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Disney Fires Trump Supporting Republican Ike Perlmutter, Who Was Aligned with Nelson Peltz
He's long been a thorn in the side of #Woke Disney. He said something to the effect of "action figures of female characters don't sell to little boys," and the wokies all went insane, even though it's completely 100% true, and all of the Rey Skywalker and Marvel's Katie figures still warming the pegs at 75% discount proves that.
But the wokies are all about ideology. They hate facts. They hate reality. Kevin Feige already manuevered to get him out of Marvel Studios, their movie making branch. Now Disney kicks him out of Marvel Entertainment, a lesser division of the dying Marvel empire.Isaac Perlmutter, the famously frugal Marvel Entertainment chairman who unsuccessfully worked to shake up the Walt Disney Company's board in the past year, has been laid off as part of a cost-cutting campaign. Disney confirmed the move. Mr. Perlmutter, 80, was told by phone on Wednesday that Marvel Entertainment, a small division centered on consumer products and run separately from Marvel Studios, was redundant and would be folded into larger Disney business units, according to two Disney executives briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter. On Monday, Disney started to eliminate 7,000 jobs, about 4 percent of its global total, as part of $5.5 billion in cuts intended to improve Disney's financial results and position the company for streaming-fueled growth. Mr. Perlmutter, known as Ike, could not immediately be reached for comment. An irascible and unrelenting executive, Mr. Perlmutter has been seen as a distraction inside Disney for more than a decade -- most recently when he pushed for a friend, the activist investor Nelson Peltz to join the Disney board. Mr. Perlmutter contacted Disney board members and senior Disney executives six times from last August to November to push for Mr. Peltz to join the board, according to a securities filing. When he was rebuffed, Mr. Peltz started a proxy battle to put himself on the board, saying he would cut costs, revamp Disney's streaming business and clean up the company's messy succession planning.Maybe it's time for Peltz to reassert himself. More executives are being laid off, too.
Jeffrey R. Epstein, a vice president of corporate communications for Disney and the man who spearheaded the official Disney fan club D23, was among those laid off this week, TheWrap has confirmed. Previously working under Zenia Mucha, the feared and respected former senior executive vice president and CCO (otherwise known as the "Director of Revenge"), Epstein is perhaps best known as the spokesperson for D23 - an official Disney fan club that included a quarterly published glossy magazine and, eventually, an official fan convention known as D23 Expo, held every other year in Anaheim, California.That's where Kathleen Kennedy will be given her "Viking Funeral." The long promised -- and long-resisted -- layoffs of 7000 Disney employees begins this week. Seems like a lot of employers should be laid off. Starting with Iger, who put Disney on a collision course with failure during his first tenure of woke propagandizing and grooming children.
Disney will begin layoff notices this week for more than 7,000 staffers whose positions will be eliminated as part of a deep cost-cutting effort that will be felt across all of the company's key divisions. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed Monday morning in a memo to employees that the layoffs will come in three waves, starting today. Iger disclosed the plan to significantly cut Disney's overhead with massive staff reductions on Feb. 8. The cuts are expected to hit across the board and hit senior management levels as well as lower-level executives.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: jmel at March 29, 2023 04:17 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 04:17 PM (DB6tu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:18 PM (zZu0s)
"Can a man have a baby?"
This "doctor's" answer will shock you!
https://youtu.be/EhVCS-SuXFc?t=125
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:18 PM (yMctG)
Posted by: Serious you guys! at March 29, 2023 04:19 PM (kuRII)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 04:19 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 04:19 PM (xhxe
Well, they seem to be doing a good job of it on their own.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bosk at March 29, 2023 04:20 PM (ZVuYy)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 04:20 PM (yQpMk)
I'm beginning to think the main problem with South Park Mickey is that he wasn't remotely evil enough.
Posted by: trev006 at March 29, 2023 04:20 PM (DTm0P)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 29, 2023 04:21 PM (lf83v)
And I read that as Nelson Muntz.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: shareholder preference statement at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (gbZ9N)
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (Vwz3I)
What an unfortunate name
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (tQL7r)
Could be worse. He could've been Michael Bolton.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (zZu0s)
Notice the person, probably a transvestite, knitting a "trans" flag during this hearing.
It is on the right side with bleached hair.
https://youtu.be/EhVCS-SuXFc?t=34
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (yMctG)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (Vwz3I)
We won't have Riley Reid to kick around anymore?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: DB - resupplying the juggernaut at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (geLO8)
Oh wait.
No it didn't someone who is sane got canned. My mistake.
Meanwhile Kennedy has a net worth of $300 M.
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Ace
Woke action figures of female characters won't sell to little boys.
"The Baroness" in skin-tight leather with D cups, or the other similar GI Joe figures, sold okay.
We blame our "boobs" obsession on our inner 10-year-olds, after all.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2023 04:22 PM (RHGPo)
The Revolution comes for everyone eventually. Even Lenin and Trotsky.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (ytSiK)
It is on the right side with bleached hair.
https://youtu.be/EhVCS-SuXFc?t=34
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (yMctG)
Nice imagery. Madame Defarge? Debarge? Marge?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (zZu0s)
🎵🎸 you are only being fired in waves 🎵
Posted by: Comfortably Mouse at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (uclcs)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (ytSiK)
They believe that eliminating us will change reality.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (zZu0s)
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the poor dear, whatever shall she do with herself in retirement?
Posted by: shareholder preference statement at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (gbZ9N)
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Germaine Greer is still alive?? How old is she -- 100?
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (tQL7r)
They also hate the truth.
Which is why they murder defenseless schoolchildren and teachers.
Which is why they are attempting to murder our society, culture and religion.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (wrDSd)
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Eh, they're happy to take facts - but only when they're conforming.
With the notable exception of Wonder Woman (the first one with Gal Gadot), lady superheroes don't put butts in seats, either (though I suspect that if they had done a Black Widow movie before the character had died and made it competently, it would likely have done well).
But stating the obvious wins you no friends.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)
I do not doubt this for a moment. I've seen it in mid-sized companies and big govt departments. Vindictive as hell, cold blooded, and very us v them headcounters.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (jYCXf)
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (DgGvY)
I don't. My inner 29 year old loves boobs as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (2YtOq)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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True dat
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (YIVH2)
Then they (the pension funds and/or Disney) will get a government bailout. Their finances are probably pretty bad, since they have been used by Democrats as piggy banks, so it's far too late to take sensible measures and hope for the best. Anyway, the government will oblige.
Only Republicans are mean and make some (purely symbolic) gestures against bailouts. Do you want grandma to starve?
Posted by: PG at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (84jHt)
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I seem to recall a town full of guys showed up outside Lot's door wanting to do some angel raping.
Posted by: You thought Steven King was trippy - read the bible at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (aV9Ds)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (hqarx)
Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed Monday morning in a memo to employees that the layoffs will come in three waves, starting today. Iger disclosed the plan to significantly cut Disney's overhead with massive staff reductions on Feb. 8. The cuts are expected to hit across the board and hit senior management levels as well as lower-level executives.
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Per Wikipedia, Disney employs about 222,000 people. 7,000 people is about 3.2% of the workforce. If this is *all* coming out of executive and middle-management ranks, Disney was a very top-heavy organization.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:27 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:27 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 29, 2023 04:27 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: You thought Steven King was trippy - read the bible at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (aV9Ds)
The strangers were clean! How were we to resist?
Posted by: The Original Sodomites at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (yQpMk)
But stating the obvious wins you no friends.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)
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I agree that a competently told Black Widow/Hawkeye film could probably have done well in Phase II or early Phase III to help flesh out their characters. Both of them had enough backstory and obviously a prior relationship that this could have worked.
The key is *competent storytelling*, which Disney currently lacks.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (YIVH2)
If he was an up and coming 45 year old conservative executive I would call bullshit and assume it was a woke firing.
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (9A3LN)
Lenin died knowing Stalin thought he was a clown ass at the end.
Hilarious.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: zombie jeffrey epstein at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (Vwz3I)
So the only way to win it is by starting to play.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:27 PM (Lzpvj)
Already happening because people won't watch the movies and buy the merch anymore. Even public shaming didn't help, for some reason.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)
Ultimately this doesn't help Disney much, he still owns like 10-12% of their stock and can try another takeover. Which he should.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (0hOvj)
Then they (the pension funds and/or Disney) will get a government bailout. Their finances are probably pretty bad, since they have been used by Democrats as piggy banks, so it's far too late to take sensible measures and hope for the best. Anyway, the government will oblige.
Only Republicans are mean and make some (purely symbolic) gestures against bailouts. Do you want grandma to starve?
Posted by: PG at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (84jHt)
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Maybe. Disney going to zero is probably not enough to seriously harm most pension funds on its own, though. So there is really fairly little need for the institutional shareholders to rock the boat in the name of profitability, especially given that they're all part of the Omniparty and promoting or directly doing its business.
And if this is the attitude is universal, then all those little losses will result in failure, even without singling out Disney for salvation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:27 PM (t0OGg)
In my experience, virtually ALL businesses outside of start ups (or very close to start up) are WAY too middle and upper management heavy. It is a key sign of culture decay. HR sucks especially at this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (zZu0s)
The key is *competent storytelling*, which Disney currently lacks.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (YIVH2)
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Yup, but the didn't lack it then. Black Widow was also a *very* popular character by that point. Going with her at that point would have been relatively safe.
But they went with Captain Marvel instead.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (t0OGg)
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the poor dear, whatever shall she do with herself in retirement?
Posted by: shareholder preference statement at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (gbZ9N)
My bet she's living a lifestyle that would eat that $300 million in only a few years.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (BdMk6)
This shit is all a simulation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (oINRc)
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Nah. A simulation wouldn't be so on the nose. A simulation would try for verisimilitude.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)
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I seem to recall a town full of guys showed up outside Lot's door wanting to do some angel raping.
Posted by: You thought Steven King was trippy - read the bible at March 29, 2023 04:26 PM (aV9Ds)
That... did not end well for them.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (llON8)
Lenin died knowing Stalin thought he was a clown ass at the end.
Hilarious.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:28 PM (Lzpvj)
Awwww, Lenin can comfort himself in the sulfurous depths by asking Stalin how his death went.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (zZu0s)
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The problem was they weren't pretending hard enough.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (0hOvj)
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the poor dear, whatever shall she do with herself in retirement?
Posted by: shareholder preference statement at March 29, 2023 04:24 PM (gbZ9N)
My bet she's living a lifestyle that would eat that $300 million in only a few years.
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Well better set up a gofundme, right?
Posted by: shareholder preference statement at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (aV9Ds)
Posted by: Katfish at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (+Z2md)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (us2H3)
A lot of middle aged and older harpies use the "Girls Kick Ass!" shit to relitigate their playground failures.
Since the characters are Mary Sue wish fulfillment avatars the chicks cannot bear to write their having to overcome anything so in a case of Hidden Badass, Crouching Pee Machine the women wake up one day magically as competent as a male who has been doing the same thing for 25 years having had his ass handed to him repeatedly along the way.
There simply cannot be a Batman begins for BatChick because under no circumstance can BatChick fail for a second.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Regular joe at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (nnp+f)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Lacks? No.
They would kill competent people if they thought they could get away with it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (jzzG8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (0hOvj)
Ultron was not exactly great. I liked some of the ideas, but the execution was... hit and miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Yeah, executive bloat is pretty common. I've seen it happen in real time. Directors with no staffs or budgets, for example. Pretty common in mega-corps. In my experience, it's usually talented people they want to make feel good and so promote them up. Not always, but often.
I'd be interested to see if these cuts at Disney are exclusively management or not, though. The article seems to imply that it is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: ChockyChockyChip at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (ufJfM)
Posted by: Bosk at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (ZVuYy)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (GlyUK)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (llON
We back to flame throwers again?
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (NxOLn)
This shit is all a simulation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Nah. A simulation wouldn't be so on the nose. A simulation would try for verisimilitude.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
If you haven't taken the red pill, you don't notice the simulation "correcting" itself.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:29 PM (zZu0s)
I've worked for 2 Fortune 50s and am currently at a Fortune 200 company - you have no idea. When I worked at Cabletown there were VPs and SVPs with ZERO direct reports. Sweet gig if you can get it.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (hqarx)
Yeah, they could have done a hard espionage story, more like Captain America II. Have them dealing with Hydra or any of Marvel's 900 world-conquering agencies, with heavy street-level spy stuff, not saving the world.
But, no.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (MvF+J)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (Lzpvj)
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All female characters in big movies are Mary Sues now. Flawed characters aren't faith-promoting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (wrDSd)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
I'll bet not.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: ChockyChockyChip at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (ufJfM)
Winner!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (KbCG3)
Yeah it was a huge letdown after Avengers. Honestly there's only been one really great Avengers movie -- the first -- which is sad, given how it all started.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (9A3LN)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
It's not based on my Linked In feed. A bunch of drones were also zipped.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (hqarx)
Posted by: the Apostles at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (aV9Ds)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (9+YF+)
Posted by: PG at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (84jHt)
In case you didn't see it yesterday:
The long-time "mainstream" "gay" publication, The Advocate, just posted this piece recently: "Why the Sex Offender Registry Harms lgqbg"
These people are pedos and perverts. Sick fucks, ALL of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (yMctG)
But, no.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)
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*All* movies have to have end-of-the-world stakes. I don't know why, but based on the way Hollywood works for action or superhero movies, it seems to be the case.
Superman can't kick some criminal ass in Metropolis or find the guy polluting the river in Smallville, he has to take out an alien plan to destroy the planet. Small-stakes character stories are, for some reason, forbidden.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
But, no.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)
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That's exactly what I was thinking. The two of them together seemed to have good chemistry and so have them work as a team to solve a lower-level scenario that maybe uncovers a major plot point later down the line. I don't think either one can carry a film alone, but as a team, they seem to do quite well. They would have been ideal for setting up one of the other major films in Phase II or III.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: PG at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (84jHt)
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Where do I send the check?
Posted by: Janet Yellen at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (T/7Bm)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (us2H3)
Now there's a porn connoisseur.
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (9A3LN)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (0hOvj)
Infinity War was well... put together (but bloated) but I am not sure how great it is as an Avengers movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (9+YF+)
Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in three generations is an old adage.
Grandad builds company, Dad maintains it, Son destroys it.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (eoQWY)
I'd rather have had Stalin's fall than Lenin's or Trotsky's.
Stalin spent his evening entertaining the Politburo, and redlining about 12,000 names for Beria to fuck with.
He then had a stroke and went through about 14 hours of comatose indignity and then was gone.
Lenin died knowing his only role in Soviet history was leaving a thresher that would devout millions.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (wagHN)
"Zenia Mucha, Director of Revenge" would be a great luchador name.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (DgGvY)
Here's how bad things are going for Disney right now: they dug into their warehouse of old Disney stuff and had an auction selling it off.
https://tinyurl.com/43jbwu2s
And they have been handed a multi-BILLION dollar expense by their idiotic handling of the Florida kid protection bill. And this expense is ongoing. That property is the size of Manhattan in prime real estate and now they have to pay taxes etc on it that they did not before.
I would not be surprised at all if they didn't start fire sale stuff selling off bits of their acquisitions and properties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 29, 2023 04:30 PM (llON
At least we didn't see our destruction coming.
SWIDT.
Posted by: The Original Sodomites at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: ChockyChockyChip at March 29, 2023 04:32 PM (ufJfM)
Winner!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:33 PM (KbCG3)
Signed,
Epstein's Mother
Posted by: Archer at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:18 PM (GwxCX)
I was honored to give a eulogy at the Houston Veterans Memorial Cemetery for a man that had a hand in developing the B-29. He joined the Army in 1939 on a promise that volunteering early gave you a better chance of not being shipped out IF war broke out.
IIRC the B-29 was being hatched in Kansas and they needed to train pilots once production began. Jack Barnes got moved to an Army air base near Denver. There were 8200 pilots that went through his training program on planes he had built to teach them how to fly.
Those B-17 training planes had 16 fully functional dual B-29 cock pits with an aisle down the middle and each set of pilots/co pilots got to fly with actual controls that could be overidden by the actual flight crew if needed.
Those pilots had very little time behind the sticks before being assigned to their planes. The development of the B-29 took several years and was only used in the Pacific theater of WWII.
Mr. Barnes was actually a craftsman that opened a classic T-Bird shop in Houston when he was in his mid 50's and he became a certified Ford technician.
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (DB6tu)
.. two-tier justice
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
no CGI action, so that triples the amount of script and actor lines needed to pad out the time.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (eoQWY)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xAQma49yt6o
There *was* nothing wrong with that name until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (wagHN)
You weren't the only one.
Posted by: Archer at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Mister Scott
They should have dumped it a year and a half ago. I told one online financial wizard who recommended DIS that he needed to dump it and buy CVX.
At that time, DIS was at 184 and Chevron was at 96. As of today, DIS is at 94 and CVX is at 160.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lTGtQ)
In case you didn't see it yesterday:
The long-time "mainstream" "gay" publication, The Advocate, just posted this piece recently: "Why the Sex Offender Registry Harms lgqbg"
These people are pedos and perverts. Sick fucks, ALL of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (yMctG)
The bride at every wedding. The corpse at every funeral. The Sun in every galaxy.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (Lzpvj)
Lenin is no fucking saint I feel sorry for. He was a fucking monster who wanted to terrorize his people just as much as Stalin. But restrained terror is still terror.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: spindrift at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: Millennial writing staff with gender studies degrees and no life experience at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (fs1hN)
These people are pedos and perverts. Sick fucks, ALL of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 04:34 PM (yMctG)
Concur. Sodomites fool a lot of people but a warm, charming sodomite with a sense of humor and style is still a sodomite.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (GlyUK)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (KbCG3)
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Solipsists. All of them. They no longer believe in an external reality separate from themselves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (GwxCX)
That is the big complaint about Ant-Man: it has no stakes! Who cares? It was entertaining and interesting, it was fun to watch. That's how you deal with Ant Man, he's just not very powerful.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lTGtQ)
But we'll all be driving electric cars in 10 years and there will still be kids Disney can turn gay.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (wtvvX)
You did note "hilariously?"
The entire communist party needs body work delivered by m2a1
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (9A3LN)
some people have to have some new every fucking day
some people can immerse themselves in the past brillance forever
I admit to being the latter
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (us2H3)
Jeffrey Epstein, editor of a fanzine and head of a fan club for small children.
I swear, the people programming this thing just have a handful of pedo rich guy NPCs, and one is the Epstein module.
Next, I'll hear that a mayor killed a couple guys outside a lonely airfield to cover up his drug deals. Mayor Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
There *was* nothing wrong with that name until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
(I got two of my posts confabulated.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: XTC at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (UnA8+)
"I am the mountain comrade?"
//Trotsky's skull
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (Lzpvj)
The entire communist party needs body work delivered by m2a1
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:40 PM (Lzpvj)
I like to imagine that Stalin was paralyzed, in great pain wondering why no one was helping him for 12 hours.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)
Terror is an instrument of social hygiene. -- Lenin
Posted by: Archer at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)
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If the rumors about that are true and Chapek wanted to stay out of it but Alonso went in and bullied him until he made probably the most expensive mistake in Disney history, he *deserved* to be fired for it. Replacing him with Iger continues to amaze me, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:42 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: XTC at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (UnA8+)
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Clonepacks -- come in batches of 6, courtesy of everyone's favorite Friendly Computer! (have a nice day, citizen!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:42 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (zZu0s)
there is a bit in a book by a Soviet defector Suvarov taking place in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia where the Russian soldiers in Prague get in an argument with people on the street - the Czechs argument was Lenin was worse than Stalin, just died too early. He certainly was more of a true believer and that usually comes with a higher body count.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Archer at March 29, 2023 04:41 PM (gmo/4)
Fixed it for you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:43 PM (zZu0s)
IIRC the B-29 was being hatched in Kansas and they needed to train pilots once production began. Jack Barnes got moved to an Army air base near Denver. There were 8200 pilots that went through his training program on planes he had built to teach them how to fly.
Those B-17 training planes had 16 fully functional dual B-29 cock pits with an aisle down the middle and each set of pilots/co pilots got to fly with actual controls that could be overidden by the actual flight crew if needed.
Those pilots had very little time behind the sticks before being assigned to their planes. The development of the B-29 took several years and was only used in the Pacific theater of WWII.
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM
Thanks Dan, Very interesting story! Gramps trained in TX on the 29, he laughed thinking, it's too big to fly! LOL
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:43 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)
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Nonsense. Perfectly-indoctrinated true believers who seize unlimited power over a nation have no track record of large-scale slaughter!
Posted by: Pol Pot at March 29, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
Oh he was pissed, mom had a stroke and a series of strokelets. Despite her schizophrenia she was a highly intelligent woman at her peak and very effective in the use of metaphor and imagery. She explained that her mind did not stop working it just got time distorted and her reasoning slowed down.
Stain probably died wondering if he had murdered all the competent doctors in Western Russia.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:43 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I understood that reference.
Posted by: mikeski goes meta at March 29, 2023 04:44 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM (9A3LN)
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM
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Another element of the B-29 program that most people don't realize is how expensive it was. It cost about the same as the Manhattan Project. it was less scientifically innovative, but it was as expensive a program.
That boggles me mind. This country managed to pay for and achieve *two* projects at that scale simultaneously. It's unthinkable, but we did it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)
Eh, I dunno. These things are hard to gauge. Lenin set up a lot of the mechanisms that Stalin used. I am pretty sure you would not have to add too much to one side or the other if you weighed Stalin and Lenin's souls.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM (zZu0s)
Remember that the next time we gripe about the GOPe.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM (jTmQV)
A "drag queen" straddled a teenaged? girl at a "pride festival" event with students as young as 14 in attendance. Teachers took students to the event without notifying parents of what it would entail.
trib.al/CVKqXYd
Notice the assault victim has her forearms tucked in between her assaulter and herself.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 29, 2023 04:46 PM (j2Xg6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 04:46 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2023 04:47 PM (9A3LN)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Yep, probably next thing up on the agenda
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:48 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 29, 2023 04:46 PM (j2Xg6)
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Did they notify the parents at all? Or was it just a "field trip?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:48 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: bonhomme
"Frotteurism" is hard to spell.
Can we call it "Bidening?"
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:48 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Fed Up at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (uZn/X)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 29, 2023 04:46 PM (j2Xg6)
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Do most people not understand how depraved "pride" events/marches are? Have they never seen one? They're no place for children, let alone children in the "care" of a school.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:38 PM (KbCG3)
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Solipsists. All of them. They no longer believe in an external reality separate from themselves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2023 04:39 PM (YIVH2)
They are reality. That which harms them is immoral and wrong. Their behavior is always right. If they do it, it was meant to be done. Your reaction to it is and always will be the problem.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
While building three liberty ships and 100 fighters per day.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM
The guns on the 29 were remote controlled. Big stuff for 1943. We did so much cool shit, because we HAD to. We didn't have to do enviromental impact studies or make sure our troops were ghey friendly or diverse. We needed to build and destroy some shit and we go to it toot sweet. Now we run out of toilet paper and people wig out.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 04:46 PM (FVME7)
granted, I was a HS dropout
but psycho in HS ??
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: bonhomme
"Frotteurism" is hard to spell.
Can we call it "Bidening?"
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:48 PM (DgGvY)
Dry Humping...like a dog on a leg.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM (GlyUK)
It was a desperation move on their part.
Consider this, the Germans (and I am maternally a German by ancestry) sent us the Frankfurt school assholes who wrecked our education system and created 4 generations of geometrically increasing nutjob communists in our schools....they also created the Communist Russia that wound up obliterating the Junker class.
Sometimes history does give a nice slapstick kick in the nuts of the worst actors.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (Lzpvj)
We blame our "boobs" obsession on our inner 10-year-olds, after all.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2023 04:23 PM (DgGvY)
CO - BRALESS
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (OgrpQ)
The Restrict Act, has very little to do with TikTok and everything to do with the United States government controlling online content. If you read the bill, what you quickly discover is that congress is giving the Commerce Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the power to shut down internet content they view as against their interests.
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (RHGPo)
80?
Posted by: Inogame at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (53oGX)
Was your grandfather flying in WWII or Korea?
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (DB6tu)
And still managed to produce an engine nacelle whose cowlings, if stuck closed, burned the engine up, and if stuck open, as often happened, made as much drag as having an engine out that you couldn't feather.
Posted by: The Original Sodomites at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 04:45 PM (zZu0s)
I think the argument last put up by the tank commander who was occupying a bank and cut off but still doing education sessions was "Stalin never directly ordered the murder of children!" ... then the Russians went inside the bank and cut off the discussions.
There are a lot of funny incidents - like in the retreat a motorcycle was set on fire by accident so they invented an attack by hostile elements to cover it up and sent it up the command chain, but had to keep amending it as higher echelons added other stuff that had been lost/stolen to added to the report
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:50 PM (eoQWY)
Yes, the honors classes were pretty diverse. I took honors econ, history, lit, genetics, and civics in high school.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (W2hoj)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM
Look at the ships from Peal that were destroyed. Many were literally pieced back together. The Japs thought they were ghost ship. They took them to Ford Island with numbers on them and rebuilt them in months as a hearty fuck you to the Japs. Now we'd worry if the ship's name was rayciss.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: red speck at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (Ny/Va)
Posted by: Minnfidel
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Was it in, around, or adjacent to Houston? My FIL trained pilots there in WWII.
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM (Lzpvj)
my dad always said I was dumb
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:52 PM (us2H3)
but psycho in HS ??
Posted by: REDACTED
I had a psych class in HS. Wasn't even that long ago, just...thirtmumble...OK it was a while ago.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at March 29, 2023 04:52 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:52 PM (GwxCX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
While building three liberty ships and 100 fighters per day.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:49 PM
And taking a theory on a blackboard and turning that theory into a functional atomic weapon in 24 months.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 29, 2023 04:54 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:55 PM (us2H3)
I would never say that in a million years, what I would say is that once upon a time in this country if you did well at taking tests and showed intellectual curiousness the system gave you ample opportunity to excel.
I did not excel, my high school GPA was rather average, but I did well on the SAT and ACT both. There was a lot of drama in my upbringing and I was blessed enough that the social sciences department head saw some giftedpotential in me. Without honors classes I would have dropped out in the 10th grade gotten a GED and shipped on my 17th birthday I think.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:55 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 29, 2023 04:56 PM (FUVRY)
Posted by: Minnfidel
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Was it in, around, or adjacent to Houston? My FIL trained pilots there in WWII.
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 04:51 PM
Not sure, I know it was in TX, I remember him telling me stories about how hot it was but that it helped prep him for the Pacific. He didn't talk about the war much. I didn't find out until after his death that he had to ditch in the Pacific. Lost their tail gunner, he blamed himself. And he hated water because of it. He mostly shared the funny stories. That was about it.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 04:56 PM (GwxCX)
https://bit.ly/3lOWr3L
Posted by: bonhomme at March 29, 2023 04:56 PM (j2Xg6)
Did any normal people buy antiques?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 29, 2023 04:56 PM (FUVRY)
no
Posted by: REDACTED at March 29, 2023 04:57 PM (us2H3)
Last night I saw a lot of Disney movies in the digital discount bins (i.e., $5 to buy the digital version). Disney movies almost never show up there, and never en masse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 29, 2023 04:57 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
In the Pacific they time-shared the fleet command because to get operations going twice as fast. Planners and Commanders would work on one operation while another was underway. When that wound down, the admirals and staff and ground troops would ship out to the fleet and the first set of leaders would start planning their next operation.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 04:57 PM (eoQWY)
but psycho in HS ??
Posted by: REDACTED
I had a psych class in HS. Wasn't even that long ago, just...thirtmumble...OK it was a while ago.
Me too. Mr. Hospers. Single late-30s dude who lived on a sailboat in Santa Cruz. All the girls swooned over him. I wouldn't doubt he enjoyed a little after-school tutelage now and then.
Posted by: red speck at March 29, 2023 04:58 PM (Ny/Va)
Stalin was just a thug who enjoyed killing for its own sake.
Both were vicious, but Stalin takes the prize because he enjoyed doing it so damn much.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2023 04:58 PM (trdmm)
It was a stage managed coup essentially. Right out of the Okhrana and cheka playbook comrade.
//Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 04:58 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Minnfidel
One of my favorite WWI Pacific stories is the Battle of Surigao Strait, where the Japanese force ran into the US battleships that had been raised from Pearl Harbor - West Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee, all crossing their T.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:59 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: red speck at March 29, 2023 04:58 PM (Ny/Va)
Don't stand so close to me.
Posted by: V. Nabokov at March 29, 2023 04:59 PM (NgqoH)
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To be fair, the thought crossed my mind, along with the point of an ice axe.
Posted by: Zombie Trotsky at March 29, 2023 04:59 PM (En9T+)
The only argument I will make about Lenin possibly having an iota of superior personal morality to Stalin is his allowing the NEP.
The main argument I can make that Lenin was worse than Stalin is Lenin basically empowered Stalin.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:00 PM (Lzpvj)
Queer men have been leading a movement for a long time now to outlaw circumcision. Ironic, yes? "Trans" "surgery" for toddlers is okay, but parents removing a little foreskin is "abuse." Andrew Sullivan is a big fan of children keeping their foreskin. Really.
These people are evil sickos.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 05:00 PM (yMctG)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:00 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:59 PM
That was awesome. It was the original Fuck Around And Find Out!
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 29, 2023 05:00 PM (GwxCX)
but psycho in HS ??
Posted by: REDACTED
Back when I went to.school, schools used to, you know, teach stuff.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 05:01 PM (FVME7)
What about antiques appeals to gays and frustrated women?
The only antiques I have are from grandparents and their parents and dolls which my mother bought as a kid.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 29, 2023 05:01 PM (FUVRY)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:02 PM (Lzpvj)
Iger spent how many years steering USS Disney into the iceberg? And HE's going to fix it? The guy is running a scam now. Screw things up so badly no one can step in and fix it on a dime and, because he's the the legacy CEO, the job falls back into his own lap.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 29, 2023 05:02 PM (aXxgO)
He was never really out of power.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:02 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Minnfidel
My FIL didn't even do that. But every year until he and my MIL both had dementia....they'd make the drive from Little Rock to Houston for his reunion.
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (tQL7r)
Speaking if high school...
Many of you boomers here were in high school in 1977, oui?
This just popped up in my youtubes, today: Going To School in 1977
https://youtu.be/FpmXz1e6IjQ
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (yMctG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lTGtQ)
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Yep - did an Exxon buy about that time, on my advisor's advice. Was a good move.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (UVyKP)
You remember Disney's Reputation? You know, the one place, the one studio that was dedicated to wholesome family entertainment and the celebration of all things American.
Well, Disney took that Reputation, walked it into the town square at high noon, repeatedly shot it in the head, pissed on the corpse, raped it, then set it on fire and using the sizzling remains to make a ragu for lunch.
It's going to take wholesale firing and literally years to try, just even attempt, to rebuild that reputation.
I doubt it can be done.
They took Disney's most precious asset and casually destroyed it. Along with destroying all the IPs they paid billions for.
Great work, a-holes!
Posted by: naturalfake at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (mm6iK)
The Restrict Act, has very little to do with TikTok and everything to do with the United States government controlling online content. If you read the bill, what you quickly discover is that congress is giving the Commerce Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the power to shut down internet content they view as against their interests.
_____
Yeah, so, whaddya you gonna do about it?
Posted by: GOPe (now with more F.U.!) at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (fs1hN)
Automatons.
https://bit.ly/431Z9Um
Posted by: bonhomme at March 29, 2023 05:04 PM (j2Xg6)
Fun fact. The rental car company Enterprise was started by some of the men who served on the carrier Enterprise.
I think the company financed a series of animated and actual videos of the USS Enterprise. Go to "Battle 360" to see them.
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:04 PM (DB6tu)
https://bit.ly/3lOWr3L
Posted by: bonhomme
I don't think this will amount to a hill of beans since trial is so far off but . . .
The Idaho quadruple murder case could be in jeopardy due to the presence of "Brady material" in a police officer's case file
https://bit.ly/3lLkfFL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 05:05 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 05:06 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:06 PM (bkUtD)
I wonder how many current college students (more specifically, seniors) could pass a high school graduating exam from one hundred plus years ago? I'd bet less than half.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 29, 2023 05:06 PM (aXxgO)
https://youtu.be/FpmXz1e6IjQ
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (yMctG)
I drove that Maverick!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:06 PM (yQpMk)
ask and ye shall receive..
https://youtu.be/FE6GZuUONmM
I miss that nation.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:07 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 29, 2023 05:07 PM (pgsH3)
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 05:07 PM (yMctG)
They took Disney's most precious asset and casually destroyed it. Along with destroying all the IPs they paid billions for.
Great work, a-holes!
Posted by: naturalfake at March 29, 2023 05:03 PM (mm6iK)
this is why companies, just like people, die when they've been around too long. Disney is turning into the Sears of the entertainment biz.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2023 05:08 PM (trdmm)
Nope. I was married and already had my first kid.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 05:09 PM (wagHN)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (bkUtD)
I was five and wearing mukluks to kindergarten.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (Lzpvj)
I was in 2nd grade
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (yMctG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer
Wow, all that and you're just 29!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 05:12 PM (wagHN)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 05:12 PM (wagHN)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (bkUtD)
Almost 29.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:12 PM (yQpMk)
It will remove more liberty from US citizens.
TuCa's bulletpoint list of shenanigans and obfuscation - aka lies - from the legislation were astounding. The law pretty much states that it will persecute/prosecute ANYONE it doesn't like at ANY given moment for ANY reason. It's a law making the lawless inevitable.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 29, 2023 05:12 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2023 05:12 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (Lzpvj)
Fist bump, I had bread bags in my moon boots
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (OgrpQ)
two black high school girls just solved a trigonometry problem that has baffled the experts for 2000 years.
https://bit.ly/42SoiR2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (FVME7)
It would take about a decade of good, family-friendly, enjoyable entertainment of high quality. And being friendly and good to customers, not attacking them. That would start them on the path to having a better reputation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (a3Q+t)
I didn't see any bombardment being played in that video.
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (DB6tu)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2023 05:14 PM (RG6z4)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2023 05:14 PM (MF3yS)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2023 05:14 PM (Jg7EG)
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Yes, can confirm. Cars, fashion, and hairstyles are all circa 1977. But I never had any coed gym classes.
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 29, 2023 05:15 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: Bosk at March 29, 2023 05:15 PM (ZVuYy)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:15 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:16 PM (DB6tu)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 05:16 PM (xhxe8)
The sixties rocked. The seventies—oh my God, they obviously suck. Come on! Maybe the eighties will be radical.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 29, 2023 05:16 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:11 PM (yQpMk)
Looking at my own life, the 70's were pretty turbulent. But when I did find some fun, it was a lot of fun.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 29, 2023 05:16 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:17 PM (yQpMk)
My HS was a little more rough around the edges than that one, but close enough.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 29, 2023 05:17 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:17 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 29, 2023 05:18 PM (wagHN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:18 PM (UuD2k)
Epstein didn't fire himself.... oh... wait...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2023 05:18 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Born in '69. Heh, heh, sixty-nine.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:13 PM (OgrpQ)
Oh yes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (L6rHB)
I am also told they are going to use the indictment to sink Trump and elevate DeSantis because he's a RINO cuck they know they can live with.
And that's just from Republicans.
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (pwExq)
Moon boots were awesome. Needless to say I got my ass handed to me for using proper English and being praised for it.
"May I go to the restroom" in lieu of "can I?" got me hammered.
Posted by: sven at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (Lzpvj)
A priest, a minister and a rabbit walked into a coffee bar and sat down. The bartender said to the priest, ""What will you have?" The priest said, "I will have a mocha latte." The bartender said to the minister, "What will you have?" The minister said, "I will have a cappuccino." The bartender said to the rabbit, "And what will you have?" The rabbit said, "I have no idea. I'm just here because of the autocorrect."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (FUVRY)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (L6rHB)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (MF3yS)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:18 PM (UuD2k)
As the great Brian Setzer sang.... I was born in 59...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhuEeMxuec
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (FUVRY)
I don't got if.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (UuD2k)
It also had the black bumble bee stripe on the front but no rs or ss badges. I'm guessing they were doing all they could to stay with Mustangs and 'Cudas
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (DB6tu)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
One of my favorite Bible stories is from Genesis 34 when the Israelites attacked and massacred everyone when they were still sore from having been circumcised.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 29, 2023 05:21 PM (FVME7)
The last 20 years have been absolute sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 29, 2023 05:21 PM (up/3i)
It also had the black bumble bee stripe on the front but no rs or ss badges. I'm guessing they were doing all they could to stay with Mustangs and 'Cudas
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (DB6tu)
They lied through their teeth on hp in those days, but it was still better than what came later.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (UuD2k)
*hops on Big Wheel*
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (L6rHB)
Ditto, just hit that half c note bench mark last month.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: McLurkerson at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (wNDOJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The genesis of the phrase "a dick move"?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (zZu0s)
I was 28 in '77.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (OgrpQ)
No shit? So did I. What day?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (L6rHB)
Dude is so upset he cuts her bodies up into pieces and whips them to each of the tribes of Israel to show them how messed up they are.
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:22 PM (UuD2k)
The IROC Z had what, 150HP?
I went to school with guys who had 440 Cudas with sixpacks.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 05:19 PM (zZu0s)
Atwater High School... Class of 77...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (L6rHB)
Feb 5th
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:24 PM (OgrpQ)
https://bit.ly/3lLkfFL"
*snort* I bet the Moscow Police are regretting their Stickergate misconduct now.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 29, 2023 05:24 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2023 05:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:23 PM (L6rHB)
Feb 5th
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:24 PM (OgrpQ)
7th. I'll get off your lawn.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:25 PM (L6rHB)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2023 05:20 PM (UuD2k)
a priest, a minister and a
Posted by: i hate autocorrect at March 29, 2023 05:25 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2023 05:25 PM (L6rHB)
*Fistbump*
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 29, 2023 05:26 PM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 05:27 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2023 05:28 PM (xhxe8)
It would enrage the public and they need enraging.
Posted by: torabora at March 29, 2023 05:28 PM (UI37A)
On Monday, Disney started to eliminate 7,000 jobs
'Snowbird season' is the period every late fall until early spring when FL sees an influx of folks from the NE and Canada. Like "Black Friday' to merchants who limp by every year until the approach of Christmas, the fact that Disney is eliminating jobs at the end of 'Snowbird season' is a big tell. They took a hit and can't carry peeps in the ensuing months. F em.
Get woke, go thoroughly broke. DGAS.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 29, 2023 05:30 PM (enJYY)
==
Best Christmas present of all time Major Matt Mason, Space Station.
I was completely and utterly gobsmacked.
Posted by: 9 years old at March 29, 2023 05:36 PM (V625M)
Fun fact. The rental car company Enterprise was started by some of the men who served on the carrier Enterprise.
I think the company financed a series of animated and actual videos of the USS Enterprise. Go to "Battle 360" to see them.
Posted by: DanMan at March 29, 2023 05:04 PM (DB6tu)
Saratoga also managed to survive the war along with Enterprise, surprising since it was such a torpedo magnet in the early going.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 06:23 PM (eoQWY)
From Wiki (I know but I needed a quick resource):
On November 30, 2001, Perlmutter became vice chairman of Marvel.[12][4] He became the chief executive officer of Marvel Comics on January 1, 2005. He remained CEO of Marvel Entertainment, even after the acquisition of Marvel by The Walt Disney Company on December 31, 2009. Although Perlmutter received $800 million in cash and $590 million in Disney stock after the acquisition, he did not want a seat on Disney's board of directors.[13]
Guy is a BILLIONAIRE (with a B), but looks like he was Marvel, before Disney corrupted it.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at March 29, 2023 06:25 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 29, 2023 06:26 PM (d0uT7)
Posted by: Oldcat at March 29, 2023 06:23 PM (eoQWY)
I loved studying the WW2 Pacific Theater!!!
Did a Middle School paper on Midway and how Doolittle's Raid and Coral Sea actually set the conditions for victory. I know, most historians take the same approach, but hey, I was 12 at the time I wrote the paper....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at March 29, 2023 06:32 PM (e/Osv)
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