The Brothers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UNC Protected the American Flag from Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Activists.<br>People Have Sent Them Almost $400,000 for a Party.

The Brothers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UNC Protected the American Flag from Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Activists.
People Have Sent Them Almost $400,000 for a Party.

UNC fraternity brothers seen protecting U.S. flag in viral photo raise $384k for "the party they deserve"

Quick Hit:
A group of fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) have raised over $384,000 after a viral photo showed them protecting the U.S. flag during a protest. The funds, raised through a GoFundMe campaign, are intended to throw the fraternity "the party they deserve."
Key Details:
The fraternity brothers, members of Pi Kappa Phi, intervened when Palestinian protestors attempted to replace the U.S. flag with a Palestinian one.
Their actions were captured in a viral photo, leading to a GoFundMe campaign that raised over $384,000.
The funds are intended to throw the fraternity brothers a party, as a reward for their actions.

The GoFundMe is pretty funny:

Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan
The $400k "Phi Kappa Phi Rager" GoFundMe page has solid copywriting:
"Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."
"A party worthy of boat-shoed Broleteriat."

How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?

UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi Men Defending our Flag. pic.twitter.com/iy5AXb2Z3o
— D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) May 1, 2024

Does this mean something? Is this a moment that indicates something bigger brewing?

Compare them to this Uggo:

WHO DID THIS?!!? pic.twitter.com/EbsHDXZymG
— Jayroo (@jayroo69) April 30, 2024

Clarification: That is overdubbed video from Uggo's press conference before the raid. She really demanded that Columbia provide food and water to the hostile building-seizers. She did not specify anything about pizza or gluten allergies. That's overdubbed audio.

I thought everyone would remember the video, but I guess they missed it.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:16 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:15 PM (N1tpc)

2 st

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:15 PM (DRSnL)

3 DAMMIT

Anyway, good for them.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (DRSnL)

4 Frat boys.

Who would have guessed that frat boys are the vanguard of the Republic?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)

5 The $400k "Phi Kappa Phi Rager" GoFundMe page has solid copywriting:

"Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

"A party worthy of boat-shoed Broleteriat."
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"Broletariat" is pretty funny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (HnUIn)

6 It was typing that second letter that got you Jordan.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)

7 Broleteriat

*snort*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 12:17 PM (Q4IgG)

8 It was typing that second letter that got you Jordan.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)

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Heh, probably!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:17 PM (DRSnL)

9 Compare them to this Uggo
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Uggo? She's fucking hilarious

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:17 PM (ekpFK)

10 Good for them... Maybe there is hope

Posted by: it's me donna at May 02, 2024 12:17 PM (Akjoo)

11 Hi Ace

Love that you started with this. Really tired of the doom and gloom. Let's party!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)

12 How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?
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Extremely, I'm sure. Not that they did what they did, but that word got out and they were rewarded for it. Sends a bad message.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (HnUIn)

13 I'm surprised GoFundMe is letting it happen.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (xPl2J)

14 2 st
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:15 PM

We still love you, Bacon Wench!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (a3Q+t)

15 I hear Crystal Mangum is available to dance and entertain at frat parties, should the boys be interested.

Posted by: Big Tipper Bill at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (V5BDR)

16 12 How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?
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Extremely, I'm sure. Not that they did what they did, but that word got out and they were rewarded for it. Sends a bad message.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (HnUIn)

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"Trump's best friend the Koch Brother donated all of that money because the right is all grassroots!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

17 "Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

"A party worthy of boat-shoed Broleteriat."
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"Broletariat" is pretty funny.

As is Brohemian.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (CsUN+)

18 Frat boys.

Who would have guessed that frat boys are the vanguard of the Republic?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)
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Given that every war in human history has been fought primarily by angry, armed men in their early 20s, it isn't entirely surprising.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

19 Someone here got a trifle peeved when I said yesterday that I was proud of those young men. "Our country is over. Why raise the flag?" seemed to be their opinion. And I think the voice over for the stupid anti Semite woman is hilarious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (XkYcA)

20 Hurrah for the Union!

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (R00f2)

21 >>"Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

Perfection!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (cCVOS)

22 The totally fed up moment is coming. Happened in the 70s and will happen again. They've been able to get by with a lot. It's now affecting the lives of regular folks, who just want to be able to drive hime from work without being blocked and do not want to be taxed to pay off the loans of the kids doing this.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (yeEu9)

23 And I think the voice over for the stupid anti Semite Jewish woman is hilarious.

FIFY. I actually don't know if she's Jewish, but it seems plausible.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)

24 It's good, but it's also a tad bit depressing. A group of men doing what would have been par for the course mere decades ago is now so rare that when evidence of it arises, accolades flow like water.

They deserve their accolades and I am glad because you get more of what you reward, but it is nonetheless a reflection on the state of affairs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

25 'The Brothers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UNC Protected the American Flag from Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Activists.
People Have Sent Them Almost $400,000 for a Party.'

How we need these rare, positive articles to hammer in we're still the USA & have many brave, wonderful citizens.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (NFX2v)

26 "Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

White Claws? Is this a gay fraternity?

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (DRSnL)

27 We still love you, Bacon Wench!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:18 PM (a3Q+t)

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And I love you, Duncan!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (DRSnL)

28 Who would have guessed that frat boys are the vanguard of the Republic?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)

Who would have guessed a brash loudmouth invariably self-promoting playboy real estate mogul from one of the most leftarded places in the country would be said same

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (ekpFK)

29 15 I hear Crystal Mangum is available to dance and entertain at frat parties, should the boys be interested.
Posted by: Big Tipper Bill
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I think she is actually serving hard time now in prison for murder since 2013.

A reminder to teh frat boys, cray cray is never worth it unless perhaps you are Elon Musk with superpowers to pacify it for a time.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (peJ7P)

30 About that that Jayroo video parody of the sadly-not-parody of the Jewish Lesbian 6 demanding food for the brave revolutionaries:

Who the fuck is that flaming homo non-binary queenie dicksmoker on the right?

So many of these terror whores are flaming homos and clamdiggers. There's a lesson here, ya know?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

31 The totally fed up moment is coming. Happened in the 70s and will happen again. They've been able to get by with a lot. It's now affecting the lives of regular folks, who just want to be able to drive hime from work without being blocked and do not want to be taxed to pay off the loans of the kids doing this.

I...hope you aren't threatening me with the return of disco and leisure suits.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)

32 That voiceover wins the internet today.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (/QIWP)

33 White Claws? Is this a gay fraternity?
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (DRSnL)
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I would be utterly shocked if White Claw is not a fraternity staple.

Chicks love it, so it's going to be omnipresent. Anything that is omnipresent will be happily consumed by default.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

34 Greetings! This is a consistent characteristic of the Left. They take the worst examples of humanity (G. Floyd, the fakestinians, cop killers, drug dealers) and exalt them on high.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (MeG8a)

35 Broleteriat Freikorps...

Gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (4a+k3)

36 Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (DRSnL)

I don't love you, it's more an extremely rarified like.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (ekpFK)

37 Black bloc attire for rioting: $800
College tuition wasted when expelled: $130k

White frat bros earning $400k to party for open rejection your anti-America antifa values: PRICELESS

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (cCVOS)

38 31 The totally fed up moment is coming. Happened in the 70s and will happen again. They've been able to get by with a lot. It's now affecting the lives of regular folks, who just want to be able to drive hime from work without being blocked and do not want to be taxed to pay off the loans of the kids doing this.

I...hope you aren't threatening me with the return of disco and leisure suits.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)

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Disco >>>>>>>>> Miley Cyrus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

39 24 It's good, but it's also a tad bit depressing. A group of men doing what would have been par for the course mere decades ago is now so rare that when evidence of it arises, accolades flow like water.

They deserve their accolades and I am glad because you get more of what you reward, but it is nonetheless a reflection on the state of affairs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

My children ... fruit of my loins ...

Posted by: Rick Monday at May 02, 2024 12:23 PM (TTAGa)

40 Just saw a picture on Facebook of 1938 Vienna SA standing on the steps & blocking Jewish Students from attending The University of Vienna.

Could have easily been a picture of UCLA or Columbia 2024.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:23 PM (+98Vn)

41 This is the real reason academia hates fraternities: they're overwhelmingly patriotic and conservative (to the extent that one is conservative at that age). I suspect the UNC Pi Phi's will have the pick of the litter and a record number of pledges come fall rush.

Posted by: Bert G at May 02, 2024 12:23 PM (VARTN)

42 I was more impressed with the one guy acting solo holding the Israeli flag. Solo…

Honestly from the video it did not look like a hostile environment. Good for them but I don’t think they were in peril

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:23 PM (+r3lU)

43 "Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

I hear this in my head in Steve Inman's voice. I hope he actually does it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

44 BroMorons!

Posted by: RI Red at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (8w9us)

45 Disco >>>>>>>>> Miley Cyrus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Amen. No contest.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (/QIWP)

46 Remember when the baseball player Rick Monday stole the flag from the kids who were going to burn it in the outfield?

No idea why it came to me. Probably misfiring neurons.

I may be dying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

47 @JeffGoldklang
Our son's fraternity is going viral for holding an American flag off of the ground, respecting all that it has stood for. 99.9% of the positive response has been GOP or right of center. Has it become bad politics for Democrats to respect our flag? I feel it has, which is brutal.

Where's this dickhead been for the past forty years?

Driving around neighborhoods, I can tell instantly whether or not the owner of a particular home is conservative - Liberals refuse to fly the Colors.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (/nCD+)

48 That voiceover wins the internet today.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (/QIWP)

Honestly the best thing I've seen this year

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (ekpFK)

49 I...hope you aren't threatening me with the return of disco and leisure suits.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)
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If that means beating back the left, sign me up. Not kidding. I'll go to a tailor right now and get fitted for a leisure suit and crank Donna Summer at top volume through my Hi-Fi.

Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

50 I...hope you aren't threatening me with the return of disco and leisure suits.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM

Well, I'm not tanned, but I'm rested, and ready!

Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (a3Q+t)

51 23 And I think the voice over for the stupid anti Semite Jewish woman is hilarious.

FIFY. I actually don't know if she's Jewish, but it seems plausible.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)
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She is definitely Jewish. Her name is Johannah King-Slutzky. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

52 23 Some campus Jewish paper featured an article on how the previously noble Slutzky tried to organize Columbia employees. Now. I guess she's demoted to JINO.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (Zzbjj)

53 46 Remember when the baseball player Rick Monday stole the flag from the kids who were going to burn it in the outfield?

No idea why it came to me. Probably misfiring neurons.

I may be dying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

I'm right here at #39 ya know ...

Posted by: Rick Monday at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (TTAGa)

54
Pizza without the 00 flour, cheese, or tomato sauce. Gotta try that sometime.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (RKVpM)

55 That voiceover wins the internet today.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous, although in this case, those to be destroyed are doing a pretty good job on their own.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (CsUN+)

56 Pretty sure my frat would have called you a fag if you showed up with white claws. Then again we probably couldn’t afford them anyway.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (JTwsP)

57 Pershing's Rifles. Does it still exist?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (V5eKu)

58 It's good, but it's also a tad bit depressing. A group of men doing what would have been par for the course mere decades ago is now so rare that when evidence of it arises, accolades flow like water.

I'd argue that it's so rare in part because the accolades weren't happening. People like to be validated.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

59 28 Who would have guessed that frat boys are the vanguard of the Republic?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (N1tpc)

Who would have guessed a brash loudmouth invariably self-promoting playboy real estate mogul from one of the most leftarded places in the country would be said same
Posted by: ...
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The Lord has a pretty wicked sense of humor about who he chooses to implement his will. A good reminder why Christ was found socializing with outcasts of his time like tax collectors. He said in his defense something to the effect that when one is sick (aka a sinner) that they need a doctor more than someone who is well.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (peJ7P)

60 53 I'm right here at #39 ya know ...
Posted by: Rick Monday at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (TTAGa)

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Listen, I woulda been first, but I had to look up your name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

61 Anything that is omnipresent will be happily consumed by default.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

*Milwaukees Best and Icehouse have entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (CIS44)

62 When they donate that money to a Jewish cause, THAT'S when the lefties will truly lose it.

Posted by: Ktgreat at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (ei7q6)

63 I saw the Boat-Shoed Broleteriat open for the New Brohemians at The Boathouse @Bessies in '88.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (BENy5)

64 >>Has it become bad politics for Democrats to respect our flag? I feel it has, which is brutal.

Nice of you to finally notice, dude, where the H#ll have you been for the past few decades?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (cCVOS)

65 Slutzky?

No relation to S. fluke?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (RhjSY)

66 I may be dying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM

Are you seeing any Ridley Scott visual effects pass before your eyes?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (a3Q+t)

67 "How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?"

They will be relentlessly smearing and attacking them like they did Nicholas Sandman, because he is white and privileged and patriotic. If they haven't already.

Posted by: Ripley at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (JojsZ)

68 Disco should come back. Dancing with hot, dressed up woman is fun. Think of the incels!

Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (Z8Yh2)

69 Sounds like an antipizza. I should trademark that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (JTwsP)

70 King Floyd >>>>>> King Slutzky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAE91VK8d8I

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (/QIWP)

71 I'd argue that it's so rare in part because the accolades weren't happening. People like to be validated.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (2ocoG)
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Absolutely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (HnUIn)

72 58 It's good, but it's also a tad bit depressing. A group of men doing what would have been par for the course mere decades ago is now so rare that when evidence of it arises, accolades flow like water.

I'd argue that it's so rare in part because the accolades weren't happening. People like to be validated.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

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I'd also argue that what trends is manipulated and small acts of defiance against leftist trends don't get the kind of exposure on purpose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

73 58 It's good, but it's also a tad bit depressing. A group of men doing what would have been par for the course mere decades ago is now so rare that when evidence of it arises, accolades flow like water.

I'd argue that it's so rare in part because the accolades weren't happening. People like to be validated.
Posted by: Ian S.
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True, and the US media has resolutely refused to cover acts of decency, honor, and kindness in favor of depravity, dishonor, and evil.

Turn them off and defund them and that includes the paid opposition media on the Right as well.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (peJ7P)

74 Has Wray sent a team to question this frat, or perhaps Wray sent some White Supremacists (FBI assets) to make them look "racist"?

Or maybe the college prezzie will find a way to punish the frat for interfering with Hamas' "free speech/riot".

Posted by: illiniwek at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (Cus5s)

75 Pretty sure my frat would have called you a fag if you showed up with white claws. Then again we probably couldn’t afford them anyway.

I wasn't in a frat, but my understanding from talking to frat guys was that the prime directive was always "can you get drunk from it?", and White Claws do qualify. They're a lot more expensive than Natty Light though.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

76 We're throwing an intergalactic kegger here.

Posted by: Zed at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (wzAuc)

77 Disco should come back. Dancing with hot, dressed up woman is fun. Think of the incels!
Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (Z8Yh2)
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LOL. It ain't the music. That never went away. Nightclubs are nightclubs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (HnUIn)

78 This is great, I am so glad to see that in the sea of insanity, there remains a few islands of sane.

This is my FIL’s Alma Mater. He was very upset J went to UGA and not UNC. And then upset again he didn’t follow his law school footsteps at Wake Forest. Which has nothing to do with anything. Go frat boys, glad to see this!

Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

79 White Claws? Is this a gay fraternity?
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (DRSnL)
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WC is surprisingly a Bro Drink and I wouldn't be surprised if its stocked at every frat in the country. If not for the brothers, than for the girls they hope to entertain. I personally dislike WC and wouldn't be caught dead with it, but there are a lot of straight, self-respecting guys who drink it regularly.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

80 This is the real reason academia hates fraternities: they're overwhelmingly patriotic and conservative (to the extent that one is conservative at that age). I suspect the UNC Pi Phi's will have the pick of the litter and a record number of pledges come fall rush.
Posted by: Bert G

I suspect the UNC Pi Phi's will have the pick of the litter and a record number of sororities come fall rush.

Conservative women love stronk conservative men.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (+98Vn)

81 That last video has GOT to be epic trolling.

The last statement may be the tell..."we'll just go home to Mommy."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (7fElN)

82 Pretty sure my frat would have called you a fag if you showed up with white claws. Then again we probably couldn’t afford them anyway.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:25 PM

Same here. We drank a lot of $7/case Natural Light.

Posted by: Bert G at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (VARTN)

83 We promise them a Brohemian behind every blade of grass

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (5C4od)

84 I'd also argue that what trends is manipulated and small acts of defiance against leftist trends don't get the kind of exposure on purpose.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. Has my "is this what it seems" sensor pegging.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

85 66 I may be dying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM

Are you seeing any Ridley Scott visual effects pass before your eyes?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (a3Q+t)

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Half-Vietnamese, half-French spy in a liquor store in Los Angeles...

Close enough?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

86 One thing this out and proud antisemitism is likely doing is ruining the Trump Hitler Narrative.

This is why I'm sure they keep having to push these viral messages that Biden is a Staunch Defender of Israel and Boy Is It Going To Cost Him.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (ekpFK)

87 WC is surprisingly a Bro Drink and I wouldn't be surprised if its stocked at every frat in the country. If not for the brothers, than for the girls they hope to entertain. I personally dislike WC and wouldn't be caught dead with it, but there are a lot of straight, self-respecting guys who drink it regularly.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (iFTx/)
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Like "premium malt beverages" before it, it achieved what Zima could not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (HnUIn)

88 67 "How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?"

They will be relentlessly smearing and attacking them like they did Nicholas Sandman, because he is white and privileged and patriotic. If they haven't already.
Posted by: Ripley
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Shit that flies during good times tends to backfire on those throwing shit in bad times. I get a strong feeling that people have had enough of the wailing spoiled multicultural brats that higher ed has been churning out. Bad times lead to recovery of forgotten virtues by society regardless of what the media says.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (peJ7P)

89 Only $400 grand? I am going to have to scale back a bit.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (ZV+pB)

90 I like White Claw

Posted by: it's me donna at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (Akjoo)

91 Like "premium malt beverages" before it, it achieved what Zima could not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at M

Zima with a jolly rancher in it was a mainstay of my HS.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (CIS44)

92 King Floyd >>>>>> King Slutzky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAE91VK8d8I
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (/QIWP)

Love me some King Floyd!

Groove Me!

RIP King.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (4a+k3)

93 I had a Michelob once. And an Icehouse once. Shitty beer is just not for me.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (ekpFK)

94 > The totally fed up moment is coming.
__________

Hope so. I always said that nothing would change until enough normal people were getting inconvenienced by this shit. *biden was/is/did going to say "something" about all this today IIRC.

Doubt it will reflect the overall mood the general public's in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (Q4IgG)

95 It is a feel-good story. But, let's be real here, CNN is going to assign an army of reporters to dig up dirt on these guys and find out every individual donor looking to smear everyone involved.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (i7Q7S)

96 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (+r3lU)

97 How many fake rape accounts will the frat boys of chapel hill be accused of after the rager? Gotta get them off campus somehow.

Posted by: nckate at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (4bYb7)

98 The pikes at my school were known as the Jewish frat. Don’t know if it was the same everywhere. Mine was known as the retards always on probation. We’d get off probation, throw a party, the get right back on probation.

Once had the police, fire dept, and SPCA show up to the same party. They took our goat, man!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (JTwsP)

99 One thing this out and proud antisemitism is likely doing is ruining the Trump Hitler Narrative.

This is why I'm sure they keep having to push these viral messages that Biden is a Staunch Defender of Israel and Boy Is It Going To Cost Him.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (ekpFK)

This is a very good point.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)

100 I don't love you, it's more an extremely rarified like.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (ekpFK)

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I'll just have to try harder, then.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (DRSnL)

101 Disco should come back. Dancing with hot, dressed up woman is fun. Think of the incels!
Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (Z8Yh2)
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LOL. It ain't the music. That never went away. Nightclubs are nightclubs.

I want the energy in the clubs.

Posted by: Guess who? at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

102 >>I'd argue that it's so rare in part because the accolades weren't happening. People like to be validated.

Two words: "Toxic masculinity"
There has been a war on normal male behavior for years now. It's past time to start rewarding healthy expressions of masculinity, especially because they are no longer appreciated or praised.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (cCVOS)

103 "Moderate" Joe Biden said that you have a right to protest, but also trashing the campus is wrong.

LOL, what leadership pudding brain is showing today.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (i7Q7S)

104 "Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

"A party worthy of boat-shoed Broleteriat."
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"Broletariat" is pretty funny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:16 PM (HnUIn)

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As long as there isn't a checkered tablecloth in sight.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (unUNN)

105 How many FBI glowies will be attending that party?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (JLq/1)

106 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (+r3lU)
++++
Here's a hot Ukrainian chick with her band performing a cover of "Stayin' Alive:"
https://youtu.be/bvCp-zxnCs4

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)

107 I don't love you, it's more an extremely rarified like.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:22 PM (ekpFK)

=====

I'll just have to try harder, then.
Posted by: Jordan61 at

She gives the bacon, what more could you want???

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (CIS44)

108 Let's hope that they have a showing of "Animal House" and "PCU" while throwing the party.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (RhjSY)

109 93 I had a Michelob once. And an Icehouse once. Shitty beer is just not for me.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (ekpFK)

Uitca Club Splits ...

Never lasts long enough to get warm

Posted by: browndog has next at Foosball at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (TTAGa)

110 Half-Vietnamese, half-French spy in a liquor store in Los Angeles...

Close enough?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM

If. You. Were dying. *verticle hand chop* You. Would be. Seeing. Me. *shrug*

Posted by: William Shatner at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (a3Q+t)

111 They should invite that Chad Kroeger guy who was always going to those LA City Council meetings to defend house parties.

Posted by: Lex at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (fMN7A)

112 96 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at

It's just your jive talkin'
You're telling me lies, yeah

Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

113 Wanna buy the bros a beer myself.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (Y6Wgg)

114
Pallets of Einstein Brothers Bagels arrive at Fort Smellies

REEEEEEEESES!!!!!

WE TOLD YOU --- NO BAGELS!!!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (xG4kz)

115 Love me some King Floyd!

Groove Me!

RIP King.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Always on my playlist, when I listen to Soul. 😁

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (/QIWP)

116 We can expect 90 professors to sign a letter of condemnation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

117 Young straight white men fighting for what's good and right actually isn't as much of a shock as one would think.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (ekpFK)

118
I had a Michelob once. And an Icehouse once. Shitty beer is just not for me.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM

I had a Michelob at a Busch Gardens in Florida once. I guess because it's brewed and served onsite almost immediately they don't have to put any bad shit in it to preserve it.

It was freakin' phenomenal. I had some over the years and it just could never approach that BG experience.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (RKVpM)

119 Once had the police, fire dept, and SPCA show up to the same party. They took our goat, man!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

If you haven't been to the Texas MoMe, you definitely should come.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (t/2Uw)

120 That last video has GOT to be epic trolling.

The last statement may be the tell..."we'll just go home to Mommy."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2024 12:28 PM (7fElN)

Truth.

But if it were real trolling, the line would have been "...we'll just go home to our two mommies."

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (Pz3g2)

121 The totally fed up moment is coming. Happened in the 70s and will happen again. They've been able to get by with a lot. It's now affecting the lives of regular folks, who just want to be able to drive hime from work without being blocked and do not want to be taxed to pay off the loans of the kids doing this.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2024 12:19 PM (yeEu9)

For 40 years things have, generally speaking, gotten better - provided you weren't paying close attention and most people don't. When things are getting better, and you expect them to continue getting better, you put up with a lot... more than you should.

Things are no longer getting better. The vast majority know it, even if some of them lie to themselves about it. Everything... everything is falling apart and, in their hearts, people know why. They know why and it pisses them off... but the left hasn't been trained to lie low and be circumspect.

Things are gonna get real ugly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (IUd0M)

122
Jayroo
@jayroo69

WHO DID THIS?!!?

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

Damn, when andycanuck posted that yesterday I thought it was real; wifey points out that it's been overdubbed.

Hilarious, Babylon Bee-worthy shit right there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (BENy5)

123 Hope so. I always said that nothing would change until enough normal people were getting inconvenienced by this shit. *biden was/is/did going to say "something" about all this today IIRC.

Doubt it will reflect the overall mood the general public's in.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Preference cascades are a thing which is why the media propaganda machine is desperately churning out RACISTS, HOMOPHOBIC, GENOCIDAL, at eleventy pieces. Twon't work except on people of a certain age that still have the illusion that the media (including those supposedly on the right like Fox) actually report the news.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:34 PM (peJ7P)

124 Good job men!

Posted by: Diogenes (Sigma Chi) at May 02, 2024 12:34 PM (W/lyH)

125 In addition to the monies, people should start donating modern sporting arms that are in common use to the frats.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:34 PM (aFNOf)

126 The pikes at my school were known as the Jewish frat. Don’t know if it was the same everywhere. Mine was known as the retards always on probation. We’d get off probation, throw a party, the get right back on probation.

Once had the police, fire dept, and SPCA show up to the same party. They took our goat, man!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM

Our Pikes were the jocks. The city police chief once showed up at my fraternity's (off campus) house, shook his head, and told us we were "headed to hell in a bobsled".

Posted by: Bert G at May 02, 2024 12:34 PM (VARTN)

127 I'm surprised they didn't send the shock troops in to beat and arrest the frat bros.

I suppose we can expect some convenient accusations to surface soon and some Federal prosecutors to get involved. Celebrating America will NOT go unpunished.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:34 PM (ekpFK)

128 Does this mean something? Is this a moment that indicates something bigger brewing?

..

No.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 02, 2024 12:35 PM (Hn5Yb)

129 My fraternity was 50/50 politically speaking. But even the lefties would have punched any asshole who fucked with the flag. This was in America 1.0 though.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2024 12:35 PM (Y6Wgg)

130 I thought it was real until the mommies part. But I have a pretty low opinion of those people.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 02, 2024 12:35 PM (JTwsP)

131 But if it were real trolling, the line would have been "...we'll just go home to our two mommies."
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (Pz3g2)

Sometimes you gotta just keep it on the target

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:35 PM (ekpFK)

132 87 WC is surprisingly a Bro Drink and I wouldn't be surprised if its stocked at every frat in the country. If not for the brothers, than for the girls they hope to entertain. I personally dislike WC and wouldn't be caught dead with it, but there are a lot of straight, self-respecting guys who drink it regularly.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:27 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Like "premium malt beverages" before it, it achieved what Zima could not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (HnUIn)
_______

Yea, WC is basically a lightly less-sweet Zima. Yet Zima was mocked and despised by guys, and even girls and homos didn't like it. It was a failure and disappeared. But not too long after, WC entered the market and was so successful there are now dozens of imitators.

This is actually the story with light beer too. Many products were launched. All failed. Guys hated them. Then, out of nowhere, came (IIRC) Lite beer that was no different than any other failed light beer. But it had the "tastes great, less filling" campaign. Boom. Light beer soon took over the market.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

133 Yeah, that girl is ugly. Inside and out.

But what about the soy-fed femboy behind her?
That's the "men" that are looking for poon at these protests.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (yikga)

134
When will local law wnforcement entities release booking photos and names of the smellies so that we can begin circulating "Do Not Hire These People" flyers and web sites?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (xG4kz)

135 Things are no longer getting better. The vast majority know it, even if some of them lie to themselves about it. Everything... everything is falling apart and, in their hearts, people know why. They know why and it pisses them off... but the left hasn't been trained to lie low and be circumspect.

Things are gonna get real ugly.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Very well said, far better than I.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (peJ7P)

136 People largely don't realize these Marxists don't want a conversation. They've already lost the intellectual argument, so they're moving to the next phase. This is about a fight for the soul of our country, which these terrorists want to destroy. There is more to come, and it's going to increasingly become a struggle that's based on violence. These people need to be crushed, but you know, go after those conservatives. They're the real threat.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (DixIx)

137 Jayroo
@jayroo69

WHO DID THIS?!!?

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

Damn, when andycanuck posted that yesterday I thought it was real; wifey points out that it's been overdubbed.

Hilarious, Babylon Bee-worthy shit right there ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (BENy5)
***

And so perfectly classic!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (W/lyH)

138 Good for them

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

139
Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM

The moths killed my leisure suit, thankfully. They went out of fashion so fast there was no need to replace.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (RKVpM)

140 Yea, WC is basically a lightly less-sweet Zima. Yet Zima was mocked and despised by guys, and even girls and homos didn't like it. It was a failure and disappeared. But not too long after, WC entered the market and was so successful there are now dozens of imitators. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Being first is sometimes a bitch. The market was apparently not ready for Zima. It was entirely ready for Smirnoff Ice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (HnUIn)

141 The moths killed my leisure suit, thankfully.

And probably vice versa.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (sNc8Y)

142 Shrinkflation has hit home depot. Went there today to pick up some kingsford charcoal that was on sale for $17.88. Turns out it was 2 bags @16 pounds each. Last year they were selling 2 bags @20 pounds each for the same price.

Eight pounds less charcoal for the same price in less than a year. Now that's shrinkage!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (QNSds)

143 Letting in foreign students who hate America is an integral part of the higher education business model. Of course these people trash the American flag.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (i7Q7S)

144 These people need to be beat into a Hillary Clinton at the WTC like stupor.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (DixIx)

145 The frats should have taken all of the toilet paper out of the hall that these Marxists took over.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (aFNOf)

146 137 Jayroo
@jayroo69

WHO DID THIS?!!?

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

Damn, when andycanuck posted that yesterday I thought it was real; wifey points out that it's been overdubbed.

Hilarious, Babylon Bee-worthy shit right there ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (BENy5)
***

And so perfectly classic!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (W/lyH)
________

It's only mildly overdubbed. In the real speech, she was whining that the "protestors" were hungry and should be fed by UCLA.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

147 For 40 years things have, generally speaking, gotten better - provided you weren't paying close attention and most people don't. When things are getting better, and you expect them to continue getting better, you put up with a lot... more than you should.

Things are no longer getting better. The vast majority know it, even if some of them lie to themselves about it. Everything... everything is falling apart and, in their hearts, people know why. They know why and it pisses them off... but the left hasn't been trained to lie low and be circumspect.

Things are gonna get real ugly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (IUd0M)

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RQFT (Re-Quoted For Truth)

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (BENy5)

148 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….

True enough. Most of us of a certain age (29) used to mock Travolta by doing the thing with one arm up in the air. I wonder if today's kids even know what that is.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (CsUN+)

149 SNL, of all outfits, killed Zima -- along with Clear Pepsi -- with a parody ad for Clear Gravy. That one bit of ridicule was all it took.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (/QIWP)

150 These protesters operate on Underpants Gnome logic.

Step 1: Camp outside school buildings.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Justice for Gaza!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (B9Prs)

151 heh, Gary from Nerdrotics is on the Fox news youtube channel.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (IG4Id)

152 Leisure suit?

Herb Tarlack is that you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (RhjSY)

153 But it had the "tastes great, less filling" campaign. Boom. Light beer soon took over the market.
Posted by: Elric Blade

That’s still my all time favorite marketing campaign.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (nIRE6)

154 >>I get a strong feeling that people have had enough of the wailing spoiled multicultural brats that higher ed has been churning out.

They showed a clip of several of the protesters at a local college on the morning news, and man, hard to believe this isn't all satire. Starts with the guy(?) wearing a red polkadot bucket hat, long hair, uptalking high voice and lots of arm gestures. Could not have projected more weakness and stupidity if he tried. Then the fat ethnic gal. . . why are they so predictable?!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (cCVOS)

155 OMG Who is the deadpan comic actress who says that if there are no recycled pizza boxes, "We'll just go home to mommy?" I think I'm in love.

Posted by: Mike Zee at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (WWVl1)

156 How far is it to New Carolina?

Posted by: Crystal Mangum at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (woPEM)

157 >>Being first is sometimes a bitch. The market was apparently not ready for Zima. It was entirely ready for Smirnoff Ice.

Mike's Hard Lemonade missed an opportunity by not teaming up with the makers of Viagra.

Posted by: garrett at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (aJLEr)

158 140 Yea, WC is basically a lightly less-sweet Zima. Yet Zima was mocked and despised by guys, and even girls and homos didn't like it. It was a failure and disappeared. But not too long after, WC entered the market and was so successful there are now dozens of imitators. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Being first is sometimes a bitch. The market was apparently not ready for Zima. It was entirely ready for Smirnoff Ice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (HnUIn)
_____

Second mouse gets the cheese

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

159 139 polyester eating moths?

Posted by: GOP sux at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (Zzbjj)

160 Being first is sometimes a bitch. The market was apparently not ready for Zima. It was entirely ready for Smirnoff Ice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (HnUIn)

Not enough ladies got the memo to add the jolly rancher

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (5C4od)

161 >>heh, Gary from Nerdrotics is on the Fox news youtube channel.

LOVE it!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (cCVOS)

162 Yea, WC is basically a lightly less-sweet Zima. Yet Zima was mocked and despised by guys, and even girls and homos didn't like it. It was a failure and disappeared. But not too long after, WC entered the market and was so successful there are now dozens of imitators.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

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Literally every gay person I knew in the mid-90's drank Zima.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (DRSnL)

163 It was freakin' phenomenal. I had some over the years and it just could never approach that BG experience.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:33 PM (RKVpM)

God bless you man. Best beer I ever had was at an Irish pub in Boston. It must have been genuinely fresh inasmuch as a Guinness can be fresh.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (ekpFK)

164 Trump/Republican ought to put forth the following question:

Will students arrested for violent protest, harassing other students and occupying building be eligible for his loan forgiveness plans?

Repeat daily. Ask KJP until she answers.

Posted by: Ripley at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (JojsZ)

165 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
Yes
No
https://tinyurl.com/mpb68kdc

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (NpAcC)

166 Disco and leisure suits were a reaction to the hippie era. Young people wanted to dress up. Girls wanted to look pretty. It could happen again in reaction to the ugliness we see. But no Qiana blouses this time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (yeEu9)

167 Second mouse gets the cheese
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Pioneers die and settlers thrive

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (ekpFK)

168
Things are no longer getting better. The vast majority know it, even if some of them lie to themselves about it. Everything... everything is falling apart and, in their hearts, people know why. They know why and it pisses them off... but the left hasn't been trained to lie low and be circumspect.

Things are gonna get real ugly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Yes. When a society is wealthy, they can afford to do pie iin the sky ridiculous things like elimiinating fossil fuels or transforming their sex or using equity as a criteria instead of competence.
We are no longer rich.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)

169 165 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
Yes
No
https://tinyurl.com/mpb68kdc
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (NpAcC)

=======

*starts throwing up Wakanda flags*
-a surprising number of people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

170 At Wichita State U when I was their the PIKE house sometimes has an older guy that would hang around at parties, play music sometimes, horse around generally.

Joe Walsh.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (Y6IkP)

171 127 I'm surprised they didn't send the shock troops in to beat and arrest the frat bros.

I suppose we can expect some convenient accusations to surface soon and some Federal prosecutors to get involved. Celebrating America will NOT go unpunished.
Posted by: ...
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At a certain point when a movement is failing, its footsoldiers start finding excuses to foot drag and do nothing because they have lost the mandate of heaven. That is happening to the left nowadays--they have destroyed what little moral capital they had left after squandering it for decades since the Civil Rights victories of teh 50's, 60's, and early 70's.

BAMN in the long run is a shitty policy in a country where persuasion is necessary to allow one's power to flourish.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (peJ7P)

172 $400k for hookers and blow.
Well done boys, we'll done.

Just keep an eye out for Hunter trying to crash the party.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (50n2b)

173 These people need to be beat into a Hillary Clinton at the WTC like stupor.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 02, 2024 12:38 PM (DixIx)

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Make Tire Iron Therapy Great Again!

[h/t Insom]

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (BENy5)

174 Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
Yes
No
https://tinyurl.com/mpb68kdc
Posted by: redridinghood a

So what would we do with these people, Palestine is not a country.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (CIS44)

175 126 The pikes at my school were known as the Jewish frat. Don’t know if it was the same everywhere. Mine was known as the retards always on probation. We’d get off probation, throw a party, the get right back on probation.

ZBT (zillions billions trillions lol) was the Jewish frat at Penn

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (s3qiR)

176 I don't know if I'd eat the broad.

Posted by: The Cannibal That Ate Joe's Uncle at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (sgrzZ)

177 I'm not sure this headline is entirely objective but it makes up for it in truth.

Plant-based Meat Sales Down in U.S. Due to Starvation Being Preferable to Taste of Plant-based Meat

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (L/fGl)

178 Are there no salad bars at these colleges? That's the real crime here.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (DixIx)

179 Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
Yes
No
https://tinyurl.com/mpb68kdc
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (NpAcC)

What if it's the Pridtrangay sectional Flag

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (ekpFK)

180 Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

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

My teenage grandkids are discovering the music of the 60s-80s. Surprised me too though it shouldn't as you said, today's music is blah.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (unUNN)

181 Any bets that UNC sends some underage students to the party and then busts the fraternity for serving underage?

Posted by: Chuck C at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (yOPBE)

182 The frats should have taken all of the toilet paper out of the hall that these Marxists took over.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Spray all of them down with Ass Ripper Hot Sauce

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (+98Vn)

183 This Thread is fratty, and needs to be shaken up, if it's to have a long-term 500+ comment future.

Posted by: Alissa Heinerscheid at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (a3Q+t)

184 Eight pounds less charcoal for the same price in less than a year. Now that's shrinkage!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 02, 2024 12:37 PM (QNSds)

George Costanza agrees….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (+r3lU)

185 The DOJ has opened a broad investigation into the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Chapel Hill. We seek to determine its admission policies, investigate potential criminal activities (like underage drinking), investigate its sources of funding (including expanding our investigations to donors themselves when warranted, the tax exempt status of the fraternity and their laundry records.

Posted by: Merrick "Beria" Garland, Lubyanka Supervisor at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (Ephwj)

186 166 Disco and leisure suits were a reaction to the hippie era. Young people wanted to dress up. Girls wanted to look pretty. It could happen again in reaction to the ugliness we see. But no Qiana blouses this time.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (yeEu9)

=======

Olivia Newton John in Xanadu.

https://tinyurl.com/3vsa9ene

What's wrong with Disco again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

187 I had a Michelob once. And an Icehouse once. Shitty beer is just not for me.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:30 PM (ekpFK)

All beer is shitty. If it were worthy they would distill it and age it in oak casks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (IUd0M)

188 Someone on X mentioned that Uggo's original, not over-dubbed bitching and moaning about food missed the point that Columbia has an open dining hall.

It's within walking distance of the protest.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (Q4IgG)

189 If you could print money (like the US government can), why would you ever need to borrow any money from anyone? Of course you wouldn't need to. What are you going to do, borrow some of the money you printed? The entire Federal reserve system was designed by Woodrow Wilson era progressives to bankrupt the country by useless borrowing, while disguising exactly what their goals were. Its achieving their planned outcome perfectly. The plan to destroy the USA has been in effect for more than 100 years. The FED is a great example of “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (CecP5)

190 Zima is ... ummmm, my drink of choice

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (ZV+pB)

191 Pioneers die and settlers thrive
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (ekpFK)

...you have died from dysentery

Posted by: Oregon Trail at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (TTAGa)

192 Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
Yes
No
https://tinyurl.com/mpb68kdc
Posted by: redridinghood

C Shot for Treason

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (+98Vn)

193 187 All beer is shitty. If it were worthy they would distill it and age it in oak casks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (IUd0M)

=======

Some of my least favorite beer is the stuff that's been aged in barrels.

It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

194 Afternoon Ace. I just watched one of the dumbest protests I've seen in a long time. I put on Fox Business and Cavuto was on, and he showed video of a protest at Portland State. Protesters ran out of a building with helmets and riot shields. They ran into the police line while others cheered and promptly got slammed to the ground. It was like retarded performance art.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (JfVRc)

195 Disco and leisure suits were a reaction to the hippie era. Young people wanted to dress up. Girls wanted to look pretty. It could happen again in reaction to the ugliness we see. But no Qiana blouses this time.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Good point. I've never thought about it like that ... disco still sux tho.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (IG4Id)

196 This brunette in her underwear hopes to be invited to the party:
http://tiny.cc/hjwwxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)

197 I'm not sure this headline is entirely objective but it makes up for it in truth.

Plant-based Meat Sales Down in U.S. Due to Starvation Being Preferable to Taste of Plant-based Meat
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 02, 2024 12:41 PM (L/fGl)
---
Heh. I'm attending a "microbe lunch" in the biology department, which will feature some...interesting...selections of plant-based meats...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (7fElN)

198 Thank G_d. That this is a a thing In America? ...thank G-d! for those that have stood up, that even it would have to have occurred in the u.s I am shamed that i had thought it was impossible.

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (Os74q)

199 LOL @ 155 Mike See

It's an overdub of a crazy leftist student, from a real interview yesterday!

See folks? She's pretty cute when you don't know. 😂

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (/QIWP)

200 Yes. When a society is wealthy, they can afford to do pie iin the sky ridiculous things like elimiinating fossil fuels or transforming their sex or using equity as a criteria instead of competence.
We are no longer rich.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
======
We have been poor and getting poorer since the late 90's due to the feckless GWB administration and subsequent administrations throwing fiscal caution to the wind.

They thought Modern Monetary Theory was real but it was only because of reserve currency status that the US got away with overspending for decades. We were exporting inflation caused by massive deficits to other countries in effect.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (peJ7P)

201 What are the ingredients of a White Claw? Aside from ethanol, I mean. And what does one taste like?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

202 >>It's only mildly overdubbed. In the real speech, she was whining that the "protestors" were hungry and should be fed by UCLA.

They want to DISMANTLE the System, but could the System please FEED them first!?!

Oh, you protester guyz are in for a big surprise - don't want to spoil it for them

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (cCVOS)

203
I am thinking that the vegan pepperoni pizza video is an AI mash up of an actual video of those two chowder heads in which the AI was used to substitute the vocal track of that ridiculous and hilarious set of requests / demands onto the images.

To go public to deny that it showed you and you never said that is to expose yourself to eternal ridicule.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

204
Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country

Free trip to Australia! 🇦🇺!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:44 PM (RKVpM)

205 Didn’t John Madden appear in one of those awesome tastes great — less filling ads? He came crashing through a wall all excited about Miller Lite?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:44 PM (+r3lU)

206 Here's a hot Ukrainian chick with her band performing a cover of "Stayin' Alive:"
https://youtu.be/bvCp-zxnCs4
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)

Way, way, waaaaaaay too much camera time spent on not hot Ukrainian chick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:44 PM (IUd0M)

207 Question about Musk's proposed law: what about flag ordering?

When I was in college, one of the houses in town (belonged to a professor, of course) had a flagpole in the yard. On the flagpole were three flags. Those three flags were, from bottom to top:

- The state flag
- The American flag
- The flag of the United Nations

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (HnUIn)

208 "Things are no longer getting better. The vast majority know it"

Yep:

"‘F*ck Joe Biden’ Chant Unites Pro-Palestinian and Counter-Protesters at University of Alabama."

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (i7Q7S)

209 Elon' "Wakanda? Here's your ticket."

Leftard, "But it says Zimbabwe!"

Elon, "Shhh they don't want the world to know they are really Wakanda."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (RhjSY)

210 The latest version of Firefox is keeping me from being able to post here. That is why I have been absent the past couple of days. Had to go to a machine with an older version to get access.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (CecP5)

211 Some of that money should be used to buy "Hate Has No Home Here" signs for the terrorists' next occupation attempt. They seemed to have forgotten them last time.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (dUr4b)

212 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….

I still maintain that the opening credits of SNF are the best ones ever done. You couldn't NOT move your feet to that.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (CsUN+)

213 All this talk of leisure suits - might have to fire up the old game "Leisure Suit Larry - Land of the Lounge Lizards".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (N39Ws)

214 What if it's the Pridtrangay sectional Flag

Canada.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (sNc8Y)

215 I remember Zima tasting like a dry Sprite and actually liked them. The only White Claw I've had reminded me of a vodka and La Croix only with more sugar and way less booze. I dumped it. Flavored malted beverages certainly have their place but WC doesn't do it for me.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (DTX3h)

216 So many of these terror whores are flaming homos and clamdiggers. There's a lesson here, ya know?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

Is there a reference to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle hidden in your comment somewhere?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (FCbAQ)

217 At a certain point when a movement is failing, its footsoldiers start finding excuses to foot drag and do nothing because they have lost the mandate of heaven. That is happening to the left nowadays

*fistbump*

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (CsUN+)

218 Pioneers die and settlers thrive
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:40 PM (ekpFK)

Pioneers won the NCAA hockey championship this year. The Settlers didn't even make the tourney. Shows what you know

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (5C4od)

219 youtu.be/dnDuwkp52HE

Posted by: soylent at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

220 Maybe two onces of fat on her and she still sucks in her gut for the pic.

I'll get over it.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (Z8Yh2)

221 Heh. I'm attending a "microbe lunch" in the biology department, which will feature some...interesting...selections of plant-based meats...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (7fElN)
++++
All meat is plant-based. Animals are living factories committed to the conversion of low-quality, nutrient-poor vegetation into high-quality, nutrient-rich protein.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

222 Second mouse gets the cheese
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Pioneers die and settlers thrive
Posted by: ...
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I had a boss, who when visited by a factory rep urging us to take on and 'pioneer' a new product said, 'You know what a pioneer gets? An ass full of arrows'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (XeU6L)

223 Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (Os74q)

WILLOW ...

***waves howdy in her direction***

Posted by: Oregon Trail at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (TTAGa)

224
They want to DISMANTLE the System, but could the System please FEED them first!?!

Smellies chanting at the UCLA Games this morning as they were being led out of their treehouse built inside the campus building

"Don't shoot us! Don't hurt us!"

DOWN FOR THE CAUSE AND IN THE SHIT!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (xG4kz)

225 Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024

***
My favorite coin-op DIY car wash broadcasts some modern FM station on the overhead speakers. "Monotonic trash" would be a kind way to put it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (J2vNu)

226 Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point.

The really good disco is genuinely classic. And I'll take dance music with a live drummer and bassist over a computer every day of the week. I appreciate that you *can* make great music either way, but most producers got lazy once they got digital audio workstations. That wasn't the case when they called up James Jamerson or Bernard Purdie to come play on a disco track.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (2ocoG)

227 I'm surprised they didn't send the shock troops in to beat and arrest the frat bros.

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

* Ami Horowitz has entered the chat *

[New York Post:] "Guerrilla journalist" says he was beaten by anti-Israel protesters at CUNY for waving American flag on campus: video

http://tiny.cc/sjwwxz

This is more than Jew-hate; at root, it's America-hate.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (BENy5)

228 Excuse me, I ordered a Zima, not emphysema.

Posted by: that effete guy in the table next to Selma at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (OguvZ)

229 Best tastes great - less filling ad? Conrad Dobler.

Posted by: The Cannibal That Ate Joe's Uncle at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (sgrzZ)

230 201 What are the ingredients of a White Claw? Aside from ethanol, I mean. And what does one taste like?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It’s a hard seltzer, it tastes like fruit flavored seltzer water.

Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

231 Pioneers won the NCAA hockey championship this year. The Settlers didn't even make the tourney. Shows what you know
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (5C4od)

2 out 3 for the Pioneers!

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (CIS44)

232 They ran into the police line while others cheered and promptly got slammed to the ground. It was like retarded performance art.

*throws flag*
I'm pretty sure "retarded" is implied in any performance art.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

233 Best marketing campaign is tough. "That Was Easy" was pretty darn good. UPS did a Logistics one too to That's Amore.

But without a doubt this has got to be my favorite commercial in terms of pitch perfect marketing:

https://tinyurl.com/43ffebf3

12 years ago, my ass. It's seven commie lifetimes ago. Utterly unrecognizable.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (ekpFK)

234 Forgot to mention in the Ami Horowitz post that the police accosted HIM -- the beating victim -- and told him they would arrest him if he didn't leave or returned to the campus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (BENy5)

235 All this talk of leisure suits - might have to fire up the old game "Leisure Suit Larry - Land of the Lounge Lizards".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (N39Ws)

Do you have an Apple IIc with a floppy disk drive? If so, you're in luck

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (5C4od)

236 Is White Claw even a "malt beverage," or is it just fortified seltzer water?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

237
198 Thank G_d. That this is a a thing In America? ...thank G-d! for those that have stood up, that even it would have to have occurred in the u.s I am shamed that i had thought it was impossible.
Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (Os74q)

We have missed you… would you consider hanging out a little more??

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (PCK5/)

238 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….
*
I still maintain that the opening credits of SNF are the best ones ever done. You couldn't NOT move your feet to that.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024

***
+ 1000

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (J2vNu)

239 210 The latest version of Firefox is keeping me from being able to post here. That is why I have been absent the past couple of days. Had to go to a machine with an older version to get access.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president a

Try Brave browser. Much more secure too.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (aFNOf)

240
So many of these terror whores are flaming homos and clamdiggers. There's a lesson here, ya know?

Bad clams can fook you up?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (xG4kz)

241 Shit that flies during good times tends to backfire on those throwing shit in bad times. I get a strong feeling that people have had enough of the wailing spoiled multicultural brats that higher ed has been churning out. Bad times lead to recovery of forgotten virtues by society regardless of what the media says.
Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 12:29 PM (peJ7P)

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

Hope it sticks.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (unUNN)

242 Willow sighting!
Hey, Willow!

Posted by: RI Red at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (8w9us)

243 Hiya, Willow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (HnUIn)

244 I didn't like disco at the time because it was my big sisters' music and I wanted rock and metal and guy stuff.

But I get part of it now. It's fun and swings your hips.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (Y6IkP)

245 Is White Claw even a "malt beverage," or is it just fortified seltzer water?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

Malt. Cluby is one that is actually vodka and soda water.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (CIS44)

246 Unsurprised. Yes, practically every single journalist, blogger, and podcaster loves Arabs. But most people - real people, not these people - know they're inbred retards, and can't stand 'em. And the only thing normies hate more than the sandmaggots is the buttfucking junkie college kids they hire to throw a cunty fit. We know those hirelings all too well, since they throw destructive tantrums on command every six months about some damn thing.

If those bros had just walked out of the front door and sprayed that crowd with automatic weapons fire, most of non-campus America would quietly approve of it. Nobody likes the kids anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (0l8OY)

247 Back in my day in Pi Kapp we could throw a party for 500 bucks. Hopefully they upgrade their house or something. 400k is crazy.

Posted by: brak at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (AR07F)

248 239 210 The latest version of Firefox is keeping me from being able to post here. That is why I have been absent the past couple of days. Had to go to a machine with an older version to get access.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president a

Try Brave browser. Much more secure too.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (aFNOf)

Quant is also a good browser choice..

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (PCK5/)

249 This brunette in her underwear hopes to be invited to the party:
http://tiny.cc/hjwwxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM

Prediction: TJM will state 'Skips leg day', and rate a 2/10 and WNB.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (a3Q+t)

250 232 *throws flag*
I'm pretty sure "retarded" is implied in any performance art.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

========

Dolley and I went uptown to eat for the first time since moving to the Charlotte area. We went to a converted industrial railroad area that is now an open-air shopping center type thing.

We were sitting down to eat our food when some woman started announcing that there would be bubbles (real bubbles, not fake bubbles) in five minutes. She was then joined by two others who put on New Age music and spun around until we left with bubbles. There was also some coordinated dancing when the bubbles ended. It was terrible.

I was mostly glad that I had sat with my back to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

251 @232 Archimedes, I stand corrected. This was double secret retarded performance art

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (JfVRc)

252 I still maintain that the opening credits of SNF are the best ones ever done. You couldn't NOT move your feet to that.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (CsUN+)

Agree. One disco song I didn’t like was We Are Family that year the Pittsburgh Pirates adopted it as their theme song and won the World Series…. Heard it a million times

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (+r3lU)

253 Those Portland State antifa goons destroyed a library for no apparent reason except chaos. The damage was sickening. Literally went floor to floor destroying everything in their path. This is senseless. They were allowed to do this. The damage that Antifa causes costs taxpayers huge amount of dollars better spent on actually helping people but they are allowed to rampage without consequence.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:50 PM (t/2Uw)

254 Toxicity is welcome when you're trying to flush the rats out of your house.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2024 12:50 PM (+yhUM)

255 When I was in college, one of the houses in town (belonged to a professor, of course) had a flagpole in the yard. On the flagpole were three flags. Those three flags were, from bottom to top:

- The state flag
- The American flag
- The flag of the United Nations
Posted by: Joe Mannix

House should have burned down. No flag is higher than the US flag.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:50 PM (+98Vn)

256 "Mock disco all you want"

I would listen to just about any disco song before listening to any Taylor Swift song.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 02, 2024 12:50 PM (i7Q7S)

257 The really good disco is genuinely classic. And I'll take dance music with a live drummer and bassist over a computer every day of the week. . . .
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024

***
'Tis. The Bee Gees' "Stayn' Alive," certain Donna Summer songs, "Rock Your Baby," and more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

258 Must be a new post coming.

Posted by: davidt at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (SYTee)

259 this won't stop until normies wake up and form committees for public vigilance,

Posted by: butch at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (QRtEE)

260 235 All this talk of leisure suits - might have to fire up the old game "Leisure Suit Larry - Land of the Lounge Lizards".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (N39Ws)

Do you have an Apple IIc with a floppy disk drive? If so, you're in luck
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (5C4od)

My dad has a II GS in the attic I could let you borrow, and I think we still have the floppy for Spyhunter.

Posted by: Mishdog at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (COhDR)

261 "Yep:

"‘F*ck Joe Biden’ Chant Unites Pro-Palestinian and Counter-Protesters at University of Alabama."
***********
At least there's still something we can all agree with.

Posted by: Cosda at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (QhggB)

262 Mock disco all you want, but The Bee Gees still sound great nearly 50 years later. Their music has aged well. Leisure suits not so much….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (+r3lU)

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Leisure suits were way better than what passes for style today. Look around and you will see pants that end up two inches above the guys' ankles as if they ran out of fabric or outgrew their teenage clothes.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (unUNN)

263 249 This brunette in her underwear hopes to be invited to the party:
http://tiny.cc/hjwwxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM

Prediction: TJM will state 'Skips leg day', and rate a 2/10 and WNB.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (a3Q+t)

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Doesn't lift at all and starves herself to the point of death. Wouldn't last the necessary wear and tear warranty period.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

264 Disco should come back. Dancing with hot, dressed up woman is fun. Think of the incels!
Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:26 PM (Z8Yh2)
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LOL. It ain't the music. That never went away. Nightclubs are nightclubs.

I want the energy in the clubs.

Posted by: Guess who?

Freddy Mercury, in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (CsUN+)

265
Agree. One disco song I didn’t like was We Are Family that year the Pittsburgh Pirates adopted it as their theme song and won the World Series…. Heard it a million times
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2024

***
That song is dull, but their previous hit, "He's the Greatest Dancer," is a lot of fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (J2vNu)

266 The hip radicals at my school would dump the non-union lettuce from the salad bar on the floor.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (1ENoh)

267 House should have burned down. No flag is higher than the US flag.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:50 PM (+98Vn)
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College town, and crazy even in context.

I saw a Volvo wagon with a full-width bumper sticker, white on red, that read, "Make Living Wage Jobs, Not War"

Like there was a big cartoon lever in the Oval Office with "Living wage jobs" on one end and "War" on the other.

A college town is no place to go if you're after nuance or high-level thinking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (HnUIn)

268 Some of my least favorite beer is the stuff that's been aged in barrels.

It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

That was probably bourbon. Try scotch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (IUd0M)

269 This brunette in her underwear hopes to be invited to the party:
http://tiny.cc/hjwwxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Jello shots!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (aFNOf)

270 Yay Willow!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM (+98Vn)

271 The folks was flaming. Out of control. It was so entertaining, when the boogie started to explode.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

272 Leisure suits were way better than what passes for style today. Look around and you will see pants that end up two inches above the guys' ankles as if they ran out of fabric or outgrew their teenage clothes.

We used to call those "high water pants".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:53 PM (CsUN+)

273 This brunette in her underwear hopes to be invited to the party:
http://tiny.cc/hjwwxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)

She has a look on her face like 12 black guys just entered the room and she's re-thinking her life choices.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:53 PM (IUd0M)

274 As far as browsers go, “their” endgame is one browser, for all…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (PCK5/)

275 My dad has a II GS in the attic I could let you borrow, and I think we still have the floppy for Spyhunter.
Posted by: Mishdog at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (COhDR)

Hell yeah I'll bring Karateka

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (5C4od)

276
Protesters ran out of a building with helmets and riot shields. They ran into the police line while others cheered and promptly got slammed to the ground. It was like retarded performance art.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

"... In Which Their Years Of LARPing Amounted To Nought"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

277 All beer is shitty. If it were worthy they would distill it and age it in oak casks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (IUd0M)

How DARE you.

No seriously nothing offends me but these are fightin' words.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (ekpFK)

278 Best marketing campaign is tough. "That Was Easy" was pretty darn good. UPS did a Logistics one too to That's Amore.

But without a doubt this has got to be my favorite commercial in terms of pitch perfect marketing:

https://tinyurl.com/43ffebf3

12 years ago, my ass. It's seven commie lifetimes ago. Utterly unrecognizable.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (ekpFK)

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Never saw that; most excellent (even brought a tear to the wifey's eye, which is no small feat).

Yeah, "I'll take 'More Things You Wouldn't See Made Today' for $64 Trillion, Alex!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (BENy5)

279 Drums. Screaming. Mindless chants. Threats. Epithets. Ad hominem slurs. Interpretive dances. Trash-flinging. Terrorist flags. Chaos.

These are staples for leftist demonstrations. They are the core of their "resistance."

Compare and contrast to a Tea Party rally or Turning Point gathering. Where is this vaunted "dialogue" you're always talking about, democrats? You seem to be utterly disinterested in views not in lockstep.

Posted by: red speck at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (0Id0S)

280 Doesn't lift at all and starves herself to the point of death. Wouldn't last the necessary wear and tear warranty period.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Would bang once. Kinda like a test drive. No, I'm not going to buy the Cadillac, but I wouldn't mind driving it once.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (+98Vn)

281 She has a look on her face like 12 black guys just entered the room and she's re-thinking her life choices.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:53 PM (IUd0M)

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*snort*

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (DRSnL)

282 Prince Harry Asked to Step Down from Invictus Games, Vets Complain It’s “Too Royal” Since Meghan Got Involved

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"Too royal" is not a term I would apply to Meghan.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (L/fGl)

283 Leisure suits were way better than what passes for style today. Look around and you will see pants that end up two inches above the guys' ankles as if they ran out of fabric or outgrew their teenage clothes.

I miss the Sansabelt pants. Not good for concealed carry though.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (aFNOf)

284 If you like disco, pick up Daft Punk's album "Random Access Memories."

It's not for everyone but Daft Punk are talented.

Posted by: ballistic at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (oqH4h)

285 The Pi Kaps at my college were a bunch of drunken meatheads known for brawling and drunk driving. Maybe it was just those late 80s years and those particular chapters at Stockton State ( now Stockton University). Maybe I was a drunken meathead too... hell, maybe most of the school.

Posted by: FSJ at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (Zz86T)

286
A college town is no place to go if you're after nuance or high-level thinking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:52 PM

Some of the bestest real estate investing is in college towns. About twice the average real estate appreciation of anywhere else.

Captive audiences are captive.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)

287 189. If you could print money (like the US government can), why would you ever need to borrow any money from anyone? Of course you wouldn't need to. What are you going to do, borrow some of the money you printed?...
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president

I'm confused about Bitcoin & never thought I'd see it on the Stock Market. Certainly not for commoners but also not stopped by government.

(Investopedia: Unlike fiat currency, bitcoin is created, distributed, traded, and stored using a decentralized ledger system known as a blockchain. Bitcoin and its ledger are secured by the number of participants in its network and in the way the system confirms and verifies transactions.)

One hell of a convenient dark money system (it could be).

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)

288 Hi willow!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (cCVOS)

289 "How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?"

Easy prediction: by this time next month, the media will have doxxed every single of those young men and their loved ones.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (CwhoI)

290
Yeah, "I'll take 'More Things You Wouldn't See Made Today' for $64 Trillion, Alex!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (BENy5)

How many tenets of leftardism can you violate in 60 seconds by just being utterly ridiculously unequivocally normal.

I lost count when I got to 8.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (ekpFK)

291 Some staffer for the Biden Crime Family is looking at that $400k gofundme, and is trying to work an angle where they can gin up a similar viral event, and then take 10% of that gofundme

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (EjYvS)

292 The best disco tunes, like "Stayin' Alive" and "Disco Inferno," had a sort of . . . dark . . . dangerous sound to them. And Donna's "She Works Hard for the Money" (and to a lesser extent, "Bad Girls") is just high-energy, shift-and-floor it, sweep-you-into-an-adventure stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (J2vNu)

293 Some of the bestest real estate investing is in college towns. About twice the average real estate appreciation of anywhere else.

Captive audiences are captive.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)
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Yes. Expenses tend to be very high, too, but you can squeeze that out of the tenant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)

294 All beer is shitty. If it were worthy they would distill it and age it in oak casks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 12:42 PM (IUd0M)

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Has anybody ever actually tried to age beer in oak casks?

/only half-joking, as I have very little knowledge of the alcohol arts & sciences ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (BENy5)

295 Look around and you will see pants that end up two inches above the guys' ankles as if they ran out of fabric or outgrew their teenage clothes.

That's an actual style now. I assume like most modern fashion it's because gays like it for some reason.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

296 Typical Horde behavior that the most important thing about Post by Ace, was White Claw and Zyn reference.
Sigh. Have to admit it is why I come here every day.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (t/2Uw)

297 But without a doubt this has got to be my favorite commercial in terms of pitch perfect marketing:

Wow, that really was entertaining.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (CsUN+)

298 275 My dad has a II GS in the attic I could let you borrow, and I think we still have the floppy for Spyhunter.
Posted by: Mishdog at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (COhDR)

I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet

Posted by: P. Townshend at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (PiwSw)

299 That's an actual style now. I assume like most modern fashion it's because gays like it for some reason.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (2ocoG)
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They're for girls, so of course it has to be promoted to boys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM (HnUIn)

300 Saw a clip from a hipster teacher...she was blown away the kids loved the John Denver song she played at their request. "Take me home, country roads". Teacher was dumb but the kids lifted me a bit.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 12:58 PM (Z8Yh2)

301 Has anybody ever actually tried to age beer in oak casks?

/only half-joking, as I have very little knowledge of the alcohol arts & sciences ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM (BENy5)

Local brewery here (405, excellent btw) does a bourdon barrel aged stout. Its delicious and like 12% ABV.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:58 PM (CIS44)

302 The folks was flaming. Out of control. It was so entertaining, when the boogie started to explode.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024

***
You get us, bro.

Posted by: The Trammps at May 02, 2024 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

303 "Brohemians"

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2024 12:59 PM (Wnv9h)

304 Unisex clothing. Switch and swap, universal.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 02, 2024 12:59 PM (NFX2v)

305 Typical Horde behavior that the most important thing about Post by Ace, was White Claw and Zyn reference.
Sigh. Have to admit it is why I come here every day.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) a

Rogue >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zyn

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 12:59 PM (CIS44)

306 Some of the bestest real estate investing is in college towns. About twice the average real estate appreciation of anywhere else.

Captive audiences are captive.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)
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Yes. Expenses tend to be very high, too, but you can squeeze that out of the tenant.

Technically speaking, they squeeze it out of their tenant's parents.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:59 PM (CsUN+)

307 I'll just have to try harder, then.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 12:31 PM (DRSnL)

You don't have to try at all.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM (ekpFK)

308 Technically speaking, they squeeze it out of their tenant's parents.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:59 PM (CsUN+)
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Sometimes. Or the tenant's student loan lender. That was the case for me. I worked in college to have money to eat and whatnot, but it wasn't going to cover housing (let alone tuition).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM (HnUIn)

309 Drums. Screaming. Mindless chants. Threats. Epithets. Ad hominem slurs. Interpretive dances. Trash-flinging. Terrorist flags. Chaos.
Posted by: red speck at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Up and Down Twinkles at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)

310 I remember saying after Obama was elected that only the rednecks could save us now. I will revise that to include frat boys.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM (fpVik)

311 >>That's an actual style now. I assume like most modern fashion it's because gays like it for some reason.

Thank Thom Browne

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM (cCVOS)

312 225 Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Just call you Leisure Suit Larry.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (peJ7P)

313 Drums. Screaming. Mindless chants. Threats. Epithets. Ad hominem slurs. Interpretive dances. Trash-flinging. Terrorist flags. Chaos.
Posted by: red speck at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM

Talking about Disco?

Posted by: davidt at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (SYTee)

314
Yes. Expenses tend to be very high, too, but you can squeeze that out of the tenant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:56 PM

My son and a couple of his buddies rented in a college town. Their lease was running out their final year and they called me in to make repairs. Apparently "drywall repairs after drunken angry nights of drinking" was not part of their curriculum.

They were amazed that someone could actually repair a hole in the wall that someone had punched their fist through.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (RKVpM)

315 Portland has bus stop stations with thick glass sides. The two times I went there, before I moved, someone had gone down the street and busted the glass. It's just what Portland does now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (yeEu9)

316 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

317 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

I believe it was cause you could ride your bike and wear them and not tear your pant leg.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 02, 2024 01:02 PM (CIS44)

318 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)
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They're higher, so they don't get caught in your bicycle gears and then send you into the pavement at full speed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

319 Some of the bestest real estate investing is in college towns. About twice the average real estate appreciation of anywhere else.

Captive audiences are captive.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 12:55 PM (RKVpM)

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We live in a mostly retirement community (with a lot of large & empty second homes -- for those planning to eventually retire here and/or escaping hotter summers elsewhere) near a prestigious private aeronautical college.

So they are often rented out at a pretty good premium to groups (maybe 4 - 6) of wealthier students attending that college for the non-summer school year.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (BENy5)

320 When I was in college, one of the houses in town (belonged to a professor, of course) had a flagpole in the yard. On the flagpole were three flags. Those three flags were, from bottom to top:

- The state flag
- The American flag
- The flag of the United Nations
Posted by: Joe Mannix

What, no Pride Flag above the UN Flag? H8Rs!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (9yWhg)

321 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.

It's actually pedal pushers, so I assume it's a reference to the elevated calf that won't get caught in a bike chain. Yes, I'm ashamed I know that.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (CsUN+)

322 Violent anti-American youth movements are always lame - but they're much easier to tolerate when the kids are good looking. Nobody wants to hear a bunch of butt ugly, overweight, monkeypox-infected pillheads throw a shrieking fit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (0l8OY)

323 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

Convenient for bicycling since nothing to hang and get tangled up?

Incidentally just because no one asked, I'm not a huge pants fan in general on ladies but capris are very nice. And some jeans.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (ekpFK)

324 Look around and you will see pants that end up two inches above the guys' ankles as if they ran out of fabric or outgrew their teenage clothes.

That's an actual style now. I assume like most modern fashion it's because gays like it for some reason.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:57 PM

So...like...Bro-capris?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (Wnv9h)

325 What, no Pride Flag above the UN Flag? H8Rs!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:03 PM (9yWhg)
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It was a different time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (HnUIn)

326 John Rich is contacting the frat guys to do a concert for them. Dan Bongino is going to carry it live on either his radio show or podcast.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (3ImbR)

327 ABC News 4: Whistleblower (Josh Dean) of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems dies from 'severe infection'

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US
11 March 2024, BBC News

What were the odds.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (NFX2v)

328 Way, way, waaaaaaay too much camera time spent on not hot Ukrainian chick.

I'm an expert on women's looks - having spent years working in Topless bars. And yes, I've seen, and talked to Anna Nicole Smith in her prime. You are experiencing perspective distortion, you are used to women in photos and movies, and you fail to realize those are one in 100,000 tens you're looking at.

Women's appearance follows a bell shaped curve like IQs: a five looks better than 50% of women. A 6 is better looking than 84% of women, a seven is better looking than 99% of women. One woman in a thousand is an 8, one in 10,000 a 9, that is the IQ equivalent of 160. That girl is absolutely a 9, she is probably better looking than any woman you've ever actually met.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (CecP5)

329 Saw a clip from a hipster teacher...she was blown away the kids loved the John Denver song she played at their request. "Take me home, country roads". Teacher was dumb but the kids lifted me a bit.

...Country Roads was a TikTok meme song, so yes, Zoomers know it better than Millennials.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (2ocoG)

330 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024

***
Sharon, I'm guessing here, but it might be that "pedal-pushers" were popular among young women in the early Sixties for exactly that, bike riding. A skirt could be awkward on a two-wheeler. Laura Petrie-style slacks, on the other hand, would have been perfect for hopping on your bike on a fine day and cycling down to the park.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

331 I was a teen in the golden age of ass hugging jeans. The 80's. Dittos, Guess, Chemin de fer. Laces and zippers oh my.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (Z8Yh2)

332 In the 1960s, everyone was "grooving" and everything was "groovy."

In the 1970s, everyone was "boogying" and boogey-woogey.

In the 80s, everyone was "rocking." (My personal fav.)

In the 90s, everyone started being fake and gay.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

333 Ironically it's two morons that know what "peddle pushers" are and how they got that name.

*snickers*

But I know too...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

334 Plant-based Meat Sales Down in U.S. Due to Starvation Being Preferable to Taste of Plant-based Meat
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Remember the Kung Flu Freakout food shortages... the meat, pizza, etc. would be sold out of everything but the vegan slot would be full.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (50n2b)

335 Ironically it's two morons that know what "peddle pushers" are and how they got that name.

*snickers*

But I know too...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)
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LOL. It's intuitively obvious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)

336 John Rich is contacting the frat guys to do a concert for them. Dan Bongino is going to carry it live on either his radio show or podcast.

I know he means well, but I'd rather not Conservative Inc be involved in this thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (2ocoG)

337 They were amazed that someone could actually repair a hole in the wall that someone had punched their fist through.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (RKVpM)

I was the maintenance manager for my student co-op housing for a semester.

Some douchebag kept putting his foot through the same place on some drywall, so the 3rd time I repaired it I reinforced it with 4x4s and a steel plate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (d9fT1)

338 What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: Up and Down Twinkles at May 02, 2024 01:00 PM

Sooo last decade.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (Wnv9h)

339 I am embarassed that I spelled pedal incorrectly.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (t/2Uw)

340 Women's appearance follows a bell shaped curve like IQs: a five looks better than 50% of women. A 6 is better looking than 84% of women, a seven is better looking than 99% of women. One woman in a thousand is an 8, one in 10,000 a 9, that is the IQ equivalent of 160. That girl is absolutely a 9, she is probably better looking than any woman you've ever actually met.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024

***
Where would Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters fall on that bell curve?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (J2vNu)

341 I like Capris! We used to call them peddle pushers but I have no idea why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 02, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)
++++
They're higher, so they don't get caught in your bicycle gears and then send you into the pavement at full speed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

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Pro-Tip: Never wear a long scarf while riding in a convertible car or motorcycle sidecar (things I learned from reading "Clanlands" which was turned into the TV series "Men in Kilts").

To wit, and right up MP4's alley: "Isadora Duncan, an American-born dancer and choreographer, died on September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, when her long silk scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car she was riding in. The scarf, which was loose around her neck, caught in the wheel’s spokes, causing her to be partially decapitated and instantly killed."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (BENy5)

342
In the 90s, everyone started being fake and gay.
Posted by: Elric Blade

... and laaaaaame

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (xG4kz)

343 But without a doubt this has got to be my favorite commercial in terms of pitch perfect marketing:

That is one hell of an ad. Kudos to whoever came up with it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (UWL3i)

344 I wore highwaters a lot as a kid.

I was the tallest kid in the family and got a lot of hand-me-downs.

Got teased a lot, kids asking me when the flood was coming.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (9yWhg)

345 Thank you tubal. ,rick,red. Lizzy and those that said hello, I have been occupied with spouses health and tried to have priorities reset , but hav become so alarmed at what I am seeing ..I had to comment where I felt kinship. So love and prayers to all that I have soo missed Anand hope that we are going to overcome., and that one day we can laugh at our collective fears.

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (Os74q)

346 To wit, and right up MP4's alley: "Isadora Duncan, an American-born dancer and choreographer, died on September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, when her long silk scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car she was riding in. The scarf, which was loose around her neck, caught in the wheel’s spokes, causing her to be partially decapitated and instantly killed."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (BENy5)
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Wow. That's terrible. Terrible luck, terrible outcome. Yeesh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (HnUIn)

347 275 My dad has a II GS in the attic I could let you borrow, and I think we still have the floppy for Spyhunter.
Posted by: Mishdog at May 02, 2024 12:51 PM (COhDR)

Hell yeah I'll bring Karateka
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:54 PM (5C4od)

I think I've got Snooper Troops around here somewhere...

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (DTX3h)

348 Then again as a calf connoisseur (man, I'm vile) of course I like capris.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (ekpFK)

349 FIFY. I actually don't know if she's Jewish, but it seems plausible.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)

She is the very image of a self-gassing Jew.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (8zz6B)

350 306 Some of the bestest real estate investing is in college towns. About twice the average real estate appreciation of anywhere else.

Captive audiences are captive.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Might want to rethink that one though. Colleges and university enrollment has been slumping since Covid due to demographics and escalating cost/benefits of attending, especially for males.

In a sense, we overbuilt the higher ed apparatus in the US over the last forty years because of the reaction to Griggs v. Duke Power case. But, now, even the screening value of a college diploma has become worthless to many employers and Griggs itself is on shaky ground constitutionally these days (Disparate impact was an statutory interpretation case based on the CRA of 1964--it was not a case involving constitutionality of the CRA) so the Court is free to clip that particular notion based on statistics rather than individuals using the equal protection clause.

They did something similar a few years back regarding the emergency clause of the VRA.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (peJ7P)

351 Any motherfucker who wants to pull down the American flag and replace it with a foreign countries standard, better prepared to be throat punched and trebuchet'd into the sea.

Let's see how many of these bastard children of trannies try it after watching their frenz reach terminal velocity.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (bxx1f)

352 willow!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (R4t5M)

353 Sharon, I'm guessing here, but it might be that "pedal-pushers" were popular among young women in the early Sixties for exactly that, bike riding. A skirt could be awkward on a two-wheeler. Laura Petrie-style slacks, on the other hand, would have been perfect for hopping on your bike on a fine day and cycling down to the park.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM

*bloomers have entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (Wnv9h)

354
☑ Disco
☑ Boobs
☑ Leisure Suits
☑ Capri's
☑ Bee Gee's

I guess we covered everything important on the first Ace thread of the day.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

355 US urges Russia and China to not use AI for nuke delivery systems.

Joshua asks, "what could go wrong?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 02, 2024 01:07 PM (RhjSY)

356 To wit, and right up MP4's alley: "Isadora Duncan, an American-born dancer and choreographer, died on September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, when her long silk scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car she was riding in. The scarf, which was loose around her neck, caught in the wheel’s spokes, causing her to be partially decapitated and instantly killed."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024

***
Nowadays, with all the governmental rules regarding seat belts, her head would be ripped off but her body would remain securely in the seat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:07 PM (J2vNu)

357 LOL. It's intuitively obvious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)

OMG leave sharon aloooone

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:07 PM (ekpFK)

358 The best disco tunes, like "Stayin' Alive" and "Disco Inferno," had a sort of . . . dark . . . dangerous sound to them. And Donna's "She Works Hard for the Money" (and to a lesser extent, "Bad Girls") is just high-energy, shift-and-floor it, sweep-you-into-an-adventure stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 02, 2024 01:07 PM (L/fGl)

359 Those guys should have to beat the poon off with a stick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (R4t5M)

360 I am embarassed that I spelled pedal incorrectly.

Then our work here is done.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (CsUN+)

361 I know he means well, but I'd rather not Conservative Inc be involved in this thing.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Grifters flock like flies on shit to whatever is new whether on the Right or Left.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (peJ7P)

362 I'm an expert on women's looks - having spent years working in Topless bars. And yes, I've seen, and talked to Anna Nicole Smith in her prime. You are experiencing perspective distortion, you are used to women in photos and movies, and you fail to realize those are one in 100,000 tens you're looking at. ...
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM (CecP5)
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I read it differently. Essentially, moved the "not" to the left of "on" in the original statement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (HnUIn)

363 All meat is plant-based. Animals are living factories committed to the conversion of low-quality, nutrient-poor vegetation into high-quality, nutrient-rich protein.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

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What is not acceptable to most people is that truncation of the process.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (unUNN)

364 She is the very image of a self-gassing Jew.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM

Needs a few more syllables, but there's something there. Explore the space, AOP. Really explore the space.

Posted by: Gilbert, Sullivan & Dickenson at May 02, 2024 01:08 PM (Wnv9h)

365 I wore highwaters a lot as a kid.

I was the tallest kid in the family and got a lot of hand-me-downs.

Got teased a lot, kids asking me when the flood was coming.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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When the Simpsons was funny:
"Everthing's coming up Milhouse!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (yikga)

366 All this over a flag?

Posted by: Big Mike at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (V5BDR)

367 That frat needs to market shirts pronto. This is America damn it!

Posted by: Disgusted at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (Z8Yh2)

368 Then again as a calf connoisseur (man, I'm vile) of course I like capris.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM (ekpFK)

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Guess what? I have LOTS of capris. I'm not comfortable wearing shorts, so they are my go-to in the summer.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (DRSnL)

369 Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive.

That's a fantastic fucking vocal performance, too. Back when you couldn't fix it in post and what went into the microphone was what came out on the record.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

370 All this talk of leisure suits - might have to fire up the old game "Leisure Suit Larry - Land of the Lounge Lizards".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2024 12:45 PM (N39Ws)

Do you have an Apple IIc with a floppy disk drive? If so, you're in luck
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at May 02, 2024 12:48 PM (5C4od)

Several LSL games available at gog.com (Good Old Games)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (IUd0M)

371 Back in my day in Pi Kapp we could throw a party for 500 bucks. Hopefully they upgrade their house or something. 400k is crazy.
Posted by: brak at May 02, 2024 12:49 PM (AR07F)

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If the party is along the lines of Animal House they may need the money.

Posted by: Decaf at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (unUNN)

372 345 Thank you tubal. ,rick,red. Lizzy and those that said hello, I have been occupied with spouses health and tried to have priorities reset , but hav become so alarmed at what I am seeing ..I had to comment where I felt kinship. So love and prayers to all that I have soo missed Anand hope that we are going to overcome., and that one day we can laugh at our collective fears.
Posted by: Willow
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Prayers and best wishes. Sharon is holding down the fort here quite ably and every post includes a homage to you.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (peJ7P)

373 Women's appearance follows a bell shaped curve like IQs: a five looks better than 50% of women.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 01:04 PM

Technically, 5.5 would be the peak of the bell-shaped curve.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (a3Q+t)

374 Mr. Aspirin. Good afternoon!

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (Os74q)

375 Laura Petrie-style slacks

Mmmmmm...

Am I weird in thinking that MTM was better looking as Laura Petrie than as Mary Richards?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (9yWhg)

376 The best disco tunes, like "Stayin' Alive" and "Disco Inferno," had a sort of . . . dark . . . dangerous sound to them. And Donna's "She Works Hard for the Money" (and to a lesser extent, "Bad Girls") is just high-energy, shift-and-floor it, sweep-you-into-an-adventure stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame

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That's a good one, but to me, not so much "dangerous" as "triumphant." And "YMCA" has a jolly, almost heroic flavor to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (J2vNu)

377 When you tell a vegan how many living things are harmed or killed with habitat destroyed in the planting, farming, harvesting and transport of their precious vegetables, their head explodes.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (ekpFK)

378 I know he means well, but I'd rather not Conservative Inc be involved in this thing.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:05 PM (2ocoG)
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It's more like American Inc. I'm good with it and I'd wager the frat boys are too.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (3ImbR)

379
In a sense, we overbuilt the higher ed apparatus in the US over the last forty years because of the reaction to Griggs v. Duke Power case.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:06 PM

Yup, that ruling was insane. An employer could not test the innate ability of an applicant without a college degree by testing him/her themselves but had to choose the 'most qualified'?

'Second look' seems to be in order.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (RKVpM)

380 *rides motorcycle up the stairs*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 02, 2024 01:11 PM (R4t5M)

381 Before teh Willow I hope.

Disco updated and rocking. The Dee Gees, You should be dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DeaXf1FzE

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 02, 2024 01:11 PM (FCbAQ)

382 Whig. So my memory be for a benefit. But even better than I could do.

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:11 PM (Os74q)

383 Technically, 5.5 would be the peak of the bell-shaped curve.

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 02, 2024 01:11 PM (UWL3i)

384 Guess what? I have LOTS of capris. I'm not comfortable wearing shorts, so they are my go-to in the summer.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 02, 2024 01:09 PM (DRSnL)

See????

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:11 PM (ekpFK)

385 371 Back in my day in Pi Kapp we could throw a party for 500 bucks. Hopefully they upgrade their house or something. 400k is crazy.
Posted by: brak

A lot of conservative money has been sitting on the sidelines because Conservative Inc has turned into a grafting machine. Under such circumstances, better to reward those unexpectedly than those that come around proactively begging like WinRed.

Ditto for campaign contributions--give to individual pols that show courage, good sense, etc. when they show it rather than who the CONServative apparatus tries to get you to send money to.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:12 PM (peJ7P)

386
Has anybody ever actually tried to age beer in oak casks?

Posted by: ShainS

Looked into it, saw the price of a oak cask/barrel, hell no.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 02, 2024 01:12 PM (2HI9m)

387 >>I had to comment where I felt kinship. So love and prayers to all that I have soo missed Anand hope that we are going to overcome., and that one day we can laugh at our collective fears.

Amen, willow!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 01:13 PM (cCVOS)

388 382 Whig. So my memory be for a benefit. But even better than I could do.
Posted by: Willow
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Willow, you are a gentle soul that is sorely needed in this troubled world. Best of wishes and drop in anytime here when able. You, like some others, are definitely missed.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:13 PM (peJ7P)

389 MTM was 15 years younger as Laura than in her later show, and youth usually wins out.

Posted by: Studied These Things at May 02, 2024 01:14 PM (V5BDR)

390 If I had a spotlight on me for something and ConInc tried horning in on it, I'd make sure to publicly trash them for it. "We're real boys, you grifter. Get lost."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (0l8OY)

391 This site includes Sister Sledge's "He's the Greatest Dancer" among its 37 "best" disco songs:

https://www.musicgrotto.com/best-disco-songs/

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (J2vNu)

392 Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

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I saw The Nearly Monotonic Trash open for ...

/Is it even monotonic? It all strikes me as disgustingly atonal trash.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (BENy5)

393 375 Laura Petrie-style slacks

Mmmmmm...

Am I weird in thinking that MTM was better looking as Laura Petrie than as Mary Richards?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:10 PM (9yWhg)

No. She was hella hotter as Laura.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (wtvvX)

394 Disco updated and rocking. The Dee Gees, You should be dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DeaXf1FzE

The worst part about Taylor Hawkins dying of the vaxx was that it was right after that Dee Gees stuff came out, and he *killed* the lead vocals on "Shadow Dancing".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (2ocoG)

395 Amon Lizzy. I'm always so in awe at your ability to take in what's happening and share possible remedies

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:15 PM (Os74q)

396 Save da Erf!

https://shorturl.at/ktwIN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 02, 2024 01:16 PM (L/fGl)

397 MTM was 15 years younger as Laura than in her later show, and youth usually wins out.
Posted by: Studied These Things

Yeah, that occurred to me soon after I posted. Stupid question.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:16 PM (9yWhg)

398 These protests aren't designed to damge trump or israel. They are aimed at biden. And it is obama's friends doing it. Why?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 02, 2024 01:16 PM (3CVIc)

399
I think the last time I saw 'willow' commenting she was headed into her back yard with an electric powered knife to trim some tree branches. I just assumed something horribly wrong happened when she wasn't heard from again.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

400 Hiya Willow !

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2024 01:16 PM (T4tVD)

401 Don't be a stranger willow

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:17 PM (ekpFK)

402 My wife has the radio in her vehicle set to the Sirius Radio 70's station. I get to hear a lot of disco when we're together in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 01:17 PM (Q4IgG)

403 I think the last time I saw 'willow' commenting she was headed into her back yard with an electric powered knife to trim some tree branches. I just assumed something horribly wrong happened when she wasn't heard from again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

She commented when CBD posted the news about JJ Sefton's medical condition. She wished JJ well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:17 PM (9yWhg)

404 Comment Not Found

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (HnUIn)

405 These protests aren't designed to damge trump or israel. They are aimed at biden. And it is obama's friends doing it. Why?

Obama hates Biden, but he's been backed into a corner by how awful Kamala is. So their best play is to armor the Deep State as much as possible and let Trump win. It clears the decks of both Joe and Kumala and the Dems don't take the hit from black women about dumping Kamala.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (2ocoG)

406 Something I've been wondering. How many people here still remember the days of curious?

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (ekpFK)

407 Yup, that ruling was insane. An employer could not test the innate ability of an applicant without a college degree by testing him/her themselves but had to choose the 'most qualified'?

'Second look' seems to be in order.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Civil Rights era was an example of how statutes meant to address an emergency in the current society become an depressing dead weight in the future. Griggs, itself, applied to Duke Power's policy of only hiring those with a high school diploma to be a lineman. Suddenly, after Griggs, disparate impact was used to challenge measures based on behavior that had racial differences. The latest insanity based on Griggs is trying to expunge the effect of criminality in rent and jobs by the EEOC because it reflect poorly on certain demographics. Same for illegal status now.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (peJ7P)

408 If these guys really want to win the PR war against the racist Democrats, they should announce they will match donations up to $100,000 given to four of their philanthropy charities.

Announce a GoFundMe for Special Olympics and say that if people will donate $100,000 in the next three days, then the fraternity will add another $100,000 for disabled children.

Make the optics: Violent, racist Democrats blocking Jewish students from attending classes versus Republicans putting smiles on the faces of children with disabilities!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (HlyYF)

409 Great to see you, Willow!

I've been doing yeoman's work in your stead (frequently getting willowed in threads) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (BENy5)

410 Ty Whig. Srsly your comment made me cry. I always tried to pick others up even strangely to some. But it's truth that I love and am truly spiritually kindred to kindred to most here.

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (Os74q)

411 Willow, thank you for letting your apprentice Sharon hang out with us.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (9yWhg)

412 MTM was 15 years younger as Laura than in her later show, and youth usually wins out.
Posted by: Studied These Things at May 02, 2024

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Actually about nine years if you count from 1961 to 1970, or four years from 1966 (DVD's end) to 1970. But that's true.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (J2vNu)

413 404 Comment Not Found
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Well done!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (2HI9m)

414 404 Comment Not Found
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2024 01:18 PM (HnUIn)

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Nailed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

415 Way, way, waaaaaaay too much camera time spent on not hot Ukrainian chick.

I'm an expert on women's looks - having spent years working in Topless bars. And yes, I've seen, and talked to Anna Nicole Smith in her prime. You are experiencing perspective distortion, you are used to women in photos and movies, and you fail to realize those are one in 100,000 tens you're looking at.

You misunderstood my point. The dudes in the band were on-screen too much. She was fine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (IUd0M)

416 Something I've been wondering. How many people here still remember the days of curious?
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024

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(Yellow)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (J2vNu)

417 You know what I love about the picture of the frat bros?

They look so freakin' NORMAL.

They are not the stereotypical 80's movie bros - all izods, madras shorts and boatshoes being dicks - they look healthy (not fat or skinny-fat) and have no outward demonstrations of "Take that, Dad!" weirdness (tats, piercings, blue hair, etc.).

It's so nice to see just normal Gen Z kids. that hardly ever happens anymore.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (cCVOS)

418 Laughs. - kindred

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (Os74q)

419 "Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation, none of this is a peaceful protest."

-- J. "Brandon" Biden

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (a3Q+t)

420
If the Stupid Republicans can remember this One Simple Trick, they'll be able to score some political points.

The Key is to NOT go "pro-Israel." The Key is to be anti-pro-hamas-terrorist-protester.

Do Not Go Pro Israel. There is zero political gain in doing so.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (MzbCS)

421 Curious? Hell, I remember spurwing plover.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (2ocoG)

422 417 It's so nice to see just normal Gen Z kids. that hardly ever happens anymore.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (cCVOS)

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Dude on the left needs to hit the gym a bit more, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

423 I mean right. ugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

424 In 1968 there were "hard hat" counter-protest movement that appeared to be influential on the outcome of the election that year.

Nixon's team took advantage of the "silent majority" concept, and it's very possible something similar can and will happen in '24.

The normals really do far far outnumber the shitheads, it's always just a question of focusing the power of the numbers.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (dGCAG)

425 Obama hates Biden, but he's been backed into a corner by how awful Kamala is.

I thought the JEF was the reason Heels up Harris was on the ticket?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (DIB8X)

426 420
If the Stupid Republicans can remember this One Simple Trick, they'll be able to score some political points.

The Key is to NOT go "pro-Israel." The Key is to be anti-pro-hamas-terrorist-protester.

Do Not Go Pro Israel. There is zero political gain in doing so.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (MzbCS)

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Eh. They're already pro-Israel. It's the difference between saying, "We support Israel's efforts and will continue our existing contracts with them," and "We're sending troops to help."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

427 Has anybody ever actually tried to age beer in oak casks?

Posted by: ShainS

Looked into it, saw the price of a oak cask/barrel, hell no.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Doesn't seem like it has a purpose. Beer already has a flavor that is adjusted by the ingredients and fermenting. Whiskey is basically a 'white' liquor that needs some kind of flavor, hence peat smoke, etc.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (IG4Id)

428 >>These protests aren't designed to damge trump or israel. They are aimed at biden. And it is obama's friends doing it. Why?

To get Biden to abandon Israel.
This is very much to affect US policy in the ME.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (cCVOS)

429
Yeah, 'curious' and Jane D'oh was not a good mix. Miss Jane, 'curious' not at all.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (RKVpM)

430 nood Ukranies

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (IG4Id)

431 I thought the JEF was the reason Heels up Harris was on the ticket?

He is, but he miscalculated the extent to which she repels people.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (2ocoG)

432 Bulg she is rather delightful isn't she. Tho I admit it freaked me out at first, she is all that and more than me by far

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (Os74q)

433 424 The normals really do far far outnumber the shitheads, it's always just a question of focusing the power of the numbers.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 02, 2024 01:20 PM (dGCAG)

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The number of normals don't matter when a dozen people in Fulton County's counting rooms invent thousands of ballots and the normals do nothing about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

434 Can we just send them kegs?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (1bNHn)

435 nood, comrades!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 02, 2024 01:21 PM (vtyCZ)

436 The DNC/Left has no intention of letting go of power. They are making that pretty clear.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2024 01:22 PM (ekpFK)

437 SHin, fist bumpies

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (Os74q)

438 392 Hell, Disco would be an improvement over the nearly monotonic trash that passes for modern pop music but even that is beside the point. If the price of vanquishing the left is leisure suits and disco, well, sign me the hell up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

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I saw The Nearly Monotonic Trash open for ...

/Is it even monotonic? It all strikes me as disgustingly atonal trash.
Posted by: ShainS

Cost is why. The Big Band era ended in part because of escalating labor costs during the 50's inflation, jazz and rock were the beneficiaries. The current crap is because most of the pop music is now fake digital instruments on a computer and the extensive use of autotune and voice enhancement made easy means quite lousy singers can be used to front a show.

The result is that people with beautiful natural voices are not needed because today's yutes have become used to hearing crappy vocals with obvious autotuning since the 00's.

Karen Carpenter and Julie Andrews and their tremendous natural singing skills need not apply anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (peJ7P)

439 > I thought the JEF was the reason Heels up Harris was on the ticket?
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I read that too. I think the JEF wanted her in the #1 spot but her performance in the debates was miserable... except for that time she called *biden racist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (Q4IgG)

440 Shain! Even

Posted by: Willow at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (Os74q)

441 Stayed up for the UCLA riot but they waited until it was too late.
Did they ever riot?

Posted by: Braenyard at May 02, 2024 01:24 PM (lCWOD)

442 Don’t know what kind of fraternity it is, looks like builders.

Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2024 01:26 PM (o2ZRX)

443 The result is that people with beautiful natural voices are not needed because today's yutes have become used to hearing crappy vocals with obvious autotuning since the 00's.

Karen Carpenter and Julie Andrews and their tremendous natural singing skills need not apply anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (peJ7P)
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Goes along with lack of controls or the poor quality of controls on audio playback devices.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 02, 2024 01:28 PM (lCWOD)

444 I fear that the DNC will not have a live convention.
It will be some kind of remote computer viewing thing.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 02, 2024 01:29 PM (lCWOD)

445
Karen Carpenter and Julie Andrews and their tremendous natural singing skills need not apply anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM

The lead female singer for 'Leonid and Friends' does a cover of a Karen Carpenter song which is not to be believed. She's also very very easy on the eyes.

I see all these Ukrainians and Russians together in that group and I curse Biden for not seeking to negotiate. But that's his way, his way or the highway. Putin said, 'I'll take the highway and line it with tanks."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 02, 2024 01:30 PM (RKVpM)

446 I call hind tit......again.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 02, 2024 01:30 PM (lCWOD)

447 421 Curious? Hell, I remember spurwing plover.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 01:19 PM (
Now, there is a name I have not heard in a long time.

Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2024 01:31 PM (o2ZRX)

448 That wasn't the case when they called up James Jamerson or Bernard Purdie to come play on a disco track.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2024 12:47 PM (2ocoG)

Dennis Bryon (Bee Gees) or Keith Forsey (Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder) were the kangs of disco drumming.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at May 02, 2024 01:32 PM (TIizU)

449 Cost is why. The Big Band era ended in part because of escalating labor costs during the 50's inflation, jazz and rock were the beneficiaries. The current crap is because most of the pop music is now fake digital instruments on a computer and the extensive use of autotune and voice enhancement made easy means quite lousy singers can be used to front a show.

The result is that people with beautiful natural voices are not needed because today's yutes have become used to hearing crappy vocals with obvious autotuning since the 00's.
Posted by: whig at May 02, 2024 01:23 PM (peJ7P)

I was at a wake for a 24-year-old nephew that died of cancer. His friends decided to have a jam band. I noticed all the songs they played were...old. Everything pre-2010. Hell, a bunch of it from my youth in the 1970s. I asked why. They basically said all modern music is unplayable. It's also not any "fun".

The best music used to have terrible singers. Or is "Louie Louie" well sung? Hell, music used to not even be well played, not all the time. What music had was emotions.
It was spirted, fun, anger, love. New music...has no feeling. Just droning thumping.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 02, 2024 01:34 PM (ARlwA)

450 Bill Moon
@BigBillMoon

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PROTESTS: A THREAD ON WHO IS DIRECTING THEM

As you've seen, there have been many protests on US universities over the past few weeks.

Take a good look at this image.

Who organises and funds these groups will both shock and surprise you. 1/24

https://bit.ly/3Quz7V4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 02, 2024 01:34 PM (P5BPp)

451 Broletariat. LOL.

Posted by: Bromageddon! at May 02, 2024 01:38 PM (Wc83a)

452 Where would Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters fall on that bell curve?

If she's on TV or in the movies she is in the 9 range. That is professionally beautiful.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe is not my president at May 02, 2024 01:49 PM (CecP5)

453 I don’t understand donating money for this, there are people actually in need of the money

They need to have a decent party but they need to donate this money to a damn good cause

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 02, 2024 01:57 PM (ZNRWO)

454 Ace were you hosed again? did you even bother to fact check this or was it too good to check?
when i tried to fact check it said that Frat was kicked off campus in may of 2015

ABC11.com
"Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Disbanded at NC State
Thursday March 26th 2015

Kicked off for publishing a pledge handbook deemed sexist and racist.

Ace as I have said before you must be skeptical of the data that you MOST want to believe.

Now you have morons getting chubbies over a fantasy.

Posted by: smiling Paul at May 02, 2024 02:48 PM (En8R7)

455 Is there someone left who I can remind that subversion and brainwashing into anti-American, Jew hating hostility - possibly leading to violence - of our university students by foreigners or agents of foreign countries is an Act Of War?

Posted by: Johnny at May 02, 2024 02:55 PM (alFOm)

456 As a fellow Pi Kap I could not be more proud of the guys at UNC. Great Americans!

smiling Paul can piss off!

Posted by: Charlie at May 02, 2024 03:04 PM (ICusJ)

457 "They need to have a decent party but they need to donate this money to a damn good cause."

Nah.

Divide the dough between the guys who actually showed up for the battle, or towards their tuition or battle-ground pay, or get them each a car, or deposit it into the frat bank account, or towards
what they deem best, in a majority vote.

What did they potentially risk to go into the lion's den? Ask the J6 martyrs.

Why hand any more money over to a (maybe) hastily assembled charity masquerade like BLM, whose leadership will suddenly heap to themselves luxurious purchases?

Posted by: Ju at May 02, 2024 03:28 PM (aTmM/)

458 The overdubbed video is perfect.

I DO think this means something. A shift has happened and it's about freakin' time.

Posted by: NAB at May 02, 2024 03:49 PM (3sHsl)

459 Re: Comment 454
ABC11.com
"Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Disbanded at NC State
Thursday March 26th 2015

NC STATE is NOT UNC Chapel Hill. Different schools altogether.

Posted by: NAB at May 02, 2024 03:50 PM (3sHsl)

460 Turn water hoses on the Antifa/BLM Flag Burning Bolshevik Scum

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 02, 2024 05:01 PM (wGqjj)

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The Brothers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UNC Protected the American Flag from Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Activists.
People Have Sent Them Almost $400,000 for a Party.