: Catherine at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (ZSsrh)

154 I live in a small city not too far from a big-ish city. The big-ish city is basically one giant shithole with 4 small nice areas, sort of a West Berlin situation. Small islands of nice inside a sea of shit.

10 years ago it wasn’t like that. The city wasn’t great but it was OK. You could walk around downtown and not be afraid. Then homelessness started. And went from bad to worse. Now, downtown is nothing but bums and drug addicts with garbage everywhere. It’s even dangerous to drive because the homeless just hang out on the streets or dart out into traffic. It’s like a game they play to fuck with drivers.

And of course the Dems who run the city shrug and talk about diversity all day.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (U42yt)

155 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

So impressed at how many Constitutional scholars there are on that thread. Just like Obama.

Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (oiNtH)

156 If Tim Scott's marriage was about higher office, he shouldn't have married a white girl. Just sayin. It will alienate certain black voters more than white people.

Black women especially hate it when black men choose white women.

Posted by: Blago at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (Zbs+g)

157
I'm 6' 1". Her Majesty is 4' 11". She married me to reach stuff on the top shelf.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (MoZTd)

158 Methinks there might be too much grass touching going on. Shrooms too.

Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (vFG9F)

159 Yup. The well of trust is so poisoned and the propaganda divide so complete that no matter what happens in November, a third to a half of all people are going to utterly certain that they were done dirty.

Which was the goal. Societies like that break down, and that's when the Bolsheviks take over.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (CsUN+)

160 That's my concern as well. We can't assume a free and fair election after everything that has happened

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They have right to be concerned since Trump's crew was so powerful they were able to turn every state election in the country into a printing machine for Trump votes to give him the landslide victory

Oh... wait

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (VTu1l)

161 Here's an interesting article on why inflation is probably going to go back up. In short, the Fed is done with quantitative tightening, because America's downtowns are turning into derelict ghost towns, and lowering interest rates is all they can think of to protect America's banks, which currently have huge amounts of devalued property in their portfolios.

Posted by: Archimedes

Something huge scared the Fed in December, when they completely changed course. At this point, I would not be surprised if the 500 drops a lot sometime this spring, as the quarterly reports start coming in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)

162 Things that make you go "Hmmmmm": ordained Jewish Rabbi Soloman Friedman is the founder of Ethical Capital Partners which owns Pornhub.
Posted by: Green Needle at January 24, 2024 11:30 AM (PWI4f)

Is "ordained rabbi" a thing that exists? Ordination is a Christian rite, no?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

163 10 years ago it wasn’t like that. The city wasn’t great but it was OK. You could walk around downtown and not be afraid. Then homelessness started. And went from bad to worse. Now, downtown is nothing but bums and drug addicts with garbage everywhere. It’s even dangerous to drive because the homeless just hang out on the streets or dart out into traffic. It’s like a game they play to fuck with drivers.

And of course the Dems who run the city shrug and talk about diversity all day.
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (U42yt)

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Do you live where I live?! Because that sounds exactly like where I live. I legit have started coming up with a plan of what to do if I actually hit a bum one of these days.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (DRSnL)

164 @122

>>Watching Varney this morning. Hollywood wants to make an all black version of It's A Wonderful Life.

They are not making merely because they are bankrupt and out of ideas, they are also making it in order to agitate and stir the pot.

On the other hand, if done right it could be good, they did do an all black remake of Death at a Funeral that was genuinely funny.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)

165 The third world is not universally poor. It has opulence beyond your imagination right next to the abject poor.

—

This is every Brazilian city.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (U42yt)

166 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (T4tVD)

167 145 Except Trump hasn't been convicted of ANYTHING.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (CgVac)

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He wanted alternate electors, which are a common thing.

He's the devil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

168 >>Is "ordained rabbi" a thing that exists?

It's a Tax Evasion move. He does not lead a congregation.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (mdhFC)

169 These are third-world cities, devoid of a middle class. They are glittering islands of wealth and power erupting from a sea of crime, filth and poverty.

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[Courtesy of Sundance at CTH:]

http://tiny.cc/67t9wz

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (XUhl+)

170 I'm 6' 1". Her Majesty is 4' 11". She married me to reach stuff on the top shelf.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I've been asked several times, even by guys, to get something for them from the top shelf of the supermarket.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (9yWhg)

171 This is what the ammendment is for.
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Ah, yes. The post-ACW it's not fair "ammendment".

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (2yu8s)

172 Ethical Capital Partners which owns Pornhub

Ummm...

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (xhfG9)

173 Do you live where I live?! Because that sounds exactly like where I live. I legit have started coming up with a plan of what to do if I actually hit a bum one of these days.

The Russkis used to have dash cams in every car, because people were throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles to collect the insurance. I don't know if they're still doing it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)

174 Good morning horde

I feel like I got hot by a truck

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (fwDg9)

175 Something huge scared the Fed in December, when they completely changed course. At this point, I would not be surprised if the 500 drops a lot sometime this spring, as the quarterly reports start coming in.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)
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There is an enormous and dangerous game being played in Treasuries, with big players riding short-term stuff from a long position and hedging it with shorts on longer-term stuff. It's extremely profitable and is an enormous source of market liquidity.

But any kind of inversion rips their faces off and will cause the entire trade - and its liquidity - to collapse leave several major financial institutions (mostly hedge funds) in the graveyard. I think the Fed is trying to keep that plate spinning. When it blows up, it will be spectacular.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (mwCIn)

176 10 years ago it wasn’t like that. The city wasn’t great but it was OK. You could walk around downtown and not be afraid. Then homelessness started. And went from bad to worse. Now, downtown is nothing but bums and drug addicts with garbage everywhere. It’s even dangerous to drive because the homeless just hang out on the streets or dart out into traffic. It’s like a game they play to fuck with drivers.

And of course the Dems who run the city shrug and talk about diversity all day.
Posted by: Montec

What's that one street in Philly that looks like a zombie drug shooting gallery?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (CgVac)

177 ayn rand and ickens speak up, how can the roberts supreme court and whore amy have the power of a stalin? he and the sclibs deserve to be smoted!

Posted by: johnnybiface at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (X1XfL)

178 She said that it would shock most people how the majority of the elite are - dullards, lack any sense of humor or wit, live in echo chambers inside their bubbles and have no idea about the real world. They are lizard people wearing human suits. The only world they know is "theirs". She is very grateful to be retired now.
Posted by: Cheri
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Twas always thus. I suspect that your friend has a very high or genius level iq and most of the elites are midwits at best who always parrot whatever is fashionable in those circles. They are always terrified of admitting fault or being wrong that would cause them to be cast out of the magic circle. Thus, conformist and dull and they despise anyone who is clever, creative, and/or free enough to act, say, and do what they feel.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (ZcPYF)

179 I feel like I got hot by a truck
Posted by: Skip

What were you and the truck doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (9yWhg)

180 164 They are not making merely because they are bankrupt and out of ideas, they are also making it in order to agitate and stir the pot.

On the other hand, if done right it could be good, they did do an all black remake of Death at a Funeral that was genuinely funny.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)

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The director gave an interview where he said it was about a guy trying to do good in his community. It'll be interesting if he maintains Capra's sense of self-sufficiency and local control from a black perspective.

It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up doing that and then the black activists attacked it because it wasn't highlighting white supremacy enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

181 I got colded by a Schwinn.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (MvF+J)

182 "I feel like I got hot by a truck
Posted by: Skip"

Your Cybertruck caught fire??

Posted by: fd at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (vFG9F)

183
What's that one street in Philly that looks like a zombie drug shooting gallery?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:36 AM (CgVac)

Kensington and Allegheny

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (MoZTd)

184 89
She’s a license branch 6.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

185 The Russkis used to have dash cams in every car, because people were throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles to collect the insurance. I don't know if they're still doing it.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)

Youtube still full of Russian dashcam videos. Though I guess most are older now since Russian IPs are probably bocked now.

But you should have a dashcam. Right here in the US of A.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (xhfG9)

186 I think the Fed is trying to keep that plate spinning. When it blows up, it will be spectacular.

Nah, it'll be fine.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:37 AM (CsUN+)

187 157 I had a friend, now gone, that was 6'6" tall. Always whining about the problems of being very tall (finding clothes, busted furniture, awkward cars). Married a gal that was 5'8". She said it made her feel petite.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (0EOe9)

188 I'm 6'4". I guess I live a charmed life

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (ZV+pB)

189 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

190 Apropos of nothing, every once in awhile I randomly get stuck on a song from a bit ago.

That song at the moment is "Hook" by Blues Traveler. What a tune.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (KbCG3)

191 Black women especially hate it when black men choose white women.
Posted by: Blago at January 24, 2024 11:32 AM (Zbs+g)

Too bad.... I don't blame black men for marrying white women... The Sistas are scary

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (n2vyf)

192 @176

>>What's that one street in Philly that looks like a zombie drug shooting gallery?

That's pretty much every street in and around the convention center and downtown.

The last time I was in Philly was in 2018 for a ComiCon, and the streets were nearly impassable from the drugged out zombies, homeless and mentally deranged.

I can't imagine anyone like living in that sh*t hole but apparently they do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (XV/Pl)

193
Borrowing Kamala's Venn diagram for a moment the overlap of tall guys and tall guys is pretty small, while short girls can cover the entire circle.

Might be why, in my experience, the taller the girl the more assertive and faster to require a go/no go decision. Which never worked for me at a RCH under six foot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (nIvob)

194 Read the descriptions of Rome (or any Italian city), London, Paris, Vienna, when they were cutting edge world capitals, all through the ages, and street-level life was always scary, the "before" end of the William Hogarth cartoons.

For some reason, here in Shining City on Hill/Downunder Topeka, we have made up our minds that we have never not lived in Disneyland. This says a great deal more about us right now today that it does about the entire history of the world, western or otherwise, up until we cranked our cranky blinders on.

Like most rants, it makes for great jokes, but the punch line is us.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (zdLoL)

195 189 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

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Poor nostril to nose proportions.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

196 The third world is not universally poor. It has opulence beyond your imagination right next to the abject poor.

The black hole of Calcutta.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (CgVac)

197 Except Trump hasn't been convicted of ANYTHING.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:31 AM (CgVac)

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Ipso Facto Guilty of the greatest "hate" thoughtcrime one can commit today:

Loving America and Americans.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (+xpqh)

198 The Russkis used to have dash cams in every car, because people were throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles to collect the insurance. I don't know if they're still doing it.
Posted by: Archimedes

There's a hilarious video out there of a guy in Russia who collides with a van. The van doors open and out come guys dressed as cartoon characters -- SpongeBob, Mickey Mouse, maybe Pikachu, etc. They pull the driver of the car out and rough him up a little bit. The guys who were filming it, in a car behind the van, are laughing their asses off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (9yWhg)

199 189 That tattoo. Ouch.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (MvF+J)

200 Required reminder that Third World originally referred to countries not aligned with the US or the Soviet Union in the Cold War, though its usage has modified its meaning a bit over time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

201 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

TJM see post 115 - opinion?

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:41 AM (xhfG9)

202 There's Farmers Only dating app. Shouldn't there be a Midgets Only app?

Posted by: Head and Shoulders Above the Fray

I'll take this one...

Posted by: Randy Newman at January 24, 2024 11:41 AM (hCzfy)

203 My trip to Denver in October - Very nice, high-end restaurants in downtown the streets were clean, no hobos/illegals/drug users in sight. Several blocks down, filthy and full of human depravity. The Police take care of the "nice" side of town because that's were the Mayor and Gov. like to eat and shop and let the rest go to hell.
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 11:06 AM (oiNtH)

I was just in Honolulu. (While it was 0 degrees here in Michigan, so I'm bragging a little.)

I actually walked past the governor's mansion. I moved my wife to the streetside of the sidewalk to avoid the crazy homeless guy just a block from the governor's mansion.

It also seemed much further along on the third world transition of unimaginable wealth next to shacks and plywood. Not completely there, but working on it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (JMAcK)

204 189 That tattoo. Ouch.
Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (MvF+J)

It's kind of obscure back in there. Might have to make a slow approach by motor boat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (tkR6S)

205 @180

>>The director gave an interview where he said it was about a guy trying to do good in his community.

A young pre-Empire Terrance Howard could probably nail George Bailey, but there really aren't any actors main or character that can do those parts justice.

It's a real dilemma.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (XV/Pl)

206 I grew up outside of Washington D.C during the 60's - 80's. The city had its moments. The 4th of July events on the Mall; fireworks, music, etc. was packed but mostly people just having a good time. The various memorials were accessible and at night, safe and uncrowded. The Smithsonian museums were awesome places to spend a hot summer day(s) looking at some very cool shit.

But the Feds thought it a good idea to introduce "home rule" to what had been a bureaucratically run city-state and the shit just went downhill. Crime skyrocketed, the local government became just another group of ghetto rats with suits and a penchant for corruption.

That's the (short) story of the "city."

The political establishment there is another story entirely. What they've done to D.C. they would have done to any other place they setup shop. They're the cancer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (Q4IgG)

207 I don't drive much but when I do the dashcam is running.
Because it's a jungle out there. Kids learned how to drive on Grand Theft Auto and they are still driving that way.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (MeG8a)

208 There's Farmers Only dating app. Shouldn't there be a Midgets Only app?

Posted by: Head and Shoulders Above the Fray

By observation of the commercials I saw, Farmers Only seemed like a way to make a "whites only" dating app without running afoul of, you know, everything.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (xhfG9)

209 http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Gack! I hate the two-tone hair!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (9yWhg)

210 195 189 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

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Poor nostril to nose proportions.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
____________

Luckily, I live on the fifth (top) floor duplex so I'm in the running. Dogshit tattoo, though. WTF was she thinking?

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

211 >>The black hole of Calcutta.

On my last trip to India I stayed in a really nice hotel that was still pretty reasonable by US standards. Literally right across the street was a slum of shacks that went on as far as the eye could see. There was a pool of water where people were bathing and washing clothes and a single faucet that fed the pool where people got water.

Creepy and depressing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (ZLI7S)

212 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

Tattoos on women are anathema, but chest tattoos are particularly vile.

Posted by: spindrift at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (AA8bA)

213 Most incredible parts of Russian dashcam videos is seeing Soviet era Ladas still running.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (U42yt)

214 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

215 >>Tattoos on women are anathema, but chest tattoos are particularly vile.

Nothing worse than Ink on chicks.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (mdhFC)

216 Russian dashcam videos helped scientific investigations into the Chelyabinsk meteor strike of 2013. I think there was a NOVA about it.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:44 AM (2yu8s)

217 214 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

Have it looked at

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:44 AM (n2vyf)

218 I feel like I got hot by a truck
Posted by: Skip

Me, too, Skip. But that's okay, because the fine people of New Hampshire have made this a one-person race! (Followed by Howard Dean-esque scream)

Posted by: Nikki Haley at January 24, 2024 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

219
189 That tattoo. Ouch.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM

Covered with sufficient lubricant and insertion of proper appendage it could be kinda spectacular.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 11:44 AM (nIvob)

220 Tattoos ~~on women~~ are anathema. FIFY.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:44 AM (MvF+J)

221 214 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

Didja try slapping hot iron to it? Slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (xhfG9)

222 I was just in Honolulu. (While it was 0 degrees here in Michigan, so I'm bragging a little.)

I actually walked past the governor's mansion. I moved my wife to the streetside of the sidewalk to avoid the crazy homeless guy just a block from the governor's mansion.

It also seemed much further along on the third world transition of unimaginable wealth next to shacks and plywood. Not completely there, but working on it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Zombie Steve McGarrett weeps.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (9yWhg)

223 Tattoos on women are anathema, but chest tattoos are particularly vile.

Nothing worse than Ink on chicks.
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (mdhFC)

***

Like putting bumper stickers on a Bentley

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (ZV+pB)

224 Tattoos on women are anathema, but chest tattoos are particularly vile.

-

Yep.

Hey ladies, it's not the guys who find that attractive. It's not men who are trying to get you to make yourselves uglier. It's other women (and gay men in the fashion industry, but you know what I mean).

Ask yourself why they want you to be less attractive.

Posted by: Nikki Haley knows Texas is wrong and the freedom-loving Good Guys won the Civil War at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (k1AR8)

225 Even the hobos are leaving the cities and moving to the suburbs where everything is nicer. Seems like we average a run over hobo daily now.

Posted by: nckate at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (EPm6B)

226 201 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

TJM see post 115 - opinion?
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:41 AM (xhfG9)

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*shrugs*

Possibly? I don't know Scott. I presume Trump has already made his choice (the rumor seems to be that he's male and from NY, so I'd guess Zeldin). Could just be that Scott is settling down with a nice lady from the Low Country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

227 10 For some of them, surely. Those at the top are uniformly evil. Many, however, are just cogs in the machine with no clue whatsoever that the other world exists.

spacely sprockets > cogswell cogs

Posted by: anachronda at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (oY6Yp)

228 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

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Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (DRSnL)

229 >this busty blonde in a revealing dress ...

tattoo
no

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (geLO8)

230 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)
++++
Falling is a young man's game. Once you hit middle age, falls *really* suck.

I tumbled in the driveway while shoveling snow last week and boy did I feel it. And then kept feeling it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (mwCIn)

231 >> I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it

Then don't move it.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (mdhFC)

232 I didn't even notice the tat on the Mannix girl. Double gack!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)

233 I grew up outside of Washington D.C during the 60's - 80's. The city had its moments. The 4th of July events on the Mall; fireworks, music, etc. was packed but mostly people just having a good time. The various memorials were accessible and at night, safe and uncrowded. The Smithsonian museums were awesome places to spend a hot summer day(s) looking at some very cool shit.

But the Feds thought it a good idea to introduce "home rule" to what had been a bureaucratically run city-state and the shit just went downhill. Crime skyrocketed, the local government became just another group of ghetto rats with suits and a penchant for corruption.

That's the (short) story of the "city."

I was also a DC native (well, NOVA) for those years and my memory is very different. We're talking about the 70s and the Marion Barry years, when white people just didn't go into most of DC. Gentrification has been hugely beneficial for much of the city, as the criminal element was moved out (The Plan). The current government is corrupt and incompetent, but I would never trade the city as it is now for what it was then.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (CsUN+)

234 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

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"The tree of tittery must be refreshed from time to time ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (u02ZM)

235 Could just be that Scott is settling down with a nice lady from the Low Country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

That's what I'm thinking. It's a sign he is settling down in Charleston, not preparing to move away.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (xhfG9)

236 also the morning art was a no
it's like the painter was trying to use up all his brown colors before buying new

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (geLO8)

237 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

Sorry to hear that, Skip. Have it checked out.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (9yWhg)

238 name field test

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (k1AR8)

239 This attractive, smiling woman dates pretty much whoever she wants to, and doesn't have to worry about about having to eventually apologize to whoever becomes her husband that she was stupid enough to get a tattoo that makes her look like she has a plant growing between her breasts.

http://tinyurl.com/22su9fjk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (Ki//m)

240 Like putting bumper stickers on a Bentley
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I brake for Grey Poupon!

My other car is a Dodge!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (2yu8s)

241 My late first husband was 6'3". At his heaviest, he weighed 130.
The magnificent Hubbymayhem is 5'9" if he stands up straight.
I used to be 5'9" but I've lost an inch in height and gained several in girth. I tower over Hubbymayhem when I'm wearing heels and I like wearing high heels. He doesn't care. I'm the perfect height for him when I'm on my knees.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (cRrcX)

242 I’ve come around on tattoos. They can be kinda sexy on the right woman.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (U42yt)

243 129
‘ a third to a half of all people are going to utterly certain that they were done dirty.’
It might as well be the leftist creeps then.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

244 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (Ki//m)
++++
:: concedes the round ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (mwCIn)

245 Donna didn't break anything, just very sore

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (fwDg9)

246 208 There's Farmers Only dating app. Shouldn't there be a Midgets Only app?

Posted by: Head and Shoulders Above the Fray

By observation of the commercials I saw, Farmers Only seemed like a way to make a "whites only" dating app without running afoul of, you know, everything.
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:42 AM (xhfG9)
_______

They are pimping "Muslim Only" dating apps in NYC. Muzz or something dumb like that. The pitch is that you can meet someone and get married in a matter of weeks. These people are nuts. Oh and the pics are all of attractive Muslims, obviously models. I guess like any other dating app advertisements . . . .

There was J-Date or some Jew-only app, but I'm not sure what happened to it. I recall it lost its luster because there were so many goys on the app that it defeated the purpose.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

247 "I am in the prime of my life and have perfect cleavage. What can I do to make it repulsive? Oh, I know!"

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (k1AR8)

248 Street level in suburban areas is still quite nice… at least for some cities. I was in suburban LA for Christmas visiting family and there the pathologies of the city proper are not yet felt. Some tiny decay can be seen if you look but it’s not pervasive yet

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (1jdMT)

249 225 Even the hobos are leaving the cities and moving to the suburbs where everything is nicer. Seems like we average a run over hobo daily now.
Posted by: nckate
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They go where the money is. It is drying up in center cities so the bums have moved out to the burbs in shopping areas. Hard drugs are also more plentiful in suburban areas than they used to be.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (ZcPYF)

250 On my last trip to India I stayed in a really nice hotel that was still pretty reasonable by US standards. Literally right across the street was a slum of shacks that went on as far as the eye could see. There was a pool of water where people were bathing and washing clothes and a single faucet that fed the pool where people got water.

Creepy and depressing.
Posted by: JackStraw

India is third world personified. From beautiful scenery to the most depressing squalor imaginable. Separated by sometimes just a few blocks.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (CgVac)

251 Hey ladies, it's not the guys who find that attractive. It's not men who are trying to get you to make yourselves uglier. It's other women (and gay men in the fashion industry, but you know what I mean).

Ask yourself why they want you to be less attractive.
_____

Tattoos are the worst.

Posted by: Nose Rings at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (fs1hN)

252 245 Donna didn't break anything, just very sore
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (fwDg9)

Are you sure you didn't break anything ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (n2vyf)

253 >>I’ve come around on tattoos.

Oh, I've cum on them. But I'd prefer they weren't there at all.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (mdhFC)

254 This attractive, smiling woman dates pretty much whoever she wants to, and doesn't have to worry about about having to eventually apologize to whoever becomes her husband that she was stupid enough to get a tattoo that makes her look like she has a plant growing between her breasts.

http://tinyurl.com/22su9fjk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (Ki//m)

Rowr!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (4I/2K)

255 205 A young pre-Empire Terrance Howard could probably nail George Bailey, but there really aren't any actors main or character that can do those parts justice.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: awkwafina at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (oY6Yp)

256
Joe,

You've probably put the nicest face on this that you possibly could.

While I don't think everyone of Our Betters are stone-cold evil, I do think that they are evil adjacent for this reason.

They insist on interfering with our lives and way of life. They insist on degrading and destroying our lives and culture and economy without our either asking for it, voting for it, or giving our permission.

Most of their actions are taken through ignorance(esp of science) or prejudice or hate.

The methodology is always "The Arm-Twist". As it has to be, because not a single one of their plans actually improves our lives.

Every single thing that they want will make life worse for us, our children, and our country.

Perhaps, wandering through the country outside the fifth floor with an open mind and heart would make them appreciate what they see and discover.

But, I'm pretty sure that all they would think is "how horrible! These people deserve, no, need to have their stupid, pitiful lives run by me.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (nFnyb)

257 WPDE, a week ago: DENVER (TND) — A Denver hospital system told the city Monday it faces unprecedented challenges due to the ongoing migrant crisis. Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits.

Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system
About 8,000 illegal immigrants recorded about 20,000 visits to Denver Health last year, receiving services such as emergency room treatment, primary care, dental care and childbirth, published January 19, 2024

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (GshMh)

258 I believe they do ordain rabbis during the ceremony when they staple a yamaha to their heads.

Posted by: Archie Bunker Bible Lesson at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (V5BDR)

259 Donna didn't break anything, just very sore
Posted by: Skip

Put any ice on it? Hope it’s better soon.

Posted by: Rex B at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (vpULL)

260 I fell a little under a year ago. Hurt like crazy, turned all kinds of purple and green and yellow. Thought it was nothing, rub some dirt on it, etc. A month later it wasn't healing, went in to urgent care.
Torn quadrilateral tendon. Surgery ensued.
I'd have never walked proper again.
Get it looked at, Skip.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (MeG8a)

261 I am of the opinion that DC should have no permanent residents. You go into the District to work, but you go back to VA or MD when you're done.

Takes care of the whole "No taxation without representation" issue, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (9yWhg)

262 >I grew up outside of Washington D.C during the 60's - 80's. The city had its moments.
---

me too- Montgomery County
parents took us to the museums and monuments- it was fun
Mom worked at 11th and H for many years
but there were bad parts of town (NE, SE) even way back then

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (geLO8)

263 I've cum on them. But I'd prefer they weren't there at all.
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:48 AM (mdhFC)

We’re talking tattoos on women.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (U42yt)

264 Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:45 AM (DRSnL)

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* Makes note to exclude Jordan as executor of estate "

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (u02ZM)

265 ...and I like wearing high heels. He doesn't care. I'm the perfect height for him when I'm on my knees.
---------
Thank you, Mistress Madamemayhem.

May we Morons have another?

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (2yu8s)

266 "I tumbled in the driveway while shoveling snow last week and boy did I feel it. And then kept feeling it."

Best life hack ever: Install sheet metal screws in the soles and heels of your boots. It works! Seriously, it works.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (MvF+J)

267 But I'd prefer they weren't there at all.

-

But a few men have them so women have to prove that they can do it, too.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (k1AR8)

268 On the other hand, if done right it could be good, they did do an all black remake of Death at a Funeral that was genuinely funny.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)

They also made an all female Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusty?

Posted by: reason at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (y9j7d)

269 Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system

As predicted. Get used to it. Every blue city will be coming to DC with its hand out.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

270 I'm the perfect height for him when I'm on my knees.

Posted by: Madamemayhem

I could stand to hear a little more...

Posted by: Jayne Cobb at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

271 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

Really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree

Posted by: Steve Miller at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (4I/2K)

272 ... Perhaps, wandering through the country outside the fifth floor with an open mind and heart would make them appreciate what they see and discover.

But, I'm pretty sure that all they would think is "how horrible! These people deserve, no, need to have their stupid, pitiful lives run by me.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (nFnyb)
++++
I think you're probably right. I suspect a lot of these guys - not the big wheels, but the workaday adjuncts - are more stupid and ignorant than professedly evil. Getting out and seeing the world might enlighten some of them. I doubt it would be many, but I still think it would be a net benefit if they were to do it.

The ones that double down have, at least, disambiguated their position.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (mwCIn)

273 Donna didn't break anything, just very sore
Posted by: Skip

***

Slap a hot iron on it

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (ZV+pB)

274 261 I am of the opinion that DC should have no permanent residents. You go into the District to work, but you go back to VA or MD when you're done.

Takes care of the whole "No taxation without representation" issue, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (9yWhg)

I think they ought to go the other way - exempt all residents from taxes. That would change things.

Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (xhfG9)

275 They are pimping "Muslim Only" dating apps in NYC. Muzz or something dumb like that. The pitch is that you can meet someone and get married in a matter of weeks. These people are nuts. Oh and the pics are all of attractive Muslims, obviously models. I guess like any other dating app advertisements . . . .
_____

How attractive are the observant, niqab wearing muslims?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (fs1hN)

276 Donna didn't break anything, just very sore
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (fwDg9)

=====

My dumb ass tried to test out my new exercise ball, in my socks, on a hardwood floor. Feet slid right out from under me and I fell right off. My butt and my wrist weren't happy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (DRSnL)

277 They want Dredd world cities but without the Judges.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (MNhXM)

278 Then you go inside, enter an elevator and increase your elevation.

Once you go above the fifth floor, the city changes. The elevator was a portal into a parallel universe. Gone are the filth, piss, aggressive bums, drug detritus and the various flotsam and jetsam of the surface. When you look out the window - so long as you hold your eyes level or cast them skyward - the outer world reflects your interior surroundings. These are third-world cities, devoid of a middle class. They are glittering islands of wealth and power erupting from a sea of crime, filth and poverty.."

Zorg's office in 5th Element.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (i9ffA)

279 They are pimping "Muslim Only" dating apps in NYC. Muzz or something dumb like that. The pitch is that you can meet someone and get married in a matter of weeks. These people are nuts. Oh and the pics are all of attractive Muslims, obviously models. I guess like any other dating app advertisements . . . .
-----
Swipe right for your cousin.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (2yu8s)

280 269 Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system

As predicted. Get used to it. Every blue city will be coming to DC with its hand out.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

=========

One line in a must past omnibus should do. They'll take 13 pages. They'll get 100.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

281 And I bring that up as a "they'll ruin Wonderful Life" statement.

Wonderful Lyf, y0.

Posted by: reason at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (y9j7d)

282 DC is one giant ghetto with Georgetown as the exception.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (U42yt)

283 >Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum

Some lucky guys who are tall, rich and handsome are going to run through a thousand hoes. They won't look back for a second, nor should they.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (cf/0E)

284
I’ve come around on tattoos. They can be kinda sexy on the right woman.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM

Small and discrete is all I'll allow. I told my daughter she could get a small tat on one ankle if she wanted. In case she was standing in line at the bank in front of a wealthy guy making a huge deposit from his successful business it would give him something to break the ice.

I think because I said it was okay she didn't have to exhibit her 'daddy issue' so she never got one. Reverse psychology FTW.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (nIvob)

285 FenSpoke crushed Mannix in this round.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (9yWhg)

286 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

=======

Poor nostril to nose proportions.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
***

So...is there a number...any number...that would convince you to bang?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (W/lyH)

287 155
‘ Constitutional scholars’
Nothing screams Constitutional scholar louder than misspelling am(m)endment.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

288 >I grew up outside of Washington D.C during the 60's - 80's. The city had its moments.
---

me too- Montgomery County
parents took us to the museums and monuments- it was fun
Mom worked at 11th and H for many years
but there were bad parts of town (NE, SE) even way back then
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 11:50 AM (geLO

PG County refugee here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (4I/2K)

289 They are pimping "Muslim Only" dating apps in NYC

Goats, sheep and camels?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (WSTFK)

290 My dumb ass tried to test out my new exercise ball, in my socks, on a hardwood floor. Feet slid right out from under me and I fell right off. My butt and my wrist weren't happy.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (DRSnL)

You should have just done the fake skating in your socks on the hardwood floor for your exercising.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (MNhXM)

291 The City of Fort Smith has a problem with the sign flying beggars. Council tried to put an end to it a while back and some judge stepped in. Some get a little aggressive, tapping on your window if you're waiting for a light. There was one guy that would set up shop on an off ramp taking you to an Indian casino. Lawn chair, lunch bucket (work ethic) and a sign saying Give a Buck I'll bring You Luck.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (0EOe9)

292 Date the Mannix girl, marry the Fen girl.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (U42yt)

293 275 They are pimping "Muslim Only" dating apps in NYC. Muzz or something dumb like that. The pitch is that you can meet someone and get married in a matter of weeks. These people are nuts. Oh and the pics are all of attractive Muslims, obviously models. I guess like any other dating app advertisements . . . .
_____

How attractive are the observant, niqab wearing muslims?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 11:51 AM (fs1hN)
__________

Ask and you shall receive:

https://muzz.com/en-US/?ref=https://www.google.com/

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

294 DC is one giant ghetto with Georgetown as the exception.

Nonsense. Take Navy Yard. It used to be one of the most dangerous places in the city. Now? It's been completely redeveloped and is where the cool people want to be. Same for the Wharf. Georgetown has lost some of its luster.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (CsUN+)

295 Swipe right for your cousin.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (2yu8s)
-

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (y9j7d)

296 Please tell that to the 99% of women on dating apps who require their men to be 6 foot high minimum

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demand genetic trait that no man has any control over = perfectly fine

request only women that can put down a fork and exercise occasionally = misogynist

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (k1AR8)

297 296 demand genetic trait that no man has any control over = perfectly fine

request only women that can put down a fork and exercise occasionally = misogynist
Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (k1AR

========

Self control is colonialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

298 239 Good one, Fen. Much better.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (MvF+J)

299 . I'm the perfect height for him when I'm on my knees.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (cRrcX)

Everyone says that about me, too!

Posted by: Kamala at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (i9ffA)

300 Sadly, this busty blonde in a revealing dress only dates Fifth Floor Men:
http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:38 AM (mwCIn)

She looks to be very stoned.

You might be able to "date" her before she comes off her high. Hurry!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2024 11:54 AM (nFnyb)

301 DC is one giant ghetto with Georgetown as the exception.
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (U42yt)

***

NW DC is mostly like an extremely wealthy 'Leave it to Beaver' neighborhood

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (ZV+pB)

302 My wife knows a bit about of these anatomy issues and kind of checked me out for tears.

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (fwDg9)

303 I think they ought to go the other way - exempt all residents from taxes. That would change things.

Posted by: blaster

Agreed, that would also work. Except the Fed employees. Tax the heck out of them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

304 This attractive, smiling woman dates pretty much whoever she wants to, and doesn't have to worry about about having to eventually apologize to whoever becomes her husband that she was stupid enough to get a tattoo that makes her look like she has a plant growing between her breasts.

http://tinyurl.com/22su9fjk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 11:47 AM (Ki//m)
***

Ooooo!
My mom would have loved to have met her.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (W/lyH)

305 My dumb ass tried to test out my new exercise ball, in my socks, on a hardwood floor. Feet slid right out from under me and I fell right off. My butt and my wrist weren't happy.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 24, 2024 11:52 AM (DRSnL)

You should have just done the fake skating in your socks on the hardwood floor for your exercising.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 11:53 AM (MNhXM)

That could be some risky business.

Posted by: Tom Cruise at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (4I/2K)

306 http://tiny.cc/x9t9wz

Nice subtle touch of a flower stem tat ‘held’ by her cleavage. .

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (MNhXM)

307 PG County refugee here.

PG is interesting. It used to be working class white. Then when gentrification started in DC, it became the place for black refugees from the city. Now, it's mostly black (64%).

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (CsUN+)

308 "Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system"

Yeah, no. They can get in line after us.

Posted by: California at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (aXxgO)

309 I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

Have ya seen a Doc ?

Posted by: JT at January 24, 2024 11:56 AM (T4tVD)

310 Whore! I can see her ankle! [swipes left]

I'll be in my hammock.

Posted by: a moslem with rabies at January 24, 2024 11:56 AM (2yu8s)

311 Have ya seen a Doc ?

-

I'm fairly certain Skip is a man.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:56 AM (k1AR8)

312 231 >> I fell in my garage yesterday afternoon, left arm is hurting to move it

Then don't move it.
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 11:46 AM (mdhFC)

Amputate it.

Then turn it into a club to beat everyone who looks at you wrong with.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 11:56 AM (sm6Pk)

313 Thank you, Mistress Madamemayhem.

May we Morons have another?
Posted by: andycanuck

I have a tattoo.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (cRrcX)

314 I believe they do ordain rabbis during the ceremony when they staple a yamaha to their heads.

Posted by: Archie Bunker Bible Lesson at January 24, 2024 11:49 AM (V5BDR)

------------

And why is the circumcision ceremony named after some French cheese?

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (e5Tk7)

315 Saw this YouTube video where a couple of skanks were asked for their ideal man. He had to be minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year, and not fat. Which literally excluded 98% of American men, lol.

The girls were like whaaaaaa? That can’t be. Oh honey? Yes it sure can be. Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (U42yt)

316 Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system
About 8,000 illegal immigrants recorded about 20,000 visits to Denver Health last year, receiving services such as emergency room treatment, primary care, dental care and childbirth, published January 19, 2024
Posted by: L

20,000 visits? Those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: Texas

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (CgVac)

317 I think you're probably right. I suspect a lot of these guys - not the big wheels, but the workaday adjuncts - are more stupid and ignorant than professedly evil. Getting out and seeing the world might enlighten some of them. I doubt it would be many, but I still think it would be a net benefit if they were to do it.

The ones that double down have, at least, disambiguated their position.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
--------
Any insular group has a tendency to discount people outside the group as depersonalized others. Tribalism is so built into human culture (and perhaps genetics) that despite whatever societal changes occur, you end up with the same old story.

Only a few people in any given society are truly free of it at the macro level and a lot more are free of that tendency at the individual level by treating other people with dignity and respect who deserve it.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (ZcPYF)

318 @312

>>Then turn it into a club to beat everyone who looks at you wrong with.

Then put a chainsaw attachment on the stump so you can fight The Army of Darkness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

319 >minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year

*straightens up*
Well one out of four ain't bad.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 24, 2024 11:58 AM (cf/0E)

320 "Fox News: Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system"

Yeah, no. They can get in line after us.
Posted by: California

Not so fast.
Posted by: Texas

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 11:58 AM (CgVac)

321 I've had four good hard falls in the last five years. It's only by God's infinite grace that I got through them with nothing other than pain. Gotta be more careful.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (MvF+J)

322 This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain...

Posted by: The Flying Burrito Brothers at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (EvkyC)

323 I have a tattoo.

-

A tattoo seems so old fashioned.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (k1AR8)

324 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (MeG8a)

325 Only a few people in any given society are truly free of it at the macro level and a lot more are free of that tendency at the individual level by treating other people with dignity and respect who deserve it.
Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (ZcPYF)
++++
Courtesy to all unless not returned in kind.
Respect to those who have earned it, though likewise no disrespect unless earned.

Goes a long way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (mwCIn)

326 Yet women will surround themselves with cats that aren't six feet tall. Weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (9yWhg)

327 Courtesy to all unless not returned in kind.
Respect to those who have earned it, though likewise no disrespect unless earned.

Goes a long way.

Pffffft. What a dweeb.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 12:00 PM (CsUN+)

328 My wife knows a bit about of these anatomy issues and kind of checked me out for tears.
Posted by: Skip

She made sure you didn't cry?

Posted by: reason at January 24, 2024 12:00 PM (y9j7d)

329 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

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But I'm independent!!!

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 12:00 PM (k1AR8)

330 Saw this YouTube video where a couple of skanks were asked for their ideal man. He had to be minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year, and not fat. Which literally excluded 98% of American men, lol.

That was me when I was 30-40 . The catch 22 is that those picky women and their grass is always greener attitude is what you had to choose from. You end up dating a lot with no intention of getting married .

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (MNhXM)

331 If you look at early photos of Portland, there are all sorts of activity on the riverfront. There are all these shacks and buildings, lots of activity. Modern day Portland decided to make the riverfront look like an architect's sketch. I hate what Portland looks like now but it could just be reverting to whst it was.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (L8hCM)

332 >>I've had four good hard falls in the last five years. It's only by God's infinite grace that I got through them with nothing other than pain. Gotta be more careful.

Ball Up!

The injuries usually come from trying to break the fall. Go with it.
Keep your hands and arms in, lest you break a wrist or worse.

Decades on the Mtn Bike have taught me how to fall / crash.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (mdhFC)

333 Saw this YouTube video where a couple of skanks were asked for their ideal man. He had to be minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year, and not fat. Which literally excluded 98% of American men, lol. ...
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (U42yt)
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Even worse, there is the fourth requirement: they also have to be handsome (and not just 'not fat,' but ripped). They're probably aiming at 0.5% or less.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (mwCIn)

334 But, The Denver Gazette, March and July 2023:

Colorado's wealthiest hospitals favored in $1.2 billion COVID bailout
Colorado hospital reserves did not factor in federal CARES allocations
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Article worth reading in its entirety, imho.

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (GshMh)

335
Saw this YouTube video where a couple of skanks were asked for their ideal man. He had to be minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year, and not fat. Which literally excluded 98% of American men, lol.

Came across a Trad Catholic woman site where the requirements weren't much different than those of the skanks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (MoZTd)

336 More D.C. stuff....

My first real job was working for an IT firm out of Alexandria, VA. They were on King St. Supplied leased and purchased computers, networking gear and software to a lot of FedGov in the city and surrounding area.

We had a delivery van. Drove all over D.C. Knew the city inside and out. And there were bad areas. Some of our customers were in those places, most were not. Got to see some interesting stuff. Main Treasury has cool displays of old currency, bonds and such. The congressional offices are unusually bland. Or were back then.

I guess when you live or work in a place like that you sort of get immune to the shit. Or work around it.

I wouldn't step foot in the place today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

337 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

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But I'm independent!!!

What was the name of the woman in the Obama ad who spent her whole life relying on the government?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)

338 324 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (MeG8a)

Oh, for a RETVRN to the days when "body count" meant how many people you've KILLED.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (sm6Pk)

339 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Especially when the snizz looks like a plate of Arby's Roast Beef.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (CgVac)

340 What was the name of the woman in the Obama ad who spent her whole life relying on the government?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)
++++
Becky, maybe?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (mwCIn)

341 What was the name of the woman in the Obama ad who spent her whole life relying on the government?
Posted by: Archimedes

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Ha, I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (k1AR8)

342 Those girls were also asked what they thought the average income for a man was. One said $80k the other said $125k. Actual number is $50k.

So them saying they want $100k, in their mind, is an average guy. It’s part of the problem of living on Instagram. You think everyone’s a baller in real life.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (U42yt)

343 What was the name of the woman in the Obama ad who spent her whole life relying on the government?
Posted by: Archimedes

Julia.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)

344 Julia

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (mdhFC)

345 My wife knows a bit about of these anatomy issues and kind of checked me out for tears.
Posted by: Skip

Tell me she, with love's light shining in her eyes, tenderly and lovingly kissed your boo-boo.

Lie if you must.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (4I/2K)

346 What was the name of the woman in the Obama ad who spent her whole life relying on the government?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Julia

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (i671v)

347 I haven't dating app'd in a long time, mostly due to my wife of 9+ years..
I'd describe myself as an early adopter though.
I had good luck with it in the early 2000's, and I actually met my wife on eHarmony.
Now "good luck" really means I met attractive women to take on dates. Which is what I was wanting to do at the beginning. I joined eHarmony when my sister told me to try a different type of dating.. I did change to looking for others interested in long term deals and marriage. eHarmony at the time had a reputation for more long term relationship potential.
I used online dating because I was travelling for work about half the month and when I wasn't traveling I was working 12 hour days... it helped me cover for my workaholic-ism...

Posted by: Inogame at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (53oGX)

348 Was it Jane?

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (U42yt)

349 292 Date the Mannix girl, marry the Fen girl.
Posted by: Montec

What about my gals!?!?! They deserve love, too!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (JCZqz)

350
Who wants to LOL?

Here's who voted for Tricky Nikki yesterday:

https://youtu.be/JA1yAv8SlaY?si=3-xKMCQkSyPjHjTR&t=229

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (voEds)

351 "Ball Up!"

That's what I did when I had the screendoor removal accident. I rolled like a pro, wound up on my feet, and didn't get nailed by the door. The branch sawing accident, I landed flat on my back, and the 200lb branch didn't nail me. God's grace.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (MvF+J)

352 Mulva?

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (i671v)

353 My wife knows a bit about of these anatomy issues and kind of checked me out for tears.

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2024 11:55 AM (fwDg9)

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I read that as tears one cries.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (e5Tk7)

354 325 Courtesy to all unless not returned in kind.
Respect to those who have earned it, though likewise no disrespect unless earned.

Goes a long way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (mwCIn)

Or be like my father and grandfather, and make respect un-earnable.

As long as they never respect you, you'll have to keep working harder and harder and harder and harder to earn it.

But you can never earn it.

So work even damn harder.

Or get called a worthless baby.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (sm6Pk)

355 So them saying they want $100k, in their mind, is an average guy. It’s part of the problem of living on Instagram. You think everyone’s a baller in real life.
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (U42yt)
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And that everyone and everything is perfect - except you.

Social media is a funhouse mirror. Nobody posts about their constipation or uploads photos of their dirty bathroom or snaps a food pic of their Kraft Dinner. It's all curated and looks *great.* This isn't real, of course, but it *feels* real - and then you feel awful in comparison and set your sights at an unachievable condition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (mwCIn)

356 I've had four good hard falls in the last five years. It's only by God's infinite grace that I got through them with nothing other than pain. Gotta be more careful.
Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:59 AM (MvF+J)

I knew this asshole who used to work for the USPS for 40 years and then he retired. Fat layabout but we would argue politics and he liked his martinis dirty where I liked them as they should be. He was retired for about a week and laughing about how much he stole from the taxpayers. Then he fell at his home and died that same week. Fuck him.

Moral of the story is be careful and avoid falls gp.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (EvkyC)

357 What about my gals!?!?! They deserve love, too!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

You're not man enough to pleasure them all?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (9yWhg)

358 What about my gals!?!?! They deserve love, too!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (JCZqz)

The love of a gentle and caring veterinarian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (9UlRk)

359 Julia
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (i671v)
++++
That's it!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (mwCIn)

360 Posted by: Inogame at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (53oGX

EHarmony has gone ridiculously gay.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (MNhXM)

361 >>What about my gals!?!?! They deserve love, too!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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that's a whole lotta Rosie
too much Rosie

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 12:05 PM (geLO8)

362 IT'S JULIA

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 12:05 PM (geLO8)

363 355 And that everyone and everything is perfect - except you.

Social media is a funhouse mirror. Nobody posts about their constipation or uploads photos of their dirty bathroom or snaps a food pic of their Kraft Dinner. It's all curated and looks *great.* This isn't real, of course, but it *feels* real - and then you feel awful in comparison and set your sights at an unachievable condition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (mwCIn)

========

Almost like social media is poison.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

364 Who wants to LOL?

Here's who voted for Tricky Nikki yesterday:
____

Quick, get this info to Bret Bair before he makes a fool of himself yet again.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (fs1hN)

365 359 Julia
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:03 PM (i671v)
++++
That's it!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (mwCIn)

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DOLORES!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

366 >>Here's who voted for Tricky Nikki yesterday:

Is that the guy who likes like Pajama Boy?

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (mdhFC)

367 EHarmony has gone ridiculously gay.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue

There was an article not too long ago about woke porn site administrators slipping gay and tranny porn into regular porn searches to start acclimating people to it.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

368 Date the Mannix girl, marry the Fen girl.
Posted by: Montec

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:07 PM (CgVac)

369 I meant stormdoor, not screendoor. Sucker was heavy. I should have let go of it when I removed the last hinge screw. Down the concrete stoop we go. Duh.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:07 PM (MvF+J)

370 Courtesy to all unless not returned in kind.
Respect to those who have earned it, though likewise no disrespect unless earned.

Goes a long way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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One of the almost universal human guidelines across cultures is treat others you know like you want to be treated. The key thing about the golden rule or even the biblical admonitions to be kind to neighbors is that these are applied to specific individuals you come across in life--not to vast amorphous groups so beloved of the left.

And my brother's keeper story taking charge of other people's lives is directly out of context in most modern biblical interpretations. Cain is literally denying knowledge of where his brother is because he is denying the fact that he murdered him.

Cain is the original Dindu Nuffin character in the Bible that took out his feelings of inferiority by violent action and then lied about it.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:07 PM (ZcPYF)

371 My all-time best one-day sales as a Good Humor Ice Cream driver based and licensed in PG County, MD was the day I got lost and ended up in S.E. D.C.

All the One Way Only! streets kept me from getting turned around properly and exiting the quadrant.

The locals had never seen a Good Humor truck before and swarmed out of the tenements. Lots of smiling happy faces that day!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (4I/2K)

372 There was an article not too long ago about woke porn site administrators slipping gay and tranny porn into regular porn searches to start acclimating people to it.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024

***
I've, uh, heard about that.

Somewhere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

373 jULIA!

Posted by: Amy Shumer at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (Vu7A1)

374 Swingers has that scene at the party where the girl asks Mike what car do you drive. So this isn’t really new. It’s just gone from LA parties to every single girl on the planet. They all think they’re the model at the party who can be picky.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (U42yt)

375 Date the Mannix girl, marry the Fen girl.
Posted by: Montec

Bingo!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (SzI2j)

376 I meant stormdoor, not screendoor. Sucker was heavy. I should have let go of it when I removed the last hinge screw. Down the concrete stoop we go. Duh.
Posted by: gp

Good thing it wasn't shelving.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (9yWhg)

377 Ha, I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

Posted by: Nikki Haley - EVs are less popular than manual transmissions at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (k1AR

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She died among hundreds of millions worldwide subsequent to Trump's inauguration.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (e5Tk7)

378 363 355 And that everyone and everything is perfect - except you.

Social media is a funhouse mirror. Nobody posts about their constipation or uploads photos of their dirty bathroom or snaps a food pic of their Kraft Dinner. It's all curated and looks *great.* This isn't real, of course, but it *feels* real - and then you feel awful in comparison and set your sights at an unachievable condition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:04 PM (mwCIn)

========

Almost like social media is poison.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
_______

Although oddly, social media is also where people go to cry and lament and self-victimize over personal or even medical problems that would have been kept very private a few decades ago. It's almost as if SM brings out the absolute worst in people . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

379 Even worse, there is the fourth requirement: they also have to be handsome (and not just 'not fat,' but ripped). They're probably aiming at 0.5% or less.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (mwCIn)

This is why modern dating is so awful. Feminism has lied to women, and they all think they're due for a prince to come and sweep them off their feet - or at least a duke or something.

Those of us who are mere country barons, bannerets, or the poor god-forsaken souls that form the levies do not have a chance at all.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (gJKGU)

380 379 Even worse, there is the fourth requirement: they also have to be handsome (and not just 'not fat,' but ripped). They're probably aiming at 0.5% or less.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (mwCIn)

This is why modern dating is so awful. Feminism has lied to women, and they all think they're due for a prince to come and sweep them off their feet - or at least a duke or something.

Those of us who are mere country barons, bannerets, or the poor god-forsaken souls that form the levies do not have a chance at all.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (gJKGU)

That's not even feminism, that's just romance novels and associated media.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (eYoxG)

381 So, what's your major?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (9yWhg)

382
Tell me she, with love's light shining in her eyes, tenderly and lovingly kissed your boo-boo.
Lie if you must.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Wahahahahahah.

Junior-ette has (unfortunately) inherited my bad knees and at 20 years of age, is already dealing with cartiledge loss and recurring pain.

The last time she plopped down on the couch with an ice bag on her knee, Smash asked if we should rub dirt on it or slap hot iron to it.

No booboo kisses in my house, even for the kid.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (3CCua)

383 Late in '22, I tripped and fellt *upstairs* on a short flight of steps in my office hallway. I rolled with it and landed fine, on my left side. A week later I started having sciatic pains -- on my *right* side! Workmen's Comp pauid for physical therapy and I was okay shortly thereafter. It just seemed weird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

384 This is why modern dating is so awful. Feminism has lied to women, and they all think they're due for a prince to come and sweep them off their feet - or at least a duke or something.

Someone's been consuming MGTOW/Red Pill/Passport Bro content.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (JCZqz)

385 316. 20,000 visits? Those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: Texas
Posted by: rickb223

Indeed. But all over the news nevertheless.

Wondering if the beginning of another Medicare for All pitch for next Presidential election, which would tied into abortion, too.

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (GshMh)

386 378 Although oddly, social media is also where people go to cry and lament and self-victimize over personal or even medical problems that would have been kept very private a few decades ago. It's almost as if SM brings out the absolute worst in people . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Whatever for the dopamine hit of a like!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

387 Poor nostril to nose proportions.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank

Ooooh, that's such a turn on!!

Posted by: Member of The Poor Nostril To Nose Proportions Union at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (iODuv)

388 I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

—

No she died from tax cuts.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (U42yt)

389 So, what's your major?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Sarcasm, with a minor in anger issues?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (3CCua)

390 318 @312

>>Then turn it into a club to beat everyone who looks at you wrong with.

Then put a chainsaw attachment on the stump so you can fight The Army of Darkness.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

Groovy!

Posted by: Ashe - Housewares at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (53oGX)

391 There was an article not too long ago about woke porn site administrators slipping gay and tranny porn into regular porn searches to start acclimating people to it.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

Or else they have been threatened by Big Anus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (tkR6S)

392 Those of us who are mere country barons, bannerets, or the poor god-forsaken souls that form the levies do not have a chance at all.
Posted by: Cato
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Those of us women who aren't Mannix girls have no chance.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (i671v)

393 Late in '22, I tripped and fellt *upstairs* on a short flight of steps

Me too, Jack!

Posted by: President Biden at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (JCZqz)

394 Swingers has that scene at the party where the girl asks Mike what car do you drive. So this isn’t really new. It’s just gone from LA parties to every single girl on the planet. They all think they’re the model at the party who can be picky.
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (U42yt)
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The internet has enabled a lot of this.

Your locality and where you went used to be your mate filter, and it was expected - realized or not - that you have one mate. Now, the entire population is in the "potential mate" pool and there is no enforcement or even expectation of monogamy. It's an unlimited pool and trading out or up is expected if not encouraged.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (mwCIn)

395 On the topic of Social media or just navigating the net on your phone, I had two instances recently coincidentally where I had to request assistance with a young clerk to pull up a coupon because I didn’t have my reading glasses and couldn’t see what I was doing. Both click through my phone while holding it with one hand and tapping it like they were doing Morse code. It would have taken me twice the time even if I had my glasses.

Damn kids! 😀

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (MNhXM)

396 Most painful was the snowy steps accident. I landed right on my belt knife, right on the corner of the step. Took the wind out of me, and hurt like hell for weeks. Had to use a cane for a while. That's when I found out about the sheet-metal screw hobnail trick. It works!

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (MvF+J)

397 Ooooh, that's such a turn on!!
Posted by: Member of The Poor Nostril To Nose Proportions Union

Henry Waxman, is that you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (9yWhg)

398 I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

—

No she died from tax cuts.
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I heard she died of climate change.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (i671v)

399 374 Swingers has that scene at the party where the girl asks Mike what car do you drive. So this isn’t really new. It’s just gone from LA parties to every single girl on the planet. They all think they’re the model at the party who can be picky.
Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:08 PM (U42yt)
____

But why shouldn't they think that? They're women. They're told from birth that they're super and special and super-special and guys should be throwing themselves at them. Isn't that happens in the movies? We laugh at these girls, and we should, but it's not really their fault. They were told their lives should be dreams, and of course they believe it because they want to. Only much later in life do they realize it was a load of bullshit.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

400 Ahhhh, Cain.

Bro, even if the Lord wasn't almighty, there's only three other people on earth, one of which is the victim and the other two are the victim's parents. You don't need a belted raincoat to crack that particular case.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (9UlRk)

401 Poor nostril to nose proportions.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
++++
I can fix her!

Posted by: Plastic Surgeon at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (mwCIn)

402
Or else they have been threatened by Big Anus.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Didn't he hire Burt Renolds to go on a beer run?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (3CCua)

403 398 I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

—

No she died from tax cuts.
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I heard she died of climate change.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (i671v)

But we all died of gun violence 10 years ago!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (xaFKb)

404 " I suspect a lot of these guys - not the big wheels, but the workaday adjuncts - are more stupid and ignorant than professedly evil."

The Democrats REQUIRE their voters to be ignorant and intensely proud of that ignorance.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (p+1gI)

405 392 Those of us who are mere country barons, bannerets, or the poor god-forsaken souls that form the levies do not have a chance at all.
Posted by: Cato
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Those of us women who aren't Mannix girls have no chance.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 24, 2024 12:11 PM (i671v)

The stats show that most dudes will like tons and tons of profiles and have a pretty good sense of where the average for females is. Women on the other hand believe 80% of men are below average.

Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (eYoxG)

406 I have not had too much trouble to avoid comparing the miniatures I paint to the exquisite ones I see on twatter.

But compare that problem with finding a mate.

The internet will be either the great filter or eugenic.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (cf/0E)

407 398 I remember that but not her name. Didn't she die from lack of Obamacare or something?

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No she died from tax cuts.
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I heard she died of climate change.

'Twas great Net Neutrality Plague, I'm fairly certain.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (fs1hN)

408 Ahhhh, Cain.

Bro, even if the Lord wasn't almighty, there's only three other people on earth, one of which is the victim and the other two are the victim's parents. You don't need a belted raincoat to crack that particular case.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

If Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the fruit and stayed in the Garden, you just know Cain would have eaten it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:14 PM (9yWhg)

409 391 There was an article not too long ago about woke porn site administrators slipping gay and tranny porn into regular porn searches to start acclimating people to it.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

Or else they have been threatened by Big Anus.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Intel community probably. I'd imagine that as societal morals declined, you need more and more deviancy to blackmail folks with their internet histories.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:14 PM (ZcPYF)

410 But we all died of gun violence 10 years ago!
Posted by: Romeo13

If she didn't get her 8th COVID booster, I bet that's what got her!!!

Posted by: Covidian at January 24, 2024 12:14 PM (JCZqz)

411 405 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (eYoxG)

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Clint Eastwood was weirdly attached to Sondra Locke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

412 384 Someone's been consuming MGTOW/Red Pill/Passport Bro content.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (JCZqz)

The Youtube algorithm pushes clips from the "Whatever" podcast pretty hard.

You'd think it wouldn't, but...

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 12:15 PM (sm6Pk)

413 My dating life was the 90s into the early aughts. I thank Allah I didn’t have to do it in the modern times.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:15 PM (U42yt)

414 339 "Get ready to either lower your standards or be alone forever."

Especially if you have a high "body count"...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Especially when the snizz looks like a plate of Arby's Roast Beef.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:02 PM (CgVac)

Hey!

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 24, 2024 12:15 PM (53oGX)

415 I can fix her!
Posted by: Plastic Surgeon
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Keep your damn dirty paws off her, you ape!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 12:15 PM (fs1hN)

416 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

Edward VIII and Wallis have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:15 PM (9yWhg)

417 386 378 Although oddly, social media is also where people go to cry and lament and self-victimize over personal or even medical problems that would have been kept very private a few decades ago. It's almost as if SM brings out the absolute worst in people . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Whatever for the dopamine hit of a like!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
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Or better yet, a COMMENT. And yea, it's not hard to square this circle. But at the time, when social media was young, I thought it would be mostly a fad. I figured that people would run out of "here's me doing something you wish you were doing" posts, and others would get tired of seeing that shit. I have never been more wrong in my life. I didn't "get it."

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

418 Only much later in life do they realize it was a load of bullshit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

Add in the constant drumbeat that men are scum who just want to stick it in you, so you're worthless if they don't want to stick it in you, and it's a recipe for an incredible complex of neuroses.

That goes for men, too. All women are sluts for the highest bidder, and if no one lets you get a leg over it's because you suck at life.

It's all so incredibly poisonous, it's a miracle anyone ever makes it to their thirties.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (9UlRk)

419 Ahhhh, Cain.

Bro, even if the Lord wasn't almighty, there's only three other people on earth, one of which is the victim and the other two are the victim's parents. You don't need a belted raincoat to crack that particular case.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

If Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the fruit and stayed in the Garden, you just know Cain would have eaten it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Why does Cain sound so much like Hunter Biden?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (CgVac)

420 Cain is the original Dindu Nuffin character in the Bible that took out his feelings of inferiority by violent action and then lied about it.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:07 PM (ZcPYF)

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From Abel to Trump: Riding the Green-Eyed Monster and the Destructive Force of Envy.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (e5Tk7)

421 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (eYoxG)
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They have to for the world to be logically consistent.

Generally (and over long periods of time), women marry laterally or up. For that to be possible, men must generally marry laterally or down. Exceptions about, of course, but the general case requires symmetry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (mwCIn)

422 Eloi and Morlocks.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:05 AM (MvF+J)

Certainly does have a Time Machine feel to it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2024 12:17 PM (i24o9)

423 Bro, even if the Lord wasn't almighty, there's only three other people on earth, one of which is the victim and the other two are the victim's parents. You don't need a belted raincoat to crack that particular case.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Dindu Nuffins will say that even if they did their dirty deed in front of a huge number of eyewitnesses, they are on surveillance cameras, etc.

Pretty much most criminal defenses are SODDI and TODDI. Some Other Dude Did It or The Other Dude Did It. The suspect always claims I Dindu Nuffin.

People deny their sins despite the truth will eventually come out. Adam Schiff is a perfect example of that.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:17 PM (ZcPYF)

424 Mulva??

Posted by: amy schumer at January 24, 2024 12:17 PM (2yu8s)

425 "Whatever for the dopamine hit of a like!"

A LOL, a golf-clap, a thread-winner. Undeniably thrilling.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:17 PM (MvF+J)

426 The playboy mansion, or any mansion for that matter, is the product of a civilization built on the firm ground of monogamy. Hefner was a swinger, made viable because he is the third or fourth generation of a more-serious people.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 24, 2024 12:17 PM (cf/0E)

427 335
Saw this YouTube video where a couple of skanks were asked for their ideal man. He had to be minimum 6 ft tall, 30-40, single, make $100k a year, and not fat. Which literally excluded 98% of American men, lol.

Came across a Trad Catholic woman site where the requirements weren't much different than those of the skanks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 12:01 PM (MoZTd)

The question is "ideal" - WHY would your ideal ever be a fat, lazy, couch-surfing, poor old slob...that's settling, not aiming for the ideal.

I mean, of course women aim for Glen Powell and not Jonah Hill...just like men aim for Sydney Sweeney and not Lizzo...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (exHjb)

428 I don’t mind women being more attractive to successful guys with power or money ( perceived power). It’s innate in that they are looking for a mate that can provide for them and their offspring.

What’s happened though is that the definition of what is successful and a stable provider has changed.

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (MNhXM)

429 Why does Cain sound so much like Hunter Biden?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (CgVac)

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Please tell me that Adam didn't rape Cain as a young boy.

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Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (e5Tk7)

430 Baronet

a girl baron

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (geLO8)

431 From Abel to Trump: Riding the Green-Eyed Monster and the Destructive Force of Envy.
Posted by: ShainS
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Cool title for an essay Shain. Be great for a guest post here.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (ZcPYF)

432 418 It's all so incredibly poisonous, it's a miracle anyone ever makes it to their thirties.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (9UlRk)

They don't.

They Troon out, then they 41%.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (sm6Pk)

433 Hefner was a swinger, made viable because he is the third or fourth generation of a more-serious people.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

He was the son of a Methodist pastor, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (9yWhg)

434 That goes for men, too. All women are sluts for the highest bidder, and if no one lets you get a leg over it's because you suck at life.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 24, 2024 12:18 PM (Q0kLU)

435 421 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (eYoxG)
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They have to for the world to be logically consistent.

Generally (and over long periods of time), women marry laterally or up. For that to be possible, men must generally marry laterally or down. Exceptions about, of course, but the general case requires symmetry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (mwCIn)
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Or not marry at all, which is increasingly becoming a thing especially among more affluent men. Ditto more affluent women, although for different reasons.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

436 Quick, get this info to Bret Bair before he makes a fool of himself yet again.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 12:06 PM (fs1hN)

lol…. It would be impossible for that fatso to not make a fool of himself because…. He is a fool

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (1jdMT)

437 When I was dating I didn’t worry that much about income. But I did care some, at least for someone I thought could be marriage material. I didn’t want six figures (although I would have happily had it). But I also didn’t want dead end minimum wage job. So the idea that men ONLY care about looks is overblown IMO.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (U42yt)

438 Something huge scared the Fed in December, when they completely changed course. At this point, I would not be surprised if the 500 drops a lot sometime this spring, as the quarterly reports start coming in.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)

A discussion of that is on the Gold Goats and Guns podcast by Tom Luongo, he talks about the Fed with Vince Lanci

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (D7oie)

439
The life of Julia

https://youtu.be/oqBjXP8RKho

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (63Dwl)

440 429 Why does Cain sound so much like Hunter Biden?

Posted by: rickb223
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Technology comes and goes but human nature is not much different at all.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (ZcPYF)

441 >>>Generally (and over long periods of time), women marry laterally or up. For that to be possible, men must generally marry laterally or down. Exceptions about, of course, but the general case requires symmetry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (mwCIn)

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My wife thought she was marrying up. Boy, did I have her fooled.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (JfxgE)

442 Generally (and over long periods of time), women marry laterally or up. For that to be possible, men must generally marry laterally or down. Exceptions about, of course, but the general case requires symmetry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:16 PM (mwCIn)

yada yada yada women want security and status, men want - well we all know what men want. Nothing has changed since Thag was chasing mammoths.

of course the one weird thing is why women love musicians, even broke ones.

Posted by: Kamala at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (i9ffA)

443 I think female hypergamy is the term for this.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (MvF+J)

444 I think Thatcher was made a baroness

wait-
men can be baronets
it's confusing

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (geLO8)

445 The 'suck at life,' part, I mean.

Not all women are sluts, and certainly not Moronettes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (Q0kLU)

446 Or not marry at all, which is increasingly becoming a thing especially among more affluent men. Ditto more affluent women, although for different reasons.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 24, 2024 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Sure. Our current period is historically aberrant, though. This kind of behavior - just checking out completely - is the kind of thing that makes a civilization die.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (mwCIn)

447 Ace must be wrasslin' a hobo.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (w6EFb)

448 nood

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (MvF+J)

449 Committed leftists are some of the most provincial people you will meet. They know nothing of other cultures/places and have no interest in actually learning about them.

Remember the left New Yorker magazine that had a map of the US with the distance from downtown NYC to the edge of the city being farther then the distance to California?

This is how they think...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (ibTVg)

450 of course the one weird thing is why women love musicians, even broke ones.
Posted by: Kamala at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (i9ffA)
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*expectantly warms up concertina*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (9XOwt)

451 What’s happened though is that the definition of what is successful and a stable provider has changed.
Posted by: Cobalt Blue

Well, women continue to become increasingly financially successful business girls bosses, while more men lower goals and work to maintain a minimalist lifestyle instead of becoming wealthy. That completely skews the "acceptable" dating pool for women, based on dating even or up.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (JCZqz)

452 I also didn’t care about body counts. I wasn’t an angel and didn’t expect my woman to be either. I find it kind of weird that the Bro Culture of today is so fixated on this topic.

Posted by: Montec at January 24, 2024 12:22 PM (U42yt)

453 of course the one weird thing is why women love musicians, even broke ones.
Posted by: Kamala

"forget all about that macho shit and learn how to play guitar"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2024 12:22 PM (cRrcX)

454 Baronet i think is a title that means you've been honored or otherwise considered a Peer of the realm, but your title isn't attached to any particular land or state.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 24, 2024 12:22 PM (9UlRk)

455 of course the one weird thing is why women love musicians, even broke ones.
Posted by: Kamala at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (i9ffA)

Eh, easy.

All the people sitting around attentively as the musician plays mimics a leadership position.

For the 90 minutes or whatever they play they appear to be Grog headman of the Marie Callender's Tuesday night 2 for 1 Pie Night Tribe.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2024 12:23 PM (nFnyb)

456 450 of course the one weird thing is why women love musicians, even broke ones.
Posted by: Kamala at January 24, 2024 12:20 PM (i9ffA)
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*expectantly warms up concertina*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 12:21 PM (9XOwt)

The dream is to be the Mariachi who hides a machine gun inside his guitar.

Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 12:23 PM (sm6Pk)

457 Nood gay reporter dude

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 12:24 PM (ibTVg)

458 David Spade has a bit he tells of a true life first date he had with a very pretty but clueless girl who moved to LA to pursue a career in Hollywood but as with most just ended up with a different mediocre career.

As the talked over dinner she was basically interviewing him about what he did , car he drives, kind of house he lived in , etc. and he made the usual funny Spade observations about he should be doing the interview and started to question whether he was really successful or not?

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 24, 2024 12:24 PM (MNhXM)

459 405 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 12:13 PM (eYoxG)

*nervously adjusts collar, flexes reflexively*

Posted by: Ah-nold at January 24, 2024 12:24 PM (4I/2K)

460 421 Men moreover will date women below their income level and relative attractiveness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Actually males desiring the climb the social ladder and marry demonstrate assortative mating about as much as women do.

The only difference is those high quality males often are pursued and pursue outside opportunities for sex outside of marriage.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2024 12:25 PM (ZcPYF)

461
I got click baited into taking an IQ test where 13 out of 30 correct would put the persons IQ in the 130 range. I liked the odds. Well there were actually 60 questions and I got 48 correct.

My wife took the same test and got 47 correct. Other then that we're complete opposites. I'm logical and unemotional, she's illogical and emotional. It'll never work.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 12:26 PM (nIvob)

462 Clint Eastwood was weirdly attached to Sondra Locke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 24, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO

I know, right? What a weird-looking chick.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 24, 2024 12:27 PM (w6EFb)

463 Baronet i think is a title that means you've been honored or otherwise considered a Peer of the realm, but your title isn't attached to any particular land or state.

Maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Baronetcy is not a peerage, so baronets, like kniggits & junior members of peerage families are commoners and not peers of the realm.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 12:27 PM (CgVac)

464 I hope that such wildernesses continue to exist forever. I know there are a lot of anti-Malthusians here, but there's gotta be someplace where one can get away from people for a while.
Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at January 24, 2024 11:20 AM (MvF+J)

It's one of the joys of home ownership. Refuge from the outside world.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 12:29 PM (BdMk6)

465 nood!

Posted by: amy schumer at January 24, 2024 12:30 PM (2yu8s)

466 We all laughed when a kid in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "I Robot... you Jane" said, paraphrasing, "only the virtual world is real".

That was 26 years ago.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 24, 2024 12:36 PM (xT7BI)

467 Or else they have been threatened by Big Anus.

So, Lizzo?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 24, 2024 12:46 PM (2ocoG)

468 Excellent Rant

Posted by: 42 at January 24, 2024 02:09 PM (UeYtn)

469 Joe,

Doubt you'll see this, but your '5th floor ' division model is utter genius, and I'm stealing it for argument ammunition.

Posted by: Xenophon at January 25, 2024 02:29 AM (sZnew)

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