Axios (Politico for Kidz): Propaganda Media Now Scrambling for Survival

Before getting to that, let me be a Lying Skank Jen Psaki and Circle Back to turmoil at the Washington Post. I've quoted some of this but some of this is new (unless you saw it on other websites, which you probably did).

As you know, the Washington Post employees are revolting. But the new news is that they're also rebelling.

When Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and new interim executive editor Matt Murray met with staff Monday, the newsroom was still coming to terms with the abrupt exit of Sally Buzbee, who had led the paper since May 2021.
"Everyone was pretty shocked with your email last night," one reporter said at the meeting, according to a source present. The reporter suggested that "the most cynical interpretation sort of feels like you chose two of your buddies to come in and help run the Post, and we now have four white men running three newsrooms," and expressed surprise at this development given Lewis's prior commitments to diversity.

Murray, who previously led The Wall Street Journal, will replace Buzbee as executive editor through the presidential election, at which point, Robert Winnett, a veteran of the UK's Telegraph Media Group, will take on the new role of editor. Murray will move over to a new division of the paper that Lewis referred to as its "third newsroom"--Opinions being the second--which will focus on "service and social media journalism" and run separately from the core news operation.

I mentioned that but I didn't have the quote -- so the Washington Post is taking all of its SJW/activist basketcases and labeling them "service and social media journalism" (the "service" being "servicing leftwing activism") and attempting to wall that off into an Animal House asylum.

The (giggle) reporters are complaining about trifling bullshit, like that they're finding out about this by email on a Sunday night. "That's not how a well-functioning newsroom operates," one sniffs. Well, a well-functioning newsroom also doesn't lose half of its readership in three years due to extreme and unembarrassed leftwing hackery.

Whenever bad employees are fired, they start complaining about how the firing was done. When Gail Simone -- a leftwing hack who got a job at DC comics by ginning up a feminist outrage mob against them-- blew off her editor for six months and refused to answer his many, many phone calls, he fired her by email.

She then activated her "army of cat-ladies" on Twitter and shrieked that she had been disrespected by being fired (by a man!) over email.

Well, asshole, you refused to answer any of his phone calls. How was he supposed to get the word to you?

So now we have unqualified SJWs #Triggered that there are going to be changes -- and firings, of course -- due to them losing the company $77 million in one year alone, and of course they are attempting to change the subject to the form of communication used.

BTW, the Post's management explained the reason for the Sunday night email -- media companies were getting ready to run their own scoop on the changes, and they were forced to send out a quickie email so that the employees wouldn't hear about it from other "news" outlets.

If they hadn't rushed out this quickie email, the SJWs would be complaining, "A well-functioning news room does not allow its employees to be blindsided by news about their own workplace from a competitor!"

This is a very low and callow mode of argumentation. People who are unacquainted with the concepts of accepting criticism and attempting to do better always immediately claim that the criticism is being offered out of bad faith and in an inappropriate form. They do this to change the subject from their failings to your failings in noting their failings.

The CEO said "it's not great" that the new leadership is white and "penisy," as Megyn Kelly mocked them, but vowed he'd do better in the future.

Once he gets done firing the DEI hires.

No, just kidding, they won't do that. Anything but that.

....
Later in the meeting, another reporter asked Lewis whether "any women or people of color were interviewed and seriously considered for either of these positions," a question that prompted applause. Lewis said there will be "significant opportunities" within the new organizational structure. Asked by another staffer about which people he met with, Lewis said, "It was an iterative, messy process, which I don't want to go into the details of."

At one point Lewis was asked whether he was intentionally bringing in people who come from a different culture than the Post.

Players on a team with a three-year losing record demand to know if the newly hired coaches come from a "different culture" than the last batch of losers.

"We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can't sugarcoat it anymore," Lewis said. "So I've had to take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path, sourcing talent that I have worked with that are the best of the best."

I know I've quoted that before, but it's so wonderful.

He turned to that "third newsroom," the SJW Romper Room. He upset the Failures and Zeroes further by saying that even in that Safe Space, he's be seeking to staff it from outside the company.

In other words: Prepare your resumes and seek opportunities elsewhere.

He continued to take a blunt approach when asked about the "third newsroom," specifically how it would be staffed. "I'll be looking for people to put their hands up internally, but also sourcing talent externally," said Lewis. (Of the "third newsroom," Lewis said in Sunday's memo, "The aim is to give the millions of Americans--who feel traditional news is not for them but still want to be kept informed--compelling, exciting and accurate news where they are and in the style that they want.")

The SJW Failures continued insisting that dishonest activism must be part of "journalism" and screamed about being ghettoized in a non-news division.

Listen to this guy's answer. It's an energizing spa day for your boner.

"Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?" one staffer asked, to which Lewis replied, "You haven't done it. I've listened to the platitudes. Honestly, it's just not happening."
"So we're just going to give up on--"
"No, I want you to be inspired," Lewis said. "It's the most important thing: untapped audiences. If what I cause to happen is you all get it, great, but the game is up," he said. "I'm setting up a structure where I'm not going to be guessing."

"I've listened to the platitudes." "The game is up."

It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."

The SJW Failures who know they're on the short-list for rapid firings continued complaining that he was reaching outside of the failed newspaper and its activist shitlib "culture" for staff.

"The fact that Will Lewis keeps going to his network rather than plucking Washington Post leadership implies that he finds everyone lacking, and I think that's kind of the most disturbing thing," a second staffer told me.

He didn't "imply" he found the leadership lacking -- he straight up said it.

The reason he isn't relying on current "leadership" is that they are proven irredeemable failures.

More complaining by DEI hires who worry, rightly, that the CEO has all but announced they will be fired:

"I don't think [failed former Editor in Chief Sally Buzbee] deserved to go out this way," the first staffer told me, noting that in conversations with their colleagues, people >"don't feel good about the fact that the first female executive editor of The Washington Post got a one paragraph goodbye note at 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday, and that she's being replaced by more white men we don't know."

Hey everybody -- racism and sexism are bad, m'kay?

Axios comments on this and the woes of all the propaganda media.

Media scrambles for survival ahead of 2024

Newsrooms typically immersed in political coverage during a presidential election year are instead focused on saving their own businesses.
Why it matters: Major restructurings, layoffs and newsroom overhauls are unusual for America's biggest news companies just months ahead of a highly anticipated presidential race.
With business headwinds growing stronger, news leaders know they can't afford to push off changes any longer.
Subscription media growth has slowed as publishers struggle to replace customers who canceled their Trump-era subscriptions.
Zoom in: The Post is one of several major newsrooms trying to find new readers willing to pay for their journalism online before their traditional products die out.
1. CNN began testing a new strategy last month that asks readers to submit personal data, like their email addresses, if they want to continue reading a certain amount of daily articles for free.
It marks the company's most significant consumer-facing effort to begin re-establishing a direct-to-consumer relationship with readers after the fall of its subscription video app, CNN+, in 2022.
2. The Wall Street Journal, similarly, has undergone massive changes to its editorial structure under new editor Emma Tucker, including layoffs announced last week.
On Wednesday, the paper introduced a new, multimillion-dollar brand advertising campaign geared toward broadening the Journal's subscriber appeal to a wider set of business professionals, not just finance investors or C-suite executives.
3. ABC News President Kim Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a major broadcast news division, stepped down in May after staffers began to lose confidence in her leadership.
Disney executive Debra OConnell will lead the news division for the time being.

Disney executive, huh? That's a surefire recipe for success.

Update:

DEI and this biased reporting were sold as a way to bring in new clients. That is to say millennials and Gen Z people would buy the paper if the news were highly slanted in a specific direction.
Didn't work. Instead, the people who were actually buying the paper got pissed and canceled their subscriptions.
So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.
-- El Mariachi Attorney

This is a really good point -- this must be what he meant by "I've heard the platitudes, it just isn't working." It sounds exactly like he's responding to the claim that a Phantom Audience will appear if they just go full DEI and SJW.

Below, Megyn Kelly and Dave Rubin make fun of the post as Kelly reads the VF article.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:14 PM

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1 WOW

Posted by: Max Power at June 05, 2024 01:14 PM (q177U)

2 As you know, the Washington Post employees are revolting.

They stink on ice!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

3 They could try printing the truth

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:15 PM (Akjoo)

4 Burn baby burn

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 05, 2024 01:15 PM (JMAcK)

5 Bless their hearts.

Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (VGOMa)

6 >>>They stink on ice!!!

it's a fine old joke

Posted by: deep fake ace at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (KRtlO)

7 Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (2UnvF)

8 >>>3 They could try printing the truth

this is disinformation

Posted by: deep fake ace at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (KRtlO)

9 "Everyone was pretty shocked with your email last night," one reporter said at the meeting, according to a source present. The reporter suggested that "the most cynical interpretation sort of feels like you chose two of your buddies to come in and help run the Post, and we now have four white men running three newsrooms," and expressed surprise at this development given Lewis's prior commitments to diversity.
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LOL.

This is like a couple arguing over whether the pink or tan doilies should be used in the living room, while the curtains are fire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (d04cU)

10 As an astute Moron noted: Axios is the Highlights For Children of Politicos.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (iRX3h)

11 Only a heart of stone could fail to laugh at the plight of WaPo.

There's been so much bad news among the morons, I'm hesitant to say this. But we've gotten great news here at Pooh Corner. My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (1bNHn)

12 Why would you pay for a relatively expensive "reporter" when you can hire an intern to re-write DNC press releases or hell, just get AI to do it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2024 01:17 PM (ibTVg)

13 I mentioned that but I didn't have the quote -- so the Washington Post is taking all of its SJW/activist basketcases and labeling them "service and social media journalism" (the "service" being "servicing leftwing activism") and attempting to wall that off into an Animal House asylum.
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Their name, their circus, their monkeys. You own it, WaPo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:17 PM (d04cU)

14 BTW, the Post's management explained the reason for the Sunday night email -- media companies were getting ready to run their own scoop on the changes, and they were forced to send out a quickie email so that the employees wouldn't hear about it from other "news" outlets.
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LOL.

I wonder which executives are double-dipping.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:18 PM (d04cU)

15 Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is pretty much the same as rearranging your leftist nutjobs at the Washington (shit)Post.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2024 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

16 WypipoPo?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 01:18 PM (BpZ5k)

17 As you know, the Washington Post employees are revolting.

I'll say. They stink. On ice!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (NzJjs)

18 I love watching leftists get shivved by leftists.

"But we're the GOOD people!"

"If only Comrade Bezos knew!"

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (dEOJ+)

19 At one point Lewis was asked whether he was intentionally bringing in people who come from a different culture than the Post.
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You should hope so.

Diversity is your strength!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (d04cU)

20 I mentioned that but I didn't have the quote -- so the Washington Post is taking all of its SJW/activist basketcases and labeling them "service and social media journalism" (the "service" being "servicing leftwing activism") and attempting to wall that off into an Animal House asylum.
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Will the beauteous Ms Lorenz be in charge of that group?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (1bNHn)

21 The Texas Rangers beat the Boner Rays on their way to a world championship last year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

22 "It's a relaxing tanning spa for your boner."
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And here I was wondering what I was going to do all summer...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (7fElN)

23 >>>Most of them couldn’t get laid at a P Diddy Pool Party.

Depends on how much they resist

Posted by: P Diddy at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

24 Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (1bNHn)

That's great news, Eeyore! The more bad news we hear, the more we need to hear good news, I think.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (s6PBU)

25 Of the "third newsroom," Lewis said in Sunday's memo, "The aim is to give the millions of Americans--who feel traditional news is not for them but still want to be kept informed--compelling, exciting and accurate news where they are and in the style that they want."
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So X posts, listicles and TikTok harangues?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (d04cU)

26 Most of them couldn’t get laid at a P Diddy Pool Party.

Depends on how much they resist

Posted by: P Diddy at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (KRtlO)

/Golf clap

Well done good sir well done

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (ibTVg)

27 Why would you pay for a relatively expensive "reporter" when you can hire an intern to re-write DNC press releases or hell, just get AI to do it?

Posted by: 18-1

One, unpaid intern feeding AI overnight and having the outputs sent out by 5:00 am.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (NzJjs)

28 It has been pointed out that Bezos could certainly fund the current pack of losers ad infinitum. I'm curious what caused him to say "enough is enough".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (xCA6C)

29 I find it impossible to believe that WaPoop lost 50% of its readers in a year. Its readers already were 100% leftwing buttplugs. What happened that would cause them to defect in such catastrophic numbers??

I think more likely is that very many fake "readers" were being carried on WaPoop's books for years, and for some reason they were recently purged. The true readership -- or a more true readership -- is now revealed. But it's not like WaPoop actually lost any real readers.

That's my take, anyway.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

30 Will the beauteous Ms Lorenz be in charge of that group?
Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:19 PM (1bNHn)

Never heard of her. But it'll probably be the other Ms Lorenz who looks like someone painted a Wii character's face on a rugby ball.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (BpZ5k)

31 >>>but some of this is new (unless you saw it on other websites, which you probably did).

lol

Posted by: No Name Today at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (I+KxP)

32 "Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?" one staffer asked, to which Lewis replied, "You haven't done it. I've listened to the platitudes. Honestly, it's just not happening."
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Ouch. I'd say the dude isn't quite at the end of his rope, but is nearing it. He let the "we're brilliant" part slide, specifically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (d04cU)

33 >>>Will the beauteous Ms Lorenz be in charge of that group?

I'm wondering! She covers the "social media beat" so normally she would be printing nasty shit about the new management team, but she must know she is also on the short-list for firing.

I wonder where she will go after she gets fired. Like Keith Olbermann, she has fewer and fewer options.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (KRtlO)

34 Afternoon Ace. The little social justice twits went from college safe spaces, to advocacy group safe spaces to the WAPO safe space. No real world intruding. Mr Lewis must have caused quite a number of spastic colons

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (Clqcn)

35
WaPo can't die soon enough for me. I'm tired of buying stuff from Amazon in the afternoon, having it delivered the next day, and feeling a little guilty about it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (RKVpM)

36 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore

Excellent news, Eeyore!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (v6JzV)

37 Why would you pay for a relatively expensive "reporter" when you can hire an intern to re-write DNC press releases or hell, just get AI to do it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2024 01:17 PM (ibTVg)

Why do we need 538 elected officials to slide us into fucktard communist oblivion?

Appearances, dear boy. Appearances.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (dEOJ+)

38 Megyn needs to eat a sandwich.

Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (VGOMa)

39 It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."
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Let the Style Guide be updated to reflect that "rub-n-tug" is now "Holistic Spa."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (d04cU)

40 If they lost only 77 million, they are not yet ready for DC. They need to up their game by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (1bNHn)

41 I had a WaPo subscription until the day after election day, 2008. At that point, I had had enough of the propaganda. It's gotten far worse since them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (xCA6C)

42 Speaking of lying, I just got a text from Apple news that a producer of the Apprentice broke his 20 year silence to reveal Trump said the "N" word ! I thought we heard this in the 2016 election ?

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (Akjoo)

43 "The fact that Will Lewis keeps going to his network rather than plucking Washington Post leadership implies that he finds everyone lacking, and I think that's kind of the most disturbing thing," a second staffer told me.
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Has your audience been growing?
Are subscriptions up?

No? Then you're lacking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (d04cU)

44 >>>I had a WaPo subscription until the day after election day, 2008.

GAY!!!

Posted by: Guy who says things are GAY!!! at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (KRtlO)

45 The WaPo is bringing the School Administrator approach to the newsroom.

School Administrators, knowing it's almost impossible to fire teachers, try to move bad teachers where they can do the least amount of damage.

Sounds like Lewis is trying to wall off the toxic portion of the newsroom.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (tT6L1)

46
WypipoPo?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Fortress of Whiteatude

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (63Dwl)

47 Congrats to you and the wife Eeyore

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (Clqcn)

48 "Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?" one staffer asked
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I think I see the problem, delusional narcissism...or perhaps narcissistic delusion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (XeU6L)

49 Why would you pay for a relatively expensive "reporter" when you can hire an intern to re-write DNC press releases or hell, just get AI to do it?

Posted by: 18-1

One, unpaid intern feeding AI overnight and having the outputs sent out by 5:00 am.

^^^^^^^^^^*
You could actually run a fancy newsroom pretty cheap like that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:23 PM (NzJjs)

50 37 Why would you pay for a relatively expensive "reporter" when you can hire an intern to re-write DNC press releases or hell, just get AI to do it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2024 01:17 PM (ibTVg)

Exactly

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (Akjoo)

51 Megyn needs to eat a sandwich.
Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (VGOMa)

That look of someone who's gotten wayyyyyy too deep into running or biking.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (BpZ5k)

52 It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."
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Let the Style Guide be updated to reflect that "rub-n-tug" is now "Holistic Spa."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (d04cU)
_____________

[Slaps forehead]

-- Robert Kraft

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

53 That's Bidenomics for ya

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (EGSGm)

54 >>>School Administrators, knowing it's almost impossible to fire teachers, try to move bad teachers where they can do the least amount of damage.

yes, that's it. maybe they'll try to "encourage them to seek other opportunities," but I can't see an actual mass firing ahead.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (KRtlO)

55 "Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?" one staffer asked

I think we've identified part of the problem. If you can't write a better sentence than that, you have no business working for a newspaper, unless it's to clean the men's room.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (xCA6C)

56 38 Megyn needs to eat a sandwich.
Posted by: huerfano

With a protein drink chaser.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (aFNOf)

57 I find it impossible to believe that WaPoop lost 50% of its readers in a year. Its readers already were 100% leftwing buttplugs. What happened that would cause them to defect in such catastrophic numbers??

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

The war in Israel.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (/nCD+)

58 I wonder where she will go after she gets fired. Like Keith Olbermann, she has fewer and fewer options.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (KRtlO)
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Maybe all these losers can crowd into Olbermann's basement studio...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (7fElN)

59 What I'd like to see as a follow up, in the miraculous event that DJT wins and is out for blood:

Pull every press pass - including Fox. The only reporters allowed access to the White House are from Epoch Times.

Close the press room down permanently. Make it a bowling alley or smoking lounge.

One POTUS press conference once per week with the ET reporters, one-on-one in the Oval Office, just as Coolidge did. One-on-one conferences with conservative bloggers are also allowed, after proper vetting.

Any member of the administration who speaks on or off record to a MFM asshole will be immediately fired and their pension seized. Any GOP member of congress who so much as speaks to an MFM presstitute without the administration's advance knowledge or permission will be permanently denied White House access for the duration of POTUS' term.

The Constitution provides for a free press. It does not require an administration to provide aid and comfort to domestic enemies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (Q0kLU)

60 Speaking of lying, I just got a text from Apple news that a producer of the Apprentice broke his 20 year silence to reveal Trump said the "N" word ! I thought we heard this in the 2016 election ?
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (Akjoo)

They're breaking out the old interviews with Amarosa where she claimed she's "seen the tape" where Trump did this.

If there was such footage, it would've come out YEARS ago........A decade ago, at least.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

61 WypipoPo?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Fortress of Whiteatude
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Pull up the ladders! Stat!
Posted by: WypipoPo

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (NzJjs)

62 Oh no! By the time I finish reading, it'll be up to comment #216!

Beat the clock, ac! Beat the clock!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (ZdexC)

63 >>>That look of someone who's gotten wayyyyyy too deep into running or biking.

She looks good to me.

Posted by: Nick Riketa at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (KRtlO)

64 So is this hubris or part of the grand plan? Because wants all the news papers shutter and the presses go cold, the government has total control of wide spread information.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (IHRQq)

65 Listen to this guy's answer. It's an energizing spa day for your boner.

It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."

Pure poetry, ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (ZANHd)

66 white and "penisy"

Bezos clones.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Sanity and Madness at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (j88nQ)

67 Megyn needs to eat a sandwich.

Posted by: huerfano

A hot dog is a sandwich.

Posted by: Horny Oscar Mayer at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (hCzfy)

68 "I don't think [failed former Editor in Chief Sally Buzbee] deserved to go out this way," the first staffer told me, noting that in conversations with their colleagues, people >"don't feel good about the fact that the first female executive editor of The Washington Post got a one paragraph goodbye note at 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday, and that she's being replaced by more white men we don't know."
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One thing that's *extremely* common on TikTok and among the always-online crowd is the sincere proclamations about what they "deserve."

"You deserve 'princess treatment' as a single mother dating in your 30s."
"I deserve housing assistance as a part-time barista and full-time activist in my blue city."
"Young people deserve a free college education."

Warning to these people: don't talk about what you deserve. If there's one thing you really, truly and desperately do *not* want, it's getting anything even approaching what you deserve.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (d04cU)

69 School Administrators, knowing it's almost impossible to fire teachers, try to move bad teachers where they can do the least amount of damage.

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That darn 99%!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Since the 70s, women no longer outlive men. Thanks feminism! at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (gnoLe)

70 42 Speaking of lying, I just got a text from Apple news that a producer of the Apprentice broke his 20 year silence to reveal Trump said the "N" word ! I thought we heard this in the 2016 election ?
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024

I did too, and they first started water dropping this story a week ago. I didn’t click this new one, but last week’s summary was “he said it, but there is no way to prove it. Just my memory.”

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (pZEOD)

71 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore

I hope and pray to type this in the near future.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

72 I had a funny observation:

Noodles and Company- a place I had lunch at once a week- last year went all in on PRIDE MONTH!!! and touted their RAINBOW rice krispie treats to honor PRIDE!!

They went from once a week for me to 0 times a year.

I haven't gotten off their mailing list (I'm lazy) and I notice this year, there's no mention of PRIDE!! There's no rainbow desserts. There's just advertising about their own product.

I think they got hurt and can't continue to spit on half their customer base in this economy.

As long as they continue on this path I MIGHT consider visiting them every other month or so.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (JMAcK)

73 >>>64 So is this hubris or part of the grand plan? Because wants all the news papers shutter and the presses go cold, the government has total control of wide spread information.

yes this must be viewed within the sinister context that the Media Class is agitating more and more for the government to force taxpayers to fund their propaganda.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (KRtlO)

74 Only a heart of stone could fail to laugh at the plight of WaPo.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (1bNHn)
-

Roger that!

(Wonderful news about your wife's health)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (hO/fR)

75 DEI and this biased reporting were sold as a way to bring in new clients. That is to say millennials and Gen Z people would buy the paper if the news were highly slanted in a specific direction.

Didn't work. Instead, the people who were actually buying the paper got pissed and canceled their subscriptions.

So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

Sound familiar? How is this different than a Budweiser exec. saying the brand was too "fratty" and needed to appeal to alphabet people who never, in a zillion years, would be caught dead drinking a Bud? Or the comic book, that in an attempt to lure in gay and trans readers, decided to make the heroes all gay and trans?

This keeps...hapening.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (nLFEI)

76 57 I find it impossible to believe that WaPoop lost 50% of its readers in a year. Its readers already were 100% leftwing buttplugs. What happened that would cause them to defect in such catastrophic numbers??

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

The war in Israel.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (/nCD+)

========

Also, it's no fun reading party organ papers when everything is shit and the papers keeps blaming everyone but those in actual power.

It's unconvincing and unrewarding as fiction. "This would all be good except for the kulaks," doesn't convince many people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

77 I wonder where she will go after she gets fired. Like Keith Olbermann, she has fewer and fewer options.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:21 PM (KRtlO)

I see a future for those two!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Shadchanit at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (PiwSw)

78 With business headwinds growing stronger, news leaders know they can't afford to push off changes any longer.
++++
It's interesting - and perhaps hopeful - that this might be starting to matter. This never mattered before. News outlets are the subsidized playthings of oligarchs and profitability was never particularly important.

Those higher interest rates may be starting to have an effect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (d04cU)

79 That look of someone who's gotten wayyyyyy too deep into running or biking.

She looks good to me.
Posted by: Nick Riketa

The Ann Coulter Sack of Bones/Heroin Chic look.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (NzJjs)

80 71 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore

I hope and pray to type this in the near future.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

Good news Eeyore, and we are all praying for that Sponge

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (Akjoo)

81 There's been so much bad news among the morons, I'm hesitant to say this. But we've gotten great news here at Pooh Corner. My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.

yay!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (s3qiR)

82 >>>DEI and this biased reporting were sold as a way to bring in new clients. That is to say millennials and Gen Z people would buy the paper if the news were highly slanted in a specific direction.
Didn't work. Instead, the people who were actually buying the paper got pissed and canceled their subscriptions.
So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

This is a really good point -- this must be what he meant by "I've heard the platitudes, it just isn't working."

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (KRtlO)

83 Turn that frown
Upside down!

Posted by: 496 at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (fMKVU)

84 "It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the 'frown lines.'"

Awww, c'mon, pal. Why the long face?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (pIfcn)

85 3 They could try printing the truth
Posted by: it's me donna
........................
LoL!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (t1zlm)

86 >>It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."

Hahahaha

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (obi3v)

87
A hot dog is a sandwich.
Posted by: Horny Oscar Mayer
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Thus it begins.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

88 "White and Penisy" was a great 70s soft rock act.

Posted by: Nonapod at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (CwtyK)

89 I had a funny observation:

Noodles and Company- a place I had lunch at once a week- last year went all in on PRIDE MONTH!!! and touted their RAINBOW rice krispie treats to honor PRIDE!!

They went from once a week for me to 0 times a year.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (JMAcK)
-

Been doing as best I can to not purchase from any such companies. Grandchildren expecting certain toys hardest hit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (hO/fR)

90 They could try printing the truth
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:15 PM (Akjoo)
++++
Let's not go crazy here, Donna.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (d04cU)

91 I know how they feel.

Posted by: Rich Lowry at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (aFNOf)

92 >>She looks good to me.
Posted by: Nick Riketa

Damn.

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (obi3v)

93 So is this hubris or part of the grand plan? Because wants all the news papers shutter and the presses go cold, the government has total control of wide spread information.
Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:25 PM (IHRQq)
____________

The dinosaur media is angling for a gov bailout or some cockamamie plan for public subsidies or funding for their journalistic vomit. Which they will probable get in one form or another.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (iFTx/)

94 "Everything is shit and it's the white man's fault, no matter your politics."
-WaPo

"Well, this is uncomfortable for me to read."
-White Democrat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

95 With business headwinds growing stronger, news leaders know they can't afford to push off changes any longer.
++++
It's interesting - and perhaps hopeful - that this might be starting to matter. This never mattered before. News outlets are the subsidized playthings of oligarchs and profitability was never particularly important.

Those higher interest rates may be starting to have an effect.

Bezos wanted an 800' yacht but had to settle for 790' because money is tight.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (xCA6C)

96 Congrats on the good news, Eeyore.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (tT6L1)

97 The horror! 4 WHITE Men!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (NpAcC)

98 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore

Woohoo! What a relief for both of you.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (pZEOD)

99 I was required to take the 'Sustainability' training course at work.....

It's all carbon neutral, transparent taxes and DEI bullshit.

I'm, at this point, just hoping to hang on till I retire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

100 >>>I had a WaPo subscription until the day after election day, 2008.

GAY!!!

Posted by: Guy who says things are GAY!!!

I got better.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (xCA6C)

101 Sound familiar? How is this different than a Budweiser exec. saying the brand was too "fratty" and needed to appeal to alphabet people who never, in a zillion years, would be caught dead drinking a Bud? Or the comic book, that in an attempt to lure in gay and trans readers, decided to make the heroes all gay and trans?

This keeps...hapening.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 05, 2024 01:26 PM (nLFEI)
---
Somebody smart once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (7fElN)

102 "Everything is shit and it's the white man's fault, no matter your politics."
-WaPo

"Well, this is uncomfortable for me to read."
-White Democrat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

And yet that 'social scientist' spunk trumpet was just recently lamenting that he couldn't get hired because he's white.

No idea, the left has, about cause and effect.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 05, 2024 01:29 PM (/nCD+)

103 Are you telling me profits matter?!

Well, that's just crazy talk. That's not how it was at my last job! That's no way to treat a young star!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz, almost, sorta at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (JPzNZ)

104 That's fantastic Eeyore. Awesome.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (dEOJ+)

105 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore

Awesome. Bright spot in the grey box world.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Sanity and Madness at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (j88nQ)

106 76 57 I find it impossible to believe that WaPoop lost 50% of its readers in a year. Its readers already were 100% leftwing buttplugs. What happened that would cause them to defect in such catastrophic numbers??

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

The war in Israel.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 05, 2024 01:24 PM (/nCD+)

========

Also, it's no fun reading party organ papers when everything is shit and the papers keeps blaming everyone but those in actual power.

It's unconvincing and unrewarding as fiction. "This would all be good except for the kulaks," doesn't convince many people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
__________

True, but the ones it does convince are all WaPoop readers . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

107 >>>88 "White and Penisy" was a great 70s soft rock act.

I saw them open for 10cc.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (KRtlO)

108 School Administrators, knowing it's almost impossible to fire teachers, try to move bad teachers where they can do the least amount of damage.

The crayon room.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:30 PM (NzJjs)

109 Speaking of lying, I just got a text from Apple news that a producer of the Apprentice broke his 20 year silence to reveal Trump said the "N" word !

-

He goes by one name AND bangs porn stars AND is a felon AND used the N-word AND was railroaded by the legal system?

That's bound to hurt him with the blacks!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Since the 70s, women no longer outlive men. Thanks feminism! at June 05, 2024 01:31 PM (gnoLe)

110

BUT WHAT ABOUT WOODWARD AND BERSTREIN AND THEY'RE LEGACYES!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 05, 2024 01:31 PM (et1vG)

111 >>"White and Penisy" was a great 70s soft rock act.

They were no Rasputin's Dong

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2024 01:31 PM (obi3v)

112 There's been so much bad news among the morons, I'm hesitant to say this. But we've gotten great news here at Pooh Corner. My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:16 PM (1bNHn)

#yay

Posted by: browndog cheering at June 05, 2024 01:31 PM (TTAGa)

113 Taking the walling off the toxic SJW's thought a bit further, I'm trying to imagine a bunch of SJW's getting along well enough to produce product.

Yeah, they'll implode in short order. Or show up and start shooting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (tT6L1)

114 if you don't get my joke:

I've never heard this said by anyone else but a guy I went to college with who had a whole bunch of trivia (and also a lot of Without Evidence claims) told me that 10cc named itself that because ten cubic centimeters is the "average amount of ejaculation."

And now that I think about how much liquid is in 10ccs, I wonder how much man-sauce this guy was pumping out that he believed 10ccs was an average amount of ejaculate.

Forget my dumb joke. That guy in college was dumb. (Or gifted.)

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (KRtlO)

115 I just wanted to say about this news... fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fappity-fap.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (elaR+)

116 "8% interest rates will save the culture!"
-the best optimism I can come up with

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

117 Weren't White and Penisy the names of the tigers that Siegfried and Roy used to torture?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

118 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.

Such good news.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (aFNOf)

119 Say what you want about Megyn Kelly but I would bet dollars to donuts that she is a LOT of fun in the sack.

Posted by: ballistic at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

120 Reporting is hard, highly slanted reporting is much, much easier. I mean you can make up half the shit, right? Everything fits into a narrative, the same narrative, then you never have to think up anything new.

DEI enforces ideology, which by its very nature, destroys creativity. DEI reporting doesn't just piss of some people - its fucking boring. Predictable. Every story has the same slant. Every story says the same damn thing. It all reaches the same conclusion.

"Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?" one staffer asked, to which Lewis replied, "You haven't done it. I've listened to the platitudes. Honestly, it's just not happening."

"So we're just going to give up on--"

"No, I want you to be inspired," Lewis said. "It's the most important thing: untapped audiences. If what I cause to happen is you all get it, great, but the game is up," he said. "I'm setting up a structure where I'm not going to be guessing."

read that again.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (nLFEI)

121 >>>118 My wife's latest test results are in, and she DOESN'T have cancer.

very good.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (KRtlO)

122 "Everything is shit and it's the white man's fault, no matter your politics."
-WaPo

"Well, this is uncomfortable for me to read."
-White Democrat
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
_______

I dunno. I think White Democraps actually like it, being the butt of all jokes and generally blamed for all problems. The shame is part of the kink. That's why so many of the needledicks whining about "white privilege" are whiter than me. And I'm fucking white.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

123 @114
I am NOT Googling that.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (xCA6C)

124 There used to be two capitol city papers; the Post and the Washington Star (aka "Evening Star")

I recall my folks getting both.

The Post bought the building and the presses the Star had when they went bankrupt in '81.

I *think* the Star was the more conservative of the two. Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (Q4IgG)

125 -- blew off her editor for six months and refused to answer his many, many phone calls
----------------------------------------

Sounds like something costanza would do to avoid getting fired.

Posted by: E.T. at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (e4oEG)

126 Biden is on video tape saying "the word". And it didn't sound like he was uncomfortable doing so. But then again he was a proud segregationist and buddies with Robert Byrd.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (dEOJ+)

127 I'll call it a "W" when that rag shuts down for good but it is fun reading about their foibles.

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (89Sog)

128 I don't GAF about the WaPo, It's a gossip paper for the left.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (YdEcD)

129 >>>Sounds like something costanza would do to avoid getting fired.

I am firing *you.*

Surprised? Shocked?

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (KRtlO)

130
And now that I think about how much liquid is in 10ccs, I wonder how much man-sauce this guy was pumping out that he believed 10ccs was an average amount of ejaculate.

Forget my dumb joke. That guy in college was dumb. (Or gifted.)
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (KRtlO)

Used to work with a guy who said while he was in college, he and a few others found this supplement that was supposed to increase the amount of ejaculate you emitted.

Said it worked quite well. "Bucketloads."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

131 >>Sounds like something costanza would do to avoid getting fired.

"Tell Mr Tomasuto that I"M IN MY OFFICE!"

Posted by: George Costanza at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (obi3v)

132 I find it impossible to believe that WaPoop lost 50% of its readers in a year.

---

I believe they lost 50% of readers since 2020 and $77 million in the last year.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 05, 2024 01:34 PM (hCzfy)

133 "White and Penisy" was a great 70s soft rock act.

Then they changed their name to Loggins and Messina.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (Q0kLU)

134 42 Speaking of lying, I just got a text from Apple news that a producer of the Apprentice broke his 20 year silence to reveal Trump said the "N" word ! I thought we heard this in the 2016 election ?
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:22 PM (Akjoo)
______
I have a comment about that in last night's cafe. My wife says that's BS, and was addressed in the reunion show of the Apprentice.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (1bNHn)

135 That's wonderful news, Eeyore!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (NpAcC)

136 Howdy Ace, Horde

The Narrative is losing its hold on American minds. Exciting stuff.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (r83on)

137 "It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines.""

Is this a common occurrence for 29 year old males? Whew, glad I'm only 28.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (f87vz)

138 In eight years the WP went from 500,000 circulation to 140,000. We need to keep that trend going.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (lTGtQ)

139 I dunno. I think White Democraps actually like it, being the butt of all jokes and generally blamed for all problems. The shame is part of the kink. That's why so many of the needledicks whining about "white privilege" are whiter than me. And I'm fucking white.

But they aren't. They're always talking about those OTHER white people. You know, the ones who aren't as enlightened.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (xCA6C)

140 He goes by one name AND bangs porn stars AND is a felon AND used the N-word AND was railroaded by the legal system?

That's bound to hurt him with the blacks!
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Hurt? They're giving him an award.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (NzJjs)

141 122 I dunno. I think White Democraps actually like it, being the butt of all jokes and generally blamed for all problems. The shame is part of the kink. That's why so many of the needledicks whining about "white privilege" are whiter than me. And I'm fucking white.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

=========

It's a fad, I believe.

Fads fade, especially when they're damaging.

White Democrats losing the fire for DEI when they are constantly the scapegoat for everything wrong in the world has to be exhausting. "I just want the politicization of everything through centralized government control, not to be unable to live my life away from constant coercion by those seeking complete control of every part of my life."

At some point, you just decide to check out. You may not actually change your views, but you will stop paying attention because there's no reward personally anymore for doing it. Cancelling WaPo could be a small manifestation of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

142 "Say what you want about Megyn Kelly but I would bet dollars to donuts that she is a LOT of fun in the sack."

I would bet she used to be. I'm guessing she is aging badly toward emotionally fragile.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (iFMeW)

143 Murray, who previously led The Wall Street Journal, will replace Buzbee as executive editor through the presidential election, at which point, Robert Winnett, a veteran of the UK's Telegraph Media Group, will take on the new role of editor.
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The UK Telegraph began going seriously downhill on the road to what would become Woke the year that Conrad Black was tossed in the palace coup over the phoney charges against him levied in corrupt Chicago. So it's not like Ace has been named editor-in-chief.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (ZdexC)

144 138 In eight years the WP went from 500,000 circulation to 140,000. We need to keep that trend going.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (lTGtQ)

And take the NYT's with them

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:35 PM (Akjoo)

145 Woohoo! #143!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:36 PM (ZdexC)

146 @145 This close.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:36 PM (iFMeW)

147 Never thought to report it 20 years ago. Well Trump wasn't big then.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (dEOJ+)

148 Players on a team with a three-year losing record demand to know if the newly hired coaches come from a "different culture" than the last batch of losers.
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Yeast culture.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (ZdexC)

149
[100 comment rule]

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

150
if you don't get my joke:

I've never heard this said by anyone else but a guy I went to college with who had a whole bunch of trivia (and also a lot of Without Evidence claims) told me that 10cc named itself that because ten cubic centimeters is the "average amount of ejaculation."

And now that I think about how much liquid is in 10ccs, I wonder how much man-sauce this guy was pumping out that he believed 10ccs was an average amount of ejaculate.

Forget my dumb joke. That guy in college was dumb. (Or gifted.)

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM

it's a common misconception

Posted by: The Lovin' Spoonfull at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (bEb2S)

151 Ace for WaPo editor in chief!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (tT6L1)

152 "So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Marvel at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (CwhoI)

153 The Post losing $77 million. Rookie numbers. To all the former Posties, learn to Starbucks. Oh, Starbucks isn't doing to well these days. Hmmm...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (f87vz)

154 So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

See also comics, movies, series, etc

Posted by: steevy at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (FQmDC)

155 124 I think the Washington Star was the conservative DC paper that was replaced by the Washington Times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (v6JzV)

156 ------
Yeast culture.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:37 PM (ZdexC)

Time to make the doughnuts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

157 Say what you want about Megyn Kelly but I would bet dollars to donuts that she is a LOT of fun in the sack.
Posted by: ballistic at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (oqH4h)
_________

"She can't handle the, shall we say, the deep power of the Paolo"

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

158 >>>Posted by: The Lovin' Spoonfull

hah hah!

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (KRtlO)

159 He goes by one name AND bangs porn stars AND is a felon AND used the N-word AND was railroaded by the legal system?

That's bound to hurt him with the blacks!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Since the 70s, women no longer outlive men. Thanks feminism! at June 05, 2024 01:31 PM (gnoLe)

A small quibble: he bangs supermodels. Porn stars wish he would bang them.

Posted by: Emmie at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (Sf2cq)

160 At some point, you just decide to check out. You may not actually change your views, but you will stop paying attention because there's no reward personally anymore for doing it. Cancelling WaPo could be a small manifestation of that.

And, as has been pointed out, if the work product is so utterly biased and predictable, you don't even need to waste time reading it. You already know what they'll say.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (xCA6C)

161 126 Biden is on video tape saying "the word". And it didn't sound like he was uncomfortable doing so. But then again he was a proud segregationist and buddies with Robert Byrd.
Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024

That’s different. Just like his racial jungle speech. Or saying boy. Or accusing that one man of being on drugs. That is just him being folksie.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (pZEOD)

162
IN: You cannot hate journos enough.
REAL IN: You cannot LAUGH AT journos enough.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (wtvvX)

163 When you deal in bull shit lies prepared to be shit on. The Left always eventually eat their own.

Posted by: polynikes at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (SHMXB)

164 ... and attempting to wall that off into an Animal House asylum.

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

"Was It Over When the MAGAts Bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!

"Well, You Can Do Whatever You Want To Us, But We’re Not Going To Sit Here And Listen To You Badmouth Our Precious Democracy Dying In Darkness!"

"Yoga! Yoga! Yoga!"

"Fool Fight!"

" Christ. Seven Years of Whoring Down the Drain. Might as Well Join the F*cking Peace Corps!"

"My Advice to You Is To Start Coding Heavily."

"Joe Biden Can Be Really Sensuous, Don’t You Think?"

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (Tlt/x)

165 I already made the doughnuts.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (iFMeW)

166 So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

How many trans actually read the WaPo?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (NzJjs)

167 I have to say, there's nothing funnier in life than when reality intersects with liberalism.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (KbCG3)

168
10cc is less than 2 tsp. When I was in college it was 1 Tbsp.

Maybe this has something to do with the lower birth rate.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (YdEcD)

169 >>
" Christ. Seven Years of Whoring Down the Drain. Might as Well Join the F*cking Peace Corps!"

"My Advice to You Is To Start Coding Heavily."

"Joe Biden Can Be Really Sensuous, Don’t You Think?"

haha

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:40 PM (KRtlO)

170 Somebody on X noted that media employers like the Post have very precise analytics on their reporters now.

They know who is getting read and who isn't.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 05, 2024 01:40 PM (uxCna)

171 "So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had."

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Marvel at June 05, 2024 01:38 PM (CwhoI)
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Coen Brothers split is reminiscent of that. The Coen Brothers for years knew their audience and budgeted their movies accordingly. I think they split because one brother wants to chase the SJW market. Which will destroy the market which paid the bills.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:40 PM (tT6L1)

172 Also, it's no fun reading party organ papers when everything is shit and the papers keeps blaming everyone but those in actual power.

It's unconvincing and unrewarding as fiction. "This would all be good except for the kulaks," doesn't convince many people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The 4 new editors are pale penis people (aka, white men).
The POC and Women at the Post are pretty outraged.
They're bringing in someone from the WSJ, which, by the way, has already been ruined (IMHO) by the Murdochs.
This is re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

My advice for the WP losers is....learn to code.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at June 05, 2024 01:40 PM (vcOmj)

173 No tampering occurred with Hunter Biden’s laptop, witness Erika Jensen, an FBI agent, told Hunter’s gun trial jury on Wednesday.

The testimony debunks longstanding claims by Hunter’s associates that the laptop’s data was subject to “hacking” and “manipulation.”

Hunter’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, tried to undermine the credibility of the laptop on cross examination. “Did you find out if any of the files had been tampered with,” he asked Jensen.

“I did not,” she replied.

On Tuesday, Jensen confirmed the authenticity of Hunter’s infamous laptop.

The DOJ confirmed the laptop was Hunter’s by determining that he left it at a computer store and that the contents matched what authorities obtained via a search warrant of Hunter’s iCloud.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (RHGPo)

174 >>>10cc is less than 2 tsp. When I was in college it was 1 Tbsp.

it is? But if it's a cubic centimeter....

no it can't be 2 tsp. A centimeter is like 2/5ths of an inch. Ten cubes of that add up to 2 tsp?

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (KRtlO)

175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

176 Oh, to be a masked fly on the wall in Taylor Lorenz's office right now.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (CwhoI)

177
:: Inserts link to Peter North and Liv Taylor with slo mo cum shot ::

:: Thinks better of it ::

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (RKVpM)

178 What are you guys talking about?

Posted by: Tom Swift at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (PiwSw)

179 28 It has been pointed out that Bezos could certainly fund the current pack of losers ad infinitum. I'm curious what caused him to say "enough is enough".
Posted by: Archimedes
========
Purely my guess.
Oligarchs that depended on China are going into wealth protection mode now. India and China are hostile to outside market penetration for companies like Amazon and the growth glory days are over for consumer spending. At the low end, TEMU and to some extent Ebay is eating into Amazon's meager profits from selling goods making the company dependent on its cloud computing division for most of its profits. MMT has shredded government balance sheets which is one of the best customers for cloud computing and make stagflation likely for years now.

So, commercial oligarchs like Bezos, etc. are no longer able to foresee massive market gains from new markets anymore and inflation is indirectly hurting them too because it makes corporate investment decisions difficult. There is a reason that the tech and financial overlords are suddenly popping up for Trump or at least staying on the sidelines. Biden junta is bad for bizness.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (ZHg09)

180 175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)..

Boobs is next

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (Akjoo)

181 It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines."
---------
Finally we know what was behind the Gold Door!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582388/

Dr. Frasier Crane: They have the nerve to call it a day spa. It's nothing more than a front for a bona fide luxury spa which taunts those kept at bay outside it's golden door.
Martin Crane: If you didn't go in, how do you know it was better?
Dr. Frasier Crane: It had to be. The door was gold. Ours was only silver. Gold is better than silver.
Dr. Niles Crane: Stupid silver.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (ZdexC)

182 10cc is .676280454 teaspoon.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (NzJjs)

183 Somebody on X noted that media employers like the Post have very precise analytics on their reporters now.

They know who is getting read and who isn't.

I'd be curious to know what fraction of the audience reads which authors online vs dead tree. I assume online is much larger by now, but who knows?

TBH, I'm kind of surprised they still go to the expense of printing a dead tree version.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (xCA6C)

184 I guess you're right, google says 10cc is .6 of a Tablespoon which would be about 2 teaspoons (I guess)

I don't understand how a cubed centimeter (not a millimeter) could be so small

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (KRtlO)

185 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)
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Are you really all that surprised?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (tT6L1)

186
IN: You cannot hate journos enough.
REAL IN: You cannot LAUGH AT journos enough.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:39 PM (wtvvX)

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IN: Learn to Code.
REAL IN: Learn to Plumb.

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (Tlt/x)

187 84 "It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the 'frown lines.'"

Awww, c'mon, pal. Why the long face?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 05, 2024 01:28 PM (pIfcn)
______
Because we of the Horde all have long dongs. That even includes Ace. (Though not the ettes, of course. But they are all prettier and shapelier than Mannix girls.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (1bNHn)

188 "Don't we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that's out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?"

Translation: "If we injected this DEI nonsense into our main stories, Millennials and GEN Z would buy our paper."

"You haven't done it. I've listened to the platitudes. Honestly, it's just not happening."

Translation: "You said we'd get more customers, and it didn't work."

"No, I want you to be inspired, it's the most important thing: untapped audiences. If what I cause to happen is you all get it, great, but the game is up. I'm setting up a structure where I'm not going to be guessing."

Translation: "I'm now isolating you bozos in your own newsroom. Bring in Millennials and Gen Z readers...or else."

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (nLFEI)

189 no it can't be 2 tsp. A centimeter is like 2/5ths of an inch. Ten cubes of that add up to 2 tsp?

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (KRtlO)

This looks a lot like math......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

190 175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05

I was tempted to ask if they are actually measuring it and realized I really didn’t want to know.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (pZEOD)

191
Wash Post is in the Bubble
they only write for the Bubble
they can't comprehend this, because they are in the Bubble
Buuble good- outside bad

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (/7KEl)

192 Are you really all that surprised?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (tT6L1)

=====

No, not really.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (DRSnL)

193 "10cc is .676280454 teaspoon."

Think you're measuring in tablespoons, friend. Didn't we have a no math rule? You guys know you can just go to google and get a conversion on the front page, right?

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (IHRQq)

194 What's grey and comes in quarts?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (lTGtQ)

195 The "Laptop From Hell" is genuine.

The "experts" and government connections used by Twitter, Fackbook in 2020 were idiots who had no special insight.

-- "51 former 'intelligence' officials told us the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation." --

"We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case," the letter said.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

196 I was tempted to ask if they are actually measuring it and realized I really didn’t want to know.
Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:43 PM (pZEOD)

=====

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (DRSnL)

197 "What's grey and comes in quarts?"

Yak milk?

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (IHRQq)

198 And now that I think about how much liquid is in 10ccs, I wonder how much man-sauce this guy was pumping out that he believed 10ccs was an average amount of ejaculate.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:32 PM (KRtlO)

I had heard that a few years ago. I think it was here, actually.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (XPM1I)

199 So, it’s wrong to hire friends/past colleagues , especially when you know can help you in a crisis ?

Since when?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (Hkcdp)

200 The CIA will dig into its pockets to keep Wapo afloat.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (rJ48h)

201 no it can't be 2 tsp. A centimeter is like 2/5ths of an inch. Ten cubes of that add up to 2 tsp?

A teaspoon is 5 CCs.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxhet5z

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (xCA6C)

202 >>no it can't be 2 tsp. A centimeter is like 2/5ths of an inch. Ten cubes of that add up to 2 tsp?

Mouthful of Love is another band that might have your answer, ace.

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (obi3v)

203 10cc is .676280454 teaspoon.
Posted by: rickb223

F'n converter. That .676280454 tablespoon.

10cc = 2.028841362 teaspoon.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (NzJjs)

204 "What's grey and comes in quarts?"

Yak milk?

Posted by: Ribbed

An elephant

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (lTGtQ)

205 And, as has been pointed out, if the work product is so utterly biased and predictable, you don't even need to waste time reading it. You already know what they'll say.

The far-Left Portland alt-weekly was asking people to donate money to cover the enormous costs of putting together their political endorsements for the May election.

I mused that given that I knew what all of their endorsements were without reading the paper, I wondered how much it really cost to put them together.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (uxCna)

206 175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

And this surprises you?

Posted by: browndog laughs at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (TTAGa)

207 >>>I was tempted to ask if they are actually measuring it and realized I really didn't want to know.

I weigh the sock on a taring scale before and after.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (KRtlO)

208 10 cc is 0.3381 fluid ounces.

1 fluid ounce is 2 tablespoons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

209 It has been pointed out that Bezos could certainly fund the current pack of losers ad infinitum. I'm curious what caused him to say "enough is enough".
Posted by: Archimedes
========
Purely my guess.
Oligarchs that depended on China are going into wealth protection mode now. India and China are hostile to outside market penetration for companies like Amazon and the growth glory days are over for consumer spending.

So, commercial oligarchs like Bezos, etc. are no longer able to foresee massive market gains from new markets anymore and inflation is indirectly hurting them too because it makes corporate investment decisions difficult.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (ZHg09)
_____________

I don't materially disagree, but I think the explanation might be more that Bezos is getting bored with his newspaper and its ineffectual political power, and just wants out. The shiny new thing ain't shiny or new any more.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

210 Think you're measuring in tablespoons, friend. Didn't we have a no math rule? You guys know you can just go to google and get a conversion on the front page, right?
Posted by: Ribbed

Yeah. Didn't roll the converter far enough.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (NzJjs)

211 64 So is this hubris or part of the grand plan? Because wants all the news papers shutter and the presses go cold, the government has total control of wide spread information.
Posted by: Ribbed

Never assume competence on the part of communists. For the most part, they rely on killing anyone opposing them and being parasites of the productive. When the productive people stop, communism collapses from its own internal contradictions. That is also true of Gramsci type social communism--it can destroy but not create.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (ZHg09)

212 >>>A teaspoon is 5 CCs.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhet5z

i guess so. Mind blown.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (KRtlO)

213 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

Ace. Converting everyone gay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

214 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61

Ace started it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (v6JzV)

215 I don't materially disagree, but I think the explanation might be more that Bezos is getting bored with his newspaper and its ineffectual political power, and just wants out. The shiny new thing ain't shiny or new any more.

Why subsidize an unread paper?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (uxCna)

216 IN: Learn to Code.
REAL IN: Learn to Plumb.

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 01:42 PM (Tlt/x)

SOON: Learn to CHOAD.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (wtvvX)

217 In eight years the WP went from 500,000 circulation to 140,000. We need to keep that trend going.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

This may be what some people call...a tipping point.
A preference cascade.

There is no way they get those readers back. Funnily humorous.
People that believe in the awful bilge that WP was pumping will be alarmed at the changes, and will get their propaganda fix from somewhere else; MSNBC, whatever. Maybe Keith Olberman should get some of them together and they can start a blog together. Wouldn't THAT be hot?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (vcOmj)

218 The CIA will dig into its pockets to keep Wapo afloat.
Posted by: mr tmz at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (rJ48h)

I always thought the CIA's paper of leaking was the NYT, and FBI had the Post?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (f87vz)

219 215 I don't materially disagree, but I think the explanation might be more that Bezos is getting bored with his newspaper and its ineffectual political power, and just wants out. The shiny new thing ain't shiny or new any more.

Why subsidize an unread paper?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (uxCna)

======

Because read papers don't need subsidizing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

220 Rep. Tom Massie on X: I don’t think the country is fixable but I’m here in case it is.
_____
To be fair, the country has been fundamentally transformed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (OEpOh)

221 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

Commenters are Ace's "service and social media journalists."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (B9Prs)

222 i just do not understand volume measures. I always have to look it up and I'm always shocked to find out like, "how can a gallon be 128 fluid ounces?!? I thought it was 16!"

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (KRtlO)

223 Did I mistakenly stumble onto a homo blog??

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

224
SOON: Learn to CHOAD.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (wtvvX)

They will learn to CHUD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

225 mmmm cucumber slices!

Posted by: Your Holistic Spa Boner at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (w6EFb)

226 I weigh the sock on a taring scale before and after.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (KRtlO)
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LOL!

The funniest thing I've read today, bar none...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (7fElN)

227 "Working in the third newsroom" aka "Transferred to Siberia"

Posted by: Eric at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (RqJez)

228 As a former Wash Post subscriber, I can tell you they went off the rails years ago. Do they understand that there’s a not insignificant number of people who saw the way they treated, say, that VA governor candidate for some alleged slur, and they are gone forever?

lol, get sold for $1.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (Hkcdp)

229 What's grey and comes in quarts?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:44 PM (lTGtQ)

An elephant!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (BpZ5k)

230 Did I mistakenly stumble onto a homo blog??
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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You've commented here before, so, survey says: No.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (tT6L1)

231 I weigh the sock on a taring scale before and after.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (KRtlO)

=====

I forget where I saw it, maybe Texts From Last Night, but someone said, "if socks could get pregnant I would have Catholic amounts of kids."

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (DRSnL)

232 This may be what some people call...a tipping point.
A preference cascade.

There is no way they get those readers back. Funnily humorous.

I occasionally get snail mail requests begging me to come back. They sound really desperate. I'm holding out for a donkey show with Taylor Lorenz.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (xCA6C)

233 So Liz Cheney kept the SS agent from testifying that Cassidy hutchison was lying when she said Trump grabbed the wheel of the Limo on Jan. 6th...

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Akjoo)

234 Trump said what?

So what. What else ya got?

(These idiots have no idea what they are fixing to unleash. I mean, those pulling the strings do, but precious few else.) Their parlor tricks don't work no mo.

They are welcome to try.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (fxXdR)

235 Did I mistakenly stumble onto a homo blog??
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
---
The queer moose out front shoulda told ya!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (7fElN)

236 The Woke -- pale penis people beaters?

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (ZdexC)

237 The far-Left Portland alt-weekly was asking people to donate money to cover the enormous costs of putting together their political endorsements for the May election.

I mused that given that I knew what all of their endorsements were without reading the paper, I wondered how much it really cost to put them together.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Cocaine is not free from the cartels and drug dealers, my friend.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (vcOmj)

238 Mr. O'Spades, the problem is obvious, and you haven't even touched on it.

The problem is not with us, the erudite and esteemed journaltastic journalists of the WaPo newsroom.

No, it is with our readers. President Biden's (PBUH) reader replacement program can't happen fast enough.

Posted by: WaPo Journalists at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (U/2+b)

239 So Liz Cheney kept the SS agent from testifying that Cassidy hutchison was lying when she said Trump grabbed the wheel of the Limo on Jan. 6th...
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Akjoo)

She under a bridge giving $5 handies yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

240 Viewership for newspapers and traditional television news peaked in the early nineties.

Since then, it has declined 70%.

Maybe they picked the wrong side in the propaganda war.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (lTGtQ)

241 "Say what you want about Megyn Kelly but I would bet dollars to donuts that she is a LOT of fun in the sack.

She's aged pretty rapidly, and looks a little rough compared to her peak "Ice Queen" days:

https://tinyurl.com/yc433y3n

Not unattractive by any means, but rapidly becoming more "average" for her age. Now, for ridiculous beauty maintenance despite aging, Salma Hayek is the standard...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (SXnUy)

242 I weigh the sock on a taring scale before and after.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (KRtlO)

Careful! You wouldn't want to cut yourself.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (xCA6C)

243
She under a bridge giving $5 handies yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

Too good for the likes of her

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (Akjoo)

244 Fuck me now we gotta toddle off and look up the specific gravity of knuckle sauce....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (BpZ5k)

245 Did I mistakenly stumble onto a homo blog??
-----
You've commented here before, so, survey says: No.
-----
Boom. Headshot. No pun intended.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (IHRQq)

246 I saw The Revolting Rebellion open for the Plasma gifs back in '83.

Posted by: Riddle at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (NaS9Q)

247 I don't materially disagree, but I think the explanation might be more that Bezos is getting bored with his newspaper and its ineffectual political power, and just wants out. The shiny new thing ain't shiny or new any more.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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He bought the paper for the same reason that Gates went into business with NBC. Protection from the DC mafia regulators. Cheaper to use kompromat plus threat of exposure than paying them off directly.

Carlos Slim and the NYT is a similar protection racket.

The value of all those traditional radio, tv, and print media assets to protect business interests is fading now because the new generations simply don't read in the traditional sense.

Granted Bezos is also realizing after fleeing Washington that the zombie left activists want to eat his wealth too. Supporting leftists on social issues inevitably leads to the zombies wanting the wealth as well.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (ZHg09)

248 Somebody talking about me?

Posted by: Peter North at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (SHMXB)

249
MSM is too big to fail. They must be bailed out.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (+oR7L)

250 Not unattractive by any means, but rapidly becoming more "average" for her age. Now, for ridiculous beauty maintenance despite aging, Salma Hayek is the standard...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 01:50 PM (SXnUy)
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Marisa Tomei.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

251 "What are you guys talking about?!" Tom ejaculated.
Posted by: Tom Swift
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Fixed!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (ZdexC)

252 I did learn the other day that the wife had never heard the term "moose knuckle."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

253 https://tinyurl.com/yc433y3n
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

I did not read the nic before I clicked...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (v6JzV)

254 249
MSM is too big to fail. They must be bailed out.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (+oR7L)

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If they're too big to fail, then it's impossible for them to fail and any intervention should be avoided.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

255 232 This may be what some people call...a tipping point.
A preference cascade.

My preference is that these wapo shitlibs cascade off the Hindenburg.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (wtvvX)

256 That 100 spoos per liter, 378 per gallon.

And Dreadlock Holiday is a great song.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (Dm8we)

257 I did not read the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (v6JzV)

I did but was legit curious about where he would take that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

258 I did not read the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (v6JzV)

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LOL. Come on, you're not a rookie!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (DRSnL)

259 This is so great, that the WaPo is shuffling off their SJWs to their own personal "Animal House asylum." Enough is enough with these lunatics and the shit show they cause where ever they go. Odds on this new WaPo division will be such a disaster that it will become the new Buzzfeed or even better a shinning example of what would happen if CNN+ is brought back from the dead. Going forward I hope it exclusively hires its replacement "journalists" directly from Evergreen College to ensure it has a hasty and well deserved end.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (yiDHT)

260 I forget where I saw it, maybe Texts From Last Night, but someone said, "if socks could get pregnant I would have Catholic amounts of kids."
Posted by: Jordan61

My wife told me that Rock 'n roll roadies call it "bunk puppet theater".
Because, of course.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (vcOmj)

261
I always thought the CIA's paper of leaking was the NYT, and FBI had the Post?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM

When Lee Harvey Oswald went to the USSR the NYT printed that event. Some low level smuck.

Apparently Trump read of the Kennedy assassination and when asked why he didn't release it said, "You don't wanna know."

Now Sid's gonna get his panties in an uproar.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 05, 2024 01:52 PM (RKVpM)

262 I've always found the far-left alt-weekly voting guides to be very useful. Vote the opposite to their recommendations, and you're at least 95% correctly voting, with almost no effort on your part.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (U/2+b)

263 ""Say what you want about Megyn Kelly but I would bet dollars to donuts that she is a LOT of fun in the sack.""

You could always track down her HUSBAND and ask him, since there is zero chance you will ever find out for yourself.

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (89Sog)

264 I've quoted some of this but some of this is new (unless you saw it on other websites, which you probably did).

What are we, whores?!?

If it's not at the HQ, we know nothing of it.

Posted by: We're Barely Reading This Site at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (u5k8q)

265 212 >>>A teaspoon is 5 CCs.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxhet5z

i guess so. Mind blown.

Posted by: ace

10cc and Loving Spoonful were band names (strictly speaking 10cc was a riff for studio musicians on Loving Spoonful).

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (ZHg09)

266 Hey out of work social justice workers.. Are you looking for a career? You'll be a hero , good pay and only one weeks training. Join the Ukrainian Army now!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (Clqcn)

267
The MSM should be put under control of PBS, and all news/media should be run through them to make sure its accurate. This would solve all our media problems.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (+oR7L)

268 If that's the actual measurement, I guess Rod Stewart jerked off his entire show audience to get the amount of jizz that required stomach pumping.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

269 LOL. Come on, you're not a rookie!
Posted by: Jordan61

All I read is that it's some sexy pic of Megyn Kelly and all thought goes out the window.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (v6JzV)

270 Why subsidize an unread paper?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (uxCna)

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Because read papers don't need subsidizing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What's black and white and read all over?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (NzJjs)

271 270 What's black and white and read all over?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (NzJjs)

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A bloody zebra.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

272 I saw Army of Cat-Ladies open for Disturbed at The Moody Center in February.

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (S8LYt)

273 dammit Ackbar you got me again

I didnt look at the nic

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (/7KEl)

274 LOL. Come on, you're not a rookie!
Posted by: Jordan61

All I read is that it's some sexy pic of Megyn Kelly and all thought goes out the window.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (v6JzV)
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Sadly, we are wired that way...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (7fElN)

275 DEI and this biased reporting were sold as a way to bring in new clients. That is to say millennials and Gen Z people would buy the paper if the news were highly slanted in a specific direction.
Didn't work. Instead, the people who were actually buying the paper got pissed and canceled their subscriptions.

So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

-- El Mariachi Attorney

Sounds like a one-off to us.

Posted by: Bud Lite at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (U/2+b)

276 Hah you reminded me what Dave Attell calls egg Nog.

Posted by: Peter North at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (SHMXB)

277 1 fluid ounce is 2 tablespoons.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM

Key conversion when mixing drinks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (ZANHd)

278 206 175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

And this surprises you?
Posted by: browndog laughs at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (TTAGa)
______
Just remember, Horde jism is the best jism.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (1bNHn)

279 257 I did not read the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:51 PM (v6JzV)

I did but was legit curious about where he would take that.
Posted by: Sponge

I've heard it said she looks like a bag of antlers now, so I thought something about "bulges" would be fitting.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 01:56 PM (SXnUy)

280 Key conversion when mixing drinks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (ZANHd)

Yet another reason I went to just drinking things straight.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

281 259 This is so great, that the WaPo is shuffling off their SJWs to their own personal "Animal House asylum." Enough is enough with these lunatics and the shit show they cause where ever they go. Odds on this new WaPo division will be such a disaster that it will become the new Buzzfeed or even better a shinning example of what would happen if CNN+ is brought back from the dead. Going forward I hope it exclusively hires its replacement "journalists" directly from Evergreen College to ensure it has a hasty and well deserved end.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
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Usually, when a company decides that part of it is non functional, they can sometimes win by subtraction via spin offs. The Graham family that used to own the Post, Newsweek, and other media interests was a perfect example. Put the unproductive in a lifeboat and then cut the lines so the main ship can sail on.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:56 PM (ZHg09)

282 SOON: Learn to CHOAD.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 01:46 PM (wtvvX)

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

Yeah, who am I kidding?

REAL IN: Learn to Blow.

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 01:56 PM (S8LYt)

283 277 1 fluid ounce is 2 tablespoons.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM

Key conversion when mixing drinks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (ZANHd)

I will not be having what he's having

Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (Akjoo)

284 A science experiment. I've got two teaspoons, I've got one of Mannix girl's pictures. I'll let you know the results

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (Clqcn)

285 207 >>>I was tempted to ask if they are actually measuring it and realized I really didn't want to know.

I weigh the sock on a taring scale before and after.
Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (KRtlO

In related news, I just discovered a great laundry detergent from Buff City Soaps. The scent is called Narcissist, I am not even kidding.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (pZEOD)

286 put two slices of cucumber

As long as they didn't have their pinky finger up.
Because that would be gay... or British.

Posted by: DaveA at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (FhXTo)

287 OK, I think we need a busty Mannix girl to take this thread off the subject of man juice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (v6JzV)

288 284 A science experiment. I've got two teaspoons, I've got one of Mannix girl's pictures. I'll let you know the results
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (Clqcn)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

289 I will not be having what he's having
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM

I regretted that as soon as I hit "post".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (ZANHd)

290 All I read is that it's some sexy pic of Megyn Kelly and all thought goes out the window.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 01:54 PM (v6JzV)
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Sadly, we are wired that way...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I depend on it! That, and morbid curiosity. And masochism.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (SXnUy)

291 IIRC, Bezos bought WaPo for $250M. At one point near 2000, it was worth something like $4B all by itself. D'Oh!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (xCA6C)

292 NBC is near an accord with the league (NBA) to pay an average of $2.5 billion a year, people familiar with the deal talks said. It would show around 100 games per season,

I know "no math". This is $25 million per game. And each game has an average 1 million viewers. So NBC is going to pay $25/ viewer. How do they make money on this deal?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (rsqyi)

293 ***Zoom in: The Post is one of several major newsrooms trying to find new readers willing to pay for their journalism online before their traditional products die out.***

***Zoom in: The Post is one of several major newsrooms trying to find new readers willing to pay for their BullShi*t online before their traditional products die out.***

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (YdEcD)

294 195 The "Laptop From Hell" is genuine.

Until the trial is over. Then it resumes being a Russian disinformation op, proven by the same 51 retired CIA clowns. Members of the Leftist Hive will say, "Of course! I knew it all along! A dirty trick by Trumputin!"

Posted by: Gref at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (5fDan)

295 232 This may be what some people call...a tipping point.
A preference cascade.

There is no way they get those readers back. Funnily humorous.

I occasionally get snail mail requests begging me to come back. They sound really desperate. I'm holding out for a donkey show with Taylor Lorenz.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:48 PM (xCA6C)
______
I'm reporting you to PETA. We donkeys don't deserve that fate.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (1bNHn)

296 As long as they didn't have their pinky finger up.
Because that would be gay... or British.
Posted by: DaveA
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Did not know that was the way that the Brits prepare cucumber sandwiches.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (ZHg09)

297 284 A science experiment. I've got two teaspoons, I've got one of Mannix girl's pictures. I'll let you know the results
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (Clqcn)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
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You will when he sends you the results...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (7fElN)

298 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

SERIOUSLY IS THERE EVEN A CONTROL GROUP HERE SCIENCE HARDER DUDE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (BpZ5k)

299 And don’t take Flomax before measuring.

Posted by: Peter North at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (SHMXB)

300 yes Mannix
post a pic that will save us from this baby batter discussion

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (/7KEl)

301 Yet another reason I went to just drinking things straight.
Posted by: Sponge

32 shots to a fifth.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (NzJjs)

302 294 195 The "Laptop From Hell" is genuine.

Until the trial is over. Then it resumes being a Russian disinformation op, proven by the same 51 retired CIA clowns. Members of the Leftist Hive will say, "Of course! I knew it all along! A dirty trick by Trumputin!"
Posted by: Gref
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The whole CIA Secret Kings schtick is getting post dated in a country where no one believes anyone in 'authority' anymore. Once you piss away the trust in a country, you reap the consequences where gubmint people are assumed to be lying when their lips move.

Even their former Color Revolution glories ain't looking so good nowadays (see Georgia for example).

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (ZHg09)

303 300 yes Mannix
post a pic that will save us from this baby batter discussion
Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (/7KEl)

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It's going to be a catalyst for more of the discussion.

I mean...it's pretty obvious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

304 ======

I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE GO AWAY, BATIN'!

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

305 278 206 175 I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 01:41 PM (DRSnL)

And this surprises you?
Posted by: browndog laughs at June 05, 2024 01:45 PM (TTAGa)
______
Just remember, Horde jism is the best jism.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 01:55 PM (1bNHn)

This is the juice that I produce...

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the Moron at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (wtvvX)

306 psst: Sponge, drinking straight from the bottle means no glass to wash after.

...the more you know...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

307 So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

Boy, that sounds fucking familiar.
Movies, TV, sports, books, comics, video games, TTRPGs

Posted by: Beatings Continue, Morale Never Improves Though at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (u5k8q)

308 300 "baby batter," LOL

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (v6JzV)

309 psst: Sponge, drinking straight from the bottle means no glass to wash after.

...the more you know...
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

Tried that once. Bartender was PISSED.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

310 301 Yet another reason I went to just drinking things straight.
Posted by: Sponge

32 shots to a fifth.
Posted by: rickb223
------------------------------

It's hard on your throat. If you do that, at least, kick a big water back.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:02 PM (YdEcD)

311 @Sponge: LOL!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 02:02 PM (tT6L1)

312 Less than 10cc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 02:02 PM (Clqcn)

313 Just for the record, back in my dim and distant bachelor yoot, the standard girls would use was "a cupful." Which is 16 tbsp.

Sorry for the math. And the excursion into ancient history.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (1bNHn)

314 What are we, whores?!?

If it's not at the HQ, we know nothing of it.
Posted by: We're Barely Reading This Site at June 05, 2024 01:53 PM (u5k8q)

That, right there.

Other websites. Ha!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (g2bTP)

315 Why the Washington Post's New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
Theis supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million "cloud" computing deal with the CIA. The situation is unprecedented.
By Norman Solomon, Guest Writer; HuffPo
Jan 13, 2014, 07:28 AM EST |Updated Mar 15, 2014
American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain.

A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who's now the sole owner of the powerful newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon's CEO and main stakeholder.

The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million "cloud" computing deal with the CIA.
https://tinyurl.com/5emnysvj

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (ZdexC)

316 For every Megan Kelly there is somebody like this cultural enrichment icon. I predict she has a future at McDs; not as an employee but as a YouTube star trashing the place.

https://tinyurl.com/pcbfdnpy

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (yiDHT)

317 289 I will not be having what he's having
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM

I regretted that as soon as I hit "post".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Forget the AoS HQ Cookbook and check out one of my favorites!
A Natural Harvest, a collection of seman based recipes.

https://tinyurl.com/2wwukf2b
Sadly, no...it's not a trap. It's very real.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (SXnUy)

318 They had to say the laptop was russian disinfo. Otherwise, if they acknowledged it was real, the russians would have released fake laptops full of disinfo and people would not have known the difference.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (rsqyi)

319 >>> 220 Rep. Tom Massie on X: I don’t think the country is fixable but I’m here in case it is.
_____
To be fair, the country has been fundamentally transformed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2024 01:47 PM (OEpOh)

Now, if the states were to break up into 50 separate entities, each with its own options...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (llON8)

320 Americans only want news that agrees with their beliefs, even when those beliefs are wrong. The age of un-truth, brought on by Trump's rise, is upon us.

Posted by: Sid at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (qwGoI)

321 312 Less than 10cc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 02:02 PM (Clqcn)

Mandatory comment:
The things we do for love.

Posted by: Gref at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (5fDan)

322 It's going to be a catalyst for more of the discussion.

I mean...it's pretty obvious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'd like to think it would switch the discussion from man juice to breast juice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (v6JzV)

323 301 Yet another reason I went to just drinking things straight.
Posted by: Sponge

32 shots to a fifth.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:00 PM (NzJjs)

Mrs. Tex (now retired) went to a retirement party last mont hand did Tequila shots for the first time in her life.

You're NEVER too old to learn new things, kidz!

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the Moron at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (wtvvX)

324 "pecker-slot" . . .

Curious. What's that really called? Not looking it up at work though.

Lol.

Posted by: Lady Who's Always Has a Burning Question at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (JCLJi)

325 Posted by: Sid at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (qwGoI)

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So, can a man become a woman by saying so or not?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

326 307 So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

Boy, that sounds fucking familiar.
Movies, TV, sports, books, comics, video games, TTRPGs
Posted by: Beatings Continue
========
Communists by definition want 'free' and so if WaPo can't give them 'free' shit, they won't pay for it.

What leftists create is always a tragedy of the commons.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (ZHg09)

327 >>>I know "no math". This is $25 million per game. And each game has an average 1 million viewers. So NBC is going to pay $25/ viewer. How do they make money on this deal?

Ask our streaming subscribers.

Posted by: NBC at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (CwhoI)

328 Evergreen State College Motto (you can't make this shit up):

[Latin:] Omnia Extares
[English"] "Let It All Hang Out"

[Forbes Headline from 2017:] Draining The Higher-Ed Swamp: The Case For Closing Evergreen State College

Posted by: ShainS -- We Are All 'Convicted Felons' Now at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (S8LYt)

329 Finally. House Committee issues criminal referral for Hunter and Jim Biden. One step closer to nailing that fucker in the White House.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:05 PM (yiDHT)

330 It's hard to believe a site which can be as ribald as this one is still a better source of information than 99% of so-called "meida."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 05, 2024 02:05 PM (tT6L1)

331 Americans only want news that agrees with their beliefs, even when those beliefs are wrong. The age of un-truth, brought on by Trump's rise, is upon us.

Oh, dear. I know we aren't supposed to quote Sid but he's absolutely right here. Just not in the way he thinks.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 02:05 PM (xCA6C)

332 IIRC, Bezos bought WaPo for $250M. At one point near 2000, it was worth something like $4B all by itself. D'Oh!
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM (xCA6C)

The Graham family sold the money losing asset in 2013. The family kept the rest of the company that made money, and used the Post proceeds for other acquisitions. Katherine Graham wasn't going to sell in 2000. It was her identity. Buffett owned a chunk of the Washington Post Company, prior to the sale. Not sure if he owns any of the Graham Holdings?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 02:05 PM (f87vz)

333 307 So, the new market they were chasing never materialized, and the act of chasing it destroyed the market they had.

Boy, that sounds fucking familiar.
Movies, TV, sports, books, comics, video games, TTRPGs
Posted by: Beatings Continue, Morale Never Improves
----------------------

It's as if most of America intuitively doesn't buy the BS they are selling.

Maybe they are poor marketers or is it simply a crappy product?

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:05 PM (YdEcD)

334 Print is dead.

Posted by: John Drake Is Channeling Egon Spengler at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (u/Zei)

335 >>> 325 Posted by: Sid at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (qwGoI)

======

So, can a man become a woman by saying so or not?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

Sid knows at least one of the 500 dicks that pounded its ass last night belonged to a woman.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (llON8)

336 You say "ejaculate" three times and Sid appears. It is known.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (CwhoI)

337 there is somebody like this cultural enrichment icon. I predict she has a future at McDs; not as an employee but as a YouTube star trashing the place.

https://tinyurl.com/pcbfdnpy
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (yiDHT)

LOL!

She had an opportunity and chose to shit all over Caitlyn Clark instead.

She's black on the inside. A real garbage human. Her failure is ALL on her. Whitey didn't do that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

338 Mike Johnson has had enough. He's going to take it to the DOJ.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (aFNOf)

339 Meritocracy and being at least minimally competent are oppressive constructs of the cis-het white supremacist patriarchy.

Posted by: You can't fire me, I have a vaj! at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (k3d8O)

340 On FoxNews "Gutfeld" last night, they were laughing at the Washington Post newsroom who when informed that the newspaper was losing gigantic globs of money, were very worried about diversity in the newsroom because of a woman being replace with a man.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (RHGPo)

341 It’s just ice cream!

Posted by: Angry penguin at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (Geoni)

342 A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who's now the sole owner of the powerful newspaper at the same time he remains Amazon's CEO and main stakeholder.

The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million "cloud" computing deal with the CIA.
https://tinyurl.com/5emnysvj
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC)

That guy is an idiot--the WaPo has always been the voice of the CIA and NYT the voice of the DOJ and FBI. The Graham family was up to its ass in CIA biz from post WWII until they sold it to Bezos.

He probably bought the paper in part because it ensured CIA contracts for his AWS services and made sure that politicians left Amazon alone on issues such as getting favorable USPS terms etc.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:07 PM (ZHg09)

343 @312 Gref, pure science man, pure science

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (Clqcn)

344 317 289 I will not be having what he's having
Posted by: it's me donna at June 05, 2024 01:57 PM

I regretted that as soon as I hit "post".
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Forget the AoS HQ Cookbook and check out one of my favorites!
A Natural Harvest, a collection of seman based recipes.

https://tinyurl.com/2wwukf2b
Sadly, no...it's not a trap. It's very real.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (SXnUy)
____________

Jesus holy fuck mother of god satan's wet asshole damn me to hell . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

345 "I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61"

So it's come to this?

Posted by: fd at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (vFG9F)

346 338 Mike Johnson has had enough. He's going to take it to the DOJ.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM (aFNOf)

========

"No more doilies in your new HQ! Well, okay, you can have doilies, but they're going to be bargain basement. Oh, you used money to buy great doilies instead? Well, that's going right into my next fundraising email!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

347 we're looking at ribald in the rear view mirror

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (/7KEl)

348 Mrs. Tex (now retired) went to a retirement party last mont hand did Tequila shots for the first time in her life.

You're NEVER too old to learn new things, kidz!
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the Moron at June 05, 2024 02:04 PM (wtvvX)

Sponge Bro was meeting up with some friends he'd made at customer sites via his job. They were late because there was a retirement party for a guy that'd been there for 30+ years.

Turns out, the guy got trashed at the party and wouldn't give up his keys. One guy knew where he lived, so suggested the guy just follow him home.

He got impatient, passed the guy in a turn and drove straight into a box truck, killing himself.

They were 1/2 a mile from his house.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

349 >>> 345 "I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61"

So it's come to this?
Posted by: fd at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (vFG9F)

Now do a limerick.

... or at least a haiku.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (llON8)

350 Per TGP: NE set to see influx of large Joro spiders this year. They have leg spans of 6-8 inches and are mildly poisonous. Can also "parachute" into locations from trees or structures.

Fan fucking tastic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (IgEyy)

351 Mike Johnson has had enough. He's going to take it to the DOJ.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

He's gotta finish his day-drinking lessons with John Boehner first, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (v6JzV)

352 It's as if most of America intuitively doesn't buy the BS they are selling.

Maybe they are poor marketers or is it simply a crappy product?
Posted by: Braenyard
------
Edumacated Yutes that smell their own bullshit and think it smells like Roses. ZIRP produces such dumbasses until gravity reasserts itself.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (ZHg09)

353 Sadly, no...it's not a trap. It's very real.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 02:03 PM (SXnUy)
____________

Jesus holy fuck mother of god satan's wet asshole damn me to hell . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

I mean, if you're gonna make some jerk chicken...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (BpZ5k)

354 I've never heard this said by anyone else but a guy I went to college with who had a whole bunch of trivia (and also a lot of Without Evidence claims) told me that 10cc named itself that because ten cubic centimeters is the "average amount of ejaculation."

==

This was always the rumor I heard back in high school. Heck, I think it goes back to grade school, when I didn't even know what it meant.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (mupln)

355 It's hard to believe a site which can be as ribald as this one is still a better source of information than 99% of so-called "meida." Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Welp, there is precedent: the American revolutionary pamphleteers help take out the British empire.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (yiDHT)

356 Remember when we wasted 30 years trying to convince the Left that the media was "biased"?

Which they already knew, they just thought it was funny to deny it.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (dEOJ+)

357 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (aD39U)

358 Sid knows at least one of the 500 dicks that pounded its ass last night belonged to a woman.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:06 PM

EWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

359 344
Jesus holy fuck mother of god satan's wet asshole damn me to hell . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024

Is this any worse than the placenta cook books? If we are having a contest about things I prefer not to be in my food.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (pZEOD)

360 " Print is dead.
Posted by: John Drake Is Channeling Egon Spengler"

Formally Known As Print

Posted by: Mike Tython at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (vFG9F)

361 I once wrote a poem about my ejaculate.

It was called "Tiny Dribbles."

Posted by: David French at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (KRtlO)

362 348 Mrs. Tex (now retired) went to a retirement party last mont hand did Tequila shots for the first time in her life.

You're NEVER too old to learn new things, kidz!
Posted by: Barnacle Bill
---------
Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

363 The only conflict of interest at WaPo is between the far left suck ups and the ultra far left whack jobs.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (YdEcD)

364 361 I once wrote a poem about my ejaculate.

It was called "Tiny Dribbles."
Posted by: David French at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (KRtlO)

========

I thought of David French while watching Rules of Engagement last night.

David French yearns to be as cool as Guy Pearce in that movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

365 Sponge Bro was meeting up with some friends he'd made at customer sites via his job. They were late because there was a retirement party for a guy that'd been there for 30+ years.

Turns out, the guy got trashed at the party and wouldn't give up his keys. One guy knew where he lived, so suggested the guy just follow him home.

He got impatient, passed the guy in a turn and drove straight into a box truck, killing himself.

They were 1/2 a mile from his house.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Holy crap...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (wtvvX)

366 I mean, if you're gonna make some jerk chicken...
Posted by: Warai-otoko

It's how I make pulled pork.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (SXnUy)

367 Is this any worse than the placenta cook books? If we are having a contest about things I prefer not to be in my food.
Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (pZEOD)

Same customer base, would be my guess. Pagans.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (g2bTP)

368 ---------
Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

Learned while in Mexico once, do the shot of tequila and follow it with a tomato juice chaser. it works well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

369 359 344
Jesus holy fuck mother of god satan's wet asshole damn me to hell . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024

Is this any worse than the placenta cook books? If we are having a contest about things I prefer not to be in my food.
Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (pZEOD)
_____________

[vomits]

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

370 "I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61"

So it's come to this?
Posted by: fd at June 05, 2024 02:08 PM (vFG9F)

ISWYDT

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (aD39U)

371
and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM

WWIII? Spent some time listening to Alex Jones this morning. Do not listen to Alex Jones in the morning if you live within 20 miles of a major city.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (RKVpM)

372 Eeyore, if you're still around, awesome news about your wife! That's certainly a reason to celebrate.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (mupln)

373 As far as McDs goes, one can purchase a bigger better burger at Jack in the Box for a dollar less than a crappy at McDs.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (YdEcD)

374 362 Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

=======

I think my aversion to tequila is fading. Dolley had me buy margarita mix a few weeks ago. I picked up the best stuff I could find (I guess...I don't know what I'm doing), and I had a glass because she made a good amount.

I didn't hate it. And I usually hate it.

Eh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

375 Sadly, no...it's not a trap. It's very real.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Spate of reports of perverts adding their special sauce to food and serving it to others.

Barbara Broadcast was a movie dammit and not reality.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (ZHg09)

376 Holy crap...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (wtvvX)

Yeah. Guy got the call while they were enjoying happy hour that evening.

It wasn't too happy after that. Horrible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

377 The average jizz
Ten cubic centimeters
But not Peter North's

Posted by: sticky haiku at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (k3d8O)

378 I know "no math". This is $25 million per game. And each game has an average 1 million viewers. So NBC is going to pay $25/ viewer. How do they make money on this deal?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM

By volume, duh!

I was in an Engineering meeting where the VP announced pricing for a new card we'd developed. There was silence in the room. Finally, I spoke up, and pointed out that the price was $500 less than just the BOM (Bill Of Materials, i.e. parts) cost. More silence.

The VP finally said "We'll make it up on volume."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (U/2+b)

379 Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

I did ONE shot of everclear back in my college days. And that was enough to last me a lifetime...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (wtvvX)

380 364 361 I once wrote a poem about my ejaculate.

It was called "Tiny Dribbles."
Posted by: David French at June 05, 2024 02:10 PM (KRtlO)

========

I thought of David French while watching Rules of Engagement last night.

David French yearns to be as cool as Guy Pearce in that movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)
_____
You, of all people, should know better. Little David wants to be Guy Pierce in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:14 PM (1bNHn)

381 This is $25 million per game. And each game has an average 1 million viewers. So NBC is going to pay $25/ viewer. How do they make money on this deal?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 05, 2024 01:58 PM

Selling advertising at $50,000 per 30 seconds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

382 You don't exactly "drink" Everclear. It's more like it explodes straight though the membranes in your mouth.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (aD39U)

383 380 You, of all people, should know better. Little David wants to be Guy Pierce in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:14 PM (1bNHn)

=======

Multiple sides to the yearning on his part.

He wants to be the JAG trying to destroy career military men who made hard decisions in combat while having no combat experience himself.

He also wants to look very pretty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

384 McDs doesn't have a dollar burger or a dollar chicken anymore.
They don't even have a two dollar burger and that's 100%
increase. Hamburger and flour hasn't increase more than 100% cost.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (YdEcD)

385 I think my aversion to tequila is fading. Dolley had me buy margarita mix a few weeks ago. I picked up the best stuff I could find (I guess...I don't know what I'm doing), and I had a glass because she made a good amount.

I didn't hate it. And I usually hate it.

Eh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You should visit Improved Mexico, we have bars with a full wall of tequila. I am sure, with enough practice, you won't give a shit what your drinking.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (yiDHT)

386 chilled vodka, neat, is a good thing

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (/7KEl)

387 I think my aversion to tequila is fading. Dolley had me buy margarita mix a few weeks ago. I picked up the best stuff I could find (I guess...I don't know what I'm doing), and I had a glass because she made a good amount.

I didn't hate it. And I usually hate it.

Eh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
Try aged rum for shots. Very smooth. Back in my drinking days, Bacardi or iced vodka were the shots of choice. Neither require external accompaniments of salt nor lime like Tequila or Mezcal. The only problem with iced vodka shots is not being able to discern when to stop.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (ZHg09)

388
I did ONE shot of everclear back in my college days. And that was enough to last me a lifetime...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:13 PM (wtvvX)

Rumor has my 2 gal of moonshine is in the area......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

389 Like most alcohol, higher-end tequila is pretty good. But you're supposed to sip it, like an adult. If you are going to drink like a sorority girl on spring break, it doesn't really matter what you drink, you're gonna wake up on the beach topless with bruises on your thighs.

Posted by: We Are All Too 29 For That Shit at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (u5k8q)

390 "The age of un-truth, brought on by Trump's rise, is upon us."

Hillary taking about landing under sniper fire.
Dan Rather GWB memo.
Brian Williams during Katrina.
Algore's tale of his mom signing the "union label" song.

Hmmm -- my calendar seems to indicate those occurring before Trump's rise.

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (v6Olo)

391 Now do a limerick.

... or at least a haiku.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:09 PM (llON

There once was a man from Wye
Who got frisky from three shots of rye;
So he went to his bunk,
and then, less full of spunk,
couldn't see, 'cause he shot his own eye.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (BpZ5k)

392 This busty blonde in sexy nightwear is kind of bummer she missed the man batter discussion:
http://tiny.cc/xqbeyz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)

393 I think my aversion to tequila is fading. Dolley had me buy margarita mix a few weeks ago. I picked up the best stuff I could find (I guess...I don't know what I'm doing), and I had a glass because she made a good amount.

I didn't hate it. And I usually hate it.

Eh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Patron. Good sipping tequila.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (NzJjs)

394 McDs doesn't have a dollar burger or a dollar chicken anymore.
They don't even have a two dollar burger and that's 100%
increase. Hamburger and flour hasn't increase more than 100% cost.
Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (YdEcD)

*cough*

Posted by: $20/hr minimum wage at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (aD39U)

395 Somebody get a pickle joke in here.

Posted by: DaveA at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (FhXTo)

396 You should visit Improved Mexico, we have bars with a full wall of tequila. I am sure, with enough practice, you won't give a shit what your drinking.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Been to Mexico when it wasn't a cartelized shithole. Don't care to return now.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (ZHg09)

397 387 Try aged rum for shots. Very smooth. Back in my drinking days, Bacardi or iced vodka were the shots of choice. Neither require external accompaniments of salt nor lime like Tequila or Mezcal. The only problem with iced vodka shots is not being able to discern when to stop.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (ZHg09)

========

Rum is my go to when I'm throwing random crap into a glass and calling it a mixed drink. Goes great with Gatorade.

I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

398 1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
Floor!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (NzJjs)

399 http://tiny.cc/xqbeyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)

Her look of disappointment after I'm done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

400 Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

Cuervo and other cheap-ass tequilas taste like that. The higher grade stuff, like patron silver, gran or Edwin or el padrino is smooth and in some cases actually sipping quality, especially a good añejo. Cuervo is for frat boys.

Posted by: Guy who's had a lot of different tequilas at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (k3d8O)

401 1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
Floor!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (NzJjs)

Haha! Yessss!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (aD39U)

402 You should visit Improved Mexico, we have bars with a full wall of tequila. I am sure, with enough practice, you won't give a shit what your drinking.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Been to Mexico when it wasn't a cartelized shithole. Don't care to return now.
Posted by: whig

Mexico? I think you mean Regular Mexico.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (yiDHT)

403 WWIII? Spent some time listening to Alex Jones this morning. Do not listen to Alex Jones in the morning if you live within 20 miles of a major city.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 05, 2024 02:12 PM (RKVpM)

I'll see your Alex Jones, and raise you a Col. Douglas MacGregor.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (dGCAG)

404 379 Tequila tastes like diesel and the salt and lime are there to hide the taste.

If you must do shots, cold cold vodka for the win. None of that flavored stuff either. Want hair on your chest, everclear shots.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:11 PM (ZHg09)

I did ONE shot of everclear back in my college days. And that was enough to last me a lifetime...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
------------------------------

Boilermakers for the win.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (YdEcD)

405 I did ONE shot of everclear back in my college days. And that was enough to last me a lifetime...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
---------
Well to be sure it tastes like it smells and evaporates every drop of moisture in your mouth but it probably works well against gingivitis.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (ZHg09)

406 Someone remind them to steal the W's off the keyboards on their way out.

And hopefully the free shit in the lunch room is over. And shut the gym and showers down. Take lamps out of the lighting to save more money and clean the restroom every other day. Make them empty their own waste can and vacuum their own cubicle.

Posted by: torabora at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (0Gnoc)

407 I collect spores, molds, and fungus. But not THAT.

I'm sorry, Venkmann - I'm weirded out beyond all rational thought.

Posted by: John Drake Is Channeling Egon Spengler at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (u/Zei)

408 Cuervo and other cheap-ass tequilas taste like that. The higher grade stuff, like patron silver, gran or Edwin or el padrino is smooth and in some cases actually sipping quality, especially a good añejo. Cuervo is for frat boys.
Posted by: Guy who's had a lot of different tequilas at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (k3d8O)
++++
The hierarchy of liquor is:
1. Scotch or Bourbon
2. Bourbon or Scotch
3. Gin
4. Other
∞. Jaegermeister

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (d04cU)

409 385 I think my aversion to tequila is fading. Dolley had me buy margarita mix a few weeks ago. I picked up the best stuff I could find (I guess...I don't know what I'm doing), and I had a glass because she made a good amount.

I didn't hate it. And I usually hate it.

Eh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You should visit Improved Mexico, we have bars with a full wall of tequila. I am sure, with enough practice, you won't give a shit what your drinking.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (yiDHT)

I found a brand called Suerte at Total Wine recently and really enjoy it. It is very budget-friendly, too.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (wtvvX)

410 >>> Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (BpZ5k)

Bravo!

... and so is *that* how it makes you blind???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (llON8)

411 Megyn Kelly gives incredible blowjobs.

Posted by: Troll at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (aw2/Z)

412 Try aged rum for shots.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (ZHg09)

=====

I bought some mamajuana while we were in the Dominican. Good stuff.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (DRSnL)

413 McDs doesn't have a dollar burger or a dollar chicken anymore.
They don't even have a two dollar burger and that's 100%
increase. Hamburger and flour hasn't increase more than 100% cost.
Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (YdEcD)

*cough*
Posted by: $20/hr minimum wage

Everyone wants to scream Corporate Greed! and they don't have a f'n clue how to run a business.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (NzJjs)

414 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

Those are NOT fighting words!!

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (v6Olo)

415 392 This busty blonde in sexy nightwear is kind of bummer she missed the man batter discussion:
http://tiny.cc/xqbeyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)
_____
I like her better than most blondes.

(The part in her hair makes me think she may be a natural brunette, and thus not retarded, either.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (1bNHn)

416 Her look of disappointment after I'm done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM

So, the look is directed To: Sponge, and the problem's on the CC: line?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (U/2+b)

417 Megyn Kelly gives incredible blowjobs.
Posted by: Troll at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (aw2/Z)

How is that trolling, I'm sure it's true.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (dGCAG)

418 McDs doesn't have a dollar burger or a dollar chicken anymore.
They don't even have a two dollar burger and that's 100%
increase. Hamburger and flour hasn't increase more than 100% cost.
Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (YdEcD)

Transportation costs for their product have likely gone up 2 or 3 times what it was 5 years ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

419 Cuervo and other cheap-ass tequilas taste like that. The higher grade stuff, like patron silver, gran or Edwin or el padrino is smooth and in some cases actually sipping quality, especially a good añejo. Cuervo is for frat boys.
Posted by: Guy
-----
I prefer single malt scotch neat in a chilled glass personally although a good rye whisky is also quite nice.

Nowadays though, I might drink a stout every now and again or a glass of wine. Due to medications, the hard stuff is on the self for me nowadays.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (ZHg09)

420 328 Evergreen State College Motto (you can't make this shit up):

[Latin:] Omnia Extares
[English"] "Let It All Hang Out"

Sure beats "Vox Clamantis In Deserto."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (w6EFb)

421 They tried a gag order on me but it was unenforceable.

Posted by: Kamela at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (dEOJ+)

422 Everyone wants to scream Corporate Greed! and they don't have a f'n clue how to run a business.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (NzJjs)

Some folks have been trotting out alleged recently increased profit margins for big corp as evidence of the corporate greed angle, but I haven't really dug into it. Anybody familiar with this?

Posted by: Too lazy to research it at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (k3d8O)

423 http://tiny.cc/xqbeyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)

Her look of disappointment after I'm done.
Posted by: Sponge

I'm not banging her for her.
I got mine. You get yours.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (NzJjs)

424 399 http://tiny.cc/xqbeyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)

Her look of disappointment after I'm done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Her look of disappointment when I start.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (KbCG3)

425 The only value I can see in Everclear is using it to clean the bowls and stems of my pipes. And I'm not about to buy a whole fifth or quart of the stuff just for that. I buy those little "airline-size" (remember those?) mini-bottles of vodka or brandy at Walmart. $2 lasts a long time for my purposes.

In the '70s I used to mix 151 rum with Coca-Cola. The next day I invariably felt as if my eyes had melted into my head and my brains had leaked into my teeth. No thanks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (J2vNu)

426 414 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

Those are NOT fighting words!!
Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (v6Olo)

========

My father-in-law left a half-drunk bottle of MacCallan 12 at the house after his last visit. Said we'd enjoy it more than he did (he assumed he could let it sit and age after he opened it, which we told him was a less than ideal plan).

This weekend...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

427 Furious tremor
Yin yanks yang out of wing wang
Now i need a nap

*gigantic gong goes BWWAAAAOOOOONNGGG*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (BpZ5k)

428 Her look of disappointment after I'm done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Her look of disappointment when I start.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (KbCG3)

Considering I'm done shortly after she enters the room......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

429 >>> 413 McDs doesn't have a dollar burger or a dollar chicken anymore.
They don't even have a two dollar burger and that's 100%
increase. Hamburger and flour hasn't increase more than 100% cost.
Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:15 PM (YdEcD)

*cough*
Posted by: $20/hr minimum wage

Everyone wants to scream Corporate Greed! and they don't have a f'n clue how to run a business.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (NzJjs)

There was an SF series by Michael Flynn (not THAT one) in which the main character, a rather obsessive CEO, takes over several schools as part of her larger plan and one of the big curriculum changes is helping the older HS kids set up their own businesses. Hilarity ensues as they start to realize just how much BS they have to deal with.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (llON8)

430 "Lying Skank Jen Psaki." I think Lying Skanks would be a great name for an all-girl indie or punk rock band.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (f87vz)

431 I found a brand called Suerte at Total Wine recently and really enjoy it. It is very budget-friendly, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

The leftist asshole congress critter that owns Total Wine just lost the Dem Senate primary to a POC despite spending millions to get the win. Expect your Total Wine prices to go up to compensate Trone for his campaign spending.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (ZHg09)

432 Transportation costs for their product have likely gone up 2 or 3 times what it was 5 years ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Not to mention stratospheric minimum wages and likely rising energy cost to power the facility along with increased taxes.

Why does a McDonald's employee on the line need to make $20/hr? He doesn't, if he's a teenager or a guy picking up some extra hours or a retired lady staving off boredom.

But he (she) does if she's Juanita the Illegal with three anchor babies. That's what these new minimum wage laws are all about. Who cares if Tony or Tyrone of Julia can't get a job as a teenager anymore and if nobody can afford the product, Juanita has mouths to feed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (d04cU)

433 I found a brand called Suerte at Total Wine recently and really enjoy it. It is very budget-friendly, too.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:18 PM (wtvvX)

FYI -- Total Wine is owned by a far left Congress critter from MD (David Trone) and his brother. He is as Anti-2A as one can possibly be. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (v6Olo)

434 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
______
Agreed. My preferences:

1. Scotch, by far.
2-4. More Scotch
5. Bourbon
6. Dark rum
7. Brandy

After that, cover it with mixer.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (1bNHn)

435 ttp://tiny.cc/xqbeyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (d04cU)

Not one of the best boobette pictures, Joe. Aside from the flowered bra, what the heck is she wearing below that?. The colors sort of blended together so it looks strange. No wonder she has a look of disappointment on her pretty. face

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (XkYcA)

436 Some folks have been trotting out alleged recently increased profit margins for big corp as evidence of the corporate greed angle, but I haven't really dug into it. Anybody familiar with this?
Posted by: Too lazy to research it

McDonald's Corp make their money buy selling all the shit to their 46,000 franchisees. Franchisees have to make their money off sales of crap. Add in salary costs almost tripling and...

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (NzJjs)

437 Her look of disappointment when I ~~start~~ enter the same county.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (KbCG3)
++++
Fixed it for myself

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (d04cU)

438 My father-in-law left a half-drunk bottle of MacCallan 12 at the house after his last visit. Said we'd enjoy it more than he did (he assumed he could let it sit and age after he opened it, which we told him was a less than ideal plan).

This weekend...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

You ventured into scotch. DEFINTELY fighting words now

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (v6Olo)

439 "The age of un-truth, brought on by Trump's rise, is upon us."

But it wasn't brought on by Trump or his people. It was brought on by people like you who have an unfounded fear of Trump and his people.

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (89Sog)

440 >>> 422
==
Some folks have been trotting out alleged recently increased profit margins for big corp as evidence of the corporate greed angle, but I haven't really dug into it. Anybody familiar with this?
Posted by: Too lazy to research it at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (k3d8O)

Shush, you!!!

Posted by: Pharmakopeia corps at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (llON8)

441 "Lying Skank Jen Psaki." I think Lying Skanks would be a great name for an all-girl indie or punk rock band.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (f87vz)

Total Skank

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (dEOJ+)

442 I always assumed Bezos bankrolled the WaPo and was totally hands off.

In return, the swamp leaves him alone (unlike Musk).

It's protection money to keep the Feds off his back.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (V6W16)

443 There's apparently a store just over the border in Indian Land that's independently owned and comparable to Total Wine:

Southern Spirits.

We keep intending to discover it, but the only time we find ourselves in that direction is on Sundays...when its closed (at least the liquor part because of SC law).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

444 >>>I typically just drink whiskey neat, though.

I can't drink whiskey neat.

Posted by: Ted Striker (I have a drinking problem) at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (KRtlO)

445 414 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

Those are NOT fighting words!!
Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:20 PM (v6Olo)

I drink Whisky neat

Just sayin' ...

Posted by: browndog represents at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (TTAGa)

446 438 My father-in-law left a half-drunk bottle of MacCallan 12 at the house after his last visit. Said we'd enjoy it more than he did (he assumed he could let it sit and age after he opened it, which we told him was a less than ideal plan).

This weekend...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

You ventured into scotch. DEFINTELY fighting words now
Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (v6Olo)

Bow to the Macallan.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (KbCG3)

447 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)
++++
I go back and forth. Sometimes neat, sometimes with two ice cubes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (d04cU)

448 "Lying Skank Jen Psaki." I think Lying Skanks would be a great name for an all-girl indie or punk rock band.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024

***
The Lying Skanks: The Circle Back Tour!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (J2vNu)

449 Bow to the Macallan.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Ooooohhhhmmmm.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (NzJjs)

450 In the '70s I used to mix 151 rum with Coca-Cola. The next day I invariably felt as if my eyes had melted into my head and my brains had leaked into my teeth. No thanks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Coca Cola (or any sugary soft drink) is a truly vile thing for mixing alcohol with. Recipe for a bad hangover and way too sugary for my taste.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (ZHg09)

451 438 You ventured into scotch. DEFINTELY fighting words now
Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:23 PM (v6Olo)

=========

I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

452 433 Comments on a Pearl Necklace thread and no ZZ Top …

It’s like I don’t know you people.

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic. . . at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (TX4bP)

453 >>>I always assumed Bezos bankrolled the WaPo and was totally hands off.
In return, the swamp leaves him alone (unlike Musk).

I think that assumption is correct. But a leftwing billionaire will not gladly keep losing $100 mil every year when "his" newspaper is no longer prestigious or influential, and is just the print version of MSNBC.

Posted by: ace at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (KRtlO)

454 444 >>>I typically just drink whiskey neat, though.

I can't drink whiskey neat.
Posted by: Ted Striker (I have a drinking problem) at June 05, 2024 02:24 PM (KRtlO)

========

*offers glass of OJ*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

455 For those who believe the "NOW the Democrats have crossed the line" ruse, recall the DNC hounded Palin out of high office via lawfare 13 years ago.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (dEOJ+)

456 This sexy blonde would like to hide and seek with you.
https://tinyurl.com/254edk9f

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (yiDHT)

457 Bow to the Macallan.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (KbCG3)
++++
:: prepares to commit sacrilege ::

Macallan is good. Very good.

Macallan is priced better than it is, and presents poor value. I view it more as if it's primarily a bragging rights product rather than whiskey for its own sake.

:: completes sacrilegious activity ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (d04cU)

458 Coca Cola (or any sugary soft drink) is a truly vile thing for mixing alcohol with. Recipe for a bad hangover and way too sugary for my taste.
Posted by: whig

I use sugar-free A&W root beer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (v6JzV)

459 447 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)
++++
I go back and forth. Sometimes neat, sometimes with two ice cubes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (d04cU)

=======

The hotel I stay at to visit the work HQ does the free drinks every night (2 per guest), but they won't give me their cheap, shitty bourbon neat. They have to include ice cubes.

No idea why. GA law, I guess. I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

460 Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Hey! That's my line!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (d04cU)

461 I'm kinda sure most here aren't big F1 fans, but I gotta say watching Lewis Hamilton try to DEI Ferrari next season gonna be lit.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free State of Florida at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (MkuC5)

462 I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

TJM:

A man of wisdom and perspicacity

#laphroaig

Posted by: browndog represents at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (TTAGa)

463 In the '70s I used to mix 151 rum with Coca-Cola. The next day I invariably felt as if my eyes had melted into my head and my brains had leaked into my teeth. No thanks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Coca Cola (or any sugary soft drink) is a truly vile thing for mixing alcohol with. Recipe for a bad hangover and way too sugary for my taste.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024

***
I also occasionally drank the 151 on the rocks with some water. I must have had a death wish.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (J2vNu)

464 457 :: prepares to commit sacrilege ::

Macallan is good. Very good.

Macallan is priced better than it is, and presents poor value. I view it more as if it's primarily a bragging rights product rather than whiskey for its own sake.

:: completes sacrilegious activity ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (d04cU)

========

At least you can easily find and procure MacCallan.

Now, try Blanton's. That shit sells for $250 on the secondary market.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

465 >>> 455 For those who believe the "NOW the Democrats have crossed the line" ruse, recall the DNC hounded Palin out of high office via lawfare 13 years ago.
Posted by: ... at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (dEOJ+)

The commies have crossed all sorts of lines and the BS really started more than a century ago. We won't know which line is "THE" line until well after the fact, and I expect it will be something seemingly trivial at the time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (llON8)

466 Disney is opening a new Polynesian resort, Who can afford this??

from Twitter
I called DVC for Poly Tower rates for a 2-night fictional trip in January.

Duo: $855.56 (standard)
Studio: $1141.60 (standard), $1444.52 (preferred), $1627.61 (theme park)
1BR: $2065.50 (theme park - promotional rate)
2BR Penthouse: $5878.13 (preferred), $6601.51 (theme park)

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (FCrpy)

467 Any difference in operational costs between McDs and Jack is managerial. The cost of beef is the same the cost of flour is the same, labor the same.

Right now, in my neighborhood, McDs is overpriced and under quality relative to other options.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (YdEcD)

468 I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

Yup. We're mortal enemies again.

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (v6Olo)

469 This sexy blonde would like to hide and seek with you.
https://tinyurl.com/254edk9f
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:26 PM (yiDHT)
++++
She's positively charming. The kind of girl you bring home to meet your parents.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (d04cU)

470 Bow to the Macallan.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
-----
Laphroaig. Tastes like it smells. But I like peat.

Glenmorangie for social occasions.

Highlander ancestry.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (ZHg09)

471 Everyone wants to scream Corporate Greed! and they don't have a f'n clue how to run a business.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:19 PM (NzJjs)

So much this. Overhead - rent, utilities, insurance, franchise fees, POS systems, advertising, payroll, payroll processing fees, accountants and other professional fees, hardware, software, taxes, maintenance, office supplies, cleaning supplies, the list goes on and on. Those things are paid from the products and services you sell. Oh, and if you have working capital loans to float between accounts payable and accounts receivable, the interest is now insane (in addition to interest on purchase loans). It’s not the cost of the ingredients = cost of the product and the rest of the money comes from the money fairy.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (pZEOD)

472 460 Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Hey! That's my line!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (d04cU)

========

I'm driving it like I stole i.t

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

473 Macallan is good, but my top choices are Glenmorangie and Lagavulin. I go back and forth with those two.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (1bNHn)

474 462 TJM:

A man of wisdom and perspicacity

#laphroaig
Posted by: browndog represents at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (TTAGa)

========

I do enjoy getting my hands on a bottle of Laphroaig. I'm even on their email list!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

475 =======

The hotel I stay at to visit the work HQ does the free drinks every night (2 per guest), but they won't give me their cheap, shitty bourbon neat. They have to include ice cubes.

No idea why. GA law, I guess. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

Some Hilton brands do a 2 hour happy hour where certain draft beer and house booze is free......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

476 I still think that the youth market really skewed what the distilleries were putting out in a Hellish direction. The final straw was heading into the liquor store and seeing Cotton Candy-flavored vodka and Birthday Cake-flavored vodka sharing a shelf with numerous other similar abominations.

Defeats the whole purpose of adult liquor consumption.

Posted by: John Drake Is In Sight Of The Caspian Sea at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (u/Zei)

477 No idea why. GA law, I guess. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

Count your blessings they don't pour it into a fifty five gallon drum of disgustingly cloying iced-tea flavored simple syrup like they would have if they really had their way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (BpZ5k)

478 Whiskey worth drinking has an 'e'.

Carrots do not belong in chili.

These culinary truths are known.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (U/2+b)

479 468 I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

Yup. We're mortal enemies again.
Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (v6Olo)

========

I would have gotten into a mortal combat with Doof, but then I got high.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

480 The hotel I stay at to visit the work HQ does the free drinks every night (2 per guest), but they won't give me their cheap, shitty bourbon neat. They have to include ice cubes.

No idea why. GA law, I guess. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

Apparently SC also forbids straight shooters as I learned at a recent wedding. I had to get a beer on the side as a boilermaker that I didn't make.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (aD39U)

481 This sexy blonde would like to hide and seek with you.
https://tinyurl.com/254edk9f
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024
++++
She's positively charming. The kind of girl you bring home to meet your parents.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024

***
If your parents, and you, are long-time customers of Walter White.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (J2vNu)

482 The leftist asshole congress critter that owns Total Wine just lost the Dem Senate primary to a POC despite spending millions to get the win. Expect your Total Wine prices to go up to compensate Trone for his campaign spending.
Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (ZHg09)

Don't buy much from there. I try to buy direct from the local brewers, distilleries, and wineries. I pay a premium sometimes, but I'd rather have these owners make money than Total Wine.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators. LTD. at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (f87vz)

483 Macallan is good, but my top choices are Glenmorangie and Lagavulin. I go back and forth with those two.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (1bNHn)
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My man.

I have four varieties of Glenmorangie at the moment. The 10-year is the best "normal old scotch" in my opinion, and is my daily driver. The 18-year is truly exceptional and after I find a new job and end my upcoming unemployment, it will be my method of celebration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (d04cU)

484 Macallan '26 - $1.1million.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (NzJjs)

485 In fact, I bet Toto actually paved the way for Lewis to switch teams as in an act of unbridled trojan horse genius.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free State of Florida at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (MkuC5)

486 I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

Laphroaig, brah. Like drinking the world's greatest campfire.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (KbCG3)

487 Lagavulin tastes like Laphroaig, but they left out the iodine. It is the basis for their blended brand, White Horse, which was always my favorite blend.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (1bNHn)

488 I also occasionally drank the 151 on the rocks with some water. I must have had a death wish.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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151 shots yes, mixing no. If you dilute it, then you might as well get regular strength.

Rum used to a cheap party buzz when I was a boy but the spiced rum is truly vile shit other than for cooking purposes.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (ZHg09)

489 414 I typically just drink whiskey neat, though. I know I'll actually enjoy that experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

I've come to appreciate straight whiskey more in my old age. I prefer rye a bit to bourbon, then vodka.

For mixed drinks a good Manhattan is hard to beat.

One thing that amazes me is that there was a time in this country when three-martini lunches were not unusual. People used to know how to live in this country...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (wtvvX)

490 FYI -- Total Wine is owned by a far left Congress critter from MD (David Trone) and his brother. He is as Anti-2A as one can possibly be. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:22 PM (v6Olo)

Ugh.
The only place near me that offers fun wine tasting events. No indies near me. Sadness.

Posted by: DaisyB at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (AbL8c)

491 I have four varieties of Glenmorangie at the moment. The 10-year is the best "normal old scotch" in my opinion, and is my daily driver. The 18-year is truly exceptional and after I find a new job and end my upcoming unemployment, it will be my method of celebration.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Best daily driver that won't break the bank? Famous Grouse.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (NzJjs)

492 475 Some Hilton brands do a 2 hour happy hour where certain draft beer and house booze is free......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

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Yeah, it's an Embassy Suites which is owned by Hilton.

I get my two, pour one into the other, and drop the empty glass on the bar.

My coworkers probably think I'm an uncontrollable drunk at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

493 I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
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Islay malts like Lagavulin, Laphroaig, and Arbeg. Peaty smoke that kicks you in the nuts.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

494 It’s not the cost of the ingredients = cost of the product and the rest of the money comes from the money fairy.

Posted by: Piper

===

I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized business in America

Posted by: Hillary, reliving past failures at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (0VCOE)

495 Wow, lotta whiskey snobs here.

I'll stick with Ron Rico and Popov vodka.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)

496 Bow to the Macallan.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Laphroaig. Tastes like it smells. But I like peat.

Glenmorangie for social occasions.

Highlander ancestry.

Posted by: whig

Improved Mexico recommends Colkegan Whiskey.
https://tinyurl.com/6d66uwjy

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (yiDHT)

497 >>> 471
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So much this. Overhead - rent, utilities, insurance, franchise fees, POS systems, advertising, payroll, payroll processing fees, accountants and other professional fees, hardware, software, taxes, maintenance, office supplies, cleaning supplies, the list goes on and on. Those things are paid from the products and services you sell. Oh, and if you have working capital loans to float between accounts payable and accounts receivable, the interest is now insane (in addition to interest on purchase loans). It’s not the cost of the ingredients = cost of the product and the rest of the money comes from the money fairy.
Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (pZEOD)

Can't recall if it was a comment or a post but a while back there was some discussion about some chick whining about $4 mac'n'cheese at a large chain restaurant being comparable to the Kraft version. She was apparently too stupid to realize that the Kraft box didn't prepare its own contents, serve itself, and put the dishes in the dishwasher for her.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (llON8)

498 Some folks have been trotting out alleged recently increased profit margins for big corp as evidence of the corporate greed angle, but I haven't really dug into it. Anybody familiar with this?
Posted by: Too lazy to research it

Microsoft profit margin: 35%
Coca Cola profit margin: 28%
Exxon profit margin: 10%

Guess which one they will target?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (lTGtQ)

499 476 I still think that the youth market really skewed what the distilleries were putting out in a Hellish direction. The final straw was heading into the liquor store and seeing Cotton Candy-flavored vodka and Birthday Cake-flavored vodka sharing a shelf with numerous other similar abominations.

Defeats the whole purpose of adult liquor consumption.
Posted by: John Drake Is In Sight Of The Caspian Sea at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (u/Zei)

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I imagine those flavored vodkas cost borderline nothing to produce. The vodka and then a few drops of some kind of chemical flavoring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

500 I drink for effect.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 05, 2024 02:32 PM (aD39U)

501 480 The hotel I stay at to visit the work HQ does the free drinks every night (2 per guest), but they won't give me their cheap, shitty bourbon neat. They have to include ice cubes.

No idea why. GA law, I guess. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Sounds like Embassy Suites. That might be a policy as I remember the same thing from staying at one in Minneapolis.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:32 PM (ZHg09)

502 Islay malts like Lagavulin, Laphroaig, and Arbeg. Peaty smoke that kicks you in the nuts.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)
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I have an Arbeg at the moment. Over time, I have come prefer to the Highlands to the Islays, but the Islays are sometimes just what I'm after. An occasional use thing. I always have one on hand, but it tends to last a while. I've never had Lagavulin, so I'm planning that for when I run out of the Arbeg.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024 02:32 PM (d04cU)

503 I have four varieties of Glenmorangie at the moment. The 10-year is the best "normal old scotch" in my opinion, and is my daily driver. The 18-year is truly exceptional and after I find a new job and end my upcoming unemployment, it will be my method of celebration.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 05, 2024

***
Glenmorangie, Glenmorangie,
When will those clouds all disappear?
Glenmorangie, Glenmorangie,
Where will it lead us from here?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (J2vNu)

504 It's too close to n**d time, so I'll save it. But I have a story of my terrible Scotch robbery when I was young, in the 70s. Lost 6 bottles of different single malts. And malts were hard to come by in those days.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (1bNHn)

505 Nood, to prevent the non-nooding bastids from decrying their complaints of non-nooding by commenters of questionable parentage.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (U/2+b)

506 >>> 479

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I would have gotten into a mortal combat with Doof, but then I got high.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

Hey! Who do you think you are, JackStraw?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (llON8)

507 489 For mixed drinks a good Manhattan is hard to beat.

One thing that amazes me is that there was a time in this country when three-martini lunches were not unusual. People used to know how to live in this country...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (wtvvX)

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Whenever I go out to dinner with the team, we always go to some great place because my boss's boss is a wino who loves to drink and eat well. He pays for everything without batting an eye.

I always end up with a Manhattan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

508
I imagine those flavored vodkas cost borderline nothing to produce. The vodka and then a few drops of some kind of chemical flavoring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Like flavored coffees. Cheaper base product with flavoring added, and increased price.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (lTGtQ)

509 Some folks have been trotting out alleged recently increased profit margins for big corp as evidence of the corporate greed angle, but I haven't really dug into it. Anybody familiar with this?
Posted by: Too lazy to research it

Microsoft profit margin: 35%
Coca Cola profit margin: 28%
Exxon profit margin: 10%

Guess which one they will target?
Posted by: Thomas Paine

The Washington Post for disrespecting it best and brightest.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram (The artist formerly known as Lost in Space) at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (yiDHT)

510 Night Train not good enough for you guys?

Posted by: Don Black at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (/7KEl)

511 I imagine those flavored vodkas cost borderline nothing to produce. The vodka and then a few drops of some kind of chemical flavoring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yep. No aging required and aimed at the distaff market is my guess. I don't really care for the Eastern Euro addin to vodka like caraway seed etc.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (ZHg09)

512 I drink for effect.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Trashcan punch FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2024 02:33 PM (NzJjs)

513 495 Wow, lotta whiskey snobs here.

I'll stick with Ron Rico and Popov vodka.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)
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Hillary drinks Cutty Sark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

514
My coworkers probably think I'm an uncontrollable drunk at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

Heard a story a while back where a guy was meeting a new primary care doctor. During the appointment, there was a lot of conversation, questions and general get to know each other items, but then it came to drinking.

"I have 1 large cocktail and a glass of wine."

"You're an alcoholic!!!"

Bloodwork came back perfect.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

515 467 Any difference in operational costs between McDs and Jack is managerial. The cost of beef is the same the cost of flour is the same, labor the same.

Right now, in my neighborhood, McDs is overpriced and under quality relative to other options.
Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:28 PM (YdEcD)

The difference between franchise fees is there. So is contractual spend on advertising. McDonald’s is a very expensive franchise to own. Property can be another differentiator. If, however, other options are better and cheaper, well hello capitalism. McDs needs to cut costs. Maybe the mothership needs to look at what they are charging, what refacing they are forcing on their franchisees, renegotiate supplier contracts, etc.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (pZEOD)

516 "I take a break and swing by and you people are talking about the average volume of ejaculate.
Posted by: Jordan61"

Same here Jordan.
Had to go to Freddies.
Now I feel like I need a shower.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (W/lyH)

517 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (ZdexC)

518 Hillary drinks Cutty Sark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

That shit is ass from a rats cock........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

519 One thing that amazes me is that there was a time in this country when three-martini lunches were not unusual. People used to know how to live in this country...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:30 PM (wtvvX)

Most places with martinis serve them in preposterously large glasses, filled to the brim, so the damn thing is tepid by the time you hit bottom, you pay $20 for the privilege, and now you're basically verschnokert on warm booze and not really in the mood for two more.

Essentially, they put the three martini lunch into one big dumb glass for us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (BpZ5k)

520 Some Hilton brands do a 2 hour happy hour where certain draft beer and house booze is free......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 05, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Embassy Suites does this. The one in Lexington, KY has provided me with many a free drink while traveling for work. Tipping the bartender will often times leads them to "accidentally" release some good stuff. One guy I tipped well conveniently forgot about the bottle of Weller 12 he left on the bar in front of me for 30 minutes.

Posted by: Doof at June 05, 2024 02:35 PM (v6Olo)

521 Whenever I go out to dinner with the team, we always go to some great place because my boss's boss is a wino who loves to drink and eat well. He pays for everything without batting an eye.

I always end up with a Manhattan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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If I must go mixed, I prefer a Tom Collins or a dry gin martini.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:35 PM (ZHg09)

522 Wow, lotta whiskey snobs here.

I'll stick with Ron Rico and Popov vodka.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 05, 2024

***
I was always amused that the Bacardi label mascot was a bat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2024 02:35 PM (J2vNu)

523 519 One thing that amazes me is that there was a time in this country when three-martini lunches were not unusual. People used to know how to live in this country...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
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Still that way in much of Euroland. Drinking is part of the culture there plus widespread public transport.

Posted by: whig at June 05, 2024 02:36 PM (ZHg09)

524 Formerly LiS was too complex, I understand.

I like this:
Name: NAJERA, ROSA ISELA

Address: SUNLAND PARK , NM 88063

Sex: F Race: W

Mexicans were white when I was a kid. Then they decided to join up with the race baiters. I think LULAC pushed it over the line in '68.
Miss Najera indicates that they're getting off that wagon.

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:36 PM (YdEcD)

525 One thing that amazes me is that there was a time in this country when three-martini lunches were not unusual. People used to know how to live in this country...
Posted by: Tex Lovera

It's often been explained as a function of the WWII generation - high-functioning alcoholism was a major component of how many made it through the twin Hells of the European and Pacific Theaters. And we won't even get started on the "pep pills" issued to bomber crews...

Posted by: John Drake Is In Sight Of The Caspian Sea at June 05, 2024 02:38 PM (u/Zei)

526 Soooo... Jeff is tired of writing checks to these characters?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at June 05, 2024 02:38 PM (w3u3d)

527
I do like bourbon a good bit, but I think I like Scotch more.

Something real peaty, like Mike Tyson had a fist of smoke and he punched me in the mouth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

Ardbeg. For some strange reason, I like it.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 05, 2024 02:38 PM (wtvvX)

528 Hillary drinks Cutty Sark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at June 05, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
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My favorite story of Hillary's 2016 run was a reporter, before being assigned to her traveling press entourage, thought Hillary would have a drink for the sake of "Photo Ops".

After travelling with her for a couple of months on the campaign trail, she came to the realization that Hillary liked to drink....like a lot.

Posted by: WIsRich at June 05, 2024 02:40 PM (G0vdT)

529 >>>"You're an alcoholic!!!"

Bloodwork came back perfect.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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By Britain's NIH standards, Queen Elizabeth was a lush.

- so she died of acute alcoholism at the tender age of 96 -

Posted by: Braenyard - is never going to catch up at June 05, 2024 02:41 PM (YdEcD)

530 where else can I get quality content like this? No where!

"It's like my boner is at the Holistic Spa, and they just put two slices of cucumber on either side of my pecker-slot to reduce the "frown lines.""

Posted by: Syracuse1989 at June 05, 2024 03:24 PM (xrBOd)

531 If you lose that much money, the obvious first move is to fire 100% of the DEI people. They add zero value.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at June 05, 2024 03:48 PM (MTm8X)

532 I don't think [failed former Editor in Chief Sally Buzbee] deserved to go out this way

Good God, she lost you half your readers in the space of three years. If that doesn't merit at least being sacked in the most ignominious way possible, if not tar and feathers, then nothing does.

Posted by: DaveL at June 05, 2024 04:14 PM (KUwsX)

533 Most of our news we get is Leftists Propaganda in the first place the New York Slimes(Times)Washington Compost) and New York Daily Sewage(News)are examples then the talking heads from the Broadcast Fake News and 60 Minutes as well

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 05, 2024 04:44 PM (wGqjj)

534 I am sure this paragraph has touched all the internet people, its really really
pleasant post on building up new webpage.

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