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Gas prices in California, via Steve Inman

Note: qdpsteve says that California's gas prices aren't that high, and average $4.37 for regular.

But this article notes that one station, in northern California, sold gas for $6.73 per gallon on July 4.

So while the above prices may be higher than the norm, they do not seem to be implausible.

Nevertheless, qdpsteve's context about the average price of gas in California is appreciated.

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AOC's channeling Hilary Clinton in putting on a black accent.

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Thanks to Buzzion: here's proof of the difference in sports performance between biological men and biological women. In a mixed-sex relay race (I didn't know they had that) Nigeria had a man run the third leg of the 4x400 women's relay, against women running the third leg.

It wasn't close. He blew the women away and built up a huge lead.

But then the Nigerian man handed off the baton to the woman running the fourth leg, and she had to compete with all men in that last lap.

And then all the men overcame her.

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I mentioned this earlier, but here's video of that NYT columnist declaring that "sophisticated crowds" don't have to observe masking/distancing/maximum size of gatherings, courtesy of Huck Follywood:

"a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd" pic.twitter.com/qzh3glcQTQ
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) August 8, 2021

The Ruling Class is increasingly brazen about straight-up asserting their Aristocratic Privileges and Immunities.

Via redridinghood: another "sophisticated crowd" who can ignore masking and just casually lock hands (a major vector of viral spread) with strangers:

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib partied last night with 100+ maskless people. Dems want your kids stuck in masks at school ALL DAY while they party maskless with their friends. Do not comply! Don’t give 1 more inch. In 2022 we WILL defeat the tyrants! Chip in: https://t.co/FGvUL6PziQ pic.twitter.com/6lg71dtv2f
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 9, 2021

I mentioned this earlier, thanks to Tami's tip, but it was only in an update.

Fauci had nothing to say about Obama's Celebrity-Studded Super-Spreader event.

He had nothing to say about the BLM riots/fiery petri dishes of disease.

He also had nothing to say about the latest Lollapalooza, where it looked like tens of thousands of partygoers were packed nuts-to-butts.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

But he is absolutely against any kind of traditionalist-tilting crowd gathering in red states:

Dr. Fauci chastises those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on." pic.twitter.com/ifb6tVdMgg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 8, 2021

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In case you missed it: The head of Time's Up -- the MeToo grifter organization -- had to resign because she was caught scheming with Andrew Cuomo about how to smear his accusers:

It is kind of awkward when you're the leader of a group that claims to be devoted to helping female victims of sexual harassment, only to get caught plotting with a prominent male Democratic politician on how to discredit and smear his sexual harassment and assault accusers. https://t.co/poWfthOhfB
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 9, 2021

And Human Rights Campaign grifter David Alphonso was outed as plotting with Cuomo, too:

Now that the Time's Up President just resigned after getting caught plotting with Cuomo on how to discredit his accusers, @HRC does a complete about-face -- from defending @AlphonsoDavid to announcing an outside investigation into his conduct with Cuomo:https://t.co/onmc7nNkmL
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 9, 2021

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Do we still care about this sad brokedown unemployed bum?

pic.twitter.com/R7px1sSKMW
— Defiant L’s (Parody!) (@DefiantLs) August 8, 2021

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Director of The Plot Against the President (and John (director of Conan, writer of Apocalypse Now) Milius' daughter) Amanda Milius says she's sick of leftwingers telling her they will excuse her abhorrent views and tolerate her.

She's decided to no longer tolerate them.

A decision more and more of us are making. No more bleating about friendship and kinship meaning more than politics.

You want a cold civil war?

Fine. You got one.

Amanda Milius
@AmandaMilius
The best is when old leftist friends who have an 80 IQ at best and are aging out of anyone paying attn to them, write me "omg yr so funny I hate DJT and your politics and everything you do but I still [heart emoji' you". Like that's something I give a fuck about.
And they can't believe it / are like shocked and hurt when I say "you know I also actually hate everything about you as well especially your unbelievably trite and uneducated political views and everything you're interested in is retarded boring and juvenile, but yes you as a "person", I "still" "accept" you too [queen emoji].
Like I'm supposed to be grateful the dumbest most boring people I ever knew in LA still follow me. Leftist think they're the only ones who "hate" the opposition. Always ensure they know that you do too. Has a right wing person ever reached out to an
old friend and said "you know I hate your politics but I just wanted to say I think you’re acceptable"? No. Bc these idiots are that fucking arrogant and convinced of moral superiority.
GTFO yr life is mundane don't contact me.
Adding one more thought to the rant- The thing that's the most brain dead self obsessed and out of touch is they truly honestly think it's a kind, bigger person moment for them.
They sat there and were like "you know what, I felt a human emotion towards an old friend who I cut off arbitrarily bc I can't handle the political thoughts I got off Instagram, I'm doing really well in my rehab and yoga practice I'm feeling kind of generous I'll reach out to someone eons more successful than I am and tell them I still approve of their being alive".

I think falling TV ratings and box office take for movies might represent a spreading cascade of conservatives deciding that they, too, have decided that they will put politics ahead of other concerns going forward.

And it's about time we did.

Endlessly bleating "We should staaaay frenzzzz" has not done anything to tamp down these vile lunatics' hatred. It's time to match contempt with contempt and ostracization with ostracization and boycott with boycott.

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Please be fake pic.twitter.com/3J1GoVbbx6
— Orwell & Goode (@OrwellNGoode) August 8, 2021

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People of Italy uniting to give the government the middle finger. pic.twitter.com/n42lK8rqrU
— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) August 7, 2021

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The below video explains the mass psychosis surrounding covid -- and the Ruling Class' use of this psychosis to seize dictatorial control -- without ever saying the word "covid." (Which is wise -- YouTube just banned SkyNews Australia for presenting both sides of the debate on whether masking is effective and whether lockdowns are effective enough to be worth depriving people of their freedom. The world's biggest monopolist of all time has decided that The Debate Is Over.)

If you can't watch it during the work day, maybe bookmark it and watch it when you have time.

One term of psychosis he defined -- a "psychotic break." Which is apparently a reaction to overwhelming panic/stress. The victim of a psychotic break attempts to make sense of his panic-filled, stressful world by inventing a narrative which comforts him -- but which is filled with delusions and breaks from facts and reality.

Nevertheless, his new (delusional) worldview eases his panic and madness.

Does that sound like it applies to 81 million people (allegedly) you know?

Posted by: Ace at 06:01 PM

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1 cowabunga!

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:04 PM (glGDV)

2 Nope

Posted by: CN at August 09, 2021 05:04 PM (ONvIw)

3 >Fauci had nothing to say about Obama's Celebrity-Studded Super-Spreader event.

>He had nothing to say about the BLM riots/fiery petri dishes of disease.

He also had nothing to say about the latest Lollapalooza, where it looked like tens of thousands of partygoers were packed nuts-to-butts.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:04 PM (DXFDM)

4 What, me worry?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:05 PM (glGDV)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at August 09, 2021 05:05 PM (3v1EQ)

6 Hey Fauci, get Barry to mask up.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:05 PM (glGDV)

7 The sophisticated dog was delicious.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (W4eKo)

8 >In case you missed it: The head of Time's Up -- the MeToo grifter organization -- had to resign because she was caught scheming with Andrew Cuomo about how to smear his accusers

You mean that was only a gay op merely used for seizing power?!? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (DXFDM)

9
Fauci: Turn those pandemic virus machines back on!!

/mortimer duke reference

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (fjQ+v)

10 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Still way too much, but I suspect that pic above was taken in a tony snob tourist spot in LA or SF (just more reason to stay away from them).

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (L2ZTs)

11 Italians don't give the middle finger. They give the "fico" (make a fist, stick thumb out between middle and ring fingers) or the "va fan cul'" (swipe back of hand under chin, back to front.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (Bmy3R)

12 Long walk,
Short pier.
Some assembly required.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (glGDV)

13 "I mentioned this earlier, but here's video of that NYT columnist declaring that "sophisticated crowds" don't have to observe masking/distancing/maximum size of gatherings, courtesy of Huck Follywood:

So we need to wear Tuxedos to the MoMes?

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (8SSHh)

14 Is droning still a thing? Because that vile Rashida creature needs one right in the crotch.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (ptqGC)

15 >>>10 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Hm, I don't know where he got it.

Gas is more expensive in cities. Are you in a city?

if you are i'll delete it

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:07 PM (0G13K)

16 >>> 10 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Still way too much, but I suspect that pic above was taken in a tony snob tourist spot in LA or SF (just more reason to stay away from them).
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:06 PM (L2ZTs)

Wait, we missed a spot? Gotta fix that....

Posted by: Satan's Retards at August 09, 2021 05:07 PM (ACi07)

17 Oldie but a goodie:

Credibility gap.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:07 PM (glGDV)

18 I saw a guy in a pickup the other day with a decal on his window that was the "okay" sign.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 09, 2021 05:07 PM (ptqGC)

19 Another good one:

Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:08 PM (glGDV)

20 Love that new thread smell.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2021 05:08 PM (axyOa)

21 >Endlessly bleating "We should staaaay frenzzzz" has not done anything to tamp down these vile lunatics' hatred. It's time to match contempt with contempt and ostracization with ostracization and boycott with boycott.

Yes. Fuck you. War.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:08 PM (DXFDM)

22 Hanta virus.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:08 PM (glGDV)

23 Not sorry I missed it.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:08 PM (znIQ9)

24 ace, true it's more expensive in cities. I'm in the Long Beach/North Orange County area.

Sometimes near freeways you can find stations getting away with selling gas near or at $5/gal.

I'd call my area suburban, but it seems to have become a lot more urban in the last 10-20 years. Part of the reason I want to leave.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (L2ZTs)

25 Still sacred:

HIV status.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (glGDV)

26 My, I do like the cut of Keith Olberman's jib!

Posted by: Nobody since the mid-90's at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

27
Um, I wouldn't be surprised if that 76 Gas Station is near or in an airport in California.

You know how they Gouge you for gas at the airport...

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (fjQ+v)

28 Don't forget how endearing it is when Both Sides Guy pops in to remind everyone he's above the fray, like King Solomon.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (49Exr)

29 Sooth, exactly.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:10 PM (L2ZTs)

30 Who was that guy after Barry but before Harris?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:10 PM (glGDV)

31 People are not being psychotic they are hearing lies told by "credible leaders", and they are being threatened if they don't obey them.

If you didn't follow Maoist rules or Soviet lies, you would be killed. Do you mouthily tell Stalin "fuck you" when he would shoot you, starve your kids, deny you employment? Or do you pretend like the shit you read is indeed "pravda". Mostly, here, elderly people are really afraid, I know few people my age and younger who believe the mask crap, but what are you going to do, get fired? As for the rest of the junta tactics, all those people in DC jail while BLM walked sends a powerful message, and one that can't be cured with neuroleptics. Self-preservation in the face of evil and lies is no more mental illness than is evil and lies. Painting scared people and evil bastards as "ill" does not make it the least bit true.

Posted by: CN at August 09, 2021 05:10 PM (ONvIw)

32 Amanda Milius gets it.

We've been in a cold civil war for a long time.
And it's going hot, via disease first.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (XvPQV)

33 Papier Bitte!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (axyOa)

34 The Italy Steve Inman tweet is really interesting...the vaccinati are burning their cards.

I think the tide has turned against the jab in Italy due to some pretty high profile deaths among the young people. These caused the govt to ban the jab for teens.

The Calabria town where one woman died actually went into grieving for her - the mayor called a day of mourning. And the other young woman's surgeon described how when he operated on her brain he had never seen a brain in such an inflamed, clotted state.

So this is the kind of stuff that kind of turns people off.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (DJFLF)

35 Vice President in an undisclosed location: the same as Cheney's? Did we fund another one? I'm sure Congress is looking into it.

Where the hell is she?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (glGDV)

36 The Mass Psychosis vid is well worth the 20 minutes, I watched it about a week ago. Never heard of that channel before.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (wAnMi)

37 All innate leftists have a list of ten mental defects in common. There is no hope for them. You can tell who the liberals are that will take the red pill because they lack most of these defects or pretend to have them to fit in.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 09, 2021 05:12 PM (2DOZq)

38 qdpsteve, i updated with the context you provided, but we have seen prices even higher than that in northern california: $6.73 per gallon in Northern CA on July 4.

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:13 PM (0G13K)

39
We have a gas station on I-95 highway near me in Bedford, MA that has always charged outrageous prices for their gas. Used to be a Howard Johnson's rest area. Then went to Roy Rogers. Now it's a shitty McDonalds.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:13 PM (fjQ+v)

40 Vice President in an undisclosed location: the same as Cheney's? Did we fund another one? I'm sure Congress is looking into it.

Where the hell is she?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:11 PM (glGDV)

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There was a picture of her in Martha's Vineyard with Eric Holder, Susan Rice, and a couple of other commies.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 09, 2021 05:13 PM (ptqGC)

41 I would kinda like the vaccination card tshirt. But I'd just fill the slot with random shit, like a groupon to chilis or one of those x-ray specs ads from old comic books. Missing kids notices from milk cartons. A chili recipe.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (QU5/8)

42 This just in: the Chinese are running out of Chinese.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (glGDV)

43 Missed the last thread, so please accept my apologies for this willow:

>Someone smarter correct me if I have it wrong, but that means San Fran wants R = 0, not less than 1. Which sounds impossible.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 04:05 PM (49Exr)

Yes, that's also the official doctrine of Australia (Covid Zero), which is batshit insanity and literally impossible to hit. However, it does allow them to enslave the population because of a literal handful of cases in a metro area with millions of residents.

They could get away with it when it was something treacly like Portland's "Vision Zero" (which has the purported goal of reducing traffic fatalities to zero), but this is just straight up totalitarianism.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (DXFDM)

44 "a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd"

Welp, that means no one from the Biden clan was there.

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (AMIL/)

45
I imagine the cocksucking Car Rental Franchises in California charge $10/gal for gas, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (fjQ+v)

46 @27 Soothsayer-I'm in the Bay Area/East Bay, Brentwood nowhere near an airport 91 octane is $5.45 a gallon. Of course Chevron and 76 is usually the most expensive gasoline. Both have the exact same additives so if you find 76 a little cheaper than Chevron get their gasoline, it's identical.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (0jZnq)

47 The cops in the UK had to violently stop a crowd from forcing their way into a BBC building, protesting demands for children to be vaxxed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (UHVv4)

48 This just in: The Moslems are running out of Moslems.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (glGDV)

49 The dictator of Washington state is delivering edicts again, except for the unions, they get a pass.
https://tinyurl.com/xezd39c

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (r+sAi)

50 This just in: The Progressives are running out of Progressives.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (glGDV)

51 Shitter's Full!

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (gmo/4)

52 That 4 x relay does show it all

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (znIQ9)

53 link to Calabrian girl who died from jab

https://tinyurl.com/wnwhs55c

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (DJFLF)

54 The left has long pointed with envy at European gas prices which are about twice as much as those Cali prices. Make no mistake,now that they no llonger fear losing elections or the rule of law they will do everything on their wish list.

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (uUDKV)

55 ace, thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:15 PM (L2ZTs)

56 I would kinda like the vaccination card tshirt. But I'd just fill the slot with random shit, like a groupon to chilis or one of those x-ray specs ads from old comic books. Missing kids notices from milk cartons. A chili recipe.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
---------

That pocket might hold, oh, a Bersa Thunder.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (vooSz)

57 People have been catching Our Betters violating their own mandates for a goddam year and a half now. And it's gotten us nowhere.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (Bmy3R)

58 This just in: The North Koreans are running out of North Koreans.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (glGDV)

59 "And then all the men overcame her."

I think I've seen this video a few hindered times already.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (qEenM)

60 48 This just in: The Moslems are running out of Moslems.
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (glGDV)

I have a theory....

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrrorist at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (PiwSw)

61 Um, I wouldn't be surprised if that 76 Gas Station is near or in an airport in California.

You know how they Gouge you for gas at the airport...
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:09 PM (fjQ+v)

Chances are pretty good you're right. Although, the typical prices in my neck of the woods is premium right at $5/gal. If I'm in San Jose, it's about $5.50ish. We'll be seeing $6+ soon enough.

Funny the "news" stations just aren't talking about this for some reason. We're pretty much at the all time high under that blue-lipped stuttering fool, and yet it's just not important now. Nope, there's other reasons for our being broke all the time, and that's because we're not vaccinated and Donald Trump is still alive.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:17 PM (wAnMi)

62
I'm in the Bay Area/East Bay, Brentwood nowhere near an airport 91 octane is $5.45 a gallon. Of course Chevron and 76 is usually the most expensive gasoline. Both have the exact same additives so if you find 76 a little cheaper than Chevron get their gasoline, it's identical.
Posted by: JROD

Yeah, no doubt. I was just offering Ace an explanation to why those prices are certainly currently likely somewheres in California.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:17 PM (fjQ+v)

63 Camilla Canepa is the 18 yr old from Liguria who died after the jab. She suffered from an auto-immune disease.

https://tinyurl.com/292pdy48

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:17 PM (DJFLF)

64 "the politicians...the biggest pieces of shit society has ever seen"
.........

Word.

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 05:17 PM (v0R5T)

65 #FakePoos

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 09, 2021 05:17 PM (UHVv4)

66 53 link to Calabrian girl who died from jab

https://tinyurl.com/wnwhs55c

Jesus. She was beautiful. I'm half Calabrese myself.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (Bmy3R)

67 I've found the best-priced gas here in SoCal right now is at VonsGas. Second is AM/PM and a small chain whose name escapes me right now, which are only about 5 to 10 cents more per gallon.

Other than AM/PM, VonsGas and the other chain don't have very many locations. Also, prices can vary (sometimes wildly) from spot to spot.

I've made fairly recent trips to the inland San Diego area (El Cajon/Jamul) and Rancho Mirage, and gas in those spots also tends to be about $4.40/gal.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (L2ZTs)

68 What's funny about that video is that it assumes that "Mass Psychosis" is a different state rather than simply, and most probably a locus along the spectrum.

Or that there are times when "mankind" is attached to "reality" and times when they are not.

If God is not part of reality then times when Man thinks of "Equality" as a thing, indicate (to me) a "break with reality", because Equality is not something that is 1) defined among people, 2) measurable, 3) empirical, 4) a common conception except as an abstraction, whose attachment to reality is debatable. Also, it kind of goes against the evolutionary theory that the "fittest" survive.

But I listen on...

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (XHhHI)

69 This just in: "I don't think he knows about second breakfast."

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (glGDV)

70 it's not a psychotic break, these people were given the green light to act like fashy assholes and they jumped in it.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (ZZK0E)

71 Fauci should go to Sturgis and wag his finger in person. I'd enjoy watching him get beaned by full beer cans.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (FA5Pj)

72 10 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Still way too much, but I suspect that pic above was taken in a tony snob tourist spot in LA or SF (just more reason to stay away from them).
Posted by: qdpsteve

There was a gas station halfway between Big Sur and Monterey on Rt. 1 which always had gas about 2x the going rate inland.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (4+b+J)

73 >People have been catching Our Betters violating their own mandates for a goddam year and a half now. And it's gotten us nowhere.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (Bmy3R)

It probably shouldn't at this point, but I still get a bit surprised that a ton of people can rationalize the most hypocritical behavior in Their Betters, even if they themselves have to live under more restrictive rules, just so they can signal that they're on the side of the sophisticates and not the nasty dirt people.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (DXFDM)

74 Ace, you nailed it about the falling TV ratings and box office. We are tuned out of anything new in our house. Streaming services offer a huge selection now and you can find any movie or TV show ever made. We have a never ending supply of family friendly 80s and 90s movies and TV shows. My kids watch a different one every Friday and Saturday. What good are these new shows pimping gay and trans stuff to kids? Pff we don't need it, and we don't watch it.

Posted by: Mishdog at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (cqAUI)

75 https://youtu.be/g3nn6WfFQ7o

Hold On Loosely

Posted by: .38 Special Golf School for Busty Girls at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (4I/2K)

76 Note: qdpsteve says that California's gas prices aren't that high, and average $4.37 for regular.

But this article notes that one station, in northern California, sold gas for $6.73 per gallon on July 4.

So while the above prices may be higher than the norm, they do not seem to be implausible.

Posted by: Ace at 06:01 PM

So gasoline isn't really 6 bucks per gallon. Only 4 and half bucks per gallon. Somehow this isn't comforting.

Posted by: Hands at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (786Ro)

77 Jordan Peterson's podcast today focuses on bitcoin, it's excellent

https://youtu.be/iVym9wtopqs

Posted by: Commodore at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (L9Ewk)

78 Wrote today Wawa which probably is a good base line what others can charge was $3.36 today

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (znIQ9)

79 They're giving it pretty good to the government in Italy. People are giving officials the fascist salute. In one village they went old school and started hurling rotten vegetables at the mayor. I can't wait until They go all Mussolini on them.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (sOXXq)

80 Jesus. She was beautiful. I'm half Calabrese myself.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:18 PM (Bmy3R)

Yes, typical Italian beauty. Camilla was a beautiful blond Northern Italian.

Riposate in pace, bellisime

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (DJFLF)

81 Story at Twitchy that Erik Wemple of WaPo is spinning wildly for his whore profession, "demanding" CNN investigate Fredo the at-home nudist.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (L2ZTs)

82 This just in: It's gotta work sometime.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (glGDV)

83 that la st video is good - saw it yesterday and have been passing it around

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (oEn12)

84 I watched Killing of the Mind yesterday and sent it to all 3 people I associate with in RL. Really well done presentation.

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 09, 2021 05:20 PM (DB16e)

85 I'm in my basement but think I hear rain

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (znIQ9)

86 Remember, California is the Democrat MODEL

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (uUDKV)

87 Hands, it isn't comforting, true.
And God knows Sacramento doesn't GAF.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (L2ZTs)

88 (and John (director of Conan, writer of Apocalypse Now) Milius...)

Don't forget he did "Red Dawn", as well!

Posted by: Bert G at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (ngead)

89 So I am not a math wiz, but if you run FOUR trannies you win.

Posted by: sven at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)

90 People have been catching Our Betters violating their own mandates for a goddam year and a half now. And it's gotten us nowhere.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (Bmy3R)
---
Because the libs have *refused* to have the conversation on Fox (and definitely NewsMax or OAN) and they then control all venues of the "conversations" we "must have".) And in the remaining venues, they are undaunted to continue the generalizations in the face of evidence.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 05:22 PM (XHhHI)

91 A sign of the decline (and hopefully fall) of the NFL.. Direct TV is offering Sunday Ticket to all subscribers for FREE this fall!! Back when I first got DTV and declined Sunday Ticket it was $150/season. I haven't been keeping close track, but believe it was $250-300 now. They are a couple of years too late with me,since I watched ZERO football last two years!!

Posted by: Good Scott at August 09, 2021 05:22 PM (msNHq)

92 57 People have been catching Our Betters violating their own mandates for a goddam year and a half now. And it's gotten us nowhere.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:16 PM (Bmy3R)

After the Revolution and Rectification, the New Constitution must include mandatory punishment for an elected or appointed official if he/she violates an executive order he/she issued. Minimum will be to be put in the stock in a public place for 48 hours.

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2021 05:22 PM (AMIL/)

93 And since there's an NFL piece -

Kirk Cousins refuses the jab, the tw@tter bluechecks drag him.

Lamar Jackson also refuses it, with the added bonus that he tested positive *twice* for the 'ro... but the bluechecks leave him alone.

I wonder why?

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:22 PM (DJFLF)

94 I know it's not a popular opinion but I do not like Milius's Conan. Conan didn't grow up a slave

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:23 PM (uUDKV)

95 Jordan Peterson, the Covid Karen? Hard pass.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:23 PM (DXFDM)

96 There is way too much gay in football.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 09, 2021 05:23 PM (bCkNL)

97 Another thing that vaccination status tshirt would be good for is our pronouns. You can update them throughout the day to reflect the evershifting valence of your gender. And maybe include a sketch of what you think your genitals look like at the moment. Non-engorged, of course. You know, to avoid offense.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 09, 2021 05:23 PM (QU5/8)

98 Pretty sure Lebron refused to say his vaccination status, which means he did not get it ( at least at that time)

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (uUDKV)

99 @62 Soothsayer-Here in California it also doesn't help that the Bay Area Air Quality Management Department is trying to pass emission standards that would shut down every refinery here. They want to do this in So Cal and New Jersey too. I work in these refineries and since Biden was elected and shutdown the Keystone a lot of projects have come to a grinding halt.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (0jZnq)

100 Obama b-day bash = Sophisticated

Tlaib party = Sophisticated

Sturgis = bad, bad superspreader, CDC will ban it next time

Posted by: Hands at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (786Ro)

101 >So I am not a math wiz, but if you run FOUR trannies you win.
Posted by: sven at August 09, 2021 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)

Game theory implies we will be seeing this very soon.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (DXFDM)

102 And thunder

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (znIQ9)

103 Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (uUDKV)

Last I heard, Dak Prescott too

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (DJFLF)

104 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.

Posted by: f'd at August 09, 2021 05:25 PM (Tnijr)

105 I have to go ahead and root for my Buffalo Bills this year as they are serious contenders again and that's as rare as...I dunno, something really rare. Brains in a Biden.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:25 PM (Bmy3R)

106 AOC video is cringeworthy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2021 05:26 PM (k39e/)

107 102 And thunder

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (znIQ9)

I hope that storm comes down my way.

And re: gas prices...I just roll down to DE and get gas 20 cents cheaper than PA. I live near the state line.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:26 PM (DJFLF)

108
I work in these refineries and since Biden was elected and shutdown the Keystone a lot of projects have come to a grinding halt.
Posted by: JROD

You wouldn't know it from the trade unions' silence.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:26 PM (fjQ+v)

109 97 Another thing that vaccination status tshirt would be good for is our pronouns

***
oh, oh ..
I was jusy imagining a vampire character with the pronouns heme & hiss

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (oEn12)

110 >>>104 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.

we clean up nice.

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (0G13K)

111 Not to knock all those folks joining together in Italy to "give the government the middle finger", (long overdue, looong overdue here as well), but...ummm, theoretically, couldn't those burning their vax cards simply get replacements if necessary? (I would assume, much like in the U.S, they are all going in a database somewhere held by the Italian government, ala CDC?)

Speaking of going in a database. Went to see my (soon to be
Ex) PCP last week, and, my word as a Biden, when the nurse assistant and I finished going round and round about the vaccine, she looked at me and says, "So, you're NOT going to get the vaccine?" When I confirmed that with a rather emphatic, "That is correct. I am NEVER going to take the vaccine!" She gives me "a look" and then says, "OK then, I have to do THIS!" and proceeds to clackety-clack me into the computer in the corner with a super smug look on her face.
I didnt bother asking what she meant or what she typed or where the info went. I assume im now on a "no fly list" at the very least, but in any case - done with that doctor's office.

Posted by: Thearide Wilby Abyt-Bumpey at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (inecJ)

112
I decided to call it blackmouth when a white Democrats impersonates and mocks a black person's voice.

*I don't like "blackvoice."
Blackmouth sounds a lot worse.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:28 PM (fjQ+v)

113 There's a gas station along CA Highway 1 that charges whatever the fuck they want. It's like the only place for 100 miles in either direction and if you're low... you're fucked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (BFigT)

114 "Premium" (91 octane) gas was 4.99/gal last week in Marin Co.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (69qVN)

115 I like the Amanda Milius thing, the vaxheads are getting way too full of themselves, deeming that "gosh, it's just time to exclude the rest of the country if they don't bend." Bitches, the rest of the country doesn't give a fuck. I'm vaxxed but I'm never going to show my card. fuck off.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (ZZK0E)

116 Meh, AOC is an actress playing a role (remember she auditioned for the part). Bad accents happen

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, carrying ZOMG variant at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (sJHOI)

117 110 >>>104 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.

we clean up nice.
Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (0G13K)

We'll even put pants on. If we have to.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (Bmy3R)

118 Martini: same at gas stations along Highway 395, I believe.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (L2ZTs)

119 Did you ever think you'd live to see "Who goes Nazi?" played out in real life?

I can tell you that I'm sick to death of the new apparent norm that it's ok for any and all acquaintances to interrogate you on your vaccine status.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (DXFDM)

120 Posted by: Thearide Wilby Abyt-Bumpey at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (inecJ)

nurse assistant did this...you mean a Physician Assistant? or was she literally the flunky of the nurse? Because in that case what is going on in the medical profession?

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (DJFLF)

121 Aptos (Santa Cruz county) Chevron
$4.80 / regular

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (v0R5T)

122 15 >>>10 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Hm, I don't know where he got it.

Gas is more expensive in cities. Are you in a city?

if you are i'll delete it
Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:07 PM (0G13K)

Son was in San Diego a month ago, and sent us a screenshot of the gas prices. It was $4.89 then, and I can't imagine it has gone down any.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (Ez6QX)

123 117 Grudgingly

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (uUDKV)

124 101 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:24 PM (DXFDM)

Man Federal law enforcement does not like it when you remind them you understand net mapping and game theory.

Posted by: sven at August 09, 2021 05:30 PM (Lzpvj)

125 Still way too much, but I suspect that pic above was taken in a tony snob tourist spot in LA or SF (just more reason to stay away from them).
Posted by: qdpsteve

There was a gas station halfway between Big Sur and Monterey on Rt. 1 which always had gas about 2x the going rate inland.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 09, 2021 05:19 PM (4+b+J)

Where I'm at, the further you get away from the freeway, the cheaper it gets. Safeway, Valero and Arco are still around $4.50ish for 91, the no-name places a bit less.

I'll probably be in Monterey/Carmel sometime this week, I'll take a snap at the ones off of 1 if they're crazy.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (wAnMi)

126 >>> 111
.....
Speaking of going in a database. Went to see my (soon to be
Ex) PCP last week, and, my word as a Biden, when the nurse assistant and I finished going round and round about the vaccine, she looked at me and says, "So, you're NOT going to get the vaccine?" When I confirmed that with a rather emphatic, "That is correct. I am NEVER going to take the vaccine!" She gives me "a look" and then says, "OK then, I have to do THIS!" and proceeds to clackety-clack me into the computer in the corner with a super smug look on her face.
I didnt bother asking what she meant or what she typed or where the info went. I assume im now on a "no fly list" at the very least, but in any case - done with that doctor's office.
Posted by: Thearide Wilby Abyt-Bumpey at August 09, 2021 05:27 PM (inecJ)

Won't she be surprised when someone puts her face through that screen.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (ACi07)

127 123 117 Grudgingly

Hah - fistbump for reading my HordeMind!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (Bmy3R)

128 oh no i've given californians an excuse to talk about highways and roads

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (0G13K)

129 >We'll even put pants on. If we have to.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:29 PM (Bmy3R)

Speak for yourself. There's a reason I don't hit the Book Thread.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (DXFDM)

130 I'm actually surprised the old man just came back from the doc and the doc didn't mention Word One about getting the jab.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (DJFLF)

131 Also yesterday, I saw an ad for the new "Fantasy Island" TV show.

Who wants to bet *every* episode features a man who wants to be a woman, and/or a woman who wants to be a man...

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (L2ZTs)

132 I'm not saying I hope it happens, but if all of those vaccinated sophisticates at Bambi's party got Covid and died, would anyone seriously argue that the world isn't a better place for it?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (sWM8x)

133 A Lego Cafe video nomination.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheComedyHumor/
status/1423785963923386375

@TheComedyHumor
We don't deserve dogs

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (Y+NO4)

134 We have to get to the bottom of this.

Posted by: Schiff acolyte Liz Cheney at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (VoKVv)

135 The protests in Italy are across regions. I have relatives in disparate places like Apulla and Piedmont. They were both at protests today and yesterday, some burning their green cards. And no, they don't give a shit. Nobody is going for replacements. They even have government officials fleeing to other towns. Lol

Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (sOXXq)

136 I have yet to see anyone say their state's roads are in good condition. It's always an argument over which is worse...

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (uUDKV)

137 This seems real:

https://tinyurl.com/3taka3wa

Posted by: vyx at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (LS4XM)

138
oh no i've given californians an excuse to talk about highways and roads
Posted by: ace

Great. It's like a spigot that never shuts off...

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (fjQ+v)

139 "...might represent a spreading cascade of conservatives deciding that they, too, have decided that they will put politics ahead of other concerns going forward."

I don't know. In this exceptional case, it was Amanda Milius, the daughter of John Milius. That may count for a lot.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (6QBzo)

140 Posted by: Schiff acolyte Liz Cheney at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (VoKVv)

The GOP of her county kicked her out of the party so she's no longer allowed to call herself a Republican congresscritter

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (DJFLF)

141 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.
Posted by: f'd at August 09, 2021 05:25 PM (Tnijr)

Why thank you ! You are not so bad yourself.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (V13WU)

142 I just lie when people ask if I'm vaxxed. I see no reason to get into what amounts to a religious argument with these people.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (FA5Pj)

143 Marcus, I could be very wrong but I believe Italy is one of these countries that's effectively libertarian as the government is so incompetent.

If I'm wrong let me know of course.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (L2ZTs)

144 Man, that story about the Calabrian girl who died from the jab, I can't shake that. May she rest in peace, la ragazza.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (Bmy3R)

145 I'm glad my wife and I aren't friendly people. We don't have to put up with 1/10th the BS a lot of you guys do.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (gmo/4)

146 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:14 PM (DXFDM)

Thanks!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (49Exr)

147
Didn't Mr Belvedere take over for Tattoo on Fantasy Island?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (fjQ+v)

148 thanks, Pepe! I put it in the lego cafe for tomorrow!

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (0G13K)

149 Truly a quibble, for which I am justly famous, ace, but I'm not sure what "both" sides of the mask debate would be.

There's weak evidence of minor benefit from masks used in contexts other than those under discussion - that is, real life - and aside from that, bupkis.

Most pertinent, fresh, high-powered randomized controlled trial, done specifically WRT C19, found no benefit.

So, I guess, the "pro" mask side of the argument would rest on dubious and minor possible benefit for properly fit/worn N95s in a clinical (not everyday), context, with laughable anecdotes from a MO hair salon tossed in??

Vs. 70 years of actual scientific research and observation.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (OTzUX)

150 We could set up Covid Offsets - you know, like Carbon Offsets.

Super-wealthly progs can jet all around the world and get away with it by trading their Carbon credits.

If you're not vaxxed, demand Covid Offsets. To make up for your Covid Footprint.

Rephrasing MIT's definition:
COVID 19 offsets are tradable "rights" or certificates linked to activities that lower the amount of SARSCoV2 virii in the air. By buying these certificates, you can fund projects that fight COVID 19, instead of taking actions to lower their own COVID emissions.

Posted by: Hands at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (786Ro)

151 142 Yeah, I will just say " of course". Indeed I did have all the childhood vaccinations so..

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (uUDKV)

152 Sooth, not sure.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (L2ZTs)

153 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.
Posted by: f'd
------

*dammit...now I've got to start wearing pants again*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (uxqZF)

154 to knock all those folks joining together in Italy to "give the government the middle finger", (long overdue

Senile Joe would think people are saying he's number one.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (cSyAR)

155 Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (sOXXq)

so glad to hear this. I was actually concerned for a while there. I wondered when Italians were going to start behaving like they have been for centuries...feisty, loudmouth and crazy.

It was so worrisome to see them behaving like sheeple

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (DJFLF)

156 If you can't watch the full mass psychosis video yet, watch the minute from 10:20 to 11:20 and think delta variant.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (r+sAi)

157 I have yet to see anyone say their state's roads are in good condition. It's always an argument over which is worse...

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (uUDKV)

it's a badge of honor for some of us...

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (gmo/4)

158 140 Posted by: Schiff acolyte Liz Cheney at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (VoKVv)

The GOP of her county kicked her out of the party so she's no longer allowed to call herself a Republican congresscritter.

I am a member of the true Republican Party, just ask my dad

Posted by: Schiff acolyte Liz Cheney at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (VoKVv)

159 The first REALLY gay NFL player...OMG.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (II3Gr)

160 oh no i've given californians an excuse to talk about highways and roads
Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:31 PM (0G13K)
.........

INFRASTRUCTURE

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 05:35 PM (v0R5T)

161 @108 Soothsayer-I belong to one of the largest Union Pipefitter/Welder locals here in the United States. It's probably 40-60 in the Dems favor amongst our membership. Trump pulled a shitload of support from our members and a lot from the other trades, especially the Operators Union.
All I can say is at times the unions meetings are damn near riots. Shit is really charged right now. To not help matters I just received a text alert from our hall for "volunteers" against the "Republican recall". Yeah, our leadership are f'ing idiots as is the rest of the trade union leadership.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (0jZnq)

162 So while the above prices may be higher than the norm, they do not seem to be implausible.

Posted by: Ace at 06:01 PM

This might help:
https://www.californiagasprices.com/

Looks like you can narrow it down to a location, but it appears that it's generally pretty close to the high $4 range for regular.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (wAnMi)

163 "Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (L2ZTs)"

I believe you're largely right. They want to mostly be left alone sand not be told what to do.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (sOXXq)

164 142 I just lie when people ask if I'm vaxxed. I see no reason to get into what amounts to a religious argument with these people.
Posted by: Eisenhorn

next time someone asks me if I'm vaxxed, I'm gonna sigh heavily and say "sadly, yes" while shaking my gead regretfully

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (oEn12)

165 "oh no i've given californians an excuse to talk about highways and roads" Posted by: ace

at least you didn't mention their high speed rail.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (Cus5s)

166 "This is the most sophisticated crowd I know."

[runs through the thread with scissors]

Weeee! Weeee!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (49Exr)

167 INFRASTRUCTURE

==

EVs !!

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (V13WU)

168 So far if anyone asks I tell them no and don't see that changing

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (znIQ9)

169 . By buying these certificates, you can fund projects that fight COVID 19,
--

Ah! So, I can set up a few UV lights, and claim credit for COVID reduction. Good idea.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (uxqZF)

170

"She's decided to no longer tolerate them."

yeah, for me it was defending Gretch and Cumo after they literally knew what they were doing...and they accepted it, and decided to attack me for pointing it out. Fuck em.

I knew some pretty weird out there progs, musicians and teachers and both. Looking at their insanity and how they by in to the brainwashing, they make me sick to my stomach.

Can't even talk to them.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 09, 2021 05:37 PM (4WPW/)

171 Gas in California: $4/gal is about the minimum, if you want/need the 91 AKI stuff you're around $4.50. In many locales you can add 40 cents to that.

Around here, you see near or at $5/gal at the stations closest to the SFO rental car dropoff.

Posted by: JEM at August 09, 2021 05:38 PM (8erNz)

172 Best Comment on the Vax T-Shirt:

Yes, the vaccine card tee is real! I'm just about to buy three; one XL for me, one for my wife and one for my wife's boyfriend.

Posted by: rd at August 09, 2021 05:38 PM (Z32m1)

173 This is the most sophisticated crowd I know.

Hellz yeah. We sous vide shit

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, carrying ZOMG variant at August 09, 2021 05:39 PM (sJHOI)

174 An average price means that no one was selling it at that price. (Well probably not. A few could be but probably not many.)

So that means that there are some selling for a lot less and some are selling for a lot more.

As in: Low 3.00, High 6.00, Avg. 4.50

And in a spread out state such as Cali, It is hurting everything. From tourist travel to emergency vehicles.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 09, 2021 05:39 PM (wb4G5)

175 I mentioned this earlier, but here's video of that NYT columnist declaring that "sophisticated crowds" don't have to observe masking/distancing/maximum size of gatherings, courtesy of Huck Follywood:
====

She looks like a mouth-breathing idiot. (Which, of course, she is).

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 09, 2021 05:39 PM (iydjf)

176 I don't know any sous viders outside the Horde.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (cSyAR)

177
Trump pulled a shitload of support from our members and a lot from the other trades, especially the Operators Union. All I can say is at times the unions meetings are damn near riots.

I'm in the same boat.

The problem is it's the Local union bosses And their Suck-asses vs the regular journeyman.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (fjQ+v)

178 at least you didn't mention their high speed rail.
......

We'll have flying cars first.

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (v0R5T)

179 "Yes, sometimes I'm friendly and joyful, and sometimes I'm tough, and sometimes I'm straightforward."

[ ] ace
[ ] Jen Psaki

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (a3Q+t)

180 Do not comply! Don't give 1 more inch. In 2022 we WILL defeat the tyrants! Chip in: [ LINKy TO SEND MONEY TO ROBBY STARBUCK [

- Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck)

Fellow patriots! Fight the power! Donate to my 2022 campaign today!

Posted by: Hands at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (786Ro)

181 We have a saying in Italian- avere un diavolo per capello. Yes they are at that point.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:40 PM (sOXXq)

182
as kaiser wilhelm put it: Only the vaccinated can "fully participate in society."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:41 PM (fjQ+v)

183 >I just lie when people ask if I'm vaxxed. I see no reason to get into what amounts to a religious argument with these people.
Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:33 PM (FA5Pj)

I'm done going along to get along.

I'll say no and I still don't have an argument with them. It takes two sides to have an argument. The answer is "no" and if you don't like it then fuck off (not you, dear commenter, the theoretical interloper).

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:41 PM (DXFDM)

184 next time someone asks me if I'm vaxxed, I'm gonna sigh heavily and say "sadly, yes" while shaking my gead regretfully
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (oEn12)

I think I'll tell them my HIV killed the Covid and ask if they want some.

I want to see that moment on their face where they weigh fear of being tagged a homophobe bigot VS the groupthink of the Vax Karens.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 05:41 PM (49Exr)

185 oh - I just now caught this from Amanda -

GTFO yr life is mundane don't contact me.

lol @ "mundane". The unkindest cut to the supercilious and smug who fancy themselves glitterati

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (DJFLF)

186 Is Greenwald the only honest leftist alive? Seems that way...

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (II3Gr)

187 I find a simple "FUCK YOU CUNT" works wonders when somebody tells me I should be or act differently.

99 time out of 100 that ends their pompous screed dead in its tracks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (w5raC)

188 What's this about CA Morons and roads, ace? Aren't people talkin' gas prices?

The roads thing is simple. 30-40 years ago, CA had generally outstanding road quality and condition. CalTrans was a true pioneer in many things (as were many entities, including public, in CA of that era). Those who grew up here then would be shocked at the roads back east, and also the lameness of the road agencies (still recall the first time I saw the VADOT crews doing needed fixes or maintenance *at night*, duh, as was always the practice here in high-traffic regions).

Now? Well, part of the problem is pop growth/traffic density. Part. There appears to have been a large secular decline in the management end, local guvamint. Of course. Which is evident in every facet of life.

However, one huge bit of progress: what were moderate/low income - but totally safe, and overall decently compensated - guvamint jobs back then are now very well-paying, lavishly benefit-ed positions.

Wait. Maybe that's not progress.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (OTzUX)

189 I screwed up upthread. Reading other Cali members here posting up prices I googled the station I get my gas. $4.47-$4.87. Sorry.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (0jZnq)

190 I live close to Sturgis. The very same people who were convinced we were all going to die last year "Because how dare you have a rally with no vaccine!!! REEEE!!!!" Are still convinced we are are going to die "Because how dare you have a rally with DELTA! REEEE!!!"

Judging by the number of bikes around this year compared to last year's deadly event, I predict that we will all be twice as dead.

I guess, deep down, they don't trust the vaccine at all to help them.

But no one here is wearing masks or anything so I suppose the bodies are stacked up like cordwood in the campgrounds. Too bad Shep! doesn't do a live report on the Buffalo Chip. He'd probably get an eye full.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 09, 2021 05:42 PM (RLLZj)

191 Another great use for the vaccine tshirt: snacks. I'm a bit socially awkward. So it would be a real icebreaker for me. I could just lean forward, unzip my shirt pocket, and say, "Chocolate, anyone? Help yourselves." I don't see how anyone could be against the tshirt. That we don't have an HQ-branded one available for purchase is a crime.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 09, 2021 05:43 PM (QU5/8)

192 It is kind of awkward when you're the leader

Posted by: Glenn Greenwald
----------------------

I guess we're trying not to be judgy or maybe it's hip and snarky to tweet like this but it's a lot more than "awkward". It's disgusting, disturbing and appalling and that's just for an appetizer. But whatever maybe I'm too judgy.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2021 05:43 PM (tZUwc)

193 Leftists trying to portray Trump supporters as the problem with covid, meanwhile the Biden junta just smuggled something like a million illegal aliens into the country. Completely sane.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 09, 2021 05:43 PM (buTO7)

194 Just realized the song I have stuck in my head is Styx's "Reveries" from their new album.

"Reveries - I'm givin' it up, givin' it out!"

https://tinyurl.com/2svyh6nd

Has to have been nearly 40 years since I've had a Styx earworm. Good on the old troupers!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (Bmy3R)

195 The bit about the head of the women's group helping Cuomo get away with his sexual assaults reminds me of "Filthy" Filner, the S mayor of San Diego who got busted for raping women. IIRC, a rape survivors support organization was providing him with fresh victims.

Posted by: junior at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (5Q/IU)

196
I watch a lot of CHiPs, and I can attest to California's superior and excellent highways and roads.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (fjQ+v)

197 No news about Vice Pina Colada Hairless is good news I guess eh?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (69qVN)

198 181 We have a saying in Italian- avere un diavolo per capello. Yes they are at that point.
Posted by: Marcus T

is that like having a tiger by the tail?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (oEn12)

199 Is Greenwald the only honest leftist alive? Seems that way...

I would call him a "liberal", not a leftist.

In Glenn's early days he actually defended the free speech rights of White Supremes. I don't think a leftist gives a fig about anyone's free speech rights other than those granted by RAchel Maddow.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:45 PM (DJFLF)

200 sophisticated , vaccinated crowd

====

Where I and I am sure many here come from, that crowd would be called, tacky, second rate and vulgar.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2021 05:45 PM (V13WU)

201 Here is some news to brighten a day

100 year old veteran of the 101st Airborne who jumped into Normandy will take one more jump for his birthday.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=116282

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 05:45 PM (81pbH)

202 @177 Soothsayer-Exact same thing at my local. Exactly as you describe and they're dug in like tics. Funny thing is our Local Presidents son is as "right-wing" as any of us here.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:46 PM (0jZnq)

203 Recent low was $3.99 for me (San Diego). I actually use the GasBuddy ap - only "ap" I think I use. It's helpful. Always manage to hit a place that's the least expensive. For several years a nearby Iraqi-owned station (that's now common, no longer just liquor stores) was quite cheap, plus occasionally I could get updates on doings in Mosul. Sadly they're now rarely the cheapest.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:46 PM (OTzUX)

204 "This is the most sophisticated crowd I know."
........

totally cromulent peoples

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 05:46 PM (v0R5T)

205 I don't care what label Glenn Greenwald has, I man-love him in the non-gay way. Dude kicks ass, takes names, and his field of fucks lies barren. Mad respect.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:46 PM (Bmy3R)

206 The difference between Nevada and Kalifornia at the state line on I-80 was always instructive.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2021 05:46 PM (a3Q+t)

207 Matt Taibi has also been sounding the alarm over what the left has been up to the last few years.

Posted by: junior at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (5Q/IU)

208 Marcus, I could be very wrong but I believe Italy is one of these countries that's effectively libertarian as the government is so incompetent.

"libertarian" - that's a very nice way to say disorganized population of scattered mobs who live in controlled chaos and in which every man, woman and child is The Boss

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (DJFLF)

209 I still like the original german version where they sewed the patch on your shoulder.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (w5raC)

210 Again, the video is entirely too teleological.

And I'm to understand that teleology is counter-natural thinking. The knuckling under to a totalitarian regime could be also called simply "adaptation" to the social environment one finds oneself in.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (XHhHI)

211 So while the above prices may be higher than the norm, they do not seem to be implausible.
Posted by: Ace at 06:01 PM
This might help:
https://www.californiagasprices.com/
Looks like you can narrow it down to a location, but it appears that it's generally pretty close to the high $4 range for regular.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (wAnMi)

Every major city has one of these gas stations that has insane prices for gas. They prey on the unfamiliar and unknowing rental car customers. Bet this station is in Downtown LA or Frisco, or maybe on the major highway leading to their airports. Running on a tight schedule, need to fill the rental car? Who cares about the cost, it goes on the expense report? We had a rip-off priced station in Bloomington MN near the Minneapolis Saint Paul Airport. They switched the price from $ per gallon to $ per Liter at night after the other stations closed. The local newspapers and TV stations took turns running "Exposes" about the terrible behavior during sweeps weeks.

Posted by: rd at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (Z32m1)

212 "I watch a lot of CHiPs, and I can attest to California's superior and excellent highways and roads.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales "

I watch a lot of Baywatch, and I can attest to California's superior and excellent tits and ass.

Posted by: f'd at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (Tnijr)

213 >Leftists trying to portray Trump supporters as the problem with covid, meanwhile the Biden junta just smuggled something like a million illegal aliens into the country. Completely sane.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 09, 2021 05:43 PM (buTO7)

They know the talking point of the masses of coof-infected peasants streaming over the border and being dispersed across the country by the Biden junta is a real killer, hence the talking points memo that seems to have gone out which seems to be simply "nuh uh" in its rebuttal.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (DXFDM)

214 I use AssBuddies!

Posted by: don lemon at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (UHVv4)

215 Thanks, Anna. Wow - he's jumping *again*?? Several of them have done this over the years, but obviously as the ages have risen, it's become more eye-catching.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (OTzUX)

216
Wait. Maybe that's not progress.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX)

I love the your writing style.

Everything you said is true.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (e+CWf)

217
Remember the fake hysteria last July 4th at Mt Rushmore?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (fjQ+v)

218 >>>181 We have a saying in Italian- avere un diavolo per capello. Yes they are at that point.

va al inferno might also be useful

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (0G13K)

219 not you, dear commenter, the theoretical interloper

I understand. I don't wear masks anymore. I'm done with that inconvenience. I was in WinCo Foods recently and some guy coming the opposite way in the aisle had a mask and a t-shirt that read, "Six Feet Motherfucker." I just laughed as he went by. He couldn't even look me in the eye.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (FA5Pj)

220 Greenwald actually has objective principles
therefore not a leftist

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (oEn12)

221 Went through Sturgis this weekend. Lots of bikes and zero masks. I wish Fauci had gone there personally to deliver his message. It would have been glorious.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (UgVW5)

222 If you ever want to surprise your girl as a reward for working hard or just because, book her a professional photo shoot. You're welcome.

https://is.gd/FNcrj9

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 09, 2021 05:49 PM (Y+NO4)

223 I still have a couple of the old Union 76 antenna balls. I would put one on my truck, but I'm afraid it would get stolen.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 09, 2021 05:49 PM (xPl2J)

224 I use GasBuddies.

Posted by: gerry nadler at August 09, 2021 05:50 PM (UHVv4)

225 181 We have a saying in Italian- avere un diavolo per capello. Yes they are at that point.

To have a Devil in the head. It's apt.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:50 PM (Bmy3R)

226 I won't be handing off my baton unless it's to a woman with a juicy coin purse.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 09, 2021 05:50 PM (bCkNL)

227
va al inferno might also be useful

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (0G13K)

the oldtimers in my family used to spew really crude and vicious curses that are kind of untranslatable because they were particular to their mountain region and also in dialect. But boy were they spicy and really really mean, lol

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:50 PM (DJFLF)

228 Someone should ask Tom Rice what he thinks of the Wuhan Flu...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 05:51 PM (81pbH)

229 in fairness, italy is a shithol,

however,

they might have some balls

the french are definitely ungovernabl, so when they go shit gets real

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 05:51 PM (38A8U)

230 So, I guess, the "pro" mask side of the argument would rest on dubious and minor possible benefit for properly fit/worn N95s in a clinical (not everyday), context, with laughable anecdotes from a MO hair salon tossed in??

Vs. 70 years of actual scientific research and observation.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:34 PM (OTzUX)

"For a second time, an arbitrator has ruled in favour of the Ontario Nurses' Association, ordering a major hospital group in Toronto to rescind its "vaccinate or mask policy."

September of 2018

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 05:51 PM (+LCoQ)

231 Well i don't have access to depenabble spies So i have logical conjecture which i used gain of function on the conjecture and vala it becomes fact.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (oy1++)

232 FWIW, in my area of northern Los Angeles County, the longtime holdout on gas for under $4 a gallon was the Sam's Club in Canyon Country. (This is part of the Santa Clarita Valley, probably best known to outsiders for Six Flags Magic Mountain and a lot of locations you've seen many times on TV but are attributed to other parts of the US.) Last that ended with $4.03 being the lowest price within a considerable radius of my home.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (4P+CS)

233 I was in WinCo Foods recently and some guy coming the opposite way in the aisle had a mask and a t-shirt that read, "Six Feet Motherfucker."
====

Wow. What a classy shirt.

As I said earlier, I'm disgusted at this notion that I'm obligated to other people's health.

Hey, motherfucker, if you want six feet, you move. Better yet, stay home with your vulgar virtue-signal shirt.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (iydjf)

234 Marcus, I could be very wrong but I believe Italy is one of these countries that's effectively libertarian as the government is so incompetent.

"libertarian" - that's a very nice way to say disorganized population of scattered mobs who live in controlled chaos and in which every man, woman and child is The Boss
Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:47 PM (DJFLF)

Italian Justice?
What was the name of the poor teenage student that was being railroaded for the murder of her roommate? Supposedly it was some "Satanic Act"? Turned out it was a known Italian Rapist Scumbag, AND the f&&*$ng prosecutor still tried to railroad her anyway.

Posted by: rd at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (Z32m1)

235 On the topic of unusually high gas prices -

Not far from where I live in LA County, there's a gas station almost right next to a freeway off-ramp. However, there's a gas station just a few blocks away, that's part of the exact same chain. And there is a *huge* difference in prices between the two stations. I haven't compared prices recently, but in the past I've seen prices at the one next to the freeway that were over a dollar more per gallon compared to the further station.

Posted by: junior at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (5Q/IU)

236 Remember the fake hysteria last July 4th at Mt Rushmore?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (fjQ+v)

Yup. Also the fake hysteria THIS year when Kristi Noem chose not to stand up to Gropey Joe.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (mZUr4)

237 Went through Sturgis this weekend. Lots of bikes and zero masks. I wish Fauci had gone there personally to deliver his message. It would have been glorious.

Morons here would have made a killing on selling tire irons.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (+LCoQ)

238 liberal vacatin oases are about the most tedious places you could spend time

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (38A8U)

239 @206 Duncanthrax-I grew up in the Reno/Tahoe area. Back before things turned to shit, here in Cali it was a privilege to drive on the beautiful well maintained roads. In the Reno/Tahoe area there was two seasons. Winter and paving season. In fact they still still refer to those seasons to this day.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (0jZnq)

240 The bulk foods section at WinCo is awesome.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (xPl2J)

241 @222 later: "wow they sure hired a lot of guys for that 'photoshoot'."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (69qVN)

242 And speaking of airborne, there's a podcast that WWII geeks should love. "We Have Ways to Make You Talk" with British writer/historian James Holland, and another guy.

Latest episode was talking with deputy director of the small D-Day museum in Portsmouth about airborne ops that were cancelled, between D-Day and Market Garden (17 operations).

And speaking of Holland, and Italy, reading his book "Italy's Sorrow" now. Jeebus the Italian armistice/side-switch with the Allies was one of the most complicated, most effed up Charlie Foxtrots evah. And tragic, with much murder and misery for Italians. Seems every side botched it - well, except the bad guys, the Germans, who had anticipated Italy switching sides and were ready to pounce.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (OTzUX)

243
We used to use "chooch" a lot when we were kids.

It was like "dude" to us.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:53 PM (fjQ+v)

244 "Six Feet Motherfucker."

Your wish is my command.

Posted by: That guy who always says... at August 09, 2021 05:54 PM (W4eKo)

245 *waves to Epobirs*

Introduced to a new generation Niven's epic "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" Bloke about killed himself with the giggles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 05:54 PM (81pbH)

246 Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 05:51 PM (38A8U)

fatt' spizza'

you won't find that in google translate, unfortunately

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:54 PM (DJFLF)

247 The problem with any of this is that even with all this knowledge of the structure of totalitarian government, they present as words on the page.

The libs have always liked words, and they do not want to see themselves as the bad guy, so, it's part of their suppression to make the case that *you* are the real totalitarian. Thus the white *supremacist* "threat".

And we end up word-fighting with a group that assumes the position of authority on what comprises what. It will take an actual descent into totalitarianism and crashing the car against the brick wall on the other side to force people to see who was really in what role.

Because the civil conversation trends against what cannot be proven. And if they haven't fully proven themselves the totalitarians that they are becoming, one has to wait for a totalitarian situation that has already shaped the power that prevents the extrication.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 05:54 PM (XHhHI)

248 Has to have been nearly 40 years since I've had a Styx earworm. Good on the old troupers!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:44 PM (Bmy3R)

Only listened to the album a couple of times. In spite of owning Styx back in the day, they never really did a lot for me. Although the lack of Dennis is a definite improvement. That particular song almost sounds like John Lennon is spots.

They're probably better than they've ever been, The Mission was surprisingly good. And I tell you, I never thought I'd say they're better than the tribute band formerly known as Yes. That debacle surrounding their latest single didn't bode well. They really need to hang up their patch cords and call it a day.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:54 PM (wAnMi)

249 Posted by: rd at August 09, 2021 05:52 PM (Z32m1)

Amanda Knox

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (DJFLF)

250 Burning draft cards 2022.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (63Dwl)

251 >I understand. I don't wear masks anymore. I'm done with that inconvenience. I was in WinCo Foods recently and some guy coming the opposite way in the aisle had a mask and a t-shirt that read, "Six Feet Motherfucker." I just laughed as he went by. He couldn't even look me in the eye.
Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (FA5Pj)

LOL, I guess that's not quite as much cringe as the lady wearing the hula hoop barrier thingy.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (DXFDM)

252 apocryphal Sturgis story: an advertising exec on the Harley account appeared on his hotel balcony engaged in a public sex act with his gal. HD not amused, yank account from that agency.

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (1QMCL)

253 a sicilian vulgar command i like is "iett u sangua," or "go let your own blood"

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (0G13K)

254 Maybe Sturgis should serve some Brie and Champagne. Then it will be sophisticated and such and masks wont be needed.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (iY5k5)

255 fatt' spizza'

you won't find that in google translate, unfortunately
Posted by: k

in fairness, I was not talking about you, you are American, not italian

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (38A8U)

256 But boy were they spicy and really really mean, lol
Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:50 PM (DJFLF)

I bet you had my experience of asking what a particular saying meant and getting a wooden-spoon whoopin' without even knowing what you said!

Over the years I've figured most of them out, but some of those southern mountain-people phrases are real head-scrathchers. I got one memorable wooden-spooning for something my dad always yelled that sounded like "Ma n'angela" and I've never gotten that one. "But you're no angel?" That doesn't sound so bad so that's probably not it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (Bmy3R)

257 PUBLIC SEX ACTS ON BALCONY !11!!

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (V13WU)

258
"This California Gas Station Has The Most Expensive Fuel In The US"

There's gas station in a little hole in the wall place called Gorda.
It's on California HWY 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon.
I' wouldn't be surprised if the regular gas is over $8.00 a gallon pushing $9.00.

Posted by: YIKES! at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (t6XCL)

259 fatt' spizza'

you won't find that in google translate, unfortunately
Posted by: kallisto

a friendly greeting, no doubt

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (oEn12)

260 @234

Amanda Knox. She actually put up an interesting article a week or two ago that bemoaned how her name and reputation isn't really her own anymore. Part of that is because there's apparently a (very loosely) based on true events movie that has the Knox stand-in character admit to her father that she asked the guy who killed her roommate to do it.

Posted by: junior at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (5Q/IU)

261 Italy in the Second World War was always a mess. If it wasn't for the terrain, the Allies would have been in Rome much much sooner. And to cap it all off when the Germans finally surrendered it was German MP units working with the Allies who kept order.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (81pbH)

262 i only know that one from a second-generation sicilian who didn't really know the rules of italian (or sicilian) so that might be wrong. I know "iettere" would mean "throw" or "throw away." and sangua = sangue, blood

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (0G13K)

263 what?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (oEn12)

264

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (V13WU)

265 I bet you had my experience of asking what a particular saying meant and getting a wooden-spoon whoopin' without even knowing what you said!

no, they just ignored me or shoo'd me away. But I eventually figured it out when I learned the linguistic conventions of our dialect.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (DJFLF)

266 Never really watched the show, but did see enough clips to note that much of "CHiPs" was filmed using the then-new or not even opened I-210 in the northern LA area. At least that's what it looked like. So yeah that would look perfect, as it was new.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (OTzUX)

267 Yikes! to The Barrel!

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 05:58 PM (81pbH)

268 Not far from where I live in LA County, there's a gas station almost right next to a freeway off-ramp. However, there's a gas station just a few blocks away, that's part of the exact same chain. And there is a *huge* difference in prices between the two stations. I haven't compared prices recently, but in the past I've seen prices at the one next to the freeway that were over a dollar more per gallon compared to the further station.

We had a station locally, a franchise operation, that was in some kind of a dispute with - think it was an Exxon at the time - licensing operation. So the owner set the price a buck higher than everyone else in the area just specifically NOT to sell anything and get bought out.

Posted by: JEM at August 09, 2021 05:58 PM (8erNz)

269 229 in fairness, italy is a shithol,
however,
they might have some balls
the french are definitely ungovernabl, so when they go shit gets real
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 05:51 PM (38A8U)

---------
And just think, the most disgruntled people of every country came flocking to our hallowed shores so they could be left the hell alone.
And we've come to this, bands of roving Karens trying to shame us all into compliance with insane dictates from morons in office and their toadies.
I can't believe people have put up with this as long as they have.
Sad!

Posted by: Just Lily at August 09, 2021 05:58 PM (RLLZj)

270 There's a reason the Most Valuable People on the planet aren't wearing masks in Martha's Vineyard this week.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2021 05:58 PM (vOGqy)

271 Thanks for running that video on mass psychosis. I got got onto this morning for saying that what we're seeing around us is mental illness. This video better 'splains what I was referring to.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 09, 2021 05:58 PM (HaL55)

272
If someone at Sturgis was smart, they'd put out a bunch a obama life-size cardboard cut-outs along the main drag. you know, to make it sophisticated and safe.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (fjQ+v)

273 Went through Sturgis this weekend. Lots of bikes and zero masks. I wish Fauci had gone there personally to deliver his message. It would have been glorious.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (UgVW5)

It might have been loud, but in the Red states we are still respectful of speech rights. AND The police still try to do their job in Red Areas.

If anyone in the Fascist Democrat Party ever gives a speech to a known hostile crowd, expect a trap with lots of badge heavy feds in the wings waiting to bust heads.

Posted by: rd at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (Z32m1)

274 "A decision more and more of us are making. No more bleating about friendship and kinship meaning more than politics."

It is the left that "lost the faith" in America, land of Liberty. Reject them when they denounce freedom and love their commie overlords.

Titus "... careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself."

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (Cus5s)

275 Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (0jZnq

Why aren't you moving to a Right to Work state? You paying union dues is just financing the death of this nation. Plus, making your so-called union leaders rich leftists.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (Fs5vw)

276 @219 Eisenhorn-If you ever see that SOB again with that shirt tell him that's Daughter Fucker to you a-hole.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (0jZnq)

277 Leftists trying to portray Trump supporters as the problem with covid, meanwhile the Biden junta just smuggled something like a million illegal aliens into the country. Completely sane.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 09, 2021 05:43 PM (buTO7)

The fact he's doing this to make TX, AZ and FL look bad makes me hate these freaks even more than I thought I could hate them. The media needs to be skinned alive and left for the fire ants. People are entirely unaware. And Abbot seems to be proving himself to be a sniveling little runt more and more every day. We need to hijack these buses full of Hondurans heading for FL and points red, and take them to DC and Pelosi's house.

And that one interview with the "refugees" that looked exactly like Somalis? Seriously, WTAF? Where the hell is Mustapha with his suitcase nuke? Because I'm sure Joe would love to have an ice cream with him.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (wAnMi)

278 a friendly greeting, no doubt

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (oEn12)

Certo, bella - l'apice della cordialità

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (DJFLF)

279 You wanna see expensive gas? Alaska highway has some in the super remote parts of BC and the Yukon. When gas stations are every 100 miles or so they can charge pretty much whatever they want. It was something like $8 a gallon when converted from Canuck Pesos.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (iY5k5)

280 I saw that relay thing before and it doesn't make any sense to me.

If A generally is much slower than B. A + B should still be no slower or faster on average than B + A. The order shouldn't matter.

If all you knew was Nigerian B+A was slower than the other's A+B. You should not have given you enough information to answer if A>B or B>A.

Maybe something else is going on.

That last video is spectacular. I wish everyone could see it and understand it. But that won't happen. I have a CRAPopomorhic theory which states since the secular universe is crap any process or or institution in this world must also be crap because if it weren't then thing's wouldn't lead to everything being so damned crappy. Not a sound theory but it has worked pretty well for me thus far.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (b3z1e)

281 Speaking of motorcycles:
Thanks to whoever recommended "The Machines that Built America" on the History Channel. It's really good.

Posted by: Sal at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (3c1fY)

282 Wonder if this translation would be accurate?

China asshole.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 09, 2021 06:00 PM (oy1++)

283
I just looked up "sophisticated" in The Science Manual(R). It says sophisticated is a scientific term for "safe and immune."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 09, 2021 06:00 PM (fjQ+v)

284 With the American liberal/media version of totalitarianism, the left has adopted a strategy to further confound the masses by making every claim to totalitarianism a he-said/she-said "let's agree to disagree" (until we can force the answer) stalemate.

Even when they don't have a point.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:00 PM (XHhHI)

285 Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:57 PM (0G13K)

I can't figure out Sicilian at all. It's just barely based on Italian.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 06:01 PM (DJFLF)

286 "He'd probably get an eye full."

There better be more than that honey!

Posted by: Shep at August 09, 2021 06:01 PM (x6uUk)

287 Ace uses only the most sophisticated Sicilian curses.

Posted by: Hands at August 09, 2021 06:01 PM (786Ro)

288 Sicilian?

Blame the Carthaginians and Greeks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (81pbH)

289 And just think, the most disgruntled people of every country came flocking to our hallowed shores so they could be left the hell alone.
And we've come to this, bands of roving Karens trying to shame us all into compliance with insane dictates from morons in office and their toadies.
I can't believe people have put up with this as long as they have.
Sad!
Posted by: J

some are here because it was easier here and they had nothing there and bitch about how they wish they had never come here

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (38A8U)

290 "This California Gas Station Has The Most Expensive Fuel In The US"
There's gas station in a little hole in the wall place called Gorda.
It's on California HWY 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon.
I' wouldn't be surprised if the regular gas is over $8.00 a gallon pushing $9.00.
Posted by: YIKES! at August 09, 2021 05:56 PM (t6XCL)

This says the Shell station at Hwy 1 near Sycamore Canyon Road is $6/gal regular. I know the station.

californiagasprices.com (zip is 93920) Monterey (93923)

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (wAnMi)

291 Need to see if there are good English language books on the topic, but there was actually a civil war within a world war in Italy, from Mussolini's fall til the German capitulation in May '45. Another layer of complication.

Holland's book right now is describing the cases of several Italian soldiers, and what they faced after Sept. 8 - total vacuum of authority, feared German reprisals etc, and very mixed reactions to the armistice and lots of other things. Good buddies, senior mentors/junior officers, would have wildly mixed instincts and took different courses. Total mess.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (OTzUX)

292 next time someone asks me if I'm vaxxed, I'm gonna sigh heavily and say "sadly, yes" while shaking my gead regretfully
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 05:36 PM (oEn12)

should probably end with "... and hospitalized for nearly three weeks".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (+LCoQ)

293 Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 05:55 PM (0G13K)

now that you mentioned that, I do recall my people enjoyed some curses that involved blood as well.

very rude and undisciplined I must say

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (DJFLF)

294 Not that motorcycles built America like, say, gas-powered farm machinery, but the fight for dominance in the industry was interesting.

Posted by: Sal at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (3c1fY)

295 It's a good thing Sturgis was scheduled at the same time as Obama's Soiree because all of those white supremacists would have put a damper on his little clambake.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (bCkNL)

296 Most Gas stations are independently owned. Those owners set the retail price. So you can have two Exxons on the same block but they are two indie businesses just using Exxon as the marketing arm. Iirc they dont even have to buy the gas from Exxon in some instances.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (iY5k5)

297 Then there was the RSI

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (81pbH)

298 280 I saw that relay thing before and it doesn't make any sense to me.
If A generally is much slower than B. A + B should still be no slower or faster on average than B + A. The order shouldn't matter.
If all you knew was Nigerian B+A was slower than the other's A+B. You should not have given you enough information to answer if A>B or B>A.

Maybe something else is going on.

That last video is spectacular. I wish everyone could see it and understand it. But that won't happen. I have a CRAPopomorhic theory which states since the secular universe is crap any process or or institution in this world must also be crap because if it weren't then thing's wouldn't lead to everything being so damned crappy. Not a sound theory but it has worked pretty well for me thus far.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (b3z1e)

My theory.
Women in the first group running desperately to catch up to the guy running ahead of them. Woman at the end doesn't have anyone in front for a good back so relaxes.

On the second thing, I think Christianity calls that a "Fallen world" or something.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (z5Vrg)

299 Speaking of gas and roads and shit:
National mile-driven tax pilot program tucked into $1.2 trillion INFRASTRUCTURE bill.

Posted by: wth - unsophisticated and obnoxious at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (v0R5T)

300 I just looked up "sophisticated" in The Science Manual(R). It says sophisticated is a scientific term for "safe and immune."

Probably the kale cleanse.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:04 PM (+LCoQ)

301 Also, ridicule does not work as well, when you have an at-least literate totalitarian faction.

Because then they accuse you of laughing at the Covid deaths.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:04 PM (XHhHI)

302 >>I can't figure out Sicilian at all. It's just barely based on Italian.

I think it is. I can see the italian in it. He told me that Sicilians use the word "u" to stand in for articles and prepositions. Or maybe he meant "iett' tu' sangua"

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 06:05 PM (0G13K)

303 >>> 219 not you, dear commenter, the theoretical interloper

I understand. I don't wear masks anymore. I'm done with that inconvenience. I was in WinCo Foods recently and some guy coming the opposite way in the aisle had a mask and a t-shirt that read, "Six Feet Motherfucker." I just laughed as he went by. He couldn't even look me in the eye.
Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (FA5Pj)

Too bad you didn't have any farts to share.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2021 06:05 PM (ACi07)

304 The Obama party was a huge gift to Republicans in 2022.

I would bet behind the scenes Democrats are seething but they can't dare criticize Obama.

Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (21HjU)

305 Amanda Knox got well and truly f*cked over. I really hope she finds peace. It's a tragic tale, and to this day there is a very active component online that harasses her.

Back when I lived in New Yawk, I had a Sicilian barber. Now, I'm pretty fluent in proper Italian and souther dialects, but I understood about a third of what he said, and most of that only because I had a Sicilian uncle.

Dude was hilarious, if he wanted to talk shit about someone in the waiting room while I was in the chair, he'd switch to Sicilian. "This guy here, he's retired, he has all day to some in here. This asshole sits on his ass all day long watching TV and then walks in here half an hour before I close!"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (Bmy3R)

306 The Mass Psychosis video. Pass far and wide.
SO many people need to watch it.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (Hswbs)

307 some names:

Branch Covidians
Jim Crovid Laws

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (ZZK0E)

308
Gettare = throw in italian. I think he said "iett" so I thought maybe iettere was sicilial for gettare. but maybe i just misunderstood what he was saying, and he was saying "gett' tu' sangua"

the important thing is that it means go slit your own throat which is badass

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (0G13K)

309 304

Republicans are more afraid to criticize Obama than Democrats.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (iY5k5)

310 With the American liberal/media version of totalitarianism, the left has adopted a strategy to further confound the masses by making every claim to totalitarianism a he-said/she-said "let's agree to disagree" (until we can force the answer) stalemate.

Then follow their offer with a counter-offer: "Lets agree to leave each other alone and let us live our individual lives in peace"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (+LCoQ)

311 For those who love science sexually: it makes sense that men would be preferentially genetically disposed to be able to run away from the critters who a second ago were hunting the same critters you were, but are now hunting you. Those who could not make it got et. And so did not pass their genetic predisposition to bedazzle their Spears down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (LYEvi)

312 And recall that immigration in the era of mass legal immigration included a significant "return rate" - many many immigrants didn't like it here, or it didn't work out, or whatever, and aside from family and clan/community/church support, there was no welfare "safety net". I think the rate for Sicilian and Italian immigrants was the highest.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (OTzUX)

313 Went through Sturgis this weekend. Lots of bikes and zero masks. I wish Fauci had gone there personally to deliver his message. It would have been glorious.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (UgVW5)

Well, the Concours d'Elegance is still scheduled for Pebble beach, and the Concorso Italiano, vintage races etc. also all on for the weekend coming up. I have little doubt that the movers and shakers will be mask free, partying at all the hotels and restaurants with no problems. I'm sort of glad I don't live there anymore, but still miss it a wee tiny bit.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (wAnMi)

314 Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 06:05 PM (0G13K)

*shrugs*

One of the most mystifying sights I've ever seen was my ex's mom, who was Middle Eastern, conversing with a Sicilian immigrant lady. They both spoke in a mash-up of their native tongue and sort of Philadelphia english...and none of us knew what they were saying...but they understood each other.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (DJFLF)

315 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump. Both of my nieces and sister in law called us crazy nails for voting for Trump. We have cut out so many family members but it's not worth the stress. They have a severe mental illness and I won't be around crazy people.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 06:08 PM (UgVW5)

316 Good buddies, senior mentors/junior officers, would have wildly mixed instincts and took different courses. Total mess.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:02 PM (OTzUX)

So Italians (whom I love, not sexually).

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2021 06:08 PM (8SSHh)

317 Went through Sturgis this weekend. Lots of bikes and zero masks. I wish Fauci had gone there personally to deliver his message. It would have been glorious.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 05:48 PM (UgVW5)

They'd rip him limb from limb and then piss on him

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2021 06:09 PM (Irn0L)

318 Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 06:05 PM (0G13K)

The "u" degenderizes as it's used in place of the proper male and female vowel endings. This is one of the reasons the northern Italians consider the southerners uncouth. It's comparable to dropping g's or saying y'all, to a Yankee.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 06:09 PM (Bmy3R)

319 One of the most mystifying sights I've ever seen was my ex's mom, who was Middle Eastern, conversing with a Sicilian immigrant lady. They both spoke in a mash-up of their native tongue and sort of Philadelphia english...and none of us knew what they were saying...but they understood each other.
Posted by: kallisto

It was the hand and arm gestures that provided the lingua franca kallisto.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2021 06:09 PM (mD/uy)

320 304

Republicans are more afraid to criticize Obama than Democrats.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

Some definitely are, that's part of why he won 2 elections. Republicans were afraid to be called a racist, and then were called a racist anyway.

Can you ever think of a Democrat that has criticized Obama? He really is like untouchable.

Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (21HjU)

321 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump. Both of my nieces and sister in law called us crazy nails for voting for Trump. We have cut out so many family members but it's not worth the stress. They have a severe mental illness and I won't be around crazy people.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 06:08 PM (UgVW5)

Fuck em, just think about how much money you saved on Xmas and Birthdays

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (Irn0L)

322 Ace, when speaking of Sicilians, you have to throw in more red faced shaking of fists and chips with the hands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (LYEvi)

323 @275 Justsayin'-Hey, let me know where you live and if there are any six figure jobs available that revolve around welding and refinery work.

Whether anyone likes it or not everyone here at this blog has financed the death of this nation and made CEO's, athletes and movie actors, etc, rich leftists.

Posted by: JROD at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (0jZnq)

324 "If A generally is much slower than B. A + B should still be no slower or faster on average than B + A. The order shouldn't matter. Maybe something else is going on."

I think Nigeria knew they were slower and mixed it up to create some chaos that might give them an edge

"If all you knew was Nigerian B+A was slower than the other's A+B. You should not have given you enough information to answer if A>B or B>A."

But what we know is:
vs Group A, A>B
vs Group B, A>B

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (49Exr)

325 Video is worth a watch.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (m/Gc2)

326 I shall drift off to sleep tonight to the image of Fraudci being torn to pieces by Sturgis bikers.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (Bmy3R)

327 That last video is spectacular. I wish everyone could see it and understand it.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 05:59 PM (b3z1e)
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Actually, it's quite unaware of how worldview-bound an argument it is making.

Everthing is in dispute these days.

You could show that video to some people on the left and they would point and say that it's a good thing they stopped Trump.

Totalitarianism is a mind-sickness because it arose as a counter to the Western-Christian-liberal tradition that provided all the "progress" towards human worth and provided the baseline from which to judge these very normal states of Man.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (XHhHI)

328 some names:

Branch Covidians
Jim Crovid Laws
Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM (ZZK0E)

Y2 Covid

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (M+Lyo)

329 Biden: "Governor Who?"

Governor Who responds using
the DeSantis Sanction:

https://is.gd/XoDDKu

Posted by: Braenyard at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (nlbjl)

330 >>>The "u" degenderizes as it's used in place of the proper male and female vowel endings. This is one of the reasons the northern Italians consider the southerners uncouth. It's comparable to dropping g's or saying y'all, to a Yankee.

oh okay, thanks. Why would he put it in that position, then?

must have been "tu'" and he didn't understand it. His parents were first-gen immigrants but he grew up speaking english and some italian in the home but was never actually instructed in italian, it was just oral .

Posted by: ace at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (0G13K)

331 They canceled "Jazz Fest" in New Orleans. Twice this year.

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (8SSHh)

332 And so did not pass their genetic predisposition to bedazzle their Spears down.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM

I dunno. My ability to bedazzle my spear with glitter and rhinestones has proved irresistible many nights.

That, and my pheromonic musk, of course.

Posted by: Don Lemon at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (a3Q+t)

333 >>>> My theory.
Women in the first group running desperately to catch up to the guy running ahead of them. Woman at the end doesn't have anyone in front for a good back so relaxes.

On the second thing, I think Christianity calls that a "Fallen world" or something.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 09, 2021 06:03 PM (z5Vrg)

Yes, that's all I could figure. This would imply that the speed of one individual is in some way a function of the speed in other lanes. Which would make sense psychologically. And it would also indicate that runners in these sorts of things have behaviors like shear layers in fluids where momentum is imparted transverse to the velocity vector. I see this in traffic all the time. The bumper-to-bumper traffic in the right lane should have no effect on the left lane. But it does. You don't want to drive fast by slow objects because that's scary so everyone is slowed down by the cascading sum of everyone's fear.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (b3z1e)

334 It was the hand and arm gestures that provided the lingua franca kallisto.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2021 06:09 PM (mD/uy)

It was surreal. Ex spoke both Italian and Arabic, so he'd ask his mom: What did she say? and his mom would answer in Arabic.

So he'd ask Luisa in Italian - What did you say? And she would confirm what his mom had told her.
It was some weird immigrant mind meld wavelength they were on.

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (DJFLF)

335 321 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump.

==

everytime we pass by a gas station I say "tsk Biden gas prices"
Biden-votung hubbyb& kid never say a word

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (oEn12)

336 Some definitely are, that's part of why he won 2 elections. Republicans were afraid to be called a racist, and then were called a racist anyway.

And if they were, they didn't even try to defend themselves against that false charge. It was easy to do but they couldn't even summon the cojones to fight back against a blatant lie.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (HaL55)

337 They have a severe mental illness and I won't be around crazy people.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 06:08 PM (UgVW5)

Fuck em, just think about how much money you saved on Xmas and Birthdays
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (Irn0L)

And make sure they find out that your will gives everything to something that will ruin the rest of their lives. Like a parakeet sanctuary in Pakistan. Doesn't mean you can't give it to cancer research or a children's hospital, but that's all need to know, and what good lawyers are for.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (wAnMi)

338 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

That's so messed up.

I haven't really come into contact with that too much (mostly because liberals are usually assholes anyway so I didn't have "close" friends) but my parents have definitely experienced it with long term friendships.

its ALWAYS the Dems that do this.

Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (21HjU)

339 I mean, if there's one silver lining to the 2020 debacle, it's that I get all the "I told you so's"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (oEn12)

340 It was the hand and arm gestures that provided the lingua franca

Exactly the a point-a I'm a trying to a make a.

Posted by: Andrew C. at August 09, 2021 06:15 PM (a3Q+t)

341 I dont consider Trump to be a RepublicanZ I mean I know he ran as one and everything. But when I think Republicans Trump does not come to mind.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:15 PM (iY5k5)

342 I stopped speaking to my sister more or less after she became an Obama girl.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:16 PM (iY5k5)

343 >>> But what we know is:
vs Group A, A>B
vs Group B, A>B
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (49Exr)

Yes because we watched it. But if we were just told numbers for A1+B1 vs B2+A2 we could make no educated guess as to (A1+A2)/2 vs (B1+B2)/2. Also, I think you're right about why Nigeria went with what it did.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 06:16 PM (b3z1e)

344 I mean, if there's one silver lining to the 2020 debacle, it's that I get all the "I told you so's"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (oEn12)
---
Are you unable to appreciate all the normalcy that Biden has brought back to politics?!

Can't they just swirl around and point to all the normalcy that has returned?

How Biden "Shut down the virus"? (And he said this to criticize Trump in a time before the jab--so don't let them pull that one on you.)

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:16 PM (XHhHI)

345 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump. Both of my nieces and sister in law called us crazy nails for voting for Trump. We have cut out so many family members but it's not worth the stress. They have a severe mental illness and I won't be around crazy people.
Posted by: Megthered
___

My parents and siblings cut ties with me a long time ago.

Took me a while to accept that, but my husband, daughters, and granddaughters are my family, thank God.

Prayers up for you.
I know how painful that can be.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (gSAr2)

346 341 I dont consider Trump to be a RepublicanZ I mean I know he ran as one and everything. But when I think Republicans Trump does not come to mind.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:15 PM (iY5k5)

Well Trump wasn't controlled opposition so there's that major difference.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (z5Vrg)

347 I definitely know some "Biden regreters".

They fell under the spell of Republican NeverTrump, couldn't handle the media screaming all the time.

Many of them are in-laws.

Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (21HjU)

348 everytime we pass by a gas station I say "tsk Biden gas prices" Biden-votung hubbyb& kid never say a word

-

Biden voters don't care about "prices" or the economy. Mostly because most biden voters are corrupted ballots.

but seriously folks, biden voters are like the robots from Robots of Dawns (the will smith movie, ?) getting their narrative downloads everynight. They can't process life without a narrative to follow.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (ZZK0E)

349 bD,

I think the point of the relay vid is that someone screwed up so A and B were competing head to head instead of A vs A plus B vs B like you would normally see.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (3DZIZ)

350 Our son still has not spoken to us because we voted for Trump. Both of my nieces and sister in law called us crazy nails for voting for Trump. We have cut out so many family members but it's not worth the stress. They have a severe mental illness and I won't be around crazy people.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2021 06:08 PM (UgVW5)
Fuck em, just think about how much money you saved on Xmas and Birthdays
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2021 06:10 PM (Irn0L)

Concur.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2021 06:18 PM (R/m4+)

351 Branch Covidians
Jim Crovid Laws
Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:06 PM
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Y2 Covid
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM

Juh-Covid Witnesses

Posted by: Bert G at August 09, 2021 06:18 PM (ngead)

352 Biden voters don't care about "prices" or the economy. Mostly because most biden voters are corrupted ballots.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:17 PM (ZZK0E)
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Except that 16 cents Biden saved them on a 4th of July meal.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:18 PM (XHhHI)

353 The bulk foods section at WinCo is awesome.

Isn't it? I go into places like WinCo and Costco and marvel at the bounty available to us as Americans, and in the back of my mind I wonder, "How much longer?" Something I never gave a second thought to before.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at August 09, 2021 06:19 PM (FA5Pj)

354 Speaking of corrupted ballots ..... when do we see the results of the Maricopa audit?

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:19 PM (OTzUX)

355 Mentioned in an earlier thread, if you want to do a true, authentic bad Italian hand-gesture, it's the "fico" or "fig."

Make a fist, stick the tip of your thumb out between the middle and ring fingers. But beware, it's like the middle finger on steroids, to an Italian. That's a fightin' gesture and you better be ready to back it up.

It means "eat a fig out of a donkey's ass." But it's a very, very bad thing in Italian. The etymology of this rather odd phrase kind of escapes me even though I've looked it up.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 06:19 PM (Bmy3R)

356 I dont consider Trump to be a RepublicanZ I mean I know he ran as one and everything. But when I think Republicans Trump does not come to mind.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:15 PM (iY5k5)

IMO, Trump has always been a classic blue dog democrat from NY. But when you consider that JFK would now be a right wing fringe kook, it makes sense. The left has moved so far left that they dragged the center far to the left as well. There really was a time that democrats stood for something besides communism. Now loving the country is a crime for them. Funny how the media and country loved Trump all the way up until the realized he was serious about his run. They hate republicans, but they hate perceived turncoats even more.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (wAnMi)

357 All tht food will still be available to ** some ** Americans

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (iY5k5)

358 Then follow their offer with a counter-offer: "Lets agree to leave each other alone and let us live our individual lives in peace"
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (+LCoQ)
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They'll "agree to disagree" on that.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (XHhHI)

359 I am pretty fortunate. With the exception of one brother in law and (partially my sister because of him) we are solidly united as Americans and patriots. Yeah, some were not as gung-ho with Trump as I was and am, but they knew the alternative was orders of magnitude worse (as this year has shown us).

Younger son is a lost cause, but he is enough of a man to know what not to talk about with me. We get along very well because he is not an asshole.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (xPJvm)

360 I have Sicilians sitting across the table from me every Sunday and I barely know what they're saying. It's barely an Italian dialect.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 06:21 PM (sOXXq)

361 "Nigeria had a man run the third leg of the 4x400 women's relay, against women running the third leg."

I didn't know you could use it to run with.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 09, 2021 06:22 PM (ghoDT)

362 Then follow their offer with a counter-offer: "Lets agree to leave each other alone and let us live our individual lives in peace"
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:07 PM (+LCoQ)
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They'll "agree to disagree" on that.
Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (XHhHI)
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Mainly because of all the "violence" your political stance does on the victim classes

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:22 PM (XHhHI)

363 The bumper-to-bumper traffic in the right lane should have no effect on the left lane. But it does. You don't want to drive fast by slow objects because that's scary so everyone is slowed down by the cascading sum of everyone's fear.

For a number of years, I-35 running out of downtown Dallas south there was a completely dedicated HOV lane separated from all other traffic by Jersey barriers. It was like a pipe with no way to get on or off other than at the extreme ends.

So while traffic is stop and go for rush hour, there was always some doofus blocking the HOV lane moving half to a third of the speed of traffic on the other side of the concrete barriers. There were no cars ahead of these slow pokes for miles. I called it the "Sympathy Slowdown". Completely irrational. Fortunately motorcycles were considered HOV so passing these folks was almost always possible.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2021 06:22 PM (+LCoQ)

364 the oldtimers in my family used to spew really crude and vicious curses that are kind of untranslatable because they were particular to their mountain region and also in dialect. But boy were they spicy and really really mean, lol
Posted by: kallisto at Aug

Which dialect?
I have friends that their nonno spoke Piedmontese.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 09, 2021 06:22 PM (e+CWf)

365 Dr. Fauci chastises those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
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If Facui had any balls he would go to Sturgis and do that.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 09, 2021 06:22 PM (ESLBo)

366 I am proud to have Italian and Hungarian blood running through my veins.

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2021 06:23 PM (Rbu5d)

367 If Sturgis was a ghey rally, Fauci might have.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 06:23 PM (znIQ9)

368 its ALWAYS the Dems that do this.
Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (21HjU)

I think they have now forced the Right to consider doing it but a kind word from a family member and we would forgive with the caveat of no political discussions.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 09, 2021 06:24 PM (2DOZq)

369 Nothing in my family background I'm proud of, mainly because I had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 09, 2021 06:24 PM (gSAr2)

370 VPN Test
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 09, 2021 06:23 PM (wJbsb)
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Positive for the Delta variant.

This message has been quarantined.

Posted by: VPN Safety at August 09, 2021 06:24 PM (XHhHI)

371 The most exciting thrill ride I've had in the LA area was not at Disneyland, back when I went there, but the southbound HOV lane of the 405 from the Getty down past LAX, with bumper-bumper barely moving traffic in the regular lanes.

In LA 85MPH is considered "dogging it" in an HOV lane.

So one is roaring past stopped cars in the next lane, in the 80s.

Terrifying.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:25 PM (OTzUX)

372 You don't want to drive fast by slow objects because that's scary so everyone is slowed down by the cascading sum of everyone's fear.

==

*looks at PA turnpike*
*looks at comment*
hmmmm

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 09, 2021 06:25 PM (oEn12)

373 Does a college pedigree get you a sophisticated vaccine ?

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 06:26 PM (znIQ9)

374 Speaking of corrupted ballots ..... when do we see the results of the Maricopa audit?
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:19 PM (OTzUX)

Last I heard, they were still fantasizing over getting the routers etc. per the court's order. But apparently we're the only ones that need to listen to what a judge says. I have a sinking feeling the real smoking guns have been dealt with as far as machine records. Because those might come back and tie actual names to the theft. At worst, it'll be human error. Pretty sure if there was something truly damning, we'd have heard it. AZ had months to cover their tracks, and a gameplan to accomplish it. Otherwise, we wouldn't be focusing on sharpies at this point.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:26 PM (wAnMi)

375 its ALWAYS the Dems that do this.
Posted by: Blago at August 09, 2021 06:14 PM (21HjU)
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Their ideology is their pathway to virtue. Simply by holding "the right ideas" they are virtuous.

They even hate the "totalitarian tendencies" of the Christian right "theocracy" that they imagined.

Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (XHhHI)

376 "eat a fig out of a donkey's ass."
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Mmm. Buffet.

Posted by: homer al-simpson at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (UHVv4)

377 Those gas prices?

Another example of Bidenflation.

Disgusting is what that is.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (gdN9y)

378 Nood animals

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (z5Vrg)

379 Younger son is a lost cause, but he is enough of a man to know what not to talk about with me. We get along very well because he is not an asshole.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (xPJvm)

If he's not an asshole then there's still a chance.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (2DOZq)

380 California is no longer part of the United States.

Posted by: Caliban at August 09, 2021 06:28 PM (HgGBT)

381 Was just going to look for the cafe

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2021 06:28 PM (znIQ9)

382 >>> Actually, it's quite unaware of how worldview-bound an argument it is making.Posted by: Axeman at August 09, 2021 06:11 PM (XHhHI)

I thought that myself too. But there is a part where it states plainly that those under psychosis are not capable of breaking their false order and therefore not capable of ever exiting their delusion. So the left saying "yes that does do a good job showing how bad ORANGE Emmanual Goldstein BAD was and how great Dear Leader is" follows from their delusion.

It's up to the rational free to break everyone else's spell. It will be a painful, miserable, thankless endeavor. But it has to be done. There is a door for the deluded to escape. Sadly, we are the door.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 06:28 PM (b3z1e)

383 It's interesting that the same number of people at Sturgis is the same number of people that stormed the Capitol and broke a window.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 09, 2021 06:28 PM (bCkNL)

384
Yes, that's all I could figure. This would imply that the speed of one individual is in some way a function of the speed in other lanes. Which would make sense psychologically. And it would also indicate that runners in these sorts of things have behaviors like shear layers in fluids where momentum is imparted transverse to the velocity vector. I see this in traffic all the time. The bumper-to-bumper traffic in the right lane should have no effect on the left lane. But it does. You don't want to drive fast by slow objects because that's scary so everyone is slowed down by the cascading sum of everyone's fear.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 09, 2021 06:12 PM (b3z1e)

Making excuses now, huh? Why didn't she speed up when the first man passed her?

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 09, 2021 06:29 PM (Fs5vw)

385 I have Sicilians sitting across the table from me every Sunday and I barely know what they're saying. It's barely an Italian dialect.
Posted by: Marcus T

I'm a quarter Sicilian. Full blooded Greeks, sometimes insist we are brothers due to the Sicilian/Greek link.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2021 06:29 PM (mD/uy)

386 367 If Sturgis was a ghey rally, Fauci might have.

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Good point. May I assume he would have been hanging around the porta-potties?

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 09, 2021 06:29 PM (ESLBo)

387 > So one is roaring past stopped cars in the next lane, in the 80s.

On a trip from Monterey, CA to Palm Springs I hooked up with an Audi R8, Merc S-something and my poor old E36 BMW... doing 125 and change on I-5. For 70 miles.

It felt like the car was floating on air.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2021 06:29 PM (BFigT)

388 If there's no paper trail in the Maricopa audit process, I mean a permanent physical thing to check in the form of ballots, for their authenticity, as well as against the tabulation ..... then the entire election process is a farce. An audit should verify both the tabulation, and the legitimacy of the ballots.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:30 PM (OTzUX)

389 ace, not sure where that 76 pic up top was taken but where I am, gas is available for as low as $3.89/gal. The average in my area is about $4.30, again, still too much, but not over $6.

Santa Monica Blvd * N Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills.
It's famous location that's been in a bunch of music vids in the late 80s, early 90s.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2021 06:30 PM (1t5dY)

390 Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at August 09, 2021 06:20 PM (xPJvm)

If he's not an asshole then there's still a chance.
Posted by: Just a side note at August 09, 2021 06:27 PM (2DOZq)

Yup. Gives me hope. Problem is he's dating a girl who just got her law degree and wants to work for the ACLU. Oddly, he has not introduced us to her.

*rubs chin*, I wonder why that might be?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at August 09, 2021 06:30 PM (xPJvm)

391 Nood animals
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Mmm. Buffet.

Posted by: homer al-simpson at August 09, 2021 06:30 PM (UHVv4)

392 there's tons of rumors, I don't have a link to actual recount data from Az and whatever, but today I saw someguy point out more ballots than voters in AZ and prob PA.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at August 09, 2021 06:30 PM (ZZK0E)

393 I had 5 legal immigant uncles from the same side of my mom's family (12 kids!) fight in WWII. I'm pretty damn proud of that. Nobody made a "Saving Private Gambini" out of that.

Also had the first Italian-American attorney in my home county, my great-grandfather, another legal immigrant, as they all were. A great-uncle founded a school to teach *legal* Italian, Polish and Middle Eastern Christian immigrants English, and how to do American banking, and court appearances and such. One immigrant wing of my family co-founded the Republican Party in my home county.

And then there were pimps, rum-runners, and mobbed up guys, and at least one cold-blooded murderer. Angels and devils in every family tree. Angeli e diavoli.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 09, 2021 06:31 PM (Bmy3R)

394 Terrifying.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 09, 2021 06:25 PM (OTzUX)

It gets really fun when you've got those single drivers who are trying to zip along, then dive back into the #2 lane if they think there's a cop ahead. So those idiots are banging along at 80+, and suddenly some clown hits the brakes and tries to dive into a tiny opening, hoping somebody isn't moving into that spot from the right side.

I so very much do not miss commuting. My friend who lives in Freaking LA will call me on his way home, and to listen to him screaming at the idiots and honking his horn remind me that they stopped drivers ed years ago, and 1:10 drivers are illegals with no insurance/registration and have throw-away cars.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 09, 2021 06:31 PM (wAnMi)

395 Gay people make up 3% of the population and 97% of the noise.

Posted by: Caliban at August 09, 2021 06:31 PM (HgGBT)

396 Also, the prices on the left are for full-service, a rarity in SoCal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2021 06:34 PM (1t5dY)

397 They didn't teach us about all the Marxists murders in history class. How was i suppose to know?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 09, 2021 06:35 PM (oy1++)

398 380 California is no longer part of the United States.
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The problem is California is still part of the US though I agree with your cultural assessment of California.

From a larger political perspective I am beyond annoyed at how California and New York drive national politics. Their leadership, if I dare call it that, has driven us over a cliff.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 09, 2021 06:36 PM (ESLBo)

399 135...They even have government officials fleeing to other towns. Lol
Posted by: Marcus T at August 09, 2021 05:32 PM (sOXXq)

So do we; communists with a D after their name fleeing their responsibilities. Ours need to be fleeing for similar reasons as the Italian officials.

Posted by: Flyover at August 09, 2021 06:38 PM (Rbu5d)

400 Got some serious Fight Club vibes going on right now in our country. The Coastals are retarded if they think they can force the jab on Americans. People wanted scalps in the early 90's ffs.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 09, 2021 06:38 PM (Y+NO4)

401 A decision more and more of us are making. No more bleating about friendship and kinship meaning more than politics.

Oderint dum metuant

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Semper paratus at August 09, 2021 06:39 PM (N8//A)

402 Rules, uhhhhhhhhh, are for littlepeople.

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at August 09, 2021 06:46 PM (flINI)

403 Must see TV. About 17 minutes. Email all your family.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/sVxM4CUcHXgr/

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 09, 2021 06:49 PM (xopIz)

404 Posted by: Sock Monkey * Semper paratus

Sock! Check your email. tebers****** is not spam.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 09, 2021 07:25 PM (KPEbq)

405 405 That gas station with the prices is probably right next to the on ramp to the car renal return.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2021 07:35 PM (tWgX/)

406 "And then all the men overcame"

Better watch out, that phrase is what you say 3 times to summon Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 09, 2021 07:41 PM (mGRvI)

407 >>> Posted by: .38 Special Golf School for Busty Girls

Hey, you shoulda linked the good one, So Caught Up In You!

https://tinyurl.com/4sb4x6ey (youtube, with lyrics)

Posted by: Fou Troll at August 09, 2021 07:56 PM (HLwmB)

408 Watched a documentary on John Milius and they were talking about the downturn his career took following Red Dawn. It seems that despite that movie being extremely popular, the movie industry people hated it because it was America good, Communism bad. But really stoked me, was Oliver Stone saying, "the problem with John is that he got older but he didn't learn anything". I thought, you arrogant, insufferable m****r f****r. You think that the only was a person can mature is to adopt your way of thinking. That your thinking is the only way anyone should think. That no one is allowed to draw different conclusions from their life experiences.

No wonder his daughter is fed up with all of them.

Posted by: Thesherman at August 09, 2021 08:03 PM (OaXGH)

409 I'm in the Bay Area, the station I just filled up at is selling Regular for $4.19

Posted by: Surfperch at August 09, 2021 08:48 PM (5kh8A)

410 RE: Fauci/Lallapaloooser/Sturgis
Lalla had 400,000 over 4 days, nearly all who travel via enclosed vehicles, either cars, buses, trains, planes and from, through, and to an urban area, staying in hotels, in a city of 4Million+.
Sturgis is 450,000 over a week nearly all of whom travel solo or in pairs, traveling through hundreds of miles of wide open clean air, from, through, and to a rural area, staying mainly in campgrounds....in a town with a population of a mere 6,000

Posted by: jeff at August 10, 2021 11:11 AM (uAI4S)

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