First-World Problems...

I have been reliably informed by The Guardian, the woke paper of record, Why the phrase 'first world problem' is condescending to everyone.

Apparently the phrase "third-world" is insulting and sexist and racist and causes terrible angst among a certain class of people. You know...the people who are profound assholes who would rather tell us what to do than actually do anything of value.

And "first world" is even worse!

To pre-emptively concede that my problem is just a first world one is to ostentatiously check my privilege before anyone else tells me to do so. At the same time, I remind myself and everyone in earshot that we are indeed living in the “first world”. So it is also a humblebrag.
Such privilege-checking becomes a more violent intervention when demanded by someone else. If, after listening to your pathetic account of how your Uber cab took a whole 10 minutes to arrive, I respond “first world problem”, then I am aggressively staking out the moral high ground and portraying myself (almost certainly dishonestly) as someone who only ever worries about the plight of starving children. Naturally, our powers of sympathy are limited and we all conduct psychic triage on the sufferings of others. But when “first world problem” is just a mealy mouthed way of saying “shut up”, it sounds distinctly compassion-free.

I have no idea who this person is, but I am confident that he is a stupendous asshole...a lecturing, hectoring, keffiyeh-clad leftist who does nothing of import in the world except preach his particular brand of authoritarian post-modernism. I will now be even more confident of the term "first-world problem," and I will also strive to use "third-world" even more in my writing and speech. It's the least I can do!

PS. I know all of you were worried about my door thumb latch. Rest assured...all is well. I contacted the manufacturer (Baldwin), and they guarantee their products unconditionally. They sent me a rebuild kit, which works fine! Although the instructions were awful beyond compare. Tiny little images that seemed to be photos of photos of photos. And steps that didn't apply to my style of lock, but there was no indication of that. So it was a fun 45 minutes, accompanied by much cursing.

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 I called 'em.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2023 02:01 PM (qPw5n)

2 Well soon we will have enough 3rd World citizens to make us at least 2nd World

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2023 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

3 Is the word "Shit Hole" any better?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2023 02:02 PM (PQ4m2)

4 St!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2023 02:02 PM (aQy7p)

5 I'm glad the door latch rebuild went marginally okay. Crazy that they send bad instructions like that though, especially since if anything went wrong or got damaged, they'd have to send another kit out at their expense.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2023 02:03 PM (qPw5n)

6 Damn it! Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2023 02:03 PM (aQy7p)

7 By the way The Texans are almost as bad as the Jets and this game is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2023 02:03 PM (PQ4m2)

8 My problem is, it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the "First World" and the Third.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:03 PM (QBaJw)

9 Our first world problem is that our leaders are intent on making us third world.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2023 02:05 PM (Cus5s)

10 Having to put up with The Guardian is a first world problem.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2023 02:05 PM (S6gqv)

11 FWP:

"Tennessee residents clean up after severe weekend storms killed 6 people and damaged neighborhoods"

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Uh oh, that means Fedex will not be able to deliver packages originating in California to places in Colorado and Arizona.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:05 PM (QBaJw)

12 It's so strange that Third Worlders all want to come to the First World, but the reverse is not true. I can't figure it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (CsUN+)

13 Pretty simple to define:

People move (by the millions) from Third World countries to First World countries, whether legally or illegally.

Virtually nobody moves from a First World country to a Third World country.

The only people moving to Third World countries are people moving from even more wretched Third World countries - like the couple of million people who have moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (YAtuc)

14 I miss the time when we could unironically call our side "The Free World."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (g4+u8)

15 When the Guardian tells you *anything* believe the opposite.
In this case the thirdworld **itholes deserve the titles.

Only 45 mins? Isn't that a new record for a CBD FWP repair?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (eh/tP)

16 Lock rebuild instructions!? Poorly written? Pictures of pictures? You should see some of the maintenance manuals for aircraft mods I see. 'Installation is the reverse of removal'...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:07 PM (YRsIm)

17 Damn it! Read the content. Rookie mistake.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

We read the content because the cobs offer such meaningful pearls of wisdom!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (eh/tP)

18 Virtually nobody moves from a First World country to a Third World country.

Just remember that all cultures are equally valid.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (YAtuc)

19 Usually "bad instructions" are because they are written by someone in China. They don't speak English well, AND they don't seem logical or thorough in their writing.

And they likely stole the tech for their product, so don't even understand it very well.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (Cus5s)

20 People who read The Guardian embrace third-world policies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (RIvkX)

21 'Installation is the reverse of removal'...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Define a "Hanes" manual without using the world "Hanes"...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:09 PM (eh/tP)

22 Is there anything more insufferable than a Brit lecturing on class?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2023 02:10 PM (nnp+f)

23 Only 45 mins? Isn't that a new record for a CBD FWP repair?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (eh/tP)

Everyone's a comedian!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 02:10 PM (sM1IA)

24 People who read The Guardian embrace third-world policies.

They live in pristine neighborhoods that Third Worlders don't live in.

It's the working class of their counties who have to deal with the Third World invasion.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2023 02:10 PM (YAtuc)

25 What is considered the Second World?

Or the Fourth World?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 10, 2023 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

26 My first world problem is there aren't enough illiterate, third world women out there at my fingertips to accept my seed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 10, 2023 02:12 PM (klzFH)

27 Is there anything more insufferable than a Brit lecturing on class?

Upper-caste Indians explaining how racist white Americans are.

Looking at you, Saira Rao.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2023 02:12 PM (YAtuc)

28
I used to vacation in Jamaica nearly every winter, and I suppose it fit the definition of Third World. But the things I saw there we are catching up with, especially in our 'First World' cities.

Meanwhile our 'betters' stick their noses in the air and use derogatory phrases to refer to us outside of those cities, AS IF they are somehow superior. Dumb fvcks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 02:12 PM (enJYY)

29 Try doing much more complicated door hardware with 5 different types of applications and figure out which doesn't apply

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2023 02:12 PM (fwDg9)

30 People who read The Guardian embrace third-world policies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (RIvkX)

While comfortable ensconced in their first-world city apartment, with plumbing, air conditioning, washer and dryer, and access to excellent food, transportation, etc.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 02:13 PM (sM1IA)

31 Heh: "Congratulations to the IRS for signing a 10 year, $364 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers!"

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I remember when Pujols went and signed with the Angels. It was reported, I don't remember what the actual contract was, but let's say it was $250 million. Had he stayed in St. Louis, that would have been roughly the same as $180 mil there.

Good job. You got to play for the team that has had three of the best players of the 21st century, and has won exactly squat in that time (after 2002, I mean).

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:13 PM (QBaJw)

32 Or the Fourth World?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 10, 2023 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

Chicago, Philly, and Downtown Portland and DC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2023 02:13 PM (PQ4m2)

33 7 By the way The Texans are almost as bad as the Jets and this game is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2023 02:03 PM (PQ4m2)

This game may end as a 0-0 tie after overtime.

Texans' top two receivers are out. Tank Dell (out for season) and Nico Collins (injured in the first quarter and unlikely to return today).

Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2023 02:13 PM (5fDan)

34 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:09 PM (eh/tP)

If you designed it you have the engineering and the models. There's no reason why you can't generate a decent manual. Well, except for being lazy or incompetent.

I simply ask the author to accompany me to the aircraft and read the manual to them and ask them to do the task. Only needs to happen once. Then tell them they have to do it at night on the rooftop because the ship has a transport flight at 0dark thirty.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:14 PM (YRsIm)

35 21 'Installation is the reverse of removal'...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Define a "Hanes" manual without using the world "Hanes"...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Before Hanes there was MOTOR Auto Repair Manuel, it was good. Became too expensive to produce, I guess.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:14 PM (Dryq8)

36 Like many many things, the "three worlds" thing is a rlic of the Cold War. The First World was us-- capitalist, democratic, free, etc. etc. etc. What used to be called "Christendom" or "The West." Post WWII Japan (for example) complicated that, but anyway.

The Second World was the USSR and its client states. You know, the godless commies.

This is IMO the interesting part. The Third World was *supposed* to just be everywhere else-- the prospective battlegrounds the First and Second Worlds would compete over.

It kinda just so happened that those places are largely-- to use the technical term-- shitholes, and so that quasi-inadvertent common feature became, through synchedoche or whatever, the erstwhile defining factor in the eyes of many.
develop a new classification scheme.
After the USSR collapsed, the "Second World" ceased having any real meaning, and until an enduring caliphate or something rises again (or Russia changes significantly again), we maybe should maybe develop a new classification system.

Posted by: Professor Lance McCormick at December 10, 2023 02:14 PM (+6Zao)

37 I think the whole first through third world schtick is based on the medieval concept of the "three estates"

Along with the Republican French attitude on how to resolve it, which leads to the belief that "all those poors need professional representation"
that gives elites who fail out of being important in the first estate a chance to shine using their own subject populace.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (D7oie)

38 First world problems today are tornado related. No internet and my cell service just came back up. Lots of destruction from last night's storm.

Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (IPhOB)

39 Usually "bad instructions" are because they are written by someone in China. They don't speak English well, AND they don't seem logical or thorough in their writing.

And they likely stole the tech for their product, so don't even understand it very well.
Posted by: illiniwek at December

But rest assured that their product will produce joy and glass without dust in many colors for your happy life

Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

40 wait...now the purveyors of Woke propaganda have decided that FWP is offensive to Pyrsyns of Aggrievance?

that's funny. I recall a moment in the not distant past when my Millenial Woketard Coworker told me I was complaining about a FWP.

He said this as snark, of course, it was intended to shame my Caucasity.

I replied: "My family endured 3rd world problems for generations, please leave me in peace to indulge my FWPs."

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (1H/7H)

41 What is considered the Second World?

The old definition was that the First World was capitalist, the Second World was communist, and the Third World was non-aligned.

Nowdays, the Second World consists of countries that aren't quite developed, but are nice enough that First Worlders might consider living there - Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, and the like.

Not Honduras, Syria, or Afghanistan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (YAtuc)

42 I miss the time when we could unironically call our side "The Free World."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (g4+u

Quant, ain't it?

Places like South Africa, and... maybe Kenya? Seem to be far freer than we are here.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:16 PM (QBaJw)

43 Whe are companies going to lower prices on goods. Inflation is because we have greedy companies that want more profit and I call on these compnies to lose Millions a year to make me look good.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 10, 2023 02:17 PM (15lwl)

44 When I was in college the main geopolitical model was North v South.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

45 I'm privileged because I'm a white straight westerner, so I'm inherently better than everyone else, which makes me inherently worse than everyone else, which means I'm.... not privileged?

Every time these groin idiots make sounds come out of their faces, they woke themselves into a corner.

It's like the human incarnation of the indirect proof.

Assume something. Apply reason. Get an absurdity. Prove the opposite of what you assumed. Except instead of taking that last step towards growth and wisdom, they bathe in their monstrous absurdities like scrooge mcduck in a vat of ducats, luxuriating in the cargo cult counterfeit version of cleverness they've stumbled into.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2023 02:17 PM (9UlRk)

46 Or the Fourth World?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 10, 2023 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

Portland, San Francisco, Denver.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:18 PM (QBaJw)

47
"Congratulations to the IRS for signing a 10 year, $364 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers!"

That is funny, and oh so true. At least it will help balance the budget for about 27 seconds every year.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 02:18 PM (enJYY)

48 Further-- defeat at the Castle seems to have utterly disheartened King Arthur. The ferocity of the French taunting took him completely by surprise.

Arthur became convinced that a new strategy was required if the quest for the Holy Grail were to be brought to a successful conclusion.

Arthur, having consulted his closest knights, decided that they should separate, and search for the Grail individually.

Now, this is what they did...

Posted by: Professor Lance McCormick at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (+6Zao)

49 I think the term "Third World shithole" is an accurate description of most of it. There are some "Fourth World shitholes" like Haiti & Rwanda that are even further down the path of development, but that's sort of an aside. I also am rather distressed that an increasing number of places in the USA are resembling an accurate definition of the term.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (W+kMI)

50 17 Damn it! Read the content. Rookie mistake.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

We read the content because the cobs offer such meaningful pearls of wisdom!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:08 PM (eh/tP)
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Wait a minute, there is 'casting pearls before swine' ..... just saying since so many of us are probably set in our ways.
I missed the previous thread since I slept but this phrase definitely would apply to any ideas of nation building in Gaza. That place should be nuked from orbit.

Posted by: Ciampino - Be aware of programmers with soldering irons! at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (qfLjt)

51 I always thought 3rd world meant no working infrastructure like plumbing, heating, or Wawa.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (1H/7H)

52 Achually...

First World: Countries aligned with the Western Bloc (i.e., NATO and allies), led by the United States
Second World: Countries aligned with the Eastern Bloc (i.e., Warsaw Pact, China, and allies), led by the Soviet Union
Third World: The Non-Aligned Movement, led by India and Yugoslavia, and other neutral countries....Mexico was included.

Today the new "Media" depiction for third world is applied to any marxist/socialist based shithole that isn't actually "Russian", even those that are US/Nato allies(at least on paper)...and 2nd World NEVER gets mentioned.

Posted by: birdog at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (sYlnp)

53 When I was in college the main geopolitical model was North v South.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

Attended Washington College, did you? Or was it still called Liberty Hall Academy?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (QBaJw)

54 Didn't some biesbol player just sign with LA for $800M?

FWP right there.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (YRsIm)

55 I simply ask the author to accompany me to the aircraft and read the manual to them and ask them to do the task. Only needs to happen once.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Nice to be able to have access to the author!
Doesn't work with cars and Hanes, as soon as you get to any procedure that requires you to learn something new the manual says "take it to a mechanic". POS...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (eh/tP)

56 The District of Corruption has had 932 car jackings year to date. That's 80+ a month. For a municipality of 61 square miles.

Posted by: The capital of the free world is 3rd world at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (NBVIP)

57 Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2023 02:15 PM (IPhOB)

that's terrible. Of all the extreme weather possibilities, I hate strong winds the most. Wind makes everything that's already happening worse.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 02:21 PM (1H/7H)

58 First world cities are filled with human feces in the streets, rampant crime, open drug use and dead bodies. Ima going to continue to avoid anything lower on the "World" scale.

Posted by: LASue at December 10, 2023 02:21 PM (Ed8Zd)

59 51 I always thought 3rd world meant no working infrastructure like plumbing, heating, or Wawa.
Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (1H/7H)

These poor souls have to go to.... *shudder* QuikChek!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (9UlRk)

60 I miss the time when we could unironically call our side "The Free World."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 02:06 PM (g4+u

I recently heard someone (Andrew Heaton) quote a political theorist who's point was that there really weren't different types of political models, the actual difference between a monarchy, a dictatorship and a democracy was not basis of authority and style of administration, but is MERELY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THE LEADER HAS TO PLEASE TO STAY IN POWER.

Heaton also said he was pissed because so far he hadn't figured any contravailing real world examples to disprove this.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (D7oie)

61
So. todays first world problem is people don't like the term first world.

That is definitely a third world problem.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (7cPAc)

62 We are soon to be "enriched" by the third world to the point there will no longer be a "first world" at best we will get to keep a "first and a half world."

You are going to be thrilled when the newer better Americans pour so much grease down their drains that the municipal brown water system breaks down and becomes rat hives....

but as Schumer says "you fuckers are not fucking enough to fruition to keep the ponzi scheme going!"

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (X0I7i)

63 "Check your privilege" is just another way of saying "Censor yourself". It has been a goal of the left to censor the rest of us since the left came to be. Not content with that, they want us to self censor. To do their work for them. Don't fall for it.

Posted by: Chemist at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (PKI0C)

64 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (eh/tP)

I have to admit the manuals I bought for the Hog are pretty damn good.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:23 PM (YRsIm)

65 61 Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (7cPAc)

Second world problems-keeping your third world cousins from taking you to second a half world status.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2023 02:23 PM (X0I7i)

66 "Who is Ghana’s masked presidential contender?"

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Some are speculating it's a populist businessman, whose nickname is "Cheddar."

Here we go again, another Orangeman.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:23 PM (QBaJw)

67 63 Posted by: Chemist at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (PKI0C)

The "left" and "right" split is probably a result of differences in human cognition.

The left are inflictive of their imagination on reality and the right tend to be reactive letting reality impact their imagination.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2023 02:24 PM (X0I7i)

68 I also buy into the idea of "First World Problems." A designated First World Problem is some difficulty caused by our current Information Age society that causes an annoying problem that doesn't really hinder us. It's an excuse to complain to others, not to really point out a problem or beat one's breast about the status of life. :First World Problem" is shorthand for meaningless complaints by people who really have nothing to complain about. If Guardian-stooge had pulled his head out his ass, he would've known that Weird Al defined the term some years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvlbJ0h35A

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2023 02:24 PM (W+kMI)

69 "that's terrible. Of all the extreme weather possibilities, I hate strong winds the most. Wind makes everything that's already happening worse."

It was a scary big tornado. There are videos of it passing over Nashville on its way to Hendersonville and Gallatin.

Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2023 02:25 PM (IPhOB)

70 New World - US
. Old World - Europe, Japan
. Third World - everything else

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:25 PM (Dryq8)

71 To do their work for them. Don't fall for it.
Posted by: Chemist at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (PKI0C)

Far far worse.

They don't want you to self censor. They want you to don the dunce cap, self denounce, and then self delete.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2023 02:25 PM (9UlRk)

72 Ostentatiously questioning someone else's privilege to ostentatiously check their own privilege is about as First World a problem as can be.

Posted by: Casper the Friendly Ghost at December 10, 2023 02:26 PM (Bdsel)

73 Ya know, when "everything's a problem" nothing really is.

So, my go-to reply when someone, anyone says "that's problematic" or they're offended is "Yea, it is a problem, yours. Deal with it."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2023 02:26 PM (Q4IgG)

74 Didn't some biesbol player just sign with LA for $800M?

FWP right there.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (YRsIm)

$700 mil. Japanese two-way player, Shohei Ohtani.

Will be playing for the Dodgers. Because of course he will. Probably more Japanese immigrants there than NYC, but I assume it was going to be one or the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:27 PM (QBaJw)

75 I know all of you were worried about my door thumb latch. Rest assured...all is well.

Excellent. Awaiting news of the eventual outcome was almost more than we could bear.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 10, 2023 02:27 PM (V8he0)

76 Attended Washington College, did you? Or was it still called Liberty Hall Academy?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (QBaJw)
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My favorite textbook was "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:28 PM (RIvkX)

77 The free world is far from free. Soaring costs of living and ever-diminished personal liberty show this to be the case.

Posted by: Third-world government with first-world technology at December 10, 2023 02:28 PM (4tJWN)

78 FWP is having your computer crash and losing your fluid flow analysis data, and having to do everything with hand calcs.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (YRsIm)

79 Christmas lights.
My FWP.
I hate putting up Christmas lights with a passion that burns with the heat of a thousand suns. And every year I get guilted into doing it. And every year only half the lights on these Chinese strings of crap. So I have to spend what could be good bier money to buy more.
Bah!
HUMBUG!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (W/lyH)

80 they want us to self censor. To do their work for them. Don't fall for it.

Posted by: Chemist at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (PKI0C)
6

It's a big psy-op so they can keep us in control without having to use military force against us. And when we self-censor or allow others to silence our wrongthink, a population of Right-thinkers magically appears to keep all the heretics in line.

case in point: the Coof plandemic and vaaaaxxx roll-out

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (1H/7H)

81 I have to admit the manuals I bought for the Hog are pretty damn good.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Clymer did a good one for the Honda ST1100. I used it and the Honda manual and never had a problem.
I formed my opinion of Hanes when I was rebuilding VW Bugs in the 70s, my opinion didn't change when I checked them for F150s in the 90s.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (eh/tP)

82 I recently heard someone (Andrew Heaton) quote a political theorist who's point was that there really weren't different types of political models, the actual difference between a monarchy, a dictatorship and a democracy was not basis of authority and style of administration, but is MERELY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THE LEADER HAS TO PLEASE TO STAY IN POWER.

Heaton also said he was pissed because so far he hadn't figured any contravailing real world examples to disprove this.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2023 02:22 PM (D7oie)

Interesting distinction. And needless to say, the Left/Right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, to the point of being almost entirely indistinguishable.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (QBaJw)

83 You know how they tell you when you get a stye to wash your face put a warm teabag on it and wait for it to cure itself in a week or so?

I have no idea why I got that information when antibiotic salve works much better.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2023 02:30 PM (D7oie)

84 you go, CBD! a few times I have even used "fourth-world" and "fifth-world" to denote things or practices approximating the Paleolithic

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 10, 2023 02:30 PM (zer5o)

85 I don't know if I could be tempted by $700M to live and work in LA. I'd probably give it a try.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (YRsIm)

86 some people are more visual than others so here is an illustration guide.

squating to poop in the weeds : Third World

Sitting on an American Standard comfort height
Crapmeister 2000 to poop: First World

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (7cPAc)

87 83 You know how they tell you when you get a stye to wash your face put a warm teabag on it and wait for it to cure itself in a week or so?

Never heard of such a thing. Cooled used teabags for sunburn though, yes. Work really well.

Posted by: Teabagging. Good for what ails ya. at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (4tJWN)

88 My favorite textbook was "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:28 PM (RIvkX)

Luxury! You had books.

-- Vic, probably

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (QBaJw)

89 49 I think the term "Third World shithole" is an accurate description of most of it. There are some "Fourth World shitholes" like Haiti & Rwanda that are even further down the path of development, but that's sort of an aside. I also am rather distressed that an increasing number of places in the USA are resembling an accurate definition of the term.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 10, 2023 02:19 PM (W+kMI)
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One must differentiate amongst "Third World shitholes" (TWs). There is the physical TW such as you allude, places like Haiti, and there are political TWs, most African countries, many S. American, Canada, China and unfortunately the current USA. Actually Haiti is both physically and politically.

Posted by: Ciampino - Computers make very fast, very precise mistakes at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (qfLjt)

90 >>>Here we go again, another Orangeman.

Posted by: BurtTC a
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Orangemen are the result of wounds inflected upon humanity.
They are the few remaining white blood cells on this earth.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:32 PM (Dryq8)

91 Christmas lights are like boats. The best ones belong to other people.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 02:32 PM (NBVIP)

92 For instance Venezuela went from a 1st world country(and a successful economic, social, educational, powerhouse as the result) to a 2nd world Country, that nationalized it's business', seized most foreign assets, redistributed it's wealth and lands leading to a thorough economic collapse....and now to a 3rd world shithole where over 15% of it's working age population has fled....to the USA.

Posted by: birdog at December 10, 2023 02:32 PM (sYlnp)

93 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (eh/tP)

You're not a real mechanic until you've rebuilt a bug engine on the kitchen table.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:33 PM (YRsIm)

94 Had trouble sleeping since made aware of Baldwin thumb-latch debacle. Happy for positive resolution. Was recently a victim of poor Chinglish illustrations and instructions when recently installing a surface-mounted piano-type hinge to repair an entrance door. You'd think someone could print an intelligible instruction sheet.

At least I will sleep snugly, soundly tonight.

Posted by: Fountain of Misinformation at December 10, 2023 02:33 PM (83IzV)

95 I don't know if I could be tempted by $700M to live and work in LA. I'd probably give it a try.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (YRsIm)

You spend half your working months somewhere else. More than half, really. I'm assuming the Dodgers train in AZ?

The rest of the year you can bug out. Go back to Japan if you want. Which I assume, he does.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:33 PM (QBaJw)

96 FWP is having your computer crash and losing your fluid flow analysis data, and having to do everything with hand calcs.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

FWP?
It's winter in the frozen north and husband gets a call.
Mrs: Honey, Window will not open.
Mr: Pour hot water on it.
Call back in 10 minutes.
Mrs: Now the computer will not boot at all.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:34 PM (eh/tP)

97 >Here we go again, another Orangeman.

Posted by: BurtTC a
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What's your beef with Syracuse University?

Posted by: At least it's not Harvard or Penn at December 10, 2023 02:34 PM (4tJWN)

98 They refused to sell that text at the college bookstore, the professor made us go to Marcus Garvey Books in the 'hood to buy it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (RIvkX)

99 Take a first world, add millions of 3rd world citizens, you get a 2nd rate banana republic.

Posted by: TC at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (cHOHf)

100 Sitting on an American Standard comfort height
Crapmeister 2000 to poop: First World
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (7cPAc)

*Sigh*

We installed comfort height Kohlers at the house I just sold.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (QBaJw)

101 Far too often the phrase "first world problem" is an excuse for a "third world attitude" about actually fixing problems, a tolerane for shoddy work, a tolerance for filth, or a simple lack of trust.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (a/7LW)

102 *until you've rebuilt a bug engine on the kitchen table.*

Wait. Doesn't everyone do that?

Posted by: The 1970s at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (NBVIP)

103 Willowed from CBD's previous post on "nation bill ding":

"The ultimate difference of course is militant Islam."
-

Suggested rephrase: "Islam, which is militant (or totalitarian) by definition.

The term "militant Islam" makes it seem like "regular Islam" is not militant.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (PTdof)

104
Considering a hand shake using the hand you don't wipe your ass with a sign of respect: Third World

Wiping yer azz from a 24 pack of Cottonelle quilted scented TP then using hot water and antibacterial soap to wash hands: First World

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:36 PM (7cPAc)

105 " ... Except instead of taking that last step towards growth and wisdom, they bathe in their monstrous absurdities like scrooge mcduck in a vat of ducats, luxuriating in the cargo cult counterfeit version of cleverness they've stumbled into.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2023 02:17 PM (9UlRk) "

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 10, 2023 02:36 PM (zer5o)

106 Sitting on an American Standard comfort height
Crapmeister 2000 to poop: First World
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:31 PM (7cPAc)

*looks at Crapmeister1800*
*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2023 02:36 PM (W/lyH)

107 After the USSR collapsed, the "Second World" ceased having any real meaning, and until an enduring caliphate or something rises again (or Russia changes significantly again), we maybe should maybe develop a new classification system.
Posted by: Professor Lance McCormick at December 10, 2023 02:14 PM (+6Zao)

I like my new classification system.

Non-Shit Hole Or Shit Hole.

K.I.S.S...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 10, 2023 02:37 PM (R/m4+)

108 What's your beef with Syracuse University?
Posted by: At least it's not Harvard or Penn at December 10, 2023 02:34 PM (4tJWN)

I visited a friend at Ft. Drum eons ago. Had to drive through Syracuse to get there.

Through.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:37 PM (QBaJw)

109 78 FWP is having your computer crash and losing your fluid flow analysis data, and having to do everything with hand calcs.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:29 PM (YRsIm)
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Computers make very fast, very precise mistakes.

Posted by: Ciampino - Computers can never replace human stupidity at December 10, 2023 02:37 PM (qfLjt)

110 >>>92 For instance Venezuela went from a 1st world country(and a successful economic, social, educational, powerhouse as the result) to a 2nd world Country, that nationalized it's business', seized most foreign assets, redistributed it's wealth and lands leading to a thorough economic collapse....and now to a 3rd world shithole where over 15% of it's working age population has fled....to the USA.

Posted by: birdog
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In less than one generation.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:38 PM (Dryq8)

111 The term "militant Islam" makes it seem like "regular Islam" is not militant.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (PTdof)

True. My only point was that Islam's militancy waxes and wanes. But it is ultimately a militant political philosophy masquerading as a religion.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 02:38 PM (sM1IA)

112 So it's a toilet talk thread now?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 02:39 PM (NBVIP)

113 Losing your shit is part of fixing things

Posted by: Blacksheep at December 10, 2023 02:39 PM (i5xf4)

114
You're not a real mechanic until you've rebuilt a bug engine on the kitchen table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

You had a kitchen table? Luxury!
Used to do them in the street when we lived in apartments.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:39 PM (eh/tP)

115 Venezuela can thank USA Deepstate and Dominion voting systems for their inequity.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:40 PM (Dryq8)

116 Had trouble sleeping since made aware of Baldwin thumb-latch debacle. Happy for positive resolution.

Posted by: Fountain of Misinformation at December 10, 2023 02:33 PM (83IzV)

The struggle is real!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 02:40 PM (sM1IA)

117 Didn't some biesbol player just sign with LA for $800M?

FWP right there.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (YRsIm)

$700 mil. Japanese two-way player, Shohei Ohtani.

Will be playing for the Dodgers. Because of course he will. Probably more Japanese immigrants there than NYC, but I assume it was going to be one or the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:27 PM (QBaJw)

And last week a US golf pro jumped from the PGA to the Saudi LIV golf circuit, for something over $700 million for 10 years. Thar's TV contract gold in them thar hills! I keep telling myself huge sportsball player pay increases will soon have to end due to smaller and smaller TV money increases. I keep being wrong.

Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2023 02:40 PM (5fDan)

118 I've lived and worked in third world countries, albeit 40 years ago. They were dominated by petty graft. If you had enough money, and were supported by your company, you could live fairly well.

There was no TV, radio or phones but some say that was a plus. We drove, including my wife, and lived on the local economy for the most part.

My son worked in some of the same places five years ago and expats were not allowed off of company compounds without armed guards. They were completely isolated from the locals. Rampant crime, some supported by sate actors (not being paid off) was the main problem.

Paid well.

Posted by: javems at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (8I4hW)

119 You're not a real mechanic until you've rebuilt a bug engine on the kitchen table.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

But let that throttle cable slip through the fan housing just one time...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (W/lyH)

120 99 Take a first world, add millions of 3rd world citizens, you get a 2nd rate banana republic.

Posted by: TC at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (cHOHf)
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Take a first world, add millions of 3rd world citizens, you get a 2nd rate banana republic ...... With no bananas!

Posted by: Ciampino - Computers can never replace human stupidity.... at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (qfLjt)

121 Why is there a flywheel in the oven?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (YRsIm)

122 Which world is Portugal in?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 02:42 PM (NBVIP)

123 "People who read The Guardian embrace third-world policies. --
They live in pristine neighborhoods that Third Worlders don't live in. It's the working class of their counties who have to deal with the Third World invasion."

A lot of elitist hate for the rising middle class, may be because those surging middle classers are taking cruise ships and jets around the world, crowding the favorite places the elites thought was exclusively theirs.

That may be why they want to also eliminate travel and have 15 minute cities ... keep the masses in the hovels, working their mundane jobs. "Cell phones must be carried at all times, so we know where you are, and digital currency we control".

Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2023 02:42 PM (Cus5s)

124 >92 For instance Venezuela went from a 1st world country(and a successful economic, social, educational, powerhouse as the result) to a 2nd world Country, that nationalized it's business', seized most foreign assets, redistributed it's wealth and lands leading to a thorough economic collapse....and now to a 3rd world shithole where over 15% of it's working age population has fled....to the USA.

Same would've happened to Chile without Pinochet. It was dirty work but the country benefited in the long run. And yet there are even today academics who suck Salvador Allende's dick because "democratic process."

Posted by: Commie-loving idiots at December 10, 2023 02:42 PM (4tJWN)

125 The term "militant Islam" makes it seem like "regular Islam" is not militant.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2023 02:35 PM (PTdof)

True. My only point was that Islam's militancy waxes and wanes. But it is ultimately a militant political philosophy masquerading as a religion.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

It waxes when their percentage of the population exceeds 10-15% (see ME) and waxes only when they are defeated and kicked out (see Spain).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:43 PM (eh/tP)

126 Who ran connecting rods through the dishwasher again?

Posted by: Mom at December 10, 2023 02:43 PM (NBVIP)

127 My FWP today? Went to start the tractor, and the glow plugs didn't work. Turned the lever and the indicator "light" didn't come on. I put "light" in quotes, because it's not really a lamp; it's a coil of resistance wire in series with the current supply to the glow plugs, and when it glows bright red, one can be sure the glow plugs are also doing so. Very steam punk-ish, it is.

So I bypassed the indicator and switch with jumper cables, and cranked the engine. One cylinder fired, no more. Got a can of starting fluid, one little whiff, and off she went.

Was planning on doing some mods/service to the old darling come Springtime, I guess new glow plugs are added to the list.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2023 02:44 PM (s666+)

128 Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.

Posted by: That guy who always sings... at December 10, 2023 02:44 PM (V8he0)

129 >>>>Paid well.

Posted by: javems
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Americans are a commodity in many third world countries.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:45 PM (Dryq8)

130 "To pre-emptively concede that my problem is just a first world one is to ostentatiously check my privilege before anyone else tells me to do so. At the same time, I remind myself and everyone in earshot that we are indeed living in the “first world”. So it is also a humblebrag."

Leftist rules of discourse:
1. You are always wrong, despite how much knowledge, care and attention you give to your argument.
2. Since I disagree with everything you say, I am thus always right.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 10, 2023 02:45 PM (8Ta2Y)

131 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:46 PM (5HQE5)

132 CBD, you're certainly entitled to name or rename this weekly thread anything you wish ... In my mind, however, it will always be considered the AOSHQ Sunday Sages thread ... And I've been waiting all week for today's post so I could request sage feedback.

Hubby and I remodeled our kitchen in 2009 and chose Jenn-Air oil-rubbed bronze finished appliances, assuming replacement parts would be available for a long time ... One of these appliances was a double oven and the upper one still works; but the lower (which is used mainly for storing bakeware) stopped working on Thanksgiving ... Authorized service came out and determined the cooling fan quit and needed to be replaced; however, service tech called the next day to inform me Jenn-Air (now owned by Whirlpool) no longer manufactures this part ... Also, no longer available, is the bronze finish.

I plan to visit an appliance dealer to explore my options (am fairly sure their advice will be to purchase a total replacement); but I can't help but wonder if the bronze skin could be gently removed and re-installed over new units ... Has anyone heard of such a thing and what type of company might offer this type of service?

Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 02:47 PM (LPNLk)

133
*looks at Crapmeister1800*
*kicks dirt*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2023 02:36 PM (W/lyH)

An Al Bundy Deluxe model at that...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 10, 2023 02:47 PM (7cPAc)

134 Encircling North Korea with a wall of concrete fifteen miles high. Filling it with water and candiru and rubber duckies.

ZOD WORLD PROBLEM.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:48 PM (5HQE5)

135 If I come home and find varasol and engine parts in my washing machine again....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:50 PM (YRsIm)

136 >>Americans are a commodity in many third world countries. Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:45 PM (Dryq

.

Americans are food in many off-world countries.

ZOD WORLD PROBLEM.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:50 PM (5HQE5)

137 118
Posted by: javems at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (8I4hW)
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Sounds suspiciously like South Africa, particularly the lack of TV. RSA only got TV in 75-76. We missed Armstrong on the moon. I had to listen on the radio for that 'One step ....'.

The Nationalist government maintained TV was evil (funny that it was mostly correct). When the Minister for Posts & Telecommunications had to retire (scandal - he was a wild flower collector and was caught using Air Force helicopter to do that) then we got TV.

Posted by: Ciampino - Computers can never replace human stupidity... at December 10, 2023 02:50 PM (qfLjt)

138 Greetings! My FWP, I can't tell if the video of the crowd at the end of the Army Navy game is real or faked. The one where the crowd chants the F J B chant. Lots of military in the crowd would find themselves in a world of merde if real.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 02:50 PM (MeG8a)

139 Oooooo, we love glow plugs!

Posted by: Pete and Chasten at December 10, 2023 02:51 PM (83IzV)

140 It would be more humane to simply take out the Kim family and all the leadership.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:52 PM (Dryq8)

141 I sure Miele can unfuck Argentina.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 02:52 PM (YRsIm)

142 52 "First World: Countries aligned with the Western Bloc (i.e., NATO and allies), led by the United States
Second World: Countries aligned with the Eastern Bloc (i.e., Warsaw Pact, China, and allies), led by the Soviet Union"

Your "Second World" definition needs a bit of a tune-up!

Chairman Xi

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 10, 2023 02:53 PM (8Ta2Y)

143 112 So it's a toilet talk thread now?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 02:39 PM (NBVIP)

113 Losing your shit is part of fixing things
Posted by: Blacksheep at December 10, 2023 02:39 PM (i5xf4)

Especially toilets.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:53 PM (QBaJw)

144 Nice to be able to have access to the author!
Doesn't work with cars and Hanes, as soon as you get to any procedure that requires you to learn something new the manual says "take it to a mechanic". POS...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 02:20 PM (eh/tP)

Haynes used to be the best of the car/motorcycle manuals aimed at the home mechanic. Their boast was "every manual based upon a complete tear-down and rebuild". Part of the problem now is that cars and bikes contain so many black boxes, that without special proprietary tools, are impervious to the usual logical troubleshooting methods of even professional mechanics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2023 02:53 PM (s666+)

145 Watching Gladiator and the Battle for Carthage reenactment. My recollection of history is a little hazy. Were Scipio's troops all black and women?

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

146 >>But it is ultimately a militant political philosophy masquerading as a religion. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

"Politics" presupposes/allows for an ideological situation in Islam that does not conceptually exist. At its extreme, Islam doesn't allow for nationalism or sectarianism or, more to the point, nationalism; it assumes that 'dar al-Islam' has no need for political philosophy, and that once 'dar al-harb' is ended, singularity under Allah will be complete.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:56 PM (5HQE5)

147 >>>>Your "Second World" definition needs a bit of a tune-up!

Chairman Xi
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Chairman, your hell hole could use a bit of a tune up itself.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:56 PM (Dryq8)

148 the search string "jenn-air cooling fan" produces some possibles at Amazon website, there are also other appliance parts operations with quite good online presence that I have used.

you might need to find someone other than authorized service to do the install ... that person / firm is probably aware of the aftermarket options.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 10, 2023 02:56 PM (zer5o)

149 And last week a US golf pro jumped from the PGA to the Saudi LIV golf circuit, for something over $700 million for 10 years. Thar's TV contract gold in them thar hills! I keep telling myself huge sportsball player pay increases will soon have to end due to smaller and smaller TV money increases. I keep being wrong.
Posted by: Gref at December 10, 2023 02:40 PM (5fDan)

Jon Rahm, who just won the Masters (?) this year. Or last. I'm not a golf fan, just see the names here and there.

Why not. They want to pay you that much, it's not like being a Yacht Girl. You at least get to play for Saudi princes, without having to have sex with them.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 02:57 PM (QBaJw)

150 Were Scipio's troops all black and women?
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

No, your thinking of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.

Posted by: Harvard History Department at December 10, 2023 02:57 PM (R/m4+)

151 It may have been said before (in comments above), but the term "third world" is indeed an insult as it suggests some sort of parity, ranking, order of discovery, etc. with so-called old, new, first, or second worlds. This incorrect.
The correct term is "third world shit hole" because even amongst shit holes they third order higher, one hundred times shit holier than a common shit hole.
Anyone from a third world shit hole freely will acknowledge if given a chance, or tacitly by not being there anymore.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 02:58 PM (cOq4q)

152 If a significant percentage of your population go to a river to get their water then you are a third world country. Sorry India.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 02:59 PM (MNhXM)

153 I propose that 'dar al-harb' impose singularity upon 'dar al-islam'.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:59 PM (Dryq8)

154 Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:56 PM (5HQE5)

The operative word in my comment was "masquerading."

Those who actually have the power are rarely devout. They use an ersatz religion to acquire that power.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 02:59 PM (M5QzP)

155 >>Were Scipio's troops all black and women?
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

No.

First Division Bathsalt Gorilla Cavalry, which is why he won.

This is not taught in public schools.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 02:59 PM (5HQE5)

156 gourmand, this is the game played a few days ago?

funny how they're not reporting on that any more ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 10, 2023 03:00 PM (zer5o)

157 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 10, 2023 03:00 PM (T4tVD)

158 The term "third world" wasckined at the UN by a Secretary General from a third world nation...

Posted by: Richard Sean McEnroe at December 10, 2023 03:00 PM (8fxF+)

159 Well soon we will have enough 3rd World citizens to make us at least 2nd World
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2023 02:02 PM (fwDg9)
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2 1/2 world. Perhaps even 2 3/4 world.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 10, 2023 03:00 PM (ScR16)

160 "Operative words' are heresy.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 03:01 PM (5HQE5)

161 I could take a nap, but shouldn't

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2023 03:01 PM (fwDg9)

162 153 I propose that 'dar al-harb' impose singularity upon 'dar al-islam'. Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 02:59 PM (Dryq

This is acceptable. Make it so. Now.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 03:02 PM (5HQE5)

163 FWP: tha lil nugget dawg has fallen asleep on my lap and my coffee cup is approaching bingo.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 10, 2023 03:02 PM (YRsIm)

164 122 Which world is Portugal in?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 02:42 PM (NBVIP)
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The cities are FW and the countryside is TW. Case in point. An old school chum, lawyer living in England, retired to Portugal. Bought a small farm and grows olives for oil. Now quite a few years ago thieves stole the transformer that feeds his farmhouse (copper thieves) and the cheeky power company won't replace it, says it's his problem. So he can't run his PC all the time because he relies on solar panels and a battery. I consider that a TWP.

Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation. at December 10, 2023 03:03 PM (qfLjt)

165 No nap for me this afternoon. Looks like I'm gonna have to pull an all dayer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 03:03 PM (NBVIP)

166 We have one of those "comfort height" toilets. With the "power flush" option.

Because I'm full of shit. *so says the Mrs.*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2023 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)

167 Posted by: javems at December 10, 2023 02:41 PM (8I4hW)
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Sounds suspiciously like South Africa, particularly the lack of TV. RSA only got TV in 75-76. We missed Armstrong on the moon. I had to listen on the radio for that 'One step ....'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Computers can never replace human stupidity... at December 10, 2023 02:50 PM (qfLjt)

We live in Nigeria but I worked in West Africa cost countries, 76>82. Never made it to South Africa. Guys who did had separate piece of paper for a visa. A stamp in your passport from SA would have gotten you thrown out of many West African countries.

Posted by: javems at December 10, 2023 03:04 PM (8I4hW)

168 After an inordinate wait, the Golden Corral near me reopened and I dove right in and gorged. Mostly to see if my favorites survived (mac&cheese, clam strips, bourbon chicken, the roast&BBQ in recognizable form) or not. Pleased to say they did, most of the original staff showed up especially in the kitchen.

My FWP here? Ate so much I am definitely in discomfort.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 10, 2023 03:04 PM (KATBx)

169 woketards at U Penn not happy about Magilla's forced departure:

. In response to Ms. Magill’s resignation, a group of Penn professors denounced what they saw as outside interference that imperiled the university’s integrity.

must be nice to live in such an insulated bubble

the quote is from the NYT

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 03:04 PM (xUe+r)

170 The game was yesterday. Biden did not attend, contrary to custom. Should I post the X link?
It could be faked. Someone could have muted the sound and replaced it with a real F J B stadium chant.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:05 PM (MeG8a)

171 The Guardian is probably used as toilet paper in places. Sears Catalog anyone?

Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation. at December 10, 2023 03:05 PM (qfLjt)

172 >>glow plugs!
Posted by: Pete and Chasten at December 10, 2023 02:51 PM (83IzV)

Loving the new Cronus amplifier with exposed tubes. Goddamn, the sound...

(does "my god, its full of stars" Dave Bowman 2001 Space Odyssey face)

...is full of stars.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 03:06 PM (5HQE5)

173 The cities are FW and the countryside is TW. Case in point. An old school chum, lawyer living in England, retired to Portugal. Bought a small farm and grows olives for oil. Now quite a few years ago thieves stole the transformer that feeds his farmhouse (copper thieves) and the cheeky power company won't replace it, says it's his problem. So he can't run his PC all the time because he relies on solar panels and a battery. I consider that a TWP.
Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation. at December 10, 2023 03:03 PM (qfLjt)

Gotta say, I'm sorta siding with the power company. A more libertarian approach would be to have a privately owned transformer, one on which you can buy insurance and/or armed guards.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:07 PM (QBaJw)

174 Ah, community says faked, digitally altered.
As you were...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:08 PM (MeG8a)

175 >>Golden Corral buffet...Ate so much I am definitely in discomfort.
Posted by: irongrampa at December 10, 2023 03:04 PM (KATBx)

Anticipate with sublime satisfaction the pleasing void you'll sense after you shit the brick.

Posted by: ZOD at December 10, 2023 03:09 PM (5HQE5)

176 You are over the daily limit for sending posts.
It is only 2:11 PM here

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at December 10, 2023 03:11 PM (KZNpn)

177 woketards at U Penn not happy about Magilla's forced departure:
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. In response to Ms. Magill’s resignation, a group of Penn professors denounced what they saw as outside interference that imperiled the university’s integrity.
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must be nice to live in such an insulated bubble

the quote is from the NYT
Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2023 03:04 PM (xUe+r)

I agree. No government involvement with universities.

Including and especially, "loans" for students, as well as any tax breaks that are reserved for non-profit institutions.

You're not non-profit. And you aren't public.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:12 PM (QBaJw)

178 >>>The Guardian is probably used as toilet paper in places. Sears Catalog anyone?

Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation.

>The secret to a properly utilized Sears & Robuck was a meticulously maintained corncob. Running water could be an issue in many locations, but only a filthy hillbilly would overlook the proximity of running water.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 10, 2023 03:13 PM (klzFH)

179 >Apparently the phrase "third-world" is insulting and sexist and racist and causes terrible angst among a certain class of people.
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yeah well, sucks to be them
I was fortunate enough to be a US-born man and I make no apologies

now excuse me while I go polish my monocle

Posted by: Don Black, proud first-worlder at December 10, 2023 03:18 PM (geLO8)

180 My FWP is shopping for paper goods and determining the best value. Can I get a horde recommendation on paper towels? Costco?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 03:18 PM (NBVIP)

181 Watching Gladiator and the Battle for Carthage reenactment. My recollection of history is a little hazy. Were Scipio's troops all black and women?
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

And gay. You forgot gay.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 03:19 PM (g4+u8)

182 Steven has his very own website. He's a writer, producer, author writing in the Guardian, the Telegraph, WSJ and has also written several books. In fact, Wikipedia writes, "He particularly concerns himself with the abuse of language and has written two books on the subject..."

Certainly Privileged Steve is just being one, politically, with the masses. He has to reject any sincerity, humbleness, good natured self-depreciation in certain other members of the very privileged. In short, he's no different than Morning Joe's Joe, Mr. Mika, and the clown factories hither & yon throughout msm.

You be you. As the big boss said in Gung Ho, "I like you, you make me laugh."

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 10, 2023 03:19 PM (GshMh)

183 >Can I get a horde recommendation on paper towels? Costco?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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get the ones you can tear off in half sheets

Posted by: Don Black, proud first-worlder at December 10, 2023 03:20 PM (geLO8)

184 Can I get a horde recommendation on paper towels? Costco?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

*The* choice of the Better Half, and no others need apply.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 03:20 PM (eh/tP)

185
Ah, community says faked, digitally altered.
As you were...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:08 PM

I gotta say who ever came up with the community notes idea and the team that implemented it so quickly - they all deserve a six figure bonus this year.

I'm impressed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 03:21 PM (enJYY)

186 Alex Jones with Tucker Carlson is a must see item.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 03:22 PM (Dryq8)

187 *get the ones you can tear off in half sheets*

That seems to be the only thing on the market nowadays.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 03:23 PM (NBVIP)

188 My FWP is shopping for paper goods and determining the best value. Can I get a horde recommendation on paper towels? Costco?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2023 03:18 PM (NBVIP)

Bounty brand at Costco, especially if you can catch them on sale. Buy a couple of packs, they won't rot on you.

"With God as my witness, I'll never be without paper towels or toilet paper again!"

Posted by: Scarlet O'Hara at December 10, 2023 03:23 PM (g4+u8)

189 >>>Let’s be honest CBD. You’re dumber than the average moron.

Oh, and I understand that this here blog is not a democracy, so go block me because you don’t like someone holding you accountable for your blatant arrogant ignorance.

Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron

>Oof! I'll bet Ron is the life of the party everywhere he goes.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 10, 2023 03:23 PM (klzFH)

190 Bounty brand at Costco, especially if you can catch them on sale. Buy a couple of packs, they won't rot on you.

"With God as my witness, I'll never be without paper towels or toilet paper again!"
Posted by: Scarlet O'Hara at December 10, 2023 03:23 PM (g4+u

Home Depot brand are pretty good for the price.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 03:24 PM (MNhXM)

191 >>> Now quite a few years ago thieves stole the transformer that feeds his farmhouse (copper thieves) and the cheeky power company won't replace it, says it's his problem. So he can't run his PC all the time because he relies on solar panels and a battery. I consider that a TWP.
Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation

In that case, his electric consumption has been zero for a while and the power company knows it. Might as well bypass the meter and get his own transformer.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:24 PM (cOq4q)

192 I remind myself and everyone in earshot that we are indeed living in the “first world”. So it is also a humblebrag.

He's not wrong.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:25 PM (VbW3c)

193 Oof! I'll bet Ron is the life of the party everywhere he goes.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 10, 2023 03:23 PM (klzFH)

He's just looking for a response.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 03:25 PM (MNhXM)

194 >>>PS. I know all of you were worried about my door thumb latch. Rest assured...all is well.

Requesting photographic evidence of this to be posted on the AoSHq website, please.

Posted by: m at December 10, 2023 03:26 PM (CsHzk)

195
Alex Jones with Tucker Carlson is a must see item.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 03:22 PM

All cardboard level AoS memberships who don't watch it need a time-out. Just the humor when Alex tells Tater (after an indeterminate number of adult beverages with Tucker Carlson) he wants to date him (like AOS) is worth the time.

Just like that Elon puts Alex back on Twitter. A lot of lulz and lefty outrage is soon to come. Fvck em.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 03:26 PM (enJYY)

196 Unlike Yogi Bear, you and Ace are dumber than the average moron.

Average Joe is full of shit. CBD is no dumber than the average Moron.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:26 PM (VbW3c)

197 NYT twitter account:
Elon Musk Brings Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X
2 hours ago · Jones was banned from the social media platform in 2018 after posting harassing messages.

Yay!

Posted by: m at December 10, 2023 03:28 PM (CsHzk)

198 If a significant percentage of your population go to a river to get their water then you are a third world country.

Around here they use the L A river channels to toss their trash and junk in.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:29 PM (LkJuC)

199 Unlike Yogi Bear, you and Ace are dumber than the average moron.

Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at December 10, 2023 03:22 PM (KVm/I)

I hope you are better at sucking your mom's cock than trolling this blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (sM1IA)

200 Troll rolling his hash... unblockable; but, easily ignored.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (eh/tP)

201 >>>@148 ...The search string "jenn-air cooling fan" produces some possibles at Amazon website, there are also other appliance parts operations with quite good online presence that I have used. You might need to find someone other than authorized service to do the install ... that person / firm is probably aware of the aftermarket options. Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 10, 2023 02:56 PM (zer5o)
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Thank you, sock_rat_eez ... Believe it or not, the cooling fan for the upper Jenn-Air oven is a completely different part than the discontinued fan for the lower oven (confirmed by my direct conversation with Jenn-Air's parts division) ... So the Amazon possibilities are probably for the upper oven's cooling fan assembly ... Making matters less amusing is the double oven employs one control panel for both upper and lower ... I'll willing to travel this rabbit hole a little longer, but may just have to gracefully accept a replacement double oven in a second-choice color ... After a year or two of tunafish and hotdogs dinners, of course [sigh].

Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (LPNLk)

202 When you don't have dependable electricity, you are well on the way to a 2nd world civilization, at best.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (VbW3c)

203
'Conspiracy theorist' or 'conspiracy prove-ist' (with an asterisk for Sandy Hook)?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 03:31 PM (enJYY)

204 Requesting photographic evidence of this to be posted on the AoSHq website, please.

Boobs?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:31 PM (LkJuC)

205 Today's Conspiracy Theory is tomorrow's Old News.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:31 PM (VbW3c)

206 In that case, his electric consumption has been zero for a while and the power company knows it. Might as well bypass the meter and get his own transformer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:24 PM (cOq4q)

See: the illegal electric connections in India, where something like a thousand people a year are killed when hooking up.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 03:31 PM (g4+u8)

207 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (eh/tP)

Yeah he was looking for a response. Changing his post content is better than banning him . They hate that.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 10, 2023 03:32 PM (MNhXM)

208 179

Perhaps if you had given cogent arguments in support of your position instead of ad hominem attacks, people would take you seriously.

Posted by: Moki at December 10, 2023 03:32 PM (N43JC)

209 Alex Jones just did a "spaces" talk w a bunch of people including Elon and Vivek and many others. At some point Vivek forgot to mute his phone and proceeded to take a leak and flush and it all was heard on the conference call. The host said "Hey Vivek, mute yourself" and then Elon asked Vivek "Feel better now?"
It was funny as heck...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:32 PM (MeG8a)

210 The article writer is of course a pretentious a-hole. But it is also illustrative of the commie mindset. It is human nature to kvetch about whatever unexpected shit life throws at us. To demand "just shut up", if you preface your whining with 'I know this is a FWP' as the cue to the audience that you know it is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things you shouldn't whine about it at all is just snide and stupid. And equally stupid for to say I'm mot allowed to say FWP, when someone is whining about their mild nuisance of the day. Demanding I give full on sympathy to someone that is fussing about nothing much is right up there with demanding I respect their pronouns if they have the mental illness of sexual dismorphia.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 10, 2023 03:33 PM (3cGpq)

211 Weird Al, "First World Problems"

https://youtu.be/bwvlbJ0h35A?si=6wS5Td8sv946sJ9i

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2023 03:33 PM (KhYiQ)

212 Changing his post content is better than banning him . They hate that.
Posted by: Drive By redo

Yeah, ignored no matter what the troll posts so I will not know if his drivel has changed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 03:33 PM (eh/tP)

213 NYT twitter account:
Elon Musk Brings Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X
2 hours ago · Jones was banned from the social media platform in 2018 after posting harassing messages.

Yay!
Posted by: m at December 10, 2023 03:28 PM (CsHzk)

Truth = "harassing messages."

Just like Vanjones crying on teevee over Vivek being allowed to speak.

Democracy is a threat to their democracy.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:34 PM (QBaJw)

214 Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (LPNLk)

What about repairing the fan? I'll bet there are folks out there who can do it...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 03:34 PM (sM1IA)

215 >>> See: the illegal electric connections in India, where something like a thousand people a year are killed when hooking up.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Connectionis already there. Thieves pulled the switches to get the transformer w/o getting fried themselves.
Of course I am assuming the switches are there...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:34 PM (cOq4q)

216 All the intersectionality and DEI bullshit is the epitome of FWP

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (KhYiQ)

217 At some point Vivek forgot to mute his phone and proceeded to take a leak and flush and it all was heard on the conference call.

Our old minister did that once during church. He had ducked behind the alter area during a song but was still miked up.

I will say that he had a healthy stream for an old man.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (VbW3c)

218 Alex Jones just did a "spaces" talk w a bunch of people including Elon and Vivek and many others. At some point Vivek forgot to mute his phone and proceeded to take a leak and flush and it all was heard on the conference call. The host said "Hey Vivek, mute yourself" and then Elon asked Vivek "Feel better now?"
It was funny as heck...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:32 PM (MeG8a)

How loud was the splash? Is it true what they say about Asians?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (QBaJw)

219
When you don't have dependable electricity, you are well on the way to a 2nd world civilization, at best.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM

I was at the gym today and got hit with an ad from YouTube that sure sounded like Donald Trump talking about some 'Three minute hack' to protect your home electrical something or other when the grid goes down.

Like every-fvcking-thing anymore substantiating anything is a time sink. So I played some pickleball instead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (enJYY)

220 Admittedly I have had a few fermented beverages, but this is a great thread. Mucho gracias CBD.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (VloHh)

221 I must confess (possible FWP) that I forgot to mute myself while on a conference call in which I took the liberty of visiting the loo. They all had a good laugh at my expense.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:36 PM (MeG8a)

222 Glabble sneekhut broopkil doing

Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at December 10, 2023 03:36 PM (nyQSX)

223 Mucho gracias CBD.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (VloHh)

My pleasure!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 03:38 PM (sM1IA)

224 Not Fat Dumb Ron - (nyQSX)

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Before it disappears... New York Queer Sux?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:40 PM (QBaJw)

225
How loud was the splash?

Like a double cunted cow pissing over a cliff onto a flat rock?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:41 PM (LkJuC)

226 I fixed my first-world problem. Bathroom sink very slow, and the pop-up thing in the center was non-removable. Also, you're not supposed to use drain cleaner in bathroom sinks as it eats away at the PVC (I think).

Solution: bought a small plunger and literally plunged the crap out of it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2023 03:42 PM (CHHv1)

227 a few fermented beverages

Soon, soon.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:43 PM (LkJuC)

228 Firstest of FIRST World Problems: The Third World

Klaus,
Schwab

Posted by: Marooned at December 10, 2023 03:44 PM (kt8QE)

229 Ah, I replaced my plunger-stopper in the bathroom sink with a removable stopper that is all one piece, removable and very attractive. Not a screen or a rubber stopper. Looks like it was always there. Cost about 7 bucks.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 10, 2023 03:44 PM (MeG8a)

230 >>>@214 ... Thank you, CBD! ... I secretly wished the authorized service company could point me in the right direction for making that happen but, alas, they did not ... So I'll probably pursue this option by visiting a local business which sells replacement parts ... Another option I'll pursue is visiting a couple of local barber shops -- always a source of sage advice!!!

Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 03:45 PM (LPNLk)

231 Like a double cunted cow pissing over a cliff onto a flat rock?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:41 PM (LkJuC)

That or a hummingbird beating its wings, or somewhere in between?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:45 PM (QBaJw)

232 Liquid plumber is generally OK with PVC (note it comes in plastic bottle).
The crystal Draino types is hard on pipes in general and generates of lot of heat so not so good with plastic pipes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:46 PM (cOq4q)

233 201
... After a year or two of tunafish and hotdogs dinners, of course [sigh].

Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 03:30 PM (LPNLk)
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You have tuna with hotdogs? Rich.
We have one hotdog which we rub on the bread and, with the flavor, pretend we are eating it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation at December 10, 2023 03:46 PM (qfLjt)

234
Even Mel Torme is amazed at how well CDB does in society.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (enJYY)

235 My power company lineman neighbor told how he would be out in the middle of nowhere working an outage. Checking the supposedly dead line, he would sometimes find it live as some a-hole was running a generator without disconnecting from the main.
A quick touch of a jumper from the primary voltage to the back-fed line invariably solved the problem.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (g4+u8)

236 I'm no eco- obsessed do gooder but white vinegar works great for drain cleaning and toilet bowls

Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (HTgTz)

237 illegal electric connections

I forget how many times I had to call DWP about pirate wires from city street lights to bum camps under over passes.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (LkJuC)

238 We have one hotdog which we rub on the bread and, with the flavor, pretend we are eating it.

Sounds gay.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:49 PM (LkJuC)

239 Is it true what they say about Asians?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:35 PM (QBaJw)

It's twue! It's twue!

Posted by: Lily Von Shtupp at December 10, 2023 03:49 PM (g4+u8)

240 You have tuna with hotdogs? Rich.
We have one hotdog which we rub on the bread and, with the flavor, pretend we are eating it.
Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datainformation

We had to eat dirt while looking at a scavanged picture of a hot dog. On a good day we found clay and rolled it into a hotdog.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:50 PM (cOq4q)

241 Haynes

Clymer

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:51 PM (LkJuC)

242 >>>@226 I fixed my first-world problem. Bathroom sink very slow, and the pop-up thing in the center was non-removable. Also, you're not supposed to use drain cleaner in bathroom sinks as it eats away at the PVC (I think). Solution: bought a small plunger and literally plunged the crap out of it. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2023 03:42 PM (CHHv1)
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Greetings, BC ... I've had occasional luck sprinkling a tablespoon of TSP (trisodium phosphate) in the sink, adding a quart of almost boiling water, letting it sit for an hour or two, then flushing with regular tap hot water ... Just a suggestion.

Posted by: Kathy at December 10, 2023 03:51 PM (LPNLk)

243 We had to eat dirt while looking at a scavanged picture of a hot dog. On a good day we found clay and rolled it into a hotdog.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 03:50 PM (cOq4q)

Ha! You got to eat! We once subsisted for two months just sniffing the vapours from the exhaust at the bakery!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at December 10, 2023 03:53 PM (g4+u8)

244 hate putting up Christmas lights

Which is why a good redneck leaves them up all year.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 10, 2023 03:53 PM (LkJuC)

245 Tuna with hot dogs? wth

Think about what you're saying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 03:53 PM (RIvkX)

246 Checking the supposedly dead line, he would sometimes find it live as some a-hole was running a generator without disconnecting from the main.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (g4+u

I use a manual transfer switch so it is impossible for me to feed the main.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 03:54 PM (sM1IA)

247 Listening to Dave Smith as we speak. Dave is Dave, whatever.

He's talking about how Trump went after McCain, and says it was so far outside what any political advisor would have told him to do... and yet it worked.

Did it?

Is that comment perhaps the reason why Arizona, a state that WAS under Republican Party control, allowed them to steal the state from Trump in '20? And then from Lake in '22?

Just a thought.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 03:55 PM (QBaJw)

248 Solution: bought a small plunger and literally plunged the crap out of it. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2023 03:42 PM (CHHv1)
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There was a discussion a while back about this. There is a product, I think called zip strip that you can put down your sink drain and poll out a lot of gunk. It’s a thin strip of plastic with teeth on it. Your hardware store will have one.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 10, 2023 03:55 PM (VloHh)

249 Hunter Biden says the Republicans "are using eliminationist rhetoric" about him, just like the Nazis.

This dude's brain is toast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 03:56 PM (RIvkX)

250 >@226 I fixed my first-world problem. Bathroom sink very slow, and the pop-up thing in the center was non-removable. Also, you're not supposed to use drain cleaner in bathroom sinks as it eats away at the PVC (I think). Solution: bought a small plunger and literally plunged the crap out of it. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2023 03:42 PM

These barbed plastic strips you can shove down the sink and twist. I pull gobs of my wife's hair out of the drains

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 10, 2023 03:56 PM (WF/xn)

251 3rd world? Shitholes, the people there actually shit from boards with holes in them, or tiled boxes with holes in them, some just squat over holes in the ground. All shit in unplumbed holes.
4th world? The people do not even take the time to dig a hole...just shit right on the ground in random places, or in the very streams/rivers/ponds they get their water from. They also tend to behave as un-domesticated Animals in other ways as well.

Posted by: birdog at December 10, 2023 03:57 PM (sYlnp)

252 The terms were invented because They, Are, Accurate!!

Posted by: Bill R. at December 10, 2023 03:57 PM (7jz9P)

253 The first and only time I was criticized for using "third world" as a descriptor was by a German high school exchange student. She wanted me to say "developing country". I told her flat-out that many of the countries had already developed; they'd fallen behind because of economic factors, dictatorships, or other countries making advances. IIRC I used the example of Venezuela. It was pretty insulting to speak as if they were stone-aged civilizations. The brat didn't know what to say to that.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 10, 2023 03:57 PM (fxCK2)

254 Cobra Hair Snake 1.68 ft. L Drain Opener

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 10, 2023 03:57 PM (WF/xn)

255 I use a manual transfer switch so it is impossible for me to feed the main.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 03:54 PM (sM1IA)

You are a good man. It is all too easy to lash up a temporary connection back-feeding the house panel through, say, a 220 Volt clothes dryer outlet.

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at December 10, 2023 03:58 PM (g4+u8)

256 4th world? The people do not even take the time to dig a hole...just shit right on the ground in random places, or in the very streams/rivers/ponds they get their water from. They also tend to behave as un-domesticated Animals in other ways as well.
Posted by: birdog at December 10, 2023 03:57 PM (sYlnp
===
So you've been here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2023 03:58 PM (RIvkX)

257 “First World” is condescending, huh?

They can take it up with the social scientist that came up with it, and “Second World”, and “Third World”, and the sometimes referred to “Fourth World”.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 10, 2023 04:00 PM (gf2G9)

258 Hmmmm.... what about a tuna-melt dog? Top with tuna salad, cheese, throw under a broiler.... maybe top with a Sriracha mayonnaise or an old bay remoulade....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2023 04:00 PM (9UlRk)

259 Checking the supposedly dead line, he would sometimes find it live as some a-hole was running a generator without disconnecting from the main.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2023 03:47 PM (g4+u

I use a manual transfer switch so it is impossible for me to feed the main.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I use a manual transfer method as well.
Being in hurricane zone we sometimes lose power. Electrical company will usually go door to door in the affected area before working on the lines themselves. Usually just show them the manual house disconnect has been disconnected and they are fine. They figure if you have enough sense to disconnect from the grid before firing up your generator you have a clue what you are doing. For those that don't, they have to hire a licensed electrician who will insist on an automatic transfer switch (or no genny for you).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 04:01 PM (cOq4q)

260 Haynes

Clymer
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

You're correct of course!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2023 04:01 PM (eh/tP)

261 RINGS DINNER 🔔

FOODIE NOODIE

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2023 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

262 NOOD

Food Thread

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2023 04:02 PM (qPw5n)

263 Vivek: Nikki's first campaign ad sounded like a Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad.

Holy smokes! If I could watch the thing, and only hear his segments, I would, but someone would have to cut it that way for me. There's no way I'm listening to Fatass Donut man, or the Raytheon Nikki.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2023 04:03 PM (QBaJw)

264 >>> These barbed plastic strips you can shove down the sink and twist. I pull gobs of my wife's hair out of the drains
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

Full face shield highly recommended.
If not, at least don't rip that zip cord out with your mouth open.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2023 04:03 PM (cOq4q)

265 >>>Alex tells Tater (after an indeterminate number of adult beverages with Tucker Carlson) he wants to date him (like AOS) is worth the time.

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Posted by: Divide by Zero
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I wasn't going to tell them about that part.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 04:03 PM (Dryq8)

266 Or that Tater wanted his number.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 04:04 PM (Dryq8)

267 Is the word "Shit Hole" any better?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2023 02:02 PM (PQ4m2)
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Compromise: "Turd World."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2023 04:04 PM (eqpxU)

268 "Turd World" has to be San Francisco.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 10, 2023 04:06 PM (Mzdiz)

269 >>>>These barbed plastic strips you can shove down the sink and twist. I pull gobs of my wife's hair out of the drains

Posted by: Hatari somewhere
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Saw them at Homely Depot the other day. Surprisingly cheap.

I use a coat hanger.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 04:06 PM (Dryq8)

270
Or that Tater wanted his number.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 10, 2023 04:04 PM

It was just so good. I gotta imagine Elon watched and said, "If Tucker says he's okay, he's back."

Also - it's AOC not AOS. My bad.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 10, 2023 04:14 PM (enJYY)

271 The Grauniad is full of... nonsense...

Posted by: setnaffa at December 10, 2023 04:18 PM (Q6k9p)

272
Hunter Biden says the Republicans "are using eliminationist rhetoric" about him

Yes, Hunter, you are America's impacted colon.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 10, 2023 04:41 PM (cOy8+)

273 95 Mint does not belong in food. And that includes you loons who eat mint jelly with lamb.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2023 04:54 PM

Speaking as a Greek, who regards mint jelly as an offense against God and man, I can say with conviction, you are wrong and should seek culinary help.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2023 05:11 PM (aQy7p)
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Asterix always had mint sauce with wild boar. English custom to have mint sauce with pork roast. Also apple sauce. I pass and enjoy the natural flavor of the pork.

Posted by: Ciampino - Disinformation is not as good as datinformation at December 10, 2023 05:42 PM (qfLjt)

274 So you've been here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I used to live in Larkspur, restored a Mansion on upper terrace Owned by the SF City Attorney, worked on wooden boats and ships throughout the Bay.
Sailed...a Lot.
When I sold the house in Marin it was with the full knowledge and intention that I would not(and could not) ever live in California again.
Baghdad by the Bay used to be one of the WORLDS greatest cities...now an unwiped ass.

Posted by: birdog at December 10, 2023 09:11 PM (sYlnp)

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Posted by: dishwasher repair at December 13, 2023 03:43 AM (u59K3)

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