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Biden cites one (1) analyst to make the preposterous claim that we're currently experiencing the strongest economy in fifty years.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden was widely mocked online after he posted a tweet describing his economic track record as the "strongest" of any Commander-in-Chief in the past half-century.
"We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years,” Biden wrote. "Let's keep the progress going."

He didn't name the analyst. You wouldn't know her. She goes to a different school.

Two pieces of evidence contradict this already-laughable claim: Mark Zandi, a reliably Democrat partisan analyst, downgraded the growth outlook from a brisk 5.2% to a low 2.2%.

Further, Larry Summers warns that Brandon has engineered an inflationary spiral that will take "a recession" to unwind.

But whatever, Brandon.

Of course Andrew Cuomo will not be prosecuted for allegations of sexual assault. It's good to be the King!

The Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Tuesday that it had concluded a thorough investigation into two sexual misconduct allegations against then-New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and that while "credible evidence" was found, there will be no forthcoming charges against Cuomo.

Credible, shmedible. "Credibly accused" doesn't exist when we're talking about Democrats.

Speaking of:

for those who follow Robert Malone, MD. He was suspended from the Tw@t.
He's only one of the inventors of mRNA technology, but you know, the Tw@t loves it some #Science!
here's where to find him now. Also on substack

https://gab.com/RobertMaloneMD
https://gettr.com/user/rwmalonemd
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmalonemd/
My website is:
www.rwmalonemd.com
Posted by: kallisto

Bret Weinstein
@BretWeinstein

Robert Malone has risked his reputation and career to serve the public interest. "Public health authorities" by contrast, have sold us out to Big Pharma at every turn. By suspending @RWMaloneMD, Twitter is declaring war on the public and the scientific process.
#RestoreMaloneNow

More on the latest Tech Monopoly censorship of dissenters and scientists here.

11-time NCAA all-American swimmer Jeri Shanteau: Will "Lia" Thomas represents "the extinction of women's sports." Biden is preparing to include a new provision in Title IX -- a title in the law about protecting women and girls in higher education -- guaranteeing that biological males can compete in girl's sports.

You know, I think it's fair to say that this is a more important issue to feminists than to anyone else. They really pushed Title IX in a vindictive way and disadvantaged a lot of boys sports to do so.

And unless chickenshit feminists start speaking up, I'm inclined to start conceding the issue and saying, "Feminists, here you go: Us men will beat the crap out of you in your precious Title IX sports. Enjoy. Your circus, your monkeys."

The media is smart, you guys.

Obey us, we're experts, the media said, despite not being experts in literally anything at all, except, arguably, churning out adequate copy on a deadline, but no, they're shit at that, too.

A Michigan teacher tested positive for covid during a flight so she quarantined in the bathroom for five hours.

A Michigan school teacher traveling over the holidays voluntarily isolated in an airplane's tiny bathroom for five hours after testing positive for COVID-19 mid-flight.
Marisa Fotieo was on a flight to Reykjavik, Iceland from Chicago on Dec. 20 when her throat began to hurt, TODAY reported. With rapid test kits handy, Fotieo decided to take one "and within what felt like two seconds" discovered she was positive for the virus.
"There's 150 people on the flight, and my biggest fear was giving it to them," she told TODAY.
She decided it would be best to quarantine herself in the airplane's bathroom for the remainder of the flight which she estimated was five hours. She filmed what it was like in the tiny quarters in a video with over 4 million views on TikTok.

All she cared about was not spreading it.

Oh, and racking up some sick influencer cred.

Jeopardy's highest-earning female player ever? Well, it's a Very Special Lady.

Hashtag #BiologicalWomenArentReal.

That is where this is driving towards. A lot of them are already claiming that. It's just a few months away from being the new trans orthodoxy, repeated by the "mainstream" (LOL) media and "science" magazines.

"1619 Project" head Nikole Hannah-Jones says the quiet part out loud:

"I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught..."pic.twitter.com/dT9OTn2rWC
— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) December 27, 2021

Jesus must love the Babylon Bee because he gave them the charism of prophecy:

The Bulwark's True Conservative, Tim Miller, nods along as Chris Hayes claims that conservatives make a big deal out of organized shoplifting/looting rings only because of all the black faces involved.

Look who’s nodding along like a good little boy on the right. https://t.co/Y4mrX7pyGA
— John 'pro-norms' Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) December 30, 2021

All of these "true conservatives" ran Conservative, Inc. all of our lives, and we always wondered, "Why is it we're donating so much money, and yet we're always losing?"

Well, there you go.

Let’s go back in time to 3/29/21

“No we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person… The virus does not infect them…It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to get more people.” pic.twitter.com/kwsDIPYl2E
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) December 26, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 04:21 PM

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1 Kapow!

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:21 PM (lCui1)

2 Yay First!

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:22 PM (lCui1)

3 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

4 It takes a special kind of idiot to test mid-flight.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 04:23 PM (Ez6QX)

5 Woohoo!
The Bee should have already won several Pulitzer Prizes by now, if a Pulitzer was actually worth something.

Posted by: Jmel at December 30, 2021 04:24 PM (bVhJi)

6 "Well, it's a Very Special Lady."

Xer is, xhe most certainly is.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (9ewTg)

7 You know, I think it's fair to say that this is a more important issue to feminists than to anyone else. They really pushed Title IX in a vindictive way and disadvantaged a lot of boys sports to do so.

And unless chickenshit feminists start speaking up, I'm inclined to start conceding the issue and saying, "Feminists, here you go: Us men will beat the crap out of you in your precious Title IX sports. Enjoy. Your circus, your monkeys."

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I mean...yeah.

This isn't my fight in any way, shape, or form.

Women need to learn that they're not getting their tyrannical future with women running things. They're getting their tyrannical future where only the lite run things and use whatever they can to split people apart. And they're not the elite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

8 You know, I think it's fair to say that this is a more important issue to feminists than to anyone else. They really pushed Title IX in a vindictive way and disadvantaged a lot of boys sports to do so.

And unless chickenshit feminists start speaking up, I'm inclined to start conceding the issue and saying, "Feminists, here you go: Us men will beat the crap out of you in your precious Title IX sports. Enjoy. Your circus, your monkeys."

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I agree. I lived through the era of NCAA mens wrestling teams and other such things being gutted and replaced with coed-air-rifle teams because of Titxle XI.

stop being bigots, cis-girls.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

9 ah, yeah, "learn to dunk, bigots"

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (ZZK0E)

10 Willowed.

What's a silver sneakers class?

It's a gentle arobics class for old people.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (nxdel)

11 Good job, Mister Schneider. Maybe you and Admiral Robert Levine can get gay married. Lesbian married? Help me out here.

Everything in this post speaks to complete collapse, SOON. Stock up and prepare your mind.

Posted by: trev006 at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (G4Vo2)

12 At least the jeopardy champion is better groomed than the health secretary

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:26 PM (lCui1)

13 "Further, Larry Summers warns that Brandon has engineered an inflationary spiral that will take "a recession" to unwind."

Will Brandon get us into some conflict as a distraction? He's just the most inept foreign policy pol in the last 40 years, to paraphrase Robert Gates.

At least in the end there will be only chaos, so I've hear.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:26 PM (9ewTg)

14 "have you guys used a door before"

good one; well done

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 04:26 PM (hGIMd)

15 "have you ever used a door before" has got to be a top-ten dunk. I mean, a top-10 for any other year aside from 2021 bc the media has been super dum

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:26 PM (ZZK0E)

16 Yeah, I knew this tranny stuff would jump the shark when Bruce Jenner was named WOMANZ of the Year in 2015.

When he was just dressed up like a woman, didn't even take hormone blockers or become a Eunuch.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (oHd/0)

17 Biological men applying to STEM programs and "trans" will solve the imbalance. And I don't know if admission depts require hormone suppressors.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (ONvIw)

18 Women need to learn that they're not getting their tyrannical future with women running things. They're getting their tyrannical future where only the lite run things and use whatever they can to split people apart. And they're not the elite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

You want to see a shitlib brunch girl turn into a hardcore TERF, let her set off a tranny in a supermarket. She'll probably manage it by accident.

Posted by: trev006 at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (G4Vo2)

19 "Have you guys used a door before?"

Always the back.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

20 Continuing from previous thread, when they held me in the ER last week, I noticed that the night shift nurses were young and pretty

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (lCui1)

21 I must be doing doors wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (ZLI7S)

22 As I have read here many times.. What a stupid time to be alive

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (TdaKq)

23 I am that analyst.

Posted by: Joe Isuzu at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (BJKQV)

24 btw, I remember there was a time where The Economist wasn't a pile of trash. Was that in late 90's, early 00's?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (9ewTg)

25 Everything in this post speaks to complete collapse, SOON. Stock up and prepare your mind.
Posted by: trev006 at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (G4Vo2)

The trans shit is another gift from Obama, the anointed one.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (ONvIw)

26 Good job, feminism. Women can't even be the best woman anymore.

Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (l0Lgi)

27 CDC warns against going on cruise ships.

Posted by: They're going to shut it down again at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (AhUoh)

28 I'm more or less already there w.r.t. letting the feminists wallow in their own filth. They did this to themselves.

Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 04:29 PM (UewuT)

29 As for Biden using executive action to Build Back Better, any spending without an authorization and appropriation is a crime under the Anti Deficiency Act. I get that no one will be prosecuted, but I dont see a lowly finance person in the Govt risking career suicide to violate the ADA.

Even Trump used authority to move money from DOD to the border wall, etc.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at December 30, 2021 04:29 PM (fMhOl)

30 I'm such a misogynist, I love this shit

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:29 PM (ZZK0E)

31 26 Good job, feminism. Women can't even be the best woman anymore.
Posted by: t-bird

It's like that Onion article from the 90s, about a guy being the best leader of the feminism movement ever

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (lCui1)

32 In 1950, most of the freaks and dummies pictured in this post would be confined to Pilgrim State Hospital for the good of us normies out here. Is it too late to Build Back Better Mental Asylums?

Posted by: Kinkade Galleries, Inc. at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (JPtHE)

33 "have you ever used a door before" has got to be a top-ten dunk. I mean, a top-10 for any other year aside from 2021 bc the media has been super dum
Posted by: Tim Riggins

They were clearly referring to the Doors of Perception, duh

Posted by: William Miklos-Blake at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (QzkSJ)

34 29 As for Biden using executive action to Build Back Better, any spending without an authorization and appropriation is a crime under the Anti Deficiency Act. I get that no one will be prosecuted, but I dont see a lowly finance person in the Govt risking career suicide to violate the ADA.

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well, interesting, we can add this to the 50 different impeachments Biden is going to have endure in 2023. Vote Tim Riggins, make me Speaker of the House.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (ZZK0E)

35 Chris Hayes is a CCP-virus host.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (SH2Zi)

36 btw, I remember there was a time where The Economist wasn't a pile of trash. Was that in late 90's, early 00's?
Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (9ewTg)

They've faithfully reflected the neoliberal agenda my entire life. It's just that their agenda only became stupid under Bush, and obviously stupid under Obama.

One major reason they'll never forgive Trump is that he had a successful foreign policy BECAUSE he threw the State Department in a closet.

Posted by: trev006 at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (G4Vo2)

37 So women's sports will become a jv league for men who can't hack it on the main roster.

I'd feel but, but a large number of women voted for the people doing this, and I'm practically a religious believer in "good and hard." Sucks for the women and girls that didn't vote for it, but we all unfortunately suffer from a majority of stupid voters in our midst.

Posted by: Bete at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (Ojki1)

38 She decided it would be best to quarantine herself in the airplane's bathroom for the remainder of the flight
........

but the line of men outside waiting their turn upset the flight attendants.

Posted by: wth at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (v0R5T)

39 Well, it's a Very Special Lady.

If by Very Special, you mean Homely, well yes.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (ZSK0i)

40 Wait, Captain Wally Binghamton, USNR has a MSNBC TV show?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (4I/2K)

41 Ah, okay Jewells.

I've been hitting the stationary bike and doing some weight training at home.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (kMPrp)

42 26 Good job, feminism. Women can't even be the best woman anymore.
Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (l0L

This is not just feminists, the drive to trans bullshitistan, is a pan-donk movement. The boards of the congregations favoring B'Mitzvahs and gender free religious education (CRT hate) are far from a women's group.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:30 PM (ONvIw)

43 Sorry, but if you're still on Twitter you're part of the problem.

Ace, you were way ahead of your time.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM (VpIIl)

44 They were clearly referring to the Doors of Perception, duh
Posted by: William Miklos-Blake

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ah, I thought they were clearly referring to the Doors of Dormammu.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM (ZZK0E)

45 Liberal county near me. Evacuating a town of 11K, fire with high winds. And another fire north of there. But read the bottom of the evacuation statement. I'm so glad I no longer have to work onsite.

Superior also released a statement calling for all residents to evacuate. The Louisville Police Department also tweeted that residents of that city should be prepared to evacuate.

OEM also announced that a large animal evacuation center is open at Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road. Enter through the Humane Society entrance on Nelson Road so as not to interfere with COVID testing.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM (3cGpq)

46 So biden's phone call with Putin is over I assume? Have we surrendered The Ukraine yet? Was biden carrying an umbrella?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM (Irn0L)

47 Jesus must love the Babylon Bee because...

...because they're Calvinists, duh!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 04:32 PM (QYPq3)

48 You are not alone

https://tinyurl.com/mr3c8nsj

She is rarely alone

https://tinyurl.com/6yjnk6ke

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 04:32 PM (GYllL)

49 El Gato Malo has some optimistic thoughts on his substack. I really want to believe, and I think his observations are true for most of America, but I'm in Failifornia. I just hope the full narrative collapse happens before I get fired for no booster.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3upfxh

Posted by: InCali at December 30, 2021 04:32 PM (ov5G+)

50 Man, I just hope Biden hasn't had any phone calls with foreign leaders where he used criminal investigations for purely personal political gain or whatever, don't care, we need all the transcripts.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:32 PM (ZZK0E)

51 btw, I remember there was a time where The Economist wasn't a pile of trash. Was that in late 90's, early 00's?
Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (9ewTg)
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I remember when National Geographic wasn't a pile of trash. Beautifully photographed trash, but trash nonetheless.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 30, 2021 04:32 PM (DnWKq)

52 Sucks for the women and girls that didn't vote for it, but we all unfortunately suffer from a majority of stupid voters in our midst.
___

I have a niece who plays basketball and is graduating from high school this year, with the hopes of a scholarship.
I hope she doesn't get her hopes dashed.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:33 PM (kMPrp)

53 Anything a woman can do a man can do better
LoL

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 04:33 PM (2JoB8)

54 So biden's phone call with Putin is over I assume? Have we surrendered The Ukraine yet? Was biden carrying an umbrella?
Posted by: Nevergiveup

"I have here...a piece of paste"

Posted by: Neville from Scranton at December 30, 2021 04:34 PM (QzkSJ)

55 remember how only like 7% of women identified as feminist?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:34 PM (ZZK0E)

56 >Liberal county near me. Evacuating a town of 11K, fire with high winds.

thanks- I was wondering about that smoke plume
-can see it from here in Fat City

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:34 PM (fBSxh)

57 "Well, it's a Very Special Lady."

Xer is, xhe most certainly is.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:25 PM (9ewTg)

Men in a dress beating women at everything reminds me of the Jerry Seinfeld joke about not bragging about self-abuse versus chicks.

Paraphrase: I came home, turned down the lights. Before I knew it, I was all over myself. Let me tell you. I'm the best I ever had.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (SH2Zi)

58 So, who's on Gab? Ace? I remember resistance here due to them requiring cell phone # for sign up?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (ju2Fy)

59 "Mr. Biden, your refrigerator is runnink?"

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (Lt1JN)

60 >>>I noticed that the night shift nurses were young and pretty
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:27 PM (lCui1)

Correct - because they're the new nurses.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (QYPq3)

61 >>Well, it's a Very Special Lady.

The kind you don't bring home to mother.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

62 Never send a woman to do a woman's job.
- New Orthodoxy Press

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (coYBh)

63 56 >Liberal county near me. Evacuating a town of 11K, fire with high winds.

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I don't understand...is this Gaia punishing the unbelievers or not?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

64 The next six months are going to be interesting. Going into year end it's a mixed bag. However, inflation will eventually burn off some of the consumer spending (it's stable now) and the jobs situation has somewhat stabilized but there are some very weird things going on in the numbers. I believe in 2022 you start to see the jobs surplus burn off and corporate earnings will start to take a hit. Inflation has a way of destroying everything. Everyone is already downgrading their GDP expectations. We call that a "clue".

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (VpIIl)

65 Wha, wha, wha, wha?

Posted by: Chris Hayes, MSNBC at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (4I/2K)

66 CDC warns against going on cruise ships.
Posted by: They're going to shut it down again at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (AhUoh)

Translation.

Fed $$$ headed that way.

Cruise ships have nothing on airlines.

Posted by: golfman at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (hOMhY)

67 "There's nothing I can do, Jack" would made a wonderful sticker along with the "I did that" ones.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (ZMraq)

68 wait...is he done? Is DeBlasio out of office?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (ZZK0E)

69 Schneider is a man.
Full stop.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (Rbu5d)

70 The kind you don't bring home to mother.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 30, 2021 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

Unless your mom's name is Rachel Levine MD

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (ONvIw)

71 I hope all the folks on the plane who couldn't get into the bathroom to pee, peed in Marisa Fotieo's carry-on bag instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (P3gRi)

72
So biden's phone call with Putin is over I assume? Have we surrendered The Ukraine yet? Was biden carrying an umbrella?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM

what was the over/under for the number of times Putin said "Let's Go Brandon"?

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (DUIap)

73 Hi DB. I just can't stop shaking my head over "use just this one entrance if you're evacuating livestock as we can't disrupt the covid testing"

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (3cGpq)

74 Two sets of laws....and two sets of norms.

I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (eeRB6)

75 'multiple grass fires', they're calling it

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:38 PM (fBSxh)

76 69 Schneider is a man.
Full stop.
Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (Rbu5d)

Nothing good could have come from normalizing delusions and encouraging chemical, surgical, or spiritual mutilation.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:38 PM (ONvIw)

77 74 Two sets of laws....and two sets of norms.

I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (eeRB6)

=========

The other side thinks Lethal Weapon 3 is awesome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

78 73 Hi DB. I just can't stop shaking my head over "use just this one entrance if you're evacuating livestock as we can't disrupt the covid testing"
Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (3cGpq)

Evacuating the livestock is important. The people doing covid test can wait until they've finished their test.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (z5Vrg)

79 "have you guys used a door before"

good one; well done

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 04:26 PM (hGIMd)

That's really the only good use for twitter anymore, dunking on idiots.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (SH2Zi)

80 I want an ice cream cone.

Posted by: fluffy just looks at the pictures at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (UnQlg)

81 I believe in 2022 you start to see the jobs surplus burn off and corporate earnings will start to take a hit. Inflation has a way of destroying everything. Everyone is already downgrading their GDP expectations. We call that a "clue".
Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:36 PM (VpIIl)

I believe that we're going to see exactly what we lived through in the late 70's under Carter - recessionary business conditions while inflation steadily increases. I remember that before Carter and his policies made it happen, every official Economist said such a thing was impossible, that those could never happen at the same time. Carter proved them wrong, and it's going to happen again for the same reasons it happened last time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (trdmm)

82 It's the smoke of a distant fire.

Posted by: Sanford & Townsend at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (4I/2K)

83 >>Hi DB. I just can't stop shaking my head over "use just this one entrance if you're evacuating livestock as we can't disrupt the covid testing"

Posted by: PaleRider

yeah, Boulder CO and Jeffco are Karen Central for the whuflu panic

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (fBSxh)

84 Kamala Harris always reminds me of one of those savages that lands on Gilligan's Island. She wants to steal the castaways' shit and shame Ginger and Mary Ann for trespasses on the casting couch.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (r0ADi)

85 That's a Man! Baby!

Posted by: torabora at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (4tOtz)

86 63. Well it is all the fault of bitter clingers like me causing AGW which is the sole cause of dry years with higher fire risks.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (3cGpq)

87 74 Two sets of laws....and two sets of norms.

I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (eeRB6)

Well the Bidens and Clintons and Nevertrumpers are on the other side.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (z5Vrg)

88 A Michigan school teacher traveling over the holidays voluntarily isolated in an airplane's tiny bathroom for five hours after testing positive for COVID-19 mid-flight.

Boy that plane must have been a really shitstorm after that trip.

Shitter's full - Cousin Eddie

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (gmo/4)

89 Original Title IX: To ensure that girls have the same opportunities in sports as boys, we require girls' sports be funded at the same level. Yay, equality!

New and Improved Title IX: Bio-boys can now join the girls' team, so that boys have a not so equal shot at those opportunities we wanted for girls. Yay, inclusivity!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (URNdm)

90 Can you believe the balls on that woman? Has anyone interviewed "Lia" to find out why "she" thinks competing as a woman is fair?

Posted by: Downcast at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (tnvY1)

91 Jeesh that Economist tweet is hard to believe. People get paid to create that? That is what a social media degree yields?

Posted by: MikeM at December 30, 2021 04:41 PM (5Y7fX)

92 >>Evacuating the livestock is important. The people doing covid test can wait until they've finished their test.

wow. you wanna kill Grandma I guess

(I kid)

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:41 PM (fBSxh)

93 I've been hitting the stationary bike and doing some weight training at home.

They have all kinds of excercise equipment there and I've used some of the weight machines and the treadmill when I have a good day with my foot. But I enjoy the classes because it burns calories. I'm so out of shape it's ridiculous. I used to be in such great shape until the damn arthritis got bad. It's only $13.50 a month and I can take as many classes as I want.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 04:41 PM (nxdel)

94 Two sets of laws....and two sets of norms.

I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (eeRB6)

Well the Bidens and Clintons and Nevertrumpers are on the other side.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:40 PM (z5Vrg)

*Looks at Hunter Biden*
*Looks at the Clinton bank accounts*

I still wonder.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (eeRB6)

95 I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December

The other side is *tiny*. A couple hundred thousand government thugs and corporate thugs vs. about 330m subjects. It's hard to join the Party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (hQ23g)

96 That Jeparody proves what misogynists have been saying about women forever.

Posted by: torabora at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (4tOtz)

97 So thatchick did a rapid test on the plane - which meant sticking a swab up her nose - while in her seat?
Or she went to the bathroom to do it, then stayed there? Sounds like preplanned stunt

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (lCui1)

98 btw, I remember there was a time where The Economist wasn't a pile of trash. Was that in late 90's, early 00's?
Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (9ewTg)

My Economist phase was the early 90's.

I think they were already trash then but I was too stuck up about reading a better news magazine than everyone else to notice. Oh, did I leave that out on the coffee table for everyone to see? Huh, I guess that's my name on the address label so yep.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (z9npv)

99 > 'multiple grass fires', they're calling it

So.... weed then?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (BFigT)

100 The other side thinks Lethal Weapon 3 is awesome.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

Ok, that's persuasive.

Fuck Lethal Weapon 2~4

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (eeRB6)

101 This might actually come in handy for almost anybody in the media.

How to open a door - instructional video from 1979.
https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38
Turn on captioning unless you speak Finnish.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (wAnMi)

102 wait...is he done? Is DeBlasio out of office?
Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (ZZK0E)

Does it matter? He just announced he is continuing all of deblasio's covid restrictions. They are all alike, Black White, all commies

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (Irn0L)

103 Trannies in women's sports is the only way feminists will ever get it good and hard.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (gmo/4)

104 It's one thing to realize leftists are just vapid, power-seeking cunt motherfuckers, I get that.

The real animus should be reserved for all those crapweasels and assorted spineless jellyfish "Republicans" and judiciary and regulatory sell outs, not to mention weasels in the media, academia, and corporate captains of industry who've let them operate with impunity.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (xR+lz)

105 (Madow Madow) They're lookin' at you leanin' on you
(Madow Madow) Tell you anything you want to hear

Oh, no you can't do that
Once you started wearin' those shoes

Posted by: The Eagles at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (2cfUo)

106 Ace on fire to end the New Year...
Gold today Jerry! GOLD!

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (53oGX)

107
"have you ever used a door before"

Yeah, the door to the Midvale School for the Gifted.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (63Dwl)

108 'multiple grass fires', they're calling it

So.... weed then?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (BFigT)

Sure. Go with that.

Posted by: CO Muslim terror cell at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (G/G/C)

109 I recently finished installing 17 doors in a new office space. Man, it was terrible. I'd hang a slab, turn around and be someplace else! I'd have to find my way back to the job site every time!

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (DB16e)

110 99. LOL. Probably yes to both meanings of weed.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (3cGpq)

111
*Looks at Hunter Biden*
*Looks at the Clinton bank accounts*

I still wonder.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (eeRB6)

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (z5Vrg)

112 The other side is *tiny*. A couple hundred thousand government thugs and corporate thugs vs. about 330m subjects. It's hard to join the Party.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (hQ23g)

Jah But I had a chance to get into politics and decided against it.

Money, power, allies that understand will to power, and unaccountability sure would be nice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (eeRB6)

113 And if the shoplifting/ransacking were being done by MAGA-hatted, 70 year-old, white grandmothers, it'd be an insurrection ... and Tim Miller and Liz Cheney would be nodding along to the MSNBC guest suggesting summary execution was an appropriate response.

Posted by: Match Checksout at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (dYe5S)

114 #81 here...hold my beer.

Posted by: The Fed at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (4tOtz)

115 Ghislane will fit in well with CNN, she's a good match for their corporate climate.

...I liked Lethal Weapon 2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (KZzsI)

116 CDC warns against going on cruise ships.

Posted by: They're going to shut it down again at December 30, 2021 04:28 PM (AhUoh)

You went on a cruise ship against CDC warnings.
And you found yourself washed up on an barren island.
And by some miraculous event a DVD player floated on the shore.
Their were two movies attached.
What in your best dreams would they be?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

117 I'm going to start identifying as female and playing Women's beach volleyball. I don't have much interest in the sport, but locker room time will be lit.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (QC2Cw)

118 111 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (z5Vrg)

========

Well, the world, for one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

119 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (z5Vrg)

Two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (SH2Zi)

120 Let me know when biological males have babies (not crazy women who think they're men).

Until then, I'm not going to concern myself with this b.s.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (kMPrp)

121 I can imagine a economist taking inflation numbers and making it a big spending spree.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (2JoB8)

122 The other side is *tiny*. A couple hundred thousand government thugs and corporate thugs vs. about 330m subjects. It's hard to join the Party.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 04:42 PM (hQ23g)

A good point - which is why I've been arguing against thinking they are stronger than they are. They control the high ground, the media outlets - but they are losing everything else. They actually believe that because they can control what's said on Twitter, they control the world. I don't think they even understand that there's a difference between twitter and the real world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (trdmm)

123 Time is but a window.
Death is but a door.
I'll be back.
-Vigo

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (dNqv+)

124 I've been hitting the stationary bike

It's not going anywhere no matter how many times you punch it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (KZzsI)

125 ...I liked Lethal Weapon 2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (KZzsI)

Moron card, revoked.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 30, 2021 04:46 PM (SH2Zi)

126 Has anyone interviewed "Lia" to find out why "she" thinks competing as a woman is fair?
Posted by: Downcast

Careful. 'Incitement to journalism' is a pretty serious offense.

Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (lIIT7)

127 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (trdmm) "

Scary part is the Fed is running out of weapons and this Congress has already spent too much. We should be cutting budgets and we're expanding them. Both parties end that but Democrats drove us off the cliff (and any Republican who voted for the Phony infrastructure, *I am looking at you Maliotakis, you bint*).

People are being lured in by the easy money equity market. That can end overnight, no matter how hard the Fed keeps trying to fuel it.

Inflation is poison for the economy. There is nothing good or healthy about it. It's a sign the patient is sick, and the way things are going they are going to kill him. There are ways to head this off, but none of them are attractive politically.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (VpIIl)

128 >>>Yeah, the door to the Midvale School for the Gifted.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (63Dwl)

It's funny because it's universal!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (QYPq3)

129 "We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years, Biden wrote.
____________

Did "Doctor" Jill send away for another one of those phony degrees?

This time in "economic studies"?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (k4dH2)

130 Well, the world, for one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
__

Yet, you will still die, and can't take whatever riches you've made in this world with you.

And you will still be judged.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (kMPrp)

131 I used to read The Economist. Thirty years ago it was actually worth it's cover price and was something you could read cover to cover. Those were the days.

Posted by: Chuck C at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (EughT)

132 Well, the world, for one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

But for Wales???

(that was always one of my favorite lines in that entire film)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (trdmm)

133 >>Trannies in women's sports is the only way feminists will ever get it good and hard.

As "Amy" and HHS's whatshisface Levine show, it won't just be sports records where women are erased. Levine is praised as the first "female" Admiral, just as Amy is praised as highest female jeopardy winner. They have to rub our faces in this deviancy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (URNdm)

134 ...I liked Lethal Weapon 2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (KZzsI)

You know Joe Pesci is in that one, right? And the 'evil South Africans'...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (eeRB6)

135 Lethal Weapon 2 had the hot gal with the cute accent that got naked.

+1

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (dNqv+)

136 Willowed

My good friend and his wife and his son who are not vaxxed went to dinner with his vaxxed 92 year old mother , brother and nephew on the 24th. On Christmas the brother started having symptoms and he subsequently tested positive as did the mother and nephew who also had significant symptoms . The mother was quarantined in her room at her ( luxury) retirement community .

My buddy , his wife and son are still symptom free thus haven't had any test. The brother had connections and got a supply of Ivermectin pills. My friend had to sneak this in to his mother . Both the brother and mother are on day 2 of Ivermectin and feel better already. It's criminal that my friend had to sneak in medicine.

3 vaxxed people get the crud and 3 unvaxxed people are so far unaffected. What are the chances? /s

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (F4kQO)

137 in spring/summer, the Colorado roadsides are covered in lush grassy growth

in late July, it all dries out- little rain, bone-dry humidity- ready to burn

then some asswipe flips a cigarette butt out the car window on a windy day...

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (fBSxh)

138 I know Doors. Break On Through To the Other Side.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (FVME7)

139 I think I'm gonna go for the oldest male to turn female in the 21st century.

That should be good for some influencer bucks, no?

I can appeal to a couple different demographics there and since men are in short supply at my age I can go either way in private depending on what the lady requires.

Of course I have that affliction of older men throughout the ages. And I'm a little overweight.

Which means I haven't seen my pee pee this decade. Maybe someone could help me? I mean I know it's there I can feel it and everything. I just don't have a clue what it looks like anymore.

It's like having a friend and you both go off and do stuff and then one day you realize they're gone and you can't remember what they look like. So you get out the yearbook but that's not how anyone looks today. Well it's like that. My Urologist has seen my peepee more than I have.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (6R0HD)

140 Two sets of laws....and two sets of norms.

I wonder sometimes if I've picked the right side....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:37 PM (eeRB6)

I mostly just wish I was a LIV and didn't know about any of this shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (Ez6QX)

141 If vaccines don't work (and they knew it at the time, the conspiracy theorists have been right on 100% of the claims) then what purpose do the vaccines which don't work serve?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (7MBHe)

142 Did the Nakatomi Tower ever get rebuilt?

Posted by: torabora at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (4tOtz)

143 I believe that we're going to see exactly what we lived through in the late 70's under Carter - recessionary business conditions while inflation steadily increases. I remember that before Carter and his policies made it happen, every official Economist said such a thing was impossible, that those could never happen at the same time. Carter proved them wrong, and it's going to happen again for the same reasons it happened last time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (trdmm)

The mythical beast called stagflation. It only appears every 50 years or so when a Democrat president calls it forth.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (BJKQV)

144 Jah But I had a chance to get into politics and decided against it.

Money, power, allies that understand will to power, and unaccountability sure would be nice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30

I spent a couple years in politics before realizing that I already had a hard enough time sleeping at night without being part of that Kafkaesque shitworld, and decided I'd just spend my life hating the government with every fiber of my being instead. Choices, choices.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (hQ23g)

145 Lizzy,

They're nothing to me. They cannot take from me something they will never comprehend.

They, along with everyone else, will be judged accordingly.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (kMPrp)

146 You know Joe Pesci is in that one, right?

And in Casino, and Goodfellas, and Home Alone, and The Irishman, and My Cousin Vinny, and Raging Bull and... what was your point again? That the South African government was a bunch of nice guys we shouldn't have opposed?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

147 Evacuating the livestock is important. The people doing covid test can wait until they've finished their test.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:39 PM (z5Vrg)

To be fair, I have more concern for the livestock than I do for the people taking the covid tests, mostly because the livestock can't know any better, but the people could!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (hOUT3)

148 'multiple grass fires', they're calling it
Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:38 PM (fBSxh)

There were multiple small grass fires at Woodstock, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (P3gRi)

149 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:44 PM (z5Vrg)

BENJAMINS!!! YOU GET BENJAMINS!!

And all the hookers and blow and an army of lawyers to make those rape allegations go away.

Seriously, the joy of knowing at any moment almost any judge or legislator in the country will smile and answer "with pleasure" if I you tell them to lick the road tar off your Mercedes sports coup is a benefit in itself.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (ZMraq)

150 So, uh, when are they going to allow non-biological humans into these Olympic games. Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Not Sarah Jessica Parker at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (QYPq3)

151 126 Has anyone interviewed "Lia" to find out why "she" thinks competing as a woman is fair?
____________

Of course it's fair!

I couldn't win swimming competitions as a man! That's what's not fair!

If the other chicks don't like getting beat by me, they can always become men and go compete against the guys who always beat me!

Posted by: Lia the Fake Woman Swimmer at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (k4dH2)

152 I spent a couple years in politics before realizing that I already had a hard enough time sleeping at night without being part of that Kafkaesque shitworld, and decided I'd just spend my life hating the government with every fiber of my being instead. Choices, choices.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (hQ23g)

Ah, so you do understand then.
It's just hard to see virtue lose to these evil fuckers. I know it's the way of the world, but the call of the Vikings is a hard one to shake.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (eeRB6)

153 Inflation is poison for the economy. There is nothing good or healthy about it. It's a sign the patient is sick, and the way things are going they are going to kill him. There are ways to head this off, but none of them are attractive politically.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:47 PM (VpIIl)

Which is why I believe, looking at the situation politically, that no one is going to make the hard choices necessary, and this economy is going to do a Thelma and Louise sometime before 2024. Doing nothing and letting whatever happens, happen, is always the easiest default choice for incompetents.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (trdmm)

154 You went on a cruise ship against CDC warnings.
And you found yourself washed up on an barren island.
And by some miraculous event a DVD player floated on the shore.
Their were two movies attached. What in your best dreams would they be?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

ghost of Quora Daily Poster Steve?

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (DUIap)

155 >>> Which means I haven't seen my pee pee this decade. Maybe someone could help me? I mean I know it's there I can feel it and everything. I just don't have a clue what it looks like anymore.

Selfie stick

Posted by: fluffy is wicked helpful at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (UnQlg)

156 Joe Pesci spends most of Lethal Weapon getting smacked around by Mel Gibson anyway.

Although it did have a James Bond trap with the bomb on Murtagh's(sp?) toilet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (dNqv+)

157 >>They're nothing to me. They cannot take from me something they will never comprehend. They, along with everyone else, will be judged accordingly.

Well said, SMH!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (URNdm)

158 I mostly just wish I was a LIV and didn't know about any of this shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (Ez6QX)

Nope. We're keeping you.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (SH2Zi)

159 Seriously, the joy of knowing at any moment almost any judge or legislator in the country will smile and answer "with pleasure" if I you tell them to lick the road tar off your Mercedes sports coup is a benefit in itself.

nsfw: Senator Roark explains power in Sin City

https://youtu.be/Os9TU3e0kMo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (KZzsI)

160 Fuck Lethal Weapon 2~4
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:43 PM (eeRB6)

The entire LW franchise has been streaming free on Peacock. The first one was great. 2 and 3 seemed tolerable, but I can't remember the difference other than I'd like to see a version with all the Pesci parts removed. I could not get through 4, and the half hour or so I did manage to slog through was intensely painful. I'd seen it waaaaay back when I bought a DVD player in the 90's, and they gave me a bunch of DVD's. Lost In Space, a chick flick or two and LW 4. I'd obviously blocked it from memory like a bad trauma.

Hey! If the bad comic relief has been failing us for the past 2 movies, let's get a new comic relief! But we should keep the old one in case somebody still likes him! That's the ticket!

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (wAnMi)

161 155 >>> Which means I haven't seen my pee pee this decade. Maybe someone could help me? I mean I know it's there I can feel it and everything. I just don't have a clue what it looks like anymore.

Selfie stick
Posted by: fluffy is wicked helpful at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (UnQlg)

Complex series of mirrors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (dNqv+)

162 BTW, a guy who can't count to five is running the economy. Just think about that for a minute.

Democrats have made zero contribution to this economy. They have not passed any major legislation and they're rolling in the regulatory state, hard. Republicans and Trump had a pro-business policy and a very good tax bill. All of that is STILL driving what's going on. But Democrats have failed to make the right adjustments to keep it going. It's only a matter of time before it sinks.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (VpIIl)

163 I mostly just wish I was a LIV and didn't know about any of this shit.
Posted by: Jordan61
___

I feel the same way.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (kMPrp)

164 142 Did the Nakatomi Tower ever get rebuilt?
Posted by: torabora at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (4tOtz)

It became the headquarters for the Jenga company.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (trdmm)

165 NYC Mayor-Elect Eric Adams: Private-Sector Vaccine Mandate to Remain in Place

The Rent, She stay the same

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (Irn0L)

166 How to open a door - instructional video from 1979.
https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38
Turn on captioning unless you speak Finnish.
Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx

That was just on my youtube recommendations, too. The 24th thing on the list. And I mostly use youtube for music.

The Panopticon is real, and it's spectacular.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (P1f+c)

167 Lethal Weapon 3... *tilts hand side to side*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (dNqv+)

168 I would take Wizard of Oz and Usual Suspects.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (00h1T)

169 And in Casino, and Goodfellas, and Home Alone, and The Irishman, and My Cousin Vinny, and Raging Bull and... what was your point again? That the South African government was a bunch of nice guys we shouldn't have opposed?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

He stunk all those movies too, except My Cousin Vinny. His Leo Getts is one of the most annoying film characters until Ruby Rood is invented by Chris Tucker.

And whatever subtly of African geopoltics is lost in the cartoonishly evil bad guys of that movie. See, they weren't just criminals, they were RACIST criminals. Fucking movie was woke before wokeness took over the world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (eeRB6)

170 165 NYC Mayor-Elect Eric Adams: Private-Sector Vaccine Mandate to Remain in Place

The Rent, She stay the same
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (Irn0L)

==========

They elected another Democrat.

Did they really expect change?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

171 That the South African government was a bunch of nice guys we shouldn't have opposed?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

...

I think LW2 is more quotable than the first one too.

"I'm getting too old for this shit" didn't really resonate until they made it a catchphrase by using it again. License...revoked.

Pesci may be annoying after 30 years but at the time his schtick was pretty funny.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (z9npv)

172 161 155 >>> Which means I haven't seen my pee pee this decade. Maybe someone could help me? I mean I know it's there I can feel it and everything. I just don't have a clue what it looks like anymore.

Selfie stick
Posted by: fluffy is wicked helpful at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (UnQlg)

Complex series of mirrors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (dNqv+)

Flexibility exercises and boner pills...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (ZSK0i)

173 If vaccines don't work (and they knew it at the time, the conspiracy theorists have been right on 100% of the claims) then what purpose do the vaccines which don't work serve?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 30, 2021 04:48 PM (7MBHe)

I believe there to be some level of lessened severity of symptoms, but I also believe that it is probably wildly overstated. So that leaves control, division, and punishment of political enemies, aside from financial reward. CCP-virus has been a cash cow from the beginning.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (SH2Zi)

174 So biden's phone call with Putin is over I assume? Have we surrendered The Ukraine yet? Was biden carrying an umbrella?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM

i just cannot work the enrgy to gove a shir about the corrupt ukraine government, or their people. they actively suppported the left in underming trump. besides, most of them are ethnic russians from the pograms and purges in the early to mid 20th century.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (IJES/)

175 "
Which is why I believe, looking at the situation politically, that no one is going to make the hard choices necessary, and this economy is going to do a Thelma and Louise sometime before 2024. Doing nothing and letting whatever happens, happen, is always the easiest default choice for incompetents.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (trdmm) "

By the way, that idiot McCarthy has no plan either. His plan is to try and talk inflation to death. If he is in charge as speaker, nothing will change. He's the one who let his caucus vote for the phony infrastructure. Asshole.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (VpIIl)

176 They elected another Democrat.

Did they really expect change?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

He primarily won on stopping crime, no? The NYCers want more 'Police' in their 'Police State'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (dNqv+)

177 163 I mostly just wish I was a LIV and didn't know about any of this shit.
Posted by: Jordan61

Put me back in the Matrix! But rich this time

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (lCui1)

178 I never use elevators. They go up but they never ever come down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (FVME7)

179 > Did the Nakatomi Tower ever get rebuilt?
Posted by: torabora

yeah- they had to replace a shitload of screen doors

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (fBSxh)

180 nsfw: Senator Roark explains power in Sin City

https://youtu.be/Os9TU3e0kMo
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (KZzsI)

Now that's a movie...

Frank Miller knows how to write.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (eeRB6)

181 141 If vaccines don't work (and they knew it at the time, the conspiracy theorists have been right on 100% of the claims) then what purpose do the vaccines which don't work serve?
_______________

In August of 2019, Moderna stock was selling at less than $12 a share.

Right now, it's selling at over $250 a share.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (k4dH2)

182 >>>I would take Wizard of Oz and Usual Suspects.
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:53 PM (00h1T)

I'll show you my Keyser Soze in your Verbal Kint, IFYKWI

Posted by: Bryan Singer at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (QYPq3)

183 151 126 Has anyone interviewed "Lia" to find out why "she" thinks competing as a woman is fair?
____________

Of course it's fair!

I couldn't win swimming competitions as a man! That's what's not fair!

If the other chicks don't like getting beat by me, they can always become men and go compete against the guys who always beat me!
Posted by: Lia the Fake Woman Swimmer at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (k4dH2)

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The next school they compete against should field a team of all men.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (CAJOC)

184 Posted by: Lawrence at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (SH2Zi)

I've seen no proof of lessened severity among comorbidity groups. It's always been a money laundering and totalitarian control op in order to push the revolution.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (ONvIw)

185 Pesci was SUPPOSED to be annoying in that part, that's why they wrote him that way. But still funny, and I loved how he explained his scam.

He's been great in a ton of stuff, particularly the Scorcese parts, although my favorite role with him is in Public Eye.

Every mobster ever interviewed about Pesci consider him the most effective, realistic, and believable actor in a mobster role.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

186 yeah- they had to replace a shitload of screen doors
Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:55 PM (fBSxh)

*golfclap*

Nice pull.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (dNqv+)

187 And in Casino, and Goodfellas, and Home Alone, and The Irishman, and My Cousin Vinny, and Raging Bull and... what was your point again? That the South African government was a bunch of nice guys we shouldn't have opposed?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

That's right, I'd already blocked this shit and just saw the first 3. I noticed that the PC crap came in hot and heavy starting with #2. From posters hanging in the police station to t-shirts to things stuck to the family refrigerator. No guns! Stop Apartheid! Kill Whitey! It was like eating molasses covered with sweet n low by #4.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (wAnMi)

188 Flyover Sibling lives in Longmont. Txted me: ...over 100 mph winds here and transformer in S Boulder blew causing a grass fire. Two cities south of us evacuated. Eyewitnesses said houses on fire.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (Rbu5d)

189 If I were Tyrant of the US, how would I beat inflation? Hmmm...

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (lCui1)

190 Doing nothing and letting whatever happens, happen, is always the easiest default choice for incompetents*.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:50 PM (trdmm)

And the incompetents get to blame the other party for not helping right the ship!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM (hOUT3)

191 187 That's right, I'd already blocked this shit and just saw the first 3. I noticed that the PC crap came in hot and heavy starting with #2. From posters hanging in the police station to t-shirts to things stuck to the family refrigerator. No guns! Stop Apartheid! Kill Whitey! It was like eating molasses covered with sweet n low by #4.
Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (wAnMi)

==========

It looks like there will be a 5 now.

But Donner is dead, so the unnecessary political nature of the series will probably fail to reappear with Mel Gibson directing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM (LvTSG)

192 Was it?

'Is the building still standing?'

'Yeah, but it's gonna need some paint and a shitload of screen doors!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM (dNqv+)

193 Selfie stick
Posted by: fluffy is wicked helpful at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (UnQlg)

Read again. He can't find it.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (SH2Zi)

194 The government issued notices: stop production. More than half of China's heavy industry is affected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVyDHPnyL4

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (kMPrp)

195 I noticed that the PC crap came in hot and heavy starting with #2

They had a dumb message in every movie (it was pot in the first one), and that part is annoying but overall the first two were really entertaining. 4 wasn't horrible, but 3 was.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (KZzsI)

196 Ukraine wasn't remotely part of our sphere of influence until the late Barry era when our corrupt power sluts identified a bunch of sweet graft opportunities over there. So no, I don't see a legitimate reason for US intervention. Not our circus, not our clowns, and oh by the way Merkel can suck a fat one for knowingly screwing around with Russia's warm-water port obsession.

Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (UewuT)

197 Every Republican woman running for office needs to be making the public aware that the Left and their policies are canceling women and everything they worked so hard for. From woman's sports to giving birth we are being erased and replaced with trans people.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (NpAcC)

198 You went on a cruise ship against CDC warnings.
And you found yourself washed up on an barren island.
And by some miraculous event a DVD player floated on the shore.
Their were two movies attached.
What in your best dreams would they be?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

1. How to build a boat on a deserted island (including provisioning and celestial navigation)
2. Probably some pr0n.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (IUd0M)

199 There were multiple small grass fires at Woodstock, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 04:49 PM

Not to mention in the parking lots of every Grateful Dead concert ever.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (a3Q+t)

200 It looks like there will be a 5 now.

But Donner is dead, so the unnecessary political nature of the series will probably fail to reappear with Mel Gibson directing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM (LvTSG)

Well Mel Gibson understands story structure and directing...maybe he'll kill off Riggs too.

I'm not saying I'll watch it but it'll be an improvement over LW 2~4

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (eeRB6)

201 174 So biden's phone call with Putin is over I assume? Have we surrendered The Ukraine yet? Was biden carrying an umbrella?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 04:31 PM

i just cannot work the enrgy to gove a shir about the corrupt ukraine government, or their people. they actively suppported the left in underming trump. besides, most of them are ethnic russians from the pograms and purges in the early to mid 20th century.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (IJES/)

The predominantly Russian regions are in Crimea. While the Ukranians also ultimately descend from the Rus, they're the people that lived in the Cossack Hetmanate. Cossacks being "free men", the region had a lot of non-serfs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (z5Vrg)

202 The reason China is shutting down half its industries:

They want blue skies for the 2022 winter olympics.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (kMPrp)

203 LW4 had the virtue of not taking itself too seriously.

Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (UewuT)

204 > Flyover Sibling lives in Longmont. Txted me: ...over 100 mph winds here

it is windy AF today here on the Front Range

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (fBSxh)

205 You went on a cruise ship against CDC warnings.
And you found yourself washed up on an barren island.
And by some miraculous event a DVD player floated on the shore.
Their were two movies attached.
What in your best dreams would they be?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

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How to Build a Boat From Stuff Lying Around Your Desert Island

How to Survive a Long Ocean Voyage On What Is Basically a Raft

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (CAJOC)

206 Complex series of mirrors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 04:52 PM (dNqv+)

Here I have some experience.

Posted by: Aziz at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (wAnMi)

207 116...Their were two movies attached.
What in your best dreams would they be?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

Blazing Saddles.
Princess Bride.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (Rbu5d)

208 women going anti-tranny activist crap would resonate very well with voters, particularly women voters. Even in their own screwed up polling, the left says 3/4s of the country opposes that insanity. Step up and say it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (KZzsI)

209 By the way, that idiot McCarthy has no plan either. His plan is to try and talk inflation to death. If he is in charge as speaker, nothing will change. He's the one who let his caucus vote for the phony infrastructure. Asshole.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 04:54 PM (VpIIl)

I agree - I see the period of 2022 - 2024 shaping up as one where the Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary are all at war with each other, trying to carve out turf. A virtual Civil War if you will, one without bullets but still with a lot of destruction. I think people on both sides will see the catastrophe coming, but rather than stop it they will let it come, because they all will be angling for how they can blame what's about to happen on the other side.

When you look at the internals of most great collapses, there is always stuff like this going on among people in power. They see it coming, but they'll think they can use it to their advantage.

but as Rocky said to Bullwinkle, "Aww that Trick never Works!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (trdmm)

210 Odd phrasing by Bribe'em . Why did he use C-I-C instead of pres when talking about the economy?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (DTDrP)

211 Is there an anymore cloying argument than if Die Hard is a Christmas movie?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (00h1T)

212 You know, a cruise ship free of leftist idiots does have a certain appeal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (UuD2k)

213 Which means I haven't seen my pee pee this decade. Maybe someone could help me?

Photography is one of my many hobbies.

Posted by: Frank Luntz at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (GYllL)

214 Tolkein for $500 Alex.

This famous phrase was shouted by Gandalf while standing on a narrow bridge.

Posted by: Hobbit wearing overalls and whittling at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (44ww/)

215 The Beijing government has put forward a slogan to ensure that the Olympic Games will be held under a blue sky as a way to showcase how great the regime is.
The slogan goes:
Ensure that the Olympic Games are held in the blue sky!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVyDHPnyL4

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (kMPrp)

216 But Donner is dead
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM

So no more parties?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (a3Q+t)

217 That's right, I'd already blocked this shit and just saw the first 3. I noticed that the PC crap came in hot and heavy starting with #2. From posters hanging in the police station to t-shirts to things stuck to the family refrigerator. No guns! Stop Apartheid! Kill Whitey! It was like eating molasses covered with sweet n low by #4.
Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (wAnMi)

4 had some shots at the NRA too, with Mel Gibson's quip at the beginning ("A spokesman for the NRA", referring to the opening perp wielding a flamethrower) and some fliers in the police station about "Stopping the NRA".

Yes, the NRA sucks, but the NRA is used as proxy for gun rights in Hollyweirdo movies.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (9ewTg)

218 It's a barren island. There is nothing to build a raft from. Maybe Sea Otter bladders.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (Tnijr)

219 193 Selfie stick
Posted by: fluffy is wicked helpful at December 30, 2021 04:51 PM (UnQlg)

Read again. He can't find it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (SH2Zi)

Magnifying glass and mirrors for the win

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (hOUT3)

220 Well Mel Gibson understands story structure and directing...maybe he'll kill off Riggs too.

That would be exactly the right move for the story, then have Danny Glover's daughter -- now a cop -- go after the bad guys with a new partner. She could be the crazy one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (KZzsI)

221 200 Well Mel Gibson understands story structure and directing...maybe he'll kill off Riggs too.

I'm not saying I'll watch it but it'll be an improvement over LW 2~4
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (eeRB6)

==========

My first thought when it was announced was that Gibson would give Riggs the death he deserves. I mean...he probably deserved it at the end of the first one, but I'm sure something will be made to happen to make an elderly Riggs die for something redeeming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

222 203 LW4 had the virtue of not taking itself too seriously.
Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (UewuT)

It also had Jet Li. And some shots of Renee Russo's ass. It was still a painful bad cartoon of a movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (eeRB6)

223 @58
So, who's on Gab? Ace? I remember resistance here due to them requiring cell phone # for sign up?

----

Parlor required that. I don't know whether Gab does. I'm not on either of those, but I am on Gettr which doesn't require that. Though I don't really use it all that often.

Posted by: junior at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (LQM98)

224 My hubbys friends daughter met Pesci while she was in line behind him at a vending machine in prison. No joke. He was visiting someone there as was she.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (nxdel)

225 From woman's sports to giving birth we are being erased and replaced with trans people.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 30, 2021 04:58 PM (NpAcC)

In your statement, "transpeople"= men. They are always going to remain men.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (ONvIw)

226 If I were Tyrant of the US, how would I beat inflation? Hmmm...

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 04:56 PM (lCui1)

Blame Canada.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (SH2Zi)

227 Debunking the Great Shoplifting Freakout

underwear, socks, & t-shirts locked behind plexiglass at WalMart says hi

Posted by: x at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (oA+QO)

228 203 LW4 had the virtue of not taking itself too seriously.
Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (UewuT)

Pretty much the only things I remember from 4:

-Riggs had a laser sight on his Beretta
-Whatshername was pregnant
-Jet Li can disassemble a firearm if you help him
-... chinese triads?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (dNqv+)

229 214 Tolkein for $500 Alex.

This famous phrase was shouted by Gandalf while standing on a narrow bridge.
Posted by: Hobbit wearing overalls and whittling at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (44ww/)

==========

"Do you think gray is really my color? I was thinking of a change."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (LvTSG)

230 Is there an anymore cloying argument than if Die Hard is a Christmas movie?

Its annoying and frustrating to me, but I suspect that is the point; its meant to troll people who actually care about Christmas and what it means.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (KZzsI)

231 Airline crews have keys to unlock the restrooms. I wonder why they didn't.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (hGIMd)

232 How to Build a Boat From Stuff Lying Around Your Desert Island

How to Survive a Long Ocean Voyage On What Is Basically a Raft
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (CAJOC)

How to make a marine radiotelephone from coconuts, and send out a distress call on 2182 kHz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (P3gRi)

233 MSNBC -"Debunking The Great Shoplifting Freakout In 2021."
Their audience must be really dumb and living under a rock.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (NpAcC)

234 What would suck is being on a barren island and a piece of ice with a polar bear on it came floating up.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (Tnijr)

235 Airline crews have keys to unlock the restrooms. I wonder why they didn't.
Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (hGIMd)

They should have moved her seat out onto the wing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (P3gRi)

236 232 How to Build a Boat From Stuff Lying Around Your Desert Island

How to Survive a Long Ocean Voyage On What Is Basically a Raft
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (CAJOC)

How to make a marine radiotelephone from coconuts, and send out a distress call on 2182 kHz.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (P3gRi)

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The Professor was quite prolific, wasn't he?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (CAJOC)

237 How to make a marine radiotelephone from coconuts, and send out a distress call on 2182 kHz.

"Sorry, can't get that range on a coconut, believe me I tried. I couldn't get that fat bastard and his idiot first mate to fix a three foot hole in a boat, either. But it wasn't all bad, I had Maryanne for a lab assistant."
--The Professor

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (KZzsI)

238 Yes, the NRA sucks, but the NRA is used as proxy for gun rights in Hollyweirdo movies.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (9ewTg)

That's when I started fidgeting. Along with all the posters in the PD. Of course, the left cannot comprehend that people who join or pay attention to the NRA would not for instance, point a gun at a director and pull the trigger without first checking said gun at the very least.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (wAnMi)

239 In your statement, "transpeople"= men. They are always going to remain men.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:01 PM (ONvIw)

Not quite - they always remain male, as they were at birth...

But these actions show they never became men...they are still boys in the worst sense...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (exHjb)

240 231 Airline crews have keys to unlock the restrooms. I wonder why they didn't.
Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:02 PM (hGIMd)

Either fear of catching a cold, or they thought this was a remake of the first Airport movie in which the bomb detonates in the bathroom.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (ONvIw)

241 Here is Colorado burning near Boulder

https://tinyurl.com/5dh28k7v

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (fBSxh)

242 In fairness, women's athletics should get nothing from us until they admit women are not the same as men and men do some things better than women.

Until then suckit

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (lMmuq)

243 But Donner is dead
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 04:57 PM

So no more parties?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (a3Q+t)

Yeah, but it's potluck.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (SH2Zi)

244 Their were two movies attached. What in your best dreams would they be?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (F4kQO)

245 LW1, didn't like the whole older daughter in the bathroom with daddy thing.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (DTDrP)

246 234 What would suck is being on a barren island and a piece of ice with a polar bear on it came floating up.
Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:03 PM (Tnijr)

-------------------------------

Polar bears are extinct, and nobody's seen ice in ages. The Global Warministas told me so.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (CAJOC)

247 Didja see this? Kamalatoe addresses inflation. In addition to her words being lies and making no sense, she flaps her hands and arms around like she a seal demanding more fish.

https://bit.ly/3Hrz05Q

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (FVME7)

248 "Polar bears are extinct, and nobody's seen ice in ages. "

Not true I saw some on TV last night.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (Tnijr)

249 Federal prosecutors dropped their case against the two prison guards accused of falsifying records and sleeping on the job as Jeffrey Epstein "committed suicide" in his jail cell.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (GYllL)

250 By the way, my new hot thought about the crazy plane lady is that she might not be that bad, just having a shitty time for a bit

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (lMmuq)

251 Is there an anymore cloying argument than if Die Hard is a Christmas movie?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (00h1T)

Amen. McClane runs around a tower at night avoiding Alan Rickman. It is a Harry Potter movie

Posted by: Kindltot at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (ZMraq)

252 n fairness, women's athletics should get nothing from us until they admit women are not the same as men and men do some things better than women.

Until then suckit
Posted by: Y5
___

Good thing some of us aren't asking anything from you.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (kMPrp)

253 Polar bears are extinct, and nobody's seen ice in ages. The Global Warministas told me so.

Sadly, despite being otherwise apolitical and mostly based, Kate Upton is on the Polar Bear bandwagon. Or, at least whoever runs her social media.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (KZzsI)

254 Yeah maybe she's not that crazy.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (Tnijr)

255 The transjihadists taking down Title IX makes me warm in my subcochal places.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (GbPPJ)

256 245 LW1, didn't like the whole older daughter in the bathroom with daddy thing.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (DTDrP)

I like that I never once in 30 years thought that was creepy or sexual in any way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (dNqv+)

257 Maybe Riggs could go to be a PR agent for a Venezuelan dictator, and then get ripped apart by a mob of restive urban serfs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (hQ23g)

258 @174

i just cannot work the enrgy to gove a shir about the corrupt ukraine government, or their people. they actively suppported the left in underming trump.

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Nope. Wrong. And I'm getting sick of hearing it. Remember, Trump's first impeachment was because Trump and the new president of Ukraine were discussing mutual cooperation on investigations into the corruption in Ukraine, and the Democrats freaked out.

Posted by: junior at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (LQM98)

259 >>>Polar bears are extinct, and nobody's seen ice in ages. The Global Warministas told me so.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (CAJOC)

If you see a polar bear it's because climate change.

Posted by: Rev. Greta Thunberg at December 30, 2021 05:07 PM (QYPq3)

260 McClane runs around a tower at night avoiding Alan Rickman. It is a Harry Potter movie

Alternately, given that it came out like 20 years earlier, Harry Potter movies are Die Hard sequels

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:07 PM (KZzsI)

261 Not true I saw some on TV last night.
Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (Tnijr)

Old black and white 16mm film right!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:07 PM (hOUT3)

262 Their were two movies attached.
What in your best dreams would they be?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 04:45 PM (00h1T)

Titanic (favorite movie ever...and I'd get to enjoy the fact that I lived it and survived)...

Clue (2nd favorite movie ever) - gotta have some comedy to keep you sane and picking a disaster comedy, after Titanic, would just be too on-the-nose to enjoy...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:07 PM (exHjb)

263 241 Here is Colorado burning near Boulder

https://tinyurl.com/5dh28k7v
Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:04 PM (fBSxh)

I remember one year when there were a lot of dry grass fires in West Texas (probably the drought year) and I was driving down a lonesome hiway, seeing columns of smoke off to the left and right, not thinking much about it. Suddenly I came to a point where I could see a whole line of flames on a ridge to my right and another line of flames in the fields to my left, and I started wondering whether it was really a good idea to be on this particular road. But it was still clear up ahead, so I was able to just punch the gas and get outta there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 05:08 PM (trdmm)

264 Good thing some of us aren't asking anything from you.
Posted by: SMH

You in women's athletics?

In fairness, there are not any women that have not benefitted from some affirmative so.ething or other since the 70s

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:08 PM (lMmuq)

265 Alternately, given that it came out like 20 years earlier, Harry Potter movies are Die Hard sequels
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Love that

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:08 PM (lCui1)

266 261 Not true I saw some on TV last night.
Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (Tnijr)

Old black and white 16mm film right!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:07 PM (hOUT3)

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Bigfoot is calling bullshit.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:09 PM (CAJOC)

267 Climate change makes things more extreme. The equator will get cold and the poles will get warm.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:09 PM (bKdTl)

268 I think hubby scored free for a year paramount+!
Yellowstone here I come!

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (lCui1)

269 Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart until he got tired of her. That tells me she must have a special kind of crazy because she loves to play golf besides being smoking hot.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (F4kQO)

270 The NRA is a self-perpetuating Institution. Built and sustained on fund raising. Just get yourself some guns and know your rights.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (00h1T)

271 Federal prosecutors dropped their case against the two prison guards accused of falsifying records and sleeping on the job as Jeffrey Epstein "committed suicide" in his jail cell.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (GYllL)

At this point, what difference does it make?

Pro-tip: They're be re-instated as guards in Ghislaine Maxwell section of the jail!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (hOUT3)

272 212 You know, a cruise ship free of leftist idiots does have a certain appeal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 04:59 PM (UuD2k)

I have never been on a cruise ship but have made crossings on the Queen Mary II. It looked like an old folks home. Probably fewer leftists than ships passengers. We always sat a a table of 8 for dinner. Out of 20 dinner mates we encountered 3 and they were interesting people, politics aside.

Posted by: Javems at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (AmoqO)

273 "Sorry, can't get that range on a coconut, believe me I tried. I couldn't get that fat bastard and his idiot first mate to fix a three foot hole in a boat, either. But it wasn't all bad, I had Maryanne for a lab assistant."
--The Professor
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Marooned with Mary Ann? Yeah, I ain't busting my hump to get away either.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (r1z5A)

274 267 Climate change makes things more extreme. The equator will get cold and the poles will get warm.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:09 PM (bKdTl)

=========

It will also cause more hurricanes. And fewer hurricanes. And tornadoes will be more and less frequent sometimes. And more people will die of weather related incidents sometime (don't check the numbers now, please).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (LvTSG)

275
Nope. Wrong. And I'm getting sick of hearing it. Remember, Trump's first impeachment was because Trump and the new president of Ukraine were discussing mutual cooperation on investigations into the corruption in Ukraine, and the Democrats freaked out.
Posted by: junior at December 30, 2021 05:06 PM (LQM9

Yeah, Zelensky (the current guy) was also very much an outsider. He was a tv celebrity, famous for his role acting as president ironically enough.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (z5Vrg)

276 250 By the way, my new hot thought about the crazy plane lady is that she might not be that bad, just having a shitty time for a bit
Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (lMmuq)

She assaulted a passenger on an airplane in flight. And wrested herself away from crew.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (hGIMd)

277 Polar bears will be renamed Equatorial Bears. You will relax on a nice warm north sea beach sipping a polar drink.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (bKdTl)

278 So, who's on Gab? Ace? I remember resistance here due to them requiring cell phone # for sign up?

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Parlor required that. I don't know whether Gab does. I'm not on either of those, but I am on Gettr which doesn't require that. Though I don't really use it all that often.
Posted by: junior at December 30, 2021 05:00 PM (LQM9

I joined gab back in 2016, they didn't ask for a phone# then - but that now seems to be standard form. Parler does, and twatter definitely does even though they say you can sign up with just email.

Gab is pretty meh. Some people like catturd have some presence there - but it's not at all like twatter. From what I'm seeing, gab is full of a bunch of Q types or some seriously anti-semitic types who are often also Q types. Then there's some folks like Ben Garrison. The owner (Torba) is also becoming pretty seriously anti-semitic and anti-Trump. With Trump it's probably sour grapes, but I have difficulty buying into his Christian bona-fides as he moves between the two effortlessly.

Telegram is getting traction - but they require an app, so that's right TF out.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 05:11 PM (wAnMi)

279 273 Marooned with Mary Ann? Yeah, I ain't busting my hump to get away either.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (r1z5A)

==========

"Those poor people..."
-Thermians

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

280 Lethal Weapon 4 was like the first Judge Dredd movie: it was going for the action-comedy thing but most of the parties involved didn't quite understand how that works. And it came out at about the same time as Rush Hour, which did the same thing with the same plot devices but was a lot more actually funny.

Posted by: CppThis at December 30, 2021 05:11 PM (UewuT)

281 267 Climate change makes things more extreme. The equator will get cold and the poles will get warm.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:09 PM (bKdTl)

-------------------------

About damn time!

-- The Poles

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:11 PM (CAJOC)

282 Pro-tip: They're be re-instated as guards in Ghislaine Maxwell section of the jail!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)

Shit.

Posted by: Maxwell at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (r1z5A)

283 271 Federal prosecutors dropped their case against the two prison guards accused of falsifying records and sleeping on the job as Jeffrey Epstein "committed suicide" in his jail cell.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (GYllL)

That more than anything told me that Bill Barr was a deep state plant in Trump's inner circle. Bill Barr had direct authority over the prisons when it happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (trdmm)

284 Selfie stick. See that right there shows I'm not of this age. I can find my way around a smart phone and computer and so forth.

But I just don't have the mind set that goes with a camera with you 24/7 and that using it would be a natural inclination. I'm from the age of privacy where what I do and with who is my business and no one else's and why would I share those moments with someone else?

Yeah steam age, gasoline age, jet age, digital age, Phone age?

No some other kind of name. I don't think I'm up to owning a selfie stick just yet. It's a crossing of the Rubicon for me. A journey into the future I don't know if I'm ready for.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (6R0HD)

285 Jet Li > Jackie Chan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (LvTSG)

286 We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years,

Yes it is.

It's the strongest one year economic decline in one year. Yep. Go Joe

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (469jd)

287 >>>By the way, my new hot thought about the crazy plane lady is that she might not be that bad, just having a shitty time for a bit
Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (lMmuq)

You banged her, didn't you?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (QYPq3)

288 Well Mel Gibson understands story structure and directing...maybe he'll kill off Riggs too.

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No, he'll Indiana Jones it. Lethal Weapon XXIX: This Time It's Even More Personal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (FVME7)

289 Places with alot of hurricanes will get less. Few hurricanes will get more. Up will be down, down will be up. All because CO2 went from 350:1,000,000 to 380:1,000,000

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (bKdTl)

290 with no generator on your desert island, how the hell are you gonna watch movies?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (trdmm)

291 Epstein and Maxwell: love is finishing each other's sentences.

Posted by: Just sayin' at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (jYQlA)

292 287 >>>By the way, my new hot thought about the crazy plane lady is that she might not be that bad, just having a shitty time for a bit
Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (lMmuq)

You banged her, didn't you?
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (QYPq3)

Or hoping to.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (hGIMd)

293

Phoneage, is that, you know, like, a nasal douche?

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (469jd)

294 Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart until he got tired of her.

She was great in Bordello of Blood, very fun movie with Dennis Miller.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (KZzsI)

295 Jet Li > Jackie Chan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (LvTSG)

Jet Li doesn't have a movie as good as The Foreigner.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (F4kQO)

296 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

I should start a club.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (N+wdl)

297 279 273 Marooned with Mary Ann? Yeah, I ain't busting my hump to get away either.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (r1z5A)

==========

"Those poor people..."
-Thermians
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

-----------------------------------

I recently watched the Galaxy Quest documentary (Never Surrender, I think?). A bit too much Wil Wheaton, but overall it was very good, and I recommend it to any Galaxy Quest fans who haven't seen it yet.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (CAJOC)

298 Climate change makes things more extreme. The equator will get cold and the poles will get warm.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Ghostbusterettes will get funny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (FVME7)

299 300

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (hGIMd)

300 Lol not again

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (z9npv)

301 Y5, careful.

No, I'm not in athletics, though I was once upon a time.

As far as the left eating its own, I don't care.

These girls are going to learn a hard lesson, just like everyone else.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (kMPrp)

302 300?

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (hGIMd)

303 296 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

I should start a club.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (N+wdl)

What would the point be if you're the only one in it?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (z5Vrg)

304 299 300
Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (hGIMd)

========

Nailed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (LvTSG)

305 >>>58 So, who's on Gab? Ace? I remember resistance here due to them requiring cell phone # for sign up?

I dunno, I'm not on it, I'm not on any social media. I just use twitter to scan for stories.

Posted by: ace at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (0G13K)

306 Again.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (hGIMd)

307 The labor participation rate is the lowest it has been since women entered the workforce, around 1976.

This fact, like the debt, is ignored.

Keep whistling past the graveyard. It will be fine.

Posted by: Robm1981 at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (g41kF)

308 >>Tolkein for $500 Alex. This famous phrase was shouted by Gandalf while standing on a narrow bridge.

LOL!

Mell is already doing movies portraying as an aging dude well -- see "Blood Father."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (URNdm)

309 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

I should start a club.
Posted by: Gentlemen

No.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (mD/uy)

310 Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart until he got tired of her. That tells me she must have a special kind of crazy because she loves to play golf besides being smoking hot.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:10 PM (F4kQO)

And we're back to me wondering if I've picked the right side...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (V6f9+)

311 >>>291 Epstein and Maxwell: love is finishing each other's sentences.

that's a good one.

Posted by: ace at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (0G13K)

312 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?
___

Never seen the movies or read the books.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (kMPrp)

313 "He didn't name the analyst. You wouldn't know her. She goes to a different school."

She lives in Canada, we met at camp and she was TOTALLY my girlfriend.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (OalnH)

314 296 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

I should start a club.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (N+wdl)

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Nah. There's lots of people born in the last year or two who probably haven't seen them yet.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (CAJOC)

315 "Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?"

If you're last, I'm second last.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (OalnH)

316 It'll get worse

Posted by: President Brandon at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (FGgyZ)

317 You can't really compare Jet Li and Jackie Chan, because they do such totally different stuff. Jet Li is a genuine master martial artist, and Jackie Chan is a stunt/acrobat who learned martial arts. Jet Li does mostly historical or serious dramas and Jackie is almost always goofy and silly, playing for laughs or fun.

Its like comparing Muhammad Ali and Sylvester Stallone. I mean both technically get into fights but...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (KZzsI)

318 All because CO2 went from 350:1,000,000 to 380:1,000,000
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:13 PM (bKdTl)

I had no idea it was such an alarming trend, we better do something about that quickly!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (hOUT3)

319 And more people will die of weather related incidents sometime
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit

The number of deaths compared to population density will not need to be examined.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (P1f+c)

320 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (arJlL)

321 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

*raises hand*

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (nxdel)

322 285 Jet Li > Jackie Chan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (LvTSG)

Hmmm, I like Li, but have never seen him in a good movie.

Like The One. Remember that POS? Had a bunch of people from Space: Above and Beyond involved and was done by the same people behind the camera, iirc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (dNqv+)

323 The boss is in the comments.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (hGIMd)

324 >>Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

I should start a club.

you are not alone

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (fBSxh)

325 That more than anything told me that Bill Barr was a deep state plant in Trump's inner circle. Bill Barr had direct authority over the prisons when it happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (trdmm)

What weirds me out is Barr's dad hired Epstein and introduced him to a bunch of big shot investors for no discernible reason. Hired him at perhaps the most prestigious private school in America, without a college education.

And then, of course, there was that crazy shit where he wrote that sci-fi novel about an isolated planet ruled by galactic elites who use it as a pedophile playground packed with child sex slaves... That's an odd coincidence.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (hQ23g)

326 I read the content LOLGF

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (M+Lyo)

327 Mel Gibson made "Passion of the Christ" so I don't care if he never does another thing, because that was the epitome of movie making.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (DTDrP)

328
Well Mel Gibson understands story structure and directing...maybe he'll kill off Riggs too.

-
No, he'll Indiana Jones it. Lethal Weapon XXIX: This Time It's Even More Personal
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (FVME7)

...

Maybe Get the Gringo was Riggs freaking out later in life, and LW6 will resolve both storylines.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (z9npv)

329 Is 300 a thing? How far this place has fallen.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (00h1T)

330 Heya JT.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:17 PM (kMPrp)

331 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?
___

Never seen the movies or read the books.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:15 PM (kMPrp)

Same here.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (F4kQO)

332 Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:05 PM (lMmuq)

Did you read about all her family has had her served with restraining orders? She's seriously mental. Losing jobs, money marriage. Family kicks her out. A friend kicks her out as a room mate. She gets into a dui in Fla and I think someone in FLA has a restraining order out on her.

She's just a liable to wake up one morning and stick a kabob skewer in your ear as give you a morning kiss. No. Thanks.

Unless I've got some 4th stage cancer and looking to fill my bucket list quick.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (6R0HD)

333 Mel Gibson made "Passion of the Christ" so I don't care if he never does another thing, because that was the epitome of movie making.
Posted by: Ben Had
___

Amen.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (kMPrp)

334 The "pandemic" is actually like the Event Horizon around a black hole labeled:

"Primitive Non-Scientific GroupThink"

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (N2of/)

335 Drudge is all COVID all the time now. I wonder if it's a giant troll now. I know there are questions about who runs it or owns it or whatever. But I see some kind of joke in there, like so over the top hysterical, it has to be a put on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (OalnH)

336 Bill Barr had direct authority over the prisons when it happened.

Yeah he pretended to be terribly upset but then did nothing about it, so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (KZzsI)

337 That more than anything told me that Bill Barr was a deep state plant in Trump's inner circle. Bill Barr had direct authority over the prisons when it happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2021 05:12 PM (trdmm)

Both of his AGs were worse than worthless, all three if you include Sessions.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (ONvIw)

338 Blood Father is a great movie.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (F4kQO)

339 Hey JT!!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (nxdel)

340 Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart

Angie, be better

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (469jd)

341 My joke was "what do Epstein and Biden have in common? Neither one can finish a sentence."

It's funny because they're also both kiddie diddlers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (hQ23g)

342 Did you read about all her family has had her served with restraining orders? She's seriously mental. Losing jobs, money marriage. Family kicks her out. A friend kicks her out as a roommate. She gets into a DUI in Fla and I think someone in FLA has a restraining order out on her.
___

Wow.

Talk about burning bridges.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (kMPrp)

343 Harry Potter is fun kids stuff, its pretty cute, then it gets darker and darker and by the end doesn't seem to know what the hell it is, or what the plot is. Rowling does so much retconning and explaining it gets a bit silly. But its overall entertaining and the kids do a great job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (KZzsI)

344 The donks will say whatever they feel they need to regarding covid, but, they will not change any vax or mask mandates.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at December 30, 2021 05:20 PM (b+v9B)

345 Suckering kids into the occult is never kids' stuff.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:20 PM (kMPrp)

346 Interestingly enough I read the Harry Potter books. I saw the first movie but on TV. The prisoner of Askeban I think.

So they were cheap on Ebay and I bought the entire set. They were entertaining.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:20 PM (6R0HD)

347 Ben Had, agreed. Only saw it once, not sure I could see it again. It was powerful and had me in tears.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 05:20 PM (nxdel)

348 343 Harry Potter is fun kids stuff, its pretty cute, then it gets darker and darker and by the end doesn't seem to know what the hell it is, or what the plot is. Rowling does so much retconning and explaining it gets a bit silly. But its overall entertaining and the kids do a great job.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (KZzsI)

Well there's a bad guy who's a lich, and he has 7 phylacteries instead of one. I guess the whole series can be seen as a very long coming of age story. And a lich.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (z5Vrg)

349 Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart

Angie, be better

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:19 PM (469jd)

She's been worse. She's also banged Howard Stern.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (F4kQO)

350 Bill Barr had direct authority over the prisons when it happened.

Yeah he pretended to be terribly upset but then did nothing about it, so...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (KZzsI)

Well. to be fair, he had his hands full planning insurrections!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (hOUT3)

351 I have seen the picture that claims to be Rowling's grand scheme from the beginning for all six books and all but its obvious when you read them that she was making it up as she was going along, then having to go explain and fix stuff later on.

I think she had some elements and themes in place (like Snape) but a lot of it is just off the cuff and it shows.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

352 MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Has COVID

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Oh no!!! Chrissy, we barely knew ye!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (FVME7)

353 Yeah he pretended to be terribly upset but then did nothing about it, so...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:18 PM (KZzsI)

I wonder how is book is coming along, took a seven figure advance as I recall. And so did Pence.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (ONvIw)

354 @269: "Joe Pesci was banging Angie Everhart until he got tired of her."

Holy hell! I did not know that. For nearly ten years? Up until his mid-60s while she was 26 years younger than him?! And six inches taller!?

Raises more questions than answers; if you ask me.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (+WWsf)

355 "Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?"

If you're last, I'm second last.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:16 PM (OalnH)

I never read or saw or give a shit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (Irn0L)

356 I suppose it would be mean of me to hope that the Famous Aircraft Quarantine Hero catches The Quaking Ague* from sitting in a filthy shitter for 5 hours.

*A deadly lung disease I just made up.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (N2of/)

357 Is 300 a thing? How far this place has fallen.
Posted by: TC

I have one job on this blog, it's stupid, but I'm going to do it!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (r1z5A)

358 lol Ngu.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (kMPrp)

359 The only thing I know about Harry Potter is it was supposed to turn kids into Stan worshipers like D&D did in the 70s.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (Tnijr)

360 My kids have read all the HP books and have seen all the movies enough to probably memorize the dialogue. So I've seen a bit here and there due to them. But never sat through an entire movie. Same with Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (OalnH)

361 Suckering kids into the occult is never kids' stuff.

Eh, its no more occult than Narnia. Its just fantasy themes with goofy faux magic that makes no sense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (KZzsI)

362 What would the point be if you're the only one in it?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy -

Look, up in the sky....It's a bird! It's a plane.

No, it's the joke.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (N+wdl)

363 Both of his AGs were worse than worthless, all three if you include Sessions.

Over/under if he will endorse Dr. Oz?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (GYllL)

364 352 MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Has COVID

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Oh no!!! Chrissy, we barely knew ye!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (FVME7)

This is a test of our ability to manage Schadenfreude.

Posted by: m at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (hGIMd)

365 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

no, you are not the last straight male on the planet

Posted by: x at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (oA+QO)

366 Eh, its no more occult than Narnia. Its just fantasy themes with goofy faux magic that makes no sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

We'll agree to disagree on this.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (kMPrp)

367 359 The only thing I know about Harry Potter is it was supposed to turn kids into Stan worshipers like D&D did in the 70s.
Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (Tnijr)

Who would've guessed it would be unionized teachers and the gays doing it instead?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (z5Vrg)

368 She's been worse. She's also banged Howard Stern.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (F4kQO)
********
He makes my skin crawl.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (NpAcC)

369 I have all the Harry Potter movies. I don't care one iota for Sci-Fi but I like the mindless entertainment of fantasy.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (DTDrP)

370 I have seen the picture that claims to be Rowling's grand scheme from the beginning for all six books and all but its obvious when you read them that she was making it up as she was going along, then having to go explain and fix stuff later on.

I think she had some elements and themes in place (like Snape) but a lot of it is just off the cuff and it shows.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

...

I hate it when people do that.

Posted by: JJ Abrams at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (z9npv)

371 Hiya SMH !

Happy New Year !

Posted by: JT at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (arJlL)

372 345 Suckering kids into the occult is never kids' stuff.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:20 PM (kMPrp)

I think we had a big uptick in the wicca shit since HP debuted. One of the parts few people talk about is the reliance on magical thinking to solve problems. Never works.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (ONvIw)

373 You know that saying when you see a hot woman, that somewhere a dude is tired of banging her? Joe Pesci is a dude right?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (OalnH)

374 Hiya Jewells !

Happy New Year !

Posted by: JT at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (arJlL)

375 *A deadly lung disease I just made up.
Posted by: Sharkman

Welcome to the CDC son.

Posted by: Tony the big F at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (r1z5A)

376 >>Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?

No.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (GYllL)

377
MSNBC -"Debunking The Great Shoplifting Freakout In 2021."

How about the great insurrection freakout?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

378 Colonel Potter > Harry Potter

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (BFigT)

379 @296: "Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie? I should start a club."

You should move to England and be treated like a god by some of the most fervent trans rights activists known to man!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (+WWsf)

380 373 You know that saying when you see a hot woman, that somewhere a dude is tired of banging her? Joe Pesci is a dude right?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (OalnH)

--------------------------------

Don't know. Haven't asked him how he identifies yet.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (CAJOC)

381 Eh, its no more occult than Narnia. Its just fantasy themes with goofy faux magic that makes no sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Do you think Wiccan is a type of an occult religion?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (F4kQO)

382 I think we had a big uptick in the wicca shit since HP debuted. One of the parts few people talk about is the reliance on magical thinking to solve problems. Never works.
Posted by: CN
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Like so much that is put out as entertainment nowadays, it's packaged as harmless fun.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (kMPrp)

383 202 SMH 2nd year China had a F-1 race they did that, the first is was like watching a race in a fog

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (2JoB8)

384 Back at ya JT!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (nxdel)

385 I saw the first two Harry Potter movies on TV, when they showed them because new release was coming out. They were fun enough movies but I was not so intrigued that I bought and read any of the books or paid to see any of the movies.

Rowling struck the right accord to appeal and sell books to a whole bunch of people. Yay for her.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 05:25 PM (3cGpq)

386 I thought Jizzlane was going to jail?

How can she work at CNN ?

Posted by: JT at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (arJlL)

387 We'll agree to disagree on this.

As a fantasy writer and gamer, I have had to put up with a lot of ignorance and spite over the years over the alleged satanic effects of fantasy. None of it is true. D&D does not get kids into satanism, Harry Potter is not seducing kids into black magic. Its no more sinister than faerie tales (suggested reading: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton on the subject) and significantly less sinister than Santa Claus.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (KZzsI)

388
Bill Barr is a POS.

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (469jd)

389 Eh, its no more occult than Narnia. Its just fantasy themes with goofy faux magic that makes no sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:22 PM (KZzsI)

Comparing JK Rowling to CS Lewis seems wrong somehow- especially since Lewis was trying to create an implicitly Christian story.

On the other hand, I do not find HP particularly offensive either. I do not think Rowling really ever thought that far into anything (as her behavior and statements back and forth and fights with the Red Guard show.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (dNqv+)

390 Potter's Field > Colonel Potter > Harry Potter

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (GYllL)

391 Did you read about all her family has had her served with restraining orders? She's seriously mental. Losing jobs, money marriage. Family kicks her out. A friend kicks her out as a roommate. She gets into a DUI in Fla and I think someone in FLA has a restraining order out on her.

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Oh, sure. Cast the first stone!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (FVME7)

392 Helping the Instapundit/Ace osmosis, you see the latest story where Ted Cruz's Deadspin (because he owned them) did their own very special white girl "I'm not a racist because I'm telling blacks how to think" thing by calling some gal the "black candace owens"?

The best part is that her crime is complaining about Chicago crime. that's it.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (ZZK0E)

393 Am I the last person on earth who has never seen a Harry Potter movie?
I should start a club.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 30, 2021 05:14 PM (N+wdl)

Harry Who?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (R/m4+)

394 @329: "Is 300 a thing? How far this place has fallen."

300's only a thing if it actually happens, y'know? I'm beginning to worry that m is engaged in some very dark "stepping on rakes" like performance art.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (+WWsf)

395 She wrote a book about witchcraft then when she didn't stick with the program the witches came after her.

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (469jd)

396
I think we had a big uptick in the wicca shit since HP debuted. One of the parts few people talk about is the reliance on magical thinking to solve problems. Never works.
Posted by: CN...FJB

Sounds like government.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (63Dwl)

397 Comparing JK Rowling to CS Lewis seems wrong somehow- especially since Lewis was trying to create an implicitly Christian story.
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (kMPrp)

398 We'll agree to disagree on this.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:23 PM (kMPrp)

I agree. Adults can spot goofy faux magic, but kids find it harder, especially when it it hits the film version with great special effects. And I'm not too sure about adults, that film "practical magic" led to more than a few stupid magic shops opening in my area.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (ONvIw)

399 Barr's dad's book about Space Epstein Island... Weird, weird shit:

https://tinyurl.com/2p89nj3m

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (hQ23g)

400 Do you think Wiccan is a type of an occult religion?

Mostly its just goofy ecological leftist types who want to be close to nature, but some take it to strange places.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (KZzsI)

401 HP is fantasy? GTFO.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (SH2Zi)

402 Mr. Potter > Colonel Potter > Harry Potter

we need sound banking practices

Posted by: x at December 30, 2021 05:28 PM (oA+QO)

403 388 Bill Barr is a POS.

Yup.

Posted by: Randy Weaver at December 30, 2021 05:28 PM (GYllL)

404 388
Bill Barr is a POS.

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (469jd)

Yes!

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 30, 2021 05:28 PM (ONvIw)

405 397 Comparing JK Rowling to CS Lewis seems wrong somehow- especially since Lewis was trying to create an implicitly Christian story.
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (kMPrp)

Would Dragonlance be fair to compare to Narnia? It's also big on Christian allegory. And is D&D. Ravenloft is as well.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:28 PM (z5Vrg)

406 Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:24 PM (OalnH)

They're not tired of banging her. They're tired of her shit.

This could be said for a guy too.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:28 PM (6R0HD)

407 Comparing JK Rowling to CS Lewis seems wrong somehow

I agree. But both are fantasy settings with children that include magic, and somehow one is totally fine while the other is evil and sinister.

JK Rowling has a metric megaton of Christian themes in her books, even if she didn't mean to have them. The entire story arc is about sacrifice and love to stop evil.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:29 PM (KZzsI)

408 I watch at least a bit of Harry Potter movies, I think it's quite a fantastic weave and the little background things going on are not seen the first time.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2021 05:29 PM (2JoB8)

409 Bill Barr is a POS.
Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (469jd)

I don't think you can fully judge the DOJ without looking at the positive qualities of the people in it. The DOJ has a long-standing tradition of existence to its members and to the community at large.

Posted by: Bagpipes Billy Boy Barr at December 30, 2021 05:29 PM (R/m4+)

410 D&D was supposed to get kids into the occult? LOL. I never heard that before. I played a little D&D, letting my inner nerd out. All this time I was an inch away from becoming a Satanist. Wow!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:29 PM (OalnH)

411 >>>And some shots of Renee Russo's ass.

>Why was this not known far and wide? I'm just hearing about this now.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (r0ADi)

412
Harry Who?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Nemesis of The Craw

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0587575

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

413 Any Wil Wheaton is too much. Even none.

Silverado had too much WW. Ask Dennehy.

Posted by: klaftern at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (taPSh)

414 400 "Do you think Wiccan is a type of an occult religion?"

Mostly its just goofy ecological leftist types who want to be close to nature, but some take it to strange places.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (KZzsI)

College obviously has a lot more empirical evidence to support the notion that it leads people to Wiccanism or other bullshit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (z5Vrg)

415 Do you think Wiccan is a type of an occult religion?

Mostly its just goofy ecological leftist types who want to be close to nature, but some take it to strange places.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:27 PM (KZzsI)

I think that's what people are saying about Harry Potter. I don't expect HP has any negative effects on adults. It's the influence on children's development that some worry about. It's not just a one and done book or movie. It's a passion for some kids.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (F4kQO)

416 387 We'll agree to disagree on this.

As a fantasy writer and gamer, I have had to put up with a lot of ignorance and spite over the years over the alleged satanic effects of fantasy. None of it is true. D&D does not get kids into satanism, Harry Potter is not seducing kids into black magic. Its no more sinister than faerie tales (suggested reading: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton on the subject) and significantly less sinister than Santa Claus.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:26 PM (KZzsI)

Are you sure you're not my husband...he would have written this exact post! And another tabletop role player...small, small world there!

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (exHjb)

417 I don't think you can fully judge the DOJ without looking at the positive qualities of the people in it.

Isn't that from Animal House??

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (gmo/4)

418 Barr bothered me early on because he only seemed to grin and leer a lot then play the bagpipes but never actually seemed to get anything done. He'd joke around with Trump and share looks of contempt at the press, but then... I dunno what he did all day, to be honest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (KZzsI)

419 >>>Bill Barr is a POS.

We will have to agree to agree on that.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:31 PM (SH2Zi)

420 both are fantasy settings with children that include magic, and somehow one is totally fine while the other is evil and sinister.

It's not, somehow.

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:31 PM (469jd)

421
Trivia:

What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (MlLUG)

422 " D&D was supposed to get kids into the occult? "

Oh yeah. There was some fuss. Some church lady got the idea we were rolling up demons. Well, I guess we were.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (Tnijr)

423
HP is fantasy? GTFO.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder

After Carly Forina took over.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (63Dwl)

424 Barr did exactly what he was appointed to do. He got the Russian investigation of Trump to wrap up and go away. He was subsequently a big disappointment.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (F4kQO)

425 Barr bothered me early on because he only seemed to grin and leer a lot then play the bagpipes but never actually seemed to get anything done. He'd joke around with Trump and share looks of contempt at the press, but then... I dunno what he did all day, to be honest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

Trump was surrounded by backstabbers.

Barr was just one of many.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (kMPrp)

426 D&D was supposed to get kids into the occult? LOL. I never heard that before.

Oh it was big in the 80s, D&D was making our kids worship satan and beleive in magic and making them crazy. Tom Hanks' breakout TV movie was all about exactly this topic. It was bizarre to watch as a young gamer at the time. There wasn't a single player who thought that this stuff was any more real than the money in Monopoly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (KZzsI)

427 >>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Brad?

Posted by: Randy Weaver at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (GYllL)

428
He didn't name the analyst. You wouldn't know her. She goes to a different school.

In regards to this ^

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:32 PM (MlLUG)

429 The Feds dropped all charges against the jobs who were asleep on the job when Epstein didn't kill himself.

Posted by: WiNO at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (WVeiZ)

430 >>>He'd joke around with Trump and share looks of contempt at the press, but then... I dunno what he did all day, to be honest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (KZzsI)
---------------

He turned on Trump and bit him like a snake.

Posted by: Braenyard, at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (469jd)

431 It's a passion for some kids.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (F4kQO)

Meh. Star Wars did not turn me into a Jedi or a Sith, although I do have an odd attraction to cinnamon buns. Let kids be kids, IMO.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (SH2Zi)

432 George Glass.
Thanks, DDG!

Posted by: Just sayin' at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (jYQlA)

433 Hell, I'm watching Rip tell Walker to cut that "Y" off of Wade.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (DTDrP)

434 Wiccan was founded by mostly women as an Earth Mother based belief system. Natural medicine, meditation, veganism, feminism, generally weak wristed soft guys and hairy women who like cats and don't get along with many men because 'THEY ONLY WANT ONE THING' and usually not with them.

Witches in other words. But witches has that wart and pointed nose connotation so they had to come up with some other label.

Black and white magic and always everyone only practices white magic because they're good and gentle. And Wizards are evil and powerful and push weak people around.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (6R0HD)

435
>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Russel Russel Russel

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

436 "11-time NCAA all-American swimmer Jeri Shanteau:"

Wuut? Do they have 3 swimming seasons every year or was Jeri in college for 11 years?

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (3cGpq)

437 My point being, Lewis was trying to create an implicitly Christian story. As was Tolkien (the idea is this is a world without a Savior- and needs one. Also some idea about courage and a lot of other stuff he was putting in that one.)

That does not mean Rowling means anything with magic in her stories beyond... like the force. It is power and a secret club that drives and provides a setting for the story that she is trying to tell.

Fantasy writers are just like any other strain of people. They show you who they are.

Robert Jordan, Michael Stackpole, Brandon Sanderson are good dudes. Stephen R Donaldson or Piers Anthony are creepy as hell. George RR Martin is a miserable, evil fuck. Just a handful of examples.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (dNqv+)

438 >>>>>And some shots of Renee Russo's ass.

WHAT

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (fBSxh)

439 Let kids be kids, IMO.

More or less, I'd watch them and shape their interests, but just because they run around in a robe and wave a fake wand around doesn't mean they really believe this crap any more than your daughter actually thinks she's a kitty or your son a cowboy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

440 Wiccan....

I always thought they made all those stupid baskets people use in their kitchens.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (BFigT)

441 Trivia:

What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

BigDick Daddy

Posted by: JT at December 30, 2021 05:35 PM (arJlL)

442 Seen all the Harry Potter movies, read all the books
I love fantasy fiction

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:35 PM (lCui1)

443 but then... I dunno what he did all day, to be honest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (KZzsI)

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Given he is a federal govt employee, watch porn would be my guess.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (OalnH)

444 431 It's a passion for some kids.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:30 PM (F4kQO)

Meh. Star Wars did not turn me into a Jedi or a Sith, although I do have an odd attraction to cinnamon buns. Let kids be kids, IMO.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:33 PM (SH2Zi)

Amen x100. I was so happy the day the Pokemon passion turned into Harry Potter passion - what we get to read 400-700 page books about British people vs looking at tiny colorful cards about nonsensical cute creatures? Sign all my kids up!

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (exHjb)

445 Witches in other words. But witches has that wart and pointed nose connotation so they had to come up with some other label.

They have created this whole alternate history mythology around the REAL story of wicca through the ages that's comical and even more ludicrous than Scientology.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (KZzsI)

446 >>>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Mohammad ?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (GYllL)

447 The Feds dropped all charges against the jobs who were asleep on the job when Epstein didn't kill himself.
Posted by: WiNO

We are a Nation of Laws...except when we aren't. Hope this answers any questions.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (r1z5A)

448 436 "11-time NCAA all-American swimmer Jeri Shanteau:"

Wuut? Do they have 3 swimming seasons every year or was Jeri in college for 11 years?
Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (3cGpq)

Different events...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (exHjb)

449 vmom, me too but it is very hard to find anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (DTDrP)

450
Megyn Kelly is still a phony shithead with a serious eating disorder:

Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
·
4h
I just wanted you to know that I am 6 months into my "no french fries" thing and I have not cheated even once. Therefore I feel I am excused from making New Year's resolutions.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (MlLUG)

451 Quaker Wiccans are a weird bunch.

Posted by: klaftern at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (taPSh)

452 >>>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Sam the Butcher?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (GYllL)

453 436 "11-time NCAA all-American swimmer Jeri Shanteau:"

Wuut? Do they have 3 swimming seasons every year or was Jeri in college for 11 years?
Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (3cGpq)

___

I'm a guess you can be "All American" in multiple events, like 100M, 200M, etc.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (OalnH)

454 @410: "D&D was supposed to get kids into the occult?"

D&D was supposedly a gateway drug for suburban kids and teenagers to begin hiding pentagrams under their parent's basement rugs and small animal blood sacrifices too.

It's why they included D&D in the first season of Stranger Things as a callback with the kids later exploring a literal gate to hell.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (+WWsf)

455 StartPage claims George Glass is the name of Jan Brady's imaginary boyfriend. I somehow made it through the 70s without watching any Brady Bunch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:38 PM (KZzsI)

456 Just got whole Chronicles of Narnia for my grand-neice though don't know a link about them.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2021 05:38 PM (2JoB8)

457 >>>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Haven Monahan

Posted by: Jackie at December 30, 2021 05:38 PM (URNdm)

458 That's wicker.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:38 PM (6R0HD)

459 449 vmom, me too but it is very hard to find anymore.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (DTDrP)

I'd check out Brandon Sanderson (more... unique in that he does not go with common tropes, but prolific as heck.) Jim Butcher (some good stuff there.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (dNqv+)

460 "What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?"

Buzz?

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (Tnijr)

461 I just wanted you to know that I am 6 months into my "no french fries" thing

That is a strangely specific diet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (KZzsI)

462 Tenn vs Purdue is on ESPN and it's a good, competitive game. Purdue leads 30=28 in the 3rd quarter.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (sWM8x)

463
George Glass.

Posted by: Just sayin'

Jan Brady was the hottest Brady girl, besides Cindy...

and Marcia.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (MlLUG)

464 "D&D was supposedly a gateway drug for suburban kids and teenagers to begin hiding pentagrams under their parent's basement rugs and small animal blood sacrifices too."

Just goes to show there was a lot of stupidity back in the "good old days" too.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (OalnH)

465 I remember when Beavis & Butthead was going to bring America to ruin

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (fBSxh)

466 Terry Brooks' 'Kingdom for Sale" and the Robert Aspirin book are just plain fun.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (DTDrP)

467 George Glass.

Posted by: JuJuBee at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (kix+J)

468 what has she got against french fries

Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (fBSxh)

469 "What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?"

Buzz?

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (Tnijr)

That's Commander Lightyear to you, bub.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (gmo/4)

470 Robert Jordan, Michael Stackpole, Brandon Sanderson are good dudes. Stephen R Donaldson or Piers Anthony are creepy as hell. George RR Martin is a miserable, evil fuck. Just a handful of examples.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:34 PM (dNqv+)

I need to defend Stephen Donaldson a little.
I think he grew to despise his Illearth protagonist.
His 'Mordant's Needs' duology is one of my favorite settings.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (V6f9+)

471 Jim Butcher's urban fantasy stuff is great for the first, oh, 5 books or so, then he kinda loses his way and gets longer and longer stories.

For a throwaway just to get published so he could hopefully get his Codex Aleria fantasy series in print, they turned out pretty good though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (KZzsI)

472 Sign all my kids up!

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (exHjb)

Yeah, first I heard of it was from some post-doc raving about how his kids loved reading it, well before the movies came out Wife is a big fan. Getting kids reading probably outweighs and dangers of some kid trying to create horcruxes (sp?) by many orders of magnitude. I get the apprehension. It is no danger to Christianity, IMO.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (SH2Zi)

473 >>>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

Alice?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (GYllL)

474 "MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Has COVID "

There are a lot of fat cells for the virus to occupy.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (nnLls)

475 General Robert Brown Potter > Potter's Field > Colonel Potter > Harry Potter

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (N2of/)

476 On Sanderson:
His epic Stormlight chronicles is pretty good. Good themes.

Wax and Wayne books are quite good as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (dNqv+)

477 Chronicles of Narnia doesn't hide the fact it's a story to influence Christianity. Can it influence kids?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (F4kQO)

478 Different events...
Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (exHjb).
Oh. I think of All-American baseball players or whatever. Never thought of them doing the All American for breaststroke, free-style, yada yada.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 05:41 PM (3cGpq)

479 I can't imagine there isn't a Brady Bunch episode I haven't seen 10 times as a kid.

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2021 05:41 PM (2JoB8)

480 Jan Brady was the hottest Brady girl, besides Cindy.

Is that you Joe Biden?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:41 PM (KZzsI)

481 Good! More french fries for me!

Posted by: Moochelle at December 30, 2021 05:41 PM (jYQlA)

482 447 The Feds dropped all charges against the jobs who were asleep on the job when Epstein didn't kill himself.
Posted by: WiNO

We are a Nation of Laws...except when we aren't. Hope this answers any questions.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (r1z5A)

We ARE a Nation of Laws! We have plenty of them.
We are NOT a Nation that enforces the laws equally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 05:41 PM (oHd/0)

483 D&D was supposedly a gateway drug for suburban kids and teenagers to begin hiding pentagrams under their parent's basement rugs and small animal blood sacrifices too.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

It's true! Read my comics!

Posted by: zombie Jack Chick at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (P1f+c)

484 I need to defend Stephen Donaldson a little.
I think he grew to despise his Illearth protagonist.
His 'Mordant's Needs' duology is one of my favorite settings.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (V6f9+)

Gap series is an abomination.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (dNqv+)

485 I remember Jan Brady. She smelled good.

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (jYQlA)

486 Aetius, I have read the Butcher books but thanks for the Sanderson tip.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (DTDrP)

487 D&D was supposedly a gateway drug for suburban kids and teenagers to begin hiding pentagrams under their parent's basement rugs and small animal blood sacrifices too.

It's why they included D&D in the first season of Stranger Things as a callback with the kids later exploring a literal gate to hell.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:37 PM (+WWsf)

There's a movie with Tom Hanks called "Mazes and Monsters". I got a later copy with a very deceptive cover, but essentially it's a movie showing how Tom Hanks' character was "corrupted" by playing D&D with his friends - he ends up killing somebody and trying to throw himself off the WTC because of the game.

It's one of those movies that's fun to mock because of the ridiculous premise ("Mazes and Monsters is a far-out game). Also one of the other characters is constantly changing up the hats he wears.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (9ewTg)

488 I remember when Beavis & Butthead was going to bring America to ruin
Posted by: DB at December 30, 2021 05:39 PM (fBSxh)

uh, huh huh, hu

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (M+Lyo)

489 I remember when Beavis & Butthead was going to bring America to ruin
Posted by: DB

Well in all honesty, somebody sure as hell did, and we won't blame the real culprits!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 30, 2021 05:43 PM (r1z5A)

490 486 Aetius, I have read the Butcher books but thanks for the Sanderson tip.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (DTDrP)

I'd start with the Wax and Wayne series. Westerns are what they are essentially. Probably the most accessible and fun, plus, in a very strange way a lot of his series are in the same universe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (dNqv+)

491 I actually don't care if all those woke corporations get shoplifted.

It's actually pretty funny.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (7+6YJ)

492 Beavis and Butt-Head was a scathing satire of American life. And an accurate one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (hQ23g)

493 Gap series is an abomination.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (dNqv+)

Well I won't defend that. The Gap series is utter crap.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (V6f9+)

494 General Robert Brown Potter > Potter's Field > Colonel Potter > Harry Potter

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (N2of/)

Colonel Sanders FTW.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (SH2Zi)

495 477 Chronicles of Narnia doesn't hide the fact it's a story to influence Christianity. Can it influence kids?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:40 PM (F4kQO)

Having grown up in a cohort that read the series and seen how many of them later turned out, it doesn't seem to have much impact either way. It's probably mostly valuable to adults who are trying to consider the themes (same for LoTR). You know what did turn some people into leftists? College. But college is seen as a gateway to wealth and status so no one would consider giving that up.

To do propaganda well the message has to be simple, in your face, and repetitive. Visual is advantaged relative to reading.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (z5Vrg)

496 Beavis and Butt-Head was a scathing satire of American life. And an accurate one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (hQ23g)

Mike Judge is a genius.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (F4kQO)

497 Chronicles of Narnia doesn't hide the fact it's a story to influence Christianity. Can it influence kids?/i]

Well this comes down to what has influence and what does not. For example does playing violent video games influence kids to be violent? What about minecraft, does that influence kids to want to build things?

The influences are the worldview and themes behind the story, not the specific contents.

For example the super popular Grand Theft Auto games are pretty soulless and amoral, even promoting lawlessness and abuse of everyone for your advancement. Probably not a great influence on your kids.

The old game Carmageddon had a lot of the same kind of action, but the worldview was just "this is crazy fun silly driving stuff!" and nothing deeper than that. Probably not much influence at all.

Narnia's worldview and themes like Harry Potter are about good vs evil, using your gifts wisely, realizing that some things matter more than yourself or what you want in life, and so on. Those are generally positive influences.

Other stuff like His Dark Materials are anti-theist and basically soulless trash that are a bad influence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (KZzsI)

498 Not saying that she soes not have issues, just that she, the crazy plane lady, might not be a Karen

And, if the old guy had not wanted a bit of a fight he would have not said something

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (lMmuq)

499 422 " D&D was supposed to get kids into the occult? "

---

yeah, America 1.0 was a different country. We were concerned about anti-christian things like the occult and gateways thereto. No devils here, we're American.

I thought it was a pretty awesome place, but the boomers decided to burn it all down. Enjoy the upcoming food riots.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (ZZK0E)

500 *waves to m*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (+WWsf)

501 I think probably some parents took one look at the cover of a D&D guide and decided it was demonic. Remember the hysteria over music lyrics? Seems quint nowadays.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (Tnijr)

502 quint? quaint!

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:46 PM (Tnijr)

503
Don't get me started on new year's resolutions.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:46 PM (MlLUG)

504 Rowling was not so interested in getting kids into the occult as she was to get out of residing in her car

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:46 PM (lMmuq)

505 I think probably some parents took one look at the cover of a D&D guide and decided it was demonic. Remember the hysteria over music lyrics? Seems quint nowadays.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (Tnijr)

I am 29 enough to remember when you ran KISS songs backwards there were satanic messages.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:47 PM (SH2Zi)

506 Some woman tried to get advertizers to stop running ads on Married With Children. Cuz...OMG, jokes!!

But it all backfired on the bint as news of what she was doing made the show really popular. Had she not pulled that stunt the show could well have gone off the air since it was getting barely any ratings at the time.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:47 PM (OalnH)

507 >>>What was the name of Jan Brady's imaginary fake boyfriend?

>Marshall, Mashall, Marshall?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 05:47 PM (r0ADi)

508 Mike Judge is a genius.

He has sent his whole career mocking the left right to their face and none of them have caught on so far.

Office Space, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, etc. He's the last great satirist we have, like a modern Johnathan Swift.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:47 PM (KZzsI)

509 Y5, careful.

Posted by: SMH

Is that a thing

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (lMmuq)

510 I am 29 enough to remember when you ran KISS songs backwards there were satanic messages.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder

How could there not be? Their name was an acronym for "knights in satan's service"!

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (P1f+c)

511 Mike Judge is a genius.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (F4kQO)

___

What is it......that YA do here?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (OalnH)

512
The crazy plane lady wasn't the karen in that situation; the old man was.

She made an un-pc remark that he didn't like. So she went after him for being a karen.

The video does not do her justice. That old man is a piece of shit who needed a smack in the mouth.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (MlLUG)

513 @501: "Remember the hysteria over music lyrics? Seems quint nowadays."

Kids these days would never believe that a Democratic vice-president's wife would lead the charge on that kinda nonsense.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (+WWsf)

514 To do propaganda well the message has to be simple, in your face, and repetitive. Visual is advantageous relative to reading.
___

True.
This is why Christian programming is at a disadvantage.

Shows like The Chosen are a step in the right direction.

I have no problem with sci/fi or fantasy. Just stuff relating to witchcraft.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (kMPrp)

515 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:36 PM (KZzsI)

Well that's a surprise. Few people would know that or express it. I was attracted to it back in the 70s in New Haven and I actually did some independent studying of the phenomenon both practical and theoretical and later on in the decade I ran across all these Wiccan people who had no clue about what they thought they were about. Basically the believed in magic and supernatural power but not that icky sorcery and wizardry stuff with blood and swords and upside down crosses and demons and myrmidons from hell. So they did a change up and switched it to the female being the power (this being the dawn of feminism) and kinder an gentler and more in tune with the Earth and ecology. All that stuff.

Very amusing. I did some card readings for a group once and realized that it was just a bunch of young ladies getting together for tea and biscuits only talking about witches and elves and magical powers rather than bridge or canasta and gossip. I wowed them with a few psych tricks and never went back. Most of them were married and using the meeting for a reason to be out of the house at night but not at a bar. Tempting

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:49 PM (6R0HD)

516 B&B was the first successful cancellation I can remember. Couldn't say "fire" anymore because the ninnies got their panties in a knot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:49 PM (bKdTl)

517 *smiles at Y5*

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 05:49 PM (kMPrp)

518 Per Daily Mail:

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown will be sponsored by

LGBcoin.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 05:49 PM (gmo/4)

519 There is a section of the theme song to Mr Ed "A horse is a horse, of course of course..." that, if played backward sounds a lot like like "Source of the Devil". Some preachers went off on that, but I was always puzzled what the heck that was supposed to mean. Source of the Devil?

I mean putting aside the fact that nobody but crazy people looking for problems play records backward to get messages to begin with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (KZzsI)

520 "Kids these days would never believe that a Democratic vice-president's wife would lead the charge on that kinda nonsense.
Posted by: Walter Freeman "

The most hilarious part of that was Al Gore claiming he was a Zappa fan.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (Tnijr)

521 Potter: Juvenovels for Loot.

Posted by: klaftern at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (taPSh)

522 Well I won't defend that. The Gap series is utter crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:44 PM (V6f9+)

Never has a single book ever managed to turn me completely on an author inside the first third. Except for George RR Martin- and even he needed til the end of the book.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (dNqv+)

523 How could there not be? Their name was an acronym for "knights in satan's service"!

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (P1f+c)

I wonder how many hours kids wasted trying to hear the satanic messages.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (SH2Zi)

524 His 'Mordant's Needs' duology is one of my favorite settings.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at

One of my favorites. Didn't really like the Thomas Covenant books

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (lCui1)

525 > JK Rowling has a metric megaton of Christian themes in her books, even if she didn't mean to have them. The entire story arc is about sacrifice and love to stop evil.

The main character recognizes that he has to die to destroy the power of the ultimate evil dude which was taken into himself, and then he comes back to life. I guess that isn't allegorical?

Also, there isn't any real hint of spiritual beings involved with their magic, or acquiring it by means other than natural-born ability which is honed through practice and study (like any non-supernatural talent, really). There are mythological creatures, but you could just as easily call Lewis's use of satyrs and nymphs or his treatment of planetary "gods" in his space trilogy an endorsement of paganism. In practice, no one actually taking Harry Potter seriously would be drawn to the occult, because one of the rules of the world is that you're born into that world, you can't find your own way in. If it's Satanic, it's from the Calvinist branch.

Posted by: me at December 30, 2021 05:51 PM (9p+wn)

526 The car will be wrapped in "lets go brandon" wrap. Good for him!

Posted by: raimondo at December 30, 2021 05:51 PM (9NXuS)

527 The thing is us air travel sucks, sky waitresses even more

When the streess and strain of everything from 2021 ar mixed in shit happens.

Grandpa was writing checks with his dentures his wrinkly old ass couldn't cash, and she is a bit crazy

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:51 PM (lMmuq)

528 @512: "The video does not do her justice. That old man is a piece of shit who needed a smack in the mouth."

She freaked out about COVID mask stuff, and then proceeded to spit in the man's face. honestly, I don't care about her slapping or hitting the guy, but the spitting erases any and all sympathy for her plight.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (+WWsf)

529 I've always wondered how many times Barr visited Epstein Island?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (hOUT3)

530 Harry Potter was nothing more than a new twist on the continual battle between good and evil with different packaging.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (DTDrP)

531 Well that's a surprise. Few people would know that or express it.

I have known a few wiccans and gotten into long discussions with them. These weren't the man-hating type, more the silly "lets dance around a toadstool ring naked in the forest" type. They were sweet enough ladies who meant no harm but believed a whole lot of nonsense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

532
527 The thing is us air travel sucks, sky waitresses even more

___

How dare you? They are there for your safety first and foremost!!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (OalnH)

533 Couldn't say "fire" anymore because the ninnies got their panties in a knot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:49 PM (bKdTl)

Led to one of my favorite episodes. The boys burn themselves horribly, and a PBS scrunt swoops into the hospital to do a story about how music videos made them do it, only to find to her horror that they were struck by lightning imitating a PBS show about Ben Franklin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (hQ23g)

534 Speaking of Mike Judge , once again King of the Hill has an episode covering the aos discussion.

Bobby joins some older D&D nerds who formed a coven . Hank of course comes to the rescue though Bobby did the right thing on his own. Damn I miss that show.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (F4kQO)

535 Never has a single book ever managed to turn me completely on an author inside the first third. Except for George RR Martin- and even he needed til the end of the book.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (dNqv+)

The Gap series literally killed his career. Donaldson's been writing under a pen name for decades now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:53 PM (V6f9+)

536
No, she didn't freak out about the fucking mask.

She was mocking that old turd for not wearing his precious mask.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:53 PM (MlLUG)

537 >>>Grandpa was writing checks with his dentures his wrinkly old ass couldn't cash, and she is a bit crazy
Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:51 PM (lMmuq)

So, wanna take a rapid test and "isolate" in the head?

Posted by: Patricia Cornwall at December 30, 2021 05:54 PM (QYPq3)

538 They were sweet enough ladies who meant no harm but believed a whole lot of nonsense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

That is nightmare material.

Oh, you mean wiccans, not democrats. Carry on.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 05:54 PM (P1f+c)

539 Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 05:48 PM (MlLUG)

Sorry but the number of restraining orders against this person would tend to me to think that maybe she has a chip on her shoulder the size of a sequoia and it wouldn't have taken much for the guy to have said anything for her to go off on him. Plus do we really know what was said? or just what they claimed.

No that woman has some serious mental problems but the old man didn't see this since he was eating so he got drawn into her circle of insanity.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:54 PM (6R0HD)

540 458 That's wicker.
Posted by: jakee308

My attempts at humor here sometimes require a bit of thought.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 30, 2021 05:55 PM (BFigT)

541 Just saying, crazy plane is more Horde than grandpa was

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 05:55 PM (lMmuq)

542 It ain't Wiccans or Harry Potterites who're convincing tens of thousands of young people that they need to destroy their sex organs.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 05:55 PM (N2of/)

543 Led to one of my favorite episodes. The boys burn themselves horribly, and a PBS scrunt swoops into the hospital to do a story about how music videos made them do it, only to find to her horror that they were struck by lightning imitating a PBS show about Ben Franklin.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (hQ23g)

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That's fucking genius writing. I was never much into B&B but maybe I should revisit it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:55 PM (OalnH)

544 I've always wondered how many times Barr visited Epstein Island?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft!

I imagine his customer loyalty card was just about all punched out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 05:56 PM (FVME7)

545 One of my favorites. Didn't really like the Thomas Covenant books
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:50 PM (lCui1)

Hmmm, let's see *goes and checks his bookshelf*

Jordan, of course.
Steven Erikson is quite good, but the guy is addicted to tragedy. A bit rapey in one book, but just did not read that one.
Dennis L McKiernan tried to get the authorization to work in Tolkiens Middle Earth. Was told no. So he made his own and there are several really good books there (Eye of the Hunter, Dragondoom and Voyage of the Fox Rider are examples.)
Steven Brust is good but he has been playing in the universe too long. Simon Green has some fun stuff, light. Can never decide whether I like Glen Cook. David Eddings of course. Already mentioned Michael Stackpole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:56 PM (dNqv+)

546 My brothers are big time Thomas Covenant fans but I couldn't like the books no matter how hard I tried. I couldn't stand the main character, and the world was depressing. And while I like description, it was too much in those books, page after page about a forest and how foggy and mossy and green it was. Get an editor, dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

547 I remember when CBS bought the rights to Rush's tv show so they could shelve it. Somehow fox bought it from them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:56 PM (bKdTl)

548 Sharkman brings it!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 05:56 PM (DTDrP)

549 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:53 PM (V6f9+)

I was interested in his first 3/4 and then he just up and stopped writing the series and started doing something else. Grrrrrr. I waited for a couple years before I found that out and was really pissed so I vowed to never watch or read any of the rest of the series. Fat bloated bastard.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 05:57 PM (6R0HD)

550 >>>I am 29 enough to remember when you ran KISS songs backwards there were satanic messages.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder

======

I believe styx did that at the beginning of their Mr. Roboto album, to mock the tipper gore types. Which I guess was basically the theme of the album.

Posted by: Turn Two at December 30, 2021 05:57 PM (e4JXb)

551 Donaldson's been writing under a pen name for decades now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

What's his pen name?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 05:57 PM (lCui1)

552 I like Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series a lot, but there are hints of something darker and wrong in the man's sexuality, particularly the final book he wrote much later.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:57 PM (KZzsI)

553 Brandon Brown got a sponsor. Let's go Brandon car.

LGB all over the car. #68.

Posted by: Redenzo at December 30, 2021 05:58 PM (E7vND)

554 Nascar driver, Brandon Brown, unveils his new Let's Go Brandon car:

https://tinyurl.com/39hakex6

Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 05:58 PM (0TVNF)

555 >>>Bobby joins some older D&D nerds who formed a coven

Posted by: Just a side note at December 30, 2021 05:52 PM (F4kQO)

That is wicked, man.

Posted by: Mark Borchardt at December 30, 2021 05:58 PM (QYPq3)

556 The Gap series literally killed his career. Donaldson's been writing under a pen name for decades now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 05:53 PM (V6f9+)

It kind of deserved to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (dNqv+)

557 I believe styx did that at the beginning of their Mr. Roboto album

Yeah I believe the sinister sounding recording played backward is the national motto on the dollar bill: Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (KZzsI)

558 Anthrax did a good tipper gore song. I think it is on attack of the killer Bs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (bKdTl)

559 Nascar driver, Brandon Brown, unveils his new Let's Go Brandon car:

Nice. Though I would have preferred a straight up Fuck Joe Biden car.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (yQpMk)

560 >>>Harry Potter was nothing more than a new twist on the continual battle between good and evil with different packaging.

>Harry Potter is just Die Hard with twigs.

It's just Lethal Weapon with too much Murtaugh and not enough Rene Russo ass.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (r0ADi)

561
That's fucking genius writing. I was never much into B&B but maybe I should revisit it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 05:55 PM (OalnH)

Dude it's hard to find. Gotta pirate it (I have old VHS tapes of most of it). The music videos were the best part, but the DVD releases don't include them, because MTV only licensed those for broad cast

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2021 05:59 PM (hQ23g)

562 @542: "It ain't Wiccans or Harry Potterites who're convincing tens of thousands of young people that they need to destroy their sex organs."

It might take another twenty years, but I think folks are gonna look back on the permissive early hormonal interventions and surgeries, and it's gonna look as crazy as lobotomies were.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (+WWsf)

563
If I was walking down the street and some fuckface yelled at me to "get vaccinated" and I yelled back "Shut the fuck up and put your mask on!," but all you saw and heard was me yelling at someone to put their mask on, what would you think?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (MlLUG)

564 What I'm getting here is that big-name authors, like big-name actors and big-name musicians, frequently have some issues that they try to work out through their art. And it works about as often.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (P1f+c)

565 > Stephen R Donaldson or Piers Anthony are creepy as hell.

Got a few of the latter's books from the library as a kid. He... seemed like the type to fit in well at CNN.

Posted by: me at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (9p+wn)

566 Posted by: Redenzo at December 30, 2021 05:58 PM (E7vND)
~~~~~

Owe me a Coke!

Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (0TVNF)

567 I have a lot of problems with Wiccans and witchcraft and women are particularly susceptible to this bullshit.

Posted by: CN at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (ONvIw)

568 NOOD

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at December 30, 2021 06:01 PM (2JoB8)

569 I know nothing about crypto but maybe I'll buy some fjb crypto anyway for the hell of it...lololllol!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at December 30, 2021 06:01 PM (UUBmN)

570 Not that I am for elder abuse, however, if you are old and stupid and decide to mouth off to a bitch that beats your ass, maybe you deserved it

He is going to get some teasing from his buds

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 06:02 PM (lMmuq)

571 Also, I think there's gonna be some interesting data on the decline of teenage girl eating disorders around the same time all this early transitioning stuff started begin discussed in schools.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 06:02 PM (+WWsf)

572 Keith Laumer.

Cordwainer Smith.

Jerry Pournelle.

Harlan Ellison.

Alastair Reynolds.

*sets mic carefully on the floor*

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 06:02 PM (N2of/)

573 *started to be discussed

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 06:03 PM (+WWsf)

574
If I was walking down the street and some fuckface yelled at me to "get vaccinated" and I yelled back "Shut the fuck up and put your mask on!," but all you saw and heard was me yelling at someone to put their mask on, what would you think?
Posted by:

That they were ugly?

Posted by: Y5 at December 30, 2021 06:03 PM (lMmuq)

575 It might take another twenty years, but I think folks are gonna look back on the permissive early hormonal interventions and surgeries, and it's gonna look as crazy as lobotomies were.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 06:00 PM (+WWsf)

Lots do now. Makes you wonder about who were the contemporary lobotomy skeptics.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 06:03 PM (SH2Zi)

576
I saw the Jeopardy current Jeopardy streak holder compete while at my in-laws on Christmas Eve. One of them remarked that, "... that is one homely looking woman."

My reply? "That's a dude, and a homely looking dude at that." This was met by nervous chuckles all around.

Someone had to say it!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at December 30, 2021 06:04 PM (pNxlR)

577 lin-duh, that's like having $2 bills because inflation is going to make a $1 obsolete.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 30, 2021 06:05 PM (DTDrP)

578 566.

Lol

Posted by: Redenzo at December 30, 2021 06:06 PM (E7vND)

579 but the boomers decided to burn it all down. Enjoy the upcoming food riots.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 30, 2021 05:45 PM (ZZK0E)

One day maybe you'll wake up and realize that the boomers for the most part are passengers on this crazy train and the ones that are running the bus are more from a younger generation. Granted the Congress is full of oldies but it's not them that leading the charge and doing the antifa marches and burning and looting downtown.

That's a young man's game. So depending on your age you may need to look in a mirror.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 06:10 PM (6R0HD)

580 Daily Wire:

Readers of the British newspaper, The Guardian, are accusing the outlet of deactivating an online poll that asked readers to vote on "Person of the Year" after it became apparent that J.K. Rowling would handily win.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 06:14 PM (lCui1)

581 I was gonna go to the new thread, but then I got high

Posted by: Astro Man at December 30, 2021 06:29 PM (UnQlg)

582 I remember when Beavis & Butthead was going to bring America to ruin

*looks around*

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2021 06:35 PM (0WTxL)

583 I see that quote from The Economist and I am happy I stopped reading them. They have gone very seriously downhill in terms of writing and editorial stances over the past 20 years.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 30, 2021 06:47 PM (CdZ4i)

584 A) I'd rather risk the small chance of catching covid than the large chance of pissing myself on a flight. If this ditz really cared she'd ask to be but in the cargo hold so that she doesn't continue to inconvenience passengers all for likes.

B) There is no way Tim Miller doesn't have a crawl space filled with tween boys he's raped and murdered. That's pedophile face if I've ever seen it.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 30, 2021 07:05 PM (H2PFX)

585 So I've spent the afternoon going over monthly expenses to see if I can survive on a tiny pension if they take SS away from the unjabbed.

There will be some lifestyle changes necessary but I can and will do it. I've fought this sonofabitch for two years and I'm not quitting now.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 07:19 PM (cTCuP)

586 Kamala Harris is correct when she says she wouldn't receive the same press coverage if she were a white man.

If she were a white man she wouldn't be VP, and nobody would care about covering her.

Posted by: p-squared at December 30, 2021 11:09 PM (0CzL1)

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