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Thursday Overnight Open Thread (3/23/17) Thirsty Thursday Edition
What goes with beer? Today's national day, National Chip and Dip Day. Thirsty? Hungry? There is still time for a Beer Run. Don't forget the chips. Quotes of The Day Quote I
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. H. L. MenckenQuote II
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. Robert A. Heinlein
Quote III
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow WilsonThink about that one.
Just getting by with a $500,000 annual salary. Why rich people can't escape the rat race.
$500,000 a year is a level which I think is considered rich. Anybody who thinks otherwise has no concept of financial reality. Even the government almost agrees after compromising by raising the income level for when the highest marginal tax bracket kicks in to ~$400,000 from $200,000. Although making $500,000 a year may sound like a Herculean task, you’ll be surprised to know there are plenty of regular folks who hit the half million mark every year. This article will discuss why many folks who earn a large income won’t be retiring any time soon. h/t Maggies Farm
Illinois, Land of Lincoln, home of the Chicago Cubs and TFG's adopted home state. Illinois has let the JEF down. No state holiday celebrating his birthday. Boo-F*cking-Hoo.
A recent study claims that: Gun violence costs Americans $6 Billion over the past 10 years.
Looking at a database of hospital inpatient records, researchers at Stanford University Medical Center found that more than 250,000 patients were admitted for gunshot injuries from 2006 through 2014, according to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Adjusting for inflation, the costs of these hospitalizations totaled $6.61 billion, an average of $734 million per year. The bulk of these costs, 40 percent, was paid through government insurance coverage under Medicare and Medicaid.
Let's look at the other side of the coin. Annual Defensive Gun Use Savings Dwarf Study’s “Gun Violence” Costs.
According to the AZ state government, in February of 2008 a human life was worth $6.5 million. Going to the Inflation Calculator and punching in the numbers gives us a present value of $6.93 million. So figuring that the average DGU saves one half of a person’s life—as “gun violence” predominantly affects younger demographics—that gives us $3.465 million per half life. Putting this all together, we find that the monetary benefit of guns (by way of DGUs) is roughly $1.02 trillion per year. That’s trillion. With a ‘T’.
Tonight's shake your head story. The University of Arizona contributes to the delinquency of adults.
The guidelines offer "Strategies for Engaging Students," which include the "One Diva, One Mic" rule and allowing 20-year-olds to yell "ouch" and "oops" in class. "Creating a safe space for students for engaging in dialogue about challenging topics is vital in promoting positive intergroup interactions," wrote Jesús Treviño, the author of the guide and vice provost for "inclusive excellence" at the university.
Hey U of AZ grad, as a prospective employer, why the f*ck should I hire you? Oh, I don't have to with this handy-dandy Special Snowflake Test. Maybe the AZ grads can head to London. Peaceful gestures do not create safe spaces.
As the last life-blood of a police officer ran out across the cobbles, the attacker was being stretchered away in an attempt to save his life.There are a few Morons here who claim they are Grammar Nazis. The case of the $10 million comma. Extra apostrophes are still free.
London is a city so desperate to be seen as tolerant, no news of the injured was released. No clue about who was safe or not.
Liberals convince themselves multiculturalism works because we all die together, too.
An entire city of monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Blind. Deaf. And dumb
Portland-based company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $10 million to 75 milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma in a legal clause. The Conversation Last week, Judge David J. Barron upheld an appeal in a class-action lawsuit, opening his opinion with: “For want of a comma, we have this case.
Jesse Jackson, Jr. is
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Wheel of Fortune
Working at the AoSHQ has its perks. You get to meet wonderful people. Ace personally signs your paycheck. And bestest of all? The kick ass dental plan.Unfortunately us Cobs have to travel for our dental work.
There are only two drugs used in the clinic: dental cement and Lidocaine. Clinic is in ruined conditions, which she witnessed as the cement was falling out of the walls, but the regional health care can’t afford to repair right now.
The ONT ventures that everyone here tonight knows or has known someone afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. A new genetic test can predict the age a person is likely to develop Alzheimer's and calculate a person's risk of developing the disease in a particular year, according to a study published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine.
There's currently no treatment for Alzheimer's, but experts believe that when one is found, it will have to be administered very early on, the Telegraph reports. This new test could help doctors identify patients for treatment before it's too late. But one expert not involved in the study says genetics is only one part of determining Alzheimer's risk; exercise, diet, and mental activity level all play a part. (Sleeping late may be an early warning sign of dementia.)First there was bowling with
Curling isn’t exactly an extreme sport, but some people in Russia might be trying to change that, recently playing a version of the sport with full-size cars. As reported on RT, the weird game took place on a skating rink in the city of Ekaterinburg. Goal marks were painted on the frozen ice, and the cars were pushed by small teams hoping to bounce their opponents’ cars out of the way. Only one brave team member was made to ride in the little car, hoping to steer as much as possible.It's Russia, one would suspect that Vodka played a big role in the game creation.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The first U.S. inmate to have taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgery says she's been mistreated since being transferred to a California women's prison, where she now has a beard and mustache because officials have denied her a razor.
This past week we learned about the $6,000 silicone woman. Tonight, meet a man who married a synthetic woman. No. The ONT doesn't know how it finds
Vacation destinations: Disney, Art Museums, Battlefields. Yukon, Canada? Takhini Hot Pools, and the International Hair Freezing Contest.
Tonight's science topic, MOAR FLAME! Do not let children or tonight's Genius Award Winner play with matches.
Expect to hear more kids carrying on in public. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Beartooth at March 23, 2017 09:53 PM (ekL3e)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 09:53 PM (NgoqF)
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If CNN's New Russia Report Is True, We May Be Seeing the Beginning of the End of Donald Trump's Presidency
Trump: Pass Trumpcare tomorrow or I'll take my ball and go home!
FBI have uncovered 'evidence of treason' among alt-right websites, says George W Bush's ethics lawyer
Man who said liberal Jews worse than Nazi collaborators to be US ambassador to Israel
The White House may have skirted federal law to try and save its failing health care bill
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Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore
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Florida fire started by book burning destroys at least 10 homes
Police called to South Euclid Taco Bell due to dispute over 'Fire' or 'Mild' sauce
Teen Attempts To Kill Girl For Sending Too Many Snapchats
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 23, 2017 09:55 PM (TixTl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 09:55 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (CyXSj)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (CyXSj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (MZcWR)
Now for the content. *rubs hands*
Posted by: Beartooth at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (ekL3e)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (R7cwD)
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You, of all people, were surprised?
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (NgoqF)
15 minutes from the time this claimed to be posted? Or 15 minutes from the real time it was posted?
Posted by: Buzzion at March 23, 2017 09:42 PM
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Wouldn't that be the same?
[I am commenting only because all of you have confirmed the most base assumptions about the Horde]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2017 09:44 PM (rF0hx)
Look at the time stamp on the post and then look at the time stamp on the first comment.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 23, 2017 09:56 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (aMlLZ)
What, then, could the combination of legislative power plus the power of alcohol bring?
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=13162
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 23, 2017 09:58 PM (vBeA5)
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That's as far as I got. Nothing more needs to be said. Oh, I also liked the John Fogerty song. Put me in coach - but not as a DH.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 23, 2017 09:59 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 23, 2017 09:59 PM (gwPgz)
someone needs too swat it away.
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 09:59 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:00 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at March 23, 2017 10:00 PM (3JQ/p)
Posted by: huerfano at March 23, 2017 10:00 PM (jkkMG)
th-e?
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:00 PM (R7cwD)
Willow, remember, with great power comes great responsibility!
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 23, 2017 10:01 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 23, 2017 10:01 PM (89UPP)
LOL. Someone needs to tell this guy that women don't shave their faces. He should be allowed some wax, though ...
In any event, he can just work in the cafeteria line and no one will notice.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (zc3Db)
ok that brings to mind, if you were going to die next week how would you fill your last time remaining?
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2017 10:03 PM (Enq6K)
well unless there is a prize of some sort, than I might think about it.
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:03 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:03 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:03 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Alice B. Toklas at March 23, 2017 10:04 PM (kP16F)
ok that brings to mind, if you were going to die next week how would you fill your last time remaining?
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
168 hour wack attack?
Not going to work, that is for sure.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 10:05 PM (P/kVC)
yes I would have to steal someones home for a few days.
perhaps a time share without payment set to a mth from then. LOL
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:05 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 23, 2017 10:05 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 10:05 PM (Tstsj)
No, with great power comes hot chicks!
/looks at Obama
/looks at Bill Clinton
...hm.
/looks at Trump
...with great power, and a conservative mindset, comes hot chicks!
Posted by: mikeski at March 23, 2017 10:06 PM (81V3b)
Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at March 23, 2017 10:06 PM (dExgv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:06 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (sdi6R)
or..
thinking thinking..
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (R7cwD)
Not a thing to do with being a grammar nazi.
Just an affectation of those who do not have their cranium firmly implanted in their fundament.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: huerfano at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (jkkMG)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:08 PM (R7cwD)
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I can believe this. I have people who work for me now who have fallen into this trap. Monster primary house in just the right area, one or two vacation homes, boats, cars, planes, 40k private elemantary schools per child. 2 insanely expensive vacations to somewhere exotic a year.
They are nucking futz, and would be in bankruptcy court within a year if they lost their fat gig.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:08 PM (NgoqF)
The J. Geils Band version of 'Centerfield' was better. Also the Against All Authority punk cover.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 10:08 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:08 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:09 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: huerfano at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (jkkMG)
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It's the Derecho! We had one here (MD) a few years back that lasted for about a half hour. Freakiest meteorological thing I'd ever seen.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:09 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:09 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (R7cwD)
Skin cancer worries are totally blown out of proportion. I haven't worn any sort of suntan lotion in decades. They have just managed to terrify 80% of the population and they do it just for fun.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 10:09 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (eeTCA)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: huerfano at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (jkkMG)
Find some random piping that goes deep underground, unbuckle your belt, buckle it back but AROUND the pipe. Pray.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (89UPP)
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 23, 2017 09:55 PM (TixTl)<<<
FIRE!
Posted by: AC/DC at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: huerfano at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (jkkMG)
The whole died with a wimper. So they were off on the next latest fad.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (ekL3e)
What about laser hair removal?
Posted by: Chelsea Manning at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (R7cwD)
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Try our Suncreen. It has an SPF of 5000!
Posted by: Lead Suits Inc. at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (eeTCA)
Posted by: Timothy Treadwell and Goldilocks at March 23, 2017 10:12 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Chelsea Manning at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (vRcUp)
Disc Sander!
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 23, 2017 10:12 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 23, 2017 10:13 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:13 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:13 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: IC at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (EZpE7)
Ferrari purchase on credit and lots of speeding tickets.
Posted by: Willy J. at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (hYjJg)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:13 PM (CNHr1)
Good to *see* you too, friend in the box!
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (89UPP)
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*gazes out the window into the gathering gloam, where the sun has set over the far ridge*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: GOP at March 23, 2017 10:15 PM (vsYKI)
or is it lay?
or is it nevermind
wine
Posted by: willow at March
willow, mom always told be CHICKENS LAY EGGS, people lie down.
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 10:15 PM (uKRys)
You know who else had good grammar?
Posted by: Maxine Waters at March 23, 2017 10:16 PM (vRcUp)
++++
Would you be happier if they were getting pushed out of windows?
Posted by: Archie Bunker at March 23, 2017 10:16 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: GOP at March 23, 2017 10:16 PM (vsYKI)
So my take away from this is that um "movie" sex scenes that happen in a women's prison are misleading because the women aren't going to have shave armpits, legs, and a certain other place.
Posted by: buzzion at March 23, 2017 10:16 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:17 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Hillary! at March 23, 2017 10:17 PM (ZIFyZ)
Um, wow. Learning happens on the ONT.
Posted by: Max Power at March 23, 2017 10:18 PM (QCc6B)
This really seems like if the Right can not sell that idea, then it is too late. The left seems to be winning with the thug-rape-for-everyone idea in most of Europe, and in large demographics in the US.
I guess the PC stuff softened the ground by making thug-rape something we just can not talk about honestly, and I guess the upper classes do not have this worry because of exclusive school districts, money, bodyguards, etc. but still...
The anti-thug rape ticket should be a no-brainier. The restrictionists should be having to beat off voters with a stick.
Am I that out of touch, or is the world that screwed up? Don't answer that. I prefer not to know. I will go back to lurking now.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 23, 2017 10:18 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: IC at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (EZpE7)
Meh. At these ridiculous interest rates the carrying costs on a 700K mortgage are under $3500/month for 100% financing ... which only tells you how soft the real estate market REALLY is.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 10:18 PM (zc3Db)
Quit work. Hang out on the HQ all day.
Because I got no life.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 10:18 PM (Tstsj)
Part of me wonders if the producers watched her special on Netflix and asked her to make the decision to leave.
Posted by: buzzion at March 23, 2017 10:18 PM (cAnNx)
Meanwhile, it occurs to me that one difference between Trump and Barky is that Trump actually likes people, Obama just likes the adulation of the crowds (and palling around with celebrities.)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: IC at March 23, 2017 10:14 PM (EZpE7)
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700K will get you a 1600sq ft home in a near-ghetto neighborhood in SF that needs 150K in renovations.
Posted by: GOP at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 09:54 PM (tHwdc)
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I think for most Morons, escaping is not the issue.
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (CNHr1)
Thx
P.S. For those that haven't seen the video- mild content warning. Semi sexy woman in weird white drapery and makeup dancing well.
And for those that cheerily say, "I wasn't even born in 1984" or "I was in the second grade"-Get off my lawn, will ya? ;^)
http://tinyurl.com/khd5btg
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (fDdVG)
Too precious.
I can just imagine the kind of fun the staff at that women's prison are having with this dude.
Posted by: JEM at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:10 PM (vsYKI)
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True enough. I'm in the North burbs of Atl, where a million dollar house means a fcuking estate. Taxes are low. I own (outright) a 350k house that is 6br and 5 bath right on the 5th fairway of a Country club community. Bought it in Y2k. These people can't resist social climbing every few years and buying bigger, better and trendier.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (NgoqF)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:20 PM (emDjj)
Some are 1.6x that here, and we're not even in what's considered to be an upper-crust area.
Posted by: JEM at March 23, 2017 10:20 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: GOP at March 23, 2017 10:20 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2017 10:21 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Boxing promoter at March 23, 2017 10:21 PM (hYjJg)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:21 PM (b7fwp)
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I've always thought ATL had the best 'burbs in America.
Posted by: GOP at March 23, 2017 10:22 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (vsYKI)
I'm all politicked out. Even regarding ObamaCare.
Anybody wanna' just drink a few and talk shit ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: NBC ABC CBS PBS NPR CNN at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (vsYKI)
That's all? Pffft. A trifle compared to lots of other stuff.
Evening all.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Jackal at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (NiR1r)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
Get revenge.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:21 PM (b7fwp)
What is he saying?
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: JEM
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Maybe they have a car-curling team. The guy would be a shoo-in for a spot.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (fiGNd)
Well I just pissed away another hour or so job hunting, so it's drinking the rest of the night.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
That's all? Pffft. A trifle compared to lots of other stuff.
Evening all.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
Hillary "misplaced" that much during her tenure at the State Department IIRC.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:25 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 10:25 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
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Flirting with 'ettes?
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:25 PM (2SERm)
What about laser hair removal?
Posted by: Chelsea Manning at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (vRcUp)
Imagine what female prison inmates can do with a razor. And if this dolly has had a sex change, why does she still grow a beard?
Could it be...that she didn't change her sex, she simply cut off her jewels and now gets to pee sitting down , but still has all those dang inconveniences of being a man.
I wonder if she has seen the latest research showing that breast implants may increase the chance of breast cancer...(wow, is that a surprise).
Another example of the stupidity and crackpot of most of the world of psychiatry and all of the world of liberalism.
Posted by: Jen at March 23, 2017 10:25 PM (9z842)
Looks like it is monster night on TCM. Gojira, King Kong, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and something else I forgot because, well, I forgot.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 23, 2017 10:25 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM (uKRys)
Posted by: Dee Wayne Badcock at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM (40hem)
If you are older than barely being born in 1984 and care to, could you consider looking at my request in 91?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM (fDdVG)
ok that brings to mind, if you were going to die next week how would you fill your last time remaining?
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
Running up my credit cards, borrowing gobs of money from friends and family, buying rounds of well scotch and selling "$5 buck sledgehammer blows for charity" on a co-workers' Prius
Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM (0hI48)
Howdy peeps.
I'm all politicked out. Even regarding ObamaCare.
Anybody wanna' just drink a few and talk shit ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:23 PM (fiGNd)
After reminding you to call your congresscritter in the morning to urge them to vote against Ryancare, I would be glad to talk shit.
...
...
So... how bout them Bears?
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (b7fwp)
*Channeling Sam Kinnison*
AAAAAAAAAAAUGGGHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Posted by: Pug Mahon aka the Deplorable P.U.G. at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (yQWIL)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
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Get revenge.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (0mRoj)
"You know what?! You're on THE LIST!!!"
Posted by: Chris Jericho at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (89UPP)
That's all? Pffft. A trifle compared to lots of other stuff.
Evening all.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
We got at least half.
Posted by: Chicago at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (hYjJg)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
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Hang out in a cabin in the woods or a shack on the beach, listen to my favorite music, and hate-fuck Paul Ryan.
Oh wait, that was the other thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:28 PM (EnKk6)
Still have charms for Ace of Spades moronettes, or any special order. Just click my name... later gaters....
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at March 23, 2017 10:28 PM (CNHr1)
Hah! Try using that fact on your teenagers!
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 10:28 PM (8zL5i)
The old guard is definitely on its way out. We still have senile fossils like McCain and Thad but they are dwindling.
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:28 PM (vsYKI)
What about laser hair removal?
Posted by: Chelsea Manning at March 23, 2017 10:11 PM (vRcUp)
Just shoot it. That will stop the beard from growing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:29 PM (WDdjT)
That's all? Pffft. A trifle compared to lots of other stuff.
Evening all.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
Keeps the hospitals styling with the latest high tech medical equipment.
Consider it an investment in urban medical infrastructure.
If it doesn't, then it really is not that much of hospital cash flow.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 10:29 PM (P/kVC)
maybe he'll get better stuff with next guests.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:29 PM (b7fwp)
Only when I've been up all night with a colicky ONT.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 10:29 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
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Well, my post this life affairs are in order, so I would spend as much time with the wife and daughter as I could.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:30 PM (NgoqF)
MexiCali Stout ftw
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 10:31 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: Mis Hum at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (Kk540)
What got me thinking like that was the photo linked previously from the federalist showing the thug-rapist. He is clearly late teens or twenties, with crooked face, large scar, and crazy eyes.
This thug was admitted as a freshman in HS? Every adult who allowed this to happen, from the Governor to to the bus driver should have to spend an hour alone with him in a cell.
But we can't talk about that. That would be racist.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (SpeiC)
BUT, I have my lunch packed and clothes selected.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:33 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM (fDdVG)
Fen ... I was born in '72. I'm 44. I remember that you're a preacher. You don't remember that I'm a 40-something redneck ?
Videos back then didn't have a "back-story". I think the goal of the exercise was to put some groovy shit on the screen.
Chic in the ghost costume was hot.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:33 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:34 PM (vsYKI)
yet insomniac ..
eris Paul Ryan? gak, When he had espoused good ideas and we were praying for Obama to not win yet again I can see liking him a lot.
yet he actually didn't mean anything he stated, so if there was any bloom for me he fixed it for me.
he is not that hot, his ideas might have been if they had been truthful
mathwitchery be damned!
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:34 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at March 23, 2017 10:35 PM (CyXSj)
Posted by: Locke Common at March 23, 2017 10:35 PM (W7UK3)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:35 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
But you got a job ... so it's really just lookin' to upgrade. More like shopping than anything. Nothing to stress over. Plus ... you're in Texas, right ? Hell - I'll end up having to pay you an immigration fee at the way shit's heading.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (R7cwD)
Ted Williams was the greatest. There will never, ever be another like him.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (97XyN)
Nobody will ever be ahead of him.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (bMQv/)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (EnKk6)
You never said your age. I remembered that you made a deck for your wife but you could have made a deck for your wife and still be 25 and have no idea who Kiil and the gang are. I never call people rednecks. I went to school in the South and I liked most of the Southerners I met there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (8HGb7)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (FTXAT)
No worse than the Reds. Same icon.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (fiGNd)
"smoking gun" establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News."
James Rosen at Fox News dot com
http://tinyurl.com/m6eh9oj
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (b7fwp)
All I care about anymore is ITS. Possessive.
HIS HIS HIS HIS
HERS HERS HERS HERS
ITS ITS ITS ITS
Got it? NO. Apostrophe.
This message has been brought to you by the National Association of Grammar Sticklers (NAGS)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:34 PM (R7cwD)
I was told there would be no math on the ONT. I f*ked up by 4 minutes in calling a game over today that wasn't yet. Oops..... Math is hard.....
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at March 23, 2017 10:39 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2017 10:39 PM (rF0hx)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 23, 2017 10:39 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:39 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:40 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:40 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (R7cwD)
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Thank you ma'am. It is the truth. I would bore my daughter senseless with tales from my arguably misspent youth. The wife already knows them, having been a High School sweetheart who I just got worn down enough to marry me last fall.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:40 PM (NgoqF)
Well I just pissed away another hour or so job hunting, so it's drinking the rest of the night.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
***
You're young and you got your health, CB - what do you want with a job?
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:40 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:41 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (fDdVG)
Well, Kool and The Gang was disco, and I didn't listen to disco. Not all music videos were devoid of meaning, but many, many were. Just like some haystacks are totally without needles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:41 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:41 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (97XyN)
Nobody will ever be ahead of him.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (0mRoj)<<<
I am not even a head of me.
Posted by: the Splendid Splinter's head in a jar at March 23, 2017 10:41 PM (Tstsj)
This troubled me so much that I started backing up all my boobie pictures to DVD. It looks like I have enough to live forever.
Posted by: Dee Wayne Badcock at March 23, 2017 10:42 PM (40hem)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 10:42 PM (8nWyX)
Ooph. That's.....awful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2017 10:39 PM (rF0hx)
Everyone's good at something.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)
Watch yourselves...
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:42 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (8HGb7)
Fair enough. I'm 44. 45 in June. I hate getting older. The alternative seems real shitty though. Still fighting it. Pretty sure the clock is going to win in the end.
And it's OK to call me a redneck. I am. Just a college-educated redneck with a nasty disposition.
Anybody seen SMFH ? I ain't in a while.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (vsYKI)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (0mRoj)
OK, I've had just about enough of this!
<takes Insomniacs face and buries it between her 38Ds>
Let's hear you complain NOW.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 23, 2017 10:07 PM (EnKk6)
Oh, you are awful. And I mean that in the nicest-looking possible way.
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (1epXH)
To, Fro.
Those are the only words I care about. As far as punctuation goes...I only care about ellipsis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (ZO497)
There are some authorities who say "different than" is acceptable, but they're full of shit.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (97XyN)
and i'm glad you wore down your sweet one at last.
Brings to mind we don't really know where life may lead. I'm glad you refound your soul mate for the travels to come.
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Tom T. Hall at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (T3EoD)
Let's hear you complain NOW.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (tHwdc)
Mmmmmph grrrfff mmrrrrfff!
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
http://tinyurl.com/n5f6o33
Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (vsYKI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (ZO497)
Watch your sign. You might go hyperbolic on us.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (WDdjT)
Kool and the Gang. I like the songt. Can someone who wants to watch.
please explain something to me-What is the back story of this video-with
the kid and people being chased in the desert because I don't get it?
The fact that i don't yet it may be an early sign of Alzheimers (It runs
in my family :^( because sleeping late isn't one of them for me.. Of
course, not getting much sleep contributes to Alzheimers apparently.
Ugh. There is probably an explanation of this video on the internet, but
I'm too tired to look it up. Is it from a movie?
Thx
P.S. For those that haven't seen the video- mild content warning.
Semi sexy woman in weird white drapery and makeup dancing well.
And for those that cheerily say, "I wasn't even born in 1984" or "I was in the second grade"-Get off my lawn, will ya? ;^)
http://tinyurl.com/khd5btg
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:19 PM (fDdVG)
I always got the impression that the kid was Cool (JD? I think is his real name) and the albino siren chick is being compared to the holy grail (or the ark of the covenant... I couldn't tell which Indiana Jones movie they were referencing). So the kid in flashbacks helps "Indiana Jones" make off with a stack of books and a fancy box that either ARE the albino chick or that the albino chick "misled" "Indiana Jones" to. Then the kid takes off in the car that the albino chick (or just the books and the box) are in the trunk of as "Indiana Jones is beaten down in the background. Then (flash forward to the present) a grown up version of the kid is misled into the forest by the albino chick but manages to break free of her thrall via the power of mediocre dancing.
I don't know what "The Gang" in fate and devil masks are supposed to represent.
I am thinking the concept guy was high on something (probably coke given it was the 80's) when he came up with this video.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:46 PM (FTXAT)
Those are the only words I care about. As far as punctuation goes...I only care about ellipsis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (ZO497)
***
Um, ellipses?
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:46 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
That's more like it.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 10:46 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:26 PM
Videos back then didn't have a "back-story". I think the goal of the exercise was to put some groovy shit on the screen.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:33 PM
Yeah, I don't think there's much to "story" other than a vague play on the title "misled", influence from Michael Jackson videos and a lot of coke. This is how many videos from the era played out. Shoot some shit, include something that is vaguely related to the title, dance around, finish.
Posted by: otho at March 23, 2017 10:47 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
Motorboat sound:
[x] fail
[ ] not fail
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:47 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:38 PM (fDdVG)
You do pay attention.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:47 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:48 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (vsYKI)
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Hell, let's get more basic. Loose vs. Lose.
Pet peeve of mine.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:48 PM (NgoqF)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:36 PM (fiGNd)
Yeah, I'm in Texas. Doesn't help though (me anyways).
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:48 PM (Jcg9Q)
Um, ellipses?
Posted by: Evelle Snoats
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el·lip·sis
[əˈlipsis]
NOUN
a set of dots indicating an ellipsis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:44 PM (ZO497)
--You mean ellipsEs?
[Ducks and runs and Bob's and weaves]
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (R7cwD)
AM or PM?
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (R7cwD)
Thanks very much for your time and analysis. The only part I could figure out was that the kid was Kool as a kid and that they were looking for something. I guess i shouldn't ask music videos to make sense. ;^) and yes the guy who had the concept probably was high.
Have you seen the videos that do a do a mockery of other music videos with sort of a literal commentary? They're amusing
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:27 PM (FTXAT)
No worse than the Reds. Same icon.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:37 PM (fiGNd)
Efficiency... I like it.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:40 PM (2SERm)
Well, making enough to pay the bills would be a start.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:51 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:43 PM (fiGNd)
Was wondering about her earlier myself.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:51 PM (Jcg9Q)
bed bugs and all that
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:51 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:51 PM (emDjj)
my work recognizes dead-ender employees who never leave every year and this was my 25th yr anniversary. Wow, no wonder the place is a bit hidebound, they had a lot of long term folks for the size of the workforce IMO.
OTOH my little subgroup has has a fair amount of upheaval. My poor supervisor, hired less than 3 years ago was stuck giving the short blurb for me.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (eASYU)
I'm going to make a note of that but I don't know how useful it is The English language has about 14 or 15 tenses, y'know.
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (1epXH)
Pet peeve of mine.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 10:48 PM (NgoqF)
Here's another, even more basic: "and" where "an" is indicated. Shows up several times daily here. I blame autocucumber.
Look, most of us here are pretty damned literate. We don't need autocorrect, or autocomplete. Turn the stupid thing off. Please.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Country Boy
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Out Ubering, perhaps?
Isn't she doing that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (ZO497)
No way I would take that test. WTF is the point of having that hanging over you if there's nothing you can do about it?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 10:53 PM (1epXH)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 10:53 PM (1epXH)
Across my big brass bed
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:41 PM (R7cwD)
Well I was a little concerned cuz that guy could've taken me for sure if it came to that. But I stared him down and he chose to leave instead of making a total ass of himself but I think he'll get fired net week after the school meets about all that mess. Also it helps that I can remind people that assault on a sports official in NC is a felony. That usually makes them back off.....
So much fun...........
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: otho at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (lmIoG)
Me either. My father got early onset Alzheimers in his 40s.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: Country Boy
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Out Ubering, perhaps?
Isn't she doing that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (ZO497)
If she is, I missed that part.
I have a coworker who is quitting his full time job to Lyft full time. Can't believe it'll work, but whatever buddy. Good luck.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 10:53 PM (1epXH)
Did someone say Lain?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: Bob Marley and the Whalers at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (tcamx)
https://youtu.be/elqREC_N_O8
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 10:55 PM (emDjj)
Isn't she doing that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (ZO497)
Yeah ... she is.
I hope.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:55 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Bob Marley and the Whalers at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (tcamx)
Golf clap!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 10:55 PM (WDdjT)
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They also convince themselves socialism works because we're all equally impoverished.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (EZebt)
ok that brings to mind, if you were going to die next week how would you fill your last time remaining?
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
There are some prominent political figures who should be very, very afraid.
Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (sdi6R)
Isn't she doing that?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (ZO497)
If she is, I missed that part.
I have a coworker who is quitting his full time job to Lyft full time. Can't believe it'll work, but whatever buddy. Good luck.
Posted by: Country Boy
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Well, that's a HUGE 'maybe'. Not sure where I got that impression.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ZO497)
NOUN
a set of dots indicating an ellipsis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (ZO497)
***
Singular vs. plural - re-read your sentence.
But, what do I know? I just escaped prison via a sewer pipe with my brother Gale!
*Pixy won't allow me to quote your fancy text, you cat walker*
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (tcamx)
No way I would take that test. WTF is the point of having that hanging over you if there's nothing you can do about it?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (+azJs)
You could off yourself, unless you forget about it.
More seriously, you can your affairs lined up, prepare a power of attorney for your finances, property and health care decisions, figure out residence and health care arrangements, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (8nWyX)
only part I could figure out was that the kid was Kool as a kid and that
they were looking for something. I guess i shouldn't ask music videos
to make sense. ;^) and yes the guy who had the concept probably was
high.
Have you seen the videos that do a do a mockery of other music videos with sort of a literal commentary? They're amusing
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:50 PM (fDdVG)
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk?
Those ARE amusing:-)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 10:57 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2017 10:57 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (ZO497)
Per her comments ... she definitely was.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 10:57 PM (fiGNd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:57 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
I guess I'm boring. Don't really have any desire to do anything that will get me killed or locked up, so if I really wanted to do something I'd be doing it now.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:58 PM (+azJs)
LOL. I hope SpongeBob is in it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:58 PM (fDdVG)
competence vs competency? I hear examples a couple of times a week.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 23, 2017 10:58 PM (a3sfz)
But, what do I know? I just escaped prison via a sewer pipe with my brother Gale!
*Pixy won't allow me to quote your fancy text, you cat walker*
Posted by: Evelle Snoats
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I concede...to something...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:58 PM (ZO497)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 10:57 PM (fDdVG)
Those are funny.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:59 PM (0mRoj)
Oh man. I tried *actual* cajun, briny, undeveined, peel-and-eat shrimp tonight from Kickin' Crab. Talk about a great, spicy new experience.
Very tasty, but also... let's just say I couldn't look too closely at the shrimp after a bit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 10:59 PM (qazQh)
hisself and theirselves ... though it's correct if the person explains that he's saying "his self" or "their selves" ... or if he just doesn't know which way to turn the bit to drill a hole into cardboard for "his shelves".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 10:59 PM (zc3Db)
No way I would take that test. WTF is the point of having that hanging over you if there's nothing you can do about it?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:52 PM (+azJs)
You could off yourself, unless you forget about it.
More seriously, you can your affairs lined up, prepare a power of attorney for your finances, property and health care decisions, figure out residence and health care arrangements, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0mRoj)
Alzheimer's doesn't hit you that quickly. There's plenty of time for that between diagnosis and incapacity, particularly if you have family you trust (which I do).
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:59 PM (+azJs)
I have a coworker who is quitting his full time job to Lyft full time. Can't believe it'll work, but whatever buddy. Good luck.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (Jcg9Q)
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The drivers for Uber/Lyft ( most drive for both, and close the other app when one sends them a ride) tell me they average $140 for a ten to twelve hour day.
This is gross from Uber/Lyft, and does not include insurance or wear/tear on the car, or gas.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:00 PM (NgoqF)
(Don't worry, it won't all be one giant post.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:00 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (+azJs)
competence vs competency? I hear examples a couple of times a week.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 23, 2017 10:58 PM (a3sfz)
Yeah, for all intensive purposes, it can really get annoying to hear that while someone's relating an otherwise-entertaining antidote.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (8nWyX)
That only works for superheroes who get transitive and insensitive verbs.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (emDjj)
I would look up someone I want to pounce very badly. A week, you say? Yes, I could do that.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 10:59 PM (+azJs)
I know firsthand it's gradual and progressive, but forewarned is forearmed I would think. I don't like surprises. YMMV.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (0mRoj)
That's the one that scares me. Dementia.
Losing my mind. No thanks. That's all I am.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: willow at March 23, 2017 10:02 PM (R7cwD)
There are some prominent political figures who should be very, very afraid.
Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2017 10:56 PM (sdi6R)
Ha, I was going to say something very similar, but figured the cobs wouldn't appreciate it.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Evelle Snoats
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el·lip·sis
NOUN
a set of dots indicating an ellipsis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 10:49 PM (ZO497)<<<
Once... upon a time... I... was... falling in love.
But now... I'm... only... falling apart.
There's... nothing... I can do.
A... total... ellipsis... of the heart.
Posted by: William Shatner doing karaoke at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (emDjj)
They are found on the same aisle as the ignominious, sedentary, and metaphoric rocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (WDdjT)
(Don't worry, it won't all be one giant post.)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Whoever came up with "Show Me Your Tits" for Missouri should get the prize.
Posted by: Not from Missouri at March 23, 2017 11:04 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 23, 2017 11:04 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:01 PM (emDjj)
They are found on the same aisle as the ignominious, sedentary, and metaphoric rocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (WDdjT)
You must be one o' them there ventriloquists, what with knowing about geometry and all!
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 11:04 PM (eASYU)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 23, 2017 11:04 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (emDjj)
But now... I'm... only... falling apart.
There's... nothing... I can do.
A... total... ellipsis... of the heart.
Posted by: William Shatner doing karaoke at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (Tstsj)
Pitch-perfect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (WDdjT)
The drivers for Uber/Lyft ( most drive for both, and close the other app when one sends them a ride) tell me they average $140 for a ten to twelve hour day.
This is gross from Uber/Lyft, and does not include insurance or wear/tear on the car, or gas.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:00 PM (NgoqF)
I asked my coworker about it, and he figures he makes about 10 bucks an hour, before deducting expenses.
He probably makes $10 an hour before taxes doing security here, so maybe he's thinking about the whole working for yourself thing or something.
Problem seems to be that the best hours are late at night, which I wouldn't be interested in.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (KAi1n)
INTRANSITIVE!!!!
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (emDjj)
Intransphobe.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)
262 They are found on the same aisle as the ignominious, sedentary, and metaphoric rocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:02 PM (WDdjT)
Lookatchyoo rockin' the geography jokes. I like that, consider it stolen.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (a3sfz)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (KAi1n)
Same here. ALS? Just put me down like a broken old racehorse.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (zc3Db)
INTRANSITIVE!!!!
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (emDjj)
I was wondering about that, but I didn't want to go first on account of all the high school English classes I slept through.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (+azJs)
Say what you will about Grammar Nazis, at least it's an ethos... and they wear spiffy uniforms.
Posted by: otho at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (lmIoG)
I'm sorry for your loss.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:07 PM (u8Ywb)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLnUJQut-kc
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 11:07 PM (bMQv/)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (zc3Db)
"Verbing" in general is a symptom of low character. No, I do not want to be "dialoging" with anyone. Unless it's a euphemism for something fun.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:08 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:05 PM (Jcg9Q)
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Yeah, driving drunks is no bueno. I did a night cab job in the 80s while in school. Miserable job, and wound up having your car swabbed out at least once a month or so.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (NgoqF)
I have a coworker who is quitting his full time job to Lyft full time. Can't believe it'll work, but whatever buddy. Good luck.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 10:54 PM (Jcg9Q)
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The drivers for Uber/Lyft ( most drive for both, and close the other app when one sends them a ride) tell me they average $140 for a ten to twelve hour day.
This is gross from Uber/Lyft, and does not include insurance or wear/tear on the car, or gas.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:00 PM (NgoqF)
My unemployed brother in law is delivering blood to hospitals in the region.
Like all of the other "jobs" that he has worked in the past 15 months, it always seems that they "screw up" his pay and his paycheck is always way short of what it is supposed to be.
So, it appears that his delivery job doesn't pay enough to even cover the gasoline since he is always "borrowing" gas money from the Mrs and needing a "loan" to get his cellphone turned back on. The cellphone he needs for the company to call him about delivery jobs.
I fear I have adopted a 55 year old.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (1JnAL)
It's easy...are you north or south of the Mason Dixon line....or just from NJ?
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (SpeiC)
I also hear one of my friends say boughten. I cringe.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:10 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:10 PM (7H/2n)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (zc3Db)<<<
Yeah, when idiots are conversating* that can be pretty disorientating.
*conversate/conversating -- Hear dumbasses use that all the time. No. No. No. Just NO!
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 11:11 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (1JnAL)
But you're awesome for doing it.
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:11 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (8nWyX)
I've never heard anyone use that term except for my trashy reality show, Vanderpump Rules.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:12 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (1JnAL)
Does it have to be any particular blood, or can you just drop off a mason jar or a ziplock bag or something? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:08 PM (+azJs)
Exactly.
I don't know if it's a sports thing or just in tennis commentary (because so many of the people aren't native English speakers, perhaps) but they have taken to saying that something "is a big ask". That's the sort of shit you say as a joke once in a while but they seem to be very serious about it. It drives me crazy, just because it's so friggin stupid.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:06 PM (zc3Db)
Yeah, when idiots are conversating* that can be pretty disorientating.
*conversate/conversating -- Hear dumbasses use that all the time. No. No. No. Just NO!
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 11:11 PM (Tstsj)
It's conversing, correct?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (u8Ywb)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLnUJQut-kc
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 11:07 PM (bMQv/)
That is straight-up disco. That bass line is characteristic.
Compared to rap, it's funky, and very musical, but it just doesn't rate with real R&B. Here's Irma Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FuU4bBOk2k
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (1epXH)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
It drives him crazy, and Primordial just can't help himself...
Posted by: Fine Young Cannibals at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (1JnAL)
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I'm sorry to say that if those issues keep cropping up for him, you have indeed adopted yourself a 55 year old teenager.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (NgoqF)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (eASYU)
Posted by: hogmartin
And yet you understand them. Communication achieved. Because English is awesome, that's why!
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (7H/2n)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:09 PM (NgoqF)
The guy who has the Taxicab Depressions blog doesn't drive a cab anymore, nor does he really blog much, but his archives about cab driving are a great read in case you've never heard of him.
He also wrote a post on Oct. 24th last year titled "I think Trump's got this" which I thought was pretty cool.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 11:15 PM (1epXH)
Got it? NO. Apostrophe.
Have an It's-It Bar. You'll feel better.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:10 PM (7H/2n)
I'm confused. It's is a contraction for it is, have I been writing that incorrectly?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:15 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (u8Ywb)<<<
Yip. converse/conversing.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Abby at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (HBU7W)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:12 PM (u8Ywb)
I'm mid-30s and I see it a lot among people my age on social media: "I threw out my IKEA stuff and replaced it with Crate and Barrel, I'M ADULTING"
GFY if you think the line between adolescent and adult is more expensive furniture.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Fine Young Cannibals at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (qazQh)
Ha! I love Fine Young Cannibals! ... at least their first album. I don't know if they ever did another but that was a great album.
Seal would have been great if he had stopped at his first album, which was awesome.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:17 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (eASYU)
I heard someone use diluted for deluded. As in, she's really diluted.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:17 PM (u8Ywb)
That may explain it. My friends are 40 and above.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:18 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:17 PM (u8Ywb)
LOL. I have to say that I like that one. I don't know why but it makes me laugh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: grammar Nazis at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (Tstsj)
I don't believe FYC ever released a third album, but anyway TR&TC wasn't bad. Got it when it first came out.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (qazQh)
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Let's dialog about this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (emDjj)
My dad died of heart failure as his body was breaking down but he still had his marbles. My mom isn't who she was anymore, it's not really her, just a body with a bunch of misfiring synapses in her head.
I thought of quitting smoking but do I want to end up not knowing who I am or find myself incapable of recognizing reality?
Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2017 11:20 PM (AOrEZ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:15 PM (u8Ywb)
The rule is simple: if "its" is possessive, as in "the dog licked its nuts, because he could", there is no apostrophe.
If "it's" is being used as a contraction of "it is", as in "It's Howdy Doody Time!" then an apostrophe is required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:20 PM (WDdjT)
Infer vs imply
And "efforting" makes me crazy, also. Favored by many edumacated journalists, such as Miss Shep.
Posted by: Just a thought at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (KbMT1)
Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:12 PM (u8Ywb)
I'm mid-30s and I see it a lot among people my age on social media: "I threw out my IKEA stuff and replaced it with Crate and Barrel, I'M ADULTING"
GFY if you think the line between adolescent and adult is more expensive furniture.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (8nWyX)
I did not know that Crrate carried kitchen cabinets and major appliances.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (qazQh)
If someone complains, I give you my permission to use my favorite comeback.
So. I say it in a bitchy girl voice.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:22 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2017 11:22 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Original Jake at March 23, 2017 11:22 PM (gp3sW)
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 23, 2017 11:22 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (qazQh)
That's the one. I guess someone was hiding their first album from me. Let me check ... Nope. Just have The Raw and The Cooked.
When I first heard it, I thought the Bee Gees were trying to make another comeback.
Heh. That's not nice ...
I don't believe FYC ever released a third album, but anyway TR&TC wasn't bad. Got it when it first came out.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (qazQh)
They had done their masterpiece and their record company must have killed them so that they couldn't pollute with lesser later works.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (zc3Db)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844961817315196928
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844961924865495041
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844962144449908736
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844962326478557188
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844962715609284609
Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (AOrEZ)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (uKRys)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:15 PM (u8Ywb)
Or for "it has" - it's been fun
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:24 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (ZO497)
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The best thing about a 2 level jump in job levels is that I can now speak plainly, and not worry about the HR Bullshit.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 23, 2017 11:24 PM (NgoqF)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844962824254312449
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844962984900341761
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844963128098082820
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844963219210993665
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/844963316325863424
Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2017 11:24 PM (AOrEZ)
What's funny of course is that since then, every official album he's released has just a two-letter title. So, Us, Up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:25 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 23, 2017 11:25 PM (IcT7t)
The rule is simple: if "its" is possessive, as in "the dog licked its nuts, because he could", there is no apostrophe.
If "it's" is being used as a contraction of "it is", as in "It's Howdy Doody Time!" then an apostrophe is required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:20 PM (WDdjT)
Thank you, I've been doing it correctly.
I was nervous for a moment I looked like a dumbass.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:25 PM (u8Ywb)
Live life. Everyday is special, even the ones dealing with mom. In the same boat here. The future will take care of itself.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (0tfLf)
Uninterested vs disinterested
Infer vs imply
And "efforting" makes me crazy, also. Favored by many edumacated journalists, such as Miss Shep.
Posted by: Just a thought at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (KbMT1)
" Flammable, inflammable... you have to be a dictionary to know what burns"
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
--That's the Oxford comma, and you, sir, are way out of line.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (emDjj)
I actually smile from defiantly, because it is a fun mental picture to wonder "does that mean you are going to show up to the opera in jeans and flip flops?" or "you are defiantly going to smile more often" (to piss off the SJW cry bullies? maybe) etc.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (eASYU)
If "it's" is being used as a contraction of "it is", as in "It's Howdy Doody Time!" then an apostrophe is required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:20 PM (WDdjT)
Thank you, I've been doing it correctly.
I was nervous for a moment I looked like a dumbass.
Only at the Q. lol.
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:28 PM (uKRys)
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Let's dialog about this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:19
TY guys for putting a smile on my face before bed.
Keep on keeping on.
T
Posted by: Farmer at March 23, 2017 11:28 PM (o/90i)
Another way of thinking about it: there are those who live the life they think they're allowed, and then there are those of us who live the life we choose.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2017 11:28 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:29 PM (7H/2n)
And actually I always liked the Bee Gees; I didn't mean that as a put-down of FYC. I *do* remember that it was more or less social suicide to *admit* still liking the Brothers Gibb from 1980 to about 1993, however, when I bought their *true* comeback single, "Paying The Price Of Love."
Unfortunately their US comeback only lasted for that one solitary song, and today the only surviving Gibb brother is Barry. Andy, Robin and Maurice are all gone.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:29 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (uKRys)
It would work. I don't think they teach cursive in public schools anymore. The private schools do.
My neice and nephew can't read cursive. I have to print their cards.
I bit my tongue because I didn't want to offend my SIL.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:30 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Jayhawkfan63 at March 23, 2017 11:30 PM (cbW3l)
i am against using the serial comma before last "and" or "or".
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
Me too.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:30 PM (FTXAT)
her hands over her nightgown. The fabric sort of tickled her fingers,
stimulating them but in a languid way. She wasn't thinking of anything
at all, she was just enjoying the feeling if the fabric in her hands.
Ooh! When her skin was so sensitive, the clothe was almost scratchy,
but in a sexy way.
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 23, 2017 11:14 PM (1epXH)
I found a link to the worst Harlequin-type passages of the year. Was probably from here, cuz y'all are pervs lol. One of my clients is an author of these types of novels, a NYT best-selling authoress, but I was really happy that her verses didn't make the list. Tho now I can hold that over her....... ;-p
And I did suffer thru reading the nominees' prose, it was some awfully bad not even Hustler quality writing. I'll drink myself to sleep to forget that.
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:31 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:31 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
--That's the Oxford comma, and you, sir, are way out of line.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (emDjj)
People who omit the Oxford comma universally sit next to you on the bus or at the DMV and smell like sour milk. This isn't my opinion, it's proven scientific fact.
http://tinyurl.com/m6ozwav
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
--That's the Oxford comma, and you, sir, are way out of line.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (emDjj)
I was taught to use the Oxford comma.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (u8Ywb)
It's "internet." ;-)
Not a joke.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Jayhawkfan63 at March 23, 2017 11:30 PM (cbW3l
--Zags survived a squeaker. I hope WBU toughened them up.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:11 PM (SpeiC)
I'm past the point of telling him to fuck off.
He seems to wait until 10pm to call us for the money.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)
Used to be, "farther" was reserved for measurable things like distance, 'whilst' "further" was deeply, metaphysically connected somehow to Great Ideas, like "extent." And one was led to believe that these usages were Ba-Dittish.
Not so, the new current historical account goes. Yer Limeys never gave a damn about all that, and it was all an American Victorian equivocation. I think this is as valid as the New History of Two Spaces after Full Stops.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:29 PM (7H/2n)
Now, that's the sort of truly creative linguistics we're looking for.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (zc3Db)
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That's pretty much what I'm seeing on sites that used to be friendly to him.
It is awfully disappointing to see him so thoroughly coopted by the enemy establishment so soon.
Posted by: Methos, back to Let It Burn at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (3Liv/)
Are you talkin' to me?
Posted by: Travis Bickle at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (uKRys)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (eASYU)
next to you on the bus or at the DMV and smell like sour milk. This
isn't my opinion, it's proven scientific fact.
http://tinyurl.com/m6ozwav
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (8nWyX)
The Oxford comma is redundant. The comma is standing in for the word and or or so there is no need for both a comma AND the word and between the penultimate and last words in the list.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:35 PM (WDdjT)
Unfortunately their US comeback only lasted for that one solitary song, and today the only surviving Gibb brother is Barry. Andy, Robin and Maurice are all gone.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:29 PM
They brought that on themselves. The 60's and early 70's BG's were a great pop/rock group. The Disco BG's were asking for it.
Posted by: otho at March 23, 2017 11:35 PM (lmIoG)
We all say it. Nobody writes it.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:35 PM (29QcC)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:29 PM (qazQh)
Andy had the hottest wife (or girlfriend or whatever).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (zc3Db)
Zags are looking good for the final four. West Virginia is no fourth seed.
Posted by: Jayhawkfan63 at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (cbW3l)
Posted by: navybrat at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (rnOcr)
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That's pretty much what I'm seeing on sites that used to be friendly to him.
It is awfully disappointing to see him so thoroughly coopted by the enemy establishment so soon.
Posted by: Methos, back to Let It Burn at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (3Liv/)
If that is the choice, he can take his ball and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2017 11:20 PM (AOrEZ)
Don't think like that. My dad kept smoking (or really, excused his smoking) because he didn't want to end up like his addled mother. He's now in his late '70s with no sign of dementia, but standing has him gasping for breath from the emphysema.
No sense in borrowing trouble. You may never have any problems with your noggin, and you wouldn't wan't to feel like you're being smothered with a pillow for the last decade of your life.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:37 PM (+azJs)
http://tinyurl.com/gsfzz2q
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:37 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (uKRys)
These are my husband's brother's children. I tread lightly.
My nephew couldn't read cursive either, I was floored. I continued to write his cards in cursive. I also would help him suss it out.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:37 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
Disagree. The 'and', without the last comma, unifies the two last elements in the list into one.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:37 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
Eats, shoots and leaves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:37 PM (WDdjT)
You are diluted. It's redundant only in the sense that all right-minded people know to fill in that comma for you.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:38 PM (29QcC)
But at the same time, they had real talent IMHO and they didn't deserve the wholesale dismissal that "Disco Sucks!" brought to a ton of artists in the early 1980s. I think they could have updated their sound some more, but at the same time I think 1980s-era radio programmers could have at least stopped laughing at them for a few minutes to hear their new stuff at the time, as well. Some of it was warmed-over disco but other tracks were still great.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:38 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:13 PM (8nWyX)
It's a local blood bank, I think.
I'm just hoping that he moves his ass out to Colorado this summer like he planned to do last summer.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:39 PM (1JnAL)
raze, raise
pain, pane
Posted by: navybrat at March 23, 2017 11:36 PM (rnOcr)
The one that drives me nuts is rein/reign. You don't give people (or horses) "free reign". They don't hand out kingdoms for nothing.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:39 PM (+azJs)
on social media: "I threw out my IKEA stuff and replaced it with Crate
and Barrel, I'M ADULTING"
GFY if you think the line between adolescent and adult is more expensive furniture.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:16 PM (8nWyX)
What is the verb for "committing adultery"? It is cognate with "adulteration" but different.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2017 11:39 PM (0hI48)
I admit I never found her that hot. Felt the same way about Morgan Fairchild, always felt she was trying too hard.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:39 PM (qazQh)
I hear ya. Been there, done that too. Sometimes that's the best only choice.
Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (SpeiC)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (uKRys)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
It's not redundant. There can be "and"s or "or"s in some of the items. The comma distinguishes between these conjunctions that are part of an item and the final one that signals the end of the list.
Now, what I totally disagree with the official grammar rules on is the crap with placing punctuation inside the closing quote. That is just retarded.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
++++
All of MisHum's hard work, and you didn't read the content.
Portland-based company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $10 million to 75 milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma in a legal clause.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/
grammarians-rejoice-10-million-comma
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (R+30W)
I'm past the point of telling him to fuck off.
He seems to wait until 10pm to call us for the money.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)
***
You do realize that you haven't adopted a 55 year old - you're enabling a tweaker. He's spending his paychecks on meth (or maybe just crack?).
Ask for a drug test before you give him one more dime.
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: redbanzai
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Ah. So we're down to penultimations and imitations. That's how the Rule of Law is compromised, and lost.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (ZO497)
first album. I don't know if they ever did another but that was a
great album.
Seal would have been great if he had stopped at his first album, which was awesome.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:17 PM (zc3Db)
I liked English Beat better. Just saying. Better songs for one.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2017 11:41 PM (0hI48)
Ask for a drug test before you give him one more dime.
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (2SERm)
That's my impression. Does he have sores on his face?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:42 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:42 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2017 11:42 PM (S2VsH)
I think the timeline was The Specials, The English Beat (just known as The Beat in the UK), and then two of them went off and became General Public.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:42 PM (qazQh)
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
Mentioned in a thread earlier in the week. I just love seeing:
$4.99 "fresh" catfish (lol, they'll think it's fresh)
Employees must "wash their hands" before returning to work (totally don't bother washing your hands, it's just a joke, wink wink)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Im thinking most forget to mention it
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (FTXAT)
From the Oxford comma article.
I would like to than my parents, mother Theresa and the Pope.
An Oxford comma would make this sentence less ambiguous.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (u8Ywb)
You are diluted. It's redundant only in the sense that all right-minded people know to fill in that comma for you.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:38 PM (29QcC)
Hey, if people want to say "and and" in their head when the read the end of lists I have written, that is their business. I feel no need to kowtow to their peccadilloes :-P
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (bMQv/)
Beer, buns, burger, pork, and beans.
Not the same.
Throw in some more "and"s and/or "or"s.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: t-bird
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rofl
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (zc3Db)
++++
The Brits have different rules. For them, the punctuation goes outside the quotes, unless the punctuation was part of the quote in question. I prefer their way, so that's the way I do it. If anyone wants to correct me, I claim I am British. Prove I'm not.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (R+30W)
I would like to than my parents, mother Theresa and the Pope.
An Oxford comma would make this sentence less ambiguous.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (u8Ywb)<<<
Mother Theresa and the Pope were getting it on, and had a kid?! Ewwww.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 11:45 PM (Tstsj)
I read the article. The law needed the comma.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:45 PM (u8Ywb)
Stater Bros used to run ads for their supermarkets here in SoCal, where their taglin at the end read, and I write below *exactly* how they had it punctuated on the screen:
Where You "Always" "Get More For Less"
The way they overused the quote marks, it seemed as if they meant it as a joke.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:45 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Aviator at March 23, 2017 11:46 PM (/Nite)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:46 PM (IqV8l)
I always thought it would be a great opening song for a movie about Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:47 PM (qazQh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Im thinking most forget to mention it
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (zZb/S)
Uber and Lyft are technically "ride-sharing" apps. Some cities have banned (or tried to) ban them, due to taxi-owner lobbying.
If I were doing either, I would make sure my liability insurance was as large as I could afford.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:47 PM (WDdjT)
You are diluted. It's redundant only in the sense that all right-minded people know to fill in that comma for you.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2017 11:38 PM (29QcC)
You made me laugh.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:47 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:46 PM (IqV8l)<<<
Could get really messy if you were also on your period.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: colfax mingo at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (PX+kj)
Posted by: Donna, tan now gone but with &&&&&&& to burn and so there at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (IqV8l)
Not an expert, but that doesn't stop me from commenting.
From what I've read, operating your vehicle as/in a commercial venture could (emphasis, "could") void your insurance.
You're not a taxi, so no you don't need a license. That's part of what pisses off taxi drivers in some cities that are trying to stop this service. They bought these expensive licenses (or whatever you call them) and now somebody comes in without that expense and undercuts them.
I say too bad so sad for you, sucker.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (Jcg9Q)
And the, "There are no former Marines," thing only complicates things further.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 23, 2017 11:48 PM (a3sfz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:49 PM (qazQh)
But at the same time, they had real talent IMHO and they didn't deserve the wholesale dismissal that "Disco Sucks!" brought to a ton of artists in the early 1980s. I think they could have updated their sound some more, but at the same time I think 1980s-era radio programmers could have at least stopped laughing at them for a few minutes to hear their new stuff at the time, as well. Some of it was warmed-over disco but other tracks were still great.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:38 PM
I hear what you're saying. I quite like disco now (much more than I did back then), but The BG's were largely responsible for the hate unfairly directed at all disco. I can't blame them for doing it... the made the big $$$, more power to them. But it wasn't the SONG Writing that irked, it was their PRODUCTION and execution of the songs. They pretty much destroyed what good disco had to offer. Good disco was visceral, and still carried it's funk/soul roots. The production and arrangements of the BG's was the essence of bland, vanilla schlock that infected most of disco that followed their lead. If the BG's had done it, stripped down and funky, it probably would have been good.
Posted by: otho at March 23, 2017 11:49 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Most of the drivers aren't thinking to far ahead.
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:49 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (R+30W)
Same here. I had the American way drilled into my head as a kid, but I refuse to propagate such stupidity.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:49 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (R+30W)
This is one of the few times that the Euros are correct. I also happen to agree with the Euros on putting a line through my 7s. It makes things much clearer (and my printed "z"s, too). That "zed" name is whacked, though.
That's pretty much it for things the Euros do better than Americans.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:50 PM (zc3Db)
--Another quirk: Those " can be called "scare quotes," " air quotes, " or"bunny ears"
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:50 PM (emDjj)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)
Time to start letting his calls go to voice mail.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:50 PM (Jcg9Q)
Portland-based
company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $10 million to 75
milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma
in a legal clause.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/
grammarians-rejoice-10-million-comma
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (R+30W)
You are correct that I did not read that content... I would have switch the positions of "distribution" and "packing for shipment" so as to avoid confusion but , and (in that case, or) is still redundant.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)
Time to start letting his calls go to voice mail.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 23, 2017 11:50 PM (Jcg9Q)
"We had already gone to bed.
Now get off my lawn, loser."
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (+azJs)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XrWqDv3Kfsg
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (bMQv/)
True, dat. I'd call that soft rock, or blue-eyed soul. Before the disco era, for sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Original Jake at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (gp3sW)
He got rehired when a new political party swept into office. He was a former prosecuting attorney. Now he is a prosecuting attorney, again.
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (zZb/S)
Too bad John Fogerty is apparently not a very happy person.
Posted by: qdpsteve
He's an old fogerty.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (IqV8l)
Hobbes: What?
[ . . . ]Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (ZO497)
In Spanish verbs are easily recognized by the -AR -ER or -IR suffix in the infinitive tense, and are generally conjugated in very similar ways (except for the irregular ones which makes Spanish such an exciting language to learn.
It is actually possible to take a noun and put a verb ending on it and make a verb out of it -- however native speakers will cross the street to not only tell you what you did wrong, but will also attempt to tell you the correct way of saying it.
I think the convention is that you can make a noun out of a verb, but the other way around is just mindless anarchy. but my way is more fun.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (0hI48)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (qazQh)
http://tinyurl.com/m6ozwav
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:32
LMAO. How many websites have in depth discussions about the Oxford commas w/ smart military observations?
Be well Morons...zzzzz
Posted by: Farmer at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (o/90i)
punctuation goes outside the quotes, unless the punctuation was part of
the quote in question. I prefer their way, so that's the way I do it. If
anyone wants to correct me, I claim I am British. Prove I'm not.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 23, 2017 11:44 PM (R+30W)
I am British in exactly the same way.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (FTXAT)
It rocks, is truly funky IMHO, and it's obvious they were still feeling their way around this new musical format a bit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:53 PM (qazQh)
He got rehired when a new political party swept into office. He was a former prosecuting attorney. Now he is a prosecuting attorney, again.
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (zZb/S)
Am I missing a subtlety? Can't he just be retired?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:53 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2017 11:53 PM (aMlLZ)
I always do that too, since my 7s look a lot like my 1s.
Posted by: Donna, tan now gone but with &&&&&&& to burn and so there at March 23, 2017 11:54 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 23, 2017 11:54 PM (IcT7t)
OMG. Stater Bros. Does that bring back some childhood memories.
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (uKRys)
Ted Williams was the greatest. There will never, ever be another like him.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 23, 2017 10:32 PM (97XyN)<<<
Er. Just noticed this. No one will ever play centerfield like me. Because I always played left field.
Posted by: the Splendid Splinter's head in a jar at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (bMQv/)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:49 PM
Same reason I refuse to switch my fork-hand after every cut of meat. Some American rules are stupid, and seem to exist only to be contrary to the English method.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (S2VsH)
I admit I don't quite get their popularity. Every store of theirs I've ever been in, smells like spoiled meat.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (qazQh)
--You're kidding, right?
So many other letters sound like "zee" that it makes sense.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:56 PM (emDjj)
I also hate when people say irregardless.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:56 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 23, 2017 11:21 PM (WTSFk)
--That's the Oxford comma, and you, sir, are way out of line.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:26 PM (emDjj)
People who omit the Oxford comma universally sit next to you on the bus or at the DMV and smell like sour milk. This isn't my opinion, it's proven scientific fact.
http://tinyurl.com/m6ozwav
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:32 PM (8nWyX)
"Highlights of Peter Ustinov's glbal tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
Bahahahahaha.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM (0hI4
The irregulars e.g. ser are so few that it's not that big a deal IMO. The stuff like "what tense do I use if I'm telling a group of people who are equal to or below my status they should have done this thing in the past" are what still messes me up.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (41bdC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (IqV8l)
That's the one. I guess someone was hiding their first album from me. Let me check ... Nope. Just have The Raw and The Cooked.
When I first heard it, I thought the Bee Gees were trying to make another comeback.
Heh. That's not nice ...
I don't believe FYC ever released a third album, but anyway TR&TC wasn't bad. Got it when it first came out.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:19 PM (qazQh)
They had done their masterpiece and their record company must have killed them so that they couldn't pollute with lesser later works.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 23, 2017 11:23 PM (zc3Db)
They were doomed from the start.
I was working in radio at that time, and IIRC, they had pissed off most of the people at their record company and in the music industry, radio included. I don't know exactly what they did, but it must have been a doozy since none of them have even sniffed anything in the record business since.
Even reunions of The Beat haven't had the two guys from FYC in them which tells you "dicks".
It's really sad because they put out two great albums.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 23, 2017 11:58 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2017 11:58 PM (S2VsH)
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:58 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Original Jake at March 23, 2017 11:58 PM (gp3sW)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (emDjj)
--You're kidding, right?
So many other letters sound like "zee" that it makes sense.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:56 PM (emDjj)<<<
Zed's dead.
Posted by: Bruce Willis at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (Tstsj)
Posted by: Johnny Fever at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (ZO497)
I admit I don't quite get their popularity. Every store of theirs I've ever been in, smells like spoiled meat.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:55 PM (qazQh)
They had nice harmonies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8nRL2bPCU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (uKRys)
Posted by: Original Jake at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (gp3sW)
Lots of it. "Run" probably started life as a verb but "a run" came to be. You can find this with almost all of our verbs. In English, there really aren't any words that are specifically nouns or verbs, they're just words. We make them nouns or verbs merely by using them that way. Put an article before any word (definite or indefinite, doesn't matter) and it's a noun.
This flexibility is what makes English the greatest and most flexible language around. It's the structure of phrases that determines the meanings of the words used. In the other, primitive, languages their words are set in stone. They conjugate them and have the time already embedded in the word. We really don't even conjugate verbs, really. We use prepositions and other structural words to create meaning.
As I told ace, in English, we don't even really have any tenses for the words, themselves. We have structures and then the tense is defined by the phrasing. i.e. "I walk" is not present tense. It's really no tense. It's an expression that I walk, not that I am walking (which is the way you make a present tense) but, in general, I walk. This is unlike any of the Eurotrash languages ... which aren't far removed from the cave painting days
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:45 PM (u8Ywb)
++++
Actually, I think the part in question was meant as one clause, so there should not have been a comma. But, the fact that the rule for the comma is ambiguous means the law could be read two ways.
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of:
All of those things are jobs that occur on the premises, as long as "shipment or distribution" are all part of the description of the packing job. Sometimes a law will list a bunch of stuff and not put an "and" or an "or" before the last item on the list. I think that's the best way to read it, but I can see why the company that has to pay the OT would rather read it the other way.
Or, to put it more succinctly, I think if the lawmakers had wanted to include driving the trucks involved in moving the product out, they would have specifically mentioned truck drivers. Look at how specific the law is with all those other activities. Why would they not have been specific when it comes to driving the trucks?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (R+30W)
When in doubt, ALWAYS use the usted form. You can't offend anyone that way.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (S2VsH)
--You're kidding, right?
So many other letters sound like "zee" that it makes sense.
Posted by: logprof at March 23, 2017 11:56 PM (emDjj)
Zed's dead.
Posted by: Bruce Willis at March 23, 2017 11:59 PM (Tstsj)
Zulu, please. We have to maintain the pretense of a smart military blog or we'll get charged for the room rental.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (8nWyX)
"Have You Seen My Wife, Mr Jones?"
There's really no fixing that, except syntactically. Or synstrategically.
Yo Jones, Where My Wife At?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:01 AM (IqV8l)
426 He got rehired when a new political party swept into office. He was a former prosecuting attorney. Now he is a prosecuting attorney, again.
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:51 PM (zZb/S)
Well done. Sadly, he is a future former prosecuting attorney. Again. And those he was formerly prosecuting may or may not be prosecuted in the future as they were in the past.
And I'm not even going to get into attorneys general and brothers-in-law.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 24, 2017 12:01 AM (a3sfz)
encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo
collector."
Bahahahahaha.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (+azJs)<<<
I had to collect something while I spent those centuries in prison.
Posted by: zombie Mandela at March 24, 2017 12:01 AM (Tstsj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 23, 2017 11:52 PM
Yeah, the description I'm looking for is "over produced". There are obviously good songs in there... somewhere, but I have trouble getting to them due to the walls of massed strings, synths, inoffensive guitar and bass, multi tracked EVERYTHING... and so on. It's a major reason that the early disco years were marked by (relative) simplicity and an earthiness, while later disco just sounded like some coked up producer's ego.
Posted by: otho at March 24, 2017 12:01 AM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Original Jake
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The first rule of NJ mobsters is, don't talk about NJ mobster's grandchildren.
Posted by: NJ Mobster at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (/ZEVC)
I do remember their lead singer, Roland Gift, immediately wanting to become an actor.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (qazQh)
Italy: 'North African' Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (GgzGa)
I still have all his old liquor mirrors hanging in my office/library.
Posted by: Infidel
Is that similar to a beer goggle?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (S2VsH)
For sure, but that won't help on the exam if they ask for the vosotros imperative form.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:03 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 24, 2017 12:01 AM (a3sfz)
Attorneys general and brothers-in-law always seemed right to me. Never understood why other people tripped over them.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (+azJs)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (uKRys)
That's cursive darlin'. Evidently Miss Infidel is an educated woman. Now I REALLY hate her!
Posted by: Doc Holliday at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (AOrEZ)
Posted by: Mayor KAAAHHHNNN!!! at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (S2VsH)
I also hate when people say irregardless.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:56
LOL, I have a cow-orker who keeps saying "I've seen". Drives me nuts.
Posted by: Farmer at March 24, 2017 12:05 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:05 AM (+azJs)
Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2017 11:58 PM (zZb/S)
There's nothing wrong with "that that".
"I was told that that case isn't allowed." is correct. Two different words, really.
Same with "had had". "He had had three pieces by then." is a correctly constructed sentence.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:05 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: davidt at March 24, 2017 12:05 AM (XoldI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (IqV8l)
If I am in there and have been drinking, I try to keep the lights off in order to not see double.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (bMQv/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (GgzGa)
Filthy Carthaginians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:06 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Infidel at March 23, 2017 11:34 PM (uKRys)
That's cursive darlin'. Evidently Miss Infidel is an educated woman. Now I REALLY hate her!
Posted by: Doc Holliday at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (AOrEZ)
You don't even know her.
Posted by: Kate at March 24, 2017 12:07 AM (+azJs)
otho, not disagreeing. There was so much coke abuse in the industry at that time, I'm shocked so many great songs came out of the era. I think at least one of the Gibbs was sniffing as well; I know Andy was, which is just one of the reasons he was the first to pass away.
And Infidel, Market Basket takes *me* way back. There used to be one in Long Beach near the corner of Bellflower and Spring. Building's still there, now it's a 24-Hour Fitness.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:07 AM (qazQh)
Italy: 'North African' Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Was he riding an elephant?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (IqV8l)
Without the comma, it's ambiguous. I'm not an attorney or a writer. I can see they were exempting the truck drivers from overtime rules but that comma really would have made it clear.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (u8Ywb)
Ƶed
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (+azJ
--I'm just one among several passersby.
Posted by: logprof at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (emDjj)
otho, not disagreeing. There was so much coke abuse in the industry at that time, I'm shocked so many great songs came out of the era. I think at least one of the Gibbs was sniffing as well; I know Andy was, which is just one of the reasons he was the first to pass away.
And Infidel, Market Basket takes *me* way back. There used to be one in Long Beach near the corner of Bellflower and Spring. Building's still there, now it's a 24-Hour Fitness.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:07 AM (qazQh)
I think you can do a lot of coke before it starts to affect your artistic output. Might even help, for a bit.
Posted by: Kate at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (+azJs)
not that big a deal IMO. The stuff like "what tense do I use if I'm
telling a group of people who are equal to or below my status they
should have done this thing in the past" are what still messes me up.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (8nWyX)
It means you are speaking Korean.
Possibly Castillian or talking like an Argentino, and why would someone do that?
Are you talking about vos/vosotros?
Otherwise you are talking about the subjunctive and that's high-falutin stuff for college profs and judges.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (0hI48)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (IqV8l)
Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector
= Mandela is 800 years old and collects dildos
Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod, and a dildo collector
= Mandela could be 800 years old but he's not a dildo collector
Nelson Mandela -- an 800-year-old demigod -- and a dildo collector
= Mandela is definitely 800 years old
Posted by: SFGoth at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (qazQh)
I think you're flirting with me.
Posted by: The Lustful, Wanting Barrel at March 24, 2017 12:10 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (+azJ
--I'm just one among several passersby.
Posted by: logprof at March 24, 2017 12:08 AM (emDjj)
I'll bet that one has ESL people scratching their heads.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:10 AM (+azJs)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:10 AM (GgzGa)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:10 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 24, 2017 12:10 AM (TdMsT)
"Harper Valley PTA"
"I Don't Wanna Play House"
"A Boy Named Sue"
"Flowers On The Wall"
"El Paso"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
"King Of The Road"
but wait, there's more!...
Posted by: qdp "K-Tel" steve at March 24, 2017 12:11 AM (qazQh)
Italy: 'North African' Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (GgzGa)
North African Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Breitbard 8 hours ago
Man held for 'driving at crowd' in Antwerp, Belgium
BBC 11 hours ago
French-Tunisian is arrested after trying to drive a car loaded with liquid gas, assault rifle and knives into shoppers in an attempted terrorist attack in Antwerp
Daily Mail 14 hours ago
Pattern, no, these are isolated random events. Various police agencies are researching for possible motivation.
Posted by: Defanada at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (4w/6s)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: qdp at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (qazQh)
What do you do in your spare time?
I walk.
Not "I do walking." Although you could say that, and it conveys something.
It isn't that English does not have tenses; it's that it has more ways of expressing them. And each route to the meaning has its own little twist of extra information.
Sure, English is easy to use and adaptable and all that other happy talk. Those factors also make it more susceptible to annoying little fads. They exist for a reason, and I'm sure you've looked into that. Show you're hip, make you part of a group, exhibit that you've picked up the nicety of one particular new usage (yes, I'm saying this as if those are bad things).
Those things are useful if you're holding forth on what's hip, or making jokes. Unless you're very sensitive about knowing when to stop saying that thing, it cuts you out of the crowd you're trying to mimic as fast as a college president quoting Bob Dylan at commencement [ used to...Dylan's a Nobelaureate now, so... ].
And a lot of it is just fuckups, and not giving a shit. "Unnerstann me or don't, dat's your problem not mine." I call it the "ya know" school of grammar. You Know what I mean, because nobody in our group has any other thoughts that whommsane. And that works, in your group. Also useful for finding out just exactly where that group ends, too.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (H5rtT)
There used to be one in Long Beach near the corner of Bellflower and
Spring. Building's still there, now it's a 24-Hour Fitness.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:07 AM (qazQh)
WTF, brother from another mother? I think that is the one grandpa left in '64 when they sold their house in Long Beach and moved to Palm Desert.
Cousin and I used to rent her Grandma and Grandpa's house on Silva in Lakewood. Other Grandma lived on Oliva in Lakewood.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (uKRys)
Distribution is driving the trucks. Moving the product.
I wonder who found the error. Was one of the drivers that clever?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:13 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:13 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2017 11:53 PM (aMlLZ)
Obligatory: Disco Demolition night 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJfOcnYYEQ
Posted by: Country Boy at March 24, 2017 12:13 AM (Jcg9Q)
Let the drunken fun commence.
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 24, 2017 12:13 AM (2SERm)
Posted by: Rusty Nail (now with Canadian scotch!) at March 24, 2017 12:15 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 24, 2017 1
Sounds fun, but the Clydesdales make that impossible.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:15 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (IqV8l)
*OM fistbump*
Are you talking about vos/vosotros?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:09 AM (0hI4
Yeah, that form. Not that good with those conjugations, but they always turned up on the tests.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:15 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: The Lustful, Wanting Barrel
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What's weird is that I test-posted the entry at 485 on an old thread, and it posted properly, but not here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:16 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Defanada at March 24, 2017 12:12 AM (4w/6s)
Searching for possible motivation? That's sarcasm, right?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 24, 2017 12:16 AM (TdMsT)
This is getting spooky... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:16 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:17 AM (IqV8l)
We wish it were, but that's pretty close to what the official statements will be.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (S2VsH)
https://youtu.be/afAdLANgL-s
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2017 11:57 PM (IqV8l)
++++
Nope. Blue men drinking a beverage doesn't do it for me. If I'm going to watch a video for that song, I want to see Donna writhing to the beat.
https://youtu.be/f0h8Pjf4vNM
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (R+30W)
I always wanted all those K-Tel records.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (uKRys)
Attorneys general and brothers-in-law always seemed right to me. Never understood why other people tripped over them.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 24, 2017 12:04 AM (+azJs)
Some people just can't help but slap an s on the end of a word, like deers. It's like if they slap enough s's a party might break out.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (a3sfz)
Searching for possible motivation? That's sarcasm, right?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
If only that were true.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)
"I would like to thank my parents, mother Theresa and the Pope."
An Oxford comma would make this sentence less ambiguous.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (u8Ywb)
What bugs me about the Oxford comma is that "they" insist it be used even when not necessary for clarification. And the simple truth is that it's never necessary. The need for an Oxford comma can always be obviated by a simple adjustment of word order. For example, in the case above the sentence should read:
"I would like to thank the Pope, Mother Theresa and my parents."
Throwing commas around willy-nilly, and trying to create a rule to justify this profligacy, instead of just writing right in the first place, is like putting a band-aid on the train after it has already sailed. This isn't rocket surgery, people.
To paraphrase Strunk & White: "Omit needless punctuation."
Posted by: HTL at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (JsSFV)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (hVdx9)
Italy: 'North African' Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:02 AM (GgzGa)
North African Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
Breitbard 8 hours ago
Man held for 'driving at crowd' in Antwerp, Belgium
BBC 11 hours ago
French-Tunisian is arrested after trying to drive a car loaded with liquid gas, assault rifle and knives into shoppers in an attempted terrorist attack in Antwerp
Daily Mail 14 hours ago
Pattern, no, these are isolated random events. Various police agencies are researching for possible motivation.
Posted by: Defanada
Sounds like alot of dickheads listened to Erdogan, our friend and ally.
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (zZb/S)
We wish it were, but that's pretty close to what the official statements will be.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (S2VsH)
We are living among the truly insane, pretending to not notice.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (TdMsT)
Very spooky, that was grandma d, mom's mom.
Posted by: Infidel
Grandma D sounds like a rapper name.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (IqV8l)
"I Don't Wanna Play House"
"A Boy Named Sue"
"Flowers On The Wall"
"El Paso"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
"King Of The Road"
but wait, there's more!...
Posted by: qdp "K-Tel" steve
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Hmm, most country fans would not those 'country'. I mean, there's no Ernest Tubb in there.
But, anyhow, one of my favorite country tunes is 'Don't Come Home With Liquor on Your Breath and Lovin' on Your Mind'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:15 AM (8nWyX)
The sort of thing you need for the exam, but which you can get along fine without, in actual Spanish conversation. And if you were ever having an in-depth conversation with a well-educated Spanish speaker, you could simply express some bewilderment about the right construction, and get educated right then and there. Nicely, too. I have actually done just that. Bewilderment, that is.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (WDdjT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fAJfOcnYYEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsQI2IeM5U
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (IcT7t)
People put up with that. They roll their eyes, with the Surgeon General.
They don't laugh out loud until it's the Postmaster General.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:21 AM (H5rtT)
Infidel, ah. My grandma was Grandma Wilson. Still, incredible what a coincidence. Guess it really is a small world sometimes.
Lakewood's still very nice, a slice of Orange County in LA County. But I just wish I could know how long it can hold out against the craziness that has become Southern California.
I'll always love it, but I'm ready to go somewhere else. At the same time, I know that once I *am* somewhere else, I'll need to come back at least once a year to Lakewood to visit and reminisce.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:22 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:22 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 24, 2017 12:23 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Tilikum
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Dead name ? Big deal.
Posted by: Latin at March 24, 2017 12:23 AM (ZO497)
I refused to wear it because I told her I was no such thing. She didn't get it.
Now, if it had said "I'm Rick James, bitch!", I'd've worn that motherfucker out.
It still sits, pristine, in a drawer.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at March 24, 2017 12:23 AM (Tstsj)
But, anyhow, one of my favorite country tunes is 'Don't Come Home With Liquor on Your Breath and Lovin' on Your Mind'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM
Sons of the Pioneers, or
Hank Sr.
or the song, Thank God and Greyhound you're Gone!
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: qdp "K-Tel" steve at March 24, 2017 12:11 AM (qazQh)
++++
When I read that, I heard Damon Wayans' voice in my head speaking the line.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (R+30W)
When I said that English doesn't have tenses (if I said it like that) I meant that there are no tenses in the words, themselves, but only in the constructed phrases. In other languages, the tense is part of the word - all that conjugation they have to do. English seems to have formed around the idea that describing the time and duration of action is the most important aspect and that was left open to be described in as great detail as one desired, rather than just having some set number of tenses that all verbs would then be conjugated into. I have found that many foreigners who seem to speak fluent English really don't understand many of the nuances of our many tense structures. To them, "I rode", "I had been riding", "I had ridden" ... are all bunched up into a general past tense. At least, that's been my experience with many.
That's what I was saying.
And, yes, the progressive is present imperfect, but it's the actual present tense that grammar books are trying to claim "I walk" is, which it most certainly isn't (as your example showed). This seems to be some holdover from romance languages that have these concrete and stagnant tenses that, I guess, earlier English speakers wanted to claim English also had to seem as if they "belonged". Just a guess.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (zc3Db)
To paraphrase Strunk & White: "Omit needless punctuation."
Posted by: HTL at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (JsSFV)
As I said earlier, I'm not a writer. I use them out of habit and Mrs England my teacher, but mostly Mrs England.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (u8Ywb)
encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo
collector."
This is ambiguous because the structure of the sentence, due to the ability of the descriptions to stand alone as the actors being implied by the description alone, being at risk of conflation with the stacking order of adjectives in English for a single actor; age comes before most everything, and I suppose a dildo could be a shape or a purpose.
By switching the individuals' order around you avoid the built in ambiguity of whether these are descriptions of stops on the tour, or descriptions of Nelson Mandela
"Highlights of Peter Ustinov's global tour include encounters with a dildo collector, an 800-year-old demigod and Nelson Mandela."
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (0hI48)
Talk about a haunting song... it's one of these I can't really listen to anymore.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:25 AM (qazQh)
It has nothing to do with the nick-name for your junk.
and trying to create a rule to justify this profligacy,
Right, writers came up with a rule to justify their spending habits at whorehouses.
instead of just writing right in the first place,
'right'?
is like putting a band-aid on the train after it has already sailed.
DAH, COMRADE. IS LIKE BAND-AID.
THAT FILTHY CAPITALIST ROCK AND ROLL EVENT WITH FALSE SOLIDARITY WITH WESTERN PROLETARIAT!
Just fucking use it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (GgzGa)
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (rnOcr)
Yes, I grew up in HB. Was back for Christmas in '15. I was shocked. I miss the beach, and some relatives, but nothing else anymore.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: hogmartin
Had a 1SG long ago used those along with "utensil strength". One time at ENDEX, he called on the company command net to order everyone to "suspend all remaining ammunition." So we would not have to go through ammo turn in.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (di1hb)
Ask for a drug test before you give him one more dime.
Posted by: Evelle Snoats at March 23, 2017 11:40 PM (2SERm)
That's my impression. Does he have sores on his face?
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 23, 2017 11:42 PM (+azJs)
No sores. Teeth in good shape. Not meth. According to the in laws, he's had a problem with mental issues his whole life, so....
He has a tendency to not only stick his dick into crazy, but to either marry or live with it for years and years.
He's been fired from 3 jobs in the last 8 years, the first one we thing was for pissing weed. The 2nd one was for mouthing off to his supervisor that he couldn't stand that got fired 3 months later. The last one the company lost a ton of contracts and he was laid off (according to him).
He just doesn't want to work a "real job". He tried to be a handyman about a year ago, but he has a philosophy that "whoever offers him the most money gets first service". So, if he is supposed to come help you with something on Friday, and somebody calls him up on Tuesday and offers him more money to do something on Friday, then he doesn't show up. Or call.
His best friend gave him a job last fall. He never showed up for the job, and has not even called the guy.
But hey, he's banging a crazy chick with big tits, and that seems to be his only goal in life.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (1JnAL)
Hank Sr.
or the song, Thank God and Greyhound you're Gone!
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (uKRys)
"It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night, That Chewed Your Ass Out All Day Long."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (WDdjT)
Yep, it's easy enough to get by as long as you have a basic understanding of verb conjugations and a big ol' bag of vocabulary. Even if it's not grammatically correct, you can be understood as well as e.g. someone who has decent but broken English. They'll get what you're trying to say.
And anyway, since my Spanish teacher was actually from Spain, most Latinos are too busy laughing at my lispy pronunciations anyway.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:27 AM (8nWyX)
https://youtu.be/f0h8Pjf4vNM
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 24, 2017 12:18 AM (R+30W)
Impressive for live. The music is like kryptonite to me, but I had to watch the whole thing to investigate this writhing you speak of. I might have to watch that again. damn...
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 24, 2017 12:27 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 24, 2017 12:16 AM (TdMsT)
In a sane world it would be.
Posted by: Defanada at March 24, 2017 12:27 AM (4w/6s)
Posted by: navybrat
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Sure. What time is dinner served?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (ZO497)
They didn't tune into anything else I believe, and I know they didn't listen to any stations with an country music-only format. So I was hearing the poppiest country of the time.
Another one I loved was Lynn Anderson, "Rose Garden." Was tickled that it got used in the movie Zodiac.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (qazQh)
"Always Give More
Then You Promise"
We went off on quite a tangent on just what that could mean, if it meant anything at all, and how that differed from the slogan's original thought.
I left shaking my head, and she said, as so many do now, "What?"
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (rnOcr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:30 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: navybrat
I missed this earlier, you guys crack me up.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:30 AM (u8Ywb)
Yup, things have changed a lot. Huntington Beach has changed even more radically than Lakewood. My family had friends who were rich enough to move into a then-brand-new, two-story 1972 home in HB, and I loved going there; the whole place seemed new and gleaming.
Now? HB actually has some spots that are downright gritty and run down at this point. It's sad but the city hasn't really done all it should have to take care of itself between now and then. Even some of the late 1960s, early 1970s neighborhoods are *really* showing their age, and are now made up mostly of rentals. Just sad.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:31 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:24 AM (0hI4
"Highlights of Peter Ustinov's global tour include encounters with a dildo collector, an 800-year-old demigod and famed warrior, and Nelson Mandela."
THAT's why you need the last comma.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:32 AM (zc3Db)
They didn't tune into anything else I believe,
and I know they didn't listen to any stations with an country music-only
format. So I was hearing the poppiest country of the time.
Another one I loved was Lynn Anderson, "Rose Garden." Was tickled that it got used in the movie Zodiac.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (qazQh)
Oh, the humanity! You never got to hear the Tijuana Brass blasting on the stereo? Or operas? Or the Ink Spots? You haven't lived.
/s
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:33 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (rnOcr)
Which island do you live?
We just went to hualalai last month and were able to see the volcano fire hose. It was incredible.
My husband wants a condo there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:33 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 24, 2017 12:34 AM (VdICR)
The Vosotros and Ustedes is like the Tu/usted thing, but for familiar "you-all", and the Argentino/Uruguayan/Paraguayans use a Vos form that takes the place of Tu.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:34 AM (0hI48)
She had an original LP of "!!!Going Places!!!," for goodness' sake. Now I have it on CD. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:34 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:32 AM (zc3Db)
The Oxford comma gives you the flexibility to place items in a list in the order that best suits your purpose, rather than relying simply on word order to avoid ambiguity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:35 AM (WDdjT)
"Always Give More
Then You Promise"
We went off on quite a tangent on just what that could mean, if it meant anything at all, and how that differed from the slogan's original thought.
I left shaking my head, and she said, as so many do now, "What?"
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:28 AM (H5rtT)
May I ask the purchase agents age? How could she not see that?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:35 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:36 AM (qazQh)
"Highlights of Peter Ustinov's global tour include encounters with a dildo collector and former parliamentarian, an 800-year-old demigod and famed warrior, and Nelson Mandela."
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:36 AM (zc3Db)
The dildo collector was not Spartacus.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 24, 2017 12:26 AM (1JnAL)
Noble goal, it just can't be the only goal.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (aMlLZ)
The Vosotros and Ustedes is like the Tu/usted thing, but for familiar "you-all", and the Argentino/Uruguayan/Paraguayans use a Vos form that takes the place of Tu.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:34 AM (0hI4
I've been trying to learn Spanish periodically and you're making my brain hurt.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (u8Ywb)
Surely you mean Kilauea? If Hualalai is blowing, Kona is fucked.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (S2VsH)
71-71 with less than a minute.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (hCoZK)
Now? HB actually has some spots that are
downright gritty and run down at this point. It's sad but the city
hasn't really done all it should have to take care of itself between now
and then. Even some of the late 1960s, early 1970s neighborhoods are
*really* showing their age, and are now made up mostly of rentals. Just
sad.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:31 AM (qazQh)
Yes, we went by the old house. Still nice there. Near Westminster Mall that used to be a goldfish farm and cabbage fields nearby. Don't think the 405 was built yet. Mom and Dad bought the house in '61 and we left for CO on '75.
I was shocked how far some parts have fallen.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (uKRys)
535 Obligatory: Disco Demolition night 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fAJfOcnYYEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsQI2IeM5U
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 24, 2017 12:20 AM (IcT7t)
Watching "Disco Demolition Night" reminds me not to give up hope for my country.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (TdMsT)
"I would like to thank my parents, mother Theresa and the Pope."
An Oxford comma would make this sentence less ambiguous.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:43 PM (u8Ywb)
What bugs me about the Oxford comma is that "they" insist it be used even when not
necessary for clarification. And the simple truth is that it's never
necessary. The need for an Oxford comma can always be obviated by a
simple adjustment of word order. For example, in the case above the
sentence should read:
"I would like to thank the Pope, Mother Theresa and my parents."
Throwing commas around willy-nilly, and trying to create a rule to
justify this profligacy, instead of just writing right in the first
place, is like putting a band-aid on the train after it has already
sailed. This isn't rocket surgery, people.
To paraphrase Strunk White: "Omit needless punctuation."
Posted by: HTL at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (JsSFV)
I totally agree, HTL.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 24, 2017 12:38 AM (FTXAT)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (0hI48)
But it isn't easy. Because thought, unless you ignore time, isn't simple.
You may choose to be well hanged. I'm going to stick with what I've got.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (H5rtT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:34 AM (qazQh)
Heh, you probably remember Olvero Street and Lion County Safari!
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (uKRys)
Surely you mean Kilauea? If Hualalai is blowing, Kona is fucked.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (S2VsH)
Yes, Kilauea was the the volcano with the fire hose pouring in the ocean. We stayed at hualalai.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (u8Ywb)
I believe the 405 was built in Orange County from 1966 to about 1970, or at least that's what I've read on some now-defunct websites listing the history of the interstates in California.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (qazQh)
greater Los Angeles area. Portions of California 7 were ugpraded to a
freeway in 1957 and later designated Interstate 405 by 1963. West of Interstate 605, Interstate 405 was completed before 1965.
This is the first thing Bing came up with.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:42 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (u8Ywb)
The "Vos" thing is an archaism, and is only rarely encountered in a few countries. Like "thou" in English. If you learn modern Spanish well enough, you will take it easily in hand if you encounter it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:43 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (u8Ywb)
Unless you travel a loooong way you shouldn't have any trouble. And you can get by with just Usted as well. I did for years.
I deal with Mexicans and Central Americans, they use present past and future.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:43 AM (0hI48)
Ah, gotcha. I love Kohala, myself. And Waimea*, actually (even though it's not what people think when they think Hawaii).
* Big Island Waimea, not Kauai Waimea, which is kinda seedy.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (S2VsH)
My grandmothers were interesting. On my mom's side, Grandma Wilson was a homemaker all her life, never learned how to drive, and her only outside job was working at a close friend's nursery school, which lucky for me was during the time I got to attend there. Here's the nursery school, by the way:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/dorothy-ahrens-nursery-school-long-beach
(The school's namesake is my godmother, btw.)
On the other hand, my Grandma Lanzi on my dad's side, lived in Rossmoor, which was (and still is) considered somewhat tony. She drove, had her own cars, was a cafeteria kitchen supervisor for a number of decades in downtown Long Beach, listened to TJ Brass and Sinatra and others, had a stereo and knew how to play music on it, and always seemed to have a whole cabinet full of sugary cereals at the ready whenever my parents needed to drop us there for the night.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:35 AM (WDdjT)
That's part of it, but even just that more than justifies its general use. It is much easier to always use one little comma and not have to worry about order, at all, rather than having to rethink every list to make sure it's correctly ordered.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2017 09:57 PM (MZcWR)
Have you read "For us, the living?"
Posted by: Fox2! at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (brIR5)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 24, 2017 12:39 AM (0hI4
Glad to be of assistance. Did you determine if that particular model was indeed one that requires engine removal to do the clutch?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:46 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: HTL at March 24, 2017 12:19 AM (JsSFV)
I totally agree, HTL.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 24, 2017 12:38 AM (FTXAT)
Again, I write nothing more important than a grocery list or thank you note. If I do have to write something more important than that I have my son proof read it for me.
I don't want to look like a dumbass.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:46 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 24, 2017 12:00 AM (R+30W)
That comma was left out for a reason. When that bill went to be printed by the legislative services, somebody made sure that comma wasn't put in so that there would be some type of ruling like this in the future.
The Dems held the legislature when this bill was drawn up, so they figured leaving that comma out would benefit the AFL-CIO sometime in the future. It probably just took some legislative aide a few years to get his law license and bring up the case.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 24, 2017 12:47 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Average Guy at March 24, 2017 12:47 AM (LMcFk)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (u8Ywb)
Things that make European languages confusing for English speakers:
- 'you' is pretty universal in English, addressing one or any number of people. Lots of languages have different forms of address and verb conjugations for single or multiple subjects.
- Formality: there are two forms, one informal for peers and another formal one for addressing seniors or in formal situations. There's actually a German word, "duzen", for when you know someone well enough to use "du" instead of the formal "sie".
- Genders. What's a potato's gender? It's actually pretty easy to work out in Spanish, with the -o and -a endings on nouns.
In short: get the Duolingo app for your phone and use the duolingo.com website on your computer. It's fun and easy and even has an adorable owl :3
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:47 AM (8nWyX)
I think it's 'zed' only because of German's 'tstett'. Someone in the colonies must have said, well, that's silly- we don't have any other letters that sound like that.
Posted by: t-bird at March 24, 2017 12:47 AM (eeTCA)
English seems IMHO to be significantly more streamlined than a lot of other languages.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:50 AM (qazQh)
Ah, gotcha. I love Kohala, myself. And Waimea*, actually (even though it's not what people think when they think Hawaii).
* Big Island Waimea, not Kauai Waimea, which is kinda seedy.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (S2VsH)
I think we flew over that. We did a half day helicopter tour.
I like the Kona coast. We like to go in winter and it's beautiful.
We used to go to Maui, but we've been going to the big island for the past 4 or 5 years now. I really love it there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:51 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:44 AM (zc3Db)
Exactly. And maybe you have a good reason to order your list in a certain way.
"I want to thank my parents, the Pope, and Mother Teresa." - indicates the relative importance of those influences in presumably the correct order.
"I want to thank the Pope, Mother Teresa and my parents." - conveys a somewhat different meaning, does it not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:52 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:37 AM (u8Ywb)
Things that make European languages confusing for English speakers:
- 'you' is pretty universal in English, addressing one or any number of people. Lots of languages have different forms of address and verb conjugations for single or multiple subjects.
- Formality: there are two forms, one informal for peers and another formal one for addressing seniors or in formal situations. There's actually a German word, "duzen", for when you know someone well enough to use "du" instead of the formal "sie".
- Genders. What's a potato's gender? It's actually pretty easy to work out in Spanish, with the -o and -a endings on nouns.
In short: get the Duolingo app for your phone and use the duolingo.com website on your computer. It's fun and easy and even has an adorable owl :3
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:47 AM (8nWyX)
I use Duolingo and Rosetta Stone. It would be easier if I wasn't so hit and miss studying.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: The Lustful, Wanting Barrel
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What's weird is that I test-posted the entry at 485 on an old thread, and it posted properly, but not here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 12:16 AM (ZO497)
Always pushing the envelope aren't you Mr. Hammer?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (uKRys)
"I want to thank my parents, the Pope, and Mother Teresa." - indicates the relative importance of those influences in presumably the correct order.
"I want to thank the Pope, Mother Teresa and my parents." - conveys a somewhat different meaning, does it not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 12:52 AM (WDdjT)
An even better point. I hadn't even thought of relative importance.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 24, 2017 12:54 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (u8Ywb)
'nite CG
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 12:55 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:55 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:55 AM (qazQh)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 12:56 AM (qazQh)
I go through so many tires I have to do it piecemeal, regardless of wear. Man do I use those road hazard warranties.
Discount Tire hates me. I'm the only guy they won't actively try to sell a warranty to (I buy one anyway).
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:56 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March
he is a relative of the pope and Mother Theresa?
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 24, 2017 12:58 AM (cPsPa)
Discount Tire hates me. I'm the only guy they won't actively try to sell a warranty to (I buy one anyway).
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March
heh. I will have to do that. do you have awd?
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 24, 2017 12:58 AM (cPsPa)
Discount Tire hates me. I'm the only guy they won't actively try to sell a warranty to (I buy one anyway).
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 12:56 AM (S2VsH)
You sound like my brother.
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 12:59 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (cPsPa)
If a car is truly AWD, it should have a center differential to permit differing speeds on the front and rear axles. So it shouldn't matter. Having said that, I'd say if the tires are lightly worn, get a new one, and if badly worn, get all four. If middling, try to find a used tire of the exact type you already have. Craigslist could help for that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 01:01 AM (WDdjT)
No. Just a Ford Fusion that attracts sharp objects like a magnet.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 01:02 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Well, remember, I've been banned for a couple of years now. Desperate men do desperate things.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:03 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:04 AM (uKRys)
On March 6 an Anon posted on 4chan that David Brock would be taken out via heart attack for his connections to people I won't mention here.
Exactly two weeks later he had a heart attack but lived.
*cue Twilight Zone theme*
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 24, 2017 01:06 AM (TixTl)
I would never want to leave the house, but the wife makes me.
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:06 AM (rnOcr)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 01:07 AM (S2VsH)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:08 AM (8nWyX)
I think I'm gonna call it a night too. Thanks to everyone for the great chat tonight. Happy Friday!
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 24, 2017 01:08 AM (qazQh)
Well, remember, I've been banned for a couple of years now. Desperate men do desperate things.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:03 AM (ZO497)
And yet you remain on the Wall of Fame. Truly outstanding!!!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 24, 2017 01:08 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:09 AM (uKRys)
I would never want to leave the house, but the wife makes me.
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:06 AM (rnOcr)
Make reservations for dinner at Gerard's. Your head will explode.
Disclaimer: I don't know how much it costs since the lady friend who treated me to dinner there made sure I got the girl menus without the prices.
Bonus: Dessert was a cheese plate and there was a Manchego that serious no-shit tasted like buttered popcorn.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:10 AM (8nWyX)
It's OK, but what the heck is with the gasoline powered leaf blowers at 7am?
Good thing I left my blow dart pipe at home.
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:11 AM (rnOcr)
Posted by: lousagirl at March 24, 2017 01:11 AM (9plvG)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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The most embarrassing moment was when Maet gave me 10 bonus points for being the #1 Poster, while banned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:13 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:14 AM (uKRys)
Which, given the development of history, pretty much equates to what you actually get as a cob. Zip.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 24, 2017 01:15 AM (QDnY+)
Mmmmm. I love Merriman's when I'm on the islands. They have a "chocolate purse" desert sometimes that is outstanding (order with your meal, it has a long prep time).
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 01:15 AM (S2VsH)
My motto is "never go in places that have a hawker out front".
That was most of them.
The ones that weren't empty storefronts.
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:16 AM (rnOcr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:03 AM (ZO497)
So you're the Banned Hammer everyone's always talking about?
Posted by: Average Guy at March 24, 2017 01:17 AM (LMcFk)
Which, given the development of history, pretty much equates to what you actually get as a cob. Zip.
Posted by: rhomboid
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All very true. But, at least his head hasn't been snapped off.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:18 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:19 AM (ZO497)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:20 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:13 AM (ZO497
With friends like that.......
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 24, 2017 01:21 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:08 AM (8nWyX) fnord (8nWyX)
What questions? IIRC I just picked what seemed reasonable and let them do their thing, or even auto-leveled the companions, depending on the playthrough.
I'm not much of a micro-manager.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 01:22 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:24 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: lousagirl at March 24, 2017 01:25 AM (9plvG)
Which, given the development of history, pretty much equates to what you actually get as a cob. Zip.
Posted by: rhomboid
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All very true. But, at least his head hasn't been snapped off.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 24, 2017 01:18 AM (ZO497)
Raises index finger to lips, shhhhhhhhhhhhh
Don't tell anyone
But.........
I really enjoy The ONT
Thanks folks.
Sincerely, thank you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 24, 2017 01:26 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 24, 2017 01:27 AM (S2VsH)
I'm not much of a micro-manager.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 01:22 AM (wB8Tg)
I mostly auto-level too, and just give them kit and upgrades that seem to fit their skills. Here's the thing, though. I'm playing as a straight-up grunt; electronics and hacking aren't even in my skills list. Some of my NPCs have hacking and electronics skills though. Back in the days of KOTOR on the original Xbox, I could cycle through the team (I think it was the black button) and use the best-suited NPC to open a locked crate or unlock a door or whatever. In ME, I end up with crates or consoles with a "DON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING" hovertext, even though I have companions who could probably manage it. How do I get them to use those skills?
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:28 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: lousagirl at March 24, 2017 01:31 AM (9plvG)
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Ask away. I can't guarantee that I'll know the answer (it's been a while since I played the game), but I'll try.
Posted by: junior at March 24, 2017 01:31 AM (To4O8)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:37 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 01:38 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: lousagirl at March 24, 2017 01:39 AM (9plvG)
My motto is "never go in places that have a hawker out front".
That was most of them.
The ones that weren't empty storefronts.
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:16 AM (rnOcr)
Lahaina can be sketchy at night. One of our duty drivers got jumped by four kids for being a haole on Maui past 11pm. He got away OK, but they kicked a dent in the rental van.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:40 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: navybrat at March 24, 2017 01:40 AM (rnOcr)
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Know
Posted by: junior at March 24, 2017 01:42 AM (To4O8)
Posted by: lousagirl at March 24, 2017 01:46 AM (9plvG)
I got away with replacing a single tire, but only had 5,000 miles on them when some chunk of metal on the road decided to make one of my tires smaller than the others.
So it does depend on "how much wear", but I think the limit is pretty low.
Posted by: mikeski at March 24, 2017 01:52 AM (81V3b)
Posted by: Boy George at March 24, 2017 01:57 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at March 24, 2017 01:58 AM (smD62)
Posted by: Infidel at March 24, 2017 02:00 AM (uKRys)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:01 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at March 24, 2017 02:03 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:01 AM (8nWyX)
Nice kitty!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:04 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 02:06 AM (hkdnQ)
http://stoatnet.org/parasite.jpg
Posted by: hogmartin
Yes. Get rid of it, and I will give you some real, live Syrians for FREE.
Posted by: Angela Merkel at March 24, 2017 02:07 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: RickZ
In real football, you can do both.
Posted by: Bill Belichick at March 24, 2017 02:09 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 02:06 AM (hkdnQ)
Sports announcer in love with the sound of his own voice, maybe?
"Pressurize" is a legitimate word. You could pressurize a tire, or an aerosol can, or a cooling system. But a pressurized soccer player would look like Mr. Creosote.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:11 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 24, 2017 02:12 AM (JZdsf)
Posted by: Angela Merkel at March 24, 2017 02:07 AM (vRcUp)
Those aren't couch parasites, Geli. Closer to Ottoman parasites.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:14 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Dzhokar Tsarnaev at March 24, 2017 02:16 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 01:28 AM (8nWyX) fnord (8nWyX)
As far as I recall, if the skill was high enough, you would be able to do the minigame.
A *lot* of locations had object levels that were grossly out of line with where the character would be leveled at that point in the story, though. It should list the challenge level.
You also have to have that companion *with* you, I would sometimes visit a planet twice in a row with different companions.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 02:16 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:04 AM (WDdjT)
I may need to find someone who can spray for these things, this couch is infested.
http://stoatnet.org/parasite2.jpg
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:17 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 23, 2017 11:17 PM (u8Ywb)
Something that will never be said of Hillary Clinton who, BTW, will never be president of the United States.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 02:19 AM (hkdnQ)
http://stoatnet.org/parasite2.jpg
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:17 AM (8nWyX)
Aww, that one seems to have a little wound on its head.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:19 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 02:16 AM (wB8Tg)
Could be, but if I have e.g. Tali in the party I still get 'electronics skill too low' hovertexts, and she's got a pretty high electronics skill. It might be that nobody in the party has a high enough skill, it's just not as obvious as it was in KOTOR 1 or 2, where you could just cycle to the character with the appropriate skill. It's hard to tell if the NPCs' non-combat skills are contributing at all.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:22 AM (8nWyX)
What's a Savings Dwarf? Would that be like my CPA?
Posted by: Snow White at March 24, 2017 02:26 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:19 AM (WDdjT)
You should see the back of his neck. He's kind of an emo cutter kitty, the vets can't find anything physically wrong with him, but he sometimes hides for days and compulsively scratches the hell out of himself. He's doing better since Lydia (the pudgy princess in the first pic) entered the picture, but he still has moments of profound existential angst where he'll start meyowling at the injustice of a world with a warm dry home and food and water and a companion and a clean litter box.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:26 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 24, 2017 12:53 AM (cPsPa) fnord (cPsPa)
Depends on the AWD system.
Older mechanical diffs for AWD could not stand significant differences in outside diameter, you can wreck the diff putting one new tire on with three old ones.
But you really need to check on a car *and year* basis, for example pre-2000 V-series and S-series Volvo AWDs need tires to be the same diameter, roughly post-2001 not so much because of the improved electronic diff.
The manual should say, if you have it, and it needs that.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 02:27 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:26 AM (8nWyX)
My condolences. You got a Democrat kitty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:29 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:22 AM (8nWyX) fnord (8nWyX)
There are set points on the skill bar for each technical skill for each level. They have a different color and/or a little circle.
Using it is automatic if one of them is in your party at the time.
Like I said, you have to look at the specific difficulty of the object. You run into a lot of high-level ones early on, for reasons of poor design.
I never played on consoles, but I don't believe they'd add a control for the simpler controller.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 02:31 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:29 AM (WDdjT)
...actually, yeah, come to think of it. He'd kill a mouse once in a long while, but mostly it was eat, shit and complain.
Pudgy little princess though... haven't seen a mouse since I adopted her. Absolutely wrecks them up. And then comes crying to me to fix the toy she just broke, make it work again.
(do not click if you don't want to see a demolished mouse)
http://tinyurl.com/lcnjzg2
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:34 AM (8nWyX)
http://tinyurl.com/lcnjzg2
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:34 AM (8nWyX)
I have/had kitties. Used to finding half-a-mice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 02:38 AM (WDdjT)
I'll just assume that 'skill too low' means for the whole party, then. I know I don't have those skills, I'm useless beyond grunting and shooting things until they stop moving. It's just not very clear when someone in the party has some degree of those skills, especially when it breaks from how earlier BioWare stuff worked. Thanks for the info!
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:41 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:41 AM (8nWyX) fnord (8nWyX)
Also don't confuse electronics with decryption, people do that a lot. Different kinds of objects.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 24, 2017 02:44 AM (wB8Tg)
On March 6 an Anon posted on 4chan that David Brock would be taken out via heart attack for his connections to people I won't mention here.
Exactly two weeks later he had a heart attack but lived.
*cue Twilight Zone theme*
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup
That's Podesta, reaching out with black magic, I've heard they hate each other.
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2017 02:48 AM (zZb/S)
Posted by: RickZ
Because they're barely literate sports announcers with a career of concussions and pain-killer abuse creeping up on them.
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2017 02:51 AM (zZb/S)
Or a crock pot.
Or a Folsom Street Fair attendee.
Posted by: Average Guy at March 24, 2017 02:53 AM (LMcFk)
Posted by: John Fogerty at March 24, 2017 02:54 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2017 02:51 AM (zZb/S)
FLAPJAAAAACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4J-RiCZ2Q
Posted by: hogmartin at March 24, 2017 02:55 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Golden Handcuffs at March 24, 2017 02:55 AM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 24, 2017 02:56 AM (ltRuz)
Posted by: RickZ
Because more syllables = more smarter. Everyone knows that.
Posted by: Average Guy at March 24, 2017 02:57 AM (LMcFk)
There was a woman who married the Eiffel Tower and another who married the Berlin Wall. They make this guy look sane by comparison.
Posted by: Zoey Tur at March 24, 2017 03:02 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Joseph Haydn at March 24, 2017 03:05 AM (vRcUp)
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Wa wa waaaaaaahhh
Posted by: Sad Oboe at March 24, 2017 03:11 AM (JZdsf)
Posted by: Joseph Haydn at March 24, 2017 03:12 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Joseph Haydn at March 24, 2017 03:05 AM (vRcUp)
WE stopped conducting, too. When they turned the juice off.
Posted by: zobie Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at March 24, 2017 03:17 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2017 02:51 AM (zZb/S)
That may be true with former American football players turned sports announcers but not so much with English football* players turned sports announcers. Concussions happen a lot less in English football compared to American football.
* English football = soccer, a term I loathe. The damn sport is football, a game played with the feet and a ball. In American football a kicker is a specialty, with only two positions allowed to kick the ball, a punter and a field goal kicker.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 03:18 AM (hkdnQ)
Posted by: Average Guy at March 24, 2017 02:57 AM (LMcFk)
Yeah, that seems to be the prevailing -- and failing -- thought. But then, we had a president who couldn't pronounce the one-syllable 'corps' correct, saying 'corpse' (twice).
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 03:21 AM (hkdnQ)
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 03:18 AM (hkdnQ)
Meh, we call it soccer in Canada, too, and did 60 years ago, too. Because Canada also has real football. But in soccer you can "head" the ball, and that practice can result in concussions and/or neck injuries, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 03:24 AM (WDdjT)
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kindly free kick yourself right where it will be the most memorable.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 24, 2017 03:24 AM (UOPKC)
Posted by: Pompous Grammar Pedant at March 24, 2017 03:25 AM (rF0hx)
"Quotation" is a noun.
Posted by: Pompous Grammar Pedant at March 24, 2017 03:25 AM (rF0hx)
And two pints make one cavort.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 03:28 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 03:28 AM (WDdjT)
And twenty-two pints make one a cadaver, cavorting no more.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 03:33 AM (hkdnQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 24, 2017 03:36 AM (WDdjT)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 24, 2017 03:24 AM (UOPKC)
Then there's Australian Rules Football, chaos on an oval pitch.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 03:37 AM (hkdnQ)
Periods are for pussies.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 24, 2017 03:44 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 24, 2017 03:47 AM (UOPKC)
Posted by: Skip at March 24, 2017 03:51 AM (GPaiX)
Posted by: spoonfeed me at March 24, 2017 04:06 AM (bcDxW)
Posted by: spoonfeed me at March 24, 2017 04:06 AM
Yeah that ball was a lier
Posted by: Chuck Noland at March 24, 2017 04:26 AM (GPaiX)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 24, 2017 04:30 AM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Skip at March 24, 2017 04:31 AM (GPaiX)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 24, 2017 04:34 AM (xpfRn)
Posted by: Skip at March 24, 2017 04:31 AM (GPaiX)
Loverly. Formula One: Watching fast cars go round and round, never getting to any destination. Why would I want to watch live replays of my ex's driving habits?
As far as football (soccer to you heathens) goes, there are suckier sports. Cricket springs to mind, if it wasn't such a mind-numbing sport to watch.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 04:42 AM (hkdnQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 24, 2017 05:35 AM (5O/cp)
Posted by: lizabth at March 24, 2017 05:48 AM (SFudX)
Posted by: Eromero at March 24, 2017 06:12 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Shrillery, who will never be President at March 24, 2017 06:14 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 24, 2017 06:16 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Colin at March 24, 2017 06:31 AM (DLV/d)
There is another way to conduct a car race: city to city, over open roads.
If it weren't for all you SJW's and meddling kids, we could still do that.
Chicago to Evanston, Paris-Madrid, The Vanderbilt Cup...yeah baby.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 06:31 AM (H5rtT)
And Congress needs to get off their collective ass and do their job.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 24, 2017 06:33 AM (8iiMU)
Chicago to Evanston, Paris-Madrid, The Vanderbilt Cup...yeah baby.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 06:31 AM (H5rtT)
Bring the meddling kids. Henderson to Searchlight!
Posted by: Harry Reid at March 24, 2017 06:35 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 06:36 AM (H5rtT)
Let te Dems make some non-walk backable comments about how those events just could never have taken place.
Then......BOOM!
At least that's what I'm hoping is going on.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 24, 2017 06:36 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 24, 2017 03:44 AM (xpfRn)
Heh! Periods are for finishers.
Good morning everyone.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 24, 2017 06:37 AM (VRsLi)
Baltimore is up to 73 killed for the year, impressive. Baltimore Sun doesn't seem to give these stories much space in their web site. Unimportant, Trumps failures make better headlines.
Posted by: Colin at March 24, 2017 06:40 AM (DLV/d)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 24, 2017 06:36 AM (J+eG2)
Yes. I'm hoping there is some X-dimensional chess going on.
Although, some of these people are such dumbshits, maybe a straightforward 'corporate type', like PDT is simply confusing to them.
Corporate politics can be just as devious, if not more so....
Posted by: Irritated Ian Galt at March 24, 2017 06:40 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 24, 2017 06:42 AM (H5rtT)
So I was reading the story of the white idiot from the Baltimore area who traveled to NYC to kill male blacks, and make it into the media.
And I'm thinking "Shit, black men dying almost daily in Baltimore, and it barely even makes it into the 5:00 news report".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 24, 2017 06:44 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Colin at March 24, 2017 06:45 AM (DLV/d)
the Baltimore area who traveled to NYC to kill male blacks, and make it
into the media.
And I'm thinking "Shit, black men dying almost daily in Baltimore, and it barely even makes it into the 5:00 news report".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I saw that on the YahOOOoo front page. They sure did make it known that the guy was white white whitey Mcwhite didn't they?
Posted by: Bruce at March 24, 2017 06:50 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 24, 2017 06:50 AM (VRsLi)
Keef Olbermann seems to have left out a few steps (perhaps he meant to send a followup Tweet but got distracted by a warm bath?)
It should read:
1. Devin Nunes resigns
2. Devin Nunes "surrenders himself."
3. ???
4. HILLARY IS PRESIDENT!
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 24, 2017 06:52 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Colin at March 24, 2017 06:45 AM (DLV/d)
Well, the Country would be better off if Congress only sat for six months out of the year, and the Congressbastards' had their pay halved. Then they might have to get real jobs to make up the difference, as well as having to live under the laws they enact.
Posted by: RickZ at March 24, 2017 06:53 AM (hkdnQ)
At every red light on the way to work.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 24, 2017 06:55 AM (eauMe)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 24, 2017 06:55 AM (VRsLi)
Posted by: RickZ
My idea of football is Uma Thurman's feet on my balls.
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at March 24, 2017 06:56 AM (vRcUp)
Do like Texas. 3 months every other year.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 24, 2017 06:56 AM (eauMe)
Posted by: Colin at March 24, 2017 06:57 AM (DLV/d)
In the 21st Century, with a professional political class, it's a pointless relic. But congrassholes gonna congrasshole, especially if it means more time off while still sucking at the public teat.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 24, 2017 06:57 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 24, 2017 06:58 AM (VRsLi)
Posted by: Colin
I think she really is "tahrrd". Exhausted, ill, in no shape to be president, physically. I'd have thought she'd have her own show by now.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 24, 2017 07:00 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 24, 2017 07:01 AM (VRsLi)
Especially interesting because of the risk PDT is taking. He promised repeal and replace. And if he's shown one thing so far it's that he intends to keep his campaign promises.
Sure, he can justifiably blame it on Congress. But what does that do to his vaunted ability to negotiate and make deals?
It's a gamble alright.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 24, 2017 07:02 AM (ul9CR)
New Orleans used to do one a day, had highest rate in country in early 90's iirc. (about 82/100K). Chicago has spiked up in the last year, but homicide rate may still be higher in New Orleans.
there's a chart halfway down in this link, which I guess is accurate.
www.thetrace.org/2017/01/chicago-murder-rate-fatal-shootings/
this link shows the rate highest in New Orleans, then Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore. Chicago has most, but a third the rate of New Orleans.
www.thetrace.org/wp-content/uploads/
2016/10/Five-Year-Murder-Rates.png
Posted by: illiniwek at March 24, 2017 07:22 AM (BrMft)
"Exhausted, ill, in no shape to be president, physically."
I think she'll be dead before the next election from the glimpses we got of her health.
Posted by: Wondering Moron at March 24, 2017 08:13 AM (E8UjU)
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