And Now a Word from British Toonces

From @MWR, this twinkie.

He looks as you'd expect.

(Old Toonces sketch here.)

Posted by: Ace at 03:10 PM

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1 Oh, Beth! You're famous.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:13 PM (1xUj/)

2 Ace, is this your British cousin?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 28, 2016 03:14 PM (KUaJL)

3 Third?

Posted by: TeamRawDog at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (10hEu)

4 YESSSSS!!!!!

Posted by: TeamRawDog at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (10hEu)

5 Nope. Couldn't make it through.

Ace, why are you doing this to us? Are you punishing us for sticking with you through your eye surgery? Showing us that we will pay for all the tomfoolery that took place while you were blinded? I was not a part to any of that, and I resent you lumping me in with the other flotsam and jetsam that soiled this place when you weren't looking.

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (ND7OQ)

6 In before Trump!

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (QM5S2)

7 I'll summon the Horde

Posted by: TeamRawDog at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (10hEu)

8 >>>6 In before Trump!
Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at June 28, 2016 03:16 PM (QM5S2)

_______________

I was in. Just too classy to post "FIOST"

Posted by: Trump at June 28, 2016 03:17 PM (10hEu)

9 And who is this guy?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:17 PM (zp+j1)

10 Tim Blair is being far, far, faaaaaar too kind in his fisking.

Ooh, a PhD in Philosophy. Color me shocked.

Which I think is a shade of puce. Possibly merple. Or chartucken.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 03:18 PM (p2X2f)

11 First world problems, much?

We are not used to thinking that a place like this --- a pleasant
town with a pretty center --- might actually be hell. There is almost no
poverty and only the occasional act of violence. There are good schools,
a range of shops, a heritage railway. In fact, it's somewhere that a
lot of people, apparently, actively want to live...But dig below the surface, and you will find the demons crawling.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:18 PM (NOIQH)

12 I just want to remind everyone how much I still suck today.

I haven't been in the news much, but don't worry my friends because I do, in fact, still suck.

Thank you for my service and vote in the Primary!!!

Posted by: Paul Ryan at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (10hEu)

13 For some reason, I'm reminded on the mini-series "The Casual Visitor".
Small UK town full of ugliness. Gawd, that was depressing.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (NOIQH)

14 Chartucken sounds tasty.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (Z+McQ)

15 He'd be the little twit in Saving Private Ryan that would stand by and watch his buddy get stabbed to death by a Nazi.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:21 PM (F26eZ)

16 Reading that will actually cause your testosterone levels to drop.

Posted by: brak at June 28, 2016 03:21 PM (MJuTN)

17 Checked his areas of study. About as expected.

We have a new prospect for the embodiment of "twatwaffle".

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:21 PM (9krrF)

18 Is that part time in reference to hix doctorate or hix job?

(Hix, as gender is fluid. Or something)

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 28, 2016 03:21 PM (C9pBZ)

19 At first I thought he had a surgical mask partially undone, but no, just a bad collar and a t-shirt underneath.

I can look sloppy too when commenting here, but I do not publish my photo on the internet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2016 03:21 PM (3ZoRf)

20 I just want to remind everyone how much I still suck today.

I haven't been in the news much, but don't worry my friends because I do, in fact, still suck.

Thank you for my service and vote in the Primary!!!
Posted by: Paul Ryan at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (10hEu)

Ya know at first glance I read that as Buddy Ryan and thought " some moron here has a sick sense of humor" but that I guess that could apply to anyone ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:22 PM (zp+j1)

21 From his profile on the Essex Academic Staff page:

I'm currently working on a number of papers about Adorno, ethical naturalism, normativity, and value realism. I'm also trying to develop a post-doctoral research project about how the Frankfurt School could benefit from adopting a neo-Fichtean theory of freedom.

We have to help him break free....For Mankind

Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2016 03:22 PM (8ikIW)

22 England's Emos look to EU to expunge ennui.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 03:22 PM (OkKDg)

23 Ugh: "The Casual Visitor" --> "The Casual Vacancy"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:22 PM (NOIQH)

24 We have to help him break free....For Mankind

Break free of what, his dependence on oxygen?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (4WhSY)

25 Reading that will actually cause your testosterone levels to drop.

"...blooms in a way that's almost terrible." made my left nut crawl up.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (Z+McQ)

26 Ponce?

Most assuredly.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (TMgNe)

27 "I'm currently working on a number of papers about Adorno, ethical
naturalism, normativity, and value realism. I'm also trying to develop a
post-doctoral research project about how the Frankfurt School could
benefit from adopting a neo-Fichtean theory of freedom."

Pee Wee Herman just texted, "What a wispy dweeb."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (1ZOkK)

28 Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

Multiple injuries have been reported.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (zp+j1)

29 This cat should be on suicide watch.

Posted by: Fritz at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (2Mnv1)

30 From his profile on the Essex Academic Staff page:

and what is it that this charming fellow teaches at the Essex Academy?

Posted by: Jan Ne Onhert at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (qNlse)

31 I hate it when I see a carbon based POS using up oxygen that could otherwise support life.

Posted by: IP at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (Fol9S)

32 Newsrooms all across America breathe a collective sigh of relief over attack in Turkey as they now have cover to ignore Benghazi report.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (kTF2Z)

33 Sorry to go OT but they are now saying 2 explosions at Istanbul airport and gunfire. They are rounding up a local Methodist gang.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (/tuJf)

34 Way too much time on your hands cupcake. Do us all a favor and hang yourself.

Posted by: Nuno Binez at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (RWX0e)

35 Dr Tom Whyman
Huh. Pasty.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (NOIQH)

36 28
Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

Multiple injuries have been reported.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:23 PM (zp+j1)

Nothing to see there, I'm sure. Look! Violent Presbyterians!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:24 PM (1ZOkK)

37 And our very own Vichy GOPe is selling America down the river. Any SSJW's in the room who know what 'selling down the river' means?

Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (zLDYs)

38 Odds that he insists on being called "Doctor"?

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (F26eZ)

39 only made through about 2 paragraphs, already met my sniveling quota for today

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (dBmVV)

40 and what is it that this charming fellow teaches at the Essex Academy?

Philosophy. (Part time)

Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (8ikIW)

41 2 explosions and gunfire at Istanbul airport, multiple injuries.

Posted by: all doubt removed at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (KWGc0)

42 Morissey just called and said this poofter needs to lighten the fuck up.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (Z+McQ)

43 Bloody poofter.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (HgMAr)

44 Well I guess they don't like gays in Turkey ha? ONly possible explination

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (zp+j1)

45 Dr. Whyman? Why?????

Idiot is using valuable oxygen.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:25 PM (1ZOkK)

46 ROTFLMAO....

Please read the comments below the article. The Brits are so hilarious in their ripping to shreds of this pajama boy. They use big words masterfully, with nary the F word , but instead, slice and dice this idiot expertly.

I will say, the Brits have us Americans completely in the basement as far as speech and vocabulary. I so admire them for their ability, which seems to be availble regardless of level of education.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM (PiuBB)

47 >>Huh. Pasty.

Well he is British so ....

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM (/tuJf)

48 Ph.D in Philosophy, my what an outstanding lad.

Perhaps he should just end it all right now.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM (voOPb)

49 Odds that he insists on being called "Doctor"?

About the same that he has a cardboard TARDIS in his bedroom.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM (4WhSY)

50 Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

Scientologists gettin' frisky again?

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM (TMgNe)

51 Still more of a man than Gert Kuntzman.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (39g3+)

52 And people think I have a big twat? Not compared to this town.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (c7vUv)

53 It was a gay airport in Turkey. Attacker was exposed to AIDS in a 3 way romp in the x-ray scanner and he wanted revenge.

Posted by: torabora at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (+avF1)

54 I've lived in big cities and small towns. I've lived in Europe and America.

The visceral hatred some people have for one place or another juts confuses me.

I don't like big cities. The largest I lived in was Rome, and it had character in every little hidden corner. Old character. Ancient character. It's a beautiful city. I loved living there. I still hate big cities. It's just too much hustle and bustle for my tastes.

I do not have a seething ire whenever I think of it. I can see what I loved and what I hated. I can balance the two and come to the conclusion that big cities are not for me.

This twerp? Not only can he not drive away based on his own choices, he chooses to see the absolute worst everywhere around him and refuses to see any good. It's pathological. It's the sort of thinking that could only lead to a job in a modern philosophy department.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (8o3AL)

55 14 Chartucken sounds tasty.
Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (Z+McQ

John Madden said so!!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (voOPb)

56 That's DOCTOR Whyman, H8trs!!!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (1ZOkK)

57
This dude is a 27 year old Holden Caulfield.

He thinks you're a phony.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (ODxAs)

58 Please read the comments below the article. The Brits are so hilarious in their ripping to shreds of this pajama boy. They use big words masterfully, with nary the F word , but instead, slice and dice this idiot expertly.

Oy! Those are Aussies, mate!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:28 PM (39g3+)

59 This referendum wasn't really a referendum about whether or not we
should remain in the European Union. It was a referendum on immigration
and on race --- on whether to have our borders open or closed.

In short: Do we open ourselves up to new things, even if they might
be unfamiliar, risky, unexpected, sometimes even undesirable?

Ph.D in Philosophy, yet still misses the point completely.

Now I'm imagining the pretty town in "Hot Fuzz" and the disgust the town elders had for the pesky, criminal youth....

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:28 PM (NOIQH)

60 Power just came back on and I have the TV off.

Is hysterical Sheppy hysterical?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:28 PM (1ZOkK)

61 57
This dude is a 27 year old Holden Caulfield.

He thinks you're a phony.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 28, 2016 03:27 PM (ODxAs)

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I hate the fact that A Catcher in the Rye is considered a classic.

It's dull and has nothing of particular insight or interest to say.

It's the equivalent of the blank canvass in an art gallery that sells for $10,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:29 PM (8o3AL)

62 Explosions and gunfire at Istanbul's airport.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at June 28, 2016 03:29 PM (vP09u)

63 Yeah Tim Blair's commenters are top notch.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:29 PM (Z+McQ)

64 Chartucken sounds tasty.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (Z+McQ)

I went to Kentucky Chartucken for lunch today, and

got a Big Meal Deal:

1 leg

2 pinchers

1 feeler

6 mini glarbollocklets

1 6th stomach polyp - extra crispy

Cole Slaw

A Biscuit

and an Orange Soda.

All for $5.99!!!

Posted by: H D Woodard - "Wearing the Cat - Part One: Flaming Hoops" at June 28, 2016 03:29 PM (0cMkb)

65
In short: Do we open ourselves up to new things, even if they might

be unfamiliar, risky, unexpected, sometimes even undesirable?

He said as an ISIS member slowly drew a knife across his throat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:30 PM (1ZOkK)

66 Is hysterical Sheppy hysterical?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:28 PM (1ZOkK)

He's working on it..he is getting excited because it might be a suicide attack and he loves him them suicide attacks

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:30 PM (zp+j1)

67 small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom;

That's poetry, man.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 28, 2016 03:30 PM (s/EUv)

68 59 This referendum wasn't really a referendum about whether or not we
should remain in the European Union. It was a referendum on immigration
and on race --- on whether to have our borders open or closed.

In short: Do we open ourselves up to new things, even if they might
be unfamiliar, risky, unexpected, sometimes even undesirable?

Ph.D in Philosophy, yet still misses the point completely.

Now I'm imagining the pretty town in "Hot Fuzz" and the disgust the town elders had for the pesky, criminal youth....
Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:28 PM (NOIQH)

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See...you just don't get it, man.

He's totally in tune with immigration. They come here, bring some awesome new festivals and open some great restaurants, begin to vote Labour, and we're all happy. They become Englishman like I want.

Duh.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:30 PM (8o3AL)

69 Part-time. Oh. OK.

Btw, "lecturer" in Britain doesn't mean the same thing as here. In the traditional professorial (European) model, only the head of department is called "professor," and the rest of the faculty are called "lecturers."

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (oKE6c)

70 Mmmm.....polyps.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (Z+McQ)

71 67 small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom;

That's poetry, man.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 28, 2016 03:30 PM (s/EUv)

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My slam group snapped so much when I read them that.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (8o3AL)

72 In short: Do we open ourselves up to new things, even if they might be unfamiliar, risky, unexpected, sometimes even undesirable?

I imagine he's opened himself up to a few new things with some frequency, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (9krrF)

73 And who is this guy?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:17 PM (zp+j1)

Another damned marxist who lives in mommy's basement.

How quaint.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (WVsWD)

74 "... and I have this fantasy image of how it once was, before Alresford
was founded in the Middle Ages, when all of this was untouched: just the
wild, untamed nature that it keeps wanting to turn itself back into.
And sometimes, I think: I wish that would happen. Because all that humans have ever done here is ruin things."

The left in the UK in particular are trying to hold three mutually contradictory propositions in their heads at the same time:

(a) That they don't want the "green belt" areas around their cities to be developed;

(b) That they don't want high rise tower blocks in the cities, either;

(c) That a continuation of the current absolutely massive wave of immigration to the UK is desirable and necessary.

Where the Sam Hill do they then propose to simply _house_ all of these hordes of people? At the current run rate for immigration, plus births to high-fertility immigrants, come the year 2030, that one small nation is going to have a staggering 70 million people jostling for places to live.

Brits have a traditional fondness for kippers. They're already getting to where they themselves are packed in like canned ones. And the Brit left won't realize or agree that this has inevitable consequences. Instead they engage in fantasy tantrums like the one above about reverting the country to raw nature.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (noWW6)

75 1
Oh, Beth! You're famous.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:13 PM (1xUj/)

YAAY! I'm famous!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (4df7R)

76 From @MWR, this twinkie
======================================

I think that's one of the funniest things I've ever read! Thanks Ace. P.S. Someone talk that poor man down from the ledge.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (dFi94)

77 >> small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom;

Spoken by a man that spent "primary school" stuffed in a locker.

Posted by: Aviator at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (c7vUv)

78 CNN website still covering how the EU hates the Brexit leader...3 trillion lost...still haven't made the Istanbul Ataturk airport lead story...

Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (HQP2c)

79 Btw, "lecturer" in Britain doesn't mean the same thing as here. In the
traditional professorial (European) model, only the head of department
is called "professor," and the rest of the faculty are called
"lecturers."

Then who do they call Mary Ann?

Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (8ikIW)

80 I saw Demented Throbbing Fecund Nature open for the Kinks at the Tower Theater in '75.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (1xUj/)

81 73 Another damned marxist who lives in mommy's basement.

How quaint.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (WVsWD)

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You're so wrong. I'm a sainted Stalinist living in my mother's spare room.

Read a book.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (8o3AL)

82 P.S. Someone talk that poor man down from the ledge.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM (dFi94)

Ummm....

No.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (1ZOkK)

83 Sorry to go OT:

In shitty local news, NJ imposes one of the largest gas taxe increases in the states history.

They go from being one of the lowest taxed states to being one of the highest.

All because their highway fund is going broke from mismanagement and monies being diverted to non highway and road schemes like subsidizing public transit and other crap.

All signed into law by Crispy Creme who doesn't give a shit because when it hits the fan he's going to be long gone.

Nice job you POS.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (cemxO)

84 yeah if I get some extra cash and any free time, Turkey is the place I want to vacation in?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (zp+j1)

85 I feel awfully uncomfortable and out of place in a big city, like I'm deep in enemy territory. I don't mean I'm surrounded by enemies, only that its so alien and oppressive feeling. I'm just not a city boy, as much as I love places like Seattle and San Diego.

I'm not made for the city.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (39g3+)

86
Sexit - porn title for Brexit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (p4UlV)

87 77 Spoken by a man that spent "primary school" stuffed in a locker.
Posted by: Aviator at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (c7vUv)

=================

I'll get my revenge when I make it illegal to be someone I don't like...

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (8o3AL)

88 I'm currently working on a number of papers about Adorno, ethical naturalism, normativity, and value realism. I'm also trying to develop a post-doctoral research project about how the Frankfurt School could benefit from adopting a neo-Fichtean theory of freedom.
................

Yeah? I'm currently working on digesting a burrito.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

89 Somebody lend him an American gun and he can put an end to his suffering.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (UpGcq)

90 >>And who is this guy?

A guy who managed to get this epic whine published in the NYT.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (NOIQH)

91 You know what is "new and unexpected" you bleeding twit? A effin baggage bomb in a queue at an airport. Just stay there in your purgatory Tom Whyman. It's a wonder you can find the loo.

Posted by: torabora at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (+avF1)

92 YAAY! I'm famous!

We knew that.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (Z+McQ)

93 What's the frequency Ace?

Posted by: Skunky Choom at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (CbGSW)

94 Research interests
Frankfurt School critical theory (especially Adorno), German Idealism, Ethical Naturalism, Wittgenstein, the early Marx.

You know, before he went commercial.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (OkKDg)

95 If I had a son, I'd name him Tommy Toonces.

Posted by: Prez'nit Toonces at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (vtcmf)

96 85 I feel awfully uncomfortable and out of place in a big city, like I'm deep in enemy territory. I don't mean I'm surrounded by enemies, only that its so alien and oppressive feeling. I'm just not a city boy, as much as I love places like Seattle and San Diego.

I'm not made for the city.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (39g3+)

=====================

I get that, and feel the same way a lot.

Do you feel that cities represent the worst in humanity like he feels about his small town?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (8o3AL)

97 Shorter Tom Whyman:

"Dad! Daaaaaaaad! I've got some ideas of my own, Daaaaaad. Good ideas, Dad! Better than your stodgy old-fashioned ones."

(pause)

"I can still live with you and Mum till I get tenure at the uni, right?"

Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (noWW6)

98
I hate the fact that A Catcher in the Rye is considered a classic.

It's dull and has nothing of particular insight or interest to say.

It's the equivalent of the blank canvass in an art gallery that sells for $10,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, it's actually an interesting novel. It's just that it's taught incorrectly.

It's not a story about alienation or disaffection or any of that bullshit.

It's a story of grief. Holden isn't a heroic figure in the slightest sense. He's his own antagonist.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (p2X2f)

99
He's also interested in "early Marx."

Gummo or Zeppo?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (p4UlV)

100 All signed into law by Crispy Creme who doesn't give a shit because when it hits the fan he's going to be long gone.

Nice job you POS.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (cemxO)

Yeah, but you still pump gas for us, so we don't have to leave the comfort of our car!

Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (HQP2c)

101 All signed into law by Crispy Creme who doesn't give a shit because when it hits the fan he's going to be long gone.

Nice job you POS.
Posted by: Kreplach at June 28, 2016 03:32 PM (cemxO)

yeah my left wing lezbo sister thinks it great so they can repaid the roads. I told twinkle bell to remember I have 4 cars and 4 drivers and so she can shove it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (zp+j1)

102 English, Aussies, it's all the same...

Essex, that's an English name, it identifies as English.

LOL.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (PiuBB)

103 Why doesn't he just move out of his parents' house, get a job and find some other place to live? They must have dungeons in England.
Perhaps he could find one where the rent is low and settle in there.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (dFi94)

104 Who wouldn't want to see Istanbul?

Well, I'm sure someone will be a contrary asshole and say not them.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (F26eZ)

105 88 Yeah? I'm currently working on digesting a burrito.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

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I could turn that into a 500+ page treatise on cultural appropriation.

I'm halfway through my first draft already.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (8o3AL)

106 85 I feel awfully uncomfortable and out of place in a big city, like I'm deep in enemy territory. I don't mean I'm surrounded by enemies, only that its so alien and oppressive feeling. I'm just not a city boy, as much as I love places like Seattle and San Diego.

I'm not made for the city.

yeah, feel that way often myself, unfortunately career keeps me tied to big cites

Posted by: brak at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (MJuTN)

107 YAAY! I'm famous!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:31 PM

Beth! How you doin'?

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (bzd8I)

108 Sock off

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (oKE6c)

109 Looks like what's his name?-The guy who resembles Pajama Boy and is an American blogger. people made fun of last week

My 74 year old English working class BIL who used to0 play professional soccer and then worked non stop until he retired in his 50s would laugh at him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (frf5f)

110 I miss the old days when people had the dignity to shut the fuck up and die quietly on the inside in their unfulfilling lives.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy, Now Extra Crusty at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (dSuDi)

111 *This* is why we need driverless cars!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (NOIQH)

112 88 Yeah? I'm currently working on digesting a burrito.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

You can learn more about life from that burrito than from this preening, self-inflated four-eyed fool.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (p4UlV)

113 Little Twinkie Indeed. He's Pajama Boy's British Soul Mate. He should go home and tell mum and dad that they are living in hell. See how far that gets him--probably out the front door on his little behind.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (Sda6L)

114 >>I miss the old days when people had the dignity to shut the fuck up and die quietly on the inside in their unfulfilling lives.

Threadwinner

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:37 PM (NOIQH)

115 "All signed into law by Crispy Creme who doesn't give a shit because when it hits the fan he's going to be long gone."

At least Donut Boy can drop the pose of being fiscally responsible, now that he's not trying to gull Republican presidential primary voters any longer.

It must be a huge relief for him.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2016 03:37 PM (noWW6)

116 Not even butch enough to be a 'brony.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 03:37 PM (OkKDg)

117 Deep Thoughts

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at June 28, 2016 03:37 PM (wmxwV)

118 102 English, Aussies, it's all the same...

Essex, that's an English name, it identifies as English.

LOL.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (PiuBB)

David Essex, "Rock On."
The Essex, "Easier Said Than Done."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (p4UlV)

119 I think that's one of the funniest things I've ever read! Thanks Ace. P.S. Someone talk that poor man down from the ledge.

Does yelling "JUMP!" count?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (4WhSY)

120 He's the kind of guy you want to have around when 'it' goes down.

Posted by: Weasel at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (Sfs6o)

121 Sheppy sez at least 40 people have been wounded in the Istanbul airport.

He'll be going off on a rant about scary guns any minute.

Seriously, prayers for the injured.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (1ZOkK)

122 small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom

When I first read that line my immediate reaction was, "This guy speaks from experience. He probably had his underwear yanked up over his head so often as a child that he never bothered arguing the point when people called him 'Buttface.'"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (4df7R)

123 I think Shep has come twice in his pants

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (zp+j1)

124 I'd like to take that fucker into the Korangal Valley and see what he thinks of that.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (O0lVq)

125 >> He's the kind of guy you want to have around when 'it' goes down.
Posted by: Weasel

I'm sure he can blow it back up for you.

Posted by: Aviator at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (c7vUv)

126 120 He's the kind of guy you want to have around when 'it' goes down.
Posted by: Weasel at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (Sfs6o)

Yes, he can be offered as a hostage with a clear conscience.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (vP09u)

127 Gee they must hate gays in Turkey to have done this

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (zp+j1)

128 123 I think Shep has come twice in his pants
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (zp+j1)

Shep has overcome, to-day . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (p4UlV)

129
I'm not made for the city.

-----

Glenn Frey says otherwise

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (wmxwV)

130 He has a future as a dancing boy for the Taliban. A little old, perhaps, but swishy enough.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (1ZOkK)

131
Please complete the following sentence from Tom Whyman's "Hell Is Other Britons":

"I want a demented, throbbing, fecund ________"

a: "Manlolly"
b: "Handbrake"
c: "Dingus"
d: "Nature"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (kdS6q)

132 I prefer the Frankfurter school. Mmmmmm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (IqV8l)

133 Who wouldn't want to see Istanbul?

I'd rather see Constantinople, if it's all the same.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (9krrF)

134 127 Gee they must hate gays in Turkey to have done this
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (zp+j1)

"Midnight Express." Billy Hayes v. Rifkie the warden.

Be there. Gule, gule.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (p4UlV)

135 Do you feel that cities represent the worst in humanity like he feels about his small town?

Nah, its me, not the city. I feel out of place because of who I am. They're just folks. Dumb, largely helpless folks, like cows, but not bad people.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (39g3+)

136 @101

It's just a cash grab to fund more crap.

And wait till the knock on effects start to ripple through.

I suppose they think businesses will just absorb fuel increases and I guess the towns and municipalities are expempt so official vehicles don't have to incur these added costs and pass them on to taxpayers?

Stupid POSs.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (cemxO)

137 Honestly- is he even worthy of a effeminate slap to the face.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (O0lVq)

138 Who wouldn't want to see Istanbul?
Well, I'm sure someone will be a contrary asshole and say not them.

Honestly I'd rather see Constantinople.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (4WhSY)

139 88 Yeah? I'm currently working on digesting a burrito.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

=======================

I could turn that into a 500+ page treatise on cultural appropriation.

I'm halfway through my first draft already.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (8o3AL)
.................

Please let us know how it comes out.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (HgMAr)

140 >>Glenn Frey says otherwise

Foghat.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (/tuJf)

141 Part time philosophy teacher, longs for a day when nature retakes control away from humans.

Who will wipe his fanny then? Let alone give his hair that mussed look the bears who abuse him love so much.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (TOk1P)

142 98 No, it's actually an interesting novel. It's just that it's taught incorrectly.

It's not a story about alienation or disaffection or any of that bullshit.

It's a story of grief. Holden isn't a heroic figure in the slightest sense. He's his own antagonist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 03:34 PM (p2X2f)

==================

I read it independently (my high school skipped it for whatever reason).

I read none of that in there. If Salinger wanted to impart that idea then I think he chose the wrong character to do it with, and, if high schools all over the place are teaching it incorrectly, with guides to help, then I think that fact may show how successful Salinger was at conveying it. Not that I think high school English teachers are particularly insightful, just that if they are following rubrics and guides on the meaning of the novel, and they're still getting it wrong, then the author hid his meaning so thoroughly that even those going over it in some depth year after year can't catch it. I wouldn't call that a success.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (8o3AL)

143 I prefer the Frankfurter school. Mmmmmm.

Just so long as it's not the Frankenfurter School. I'm told it's...odd.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (9krrF)

144 He probably had his underwear yanked up over his head so often as a child that he never bothered arguing the point when people called him 'Buttface.'

This guy got routine wedgies so bad he memorized the tag on the back of his undies

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (39g3+)

145 Shep reporting 2 suspects blew themselves up in the airport.

Damned Protestants.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (1ZOkK)

146 Oh, LOL - look what else dude has written:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zfashvs

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (NOIQH)

147
I visited Istanbul just weeks after the Mavi Marmara incident. The food and sights were incredible. But there was a very palpable feeling of Joo/Israel/America hatred in the air.

Sad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (p4UlV)

148 I just vacuumed the bathroom manlier than this guys whole year.

Posted by: DaveA at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (8J/Te)

149
Hmm. Explosions and gunfire in Ataturk Airport.

Posted by: iforgot at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (pC96u)

150 Shep is trying to figure out where the "blow" happened? Well if yo've gotten on blow, they rest are all the same I guess

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (zp+j1)

151 Beth! How you doin'?

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider at June 28, 2016 03:36 PM (bzd8I)
FSS! Oh, how I've missed you!
Well, not really. I mean sorta. But... you know what I mean.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (4df7R)

152 Foghat?

No

Miami Vice.

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (wmxwV)

153 120 He's the kind of guy you want to have around when 'it' goes down.
Posted by: Weasel at June 28, 2016 03:38 PM (Sfs6o)

==================

Are we resorting to cannibalism so early?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (8o3AL)

154 139
88 Yeah? I'm currently working on digesting a burrito.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

=======================

I could turn that into a 500+ page treatise on cultural appropriation.

I'm halfway through my first draft already.

Posted by: The Twerp at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (8o3AL)

.................

Please let us know how it comes out.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (HgMAr)

After digesting a burrito? I expect shitty.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (4df7R)

155 I read it independently (my high school skipped it for whatever reason).

I read none of that in there.

It's a literary troll. I have to imagine he privately laughs his ass off about it on a regular basis.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (9krrF)

156 I hope he stabs himself with a knitting needle.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (O0lVq)

157 50--- Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

Scientologists gettin' frisky again?
Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 03:26 PM
----------------------
Ja wohl!
Scientologists!
That is why we ban them in Deutschland.
We believe in freedom of religion (of course) but we make an exception for this very dangerous sect.
And home-schooling Baptists.
Very dangerous.

Posted by: Frau Merkel at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (T/5A0)

158 Huh. Never saw this eventually happening.

The two suspects blew themselves up outside security.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (1ZOkK)

159 135 Nah, its me, not the city. I feel out of place because of who I am. They're just folks. Dumb, largely helpless folks, like cows, but not bad people.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:40 PM (39g3+)

=================

That sounds like the attitude of a healthy adult.

Weird, that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (8o3AL)

160 Just so long as it's not the Frankenfurter School. I'm told it's...odd.

I'm just a sweet transvestite.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (1xUj/)

161 Yes, he can be offered as a hostage with a clear conscience.
Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at June 28, 2016 03:39 PM (vP09u)

Yeah, he seems kind of skinny for a human shield.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (3ZoRf)

162 There were no gender neutral bathrooms in the Turkey airport. There's your problem.

Posted by: brak at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (MJuTN)

163 "I'm also trying to develop a post-doctoral research project about how the Frankfurt School could benefit from adopting a neo-Fichtean theory of freedom."

This guy can't be for real. Somebody is putting us on. If I wanted to write something to make it look like I was a pathetic loser I would write something like tis.

Posted by: freaked at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (KvWlw)

164 If there is no one around to drive a car when it is running , does the motor make a sound?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (nFitA)

165 This guy almost makes Paul Ryan and the Turtle look manly, almost.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (6Ll1u)

166 The Brexit vote is much like me Mom's Shepherds Pie, sure it warm and tasty but inside is a heaping helping of racism marinated in hatred, and lumpy potatoes. When I tell her these things she says things like "I'm sorry, Tom" or "Can I mash those up better for ya?". It's a living Hell.

Posted by: TOM WHYMAN, Philsopher at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (4e+hS)

167 As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly...

... without getting blown up.

Posted by: Arthur Carlson at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (H9MG5)

168 We hordlings have been saying for a while that eventually terrorists would commit an act OUTSIDE security.

"Shocking" that it's happened in Istanbul.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (1ZOkK)

169 147
I visited Istanbul just weeks after the Mavi Marmara incident. The food and sights were incredible. But there was a very palpable feeling of Joo/Israel/America hatred in the air.

Sad.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (p4UlV)

FFS you had 2 of the 3 down, you like living dangerously?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (voOPb)

170 "I want a demented, throbbing, fecund ________"

a: "Manlolly"
b: "Handbrake"
c: "Dingus"
d: "Nature"
.............

e: warped shplib up me bunghole

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (HgMAr)

171 Oh, LOL - look what else dude has written:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zfashvs

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (NOIQH)
==========================================

That can't be serious, can it ??

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (dFi94)

172 158 Huh. Never saw this eventually happening.
The two suspects blew themselves up outside security.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (1ZOkK)

Love trumps hate.

Of course, security trumps love, so there's that.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (oKE6c)

173 Forget it, Whyman. It's Alresford.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (OkKDg)

174 155 155 I read it independently (my high school skipped it for whatever reason).

I read none of that in there.

It's a literary troll. I have to imagine he privately laughs his ass off about it on a regular basis.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM (9krrF)

========================

Perhaps...but I could just barely get through it.

I hated Holden so much, not in a "This character is really interesting but I find him extricable" way (a la. Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood), but in a "This is a really annoying kid who knows nothing and that's all there is in this book" sort of way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (8o3AL)

175 owing rubrics and guides on the meaning of the novel, and they're still getting it wrong, then the author hid his meaning so thoroughly that even those going over it in some depth year after year can't catch it. I wouldn't call that a success.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison a

It's not hidden at all. It's in the first 12 pages.

Holden is speaking to a counselor. The reason isn't hidden either. His older brother died. It's as explicit as any author can make it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (p2X2f)

176 >>The Brexit vote is much like me Mom's Shepherds Pie, sure it warm and
tasty but inside is a heaping helping of racism marinated in hatred, and
lumpy potatoes. When I tell her these things she says things like "I'm
sorry, Tom" or "Can I mash those up better for ya?". It's a living Hell.

But what about the fascist cupcakes, Tom!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (NOIQH)

177 Who wouldn't want to see Istanbul?

Well, I'm sure someone will be a contrary asshole and say not them.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:35 PM (F26eZ)

I'm reading up, so I have no idea the context of this question, but is there any particular reason why I SHOULD want to see Istanbul?

Over, say, anywhere that isn't full of swarthy Turks?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2016 03:46 PM (TOk1P)

178 "I feel awfully uncomfortable and out of place in a big city, like I'm
deep in enemy territory. I don't mean I'm surrounded by enemies, only
that its so alien and oppressive feeling."

My reaction in big cities is, "Damn, there are a whole lot of people here with very little margin for error on the supplies of food, water, medicine, and power. And not enough law enforcement to keep basic order in a heavy situation."

It's a disconcerting thing to reflect on. The big city dwellers themselves don't realize what a tightrope they're walking.

Norbert Weiner, who coined the term "cybernetics" back in the day, and made major contributions to feedback control and stability in complex systems, got a tour one day of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. He became physically ill afterward, thinking analytically about what would happen in L.A. if all of that complicated choreographed technological effort were one day to stop working.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2016 03:46 PM (noWW6)

179 If there is no one around to drive a car when it is running , does the motor make a sound?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 03:44 PM (nFitA)
................

Depends. Is it a Prius?

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:46 PM (HgMAr)

180 This fuckin shep is just babbling on...about the domestic air traffic in Turkey? Jesus Christ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:46 PM (zp+j1)

181 His writing is like something Godfrey Elfwick would write. You know, if he wrote full length troll articles.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (F26eZ)

182 FSS! Oh, how I've missed you!
Well, not really. I mean sorta. But... you know what I mean.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:42 PM

I've been hanging with Paolo. I winter in a modest, but well-appointed bunch of bananas in Rio.

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (bzd8I)

183 He has a very punchable face.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (LWWrf)

184 I'd love to see Istanbul and Egypt, etc just for the history and the food and such. And for the most part, folks are just folks, whatever the politics, so if you're decent you often can get along with most anyone. Problem is, it only takes one uulating lunatic to ruin your whole trip.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (39g3+)

185 171
Oh, LOL - look what else dude has written:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zfashvs

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (NOIQH)

If I had given birth to that mincing ponce, I'd kill myself.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (1ZOkK)

186 Oh, LOL - look what else dude has written:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zfashvs

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (NOIQH)
=======================================

This guy is comparing the eating of cupcakes to fascism and gentrification. He can't be real.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (dFi94)

187
Hi everyone,

Ive had a lot of positive feedback from this blog post earlier today. Sorry if you wanted to read it either again or for the first time: Ive had to take it down because of an exciting publication opportunity look out for it in a much more famous publication coming soon!

Sorry for selling out,

Tom.

UPDATE: An edited version of the original post is now available from the New York Times.

infinitelyfullofhope.wordpress.com

The NYT now just publishing live journal posts on their front page.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (kdS6q)

188 176 >>The Brexit vote is much like me Mom's Shepherds Pie, sure it warm and
tasty but inside is a heaping helping of racism marinated in hatred, and
lumpy potatoes. When I tell her these things she says things like "I'm
sorry, Tom" or "Can I mash those up better for ya?". It's a living Hell.

But what about the fascist cupcakes, Tom!?!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (NOIQH)

Also sounds like an ungrateful jackass. He is like a caricature. I am not sure someone could make someone up who was more our stereotype of the left.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (3ZoRf)

189 169 FFS you had 2 of the 3 down, you like living dangerously?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2016 03:45 PM (voOPb)

I have a swarthy look. It's when I open my mouth that the cat's out of the bag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (p4UlV)

190 Shemp is going into great detail to explain that bombs the are set off outside security could happen anywhere.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (/tuJf)

191 10 dead

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (zp+j1)

192 Sheppy explains to us what airport security is for.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (1ZOkK)

193 I just sent a link to my BIL and sister. At 27 my BIL had been out of his parents house for some time and was supporting himself playing soccer. I wonder what his reaction will be.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (frf5f)

194 184 I'd love to see Istanbul and Egypt, etc just for the history and the food and such. And for the most part, folks are just folks, whatever the politics, so if you're decent you often can get along with most anyone. Problem is, it only takes one uulating lunatic to ruin your whole trip.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (39g3+)

I've been to Egypt, and it was wonderful. Having said that, I wouldn't go now; the radical Muzzies make a point of targeting Western tourists to shut off tourist dollars.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (oKE6c)

195 Shemp is going into great detail to explain that bombs the are set off outside security could happen anywhere.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (/tuJf)

Outside Security at Ben Gurion means on the highway away from the Airport

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (zp+j1)

196 What a ponce. Not Beth, the poofter from Essex.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (0mRoj)

197 Dow up 253 or so...does that mean the EU is winning.

Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (HQP2c)

198 So, how long before the Mossad gets the blame?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (p4UlV)

199 The NYT now just publishing live journal posts on their front page.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (kdS6q)
Wordpress? I could have SWORN they took it off one of the more histrionic feeds on Tumblr.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (4df7R)

200 I'm reading up, so I have no idea the context of this question, but is there any particular reason why I SHOULD want to see Istanbul?

Over, say, anywhere that isn't full of swarthy Turks?

Look at a map. Geography hasn't changed. For millenia the way you got from Up There on the Left where cool people are to Down There on the Right where good stuff is was to go through Istanbul.

That's centuries and centuries of history, which is interesting to some people.

To others, I guess, it's not worth putting up with swarthy people.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (1xUj/)

201 To mark the passing of David Thatcher, Doolittle Raider; here from the last official reunion in 2013 is a picture I took of the goblets and the bottle of 1898 cognac. This was taken inside the USAF Armaments Museum at Eglin, to the right can be seen an F-105D Thunderchief.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/h8ueoly

In November 2013; Ed Saylor, Richard Cole, and David Thatcher opened that bottle of cognac, made in the year James Doolittle was born, at Wright Patterson AFB.

There is only upright goblet in that case now, Richard Cole's since he is the last living Doolittle Raider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (C6duO)

202 Tom? That could get a bit confusing, mind he we call him Bruce?

Posted by: Chicago Vota at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (AQpnq)

203 >>His writing is like something Godfrey Elfwick would write. You know, if he wrote full length troll articles.

Except that Elfwick is entertaining!
This isn't even good satire...if it were satire. Dude is obsessed w/cupcakes and M and Ms as metaphors....

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (NOIQH)

204 Well, I seriously hope none of my idiot in-laws are over there.

They LOVE visiting Muslim countries, and then coming back and lecturing us about how peaceful they are.

Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, is a favorite of the life coach and her spawn.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (1ZOkK)

205

It's a disconcerting thing to reflect on. The big city dwellers themselves don't realize what a tightrope they're walking

----

There's a psychology to it that helps it work. People have been living in cities for millennia after all. Not about to say it's better or something, it just is.

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (wmxwV)

206 196
What a ponce. Not Beth, the poofter from Essex.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (0mRoj)

Thank you for clarifying.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (4df7R)

207 Toonces had better hair and reasoning abilities.

Posted by: Cheri at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (oiNtH)

208 Ooh, a PhD in Philosophy. Color me shocked.

Soon to be asking "you want chips with that, mate?"

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (0mRoj)

209 RE: Catcher in the Rye, its my experience as an author that people get out of books what's inside them. They don't read your intended meaning very often nearly as much as what they presuppose and think of life, laid over the book like a template.

So yeah, college professors and high school lit teachers are gonna see what they see.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (39g3+)

210 >>I've been to Egypt, and it was wonderful. Having said that, I wouldn't go now; the radical Muzzies make a point of targeting Western tourists to shut off tourist dollars.

Ditto. Last time I was there was about a year and half before things went pear shaped. My hotel was in Heliopolis in a nice section and even still the armed guards did not want me leaving the grounds after dark.

I remember one of them said to me "The beards hate us, what do you think they think of you?". I stayed on the grounds.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (/tuJf)

211 201 Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (C6duO)

The parallel and metaphor for this nation then and now is striking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (p4UlV)

212
Cats must be fed.

BBS.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (p4UlV)

213
I've been hanging with Paolo. I winter in a modest, but well-appointed bunch of bananas in Rio.

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider at June 28, 2016 03:47 PM (bzd8I)

Yeah? Are you planning to go to the Olympics? Or are you worried the Zika mosquitoes won't provide you with enough sustenance?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (4df7R)

214 I saw the sun set today over the glade above me home, birds were singing and the flowers were
all the colors of the rainbow, a rainbow constructed of fear, intolerance, and oily
fish and chips, and a lumpy mattress.

Posted by: TOM WHYMAN, Philsopher at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (4e+hS)

215 Sheppy explains to us what airport security is for.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

It's for getting a groin pat-down from the butch TSA guys. I thought everyone knew that.

Posted by: Shemp Smith at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (lDrRt)

216 206 196
What a ponce. Not Beth, the poofter from Essex.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (0mRoj)

Thank you for clarifying.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (4df7R)

Unlike a certain JEF, I actually can be perfectly clear.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (0mRoj)

217 'Catcher in the Rye" ? Thats about a gay Jewish guy right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (zp+j1)

218 Now that was a funny link.

Posted by: SH at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (gmeXX)

219
Tom Whyman HealthUntoDeath

a quantitative majority of votes does not a democratic mandate make.

Yes it does. Which you would understand if you didn't have a Phd without a basic math requirement.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (kdS6q)

220 What little I know of philosophy can be summed up as follows:

Immanuel Kant was a real pissantWho was very rarely stable.Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggarWho could think you under the table.David Hume could out-consumeSchopenhauer and Hegel,And Wittgenstein was a beery swineWho was just as sloshed as Schlegel.There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya''Bout the raising of the wrist.SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.Plato, they say, could stick it away;Half a crate of whiskey every day.Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,Hobbes was fond of his dram,And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

Posted by: Chicago Vota at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (AQpnq)

221 Was this a parody?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (frf5f)

222 197 Dow up 253 or so...does that mean the EU is winning.
Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2016 03:49 PM (HQP2c)

====================

It means a bunch of people lost a bunch of money over the last few days based on very large bets that did not go their way. And now they're beginning to move beyond it.

I have a friend on FB from England who's gone all out depressed over #Leave winning, but he's an economic illiterate. He said that the UK will see a 2 year recession (um...depression, dude), and it will take 8 years to recover from it meaning that he's going to spend his entire adult life recovering from economic disaster. A couple of days later (today), he's come back rooting for the EU to hurt the UK.

It's unreal.

Thankfully I haven't spoken to the guy in 6 years so he doesn't expect my opinion, and I'll save him from my insight into British matters..

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (8o3AL)

223 Toonces had better hair and reasoning abilities.

Plus Toonces could drive.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (Z+McQ)

224 Toonces had better hair and reasoning abilities.

And, from reading the article, was at least as fine a driver.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (39g3+)

225 I've been hanging with Paolo. I winter in a modest, but well-appointed bunch of bananas in Rio.
Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider

Careful you don't get Zika, spidey!

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (kWQPe)

226 Shep is beyond thrilled he's back from vacation just in time for another terrorist attack.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:53 PM (1ZOkK)

227 Guys. Guys. Guys.

I've got it. If they're going to make these attacks just outside the lines that we're using to search for these kinds of things, let's just... move the lines further back in the process. So don't even let the people go in the door before we start the screening process.

But Joe, you say, "What stops them from then doing the attacks just outside the doors as well."

And I've thought of that as well. Because we want to be 2 steps ahead of them, we'll pre-emptively move the screening process for passengers even further back in the process. We will monitor every potential passenger at every point in their day. The attackers can't make the attack before they start being watched if they're always being watched. QED.

There. I solved the problem. Somebody give me all the money.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (KUaJL)

228 204 Well, I seriously hope none of my idiot in-laws are over there.
They LOVE visiting Muslim countries, and then coming back and lecturing us about how peaceful they are.
Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, is a favorite of the life coach and her spawn.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (1ZOkK)

I've been in a number of countries that were potentially hairy, but draw a distinction between places that are just generally hairy to everybody/anybody, and ones where the locals actively target people like me.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (oKE6c)

229 209 RE: Catcher in the Rye, its my experience as an author that people get out of books what's inside them. They don't read your intended meaning very often nearly as much as what they presuppose and think of life, laid over the book like a template.

So yeah, college professors and high school lit teachers are gonna see what they see.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:51 PM (39g3+)

======================

That depends on how effective you are at relaying your central themes and ideas.

It'd be hard to read The Lord of the Rings as a call for increased industrialization.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (8o3AL)

230 >156 I hope he stabs himself with a knitting needle.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 28, 2016 03:43 PM (O0lVq)

Now what the heck do you against knitting needles? They just mind their own business harming no one and yet you want one befouled with this silly twinkie's innards.

Posted by: all doubt removed at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (KWGc0)

231 I'm reading up, so I have no idea the context of this question, but is there any particular reason why I SHOULD want to see Istanbul?

Over, say, anywhere that isn't full of swarthy Turks?

---------------------------
Look at a map. Geography hasn't changed. For millenia the way you got from Up There on the Left where cool people are to Down There on the Right where good stuff is was to go through Istanbul.

That's centuries and centuries of history, which is interesting to some people.

To others, I guess, it's not worth putting up with swarthy people.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (1xUj/)

The world is at war at the moment. Maybe nobody told you.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (TOk1P)

232 18 . . . Hix, as gender is fluid. Or something)
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Please don't speak of gender fluids while my mind is still reeling from this twinkie's babble.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (txdEq)

233 Shep: "Was this a terrorist attack? Certainly people on-scene were terrorized."

*facepalm*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:55 PM (1ZOkK)

234
>>>So, how long before the Mossad gets the blame?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (p4UlV)<<<

And so soon after Israel and Turkey made a deal to normalize diplomatic relations with Turkey. Sneaky shapeshifters.

Posted by: lefties, the media, maniacal mohammedans, etc, etc at June 28, 2016 03:55 PM (H9MG5)

235 As I argued in my 2013 essay, the M and Ms store represented a new
development in the dialectic of capitalist reification: it utilises a
five-fold 'character-ontology' to more effectively reduce all things and
qualities in the world to itself. Since an M and M is, of course, a
capitalist product, this means that all things will, in turn, have been
rendered into money and thus made exchangeable and fungible. In my essay
I wrote as if the transformation of all things into M and Ms, a process
kickstarted by the M and Ms store, was pretty much an inevitably.....

It's a relief knowing no one has to sit next to this guy on Thanksgiving - can you imagine him going off on the pumpkin pie!?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:55 PM (NOIQH)

236 Shep has not stopped talking in 30 minutes and has not taken a breath? Must be all that experieince he has giving blow jobs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (zp+j1)

237 meaning that he's going to spend his entire adult life recovering from economic disaster

----

Did that.

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (wmxwV)

238
It'd be hard to read The Lord of the Rings as a call for increased industrialization.

Yeah some books you have to try really hard with. Those books tend to be ones that the very indoctrinaire do not care for.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)

239 Bomity bomb thread up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (p2X2f)

240 235 It's a relief knowing no one has to sit next to this guy on Thanksgiving - can you imagine him going off on the pumpkin pie!?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:55 PM (NOIQH)

======================

I want his opinion on how limited resources is racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (8o3AL)

241 Unlike a certain JEF, I actually can be perfectly clear.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (0mRoj)
Only because we let you be clear.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (oKE6c)

242 There is only upright goblet in that case now, Richard Cole's since he is the last living Doolittle Raider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 03:50 PM (C6duO)
YouTube has several videos of the last survivors. It makes you think of what they did, actually brings tears to my eyes watching the videos.

Posted by: Colin at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (HQP2c)

243 233 Shep: "Was this a terrorist attack? Certainly people on-scene were terrorized."

*facepalm*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 28, 2016 03:55 PM (1ZOkK)

*Hands Shep a tissue*

You have a little verbal diarrhea on your face there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2016 03:57 PM (3ZoRf)

244 Anybody else notice how often J.J. feeds those cats? It's like once a day whether they need it or not.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:57 PM (HgMAr)

245
Tom Whyman HealthUntoDeath May 2

Read Hegel -- shithead

Real tough guy, wot?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 28, 2016 03:57 PM (kdS6q)

246 The world being at war has nothing to do with a place I may want to visit, BurtTC.

I want to see Tunis, too, but the realities of the situation mean I can't. Doesn't mean I don't want to. Just like Istanbul.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (F26eZ)

247 Bored, empty and unlaid is no way to go through life son.

Posted by: Things Churchill might have said at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (xudgf)

248 Brits have a traditional fondness for kippers. They're already getting to where they themselves are packed in like canned ones. And the Brit left won't realize or agree that this has inevitable consequences. Instead they engage in fantasy tantrums like the one above about reverting the country to raw nature.
Posted by: torquewrench
............
It has always amazed me when looking at pics of brit towns and housing how god awful small and pitiful they are.. whilst there is green open land everywhere!

This is how the American left wants us to live.. all huddled together being miserable.. the Brits may like that, actually.. but don't ask an American to live like that!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (UpGcq)

249 Having this young......whatever ........I can only think of one thing:. Please hurry up and kill yourself and spare the rest of us.

Oh, and I bet he has a degree in gender studies.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (JQc53)

250 There. I solved the problem. Somebody give me all the money.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 28, 2016 03:54 PM (KUaJL)

I like it!

But... what are we to do about the terrorists who have not yet been conceived? We can stop 'em from fornicating with goats, but we can't stop them from hopping under the tents of their wimminfolk.

Nobody has that many bomb detection wand-wielding TSA agents.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (TOk1P)

251 had some filthy hippie scrunt 60's leftover knocks on my door for donations to the abolishment of citizens united and a bunch of of other related shit. hillary skank. told her to get the eff off my porch or i would have her arrested for vagrancy. that, and the goat roper that called and said my microsoft computer was infected, really was a topper to my day so far. i have not turned on anything microsoft for over ten years.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (ucDmr)

252 Yeah? Are you planning to go to the Olympics? Or are you worried the Zika mosquitoes won't provide you with enough sustenance?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM

I'm back for the summer. Those zika mosquitoes taste funny. Give me the New England variety any day. And the Olympics? In Brazil? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're funny, Beth.

Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider at June 28, 2016 03:59 PM (bzd8I)

253 238 Yeah some books you have to try really hard with. Those books tend to be ones that the very indoctrinaire do not care for.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)
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I'm just saying that as an author, it's your job to figure out what you want to accomplish with your work (let's focus on the idea of theme being the central driving force), and everything, either directly or indirectly, that is in the novel needs to flow from that and be in service to it. Otherwise it's fat and should get cut.

I just don't think, based on my one reading of Catcher in the Rye from a decade ago, that Salinger manages to accomplish that. Instead he takes us on a journey that doesn't serve his central idea (assuming that it has to do with his grief). Maybe I need to reread it, but that was my original feeling on the book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 03:59 PM (8o3AL)

254 I am not concerned with swarthy people. I am concerned with splodey, shooty, stabbie, people.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at June 28, 2016 04:01 PM (gmjUl)

255 The world being at war has nothing to do with a place I may want to visit, BurtTC.

I want to see Tunis, too, but the realities of the situation mean I can't. Doesn't mean I don't want to. Just like Istanbul.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 03:58 PM (F26eZ)

That's fine. They say france is nice too... but as long as it's full of french people, you can keep it.

Same with Chicago. Lovely city. Too bad it's full of Chicagoans.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2016 04:01 PM (TOk1P)

256 61 . . .
I hate the fact that A Catcher in the Rye is considered a classic.

It's dull and has nothing of particular insight or interest to say.

It's the equivalent of the blank canvass in an art gallery that sells for $10,000.
*
*
I got very tired of Holden and his eternal complaints about "phoniness" in the first 20 pages. If you look at the novel as a study of mental illness, it comes off much better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 28, 2016 04:01 PM (txdEq)

257 Well you're in luck, Burt, Paris should be done transitioning shortly.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 28, 2016 04:02 PM (F26eZ)

258 251
I had a cute young hippie chick give me a brochure titled "No Bees, No Food!" so I tried to lure her indoors with a bottle of Budweiser.

Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 04:02 PM (HgMAr)

259 256 I got very tired of Holden and his eternal complaints about "phoniness" in the first 20 pages. If you look at the novel as a study of mental illness, it comes off much better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 28, 2016 04:01 PM (txdEq)

========================

Much like how I view Star Trek Into Darkness as a comedy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 04:02 PM (8o3AL)

260 This just proves we need hand gun control. It's crazy we can just walk into a store and get hand grenades easier than a license.

Posted by: Steve Kerr, Constitutional expert at June 28, 2016 04:03 PM (H9MG5)

261 You kind of have to have gone to a prep school, with all their hifalutin baloney, to get "Catcher" and the phonies thing. But the problem is that Holden is unsentimental about other people at the same time that he is horribly sentimental about himself.

Posted by: Caliban at June 28, 2016 04:03 PM (DrC22)

262 meant *hand grenade control* not hand gun control

Posted by: Steve Kerr, Constitutional expert at June 28, 2016 04:04 PM (H9MG5)

263 I had a cute young hippie chick give me a brochure titled "No Bees, No Food!" so I tried to lure her indoors with a bottle of Budweiser.

Should have used mead

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 04:04 PM (39g3+)

264 261 You kind of have to have gone to a prep school, with all their hifalutin baloney, to get "Catcher" and the phonies thing. But the problem is that Holden is unsentimental about other people at the same time that he is horribly sentimental about himself.
Posted by: Caliban at June 28, 2016 04:03 PM (DrC22)

======================

I can see that disparity being interesting, but Holden just comes off as annoying.

I think my problem is the fact that Holden is the point of view character. Everything filtered through him is just...off putting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 04:05 PM (8o3AL)

265 217 'Catcher in the Rye" ? Thats about a gay Jewish guy right?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 03:52 PM (zp+j1)

No that's Catcher in the Pastrami on Rye.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 04:05 PM (p4UlV)

266 146 Oh, LOL - look what else dude has written:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zfashvs

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 03:41 PM (NOIQH)

Great.

. Now I want cupcakes. Nice chocolatey, creamy, sugary, delicious, fascist cup cakes.

Where's the nearest alt-right bakery?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at June 28, 2016 04:06 PM (WVsWD)

267 244 Anybody else notice how often J.J. feeds those cats? It's like once a day whether they need it or not.
Posted by: wth at June 28, 2016 03:57 PM (HgMAr)

If you are taking note of that, then you need a hobby, pal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 04:06 PM (p4UlV)

268 This homonoid Tommy Whineman, is a pussy.

Where was his dad when he needed his ass kicked (with love, of course)?

Even better, all his "study" revolves around socialism, the Frankfort School, and Marxism.

Hope some good Englishman has him, errr, blah blah mumble nevermind.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2016 04:07 PM (kKHcp)

269 >>>I think my problem is the fact that Holden is the point of view character. Everything filtered through him is just...off putting. Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 04:05 PM (8o3AL)

Hi, Founding Father. If I'm not mistaken, I'm agreeing with you.

Posted by: Caliban at June 28, 2016 04:07 PM (DrC22)

270 I used to get terrifying she-beats lurching up the steps to the door here. These were girls that made Trigglypuff look positively radiant. It was difficult to see if they were actually human through the fumes of body odor and hair growing in odd clumps where God never intended.

I'm not exaggerating.

Lately its been upbeat, chirpy girls. I hope none of them get hurt. The she beasts were off putting but had natural defenses.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)

271 >>Where's the nearest alt-right bakery?

Or maybe the closest Dunkin Donuts?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 04:09 PM (NOIQH)

272 "Or maybe the closest Dunkin Donuts?"

Nope. They don't sell fascist cup cakes.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at June 28, 2016 04:10 PM (WVsWD)

273 271
>>Where's the nearest alt-right bakery?

Or maybe the closest Dunkin Donuts?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 04:09 PM (NOIQH)
Krispy Kreme?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 28, 2016 04:11 PM (jxbfJ)

274 269 Hi, Founding Father. If I'm not mistaken, I'm agreeing with you.
Posted by: Caliban at June 28, 2016 04:07 PM (DrC22)

===================

Coolio...just explaining what I think of it.

Jefferson hates Holden too (because I wrote the first draft of the opinion and he signed off on it).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 04:12 PM (8o3AL)

275 Krispy Kreme?

I can be there in 10 minutes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2016 04:14 PM (4WhSY)

276 273 Krispy Kreme?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 28, 2016 04:11 PM (jxbfJ)

================

Little known fact:

The true name of Krispy Kreme?

Krispy Kreme Kreations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 28, 2016 04:14 PM (8o3AL)

277 a man of simple, champion ilk once said

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

God bless crystal clear thinkers like this dolt (jk)
None other than Yogi Berra, RIP

Posted by: micky at June 28, 2016 04:21 PM (o5vMc)

278 Once his parents are dead, Britain will fall.
They should throw him out in the streets...maybe he could get the pair to drop?

Posted by: Paladin at June 28, 2016 04:22 PM (+Wvn3)

279 So, I should have known--the contractor who has acted the most confident (since they realized they would have to not treat me like a Palace Acquire), who most acted like he has some secret ace in the hole, is the one with the Hillary for President sign on his desk.

I'm sure he thinks his buddies will take care of me. And maybe they will, but I hope the service takes care of him. It's the thought that counts.

Posted by: The hunter becomes the hunted at June 28, 2016 04:38 PM (ORlaL)

280 He looks like Harry Potter after being drunk all night.

Of course, his area of research is the Frankfurt School.

Posted by: PJ at June 28, 2016 05:12 PM (cHuNI)

281 Opens comments...
ctrl-F 'poofter'.
1 of 5
Leaves satisfied.

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at June 28, 2016 05:49 PM (bS9YT)

282 Does anyone think this Pajama Boy alike could earn anything close to a living with his bullshit? I don't. Just look in any newspaper help wanted section. Do you see any employers looking for him? No? Me either. I think his mommy is going to have this putrid little tit sucker hanging off of her for the rest of her life. Jeez mommy, at least get the little puke a decent haircut.

Posted by: Bully at June 28, 2016 06:54 PM (6NjvM)

283 He's a Marxist, naturally.

Marx knew how to care for the environment. Just ask the little furry animals living near Chernobyl...

Posted by: WarEagle82 at June 28, 2016 10:17 PM (LHa1m)

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