THE MORNING RANT: Corporations Opened the Door to Evil When They Started Trying to Be On the Side of “Good”

It may seem hard to believe, with corporate America so aggressive in advocating for divisive social issues, but corporations used to generally prohibit advocacy in the workplace for any cause that was unrelated to the operations of its business.

Unfortunately, corporate America no longer knows how to decline involvement in social issues. Instead, they feel they must weigh in, but there’s only one side that the left’s mob of outrage warriors will allow. So corporate America, which feels it must take a stand in favor of that which is “good,” has joined in advocacy for the left’s agenda.

My career started in the late ‘80s for a division of a very prominent corporation. Any political advocacy, promotion of good causes, fund raising for worthy charities, etc. was strictly prohibited in the office.

In my first supervisory role when I was still in my mid-20s, I occasionally had to pull employees aside and counsel them that they could not engage in activities such as selling raffle tickets or band candy in the office. I once instructed an employee to take down a poster in the break room promoting her church’s Fall Festival.

The only charity that was allowed to be promoted in the office was United Way, which had the official endorsement of the company (for better or worse), but we wouldn’t even allow employees to pass around pledge sheets to support them in charity runs for causes such as cancer or heart disease. Employees were welcome to do that in their own time and outside of the office.

It seemed kind of draconian to me at the time, and I was sometimes embarrassed telling my subordinates (who were usually older than me) that although their intentions were commendable, they could not promote their worthwhile causes in the office. I understand now how important it was to remain steadfast in barring such activities in the workplace, even if they were for “good causes.”

How could there be anything wrong with encouraging employees to support fundraising efforts to battle cancer, or heart disease, or AIDS? And why not use company time and resources for these worthwhile causes?

The answer is because that is how slopes become slippery. It was a straight line from raising employees’ awareness about AIDS to mandating that employees disclose their gender pronouns in email signatures.

Not wanting to be seen as bigoted, corporations started becoming very active in supporting organizations involved in “good” causes, especially those that affect women and identity groups. Thus, battling AIDS and breast cancer became workplace priorities. Don’t misunderstand, these are worthwhile causes, but once the barn door was opened, corporate America could not say “No” to any “worthy” cause. And since the far left gets to determine what is worthy and good, we now have major corporations promoting cross-dressing in the office and compelling certain disfavored employee demographics to submit to dehumanizing struggle sessions.

The left’s march through the institutions involved so much more than this topic of course, but when corporate America forfeited the right to say “No” to good causes, it opened the door to having to say “Yes” to every left wing pathology.

Be it the Bud Light debacle with Dylan Mulvaney, or the Los Angeles Dodgers’ “Pride Night” debacle (which will feature cross-dressers named the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” mocking Catholics, with the support and endorsement of the Dodgers), these companies would have been so much better off if they had a policy of focusing only on beer and baseball, and leaving social issues to others.

If the woke backlash that destroyed Bud Light can take down a few more major corporate brands (hello Target), perhaps corporate America will be incentivized to start saying “No” again to all advocacy.

Charity and compassion begin at home. Leave it out of the workplace.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hi

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 26, 2023 11:01 AM (vg8N1)

2 oh, could have been first. started to read the content

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 26, 2023 11:01 AM (nXhwP)

3 Biggest put down of 2023 - "Did you buy that Bud Light at Target?"

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 26, 2023 11:01 AM (OgrpQ)

4 Buck, you interrupted our discussion of Early Christian heresies *checks notes* boobs and craftsman warranties.

I think the corps are persuing the plan to be the last eaten by the alligator. They have to jump. Their HR depts are calling the tune- they just dance to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:01 AM (zZu0s)

5 As re reversal of this in the corps. Nevah gonna happen.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 26, 2023 11:01 AM (KiBMU)

6 When I started it was the damn United Way. Everybody can do such and such on Fridays ... but ONLY if everybody gives X to the United Way.

So I refused.

Food bank drives, boy scouts, the bosses snot nose kids candy bars, blah blah blah. It never ended.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:02 AM (4ixcl)

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Food bank drives, boy scouts, the bosses snot nose kids candy bars, blah blah blah. It never ended.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:02 AM (4ixcl)

Now they are asking for tips at self checkout.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 26, 2023 11:03 AM (OgrpQ)

8 I’m suspicious of all “charities” now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:04 AM (z3VQk)

9 Food bank drives, boy scouts, the bosses snot nose kids candy bars, blah blah blah. It never ended.
Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:02 AM (4ixcl)

How else ya gonna send your kid to Band Camp?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2023 11:04 AM (YGqO/)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

11 "Charity and compassion begin at home. Leave it out of the workplace."

Absolutely! And I will go one better...get rid of the execrable United Way campaigns in so many corporations. I had to deal with that for many years, and I despised the pressure to give, and the monumental waste of time.

If a corporation wants to virtue signal, then simply provide a system to match employee donations to the charity of their choice, up to some reasonable amount.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 11:05 AM (ZCCyW)

12 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (Wnv9h)

13 Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity. Some people's theology is really, really wrong.

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (jzzG8)

14 United Way. And blood drives. They used to allow those. Nothing else.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (RXK1o)

15 Fortunately, my office is in the basement of the campus library. Few people know where to find us and there's few of us in the office to bother. So we are NOT a good source for charity funding...

We do get the occasional fraternity/sorority/student org asking us to post a flyer in our office, which is fine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (YIVH2)

16 8 I’m suspicious of all “charities” now.
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That and all Churches, Temples and Synagogues. Weaponizing Religion via a thousand points of light was both stupid and evil.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM (uia9V)

17 Willowed reply to RMBS in art thread below.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend, all.

Posted by: LadyS at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM (oq25h)

18 Keep reading there are major backers which push Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM (v7VqK)

19 I’m suspicious of all “charities” now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:04 AM (z3VQk)

They start out as causes, evolve into businesses and end up as grifts.

Except BLM. It aways always a grift.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM (s12c9)

20 ... these companies would have been so much better off if they had a policy of focusing only on beer and baseball, and leaving social issues to others.
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They can't. The personalities involved won't permit it. There is a real problem problem of expectation and ambition. I'm a Dread Millennial. I don't know about growing up in X generation, but in mine, activism is *the* badge of moral courage. It's never said directly (or it wasn't when I was in school and the like), but it was implied in all things. To be good, you *must* "fight for what's right" in all contexts. And what's right is, of course, what's left.

"We're here to make money" is downright hateful. It's narrow. It's backwards. It's limiting. It's wrong. We're here not (just) to make money, we're here to Change The World (tm). When activism (especially left activism) is your fundamental moral precept, then you *must* pursue it and drag the non-believers along if needed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM (DU+/6)

21 I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend !

Posted by: JT at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (T4tVD)

22 Charity and compassion begin at home. Leave it out of the workplace.

It is for this reason that I never give anything to the cashiers at the local grocery store when they ask if I'd like to donate to cause X. If I want to give, I'll let you know. I intensely dislike the social pressure to give, just as with the implied need to tip every damn person that hands me a cup of coffee.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

23 Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity. Some people's theology is really, really wrong.
Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (jzzG

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Charity, by definition, is a GIFT.

Taxes are, again by definition, forceful collection by the government or else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)

24 My best diversity commercial is the suntan lotion commercial prominently featuring black actors.

Yes I know it’s ‘sun screen’ and everyone should consider using but I still think it’s funny.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (MNhXM)

25 I work for a very large, very woke corporation. High level execs push the BS constantly, but I don’t think most employees are buying it… I was privy to some recent employee survey results and the comments made were devastating to woke. These brave employees openly badged DEI and ESG and any focus on anything other than designing and building great products. To me this shows it’s not organic; it’s being pushed from the top…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (xT8gx)

26 If the woke backlash that destroyed Bud Light can take down a few more major corporate brands (hello Target), perhaps corporate America will be incentivized to start saying “No” again to all advocacy.
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Time will tell. I don't think we're there yet, but we'll see. Companies like Target stating plainly that they're afraid of a "Bud Light scenario" is a potentially good sign.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (DU+/6)

27 Willowed reply to RMBS in art thread below.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend, all.
Posted by: LadyS at May 26, 2023 11:07 AM

*fistbump*

Bummer about the MoMe, but we'll see you Sunday then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2023 11:09 AM (Wnv9h)

28 Although, I would be open to a charity to buy Buck a monkey.

Support the Monkey for Buck Drive today!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:09 AM (z3VQk)

29 Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity. Some people's theology is really, really wrong.
Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (jzzG

***

Daughter of Diogenes #1 living in Texas just found out her property charity doubled over last year. She is not happy.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2023 11:09 AM (YGqO/)

30 I'm a Dread Millennial. I don't know about growing up in X generation, but in mine, activism is *the* badge of moral courage.

Millennials did not exist in the workplace when I started in the 90s. Yet all the previously mentioned bullshit was already there. Now pray tell - what generations started it ?

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (4ixcl)

31 Feds are subjected to literally 3 months of begging for their version of the United Way, the United Federal Campaign. I never gave them a penny.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (eOEVl)

32 Celebrate Pride!
Celebrate your identity!
Put your child in one of our gender fluid bathing suits!!!

[Outrage commences, stock drops]

Let's talk about St. George Floyd!

Posted by: Target at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (i7Q7S)

33 BTW, the first trans officer in the United States Army is a traitor:

Tuesday was day one of the federal criminal trial for two Maryland doctors accused of sharing protected medical information with Russia. Dr. Anna Gabrielian and her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, both of Rockville, were indicted in September 2022 on allegations they illegally shared private information with the Russian government. Gabrielian is an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Henry is an Army major with secret security clearance who worked at Fort Bragg and Walter Reed Hospital.
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Henry publicly came out as transgender in 2015 and was reported as the first known active-duty Army officer to be openly trans.

Why on earth do we continue to give security clearances to perverts?

Weird that this trial isn't getting more publicity.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (2tUFv)

34 Agree but 'for better or worse' the United Way is a just another 'charity' scam.
Over 17% gets cut by the UW and then when the money is given to other 'charities' that take their cuts as well.
The strong-arm tactics used by Motorola (it is gone so I'll name it) were used to set the managers bonuses so the rank and file were pressured to set up automatic withdrawals from paychecks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (aicAN)

35 25 - bashed DEI…. Good grief I hate autocucumber

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (xT8gx)

36 Now they are asking for tips at self checkout.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 26, 2023 11:03 AM (OgrpQ)

And some stores (Savers) have eliminated all checkouts except self-checkouts. They have two employees near the self-checkout to gossip loudly until something inevitably gets screwed up and they suddenly invade your personal space (The 'Vid was the rationale for this idiocy) to "help." No, I won't be back.

Posted by: Catherine at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (ZSsrh)

37 Chick Fil A chose to bend the knee and not donate to the Christian based charities they had been doing so since they were founded. This after the conservatives saved their ass by doing an anti boycott campaign.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (MNhXM)

38 Target Bud Lighted themselves when they started allowing dudes to use the womens rest rooms. I haven't darkened their doors since. So it could be argued that Bud Light Targeted themselves.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (flINI)

39 Feds are subjected to literally 3 months of begging for their version of the United Way, the United Federal Campaign. I never gave them a penny.

Correction: it's the Combined Federal Campaign.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (eOEVl)

40 I would suggest that people look at who is running these companies and who populates their upper management. These people are true believers who were indoctrinated in business school by the Marxists there who instructed them it is their duty as advanced, smarter than the general public educated humans , to lead the masses out of their darkness into progressive thought and deeds.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (+utO+)

41 there's going to need to be a lot of corporate carnage before anything changes. But I think Target is in more trouble than is widely recognized; it's not just the consumer backlash, it's that they just admitted that they lost $1.2 BILLION to theft last year. That's only going to increase unless they start slashing stores fast, but that will also lead to losses. In short - I think Target Corp is in serious trouble.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (i9ffA)

42 I’m suspicious of all “charities” now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:04 AM (z3VQk)
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As you should be. There is one kind of charitable giving I actually really like: "meals on wheels" programs for the elderly and shut-ins. Those are programs I like and want to support.

In my new locale, though, I refuse to give to it. Why? It's a county-affiliated program that is super-woke. They can't be satisfied just providing meals to old people, they have to pursue "equity" and prioritize based on things like race and sex. Old white men who need meals are below old black women who need meals. I refuse to support something like that. The local charity is quite efficient (they aren't just robbing the treasury) and they *do* do the work, but their mission is now so perverted that I decided that I won't help them with it.

There are some churches with food banks that don't play those games, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (DU+/6)

43 Basic training: "Everyone who doesn't want to support Army Emergency Relief, step forward."

I didn't move an inch.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (sWM8x)

44 13 Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity. Some people's theology is really, really wrong.
Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM (jzzG

IIRC, and this is very dimly remembered, but around say 80AD or so, the 'Jewish Wars' in the Holy Land were based around a couple of things.

1) Roman Occupation
2) The... high ups in the Judaic Church were taking tithes over and above the regular roman tax collection.
3) Some emperor (Think it was Caligula?) seized the monies held in tithe by the leaders and the leaders allowed the seizure.

So, they were not just revolts/wars against occupation, but also revolts against the collaborating, useless assholes of the (keep wanting to say 'Church') Hierarchy.

Sound familiar?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (zZu0s)

45 I'm a little split on this issue. In our company we allow non-political charitable solicitations, like band candy sales or church back-to-school supply money-raisers, and our employees are very careful to keep it very moderate. But if someone came in to my office and made a big deal of it I guess our only choice would be to adopt the Throckmorten Principle. Until then, though...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (tha2E)

46 And remember...no matter how much you cater to the l
Left, at some point you will fall short and be punished.

shop at amazon or even walmart instead of target. amazon and walmart are evil, but target needs to pay a price for their cowardly decision on pride merchandise. they decided that caving to right wing extremists is a good business move, and need to pay a heavy price for their cowardliness.

Target is the victim. they were forced to do this because of terrorist threats. i can't blame them for that. Those responsible should be hunted down and jailed.

i guess its time for the LGBTQ cominuty to start disrupting evangelical church services and threaten the attendees. then the church will have an obligation to stop pushing an anti LGBTQ agenda.

necessary of 2 evils . when u r lo income u need to make a chice . sorry for just letters for some words , fingers aint working right this pm.i am tired of the rs pulling weight in this country. and it is a noizy few.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)

47 27. Looking very much forward to seeing you, RMBS, and RMBSMom also, I hope! Hate to miss the MoMe this year. I know it’ll be great as usual.

Posted by: LadyS at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (oq25h)

48 Now do cookies sold by an in-your-face grrrrlll power organization.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM (DhOHl)

49 The CFO at one of the companies where I worked nearly had a heart attack when he found out there was an office NCAA basketball tournament betting pool going on. He shut it down real quick, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM (z3VQk)

50 By the way, LegalInsurrection reports that DHS has decided to adopt Antifa rhetoric as the official policy of the United States government.

A program for higher education, funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security, links Republicans and conservative Christians to Nazis.

These are taxpayer dollars, made available through an anti-terrorism program.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM (tha2E)

51 Chick Fil A chose to bend the knee and not donate to the Christian based charities they had been doing so since they were founded. This after the conservatives saved their ass by doing an anti boycott campaign.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (MNhXM)
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Their sammiches suck anyway.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM (YGqO/)

52 44 13 Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity. Some people's theology is really, really wrong.
Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:06 AM

Do some Disadvantaged Yute jacking his car is also charity?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM (i9ffA)

53 Hundreds of years ago, I worked for a natural gas utility. There was the annual drive to donate to United Way. I went along my 1st year, to 'get along'. Later I found out about some of the lefty causes I was 'supporting' with my donation, and opted out.

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM (geLO8)

54 Savings bonds!

Posted by: Back in the day at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM (DhOHl)

55 Joe Mannix, it started before Gen X. I kinda wanna blame the boomers, even though my early Boomer parents did not like any of this. I entered the corporate world in 1998 and this shit was already everywhere.

Posted by: Catherine at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM (ZSsrh)

56 Give locally. Give to people you know and can trust. Give PERSONALLY, not through work or as part of a commercial transaction. (And strongly consider giving in the form of useful goods or volunteering, so you know you're not just paying for someone's second or third house.)

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM (OUMaO)

57 There was a time when the prevailing theory was that reality would not bend to the whim of these petulant children.

Then the petulant children became petulant adults, refused to acknowledge reality and instead decided to pervert every facet of life to satisfy their own insanity.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 26, 2023 11:15 AM (KbCG3)

58 53 Hundreds of years ago, I worked for a natural gas utility. There was the annual drive to donate to United Way. I went along my 1st year, to 'get along'. Later I found out about some of the lefty causes I was 'supporting' with my donation, and opted out.
Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM (geLO

They had natural gas 200 years ago? (when did gas lamps start London?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:15 AM (zZu0s)

59 Their sammiches suck anyway.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2023 11:13 AM

I never did get around to trying a peach hate shake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 26, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

60 My career started in the late ‘80s for a division of a very prominent corporation. Any political advocacy, promotion of good causes, fund raising for worthy charities, etc. was strictly prohibited in the office.
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Early in my career (in '89), I hired on as a software developer for a large California bank. Does everybody else remember the "United Way" campaigns? Ugh ...

So, the corporate blackmail was this: if everybody in a division donated a minimum of $X (don't recall the amount, maybe $100?), then everybody would earn an extra Paid Day Off. I mean, who wouldn't take that sweet deal so you had bragging rights of "unanimous VOLUNTARY participation?"

This was great: there was one bitch in the group whom everybody hated (happened to be from China, and would refuse to cooperate with people on any project as she had specialized silo knowledge, refused to share it -- giving her some form of power & value).

Anyway, here's the rub: she was the only one who REFUSED to participate and didn't give a f*ck, probably because she was already hated, and I had to admit having a perverse grudging admiration and respect for her after that.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 11:15 AM (sJSOG)

61 "Had some self-righteous prick on twitter awhile ago try to argue that governments taking taxes was charity"

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So his charity is having ICBM's and assassinating jihadi's?

Nobody will ever accuse leftists of practicing logic.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (i7Q7S)

62 And with the full Democrats Propaganda Ministry pushing woke , corporations are blinded thinking everyone is woke now

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (v7VqK)

63 Give locally. Give to people you know and can trust. Give PERSONALLY, not through work or as part of a commercial transaction.

Good advice. Pretty much everyone knows someone who's going through a rough patch, often not one of their own making.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (eOEVl)

64 At one company I worked they would hound you if you didn't have a payroll deduction for United Way. Saying there wasn't a non-profit you wanted to give to didn't matter. The hounding only stopped when I would ask what percentage of the managers bonuses was tied to participation rates.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (8vzCZ)

65 I'm no legal expert, but can't shareholders sue CEOs who steer a company in the wrong direction?

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (geLO8)

66 Huh! 1807 for gas lamps. Pall Mall, London.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (zZu0s)

67 I learned a "new" term this week...new, because I haven't been paying attention...."Social Contagion".

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (AwYPR)

68 I remember during my working years getting a half day off work if you gave blood after lunch break.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (MeG8a)

69 Joe Mannix, it started before Gen X. I kinda wanna blame the boomers, even though my early Boomer parents did not like any of this. I entered the corporate world in 1998 and this shit was already everywhere.

I'm Gen X - when I started working in the 90s, there wasn't a soul in charge under 45.

This crap, like much crap, started with Silents and Boomers.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (4ixcl)

70 ... But I think Target is in more trouble than is widely recognized; it's not just the consumer backlash, it's that they just admitted that they lost $1.2 BILLION to theft last year. That's only going to increase unless they start slashing stores fast, but that will also lead to losses. In short - I think Target Corp is in serious trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 11:11 AM (i9ffA)
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Target is a woke company. It supports woke causes. It gives vast sums of money to leftist organizations and politicians. It flogs every available leftist narrative in its stores. They relish in their wokeness. It works for them. AWFLs love Target. It's their "safe space."

But Target is also bleeding out because of the crime-is-legal policies it supports so vocally. They're losing staggering sums to theft, and Target is heavily dependent on urban areas. Get outside of the suburbs and there are damn few Targets.

Any new consumer backlash will be minor, but I think they fear that it might be the last straw this time instead of a nothingburger that actually strengthens the brand with its core demo of AWFLs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (DU+/6)

71 My best diversity commercial is the suntan lotion commercial prominently featuring black actors.

Yes I know it’s ‘sun screen’ and everyone should consider using but I still think it’s funny.
Posted by: polynikes

I had to treat guys in the USN who didn't believe they could get a sunburn.
They didn't believe my warnings; but, the sun's intensity is a little stronger near the South China Sea.
The funny part was when they came to sickbay and complained of hurting and I had to show them they were just sunburnt. "Stay out of the sun and maybe go self medicate with aspirin and alcohol".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (aicAN)

72 The only charity that was allowed to be promoted in the office was United Way ...

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Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnd Buck steals my thunder because I didn't read the entire post first.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (sJSOG)

73 Story at the Federalist asking Chip and Joanna Gaines why they are silent regarding Target and if they are going to remove their product line from there. Apparently Joanna has turned off her instagram comments because so many people were chirping at them regarding Target.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (+utO+)

74 I'm no legal expert, but can't shareholders sue CEOs who steer a company in the wrong direction?
Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (geLO

They can sue, but they will almost always lose.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (s12c9)

75 “Social Contagion”

Gonorrhea?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (z3VQk)

76 O/T,

AHAHA...

I've got the Golf Channel on in the background. It's some silly European event.

I've heard more F Bombs today, than I've ever heard. The poor announcers have been apologizing all morning long

*** thwack...mothefucker / We do apologize for the unsavory language after that unfortunate shot***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (CCSxw)

77 Oh I think it started prior to the corporations. It started with higher education. Corps are staffed will college grads, their minds were poisoned in college and they carried that mindset with them into the corporate world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

78 The only charity that was allowed to be promoted in the office was United Way, which had the official endorsement of the company (for better or worse), but we wouldn’t even allow employees to pass around pledge sheets to support them in charity runs for causes such as cancer or heart disease. Employees were welcome to do that in their own time and outside of the office.

My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

79 They will be the arm of the antichrist. Making sure everyone falls in line. Hardly any ma&pa's business anymore. Believe it

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (ytSiK)

80 I have chosen 4 charitable organizations I give to. You can’t try to give to everyone like my kind hearted mother who wrote out so many $10 and $15 dollar checks that she had to order new checks every 3 months.

I’m still getting solicitations and free gifts from all those charities . I don’t know how they got my address because it wasn’t used as my mom’s mailing address until after I moved her to the retirement home. They are relentless.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (MNhXM)

81 I remember during my working years getting a half day off work if you gave blood after lunch break.

Which means:
1) someone else had to do your work, or
2) you had to do the work on your remaining days, or
3) your work didn't really need doing.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (eOEVl)

82 >They had natural gas 200 years ago? (when did gas lamps start London?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

fun fact: the company I worked for was created by an act of Congress, and its first task was providing gas lighting (cue the jokes) in the Capitol building.

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (geLO8)

83 Any new consumer backlash will be minor, but I think they fear that it might be the last straw this time instead of a nothingburger that actually strengthens the brand with its core demo of AWFLs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (DU+/6)
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Is the core demo of AWFLs growing, shrinking, or stagnant? If it's the latter two, it could be difficult for Target to recover from this if it goes on too long.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (YIVH2)

84 And then there's the company's political action committee...

Posted by: Another not so subtle pressure at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (DhOHl)

85 Dude, conservatives lost the battle way back in the 90s when corporations incorporated “stakeholder” issues in corporate governance.

Every problem stems from corporations trying to satisfy supposed stakeholders instead of basic fiduciary responsibility towards shareholders.

As this has been going on for 30 years there pretty much isn’t any turning back outside a complete decades long economic depression.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (VpRzs)

86
Gonorrhea?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (z3VQk)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/7KNQFGU1qj0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

87 > "Social Contagion" = leftism.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (Q4IgG)

88 Back in the day I used to direct my UW contribution to the local Boy Scout troop. The UW still took a piece that would make Il Mano Negro blush.

Posted by: Regular joe at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (nnp+f)

89 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.

People don't like being emotionally and socially blackmailed.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (eOEVl)

90 shop at amazon or even walmart instead of target. amazon and walmart are evil, but target needs to pay a price for their cowardly decision on pride merchandise. they decided that caving to right wing extremists is a good business move, and need to pay a heavy price for their cowardliness. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)
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Do. Not. Pay. The. Danegeld.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (DU+/6)

91 AHAHA...

I've got the Golf Channel on in the background. It's some silly European event.

I've heard more F Bombs today, than I've ever heard. The poor announcers have been apologizing all morning long

*** thwack...mothefucker / We do apologize for the unsavory language after that unfortunate shot***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (CCSxw)

Husband watched last weekend, and they actually had to mute the mikes of the guys walking back after it was over, because of all the swearing.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (DRSnL)

92 Anyway, here's the rub: she was the only one who REFUSED to participate and didn't give a f*ck, probably because she was already hated, and I had to admit having a perverse grudging admiration and respect for her after that.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 11:15 AM (sJSOG)

Was she hot?

Posted by: typical one-track-mind Moron at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (ivvNA)

93 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

I think the united way gave a lot of their proceeds to planned parenthood. That’s why I never did the employee donation.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (MNhXM)

94 I once argued with my sister that something or other would cause a "backlash" against trans people. I finally got her to agree. But then she said...backlashes are good. It all still settles out farther ahead.

No, they're not good. Having gender dysphoria is hard. Telling people WITH gender dysphoria that everyone wants them dead, that "woman" can not be defined, that there are 63 genders, that a woman-penis is completely different from a man-penis and if you complain at seeing one you're a bigot...none of these things help and all of them HURT.

There's always been room in society for the weirdo or eccentric. Just don't demand that everyone pretend they AREN'T a weirdo and aren't eccentric, or that they don't have a (very real) mental disorder. And don't tell kids they can be what they feel like. We don't live in a Heinlein future where a person can EFFECTIVELY change from a man to a woman or back again. Medicine is not there, or even close. Tell kids that they can be and like whatever they want *in their body*. I can't be tall, no matter how anguished being short made my teen years. Tell kids that puberty is often hell, but it's a hell everyone experiences.

Posted by: Synova at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (BD/yx)

95 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM

Years of getting pennies instead of candy for Halloween. Never forgive. Never forget.

Posted by: Grandpa Sponge at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (NCgXW)

96 When I worked on Wall St I was a Democrat and everyone knew it and mocked me relentlessly. Especially about my work for Mondale.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 11:21 AM (dS722)

97 Absolutely! And I will go one better...get rid of the execrable United Way campaigns in so many corporations. I had to deal with that for many years, and I despised the pressure to give, and the monumental waste of time.

If a corporation wants to virtue signal, then simply provide a system to match employee donations to the charity of their choice, up to some reasonable amount.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 11:05 AM (ZCCyW)

The one I loathe is "would you like to give BigCorp money as part of your purchase to donate on your behalf?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2023 11:21 AM (z99Zw)

98 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.

I hate them all. Truly. I'm here to work. I am not here to socialize or join a cause. I am not here meet everyone for a 5K run or plane pull on my time off. My time off, like my gal in Inglorious Bastards, is spent smoking and drinking and ordering in restaurants.

I have noticed this shit, although bad when I started, got exponentially worse as more women got in charge.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:22 AM (4ixcl)

99 I think the united way gave a lot of their proceeds to planned parenthood. That’s why I never did the employee donation.

The CFC I mentioned earlier had lots of black-only recipients. If I want to support racism, there's always the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:22 AM (eOEVl)

100 Is the core demo of AWFLs growing, shrinking, or stagnant? If it's the latter two, it could be difficult for Target to recover from this if it goes on too long.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (YIVH2)
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No idea. I am sure Target's executives know, though, and my guess is that it isn't good news.

They're probably going to have to start closing stores soon, and the stores they close are going to be in the worst areas. Target is going to take it up the poop chute for daring to contribute to "retail deserts."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

101 Businesses who based their ethics on Judeo-Christian did fine, the problem is they swapped their religion, their basis for ethics to wokeness and its a disaster.

Eliminate ESG and straighten up the banks to focus on good business rather than woke encouragement, and things would turn around very quickly.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (0hOvj)

102 Story at the Federalist asking Chip and Joanna Gaines why they are silent regarding Target and if they are going to remove their product line from there. Apparently Joanna has turned off her instagram comments because so many people were chirping at them regarding Target.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 26, 2023 11:18 AM (+utO+)

Oh eff them anyway. They were just at the White House for Asian month or whatever.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (DRSnL)

103 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (DRSnL)

The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)

104 Oh is it time for the Boomer/ Non Boomer slug fest again? I well remember which poster really enjoyed that. He’s baaaaack. LOL. Have a good afternoon, folks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (5SZ5G)

105 Gonorrhea? Oh, you mean the tractor story.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (DhOHl)

106 Oh yeah- UNICEF- I forgot about those assholes. In elementary school they gave us those little collection cartons to take around with us when trick-or-treating.

I think UNICEF and United Way are really just union dues, re-branded.

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (geLO8)

107 The CFO at one of the companies where I worked nearly had a heart attack when he found out there was an office NCAA basketball tournament betting pool going on. He shut it down real quick, IIRC.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

...

Just go talk about it in the parking lot.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (RXK1o)

108 96 Mondale? I fart in your general direction.

Posted by: Regular joe at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (nnp+f)

109 And then there's the company's political action committee...
Posted by: Another not so subtle pressure at May 26, 2023 11:19 AM (DhOHl)
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Ugh. My company formed a PAC a little while back. I do keep track of what it does.

Not a lot of social stuff, but all-in on anticompetitive fascist crap. Before you sarcastically say, "Well gee whiz, that's shocking," know that it actually is. I'm astounded that it isn't also lobbying for mandatory transing for all children.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (DU+/6)

110 ... these companies would have been so much better off if they had a policy of focusing only on beer and baseball, and leaving social issues to others.

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Out: Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.
In: #Woke beer, tranny dicks, cockroaches, and No More Cars.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (sJSOG)

111 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.
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Fuck Danny Kaye and UNICEF. We had to tote those milk boxes and beg on the one night we were supposed to have fun. What a fuck stick.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM (uia9V)

112 Husband watched last weekend, and they actually had to mute the mikes of the guys walking back after it was over, because of all the swearing.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM (DRSnL)

I can understand that on the US tour, and swearing is getting more notice due to cell phones and social media.

But it's really funny to hear swearing in English on the European tour.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (CCSxw)

113

Target Corporation (TGT)
139.30 -1.45 (-1.03%)
As of 11:25AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (aD39U)

114 Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (2tUFv)

Should have sold out to China rather than Russia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (z99Zw)

115 When I worked on Wall St I was a Democrat and everyone knew it and mocked me relentlessly. Especially about my work for Mondale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 11:21 AM (dS722)

I assume in good humor. You were the only Dem on Wall Street?

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (MNhXM)

116 Was it UNICEF that sold the Christmas seals?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (z3VQk)

117 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)
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Yeah, Koepka's an ass.

Posted by: WisRich at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

118 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 26, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)
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Do. Not. Pay. The. Danegeld.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:20 AM

Don't know about no Danegeld, and fuck dem homos....but you'll pay your BlacksTaxation or have your company destroyed under false claims of racism.

Posted by: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Benjamin Crump, and the rest of Black Grievance Inc at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (NCgXW)

119 March of Dimes always came around too.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (RXK1o)

120 *got exponentially worse as more women got in charge.*

Bigly.

Posted by: You noticed? at May 26, 2023 11:26 AM (DhOHl)

121 My grandfather hated the United Way.....Don't remember why. I think he disliked UNICEF as well.
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Fuck Danny Kaye and UNICEF. We had to tote those milk boxes and beg on the one night we were supposed to have fun. What a fuck stick.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:24 AM

Trick or Treat for UNICEF! That sucked.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2023 11:26 AM (ncXxy)

122 Oh yeah- UNICEF- I forgot about those assholes.

The school mandated fundraisers. Hated them as a kid. You're just sending me out to shake my family down for money. I knew it in elementary school. My kin were poor. They could not afford that shit.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:26 AM (4ixcl)

123 I give my dad a lot of credit - when I was quite young, I remember him telling me that if you gave money to UNICEF you were just buying bullets for the arabs to kill Jews with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM (i9ffA)

124 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)

No shit?
What the fuck's wrong with him?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM (xcxpd)

125 96 When I worked on Wall St I was a Democrat and everyone knew it and mocked me relentlessly. Especially about my work for Mondale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 11:21 AM (dS722)

'...Made Walter Mondale look like William the Conqueror. *laughs* How about that Mondale, huh? What an ass kicking that was. *laughs* All I know is that when I went to bed, he only had three more electoral votes than I did- and I didn't even fucking run!'
-Dennis Miller

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (zZu0s)

126 117 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)
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Yeah, Koepka's an ass.
Posted by: WisRich at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

Yeah, but he can play. Makes up for a multitude of sins if you can walk the walk...

That, and he doesn't hide from who he is...unlike Red Light Phil.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (CCSxw)

127
All this can be encapsulated by the simple phrase "go woke, then comes broke."

Examples show this occurs every time.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (KATBx)

128 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)

———

It’s Idiocracy. But I throw out F bombs all the time too.

Eventually the socially preferred homos and transsexuals will just start referring to all biological women as c**ts and that term will be used frequently.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (VpRzs)

129 Jerry's kids.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms Remembers at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (DhOHl)

130 No shit?
What the fuck's wrong with him?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM (xcxpd)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:29 AM (DRSnL)

131 But Target is also bleeding out because of the crime-is-legal policies it supports so vocally. They're losing staggering sums to theft, and Target is heavily dependent on urban areas. Get outside of the suburbs and there are damn few Targets.

Any new consumer backlash will be minor, but I think they fear that it might be the last straw this time instead of a nothingburger that actually strengthens the brand with its core demo of AWFLs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:17 AM (DU+/6)

There's an aspect of this worth considering, which is that IF Targay collapses, and IF it's not entirely due to Woke, people should shout it to the rooftops, that Woke cause it.

Why? Psychological warfare. Let the straights, the common riffraff think Woke is costing corps their business, even if it's more complicated than that.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:29 AM (Wd6fZ)

132 123 I give my dad a lot of credit - when I was quite young, I remember him telling me that if you gave money to UNICEF you were just buying bullets for the arabs to kill Jews with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM

So...you made sure to donate more every year, right? Support freedom fighters and end the evil Zionist apartheid state!

Posted by: US Democrat and British Labor party, totally not antisemitic at May 26, 2023 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

133 The school mandated fundraisers. Hated them as a kid. You're just sending me out to shake my family down for money. I knew it in elementary school. My kin were poor. They could not afford that shit.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:26 AM (4ixcl)

Candy, magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper wtf?

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (AwYPR)

134 100
They're probably going to have to start closing stores soon, and the stores they close are going to be in the worst areas. Target is going to take it up the poop chute for daring to contribute to "retail deserts."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

This isn't the first time Target has been the focus of a boycott. Recall 2020 when they said it was OK for boys to enter girls bathrooms. And they weathered that storm. The execs are sitting back, albeit nervously, but knowing they'll get through this. Plus, the Target demographic is different than Bud Light.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (N39Ws)

135 When I started working after college, my boss gave me the thankless task of going to my fellow salaried coworkers and hitting them up to donate to the United Way. I had a list of everyone and their payroll percentages they signed up for.
Being in a steel mill, with mill employees, I learned a LOT of new words and figures of speech contained in their responses.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (ufFY8)

136 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.

That shit is out of line. He needs to tighten that the fuck up.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (4ixcl)

137 Hear! Hear!

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (GshMh)

138 That golf pro, Block I think? That was fun to watch him do so well last weekend.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (DRSnL)

139 129 Jerry's kids.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms Remembers at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM (DhOHl)

Damn, what were all those in the sequence in Airplane!

'Church of religious consciousness!'
'How about Buddhism?'
'Jerry's Kids?'
'More nuclear power!'

There was another in there that I can't remember.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (zZu0s)

140 I was hounded to donate to United Way when I was an E-4 in the Navy (1974).

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (63Dwl)

141 I think it is less of a line from Disease Awareness to DEI and rather the Corporation refusing to stand up for good and reject evil.

Specifically abortion. The corporate world chose the cowards way rather than permit the discussion on why we do/don’t fundraise for Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (TSGfC)

142 Buy war bonds!

Posted by: Kill a commie for your mommy at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (DhOHl)

143
No shit?
What the fuck's wrong with him?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM (xcxpd)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S OVERCUSSING ABOUT A GUY WHO OVERCUSSES.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

144 STOP THE PRESSES!

Report: North Dakota Governor Republican Doug Burgum is planning to announce he is officially running for President on June 7th.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (2tUFv)

145 Not a lot of social stuff, but all-in on anticompetitive fascist crap. Before you sarcastically say, "Well gee whiz, that's shocking," know that it actually is. I'm astounded that it isn't also lobbying for mandatory transing for all children.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a co

Our PAC is all in on monies for water projects and new EPA regs. This is our funding basically, we design water plants. But "write your congressman to stuff this into the spending bill" is not something I can do even though it is pretty much my meal ticket.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (CJDhn)

146 “The idea of the future,” she said, “will gradually come to replace the idea of God. The two conceptions, however, will be all but identical in the manner in which they are self-contradictory and therefore confusing to their worshippers. By remaining confused, and therefore weakened, the worshippers are more easily manipulated by their priests, or whatever those priests call themselves. Since the priests are often as confused as those they pretend to lead, they will become angry if their rationales are in any way questioned. They will kill the questioners.”—Michael Moorcock, The Nomads of Time

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 26, 2023 11:31 AM (EXyHK)

147 (And strongly consider giving in the form of useful goods or volunteering, so you know you're not just paying for someone's second or third house.)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at May 26, 2023 11:14 AM

My one respect for Jimmah is Habitat for Humanity. I know several folks who bought the houses we built in neighborhoods where it was tough to build (cramped, not crime-ridden). And all they got from me and mine was some sweat equity.

Posted by: Catherine at May 26, 2023 11:32 AM (ZSsrh)

148 125 How about that Mondale, huh? What an ass kicking that was. *laughs* All I know is that when I went to bed, he only had three more electoral votes than I did- and I didn't even fucking run!'
-Dennis Miller
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:28 AM

(Runs away sobbing)

Posted by: Evan McMuffin at May 26, 2023 11:32 AM (NCgXW)

149 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

- Some Smart Guy

And make damn sure you don't pride parade it before your customers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (FVME7)

150 There's an aspect of this worth considering, which is that IF Targay collapses, and IF it's not entirely due to Woke, people should shout it to the rooftops, that Woke cause it.

Why? Psychological warfare. Let the straights, the common riffraff think Woke is costing corps their business, even if it's more complicated than that.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:29 AM (Wd6fZ)
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Absolutely. The beautiful thing about narratives - and we don't have one yet, but it's getting there and Bud Light is responsible for it and Pride Month is going to make it self-reinforce for a while - is that it makes this effortless.

That *will* get shouted from the rooftops if Target has brutal numbers and starts closing stores. Even if anti-woke backlash is a minor - or even non-existent - factor, that is going to be the story on the street. It will make people inclined to vote their wallets in the culture war more inclined to try again next time. Even if the narrative in Target's case is false, it will still reinforce the baseline condition if bad things happen to the company.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (DU+/6)

151 Danny Kaye sipped penis, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (uia9V)

152 I remember an episode of Andy Griffith that addressed forced charity. Opie’s school or class was having a fund-raising drive for some charity. Opie wouldn’t contribute to it because he was saving up to buy his girlfriend a present. Took all sorts of crap from Andy and Helen Crump. Turns out, Opie wanted to buy his girlfriend a new coat for the winter because her family couldn’t afford one and he didn’t want her to be cold — i.e., he WAS practicing charity after all, for a cause that he knew and that was right before his eyes. Which is how it should be.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (z3VQk)

153 Burgum? I just met him!

Posted by: Obligatory at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (DhOHl)

154 I'm not sure there's ANY "good cause" today that hasn't been corrupted and flayed and disemboweled by the left and/or pure greed to the point where it's just a shambling skin suit. If you are going to give to or support a charity, be wary, be very wary.

Interesting that Buck mentions AIDS awareness as a good cause. I have to say, I always suspected that was a scam to make straights share guilt for -- and contribute time and money to -- recklessly stupid perverted homos. I was 100% right. So I have to disagree a little with Buck on that one.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

155 151 Danny Kaye sipped penis, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (uia9V)

I hate to break this to you man, but yes. He ran with the fairies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (zZu0s)

156 I cuss like sailor myself. But people who aren’t self absorbed know when to rein it in.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (MNhXM)

157 I will sometimes buy the fundraiser stuff, but only from the kids. I will not buy from their parents.

My boys would sell the 2dollar candy bars for their school every fall. I got permission for them to be in our staff break room for 90 minutes. I put put an email to the staff, with permission, and the candy sold out in less than 20 minutes. The boys did the selling. Not me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (3wEtx)

158 No shit?
What the fuck's wrong with him?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 26, 2023 11:27 AM (xcxpd)

Reminds me of when Payton Manning won his last super bowl, and the networks wanted him to plug everything they tell these guys to plug, and Payton, who was retiring, said he was going to enjoy a nice cold Budweiser. The interviewer didn't know what to do, because it wasn't in the script.

Same here. Cuss during your interviews. Starve the flippin networks of their juices which is YOU, the another, being a shill for their crap.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (Wd6fZ)

159 151 Yup. Supposedly, that of Laurence Olivier.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (z3VQk)

160 The Hidden (Queer and Jewish) Career of Danny Kaye. Knew he was queer.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (uia9V)

161 There's a super rightwing retired Master Sergeant from the 529th MP Co I worked with that I'm pretty sure is a Moron (I've seen references on his Facebook). He also posts tons of pictures of him building homes, I assume for HfH, so I assume it's an overall net good.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (NCgXW)

162 This isn't the first time Target has been the focus of a boycott. Recall 2020 when they said it was OK for boys to enter girls bathrooms. And they weathered that storm. The execs are sitting back, albeit nervously, but knowing they'll get through this. Plus, the Target demographic is different than Bud Light.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (N39Ws)
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Oh, I know. That is my point in comment 70. Woke is Target's brand and has been for some time. Any backlash is going to be minor, because it has already happened and Target built a loyalty among the pro-woke doing it. They're not going to see a major sales or traffic decline because of this.

But they might see a little bit, and since the company is already on the ropes in other areas, that might matter. The company itself certainly seems to be worried about it or they wouldn't have blinked and moved the "Pride Month" displays out of sight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (DU+/6)

163 So what are we talking about?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (pVWRI)

164 The best charities are the ones run by the Shriners

Posted by: vic at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (mMi2k)

165 159 151 Yup. Supposedly, that of Laurence Olivier.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (z3VQk)

Damn!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (zZu0s)

166 152 I remember an episode of Andy Griffith that addressed forced charity. Opie’s school or class was having a fund-raising drive for some charity. Opie wouldn’t contribute to it because he was saving up to buy his girlfriend a present. Took all sorts of crap from Andy and Helen Crump. Turns out, Opie wanted to buy his girlfriend a new coat for the winter because her family couldn’t afford one and he didn’t want her to be cold — i.e., he WAS practicing charity after all, for a cause that he knew and that was right before his eyes. Which is how it should be.

________
Krump was the most evil person in Matberry, this is known.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (Rpdcm)

167 164 The best charities are the ones run by the Shriners
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They have go-carts.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (uia9V)

168 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

169 I also don't care for any of this 'promoting awareness' shit, and I despise(d) motivational posters in the workplace

your paycheck is your motivation

Posted by: DB - endeavoring to persevere at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (geLO8)

170 My boys would sell the 2dollar candy bars for their school every fall. I got permission for them to be in our staff break room for 90 minutes. I put put an email to the staff, with permission, and the candy sold out in less than 20 minutes. The boys did the selling. Not me.
Posted by: nurse ratched

....

I don't buy from Girl Scouts (of Boy Scouts actually now too). It's slave labor in support of the lefts worst causes.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (CJDhn)

171 Danny Kaye sipped penis, rite?

As far as I know he was all man and married Sylvia Fine in 1940 and stayed married until they died.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (0hOvj)

172 That golf pro, Block I think? That was fun to watch him do so well last weekend.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:30 AM (DRSnL)

You couldn’t have written a better script when he got that hold in one.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (MNhXM)

173
and Shriners have those funny hats
that helps

Posted by: DB - endeavoring to persevere at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (geLO8)

174 Maybe the real truth is that while we told ourselves that "a rising tide lifts all boats" and indulged fantasies of the world behaving like a first year economics text book, the "job creators" took the tax cuts we gave them and set about building the world they wanted all along, the Godless rainbow flagged atrocity that you see of a once great Republic.

Posted by: Eric at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (UPqK4)

175 I buy girl scout cookies...is that OK?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (pVWRI)

176 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.

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Speaking of dicks, the art thread ought to feature Otto Dix at some appropriate time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQfCehiL2Q

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (FVME7)

177 *They have go-carts.*

And you get to wear a fez!

Posted by: Kewl at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (DhOHl)

178 The dick who won the PGA Championship , Koepka cusses like a sailor…in his interviews.

And I believe he also plays golf with Trump

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (pVWRI)

179 And you get to wear a fez!
Posted by: Kewl at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (DhOHl)

I love Pez, does that count

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (pVWRI)

180 163 So what are we talking about?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:35 AM (pVWRI)

1) Charities being shit
2) we have a paucity of boob related discussion
3) I tried to draw a parallel in the causes for the 1st century Jewish Wars/Revolts and modern times (and leadership)
4) Bulgar dropped the bomb that Danny Kaye was gay.

To fix #2

https://tinyurl.com/ycw4eu2a

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (zZu0s)

181 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

But nobody knows that.

Posted by: creeper at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (cTCuP)

182 You couldn’t have written a better script when he got that hold in one.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (MNhXM)

LOL. "Rory, did that go in?" That was awesome.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (DRSnL)

183 your paycheck is your motivation
Posted by: DB - endeavoring to persevere at May 26, 2023 11:37 AM (geLO

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It's a motivation. It is not the only motivation. There are other huge motivating factors, though, and they are wrecking them. Foremost among the other motivating factors are chance for advancement and pride (the real kind, not the "Pride Month" kind).

These woke corporations make it increasingly clear to the staff that certain kinds of people aren't going to get promotions. They are supposed to sit there and produce and not advance. If they question it, they're monsters and HR will work to remove them.

That nukes off both the future *and* the pride/honor of work in one fell swoop, and makes money the only game piece on the board. It's culturally disastrous inside the companies that do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (DU+/6)

184 Recall 2020 when they said it was OK for boys to enter girls bathrooms.

Yeah and they lost a bunch of customers over that, but stupidly and self destructively parents forgot about that, even though Target not only continued but proudly announced that they were continuing this policy. I have no respect for moms who go there, especially with their kids.

You teach them to yell when a creep bothers them. You teach them to run away. You teach them to avoid dangerous places. But then you deliberately take your kids into a place with creeps in it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (0hOvj)

185 Even if the narrative in Target's case is false, it will still reinforce the baseline condition if bad things happen to the company.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (DU+/6)

I think the same applies across the board. Covid "vaccines" weren't completely useless? So what, the narrative should be they jabbed us, and young people are dying from heart conditions.

Bill Gates preferred his hookers over 18? So what, he and Prince Andrew were molesting kids on Epstein island.

Enough with the qualified condemnation.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (Wd6fZ)

186 Let's all start wearing fezzes when we comment

just to clear out the bad blood

Posted by: DB - endeavoring to persevere at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (geLO8)

187 I don't buy from Girl Scouts (of Boy Scouts actually now too). It's slave labor in support of the lefts worst causes.
---
I don't really want to support Girl Scouts any more, but I can't bring myself to refuse the nice little girl who comes by to sell me cookies.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (sWM8x)

188 That *will* get shouted from the rooftops if Target has brutal numbers and starts closing stores. Even if anti-woke backlash is a minor - or even non-existent - factor, that is going to be the story on the street. It will make people inclined to vote their wallets in the culture war more inclined to try again next time. Even if the narrative in Target's case is false, it will still reinforce the baseline condition if bad things happen to the company.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (DU+/6)
__________

Except I suspect all the caterwauling and woe-woe-is-me-ing by the Targets of the world about theft and dysfunction in certain stores is really just cover to do what they already want to do: close those stores. I think 50% of this is to keep unions out. The other 50% is that even putting aside the theft, the cost to operate stores in deep blue cities is astronomical, and the thin profits (if any) just ain't worth the aggravation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

189 I don't know if this has already been said but I don't think the corporations initiated this. By the Clinton administration at the latest, the democrats were threatening large corporation with legal action if they didn't comply.
I am thinking that the Reno justice department were threatening banks that didn't provide loans to high credit risks. 10 years later we have the 2008 bank meltdown.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (qVln6)

190 Krump was the most evil person in Mayberry, this is known.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs

Ugly too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (FVME7)

191 I was a Kiwanis for a while. They don't have go-carts.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (uia9V)

192 168 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore.

Who? Who won't wear de ribbon?

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (DhOHl)

193 I got a fez when I awash stationed in Turkey. I never wear it, but it’s fun to have.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (z3VQk)

194 I pretty much stay out of Targets unless I am have little other choice

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (pVWRI)

195 I'm looking like a hobo Ewok. Time to invest in a hot shave and a haircut.

Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (eGTCV)

196 "I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that."

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The whole "everyone is at risk" lie came right from Fauci's office.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (i7Q7S)

197 This leggy blonde channeled her inner hobo and has started to ride the rails in search of a non-woke company:
https://is.gd/P3hX11

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (DU+/6)

198 Charity, by definition, is a GIFT.

Taxes are, again by definition, forceful collection by the government or else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)

Then the government gives it as a gift.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (ZWLwE)

199 I don't really want to support Girl Scouts any more, but I can't bring myself to refuse the nice little girl who comes by to sell me cookies.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (sWM8x)

Yeah you me and biden LOL
Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (pVWRI)

200 187 I don't buy from Girl Scouts (of Boy Scouts actually now too). It's slave labor in support of the lefts worst causes.
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I don't really want to support Girl Scouts any more, but I can't bring myself to refuse the nice little girl who comes by to sell me cookies.
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Girl Scout cookies suck.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (uia9V)

201 The last place I worked had mandatory "team building", one day a year, on a Habitat for Humanity home. I always got out of it by being on a jobsite that day. So piss on them too.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (4ixcl)

202 Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (Wd6fZ)

Or as was succinctly stated by Andrew Breitbart, "F you, war."

Incidentally, the CIA murdered him. Whether they did or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:42 AM (Wd6fZ)

203 And you get to wear a fez!

"No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on"
--Steely Dan

When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

Yeah but you're still donating to an evil organization that supports horrific crap. There are much better places to give your money if you want to.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:42 AM (0hOvj)

204 Boy Scouts deliver mulch right to my driveway for five bucks a bag.

Posted by: Hey it's a good deal at May 26, 2023 11:42 AM (DhOHl)

205 Except I suspect all the caterwauling and woe-woe-is-me-ing by the Targets of the world about theft and dysfunction in certain stores is really just cover to do what they already want to do: close those stores. I think 50% of this is to keep unions out. The other 50% is that even putting aside the theft, the cost to operate stores in deep blue cities is astronomical, and the thin profits (if any) just ain't worth the aggravation.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (iFTx/)
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Entirely possible. But still gives the counterculture (that is, the non-woke) a talking point by taking them at face value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:42 AM (DU+/6)

206
Why on earth do we continue to give security clearances to perverts?

Weird that this trial isn't getting more publicity.
Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:10 AM (2tUFv)

Could you parse this out for us? What is the biological sex of each of these individuals? And the tranny "transitioned" into what?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:42 AM (rfGYq)

207 187 I don't buy from Girl Scouts (of Boy Scouts actually now too). It's slave labor in support of the lefts worst causes.
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I don't really want to support Girl Scouts any more, but I can't bring myself to refuse the nice little girl who comes by to sell me cookies.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (sWM8x)
______________

Depends on the troop. Yes, the GSA is a leftwing cesspool of fermented rat shit. But the individual troops get to set their own agendas, their own activities, and organize their own outings. My niece is in a such a troop, a bunch of middle-class suburban white girls and one black girl. She really likes it and I've smelt no whiff of politics.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

208 I don't really want to support Girl Scouts any more, but I can't bring myself to refuse the nice little girl who comes by to sell me cookies.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (sWM8x)
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It's emotional manipulation of the worst kind, using innocent children to peddle their ideology through their "charitable works."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (YIVH2)

209 Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (Wd6fZ)

I get your point but I think recent studies showed the COVID vaccines were completely useless.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (MNhXM)

210 The Samoas are good.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (z3VQk)

211 This leggy blonde channeled her inner hobo and has started to ride the rails in search of a non-woke company:
https://is.gd/P3hX11

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (DU+/6)

I'll volunteer to pull the splinters from her butt.

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

212
I get your point but I think recent studies showed the COVID vaccines were completely useless.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (MNhXM)

Did WAY more harm than good.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Grrr....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

214 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

But nobody knows that.
Posted by: creeper at May 26, 2023 11:39 AM (cTCuP)

They might direct *your* dollars a certain way, but unless things are changed, they give a consistent percentage to each charity regardless of that direction. So someone else's donation gets redirected.

Posted by: Catherine at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (ZSsrh)

215 Perhaps I'll wear a fez to the MoMe.

Posted by: It could happen at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (DhOHl)

216 210 The Samoas are good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (z3VQk)

Were those the ones with the coconut?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (zZu0s)

217 The Samoas are good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (z3VQk)

The S'mores are addictive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

218 >>> I make a point of asking for the Samoans... then tell them that the cookies called "Samoans" are the only ones I would buy. Please tell home office to bring them back.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (elWC3)

219 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

But's that's meaningless, since they will just move around the undirected contributions, so the overall contributions to the various organizations don't change.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (2tUFv)

220 Except I suspect all the caterwauling and woe-woe-is-me-ing by the Targets of the world about theft and dysfunction in certain stores is really just cover to do what they already want to do: close those stores.

Gin up outrage over a wokey cause to cover closing stores being looted in deep blue area and stomping a union forming....sounds like a rumor Doomcock posted a day or two ago. Why the writer's strike now? Disney is super broke, and trying to save money. Closing their shit hotel, delaying projects....and now, they can delay more projects, stop paying them, and save money. Plus, they can use it as an excuse to fire the most woke/biggest failures on staff, and have an excuse.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (NCgXW)

221 I assume in good humor. You were the only Dem on Wall Street?
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:25 AM (MNhXM)
===
I worked for the only other Democrat, Felix Rohatyn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (dS722)

222 216 Yep.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (z3VQk)

223 168 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

Ronald Reagan causes AIDS.

Posted by: Someone who watches too many HBO specials at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (dhxes)

224 Did WAY more harm than good.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Grrr....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Did not seem like Ben's normal idiom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)

225 The boomers were the ones who ramped this social justice stuff into every nook and cranny of the nation. The 60s radicals became members of corporate America and then trained the younger generations so that it has reached a critical mass and is now deconstructing everything in the name o f progressive social justice

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (XaUsS)

226 Good and evil should both be done when no one is looking.

- Shit Thomas Jefferson Said, Vol. XIII

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7)

227 The Samoas are good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (z3VQk)

They make good nfl lineman also....oh the cookies you mean..Yes very good.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (pVWRI)

228 Hate to say it but walmart makes better samoas.

Posted by: Eromero at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (/knpl)

229 https://is.gd/P3hX11

That was a weird composition

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (MNhXM)

230 The Samoas are good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (z3VQk)

Were those the ones with the coconut?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:44 AM (zZu0s)

Sir, thats racist.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (4ixcl)

231 Everyone knew what caused AIDS about 2 weeks into the "crisis".

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (0hOvj)

232
Did not seem like Ben's normal idiom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S AN IDIOT THAT KEEPS FORGETTING TO TAKE HIS SOCKS OFF.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

233 The thing about Girl Scout cookies is, there are better cookies out there

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (geLO8)

234 Except I suspect all the caterwauling and woe-woe-is-me-ing by the Targets of the world about theft and dysfunction in certain stores is really just cover to do what they already want to do: close those stores.

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Target, Walmart, Foot Locker Say Brazen Retail Theft Getting Worse

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7)

235 229 https://is.gd/P3hX11

That was a weird composition
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (MNhXM)

Looks like an album cover. Bryan Adams or Bruce Springsteen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (zZu0s)

236 https://is.gd/P3hX11

That was a weird composition
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (MNhXM)

But, she DOES have nice legs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

237 229 https://is.gd/P3hX11

That was a weird composition
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (MNhXM)

Updated Boxcar Bertha...

Posted by: Marty Scorsese at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (CCSxw)

238 The Samoans?

How much for some Jamaicans?

Posted by: Twenty bucks? at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

239
Looks like an album cover. Bryan Adams or Bruce Springsteen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (zZu0s)

Way to ruin it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

240 195 I'm looking like a hobo Ewok. Time to invest in a hot shave and a haircut.
Posted by: NL at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (eGTCV)

========

2 bits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

241 I worked at Target when I was in college (Hush. It paid for some expenses.). And we were forced to sit for about an hour (unpaid) to listen to the United Way spiel.

Fast forward a week later and I'm told I have to go to HR to pick up my paycheck. I chose not to donate to the United Way. I was pressured to do so. I finally leaned across his desk and said "Give me my check or I'll take it from you by force."

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (4olE8)

242 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S AN IDIOT THAT KEEPS FORGETTING TO TAKE HIS SOCKS OFF.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

*snort*

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (DRSnL)

243 Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2023 11:45 AM (XaUsS)

And you fell for it?

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (AwYPR)

244 I refused to contribute to UW because they fund Planned Parenthood. There was the option to make a directed donation to a specific UW charity but all that did was increase the amount of non-directed money that PP got. So no go.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (+gcBH)

245 MNhXM)

Looks like an album cover. Bryan Adams or Bruce Springsteen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (zZu0s)

Yes, I can see that

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (MNhXM)

246 231 Everyone knew what caused AIDS about 2 weeks into the "crisis".
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 11:46 AM (0hOvj)

Even so, there was a lot of stray voltage popped out at the beginning. Had to use protection- always (it made more of a dent than the social diseases that could really be swapped by normal sex.) Blood transfusions. Donating blood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

247 "Charity and compassion begin at home. Leave it out of the workplace."

For the small business that supported local theater or parks, combining workplace with community probably worked (especially when we were not intentionally divided by the globalists/Marxists/goons).

My guess is that BigCorp is under control of the leveraged buyout traders, that chopped up America and went for the slaves and polluted "savings" of China and points unknown.

Why they are so intent on destroying our freedom is hard to evaluate ... control is like a drug, they are addicted. (or possessed, or committed to evil ... all in). Like Hillary famously said .. "If Trump wins, we all go to prison" or something like that.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (Cus5s)

248 The Samoas are good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023
*
Were those the ones with the coconut?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 1

***
They're the big ones that wrestle you to the ground and pin you down with their weight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

249 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

Who would've ever thought that getting assfucked by 40 anonymous dudes every Friday and Saturday night at the bathhouse would turn out to be bad for your health?

Posted by: It's just crazy talk! at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (dhxes)

250 But, she DOES have nice legs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Indeed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, needling the guy who complained about people saying 'indeed' at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (zZu0s)

251 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

AIDS is relatively rare, actually. Most people with HIV infection have it managed so it's no worse than, for example, diabetes.

And yet people with diabetes sometimes don't manage it well, and have limbs chopped off because of it. There are some things you can do to limit or completely avoid diabetes, but after you get it, if it's not being managed well, you are doing that to yourself.

So if you want to take weener up the rear, and you get HIV, that's your fault, sure. But we don't need ribbons for you anymore, because you can go to your doctor and manage it. Or don't. That's your choice.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (Wd6fZ)

252
***
They're the big ones that wrestle you to the ground and pin you down with their weight.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

I thought that was the Sumos.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

253 The boomers were the ones who ramped this social justice stuff into every nook and cranny of the nation.

Guys in the 90s used to tell me how they were told to contribute to this or that back in the 70s. The shakedown of employees has been going on a long time.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (4ixcl)

254 Huh! 1807 for gas lamps. Pall Mall, London.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:16 AM (zZu0s)

Almost certainly run on manufactured, not natural gas. Search the term "producer gas", if interested.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (rfGYq)

255 190
'Krump was the most evil person in Mayberry, this is known.

Ugly too.'

I didn't think Miss Krump was ugly. I would have let her use my fishing pole.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (qVln6)

256 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

HOMOPHOBE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

257 Daily Clown World Reminder: Warfighting edition

Armed forces race to buy electric tanks in boost for British weapons maker
- The Telegraph

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (jzzG8)

258 https://is.gd/P3hX11

That was a weird composition
Posted by: polynikes

There was a 1972 movie, Boxcar Bertha, set during the Depression about outlaws who rode the rails and sex stuff.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (FVME7)

259 But, she DOES have nice legs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023

***
And one hell of a nice arch showing!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (J2vNu)

260 who would win a match between a top sumo wrestler and an NFL nose tackle?

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (geLO8)

261 Almost certainly run on manufactured, not natural gas. Search the term "producer gas", if interested.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (rfGYq)

It was a byproduct of coal, wasn't it? Dammit, now I have to look it up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (zZu0s)

262 Watching sleazeballs litigate is kind of fun. The Virgin Islands, corrupt to the core, is suing JPMC (in some whacked theory Morgan enabled Epstein) in hopes Jamie Dimon will authorize a face-saving settlement payoff and everyone gets rich. But litigating against Morgan Bank has pitfalls, to wit, it is emerging that Epstein paid tuitions for the children of the governor, and there is probably more info coming on that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (p5Yig)

263 My aunt Ruth smoked Pall Malls. Lived to be 90.

Posted by: It's true at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

264 258
There was a 1972 movie, Boxcar Bertha, set during the Depression about outlaws who rode the rails and sex stuff.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (FVME7)

=======

Martin Scorsese's second movie. It was a Roger Corman film.

A friend of his (I think it was Nick Cassavettes) hugged Scorsese afterwards and said, "It's a piece of shit. Don't make those anymore."

His next movie was Mean Streets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

265 249 I'm not sure if fighting AIDS is a worthy cause anymore. We now know what causes it, so stop doing that. You get AIDS now, it's your own damned fault.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 11:36 AM (rfGYq)

Who would've ever thought that getting assfucked by 40 anonymous dudes every Friday and Saturday night at the bathhouse would turn out to be bad for your health?
Posted by: It's just crazy talk! at May 26, 2023 11:49 AM (dhxes)
_____________________

"What if it's only 30 anonymous dudes?"

-- Don LeMon

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

266 There was a 1972 movie, Boxcar Bertha, set during the Depression about outlaws who rode the rails and sex stuff.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:50 AM (FVME7)

Please to refer to #237...

Posted by: Marty Scorsese at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (CCSxw)

267 Moose the Lab is a gas producer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (+Wcyp)

268 263 My aunt Ruth smoked Pall Malls. Lived to be 90.
Posted by: It's true at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

Look at what Kamala Harris smoked and she's VP.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (N39Ws)

269 This leggy blonde channeled her inner hobo and has started to ride the rails in search of a non-woke company:
https://is.gd/P3hX11

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (DU+/6)

Looks like just another hobo riding the rails.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (eGTCV)

270 who would win a match between a top sumo wrestler and an NFL nose tackle?
Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (geLO8 )

In what are they competing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

271 The Samoans?
*
How much for some Jamaicans?
Posted by: Twenty bucks? at May 26, 2023

***
Jokes and puns . . . surely we'll have Samoa . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

272 All the HIV prep commercials are basically a shout out to resume your unsafe sex practices.

They all say ‘ x will lower it to where it can no longer be detected and cannot be transmitted.’

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:53 AM (MNhXM)

273 Huh. That is an interesting article:

Producer Gas (from wiki):

https://tinyurl.com/h2tcyuf2

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:53 AM (zZu0s)

274 It was abundantly clear that AIDS is entirely preventable by 1990, when Michael Fumento's "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" was published.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (+gcBH)

275 My aunt Ruth smoked Pall Malls. Lived to be 90.
Posted by: It's true at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (DhOHl)

My dad smoked those, too. Unfiltered. He only lived to be 72.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (DRSnL)

276 It wouldn't shock me if AIDS or any other sex spreading disease were growing with the Cultural Marxists pushing sex. Look at Monkey Pox spreading through the Ghey population.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (v7VqK)

277 Willowed:

Pretty much a guarantee the Jan 5th bomber was a BATFE affiliated person. All the Fed Law Enforcement Agencies wanted their cut of the Jan 6th action, and the only way in BATFE had was the "Explosives" part in their name, since they couldn't get it out of Alcohol, Tobacco, or even Firearms.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (CecP5)

278 It may seem this stuff was brought on by the boomers, but the fact is it began long before the boomers came along.

Research the roots of ESG and find out.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (MkuC5)

279 Boxcar Bertha.

https://tinyurl.com/265ks8sj

https://tinyurl.com/3dr932xy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (FVME7)

280 And of course the experts of the day immediately started lying that AIDS was an equal opportunity disease, that everybody was at risk, blah blah blah for fear of upsetting their ghey pals over at ACT-UP. Bunch of stupid politicized dumbshit motherfuckers who didn't actually give a fuck about public health. Worse than useless, much like today.

Posted by: Takes a special breed of incompetent to be a government science type at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (dhxes)

281 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

But nobody knows that.
Posted by: creeper

Yes you could and the 'sponsored' set was short.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (aicAN)

282 272 All the HIV prep commercials are basically a shout out to resume your unsafe sex practices.

They all say ‘ x will lower it to where it can no longer be detected and cannot be transmitted.’
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:53 AM (MNhXM)

=========

And it's all gay dudes talking to an audience that's probably not majority gay. I mean...those things are pretty prominent on almost every ad supported streaming service.

It's weird. Seems like a great place instead for something not so niche. You know, like America's best selling beer: Bud Light.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

283 I get your point but I think recent studies showed the COVID vaccines were completely useless.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:43 AM (MNhXM)

Right, that's the point though. There's still some debate, but at this point, give no quarter. Call them completely useless.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (Wd6fZ)

284 What this country needs is more leggy blondes riding the rails.

Posted by: Change my mind at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (DhOHl)

285 who would win a match between a top sumo wrestler and an NFL nose tackle?
Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:51 AM (geLO8 )

If they were doing Sumo the nose tackle wouldn’t last a second before he was tossed from the circle.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:55 AM (MNhXM)

286
Look at what Kamala Harris smoked and she's VP.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 26, 2023 11:52 AM (N39Ws)

Reminds me of the time we were camping at Texas Motor Speedway and were watching qualifying. Tony Stewart (MURDERER) was on his hot lap and started out well in turns 1 and 2, then got to turn 3 and lost a lot of speed. I said "He went from pole to pole smoke in one turn."

We laughed about that one for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

287 My guess is that BigCorp is under control of the leveraged buyout traders, that chopped up America and went for the slaves and polluted "savings" of China and points unknown.

Why they are so intent on destroying our freedom is hard to evaluate ... control is like a drug, they are addicted. (or possessed, or committed to evil ... all in). Like Hillary famously said .. "If Trump wins, we all go to prison" or something like that.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 26, 2023 11:48 AM (Cus5s)

Leveraged buyout as an investment practice is mostly relatively small, they can't operate at a level to influence the major corporations.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 26, 2023 11:55 AM (eYoxG)

288 Fauci.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:55 AM (zZu0s)

289 272 All the HIV prep commercials are basically a shout out to resume your unsafe sex practices.

They all say ‘ x will lower it to where it can no longer be detected and cannot be transmitted.’
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:53 AM (MNhXM)
______________

Those commercials barely even hide it. I couldn't believe it when I saw one. It was basically promotion for reckless sex at gay sex clubs. You know there's a problem with promos for HIV prep are the same as promos for gay OF sites.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

290 And of course the experts of the day immediately started lying that AIDS was an equal opportunity disease, that everybody was at risk, blah blah blah for fear of upsetting their ghey pals over at ACT-UP. Bunch of stupid politicized dumbshit motherfuckers who didn't actually give a fuck about public health. Worse than useless, much like today.
Posted by: Takes a special breed of incompetent to be a government science type at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (dhxes)
++++
They sure beat it into my head that way when I was in school. AIDS was *the* great terror they spent the most time on in health and sex ed classes. It could - and would - get *everyone.*

As an adult, of course, I learned that this isn't true. Heterosexual AIDS can happen, but it is so unusual that it essentially does not exist and there has to be a relatively narrow path to achieve it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (DU+/6)

291 i guess its time for the LGBTQ cominuty to start disrupting evangelical church services and threaten the attendees. then the church will have an obligation to stop pushing an anti LGBTQ agenda

Sounds like an excellent way to have a close encounter of the 9 mm kind with members of the Security Committee.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (iZPr8)

292 >In what are they competing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Sumo, of course
could an NFL lineman take on a sumo wrestler
could a sumo wrestler get a sack in a game
could this comment be a waste of everyone's time

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (geLO8)

293 Everyone knew what caused AIDS about 2 weeks into the "crisis".

HETEROSEXUAL AIDS IS ABOUT TO SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE!

Hundreds of millions of dollars on PR was spent pushing that.

Posted by: Six Days Until Pride Month! at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (2tUFv)

294 @288 -- Nailed it. Neck deep in AIDS.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (MkuC5)

295 Do onlyfans sites need to advertise?

The demand is there already...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)

296 294 @288 -- Nailed it. Neck deep in AIDS.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (MkuC5)

Literally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)

297 The Samoans are angry.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

298
Those commercials barely even hide it. I couldn't believe it when I saw one. It was basically promotion for reckless sex at gay sex clubs. You know there's a problem with promos for HIV prep are the same as promos for gay OF sites.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Blasphemy.

It's what's for dinner!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

299 270
'who would win a match between a top sumo wrestler and an NFL nose tackle?'
'In what are they competing?'

Spelling Bee.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (qVln6)

300 274 It was abundantly clear that AIDS is entirely preventable by 1990, when Michael Fumento's "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" was published.
---
Thank you for mentioning that. Fumento did the world a real service.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 26, 2023 11:58 AM (sWM8x)

301
Sumo, of course
could an NFL lineman take on a sumo wrestler
could a sumo wrestler get a sack in a game
could this comment be a waste of everyone's time
Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 11:56 AM (geLO8

Yes.
No.
Yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

302 'who would win a match between a top sumo wrestler and an NFL nose tackle?'
'In what are they competing?'

Spelling Bee.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:57 AM (qVln6)

Betting on the Asian to win the spelling bee.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (MNhXM)

303 The Samoans were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: And it's not even the art thread at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (DhOHl)

304 Boxcar Bertha.

https://tinyurl.com/265ks8sj

https://tinyurl.com/3dr932xy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023

***
Barbara Something-that-Began-With-a-B, I think. She was still around a couple of years ago playing a character on Once Upon a Time on ABC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

305
My dad smoked those, too. Unfiltered. He only lived to be 72.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (DRSnL)

Mine too. He was issued Pall Malls in his rations in WWII. When I was little, it was my job to run into the gas station or Bob's Big Boy and buy them out of the vending machine.

Posted by: Moki at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (JrN/x)

306 What this country needs is more leggy blondes riding the rails.
Posted by: Change my mind at May 26, 2023 11:54 AM (DhOHl)

They call me Rails.

Posted by: tbodie..Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (Xax3l)

307 241 I worked at Target when I was in college

Swimsuit tester?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (qVln6)

308 So, the rumors about Helen Crump and Floyd the Barber were true?

Posted by: Happy Harry at May 26, 2023 12:00 PM (Nn3xT)

309 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

You know how else I can direct money to one of their sponsored organizations ? Just giving the money directly, and telling the United Way to piss up a rope. Unfortunately, I didn't see "The Society for Hookers and Blow" on the list.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 12:00 PM (4ixcl)

310 Barbara Something-that-Began-With-a-B, I think. She was still around a couple of years ago playing a character on Once Upon a Time on ABC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

Barbara Hershey

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

311 Mine too. He was issued Pall Malls in his rations in WWII. When I was little, it was my job to run into the gas station or Bob's Big Boy and buy them out of the vending machine.
Posted by: Moki at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (JrN/x)

Ah yes.....the Cigarette Vending machines......conveniently placed in the entryway of stores and bowling alleys so kids of all ages could just roll in, buy and walk away unnoticed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

312 It was Howard Sprague.

Posted by: Opie knows at May 26, 2023 12:01 PM (DhOHl)

313 Everyone knew what caused AIDS about 2 weeks into the "crisis".

HETEROSEXUAL AIDS IS ABOUT TO SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE!

Hundreds of millions of dollars on PR was spent pushing that.
Posted by: Six Days

Monogamist relationships hardest hit!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 12:02 PM (aicAN)

314 >Ah yes.....the Cigarette Vending machines......conveniently placed in the entryway of stores and bowling alleys so kids of all ages could just roll in, buy and walk away unnoticed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

that's how I started- bowling alley, while Dad was returning the shoes
Kools, fifty cents

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:02 PM (geLO8)

315 >>> The funny part was when they came to sickbay and complained of hurting and I had to show them they were just sunburnt. "Stay out of the sun and maybe go self medicate with aspirin and alcohol".

Posted by: AZ deplorable

Stupid fooken Haole. I told you to stay out of the sun.

- Ancient Hawaiian Wisdom

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2023 12:02 PM (elWC3)

316 Barbara Something-that-Began-With-a-B, I think. She was still around a couple of years ago playing a character on Once Upon a Time on ABC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023
*
Barbara Hershey
Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023

***
Hershey! That's it. (I was thinking chocolate bar for some reason --)

If Boxcar Bertha was Scorsese's second movie, what was his first? Also a Roger Corman epic?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

317 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

When I was a kid my mom would send me to the corner store to get her a pack of cigs. Given to me no questions asked. That was in the early 70’s.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 12:03 PM (MNhXM)

318 Everyone knew what caused AIDS about 2 weeks into the "crisis".

Had an old foreman explain to me how AIDS absolutely crippled the construction industry for a while - because guys didn't want to work out of town.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 12:03 PM (4ixcl)

319 Unless I had already pilfered a few of his Parliaments

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:03 PM (geLO8)

320 It was Howard Sprague.
Posted by: Opie knows at May 26, 2023 12:01 PM (DhOHl)

A dork, but hung like John Holmes.

Posted by: BignJames at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

321 When you contribute to the United Way you can direct which of their sponsored organizations your money will go to.

The money is fungible. If you dedicate your $500 to the Boy Scouts, they will just give someone else's $500 to Planned Parenthood. And even when they say that they don't fund PP, they do, they just launder it through another agency or two.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (aD39U)

322 316 If Boxcar Bertha was Scorsese's second movie, what was his first? Also a Roger Corman epic?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

==========

Scorsese's first was a student film that he expanded to a feature film when he got funding at an Amsterdam film festival. It was called Who's that Knocking at my Door?.

It stars Harvey Keitel when he was about 20. I was shocked to discover that Harvey Keitel was once about 20.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

323 307 241 I worked at Target when I was in college

Swimsuit tester?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (qVln6)

Thankfully, this was back in the early 90s before the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ folks poisoned it.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (4olE8)

324 https://is.gd/P3hX11
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 26, 2023 11:41 AM (DU+/6)

Sea cans!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (aPjDg)

325 that's how I started- bowling alley, while Dad was returning the shoes
Kools, fifty cents
----------------
I remember gas and cigs going for twenty five cents. No one cared a wit about kids buying them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 12:04 PM (uia9V)

326 Ah yes.....the Cigarette Vending machines......conveniently placed in the entryway of stores and bowling alleys so kids of all ages could just roll in, buy and walk away unnoticed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023

***
Mom used to send me down to the corner bar and grill to get her a pack of PMs from the vending machine. I was 9 or 10. Nobody ever stopped me. And I never had any interest in smoking 'em.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

327 Barbara Hershey was in The Entity. That movie was freaky.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (MNhXM)

328 Speaking of dicks, the art thread ought to feature Otto Dix at some appropriate time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:38 AM (FVME7)

I have...twice.

Pay some fucking attention or you'll get Ottoman Man!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (ZCCyW)

329 275
'My dad smoked those, too. Unfiltered. He only lived to be 72.'

Same with my dad. He lived to be 49.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (qVln6)

330 Stupid fooken Haole. I told you to stay out of the sun.

- Ancient Hawaiian Wisdom
Posted by: Itinerant

Ahhh... the point was the sailors were NOT people of pallor they were gifted with lots of melanin.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (aicAN)

331 328 I have...twice.

Pay some fucking attention or you'll get Ottoman Man!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (ZCCyW)

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And not one Kincaid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

332 Martin Scorsese's second movie. It was a Roger Corman film.

A friend of his (I think it was Nick Cassavettes) hugged Scorsese afterwards and said, "It's a piece of shit. Don't make those anymore."

Yeah, stars one of my least favorite 70s women who kept getting work despite being unpleasant, Barbara Hershey. Not very attractive, kinda weird.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (0hOvj)

333 I retired in 2015 from an oilfield service company. All of our training, outside of our jobs, was in ethics (bribery, which used to be sales). Company got careless in dealings with foreign governments. Sex, gender, etc discussions were unheard of. Well, no more lunches at strip clubs, but that came from our customers.

Posted by: javems at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (AmoqO)

334 Danny Kaye sipped penis, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 11:33 AM (uia9V)

I hate to break this to you man, but yes. He ran with the fairies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 11:34 AM (zZu0s)
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Oh no! At we still have Rock Hudson as a heartthrob for the ladies.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (H5Y3p)

335 Speaking of dicks, the art thread ought to feature Otto Dix at some appropriate time.

I preferred his brother - Alotto Dix

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (4ixcl)

336 I've told this story before but when I used to be a regular and pretty good supporter of United Way until they said no support for the Boy Scouts of America. So I stopped donating to UW. Well the UW guys got into action and started calling me. It went up the food chain until I got a regional UW VP and when I told him why UW wasn't getting my donation due to the BSA situation he had the balls to tell me that I could "earmark" my donation to UW for the BSA. I asked why not make it direct to BSA and cut out the middleman of UW? Silence and then some ahhs and then I hung up, haven't had them call back.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 26, 2023 12:07 PM (17s+e)

337 Nood Dodger queers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2023 12:07 PM (aicAN)

338 334 Oh no! At we still have Rock Hudson as a heartthrob for the ladies.
Posted by: Darth Randall at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (H5Y3p)

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He and Liberace should team up!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:07 PM (LvTSG)

339 The purpose of a business is to sell consumers goods or services at a market price that is greater than the cost of providing that good or service. Any profits derived from that go to the owners of the business. Owners and employees can donate their money or their time however the hell they want. Diverting the business from its core purpose is inefficient for both the owners and employees. In the end, the recipients of the donated time or money are better off if there is more of said time or money available to be donated because it is the surplus of an efficient business.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 26, 2023 12:07 PM (7B5FA)

340 190 Krump was the most evil person in Mayberry, this is known.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs

Ugly too.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 11:40 AM (FVME7)

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There was an episode where Barbara Eden showed up in Mayberry.

Ring a ding ding

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 26, 2023 12:08 PM (Bq7c/)

341 ***
Mom used to send me down to the corner bar and grill to get her a pack of PMs from the vending machine. I was 9 or 10. Nobody ever stopped me. And I never had any interest in smoking 'em.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

I smoke the occasional cigar, but cigarettes have never appealed to me. I've smoked one or two in my life....and wasn't impressed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

342 Please Clap: This Time It's Dr. Jill

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
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Follow
JILL BIDEN: "I've found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions!"
*crickets*
"I thought you might clap for that!"

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Video

https://tinyurl.com/326z38rp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 26, 2023 12:08 PM (FVME7)

343 And not one Kincaid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

I wish CBD would feature some early Kinkade before he went lighted cottage commercial. Fantastic artist.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2023 12:08 PM (MNhXM)

344 Is it a movie thread now? Or a tobacco nostalgia thread?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 26, 2023 12:08 PM (DhOHl)

345 Mmmmm…Barbara Hershey…mmmmm..,great rack…mmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (z3VQk)

346 And not one Kincaid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

Somebody doesn't pay attention.

Also twice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (ZCCyW)

347 Danny Kaye sipped penis, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023
*
I hate to break this to you man, but yes. He ran with the fairies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023

***
Then what about Kaye's affair with Eve Arden? And he was married to another woman at the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

348 344 Is it a movie thread now? Or a tobacco nostalgia thread?
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Do you remember Phillip Morris Commanders?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (uia9V)

349 >JILL BIDEN: "I've found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions!"

where you been, lady
that notion has flipped

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (geLO8)

350 And I never had any interest in smoking 'em.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023
*
I smoke the occasional cigar, but cigarettes have never appealed to me. I've smoked one or two in my life....and wasn't impressed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 26, 2023

***
It's amazing that I never took it up, considering they were right there in the house all the time. And two of my favorite fictional heroes, James Bond and Ellery Queen, were both big smokers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

351 "And of course the experts of the day immediately started lying that AIDS was an equal opportunity disease, that everybody was at risk, blah blah blah for fear of upsetting their ghey pals over at ACT-UP

This was the beginning of the corruption of the medical profession. Reality must be ignored so nobody is stigmatized or made to feel bad or responsible for their actions. Everybody must be treated equal, including the stupid .

Posted by: Ripley at May 26, 2023 12:11 PM (cUYo/)

352 >Is it a movie thread now? Or a tobacco nostalgia thread?

It's a sumo/fez/trains thread

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:11 PM (geLO8)

353 332
' Barbara Hershey. Not very attractive, kinda weird.'

She had a couple of good qualities.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 26, 2023 12:11 PM (qVln6)

354 Stupid fooken Haole. I told you to stay out of the sun.

- Ancient Hawaiian Wisdom
Posted by: Itinerant

Ahhh... the point was the sailors were NOT people of pallor they were gifted with lots of melanin.
Posted by: AZ dep

The Hawaiian said it to a black guy. That is why it is teh funny. Especially when overhead by a tour bus full of actual Haoles.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2023 12:11 PM (elWC3)

355 346 Somebody doesn't pay attention.

Also twice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 12:09 PM (ZCCyW)

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THERE'S AN ART THREAD?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 26, 2023 12:12 PM (LvTSG)

356 To celebrate the holiday imma ride a train and smoke a cigarette while wearing a fez.

Posted by: It'll be lit at May 26, 2023 12:13 PM (DhOHl)

357 >>I smoke the occasional cigar, but cigarettes have never appealed to me. I've smoked one or two in my life

see, I'm the opposite
I don't get the cigar craze
just gimme my nicotine so I can chill the f*** out

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:13 PM (geLO8)

358 Danny Kaye was married to the same woman for 47 years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

359 hey there's a nood

Posted by: DB - wearing my Grand Poohbah fez at May 26, 2023 12:15 PM (geLO8)

360 Barbara Something-that-Began-With-a-B, I think. She was still around a couple of years ago playing a character on Once Upon a Time on ABC.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

Barbara Hershey, I think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2023 12:18 PM (aPjDg)

361

Still love the GS shortbread cookies, although they've been downsized like most everything else in recent
years.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 26, 2023 12:19 PM (KATBx)

362 The strict rule against workplace posting/soliciting in the 80s and beyond were mainly intended to prevent unions from posting/soliciting in the workplace. The NLRB's position was (is?) that if anyone gets to post/solicit, even for a charity, then everyone gets to post/solicit for any reason. Appeasing woke employees (typically the least productive and most PITA workers) appears to have trumped union avoidance for many companies.

Posted by: Texas Cheesehead at May 26, 2023 12:36 PM (qSn4T)

363 22 Charity and compassion begin at home. Leave it out of the workplace.

It is for this reason that I never give anything to the cashiers at the local grocery store when they ask if I'd like to donate to cause X. If I want to give, I'll let you know. I intensely dislike the social pressure to give, just as with the implied need to tip every damn person that hands me a cup of coffee.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 26, 2023 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

Also a pet peeve of mine. My expectation is that the grocery store harvests the money, does a 6 month arbitrage, then claims customer contributions as their corporate contributions and takes whatever deduction is allowed on their taxes. I ask the checker whether the company is donating in my name or its' name. Usual response is "Good question. I really don't know." Just one more grift.

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