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June 26, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (6-26-2012)
— Maetenloch

Identify The Gun - Part III

Hint 1: It's in 4.5mm

Hint 2: It was developed in 1967

The answer is here and here.

Okay how about this one?

Answer here.

Are You Better Off Than Four Years Ago?

If you're unsure, review this chart:

German Court Declares Judaism A Crime

Well you can still be a Jew but your penis can't become Jewish until it reaches 18. You'd think the Germans would be a little more cautious in this area given certain events in the past but you'd be wrong.

Hard to believe, but that's what the decision handed down by the regional court in Cologne, Germany means: circumcising a child under the age of consent is a crime, notwithstanding the religious beliefs of the parents.
...To ban infant circumcision is essentially to make the practice of Judaism illegal in Germany; it is now once again a crime to be a Jew in the Reich.
Some may have worried that the memory of past, ahem, problems in German-Jewish relations would inhibit German judges from the single most anti-Semitic state action taken anywhere in the west since 1945. Holm Putzke, a legal expert at the University of Passau, praised the court's dedication to duty, telling the Financial Times Deutschland that "Unlike many politicians, the court has not allowed itself to be scared off by charges of anti-Semitism or religious intolerance."

Note that this makes most Muslims criminals too and they're prone to get all behead-y when irritated.

Are Men or Women the Funnier Sex?

Well Adam Carolla doesn't think women are as funny:

Q. The lesson you learned from a sexual harassment seminar was "Don't hire chicks." Do you hate working with women?

A. No. But they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they're always the least funny on the writing staff. The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, "Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.

It's not PC but I'd have to agree with Adam that by and large guys are better at coming up with and telling jokes that both sexes will laugh at. You can argue over why this is the case but there's a reason that most successful stand-up comics are men.

Wanna Score? Go For the Beer Lovers

It's science!

Want to know if your date will have sex on the first date? There's one way to find out - ask if they like beer.
...Both men and women who enjoy a pint are 60 per cent more likely to sleep with someone early in a relationship, statistics show.
This applies to both gay and straight people, according to Christian Rudder, a Harvard graduate who set up dating website OKCupid.

Bad News For Wine Snobs

On May 24, 1976, the British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a blind tasting of French and Californian wines. Spurrier was a Francophile and, like most wine experts, didn't expect the New World upstarts to compete with the premiers crus from Bordeaux. He assembled a panel of eleven wine experts and had them taste a variety of Cabernets blind, rating each bottle on a twenty-point scale.
The results shocked the wine world. According to the judges, the best Cabernet at the tasting was a 1973 bottle from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in Napa Valley. When the tasting was repeated a few years later-some judges insisted that the French wines had been drunk too young-Stag's Leap was once again declared the winner, followed by three other California Cabernets. These blind tastings (now widely known as the Judgment of Paris) helped to legitimate Napa vineyards.
But now, in an even more surprising turn of events, another American wine region has performed far better than expected in a blind tasting against the finest French chÃ¢teaus. Ready for the punch line? The wines were from New Jersey.

A Clarification

"Several commenters mistook my use of the microwave as the way all Americans heat water and clucked their tongues in disapproval. I'm happy to report to any of those who've returned to the site that I'm quite atypical in this regard. The standard American way to heat water is to take a pot of water out to our pickup truck, open the hood (what the Brits call a "spanner"), and lock the pot onto the engine block using a set of latches readily available at any Wal-Mart. Then we drive around at high speed, reciting the Gospels and firing our shotguns out the window. After reading the Gospel of John for three minutes and sixteen seconds, the water is ready. I hope this puts to rest any confusion."

How to Start a Fight

Because sometimes you really want to have a good old-school relationship fight but don't quite know how to initiate it. Well pretty much any one of these phrases is guaranteed to get the anger sparks a-flying. But just remember that contempt kills marriages.

7. "Are you on your period?" Girls get this all the time. This falls right in line with ass backwards thinking that women's emotions can't be real, genuine or justified.
8. "Are you going to wear that?" What you really mean is, "please don't wear that. You're totally embarrassing me."

9. "What's your problem?" Asking someone "What's your problem?" says "I don't really want to know."

10. "You are such a control freak." Calling someone a freak is just about the same as calling someone crazy. Why not try (again) identifying the specific behavior or incident that felt controlling and discuss that? Nobody likes to be labeled.
11. "What's that supposed to mean?" Has anything good ever followed after someone's said those words in anger? Nope, not really.

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. You know the way.

Braaak.

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1 Hey!

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 05:51 PM (bMLFV)

What if you use the foreskin to make a lovely lampshade?

Certainly the Germans haven't lost all sense of tradition?

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2012 05:51 PM (mrgJf)

No. You can't...

get it up. Nobody can with her around.

Posted by: Barakhenaten I at June 26, 2012 05:53 PM (mrgJf)

The wines were from New Jersey.

The best whines come from Long Island.

Posted by: Fran Drescher at June 26, 2012 05:54 PM (mrgJf)

5 They banned circumcision because the German men consider foreskins to be akin to chewing gum.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 26, 2012 05:56 PM (ZOf1l)

"Are you going to wear that?"

I get this from my husband A LOT. But I ignore him because he's stuck in the Seventies.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 05:57 PM (bMLFV)

7 12. Do you always type in lower case except when attempting to make a MORONIC point? must be on the list too somewhere.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2012 05:57 PM (nrW1y)

8 Want to know if your date will have sex on the first date? There's one way to find out - ask if they like beer. Or cook for them. Yes, I am a man. No, I will not turn in my man card.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 05:58 PM (NcUIi)

9 I agree that men are funnier than women.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 05:58 PM (bMLFV)

10 So Germany is the new San Francisco?

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at June 26, 2012 05:58 PM (KCvsd)

11 8 "Are you going to wear that?" I get this from my husband A LOT. But I ignore him because he's stuck in the Seventies. Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 09:57 PM (bMLFV) The only time I say that is when we are going to bed

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 05:59 PM (NcUIi)

12 Apparently you missed #13:
Why do you always have to act like a bitch?
That will get them every time.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 26, 2012 05:59 PM (ZOf1l)

13 Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 26, 2012 09:59 PM (ZOf1l) That's the nuclear option.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 05:59 PM (NcUIi)

14 If I wasn't so morally opposed to the Obamas, that picture would be cute.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 06:00 PM (bMLFV)

15 13. Do you get the names of pro sports teams wrong? must be on the list too.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2012 06:00 PM (nrW1y)

16 "Are you on your period?" Bill Maher gets this one. A lot.

Posted by: Lemming of the BDA at June 26, 2012 06:00 PM (tcFym)

17 Posted by: runninrebel at June 26, 2012 09:59 PM (N/1Dm) Actually its a skill we learn to cope with teh stoopid. *ducks

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 06:00 PM (NcUIi)

18 BATMAN IS DEAD!

http://tinyurl.com/7bqtxnu

Posted by: Some Joker at June 26, 2012 06:00 PM (AUeaU)

19 Hah, from what I hear usually it's Michelle getting angry at white chicks

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:01 PM (QTHTd)

20 Somebody needs to tell Tori Spelling that mermaid hair is a bad look.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 06:01 PM (bMLFV)

21 I think women are funnier than hell.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at June 26, 2012 06:02 PM (ZOf1l)

22 Some may have worried that the memory of past, ahem, problems in German-Jewish relations would inhibit German judges from the single most anti-Semitic state action taken anywhere in the west since 1945
***
Um...aren't you forgetting those Polish deathcamps?

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 26, 2012 06:02 PM (AUeaU)

23 Mmmm mmm mm Moochelle is looking wookielicious!!11!!

Posted by: SMOD the Merciful at June 26, 2012 06:02 PM (hEOub)

24 Contempt kills marriages? How about the fucking rooster cut on that.....not freaky in any way nice lady

Posted by: sunny at June 26, 2012 06:03 PM (G/vFQ)

25 I actually liked Cho before she let Bush Derangement take over.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:03 PM (QTHTd)

26 So Germany is the new San Francisco? Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at June 26, 2012 09:58 PM (KCvsd) Actually circumcision has been discouraged for a long time in Germany as unnecessary. I doubt that that little snippet up there is the whole thing, cause if there is one thing, it is germans are very sensitive about jewish tradition. I really would have to get in touch with the relatives to find out the whole story

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 26, 2012 06:03 PM (uVuwp)

27 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:04 PM (Xb3hu)

28 New Jersey wine? Whut? I've had concord-grape wines. YECCH. It should count as a mitzvah to choke down a glass of Manischewitz

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:04 PM (QTHTd)

29 I know it's been said here before, but I just don't find Michelle attractive. Even negating my political beliefs, I think that she is just an ugly woman. I remember as a teenager that I at least thought Rosalyn Carter was somewhat attractive, but Michelle? Fuck no.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 26, 2012 06:04 PM (ZOf1l)

Screw that Napa Noise,

You know where the first place in the U.S. to get appellation was? Augusta, MO. You know why? We Missourians have been making wine since before California was a state! (Granted, our appellation wasn't unitl 1980, but several of the wineries are older than that.)

http://goo.gl/qwx4W

And that's just the wineries I bothered to list, and just the MO-94 region (Augusta flanked by Dutzow and Defiance). There's even more down in Herman and a few less dense regions.

Posted by: tsrblke at June 26, 2012 06:05 PM (22rSN)

31 The first gun is an underwater pistol.The second is the survival gun carried by cosmonauts,I think.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:05 PM (Xb3hu)

32 Dude it just got BRIGHTER in here . . .

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:05 PM (QTHTd)

33 The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chick
***
I'd argue this might have something to do with the fact that men are supposed to go after women, and not vice versa, and having a good sense of humor is a great way to break the ice with someone.

Odd isn't it that after 50 years of feminism, most women, even ardent feminists, are passive in picking a mate.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 06:05 PM (AUeaU)

I am not first. Thank the maker, s ... mark. Anyhow, since I have become irresolute in almost all things, as a consequence of ordering from menu's of choices for so long here in America, I would just like to send a message to our Farsi speaking brethren that may be hurt by the iPad denial thingy. Here it is: Yes, you are in America. We will get this sorted out. You will NOT be treated like cattle, OR second class citizens. Now, STFU and let this go on by....or, do you maybe have another motive for making such a BFD (yes, I almost went Quake and siad BFG! Ha!) out of it?!

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 26, 2012 06:06 PM (Q492A)

35 SEALs have an H&K underwater pistol with a different principal,darts not bullets.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:06 PM (Xb3hu)

36 Shouldn't the secondary headline for the Demotivational Picture be:

You don't want to.

instead?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at June 26, 2012 06:07 PM (kqqGm)

37 I don't know ma bell, the article seems pretty clear

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 26, 2012 06:07 PM (Ho2rs)

38 Not very surprising that US wines do well in taste tests vs French wines. All the French wines are so regulated that the vineyards can't "experiment" with the grapes to come up with a better wine. Here, the vineyards have to sell the wine to be successful, so they make sure that the grape blend produces a good wine.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 06:08 PM (1grxW)

39 Women generally aren't as funny for a couple of reasons (especially in standup comedy):
1 They don't have to be to attract a mate. Men who are not handsome must stand out somehow.
2 Men are more willing to slander themselves and discuss how fucked up they are- dysfunction is funny even if it is not true for the sake of comedy. When women are "funny" it tends to be an anecdote about something amusing that happened to them. Women don't like slandering themselves because they are afraid it will stick.
3 All the "funny" stand up lady comedians are speaking in the voice of a man- Sarah Silverman, Roseanne (circa 1988 not now) Whitney Cummings. Their routines are basically indistinguishable from male comedians. No one has found a funny "female perspective"- it is just a reheated male perspective.
4 Ultimately comedy is about truth and candor. Like it or not, women tell more lies to eachother and about eachother than men do about eachother. If a man dislikes another guy, he's not going to hug him and hang out with him, pretend to be friends and then madly talk shit behind his back like women do to other women.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 06:08 PM (E0rp6)

40 WeÂ’ve all encountered couples who seem to need regular bouts of emotional upheaval in order to prove to each other that they still care.
***
If that is the case, what the hell is wrong with you?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 06:08 PM (AUeaU)

Odd isn't it that after 50 years of feminism, most women, even ardent feminists, are passive in picking a mate.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 10:05 PM (AUeaU)

Go check out the female pictures on dating websites... the ones they POST THEMSELVES! Its all breast shots, low cut clothes, glamour shots...

Lots of the self taken pictures from a high angle, so their breasts look bigger, and butt looks smaller...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2012 06:08 PM (lZBBB)

42 Interesting thing about that New Jersey wine story. Liquor licenses for restaurants are absurdly expensive in NJ. So, New Jersey had an idea - offer a NJ-only liquor license (wine must be grown in NJ) for something like $1500/year (super cheap). Now, there's an expanding NJ wine industry.

How about that. Government got out of the way and wine producers do well in New Jersey.

Posted by: JohnE. at June 26, 2012 06:09 PM (nRTou)

43 Humor is a fairly aggressive behavior. Men can pull it off, and get away with it, more than women can.

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:09 PM (MMC8r)

44 The really nuclear option to start a fight,"you're being a c***"

Posted by: someone at June 26, 2012 06:09 PM (bqjJT)

45 My wife always asks me if this or that schmatta makes her look fat and I always tell her no. Her fat ass makes her look fat!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 06:10 PM (jucos)

46 hi all yeah actually MO has a surprisingly large number of wineries

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:10 PM (xkFlk)

47 I usually by cabernet's that are $12 to $20 bucks a bottle. I had some people coming over and and a cabernet called tisdale was on sale for $3 a bottle (usually $4) I bought some bottles and served them with dinner. Everybody remarked how good the wine was and it was. I really couldn't tell a lot of difference.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 06:10 PM (MtwBb)

48 ... never mind, just the sun descending below some clouds.

Guys, I'm sorry about that paranoid meltdown.

BTH Freakout Advisory back down to "blue".

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:10 PM (QTHTd)

49 Margaret Cho is worse than unfunny.She is actually repellant.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:10 PM (Xb3hu)

butt looks smaller

It's very dissappointing.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (4pSIn)

51 The wife is watching True Blood in the other room. It really is a big shitfest, isn't it?

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (MMC8r)

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 10:08 PM (1grxW)

Plus if memory serves during a grape blight some time back the French wineries largely had to repopulate their vines with American Hybrids anyway. (There are still a few non-hybrid original american grape winds around here. Usually go by the name "Norton" or "Cynthana" depending on the winery.)

Posted by: tsrblke at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (22rSN)

53 Or cook for them. Yes, I am a man. No, I will not turn in my man card.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 09:58 PM (NcUIi)

Trying to get laid does not lead to a revocation of the man card.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (1grxW)

54 My mother is visiting us right now. I knew I shouldn't have opened this up while she was wandering around the room. Now she is raving about the way Michelle dresses like a "cochina de playa." This is not a compliment. Honestly, there's nothing wrong with that dress for women in most walks of life, but......is that proper FLOTUS wear? It just doesn't seem quite right to me. I think I'm turning into my mother. *sigh*

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (C8mVl)

Margaret Cho is out? Margaret Cho is OUT?

Definitely unfunny.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:11 PM (sJTmU)

56 Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 10:05 PM (AUeaU)Go check out the female pictures on dating websites... the ones they POST THEMSELVES! Its all breast shots, low cut clothes, glamour shots... Lots of the self taken pictures from a high angle, so their breasts look bigger, and butt looks smaller... Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2012 10:08 PM (lZBBB) My hypothesis is that they want to be the dominant one in the relationship, but then they are pissed cause they only pull in betas. Vicious cycle and all that.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (NcUIi)

57 Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 26, 2012 10:07 PM (Ho2rs) It says "regional court", that means a lower court for one state. They can't make law for all of Germany. That's just like San Francisco deciding to ban circumcision. They cannot enforce it across the US

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (uVuwp)

The only female comic I think is funny (or was funny) is Ellen DeGeneres. She always had me rolling on the floor. She could do an entire routine on everyday stuff, using no cuss words, and be funny as hell. Wish she still did stand up.

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (UljOc)

59 Are you on your period? Are you going to wear that?! What's your problem? Freak! What's that supposed to mean?!! .... I still feel numb... at least my feet do ... when I can stand again, I'll try to be offended.

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (Q492A)

60 "Bridget Jones Diary" did well at female-centric humour (the movie, too). It was all about how badly Jones did in English social settings.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (QTHTd)

61 56 The wife is watching True Blood in the other room. It really is a big shitfest, isn't it?

The vampires are a metaphor for homosexuals. Get it? It' deep. Though I do think it is pretty amusing that they choose for their allegory predatory, disease carrying bloodsuckers who don't think society's laws should apply to them.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 06:12 PM (E0rp6)

62 The really nuclear option to start a fight,"you're being a c***"

I was 21 at the time and used that very line. After I picked the pieces of the coffee cup that hit me in the side of the head, I decided that wasn't such a good idea. I'm 48 and survived the last 27 years based on that simple lesson I learned.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 26, 2012 06:13 PM (ZOf1l)

63 56 This season,the vampires with a mock Catholic church,I understand.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:13 PM (Xb3hu)

64 I know lots of hysterically funny women, and the women in my family are especially funny, but it does seem that when it comes to the professionals, men are far, far funnier.

I think lots of women still have the mindset of trying to be polite and such in public, which doesn't help. The funny women I know do not give one rip about what anyone thinks about them or who they might shock.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 26, 2012 06:13 PM (3inkD)

65 My wife always asks me if this or that schmatta makes her look fat and I always tell her no. Her fat ass makes her look fat! Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 10:10 PM (jucos) ------------------------------------------------------ I keed I keed. I am the fat one and I am grateful she puts up with my stupid ass. What the fuck kind of dress is Mooch wearing in that Strauss Kahn picture? Awful.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 06:13 PM (jucos)

66 Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 10:11 PM (MMC8r) It's pR0n. Pure and simple. They've toned it down, but it is also declining as a show.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 06:13 PM (NcUIi)

I'd argue this might have something to do with the fact that men are supposed to go after women, and not vice versa, and having a good sense of humor is a great way to break the ice with someone.

I didn't realize we were talking about dating here. I've been out of the dating scene for 28 years. Been in 4 different states, towns, school systems and churches. Hung around people of all ages and social classes and I have found that men are just plain funnier than women. Attracting someone has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 06:14 PM (bMLFV)

68 I doubt that that little snippet up there is the whole thing,
LOL.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2012 06:14 PM (nrW1y)

69 Great ONT. That clarification is hilarious

Posted by: Ben at June 26, 2012 06:15 PM (VPxJg)

70 Women don't like funny guys... they like laughing at a handsome man's jokes.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 06:15 PM (E0rp6)

71 oh nickless... I see you are not a True Blood fan. I think the show is geared towards the wimmen anyway. Have you seen the men on that show?? Holy shitcakes.

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 06:15 PM (UljOc)

72 Attracting someone has nothing to do with it.
***
Natural selection. Funny men are more likely to reproduce. Funny women are not.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 06:16 PM (AUeaU)

73 yes Maet great ONT

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:16 PM (xkFlk)

I only think Tina Fey is mildly cute because she reminds me of.......Sarah Palin.

Janene Garafolo has black and blue marks all over her body from guys touching her with ten foot poles.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:17 PM (sJTmU)

75 The Russian spacecraft have a firearm as part of the survival kit.An early craft came down off target in the wilderness and were surrounded by wolves.Since the Russians recover onto land it could happen again.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:17 PM (Xb3hu)

76 Germany has a federal system, like the US does; so, what Ma Bell said.

What that court did was still mindbogglingly stupid, of course.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:17 PM (QTHTd)

77 Natural selection. Funny men are more likely to reproduce. Funny women are not. Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 10:16 PM (AUeaU) Bullshit. All the funny men that can't produce get shit canned.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 26, 2012 06:18 PM (NcUIi)

78 jewells, I like Ellen, too! And she was never ugly about anyone or anything, either.

I thought Roseanne Barr was really funny, too. I still think she's funny, even though she's batshit crazy. And Wanda Sykes (sp?) can be hysterical, too.

Those are about the only comedians I can even think of.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 26, 2012 06:18 PM (3inkD)

79 69 Yes,you are right,women hust aren't as good at stand up.They can be funny in many ways but men are better at stand up.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:18 PM (Xb3hu)

Attracting someone has nothing to do with it.
***
Natural selection. Funny men are more likely to reproduce. Funny women are not.

I said ALL AGES. That includes OLD people who are waaaaayyyyy beyond giving a rip what anyone thinks about them.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 06:18 PM (bMLFV)

81 Comediennes, I mean!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 26, 2012 06:18 PM (3inkD)

82 Geri Jewell was funny. Am I going to hell?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 06:19 PM (jucos)

83 The reason that Adam doesn't see women as funny as men is because all the professional comediennes are lefties

Margaret Cho, Mr Kathy Griffin, Rosie O'Besity, Rosanne, Tina Fey, Jeaneane Garbuffalo, and although it has a beard, Russell Brand sounds like a woman

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:20 PM (Y+DPZ)

84 funny professional women? how about Nancy pelosi unfortunately the joke's on us

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:20 PM (xkFlk)

85 I got dragged into watching True Blood. Yes, it's for chicks. But men can appreciate it too, especially those who've been around the Gulf Coast backcountry for any period of time.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:20 PM (QTHTd)

86 Whoopie Goldberg is hysterical even when she is political (mostly). Joy Behar is never funny. What I hate about her so-called humor (besides the fact that she simply isn't funny) is that she thinks she is funny. She always laughs at her own jokes.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 06:21 PM (bMLFV)

87 Tammy..Wanda Sykes can suck my dick (ok, if I had one).. the hateful shit she said about Bush and especially about Rush. Roseanne used to be funny about a hundred years ago. She so insane now it's pathetic.

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 06:22 PM (UljOc)

88 Judy Tenuta. The accordion is the deal clincher.

Posted by: Lemming of the BDA at June 26, 2012 06:22 PM (tcFym)

89 Hey, I'm pretty funny.

Posted by: Albert Brooks at June 26, 2012 06:22 PM (4pSIn)

One of the things that makes Ellen DeGeneres funny is that she will make fun of herself, which somebody upthread indicated is one of the three basic forms of humor (for a stand-up). She can make gentle fun of herself, and everybody can laugh with her.

She can also make fun of how odd life can be, which is a standard for stand-ups from George Carlin to Jerry Seinfeld.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:22 PM (sJTmU)

91 Women can be really funny, look at the laughs I get!

Posted by: Meghan McCain at June 26, 2012 06:23 PM (Y+DPZ)

92 Hard to believe, but that's what the decision handed down by the regional court in Cologne, Germany means: circumcising a child under the age of consent is a crime, notwithstanding the religious beliefs of the parents. Just as long as a gold-encrusted french tickler and half-a-dozen "Baby-B-Gone" morning-after pills are included, I'm good either way...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 26, 2012 06:24 PM (XYqoq)

93 95Tammy..Wanda Sykes can suck my dick (ok, if I had one).. the hateful shit she said about Bush and especially about Rush. Roseanne used to be funny about a hundred years ago. She so insane now it's pathetic.

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 10:22 PM (UljOc)

Hey Jewells, do you like beer?

Posted by: Chaz Bono at June 26, 2012 06:24 PM (gYsnd)

94 kdbabear, the black comediennes, too: Mo'nique, Sheryl Underwood, ...

Underwood broke my heart, personally. Black Republican, supposedly. I went to see her show in the summer of 2008. Her act was effectively an Obama rally. The whole crowd whooped and hollered and applauded... except for my pasty ass in the front row

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:24 PM (QTHTd)

95 Woman can be hilarious at comic acting, Lucille Ball was hilarious.

Stand up comdey? Meh

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:25 PM (Y+DPZ)

96 And Whoopi Goldberg lost me in the mid 1990s

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:25 PM (QTHTd)

97 Speaking of stand up, and I know it's probably a few years old, but I caught Lewis Black one night on Comedy Central doing his Red White and Screwed tour. God I laughed my ass off. But at the end, he got serious, talking about terrorists. I thought.. "holy shit!.. he actually gets it".

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 06:25 PM (UljOc)

98 There is definitely an attraction component to a man's humour and a women's reaction.

I spent a weekend in a group with married couples all of whom where there to improve their marriage. Everybody was nervous at first but there was a group of guys who were pretty funny. After the second day, you could tell who was getting the most from the weekend because their wives were laughing at all their jokes.
At first, it was just the guys cracking each other up.

Women don't laugh at your jokes if they don't like you.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at June 26, 2012 06:26 PM (FU9ql)

99 Woman can be hilarious at comic acting, Lucille Ball was hilarious. Madeline Kahn come to mind

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 26, 2012 06:26 PM (uVuwp)

100 60
Margaret Cho is out? Margaret Cho is OUT?
Definitely unfunny.

Margaret Cho was kinda funny, at the beginning of her career, when most of her jokes involved imitating her mother. But that was all she had. When she tried to branch out, her limitations became clear. Of course being a nasty liberal never helped.

Of course there are funny women. We have a good supply right here. But on average, Adam is of course right. I agree with those who basically view "being funny" as one of those things that is like, as Rex Stout put it, "hanging from a trapeze with your toes," one of those things that men develop to show off to women, and part of having fun with women.

It's like chess or advanced mathematics, the guy B-team can take the woman A-team (Emmy Noether aside). I don't think Will Farrell is all that funny, relative to the top comedians of history, just a talented guy who has his funny moments, and who has the funny-guy characteristic of lacking shame and never refraining from pushing things to the limit. But I saw the Ron Burgundy movie last night, and I was literally choking with laughter at a few points.

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2012 06:26 PM (2IW5Q)

101 101 Obama mania got a lot of blacks,at least temporarily.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:27 PM (Xb3hu)

102 If Hadji the Muslim comic is lurking, let us know ...

Are there any female muslim comics?

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:27 PM (Y+DPZ)

103 @102. Um.. not really. Am I being set up for something here?

Posted by: jewells45 at June 26, 2012 06:27 PM (UljOc)

104 80 The Russian spacecraft have a firearm as part of the survival kit.An early craft came down off target in the wilderness and were surrounded by wolves.Since the Russians recover onto land it could happen again.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 10:17 PM (Xb3hu)

They still do - in fact I recall reading that there's even a pistol aboard the ISS likely in the Soyuz escape pod.

Posted by: Mætenloch at June 26, 2012 06:27 PM (pAlYe)

105 So... Female Genital Mutilation EVIL Male Genital Mutilation GOOD I fail to see how one can oppose one and support the other. They are both barbaric practices that should have been banned ages ago.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 06:28 PM (zq8Mf)

106 Here is the thing about female comediennes. How many of them do men find funny.

That's the catch here.

It's simple fact that there are more well known male comedians than female commediennes. How many men fine the females funny and how many women find the males funny? I would bet there are more of the latter.

Posted by: Ben at June 26, 2012 06:28 PM (VPxJg)

107

Funny women are almost as rare as sane women.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2012 06:28 PM (mrgJf)

108 So, circumcision which reduces aids by about 60% is to be encouraged in Africa, but is illegal in Nazi land. Go figure.

Guess they don't read UN shit and want all the Jooos to get Aids?

The stupid is strong. Just remember SF had a no circumcision referendum.

Closet anti Semites are really sick.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:28 PM (KZI7g)

109 File under example #96,838,427,321 of Violence Is Bad, Bad, Bad, Unless Women Do It To Men, Then It's Empowering & Funny.

This basically goes back to David and Goliath. I always felt bad for Goliath. If he'd skewered that little philandering, murderous twerp ahead of time, as David deserved, that big oaf'd have been the laughingstock of the Mediterranean.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:28 PM (QTHTd)

110 I fail to see how one can oppose one and support the other. They are both barbaric practices that should have been banned ages ago.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:28 PM (zq8Mf)

STFU retard.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2012 06:29 PM (mrgJf)

111 I hope all our Colorado morons are ok, shit is getting real with those fires there. The fires have spread to inside of Colorado Springs

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:29 PM (Y+DPZ)

112 *brr* another storm front just blew in

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 06:30 PM (QTHTd)

113 knock knock

who's there?

feminists

THAT'S NOT FUNNY !!!!!!!

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:31 PM (Y+DPZ)

114 113 Yes,the American and Euro astronauts get to fire it in training.The survival gun is over under with a rifle and small bore shotgun.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:31 PM (Xb3hu)

115

It's true, California wines are superior because of weather.

The reds like warm, dry conditions.

Posted by: ErikW at June 26, 2012 06:31 PM (/G77D)

116 "7. "Are you on your period?" Girls get this all the time. This falls right in line with ass backwards thinking that women's emotions can't be real, genuine or justified." Um, I believe that the correct term is "on the rag".

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 26, 2012 06:31 PM (+iR5Y)

117 Gun #1: "military-style" assault rifle Gun #2: AK-47

Posted by: NYT reporter at June 26, 2012 06:31 PM (XqFdx)

118

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez pioneered almost all the forms for the sitcom. It is eery how many sitcoms follow all the basic forms that Lucy and Desi did. Desi did a lot of the writing and producing, and all I can say is that guy was almost a genius. It is too bad that his alcoholism and womanizing kinda ruined his life.

"Everyone Loves Raymond" parrots almost all the forms, except Raymond is Lucy and Patricia Heaton is Desi.

The only sitcom which I can think of that sort of broke the form was "Seinfeld", and there were still times it followed the "I Love Lucy" pattern.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:32 PM (sJTmU)

119 26 I think women are funnier than hell.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at June 26, 2012 10:02 PM (ZOf1l)

Ted you are a fucking hoot.. How is hell?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:32 PM (KZI7g)

120

I fail
Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:28 PM (zq8Mf)

Yes

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2012 06:32 PM (4pSIn)

121 Um, I believe that the correct term is "on the rag".

True, but ever since Ghostbusters, I've been partial to Bill Murray's "Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?"

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2012 06:32 PM (2IW5Q)

122 115 So...

Female Genital Mutilation EVIL
Male Genital Mutilation GOOD

I fail to see how one can oppose one and support the other. They are both barbaric practices that should have been banned ages ago.

***

Bull-fucking-shit. Circumcision is not genital mutilation. It makes cleanliness easier (ever heard of spung? You're made of it, asshole). It reduces the instances of penial cancer, and absorption of STDs. The foreskin is highly absorptive and prone to infection. You could dramatically reduce AIDS in Africa if every man received a circumcision and you did NOTHING else. Learn something about science and the world you live in before you shoot your mouth off.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 06:33 PM (E0rp6)

123 Simply report the circumcision as a 'botched late-term abortion' and they'll say you're good to go.

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:33 PM (MMC8r)

124 I'm not a jew but I am circumcised.I don't remember if it hurt or not.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:34 PM (Xb3hu)

125 Correcting someone's English usage, nerdygirl?

Is it that time of the month?

Hey! Put down that baseball bat! Aaaaarrrgh!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2012 06:35 PM (nrW1y)

126 Maria Bamford's funny as hell.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 06:35 PM (qqlqB)

127 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez pioneered almost all the forms for the sitcom. It is eery how many sitcoms follow all the basic forms that Lucy and Desi did. Desi did a lot of the writing and producing, and all I can say is that guy was almost a genius.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 10:32 PM

Desi was the creative brains who wasn't afraid to think out of the box and try new techniques and formats

Lucy was the business brains who wasn't afraid to kick a studio boss in the balls to get what she wanted, and what Desi wanted

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:36 PM (Y+DPZ)

128 129 Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at June 26, 2012 10:02 PM (ZOf1l)

Ted you are a fucking hoot.. How is hell?

Dude, it totally blows. There's all these choice women around, right? So you go to talk to them, you know, apply a little of that fail-safe Bundy charm, and all of a sudden you're in some little Volkswagen with the passenger seat removed, being whaled on with some sort of wooden club! I swear, being hit with that club is almost worse than the whole burial in the woods/decomposing thing that happens later. Sucks to be me.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at June 26, 2012 06:36 PM (2IW5Q)

129 Hi folks.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:36 PM (p39GY)

130 You know that period shit goes away for three weeks, but after that you get menopause, three years of hell.

Guys, let them bleed, trust me the menopause option in not fun.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:36 PM (KZI7g)

131

Carol Burnett could deliver a line with the best.

The line that seems to steam Mrs L Rob, although delivered honestly by yours truly is, "I don't care". As in, what would you like for dinner? Do you want to have the kids here for Christmas, etc.

Hiya, Tammy!

Posted by: L Rob in OK at June 26, 2012 06:37 PM (7yvLv)

132 I fail to see how one can oppose one and support the other. They are both barbaric practices that should have been banned ages ago. Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:28 PM (zq8Mf) STFU retard. Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2012 10:29 PM (mrgJf) While I make allowance for religious reasons, in general I don't see what is wrong with waiting see what the guy whose junk is going to get cut decide whether he wants it cut or not.

Posted by: Not this again... at June 26, 2012 06:37 PM (XYqoq)

133 122 ---"There are no funny bitches. period." Joan Rivers was very funny in her heyday and most of her humor was bitchy, often viciously so. But it can wear thin, and when it misses the mark, it's just nasty. Come to think of it, she was most consistently when she made fun of herself. So yeah, bitchiness sooner or later fails.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 26, 2012 06:37 PM (C8mVl)

134 I use a portion of my removed foreskin as a cover for my F-150.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:38 PM (p39GY)

135

There was a big debate last year one night on the ONT about circumcisions, and all I've got to say about it is, please stop. Dammit.

It is a personal choice by the parents of a small boy child, and unless your are some Islamic fundamentalist on the ONT ( and I'll bet that there are almost none here), nobody is talking about female circumcision.

Just stop. No one is going to be persuaded one way or another on this issue.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:38 PM (sJTmU)

136

Christopher Hitchens did a pretty good piece a few years ago on "why women aren't funny" -- http://tinyurl.com/yks5w2

Worth reading -- Hitchens usually is/was.

Posted by: mallfly at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (NI3M5)

137 Once a man is capable of independent thought (13, 18, whatever), he can feel free to hack off part of your wang. It is wrong to impose that sort of permanent decision on a child.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (zq8Mf)

138 Gracie Allen. Was damn funny! I rest my case!

Posted by: BlackOrchid-TeamDagny at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (SB0V2)

139 Yo, sifty

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (4pSIn)

140 Desi's true genius was in the three-camera film setup. This gave them high-quality masters of all the shows they did for later syndication and repeats, unlike live TV of the time that was, at best, soft kinescopes, or worst, completely unrecorded. Since he and Lucy owned the show, those episodes for syndication made them a huge fortune.

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (MMC8r)

141 Says The Last Psychiatrist: "Contempt. This statement is 100% accurate: cheating on your spouse is less detrimental to your marriage than rolling your eyes, looking away, and saying, "oh my God, you're so annoying." http://goo.gl/LNqdG

Posted by: Contributor X at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (9E8+E)

142 I always pictured Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes pictured above) marrying Susie..

http://tinyurl.com/7s2a9as

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 26, 2012 06:39 PM (UTq/I)

143 Dude, it totally blows. There's all these choice women around, right? So you go to talk to them, you know, apply a little of that fail-safe Bundy charm, and all of a sudden you're in some little Volkswagen with the passenger seat removed, being whaled on with some sort of wooden club! I swear, being hit with that club is almost worse than the whole burial in the woods/decomposing thing that happens later. Sucks to be me.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Bundy at June 26, 2012 10:36 PM (2IW5Q)

You forgot to mention the burning poker up you ass and Ted Kennedy holding your head under water.

Posted by: Satan at June 26, 2012 06:40 PM (KZI7g)

144 There was a big debate last year one nighton the ONT about circumcisions, and all I've got to say about it is, please stop. Dammit.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 10:38 PM

Circumcision has replaced longbows vs crossbows as the main cause of flame wars here

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 06:40 PM (Y+DPZ)

145 SIFTY how's it going dude

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:40 PM (xkFlk)

146
Holm Putzke praised the court's dedication to duty, telling the Financial Times Deutschland that "Unlike many politicians, the court has not allowed itself to be scared off by charges of anti-Semitism or religious intolerance."

Followed links back to the first source. Sounds even more ominous in the original German:

"Das Gericht hat sich - anders als viele Politiker - nicht von der Sorge abschrecken lassen, als antisemitisch und religionsfeindlich kritisiert zu werden".

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 26, 2012 06:41 PM (kdS6q)

147 I use a portion of my removed foreskin as a cover for my F-150. Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 10:38 PM (p39GY) ---------------------------------------------------------- I saved my foreskin and made a wallet that, when rubbed just right, turns into a suitcase.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 06:41 PM (jucos)

148

Well, got #Twitmo'd on both accounts so it looks like you all are stuck with me for a while.

Now to read posts.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 26, 2012 06:42 PM (Qe7jo)

149

South Jersey is a great place, with very fertile soil. It's also gorgeous, but only when the idiots from Philly don't come down and fuck traffic up.

I love it there.

Finest tomatoes I've ever had.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzzbunny at June 26, 2012 06:42 PM (ApGOC)

150 Didn't Service Merchandise offer that second gun in its catalog about 30 years ago?

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 06:42 PM (ruiF1)

151 149 Gracie Allen. Was damn funny!

I rest my case!

Posted by: BlackOrchid-TeamDagny at June 26, 2012 10:39 PM (SB0V2)

True that! She did vaudeville with her husband George for 30 years, TV was a side show.

The greatest!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:43 PM (KZI7g)

152 148 Once a man is capable of independent thought (13, 18, whatever), he can feel free to hack off part of your wang. It is wrong to impose that sort of permanent decision on a child. So should we not immunize kids? Let them make the decision on potential benefits vs harm? What about the decision on how to educate them? Public vs private vs home school? What about a decision on religion? All of those have far more impact on the life of a child than what their dick looks like.

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 06:43 PM (GEICT)

153 Yes I love Lucy set the pattern for sitcoms but remember,the guy was not a dummy,controlled the finances.Lucy was the scheming silly one.Later it's always the men who are the dummies.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:43 PM (Xb3hu)

154 148 Once a man is capable of independent thought (13, 18, whatever), he can feel free to hack off part of your wang. It is wrong to impose that sort of permanent decision on a child. Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:39 PM (zq8Mf) This looks like a job for....FORESKIN MAN!!!

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:44 PM (MMC8r)

155 Multilation is mutilation. You can throw out all the rationalizations you want. Both practices are born from puritanical paranoia that someone might experience sexual pleasure.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 06:44 PM (zq8Mf)

156 Burns and Allen both sucked. The first Oh, God was the only thing I liked of his.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2012 06:44 PM (nrW1y)

157 Some interesting things stick out from those economic numbers.
***
We have 300M+ people. Only 133M are working. And they are paying for the food of 45M people.

Those 133M workers then have 3M federal employees regulating them - meaning one per 40 workers or so.

Meanwhile, average income has declined under Obama by about 2% while real inflation has been about 8% a year.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 06:45 PM (AUeaU)

158 166 so you're half Jewish?

Do you eat kosher food with one side of you mouth too?

Posted by: typo dynamofo at June 26, 2012 06:45 PM (FU9ql)

159 118 File under example #96,838,427,321 of Violence Is Bad, Bad, Bad, Unless Women Do It To Men, Then It's Empowering Funny. **This basically goes back to David and Goliath. I always felt bad for Goliath. If he'd skewered that little philandering, murderous twerp ahead of time, as David deserved, that big oaf'd have been the laughingstock of the Mediterranean. Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 26, 2012 10:28 PM (QTHTd) Dumbass hobo, it goes back to David & Bathsheba, y'too-stoopid-t'even-be-an-antisemite-so-just-a-joo-H8r shit stain. Now go back up the basement stairs and raid mommy's fridge then sneak back down to your trolling activism. But wash y'hands afore you get to the fridge, k?

Posted by: Ellen DeGenerates, I never laid a hand on Anne Heche either, swear to gawd at June 26, 2012 06:46 PM (RkLPa)

160 I kept my circumcised skin and use it as a penis hat when it's cold outside.

Posted by: Ben at June 26, 2012 06:47 PM (VPxJg)

161 I say this as a Jew who lost family members to/in the Holocaust: this is not the fucking Holocaust. This is not targeted at Jews. Germany is a secular country and is entitled to prevent body mutilation of babies, whether it's pagan, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. When the kid is old enough to decide....

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2012 06:47 PM (jOjz2)

162 Both practices are born from puritanical paranoia that someone might experience sexual pleasure. Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:44 PM (zq8Mf) So why are there so many generations of Jews, dumbass?

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:47 PM (MMC8r)

163 This looks like a job for....FORESKIN MAN!!! Ok, yup.. that made my top 10 list of mental images that will haunt me till my dying day.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:47 PM (R5yLq)

164 Circumcision , no fucking cheese and no Aids.

No circumcision ? Lot's of cheese and Aids.

Joos do this for a reason, the rest of the world can catch up. After 2,000 years it has worked pretty well.

It's OK let the towel head keep that skin, ha ha.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:47 PM (KZI7g)

165 Nose job?Mutilation.Facelift?Ditto.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:48 PM (Xb3hu)

166 My mother had my ears pierced out of puritanical paranoia that I might one day experience aural pleasure.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 26, 2012 06:48 PM (C8mVl)

167 Headed to sleep, but I could've told you about the NJ Wineries being awesome. Every Memorial Day weekend there's a major Wine Festival with over 25 wineries and the same thing every Labor Day. It's a great way to try many different types of wines and wineries and find out what you like. I'm there every year for at least one of the festivals.

Posted by: NJRob at June 26, 2012 06:48 PM (FVp26)

168 I kept my circumcised skin and use it as a penis hat when it's cold outside. Mom refused to knit you something? Go figure.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:48 PM (R5yLq)

169
Desi was the creative brains who wasn't afraid to think out of the box and try new techniques and formats

Lucy was the business brains who wasn't afraid to kick a studio boss in the balls to get what she wanted, and what Desi wanted

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 10:36 PM (Y+DPZ)

Desi was a fucking genius. He begged CBS to let him use film instead of video. They said we won't pay for it, but if you do it, you can keep the film and have the rights to it. Desi jumped at it. He owned it, and he was the first to get into syndication. He made bank syndicating ILL.

Also, that man loved the United States. He would talk about how a young boy from Cuba with nothing could become successful, and it was because of this great system we sorta still have.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 06:48 PM (1grxW)

170 Hey Gang. Popping in on the great Foreskin Debate of 2012.
Priceless.

Little known fact is that a small portion of my removed foreskin was used as a landing parachute for Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:49 PM (p39GY)

171 172 Please go crawl back under your rock.

Posted by: Infidel at home at June 26, 2012 06:49 PM (YiODH)

172 It is wrong to impose that sort of permanent decision on a child. yup - just like moral values, discipline, faith and religion - can't let the little dears have their souls crushed by evil parents

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:49 PM (xkFlk)

173 Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:44 PM (zq8Mf)

Are you retarded?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 26, 2012 06:50 PM (nEUpB)

174 Alright, can we stop with all the Pee Pipe talk ?!!

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at June 26, 2012 06:50 PM (Y+DPZ)

175 Both practices are born from puritanical paranoia that someone might experience sexual pleasure.

I got news for you. If circumcision reduced the sensitivity of my pener it did me, my wife and the world a favor.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at June 26, 2012 06:50 PM (FU9ql)

176 Ok, yup.. that made my top 10 list of mental images that will haunt me till my dying day.. lol Oh,I didn't make it up, there was a whole thread on it here on AoSHQ: http://www.foreskinman.com/images/foreskin-man-no-2-front-cover.jpg

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:50 PM (MMC8r)

177 187 Exactly.What's next,you have to wait until a child consents to the religion you want to raise it in?

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:51 PM (Xb3hu)

178 Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 10:47 PM (KZI7g)

Don't forget cancer of the penis. Unknown in circumcised men, but it exists in uncircumcised men.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 26, 2012 06:51 PM (nEUpB)

179 Can we ban getting kids ears pierced, then, too?

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:51 PM (MMC8r)

180 Alright, can we stop with all the Pee Pipe talk ?!!
***
No.

Posted by: Barney Frank at June 26, 2012 06:52 PM (AUeaU)

181 Shit, I guess tonight, while I am getting my dick sucked by a hooker, I will think, would she charged me less if I had more skin? or more?

Will report back on the answer.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:52 PM (KZI7g)

182 Are you retarded? And perhaps an even more interesting follow up question, if he is do you think he would know?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:52 PM (R5yLq)

183 I was supposed to get a circular incision!

Posted by: Al Bundy at June 26, 2012 06:52 PM (nrW1y)

184

MrCaniac@ 188

Desi did love this country. He knew he could be successful here if he was smart and worked hard.

Lucille Ball in reality was not always a very pleasant person. She was actually a bit of a socialist, and had a very hard life in her childhood. She was always a little jealous of the easy way Desi had with people. Plus the fact that Desi could talk about any woman into bed that he wanted, and that sorta made Lucy upset too.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (sJTmU)

185 Can we ban getting kids ears pierced, then, too?
***
You know what I don't get? Soda must be bannanated from the childrens...but abortion? That's a sacrament!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (AUeaU)

186 This gun thread frightens me. I'm calling my lawyer.

Posted by: Kimberlin at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (93nXF)

187 191 Last night some chicks on Twitter were worried about water flouridation and one was against vaccines and most other modern pharmaceuticals.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (Xb3hu)

188

chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 10:49 PM

+100

Posted by: Infidel at home at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (YiODH)

189 Oh,I didn't make it up, there was a whole thread on it here on AoSHQ: I'm not sure whats more depressing, the fact that we are having a discussion about circumcision or the fact that it's apparently come up before.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (R5yLq)

190 This ONT has gotten too wee-wee'd up.

Posted by: Barry O. at June 26, 2012 06:53 PM (nBfxt)

191 Both practices are born from puritanical paranoia that someone might experience sexual pleasure. now the truth emerges, this has nothing to do with the kids and everything to do with hating on the christianists

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 06:54 PM (xkFlk)

192 Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2012 10:47 PM (jOjz2)

Being related to victims of the Holocaust doesn't give you any moral superiority, nor does it give you wisdom and insight into the circumcision debate.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 26, 2012 06:54 PM (nEUpB)

193 44 Women generally aren't as funny for a couple of reasons...

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 10:08 PM (E0rp6)

How true, how true. And men laugh with each other, not AT each other. (fart jokes and such). Woman (for the most part) are out right visious to both men and women. It's a shame really.

Posted by: jewm at June 26, 2012 06:54 PM (7g1yh)

194 153 I always pictured Calvin (of Calvin Hobbes pictured above) marrying Susie..

http://tinyurl.com/7s2a9as

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 26, 2012 10:39 PM (UTq/I)

I always pictured "Not Me" from the Family Circus carving up the mommy in some satanic ritual.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 06:54 PM (1grxW)

195 That was epic last night, steevy. Epic dumb was spread. All I could do not to go off on that one broad.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:54 PM (p39GY)

196 WE got a anti-circumcision activist here on the fcking ONT? wow o' wow

Posted by: honey badger the 3rd at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (RQjPS)

197 "...but it exists in uncircumcised men [who are too dumb to put some soap on the glans after bacteria makes that shit burn]."

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (ruiF1)

198 201 This gun thread frightens me. I'm calling my lawyer.

Posted by: Kimberlin at June 26, 2012 10:53 PM (93nXF)

Guns and dicks? Shit a new low has been reached.

Praise god!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (KZI7g)

199 Can we ban getting kids ears pierced, then, too? Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 10:51 PM

No.

Posted by: Maria Conchita Rodriguez-Perez at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (bAGA/)

200 BTH are you okay? I saw that there was a new fire near Boulder. Any ideas how close it is to Louisville? My b-i-l lives there and works in Boulder.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (Qe7jo)

201 A couple of them apparently honey badger

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (GEICT)

202 I'm not sure whats more depressing, the fact that we are having a discussion about circumcision or the fact that it's apparently come up before.. lol
***
Yes, odd how this particular topic keeps popping up. Arousing ire and discord. And even when the discussion turns flaccid, it is still hanging around in everyone's face.

Posted by: Some Moron at June 26, 2012 06:55 PM (AUeaU)

203 Circumcision prevents sexual pleasure? Then what were all those things i thought were orgasms all these years? Was i just gassy?

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (HI6wa)

204

Good evening,good people. Another in a stretch of superb days here. It's August in June.

And I'm lovin it.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (SAMxH)

205 210 I know why you didn't and it rhymes with tubes.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (Xb3hu)

206

Boy some people really get upset when they found out that they didn't get to decide on if their tallywacker gets to keep its turtleneck.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (GULKT)

207 Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 10:49 PM (xkFlk)

Treat this commenter just like you would the lazy little snot who wanders into your office hours and tries to get you to give him/her the answers to the mid-term, because of some extremely improbable story of family woe or wolves eating grandma.

Sometimes we just have to call a fool a fool.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (nEUpB)

208 I use a small portion of my removed foreskin as a makeshift distillery to remove fluoride from my drinking water.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:56 PM (p39GY)

209
now the truth emerges, this has nothing to do with the kids and everything to do with hating on the christianists
***
What have the Christians ever done for us?

Posted by: The People's Liberation Front of Athestine at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (AUeaU)

210 now the truth emerges, this has nothing to do with the kids and everything to do with hating on the christianists Christiansts? Where! I hate those guys. Plus, they owe me money. Rather funny when you think about it though, with all the troubles plaguing the world this guy is hacked off about ... well getting hacked off I guess.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (R5yLq)

211 Back in the 70's SNL had a great spoof commercial about a Rabbi doing a circumcision in a moving car.

Posted by: eman at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (ejmiE)

212 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (JMmQ9)

213 Our bodies our choice! Our bodies our choice!

Posted by: Tallywacker Turtleneck Brigade at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (GULKT)

214 Posted by: Some Moron at June 26, 2012 10:55 PM (AUeaU)

We need to pull back the curtains and shine some light on this problem!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 26, 2012 06:57 PM (nEUpB)

215

How true, how true. And men laugh with each other, not AT each other. (fart jokes and such). Woman (for the most part) are out right visious to both men and women. It's a shame really.

That's why I don't have many wommins for frieds. They have no sense of humor.

Posted by: Infidel at home at June 26, 2012 06:58 PM (YiODH)

216 There's a lot of Jews considering the men don't feel sexual pleasure. And Ron Jeremy's been faking it a long time.

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:58 PM (MMC8r)

217 I gave the poor girl a pass this one time. After all, she has a secret cancer cure I might need someday.

+ tig ol bitties

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 06:58 PM (p39GY)

218 The People's Liberation Front of Athestine Splitters!

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 06:58 PM (R5yLq)

219 I always pictured "Not Me" from the Family Circus carving up the mommy in some satanic ritual.
Posted by: MrCaniac
...........
Works for me..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (UTq/I)

220 226 Yeah,the ride was so smoothe he could do a circumcision going over rough roads.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (Xb3hu)

221 They haven't found anything that can cut my foreskin yet.

Posted by: Dick Cheney at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (1grxW)

222 Good evening.

Highlighting Margeret Cho as an example of a female comedian is like pointing to Barack Hussein Obama II as an example of black leadership.

Granted there are probably fewer really good female comics, but it's not that chicks aren't funny it's that their approach is typically, I'm not sure how to put this...chick centric I guess. Male comics can joke about the various pitfalls of life, but chicks mostly joke about the pitfalls of being a chick. Margeret Cho joked about the pitfalls of being superior due to being a vagina'd Asian-American female. Did I mention her vagina? Cause she has a vagina. An Asian vagina. And her mother, who also has a vagina which is Asian. No word on if they're sdeways vaginas, but it's America and we're still free to speculate. For now.

Posted by: Robert at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (HWUv9)

223 My foreskin made a dandy hammock.

Posted by: nickless at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (MMC8r)

224 Well the hooker said she charges more for the skin guys. Their dicks smell of cheese and are a pain.

I axed for a discount. Guess what her answer was?

She did swallow.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (KZI7g)

225

Back in the 70's SNL had a great spoof commercial about a Rabbi doing a circumcision in a moving car. - eman

He only took tips.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 06:59 PM (sJTmU)

226

after that you get menopause, three years of hell.

Three years, I wish. Try ten or twelve.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 07:00 PM (bMLFV)

227 233 Yep and she likes to show them off.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 07:00 PM (Xb3hu)

228 They haven't found anything that can cut my foreskin yet. Posted by: Dick Cheney at June 26, 2012 10:59 PM (1grxW) that is some funny shiot!

Posted by: honey badger the 3rd at June 26, 2012 07:01 PM (RQjPS)

229 Secret organic cancer cure non-vaccination girl will get no more free passes.

She did make for some good joke material though.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:01 PM (p39GY)

230 Steevy, who art thou on twitter anyway? You don't go by steevy there and I'm estoopid.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:02 PM (p39GY)

231
A foreskin feud. This should be fun and replete with cutting humor.

Get it on, people. I'll just watch over here.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 07:02 PM (SAMxH)

232 242 after that you get menopause, three years of hell.

Three years, I wish. Try ten or twelve.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 11:00 PM (bMLFV)

Hey, give the young guys hope!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at June 26, 2012 07:02 PM (KZI7g)

233 ^{L Rob! Sifty!!!!

And yes, Carol Burnett was a riot, and I do like Whoopi, she is just naturally funny. I am a huge Lucy fan,too.}

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 26, 2012 07:02 PM (3inkD)

234 I'm back! Anybody notice I was gone?

Well, fuck all of you then.

Posted by: Trimegistus at June 26, 2012 07:03 PM (ToIjb)

235 246 @STuraniczo,we exchange Tweets lots of times!

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 07:03 PM (Xb3hu)

236 How does Julia feel about this?

Posted by: eman at June 26, 2012 07:03 PM (ejmiE)

237 252 How does Julia feel about this?

Posted by: eman at June 26, 2012 11:03 PM (ejmiE)

More important, how does this help my children?

Posted by: Michelle at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (KZI7g)

238 I'm back! Anybody notice I was gone? Well, fuck all of you then. Ya, sorry, been hip deep in a circumcision debate. So nope, didn't notice. If it will help I'll be happy to denounce myself.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (R5yLq)

239 Stockton goes tits up:

@BreakingNews
BREAKING: Stockton, Calif. set to become largest US city to declare bankruptcy as officials say mediation failed

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (famk3)

240 @STuraniczo? Oh shit. I'm such a derp.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (p39GY)

241 once upon a time there were actual hooters here. now, we got 250-ish posts about foreskins? no wonder last night squeeked out 300 comments. a bunch of fcking fckers we've turned into.

Posted by: honey badger the 3rd at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (RQjPS)

242 They considered using my foreskin as a replacement roof for the Metrodome.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 07:05 PM (jucos)

243 Not sure about that. I'm no hottie but the cute Mrs. claims I make her laugh a lot. Especially when I disrobe.

Posted by: USS Diversity at June 26, 2012 10:20 PM (cjTjM)

My neighbor's tell me I make them laugh for the same reason. I've been here 12 years...guess it's time to buy curtains, huh??

Posted by: myYbj at June 26, 2012 07:06 PM (myYbj)

244 Because sometimes you really want to have a good old-school relationship fight but don't quite know how to initiate it. Well pretty much any one of these phrases is guaranteed to get the anger sparks a-flying.

The most sure fire way to get into a fight is to say nothing.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 26, 2012 07:06 PM (tKFT6)

245 Just like to give a quick fuck you to Stockton, California. I hope the fuckin Cossacks buy you and sell you to the Huns.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:07 PM (p39GY)

246 obi-one-kenobie's light saber was powered by my foreskin that is all I got to say about that

Posted by: honey badger the 3rd at June 26, 2012 07:08 PM (RQjPS)

247 No more tennis grunting, like forever, even! No more grunting! unngggg!

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 26, 2012 07:08 PM (Q492A)

248 A small portion of my foreskin was used as armor on General Norman Schwarzkopf's command vehicle during Desert Storm.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:09 PM (p39GY)

249 BREAKING: Stockton, Calif. set to become largest US city to declare bankruptcy as officials say mediation failed

High-speed rail will make it there; just not soon enough.

Posted by: Cicero at June 26, 2012 07:09 PM (6j180)

250 263 I remember tennis before the grunting,is it just because microphones have gotten better?

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 07:09 PM (Xb3hu)

251

Hey Sifty,

How goes it in Idaho?

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:09 PM (MtwBb)

252 BREAKING: Stockton, Calif. set to become largest US city to declare bankruptcy as officials say mediation failed That would explain that ad I ran across on Ebay where they were selling the Stockton City Hall building. Hmm.. apparently you can't fight City Hall, but if you wait long enough you can buy it in a bankruptcy sale. Go figure.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:09 PM (R5yLq)

253 hey Sifty How is Idaho? Doing any shooting? neighbors ok?

Posted by: honey badger the 3rd at June 26, 2012 07:10 PM (RQjPS)

254 I once politely told my wife her buttcheeks belonged on the back of her ass and not the sides of her hips.

That, my friends, will start a fight.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:10 PM (p39GY)

255 I kind of like when Sharapova does the grunting. It really does something for me.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 26, 2012 07:10 PM (jucos)

256 263 No more tennis grunting, like forever, even! No more grunting! unngggg! No shit, it's literally ruining tennis. If you can't play without sounding like you're trying to evacuate a turd then don't play at all.

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 07:11 PM (HI6wa)

257 Here ya go Badger: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_upton/pictures/

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 07:11 PM (GEICT)

258 263 I remember tennis before the grunting,is it just because microphones have gotten better? Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 11:09 PM (Xb3hu) Nope. I think Monica Seles started it and then the Williams Sisters took it to a whole new (decibel) level

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 26, 2012 07:11 PM (uVuwp)

259 I cut mine off myself then I banged two nurses and an autoclave.

Posted by: eman at June 26, 2012 07:12 PM (ejmiE)

260 274 I think male players did it before the women did.

Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 07:12 PM (Xb3hu)

261 271 I kind of like when Sharapova does the grunting. It really does something for me.

It does what I thought was impossible- make me interested in tennis.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 07:12 PM (E0rp6)

262 266 263 I remember tennis before the grunting,is it just because microphones have gotten better? No, it's because some chick, can't remember who, started doing it and then other players decided it gave them an advantage because it was so annoying.

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 07:12 PM (HI6wa)

263 Idaho is incredible! We are loving it. I picked up my CCW today at the DMV and went to the range.

Went fishing last Friday 5 miles away and caught a nice trout dinner.

Goob loves his new school.

Work is fine, although I may change jobs soon.

Been doing some writing and trying to organize one of those newfangled web radio doohickies shows.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:12 PM (p39GY)

264 Sharapova's broad shoulders don't match her delicate face.

She needs to fix that.

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 07:13 PM (ruiF1)

265 BREAKING: Stockton, Calif. set to become largest US city to declare bankruptcy as officials say mediation failed Heath! Jarrod!

Posted by: eman at June 26, 2012 07:13 PM (ejmiE)

266 274 I think male players did it before the women did. Posted by: steevy at June 26, 2012 11:12 PM (Xb3hu) They just yelled at the judges or talked to themselves

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 26, 2012 07:13 PM (uVuwp)

267 I start each day with a schtikel of Fromunda Cheese on my Lender's Bagel.

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:13 PM (pjsQY)

268 IRONCLAD !!! Nancy Pelosi, that Constitutional sage of all sages, said that ObamaCare is ironclad.

Posted by: Imadinnerjacket at June 26, 2012 07:14 PM (e8kgV)

269

Sifty

Sounds great, is your wife still commuting?

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:14 PM (MtwBb)

270 Sharapova's broad shoulders don't match her delicate face. A shoulderectomy?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:14 PM (R5yLq)

271 Speaking of which...

I saw Brave tonight.

It had gorgeous animation, great big laughs, a painfully conventional story and to top it off it was way too short.

This is not the fantasy film you're looking for.

Visually, PIXAR gets better with each film. This movie was amazing in that regard. The look of the movie is nothing short of outstanding. Top marks. The character designs were fantastic. Every one of them was instantly memorable. Top marks again.

The story? *Sigh* I think it was written by Susan B. Anthony. It's very introduction-to-feminism type stuff. I was expecting something approaching epic and got something very...small. It was basically about a young girl's strained relationship with her mother. There's no real villain, so there's no real excitement to the story. I wouldn't even call it a coming of age story. It's really just very bland. And that's quite unusual for PIXAR in this regard. Typically they've always managed to put out something really worth noting. Just when you think they can't possibly have any new interesting ideas, there they are. Even Cars 2 was enormously fun. Brave is kind of...blah. This is the first time I can point at a PIXAR movie and say that its faults almost outweigh its strengths.

Almost.

As I said, the visual artistry is amazing. And the laughs are plentiful. It's surprisingly bawdy for an animated movie. Very "cheeky" if you know what I mean. And those two reasons alone make this movie quite worth it. (And also the fact that I only paid $5 bucks cause it's a Tuesday night.)

Overall, and I'm being a bit generous here I suppose, I'd give it 3/5 stars. Good, not great, and the first real stumble from the greatest animation studio since the heyday of Termite Terrace.

Posted by: Robert at June 26, 2012 07:15 PM (HWUv9)

272 Nancy Pelosi, that Constitutional sage of all sages, said that ObamaCare is ironclad. It must be, they used a small piece of Sifty's foreskin in the paper it was written on.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:15 PM (R5yLq)

273 No Foreskin No Peace! No Foreskin No Peace!

Posted by: Tallywacker Turtleneck Brigade at June 26, 2012 07:16 PM (GULKT)

274
I've always been pissed that it's necessary to have to acquire a PERMIT in order to exercise a Constitutional right.

Just grates on me.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 07:16 PM (SAMxH)

275 Margaret Cho Sucks. That is all.

Posted by: josh at June 26, 2012 07:17 PM (u7JYI)

276 I used part of my foreskin to make a main chute and a reserve chute for going skydiving.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2012 07:17 PM (UH0ly)

277 "A shoulderectomy?"

I need to see her naked to allay any concerns about her eligibility as a female player...preferably with her arms raised above her head.

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 07:18 PM (ruiF1)

278 Sifty, glad it's working out up there. I applied for a job in Boise but didn't get it. Let me know if you are in the area and want to check out Cars at DCA. I did it with Arhooley and my roomie last Thursday, it was great! Congrats on the CCW. Best Wishes!!

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 07:18 PM (UXEgP)

279

Wow, serious Islamic apologist propaganda on PBS right now down here in Jacksonville. So much critical history omitted, so much critical philosophy omitted, so much bullshit.

Or as I like to call it, Tuesday in the liberal media.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 26, 2012 07:18 PM (rX1N2)

280

I've always been pissed that it's necessary to have to acquire a PERMIT in order to exercise a Constitutional right.

Gotta keep track of the law abiding citizens. In case they shoot a criminal. Or something.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 26, 2012 07:18 PM (bMLFV)

281

Anyone know a good plastic surgeon? I'm looking at you, nancy...

I've decided to get a labiaplasty to complete the transformation into the vagina I've always known myself to be.

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:19 PM (pjsQY)

282 290 I've always been pissed that it's necessary to have to acquire a PERMIT in order to exercise a Constitutional right. Just grates on me. Hell, you're not even a person unless you got the proper certification at/near birth.

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 07:19 PM (GEICT)

283 Well pretty much any one of these phrases is guaranteed to get the anger sparks a-flying.

How about "Your [insert name of spouse's favorite MLB team] are the only farm team in the majors-- they couldn't beat a bunch of Little Leaguers having an off day."

Guaranteed to start an epic basebrawl.

Posted by: Basement Cat at June 26, 2012 07:19 PM (MTcoh)

284 That burqa makes your ass look fat. Want a beer?

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 26, 2012 07:20 PM (ccXZP)

285 My wife is not planning on going back to Hollywood after the break. It is just too hard on the family for no more reward than it gives. The money is great, but three weeks away a month is hard on a family.

Not even close to what our soldiers go thru, but it is hard on Goob. Plus her show crew is full of commies and she has to play nice with them, which she hates.

We may not be rich here, but we are happier than we have ever been.

Plus I get to work again and she gets to be the traditional home maker all her commie Hollywood colleagues have been making fun of for all these years.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:20 PM (p39GY)

286 Eddie Izzard. Borderline case.

...no, got nothin'. I should stick to daywalking.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica Sanitation Department at June 26, 2012 07:21 PM (x8wJs)

287 Gotta keep track of the law abiding citizens. In case they shoot a criminal. Or something. Never have been able to figure out the logic on this one. Drugs are completely illegal, and yet almost any high school kid knows someone that they can get drugs from if they have enough cash in their pocket. So the same people who use this as an argument for legalization of drugs somehow think that making guns illegal will somehow prevent criminals from getting guns? Just never have gotten the complete disconnect on that one, I must admit.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:21 PM (R5yLq)

288 Overall, and I'm being a bit generous here I suppose, I'd give it 3/5 stars. Good, not great, and the first real stumble from the greatest animation studio since the heyday of Termite Terrace.

Posted by: Robert at June 26, 2012 11:15 PM (HWUv9)

Would you take a kid to see it? I'm babysitting this weekend so I need a distraction for a couple hours. Even bad pixar is better than good dreamworks.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 26, 2012 07:22 PM (tKFT6)

289 I started open carrying my Glock as soon as we got up here whenever we went out in the country. But it is nice to take the little training class and meet the Sheriff and whatnot. I like to be able to carry inside restaurants and other places stupid bad people like to take hostages.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:22 PM (p39GY)

290 Sounds great sifty, glad you are happy there and it looks like you got out of CA just in time.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:24 PM (MtwBb)

291 Would you take a kid to see it? I'm babysitting this weekend so I need a distraction for a couple hours. Even bad pixar is better than good dreamworks.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 26, 2012 11:22 PM (tKFT6)

PIXAR is, as always, family friendly entertainment.

Posted by: Robert at June 26, 2012 07:24 PM (HWUv9)

292 Galco made me a nice holster for my LCP out of a tiny corner of my foreskin.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:24 PM (p39GY)

293 @298

Always held the fact of my existence was adequate proof of birth.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 07:24 PM (SAMxH)

294 309, Amen.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 07:26 PM (qqlqB)

295 Not according to the US govt. Birth certificate, social security number, passport, etc all acceptable and necessary according to them.

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 07:27 PM (GEICT)

296 Hi ont. How the hell are ya?

Posted by: lou's a girl who loves jimi ray who blathers on more then her, whew at June 26, 2012 07:28 PM (fHyXI)

297 The Declaration of Independence?

Yeah... That's right.

Posted by: George Washington at June 26, 2012 07:28 PM (tcFym)

298 Until time to vote. Then anybody can just stagger in and vote Democrat.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:28 PM (p39GY)

299

Meh I don't mind getting a CCP it's cheap $60 for 6 years. Renewing is a pain though you have to go to the sherrifs office and get fingerprinted again and fill out the same damn form you filled out the last 5 times you renewed.

I didn't know fingerprints changed

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:29 PM (MtwBb)

300

U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg distills the concept into 2 short sentences. 06 March 2012

Â“A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reasonÂ’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights.

The rightÂ’s existence is all the reason he needs.Â”

http:// baltimore.cbslocal.com /2012/03/05/ md-gun-law-found-unconstitutional/ (remove spaces)

Posted by: Arbalest at June 26, 2012 07:29 PM (gnScd)

301 Â“whatÂ’s most irritating is the overlay of blatant racism. thatÂ’s the secret sauce in the Politico shitburger.Â”

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at June 26, 2012 07:30 PM (e8kgV)

302 Plus if you have a CCP here you can buy a gun and take it home the same day, no waiting period.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:30 PM (MtwBb)

303 this is disturbing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJBW49afzg That shit went down about 30-ish miles from where I'm sitting right now

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2012 07:31 PM (JMmQ9)

304 I'm not sure that women are less funny than men. More like, funny women don't fare as well as being *funny* in a typical stand-up or writer's meeting as men do. My sense of humor, I know, tends to be somewhat dry, quick, and situational. Not to say I won't come out with some crude and shocking shit sometimes but only in a limited audience. Never in a room of strangers. I think there is a level of, I don't know, let's call it demureness, that is expected of women by men and women without thinking about it. If you violate it you can get a shock laugh, violate it too many times and it becomes cheap and hacky. Unlike a comedy club, I can rebuild my "demurre" credibilty the next time something like that just pos out of my head. Which for some reason makes it even funnier the next time. I don't know, but I suspect that when guys are horsing around they don't ever have to lay low awhile about "that eggplant crack". Nothing funny about a constantly crude or foul-mouthed woman. Not even all that much better for a guy probably, but more "acceptible" if he is younger. OMG! That was sick! Sick, but funny man! How do you come up w/this shit. I think of shit like this all the time. I just don't SAY it. Until, I do...

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 07:32 PM (rH+V2)

305 I liked all the hawt housewives in my permit class.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:32 PM (p39GY)

306 Sifty Nampa or Parma gun club? The George Nourse range is free though, but gotta watch cuz there is not Range Master.

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 07:33 PM (RQjPS)

307 That's all well and good but equating male circumcision to female mutilation (In which the clitoris and labia are cut off and the vagina is sewed shut) is worthy of a STFU. Posted by: runninrebel at June 26, 2012 10:40 PM (N/1Dm) I didn't, myself, say the two were comparable. The analogous prodecure to a regular male circumcision for a female is the removal of the clitoral hood (not labia removal or sewing their privates up). That is quite outragious and repulsive to me. Why, objectivly, should I feel different if it involved a man's genitalia instead? There are many reasons why one is accepted and the other isn't: Judaism has integrated wonderfully with European/Western Civilization and people feel its normal; most men in the U.S. used to be circumcised (the rates have fallen in the past half century IIRC) because doctors in the 19th century got people to start doing it, so non-Jewish circumcized men will defend it because they feel it is normal and they are offended by the implication that they might not be (e.g. by overstating its medical benefits and understating possible complications); reponse to criticism for male cicumcision typically boils down to calling those who disagree "anti-Semites." Morally, I feel it is not different than making any other major non-medically necissary to a baby. Again, I would not interfer with a long-standing religious ritual that our society accepts, but this does not mean I have an obligation to refrain from having a problem with it. Further this isn't comparable to MMR shots or raising your kid a certain way. Some people just have an honest problem with the idea of someone cutting of part of their tallywacker without their consent, and don't see why it should be spiffy to do it to another without their consent.

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 07:33 PM (XYqoq)

308 Plus if you have a CCP here you can buy a gun and take it home the same day, no waiting period. Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 11:30 PM (MtwBb) In Idaho, with a CCL, you can buy a gun and be out the door in 10 minutes or so

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 07:34 PM (RQjPS)

309 Women wielding guns is instantly hot. A chick rippin off a 9mm at the range? Do you realize how fugly she'd have to be for the hotness to be cancelled out??

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 07:34 PM (GEICT)

310 We don't have a permit class here. You just fill out the form, get fingerprinted and it shows up in the mail.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:34 PM (MtwBb)

311 Hiya Sifty, good to see you here.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 26, 2012 07:35 PM (Qe7jo)

312 In Idaho, with a CCL, you can buy a gun and be out the door in 10 minutes or so

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 11:34 PM (RQjPS)

Same here, they make a phone call and that's it.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:36 PM (MtwBb)

313 Some think I'm funny!

Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at June 26, 2012 07:36 PM (q4/3s)

314 Lucille Ball in reality was not always a very pleasant person. She was actually a bit of a socialist, and had a very hard life in her childhood. She was always a little jealous of the easy way Desi had with people. Plus the fact that Desi could talk about any woman into bed that he wanted, and that sorta made Lucy upset too. Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 26, 2012 10:53 PM (sJTmU) --------------------------------------------------------- You know, I've heard people talk about Lucy this way before and it occurs me to that pretty much ALL male comedians, especially the great ones, are damaged and not likable in some way. I think there's a kernel of truth in that women just aren't allowed to be the same way, we have to be pleasant. Not saying good or bad about it, but it's interesting. I suppose Bill Cosby wasn't, and Jerry Seinfeld, and you have your lovable schlubs like Ray Romano... ---Sam Kinnison, Lenny Bruce (yeah I know hardly relevant), George Carlin, even Denis Leary, Adam Carolloa and so on are all kind of rotten. The rottenness doesn't work (to my tastes) for women like Sarah Silverman (who just annoys the hell out of me) and Lisa Lampanelli and Roseanne and Chelsea Handler. That and stand up in particular just isn't much of a women's game. To do it, with the traveling and all that, you can't be a mom by most people's definitions, while dads can get away with it. Plus there's something TOTALLY different about your dad making dick jokes vs. your mom. So you end up with young, single women making"amirite, ladies?" jokes about dating and crap, then not-so-young single women making jokes about how their parents want them to get married but ewwww, and then, finally, you have Kathy Griffin. Janeane Garofolo (yeah I know) was actually kinda funny in the first stage and Margaret Cho was too. Maria Bamford is kind of funny in the middle stage, but who knows. Meanwhile, men have a stable of young single guy comics, dad comics, and gay men. So you end up with lots of lesbian or chronically single comics and the straight, married ladies who are funny do it in different ways, like hosting talk shows. Kelly Ripa is mildly funny in an inoffensive talk show way and she gets to be home with her kids. Rosie O'Donnell for the first half of her talk show in the 90s was funny in that same 'mom' way,

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 07:37 PM (snRY5)

315 Ah, hell I type too much.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 07:38 PM (snRY5)

316 Been watching the streaming video on the fire in Colorado Springs... broadcast said that approximately 32,000 people have had to evacuate... and the fire moving into a residential area. Some of the press asking questions are really stupid, have no ideal on how asking for support from the state ad Feds works in instances like this... seem to think that the Mayor can call the base commanders and tell them to give up untrained people to fight the fire. Thought that maybe they would have learned something from the Katrina fiasco when Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin could have used schools buses to evacuate people...

Posted by: Mjölnir the banhammer at June 26, 2012 07:39 PM (Jls4P)

317 A ex-cop fella who owns a store called Zebra 12 has made his own little range at an old quarry. I go there every so often. I might join the Nampa club next year.

The range out by the dump is so full of crazy idiots it is almost like live combat.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:39 PM (p39GY)

318 Same here, they make a phone call and that's it. Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 11:36 PM (MtwBb) No phone call in Idaho, just write down your 'permit' info and pay and done

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 07:40 PM (RQjPS)

319 323 Well said! Though I would disagree that we should not prohibit repugnant religious practices. We, rightly, reject the notion that it is okay to hack off perfectly normal parts of a woman's anatomy for religious reasons. Why should it be different for boys?

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 07:40 PM (zq8Mf)

320 The Colorado Springs wildfire is indeed crazy. Many many homes burnt down, tens of thousands evacuated, after the fire exploded this afternoon with 65MPH winds, 100 degree heat and very dry weather. I'm really surprised this isn't getting more national attention. http://www.gazette.com/articles/fire-140851-highway-waldo.html

Posted by: Matt from CO at June 26, 2012 07:41 PM (lP1Nw)

321 Jenny makes 7000 valid points.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:42 PM (p39GY)

322 No phone call in Idaho, just write down your 'permit' info and pay and done

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 11:40 PM (RQjPS)

They call an automated number here and enter your permit number to make sure it hasn't been revoked. It takes a couple of minutes.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:42 PM (MtwBb)

323

"This falls right in line with ass backwards thinking that women's emotions can't be real, genuine or justified."

Oh I wouldn't say that thinking women's emotions aren't "justified" is "ass backwards". I'd say that in many cases it would be considered "accurate", though these cases usually seem to be cyclical.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 26, 2012 07:42 PM (rX1N2)

324 Jenny +7000 Ninjaneer -5

Posted by: Bcochran1981 at June 26, 2012 07:43 PM (GEICT)

325 Keep Your Hands Off Our Junk! Keep Your Hands Off Our Junk! Keep Your Hands Off Our Junk!

Posted by: Tallywacker Turtleneck Brigade at June 26, 2012 07:43 PM (GULKT)

326

I also love to take some Fromunda, mix it with Gruyere and white wine to make a lovely fondu.

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:43 PM (pjsQY)

327 I thought Sarah Silverman was funny until she turned into an Obamabot. That Obama guy has ruined a lot of people .

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:43 PM (MtwBb)

328 I'm too damn tired to fight about circumcision. Parents choice. Goodnight.

Posted by: mpfs at June 26, 2012 07:43 PM (Fy6L7)

329 Rosie O'Donnell for the first half of her talk show in the 90s was funny in that same 'mom' way What amuses me most about Rosie O'Donnell is that she honestly thought she could say some of the most unbelievable, nastiest things imaginable about a good percentage of her audience and they would ignore all that and keep watching anyway. When she stuck to the saccharine sweet I'm so cute Rosie image she did ok, the minute her real personality started seeping through she hit the skids fast. I'm not sure if she was always that angry of if it happened over time, but boy once she got the idea in her head that she didn't need to filter any of that out.. damn. One show after another kept trying to give her another chance, and every time she just got snottier, nastier, and worse than before. Now her career is pretty much over as a result. Have to admit, I just don't get the thought process.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:44 PM (R5yLq)

330 We, rightly, reject the notion that it is okay to hack off perfectly normal parts of a woman's anatomy for religious reasons. Why should it be different for boys? For the thousandth fucking time, it's not the same. Hacking off a clit does permanent harm to a woman and actually does take away her sexual pleasure, hacking off the foreskin of a guy on the other hand does nothing and may in fact increase sexual pleasure in some and has other positive benefits. Comprende? Apples/oranges.

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 07:45 PM (HI6wa)

331 Obvious Joe is Obvious.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 26, 2012 07:46 PM (famk3)

332 I was a baby when they got my foreskin, they made a homeless shelter out of it.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:46 PM (MtwBb)

333 Comprende? Apples/oranges. Ok, could you go over that middle part again and maybe type it a little slower? Thanks!! Lol.. ok, going to go hide now..

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:46 PM (R5yLq)

334 Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 11:44 PM (R5yLq) Oh I think she just literally had a breakdown. Not even kidding, and I actually feel a teeny bit bad for her. Like a midlife crisis thing or something. ----------------------------------- @sifty, thank you!

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 07:46 PM (snRY5)

335 "Nothing funny about a constantly crude or foul-mouthed woman."

Let's all gorge ourselves on irreverence candy and become star-throwing trolls!

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 07:46 PM (ruiF1)

336

Apples also go well with Fromunda. Really, everything is better with dick cheese.

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:47 PM (pjsQY)

337 ...and in Alaska, Arizona, (fuck Vermont - it's a sissy name. "Hi, my name is Vermont"... fag), and Wyoming you don't need no steenkin' "permits" for your 2nd Amendment rights.

Posted by: George Washington at June 26, 2012 07:47 PM (tcFym)

338 Gonna head on back to twitville and do some hippy-punching. good seeing you all.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 07:47 PM (p39GY)

339 The range out by the dump is so full of crazy idiots it is almost like live combat. Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 11:39 PM (p39GY) The range by the dump is about a last choice Go out near the Owyhee Mountains is a better choice Have you checked out Parma? I think it is a better range, I'll be there on Saturday and can give you a tour if you want

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 07:48 PM (RQjPS)

340

It's about time for another pistol purchase for me. Something to accompany my beloved 1911, not settled on anything yet, though.

Some ideas,please?

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 07:48 PM (SAMxH)

341 With a name like Putzke, he's gotta be a dick expert.

Posted by: Romberg at June 26, 2012 07:48 PM (J9tUu)

342

**Matt from CO at June 26, 2012 11:41 8

Good Lord. More prayers tonight.

Posted by: Infidel at home at June 26, 2012 07:48 PM (YiODH)

343 Going through the last of my dad's old chests tonite the only thing I found that wasn't destroyed by time and elements was his old Kaybar from WWII. So there's that- made me realize that someday someone will go through all my stuff too and try to figure out who I was

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 07:48 PM (h+/7G)

344 Oh I think she just literally had a breakdown. Not even kidding, and I actually feel a teeny bit bad for her. Like a midlife crisis thing or something. I think you may be right. Hard to tell. From what I've heard she was a very different person on camera than she was off camera. At some point she apparently started to stop worrying about maintaining her on camera persona. Not sure how true that might be, you know how reliable most of that information is to start with - but regardless it just amazes me that she had a really successful career and probably could have kept going for years and years. Instead she went down the road she did - I must admit people baffle me.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:49 PM (R5yLq)

345 Just spent 10 days with Mrs. Muldoon in the Sangre de Cristo mtns. (South and west of Pueblo). During that entire time we had one 20 minute light rain, otherwise <b>bone dry!!</b> It is scary as all get out. The whole state looks ready to explode. Prayers go out to all who are in the path of the fires. The one in C.Spgs is a beast. On the drive back to G. Jct today there was some faint smokiness in the air from the fires in SW Colorado. Reservoirs were all very, very low. We could use some of the rain Florida is getting.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at June 26, 2012 07:49 PM (hgSh3)

346 Some ideas,please?

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 11:48 PM (SAMxH)

I have a 1911, I bought a Browning Hi Power 9mm to go with it. I love it.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:50 PM (MtwBb)

347 Going through the last of my dad's old chests tonite the only thing I found that wasn't destroyed by time and elements was his old Kaybar from WWII. So there's that- made me realize that someday someone will go through all my stuff too and try to figure out who I was Lol.. which makes me wonder what the people cleaning out my basement will think when they run across that pink flamingo lawn ornament with the bullet hole in the forehead.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:51 PM (R5yLq)

348 Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Fromunda Cheese.

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:51 PM (pjsQY)

349 S&W M&P: fun, fun, fun.

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 07:51 PM (ruiF1)

350 XD-45 Tactical is like a polymer 1911 except it eats hollowpoints and has 13-round magazines- my suggestion. Also my foreskin was so small the doctor called it a twoskin

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 07:52 PM (h+/7G)

351 Going through the last of my dad's old chests tonite the only thing I found that wasn't destroyed by time and elements was his old Kaybar from WWII. So there's that- made me realize that someday someone will go through all my stuff too and try to figure out who I was

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 11:48 PM (h+/7G)

I still have my Kaybar from Vietnam , they are a fine knife. Indestructable

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:52 PM (MtwBb)

352

Some ideas,please?

Sig. Always coveted the sigs that I've shot.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2012 07:53 PM (pjsQY)

353 I actually used to do circumcisions, back in the day. Didn't pay very well though, except for the tips!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at June 26, 2012 07:53 PM (hgSh3)

354 Some ideas,please? Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 11:48 PM (SAMxH) Beretta M92?

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 07:53 PM (RQjPS)

355 We, rightly, reject the notion that it is okay to hack off perfectly normal parts of a woman's anatomy for religious reasons. Why should it be different for boys?

If you're cutting off a guy's dick, that would be equivalent to female circumcision. Male circumcision just doesn't do even a fraction of the same sort of damage.

Posted by: AD at June 26, 2012 07:54 PM (uUsyW)

356 Traveling and just wondered what my hash might be. Carry on.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at June 26, 2012 07:54 PM (pcfT8)

357 Circumcisions are dangerous. After I got mine I couldn't walk for over a year.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 07:55 PM (GULKT)

358 It's about time for another pistol purchase for me. Something to accompany my beloved 1911, not settled on anything yet, though. Guess it kind of depends on what the purpose of the second gun will be - The .45 has plenty of stopping power so a good 9mm with a high ammo capacity would be a reasonable choice in most situations.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:55 PM (R5yLq)

359 346 There is no scientific proof of any positive benefits of mutilating an infant male. It is speculative at best, and a few dubious "studies" does not equal proof. There is debate on the effects on sexual pleasure as well.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 07:55 PM (zq8Mf)

360

Some ideas,please?

Beretta 93R

Posted by: Mack Bolan at June 26, 2012 07:55 PM (pjsQY)

361 Circumcisions are dangerous. After I got mine I couldn't walk for over a year.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 11:55 PM (GULKT)

lol me either

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 07:57 PM (MtwBb)

362 @ 374

This is probly gonna turn out to be a long pleasant "Gotta shoot it to see if I like it" exercise. With no ultimate purchase at the end.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 07:57 PM (SAMxH)

363 XD-9 Tactical is very nice too- except it's capable of 16 rds. The problem with getting a compliment to the 1911 is matching the grip angle which is why I suggest the XD- it instinctively points the same

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 07:58 PM (h+/7G)

364 This is probly gonna turn out to be a long pleasant "Gotta shoot it to see if I like it" exercise. With no ultimate purchase at the end. Not seeing a downside there.. lol.. are you?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 07:58 PM (R5yLq)

365

When parents asked what to expect and when they could see the baby after the procedure I would tell them, "It won't be long now!", answering both questions at the same time.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at June 26, 2012 07:58 PM (hgSh3)

366 The comediennes who act more feminine tend to be funnier to me.

Posted by: mali at June 26, 2012 07:59 PM (KoSNi)

367

I much prefer fellating a man with an ample foreskin.

I just can't get enough of that funky stuff!

Posted by: NinjaQueer at June 26, 2012 07:59 PM (pjsQY)

368 377 Circumcisions are dangerous. After I got mine I couldn't walk for over a year.Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 11:55 PM (GULKT) lol me either

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 11:57 PM (MtwBb

Most people aren't even able to speak about it for years...

Posted by: AD at June 26, 2012 07:59 PM (uUsyW)

369 This is probly gonna turn out to be a long pleasant "Gotta shoot it to see if I like it" exercise. With no ultimate purchase at the end.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 11:57 PM (SAMxH)

The browning 9mm hi power is almost the same as the model 1911, feild strips almost exactly the same, it's the same gun almost without the grip safety.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 08:00 PM (MtwBb)

370 I think it is a better range, I'll be there on Saturday and can give you a tour if you want

Shit, jake. If you are coming out this way I'd be happy to go out. We were just out there off-roading near Succor Creek two weekends ago.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 08:01 PM (p39GY)

371 Most people aren't even able to speak about it for years...

Posted by: AD at June 26, 2012 11:59 PM (uUsyW)

It was so traumatic for me I had to be told it even happened to me. Totally blanked the horror from my mind.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 08:01 PM (MtwBb)

372 Oh, and also... Dick jokes are objectively more funny than vag jokes to both men and women.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 08:01 PM (rH+V2)

373 Iron Grampa are you around L.A.?

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 08:02 PM (h+/7G)

374 If I could see my junk I could tell you whether I've had one or not

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (h+/7G)

375 LauraW is funnier than almost everyone on this blog....and they have a great roll...still, more Laura posts ...!

Posted by: InfoJim at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (01WQQ)

376 388 Oh, and also...

Dick jokes are objectively more funny than vag jokes to both men and women.

Posted by: Deety at June 27, 2012 12:01 AM (rH+V2)

Where do you think they held the auction?

"You don't have to repeat yourself" "I didn't"

So would I because mine's as big as a hat.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (GULKT)

377 We, rightly, reject the notion that it is okay to hack off perfectly normal parts of a woman's anatomy for religious reasons. Why should it be different for boys? For the thousandth fucking time, it's not the same. Hacking off a clit does permanent harm to a woman and actually does take away her sexual pleasure, hacking off the foreskin of a guy on the other hand does nothing and may in fact increase sexual pleasure in some and has other positive benefits. Comprende? Apples/oranges. Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 11:45 PM (HI6wa) Of course there not the same; that's basic biology. But I didn't compare it with removing the entire clitoris, just the hood. I don't know what it is like, nor could I ever really know since I am a guy. But having my foreskin removed would be a pretty BFD to me, and it being done without my consent would require that I be permanently retrained to prevent me from killing the f**ker who did such a thing. So, why the hell should I feel that it is okay, if not great, about it being done to someone else? It's too engrained in culture here, and both my Burkean sensibilities and love of religious freedom results in me tolerating it , though not condoning it. If some people want to believe that circumcision gives them an AIDS/cancer proof rod of infinite pleasure, I really don't care. But at least try to show the same tolerance to me that I show you.

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (XYqoq)

378 @ 385

If the grip size is close,I'll take a look. The 1911-and this goes back to my army days-was the first autoloading pistol that had a comfortable grip for me. Just like it was custom built. Same with the XD9, how it feels is key.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (SAMxH)

379 getting sick in the summer is no fun

Posted by: The Dude at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (tw6Ar)

380 I boldly strutted outta my momma's vag., so a simple skin snip on the flesh log would never slow my roll.

[Said while curled up in the fetal position and rocking back and forth, weeping for Mr. Micro]

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (ruiF1)

381 375 346

There is no scientific proof of any positive benefits of mutilating an infant male. It is speculative at best, and a few dubious "studies" does not equal proof. There is debate on the effects on sexual pleasure as well.

Believe whatever fantasy you wish. Putting the word studies in quotations doesn't mean they are invalid just because you wish it to be so. Idiot.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (E0rp6)

382 Some of the hang gliding stunts on the TV series Fall Guy used my foreskin as a safer, stronger hang glider stand-in.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 08:04 PM (p39GY)

383 @ 389

No,I live in NY, unfortunately.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 08:05 PM (SAMxH)

384 Because I feel like writing a comedy-and-feminism thesis (don't worry, I'll send it to Jezebel too): For good reasons [I'll delete that part for Jezebel] we have different reactions to seeing men and women look humiliated or helpless. I was thinking of some random Conan O'Brian bit where he was in a miniature set and panicking slightly. Tried to picture it with a woman and it made me uncomfortable. So there's that. I also thought of the scene in The Proposal where Ryan Reynolds won't help Sandra Bullock up after she knelt down to propose...totally different because of the genders. You can find funny women who are fat (and even that will bother men some, as men are more visual and there are just different standards) but half of Chris Farley's stuff that poked fun at his weight would just flat not work with a woman, whether its men or women watching. I would squirm during some female version of fat guy in a little coat. Bridesmaids came as close as it could, where the fat lady was (sort of) one of the heroines and not just a one-note joke, but still poked fun at her weight. In, like, every other movie if there is a fat lady like that, somebody has sex with her once while drunk and holds up the huge panties later and that's it. I think there's been an expectation (from women, too) that women in movies and tv are always perfect and the jokes can't go to close to physical imperfections and men have never been held to the same standard.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 08:06 PM (snRY5)

385 So the same people who use this as an argument for legalization of drugs somehow think that making guns illegal will somehow prevent criminals from getting guns?
***
You are presuming that liberals are particularly concerned with armed criminals.

The primary concerns of liberals isn't crime, which is to their minds caused by non-liberal government policies, but the effects armed citizenry has on the government.

Posted by: The People's Liberation Front of Athestine at June 26, 2012 08:07 PM (AUeaU)

386 Comedic actress that never failed to amuse...Judy Holliday

Posted by: Petunia at June 26, 2012 08:08 PM (zw1MU)

387 If the grip size is close,I'll take a look. The 1911-and this goes back to my army days-was the first autoloading pistol that had a comfortable grip for me. Just like it was custom built. Same with the XD9, how it feels is key.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 27, 2012 12:04 AM (SAMxH)

It's fatter, it has a 13 round mag. But I like the grip better. The angle of the grip to the barrel is about the same though. It looks just like a 1911 without the grip safety and spring release.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 08:08 PM (MtwBb)

388 319 this is disturbing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJBW49afzg

That shit went down about 30-ish miles from where I'm sitting right now

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2012 11:31 PM (JMmQ9)

Wow, was fired up. Had to go smoke and say a prayer, just being honest.

Posted by: lou's a girl at June 26, 2012 08:09 PM (fHyXI)

389 Browning designed the 1911, it's basically the same gun.

Posted by: robtr at June 26, 2012 08:10 PM (MtwBb)

390 irongrampa; you could always "go cheap" and get a couple or three. Do you own the classic "Saturday Night Special", the Raven in .25 APC? Phoenix Arms' HP22 is a fine little pistol (there are some bad reviews out there in the inter-web net-tubes; but I've beaten the Hell out of mine without a problem), it's tiny, but discrete; and .22LR is a good "common" caliber for a sidearm that you can slip into a pocket and no one will ever know (Think of it as the 7-11 sidearm: if you had to run out for a loaf of milk or a quart of bread at 11:00 PM, and you shouldn't leave the house alone, just chuck it in your pocket and you're good to go) I reserve my right to revise and extend....

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2012 08:10 PM (JMmQ9)

391 Liberals don't mind if criminals have guns. Who do you think will be their army? Not us. When the call goes out they want the hoodlums to remember who enabled their lifestyle with guns and drugs and public defenders and ACLU lawsuits.

Mr. Humungous won't put out a casting call for upright citizens. He'll want the carjackers and the drug-addicted burglars on his team.

Posted by: sifty at June 26, 2012 08:10 PM (p39GY)

392 Yeah I tried all of the pistols everyone here has suggested and XD's where I ended up- however be sure you try the Tactical (5" barrel) not just the 4" Service model- I have a lot of friends that have a huge selection of different pistolas but the more different they are the less likely they are to be good with them-

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 08:11 PM (h+/7G)

393 Yeah well, Back in the late '80's, I dated a Persian dude who was friends with a Chriistian, Syrian dude whose family fled that country because of religious persecution. I remember him healing up in my boyfriend's Evanston apartment for most of a week after "finally" getting circumcised in his early 20's. It seemed *way* more painful him having waited.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 08:12 PM (rH+V2)

394
Some redhead in a nightgown just strolled through the room, I must go investigate this.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe. Most especially those in Colorado.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2012 08:13 PM (SAMxH)

395

StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 11:44 PM

I think it's called the Dusty Rhoades syndrome...

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 08:13 PM (UXEgP)

396 Hello all. Much more vigor in the ONT tonight...

Posted by: zeera at June 26, 2012 08:19 PM (XtxRN)

397 The Val-U-Rite is alll gone, so I must geaux now. tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2012 08:19 PM (JMmQ9)

398 #287

In keeping with tonight's theme, Brave was supposed to be the first Pixar feature with a female director. She ended up standing aside as the project went astray and they brought in two men to complete the project. I'm sure full details have been noted somewhere.

I strongly suspect it was turning into the sort of anecdote your mother might tell another female relative that makes you wonder if, when, and where there will be a point to this story. My own mother can go on for about an hour non-stop and complete lose her original story a half dozen times before accidentally wandering back into it. Within a couple years of starting to drive my own car, I discovered she navigates that way, too, and there existed far more direct or perhaps the better word would be concise, routes to place we went when I was a kid.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 08:19 PM (kcfmt)

399 Maybe if you guys could know where the anti-circumcision (or anti-MGM, intactivist, or what have you) movement comes from, perhaps you should check the Men's Rights board on Reddit or some of the many other anti-circumcision sites.

I personally think a lot of MRAs are leftist but anti-feminist men who have feminist impulses. On the one hand, some of them want to tyrannically force their partner to abort their child (thus, to a feminist or indeed any sane person, grossly violating her bodily integrity, and to a pro-life person like myself, violating the child's bodily integrity and right to life) because of their perversion of the feminist's perversion of "choice", and on the other, most MRAs are against "male genital mutilation" (though also, in their defense, FGM) because they state that they believe in the child's right to bodily integrity.

Though they indeed make several excellent points about the injustices of family and divorce courts to fathers, we can only hope that the MRAs' process of gaining mainstream exposure will force them to abandon some of their more misguided and, frankly, horrible ideas instead of allowing them to appropriate these radical ideas of feminist inspiration that truly display hatred of women as much as actual feminists hate men.

Posted by: Dirk at June 26, 2012 08:21 PM (RUyAL)

400 Totally OT (O all previous Ts): I'm trying to find cultural, non-liberal (not necessarily conservative, just not-annoyingly-leftist) events in the Boston area for this weekend (6/29-30). Lectures, book signings, music -- those kinds of things. Can any locals offer recs? Good sites to give pointers, for this weekend and others? Thanks much.

Posted by: jimmychanga48 at June 26, 2012 08:21 PM (DD0gO)

401 Ninja, the chicks don't dig the smegma.

Posted by: indigo child at June 26, 2012 08:21 PM (xXhWA)

402 You are presuming that liberals are particularly concerned with armed criminals. Nope. I don't even begin to presume how liberals think - I have less insight into that than I do into women. Frankly the liberal mindset is something I find a complete mystery. I guess I just find it amusing and somewhat noteworthy as to the intellectual dishonesty required to maintain a liberal outlook. Might just be me, who knows..

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:23 PM (R5yLq)

403 I don't have a foreskin. I have a five-skin.

Posted by: Chuck Norris at June 26, 2012 08:24 PM (vP+Eb)

404 Ninja, the chicks don't dig the smegma. Lol, ok, again maybe this is just me - but you folks do realize you've spent almost 400 some posts arguing about dickheads, with a dickhead, right?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:25 PM (R5yLq)

405 Hello all. Much more vigor in the ONT tonight... Posted by: zeera at June 27, 2012 12:19 AM (XtxRN) ----------- Somebody took a page from the parenting websites. Circumcision gets comments. Next up: Breastfeeding and cloth diapers.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 08:27 PM (snRY5)

406 But having my foreskin removed would be a pretty BFD to me Then that's your problem because it's not a big deal but hey, in the words of our Prez, if you want your dick cheese, you can keep your dick cheese.

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 08:27 PM (HI6wa)

407 You can find funny women who are fat (and even that will bother men some, as men are more visual and there are just different standards) but half of Chris Farley's stuff that poked fun at his weight would just flat not work with a woman Not sure if this is so much a matter of standards as it is a matter of social conditioning. A woman making fun of herself for being overweight is an uncomfortable situation especially for us males. If we laugh at her joke then we are basically admitting we think she is fat and that runs the risk of hurting her feelings, something most of us (well those of us who were raised properly at any rate) are simply unwilling to do under any circumstances. Men for the most part can make fun of their appearance and when they do they are more or less giving everyone a free pass to join in - so a lot of the humor that works for men just doesn't work for women. Just my 2 cents worth of course, your mileage may vary.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:30 PM (R5yLq)

408 Succor creek is a neat area. Check out Leslie Gulch on the Oregon side. I've got a rifle match at Parma on this Saturday that I'm going to. Check out the Parma Range , way better than Nampa. I drive past the Nampa range to get to PArma. The deasert is super, but for Long Range Rifle and general pistol Parma can't be beat. Shotguns at Parma are not the best. They have a seldon used trap line but no skeet For rifles the go from 20 feet to 3,000 yards

Posted by: jake at June 26, 2012 08:30 PM (RQjPS)

409 The gun is for the pigeon zombie apocalypse.

Posted by: DaveA at June 26, 2012 08:30 PM (EyTMo)

410 Next up: Breastfeeding and cloth diapers. Guess I won't feel bad about calling it an early night.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:31 PM (R5yLq)

411 The gun is for the pigeon zombie apocalypse. In that case forget the gun and stock up on Alka Seltzer. Best pigeon killer known to man, bar none.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:32 PM (R5yLq)

412

I miss machines guy..

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 08:32 PM (UXEgP)

413 Watched Brave this past weekend. Pretty movie, but not a large fan of the heroine or the general plot (was expecting something else from the trailers/previews).

Anybody else watch it yet? Whatcha think?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 26, 2012 08:32 PM (6EuP/)

414 I've been told by lots of women that I have a great sense of humor. So why am I always stuck in the Friend Zone? I should just build a house there and be done with it.

I've known more funny men than women, and the funny women I know personally have a sense of humor more like a guy's. Go figure. There's not many women who did stand-up that made me laugh. Ellen DeGeneres and Rita Rudner are the only two I can think of. The funniest comedic actresses I've seen are Carol Burnett ("Went With The Wind" still cracks me up) and Madeline Kahn. I'm probably in the minority, but I don't find Lucille Ball to be all that funny.

Circumcision? I'm not touching that.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread (resisting adding "that's what SHE said") at June 26, 2012 08:33 PM (A2LXE)

415 409 >> It seemed *way* more painful him having waited.

Well Deety, it was *his* choice. I will note that a recent anti-abortion law was passed in one of the states for abortions after 20 weeks gestation. Their rationale is that research shows fetuses can feel pain beyond that point. Now surely you would agree that a newborn can feel pain. Cutting some of their skin off hurts, they just can't express it.

You can argue that they don't remember the pain, but really that is true even as an adult. You don't remember pain itself very well. It is handy to teach us to avoid certain situations that can cause it though.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 26, 2012 08:33 PM (ccXZP)

416

and Rum

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 08:33 PM (UXEgP)

417 Re: Brave. Beautiful and a technical masterpiece. Much lighter on plot and characterization than most Pixar movies. Still, a good Pixar film beats most of the donkey farts Hollywood produces these days.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 26, 2012 08:35 PM (A2LXE)

418 Anybody else watch it yet? Whatcha think? Haven't seen it yet myself and since my youngest no longer lives at home and is now a teenager it isn't real high on my list of movies I'd like to see - that's probably more of a "when it comes out on cable" sort of movie for me. Last movie we went to see in the theater was Battleship. It's not bad, the story isn't that great but the special effects and battle scenes make it pretty entertaining.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:35 PM (R5yLq)

419 and Breitbart...

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 08:36 PM (UXEgP)

420 I've been told by lots of women that I have a great sense of humor. So why am I always stuck in the Friend Zone? I should just build a house there and be done with it. The lot right next to mine is for sale. Lol..

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:37 PM (R5yLq)

421 If there are all these benefits to circumcision, what is wrong with waiting until a boy can make a *choice* on whether to remove a God-given piece of himself? Why are some so determined to perform the practice at birth?

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 08:37 PM (zq8Mf)

422 I'm trying to find cultural, non-liberal (not necessarily conservative, just not-annoyingly-leftist) events
***
The Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum is interesting.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 08:38 PM (AUeaU)

423 So can we place the anti circumcision peeps in the same kkkrazzie categort as Animal Rights Activists. fukkin serios, nobody gives a shit about what you think.

Posted by: Honey Badger #5 at June 26, 2012 08:39 PM (RQjPS)

424 If there are all these benefits to circumcision, what is wrong with waiting until a boy can make a *choice* on whether to remove a God-given piece of himself? Why are some so determined to perform the practice at birth? Ok, well not that I normally respond to troll nonsense, but I guess I'll make an exception here and give you a proper conservative point of view on the subject. It's not your fucking kid, which makes it none of your fucking business. Hopefully that will clear things up for you.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:40 PM (R5yLq)

425 "The Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum is interesting."

...to thieves!

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 08:41 PM (ruiF1)

426 Then that's your problem because it's not a big deal but hey, in the words of our Prez, if you want your dick cheese, you can keep your dick cheese. Posted by: booger at June 27, 2012 12:27 AM (HI6wa) Not everyone has the hygiene of a hobo...

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 08:42 PM (XYqoq)

427 I miss machines guy..

Please don't conjure him tonight. I don't want to read about circumcising machines.

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2012 08:42 PM (z9HTb)

428 Here's a case study about how circumcision *will* definately enhance sexual satisfaction in men. I've only seen one and that almost 20 years ago but no. Call it cultural conditioning or what you will (I like to think of my slutty early 20's as my "Empiricist Phase") but still no. No offence to uncut dudes but the "novelty" is very off-putting to me. In my defence, I can't abide the thought of snuggling up to a dude who; wears a man-skirt, has dreadlocks, or has a tongue piercing / and or beer cans in his earlobes no matter how witty, gentle, erudite and handsome he may be. Because, I *am* "shallow those ways.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 08:43 PM (rH+V2)

429 440 "...a proper conservative point of view on the subject."

Bravo!

Posted by: Arms Merchant at June 26, 2012 08:43 PM (+XVQe)

430 440 A hypothetical question for you: If a nutty pageant mom decides to subject her toddler to plastic surgery, can society stop her? Or is that the "none of my fucking business"?

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 08:44 PM (zq8Mf)

431 I tell you what, getting circumcised scared the shit out of me.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 08:45 PM (1grxW)

432 It's not your fucking kid, which makes it none of your fucking business. Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 12:40 AM (R5yLq) A girl who gets her clitoral hood removed isn't your kid, so why isn't it not someone else's business?

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 08:45 PM (XYqoq)

433 I guess I just find it amusing and somewhat noteworthy as to the intellectual dishonesty required to maintain a liberal outlook.
****
The revisionism is what would kill me.

Take the left's biggest issue of the day - the normalization of homosexual marriage.

Up until the 70s, at least, the left formally anti-homosexual. In the 80s and 90s, that tempered, but even into the late nineties, the left was opposed to homosexual marriage - often declaring that homosexual marriage was *so* absurd that only the far right wing wackoes would bother to argue they wanted to legalize it.

But now talk to your average liberal and the left has been consistent over this issue the whole time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 26, 2012 08:45 PM (AUeaU)

434 Simple solution to the circumcision debate. Come onto my property and try to prevent me from raising my kids according to the mandate of the one and only correct Judeo-Christian God, we'll see if you are able to walk off my property under your own power.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 08:46 PM (E0rp6)

435 Good thing I never cut the cord either. Figured I'd let him make his own choice when he's old enough. Well, 33 years later and my special little fella is still with me.

Oops, we gotta go. The chili I had for dinner is giving me the runs something fierce.

Come on Ninjy, you're on wipe duty this round. You can talk to your friends later.

Posted by: Ninjaneer's mom at June 26, 2012 08:48 PM (nBfxt)

436 In my defence, I can't abide the thought of snuggling up to a dude who; wears a man-skirt, has dreadlocks, or has a tongue piercing / and or beer cans in his earlobes no matter how witty, gentle, erudite and handsome he may be. Ok, well lets go through the checklist here. Man skirt - Nope, never wear them. Dreadlocks - Nope, not even close. My preferred hair style is a flattop. Tongue Piercing - Hell no. I would never be dumb enough to hold still long enough for someone to use a nail gun on my tongue, much less pay them for the privilege. Seriously? WTF is wrong with people? Beer cans in the earlobes - Nope.. haven't even heard of that one. Witty, gentle, erudite, handsome - umm.. nope, none of the above. I can cook, but that's about it. But seriously, you've actually seen people put beer cans in their earlobes? yikes. People just baffle me to no end.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:48 PM (R5yLq)

437

Posted by: 18-1 at June 27, 2012 12:45 AM (AUeaU)

That was something that Chambers mentioned in "Witness". Whatever the new party line was how the good apparatchik had *always* believed. The next day, if the party line changed they had always believed that. I think it explains the lack of cognative dissonance you'd expect to see in people holding so many contradictory ideas.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit at June 26, 2012 08:50 PM (Qe7jo)

438 446 440

A hypothetical question for you:

If a nutty pageant mom decides to subject her toddler to plastic surgery, can society stop her? Or is that the "none of my fucking business"?

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 27, 2012 12:44 AM (zq8Mf)

What kind of plastic surgery? Will it make her look younger? Yes please.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 26, 2012 08:51 PM (1grxW)

439 I put beer can up to my oral cavity and suck the sweet nectar out in gulps

Posted by: Honey Badger #5 at June 26, 2012 08:51 PM (RQjPS)

440 the reason why *banning* circumcision is a bad idea is precisely because trolls (and voters, sadly) like NinjaDick who are not interested in persuading parents on the merits of why dicksnipping is a bad idea they simply want to use the state to force everyone to act according to their will. it isn't about the children, it isn't about hygiene or health or choices, it is about imposing their vision of correctness onto everyone. It is about tyrannical power and coercion. it is also about pushing an anti-religious agenda which is repulsive to people of faith. NinjaDick if you are so goddamn concerned about the evils of dicksnipping then hang out at hospitals and hand out flyers telling parents not to get it done. otherwise STFU and respect other people's choices for once.

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 08:51 PM (xkFlk)

441 450 There are lots of mandates in the Bible Christians no longer follow. Leviticus is full of them. Circumcision was not practiced in Christendom for centuries. Its reintroduction is a fairly recent occurrence. And no, your religious beliefs are not an excuse to mutilate your sons, any more than a Muslim's beliefs are for the mutilation of his daughters. Sorry!

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 08:52 PM (zq8Mf)

442 Jenny Tries Too Hard--- As for comedy that doesn't wear as well on women as on men. I always hated Laverne & Shirley reruns when I was a kid necause I felt more embarrased for them being such fumb-asses then I did find them "zany", like tje studio audience did. Lenny & Squiggy never made my gut churn though. Wonder why?

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 08:53 PM (rH+V2)

443 This circumcision thing. An interesting topic.

How does it differ from female circumcision/ aka clitodorectomy?   The latter is:

*   done to pre-teen/teenage girls, who
*   have no choice in the matter. It is
* designed to reduce sexual pleasure

IOW girls who have likely already had the first stirring of sexual desire are held down and had the sexual organ contributing to that desire cut out.

So they've been given the message that sexual pleasure is bad, and must literally be cut out of them.

Yeah, that's a whole lot like infant male circumcision.

Snork!

Yeah, that's aimed at you, fucktard "Ninjaneer".

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 26, 2012 08:53 PM (pJbuO)

444 Sean at June 27, 2012 12:46 AM (E0rp6) So, would the following statement also be equally valid?: "Simple solution to the female circumcision debate. Come onto my property and try to prevent me from raising my kids according to the mandate of the one and only correct ~~Judeo-Christian~~ Islamic God, we'll see if you are able to walk off my property under your own power." I've already conceded your right to make a major alteration to your sons' junk. But others have a right to criticize you for the choices you make.

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (XYqoq)

445 Well, as regards circumcision, my son came home at six months from Guatemala, untrimmed. We chose to leave it that way; it probably would not have been a big deal, but I figured he had been through enough change coming to the good old USA, changing languages, parents, etc. He knows how to clean himself and all is right with the world. He can always chose to change it later, but I don't know why he would.

And yes, we did use cloth diapers, not because we are some sort of sierra club hippies but because it was much cheaper. We spent all our cash just getting him home. Nothing left for all that supposed convenience.

Now, on to better subjects.

Posted by: tcn at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (eFcVx)

446 It is about tyrannical power and coercion. it is also about pushing an anti-religious agenda which is repulsive to people of faith. Yup, that pretty much sums it up. One of the reasons I haven't bothered to argue about dickheads with the dickhead.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (R5yLq)

447 Not everyone has the hygiene of a hobo... I know, but seriously, it's just not a big deal. i'm circumcised, my parents had it done when i was a baby and for the life of me i have no idea why anyone would take one second out of their life to even think about it, it never crosses my mind until someone comes along and thinks it's a big deal for some reason. I've lost more skin from motorcycle wrecks over the years than i did from being circumcised.

Posted by: booger at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (HI6wa)

448 Nuance. Oh, wait...new ants!

Posted by: derit at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (ruiF1)

449 457 450

There are lots of mandates in the Bible Christians no longer follow. Leviticus is full of them. Circumcision was not practiced in Christendom for centuries. Its reintroduction is a fairly recent occurrence.

And no, your religious beliefs are not an excuse to mutilate your sons, any more than a Muslim's beliefs are for the mutilation of his daughters. Sorry!

I don't have to convince you. I just have to have more kids than you and my people win demographically. You will lose this and we will win. We will convert your sons and daughters and there is NOTHING you can do to stop us.

Posted by: Sean at June 26, 2012 08:54 PM (E0rp6)

450 Saw a great button today at the Mitt rally. It said "If you take away my guns, how will I be able to kill liberals?" Everyone gave the guy the thumbs up.

And holy cow, the "Obama protestors" that were out protesting had signs that were all tied around the attack ad he is running here. Nothing says "Axelturf" like message coordination.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 08:56 PM (1grxW)

451 How do you circumcise a muslim?

You can't, because there is just no end to those pricks.

Posted by: Berserker at June 26, 2012 08:58 PM (FMbng)

452 And holy cow, the "Obama protestors" that were out protesting had signs that were all tied around the attack ad he is running here. Nothing says "Axelturf" like message coordination. See if it were me I couldn't resist the urge to go up to the protesters and ask them how much they are making per hour and if they have an application. I'd probably be a real jerk and ask about the benefits too.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 08:58 PM (R5yLq)

453 336 The Colorado Springs wildfire is indeed crazy. Many many homes burnt down, tens of thousands evacuated, after the fire exploded this afternoon with 65MPH winds, 100 degree heat and very dry weather. I'm really surprised this isn't getting more national attention.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/fire-140851-highway-waldo.html Posted by: Matt from CO at June 26, 2012 11:41 PM

It's not happening near Los Angeles, so it's not that big a story to the MBM. Hurricane Irene got huge attention because it was a threat to The Center of the Universe, what happens to THEM is more important than what happens to you.

Katrina wouldn't have gotten the saturation coverage and the anniversary coverage every year if it hadn't been the MBM's big "we finally nailed that BOOSH" narrative

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2012 08:59 PM (Y+DPZ)

454 You can't, because there is just no end to those pricks.

Posted by: Berserker at June 27, 2012 12:58 AM (FMbng)

Seems to be true of our trolls, as well.

Posted by: tcn at June 26, 2012 08:59 PM (eFcVx)

455 457 450

There are lots of mandates in the Bible Christians no longer follow. Leviticus is full of them. Circumcision was not practiced in Christendom for centuries. Its reintroduction is a fairly recent occurrence.

And no, your religious beliefs are not an excuse to mutilate your sons, any more than a Muslim's beliefs are for the mutilation of his daughters. Sorry!

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 27, 2012 12:52 AM (zq8Mf)

I see you need to go read the mandate in Jeffersoniticus that says "Go fuck yourself".

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 09:00 PM (1grxW)

456 Re the question of who's funnier, men or women, I don't think I would say one is funnier than the other. Yet, there are far more successful men in the field.

I chock it up to female inhibitions.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 26, 2012 09:01 PM (piMMO)

457 As regards the fires in CO: on any given day in the summer, there are about ten times as many and as big fires in Alaska, but not one of those makes even the slightest peep in the news. There were days last summer in Fairbanks when you couldn't see the end of the block.

But of course, no REAL people live in Alaska. And now, you can add Co to that list.

Posted by: tcn at June 26, 2012 09:01 PM (eFcVx)

458 And no, your religious beliefs are not an excuse to mutilate your sons, because you know better than those stupid redneck Bible tbumping NASCAR watching flyover country hillbillies, right? this has nothing to do with dicksnipping amd everything to do with your moral superiority complex.

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 09:02 PM (xkFlk)

459 fuck dud seriously still on foreskins 500 coments in? So AOSHQ types are now telling each other what to do? did I miss a momo or some fcking shit?

Posted by: Honey Badger #5 at June 26, 2012 09:02 PM (RQjPS)

460 Does someone need to mention that Leviticus is Old Testament and much of the material was in debate long before there was any such thing as a Christian?

Some of it could do with a comeback. The part about being able to kill your your backtalking teenager, for instance.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:04 PM (kcfmt)

461 The Tallywacker Turtleneck Brigade is really obsessed with dick. Guess they prefer to have an uncut guy in front of them when they are on their knees.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2012 09:05 PM (GULKT)

462 I see you need to go read the mandate in Jeffersoniticus that says "Go fuck yourself". I've always liked the King James version myself, the old English flair just sounds better: And so He sayeth unto them, "Ye will goeth from this place, and fornicate thyself."

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:05 PM (R5yLq)

463 Tea Party win in Oklahoma. Navy fighter pilot Jim Bridenstine beat incumbent John Sullivan in the GOP primary. Sullivan is very conservative, but kind of a weasel. Bridenstine will be a star.

Posted by: Raul Johnson at June 26, 2012 09:05 PM (xnRll)

464 *to Pharaoh, not about freeing the Israelites, but a tyrannical state forbidding the snipping*

Let my pee pole go!

Posted by: Shit Moses Said, Vol 3 at June 26, 2012 09:07 PM (IrmwQ)

465 So BHO brings up Leviticus and shell fish and we now have a debate on foreskins? Ninja fuckhimintheass needs to go masterbate his tiny prick and fuck off like the camel fcker he is

Posted by: Honey Badger #5 at June 26, 2012 09:07 PM (RQjPS)

466 It is about tyrannical power and coercion. it is also about pushing an anti-religious agenda which is repulsive to people of faith. Yup, that pretty much sums it up. One of the reasons I haven't bothered to argue about dickheads with the dickhead. Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 12:54 AM (R5yLq) If you think circumcision is spiffy, that's all fine and dandy, but is it so hard to believe that there are some people who honestly believe that it is barbaric? It's no more about "tyrannical power and coercion" to many people who oppose circumcision, than saying parents don't have the right to chop off a toe or two? It comes down to whether you think circumcision no big deal, or if you think it is abusive. As for the anti-religious knock, not everyone can be pigeonholed like that.

Posted by: Bigger, longer, and uncut at June 26, 2012 09:07 PM (XYqoq)

467 ninjaneer, Jews arene't your problem. As you pointed out, the Jewish population is small. OTOH, the muslim population is exploding, and a much faster rate than christians. You need to spread your knowledge ninjaneer, you need to go to the middle east and share your knowledge and opinions with the brothers there. I am sure they will be receptive You'll keep you little head, but lose your big one

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 09:07 PM (Dnbau)

468 sorry I will shut up now about NinjaPrick here. but I just get so pissed off by these anti -religious fucktards who barely have two brain cells to rub together and yet they read one philosophy book and then think they are entitled to tell 90% of humanity how to live their lives.

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 09:08 PM (xkFlk)

469 So what's going on, did the Colorado fires start when a dumpster full of foreskins caught fire outside of a comedy club featuring women comics?

Posted by: Somebody Who Just Wandered In Here at June 26, 2012 09:09 PM (Y+DPZ)

470 hey Chenjeff, get any new boots of late?

Posted by: Honey Badger #5 at June 26, 2012 09:10 PM (RQjPS)

471 Shorpy:

The Dining Car: 1902 - http://bit.ly/NL66yF
"Circa 1902. 'Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad dining car.' 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company."

Base-ball To-day: 1906 - http://bit.ly/PuLhqv
"The Jersey Shore circa 1906. 'On the beach, Atlantic City.' Note the DEFOREST WIRELESS station on the pier. Who wants ice cream?"

Photo Op: 1921 - http://bit.ly/MDH2c4
"Washington, D.C., 1921. 'Harding Cabinet group.' Warren Harding, Vice President Calvin Coolidge and members of the new president's Cabinet at the White House. National Photo Company Collection glass negative."

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at June 26, 2012 09:11 PM (d6QMz)

472 Within the next few decades, regenerative medicine will offer a solution to any circumcised male who feels they've been mutilated, as well as the females who have been genuinely mutilated. Actually, things are already far enough that a very wealthy man could probably have it done today with lab cultured skin but there doesn't seem to be a big market. Unless it means a ton of money for R and D, the guys advancing this field are probably a bit more interested in helping burn victims then guys with a neurosis about their willy.

I've heard the claims of decreased sexual pleasure before and find them dubious to say the least. If I'd been any more sensitive in my teens I would have needed to change underwear about ten times a day. I had enough trouble paying attention in school as it was.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:11 PM (kcfmt)

473 484 Religion does not give you carte blance to do whatever you want to your children. I'm as opposed to government interference in religion as you are, but I draw the line at taking a knife to a infant's penis.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 09:12 PM (zq8Mf)

474 Men are funnier. Its the foreskin. Penis' are funny looking.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 09:13 PM (Dnbau)

475

My uncle Scoop had a job circumcing elephats for the circus.

The pay wasn't good but the tips were big.

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 09:13 PM (UXEgP)

476 473: I suppose the MarxSpewMedia encourages them but the people who go on the news whining that oh horrors we might lose our house and the fire fighters can't tell us anything drive me right up the wall You chose to build in the mtns rather than on the plains so quit yer whining bitches. The ones that do the loud whining probably have not lifted a saw or done anything else to deal with brush since they got their building permits.

Posted by: Palerider at June 26, 2012 09:13 PM (ql12X)

477 Its all breast shots, low cut clothes, glamour shots... Lots of the self taken pictures from a high angle, so their breasts look bigger, and butt looks smaller...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2012 10:08 PM (lZBBB)

Deny them your Purity of Essence ( and only drink rain water and grain alcohol )

Posted by: lock the door, Mandrake at June 26, 2012 09:13 PM (Dll6b)

478 Just checked in. And everyone is talking about circumcision and dicks. Blech. Did I accidentally end up in the middle of a gay porn movie or on Daily Fucking Kos? Now get back to talking about vaginas, dammit!

Posted by: Alaskan Warthog at June 26, 2012 09:16 PM (+J6zv)

479 Men for the most part can make fun of their appearance and when they do they are more or less giving everyone a free pass to join in - so a lot of the humor that works for men just doesn't work for women. Just my 2 cents worth of course, your mileage may vary. Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 12:30 AM (R5yLq) --------------- I think we're on the same wavelength. I'd only really add that there are two other major reasons women can't make fun of their appearance (especially their weight) to the same extent as men. Women in general value their appearance more. To a huge extent, we have to, because men are much more likely to consider physical attraction very important and because media has different standards for men and women. Men can be way fatter and uglier on TV. Which leads to the other thing----most of the time when you see a woman on TV making fun of her fat, ugly self, she's not actually fat or ugly, so it's not as funny. Roseanne is probably the only one I can think of who was at the top of her career, actually ugly, not just TV-ugly. Phyllis Diller, but that was way before my time Meanwhile, I'm having a hard time coming up with any really attractive male comedian...Denis Leary? Of course maybe men developed comedy instead of developing beauty while women are all just taught that they must develop beauty, no matter what else they develop. ----------------------------------------------------- I always hated Laverne & Shirley reruns when I was a kid necause I felt more embarrased for them being such fumb-asses then I did find them "zany", like tje studio audience did. --------------------------------------------------- Really, it comes back to chivalry, which is fine. We can't feel the same about Laverne and Shirley because we feel bad for them. That's exactly what I mean about how we react differently to a man or woman being humiliated or helpless. Men are trained to help women when they're in that situation and I hope that never changes. Women can laugh at other women in those situations a little more than men can---but not too much or we're being "catty"---but we're also supposed to be more sympathetic. Men can always be laughed at, because there's more of an expectation that they can handle it, that they don't need our help or sympathy. Female comedians *can* poke fun of themselves and their weaknesses, but there are more taboos and it's a finer line. Someone who humiliates himself as much as Will Ferrell....that would never work with women. But, yeah. I'm rambly on this. I'll try to muster up an opinion on circumcision.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 09:17 PM (snRY5)

480 Well Gnu Breed, in some important ways it wasn't his or his families choice. Especially when it comes to the timing of the procedure. It was *illegal*as in get your whole extended family thrown into prison or get shot in Syria at that time to perform the procedure on him as an infant. Yeah, he made the choice as a consenting adult but it shouldn't have had to wait until he was in his 20's to come up with the cash for an expensive outpatient "cosmetic" surgury which still laid him up for days.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 09:17 PM (rH+V2)

481 490 Men are funnier. Its the foreskin. Penis' are funny looking.

Maybe so. But pudenda are bewitching.

I'll take bewitching over funny.

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 26, 2012 09:17 PM (pJbuO)

482 Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Posted by: General Buck Turgidson at June 26, 2012 09:17 PM (Dll6b)

483 I haven't named my Garand yet...

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 09:18 PM (UXEgP)

484 #484

You plainly contradict yourself.

You argue like a liberal. "I'm all for X but....." Then come the rationales for limiting access to guns or something else.

Won't fly. Liberty for yourself means accepting that others are going to do things that may not meet with your approval. You need to find a clear cut, so to speak, harm to a citizen unable to defend themselves and thus subject to state intervention for the protection of their rights. The great difference between clitorectomy and male circumcision is quite easy for most to comprehend and thus a case can be made for intervention against one and not the other.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:18 PM (kcfmt)

485 477, 480, priceless...

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:20 PM (qqlqB)

486 See if it were me I couldn't resist the urge to go up to the protesters and ask them how much they are making per hour and if they have an application. I'd probably be a real jerk and ask about the benefits too.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 12:58 AM (R5yLq)

Oh how I wanted to go full on Breitbart today, and I actually was thinking of doing so when I got the email invite from the local party. Then I remembered that I was taking my 82 year old stepdad, so that shit wasn't going to happen.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 09:20 PM (1grxW)

487 It's to bad they don't bank the tips for later abrasion r.eplacement

Posted by: DaveA at June 26, 2012 09:21 PM (EyTMo)

488 If you think circumcision is spiffy, that's all fine and dandy, but is it so hard to believe that there are some people who honestly believe that it is barbaric? Rotfl - Barbaric? Seriously? That my friend is what we refer to as "talking out of your ass". Please. If you wanted to make the case that it might not be necessary you'd have a shot at pulling that off. But to claim that it's a barbaric practice is simply ludicrous in the extreme. I would suggest you go out and get a few facts on the subject, before you come off looking like a complete ass. Ok, well too late there I guess but maybe that will help you from doing the same thing in the future. Attend a brit milah or two, or maybe ten and see for yourself. The kid usually cries for a minute, maybe two tops. Most don't even cry that long. Barbaric.. please. I've known parents that get their babies ears pierced - not a practice I approve of, but as I mentioned earlier, they aren't my kids so it really isn't my business.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:21 PM (R5yLq)

489 Missy , Lucy and godamnit why did that spring out the top, seemed like bad omens...

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 09:21 PM (UXEgP)

490 eesh, Sony 1.2 billion in the red for last year

Posted by: The Dude at June 26, 2012 09:22 PM (tw6Ar)

491 Then I remembered that I was taking my 82 year old stepdad, so that shit wasn't going to happen. Yup, one of those appropriate time and place moments, I get it.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:22 PM (R5yLq)

492 489, Ninjaherp, so don't incise to correct that ASD, right?

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:23 PM (qqlqB)

493

I am not funny!

But my state is burning!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 26, 2012 09:24 PM (W3UHW)

494 You need to find a clear cut, so to speak I see what you did there.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:25 PM (R5yLq)

495 Ok my phone is crapping out b/c the thread is so long (maybe it should get snipped) NinjaDick should learn some humility Good night all

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at June 26, 2012 09:25 PM (XYyDY)

496 504, nicely done... See if you can raise the epee's tip a bit more on the next salle...

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:25 PM (qqlqB)

497 Good night all Night CJ, take care.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:26 PM (R5yLq)

498 The wreckage settles a bit.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:26 PM (qqlqB)

499 #495

I think there is a simpler reason. We can laugh at Lenny and Squiggy because we know there is very little chance of these guys reproducing. Their antics end with them. Meanwhile they're semi-employable until they manage to kill themselves.

But the female equivalents have a dozen illegitimate children a piece and swell the welfare roles. Lenny and Squiggy are self-contained failures but female versions carry the threat of societal failure. The only person who could get much of a laugh from a female version of the Three Stooges would be the owner of a Soylent Green factory.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:26 PM (kcfmt)

500 nicely done... See if you can raise the epee's tip a bit more on the next salle. Ok, I'm secure in my heterosexuality.. but not sure I'm that secure.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:27 PM (R5yLq)

501

I think I'll call the 1911 Colty..

I hope it doesn't try to bite off my thumb like Glocky did...

Posted by: KZnextzone at June 26, 2012 09:28 PM (UXEgP)

502 How do you circumcise a muslim? You can't, because there is just no end to those pricks. Posted by: Berserker at June 27, 2012 12:58 AM (FMbng) -------------- Promise?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 26, 2012 09:28 PM (snRY5)

503
I've heard the claims of decreased sexual pleasure before and find them dubious to say the least. If I'd been any more sensitive in my teens I would have needed to change underwear about ten times a day. I had enough trouble paying attention in school as it was.

Posted by: epobirs at June 27, 2012 01:11 AM (kcfmt)

Cripes, the first few months after I discovered sex with my girlfriend at the time, people with premature ejaculation felt sorry for me. It wasn't until I discovered what "whiskey dick" is and that helped to increase my stamina.

Sting I was not.

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 09:28 PM (1grxW)

504 We're only in the 500s and this is a long thread?

We've fallen on lazy times.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:29 PM (kcfmt)

505 The only person who could get much of a laugh from a female version of the Three Stooges would be the owner of a Soylent Green factory. Soylent Green Factory? Didn't that place go bankrupt? Oh.. wait, that was the Solyndra, a "green energy factory". Nevermind. Carry on.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:29 PM (R5yLq)

506 488 Within the next few decades, regenerative medicine will offer a solution to any circumcised male who feels they've been mutilated, as well as the females who have been genuinely mutilated.

You are so full of shit. How the fuck do YOU know what "regenerative medicine" will be able to do??

Snipped foreskins expose the glans, which is where the nerves are.

Clitoridectomy cuts out nerve tissue.

Get it? AS IN "not equal"????

And as I said, girls who have already achieved sexual maturity are held down and had a part of them cut out.

How is that remotely the same as a foreskin cutting on week-old babies?

And enough about your uncle: just ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali what she thinks about this issue.

No wooly theorizing, just raw experience.

But here: see what's really involved:

http://tinyurl.com/8xoorlm

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 26, 2012 09:29 PM (pJbuO)

507 I'd like to see a b3k ruling re. repugnant false equivalancies such as circumcision being the same as clitorectomy. That's so wrong I don't even want to see it.

The circumcision = barbaric or mutilation is severely stupidly wrong but hell we even let laup Nor cultists post here.

Posted by: DaveA at June 26, 2012 09:31 PM (EyTMo)

508 Yup, one of those appropriate time and place moments, I get it.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 01:22 AM (R5yLq)

Posted by: MrCaniac at June 26, 2012 09:32 PM (1grxW)

509 Ninjaneer, If a slutty pageant mom were able to find some not wholly novel and bullshit reading of the story of Noah's flood and the rainbow and circumsicion to include silicon baggies sewn into a 9 yr old's chest as a sign of God's Covenant, I might consider it. For about 2 seconds. Just because *you* don't understand why anyome would put up a stile at a certain place, doesn't mean it's a good idea to tear it down. Much less, pull down all fences stiles and gates.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 09:32 PM (rH+V2)

510 think I'll call the 1911 Colty.. I hope it doesn't try to bite off my thumb like Glocky did... My 1911A1 has never bit my thumb. It has also never misfired, never jammed, and never failed to produce spectacular results.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:34 PM (R5yLq)

511 Posted by: epobirs at June 27, 2012 01:26 AM (kcfmt) You know that's true, too. I was thinking about how there are lots of 'dad' comics and the bulk of their jokes are about how clueless they are with their kids. Moms flat can't do that. Jeff Foxworthy can say "When those diapers say '10-14 pounds' they ain't kiddin' that's all the poop them things'll hold" but mom jokes about being a bad mom are limited to letting the kids eat french fries one day. My perspective may be skewed from reading Mommy blogs too much, but, yeah, it's pretty true that a clueless dad with kids going crazy is funny and adorable while a clueless mom is scary. And we can't joke about being clueless or lazy in the workplace too much, either....then the feminists get on us.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 09:35 PM (snRY5)

512 Also, he is very straitlaced and Mormon. He knows little of the moron lifestyleÂ©. Probably the less he knows the better in that regard. Lot of wisdom in that Honor thy Mother and Father deal.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:35 PM (R5yLq)

513 516, no worries. When attacking with an Ã©pÃ©e, twere best done from low to high. Rush the guard, and force the defender out of his/her stance. Best is to sweep from the guard position up, and into the opponents heart target, which you did quite well.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:36 PM (qqlqB)

514 If a slutty pageant mom were able to find some not wholly novel and bullshit reading of the story of Noah's flood and the rainbow and circumsicion to include silicon baggies sewn into a 9 yr old's chest as a sign of God's Covenant, I might consider it.

For about 2 seconds.

Just because *you* don't understand why anyome would put up a stile at a certain place, doesn't mean it's a good idea to tear it down. Much less, pull down all fences stiles and gates.

Posted by: Deety at June 27, 2012 01:32 AM (rH+V2)

Brain bleach!!!!!! Gross. How could anyone want to make their daughter look like a teenager?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at June 26, 2012 09:37 PM (1grxW)

515 525 This is not a dispute over whether a parent has a right to take their children to church. It is a dispute over whether or not a parent has the right to permanently disfigure their child based on a selective reading of a religious text. My answer is no they do not have the right to amputate any part of their child's genitalia whether male of female.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 09:43 PM (zq8Mf)

516 So the wife asks "whats happening on ace""

My reply.... dick.

Posted by: Berserker at June 26, 2012 09:46 PM (FMbng)

517 My perspective may be skewed from reading Mommy blogs too much, but, yeah, it's pretty true that a clueless dad with kids going crazy is funny and adorable while a clueless mom is scary. Lol, well speaking of clueless dad's, I remember when my youngest was about five and decided she wanted to try her hand at making peanut butter toast. It was one of her favorites, toasted bread with peanut butter on it. Well she never liked it as much when her mom made for her, because the peanut butter wasn't melted. She always wanted me to make it for her instead, which irritated my ex-wife to no end. Well I was taking a cat nap one Saturday afternoon, and since she didn't want to wake me up and didn't like the way her mom made peanut butter toast, she decided to make it herself. I awoke rather suddenly when the fire alarm in the kitchen went off, scared the snot out of me. I get to the kitchen and smoke is rolling out of the toaster and it smells just awful. I got the situation under control, got the toaster unplugged and doused it with baking soda. Turns out my youngest figured the way I got the peanut butter to melt like that was to put the peanut butter on the bread first, then put it in the toaster. The way it actually worked of course is that Dad had worked with his hands a lot and as a result his hands were pretty resistant to things like heat and cold. I would pull the toast out of the toaster the second it popped up and put the peanut butter on, the heat from the bread would melt it. That's why mom's toast just never measured up, she always had to wait for the toast to cool a bit before she could handle it without burning her hands. So the toaster was ruined and had to be replaced, but the whole thing was just too dang funny so I couldn't really get mad about it. I did have to explain to my youngest that she wasn't old enough yet to be using kitchen appliances without supervision. Lol.. still cracks me up every time I think about it.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:46 PM (R5yLq)

518 So the wife asks "whats happening on ace"" My reply.... dick. Well that's true, but isn't that just a snippet?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:47 PM (R5yLq)

519 #488

Jeez, calm down, dude.

Yes, predictions are hard, especially about the future. But the fact remains that regenerative medicine has gone from an item in science fiction novels to a real practice in the last two decades. As targets for mitigation go, a flap of skin is a hell of a lot simpler than a kidney or a heart.

Repair and regrowth of damaged nerves is a big part of this. Quite a lot more is understood than just a few years ago. A lot of people are benefiting already. There are people walking who would have been cripples a generation earlier. The field is still in its early stages but it is the next big thing in medicine, to offer actual cure rather than mitigation or workaround. Why do you think the battle over stem cell sourcing is such a big deal? There would be nothing to argue about if nobody was expecting much from the field. It is because the potential is so huge that it has become a battleground. Anti-abortion activists are very aware that if abortion becomes perceived as a major benefit to medicine it becomes a lot easier for people to look the other way. (Larry niven coined the term organlegger in the 60s when transplant became a reality and the future potential for viewing any other human as a source of spare parts entered the capital punishment debate.)

My uncle? WTF are you talking about? At what point in that post did I mention any member of my family? And in what twisted reading did you somehow decide I thought there was no difference between circumcising a baby boy and cutting away the genitals of an adolescent girl? Given the needed level of advancement, far more women would be seeking restorative treatment than men. Most men I've ever met who were worked up about having been circumcised had a lot more going on psychologically than that but used it as a shield to hide everything else behind.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:47 PM (kcfmt)

520 stop trying to impose your will

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 09:48 PM (Dnbau)

521 no worries. When attacking with an Ã©pÃ©e, twere best done from low to high. Rush the guard, and force the defender out of his/her stance. Best is to sweep from the guard position up, and into the opponents heart target, which you did quite well. Oh.. ok. Hmm.. I always used my tried and true "Put 4 rounds center mass, then stick him afterwards" approach. Though now that I think about it that probably explains why I got booted out of the fencing club.. lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:50 PM (R5yLq)

522 that was for ninjaleer

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 09:50 PM (Dnbau)

523 Ninjaneer, you are either a dull tool or a troll.

Trimming essentially nerveless skin that does not interfere with sexual functioning and pleasure is NOT the same as cutting out nerve-rich tissue that does.

But wait: I get it. You are a Muslim. A CAIR member.

Yeah, that's it: you've got skin in the game.....

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 26, 2012 09:51 PM (pJbuO)

524 A funny Chinese actress

http:// hkmdb.com/db/ people/ view.mhtml?id=13791& display_set=eng

She steals scenes from Jackie Chan all thru Drunken Master.

Naomi Watts WAS funny in King Kong.

Dick jokes are funny and easy, boobeh jokes are more limited
and pooter jokes are tougher for either sex.

Posted by: DaveA at June 26, 2012 09:51 PM (EyTMo)

525 heh,

DailyCaller has an article about the Idaho state GOP calling for an end to the Fed Reserve.

I scrolled down to see the inevitable jealous bitching by RuPaul nuts

Only they closed comments...

BWAAHAHAHAAHAHAHHA!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 26, 2012 09:51 PM (famk3)

526 >>>For about 2 seconds. There are still arguable medical benefits o circumcision and that is where the court case should end. (Protection against HIV being particularly noticeable)

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 09:52 PM (GE1+K)

527 Ninjaneer, you are either a dull tool or a troll. Ok, Jim, far be it from me to defend someone like this but that was really unfair. He is not necessarily either a dull tool or a troll. From what I've read I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it's quite possible, indeed very likely he is both.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 09:53 PM (R5yLq)

528 Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin are very, very funny, though they're not stand-up comics.

I always thought Lily Tomlin was vastly over-rated.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 26, 2012 09:54 PM (i0App)

529 gilda radner. too funny

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 09:56 PM (Dnbau)

530 537, or you could simply fall back on a call for arty sanitizing. Battalion, one round marking! . Battalion, four rounds HE, mark, mark. That eliminates the need for disposal.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:56 PM (qqlqB)

531 >>>It is a dispute over whether or not a parent has the right to permanently disfigure their child What about piercings. That's permanent disfigurement. I'm sure you are leading the charge against earrings too.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 09:57 PM (GE1+K)

532 Welp, got to go over to Sylmar to deal with the cats for my out of town friend. I'm convinced they're having friends over somehow. No way two cats are pooping that much on their own and the food bowls aren't empty.

Posted by: epobirs at June 26, 2012 09:58 PM (kcfmt)

533 Just wanted to thank Nora for Sleepless in Seattle. Rest easy.

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 26, 2012 09:58 PM (Q492A)

534 547, and don't correct that ASD. Or the prenatal rickets. Or any of the thousand other things that can be fixed early.

Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 26, 2012 09:59 PM (qqlqB)

535 547 Parents, generally, do no piece infants. Piercings are also not a permanent disfigurement. Like arguing with libs, once the name calling starts you know you've won.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 09:59 PM (zq8Mf)

536 Okay, my last comment was copping Chedterfield as a Burkeian. I'm even worse than Ace. I'm not even a tentative atheist I'm an agnostic. Whou thinks that Christianity is kind of important in understanding this world.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 10:01 PM (rH+V2)

537 550 Those are actual medical conditions. The foreskin is not an abnormality. It exists as God intended. Please try to make a coherent argument next time.

Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 26, 2012 10:02 PM (zq8Mf)

538 or you could simply fall back on a call for arty sanitizing. Battalion, one round marking! . Battalion, four rounds HE, mark, mark. That eliminates the need for disposal. Artillery. Always effective. One small drawback though, if Syria ever does host the Olympic Games how will the locals be able to tell the difference between a fencing match and an election?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 10:02 PM (R5yLq)

539 >>>Parents, generally, do no piece infants. Piercings are also not a permanent disfigurement. I've seen at least 3 children with earrings (all female) before their first birthday. Regardless of how common it is with infants I have only seen a fraction of girls who reach 18 without earrings which is the proposed standard; and yes once the ring takes, the hole in your ear usually stays for life.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 10:03 PM (GE1+K)

540 stop trying to impose your will, your values

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 10:03 PM (Dnbau)

541 SoS, going to a college where we had ample access to swords and '03 Springfields with bayonets, and were locked in with enormous amounts of idle time - a pigsticker is superior.

Posted by: Jean at June 26, 2012 10:03 PM (tWctt)

542 What about piercings. That's permanent disfigurement. I'm sure you are leading the charge against earrings too. Don Quixote, the later, more senile years...

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 10:04 PM (R5yLq)

543 Parents, generally, do no piece infants. Piercings are also not a permanent disfigurement. Like arguing with libs, once the name calling starts you know you've won. Posted by: Ninjaneer at June 27, 2012 01:59 AM (zq8Mf) _________________________ Say what now?

Posted by: Parents in Latin America, the Carribean, much of Africa at June 26, 2012 10:04 PM (snRY5)

544 Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin are very, very funny, though they're not stand-up comics.

****

A silly little movie that I liked was Home Fries. Catherine O'Hara was a hoot!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 26, 2012 10:04 PM (piMMO)

545 >>>Those are actual medical conditions. The foreskin is not an abnormality. It exists as God intended. And it also gets removed as he intended.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 10:04 PM (GE1+K)

546 I've seen at least 3 children with earrings (all female) before their first birthday. Regardless of how common it is with infants I have only seen a fraction of girls who reach 18 without earrings which is the proposed standard; and yes once the ring takes, the hole in your ear usually stays for life. -------------------------- Yeah, it's pretty much the norm here to have them done in the hospital. I know many more baby girls with pierced ears than without. I think my parents and in-laws had stronger opinions on whether or not my daughters' ears would be pierced than on whether my sons would be circumcised. (FTR, no on both counts. No real reason except that babies are hard and the fewer parts you have to remember to apply ointment to in those first few weeks, the better, in my opinion. I am one of those lazy moms about whom we should not joke)

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at June 26, 2012 10:09 PM (snRY5)

547 Rotfl - Barbaric? Seriously? That my friend is what we refer to as "talking out of your ass". Just because it is normal to you, doesn't mean that others, who find an intact penis to be normal, wouldn't be horrified. If it were to happen to me, then I'd certainly call it barbaric and mutilation. Hell, having a fingernail ripped out is less horrific to me than being circumcised - yet even saying that I'm willing to tolerate those who think snipping away is the way to go. nHow the hell is that "talking out of my ass"? Please. If you wanted to make the case that it might not be necessary you'd have a shot at pulling that off. Billions of men prove that point quite nicely. But to claim that it's a barbaric practice is simply ludicrous in the extreme. I would suggest you go out and get a few facts on the subject, before you come off looking like a complete ass. That other people are spiffy with it does not constitute "facts." Aside from circumcision's relative popularity in the U.S., I consider it similar putting neck rings around Kayan girls. To the Kayans, it is normal and not at all barbaric, and I'm sure they'd make the same arguments you do. Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 01:21 AM (R5yLq) You are free to do to yourself or your sons what you like. Just don't get all pissy if I don't find it ookie-dookie as well.

Posted by: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut at June 26, 2012 10:12 PM (XYqoq)

548 SoS, going to a college where we had ample access to swords and '03 Springfields with bayonets, and were locked in with enormous amounts of idle time - a pigsticker is superior. Lol, nothing against pigstickers mind you, but I prefer the 1911A1 by far. Funny thing is I got into a discussion once with my now ex-sister in law about gun control. I told her that as a feminist she should be the first one to oppose gun control. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. I must be insane, of course. Then I explained. Look, you carry stuff to protect yourself right? She admitted she carried both a stun gun and mace. I laughed. It's simple. Both of those weapons require you to be in arms reach of your assailant before they will be of much use. The "mace" you have isn't really mace, it's pepper spray. You need to get a good shot in the eyes and even then it will only buy you a minute or two to flee. The stun gun is actually worse - you have to make direct contact with your assailant. To make matters worse if you don't make contact with bare skin, odds are good all you will do is piss him off even more. Bare skin again might by you a minute, probably not much longer. A gun is the great equalizer. You don't have to let him get anywhere near you, and in that case his advantage - physical size, becomes a disadvantage because it just makes him a bigger target.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 10:13 PM (R5yLq)

549 438
Thanks for the tip.

Any other suggestions for not-necessarily-conservative-just-not-annoyingly-liberal cultural events this weekend in Boston?

And now back to the painful circumcision talk.

Posted by: jimmychanga48 at June 26, 2012 10:14 PM (RQAym)

550 except I don't care what you think. But you seem to care very very much about preaching your point of view. Not so live and let live, more of an advocate

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 10:15 PM (Dnbau)

551 >>>You are free to do to yourself or your sons what you like. Just don't get all pissy if I don't find it ookie-dookie as well. That's all anyone's asking. Freedom of choice for our family.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 10:15 PM (GE1+K)

552 How the hell is that "talking out of my ass"? Provide one piece of scientific or medical evidence to support the notion that there is any long term damage associated with circumcision, as is your claim. Otherwise, your talking out of your ass. Case closed, thanks for playing, here's a copy of our home game. In other words, shove off troll. Simply repeating the same nonsensical horseshit over and over again does not make it true. It just makes you tiresome.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 10:15 PM (R5yLq)

553 that was for allegedly bigger, allegedly longer and certainly uncut

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 10:16 PM (Dnbau)

554 Well, have to work in the morning so time for me to call it a night. Take it easy folks. Try not to laugh to hard at the circumcision cabal. It's the economy, you can't even get good trolls these days.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 26, 2012 10:21 PM (R5yLq)

555 except I don't care what you think. But you seem to care very very much about preaching your point of view. Not so live and let live, more of an advocate Posted by: Thunderb at June 27, 2012 02:15 AM (Dnbau) I didn't bring it up, and I didn't want to comment on it until people starting going off about people who have a problem with it are anti-Semetic totalitarian bogie-men.

Posted by: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut at June 26, 2012 10:27 PM (XYqoq)

556 From the evolutionary standpoint foreskin ceased to have a purpose when we discovered fruit of the loom. From there on out, much like tonsils and appendixes it was just a detriment.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 10:28 PM (GE1+K)

557 >>>I didn't bring it up, and I didn't want to comment on it until people starting going off about people who have a problem with it are anti-Semetic totalitarian bogie-men. People who want to ban it

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 26, 2012 10:29 PM (GE1+K)

558 Sounds like Christoph is back...

Posted by: Smash'em at June 26, 2012 10:33 PM (/vXPy)

559 some of the advocates of these laws are antisemitic. Some are homosexual activists, like the case in SF last year. Some are agnostics or atheists who insist the rest of the world shed their religious belief. And some, I venture to guess, are uncircumcised men, who were perhaps teased by others about their condition when they were younger. I do not care. Not about any of them. They do not have the right to tell me what to believe or what values to give my children. They are not interested in live and let live, they want to dictate. I want no part of it, regardless of the rationale. I do not want or require their approval. I just want them to leave me, and my family, alone.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 10:38 PM (Dnbau)

560 For what it's worth, both my grandaughters had their ears pierced promptly at 6 or 8 weeks, whenever the piercing joint at the mall would deem to do it. My wife and I weren't crazy about it but there's been no harmful effects. It's a parental decision; we STFU and kept our opinions to ourselves

Posted by: zeera at June 26, 2012 10:40 PM (XtxRN)

561 Provide one piece of scientific or medical evidence to support the notion that there is any long term damage associated with circumcision, as is your claim. Otherwise, your talking out of your ass. Case closed, thanks for playing, here's a copy of our home game. First, I didn't talk about long term physical damage. But not that you mention it, complications are known: http://tinyurl.com/7cskbrl My main problem is making alterations that I find horrific if done to me, and my not being comfortable when it is forably done to kids who can't consent. I tolerate it for the reasons aformentioned. I don't go around advocating against it because I do respect other families' choices that are as widespread as that, even when I find it unfathonable. In other words, shove off troll. Simply repeating the same nonsensical horseshit over and over again does not make it true. It just makes you tiresome. Protip: People disagreeing with you does not make them trolls. Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 27, 2012 02:15 AM (R5yLq)

Posted by: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut at June 26, 2012 10:42 PM (XYqoq)

562 Yes, it's far worse than ironic that when the hippies were out of power all they could talk about was being free to "do their own thing"... but as soon as they got into power now all they want to do is control what everyone else does

Posted by: DAve at June 26, 2012 10:45 PM (h+/7G)

563 "My main problem is making alterations that I find horrific if done to me, and my not being comfortable..." Again, it is not about you, clearly, and your feelings and preferences do not trump parental decisions. You are free to make those decisions in your own family. Give me the same courtesy. First you said it was about false claims of antisemitism. Now, its all about your feelings.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 26, 2012 10:47 PM (Dnbau)

564 Although the beer cans do look odd on a little baby girl.

Posted by: zeera at June 26, 2012 10:53 PM (XtxRN)

565 And also, Just because someone puts up a position that is not likely to be recieved well hereabouts and argues it poorly doesn't make it a troll, neccessarily. If I thought that the point of the commenters at Ace O Spades was to shoot down those who disagree as mobys or trolls I would never have kept reading the blog itself. Srsly, when I first started reading, Ace would post about 4-7 timrs per week! I understand that feelings are running high, especially in this political season but honestly, we have our work cut out for us for decades. Stop feeding an obvious troll from any asshole from *our side* who socks as Greg. Greg was a real troll. One of the last and more stupid ones but he doesn't exist anymor. It used to be fun, tracking trolls and their socks and their arguments over the course of weeks. Now, however.... Anyone who disagrees must be shouted down as a troll and a liar and a moby. Eh, probably an aesthetic judgement but I preferred the days when there were enough commenters here to draw them out so far as to let thrm hang themselves. Banhammer was for drive by racist shitheels.

Posted by: Deety at June 26, 2012 10:57 PM (rH+V2)

566 [witty comment]

Posted by: rdbrewer at June 26, 2012 11:26 PM (Iyg03)

567 some of the advocates of these laws are antisemitic. I'm sure some are. I, however, think Israel is a great country, and the Jewish faith to be laudable. Some are homosexual activists, like the case in SF last year. Wouldn't know about that. Strait as an arrow here. Some are agnostics or atheists who insist the rest of the world shed their religious belief. Most men in the U.S. are circumcized for non-religious reasons. And some, I venture to guess, are uncircumcised men, who were perhaps teased by others about their condition when they were younger. It's not as prevalent at is once was. And if I had to venture a guess, it would be that the vocal cheerleaders for circumcision are afraid of they and theirs being the "not normal" ones if circumcision became rare. I do not care. Not about any of them. They do not have the right to tell me what to believe or what values to give my children. They are not interested in live and let live, they want to dictate. I want no part of it, regardless of the rationale. I do not want or require their approval. I just want them to leave me, and my family, alone. Posted by: Thunderb at June 27, 2012 02:38 AM (Dnbau) Fine and dandy! Do what you like! But people have a right to express their aversion to circumsision, particularly when others bring up the topic. If people's opinions on your choices upset you so, then perhaps the problem isn't with them.

Posted by: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut at June 26, 2012 11:30 PM (XYqoq)

568

In the TV show some years back "Northern Exposure", the older bartender was feeling insecure that his lovely young wife might prefer a circumcised spouse and he had never had it done.

It took monumental courage for him to face the pain and 'inconvenience', but he decided to have the procedure done. When his wife, concerned about his distracted and unhappy behavior, asked what the problem was, he confessed what he was about to do for her.

"Oh, no", she said. "I love Johnny in his little turtleneck".

Posted by: orangeblossom at June 26, 2012 11:33 PM (B4Vp5)

569 "My main problem is making alterations that I find horrific if done to me, and my not being comfortable..." Again, it is not about you, clearly, and your feelings and preferences do not trump parental decisions. The thing is that it isn't about you either. It is about someone who doesn't have a choice in the matter. I've already said that you have the right to do it to your kids, but others have a right to chime in on the discussion and express thatd they think it is wrong. You are free to make those decisions in your own family. Give me the same courtesy. I repeatedly said you have that courtesy. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they want to impose their opinion on you. We can all agree that there are some things a parent can not do to their kids, and for some, it crosses the line between a family making decisions for itself to something that a baby should be protected against. I don't think it crosses that line since I strongly believe in the state leaving a families alone; but that does not mean that I, or anyone else, can't express how wrong we feel it is. First you said it was about false claims of antisemitism. Now, its all about your feelings. The false claims of anti-Semitism was one of the things I found offensive, along with the attempts to denigrate those who disagree as evil/ignorant. It's not about smushy *feelings.* It is an instinctual reaction to the idea of someone forcible slicing off part of my manhood. People who were circumcised as a baby wouldn't and couldn't understand that.

Posted by: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut at June 26, 2012 11:36 PM (XYqoq)

570 So why all the outcry about Islamic female circumcision? After all, it's a tenet of a major religion,and the baby won't remember it anyway

Posted by: Devil's Advocate at June 26, 2012 11:48 PM (Asr6U)

571 582 [witty comment]

Posted by: rdbrewer at June 27, 2012 03:26 AM (Iyg03)

LAIR!!11!111@!

is this the gun-dick thread? (add nifty formatting to make this look like a quiet afterthought)

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at June 26, 2012 11:50 PM (HNn1q)

572 Wow, it's like I never left.

Posted by: epobirs at June 27, 2012 12:13 AM (kcfmt)

573 Wow, its like no one noticed blank.

Posted by: Gene Rayburn at June 27, 2012 12:24 AM (HNn1q)

574 The best Saturday Night Live was always less funneh than the average 70's Match Game.

Posted by: Gene Rayburn at June 27, 2012 12:35 AM (HNn1q)

575 G-Dammitt!!! There is no, fucking no, equivilancy between circumcising a 10 day yr old male chlid and rooting around the genetalia of a 10 year old girl child with a piece of broken glass. To make her marriagiable. Cry me a fuckin' river about your "first world" whine about male "mutilation" just as soon as you solve the conundrum of how to plug into free wi-fii at s crap ass Days Inn outside of BWI. Jeebus save us all if men decide to become a fucking "victim"group.

Posted by: Deety at June 27, 2012 01:43 AM (rH+V2)

576 Okay, I don't mean to sound insensitive to the men who have been fucked over by our clearly biased judicicial system but still... There is a difference between being wronged and being a victim, no?

Posted by: Deety at June 27, 2012 02:00 AM (rH+V2)

577 "It was one of her favorites, toasted bread with peanut butter on it. Well she never liked it as much when her mom made for her, because the peanut butter wasn't melted." SOS, my daughter once thought that would be a good way to make s'mores.

Posted by: hmmmm at June 27, 2012 02:14 AM (e9LVX)

578 Jeebus save us all if men decide to become a fucking "victim"group.

I am intrigued by this Jeebus you speak of, is there a newsletter I can subscribe to and disseminate to like minded individuals in all the lands that exist upon this earth? Also how do I go about joining this victim group and what is the average yearly payout for same said victims?

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at June 27, 2012 02:24 AM (HNn1q)

579 If not mentioned above, check out the German WWII bomber survival drilling. Absolutely beautiful.

Posted by: trainer at June 27, 2012 03:47 AM (IVoJS)

580 My wife sent me to the doctor to get some of those pills that help you to have 'better' sex.

I came back and gave her some diet pills.

I'm still looking for a place to live if you know of anywhere.

Posted by: trainer at June 27, 2012 03:56 AM (IVoJS)

581 The standard American way to heat water is to take a pot of water out to our pickup truck, open the hood (what the Brits call a "spanner"), and lock the pot onto the engine block using a set of latches readily available at any Wal-Mart.

Errr, no. A spanner is a wrench. A bonnet is a hood.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at June 27, 2012 05:37 AM (opLk0)

582 Hitchens wrote an interesting column a few years back (I think in Salon) arguing the men funnier thing. To him, the fact that the male penis is inherently funny is beside the point: Women as a group are far more engaged in child-bearing and child-rearing and all the attendant ups,downs, and risk, and that's serious shit at a certain level not conducive to comedy. Makes sense to me, and also explains why many well-known (and those regarded as among the funniest) female comics are lesbians.

Posted by: logprof at June 27, 2012 07:08 AM (TgZVh)

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