The Week in Woke

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@Adi13
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney [George's wretched wife], you passionately called for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged 'genocide in Gaza.' Yet, curiously, as the daughter of a Syrian Druze father, you've remained silent while over 1,000 Syrian Druze have been massacred, amid reports of rape, abduction, and other atrocities. But since Jews aren't involved, the story seems to attract far less attention.

House Judiciary Committee: Biden's FBI smeared Catholics as terrorists.

The 51-page report comes after the FBI under former director Christopher Wray circulated an internal memo dubbed the Richmond Memorandum, created by the Richmond field office in 2023, which labeled traditional Catholics as "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists."
The report accuses the bureau of creating a "manufactured narrative to insert federal law-enforcement agents into places of worship." The report includes revelations that the FBI allegedly spied on a priest because he refused to discuss a private conversation that he had with a parishioner.
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"There appeared to be no legitimate law-enforcement purpose for investigating this priest," the report determined. "This new information suggests that the FBI's religious liberty abuses were more widespread than the FBI initially admitted and led the public to believe."
The report also found that the Richmond memorandum was not an isolated incident as previously believed, and that terms like "Radical Traditionalist Catholic" were used in 13 documents between 2009 and 2023.
"These new findings make it apparent that the FBI under President Biden and Director Wray withheld key information responsive to the Committee's oversight," the report reads. "The Committee remains committed to conducting oversight of the Biden-Harris Administration's abuse of federal law-enforcement resources against Catholic Americans."

New York has settled with a Christian photographer they illegally coerced into photographing gay weddings.

New York ended four years of litigation by Christian wedding photographer Emilee Carpenter by paying her $225,000 in legal fees and promising not to enforce several laws that infringe Carpenter's First Amendment rights, leaving her free to avoid photographing same-sex weddings.
The consent decree between Attorney General Letitia James and Carpenter's lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom follows a May ruling by U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci, nominated by President Obama, that it was "beyond debate" the Empire State cannot apply public accommodations laws to "expressive activity to compel speech."

The Democrat Party has endorsed Minneapolis Mayor Jonathan Frey's socialist Somali challenger.

From KSTP:

Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that State Sen. Omar Fateh won the party's endorsement through a show of badges on Saturday night.
An endorsement of Fateh, who is running as a Democratic Socialist, would create a unique moment for the city's DFL Party, possibly signaling a further shift for the party.
"People are starting to accept, you know, some more socialist and more, you know, to the left politics, which, in my view, is a good thing. It's a progressive thing," said Colton Baldus, a delegate in support of Fateh.
Current Mayor Jacob Frey's campaign manager released the following statement:
"This election should be decided by the entire city rather than the small group of people who became delegates, particularly in light of the extremely flawed and irregular conduct of this convention. Voters will now have a clear choice between the records and leadership of Sen. Fateh and Mayor Frey. We look forward to taking our vision to the voters in November."

I saw someone point out that Frey kneeled and cried for George Floyd. But he just wasn't woke enough for today's Democrat Communist Party.

From Instapundit, the San Fransisco Standard reports that businesses are hiring "etiquette coaches" to instruct Gen Z savages on proper workplace dress and decorum.

They want to be promoted after only a few months, treat the office like their bedroom, show up in sweats or skimpy office-siren fits, FaceTime friends from their desks, and ghost their managers.
This is the gist of employer complaints about Gen Z workers, who seem to be having a uniquely hard time getting along in the office -- much worse, managers say, than the generations before them. In a December 2024 survey of 1,000 employers by Intelligent.com, 12.5% said a Gen Z candidate had brought Mom or Dad to a job interview. The bosses are fed up.
Gen Zers, meanwhile, see things differently: From their perspective, millennial and Gen X managers have no work-life balance.

In other words: they work at work.

The generational divide has become starker in the past few months, as return-to-office policies have brought in Gen Zers for the first time -- in many cases after years of working and attending school remotely. In the Bay Area, the culture clash has led employers to a new solution: hiring etiquette experts to train young employees in basic workplace manners.
Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach, said inquiries have risen 50% over the last two months. The requests come from tech campus managers, winery execs, and even country clubs. All are a variation on the same complaint: Gen Z employees are treating the office like an extension of their homes.

Netflix will not be renewing their $100 million deal to feature the non-prince Harry and the non-duchess Megan in stupid podcast-level "shows."

Netflix will not be renewing their eye-popping $100 million deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed the lucrative deal in 2020 to earn some cash after quitting royal life and moving to the US.
However, the couple still have other plans for the future.
"There are more TV projects coming soon with both the duke and duchess," a source told Page Six. They also are set to sign a first-look deal with the streamer when their exclusive deal ends this year.

Ugh. I think a first-look deal is just a kind of option. You're selling the option to someone to have the first chance to buy a show. It's much, much cheaper than buying a show. Like an option to produce a screenplay might cost $10,000, but if the screenplay is actually produced, you'd get $100,000.

So I don't think this is a big payday for the unemployed losers but still Netflix is paying them for something. Why? Do they literally just want to spend themselves into unprofitability? After three years of wretched duds that no one likes, what is left of the Markles that you'd need a "first look" contract for?

Where are the lefties screaming about this? The Markles are woke AF, too. Shouldn't they be guaranteed lifetime media contracts like Stephen Colbert?

Woke is officially dead. Celebrities are now denouncing wokeness without fear of cancellation.

Legendary musician Billy Joel told Bill Maher he doesn't care if the far left complains about his statements or music anymore.
During the latest episode of Maher's "Club Random" podcast released Monday, the two discussed the "woke" left's reaction to anything it disagrees with, with Joel admitting he is over being concerned about what that group thinks of him.
"At this point... I'm inured to it," Joel said in reply to Maher asking if he doesn't care if woke people criticize him any longer.
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The host continued, noting how mad leftists get when people don't declare, "'Trump's the worst.'"
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"And you don't care what they say about you -- the woke?" Maher asked.
"At this point, no," the musician replied, though he noted how he tries to understand the point of view of people who disagree with him.

In the UK, students were told to wear clothing advertising their cultures and ethnic identities.

A native-born British girl wore a Union Jack dress. She was kicked out of school and could not return until she changed. Turns out the school only meant "burkas." Anyone celebrating their British identity is a racist.

The UK needs their own Trump:

Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh delivered a masterful response to a nasty reporter when asked why he met with Trump:

“Why do you frame that question [like that]? … It was amazing—it was awesome. And I promise you, I root for our President. I want our President to be… pic.twitter.com/h7QXXNIZk0
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 24, 2025

The modern civil rights regime, both inside and outside of government, has been wielded like a weapon...to engineer a radical new social order built upon the deliberate dispossession of huge swathes of our country. pic.twitter.com/tgFFoQzMBH
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 24, 2025

Jeff Daniels: “I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did. Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State.”

pic.twitter.com/b455ZlIbrX
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) July 22, 2025

A Palestinian-American took her Black friends to the West Bank to volunteer.

Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse. pic.twitter.com/hjPVRPaJoD
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (iVUs+)

2 St

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (wzAuc)

3 Crapst

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:24 PM (wzAuc)

4 Meow?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 25, 2025 06:29 PM (w3u3d)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 25, 2025 06:29 PM (GYt5+)

6 Complete new respect for the Harbaughs.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (fV+MH)

7 I even went through the content. Getting sloppy in my old age. 😸

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (w3u3d)

8 And I suspect some of her African American friends came away with different views of Palestinians than before they went on the trip , and were also rethinking being friends with the woman. Who invited them to go with her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (2GCMq)

9 >>>or skimpy office-siren fits

Hotties should be allowed to dress like hotties.

There, I said it.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (vlXMQ)

10 I am always surprised when people do no realize how racist 90% of the world is. Of COURSE palestinians though of blacks as slaves and apes, they grew up 100% for like 10 generations seeing blacks as exclusively being that. How would you not realize that??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)

11
Omar Fateh won the party's endorsement through a show of badges on Saturday night.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

Posted by: Gold Hat at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (63Dwl)

12 The UK needs to be invaded by the Romans again.

I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.

Start over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (idIpT)

13 A Palestinian-American took her Black friends to the West Bank to volunteer.

Palestinians called them "monkeys" and "slaves" during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse. pic.twitter.com/hjPVRPaJoD

- Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 23, 2025

The United States is the most raycissty rayciss country in the history of ever!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ULPxl)

14 Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip

Minkeys?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ShtCw)

15 Page is not a man and nothing on the planet can change that.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)

16 Lincoln's Secretary of State was a Senator in the Republican Party. Now his second Secretary of War was Stanton, a Democrat pre war.

Be Better, Chamberlain.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (8avO+)

17 That is just perfect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (idIpT)

18 Grok @grok 3h Replying to @warfrontobservr @AZ_Intel_
Cleo Laine (1927-2025) was a celebrated British jazz singer and actress, famed for her husky contralto and four-octave range. Often called Britain's top jazz export, she collaborated with husband John Dankworth, earned Grammy nods, and performed globally. She died July 24, 2025, at 97, per AP and family confirmation. RIP to a legend.

Grok @grok 3h Replying to @warfarereport @AZ_Intel_
Cleo Laine was a renowned British jazz singer and actress, celebrated for her four-octave vocal range and husky contralto. Born in 1927, she rose to fame in the 1950s, earning acclaim for blending jazz with theater, including a Tony nomination for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." She died on July 24, 2025, at 97, as confirmed by her family and major outlets like NPR and The New York Times. Her legacy endures in jazz history.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (2yoRf)

19 A brother of Jeff Daniels used to live near us. He didn't care for him.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (wzAuc)

20 It would be even funnier if one of the traveling volunteers is gay.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (ULPxl)

21 You can say black Fenelon.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (fV+MH)

22 My favorite Gen Z in the Office story is their abject fear when the phone rings. They won't answer it. If compelled, they pick up the receiver and wait for the caller to identify himself. It's like they don't want to welcome a vampire into their home.

I laugh, but this is just lack of training which is the employer's fault.

As an increasingly antisocial person, I get the instinct to cocoon oneself from icky humans, but dude(ette), it's yer job.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (kpS4V)

23 Unfortunately, the Mooselimbs have now conquered the Romans, too.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (77rzZ)

24 Its like that black woman who moved to Russia of all places because of perceived racism in America. Only to meet worse racists in Russia... derp

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (dfIr7)

25 I am always surprised when people do no realize how racist 90% of the world is. Of COURSE palestinians though of blacks as slaves and apes, they grew up 100% for like 10 generations seeing blacks as exclusively being that. How would you not realize that??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)

I never am surprised. The will to be stupid is very widespread.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)

26 Fk Oregon who want parents to bow down to Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (+qU29)

27 I expected the pendulum to swing back but not at this rate.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

28 ***Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that State Sen. Omar Fateh won the party's endorsement through a show of badges on Saturday night.
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Remember these things when the winner writes the history of CWII.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (LWopF)

29 "...which labeled traditional Catholics as "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists."

How the fvck does that even work? I mean racially or ethnically violent extremists? Don't those idiots realize that there is a huge percentage of brown people who are very much catholic?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (e5NfL)

30 >>> 15 Page is not a man and nothing on the planet can change that.
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)

BOYS have a PENIS, GIRLS have a VAGINA.

Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (ULPxl)

31 Helena Handbasket, we have to rebrand the MoMe as the Xth consecutive .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)

32 Remember these things when the winner writes the history of CWII.
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At least Ken Burns won't be doing a ten-part series on it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (kpS4V)

33 The UK needs to be invaded by the Romans again.

I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.

Start over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (idIpT)

In her revolt Boudicca's forces took and burned Londinium to the ground. That would be a good start.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

34 Jeff Daniels: How much did he pay to be interviewed?
Or did did they seek him out knowing that he would parrot such idiocy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (LWopF)

35 MoMeTxX?

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)

36 >>> 31 Helena Handbasket, we have to rebrand the MoMe as the Xth consecutive .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)

Oh, good point!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (ULPxl)

37 Sam Kinison was wise beyond his years.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (fV+MH)

38 >>>Woke is officially dead.

Millenials hardest hit. But not hard enough. Asshats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (i24o9)

39 I listened to about a minute and a half of the Pali woman babbling about levels of oppression. All I could think of was Clevon Little hitting Slim Pickens in the head with a shovel . She's a perfect advertisement for why everyone can't stand the Palestinians.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (hIY2p)

40 ...which labeled traditional Catholics as "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists."

How the fvck does that even work? I mean racially or ethnically violent extremists? Don't those idiots realize that there is a huge percentage of brown people who are very much catholic?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (e5NfL)

Surely we should get the 'religiously intolerant' label like the Spanish Inquisition. Lazy ass demonizing there.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)

41 Omar Fateh...if you want a good laugh, check out this guy's policy platform for Minneapolis. This socialist idiot is going to create brand new taxes called "vacancy taxes" for those people run out of town by riots, crime, and purposeful fires. He, also, claims to be working with the Minnesota Revenue department to create a new tax that only applies to the wealthy, above and beyond what's already on the books.

Can't wait to see how that works out. These socialist mayor candidates remind me of following a swerving vehicle with an obviously drunk driver, wondering in a macabre fashion just what they are going to plow into.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dIske)

42 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
BREAKING: "Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire -- unconditionally -- and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute," said Cambodia's ambassador to the UN Chhea Keo following a closed meeting of the Security Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. - AFP

Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000 19h
🧵A detailed timeline on escalations in the lead-up to yesterday's clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.
Much of the escalation seems to stem from Cambodia, with their troops fortifying many sectors before the May 28 clashes and surging strategic assets immediately after.

https://tinyurl.com/yfhek4sc

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2yoRf)

43 ***From Instapundit, the San Fransisco Standard reports that businesses are hiring "etiquette coaches" to instruct Gen Z savages on proper workplace dress and decorum.
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Thought you said, SanFranpsycho

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (LWopF)

44 >>Hotties should be allowed to dress like hotties.

I rise in defense of this entirely logical position.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (viF8m)

45 Jeff Daniels: How much did he pay to be interviewed?
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I didn't realize until this week that he's a full-scale idiot.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (TN0g+)

46 I listened to about a minute and a half of the Pali woman babbling about levels of oppression. All I could think of was Clevon Little hitting Slim Pickens in the head with a shovel . She's a perfect advertisement for why everyone can't stand the Palestinians.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (hIY2p)

I think she got the levels of oppression crap at CUNY or Boston College. At least real Palestinians just want to kill from the River to the Sea. That's honest.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (8avO+)

47 Anna Cramling is coming to bite off your face!
https://tinyurl.com/2sm7uecj

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (3kTgY)

48 Back to my movie. If you're tired of refighting the Civil War, there's always refighting the Cold War: "The Bedford Incident".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (kpS4V)

49 Bird hands.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (mT+6a)

50 >>>A Palestinian-American took her Black friends to the West Bank to volunteer.

>>>Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse.

I went to school with one of these Hitler youth. The level of hatred the woman had shocked the conscience.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (i24o9)

51 Its like that black woman who moved to Russia of all places because of perceived racism in America. Only to meet worse racists in Russia... derp
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (dfIr7)

Reminds me of a show set in 1920s Moscow where blacks were two of the five main characters, LOL.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (E2+Uh)

52 The UK needs to be invaded by the Romans again.

I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.
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One of the best episodes of South Park was when Cartman became interested in civil war re-enacting, and decided that the South should win.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (TN0g+)

53
She's a perfect advertisement for why everyone can't stand the Palestinians.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

France says it's going to recognize a Palestinian state. Wonder where it will be?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (63Dwl)

54 Reminds me of a show set in 1920s Moscow where blacks were two of the five main characters, LOL.

Hey there's probably 2 black guys in Russia! Well not in 1920

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (dfIr7)

55 Jeff Daniels - 😂😂 he's a retards retard.

Those Pyrsons of Kolor that the Palestinian broad took over to her homeland probably didn't learn the valuable lesson that they got in real time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (h05F7)

56 "Netflix will not be renewing their eye-popping $100 million deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle."

No-talent gold-digging bimbo who seduces and marries a British royal prince, expecting it will instantly elevate her to an A-list Hollywood celebrity, in reality ends-up an aging, no-talent, Hollywood laughingstock.

Yet the biggest loser is and will continue to be her husband, now a fallen royal prince.

Sad. Sadly and accurately predicted by everyone with an IQ over 60. Harry obviously has an IQ of 60 or lower.

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (aBgBM)

57 The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (HFcKg)

58 TexaDecaMoMe

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8uzBS)

59 I recall mohamad called blacks raisinheads.

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (jgmnb)

60 You can say black Fenelon.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (fV+MH)

lol, yes. Please do this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (i24o9)

61 Willowed, re Cambodia v. Thailand

Y’know, I don’t get it with these third-world countries and their border disputes.

The two countries sit down, a map of the border between them. One of them starts at the top of the map, and says, “OK, we really want this shitstain hellhole, but we’ll let you have this other shitstain hellhole in exchamge” And so on down the entire length of the map.

It’s simple horse trading. How the hell hard is that?
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (77rzZ)

62 The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (HFcKg)

they'll be killed along with the others if the Palis get their way. They aren't going to be doing genetic testing while massacring millions of people.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)

63 Palestinians are agitated Jordanians. That is all.

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (8uzBS)

64 'the FBI under President Biden and Director Wray withheld key information responsive to the Committee's oversight'

I'd love to see that smug piece of shit behind bars.
Same for the demented retard.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (3wi/L)

65 The NoVaMoMe has had 10 meet ups just not consecutively.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

66 The two countries sit down, a map of the border between them. One of them starts at the top of the map, and says, “OK, we really want this shitstain hellhole, but we’ll let you have this other shitstain hellhole in exchamge” And so on down the entire length of the map.

It’s simple horse trading. How the hell hard is that?
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (77rzZ)

Tell the redistricting commissions for every US state.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

67 "lol, yes. Please do this.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Black Fenelon.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (fV+MH)

68 France says it's going to recognize a Palestinian state. Wonder where it will be?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (63Dwl)

Calais. They finally kicked all the Nigerians out.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (D7oie)

69 She said "Palestine" and Palestinians" so emphatically and so often that the words stopped meaning anything at all.

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (oaPfe)

70 The NoVaMoMe has had 10 meet ups just not consecutively.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

Its the year that was at fault, not MoMe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

71 Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:34

I certainly could if I wanted to, yes. Thanks .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (2GCMq)

72 "lol, yes. Please do this.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Black Fenelon.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (fV+MH)

Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Black Betty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (i24o9)

73 Sure, just "accept the abuse, blackie" (and that word is softer than the Palestinians' lack of "diversity is our strength" supposed universal religion.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (vbXSk)

74 The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM

They have all been condemned by the Popular People's Front of Judea.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (e5NfL)

75 "I'm just an actor, what do I know ?"

You said it, brother...

Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (1l+t9)

76
The Democrat Party has endorsed Minneapolis Mayor Jonathan Frey's socialist Somali challenger.

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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (lCaJd)

77 Maybe I need to reassess my NFL fandom…. I’ve not liked the Ravens since the days of Ray Lewis… but I like the cut of Harbaugh’s jib

Apropos of nothing…. The Ravens are really the old Browns, the Indy Colts are really the old Baltimore Colts, the Titans are really the old Houston Oilers…. And the Washington Football Team is the Redskins… not this Commanders horseshit

Not to mention the Rams can’t decide whether they’re LA, Anaheim or St Louis… the Oakland Raiders are now Las Vegas and the Cardinals should be in St Louis (RIP Conrad Dobler) but they’re so bad who cares….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)

78 A brother of Jeff Daniels used to live near us. He didn't care for him.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

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They run a good lumber yard, always had great service there

Posted by: Arnold Ziffel at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8AONa)

79 ‘ I saw someone point out that Frey kneeled and cried for George Floyd. But he just wasn't woke enough for today's Democrat Communist Party.’

Frey is a NPC commie. But he’s also a Jew who supports (to some degree) Israel and doesn’t jump into ovens to placate Muslims. He’s running in a city with probably more Somalis and Muslims than Somalia itself. So of course he has to go.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aeiyZ)

80 The NoVaMoMe has had 10 meet ups just not consecutively.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

I was wondering about that.

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aBgBM)

81 >>The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.

Their usefullness is coming to an end. Orange Man is offering a better way.

Fighting over regional scraps pales in comparison to being a bigger fish on a bigger stage.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (viF8m)

82 Off pig sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8AONa)

83 Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Black Betty.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Wham ba lam.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)

84 Reminds me of a show set in 1920s Moscow where blacks were two of the five main characters, LOL.

Hey there's probably 2 black guys in Russia! Well not in 1920
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (dfIr7)

In the cold war and later they had a decent college for allies from Africa in Moscow.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

85 I'd only have to get 100 million dollars one time and I could retire.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (vFG9F)

86 > Current Mayor Jacob Frey

That human gleet is still in office?

Pro tip for Minnneapolis: the solution to the problems created by your communist mayor is not electing one who's even further to the left.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)

87
Back to my movie. If you're tired of refighting the Civil War, there's always refighting the Cold War: "The Bedford Incident".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (kpS4V)

__________

Good book. By Mark Raskovich. A bit different than the movie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (HZi96)

88 Work life balance is easy.

When I’m at work I work. When I’m not at work I don’t work.

Nice and balanced.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (Vvm2m)

89 Etiquette coaches for Gen Z job applicants, with an emphasis on workplace attire?

Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 06:50 PM (mADJX)

90 While the hamassholes are doing their bullshit Isreal is claiming sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)

91 Not to mention the Rams can’t decide whether they’re LA, Anaheim or St Louis… the Oakland Raiders are now Las Vegas and the Cardinals should be in St Louis (RIP Conrad Dobler) but they’re so bad who cares….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)

Cardinals were originally in Chicago. The Rams, in Cleveland.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)

92 I have somewhere else to be, and won't be here for the cafe thread, but just wanted to post this nice story about about a Vietnam War Marine who worked to make his dream come true:

https://tinyurl.com/bdcunn4c

Good night, all!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (2GCMq)

93 Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Black Betty.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (i24o9)

...

Ram a lam.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

94 Refighting the Civil War is so much more fun than refighting the Cold War.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (77rzZ)

95 Etiquette coaches for Gen Z job applicants, with an emphasis on workplace attire?

Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.
Posted by: Paco

If it were possible, we'd love to send in a few Parris Island DIs.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (cYBz/)

96 Pro tip for Minnneapolis: the solution to the problems created by your communist mayor is not electing one who's even further to the left.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)

probably didn't have much choice. GOP rarely runs anyone in these places.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)

97 Hope Netflix got at least 1/10th of their money from the Markle 's, that's a lot of grift.

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+qU29)

98 Goodnight, Fen. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (77rzZ)

99 It’s dumb when sportsball teams relocate and keep the old name. Yes I’m looking at you specifically Utah Jazz. And Memphis Grizzlies. And LA Lakers. And Calgary Flames.

Ok there’s a lot of examples.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)

100 Wham ba lam.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)

?

I thought it was ram a lam. He's got the hillbilly mush mouth thing going so I could be wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

101
As for John Harbaugh's answer, I honestly don't know if I'd have accepted an invitation to hang with Obama or Biden when they were in office. Maybe if there'd been an indication that other, interesting, people would be there I would.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (lCaJd)

102 > Reminds me of a show set in 1920s Moscow where blacks were two of the five main characters, LOL.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (E2+Uh)

I switched off a show purportedly about Vikings after the third or fourth black person showed up in a Viking village circa 700 AD, and not as slaves, either.

Yeah, those boys got around, but if there were any black people on their home turf they would've been thralls at best.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (qpyNK)

103 89 Etiquette coaches for Gen Z job applicants, with an emphasis on workplace attire?

Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.
Posted by: Paco

Me too! I will have them show up early to get the lay of the land, since it changes daily, in clean scrubs, focused, and ready to do some heavy duty healing.

And they will lock their frigging cell phones in the break room.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (mT+6a)

104 Refighting the Civil War is so much more fun than refighting the Cold War.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (77rzZ)

We'd have to find 2 proxy commenters to argue for us to be realistic.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)

105 "Good book. By Mark Raskovich."

Find it at archive.org. Illustrated by the author!

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (3kTgY)

106
The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.
Posted by: Ben Had

_________

PaliLuv is inversely proportional to the proximity of actual Palestinians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (HZi96)

107 I thought it was ram a lam. He's got the hillbilly mush mouth thing going so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

I go with Bramble Jam

Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)

108 Yeah, those boys got around, but if there were any black people on their home turf they would've been thralls at best.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (qpyNK)

They got most of their slaves from inland Russia and the Baltic states.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

109
"Team of rivals," Nicolle Wallace says all starry-eyed, showing what a professor of history she is.

Does she KNOW who's in Trump's cabinet?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (lCaJd)

110 I thought it was ram a lam. He's got the hillbilly mush mouth thing going so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

I thought it was bam ba lam.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (vlXMQ)

111
LA Lakers used to be the Minneapolis Lakers. And the Jazz were originally in Nawlins.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (HZi96)

112 Real men do not cross their legs like chicks.

Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (bknhw)

113 I thought it was ram a lam. He's got the hillbilly mush mouth thing going so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

I go with Bramble Jam
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)

Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam

according to Google lyrics.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

114 Jeff Daniels is one step away from making a career change to Unwatched Podcaster.

Or maybe he's already there, don't know.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (mADJX)

115 The NoVaMoMe has had 10 meet ups just not consecutively.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)

Its the year that was at fault, not MoMe.
Posted by: Oldcat

The Noodle Incident had far-ranging repercussions.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (77rzZ)

116 "Cardinals were originally in Chicago. The Rams, in Cleveland."

hmmm, I'm not seeing that in my one minute internet review.

"In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era's professional baseball championship series, a forerunner of the modern World Series.[7] In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, now the Chicago Cubs, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry.

In 1892, the Browns – also called the Perfectos – joined the National League. In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals (Two years later, an unrelated St. Louis Browns team joined the American League)."

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (vbXSk)

117 Cardinals were originally in Chicago. The Rams, in Cleveland.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)

And the Bears were originally in...

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E2+Uh)

118 If at some point you work for a company whose CEO wears a turtleneck, ratty jeans and sandals and has a sweat lodge for an office, then maybe you can be you, Dylyn. But for now you work for Consolidated Carpet Pads, Inc.

So pretty please, with sugar on top, answer the fuckin phone.

Posted by: The Wolf at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (wzAuc)

119 He's right. Per internet:
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam
Said, "It weren't none of mine," bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone blind, bam-ba-lam
I said, oh, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
[Instrumental Break]

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

120 @91 the Cardinals haven't won an NFL championship since 1947 when they played in Chicago. Franchise with longest championship draught

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (hIY2p)

121 Hadrian, for me there is no such thing as trans or palestinian and I refuse to give credence to either.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (HFcKg)

122 116

Football not baseball cardinals.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (Vvm2m)

123 Just seen on Insty: the latest seemingly solid leftist organization mysteriously having financial problems in the wake of the USAID shutdown is Media Matters. HA-ha!

Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (84SEz)

124 It’s dumb when sportsball teams relocate and keep the old name. Yes I’m looking at you specifically Utah Jazz. And Memphis Grizzlies. And LA Lakers. And Calgary Flames.

Ok there’s a lot of examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)

I won't have you slur the reputation of the famed Mormon Jazz community, sir. Fie on you!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)

125 I go with Bramble Jam
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)

Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam

according to Google lyrics.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

Yeah, but you can't sing that when you're making toast with bramble jam.

Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (1l+t9)

126 @117 Decatur

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (hIY2p)

127 I doubt that ‘Palestinian-American’ took any black friends to ‘Palestine’ or even went there herself. She seems like the typical moderately attractive THOT who is desperate for some angle — any angle — to go viral and become famous. She is sure that if she finds the right hook, she’ll be famous. Her current attempt is this cringy vid whining about the plight of violent terrorists, playing the Victim Olympics, and being the worst friend that ever friended.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (aeiyZ)

128 109
"Team of rivals," Nicolle Wallace says all starry-eyed, showing what a professor of history she is.

Does she KNOW who's in Trump's cabinet?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (lCaJd)

PBS always presented Doris Kearns Goodwin as a super historian but I think her real super power was exciting LBJ in bed

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (6RwsA)

129 Utah Canyons?

No.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (fV+MH)

130 Hadrian, for me there is no such thing as trans or palestinian and I refuse to give credence to either.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (HFcKg)

there used to be a Transjordan. it got better

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)

131
It's the Victilympics! First, let's hear from the Palestinians!

Palestinians: "We are being genocided by the Jews!"

Great, now let's hear from the Black Americans!

Palestinians (rushing the podium): "What, those slaves and monkeys?!?!"

*awkward silence*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (lCaJd)

132 >> If at some point you work for a company whose CEO wears a turtleneck, ratty jeans and sandals and has a sweat lodge for an office, then maybe you can be you, Dylyn. But for now you work for Consolidated Carpet Pads, Inc.

>>So pretty please, with sugar on top, answer the fuckin phone.

hahahahaha

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)

133 I assume there are gay people in Calgary, hence the Flames

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (hIY2p)

134
Etiquette coaches for Gen Z job applicants, with an emphasis on workplace attire?

_________

I have an old (1920s) edition of Emily Post's Etiquette. Very interesting and more timely than you'd think.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HZi96)

135 I almost forgot the San Diego Chargers… that great Air Coryell era and now they’re the plain old LA Chargers…. Can’t get used to it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (6RwsA)

136 Maybe a work ethic coach might be of more value.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (HFcKg)

137 "Football not baseball cardinals."

Oh, OK, my one minute reading of comments failed me again. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (vbXSk)

138 95 If it were possible, we'd love to send in a few Parris Island DIs. - Tonypete

"Where did you learn to fold a pocket handkerchief maggot!!!! Look at it !!! LOOK AT IT!!!!! Does that look "casual, but smart" to you?!?!

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (mADJX)

139 Yeah, but you can't sing that when you're making toast with bramble jam.
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (1l+t9)

Yes , when singing to music when a cat is around I turn every word in the song into the cat's name.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+)

140 "Ettiquette is fascist and patriarchy, shut up boomer"
--Gen A

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (dfIr7)

141 Utah Canyons?

No.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (fV+MH)

Utah Singers?
Utah Bees?
Utah Putty Tats?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (S/Y4j)

142 there used to be a Transjordan. it got better
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)

Transalpine Gaul. One of Caesar's provinces (before he rebelled.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

143 Utah Buttes?

That kinda works.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (fV+MH)

144
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (aeiyZ)
===============

Definite AOC vibes, plus she knows intersectionality better than you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCaJd)

145 Meanwhile, in Britain . . .

Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
Let me repeat that: A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women's bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.
You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 07:01 PM (L/fGl)

146 Utah Buttes?

That kinda works.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (fV+MH)

I like big buttes and I cannot lie! — Ross Geller

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6RwsA)

147 Utah Singers?
Utah Bees?
Utah Putty Tats?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (S/Y4j)

I taw a puddy tat, u tah puddy tats too?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (S/Y4j)

148 New York ended four years of litigation by Christian wedding photographer Emilee Carpenter by paying her $225,000 in legal fees and promising not to enforce several laws that infringe Carpenter's First Amendment rights, leaving her free to avoid photographing same-sex weddings.

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Where are the damages payments? She should be paid double that amount in damages.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (unUNN)

149 >>Maybe a work ethic coach might be of more value.

I'm right here.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)

150 124 I won't have you slur the reputation of the famed Mormon Jazz community, sir. Fie on you!! - Oldcat

I hear Brigham Young played a mean slap bass.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)

151 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 18h
Russia is said to be extremely worried about the potential for a large-scale conflict to breakout in Southeastern Asia, as clashes between Cambodia and Thailand continue into Friday, with Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stating, “The Russian side expresses concern over the escalation of conflict and calls on the parties to exercise restraint and establish a dialogue to resolve the Thai-Cambodian differences by peaceful means.” The Foreign Ministry has further told its citizens to “remain vigilant” in both Cambodia and Thailand.

Grok @grok 18h
Replying to @ktchandra2 @sentdefender
Russia's concern stems from its deepening ties with both nations—trade pacts with Thailand and military cooperation with Cambodia. Escalation could destabilize ASEAN, disrupt energy investments, and force Moscow to pick sides amid its Asian pivot. Dialogue is key to avert wider fallout.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (2yoRf)

152 Black Fenelon v Fenelon.

Who wins?

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (fV+MH)

153 Astros used to be The Colt 45s. That's a cool retro name.

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (8uzBS)

154 99 It’s dumb when sportsball teams relocate and keep the old name. Yes I’m looking at you specifically Utah Jazz. And Memphis Grizzlies. And LA Lakers. And Calgary Flames.

Ok there’s a lot of examples.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)

Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?

One team that in my opinion should absolutely re-name is the Arizona Diamondbacks. A poisonous viper is not a relatable team symbol/mascot. But there aren't many options in Arizona. Cactus Wrens? No. Wildcats? No. Already too many Wildcats in college ball, plus the U of A Wildcats. Sun Devil fans would revolt. Grand Canyons? Petrified Forests? Meteor Craters? Gila Monsters? The Superstitions would be catchy but is right out for a sports team.

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (aBgBM)

155
Athletics

Philadelphia, 1901-1954
Kansas City, 1955-1967
Oakland, 1968-2023
Nowhere, 2024-2025

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (HZi96)

156 to mention the Rams can’t decide whether they’re LA, Anaheim or St Louis… the Oakland Raiders are now Las Vegas and the Cardinals should be in St Louis (RIP Conrad Dobler) but they’re so bad who cares….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)

--

Hold my beer.

Posted by: The __________ Athletics at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (wzAuc)

157 So it is not "Tamerlane" then?
And the song is not a call back to the later parts of the Mongol conquest of the Middle East?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (D7oie)

158 there used to be a Transjordan. it got better
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)

Transalpine Gaul. One of Caesar's provinces (before he rebelled.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

also was a Cisalpine Gaul. No cis women tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

159 They want to be promoted after only a few months, treat the office like their bedroom, show up in sweats or skimpy office-siren fits, FaceTime friends from their desks, and ghost their managers.

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

I bet these are the children of the middle class parents who know that they don't have to work to buy what they want, mom and dad will pay for everything.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (unUNN)

160 @96

>>probably didn't have much choice. GOP rarely runs anyone in these places.

The general election was between three DFL candidates, no Republicans were on the ballot.

They use rank choice voting in the primaries and the three highest ranked move on to the general.

So, it's rigged against any Repbublican, so no ones wasting money running foe mayor of that sh*thole other than lunatics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (XV/Pl)

161 ***“I am not going to sit here and deny that anti blackness exists in every single part of the world but..."

Whoa, everything after the 'but' is always null.
"...anti blackness exists in every single part of the world..."

That's racist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (LWopF)

162 Patrice Lumumba U., Oldcat?

Haven't checked lately, but recently one of the russki news channels had a reasonably hawt young black woman as one of their anchors. Kristina Kuruma. I figure she's offspring of some commie Africans from the Glorious Days of Soviet Power, but not sure.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (U/Byj)

163 @135 the Chargers were originally based in Los Angeles

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (hIY2p)

164 50
'I went to school with one of these Hitler youth. The level of hatred the woman had shocked the conscience.'

Self-hatred in disguise. How could it be otherwise for a culture as failed as Palestine?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (3wi/L)

165 "Black Fenelon v Fenelon.

Who wins?
Posted by: eleven"

Fenelon the Gray

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

166 Jeff Daniels looks like he’s high as fuck

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (aeiyZ)

167 Maybe a work ethic coach might be of more value.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (HFcKg)

five sociopaths with cattle prods to roam the cubicle farm.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (D7oie)

168 Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?

=====

I think original 6 in NHL had a few

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (8AONa)

169 I assume there are gay people in Calgary, hence the Flames
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (hIY2p)
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No, that would be the Flamers. Or maybe Flaming.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

170 I've resolved to drink more water so it's booze, coffee, booze and water from here on out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XV/Pl)

171 five sociopaths with cattle prods to roam the cubicle farm.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (D7oie)
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Office linebacker.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

172 The Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city that had a pro team.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XvL8K)

173 Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
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The UK won't even go down fighting. They gave up their guns and don't have the will to use brooms and shovels to lie in wait.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (TN0g+)

174 Its the year that was at fault, not MoMe.
Posted by: Oldcat

The Noodle Incident had far-ranging repercussions.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (77rzZ)
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The trampoline bouncing made the timeline split into two different HQ universes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:09 PM (kpS4V)

175 "Fenelon the Gray
Posted by: fd"

escellent.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:09 PM (fV+MH)

176 >> Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.

He should be beaten with a shovel and lit on fire.
Instead, the British are inviting him in for tea.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 25, 2025 07:10 PM (pcNL9)

177 Would have loved to have had a listening device in the PDT/ Starmer meeting today.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:10 PM (HFcKg)

178
Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?

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The Boston Braves were the Bees for a while in the 1940s after Lou Perini bought the team.

The Philadelphia Phillies were the Blue Jays for a few years in the 1940s after Bob Carpenter bought the team.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (HZi96)

179 It’s dumb when sportsball teams relocate and keep the old name. Yes I’m looking at you specifically Utah Jazz. And Memphis Grizzlies. And LA Lakers. And Calgary Flames.

Ok there’s a lot of examples.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: L.A. Dodgers at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

180 Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (aBgBM)

The Louisville Colonels were renamed to the Cyclones after one destroyed the town.

I believe the Cubs got that name when the manager had a very young team.

the Indians got their name from a player who was reputedly at least Indian. Lou Sockalexis

The Yankees were originally the Highlanders.

Houston had a different name before the Astrodome ... Colt 45s?

many more examples exist

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+)

181
Who funded the trip for a bunch of Black Americans to Palestine? What I love is that it appears to have been utterly wasted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (lCaJd)

182 there used to be a Transjordan. it got better

I love all those old area names. The older the better, stuff like Dacia and Aquitania and Elam

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)

183 have any other pro teams renamed without moving?

see me at 153

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (8uzBS)

184 The UK won't even go down fighting. They gave up their guns and don't have the will to use brooms and shovels to lie in wait.
Posted by: Crusader

Even if they had the guns, I don't think what's left has the gonads.

Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (cPGH3)

185 @161

>>That's racist.

It's probably not pure anti-black sentiment, I'm sure they have choice epithets for plain old white people too.

Like, f**king white people or stupid f**king white people, I mean, no one has come up with a good epithet or slur for white people.

Which is odd.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (XV/Pl)

186 >> Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city that had a pro team.

Foxborough, MA might give it a run. And they often win.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)

187 Fenelon the Gray
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"I am Fenelon the White, and I come back to you now before this thread is willowed"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (kpS4V)

188 I am always surprised when people do no realize how racist 90% of the world is. Of COURSE palestinians though of blacks as slaves and apes, they grew up 100% for like 10 generations seeing blacks as exclusively being that. How would you not realize that??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)

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I bet she refrained from letting her guests know that it was Muslims who sold blacks into slavery into the new world.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (unUNN)

189 RE: the hamas chick and the oppression olympics: "some people came on this trip with a very limited understanding of the Palestinian people."

Oh, ha, well I think they understand the "Palestinian" people pretty well now, bitch.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (144I4)

190 I hear Brigham Young played a mean slap bass.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)
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He played as part of a sister-wife combo.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)

191 I had to read her name a couple of times before I realized it's Amal not Anal.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (kTd/k)

192 Chargers were originally in LA, moved here in .... 1960?

Fun fact: at the apex of his time at San Diego State, Coryell had seniors who couldn't break into the starting line-up for the Aztecs, starting with their teams in the NFL the next year. Incredible bench when it came to receivers.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (U/Byj)

193 166 Jeff Daniels looks like he’s high as fuck - Eric the Bladiest Blade

He has the clueless, open-faced look of the congenital dumbass.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (mADJX)

194 The Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city that had a pro team.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XvL8K)

Green Bay might qualify. Canton OH had a team. Early football had a lot of small market teams and lots of failed franchises.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

195 That ‘Palestinian’ THOT talks about Palestinians ‘of all races.’ She didn’t get the memo. She’s undermining the entire basis for the Palestinian claim to Israel: that they were a distinct ‘race’ of people who settled in Israel before the Jews. If they are nothing more than a hodgepodge of various peoples and races, then they have no claim on the land at all. She’s too dumb to see that.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (aeiyZ)

196
Self-hatred in disguise. How could it be otherwise for a culture as failed as Palestine?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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There is no culture in the Gaza. A culture is self supporting.
Gaza is an area of homeless street people who are maintained
by external agents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (LWopF)

197 I love all those old area names. The older the better, stuff like Dacia and Aquitania and Elam
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)
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Upper Volta. It's electric!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

198 Whiteys have "blue-eyed devil" or "cracker", or as the Chinese say, "big noses" ( for Russians, but also applied to your generic paleface).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)

199 I bet she refrained from letting her guests know that it was Muslims who sold blacks into slavery into the new world.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (unUNN)

well, most of their slave trade went into Arabia. New world slavery came via blacks mostly in west africa as far as I know.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

200 Upper Volta. It's electric!
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Ouagadougou!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (kpS4V)

201 That scrunt might want to ask why Sinwar had 3 billion dollars.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (HFcKg)

202
Early football had a lot of small market teams and lots of failed franchises.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

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Frankfort Yellow Jackets
Pottsville Maroons

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (HZi96)

203 Athletics supporters.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (xEkiA)

204 also was a Cisalpine Gaul. No cis women tho.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

Or they were all cis women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

205 Whiteys have "blue-eyed devil" or "cracker", or as the Chinese say, "big noses" ( for Russians, but also applied to your generic paleface).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)
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Long-hair round eye!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

206 @198

>>Whiteys have "blue-eyed devil" or "cracker", or as the Chinese say, "big noses" ( for Russians, but also applied to your generic paleface).

Those really don't land do they.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)

207 "Fenelon the Gray
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"I am Fenelon the White, and I come back to you now before this thread is willowed"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"

Forsooth.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (fV+MH)

208 >>>If they are nothing more than a hodgepodge of various peoples and races, then they have no claim on the land at all. She’s too dumb to see that.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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See the video of Yasser Arafat's caravan of Mercedes traveling from Egypt to the promised land?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (LWopF)

209 Somebody called me a honky once. So I called him one too.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

210 >>> 145 Meanwhile, in Britain . . .

Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
Let me repeat that: A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women's bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.
You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 07:01 PM (L/fGl)

When are we GTFO NATO?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (ULPxl)

211
Its like that black woman who moved to Russia of all places because of perceived racism in America. Only to meet worse racists in Russia... derp
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Another take on her: A Russian woman (who stated the caveat that Black woman didn't put everything on video) said the Black woman was acting like an obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant foreigner. Russians have a certain way of getting along with their neighbors, and it doesn't include you leaving your baby stroller and other shit in the hallway and blocking access and then being an obnoxious name-caller when you're asked to do something about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCaJd)

212 I hear Brigham Young played a mean slap bass.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)
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He played as part of a sister-wife combo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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*Golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

213 and Aquitania and Elam

Jack Elam?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (xEkiA)

214 Before they became the Atlanta Braves and after a stint in Milwaukee, they were the Boston Braves. Oldest franchise in MLB.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)

215 "Honky" has a nice retro feel at this point.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (kpS4V)

216 I love all those old area names. The older the better, stuff like Dacia and Aquitania and Elam
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)

You need to get Europa Universalis 4. If you play your game right you can become one of those old nations and play as them. The trite one is to save Byzantium, which is tough since the game starts about 9 years before the fall.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

217 I thought we're were gwaylo(sp?) To the Chinese. Like ghost people or something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

218 190 He played as part of a sister-wife combo. - Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I just looked it up, and apparently BY had 56 wives, so we might be talking about something more along the lines of Artie Shaw's orchestra when he had a strings section.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (mADJX)

219 @209

>>Somebody called me a honky once. So I called him one too.

But honkey is just funny, it has no power or juice.

It's definitely not a power word.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (XV/Pl)

220 Can't wait to see how that works out. These socialist mayor candidates remind me of following a swerving vehicle with an obviously drunk driver, wondering in a macabre fashion just what they are going to plow into.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dIske)

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And you follow at a safe distance to make sure the debris does not damage your car when the inevitable crash occurs.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (unUNN)

221 If masculinity is toxic, then women will no longer want to become men, and we can't have that.

Posted by: PG at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (gQbO4)

222 Green Bay might qualify. Canton OH had a team. Early football had a lot of small market teams and lots of failed franchises.
Posted by: Oldcat

That was the Canton Bulldogs way back in the early 1900's. Jim Thorpe played for them.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (cYBz/)

223 Helena Handbasket, we have to rebrand the MoMe as the Xth consecutive .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)

A Ten-fer!

Hi Ben Had. Well, I have a hotel room booked in Corsicana, so I am committed. In the coming month I will try to reach out to you via email.

I am driving and am willing, and actually hoping, someone on my route would like to ride along. Will have to figure out how to get that info out to the Horde.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (144I4)

224 Ouagadougou!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (kpS4V)
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The Burkinabes visiting Ramstein were puzzled that wine was not served with lunch. A senior NCO delicately explained that the troops don't work as hard after they drink.

The Burkinabes laughed, and said their men worked much harder after a bottle.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

225 186 >> Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city that had a pro team.

Foxborough, MA might give it a run. And they often win.

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Pats started out as the Boston Patriots. Kinda hilariously inept, they had no home stadium for most of their beginning -- played home games at Boston University, Fenway, and most hilariously Harvard. Harvard famously refused to let them use the Crimson locker rooms, they had to change in the nearby hotel they were staying at and show up on the bus fully padded.

Posted by: sharksauce at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wqxP9)

226 Does it mean I’m a sociopath if I’d volunteer to roam the cube farm with the cattle prod?

Posted by: Euro at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (eM/71)

227 The Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city

The Oorang Indians (NFL 1922-23) were from LaRue, Ohio.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (zdLoL)

228 Before they became the Atlanta Braves and after a stint in Milwaukee, they were the Boston Braves. Oldest franchise in MLB.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)

Cincinnati Redlegs are the oldest franchise, 1869. Cubs are the oldest team in the NL I believe. Reds jumped to the AA when beer and whiskey were banned by the NL.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (8avO+)

229 7 I thought we're were gwaylo(sp?) To the Chinese. Like ghost people or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
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Gweilo. Means ‘ghoul’ more than ‘ghost.’

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (aeiyZ)

230
Russians have a certain way of getting along with their neighbors, and it doesn't include you leaving your baby stroller and other shit in the hallway and blocking access and then being an obnoxious name-caller when you're asked to do something about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCaJd)

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Russians begin their conversations with, "Fuck your mother."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (HZi96)

231 See the bird hand gestures from that Paleo chick? The hand signal of toxic feminism.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)

232 I was called a cracker ass motherfucker by a black woman who was holding up the drive thru @ Mickey D's.
I laughed.

Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Ptnlt)

233 What you find almost everywhere in the world... is it is OK if 'I' am Racist...

Just you can't be. Thus... Palestinians, who are not a Race and are just a made up newly formed Tribe, get to be Racist...

Japanese... get to be Racist... and are.
Chinese? Hell, they are Racist against other brands of Chinese.

Right now? I get the Thais are being Racist against the Cambodians... and vice versa (happens when you are shootin at each other).

Black Americans, get to be Racist... Mexican Americans... get to be Racist...

In fact, the only people who are not ALLOWED to be Racist, or Sexist... are US Men.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

234 And the Bears were originally in..."

Decatur, Illinois.

The Decatur Stahleys.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (89Sog)

235 I just looked it up, and apparently BY had 56 wives, so we might be talking about something more along the lines of Artie Shaw's orchestra when he had a strings section.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (mADJX)
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"Briggie Young's Swinging Sister-Wife Jazz Orchestra"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

236 If you find a set of early 1960's encyclopedias at a estate sale, open the "P" volume. There will either be NO entry for "Palestine", or there will be a short blip about "Palestine" being a *region* within Israel (much like the Appalachians are a region, not a nation). If there's a short blip, it won't mention anything about "statehood" or other such nonsense because there was no sense of that at the time. "Statehood" is entirely a modern day myth.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)

237 You need to get Europa Universalis 4. If you play your game right you can become one of those old nations and play as them. The trite one is to save Byzantium, which is tough since the game starts about 9 years before the fall.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

Best is: play as Byzantium in Crusader Kings 2. Reconsider Rome and change to that civ. Then transfer game to Europe universality. I did it once. It was a bit boring because as Rome in EUIV you just could bitch slap anyone and do anything you wanted, but it was cool as hell, not going to lie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

238 230 what?! I resent that. And fuck your mother, too.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (wBaIH)

239 And the Bears were originally in...
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E2+Uh)

Decatur

Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dGB1t)

240 I didn't realize until this week that he's a full-scale idiot.
Posted by: Crusader

Dare I say, dumberer?

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (144I4)

241 Black people have a huge range of hilarious and goofy names for white people and every one of them makes people giggle instead of take offense. Cracker, honkey, ofay, whitey white devil etc we've all heard but they have like yogurt, pinky, mayo monkey, bleach boy, etc and none of them sting even a little bit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)

242 >>>and it doesn't include you leaving your baby stroller and other shit in the hallway and blocking access and then being an obnoxious name-caller when you're asked to do something about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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So, you expect her to 'act white'?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (LWopF)

243 The Lions relocated from Portsmouth, Ohio. I can't think of a smaller city

The Oorang Indians (NFL 1922-23) were from LaRue, Ohio.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (zdLoL)

676 peeps there now, it may have had past greatness.

The darndest thing is the side blurb on the right calls it a "human settlement". What the hell?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

244 I love all those old area names. The older the better, stuff like Dacia and Aquitania and Elam
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)

Don't forget Lower Slobbovia.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (mADJX)

245 haffhowershower, I so look forward to meeting you. I await your email.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (HFcKg)

246 231 See the bird hand gestures from that Paleo chick? The hand signal of toxic feminism.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)

Why is she not wearing a Burka? Why is she being ALLOWED to speak to Men at all?

Totes non Islamic...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:22 PM (mP0Kj)

247 >>Cincinnati Redlegs are the oldest franchise, 1869.

And disolved in 1870.

And then Harry Wright moved to Boston and started the franchise in Boston that has continued ever since and is now known as the Atlanta Braves.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)

248 Brigham "Ghengis" Young

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (fV+MH)

249
"There are more TV projects coming soon with both the duke and duchess," a source told Page Six. They also are set to sign a first-look deal with the streamer when their exclusive deal ends this year.

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Good lord, Netflix. Cancel one Harkle show then option another? Unless it's something about someone else altogether that they're executive-producing (unlikely, since their power is their SELVES), what else is there to build a show on? (I don't think a reality Show About Nothing would work.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (lCaJd)

250 111 LA Lakers used to be the Minneapolis Lakers. And the Jazz were originally in Nawlins.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (HZi96)

That was a joke in "Baseketball". The Lakers moved to LA where there are no lakes; the Jazz moved to Utah where music is banned.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (gKWVE)

251 ---
"Briggie Young's Swinging Sister-Wife Jazz Orchestra"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good thing they keep accurate records.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (LWopF)

252 Best is: play as Byzantium in Crusader Kings 2. Reconsider Rome and change to that civ. Then transfer game to Europe universality. I did it once. It was a bit boring because as Rome in EUIV you just could bitch slap anyone and do anything you wanted, but it was cool as hell, not going to lie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

I saw a thing where they transferred from CK to EU to Vicky to the WWII game to Sellaris. Madness. But fun to watch the maps.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

253 "none of them sting even a little bit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

Maybe it's because words can only hurt you if you let them.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

254 The NoVaMoMe has had 10 meet ups just not consecutively.
Posted by: Ben Had

Urban legend has it that NoVa means no go, so the people just didn't go.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (144I4)

255 676 peeps there now, it may have had past greatness.

The darndest thing is the side blurb on the right calls it a "human settlement". What the hell?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

Columbia CA, which was almost voted to be the Capital of Calif when it was formed... is not even a Town anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)

256 At my shop the individual office spaces are personalized with stuff like nic-nacs, photos, work awards, even surf boards (used on lunch break).

My space is devoid of anything personal. No work shit either if it isn't current. Other than an old school calendar the walls are bare. When I work I am looking at the work. When done I go home.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)

257 >>One team that in my opinion should absolutely re-name is the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The baseball field being a Diamond and the Team being in AZ...this name makes more sense than most.

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (oSEaw)

258 I like "Sons of Yakoob" best. N.o.I. lore is super kino. You kind of laugh but on the other hand, Fard and Elijah Muhammad could have been brilliant science fiction authors.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

259 Good lord, Netflix. Cancel one Harkle show then option another? Unless it's something about someone else altogether that they're executive-producing (unlikely, since their power is their SELVES), what else is there to build a show on? (I don't think a reality Show About Nothing would work.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (lCaJd)

At a guess this is just a bone thrown to their own staff projecting Lady Di energy onto Megan. They can wiggle out of it when they get tired.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (8avO+)

260 96 Pro tip for Minnneapolis: the solution to the problems created by your communist mayor is not electing one who's even further to the left.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)
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I always wondered what a "jug head" was. I heard the term and, of course, saw it in the Archie comics. But, I didn't get the reference until I saw a photo of the Somali Socialist in Minneapolis. The dude is a "jug head." I used to have a cookie jar that was a face with two giant ears sticking out serving as handles. The Somali Socialist could be the cookie jar's twin brother. He has a head like a jug with two convenient handles disguised as ears.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (dIske)

261 Black people have a huge range of hilarious and goofy names for white people and every one of them makes people giggle instead of take offense. Cracker, honkey, ofay, whitey white devil etc we've all heard but they have like yogurt, pinky, mayo monkey, bleach boy, etc and none of them sting even a little bit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)
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None of the derogatory names for blacks sting them either. It’s just another way for them to police speech of others and thus gain power over them. If ‘nigger’ was truly offensive to them, they wouldn’t have built an entire subculture around saying it.

Now, I’m not saying they like being called that, but nobody likes being called non-racial insults like ‘asshole’ either.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (aeiyZ)

262 >>The baseball field being a Diamond and the Team being in AZ...this name makes more sense than most.

I love that name. My football team is named after an airport.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)

263 Why would Page want to transition into a twink?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (/lPRQ)

264 Is Stellaris that good? I keep getting recommended the "Xenonion" on my youtube. Seems there's a fanbase.
I made it to the flagship twice in FTL but I keep getting spanked over there.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (gKWVE)

265 >>And then Harry Wright moved to Boston and started the franchise in Boston that has continued ever since and is now known as the Atlanta Braves.

Replaced many years later by the Boston Prolapsed Anuses

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (oSEaw)

266 241 Black people have a huge range of hilarious and goofy names for white people and every one of them makes people giggle instead of take offense. Cracker, honkey, ofay, whitey white devil etc we've all heard but they have like yogurt, pinky, mayo monkey, bleach boy, etc and none of them sting even a little bit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)

We have been trained from Birth, that we are not ALLOWED to be offended.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)

267 bluebell and Weasel picked up the mantle of the NoVaMoMe and made it a premiere event.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:27 PM (HFcKg)

268 My space is devoid of anything personal. No work shit either if it isn't current. Other than an old school calendar the walls are bare. When I work I am looking at the work. When done I go home.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)
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Mine was very minimalist until by then-boss got a bug up his ass about my being in the National Guard. After that, I hung every award, training certification or attaboy I could find, so that no matter where he looked, there it was.

It worked - he stopped coming in.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)

269 "But, I didn't get the reference until I saw a photo of the Somali Socialist in Minneapolis. "

Huh.

Posted by: The JEF at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

270 That "Palestinian-American" chick just needs a good rogering to get rid of all the toxins in her ideology.

Posted by: zombie at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (pMi6S)

271 speaking of prolapsed ani, the Rockies have already given up two runs to the Baltimore Glory Holes... in the first inning.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (gKWVE)

272 Calgary Flames.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Whoa now, let's not be too hasty.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (144I4)

273 Whiteys have "blue-eyed devil" or "cracker", or as the Chinese say, "big noses" ( for Russians, but also applied to your generic paleface).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)

My wife has a story that when she was 4 years old or so, some US GIs came by her orphanage on a hearts-and-minds do, to give out chocolate and dry milk. She said none of the children had ever seen Americans before, and she said they were ENORMOUS tall men wearing uniforms who had big pointy noses and all the girls in the ward started crying and hiding under blankets.

The woman in charge of the ward made every girl hold out her hand even from under the blanket, and accept the candy.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (D7oie)

274 >>Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)

Semen Demon has always been the funniest.

Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (oSEaw)

275 We have been trained from Birth, that we are not ALLOWED to be offended.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
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That and Gen X types grew up insulting everyone and everything around them. Snark is the language of my people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Young Limo Tint

Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (HaTLf)

277 @243 Larue was pretty small then, too. The team was named for the owner's Airedale kennel, and the dogs probably outnumbered the humans even then. Jim Thorpe played, and coached. All the players were actual Indians.

Like Waldo and Morral, they have an exit sign on 23, so people know the place exists.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (zdLoL)

278 Replaced many years later by the Boston Prolapsed Anuses
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (oSEaw)
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Which moved to San Francisco in the 1960s.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)

279 Stop crying about toxic masculinity or I'll give you some toxic masculinity to cry about.... from your hospital bed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (17s+e)

280 "Honky" has a nice retro feel at this point.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (kpS4V)

Gringo, redneck, yankee.

People wanted to call me Yanquí since they thought that was the polite term. I told them to call me "gringo" because I wasn't from New England.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (D7oie)

281
Why would Page want to transition into a twink?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

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She missed the twink phase and went straight to shrunken middle-aged guy. Although get this: the same Brits (some London school) who are encouraging schoolgirls to wear "Molest me" badges also picked "Elliot Page" as the Male Role Model of the Year.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (lCaJd)

282 There's plenty of diamond back rattlers in Arizona--why would they need to change the baseball team's name?

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (TN0g+)

283 One team that in my opinion should absolutely re-name is the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The baseball field being a Diamond and the Team being in AZ...this name makes more sense than most.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (oSEaw)
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That, plus diamondback rattlers are fearsome, dangerous creatures you don’t fuck with. See Grizzlies, Raptors, Lions, Jaguars, Panthers, Eagles, Predators, etc.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (aeiyZ)

284 Stellaris is not bad. Can be seriously fun, but... updates have a tendency to break saves. So if you spent a lot of time on a massive game and then a patch that changes game mechanics comes through- sorry, you've lost all of that.

It is pretty annoying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)

285 260 I always wondered what a "jug head" was. I heard the term and, of course, saw it in the Archie comics. But, I didn't get the reference until I saw a photo of the Somali Socialist in Minneapolis. - Orson

Oh, yeah, guy's got a head like a soup tureen.

Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (mADJX)

286 By the way, I am a proud BLUE EYED Devil.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (17s+e)

287 Deport that bitch to Gaza.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)

288 Russians begin their conversations with, "Fuck your mother."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (HZi96)

Establishing boundaries at the first contact is important.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (D7oie)

289 @RichardGrenell .

@realDonaldTrump on @BarackObama having Presidential immunity:

“It probably helps him a lot but not the people around him.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (LWopF)

290 The H&I channel replaced Walker Texas Ranger with NCIS and I can't figure out which one is dumber. At least Walker always kicked the bad guy's ass.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (vFG9F)

291
That "Palestinian-American" chick just needs a good rogering to get rid of all the toxins in her ideology.
Posted by: zombie at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (pMi6S)

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I think a good rogering would help a lot of AWFLs. Not that I'm volunteering.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (HZi96)

292 We have been trained from Birth, that we are not ALLOWED to be offended.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
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That and Gen X types grew up insulting everyone and everything around them. Snark is the language of my people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

Growing up, we thought it was funny when decade-younger siblings picked up on our talent, and flung them back at us.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (S/Y4j)

293 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (+qU29)

294 She missed the twink phase and went straight to shrunken middle-aged guy. Although get this: the same Brits (some London school) who are encouraging schoolgirls to wear "Molest me" badges also picked "Elliot Page" as the Male Role Model of the Year.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (lCaJd)
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She knew all about being molested.

Kind of crazy that with all the video, cell phones, etc. her blatant, obvious abuse went completely unremarked on. Her descent into madness was hailed as transformative.

Was she too scared to resist, too broken, or paid off? Maybe all three.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)

295 Well, I dunno man, my mom is widowed and kinda lonely... I can get her your number?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (gKWVE)

296 Is Stellaris that good? I keep getting recommended the "Xenonion" on my youtube. Seems there's a fanbase.
I made it to the flagship twice in FTL but I keep getting spanked over there.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (gKWVE)

I played it for a while some years back. It is interesting at first as you explore and build colonies and habitats. The midgame tends to get dominated by big random events that can raise havoc galactically. After that it tends to end as you either have won everything or lost. Once at the end of the tech tree and the events stop you kinda have nothing to do. There are too few revolts to keep it interesting. That was quite a while ago they may have changed a lot since then. The space battles are very pretty. When I broke an arm I had to put that aside pretty much and never picked it up since.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)

297
That "Palestinian-American" chick just needs a good rogering to get rid of all the toxins in her ideology.
Posted by: zombie

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What's funny is she did get a good rogering by those Black American Victilympic athletes and she's still angrily picking her way through the intersections within intersections upon intersections.

I can't imagine what would drive out the toxins.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (lCaJd)

298 272 Calgary Flames.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Whoa now, let's not be too hasty.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (144I4)

Flames makes sense for a team from Atlanta (thanks, Billy T. Sherman) but not one from Clagary. Same as Lakers is a good Minnesota name, but makes no sense in LA. And who in their right mind associates Utah and Jazz? Dodgers (people dodging street cars in Brooklyn) isn't exactly a Los Angeles activity either.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (dGB1t)

299 I have a name if someone calls me that sets me off. No I'm not going to tell you savages.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (VofaG)

300 That and Gen X types grew up insulting everyone and everything around them. Snark is the language of my people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

Growing up, we thought it was funny when decade-younger siblings picked up on our talent, and flung them back at us.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (S/Y4j)
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BURN!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:36 PM (17s+e)

301 My space is devoid of anything personal. No work shit either if it isn't current. Other than an old school calendar the walls are bare. When I work I am looking at the work. When done I go home.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)

I had a couple pictures, and a framed commendation. I was allowed to have a personal lamp in my cubical, so I bought a floor lamp

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:36 PM (D7oie)

302 232 I was called a cracker ass motherfucker by a black woman who was holding up the drive thru @ Mickey D's.
I laughed.
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Ptnlt)
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Now the Cracker Ass MoFos is a team name I can get behind.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)

303 Semen Demon has always been the funniest.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (oSEaw)

I dated her

Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:38 PM (D7oie)

304 The woman in charge of the ward made every girl hold out her hand even from under the blanket, and accept the candy.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (D7oie)

When I was a lad there was a bunch of National Guard peeps at a root beer stand and one of them took off a pin from his hat/uni and put it on my cub scout cap. It had the round bit on the bottom so he might have had a decent rank/experience.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (8avO+)

305 When I was a kid, I once spent a few days in the home of a Druze IDF officer. A colonel or general; I can't remember which.

It was the first time I understood the difference between "rich" and "wealthy." The guy was clearly loaded. But I'm from America, so I've seen people who have a lot more money than that guy - even in the outskirts of Golden, CO.

It was the way he and his children lived, and their attitudes, and their bearing. Aristocratic. One of the things I noticed the most was that he had a staff - drivers, bodyguards, etc. But no household staff. The generations of his family's women cooked (amazingly well) and cleaned. And they ate after the males - even us young boys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (BI5O2)

306 The H&I channel replaced Walker Texas Ranger with NCIS and I can't figure out which one is dumber. At least Walker always kicked the bad guy's ass.
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Mark Harmon's character on NCIS was well-written. The surrounding cast was uneven, depending upon which "era" you are watching. The supporting cast probably peaked before that one guy left for his own show.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (TN0g+)

307 We have been trained from Birth, that we are not ALLOWED to be offended.

That seems a hell of a lot more healthy and beneficial than being trained to continually take offense and feel belittled

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (dfIr7)

308 258
'I like "Sons of Yakoob" best. N.o.I. lore is super kino. You kind of laugh but ...'

There's murderous hatred behind this lunacy. Does that take away any of the humor?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (3wi/L)

309
Jeff Daniels is a smug and condescending prick.

As a Yooper, I hope him in especial contempt because he created an execrable film, "Escanaba in Da Moonlight", wherein he showed his high regard for his fellow Michiganders who live in the U.P. by portraying us as backwoods bumpkins.

Fuck you, Daniels, you troll.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 25, 2025 07:46 PM (Tv15w)

310
Hey, Pali chick -- you and your buddies fronting as humans, who style yourselves "Palestinians", are the rabid dogs of the human race. The shits the rest of us have to give for you and your hierarchy of oppression are gone for good. Squabble and caterwaul among yourselves as much as you want -- we don't give a shit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 25, 2025 07:59 PM (Tv15w)

311 You know, in the shitty show, the Umbrella Academy, with Elliot Page...they portrayed Page as...um...attractive to women. a bit of a lady killer.

It made beer come out my nose. It was just so...far fetched.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 25, 2025 08:30 PM (D1vbu)

312 She's not Palestinian American. She's Palestinian, she invokes it herself, send her the fuck back, via Alligator Alcatraz, with her black racist friends that she is insulting as her CO's.

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