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March 09, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (3-9-2014)
— Maetenloch

Reading This Salon Article on White Belly Dancers Will Make You Measurably Dumber. Also, Possibly Racist.

Because Salon writer, Randa Jarrar, thinks it's horrible and racist that non-Arab women dare to belly dance as she declares in this article:

Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation.

...Women I have confronted about this have said, "But I have been dancing for 15 years! This is something I have built a huge community on." These women are more interested in their investment in belly dancing than in questioning and examining how their appropriation of the art causes others harm. To them, I can only say, I'm sure there are people who have been unwittingly racist for 15 years. It's not too late. Find another form of self-expression. Make sure you're not appropriating someone else's.

Apparently 'appropriation' is the latest crime-du-jour on the left which seems to be the act of engaging in an art form originally developed by someone who doesn't look like you. Which is to say your skin hue and ethnic background determine which artistic genres you are allowed to engage in. A more perfect definition of artistic racism would be hard to come up with. But then the Left is ever creative with defining their racism away and discovering new race crimes that you're guilty of.

Which leads to this: HuffPo Writer: Republicans Can Never Not Be Racist

And this: Mexicans Almost as Racist as Republicans

Obama Is Against Presidential Vacations

Essentially the bargain that any president, I think, strikes with the American people is: "you give me this office and in turn my fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone. I am giving myself to you." And the American people should have no patience for whatever is going through your head because you've got a job to do.

...And so how I think about it is that you don't make that decision unless you are prepared to make that sacrifice, that trade off, that bargain and I think that what's difficult and important for somebody like myself who has a wonderful forbearing wife and two gorgeous young children is that they end up having to make some of those sacrifices with you," he continued. "And that is a profound decision that you don't make lightly.

Well the 2006 Senator Obama that is. Meanwhile President Obama is on his third vacation of the year. Plus it's also always wrong to reject a qualified presidential appointment...unless you're Senator Obama.

Has there ever been a president with such an amazing hypocritical gap between his pre-election rhetoric and his post-election behavior as this one?

Treating NOT X Just Like X

So NYC has banned the indoor use of e-cigarettes and LA is considering banning them from public areas and businesses despite the fact that they consist of only water vapor, flavoring and nicotine and pose no known threat to anyone.

And the FDA says they will consider e-cigs as a tobacco products - even though they contain no tobacco.

The Food and Drug Administration has said that it intends to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way that it regulates tobacco products, but the devices actually don't contain tobacco-only nicotine.

Why? Mostly likely a combination of not really understanding what e-cigs are, the reflexive desire to ban things they don't like, and the hunger for more taxes.

But at least e-cigs don't pose the grave deadly threat that third-hand smoke does.

Ukraine Is Not Game!

"The Ukraine is WEAK, it's feeble, I think it's time to put a hurt on the Ukraine"

Redistributing Daylight

Advocates such as Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey, who co-sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives, said the plan is about more than just saving energy. Markey actually issued a press statement proclaiming: "In addition to the benefits of energy saving, less crime, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity, daylight saving just brings a smile to everybody's faces." I'm not buying it.

Redistributing daylight is the kind of zero-sum game that underlies the liberals' vision of the world. The hour of daylight in the evening comes at the expense of the morning. At least it is in fact only a zero-sum game.

Worst Daughter in the US?

So Rachel Canning, 18, of Oak Park, NJ didn't like living under her parents' rules and ran away to live at her best friend's house. And now she's suing her parents for child support, medical bills, college expenses and legal fees.

It's a long involved story but my conclusions thus far are that 1) she's an extremely selfish and spoiled girl, 2) her parents were possibly too lenient but seem like normal loving parents, and 3) there's something very odd about the best friend's wealthy attorney dad bankrolling her lawsuit. So far the judge doesn't seem to be buying her arguments.

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1 Hi

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:12 PM (HVff2)

2 It's so cool to hate on white people, especially if you're white! And secretly think other races are inferior to you. I'm looking at you, leftists.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:14 PM (2RQoy)

3 so they raised a spoiled brat, and now they're surprised she's suing them?

self-inflicted wound...

sympathy = 0

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 09, 2014 06:14 PM (q+fqH)

4 Heyo!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 09, 2014 06:14 PM (m9V0o)

5 Oh. I didn't see the name before. It's not white sounding. Anyway. Everybody, let's get our white hating on!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:15 PM (2RQoy)

6 By using a computer, air conditioning and driving a car she's appropriating MY culture!!!

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 06:16 PM (b7yum)

7 Randall Jarrar is writing in English, which is appropriation of my culture.

Posted by: --- at March 09, 2014 06:16 PM (wYtne)

8 Greetings, Horde.

Posted by: joncelli at March 09, 2014 06:16 PM (/AYWV)

9 Can we talk about True Detective or is spoilymcspoil?

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 06:17 PM (bCEmE)

10 Hi y'all!

Posted by: Alana at March 09, 2014 06:17 PM (a1qwK)

11 haven't commented in a couple of months bc the ont is past my bedtime. zero-five-hundred is offensively early and tonight DST is keeping me up. at least you all are here to keep company. thank you for that.

Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 09, 2014 06:17 PM (y6KdO)

12 7 The celphone is an artifact of MY people- quit using it

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 06:17 PM (b7yum)

13 >>how their appropriation of the art causes others harm Did she expound on this? I'm almost interested to see how this harm is caused. However I will not click on the link lest I lose 5 IQ points or more permanently.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:17 PM (2RQoy)

14 My 3 daughters in their 20s think the NJ girl is selfish. Whew glad they don't think like her. Oh y-not, NDH & CBD nice job today on the threads. Sorry if I missed anyone.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:18 PM (HVff2)

15 12 Likewise the cd's and mp3's she uses to accompany her dervishes

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 06:18 PM (b7yum)

16 Well I'm just waiting until Yo Yo Ma and Eminem are driven out of decent society because of their racism.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 06:18 PM (XkotV)

17 I wonder if all of us in other countries have to give up wearing jeans and Western clothes so as not to offend you white folks.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:18 PM (2RQoy)

18 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5275

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2014 06:19 PM (AymDN)

19 Google Randa Jarrar and it'll all become clear.

Posted by: fb at March 09, 2014 06:20 PM (qnMOL)

20 Climate Appropriation Change.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:20 PM (hn5v5)

21 The ending of True Detective sucked ass outside of 2 seconds which frankly ruined the whole show for me

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:20 PM (bStrg)

22 And the lawyer for the spoiled brat is probably trying to get into her pants.

Posted by: --- at March 09, 2014 06:20 PM (4rEJ/)

23 I picked cotton as a kid. I denounce myself as..., well..., as something.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:21 PM (aDwsi)

24 Evening! That belly dance story still makes me laugh. My wife was wondering when she's going to put her burka back on. Hee hee!

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:21 PM (doBIb)

25 Here is the thing, white women did belly dance because our oh so benevolent Muslim overlords used to kidnap or buy white women to be part of their harems where they were taught to dance among other things. So that woman is beyond stupid. The Muslims themselves forced women to "appropriate" belly dancing. Stupid ficking bint.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 06:21 PM (RZ8pf)

26 Evening all. Happy to have missed the wall of shame.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:21 PM (ojnk6)

27 The Amazing Race is amazingly racist. Thanks for clearing that up Randa-bear!

Posted by: Long Haul Plucker at March 09, 2014 06:21 PM (ufVHp)

28 21 The ending of True Detective sucked ass outside of 2 seconds which frankly ruined the whole show for me Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 10:20 PM (bStrg) Just a guess: White Christian people are racists.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:22 PM (doBIb)

29 so stop appropriating English, the alphabet, penicillin, almost all vaccines, etc etc etc some people are born angry, and it never goes away, so they have to find a cause to blame their anger on otherwise, they would have to take ownership of being perpetually miserable scrunts in deep need of a face punching I sound angry

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:22 PM (zOTsN)

30 If that Salon article is correct, then Shoji Tobuchi has absolutely no business playing country music in his show: http://tinyurl.com/l9d7wtd

Posted by: Thrawn at March 09, 2014 06:22 PM (WlWt+)

31 CAT scanners are an artifact of white culture. Brown people should refrain from their use. Because, authenticity and shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (jpUgO)

32 23 I picked cotton as a kid. I denounce myself as..., well..., as something. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 10:21 PM (aDwsi) Next you are going to tell us you were born a poor black child.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (HVff2)

33 >>>Everybody, let's get our white hating on! Right on! *checks skin*. Wait, do what now?

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (eQJwb)

34 A co-worker of mine has a Japanese wife and she is a belly dancer. Is she a racist? We are all human beings and we all can lay claim to all human inventions. Only tyrants and the insane want to divide us up and stamps our foreheads before they throw us into our assigned bins.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (AO9UG)

35 I see Ms Jarrar is Palestinian-American. She should kick herself out of the country as she is appropriating the land of Native Americans.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (2RQoy)

36 arrrrrrrrrgh. Made the damn list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (aDwsi)

37 We are all racists now.

Posted by: Newsweek at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (Aif/5)

38 My stepsons would say about Rachel Canning: "I would hit that."

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:23 PM (doBIb)

39 pretty sure shaking the booty to attract the opposite sex was done around camp fires since time began

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:24 PM (zOTsN)

40 Randall Jarrar appropriated my sandwich!

Posted by: --- at March 09, 2014 06:24 PM (JjYAd)

41 I was off the list for two weeks, and now BAM poop

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:24 PM (zOTsN)

42 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 10:23 PM (doBIb) As long as the bitch kept her mouth shut, I'd bang her on a yacht

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:24 PM (bStrg)

43 Evening all. Happy to have missed the wall of shame. Posted by: ManWithNoParty -------------- I was counting on you man. Sorely disappointed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:25 PM (aDwsi)

44 19 Google Randa Jarrar and it'll all become clear. Posted by: fb at March 09, 2014 10:20 PM (qnMOL) Google Antonio Gramsci and a lot of things become clear.

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (LHgfw)

45 43 Sorry to help put you on it by.....not posting.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (ojnk6)

46 22 And the lawyer for the spoiled brat is probably trying to get into her pants. Posted by: --- at March 09, 2014 10:20 PM (4rEJ/) Well, who wouldn't?

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (sdi6R)

47 The SCOAMF is a gutless pussy. And the FDA says they will consider e-cigs as a tobacco products - even though they contain no tobacco. The Food and Drug Administration has said that it intends to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way that it regulates tobacco products, but the devices actually don't contain tobacco-only nicotine. Stupid meddling paternalistic assholes.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (UAMVq)

48
Randa Jarrar

Pic: http://tinyurl.com/jwg75yc

Nuff said.

Although, in her case, I believe the proper term is bellies dance. Plural.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (kdS6q)

49 As long as the bitch kept her mouth shut, I'd bang her on a yacht Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 10:24 PM (bStrg) The funny thing about my stepsons is that none of them have any game. They'd have no chance at someone like Ms. Canning. At best, they'd end up broke and emotionally abused by her.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (doBIb)

50 In addition to the benefits of energy saving, less crime, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity, daylight saving just brings a smile to everybody's faces. Purported energy savings are nothing but bogus. IIRC, a study conducted about a decade ago established that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:26 PM (HsTG8)

51 A co-worker of mine has a Japanese wife and she is a belly dancer. Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:23 PM (AO9UG) Video?

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 06:27 PM (LHgfw)

52 But Randa Jarrar told me that Palestinians like her are starving!!!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:27 PM (hn5v5)

53 I'm Irish. You jerks are constantly appropriating and warping my culture. Then there are all the negative cultural stereotypes.' Given the history of the Irish in this country it is appalling that this is allowed to stand. Next person I see drinking green beer is getting punched. Bam.

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 06:27 PM (hFL/3)

54 39 pretty sure shaking the booty to attract the opposite sex was done around camp fires since time began Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 10:24 PM (zOTsN) Sexist

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:27 PM (HVff2)

55 Apparently 'appropriation' is the latest crime-du-jour on the left which seems to be the act of engaging in an art form originally developed by someone who doesn't look like you. So is it "appropriation" if I play the knockout game?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:27 PM (UAMVq)

56 ...Which is to say your skin hue and ethnic background determine which artistic genres you are allowed to engage in... Does this mean I can no longer play the harmonica? I has a sad. g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 06:28 PM (JMmQ9)

57 Okay, since I didn't watch True Detective: did my prediction come true? Was the killer a Rich White Christian Dude?

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 06:28 PM (Q+Jdg)

58 One of the comments in the original Salon article: "I sure hope no middle eastern women are taking ballet, because that's ours!"

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:28 PM (doBIb)

59 Rachel Canning I'd hit it.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:28 PM (UAMVq)

60 47 This pisses me off to no end asmI'm using them right now to quite a lifetime smoking habit. The aholes can not even articulate a reason for the ban. Because feelings.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:28 PM (ojnk6)

61 Republicans and conservatives are racist. That is a truism according to the Media. Minorities think it to be true. Dumb people are certain of wrong things.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (3qZbZ)

62 Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 10:26 PM (LHgfw)

That's the "cultural institutions are a tool of the Man" dude....right?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (QFxY5)

63 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 10:26 PM (doBIb) There have been a few girls I didn't mind abusing me.....with a paddle

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (bStrg)

64 Belly dancing actually originated in Ireland. Irish sailors passed the dance form to Arab folks during their travels. Alcohol may have been involved.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (AO9UG)

65 I like Jersey Girl..... She's got spunk.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (jucos)

66 ""It's not too late. Find another form of self-expression. Make sure you're not appropriating someone else's.""

Easy sister, at least the white women let you keep your exclusive 4 seasons hag in a bag wardrobe collection.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (FMbng)

67 3) there's something very odd about the best friend's wealthy attorney dad bankrolling her lawsuit There will be pics, prurient ones. Count on it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (HsTG8)

68 34 A co-worker of mine has a Japanese wife and she is a belly dancer. You know the rule...

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (UAMVq)

69 pretty sure shaking the booty to attract the opposite sex was done around camp fires since time began Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 10:24 PM (zOTsN) Sexist Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian we all got a booty

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (zOTsN)

70 Randa Jarrar has a very intense ghetto mentality. It won't allow borrowing the best or most attractive from other cultures; it won't allow a cultural melting pot. Wonder why Salon thinks that that's a good thing?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I amn't at March 09, 2014 06:29 PM (ab+jQ)

71 Black women bleaching hair blonde = racist

Posted by: tmitsss at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (Pa9vP)

72 Appropriation???

Sure, let's claim that about basketball.

And I want the damn peach baskets put back!!!

Posted by: Dr. James Naismith at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (TGvyc)

73 57 Okay, since I didn't watch True Detective: did my prediction come true? Was the killer a Rich White Christian Dude? Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (Q+Jdg) He was white.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (bCEmE)

74 59 Rachel Canning I'd hit it. Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (UAMVq) She does have that, "I will fuck you hard like a crazy person" look about her.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (doBIb)

75 Hello Horde! Spring officially starts in 11 days. I hope we have early spring here like we did in 2012. Oil bills are not good for me.

Posted by: Carol at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (z4WKX)

76 Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (Q+Jdg) Really didn't tie much of anything but no, it wasn't a rich Christian dude

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (bStrg)

77 All you white people could get over your racism, if you would just adopt a carbon tax and make a strong national policy about renewable energy. That's why the people in the third world hate you. And it's true because that's what they told me. They wouldn't lie to ME, would they?

Posted by: Thomas Friedman at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (+1T7c)

78 I like DST because I am not a morning person and I enjoy more daylight in the evening.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:30 PM (2RQoy)

79 "Belly dancing actually originated in Ireland. " See. SEE! Stop appropriating my culture you monsters.

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (hFL/3)

80 So if whites embrace other cultures they're racity-mcracists and if they don't but instead celebrate and embrace only white culture, they're extra-super-double-racity-mcracists. Gotcha.

I'm going to be over here not giving a shit.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (lr3d7)

81 I am Greek. You guys keep appropriating my yummy yummy food. Stop it.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (RZ8pf)

82 I am gobsmacked. Rich White Christian dudes are ALWAYS the villain. Astounding! You realize this means the producers of True Detective are racists, right?

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (Q+Jdg)

83 Allowing Women Equal rights, and to WRITE things... is purely a Western Cultural thing... Ergo... this bint needs to shut her yap, put on a Burkha, and 'celebrate' her culture...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (84gbM)

84 If white women can't belly dance, does this mean that moonbats will have to stop forming drum circles and playing "world music" now? Or is that okay since they are down with the struggle or something?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (HxSXm)

85 51 A co-worker of mine has a Japanese wife and she is a belly dancer. Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:23 PM (AO9UG) Video? Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 10:27 PM (LHgfw) He has them on his phone and I've seen them but for some odd reason he refuses to send them to me.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (AO9UG)

86 81 I am Greek. You guys keep appropriating my yummy yummy food. Stop it. Lamb gyros! Mmmmmmm....

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:31 PM (doBIb)

87 no body appropriates Norwegian food well.... butter cookies give em back

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (zOTsN)

88 Randa Jarrar the HuttÂ… Â…got it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (HsTG8)

89 Mmm. It's like I've got a heating pad for my butt!

Posted by: Mike Hammer’s wife’s dog at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (hn5v5)

90 Sup Nerds

Posted by: Zakn at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (zyaZ1)

91 SCOAMF... stop appropriating golf, and get your ass back to your job.

Posted by: The Scotts at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (TGvyc)

92 63 - Leon Redbone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOjrl9Qxzg

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (aDwsi)

93 She does have that, "I will fuck you hard like a crazy person" look about her.
Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 10:30 PM (doBIb)

Give her ten years and she'll be desperately poking holes in her latest boyfriend's condoms.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (lr3d7)

94 I would like to give her her cultures terrorism back

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (zOTsN)

95 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 10:26 PM (kdS6q)

How about a damned warning next time?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2014 06:32 PM (QFxY5)

96 'Lo, 'rons....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (T1005)

97
pretty sure shaking the booty to attract the opposite sex was done around camp fires since time began
Posted by: thunderb

Case in point:

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte

http://youtu.be/JNS42Na2mpc

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (kdS6q)

98 Let's just call it All American Vajayjay Dancing.

Posted by: CMU VET at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (ejB0r)

99 I like Greek. Not the food though.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (Aif/5)

100 Oh, Drew Carey. Got it. I had to puzzle on that one for a few...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (JMmQ9)

101 That's the "cultural institutions are a tool of the Man" dude....right? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2014 10:29 PM (QFxY5) Something like that. You are oppressed by the bourgeois because you are _____ minority. Its an add-on to Marxism that the American left is riding hard because, as Gramsci figured out, its the easiest way to seduce people into communism. Everyone is some type of minority.

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 06:33 PM (LHgfw)

102 87 no body appropriates Norwegian food well.... butter cookies give em back Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 10:32 PM (zOTsN) Ya der you can keep your red devil lye soaked fish

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:34 PM (HVff2)

103 can we all agree twerking should be given away

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:34 PM (zOTsN)

104 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 06:34 PM (e8kgV)

105 Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 10:32 PM (lr3d7) That's why when it comes to crazy bitches, you make them swallow or you bust a nut on their tramp stamp

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:34 PM (bStrg)

106 Anti-climatic is how I would describe the finale.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 09, 2014 06:35 PM (IN7k+)

107 Obama takes a vacation while the Ukraine and Crimea burn. Bush took vacations during the Iraq War, Obama and his gang claim in justification.

Is there anything that Obama & Co. will not blame on Bush?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I amn't at March 09, 2014 06:35 PM (ab+jQ)

108 89 Mmm. It's like I've got a heating pad for my butt! ------------------------- Andy - Been saving that one all day, eh?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:35 PM (aDwsi)

109 I don't know what is wrong with you racist people. It's been really cold in Washington DC and our dear young president deserves a break. He has to go down to Florida to thaw out and recuperate so that he can be in good shape to fight ~~global warming~~ climate change.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:35 PM (2RQoy)

110 I liked the finale. Not predictable

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:35 PM (zOTsN)

111 #60

The real reason is abundantly clear to me. E-cigs aren't taxed like tobacco products and both LA and NYC and very addicted to those tax revenues.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2014 06:36 PM (bPxS6)

112 a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Posted by: Islamic ------------------- I'll make the popcorn...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:36 PM (aDwsi)

113 104 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Advantage: muslim barber. Why? Nobody wants terrorism happening.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (doBIb)

114 Daylight Stupid Time is stupid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (7FaLu)

115 Daily Mail had an (unintentionally?) hilarious headline about the Obama vacation. "Smiling Obamas Return From Vacation" or something like that. The picture was Michelle with her permascowl.

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (hFL/3)

116 "Belly dancing actually originated in Ireland.

Irish sailors passed the dance form to Arab folks during their travels.

Alcohol may have been involved."

And the sheep were nervous...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (gaOtJ)

117 If Randa Jarrar took up belly dancing OSHA would require a minimum ten foot safety perimeter lest any bystander be slapped silly by a flailing flap of fat.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (bPxS6)

118 104 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV) They're both from "oppressed" groups. This should be interesting. Hopefully a few Tribunal heads will explode from the cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (UAMVq)

119 Look, as a filthy scandi, all y'all are welcome to misappropriate as much lutefisk as you wantÂ… Â…really, I insist on it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:37 PM (HsTG8)

120 Regarding True Detective...SPOILER ALERT...it actually ended with the killer being an inbred psycho. And I'm not sure, but Rust seems to have found God or faith in an afterlife. So I think it was more of a dick in the eye to HBO's liberal hipster demographic.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:38 PM (k8m83)

121 Better to appropriate Greek food than their current economic system, which seems entirely based on the "generosity" of German taxpayers.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 09, 2014 06:38 PM (WlWt+)

122 re: the e-cig thing Did a post on the whole vaping vs smoking deal about a year ago; hook is how insurance companies classify e-cig use ("vaping"). Interesting stuff (IMHO): Â http://preview.tinyurl.com/dxqc9d6 Â Working on a follow-up post as regards The ObamaTax and tobacco use. Turning out to be more complicated than one might think.

Posted by: speedster1 at March 09, 2014 06:38 PM (noB3y)

123 Re: the e-cig story. It's Science™!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 06:38 PM (2RQoy)

124 hipsters love dick in the eye watch girls

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:38 PM (zOTsN)

125 So, I guess since banjos originated in Africa, more or less, it would be appropriate leftist wisdom for all white banjo players everywhere to start playing the oboe.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (4Mv1T)

126 http://tinyurl.com/lttabpv Hot Chick in AmerInd Headdress equals cultural appropriation http://tinyurl.com/ly3vrx9

Posted by: tmitsss at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (Pa9vP)

127 104 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV) She's not fond of her head, I take it. She's either very very brave or very very stupid. Maybe both.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (sdi6R)

128 111 Totally agreed, but I still can't find in a F D or A in the description of an ecig that would allow the FDA to regulate them. Quaint, old fashioned, I know.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (ojnk6)

129 I like DST because I am not a morning person and I enjoy more daylight in the evening. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 10:30 PM Me, too. Tomorrow morning is gonna suck. Statistically speaking, the Monday morning commute after the start of DST is the most dangerous time to be on the roads. Way worse than New Years Eve, St.Patrick's day, the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, etc.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)

130 Okay, #9 this week. Not a good sign.

Rachel Canning shot herself in the legal foot after the judge said her parents did not have to pay her high school tuition. She posted on FB calling her parents selfish and sobbed she might have to *gasp* join the military. Judge still has to rule to see if parents are on the hook for college.

Dear Rachel, why do you remind me of Jon Cary. Oh wait because that is what he told some young people - if they can't get into college they will have to join the military.

You need to do a year of Peace Corps in the Congo for you are a spoiled special princess whom your parents sacrificed much.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth... as Shakespeare put it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (lnUO4)

131 124 hipsters love dick in the eye watch girls Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 10:38 PM (zOTsN) No thanks. I'd rather have a dick in the eye than see Lena Dunham nekkid.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (UAMVq)

132 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV) They're both from "oppressed" groups. This should be interesting. Hopefully a few Tribunal heads will explode from the cognitive dissonance. Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 10:37 PM (UAMVq) Which one is higher up in the oppression hierarchy. In Europe, "Muslim" has shown to trump "LGBTQ," which is evidenced by the fact that some of the biggest anti-immigrant/"right-wing" parties in Western Europes are lead or heavily supported byÂ… gays.

Posted by: The Hierarchical Hat at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (AymDN)

133 My great aunt was married to a Greek man for many years. Because of that, we had a lot of Greek food at her house during the family reunion. So our Irish family was appropriating Greek culture. I am ashamed, and I ask for forgiveness.

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 06:39 PM (hFL/3)

134 #104 That story is two years old and the OHRC refused to release its verdict with both parties put under a NDO.

It's assumed the Human Rights Nazis, unable to make a choice between the two politically-correct victim groups, acted as a true arbitrator and achieved a mutually-acceptable deal unlike against a white Christian barber who undoubtedly would have had to pay the dyke $10,000 and probably had his licence revoked judging by past HRC decisions.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (hn5v5)

135 Did anyone watch the reboot of Cosmos? I was looking forward to it until I learned more about what a progressive asshat Neil deGrasse Tyson is and then someone here said that Obama has a message in the first episode. Is that true?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (RZ8pf)

136 Re: True Detective..... Did I miss it or did they just not explain the whole thing with Marty's oldest daughter? The pictures she drew....the dolls arrangement?

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (bCEmE)

137 Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 10:38 PM (k8m83) That's how I saw that last 10min as well.

Posted by: tdpwells at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (01otU)

138 128 111 Totally agreed, but I still can't find in a F D or A in the description of an ecig that would allow the FDA to regulate them. Quaint, old fashioned, I know. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 10:39 PM (ojnk6) The FDA regulates drug-delivery devices.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (AO9UG)

139 127 104 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint. Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV) She's not fond of her head, I take it. She's either very very brave or very very stupid. Maybe both. Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 10:39 PM (sdi6R) I too would like to see what happens. Going on from past history, the Tribunal will back up the muslims because they are the same as liberals everywhere: afraid of them.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:40 PM (doBIb)

140 Andy -- Been saving that one all day, eh?
Yes!

I would have used it right away but the thread was dead.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (hn5v5)

141 Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 10:39 PM (4Mv1T) You're just pissed cuz you have bongo fever

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (HVff2)

142 93 She does have that, "I will fuck you hard like a crazy person" look about her. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 10:30 PM (doBIb) Give her ten years and she'll be desperately poking holes in her latest boyfriend's condoms. Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 10:32 PM (lr3d7) 105 Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 10:32 PM (lr3d7) That's why when it comes to crazy bitches, you make them swallow or you bust a nut on their tramp stamp Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (bStrg) The crazy ones have a turkey baster for that scenario. The others run around men's college dorm rooms rubbing tubesocks on their scampers.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (HxSXm)

143 The picture was Michelle with her permascowl. Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 10:37 PM (hFL/3) I believe the AoSHQ Style Guide requires that it be referred to as her "resting bitch face".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (HsTG8)

144 When the fuck did commercials suddenly have to all have creepy sex vibes to them? Just saw one for Hefty that makes me want to shower the bleck off.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (RZ8pf)

145 Tami if they did I did not catch it

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:41 PM (zOTsN)

146 I feel a macro-aggression coming on...... In my pants. Belly dancing..... Mmmmmmmm

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 09, 2014 06:42 PM (jucos)

147 The FDA regulates drug-delivery devices.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (AO9UG)

But not coffee machines. Yet.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 06:42 PM (XkotV)

148 i loves me the blues....racist.

Posted by: Guido at March 09, 2014 06:42 PM (15qFH)

149 138 Has water vapor and nicotine been classified as a drug while I wasn't looking?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (ojnk6)

150 So, I guess since banjos originated in Africa, more or less, it would be appropriate leftist wisdom for all white banjo players everywhere to start playing the oboe. Posted by: Tobacco ----------------- On the other hand, we have been respectful of the cultural ownership of the Sitar..., and we are to be applauded for that. Bagpipe remains in uncertain status...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (aDwsi)

151 See, here's the nice thing about quitting your job blocked job and becoming a mime. In our union, everybody wears white face, regardless of their inherent ethnic background or skin tones. Well, except for the white folks. We don't let our white mimes wear white face. That would be inappropriate appropriation.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, President United Mime Workers local #555 at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (g4TxM)

152 144 When the fuck did commercials suddenly have to all have creepy sex vibes to them? Just saw one for Hefty that makes me want to shower the bleck off. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 10:41 PM (RZ8pf) Seriously. Sexualizing trash bags? WTF?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (UAMVq)

153 136 Re: True Detective..... Did I miss it or did they just not explain the whole thing with Marty's oldest daughter? The pictures she drew....the dolls arrangement? Red herring, dude. His daughter was screwed up because he was an inattentive lout. I guess you could still believe the father-in-law was part of the cult and she saw one of the tapes, if you want.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (k8m83)

154 Wow, that 18 year old brat has the perfect credentials to work in the Obama administration.

Posted by: mpfs at March 09, 2014 06:43 PM (6y1fO)

155 I've said it before, I'll say it again: E-cig makers needed to rebrand their products as sexual-identity markers of some kind. Put a rainbow on 'em or something. Then let's watch LA ban them.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone but Likes E-Cigs at March 09, 2014 06:44 PM (NrWIY)

156 What about Persian belly dancers? As literal caucasians, are they white? Are they appropriating the culture of oppressed Arabs? Or are they overthrowing the cultural oppression of their Islamic oppressors? I am so confused. And turned on.

Posted by: wooga at March 09, 2014 06:44 PM (1BO47)

157 Not every kid that acts out regarding sex has been abused. I think the doll arrangement was just coincidental - not intended as sexual at all.

But, there were a whole lot of loose ends just left dangling.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 09, 2014 06:44 PM (IN7k+)

158 I would have used it right away but the thread was dead. Posted by: andy ---------------------- Mercifully, I might add.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:44 PM (aDwsi)

159 154 Wow, that 18 year old brat has the perfect credentials to work in the Obama administration. Posted by: mpfs at March 09, 2014 10:43 PM (6y1fO) Or have a show on MSNBC.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:44 PM (UAMVq)

160 Regarding True Detective... did they show the original opening sequence (in the dark cane field) to clear up who it was?

Posted by: concrete girl at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (l9vxU)

161 138 128 The FDA regulates drug-delivery devices. Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (AO9UG) Nicotine is an OTC drug.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (HVff2)

162 159 Or have a show on MSNBC.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 10:44 PM (UAMVq)
She would have already won an award.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (7FaLu)

163 Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 10:39 PM (4Mv1T)

You're just pissed cuz you have bongo fever Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
----------------------------
No, No. I'm a closet banjo picker.

Seriously. There's a five string in the closet across from my desk.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (4Mv1T)

164 For EC and others. Some Didem.

http://youtu.be/sQEZsBMADts

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (lnUO4)

165 Wow, that 18 year old brat has the perfect credentials to work in the Obama administration. Posted by: mpfs ----------- A slam-dunk nomination for the Civil Rights Division.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:45 PM (aDwsi)

166 Must be lead in the water.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (V4CBV)

167 Here's something. SpaceX released a photo of yesterday's static test firing: http://tinyurl.com/mnz69ew Those are folded-up landing legs at the bottom of the first stage. It will be the first time Falcon 9 has flown with legs. Or any orbital rocket, for that matter.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (sdi6R)

168 Ms. Canning looks like Grumpy Cat. Only not so endearing.

I'm guessing she's what would be called HIGH MAINTENANCE.

And Yeah, I found it interesting that her suit was being bankrolled by the father of the "friend" she's staying with.

And she's also got that Monty Doom thing down pat; saying her Boomer parents are "Selfish".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (LSDdO)

169 Apparently 'appropriation' is the latest crime-du-jour on the left Yeah, dipshit @ GT, it's called a Molotov cocktail!

Posted by: t-bird at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (FcR7P)

170 For EC and others. Some Didem. Turks and Egyptians have the best dancers.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (doBIb)

171 147 With ya Maet. If you're gonna get your fascist on, don't go halfway. Caffeine is supposedly the most addictive "drug" out there.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (ojnk6)

172 31 CAT scanners are an artifact of white culture. *** There's more than one way to scan a cat.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, President United Mime Workers local #555 at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (g4TxM)

173 Mike Hammer, please explain your heating pad for your butt. I read 50 comments, see that Irish invented belly dancing, Greek food, etc. What did I miss?

Posted by: Carol at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (z4WKX)

174 you know for sure who the killer is. You have a pretty good idea who helped him too daughter might have heard her father talking about the case. They did leave that one hanging

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:46 PM (zOTsN)

175 160 egarding True Detective... did they show the original opening sequence (in the dark cane field) to clear up who it was? They didn't have any flashbacks per se. They did have a montage of locations from previous episodes. The killer plot turned out to be very Silence of the Lambs.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:47 PM (k8m83)

176 Zometimez an E-cig iz joost an E-cig.

Posted by: zombie doctor freud at March 09, 2014 06:47 PM (hn5v5)

177 Why is it racist and cultural appropriation when I play blues-rock on my electric guitar, but it was not racist or cultural appropriation for Jimi Hendrix to use (1) a guitar (2) an electric guitar (3) steel guitar strings resulting from a very long chain of labor between mining, smelting, and production (4) electricity (5) microphones (6) tour buses (7) interstate highways (

live concert productions (9) music recorded onto vinyl (10) recording equipment (11) radio to promote his music (12) TV to promote his business (13) airplanes (14) the English language (15) the European 12-tone model of music (16) gasoline (17) jet fuel (1

indoor plumbing (19) I'm tired now so I'm gonna quit but there are surely more, feel free to add to the list. Jesus, dipshit women like this really need to STFU. Is anyone shocked when another liberal asshat invents something new to be offended by?

Posted by: fred at March 09, 2014 06:47 PM (I2IdM)

178 'Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation.'

there's a Mexican restaurant here that has bocce ball. Bocce ball for Gods sake. They are appropriating Bocce ball! Oh the humanity!

Posted by: Guido at March 09, 2014 06:47 PM (15qFH)

179 148 i loves me the blues....racist.

Posted by: Guido at March 09, 2014 10:42 PM (15qFH)

It's only racist if you play them; you're allowed to enjoy the product of another culture. Stevie Ray Vaughn was an appropriator by this ridiculous woman's standards, not a once in a generation artist.

Posted by: That Fucking Guy what has the Big Ears and a Little Red Book at March 09, 2014 06:47 PM (AaZLR)

180 154 Wow, that 18 year old brat has the perfect credentials to work in the Obama administration. Posted by: mpfs at March 09, 2014 10:43 PM (6y1fO) Doubt she would want to work. She's the type that would want to sit around planning strategy and big picture solving of the world's problems while everyone else waits on her. In short, she is Mooch.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (HxSXm)

181 #156

Or Turkish. Most of the pro belly dancers I've ever met were of Turkish ancestry.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (bPxS6)

182 Appropriation is not a new scheme by the Left to destroy Western Civilization. There is always that classic Black Athena that claimed everything of Hellenistic culture was stolen from Africa.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (lnUO4)

183 147 The FDA regulates drug-delivery devices. Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (AO9UG) But not coffee machines. Yet. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 09, 2014 10:42 PM (XkotV) Shut up, dammit!

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (sdi6R)

184 Why do 8's come up as smiley faces in sunglasses? I hate the internet.

Posted by: fred at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (I2IdM)

185 161 138 128 The FDA regulates drug-delivery devices. Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (AO9UG) Nicotine is an OTC drug. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 10:45 PM (HVff2) Yeah, but the FDA will cite that the nicotine dosage and delivery are controlled by a mechanical device and is done for a medical purpose. It's bullshit but that is what they will do.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (AO9UG)

186 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”.
It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV)

Good thing she didn't ask for a ghey-wedding cake, eh?

Posted by: JeanQ at March 09, 2014 06:48 PM (82lr7)

187 TR - If you didn't see Nip's earlier link to Observer article, it's worth a peek. Money quote is third paragraph up from the bottom: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/03/09/4754085/nc-dems-promote-casey-mann-to.html#.Ux0n1M6oROw

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (aDwsi)

188 168 And she's also got that Monty Doom thing down pat; saying her Boomer parents are "Selfish".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 10:46 PM (LSDdO)
If they had been truly selfish they would never have given birth to her.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (7FaLu)

189 So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a Â“businessmenÂ’s haircutÂ”.
It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (e8kgV)

That should be a fun tribunal. I'm guessing fear of their lives will supersede the lesbo

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (FE/sZ)

190 Hmmm Randa is one of us large womens

-- Shirley Q Liquor

Posted by: NCwoof at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (aUQgu)

191 164 For EC and others. Some Didem. http://youtu.be/sQEZsBMADts Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 10:45 PM (lnUO4) Bunk.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (UAMVq)

192 They never cleared up who the Yellow King was, or why he was known by that name.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (IN7k+)

193 Don't think of it as Daylight Savings Time. Think of it as a Keynesian-style time stimulus.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, President United Mime Workers local #555 at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (g4TxM)

194 So is it racist for me to say I don't like Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and other non-Scottish golfers appropriating the sport?

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:49 PM (k8m83)

195 The rest of the animal kingdom wants the OWS crowd to know that taking a dump anywhere - like on the street next to a cop car - is an unlawful appropriation of their long-established prerogative.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (HsTG8)

196 Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 10:45 PM (4Mv1T) I know, I was just using an obscure frank Zappa line.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (HVff2)

197 161 Good point. Buh bye, FDA.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (ojnk6)

198 CAT scanners are an artifact of white culture. So is women's clothing.

Posted by: t-bird at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (FcR7P)

199 Has water vapor and nicotine been classified as a drug while I wasn't looking? Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 10:43 PM (ojnk6) One of those is the most dangerous chemical known to mankind (hint: It ain't nicotine): http://dhmo.org/

Posted by: The Aqueous Hat at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (AymDN)

200 I hate the ~~internet~~ Pixy.
Fixed.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (hn5v5)

201 They never cleared up who the Yellow King was, or why he was known by that name. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous red herring psycho killer read a book or two, and like to act out characters

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:50 PM (zOTsN)

202 I think Rachel's biggest oopsie was getting caught on tape telling her Mom she'd like to "shit on her face". No point in wearing pearls and your school uniform to court after that, sweetheart.

Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at March 09, 2014 06:51 PM (Bl4dy)

203 182 Appropriation is not a new scheme by the Left to destroy Western Civilization. There is always that classic Black Athena that claimed everything of Hellenistic culture was stolen from Africa. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 10:48 PM (lnUO4) White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires Â… We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was Â… we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at March 09, 2014 06:51 PM (WlWt+)

204 192 They never cleared up who the Yellow King was, or why he was known by that name. I think the YK was Errol or Billy Childress, who seemed to be the corpse in the cabin. Think Psycho.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:51 PM (k8m83)

205 Caffeine is supposedly the most addictive "drug" out there. ---- Oh it may well be. It's hard to say since it's one of the only socially acceptable ones left. I think pretty much anyone with a genetic predisposition for addiction has a wicked coffee/Mt. Dew/Diet Coke habit.

Posted by: Jenny Will Totally Stab Somebody For Caffeine at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (NrWIY)

206 That should be a fun tribunal. I'm guessing fear of their lives will supersede the lesbo Yep. What are they gonna do, refuse to play softball?

Posted by: t-bird at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (FcR7P)

207 YK was the daddy I think

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (zOTsN)

208 Because Salon writer, Randa Jarrar, thinks it's horrible and racist that non-Arab women dare to belly dance as she declares in this article:

I guess I can't watch the Godfather any more because James Caan and Marlon Brando aren't Italians and Moe Green was played by an Italian.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (FE/sZ)

209 Liberate Occupied Belly Button Now!

Posted by: Kenneth at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (nu4d+)

210 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 10:14 PM (2RQoy)

Don't they call that the Racism of lower expectations?

I'm no saint so when I expect people around me to at least be as civilized as I am, it's not a stretch for most folks.

Yet some would and do call that racist.

Hey, I've even done some really stupid things that I'm lucky I didn't go to jail for so I'm willing to give people some slack about things they do (especially guys) under the age of about 25. Even then there's lines that no one is allowed to cross without gaining the label of "savage" and "barbaric".

The press itself has shown that they are AFRAID to let a Black man fail. That somehow the Black race would be forever tainted by pointing out his failure. Their coddling of Obama is probably the most universally deplorable and racist situation since Jim Crow.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (LSDdO)

211 daughter might have heard her father talking about the case. They did leave that one hanging Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 10:46 PM (zOTsN) I thought it was odd to leave that unexplained. Also didn't you think they all looked a little weird when they went to see Marty in the hospital. They had nothing to say? Oh wait...I think Maggie said "How are you?"

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (bCEmE)

212 Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 10:48 PM (AO9UG) You mean all my years of nicotine gum & lozgenes went for naught

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:52 PM (HVff2)

213 Responding to Guy Mohawk from the last thread... Guy: I am more wondering what the purpose was, more than half the show was not Cosmos. The whole kill the heretic, evolution fish thing seemed out of place. *** I am not familiar with Bruno so I looked him up. I started with Wiki because if there's a slant to be found, it will be there. Even Wiki states that Bruno's persecution had little to do with his views on the cosmos, but on his religious writings and teachings. deGrasse Tyson made it appear that Bruno's persecution was based mostly or exclusively on his scientific views. Obviously, that doesn't excuse his execution, but it does make it seem deliberately inserted into the show for the purpose of criticizing religion.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 06:53 PM (DmNpO)

214 "I am gobsmacked. Rich White Christian dudes are ALWAYS the villain. Astounding!"

My favorite exception this rule was the "Jersey Shore" episode of "Bones". They had all these Jersey Shores lowlifes and the murderer was the one black person in the episode -- an ice delivery guy who was on screen for a total of 48 seconds.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at March 09, 2014 06:53 PM (U0t2o)

215 Wow...very belated un-sockening. That thing had to be several days old.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (AaZLR)

216 Tonight's episode of True Detective did have the lawnmower man painting a wall in yellow. Reminds me of my post here weeks ago where I said "note the yellow paint on his elbow!".

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (k8m83)

217 I know this sounds like a Jules Pfeiffer Steve Allen joke.
The Gyro was invented by a Turk, in 1965.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (xq1UY)

218 And oh yes. So all these Chinese restaurants in the US should no longer use Western technology or Western food?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (lnUO4)

219 Young Rachel has the character and mindset to someday be a great divorce attorney.

Posted by: PabloD at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (vvukD)

220 Oh it may well be. It's hard to say since it's one of the only socially acceptable ones left. I think pretty much anyone with a genetic predisposition for addiction has a wicked coffee/Mt. Dew/Diet Coke habit. Posted by: Jenny Will Totally Stab Somebody For Caffeine at March 09, 2014 10:52 PM (NrWIY) Yes, hell yes,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 06:54 PM (HVff2)

221 Fortunately, vaporizers and juice are easy (and fun) to make. But I do wonder how long we'll be able to buy liquid nicotine, its only a matter of time before someone's kid mistakes it for water.

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 06:55 PM (LHgfw)

222 I won, I won! Congrats/commiserations to the top tens.... To the fuckers who appropriated opposable fucking thumbs and or rutting from Neanderthal I must simply say, "racist." Reparations for Neanderthals...you non slopes took what's theirs...time to pay.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 06:55 PM (TE35l)

223 Republicans Can Never Not Be Racist

Since "racist" simply means "white" or at least "not anti-white", I'd have to agree.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 06:55 PM (30eLQ)

224 Seemed MArty was estranged from his family after the divorce, since he had to ask Maggie how the girls were doing in the last episode. Also, Maggie sporting a huge diamond ring. Its clear he still loves her, and she cares for him enough to ask Rust if he is getting him in trouble, but she had moved on. Would make things awkward

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 06:55 PM (zOTsN)

225

That NJ girl is gonna end up doin porn and living alone in a house full of cats.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2014 06:56 PM (waJ+2)

226 Neil deGrasse Tyson should stop appropriating telescopes.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 06:56 PM (sdi6R)

227 Design ecigs as a phallus win/win.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2014 06:56 PM (Q8vlx)

228 CAROL:

148 backhoe -- Yeah, I know. My wife's little dog curls up next to my outboard shoulder every night. I gave up fighting it. No matter what I do, there she is in the morning. It's like having a heating pad on my shoulder.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 02:23 PM (aDwsi)

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 06:56 PM (hn5v5)

229 Runaway ONT train.

Mike Hammer- I saw a similar article here today. The NC Dems may have to move out of the big house in downtown Raleigh. No dough.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 06:57 PM (4Mv1T)

230 White girls don't know nothing.

Posted by: Little Egypt at March 09, 2014 06:57 PM (aDwsi)

231 And 8 and a right parenthesis == COOL Smilie

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 06:57 PM (LSDdO)

232 *snickers*

I can hear the Morons hitting up Wiki to find out who Little Egypt is.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 06:58 PM (lnUO4)

233 red herring

psycho killer read a book or two, and like to act out characters

Maybe, or maybe it was one of the Tuttles, or maybe someone else. Loose end. It should have been cleared up.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 09, 2014 06:58 PM (IN7k+)

234 >>>194 So is it racist for me to say I don't like Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and other non-Scottish golfers appropriating the sport?<<<

That filthy Scandi Jesper Parnevik, too!

Posted by: The Scotts at March 09, 2014 06:58 PM (TGvyc)

235 Honestly, it's probably a bad idea to make a murder temple out of an abandoned civil war fort. Historian nerds go looking for those things all the time. It's not like it's an undiscovered Mayan temple in the jungle.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 06:58 PM (k8m83)

236 Speaking of "appropriation," here's a crazy that declares that all civilizations (including Vikings) were created by Blacks and that it was only recently that evil "Albinos" (i.e. "White People") took over and started to re-write history: http://www.realhistoryww.com/

Posted by: The Albino Hat at March 09, 2014 06:59 PM (AymDN)

237 Should have made prime time show with Michio Kaku, hard to hate that guy

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 06:59 PM (bStrg)

238 To whoever posted the www.dmho.org link....it's a link farm, no thank you. No argument against vaporizers I could find.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 06:59 PM (ojnk6)

239 Cool smile is one of my favorite things about the HQ

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 06:59 PM (hFL/3)

240 Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 02:23 PM (aDwsi) The animal wars on Hammer.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:00 PM (HVff2)

241 199 @aqueous

Can cause freezing, burns, drowning and who knows what else.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 09, 2014 07:00 PM (aUQgu)

242 218 And oh yes. So all these Chinese restaurants in the US should no longer use Western technology or Western food?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 10:54 PM (lnUO4)

Eh, they'd just steal it anyways. Patents? Trademark? What that?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2014 07:00 PM (M9BzG)

243 25 ParanoidGirlInSeattle, Not stupid bint, just indicative of the leftoid doublebind. The idiot moonbat is not hot for comliance with their moving goalpost ruleset they want righteous outrage based on pablum. They also get it far too often. The more muddled the mass the easier it is to guide them.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 07:01 PM (TE35l)

244 I own Little Egypt.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Edison at March 09, 2014 07:01 PM (aDwsi)

245 I'm so sick and tired of hearing things like 'appropriation' and 'racism'. When are the lefties gonna come around to the truth I discovered long ago? Everyone sucks.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (k8m83)

246 when Rust was in the hospital, he heard the news reporter say that despite the rumors there was no link to the Tuttle family and he and Marty talked about how some of the pedophiles got away with it

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (zOTsN)

247 Dr. M. Crane would be a good call since he is already doing the TV science show gig.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (lnUO4)

248 there's something very odd about the best friend's wealthy attorney dad bankrolling her lawsuit. So far the judge doesn't seem to be buying her arguments. *** Ding! Ding! Ding! I felt too pervy to say it but I've been wondering a couple of things: 1) Where is the mother of her friend in all of this and 2) how does she feel about her husband sinking 5-figures into the academic future of someone else's daughter. I started questioning their relationship after the last FB post where she told her mother she wished she had "shit on her face". Half the post was legal mumbo jumbo that, while wrong, told me that she'd been having grown up discussions with someone who is clearly slanted towards her point of view. Her relationship with that man seems much too cozy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (DmNpO)

249 221 Fortunately, vaporizers and juice are easy (and fun) to make. But I do wonder how long we'll be able to buy liquid nicotine, its only a matter of time before someone's kid mistakes it for water.

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 10:55 PM (LHgfw)

That's why you can't buy pure liquid nicotine. I worked with a scientist years ago who was a heavy smoker, and thus well-inured to nicotine's effects, and the day he accidentally let a drop of pure base-form nicotine onto his arm was close to his last. What's for sale currently will ruin you absolutely were you to drink it - you would be so sick you might wish for death at some point due to the heaving - but you'll probably pull through. A child? I don't know enough about what's on the market to say how it would end, but most parents keep their drain cleaner where their kids can't get it for a reason.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (AaZLR)

250 29 thunderb, I'm guilty...as my diastolic bp can attest...

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 07:02 PM (TE35l)

251 Unfortunately, the judge set up a bad precedent because he did rule that her parents HAVE TO keep her on their insurance because, well obamacare basically. No tuition, expenses, etc. but she'll have health insurance thanks to ocare. I guess the JEF can count this as a win /sarc.

Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 07:03 PM (PGO8C)

252 For an erection lasting more than four hours think of a chubby Arab chick.

Posted by: redenzo at March 09, 2014 07:03 PM (WCnJW)

253 To whoever posted the www.dmho.org link....it's a link farm, no thank you. No argument against vaporizers I could find. Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 10:59 PM (ojnk6) Mistyped. It ought to be http://www.dhmo.org/

Posted by: The Hydric Hat at March 09, 2014 07:03 PM (AymDN)

254 229 TR

Best news today, hope American Crossroads doesn't move in.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 09, 2014 07:04 PM (aUQgu)

255 Her relationship with that man seems much too cozy. He's either banging her or trying to.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 07:04 PM (UAMVq)

256 Coming soon - Nicotine labs.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Edison at March 09, 2014 07:04 PM (aDwsi)

257 248 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, I haven't perused it in great detail, but you can use courts to shield some income transfers from the IRS. They could be shameless glory/scofflaw hounds.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 07:04 PM (TE35l)

258 Did anyone notice that when Rust was instructing the owner of the bar to mail all those packages he had prepared if he wasn't heard from in 24 hours....the national news packages said 'Fox News'. And I was kinda thinking that the 'bar owner' was Rust's dad....although there was no indication of that.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 07:05 PM (bCEmE)

259 Let's play the game backwards tonight, shall we? I'm starving and I have $43.92 in cash on me right now. What can you deliver in the next fifteen minutes? The clock is ticking and as of now we are keeping score. And, yeah, I'm on record as being willing to commit a felony for a pulled pork sammich delivered at 11:00 PM. Be creative...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 07:05 PM (JMmQ9)

260 2 It's so cool to hate on white people, especially if you're white! And secretly think other races are inferior to you. I'm looking at you, leftists. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 10:14 PM (2RQoy) Not so secretly, actually.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 09, 2014 07:05 PM (xSegX)

261 Football was originally played by all White Teams... So all those Black NFL players should now stop playing and pay reparations...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 09, 2014 07:05 PM (84gbM)

262 Nicotine is a very powerful drug.

Posted by: eman at March 09, 2014 07:05 PM (AO9UG)

263 Okay Where those parents went wrong is simple.. Not enough addition Ex: belt + ass or backhand + face See, math does solve all problems

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:06 PM (/1Zl6)

264 Multi culturalism. Was good. Multi culturalism . Now Bad. Belly dancing was appropriated. Confused. If Irish gays were allowed to put up signs in St. Patrick's Day parade but not Italian gays...where would deBlasio stand? With the Irish gays -- and not the appropriating Italian gays? Nobody but the Irish can celebrate St. Patrick's Day? And the Catholics, of course. Confused.

But it must be good for the country. Because Slate.

Posted by: gracepmc at March 09, 2014 07:06 PM (rznx3)

265 Rust said he didn't get along with his dad. Said he had some crazy ideas. I had the impression that he died in AK and that is when Rust went back to TX

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 07:06 PM (zOTsN)

266 253 Is there a convincing argument there thst will lead to the conclusion that nicotine vapor is somehow as bad or worse for you than smoking? That's kinda my benchmark.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:07 PM (ojnk6)

267 Her use appropiation of the English language deeply offends me.

Posted by: Everyday Joe at March 09, 2014 07:07 PM (PwgpJ)

268 248-- That's another thing: the guy's sinking money into a case he simply isn't going to win-- a lot of money. What happens when all of this is over? He supports her financially like a daughter? She'll probably sue him too.

Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at March 09, 2014 07:08 PM (Bl4dy)

269 >>>Coming soon - Nicotine labs.<<<

Say my name.

Posted by: Heisenberg Camel at March 09, 2014 07:08 PM (TGvyc)

270 266. I use the blue ecigs Went from two packs a day to two packs a week

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:08 PM (/1Zl6)

271 265 Rust said he didn't get along with his dad. Said he had some crazy ideas. I had the impression that he died in AK and that is when Rust went back to TX Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 11:06 PM (zOTsN) And he did say at the end, when he was talking to Marty about seeing the 'dark' in surgery...."I saw my daughter and my dad."

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 09, 2014 07:08 PM (bCEmE)

272 Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:06 PM (/1Zl6) Professor of mathematics.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:08 PM (HVff2)

273 Some Aerosmith perhaps
http://youtu.be/RqQn2ADZE1A

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 07:09 PM (lnUO4)

274 I think Ace is right about the e-cig thing. It's cultural. The New Puritans don't want to even see someone with a cigarette. It's like they get a glance at it, are ready to call somebody and are mad at the e-smoker for fooling them.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 09, 2014 07:09 PM (xSegX)

275 What happens when all of this is over? He supports her financially like a daughter? She'll probably sue him too. ** I don't believe their relationship is that innocent.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 07:09 PM (DmNpO)

276 I'm starving and I have $43.92 in cash on me right now. What can you deliver in the next fifteen minutes? Fresh loaf of homemade Tartine bread and butternut squash soup or chicken salsa verde casserole.

Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 07:09 PM (PGO8C)

277 Ban exhalation. Cures everything.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 09, 2014 07:10 PM (aUQgu)

278 gewa76...thanks for answering, and thanks to every one else who posted about True Detective.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 09, 2014 07:10 PM (l9vxU)

279 I'm starving and I have $43.92 in cash on me right now. What can you deliver in the next fifteen minutes? A picture of me eating a steak What do I win?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (/1Zl6)

280 I have no idea what half of this thread is about.

And not sure I care about the other half.

Nothing personal. Guess I'll finish this swill and waddle off to bed.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (4Mv1T)

281 Austria called, they want the waltz back. Thousands of panic stricken dancers are secretly hoarding Sambas, Tangos, and Minuets.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Edison at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (aDwsi)

282 Basketball was invented by a Canadian-American. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (sdi6R)

283 Blu ecigs are for fags who overpay

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (bStrg)

284 Mozart's Don Giovanni: has anyone here ever seen it? I haven't. I've seen movie references to its powerful finale in both Amadeus (imagine that) and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. Does the rest of the opera measure up to that standard?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (HsTG8)

285 274 AmishDude, Oddly Donkey seldom pays for its puritanical bent thanks to el media... "Just sensible rules guv'nuh..." Save freedim pistol whip Piers Morgan

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 07:11 PM (TE35l)

286 Hey, pants are a white thing! Quit appropriating my culture!

I remember when misappropriation was a crime.

Posted by: Corona at March 09, 2014 07:12 PM (fh2Y7)

287 Passing an e-cig tax and a gas tax wold solve all our problems forever.

Posted by: Thomass Friedman at March 09, 2014 07:13 PM (TGvyc)

288 283 Blu ecigs are for fags who overpay $11 a pack here Ill smoke the blue

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:13 PM (/1Zl6)

289 270 NCJ, does Blue have varying levels of Nic to choose from? Been considering one, tired of changing heating elements and oily vape juice.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:13 PM (ojnk6)

290 Fresh loaf of homemade Tartine bread and butternut squash soup or chicken salsa verde casserole. Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 11:09 PM Or all three!!! The chicken salsa verde cassarole sounds intriguing... 48176. Send up a flare. I'll find you

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 07:13 PM (JMmQ9)

291 Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 11:11 PM (4Mv1T) Bottoms up, enjoy TR

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:14 PM (HVff2)

292 So if white women can't "appropriate" belly dancing, does that mean white youths can't play loud rap music in their cars?

I have to believe that Obama is "appropriating" Scottish culture every time he golfs

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2014 07:14 PM (aTXUx)

293 279 I'm starving and I have $43.92 in cash on me right now. What can you deliver in the next fifteen minutes? A picture of me eating a steak What do I win? Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:11 PM (/1Zl6) An LOL...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:14 PM (HsTG8)

294 Friend of mine complains that the Blu's don't draw like a cigarette

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Edison at March 09, 2014 07:14 PM (aDwsi)

295 Is there a convincing argument there thst will lead to the conclusion that nicotine vapor is somehow as bad or worse for you than smoking? That's kinda my benchmark.

I think you are missing the joke with the dhmo.org site. Dihydrogen Monoxide is a joking way of referring to H2O. The whole site is about how dangerous water is, using pure facts, although presented in a way to make that "chemical" seem alarming.

You will not find anything about the nicotine part at that site, just the water vapor component of "nicotine vapor".

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (IN7k+)

296 TR - Later, my friend.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Edison at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (aDwsi)

297 Question for the Horde: Best way to break up a non-married couple? Couple in question is my stepson and his gf. It's a long story but I add that it needs to be done for the good of my stepson. He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (doBIb)

298
What color are the Arab women again?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (gorVZ)

299 289. Yep Three different levels I do the highest Plus plain, menthol, and weird bullshit flavors for the hipsters

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (/1Zl6)

300 Damn. Forgot about the Edison sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (aDwsi)

301 74 59 Rachel Canning I'd hit it. Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (UAMVq) She does have that, "I will fuck you hard like a crazy person" look about her. Funny, that's exactly what Best Friend's Daddy said about her. And she's staying in his house? Maybe a little home Canning action going on???

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (hTDbY)

302 Charlie Pride better stop appropriating my fucking country music. Darius Rucker.... I'm looking at you too.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 09, 2014 07:15 PM (jucos)

303 does that mean white youths can't play loud rap music in their cars?

Wait a minute. Is that on the table? Can we ban white wannabe Eminems from playing loud rap music in their cars? Asking for a friend

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:16 PM (30eLQ)

304 EC - Mine field. Tread carefully.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 07:16 PM (aDwsi)

305 Rachel Canning just LOOKS like a nasty little bitch, most likely a Mean Girl

I think some affidavits from classmates would pop her Good Little Catholic Girl masquerade

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2014 07:16 PM (aTXUx)

306 Hey hey folks.

FWIW I still think there's a glimmer of hope for humanity. I haven't caught MSNBC taking up for that sociopathic daughter yet at least. And check out the comments even at Salon for that article. You'd almost think you were reading... AOSHQ. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:17 PM (HVI5a)

307 297 Question for the Horde: Best way to break up a non-married couple? Couple in question is my stepson and his gf. It's a long story but I add that it needs to be done for the good of my stepson. He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:15 PM (doBIb) Are we constrained by trivialities like not breaking the law?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 07:17 PM (UAMVq)

308 294 Friend of mine complains that the Blu's don't draw like a cigarette They don't I bought the kit so I have to screw on the flavor part to the burner part If you hold it at the connection then it's like normal

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:17 PM (/1Zl6)

309 304 EC - Mine field. Tread carefully. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 11:16 PM (aDwsi) The wife is in agreement with me and it was her that brought it up. So, does that mean absolute moral authority since she's a woman?

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:17 PM (doBIb)

310 295 You aremcorrect, missed it completely. And, if I had thought about, I would have realized that I've actually baited people with that term. Lazy, lazy. Bad MWNP.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (ojnk6)

311 290. Alton, deal. You can have all three .

**flare sent**

Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (PGO8C)

312 "This pisses me off to no end asmI'm using them right now to quite a lifetime smoking habit. The aholes can not even articulate a reason for the ban. Because feelings." Right there with you. Finally found a disposable that did something, Hell anything, for me and they go banning and taxing the shit out of 'em. NJoy King by the way. By far the best I ever tried. They still want us to pay the taxes but just not smoke or e-smoke.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (v5/fg)

313 Buckle up and be safe horde... The safe word is "Pelosi."

Posted by: sven10077 at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (TE35l)

314 I saw Don Giovanni at the opera house in West Berlin. The guy would not die. I kept thinking he was dead and then he would sing some more. Now granted it was odd to watch an Italian opera with German supertitles so that may have colored my impression.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (RZ8pf)

315 I think Rachel's biggest oopsie was getting caught on tape telling her Mom she'd like to "shit on her face".

That's HOT

Posted by: Martin Bashir at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (Q6pxP)

316 Blu ecigs are for fags who overpay

That's tremendously funny for anyone familiar with the British language.

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (hO9ad)

317 In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had decided to go it alone in areas where Congress refused to act to his satisfaction. In a system of shared powers, one would expect an outcry or at least stony silence when a president promised to circumvent the legislative branch. Instead, many senators and representatives erupted in rapturous applause; they seemed delighted at the notion of a president assuming unprecedented and unchecked powers at their expense.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 07:18 PM (e8kgV)

318 Are we constrained by trivialities like not breaking the law? It has to be done legally and irrevocably. No making up and going back.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (doBIb)

319 HereÂ’s my idea on how True Detective should have ended: Marty&Rust are bleeding out in the temple after killing Errol, then it fades to black. It fades back in and theyÂ’re in the car together from the first episode. Â‘Cos time is a flat circle and their lives will just repeat over and over. And Rust's visions should have been of future events, since they're just memories of his previous cycles of the same life.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (k8m83)

320 249 221
Fortunately, vaporizers and juice are easy (and fun) to make. But I do
wonder how long we'll be able to buy liquid nicotine, its only a matter
of time before someone's kid mistakes it for water.

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 10:55 PM (LHgfw)

That's why you can't buy pure liquid nicotine. I worked with a scientist years ago who was a heavy smoker, and thus well-inured to nicotine's effects, and the day he accidentally let a drop of pure base-form nicotine onto his arm was close to his last. What's for sale currently will ruin you absolutely were you to drink it - you would be so sick you might wish for death at some point due to the heaving - but you'll probably pull through. A child? I don't know enough about what's on the market to say how it would end, but most parents keep their drain cleaner where their kids can't get it for a reason.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 09, 2014 11:02 PM (AaZLR) Hide posts from (AaZLR)

I vaguely recall a "locked-room" murder mystery where a guy went into an individual restroom stall, did a #2, then started tearing into his skin with his bare hands until apparently bleeding to death. Murder weapon -- the TP was dosed with pure nicotine.....and evidently it absorbs readily through mucous membranes.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (T1005)

321 Are we constrained by trivialities like not breaking the law? Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 11:17 PM I had a whole bunch of ideas before I stopped to consider your question.

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (JMmQ9)

322 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:15 PM (doBIb) Did you try reason? I suspect you did. Sometimes EC you have to let them make mistakes. My 1st marriage sucked & I was warned but didn't listen to my folks. 2nd marriage 30 years & going strong

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (HVff2)

323 Best way to break up a non-married couple? Couple in question is my stepson and his gf. It's a long story but I add that it needs to be done for the good of my stepson. He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger. *** First question: How old is he? That will make a difference in how he will handle the truth.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 07:19 PM (DmNpO)

324 305-- She got caught drunk outside a school dance and made noise about suing the teacher who busted her. (Sorry, I read The Daily Mail every day-- I know way too much about this ahole.)

Posted by: Kas(ktgreat) at March 09, 2014 07:20 PM (Bl4dy)

325
Re: Cosmos II - The Legend of Curly's Gold

"On a date in 1975 Sagan had invited young Neil, then a high school student in the Bronx with a passion for astronomy, to spend a day in Ithaca. Dr. Sagan kindly offered to put him up for the night if his bus didnÂ’t come."

NYT

If you are aware of the rumors about 'ol Carl....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 07:20 PM (kdS6q)

326 Krebs: Don Giovanni is one weird-ass opera. Most of it is kind of a black comedy, about Don Giovanni, who is a libertine and seducer who mocks religion and generally acts like a cartoon bad guy. And then in the final act the statue of a man he killed in a duel walks into his house and drags him off to hell. Kind of a shift in tone there.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 07:20 PM (Q+Jdg)

327 Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:13 PM (/1Zl6) I spend about $40 a month with a bottle of juice and a few packs of atomizers (it would be even cheaper if I wasn't lazy with buying a rebuildable atomizer)

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 07:20 PM (bStrg)

328 That filthy Scandi Jesper Parnevik, too!

Posted by: The Scotts at March 09, 2014 10:58 PM (TGvyc)

Might have a hard time making that one fly: http://tinyurl.com/kh86xgy

Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2014 07:21 PM (r/e1Q)

329

The wife is in agreement with me and it was her that brought it up.

So, does that mean absolute moral authority since she's a woman?

This is the one in the Marines, correct? Tread very carefully. He's in love and has a steady paycheck. It's going to be hard to push him away from her without serious push-back.

Where is he stationed right now?

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:21 PM (lr3d7)

330 So, does that mean absolute moral authority since she's a woman? Posted by: EC --------------- In this case, probably. Women have sensors where other women are concerned. If they throw the Tramp Flag, or Trouble Flag. It's usually a good call.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 07:21 PM (aDwsi)

331 Did you try reason? I suspect you did. Sometimes EC you have to let them make mistakes. My 1st marriage sucked & I was warned but didn't listen to my folks. 2nd marriage 30 years & going strong He is currently "in the field" and can't be reached except for a few texts here and there. It will be another month before he comes home. We are planning to come up with a plan before then. We really don't want her for a DIL.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (doBIb)

332 "Blu ecigs are for fags who overpay.." The disposables are awful. Like toking on a candy cane. Can't comment on any of their other products.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (v5/fg)

333 EC, have one -- only one -- talk with your stepson about your concerns. After saying what you need to say, make it clear that you all love him whether he leaves her tomorrow or they stay together forever, that you'll never make it "her or your family". And then say "Now that I've said that, and you know, I'll never bring it up again." Then let go, pray, and above all Don't Bring It Up Again. I'm sorry, it's tough, but that's about all you can do.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (NrWIY)

334 Hey, got a question for everybody. Anybody got some really creative ideas on how to deal with parking lot beggars??

Even though it's really just the same one or two individuals who bother me at a nearby shopping center every couple of months at a time, I'm getting... annoyed. Plus apparently they have absolutely no creativity or memory for who they're pushing as it's the same pitch every time. "Hello sir, I need to feed my babies and I work, but..." I never get past that point before I say "sorry, I can't" and get the blank outta there.

So anyhoo, what are your ideas? Throw frozen burritos at them? Compact air horn? Paintball gun? What?????

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (HVI5a)

335 It has to be done legally and irrevocably. No making up and going back.

I'll ring up the Singing Tranny-O-Gram Service. Would Lao work or should we stick with the tested and true Thai? I'd go European but, you know, appropriation.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (30eLQ)

336 318 Are we constrained by trivialities like not breaking the law? It has to be done legally and irrevocably. No making up and going back. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (doBIb) Have you and/or your wife tried talking to him about this yet?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (UAMVq)

337 He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:15 PM (doBIb) Is this about this one particular woman, or marriage in general?

Posted by: Cat-Snatch-Beavaar at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (LHgfw)

338 Best way to break up a non-married couple? Couple in question is my stepson and his gf. It's a long story but I add that it needs to be done for the good of my stepson. He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger.

Posted by: EC
---------------------------

I actually have something to contribute before I go night night. I tried to do this with my best friend at age 25 after I mistakenly introduced him to a girl I knew from college with exceptionally large hooters. Who knew he'd fall in love? She was a firt class bitch. I didn't mean for him to marry her. I remember asking my mom this same question.

Mom said, if you try to drive a wedge, you won't lose just one friend, but two.

They married, and divorced a year later.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 07:22 PM (4Mv1T)

339 First question: How old is he? That will make a difference in how he will handle the truth. Just turned 20. God bless him, he's a good person but just not that smart about planning for the future.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:24 PM (doBIb)

340 So anyhoo, what are your ideas? Throw frozen burritos at them? Compact air horn? Paintball gun? What?????

Have you complained to management? Most places have a "no soliciting" policy in place.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:24 PM (lr3d7)

341 327. I pay like $10 for a pack of 4 smoke tips. Each are supposed to be equal to 2 packs I noticed most of my smoking I waste half the cig and mainly do it cause I need to hold it more than the actual smoking Plus no ash in the car

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:25 PM (clcLS)

342 338 Exactly. I introduced two seemingly compatible friends. They lasted 3 years. Both blamed me after dissolution. These are people looking for someone to blame.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:26 PM (ojnk6)

343
In Ukraine, Russia appropriate you.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 09, 2014 07:26 PM (gorVZ)

344 Colorado Alex: I admit I probably should complain to them... but just bear in mind, this is Southern Bonedifornia I'm talking about. With all the hiring cutbacks, my hunch is that the employees inside the places of business have enough on their hands without having to shoo away panhandlers too.

Apparently business can't be too good at least, as there never seems to be more than one or two of them on the grounds. And they seem to become someone else about every three to six months. Maybe they're shapeshifters??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:27 PM (HVI5a)

345 What I'm currently vaping atm http://www.mister-e-liquid.com/jade-tiger/

Posted by: The Dude at March 09, 2014 07:27 PM (bStrg)

346 Have you complained to management? Most places have a "no soliciting" policy in place.

Supermarket management doesn't give a shit. I know this from experience. I've reported bums in Boulder and the managers do nothing. They don't call the cops, they don't do anything.

If the bums are outside a bar, the managers over there actually do care. And they will go clear them out.

Interesting difference there.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:27 PM (30eLQ)

347 So anyhoo, what are your ideas? Throw frozen burritos at them? Compact air horn? Paintball gun? What????? Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 11:22 PM (HVI5a) Pull out your cell phone and start dialing the policeÂ… and let them know that's what you're doing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:27 PM (HsTG8)

348 This is the one in the Marines, correct? Tread very carefully. He's in love and has a steady paycheck. It's going to be hard to push him away from her without serious push-back. The steady paycheck part is one reason why she is making plans. She has turned out to be very materialistic and unreasonable. An E-3 makes about minimum wage and is in no way is able to support a lifestyle she is planning.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (doBIb)

349 If they remake the movie Heathers, Rachel Canning is a shoe-in.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (lnUO4)

350 It's an established fact that anybody who eats tomatoes is going to die. To believe otherwise makes you a denier.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (e8kgV)

351 Murder weapon -- the TP was dosed with pure nicotine.....and evidently it absorbs readily through mucous membranes.
No shit?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (hn5v5)

352 I also actually had an experience recently eating at Islands Fine Burgers & Drinks in Long Beach Towne Center about a week ago... not a beggar, but a *solicitor* actually came up to my table and starting trying to sell me stuff.

Thankfully, my waiter happened to be nearby and told the guy he could leave on his own volition now or via a police car later.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (HVI5a)

353 Ha My sisters were telling T not to marry me cause she could do better Damn haters

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (clcLS)

354 That NJgirl is gonna end up doin porn and living alone in a house full of cats.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2014 10:56 PM (waJ+2)

Having had a few romps with chicks from her area, I would probably agree.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (FMbng)

355 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:15 PM (doBIb)

Stay out of it.

You can only make things worse for everyone.

It's his life and you can't life it for him. If he's so inclined, he'll just find someone else similar.

Try to get others to advise him, advise him yourself and be there when it blows up but don't try to make decisions for him.

You can't know for sure what the outcome will be.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (LSDdO)

356 I'd tread very lightly, EC. Anything done overtly on your part will be interpreted as "meddling" and could cause a big backlash. The best thing I can advise is to let your stepson see the girlfriend's true self. What's the red flag? Maybe orchestrate a way to make that trait really obvious?

Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (hFL/3)

357 So, Ace still watching Girls?

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 09, 2014 07:28 PM (r7mtu)

358 2 It's so cool to hate on white people, especially if you're white! And secretly think other races are inferior to you. I'm looking at you, leftists. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 09, 2014 10:14 PM (2RQoy) When it comes to which neighborhoods they live in, which schools their kids attend, and which restaurants and stores they frequent, think there's any difference at all between well to do white liberals and well to do republicans? Yeah, they're all babbling about white privilege and all, but they make sure they have as little contact with low income people of color as possible. There are urban districts in Michigan that have horrible failure rates. I get a kick out of asking white, liberal, unionized teachers if they would ever in a million years send their own children to those schools. They are dead set against giving the people of color from those school districts vouchers so that they can attend any school their parents want.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2014 07:29 PM (k2GaM)

359 I actually have something to contribute before I go night night. I tried to do this with my best friend at age 25 after I mistakenly introduced him to a girl I knew from college with exceptionally large hooters. Who knew he'd fall in love? She was a firt class bitch. I didn't mean for him to marry her. I remember asking my mom this same question. Mom said, if you try to drive a wedge, you won't lose just one friend, but two. They married, and divorced a year later. I think I remember you telling that story.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:29 PM (doBIb)

360 "Anybody got some really creative ideas on how to deal with parking lot beggars?? Fourteen years ago when I moved to the Metroplex I had never encountered beggars before. The first year or so I fell for the scam. I handed out Ones and Fives thinking I was being a great American when approached. One night I had a guy give me a sob story and then I watched him, no shit, walk across the parking lot and jump into a late model Ford Explorer and drive off. That broke me of the habit. Now, I tell them in no uncertain terms to get the Hell away from me. Works every time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:29 PM (v5/fg)

361 Good evening racisty racists.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:29 PM (MtC8f)

362 With all the hiring cutbacks, my hunch is that the employees inside the places of business have enough on their hands without having to shoo away panhandlers too.

If the guy is harassing customers then it's their problem. If he doesn't leave then they call the police.

Supermarket management doesn't give a shit. I know this from experience. I've reported bums in Boulder and the managers do nothing. They don't call the cops, they don't do anything.

That's Boulder. The whole town is fucked up.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (lr3d7)

363 339 Just turned 20. God bless him, he's a good person but just not that smart about planning for the future. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:24 EC, he's 20 & in love. One talk with him & drop it. I know from experience at age 20.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (HVff2)

364 355 Seconded. Trying to interfere is a no win proposition.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (ojnk6)

365 Oops, the ampersand police have struck again!! Islands Fine Burgers AND Drinks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (HVI5a)

366 Just turned 20. God bless him, he's a good person but just not that smart about planning for the future. *** If he's like most 20-year olds, he will not be persuaded through reasoned conversation. 1. You can sit him down and tell him that you love him and that you see a troubled path ahead. Tell him that you are only concerned for his well-being. He may listen and take your advice. If he doesn't, you have done your best. 2. You can make a move on her by convincing her in some way that she is better off moving on. Make the family less attractive to her. My daughter was in her late teens when I persuaded a tattooed freak to move on by basically accepting his presence and then smothering him to death.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (DmNpO)

367 Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (hFL/3)

Clown nose off, this is probably the best post to read on the topic.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:30 PM (30eLQ)

368 333 EC, have one -- only one -- talk with your stepson about your concerns. After saying what you need to say, make it clear that you all love him whether he leaves her tomorrow or they stay together forever, that you'll never make it "her or your family". And then say "Now that I've said that, and you know, I'll never bring it up again." Then let go, pray, and above all Don't Bring It Up Again. I'm sorry, it's tough, but that's about all you can do. I'm aware that it's ultimately his decision since he's a grown man now. I don't want him ending up unhappy.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:31 PM (doBIb)

369 My sisters were telling T not to marry me cause she could do better
Damn haters
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (clcLS)

That doesn't mean that they were wrong :p. I mean, she did marry a Bears fan...

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:31 PM (lr3d7)

370 318 Are we constrained by trivialities like not breaking the law?

It has to be done legally and irrevocably. No making up and going back.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (doBIb) Hide posts from (doBIb)

Get him in the sack with someone hotter?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 07:32 PM (T1005)

371 You know what's funny about the Salon piece? All the fat white chicks doing bellydancing in the US are exactly the kind of new-age fat-acceptance you-go-girl feminists who read Salon and voted for the dumb motherfucker in the White House. They do bellydancing so they can pretend to be sexy instead of borderline-obese, and the fact that it's a brown-people thing makes it so much more appealing and authentic than the kind of dance lessons Mom used to force them to take, which required skill and staying in shape and boring stuff like that. There's gonna be some tear-stained cats and angry pints of Ben & Jerry's among Salon's core readership.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 07:32 PM (Q+Jdg)

372 366. My daughter was in her late teens when I persuaded a tattooed freak to move on by basically accepting his presence and then smothering him to death. I thought you liked me too ~~~~sob~~~~

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:32 PM (clcLS)

373 Posted by: Lauren

I didn't know the Irish were allowed on the ONT.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 09, 2014 07:32 PM (P1WNR)

374 I vaguely recall a "locked-room" murder mystery where a guy went into an individual restroom stall, did a #2, then started tearing into his skin with his bare hands until apparently bleeding to death. Murder weapon -- the TP was dosed with pure nicotine.....and evidently it absorbs readily through mucous membranes. Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (T1005) There was an episode in one of the early seasons of The Closer where a model was murdered using nicotine-laced shampoo.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:32 PM (HsTG8)

375 I've eaten so much I feel like I could explode...

I apologize for appropriating Palestinian culture.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 09, 2014 07:33 PM (AC0lD)

376 320I vaguely recall a "locked-room" murder mystery where a guy went into an individual restroom stall, did a #2, then started tearing into his skin with his bare hands until apparently bleeding to death. Murder weapon -- the TP was dosed with pure nicotine.....and evidently it absorbs readily through mucous membranes.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (T1005)
So don't smoke with your butt?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 07:33 PM (7FaLu)

377 Get him in the sack with someone hotter?

... and then there's the male moron perspective

Any Crimean Ukrainians in need of a quick visa and some work in the states?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:33 PM (30eLQ)

378 She has turned out to be very materialistic and unreasonable. An E-3 makes about minimum wage and is in no way is able to support a lifestyle she is planning. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (doBIb Just my two-cents. My sis-in-law was brand name this, top of the line that when my brother first met her. She has done a complete turn around. Maybe having kids changed it. Ok, so maybe that two-cents is really worth 1/10th of a penny.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:34 PM (MtC8f)

379 376. So don't smoke with your butt? I remember in Thailand one dancer smoked an entire pack with..... Yeah

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:35 PM (clcLS)

380 Navycopjoe: you know how tattoo artists get rid of the creepy guys dating their daughters, right?

They just go to the guy and offer them a free tattoo. Then when he's in the chair, the artists do him head to toe with invisible ink.

Problem solved!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:35 PM (HVI5a)

381 331 Did you try reason? I suspect you did. Sometimes EC you have to let them make mistakes. My 1st marriage sucked & I was warned but didn't listen to my folks. 2nd marriage 30 years & going strong

He is currently "in the field" and can't be reached except for a few texts here and there. It will be another month before he comes home. We are planning to come up with a plan before then.

We really don't want her for a DIL. Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:22 PM (doBIb) Hide posts from (doBIb)

Well, then it's pretty simple.....sleep with her before he does.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 07:35 PM (T1005)

382 "Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation. " Okay, so if people who are not of German or Polish ancestry dance the polka at a wedding reception, are they guilty of appropriation? What about all the non-Irish who get drunk on St. Patrick's Day, appropriation? OMG, I once danced the hora! I've made hummus. Is that appropriation? By the way, there are powwows in Michigan and the Native Americans encourage people to participate in the dancing. Someone really needs to straighten them out.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (k2GaM)

383 182 Appropriation is not a new scheme by the Left to destroy Western Civilization. There is always that classic Black Athena that claimed everything of Hellenistic culture was stolen from Africa. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 10:48 PM (lnUO4) The great feature of Anglo-American culture is that it isn't afraid to absorb old cultures or to let others borrow from its own. What you're witnessing is a mentality where people don't think people should get credit for what they do but they should get credit for their genetics. Probably because the little trust fund babies feel guilty.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (xSegX)

384 "Tear-stained cats". Now that's funny.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (sdi6R)

385 Beggars: don't be mean or even talk.

Head down, avoid eye contact, don't speak, don't respond.

Keep them in your peripheral in case they're a decoy and scan the area.

Walk like you're in a hurry to get where you're going and won't stop.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (LSDdO)

386 Her use appropiation of the English language deeply offends me. Posted by: Everyday Joe at March 09, 2014 11:07 PM (PwgpJ) Atell mec hit ābūtan.

Posted by: Ælfrēd se Grēata at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (AymDN)

387 I think I remember you telling that story.

Posted by: EC
---------------------------

I may have. He was a great guy, but always chose womyn poorly. People have to pick their own mates. We can't do it for them.

My dad managed to prevent me from making a huge mistake, but it was only after I asked his advice, and he subtly suggested that buying a diamond ring, versus the diamond necklace Xmas present I originally planned might be a little tough for my budget at the time. I was 23, and just finishing school and starting a new job the next month.

He probably prevented a divorce.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (4Mv1T)

388 She has turned out to be very materialistic and unreasonable. An E-3 makes about minimum wage and is in no way is able to support a lifestyle she is planning.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (doBIb

Tag chaser?

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 09, 2014 07:36 PM (WdbF7)

389 Rachel Canning looks like Lois Lerner did at age 18. Same smug I-can-hit-you-in-your-wallet look. Put their pictures side by side.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at March 09, 2014 07:37 PM (MfKLq)

390 Bitter Clinger: that's pretty much my approach now. I say "no, sorry" and hurry out of Dodge.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:37 PM (HVI5a)

391 Upset with the Walking Dead. Very age inappropriate relationship going on between Daryl and Beth. Gross. Me. Out.

Posted by: Jmel at March 09, 2014 07:37 PM (cfFqn)

392 Or EC could buy her out. Hers a wad of cash move on biyotch

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:37 PM (HVff2)

393 EC, as a stepfather myself and having been there myself, you are in the worst position to try to impede the match. I see my stepson about every other week for lunch to maintain our relationship, which is quite good. If the time ever comes when he calls it quits with the mistake he chose as his wife, my first comment will be, "I never understood what you saw in her". Until that time, my lips are sealed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:38 PM (HsTG8)

394 Appropriation works both ways. I bet the bitch uses toilet paper instead of her hand to wipe her ass.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 09, 2014 07:38 PM (r7mtu)

395 So don't smoke with your butt? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 11:33 PM (7FaLu) Silly. That what vagina for!

Posted by: Thai Stripper from the movie "Emmanuelle" at March 09, 2014 07:38 PM (AymDN)

396 There is always that classic Black Athena that claimed everything of Hellenistic culture was stolen from Africa.

Bernal's bullshit was discredited so hard in academia that it doesn't even get mentioned anymore. Would that they could have done the same to Said.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:39 PM (30eLQ)

397 394 Appropriation works both ways. I bet the bitch uses toilet paper instead of her hand to wipe her ass. Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 09, 2014 11:38 PM (r7mtu) She probably uses indoor plumbing, too.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 07:39 PM (UAMVq)

398 True Detective was excellent.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 09, 2014 07:39 PM (r7mtu)

399 Anyway, here's how I like to imagine the beggar's shpiel would go if I listened long enough.

"Hello sir, I'm trying to feed my babies, and I work, but I have this terrible crack habit that eats up all my money and I was wondering if you could gimme some money so I can get more crack? I can't feed my kids but I tried giving them crack and now they're crack babies too, so I need enough money to buy enough crack for us all. I tried writing to our beloved President and he sent me a check for $5000 but we spent it all on crack and now we need more! Also I don't have enough money for a postage stamp to write him again. Please sir, MY KIDS NEED CRACK!!!!"

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:39 PM (HVI5a)

400 She has turned out to be very materialistic and unreasonable. An E-3 makes about minimum wage and is in no way is able to support a lifestyle she is planning.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (doBIb)

Those problems generally clear themselves away. She'll find another guy to chase after who makes better money.

The best you can do is recommend a long engagement if he decides to propose in order to limit the damage and increase the likelyhood of them breaking it off before they get to the altar. Oh, and talk to him about finances. Don't mention her, but talk about if he's saving money, his future plans, etc.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:39 PM (lr3d7)

401 Well, then it's pretty simple.....sleep with her before he does.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:35 PM (T1005)

Actually that's close.

Most military doesn't like their e-3's getting married.

They usually don't get housing or an allowance. (may be diff now)

Talk to CO or better yet talk to his NCO if you can.

Get his buddies or some experienced enlisted to counsel him.

That is not an uncommon thing. It's been going on for thousands of years. Find some history and some stories to point him to.

Don't interfere though.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:40 PM (LSDdO)

402 She probably uses indoor plumbing, too.
And one of those awful chair-like things instead of a hole in the floor. Freak.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 07:40 PM (hn5v5)

403 356 I'd tread very lightly, EC. Anything done overtly on your part will be interpreted as "meddling" and could cause a big backlash. The best thing I can advise is to let your stepson see the girlfriend's true self. What's the red flag? Maybe orchestrate a way to make that trait really obvious? Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (hFL/3) Red flag? She likes spending money. More precisely, spending his money. We have calculated from his bank statements that is spending a quarter of his take home pay on gas alone , driving back and forth from his base, to her town, to our house, back to her town, back to his base again. Repeat every weekend. He gives her spending money and pays for all their meals and activities together. She does not have a job. She's in comm college studying to be a nurse but still hasn't entered into the nursing program yet. She is not the type to be a nurse either. She cannot stand the sight of blood or people in pain. Not sure what kind of nurse avoids all that.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:40 PM (doBIb)

404 Just say no to beggars.

Posted by: Stuff Nancy Reagan Said at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (C94J7)

405 Well, then it's pretty simple.....sleep with her before he does.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:35 PM (T1005)

Or arrange someone else to.

Private Eye, I'm thinking.

But then, I watch too much TV.

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (hO9ad)

406 "Upset with the Walking Dead. Very age inappropriate relationship going on between Daryl and Beth. Gross. Me. Out." I didn't take that as a romantic hand-hold, more of a "I'm here and we've bonded now" kind of thing. By the by that chick playing Beth is 29 years old??? She looks like a 15 year old girl and plays one on the show. Wow.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (v5/fg)

407 Seriously just drive that chick through a normal military base to see the housing, or the base exchange that should scare her off.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (WdbF7)

408 I tried to do a belly dancing workout yesterday. Damn it is hard. And a good workout. But I cannot make my hips gyrate sensuously.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (RZ8pf)

409 Rachael Canning's father has spent his entire career on the public payroll, so she comes by her parasitical tendencies the old-fashioned way.

Posted by: ChicagoRefugee at March 09, 2014 07:41 PM (C15wm)

410
I apologize for that burrito I had for lunch. I appropriated it selfishly. With salsa.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 09, 2014 07:42 PM (gorVZ)

411 EC, I have no personal experience with this sort of thing. I can only tell you what I've observed and I concur with those who are advising caution. Two of my closest friends got married and wouldn't you know, the SO I thought would be problematic wasn't (her and my friend have 3 kids together and are going strong), while the other SO turned out to be a complete whore (unexpected, even!). Unless she's fooling around on your son, there's probably no way to talk him out of potential marriage. He might just have to learn from the painful teacher of experience. Or, assuming they tie the knot, it may turn out better than expected.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 09, 2014 07:42 PM (WlWt+)

412 408. 408 I tried to do a belly dancing workout yesterday. Damn it is hard. And a good workout. But I cannot make my hips gyrate sensuously. High def video or it didn't happen

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:43 PM (clcLS)

413 I apologize for that burrito I had for lunch. I appropriated it selfishly. With salsa.

Just step outside the room when you have to de-appropriate it, is all we ask.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (30eLQ)

414 Someday some MAN is going to invent... the Ho-Meter. *And* it'll include a way to test the ho... woman without her knowledge.

And that man will make ONE MEEELION DOLLARS!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (HVI5a)

415 I am a huge, egregious appropriator of Mexican food myself. Eat it damn near everyday. What re-unappropriation camp do I turn myself into?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (v5/fg)

416 NCJ go back to watching your Hi-Def sonar whale pr0n. And finish off that last can of Spam.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (lnUO4)

417
Talk to CO or better yet talk to his NCO if you can.

Get his buddies or some experienced enlisted to counsel him.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 11:40 PM (LSDdO)

Don't contact his CO or chain of command. The last thing the company commander wants to deal with is some parent calling about their son or daughter. He's a grown man, so the CO isn't going to care about your concerns, as long as it doesn't affect readiness.

His buddies have likely already told him that she's bad news. Certainly his squad leader will have.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (lr3d7)

418 I agree with the others Have one talk and let it go Better for him to learn a hard lesson now than later on when his retirement, house and kids are on the line

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:44 PM (clcLS)

419 I tried to do a belly dancing workout yesterday. Damn it is hard. And a good workout. But I cannot make my hips gyrate sensuously. Shimmy? It takes practice. Start slowly and build up the speed.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:45 PM (doBIb)

420 I didn't know the Irish were allowed on the ONT.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 09, 2014 11:32 PM (P1WNR)

Ah crap - now we're going to have take the Chinese too.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 07:45 PM (XkotV)

421 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:40 PM (doBIb) Don't be too quick to judge on the nursing job/school. My oldest fainted at the sigh of blood. Next thing you know she is going to nursing school & becoming an RN. Good luck with the situation. Good nite horde, be well

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 09, 2014 07:45 PM (HVff2)

422 In this case, probably. Women have sensors where other women are concerned. If they throw the Tramp Flag, or Trouble Flag. It's usually a good call.>>

Men see the same red flags they just ignore them cause getting laid. I know I did and regretted it later. People told me it was a bad idea and I would pay but I ignored them. Don't have an answer other than tell him to not ignore his intuition because it will save him a ton of money and grief.

Posted by: The Hickster at March 09, 2014 07:45 PM (TI3xG)

423 Not saying they're correct, but at the Men's Rights blogs I read, they have a simple test to tell if your woman is a Ho:

1. Does she have a vagina?

-- END TEST --

**Determination Key**
If the answer is NO, you're clear.
If the answer is YES, she's a Ho.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:46 PM (HVI5a)

424 Beth has to be 17 by now. She was 15 when they first arrived at the prison and that has to be 2 years ago.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 09, 2014 07:46 PM (r7mtu)

425 414 Someday some MAN is going to invent... the Ho-Meter. *And* it'll include a way to test the ho... woman without her knowledge. Ummm, some would use it to find the hos

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:46 PM (clcLS)

426 Ah crap - now we're going to have take the Chinese too.
Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch

That's a deal breaker.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 09, 2014 07:46 PM (P1WNR)

427 We used to call women like that "snakes".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:47 PM (LSDdO)

428 Ummm, some would use it to find the hos
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:46 PM (clcLS)

Good, they deserve each other.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:47 PM (lr3d7)

429 What re-unappropriation camp do I turn myself into?<<<<<

Depends upon the type of cheese. if it was swiss go to Zurich, if it was mozzerella go to Rome, if it was chedder you'll have to go to Wisconsin.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 09, 2014 07:47 PM (gorVZ)

430 "Upset with the Walking Dead. Very age inappropriate relationship going on between Daryl and Beth. Gross. Me. Out."

I didn't take that as a romantic hand-hold, more of a "I'm here and we've bonded now" kind of thing. By the by that chick playing Beth is 29 years old??? She looks like a 15 year old girl and plays one on the show.

I think 15 is legal post apocalypse.

With parental consent, of course, but....

Oh.

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 07:47 PM (hO9ad)

431 Don't even get me started on Ho-Scale racing toy kits.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 07:47 PM (HVI5a)

432 408 I tried to do a belly dancing workout yesterday. Damn it is hard. And a good workout. But I cannot make my hips gyrate sensuously. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 11:41 PM (RZ8pf) Guys, where is AoSHQ Webcam? We have some judging to do.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:48 PM (MtC8f)

433 Someday some MAN is going to invent... the Ho-Meter. *And* it'll include a way to test the ho... woman without her knowledge. ** It already exists. It's the other women in your life.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 07:48 PM (DmNpO)

434 She likes spending money. And she's dating a Marine? If she has any long-term plans, she's stupid. Maybe she's just taking advantage while he's still smitten.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 09, 2014 07:48 PM (xSegX)

435 The advice I offered above is the tack my dad settled on when I was engaged to someone he was certain would screw up my life. It's been well over a decade, and my husband and I are still together, happy, self-supporting, etc. but I can totally see where my dad was coming from, how bad it must've looked to him. It sounds like your stepson isn't yet engaged, though? Is he talking about it? Is your stepson asking you guys for money because he's overspent on the gf? Is he asking you to keep track of his bank statements, because that seems...a little boundary-pushing otherwise.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 09, 2014 07:48 PM (NrWIY)

436 The easiest way to tell a ho The bigger the earrings...the bigger the ho

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 07:49 PM (clcLS)

437 426 Ah crap - now we're going to have take the Chinese too. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch That's a deal breaker. Posted by: Dr Spank at March 09, 2014 11:46 PM (P1WNR) Let's not be too hasty now.....after all, rice, noodles, Peking duck, etc.

Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 07:49 PM (PGO8C)

438 "Beth has to be 17 by now. She was 15 when they first arrived at the prison and that has to be 2 years ago." Oh God. Okay, she's 17 now. Fine. The point was that a 29 year-old woman can pull off, very convincingly, being a pubescent teenager. Pedophiles must be drooling over her.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:49 PM (v5/fg)

439 There will be no hi def viewing of me making a fool of myself. That is why I did it in the privacy of my own home. Only the beagle saw it and he was so appalled he ran into the other room.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 07:50 PM (RZ8pf)

440 I think 15 is legal post apocalypse. With parental consent, of course, but.... Oh. Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 11:47 PM (hO9ad) Yeah yeah, I'll denounce myself later. A Muslim wife complains to her husband that all the romance had gone out of their marriage. Â“Remember when you used to carry me up to bed?Â” she asked. Â“Yeah,Â” he replied Â“But be fair though, you were only eleven at the timeÂ…Â”

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:50 PM (MtC8f)

441 heh. I have a cousin who, when approached by a panhandler (and you can tell that they are about to hit on you) just beats the guy to it, "Hey, can you spare some change man?" That's a little too cold for me. I just turn 'em down, and support the local shelters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 07:51 PM (aDwsi)

442 Don't be too quick to judge on the nursing job/school. My oldest fainted at the sigh of blood. Next thing you know she is going to nursing school & becoming an RN. This girl is definitely not that type to sack up and drive on. She is more the type that likes to be taken care of. I've just had a bad feeling about her after she started to visit our house and seeing her and listening to her. My stepson is oblivious to all that and it worries me that his future isn't going to be all weekends and holidays like he thinks it will be. I fully realize that this story has happened before many times. I understand that he will make his own decisions on his own and I have no place in them. I wish there was some way of finding him someone more worthy.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 07:51 PM (doBIb)

443 Let's not be too hasty now.....after all, rice, noodles, Peking duck, etc.
Posted by: lindafell at March 09, 2014 11:49 PM (PGO8C)

No stray cat problem.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:52 PM (lr3d7)

444 Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 11:44 PM (lr3d7)

I'm offering ideas to break them up.

It depends on the service, the size of the unit and the grade of the CO or XO.

If he's not allowed to marry below a certain pay grade that'll put an end to that real quick. It will also cause some bad feelings too.

And apparently he's deployed so that's not possible anyway.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:52 PM (LSDdO)

445 Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 11:50 PM (RZ8pf) Do you happen to remember the breathing exercise woman on late night tv. That was funny as hell. She should team up with the prancer gal.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:52 PM (MtC8f)

446 Although, in her case, I believe the proper term is bellies dance. Plural.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 10:26 PM (kdS6q)

"Must be jelly, cause jam don't shake like that."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2014 07:52 PM (lrwdQ)

447 Upset with the Walking Dead. Very age inappropriate relationship going on between Daryl and Beth. Gross. Me. Out. Loosen up, baby. Don't be all uptight.

Posted by: Zombie Tony Randall at March 09, 2014 07:53 PM (FbMva)

448 I don't remember a breathing exercise woman.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 07:54 PM (RZ8pf)

449 442 You raised him, and taught him all you could reasonably be expected to to. The rest is up to him. Nothing else to do now.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 07:54 PM (ojnk6)

450 Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 11:49 PM (clcLS)

combined with the location of the ponytail on the back of the head.

the higher it is the lower she'll go. (no it's not a guarantee but it's an indicator. Like a tattoo.)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:54 PM (LSDdO)

451 Run, mommy, run! Earthquake!

Posted by: PGiS's beagle at March 09, 2014 07:54 PM (hn5v5)

452 PGIS, you need to get this for your beagle to keep him occupied while you engage in your terpsichorean revelries - http://youtu.be/4PcL6-mjRNk

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 09, 2014 07:55 PM (HsTG8)

453 Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 11:51 PM (aDwsi) I ignore them like they're not there. Seriously they are in the same spot day after day and not a one of them is going hungry. Fuck you, TFG has twenty seven different programs begging you to take tax payers money. If you can't do that, well, F U. (And they probably are on all the programs so the spare change is for booze or dope.) Have no time for them.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 07:56 PM (MtC8f)

454 Hey.

Look on the bright side, he could be unattractive to anyone.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:56 PM (LSDdO)

455 I fully realize that this story has happened before many times. I understand that he will make his own decisions on his own and I have no place in them. I wish there was some way of finding him someone more worthy.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:51 PM (doBIb)

Ultimately he has to live his own life and that sometimes means making his own mistakes even if everyone else can see what road he's going down.

Maybe if he starts talking marriage, have one serious heart to heart conversation where you lay out the case against her and shut up. He'll almost certainly reject it but at least you'll be laying down a trail clues that may lead him to come to the conclusion on his own.

Anything more and you're putting your relationship with him at permanent risk.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 07:57 PM (XkotV)

456 Chinese checkers, anyone?

Posted by: Emperor Norton's Ghost at March 09, 2014 07:57 PM (AIC5Z)

457 Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 11:50 PM (MtC8f)

You know, that same joke works if you substitute mohammed for the generic muslim. And gets a +2 bonus for edginess.

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 07:57 PM (hO9ad)

458 If you like to f**k with people, offer to buy them lunch or take them to a shelter or a pantry where they can get food.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:58 PM (LSDdO)

459 Just popped the reserve, fail-safe, rock-bottom bottle of $5 Andre champagne from the fridge. Forgot to hit the liquor store yesterday.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 09, 2014 07:59 PM (v5/fg)

460 Maybe don't make a case against HER so much as against MARRIAGE at this point in his life.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 07:59 PM (LSDdO)

461 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 11:52 PM (LSDdO)

No service restricts marriages anymore, AFAIK.

Contacting his chain of command won't do anything except piss off the stepson, and put him on the radar of his commander and 1SG. You're dealing with a captain or 1LT at best (A battalion commander won't give two shits about the situation) who has more important matters. If it ever becomes a problem, then they'll just pull him back to the barracks.

And I think he's just out in the field, not deployed. If he deploys that will likely take care of the problem, since he'll be gone long enough that she'll find someone else.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 07:59 PM (lr3d7)

462 297 Best way to break up a non-married couple? Couple in question is my stepson and his gf. It's a long story but I add that it needs to be done for the good of my stepson. He will end up broke and miserable if he puts a ring on her finger.

Without Jedi training, no one has this power.

Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2014 08:00 PM (qyomX)

463 458 If you like to f**k with people, offer to buy them lunch or take them to a shelter or a pantry where they can get food.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 11:58 PM (LSDdO)

I knew a guy who got tired of being accosted by the same homeless guys asking him for food money every day on the way to work so he started carrying a can of chili with him and offering it to them. Pretty soon they all learned he was 'that guy with the can' and left him alone.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 08:01 PM (XkotV)

464 Ok everyone, I'm off to prep for my class tomorrow. Everyone have a good night!

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 08:01 PM (lr3d7)

465 You know what I really hate? White guys playing the blues. Now that's a bad deal, man.

Posted by: Blind Apple Dumplings at March 09, 2014 08:02 PM (1Y+hH)

466 I got panhandled, I swear to the old gods and the new, by a couple once in Boulder (spring 2011). Male and female. And this when I really actually was living in inconsistent housing.

That fake hobo was getting laid and I wasn't.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2014 08:02 PM (30eLQ)

467 There's a couple of cats making kittehs outside. I've been hearing that for the last few evenings.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 08:02 PM (sdi6R)

468 I've got a slightly different situation involving a younger relative. He's engaged to and shacked up with a girl who, I believe, is genuinely in love with him. The problem is that she's not very attractive, she's not very interesting, and she's hopeless about housework. He does the cooking and cleaning, he's got the better-earning job, and he's quite a good-looking young man. As far as I know, she doesn't seem to want kids, either. I think he's making a mistake because I'm afraid he's going to dump her in a few years, and it would be better for everyone if they weren't married.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 08:02 PM (Q+Jdg)

469 Even if you believe that it's wrong to "appropriate art" from another "race", I'd like to point out that Middle Easterners are scientifically classified as Caucasian, and are therefore technically WHITE.

The same goes for Hindis.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:03 PM (/96QU)

470 448 I don't remember a breathing exercise woman. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 09, 2014 11:54 PM (RZ8pf) Greer Childers. http://tinyurl.com/5w6fqy (Youtube vid of her craziness)

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:04 PM (MtC8f)

471 It sounds like your stepson isn't yet engaged, though? Is he talking about it? Is your stepson asking you guys for money because he's overspent on the gf? Is he asking you to keep track of his bank statements, because that seems...a little boundary-pushing otherwise. Not engaged yet. No calls for money. He has asked us to open his mail and keep track of his bills and stuff since he has trouble getting mail on his base in a timely manner. We helped him getting all his auto drafts set up for his loans and bills, so we know exactly where his money is going. One thing.... We found out many months later that he converted or "was saved" to become a Baptist. He made absolutely no mention of this to us until his gf let it slip one night. Her father used to be a preacher and "saved" him. That stuff doesn't bother me. It's what she expects of him. She's laid down the law that he is not to drink any alcohol. Period. When he's at home and we are having some family time, I will let him drink a beer or two (but not ten). He's old enough to die for his country. I will let him have a beer in my house. She found out once that during a weekend without her that he had a few beers while he and his brothers were playing Risk together. She went ballistic and he had to apologize profusely. It was humiliating. That's the kind of stuff that is turning me off of her. It's not her business. He's not her husband. It's not her house.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:04 PM (doBIb)

472 Beth- 16(season 2), 17 (season 3), 18 (now-season 4)

Daryl- Mid 30's to early 40's

Won't matter when the prison group meets up with Abraham's group and the guys are drooling over Rosita. Muy caliente.

Posted by: Zombie Hershel, in favor of a shotgun, er, crossbow wedding at March 09, 2014 08:05 PM (TGvyc)

473 391 Upset with the Walking Dead. Very age inappropriate relationship going on between Daryl and Beth. Gross. Me. Out. --- Funny thing is, Emily Kinney graduated college back in 2006. So she must be close to 30 years old. But Does Not Look It.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2014 08:06 PM (TfdkD)

474 Does this mean that every time I danced and war whooped as a kid I was unbelievably racist? Oh, my. I had to let my older brother be the cowboy, so I guess he is a racist enabler.

Posted by: TimothyJ at March 09, 2014 08:06 PM (ep2io)

475 And I think he's just out in the field, not deployed. If he deploys that will likely take care of the problem, since he'll be gone long enough that she'll find someone else. God I hope so. He's training right now but will deploy later this year for warmer climates.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:07 PM (doBIb)

476 306 Hey hey folks. FWIW I still think there's a glimmer of hope for humanity. I haven't caught MSNBC taking up for that sociopathic daughter yet at least. And check out the comments even at Salon for that article. You'd almost think you were reading... AOSHQ. ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 11:17 PM (HVI5a) If Megyn Kelly does a show where she is on the parents' side, MSNBC the next day will have stories about what a fabulous young woman she is.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 08:07 PM (HxSXm)

477 Whoever keeps training people to whine like this needs to cut it out. I imagine a Leftist camp somewhere. "OK, people, settle down. I want you to sort yourself out by skin color. White people, go over there, under the hammer and sickle. Your job is to invent a constant stream of reasons to feel guilty, and smug about feeling guilty. Brown people, over to that table, and pick up the ethnic flag of your choice. Your job is to listen to what the white people want to feel guilty about at the moment, and make them feel even more guilty about it, so they can maintain their smug. Move! Who's left? Oh, orange people. Yeah, you need to go on Jersey Shore or run for Congress."

Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2014 08:07 PM (qyomX)

478 She cannot stand the sight of blood or people in pain. Not sure what kind of nurse avoids all that. -- a wet nurse...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2014 08:08 PM (TfdkD)

479 Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:40 PM (doBIb) I must be old-fashioned, because other than him giving her spending money, I don't see what the problem is? The guys I dated always paid for meals and movies, concert tickets, etc. And him driving to see her and having to pay for the gas... is that really bad??? I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you're getting a user vibe from her, but honest to goodness, this doesn't sound that bad to me. I'm not sure how you have access to his bank statements, but does he have a credit card you're looking at, too? If she's running up debt that's a different story, but him paying for dates and gas, I dunno. Seems normal to me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:08 PM (Pfvig)

480 I had my eye on the blonde from That Seventies Show until Brittany Murphy splashed on the undead scene.

Posted by: Zombie Tony Randall at March 09, 2014 08:09 PM (FbMva)

481 472 Ah, that's a whole different kettle of fish. People often get reality-checked out of bad spending habits and unrealistic material expectations, but that controlling stuff is so much worse. I'm sorry, wish I knew what to tell you other than what I said above.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 09, 2014 08:09 PM (NrWIY)

482 Buying lunch or a sandwich is the only way I'll deal with a beggar. You would be surprised at how many turn it down.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 09, 2014 08:10 PM (jucos)

483 OK. I'm out Tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2014 08:10 PM (JMmQ9)

484 I rarely post about politics on FB but today shared that Slate article by William Saletan about how hey, just because people are opposed to gay marriage, that doesn't mean people should call them bigots, and promptly got called a bigot and worse by a smug, smarmy, self-righteous asshat. It shouldn't have ruined my afternoon, but it did.

Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at March 09, 2014 08:10 PM (Gk2GE)

485 Parking lot beggars around here always ask for gas money. When you offer to fill up a gas can at a nearby station they walk away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 08:10 PM (7FaLu)

486 Don't they have rules about who can get housing or a housing allowance?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 08:11 PM (LSDdO)

487 Maybe if he starts talking marriage, have one serious heart to heart conversation where you lay out the case against her and shut up. He'll almost certainly reject it but at least you'll be laying down a trail of clues that may lead him to come to the conclusion on his own. Our biggest worry is that he will come home one weekend and tell us he just got engaged. When he thought he was about to deploy, he briefly mentioned some talk about extra pay he would receive if he was married and deployed. I told him getting married to receive a few more dollars every paycheck would be the dumbest thing he could do. He didn't bring it up again.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:11 PM (doBIb)

488 She's laid down the law that he is not to drink any alcohol. Period. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:04 AM (doBIb) Not as a joke, but screw that. Better yet, she played her little control BS. Hey hon, how about toning down the spending. The more you talk about her EC I feel like a custom 1911 will be at the local pawn shop for 100 bucks. I can't sell this, it's personalized. i'll give you 25 for it. -Rick Harrison

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:12 PM (MtC8f)

489 I just read that column for the first time a few hours ago, Rep of TX 2.
Small blogosphere.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 09, 2014 08:12 PM (hn5v5)

490 Ummm, some would use it to find the hos --- What kind of losers would need it?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 09, 2014 08:13 PM (TfdkD)

491 487 It's cute that you think in that old fashioned, 2000s kinda way. This is a new, enlightened Gov that will do the cradle to grave thing.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 08:13 PM (ojnk6)

492 I'm not sure how you have access to his bank statements, but does he have a credit card you're looking at, too? If she's running up debt that's a different story, but him paying for dates and gas, I dunno. Seems normal to me. The relationship is one-sided in that respect. A young man starting his life should be saving money, as much as he can, and not blowing more than normal on other things. I get where you're coming from, but this girl is taking him for as much as he's got.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:14 PM (doBIb)

493 I think 15 is legal post apocalypse. With parental consent, of course, but.... Oh. --- Guess I need a post post-apocolypse

Posted by: Jerry Lee Lewis at March 09, 2014 08:14 PM (TfdkD)

494 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 12:07 AM (HxSXm) Nope. The story is pure as the driven snow white. No brown skin so it can't be exploited.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:15 PM (MtC8f)

495 Review of Cosmos: watch the old one. First clue was tfg doing the intro. We learn again Christianity is evil, especially Catholicism. Its now off my dvr. Can't take this bs. Is next eeek the story of how Muslims saved civilization?

Posted by: pj at March 09, 2014 08:15 PM (ZWaLo)

496 Ah, that's a whole different kettle of fish. People often get reality-checked out of bad spending habits and unrealistic material expectations, but that controlling stuff is so much worse. I'm sorry, wish I knew what to tell you other than what I said above.

How close is he to 21? Is letting him have ten beers instead of two feasible?

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 08:15 PM (hO9ad)

497 the Ho-Meter. --- Fuck that metric shit

Posted by: America at March 09, 2014 08:15 PM (TfdkD)

498 496 Is next eeek the story of how Muslims saved civilization?
Posted by: pj at March 10, 2014 12:15 AM (ZWaLo)
Ancient Africans did that. We appropriated it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 08:16 PM (7FaLu)

499 The more you talk about her EC I feel like a custom 1911 will be at the local pawn shop for 100 bucks. FUCK. THAT. I'm going to make him promise me he will never pawn it. If he needs money, I will buy it back for full retail. No fucking way he will pawn it to keep her happy.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:16 PM (doBIb)

500 Well, goodnight, all. Tomorrow's already starting.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 09, 2014 08:17 PM (Q+Jdg)

501 Posted by: Zombie Tony Randall at March 10, 2014 12:09 AM (FbMva)

Lisa Robin Kelly's dead too.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 09, 2014 08:17 PM (LSDdO)

502 #483: About twenty years ago, a guy hit me up for change so he could pay for bus fare the moment I stepped off the bus, myself. At the time, I wasn't using a bus pass; I paid my fare in cash and I always asked for a transfer just in case I needed it.

So, I just handed that guy my transfer. He was clearly disappointed.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:17 PM (/96QU)

503 There will be no hi def viewing of me making a fool of myself. That is why I did it in the privacy of my own home. Only the beagle saw it and he was so appalled he ran into the other room. --- Where my bunk is...

Posted by: beagle at March 09, 2014 08:17 PM (TfdkD)

504 Â“Yeah,Â” he replied Â“But be fair though, you were only eleven at the timeÂ…Â” --- To be fair, a country that has gone Muslim is pretty much post-apocolypse...

Posted by: beagle at March 09, 2014 08:18 PM (TfdkD)

505 486 Parking lot beggars around here always ask for gas money. When you offer to fill up a gas can at a nearby station they walk away. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 12:10 AM (7FaLu) Approached three times by the same guy. I got suckered the first time but I know his routine now. Argue with wife on the phone. Interrupt it to ask a stranger for money. Profit.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:19 PM (MtC8f)

506 Review of Cosmos: watch the old one.

First clue was tfg doing the intro.

We learn again Christianity is evil, especially Catholicism.

Is that why Fox has been advertising it would be on the eight 'bravest' networks?

Thanks, newscorp.

Posted by: Methos at March 09, 2014 08:19 PM (hO9ad)

507 Sorry to disapoint. My family comes from Pontos. We are Greeks from the Black Sea, the area is now Turkey. We are not Arabs, and we have been belly dancing for generations.

Posted by: Say What? at March 09, 2014 08:19 PM (3hSf2)

508 Racist Belly Dancer ONT Compliance pic http://tinyurl.com/l39h8u4

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2014 08:19 PM (aTXUx)

509 Reading This Salon Article on White Belly Dancers Will Make You Measurably Dumber. Also, Possibly Racist. Just the mere mention of the name Salon makes me feel lighter in the brain cell department.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 09, 2014 08:20 PM (AQTz3)

510 His buddies have likely already told him that she's bad news. Certainly his squad leader will have.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2014 11:44 PM (lr3d7)

I had a friend who was getting married. We saw through the chick he was marrying like you see through obama. On the day of his wedding ALL his friends were on the front steps of the church begging him not to do it, including me.

Let me tell you what a fucking piece of shit this bitch was. First off, they already had a 1-2 year old kid by the time they were getting married, so this whole bride going to camp at "mom's" house the night before the wedding thing is pretty much out the window. Making it worse was that "mom" was a recovering drug addict living in an apartment that was maybe a level or 2 above a crack den.

Anyway. A week before the wedding the bitch calls me and says she is going to spend the night before at her uncle's house, and she got a baby sitter for the kid, and the groom was going to be alone and she will have food and beer etc for his friends so we should go hang out with him on that night.

Here's where it gets good. We have the wedding practice, and then go to her brother's for fucking sandwiches. Seeing most of us were musicians we head into the basement to check out the brother's drums and do a little quick jam with the instruments that were there. We come upstairs, and fucking crickets. The house is empty. While we were downstairs, the bitch takes her friends and runs to her uncle's place. We go to my friends apt and we see here there putting the kid to bed, then says oh no baby sitter, so sorry, and splits.

It turns out, the bitch organizes a fucking pool party at her uncles, with her friends, their boyfriends, and anybody else who fucking shows up. Why is my friend not there, and why aren't HIS fucking friends invited either? Her lame ass excuse is that he can't see her the night before, not to mention thats its only 8pm and they can be together for at least another 4 hours if you want to be fucking technical.

meanwhile, not only is their no baby sitter, but she cleaned out the apartment of essential food stuff leaving him nothing, she even took his coffee, so she can bring it all for HER fucking party. SO... no beer, no food, no baby sitter, zip, squat, nadda. So her idea of the night before the wedding diner was shoving a few sandwiches down the dude's mouths, and she goes and runs off to a big bash that she throws in her honor.

I tell my friend he is fucking out of his mind, and if he didn't want me to tear his fucking ball sack off and use it as a tobacco pouch he better grab the kid, and crash that fucking party. So we did, and thats when we saw the magnitude of this little stay at her uncles. To top it all off, she gets her and the girls a nice new limo, and gets us, the dudes, a broken down pos with body rot and a no fucking air conditioning . and THATS why we were all on the steps of the wedding telling this fucking numbskull to gas this bitch up and get the hell out of dodge. He didn't listen, and so his stay in the bowels of hell had begun. He bought a house, she spent him dry, he lost the house.

He didn't listen to his friends, they never frigging do.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 08:20 PM (FMbng)

511 I will say this, EC--- when/if you talk to your stepson, don't mention the money thing. Focus on how she treats him. Bringing up his spending money on gas and dates will come across as an unreasonable attack on him, because, well,it is kind of an unreasonable thing to be concerned about. Even talking about giving or "lending," money is going to feel like you're citicizing him, and there are easy defenses (most couples give and take over the course of the relationship,it was a "loan" she'll repay when she gets her tax reund, etc). Make it all about stuff she has done, like yelling at him about beer, rather than feelings about what she might do, too.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 09, 2014 08:20 PM (NrWIY)

512
We learn again Christianity is evil, especially Catholicism. Its now off my dvr. Can't take this bs.
Posted by: pj

The ancient Greeks were geniuses for picturing the solar system as a set of nested crystalline spheres, while medieval Christians were idiots for believing the same thing -- because they read those same Greek philosophers.

*tips fedora* *awaits applause*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 09, 2014 08:20 PM (kdS6q)

513 503 For those I thought were sincere in their request, I always offered to buy them a meal. Never had a person requesring it take me up on it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 09, 2014 08:21 PM (ojnk6)

514 Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:16 AM (doBIb) Hopefully it wouldn't enter his mind. And I started out giving her the benefit of the doubt, but she sounds too much like my ex as well as my cousins. Sad thing is we were both too stupid to heed advice given.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:22 PM (MtC8f)

515 Ho-Meter? Never needed one.

I just use my own built in divining rod. Giggity.

Posted by: Glen Quagmire at March 09, 2014 08:22 PM (TGvyc)

516 Lisa Robin Kelly's dead too. As I am an older corpse prone to incontinence, I appreciate that Brittany's accustomed to bathroom accidents and younger--but mostly that she's younger.

Posted by: Zombie Tony Randall at March 09, 2014 08:23 PM (FbMva)

517 The relationship is one-sided in that respect. A young man starting his life should be saving money, as much as he can, and not blowing more than normal on other things. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:14 AM (doBIb) So, what do you consider normal? Maybe you could discuss savings, and not even bring her into it. He's caught between two controlling factions and he loves them both and it's gonna suck if he has to choose.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:23 PM (Pfvig)

518 So anyhoo, what are your ideas? Throw frozen burritos at them? Compact air horn? Paintball gun? What?????

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 11:22 PM (HVI5a)

Know where you can lay hands on some counterfeit currency? Not that I'm suggesting anything.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2014 08:23 PM (lrwdQ)

519 466 I got panhandled, I swear to the old gods and the new, by a couple once in Boulder (spring 2011). Male and female. And this when I really actually was living in inconsistent housing. That fake hobo was getting laid and I wasn't. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2014 12:02 AM (30eLQ) Back when I worked in downtown Richmond, I used to get harassed all the time. One day I had one woman follow me into an office building begging, and would not take no for an answer. She held the elevator door open and yelled at us for not giving her money.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 08:25 PM (HxSXm)

520 What I don't understand about this appropriation business is how it's supposed to work for people who've "collected the whole set", like my ancestors did. Does that mean I can do whatever, however and wear a feather headdress with a kilt and pharoah jewelry, or does it mean I'm restricted to "common" items like blue jeans, t-shirts, and cheeseburgers only since I don't pass minimum authenticity requirements for anything?

Posted by: Cato at March 09, 2014 08:26 PM (OdVTN)

521 She has turned out to be very materialistic and unreasonable. An E-3 makes about minimum wage and is in no way is able to support a lifestyle she is planning.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 11:28 PM (doBIb)

Find a wealthy and stupid Democrat to sweep her off her feet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2014 08:26 PM (lrwdQ)

522 Find a wealthy and stupid Democrat to sweep her off her feet. Reporting for duty!

Posted by: John Kerry at March 09, 2014 08:27 PM (UAMVq)

523 Well I have been wanting Daryl and Carol to get together since season 2. I think it is past time for a show to highlight that mature, older women can attract the hot guys. Time to break the Hollywood stereotype that love is just for perfect twenty-somethings. Sorry...rant over.

Posted by: Jmel at March 09, 2014 08:29 PM (cfFqn)

524 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2014 12:20 AM (FMbng) See, I get that, totally. But all I'm hearing about this chick is that she's a strict Baptist and he pays for their dates.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:29 PM (Pfvig)

525 AOP: I like your way of thinking... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 08:30 PM (HVI5a)

526 >>>Reporting for duty!

Posted by: John Kerry at March 10, 2014 12:27 AM (UAMVq)<<<

Get the fuck back in your stable or you get no botox allowance this week.

Posted by: Mama T at March 09, 2014 08:30 PM (TGvyc)

527 Time to break the Hollywood stereotype that love is just for perfect twenty-somethings. Love, shmove.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 09, 2014 08:31 PM (UAMVq)

528 524 Well I have been wanting Daryl and Carol to get together since season 2. I think it is past time for a show to highlight that mature, older women can attract the hot guys. Time to break the Hollywood stereotype that love is just for perfect twenty-somethings. Sorry...rant over. Posted by: Jmel at March 10, 2014 12:29 AM (cfFqn) Well, your rant further solidified my stance of not watching the soap opera wit zombies.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:31 PM (MtC8f)

529 486 Parking lot beggars around here always ask for gas money. When you offer to fill up a gas can at a nearby station they walk away. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 12:10 AM (7FaLu) The best ones are the women who need money for a hotel room because the people they were supposed to stay with moved away and the local homeless shelter won't accept families. Of course a lie would never cross her meth damaged teeth.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 08:31 PM (HxSXm)

530 EC he is a Marine and subject to deployment, right? make sure he gives you a power of attorney for finances (to take care of her during deployment, wink, wink) make sure they keep separate accounts. His paycheck goes into his account, and he, or you, can transfer money into her account. Tell him and her is so they aren't both writing checks on the same account while he is away. see how she reacts. he will see it

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 08:31 PM (zOTsN)

531 "I knew a guy who got tired of being accosted by the same homeless guys asking him for food money every day on the way to work so he started carrying a can of chili with him and offering it to them. Pretty soon they all learned he was 'that guy with the can' and left him alone."

That method may or may not work.

Around the areas in San Francisco where I often get panhandled, there are charity food banks which hand out chow to the local winos and junkies. Everything from bananas and ham sammiches on up to a whole frozen Thanksgiving turkey. Not making up this last part. (As though a bum who lives on the sidewalk can bake a goddamn turkey! Brilliant liberal humanitarianism there.)

The winos and junkies will accept the food. Then will walk around the corner and promptly sell the food at 20 cents on the retail dollar to the illegal alien day laborers.

The other would-be-really-funny-if-not-so-depressing thing that goes on around SF charity food banks is that certain ethnicities will show up in nicely kept late model Lexuses and Mercedes-Benzes, get dropped off a block away, go get their free food, head on back and hop in the sixty thousand dollar luxomobile for the ride home.

Hey, how do you think they got to where they were making the payments on that S-klasse Benz? It surely wasn't by being dumb enough to turn down free things.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2014 08:31 PM (gqT4g)

532 So, what do you consider normal? Maybe you could discuss savings, and not even bring her into it. He's caught between two controlling factions and he loves them both and it's gonna suck if he has to choose. One quarter of his bimonthly take home pay on gas is IMO abnormal. She's got a car. She's able to drive. But it never occurs to her that she meet him at our house and save him the 2 hours of driving to her town first to pick her up and drive another hour and a half to our house. Why can't she drive and save him some hassle? He's got to do the reverse when he has to return to his base. She has been making noise about a ring. It's ever so cute the way she does it. My stepson talks about things he will get for us when he returns from deployment like t-shirts and whatnot. She asks, "and what will I get? Maybe some special jewelry???" *big grin* I know the two of them recently went to a jewelry store. My wife noticed that when they returned, the gf's eyes were red like she he been crying. She said she thought the stepson probably saw the price tag and freaked out.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:32 PM (doBIb)

533 You hurt my heart RWC! You hurt my heart!

Posted by: Jmel at March 09, 2014 08:34 PM (cfFqn)

534 531 EC he is a Marine and subject to deployment, right? make sure he gives you a power of attorney for finances (to take care of her during deployment, wink, wink) make sure they keep separate accounts. His paycheck goes into his account, and he, or you, can transfer money into her account. Tell him and her is so they aren't both writing checks on the same account while he is away. see how she reacts. he will see it They're not married yet. She can take care of her own self.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:34 PM (doBIb)

535 They're not married yet. She can take care of her own self. Posted by: EC exactly they, or she, mention marriage you talk finances watch her explode he will see it

Posted by: thunderb at March 09, 2014 08:35 PM (zOTsN)

536 To be fair, a country that has gone Muslim is pretty much post-apocolypse... Posted by: beagle at March 10, 2014 12:18 AM (TfdkD) You ain't seen nuthin' yet!

Posted by: Iran's Nuclear Program at March 09, 2014 08:37 PM (AymDN)

537 See, I get that, totally. But all I'm hearing about this chick is that she's a strict Baptist and he pays for their dates. I have no issue with her being Baptist. I have issue with her telling him what he can and cannot do like she's his wife or mother when he's out of sight. I have issue with her asking for spending money in addition to being the benefactor of their dating activities.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:38 PM (doBIb)

538 See, I get that, totally. But all I'm hearing about this chick is that she's a strict Baptist and he pays for their dates.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 12:29 AM (Pfvig)

I don't know the story, don't even need to. My whole point is that if a dude is insisting on being blind to pending doom and refuses to see the dangers of the path they chose they're most likely going off the cliff and no matter how much his friends "talk" to him, or warn him, it just isn't going to sink in until shit hits the fan in a big way.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 08:38 PM (FMbng)

539 there's something very odd about the best friend's wealthy attorney dad bankrolling her lawsuit. So far the judge doesn't seem to be buying her arguments. Guy's name is Lucas Kitzmiller? Any relation to Hal Kitzmiller? He can get you a good deal on a mattress at the Lumbar Yard.

Posted by: Elaine Benes at March 09, 2014 08:40 PM (7A4qQ)

540 He didn't listen to his friends, they never frigging do. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2014 12:20 AM (FMbng) I don't remember seeing you at my brother-in-laws wedding.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 08:40 PM (HxSXm)

541 478 "OK, people, settle down. I want you to sort yourself out by skin color. White people, go over there, under the hammer and sickle. Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2014 12:07 AM (qyomX) That's right. Communism was invented by white people. All those Latin American, African, and Asian commies are guilty of cultural appropriation.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 08:40 PM (sdi6R)

542 About twenty years ago, a guy hit me up for change so he could pay for bus fare the moment I stepped off the bus, myself. Twenty years ago around these parts, there wasn't a lot of that going around. It was possible to walk around downtown (except near a certain park that was a hangout for transients) and not get hit up by a bum for change. Now, forget it. It can happen anywhere, anytime. Even people that don't look like bums will hit up others for change.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 09, 2014 08:40 PM (AQTz3)

543 She said she thought the stepson probably saw the price tag and freaked out. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:32 AM (doBIb) GOOD! A few more things like this and his eyes will be opened! If she's really a gold digger, then I hope it happens sooner than later. But look.... even the driving thing....my first boyfriend drove 2 hours one way to see me, and I'm talking from Atlanta clear up into Deliverance territory, the absolute backwoods of the north GA mountains. And Thor would never, ever let me meet him halfway anywhere, because it usually meant I'd be driving home alone in the dark. My daddy would have pitched a wall-eyed fucking fit if any date of mine expected me to drive anywhere to meet them. Baptists tend to be very traditional, very conservative and definitely think the man should take care of the woman, so y'all may be in for some culture shock. Triple it if she's Southern.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:41 PM (Pfvig)

544 "Parking lot beggars around here always ask for gas money. When you offer to fill up a gas can at a nearby station they walk away."

Last time I got hit up for "gas money" it was by someone who was smoking.

I didn't offer to fill a can for them.

My immediate impulse was to point to his cigarette and say, "Maybe you want to lose that expensive habit. You'll have more money for gas."

I resisted the impulse. I've found that people like this sometimes kick off in violent and unpredictable ways when their life choices are critiqued.

I just said, "Sorry, man, I was laid off and I'm on the short side myself this month. Hey, got a smoke?"

I don't smoke. But just had to ask to see what would happen. He declined to offer me one of his.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2014 08:41 PM (gqT4g)

545 Methinks the Salon writer is jealous; Arab men seemed to prefer white, Christian slaves as belly dancers for centuries and Russian hookers today.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 08:42 PM (4JkHl)

546 #524: Funny enough, that stereotype was broken way back in the 50s by the movie Marty, which was a huge hit.

And the studio (Columbia) had wanted it to fail.

See, Columbia had racked up much better earnings than they'd anticipated that year, so they had a big tax bill coming. They decided that they needed a huge flop they could write off as a big loss. So, they took a script from the American Playhouse TV show, and adapted it to a feature-length film. Then they cast Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair to star in it, figuring nobody would pay money to see a romantic drama starring an "ugly" couple.

But it turned out the film was well-written, and regular people liked seeing people who looked like them on the big screen, so the movie was a big box-office hit and ended up winning the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (only the second American movie to win that particular honor).

It was like a real-life version of The Producers.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:43 PM (/96QU)

547 534 You hurt my heart RWC! You hurt my heart! Posted by: Jmel at March 10, 2014 12:34 AM (cfFqn) Sorry. I really REALLY tried to like the show but got halfway through the first season and just dropped it. Their bug-out position was a campground? Seriously?

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:44 PM (MtC8f)

548 Baptists tend to be very traditional, very conservative and definitely think the man should take care of the woman, so y'all may be in for some culture shock. Triple it if she's Southern. Sanford. See, the thing is, her mother is actually very nice. I've talked with her and got to know her very well. From what I gathered, she was never like her daughter is now.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:45 PM (doBIb)

549 3) there's something very odd about the best friend's wealthy attorney dad bankrolling her lawsuit.

If she's 18 and that's her real pic, I'm not sure odd is the right word for it.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 08:45 PM (4JkHl)

550 Asking for spending money is bad. I will absolutely agree that that should be a huge red flag! (And I wasn't meaning that you cared she was Baptist, I just meant that because she IS one, drinking is a big horrible deal to her) Is this his first serious girl? And he is the one you said has no game? Cuz if this is his first love, I'm thinking that Power of Attorney scenario mentioned above is a damn good one, STAT.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:45 PM (Pfvig)

551 Prothonotary: am I crazy, or did the TV version of "Marty" have a not-so-happy ending, i.e., Marty drove off his girlfriend rather than challenge his own low opinion of himself??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 08:45 PM (HVI5a)

552 To quote: "Find another form of self-expression. Make sure you're not appropriating someone else's." Such as, perhaps, gays insisting upon calling it a marriage?

Honestly, I could care less who hitches their wagon to who, but it strikes me as odd that gays took back the word gay, celebrate the word queer, appropriated every slur as a point of pride, and yet insist that their partnership ceremony be termed the same, which is the whole reason the religious folks are all upset about the deal. Delete the word marriage and substitute something else and nobody cares that gays get the same benefits from the state. Then again, were it not for the tax code there would be little reason for the state to be involved in the first place.

As for belly dancing, she better watch herself -- Americans have the biggest bellies on the planet and we are *not* afraid to use them if necessary!

Posted by: MaxDamage at March 09, 2014 08:45 PM (UgtuZ)

553 In our town here in southern New York all of us call President Obama our "Chocolate Jesus" because he is kind, wise and forgiving just like the white Jesus. We all love him just as much as the white Jesus and proud that he is our political and spiritual leader.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at March 09, 2014 08:46 PM (iB0Q2)

554 He didn't listen to his friends, they never frigging do.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2014 12:20 AM (FMbng)

I don't remember seeing you at my brother-in-laws wedding.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 12:40 AM (HxSXm)

Heh. Or mine...

Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2014 08:46 PM (r/e1Q)

555 545 "Parking lot beggars around here always ask for gas money. When you offer to fill up a gas can at a nearby station they walk away." My favourite is needing some gas money to get to a job interview in the next county over. I don't talk to them anymore. As soon as I hear them say something about helping them with some money I walk away.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:47 PM (doBIb)

556 See, the thing is, her mother is actually very nice. Well, now, that is usually not a bad thing!

Sanford NC?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:47 PM (Pfvig)

557 Still nothing new on the loss of the Malaysian 777 except one Malaysian official asking how could airport security pass people with Asian faces but European passports.

The reported door floating in the water has not been found since its night time sighting. Vietnam is sending more assets in and so are other countries.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 08:47 PM (lnUO4)

558 530 The best ones are the women who need money for a hotel room because the people they were supposed to stay with moved away and the local homeless shelter won't accept families. Of course a lie would never cross her meth damaged teeth.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 12:31 AM (HxSXm)
I wonder what would happen if you offered to take them home and put them up?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 08:48 PM (7FaLu)

559 #552: I'm not sure; I never saw it. And Wikipedia doesn't answer that question.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:49 PM (/96QU)

560 558 The reported door floating in the water has not been found since its night time sighting. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 12:47 AM (lnUO4)
Does aluminum float?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 08:50 PM (7FaLu)

561 Anna: isn't there any way that officials can scan the ocean surface with... something... to see if there's plane segments down there??? Or am I thinking magical movie technology??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 08:50 PM (HVI5a)

562 And regarding the 'homeless' I have never had such a cold heart until TFG was elected. Perhaps in the back of my mind I know that if they did vote, it would be for TFG and that is why I am fine with not even acknowledging them.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:50 PM (MtC8f)

563 EC, a quiet chat with his senior NCO about choices in life and possibilities for some extended TDY training, might be in order.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 08:51 PM (4JkHl)

564 Methinks the Salon writer is jealous; Arab men seemed to prefer white, Christian slaves as belly dancers for centuries and Russian hookers today.

Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2014 12:42 AM (4JkHl)

Well, having seen her picture, she makes a goat look good, so that's understandable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2014 08:51 PM (lrwdQ)

565 If that Salon article is correct, then Shoji Tobuchi has absolutely no business playing country music in his show And the Japanese home islands have no business having two professional baseball leagues and exporting their star players to the U.S. version of the "American" pastime.

Posted by: Basement Cat at March 09, 2014 08:51 PM (53cD3)

566 551 Asking for spending money is bad. I will absolutely agree that that should be a huge red flag! (And I wasn't meaning that you cared she was Baptist, I just meant that because she IS one, drinking is a big horrible deal to her) Is this his first serious girl? And he is the one you said has no game? Cuz if this is his first love, I'm thinking that Power of Attorney scenario mentioned above is a damn good one, STAT. Yes, this is his first and only gf so far. They met when the girl he asked to jr prom turned him down at the last minute and she offered to set him up with one of her friends. I hope it doesn't have to go that far with the PoA stuff.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:52 PM (doBIb)

567 Does aluminum float? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 12:50 AM (7FaLu) With insulation it does.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 08:53 PM (MtC8f)

568 563 And regarding the 'homeless' I have never had such a cold heart until TFG was elected. Perhaps in the back of my mind I know that if they did vote, it would be for TFG and that is why I am fine with not even acknowledging them. Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 12:50 AM (MtC8f) It's cold but I agree. I've had it with TFG supporters.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:53 PM (doBIb)

569 The lack of ELT transmit or that none of the six militarys operating in the area picking up the sound pings from the black boxes is odd.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 08:53 PM (4JkHl)

570 561 Does aluminum float? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 12:50 AM (7FaLu) It's a witch!

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 08:54 PM (sdi6R)

571 Sanford NC? Of course! I'm down the road from you.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:55 PM (doBIb)

572 #566: And this rule would've also kept the awesome Japanese salsa band Orquesta de la Luz from ever forming.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:55 PM (/96QU)

573 "Anna: isn't there any way that officials can scan the ocean surface with... something... to see if there's plane segments down there??? Or am I thinking magical movie technology??"

Some navies have extremely advanced surface search radar on their aviation platforms these days.

The fundamental problem is that someplace like the Gulf of Thailand, there's crap floating everywhere. And really no way to tell the difference between a 777 wing panel and a piece of corrugated tin sheeting that blew off the deckhouse of an old fishing dhow.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2014 08:55 PM (gqT4g)

574 Well, having seen her picture, she makes a goat look good, so that's understandable. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2014 12:51 AM (lrwdQ) Having seen her picture, I doubt she's interested in men, Arab or otherwise.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 08:55 PM (Pfvig)

575 Still nothing new on the loss of the Malaysian 777 except one Malaysian official asking how could airport security pass people with Asian faces but European passports. Immigrants ... family re-unification ... etc ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 08:56 PM (qoKTg)

576 570 The lack of ELT transmit oPosted by: Jean at March 10, 2014 12:53 AM (4JkHl)
Is that the ultrasonic pulses?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 08:56 PM (7FaLu)

577 Does aluminum float? Posted by: Bertram -------------- Hmm. Not sure. But I found out last year that it won't attract a magnet.

Posted by: Barky at March 09, 2014 08:56 PM (aDwsi)

578 Tammy, didn't you use to do a little belly dancing too?

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 08:56 PM (doBIb)

579 The fundamental problem is that someplace like the Gulf of Thailand, there's crap floating everywhere. And really no way to tell the difference between a 777 wing panel and a piece of corrugated tin sheeting that blew off the deckhouse of an old fishing dhow.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 10, 2014 12:55 AM (gqT4g)

Man, isn't that the truth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 08:56 PM (FMbng)

580 The answer is. It depends.

The plane was an hour out and had reached cruising altitude. Then nothing. If it had exploded in mid-air due to a bomb or a structural failure,you typically find debris quickly. For example a 747 leaving Taipei to Hong Kong, aft pressure bulkhead failed due to improper repair and they found a patch of wreckage 45Km from the impact site. Or TWA 800 left a trail of flames and a large debris field as it plunged into the sea.

But the Air France flight from Rio that vanished over the Atlantic impacted the water and most of the airframe went down. Only a few bits like parts of the tail broke free.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 08:57 PM (lnUO4)

581 Continued from #573: And Tito Puente would be an Uncle Tom race-traitor in this video for performing with them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5XTJDiL1U

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 08:57 PM (/96QU)

582 Anna: isn't there any way that officials can scan the ocean surface with... something... to see if there's plane segments down there??? Or am I thinking magical movie technology??
Posted by: qdpsteve

Movie magic, water is a very effective EM insulator and diffuser. Sound is your best bet - which is why the lack of a sonar operator picking up the black box pinger is so odd. Addistionally, there is lots of stuff going on in those waters - lots of boats, oil rigs, fishing set-ups, trash, etc. - all of which is clutter.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 08:57 PM (4JkHl)

583 EC: not saying your son is persuadeable-- he may be too far gone at this stage no matter what-- and you yourself may disagree with author Paul Elam's dark views, but maybe show him this piece from the Men's Rights webpage, A Voice for Men.

http://www.avoiceformen.com/women/men-math-and-marriage/

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 08:58 PM (HVI5a)

584 And here's another piece:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/women/on-marriage/

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 08:58 PM (HVI5a)

585 I want to harvest the sea for food and save millions of people from starvation.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 09, 2014 08:59 PM (V4CBV)

586 584 EC: not saying your son is persuadeable-- he may be too far gone at this stage no matter what-- and you yourself may disagree with author Paul Elam's dark views, but maybe show him this piece from the Men's Rights webpage, A Voice for Men. http://www.avoiceformen.com/women/men-math-and-marriage/ Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2014 12:58 AM (HVI5a) Hey, I drove an 81 Skylark! Thanks!

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:00 PM (doBIb)

587 The lack of ELT transmit oPosted by: Jean at March 10, 2014 12:53 AM (4JkHl)

Is that the ultrasonic pulses?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr

No, its an automatic radio beacon. The sonic pulses are from the black boxes after they are submerged. No ultrasonics.

Posted by: Jean at March 09, 2014 09:00 PM (4JkHl)

588 That Jar-Jar bitch is appropriating our language, electricity, roads, medicine, phones, satellites, aircraft, legal documents, universities, communication equipment, engineering, physics, chemistry, computers and probably sex toys as well.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:00 PM (KWIwL)

589 Call Cordell and Cordell and Cordell and Cordell and Smith.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:00 PM (7FaLu)

590 EC, you're welcome.

FWIW I'm nowhere near as down on marriage as AVFM and the Men's Rights Movement in general is... BUT I do think a lot of people get married for exactly the wrong reasons.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 09:01 PM (HVI5a)

591 Malaysia appropriated our plane. Serves 'em right. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 09:01 PM (aDwsi)

592 Continued from #582: Oh, wow, I hadn't seen this particular version before, with Afro-Cuban singing star Oscar de Leon also joining in. Double race-traitor action! Maybe even triple...

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 09:02 PM (/96QU)

593 562 Anna: isn't there any way that officials can scan the ocean surface with... something... to see if there's plane segments down there??? Or am I thinking magical movie technology?? Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2014 12:50 AM (HVI5a) Sonar, submersible robots. But you have to have a pretty good idea of where what you're looking for could be, because if you don't it's like trying to find a lost screw in a stadium parking lot at night with the flashlight from your keychain It took years and numerous attempts to find the Titanic, which was huge, fairly intact, and the coordinates of the distress call were a matter of history The ocean really is fucking HUGE, it's hard enough to find shit on the surface without a radio transmitter or EPIRB, so it goes without saying that finding shit underwater is exponentially harder

Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2014 09:02 PM (aTXUx)

594 Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:52 AM (doBIb) Oh, honey. We went through this with Thor's nephew...and the girl wasn't even a bad girl, per se, she just kind of strung him along in the sense that she'd break up with him for someone new, then call him up again when that guy dumped her... and this went on for years. Only thing that finally cut the chord was a new girl. And that was after he went on an 18 month mission trip to get away from her. Good luck! I hope it's just that she's a typical Southern girl who is anxious to get married and raise a family. And keep in mind, you're stepson is in the military, so he's naturally chivalrous and wants to protect and provide for his love. I really like the idea of an auto-deposit savings acct, and at least mentioning the PoA, in the most innocent way, just to get him thinking and maybe show her true colors if they're bad. I've got a cousin in Sanford, I could make a discreet inquiry, perhaps.....

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:02 PM (Pfvig)

595 FWIW I'm nowhere near as down on marriage as AVFM and the Men's Rights Movement in general is... BUT I do think a lot of people get married for exactly the wrong reasons. I'm sure my stepson loves her, but he's got no clue what's going to happen after they get married.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:02 PM (doBIb)

596 Yeah when I was 20 I thought my 20 year old boyfriend was going to give me "special jewelry" too. Guess what-he didn't. No one's parents panicked; they just reminded us that we had all the time in the world and let us grow out of it on our own. If she's not actively stealing from him, back off and let him figure out women for himself, unless he comes to you for advice. You trying to find a way to telling him he can't have a girlfriend who tells him not to drink is not one iota better than him having a girlfriend who tells him not to drink. He's old enough to die for his country, he's old enough to manage his own relationships. He might screw it up but that's the only way he'll learn. Just gently remind him that you're not ready to be a grandfather and let the rest work itself out.

Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at March 09, 2014 09:03 PM (Gk2GE)

597 Which Baptist church does she belong to? I recall there being quite a few....

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:03 PM (Pfvig)

598 Hey, good to see you here again, Miss Tammy!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 09:03 PM (/96QU)

599 And for everyone else, here's the money section from Paul Elam's anti-marriage article at AVFM.

"The fact of the matter is that in modern culture men are better off downing ten shots of tequila and walking blindfolded through a mine field. The odds are better.
Think about it for a moment. Marriage is quite literally an investment of not only your heart, but all of your work, income and future income, especially when children are involved. Now, if an investment broker told you he had a deal in which you could invest, and there was more than a 50% chance that you would be wiped out and spend most of the rest of your life paying the margin call or going to jail, how much would you invest?

Well?

Oh, come on now, you might be saying. ItÂ’s not fair to reduce the institution of marriage into a financial equation. Well, yes it is. Believe me, if the woman you marry doesnÂ’t heavily consider your income prior to saying yes, she is the infinitesimal exception. And for those of you who still think it is natural and right for a man to be the breadwinner and the head of the family, please know that would be the same head that gets lobbed off in the family court where more than half of you will end up.

And even if you donÂ’t think, for who knows what reasons, that marriage isnÂ’t in large part a financial arrangement, you better believe that divorce is. Reducing holy matrimony to assets and liabilities is precisely what family courts are designed to do. And they do it with brutal efficiency. If you walk in to one of those places as a man in western culture, you will find that out in the most sobering ways imaginable.

Your experience there will leave you with a mental block. You wonÂ’t even be able to say the words Â“family courtÂ” again, for they will find you, shivering in the corner, mumbling incoherently about Â”that place.Â”"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 09:03 PM (HVI5a)

600 Sanford? Uh, oh. * ponders misspent youth *

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 09:03 PM (aDwsi)

601 I've got a cousin in Sanford, I could make a discreet inquiry, perhaps..... I remember you have connections all over NC!

Thanks Tammy!

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:04 PM (doBIb)

602 598 Which Baptist church does she belong to? I recall there being quite a few.... Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:03 AM (Pfvig) Don't know. I can find out. Can't be Freewill because she dances.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:05 PM (doBIb)

603 588 No, its an automatic radio beacon. The sonic pulses are from the black boxes after they are submerged. No ultrasonics.Posted by: Jean at March 10, 2014 01:00 AM (4JkHl)
Heard some guy on TV talking about pulses at 37kHz being picked up by something. That's ultrasonic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:05 PM (7FaLu)

604 Night all. Here is "Down Through The Night" by Hawkwind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoA8zu1ZTSI

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2014 09:05 PM (AymDN)

605 Thanks Bing, searching Malaysian airliner and one of its suggestions based on that is Malaysian hair.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 09:05 PM (lnUO4)

606 If you would like to have sex please acknowled verbally as well as thus written staement that must be signed in triplicate as well as being notorized. http://tinyurl.com/krnz3q7 In endorsing a bill in the California legislature that would require Â“affirmative consentÂ” before sex can occur on campus, the editorial boards of the Sacramento and Fresno Bee and the Daily Californian advocated that sex be treated as Â“sexual assaultÂ” unless the participants discuss it Â“out loudÂ” before sex, and Â“demonstrate they obtained verbal Â‘affirmative consent.'

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 09:08 PM (MtC8f)

607 I'm out. On the topic of girl friends, Pamela Brown, by Leo Kottke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cweBs-tdaA

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 09, 2014 09:08 PM (aDwsi)

608 Some people fail a belly dancing class, they try bicycling our yoga. Others turn to writing.... Â§ Good evening, briefly. Anybody seen an hour? I seem to have lost one.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at March 09, 2014 09:09 PM (WgBz9)

609 Warbler, hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:09 PM (Pfvig)

610 One quarter of his bimonthly take home pay on gas is IMO abnormal. She's got a car. She's able to drive. But it never occurs to her that she meet him at our house and save him the 2 hours of driving to her town first to pick her up and drive another hour and a half to our house. Why can't she drive and save him some hassle? He's got to do the reverse when he has to return to his base. She has been making noise about a ring. It's ever so cute the way she does it. My stepson talks about things he will get for us when he returns from deployment like t-shirts and whatnot. She asks, "and what will I get? Maybe some special jewelry???" *big grin* I know the two of them recently went to a jewelry store. My wife noticed that when they returned, the gf's eyes were red like she he been crying. She said she thought the stepson probably saw the price tag and freaked out. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 12:32 AM (doBIb) Ahhh, he has sniffed the scent of a woman. This little bint knows how to play a man, but you need to learn how to play her. She is trying to make sure that she turns your stepson against his family and that she is the only one actually looking out for him. If you want to drive this whore from his life, then you need to buddy up with her. Act like she is your best friend, call her and cry about how much you miss your stepson, she will beat feet away from him hasta pronto. This plan will work even better if he gets deployed overseas because at that point she is going to be looking for someone else to be her "man" while he is away, and if his mama is around, that will put a huge crimp in her style. The other thing she wants is the "fairytale" Marine wedding. She wants her husband in his dress uniform up there with all the groomsmen in their unis. My wife had a coworker whose daughter was like this girl. She made her boyfriend join the Marine Reserves so that he would have the uniform for their wedding, and his groomsmen couldn't be his brothers, they had to be some of his reserve unit's members. That marriage lasted 9 months.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2014 09:09 PM (HxSXm)

611 In endorsing a bill in the California legislature that would require Â“affirmative consentÂ” before sex can occur on campus, the editorial boards of the Sacramento and Fresno Bee and the Daily Californian advocated that sex be treated as Â“sexual assaultÂ” unless the participants discuss it Â“out loudÂ” before sex, and Â“demonstrate they obtained verbal Â‘affirmative consent.' Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 01:08 AM (MtC8f) Another good reason to spay or neuter your California college students.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:10 PM (KWIwL)

612 603 598 Which Baptist church does she belong to? I recall there being quite a few....
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:03 AM (Pfvig)

Don't know. I can find out.

Can't be Freewill because she dances.

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:05 AM (doBIb)

Just makes me think of a joke.

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up? Because it might lead to dancing.

Posted by: buzzion at March 09, 2014 09:10 PM (LI48c)

613 609 Some people fail a belly dancing class, they try bicycling our yoga. (WgBz9)
Only Wascist Wepublicans.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:10 PM (7FaLu)

614 Wrap that rascal with a writ!

Posted by: Safer Sex Esquire at March 09, 2014 09:10 PM (FbMva)

615 The ocean really is fucking HUGE, it's hard enough to find shit on the surface without a radio transmitter or EPIRB, so it goes without saying that finding shit underwater is exponentially harder

Posted by: kbdabear at March 10, 2014 01:02 AM (aTXUx)

The black box is supposed to start sending out sonar pulses when it's exposed to water. But in one of the articles I was reading it was mentioned that if the black box is still deep within the fuselage the range of the pulses is much reduced. Plus given that the plane may have deviated from its flight path the search area is hundreds of square miles of ocean.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 09:10 PM (XkotV)

616 The most bizarre thing about e-cigs is that they caused Amanda Marcotte (yes, that Amanda Marcotte) to write a column that was logical and rational and that I agree with completely. When I read it and checked to make sure that it was indeed her, I had the weirdest feeling, like I had just heard the color blue, it was like something fundamental was wrong with the universe. As for actual e-cigs, I'm very much in favor, they keep me from sucking on those damn burning dicks I'm addicted to. Here's the article if anyone cares: slate.me/1q7jqzT

Posted by: Weirddave at March 09, 2014 09:11 PM (N/cFh)

617 Well, my kin are Freewill, or possibly Old Regular, I can't keep track, but all them Baptists know one another, so I'll ask. Are you on the Yahoo thing? Send me her last name?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:11 PM (Pfvig)

618 And Maet avoids the Barrel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 09:12 PM (lnUO4)

619 Another good reason to spay or neuter your California college students. Posted by: model_1066 at March 10, 2014 01:10 AM (KWIwL) Bob Barker can put out the PSA.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 09:12 PM (MtC8f)

620 619 And Maet avoids the Barrel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 01:12 AM (lnUO4)

And I'm usually so careful.... :-(

Well I blame society. And George Bush.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 09:13 PM (XkotV)

621 One ping only Vasiliy.

Posted by: RWC at March 09, 2014 09:14 PM (MtC8f)

622 615 Wrap that rascal with a writ!
Posted by: Safer Sex Esquire at March 10, 2014 01:10 AM (FbMva)
Sounds like Rooster Cogburn talking to a rat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:14 PM (7FaLu)

623 Given all the talk of marriage and family law and dudes gettin' took, this song seems like an appropriate bit of mood music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiCIyYKJu20

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 09:14 PM (/96QU)

624 Some other group appropriated your tags perhaps Maet?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 09:14 PM (lnUO4)

625 If you want to drive this whore from his life, then you need to buddy up with her. Act like she is your best friend, call her and cry about how much you miss your stepson, she will beat feet away from him hasta pronto. This plan will work even better if he gets deployed overseas because at that point she is going to be looking for someone else to be her "man" while he is away, and if his mama is around, that will put a huge crimp in her style. No thanks. She is dead set on marrying him and I know she is devoted. She likes the idea of being a Marine girlfriend/wife. I wonder how she will feel when he's done with his service and he's a civilian.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:16 PM (doBIb)

626 10:15, already? Where does the time go?!?!?

Well, I know where it went in this case -- some Washington BASTARDS done come and took it!

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:16 PM (T1005)

627 618 Well, my kin are Freewill, or possibly Old Regular, I can't keep track, but all them Baptists know one another, so I'll ask. Are you on the Yahoo thing? Send me her last name? Not on the Yahoo thing.

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:16 PM (doBIb)

628 Was looking over some TV ratings. Good reminder how low rated even a hit TV show is these days. If you can get 1% of Americans to watch (3M) on cable, that makes you a top 20 show on cable. If you are true hit like Walking Dead, you get 4%. Same thing with syndicated TV shows (Jeopardy, Wheel of Furtune, Judge Judy). 1% gets you in the top 25. 3-4% makes you the best in the industry. On broadcast, the big networks average about 3% in primetime. You need 2-3% to get in the top 25. And a #1 show like Big Bang Theory or NCIS can pull 5%. Above that you need special events like the Olympics or the Oscars.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:17 PM (ZPrif)

629 Saturday Night Live, for example, got about 1% of Americans to watch last night.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:17 PM (ZPrif)

630 629 Was looking over some TV ratings. Good reminder how low rated even a hit TV show is these days. If you can get 1% of Americans to watch (3M) on cable, that makes you a top 20 show on cable. If you are true hit like Walking Dead, you get 4%. Same thing with syndicated TV shows (Jeopardy, Wheel of Furtune, Judge Judy). 1% gets you in the top 25. 3-4% makes you the best in the industry. On broadcast, the big networks average about 3% in primetime. You need 2-3% to get in the top 25. And a #1 show like Big Bang Theory or NCIS can pull 5%. Above that you need special events like the Olympics or the Oscars. Explain "Girls".

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:18 PM (doBIb)

631 She likes the idea of being a Marine girlfriend/wife. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:16 AM (doBIb) Don't we all, sugar, don't we all.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:18 PM (Pfvig)

632 Ok, I'm out. Thanks for listening to my story y'all. Good night!

Posted by: EC at March 09, 2014 09:19 PM (doBIb)

633 I tried reading all the comments here as I usually do. No way. Just too old and tired, had to work today. Can anyone give a quick summary?

Posted by: The Farmer at March 09, 2014 09:19 PM (eBupg)

634 Just found a can of corned beef in the pantry. Tucked in an upper cabinet. Good until 2017. What makes me pause is printed clearly on the label it says "packed in natural juices." Corned beef has natural juices?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 09:19 PM (lnUO4)

635 629 Above that you need special events like the Olympics or the Oscars.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 01:17 AM (ZPrif)
How about an olympic oscar quiz show hosted by a judge?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:20 PM (7FaLu)

636 Good night EC, yes it is bed time. Ciao.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2014 09:20 PM (lnUO4)

637 Daily Show and Colbert Report get about 0.5% of Americans to watch. Of the late night shows, only The Tonight Show gets above 1%.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:20 PM (ZPrif)

638 626 If you want to drive this whore from his life, then you need to buddy up with her. Act like she is your best friend, call her and cry about how much you miss your stepson, she will beat feet away from him hasta pronto. This plan will work even better if he gets deployed overseas because at that point she is going to be looking for someone else to be her "man" while he is away, and if his mama is around, that will put a huge crimp in her style.

No thanks. She is dead set on marrying him and I know she is devoted. She likes the idea of being a Marine girlfriend/wife. I wonder how she will feel when he's done with his service and he's a civilian.

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:16 AM (doBIb) Hide posts from (doBIb)

Maybe you're thinking about the solution for this in the wrong way....would it be possible to teach her about budgets and fiscal responsibility?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:21 PM (T1005)

639 Well, darn it, how we gonna do this? Do you ever email with anyone who IS in the Yahoo group? I don't want her name or my email as spam bait here.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:21 PM (Pfvig)

640 635 Corned beef has natural juices?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 01:19 AM (lnUO4)
"Natural" covers a lot of territory.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:22 PM (7FaLu)

641 Hey cthulu!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:22 PM (Pfvig)

642 Hiya, TAMMY!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:23 PM (T1005)

643 humans! I'm done. pax

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at March 09, 2014 09:23 PM (Vs6FA)

644 "pingPONG...pingPONG..." Vietnamese corvette captain: "What's that?" Sonar guy: "That's the American submarine looking for the wreck" "pongPING...pongPING..." Captain: "And what's THAT?" Sonarman: "That's the Chinese submarine tailing him" "plongPONG...plongPONG..." Captain: "And that one?" Sonarman: "That's the other American sub tailing the Chinese submarine" Captain: "Damn, it's crowded down there"

Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2014 09:23 PM (o+SC1)

645 632 She likes the idea of being a Marine girlfriend/wife. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:16 AM (doBIb) Don't we all, sugar, don't we all. Must... Be..... Silent......

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 09, 2014 09:25 PM (r2mIz)

646 Navycopjoe at March 10, 2014 01:25 AM (r2mIz) Discretion is the better part of valor ... : -))

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 09:26 PM (qoKTg)

647 Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 10, 2014 01:25 AM (r2mIz) It's okay, squid, you're among friends. We understand. No shame in wanting one of your own.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:27 PM (Pfvig)

648 So, cthulu, speaking of women being dead set on getting married...... how goes it? You keeping her away from the bridal magazines?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:28 PM (Pfvig)

649 Well, I don't hold with the opinion that just because somebody has stupid or objectionable ideas, it means that they are physically ugly. Randa has a pretty face. Nice hair, too. There, I said it. http://tinyurl.com/lxn78je

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 09:29 PM (sdi6R)

650 Sorry, but if you try to use active sonar to find the Wreck, we will sue... Because... whales...

Posted by: PETA at March 09, 2014 09:29 PM (84gbM)

651 Rick, you're right, that is a much prettier picture of her than the one someone posted above. And she has beautiful eyes.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:30 PM (Pfvig)

652

uhuhuhuh uhuhuhuh... she said "packed in natural juices." uh huhuhuh

Posted by: butthead at March 09, 2014 09:30 PM (9gNQd)

653 If a cable channel can average just 1/3rd of 1% of Americans watching -- that puts it in the top 10. And that's primetime. AMC and TNT, #4 and #5 highest rated cable TV networks. Both average half a percent in primetime.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:32 PM (ZPrif)

654 imho, the courts ARE stacked against men in general when it comes to divorce. Of course, I'm unsure exactly how that plays out when it is two married men though.

"Okay, whose the bottom? And don't say Obama, or it'll be 30 days in the clink for contempt of the fuckhead in chief."

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:36 PM (cHZB7)

655 uhuhuhuh uhuhuhuh... she said "packed in natural juices." uh huhuhuh Posted by: butthead at March 10, 2014 01:30 AM (9gNQd) that right... and don't let those Commies pollute your Natural Juices!

Posted by: Gen. Buck Turgidson at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (84gbM)

656 uhuhuhuh uhuhuhuh... she said "packed in natural juices." uh huhuhuh Posted by: butthead at March 10, 2014 01:30 AM (9gNQd) that right... and don't let those Commies pollute your Natural Juices!

Posted by: Gen. Buck Turgidson at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (84gbM)

657 You keeping her away from the bridal magazines?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:28 AM (Pfvig)
I like the center fold.

Posted by: Mister Ed at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (7FaLu)

658 You keeping her away from the bridal magazines?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:28 AM (Pfvig)
I like the center fold.

Posted by: Mister Ed at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (7FaLu)

659 Vanity, Vanity ... All is Vanity ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (qoKTg)

660 Vanity, Vanity ... All is Vanity ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 09:37 PM (qoKTg)

661 641 635 Corned beef has natural juices? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 01:19 AM (lnUO4) "Natural" covers a lot of territory. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 01:22 AM (7FaLu) Indeed...it's about as sensible as 'organic sewage' or 'fresh carpet lint'.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (KWIwL)

662 641 635 Corned beef has natural juices? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 01:19 AM (lnUO4) "Natural" covers a lot of territory. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 01:22 AM (7FaLu) Indeed...it's about as sensible as 'organic sewage' or 'fresh carpet lint'.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (KWIwL)

663 Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2014 01:36 AM (cHZB7) Wait.... if they are Lesbians... do they BOTH win?

Posted by: Romeo13, looking confused... at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (84gbM)

664 Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2014 01:36 AM (cHZB7) Wait.... if they are Lesbians... do they BOTH win?

Posted by: Romeo13, looking confused... at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (84gbM)

665 that right... and don't let those Commies pollute your Natural Juices!

Posted by: Gen. Buck Turgidson at March 10, 2014 01:37 AM

heheheh eh heheh... yeah, yeah, I got some meat that's full of natural juices... heheheh eh heheh...

Posted by: beavis at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (9gNQd)

666 that right... and don't let those Commies pollute your Natural Juices!

Posted by: Gen. Buck Turgidson at March 10, 2014 01:37 AM

heheheh eh heheh... yeah, yeah, I got some meat that's full of natural juices... heheheh eh heheh...

Posted by: beavis at March 09, 2014 09:38 PM (9gNQd)

667 WHOA! 6.9 earthquake off the California coast near Eureka.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 09, 2014 09:39 PM (mETGQ)

668 WHOA! 6.9 earthquake off the California coast near Eureka.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 09, 2014 09:39 PM (mETGQ)

669 >> Just found a can of corned beef in the pantry. Tucked in an upper cabinet. Good until 2017...

Try finding a Hawaiian and swap for a can of Spam. The Spam tastes better.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:39 PM (cHZB7)

670 >> Just found a can of corned beef in the pantry. Tucked in an upper cabinet. Good until 2017...

Try finding a Hawaiian and swap for a can of Spam. The Spam tastes better.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:39 PM (cHZB7)

671 Tribbles are trouble.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:41 PM (cHZB7)

672 Somebody asked about HBO's "Girls". That gets about 800k viewers. So about 0.25% of Americans watch. A quarter of a percent. On the plus side for Girls it skews young, so does better in the 18-49 demographic that advertisers care about. So last Sunday Girls at 10pm on HBO got only half the total viewers as a Law and Order rerun on TNT at 7am -- but the same # of 18-49 year olds. Girls had the same youthful skew as the Friends rerun on TBS at 10 am.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:41 PM (ZPrif)

673 Well folks, gotta sign off. Thanks for the great chat tonight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 09:41 PM (HVI5a)

674 Try finding a Hawaiian and swap for a can of Spam. The Spam tastes better.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 10, 2014 01:39 AM (cHZB7)
Must it be Hawaiian Spam?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:41 PM (7FaLu)

675 There's been a glitch in The Matrix.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:41 PM (cHZB7)

676 Ah geez, of course I would inadvertently steal THAT spot. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 09:42 PM (HVI5a)

677 Hmmm...350 miles away.... didn't feel a thing...

Posted by: Romeo13, looking confused... at March 09, 2014 09:42 PM (84gbM)

678 6.9. Jesus. that's a biggun'

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:42 PM (Pfvig)

679 649 So, cthulu, speaking of women being dead set on getting married...... how goes it? You keeping her away from the bridal magazines? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:28 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)

I think she's still in shock. She had herself this series of strawmen set up.

She is watching house-hunting reality shows, which I like to see.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:42 PM (T1005)

680 free range tapeworms non-GMO cryptosporidium fair trade herpes

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:42 PM (KWIwL)

681 Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 01:42 AM (T1005) Oooh, good! Did you get any news on the quake up north??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:44 PM (Pfvig)

682 #655: You think that's bad? Wait until presumptive paternity collides with a lesbian marriage.

"Sorry, Margaret, but by the laws of this state you are the father of your wife's child. Yeah, she cheated on you, but suck it up and pay your child support like a man."

Oh, who am I kidding? Lesbians will obviously be declared exempt from presumptive paternity, because to do otherwise would be to accept that it's bullshit and have to start exempting cuckolded men from it, too.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 09:44 PM (/96QU)

683 658 Vanity, Vanity ... All is Vanity ... Posted by: Adriane... at March 10, 2014 01:37 AM (qoKTg) Hide posts from (qoKTg)

I mentioned on an ONT recently that it's my favorite book in the Bible.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:44 PM (T1005)

684 Last thought for the evening: ooh, sounds icky re the NorCal earthquake. Hope none of the aging hippies accidentally fell on their hair.

Okay, gotta go.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2014 09:44 PM (HVI5a)

685 667 >> Must it be Hawaiian Spam?

I bought a six pack of Hormel corned beef right after Katrina; I tried six different methods to make that shit edible and none of them worked.

I forgot to try baiting a trap with it and seeing if I couldn't catch a few rats with it.

mmmm, ratburgers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:44 PM (cHZB7)

686 You know what I really hate? White guys playing the blues. Now that's a bad deal, man. Are you just as upset when a black guy uses the toilet?

Posted by: fred at March 09, 2014 09:45 PM (I2IdM)

687 662 WHOA!
6.9 earthquake off the California coast near Eureka. Posted by: YIKES! at March 10, 2014 01:39 AM (mETGQ) Hide posts from (mETGQ)

Holy carp!!! They could also get tsunami from that.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:46 PM (T1005)

688 Warbler, I think Melissa Etheridge pays support, but she may just have done so on her own, with no court. She has several kids with several women, IIRC. I don't think David Crosby has to pay!

I wonder if they would have made him, if someone took him to court? Probably.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:46 PM (Pfvig)

689 How much you wanna bet the Malaysian Air plane was shot down by a Chinese fighter for violating chinese airspace which is why noone wants to talk about it? Why am I the only one who thought of this???

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 09:47 PM (b7yum)

690 Night steve! My Aunt Betty used to live in Fortuna, I should probably call her. Don't know if she sold their house, though.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:47 PM (Pfvig)

691 674 Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 01:42 AM (T1005)

Oooh, good!

Did you get any news on the quake up north?? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 01:44 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)

I was slammin' things around getting ready for the cleaning ladies tomorrow and didn't feel a thing. The news I got was here when I started to catch up.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:47 PM (T1005)

692 " How much you wanna bet the Malaysian Air plane was shot down by a Chinese fighter for violating chinese airspace"

Why would the chicoms shoot down a regular flight to chicommuna?

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 09, 2014 09:48 PM (nkPV9)

693 670 Hmmm...350 miles away.... didn't feel a thing... Posted by: Romeo13, looking confused... at March 10, 2014 01:42 AM (84gbM) Same here. Certainly got the attention of the people in the immediate vicinity.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 09, 2014 09:49 PM (mETGQ)

694 Once there was only dark. Ask me, the light's winning.

Posted by: Rust Cohle at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (k8m83)

695 682 How much you wanna bet the Malaysian Air plane was shot down by a Chinese fighter for violating chinese airspace which is why noone wants to talk about it? Why am I the only one who thought of this??? Posted by: MAx at March 10, 2014 01:47 AM (b7yum) Hide posts from (b7yum)

It had crossed my mind.....especially because the Malaysian Air colors are red, white, and blue.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (T1005)

696 655 Frankly I was very surprised how reasonable and equitable the court tried to be in my recent CA. divorce

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (b7yum)

697 Why am I the only one who thought of this??? Posted by: MAx at March 10, 2014 01:47 AM (b7yum) Because they lost the plane SOUTH of Viet Nam? No where near Chinese Air space?

Posted by: Romeo13, looking confused... at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (84gbM)

698 My Aunt Betty used to live in Fortuna, I should probably call her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWpZ-Y_KvU

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (qoKTg)

699 On the plus side for Girls it skews young, so does better in the 18-49 demographic that advertisers care about.

So last Sunday Girls at 10pm on HBO got only half the total viewers as a Law and Order rerun on TNT at 7am -- but the same # of 18-49 year olds.

Girls had the same youthful skew as the Friends rerun on TBS at 10 am.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 01:41 AM (ZPrif)

HBO doesn't run commercials. Ratings and demographics for the show Girls doesn't mean jack shit to advertisers because they don't run ads on HBO.

Posted by: buzzion at March 09, 2014 09:50 PM (LI48c)

700 685 " How much you wanna bet the Malaysian Air plane was shot down by a Chinese fighter for violating chinese airspace" Why would the chicoms shoot down a regular flight to chicommuna? Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 10, 2014 01:48 AM (nkPV9) Probably a malfunction...made in China, you see.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 09:51 PM (KWIwL)

701 Adriane!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 09:52 PM (Pfvig)

702 Ya know, our presnit is sooo wunnerful -- He can vacation and play golf and still lead the free world effectively all at the same time.

Or so I've heard. I need some valiums.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 09:52 PM (cHZB7)

703

693 Why would they let their J-8 be taken down by 4-engine prop plane?

Inscrutable they say

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 09:53 PM (b7yum)

704 #650

Ugh. She has facial cellulite. How fat do you have to be for that?

Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2014 09:53 PM (bPxS6)

705 Miss Tammy!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 09:54 PM (qoKTg)

706 690 Back in my dad's day that was American airspace

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 09:54 PM (b7yum)

707 682 How much you wanna bet the Malaysian Air plane was shot down by a Chinese fighter for violating chinese airspace which is why noone wants to talk about it? Why am I the only one who thought of this??? Posted by: MAx at March 10, 2014 01:47 AM (b7yum) Um, most of the passengers on board were Chinese. Also, it went down between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 09:55 PM (sdi6R)

708 #692

That is where product placement comes in.

Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2014 09:55 PM (bPxS6)

709 Attracting a younger audience and getting mainstream PR for being "edgy", however, is valuable to HBO.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:55 PM (ZPrif)

710 Um, most of the passengers on board were Chinese.

Also, it went down between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2014 01:55 AM (sdi6R)

Forget it - he's rolling.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 09, 2014 09:55 PM (XkotV)

711 You think that's bad? Wait until presumptive paternity collides with a lesbian marriage.Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2014 01:44 AM (/96QU)
I'm my own grandpa.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2014 09:56 PM (7FaLu)

712 I ain't noways tarred. That's going to be a problem when I have to get up for work in the morning.

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 09:56 PM (sdi6R)

713 559 530 The best ones are the women who need money for a hotel room because the people they were supposed to stay with moved away and the local homeless shelter won't accept families. Of course a lie would never cross her meth damaged teeth. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 12:31 AM (HxSXm) I wonder what would happen if you offered to take them home and put them up? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 10, 2014 12:48 AM (7FaLu) I would wake up with the TVs stolen, my wife's jewelry box empty, and them cooking meth in the kitchen.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 09, 2014 09:58 PM (HxSXm)

714 Actually the possibility of some fuck up of Vietnamese, or even Chinese, air defenses is non-zero. With China the scenario might be some dumbass training exercise that locked on the plane with what was supposed to be a disabled missile or something. Stupid things like that have happened.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2014 09:59 PM (ZPrif)

715 I would wake up with the TVs stolen, my wife's jewelry box empty, and them cooking meth in the kitchen. A missing kidney needs to get worked in there somewhere ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:00 PM (qoKTg)

716 I dunno, didn't they say they plane had been in a crash previously? I think it's possible the darn thing just fell apart. And stolen passports are probably a dime a dozen in Malaysia; they're like the illegal aliens of the entire world. I wouldn't be surprised if it were terrorism, I'm just saying it could have just cracked up along a previous fault line, so to speak.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:01 PM (Pfvig)

717 More Cosmos, re the 1400s, when both sides of the world met, "for good or ill."

So the messages are, humans are tiny and insignificant part of the cosmos, and the discoveries of the 1400-1500s was bad. And TFG and Neil are super cool progressives.

F-U Neil Tyson and the dinosaur you rode in on.

Posted by: pj at March 09, 2014 10:01 PM (ZWaLo)

718 "6.9 earthquake off the California coast near Eureka."

As with cthulhu, here in the Bay Area, noticed absolutely nothing. We are attentive enough to notice little 2.x tremors that many people figure is a truck in the street outside, but from this, nada.

A 6.9 on land at the wrong place could really tear some shit up.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2014 10:03 PM (gqT4g)

719

Oh well I looked at a map and you're right it looks unlikely

Or maybe that's just what THEY WANT YOU TO THINK

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 10:04 PM (b7yum)

720 F-U Neil Tyson and the dinosaur you rode in on. Feed him to the Scarrans!!! That'll learn him!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:04 PM (qoKTg)

721 I'm out for the evening. I'll leave you guys with a disgusting bit of "art appropriation" from Blondie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 09, 2014 10:08 PM (/96QU)

722 >> I would wake up with the TVs stolen, my wife's jewelry box empty, and them cooking meth in the kitchen.

In other words, just another day at the White House.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 10:09 PM (cHZB7)

723 Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2014 02:08 AM (/96QU) He He! Good Night, Pdaddy Warbler ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:11 PM (qoKTg)

724 703 Um, most of the passengers on board were Chinese.

Also, it went down between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2014 01:55 AM (sdi6R)

Forget it - he's rolling.
Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 10, 2014 01:55 AM (XkotV) Hide posts from (XkotV)

So, Maet....got a couple of nosy-parker questions for you.

I'm kind of assuming that there's some sort of roster where one or more cobs keeps track of commenters on threads at the HQ. Not like it's the nuclear football or anything, but you can have dinner then check the ONT, then watch a movie and check the ONT, then score with the hot chick you were taking to dinner and a movie.....and check the ONT. Then, of course, have this huge emotional scene because she thinks you're one of those stunted individuals who is addicted to the internet, and she decides she never wants to see you again and storms out....and you check the ONT. Is this more or less how it works?

What would you think about a particular ritual for passing contact info? Two people could be talking to each other, and one could say, "O Great and Glorious COB monitoring this thread.....I, windowlicker, am sending my email to you in hopes it might be forwarded to fellow commenter "gridlysnoop". Where gridlysnoop might comment, "O Great and Glorious COB monitoring this thread....pray forward me the email sent to you by windowlicker."

The usual caveats would apply, of course -- it may happen in a timely fashion, or not, or perhaps not at all, depending on the hotness of the chick the COB just got dumped by, or whether a 6.9 earthquake caused the COB to be headed toward higher ground. But it seems like it would be a more reliable, more time-efficient, more secure way of doing things than the current "dancing about and leaving each other clues and rebuses" method.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:13 PM (T1005)

725 709 I dunno, didn't they say they plane had been in a crash previously? I think it's possible the darn thing just fell apart. And stolen passports are probably a dime a dozen in Malaysia; they're like the illegal aliens of the entire world. .... Two passports stolen in separate incidents in Thailand were used to buy two tickets at the same time at the same agency. Despite the fact that they were purchased together, one of the tickets had a final destination of Germany, the other Amsterdam. Booking tickets through China rather than TO China meant that they didnt have to meet the same security protocols. Fishy doesn't begin to cover it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 09, 2014 10:14 PM (DmNpO)

726 Tammy: I read that it had suffered a damaged wingtip in a taxiing accident. There have been a number of plane crashes that were traced back to faulty repair jobs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123

Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2014 10:14 PM (sdi6R)

727 We are attentive enough to notice little 2.x tremors that... I tend to ignore anything lower than 5, and I usually don't even notice anything happened if it's 4 or lower.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 09, 2014 10:18 PM (AQTz3)

728 cthulhu: Do you receive the AoS e-mails? They frequently contain methods of responding to particular commenters.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 09, 2014 10:19 PM (FlRtG)

729 721
cthulhu:

Do you receive the AoS e-mails? They frequently contain methods of responding to particular commenters.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 10, 2014 02:19 AM (FlRtG) Hide posts from (FlRtG)

I used to get digests, but those disappeared after a while. There are semi-regular emails?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:20 PM (T1005)

730 rickl at March 10, 2014 02:14 AM (sdi6R) I thought those were fuselage repairs v. a wingtip repair, but it's been a while ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:22 PM (qoKTg)

731 721
cthulhu:

Do you receive the AoS e-mails? They frequently contain methods of responding to particular commenters.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 10, 2014 02:19 AM (FlRtG) Hide posts from (FlRtG)

And, BTW, didn't you used to tease your babysitters when you were a kid?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:22 PM (T1005)

732 For once I check the USGS site and there was just a somewhat medium sized quake off of US. Did it just happen in last hour or so. or am I misreading the UTC conversion?

Posted by: Baldy at March 09, 2014 10:25 PM (2bql3)

733 NDH, that does sound fishy. Not so much the different destinations, because I can see, say, parents buying tickets for two daughters going to different countries to work, and maybe going through China was cheaper, but combined with the stolen passports it's a whole lot weirder. rick, a wingtip fissure wouldn't disable radio communication, though, would it? I was thinking maybe it was something on the front of the plane that would take the pilots out immediately.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:25 PM (Pfvig)

734 You will all be pleased to know that TFG managed 'to squeeze in' another round of golf yesterday before ending his latest vaca.

Things like that keep me up late at night. That, and the porn.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 09, 2014 10:26 PM (cHZB7)

735 I used to get digests, but those disappeared after a while. There are semi-regular emails?!?!? Hat sends out a collection of his links about once per week. When the blog is down, like over the last 2 or so days, there are many e-mails. And, BTW, didn't you used to tease your babysitters when you were a kid? You mean like "Torpedo tube ready, Cap'n." ?

Posted by: Arbalest at March 09, 2014 10:27 PM (FlRtG)

736 This is the quake being discussed -- http://tinyurl.com/m5tg659

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (T1005)

737 You will all be pleased to know that TFG managed 'to squeeze in' another round of golf yesterday before ending his latest vaca. Things like that keep me up late at night. That, and the porn. I hope like hell you meant golf p0rn and not TFG 'squeeze' p0rn ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:28 PM (qoKTg)

738 The earthquake was not what I'd consider to be medium sized, but maybe it is in geological circles! 6.9, far northern CA.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:29 PM (Pfvig)

739 I don't think I've ever been cool enough to get e-mails.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2014 10:30 PM (qyfb5)

740 I still get the Yahoo digest, but I think my ability to reply has gone wonky.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:30 PM (Pfvig)

741 Dark Lord! You haz to sign up fer 'em, join the Yahoo Group..

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:31 PM (Pfvig)

742 Randa Jarrar, thinks it's horrible and racist that non-Arab

Arabs aren't white now?

Also isn't she appropriating being an academic twat. That's usually an extremely pale profession?

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 09, 2014 10:31 PM (DL2i+)

743 Alright, I'm all sleepafied. Night, y'all!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 09, 2014 10:31 PM (Pfvig)

744 I don't think I've ever been cool enough to get e-mails. Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith Who wants to feel cold, icy psychic hands wrap around their throat and hear the whispered, 'I find your lack of lolcatz disturbing ...' ?

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:32 PM (qoKTg)

745 Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 02:13 AM (T1005) Well if both people email me I can do an exchange. The yahoo group also works since you can use anonymous emails.

Posted by: Maetenloch at March 09, 2014 10:33 PM (XkotV)

746 Good Night, Miss Tammy ... Be well ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (qoKTg)

747 728
I used to get digests, but those disappeared after a while. There are semi-regular emails?!?!?

Hat sends out a collection of his links about once per week.

When the blog is down, like over the last 2 or so days, there are many e-mails.

And, BTW, didn't you used to tease your babysitters when you were a kid?

You mean like "Torpedo tube ready, Cap'n." ?

Posted by: Arbalest at March 10, 2014 02:27 AM (FlRtG) Hide posts from (FlRtG)

Oh, so these are Hat's links, not an official AoSHQ publication? 'Cause I know Hat, and like Hat, but I'm not a regular Hat user.

And, no....I was a complete pain-in-the-ass to babysitters after about the 3rd grade. Generally dominance games -- as in, "my parents might feel you are needed to keep me safe here, but I know my house better than you do." of even offering sweetly to help them with their homework....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:36 PM (T1005)

748 734 Dark Lord!

You haz to sign up fer 'em, join the Yahoo Group.. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 02:31 AM (Pfvig) Hide posts from (Pfvig)

I'm in the Yahoo group.....in an account I scarcely use.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:37 PM (T1005)

749 And, no....I was a complete pain-in-the-ass to babysitters after about the 3rd grade. Generally dominance games -- as in, "my parents might feel you are needed to keep me safe here, but I know my house better than you do." of even offering sweetly to help them with their homework....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 02:36 AM (T1005)

I usually just wanted to see their tits.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 10:38 PM (FMbng)

750 When you think of a Boeing 777 disintegrating at 35k+ feet, the debris field could be anywhere to a thousand square miles. Lots of stuff would not make contact with the ocean for 3 minutes or so.

Posted by: navybrat at March 09, 2014 10:38 PM (AW7Gr)

751

Hahaha besides it's not like a shooter would have access to a passenger manifest or do an inventory through all those tiny windows

Yeah cooth you have evidently WILDLY misconstrued me in the past and I did wanna clarify things w/ you but right now my hand is jacked up but later-

Long story short for now I thought you were always very nice to deety in fact i thought sometimes overly so

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 10:38 PM (b7yum)

752 743 When you think of a Boeing 777 disintegrating at 35k+ feet, the debris field could be anywhere to a thousand square miles. Lots of stuff would not make contact with the ocean for 3 minutes or so. Posted by: navybrat at March 10, 2014 02:38 AM (AW7Gr) You can use your seat cushion as a flotation device, however.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (KWIwL)

753 738 Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 02:13 AM (T1005)

Well if both people email me I can do an exchange.
The yahoo group also works since you can use anonymous emails.
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 10, 2014 02:33 AM (XkotV) Hide posts from (XkotV)

So, no specific incantation?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (T1005)

754 You haz to sign up fer 'em, join the Yahoo Group.. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at March 10, 2014 02:31 AM (Pfvig) Well, in that case, the Yahoo mail I never check is probably full of 'em. Who wants to feel cold, icy psychic hands wrap around their throat and hear the whispered, 'I find your lack of lolcatz disturbing ...' ? Posted by: Adriane... at March 10, 2014 02:32 AM (qoKTg) Upper-middle class self-loathing urban progressives, for one. I used to get a thrill out of taking their money, but there's just too much competition since that whole Shades of Gray thing. Prices just plummeted.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (qyfb5)

755 When you think of a Boeing 777 disintegrating at 35k+ feet, the debris field could be anywhere to a thousand square miles. Lots of stuff would not make contact with the ocean for 3 minutes or so.

Posted by: navybrat at March 10, 2014 02:38 AM (AW7Gr)

Kind of like tossing a hand full of glitter in an olympic size pool.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2014 10:40 PM (FMbng)

756 "You can use your seat cushion as a flotation device, however."

Except you are already dead. There's that.

Posted by: navybrat at March 09, 2014 10:41 PM (AW7Gr)

757 ... even offering sweetly to help them with their homework Quite cerebrial. But holding a few sheets of notes / homework over the porcelain torpedo tube, hand on the lever, ready to launch, seems much more effective.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 09, 2014 10:41 PM (FlRtG)

758 When you think of a Boeing 777 disintegrating at 35k+ feet... I'd rather not, thank you.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 09, 2014 10:45 PM (k8m83)

759 The Malaysian plane was caught in a time ripple and came out over the Pacific and caused the 6.9 earthquake by full throttling into the ocean floor ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 10:48 PM (qoKTg)

760 The Malaysian plane was caught in a time ripple and... Maybe it went back to the time of the dinosaurs, like the Twilight Zone episode, "The Odyssey of Flight 33".

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 09, 2014 10:53 PM (AQTz3)

761 OMG, They should see Texas, gunslinger male belly dancers. Bare shirted, hairy beer belly's and spurs just a tingling. We ain't borrowing from no one and the good part is it makes liberal heads explode! The best thing is, the chicks dig it! It's a come on! Who Knew?

Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at March 09, 2014 10:54 PM (cCxiu)

762 742 And, no....I was a complete pain-in-the-ass to
babysitters after about the 3rd grade. Generally dominance games -- as
in, "my parents might feel you are needed to keep me safe here, but I
know my house better than you do." of even offering sweetly to help them
with their homework....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 02:36 AM (T1005)

I usually just wanted to see their tits.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2014 02:38 AM (FMbng) Hide posts from (FMbng)

If I were to be babysat today, that might be fun.....but I "woke up" intellectually a long time before I developed a reasonable semblance of moral structure or a libido. I actually still remember cornering my poor dad for a version of "the talk". I was about eight, as I recall.

I told him, "look, I get all the stuff about erection, intromission, ejaculation, fertilization.....there's all sorts of books around the house that make that abundantly clear.....what I want to know is 'why?'"

As you might imagine, he looked sort of like someone who had just stepped on a snake. "Why?", he echoed.

I said, "yeah....why would anyone go through such a complicated and difficult process if they weren't even sure they'd want the result?"

He sort of stammered out a "people find this 'process' pleasurable" response, which is highly unfortunate because I then regarded him as totally full of bullshit for about four years before my glands kicked in.

And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 10:59 PM (T1005)

763 A Palestinian-American using the internet? Why is that racist appropriating our technology? Shame! Shame! Shame upon her!

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 09, 2014 11:02 PM (6ahup)

764 And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight. Most movies made today are only 90 minutes or so ... not long enough for an intromission ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 11:03 PM (qoKTg)

765 From that Obama quote about vacations he said, "I am giving myself to you."

Can we give him back?

Oh, and no wonder his supporters thought he was the messiah, he certainly did!

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at March 09, 2014 11:05 PM (KL49F)

766 757 And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight.

Most movies made today are only 90 minutes or so ... not long enough for an intromission ... Posted by: Adriane... at March 10, 2014 03:03 AM (qoKTg) Hide posts from (qoKTg)

My hat's off to your husband.....I am in awe.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:06 PM (T1005)

767 and with that Malathorpism, I'm out for the night as I was too tired to be coherent when i got here, and it's only gotten worse ...

Posted by: Adriane... at March 09, 2014 11:07 PM (qoKTg)

768 OMG, that's Drew Carey?! He's a rock star... hubba, hubba. Plus, he's in uniform. I'm swooning. Over Drew Carey. What a world.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at March 09, 2014 11:11 PM (KL49F)

769

The intromission is a critical phase.

Failure to make a good first impression often means that none of the other stuff mentioned will occur

Posted by: PMRich at March 09, 2014 11:12 PM (KDUNf)

770 And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight.Â ____________ Hell, I'm almost 47 & I had to google the word. Not the process, just the word.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2014 11:13 PM (k9San)

771 "Appropriation"

How do they do it? How does the left always manage to come up with the worst ideas possible?

It is stuff like this that has me convinced they're not just misguided or silly or foolish, but consciously evil. Now I am talking about the people who dream up this stuff. Their useful idiot followers are just useful idiot followers.

It takes a special kind of malice to look at someone who is studying an art form from another part of the world, investing a part of themselves into it, and then claim that this is somehow wrong. Not just wrong, but evidence of the left's ever-present imaginary boogieman: racism.

Racism is right up there with the luminiferous aether. Something that can not be measured directly, nor experienced, but whose existence only alluded to indirectly. Like the aether, it doesn't exist either.

Racism used to mean the belief that human nature was race based. That is to say, that people of different races exhibited different patterns of behavior and had different capacities for thought, emotion, and action.

Now, the left has so twisted and distorted the term that it means nothing at all. Yes, that's right, the word no longer has any meaning. It is just a gratuitous accusation that the left throws at people, made all the more damaging by the fact that it is impossible to refute because the accusation has no basis in fact any more. People tie themselves up in knots trying to prove that they're not racists when such proof has no meaning because the accusation itself has no meaning.

The terms racist, racism, and so forth, have been reduced to non-meaning, but their emotional component is still very much intact. This is not by accident.

Posted by: Lee Reynolds at March 09, 2014 11:17 PM (0bC+U)

772 Incidentally, one of my earliest memories is in the May Company department store. I went and found my mom, and had to lift my arm to tug on her skirt to talk to me.....and I said, with difficulty pronouncing the words, "do you know what happens when you push the red button on the escalator?"

And there is a pause as her expression changes to alarm.

Then I reveal the punchline: "It stops!"

From there my memory is hazier, but we had to find a manager for the floor to get the escalator restarted. Fortunately, there was nobody on it at the time I was experimenting with it.

Like I said, I woke up intellectually long before I developed common sense.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:17 PM (T1005)

773

When you wrote "luminiferous" I read "luciferous"

Not sure I was wrong

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (b7yum)

774 763 And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight.
____________

Hell,
I'm almost 47 & I had to google the word. Not the process, just the word. Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 03:13 AM (k9San) Hide posts from (k9San)

And here, the lefties had to invent PIV because they can't be bothered to learn classical terminology.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:19 PM (T1005)

775 Now it can be said: Why I can't stand brown English speakers. Thanks Salon!

Posted by: Bull Conner (D) at March 09, 2014 11:22 PM (6ahup)

776 Here's some great news: http://tinyurl.com/msqagqs

Posted by: MAx at March 09, 2014 11:23 PM (b7yum)

777 Cth, your escalator story reminded me of the morning I was about eight or nine and got a good whipping. I was always curious about "how stuff works," and one weekend, after making myself some toast for breakfast, I just HAD to figure out how that shiny little box actually made the toast. By the time Mom got downstairs, I had the toaster almost completely disassembled, laid out on the kitchen table for inspection. Needless to say, she wasn't happy. Nor was she proud of my inquisitive nature. She just wanted her GD toast! I got it back together quickly, and made her toast and scrambled eggs for breakfast.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2014 11:34 PM (k9San)

778 770 Cth,
your escalator story reminded me of the morning I was about eight or nine and got a good whipping.
I was always curious about "how stuff works," and one weekend, after making myself some toast for breakfast, I just HAD to figure out how that shiny little box actually made the toast.

By the time Mom got downstairs, I had the toaster almost completely disassembled, laid out on the kitchen table for inspection. Needless to say, she wasn't happy. Nor was she proud of my inquisitive nature. She just wanted her GD toast!

I got it back together quickly, and made her toast and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 03:34 AM (k9San) Hide posts from (k9San)

See -- no matter how weird you are, you can find like-minded souls on the ONT.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2014 11:36 PM (T1005)

779 "One of the most awkward occurrences for me when I go out to an Arabic restaurant is the portion of the evening when the white belly dancer comes out." That's like when I order a pizza and the delivery guy isn't Italian. "There's no tip, you appropriating bastard!"

Posted by: Michael at March 09, 2014 11:52 PM (smKbx)

780 I want a pork chop.

Posted by: YFS at March 10, 2014 12:00 AM (evUpK)

781 Speaking of weird, there are things you can have around that you'd think were normally found in museums.

For example, I've got a chunk of this sort of stuff mounted next to the shower in my master bath -- http://tinyurl.com/n3yyvkd .

These are little cone-shaped fossil Orthoceras from about 200-500 million years ago. I got the rock for about $100 and had it attached to a plastic mount for about $125. [What's really hilarious is that comparable pieces at Harrod's in the UK are 1000 pounds, unmounted.]

If someone were looting my house, they might easily spend a whole bunch of time getting that off the wall.....when I have it mounted in a bathroom.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:07 AM (T1005)

782 Yeah, everyone else is smarter than I am, 'cause they're asleep. I should finish the open beer and join them.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:27 AM (T1005)

783

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:30 AM (T1005)

784 ?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:30 AM (T1005)

785 You could come for my house and start cooking breakfast for ten or so people. I mean if you are that bored.

Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 10, 2014 12:31 AM (nkPV9)

786 775Â Yeah, everyone else is smarter than I am, 'cause they're asleep. I should finish the open beer and join them. Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 04:27 AM (T1005 ____________ Nah. I was just catching up on news that I missed today. still trying to get my text thermal clock straight - I slept from 9pm to about 3 & am wide awake now. Have you been walking regularly?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 12:31 AM (k9San)

787 ? Damn phone. *internal

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 12:35 AM (k9San)

788 OK, just did the rounds. Everything is buttoned-up and the heater is backstopping 62. Circulation fan is on, and temps are in the mid 60's. Time to sleep.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:37 AM (T1005)

789 779 775 Yeah, everyone else is smarter than I am, 'cause they're asleep. I should finish the open beer and join them.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 04:27 AM (T1005
____________

Nah.
I was just catching up on news that I missed today.
still trying to get my text thermal clock straight - I slept from 9pm to about 3 & am wide awake now.

Have you been walking regularly? Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 04:31 AM (k9San) Hide posts from (k9San)

I missed one (rainy) day that I haven't made up, but have been walking regularly. Today, the BH and I walked together.

I'm not going to walk tomorrow, 'cause I've got a bunch of computer systems to deliver to Merovign.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:40 AM (T1005)

790 Sleep well, tentacled one.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 12:41 AM (k9San)

791 Oh boy dinner time. Maybe some Raman

Posted by: NativeNH at March 10, 2014 12:42 AM (xQHr4)

792 Every day, I go out and slay dandelions.....if I don't, one will blow out a thousand-or-so airborne seeds.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 12:49 AM (T1005)

793 785Â Every day, I go out and slay dandelions.....if I don't, one will blow out a thousand-or-so airborne seeds. Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 04:49 AM (T1005) ____________ Be a hippie and make dandelion tea & salads. It's better for Gaia, too!

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 12:59 AM (k9San)

794 What everybody gone to bed?? Got a little snow happening right now. All I need is inch and we'll be happy catting

Posted by: NativeNH at March 10, 2014 01:05 AM (xQHr4)

795 We're a month or so away from dandilions

Posted by: NativeNH at March 10, 2014 01:10 AM (xQHr4)

796 "53 I'm Irish.

You jerks are constantly appropriating and warping my culture.

Then there are all the negative cultural stereotypes.'

Given the history of the Irish in this country it is appalling that this is allowed to stand.

Next person I see drinking green beer is getting punched.

Bam.

Posted by: Lauren can also play the cultural appropriation card, bitches at March 09, 2014 10:27 PM (hFL/3)"

I am more outraged at the Palestinians appropriating the Irish invention of car bombing.

To be honest, a quick look at Randa Jarrar's particulars - born in Chicago, obese, went to Sarah Lawrence, Palestinian heritage - it is not a bit surprising that she writes the kind of stuff she does. She would probably be writing the same kind of thing if she had been born an Episcopalian.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at March 10, 2014 01:44 AM (PD6iL)

797 "He sort of stammered out a "people find this 'process' pleasurable" response, which is highly unfortunate because I then regarded him as totally full of bullshit for about four years before my glands kicked in.

And, BTW, I clearly remember using the word "intromission".....that's me at eight.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2014 02:59 AM (T1005)"

The gene that suppresses the urge to strangle one's children must be particularly strong in your family.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at March 10, 2014 02:03 AM (PD6iL)

798 Mrs VIA is gonna be mighty pissed when she finds out Darius Rucker has to give up singing white mans songs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 10, 2014 02:13 AM (si68n)

799 Wow, I made number 1 this past week. Probably due to the extreme number of links. Lots 'o stuff went down this past week.

And folks, if you are still around for the news thread coming up at 7 am, remind everyone I will be out today for federal jury duty. If chosen for a jury I will probably be out for the whole week.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 10, 2014 02:20 AM (T2V/1)

800 Good luck with that, Vic. Yes, you had A LOT of kin this past week - even the weekend was busy. So, no roundup today?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 02:22 AM (k9San)

801 *kin =links

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 02:23 AM (k9San)

802 793 Yes, you had A LOT of kin this past week - even the weekend was busy.
So, no roundup today?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 06:22 AM (k9San)

No, I will be hitting the road in a few minutes. Long drive coming up. I couldn't get the courthouse 35 miles away. Had to get the one halfway across the damn State.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 10, 2014 02:24 AM (T2V/1)

803 Civic duty. Wonderful! Hope you get a humdinger of a case. Something where you get those good lunches and stuff. :-)

Posted by: and irresolute at March 10, 2014 02:30 AM (RqHWH)

804 I'll bet the east coast cob-loggers forgot to set their clocks ahead.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 10, 2014 02:47 AM (n1pvU)

805 796 Civic duty. Wonderful! Hope you get a humdinger of a case. Something where you get those good lunches and stuff. :-)

Posted by: and irresolute at March 10, 2014 06:30 AM (RqHWH)

I hope I have no case and they are ALL settled and they let me go by noon.

I also hope I win the Publisher's Clearing House Lottery.

But it is time to go now. Hopefully I will be back tonight.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 10, 2014 02:48 AM (T2V/1)

806 Morning, all. I've really got to stop reading the weekend threads to see what I missed. Ashleigh Banfield strapping on her kneepads got my BP soaring just when I don't need it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 10, 2014 02:52 AM (zF6Iw)

807 Daywalker thread up

Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2014 02:53 AM (k9San)

808 8
Alliance!

Posted by: Dúnadan at March 10, 2014 05:43 AM (Kmg4w)

809

What it should have said:

Women I have confronted about this have said, "But I have been dancing for 15 years! This is something I have built a huge community on. F*** YOU, you racist."

Posted by: GWB at March 10, 2014 05:58 AM (Yv2t4)

810

Dangit, the strikethrough didn't work.

What it should have said:
"Women I have confronted about this have said, "F*** YOU, you racist." "

Posted by: GWB at March 10, 2014 05:59 AM (zFh/A)

811 I think this "appropriation" thing is the underlying rationale behind wanting to change the name of the Washington Redskins. It's clearly not an insult - no one names a billion dollar franchise after an insult - but it may be an "appropriation" to some. Since goofy, white-guilt liberals can't claim an "appropriation", they contort logic to give themselves a shot a seeming superior - at least in their own minds.

Posted by: Cygnus at March 10, 2014 06:07 AM (SqG0q)

812 does this mean white boys can't play the blues?

Posted by: iowaan at March 10, 2014 06:13 AM (hXclJ)

813 "Find another form of self-expression. Make sure you're not appropriating someone else's."

Is the author aware she is appropriating a language not of her culture?

But to follow her logic, Islam should be outlawed since it "appropriated" concepts from Judaism & Christianity.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at March 10, 2014 08:14 AM (CKfWX)

814 Mike Hammer @ 23-
Dude! I picked cotton as a kid too! 3 cents a pound, and it was how I bought my new school shoes in the fall each year. I wanted black Converse Hi-Tops but my Grand-Daddy (Scots-Irish-Cherokee) said 'Boy, them shoes ain't no count. They wouldn't last a week in the field. Buy you some good leather brogans.' And he was right. I had no business wearing the same shoes Tom Mikan wore. Wait a minute, wasn't Tom Mikan one of those pasty white guys?

Posted by: Erowmero at March 10, 2014 12:14 PM (1gcFZ)

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