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January 20, 2014

Overnight Open Thread (1-20-2014)
— Maetenloch

New Media Rule: Thou Shalt Not Report Critically on a Transgendered Person

Which is why Caleb Hannan, a writer for Grantland, is receiving death threats and his editors are groveling. So what happened?

Well he wrote this story about an amazing golf putter (and it is a good read by the way) which opens with a late night youtube video:

I play golf. Sometimes poorly, sometimes less so. Like all golfers, I spend far too much time thinking of ways to play less poorly more often. That was the silver lining to my sleeplessness - it gave me more time to scour YouTube for tips on how to play better. And it was then, during one of those restless nights, that I first encountered Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt, known to friends as Dr. V.

She didn't appear in the video. As I would later discover, it's almost impossible to find a picture, let alone a moving image, of Dr. V on the Internet. Instead, I watched a clip of two men discussing the radical new idea she had brought to golf.

So he tracked her down and interviewed her about how she came to invent the Oracle.

But it wasn't just the science behind Dr. V's putter that intrigued McCord. It was the scientist, too. For starters, she was a woman in the male-dominated golf industry. She also cut a striking figure, standing 6-foot-3 with a shock of red hair. What's more, she was a Vanderbilt, some link in the long line descending from Cornelius, the original Commodore. All of this would have been more than enough to capture McCord's attention, but what he found most remarkable about Dr. V was where she had been before she started making putters. She told him she had spent most of her career as a private contractor for the Department of Defense, working on projects so secretive - including the stealth bomber - that her name wasn't listed on government records. "Isn't that about as clandestine as you can get?" McCord asked me.

Well after that it's a tough story to summarize so I'll just let Sonny Bunch of the Free Beacon do it.

Hannan's crime? The publication of this story. It's hard to summarize in any sort of succinct way; you should really read the whole thing. It is about putters and the mental aspect of golf. It is about physics and science and placebo effects. But it is also about a fraudster who lied to golf experts and the public and investors, a mentally unstable person who, as it happens, was transgendered-and took her own life before the publication of the story.

And because Dr. V committed suicide and Grantland published the story revealing her multiple frauds, Caleb Hannan is now one of the most hated men on the internet. Even his fellow journalists are calling for his imprisonment for reporting in the first degree as well as murder.

And as DrewM points out even Hannan's editor is throwing him under the bus and admitting that the transgendered community should get veto power over any negative stories about a transgendered person - a privilege that no other group is offered and one that guts journalistic integrity.

Wait - The One Has a Flaw?

A former White House official was quoted as saying that President Obama is "really good at campaigning. Maybe not governing".

"The Hindenburg? Really good at flying. Maybe not fireproof".

Heh.

MLK Was Only 39 Years Old

One thing that's long amazed me is that King was so young when he was assassinated. At the time I thought him a man in his 50s, but he was actually a mere 39 years old. If he were alive today, he would only have just turned 85 yesterday.

I'm surprised as well - that means he was only 34 when made his "I have a dream speech" and 35 when he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

So Opposing an Iran Deal Makes You Jewish?

Well that seems to be what this cartoon in The Economist is getting at. Because it's simply not possible to oppose a deal unless you're a Joo or in their thrall.

Google Buses and Income Inequality

So enough Google employees live in San Francisco that the company runs private buses that pick them up from SF locations in the morning and takes them to the Mountain View campus 35 miles south and then back in the evening. No big deal right?

Well you'd be wrong because a lot of people in SF seem to hate Google, hate Google employees, and hate their free bus rides and blame them for income inequality in the city. The tensions and protests have now gotten so bad that Google has had to hire private security guards to protect the bus-riding employees.

How the Swedes Deal With Their Free Health Care

They buy private insurance so they can be sure of seeing a doctor in less than a few weeks.

One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance, often through their employers, with some recipients stating it makes business sense to be seen quickly rather than languish in national health care queues.
More than half a million Swedes now have private health insurance, showed a new review from industry organization Swedish Insurance (Svensk FÃ¶rsÃ¤kring). In eight out of ten cases, the person's employer had offered them the private insurance deal.

"It's quicker to get a colleague back to work if you have an operation in two weeks' time rather than having to wait for a year," privately insured Anna Norlander told Sveriges Radio on Friday. "It's terrible that I, as a young person, don't feel I can trust the health care system to take care of me."
The insurance plan guarantees that she can see a specialist within four working days, and get a time for surgery, if needed, within 15.

Foxy Merkins - A Movie That You Won't See

Even though the title and summary have potential if they were given to the right exploitative director with a guaranteed Cinemax slot.

Margaret is a down-on-her-luck, lesbian hooker in training. She meets Jo, a beautiful, self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on picking up women, even though she considers herself a card-carrying heterosexual. The duo hit the streets, where they encounter bargain-hunting housewives, double-dealing conservative women, husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen, and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their "dates" brings into focus the hilarious differences between the two hookers, fellow travelers who share the road, but only for a while.

Instead they're going for poignant and subversive. :-(

Open Kitchen Concept: Good or Bad?

Well Mrs. Maetenloch is not a fan - she thinks they're smelly, noisy and not suited for any kind of messy cooking like stir-frying. I guess it comes down to whether you're kitchen focus is on cooking or socializing.

Nun Gives Birth to Baby Boy in Italy

A Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy this week after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital, Italian media reported on Friday. The 31-year-old mother and her baby boy, who weighs 3.5 kilograms (9 pounds), are doing well and other new mothers in Rieti hospital have begun collecting clothes and donations for her, the reports said. "I did not know I was pregnant. I only felt a stomach pain," the nun was quoted as saying at the hospital, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Well on one hand who's more primed to accept an immaculate conception story than the Catholic Church. On the other hand that story is only good once every few millennia and sure puts a lot of pressure on the boy.

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

Tonight's post brought to you by the guide:

Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC and the Tranny Mafia. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. No transgendered people were harmed in the making of this ONT.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:34 PM | Comments (637)
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1 Thank God!

Posted by: Country Singer at January 20, 2014 06:34 PM (CWquH)

2 Yo.

Posted by: Bomber at January 20, 2014 06:34 PM (G8OL9)

3 Finally!!

Posted by: NCKate at January 20, 2014 06:35 PM (x6fKj)

4 Yay!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 20, 2014 06:35 PM (DmNpO)

5 Oh thank God.

Posted by: rickl at January 20, 2014 06:36 PM (sdi6R)

6 When Maleness is Considered a Pathology Is the problem with society due to men being men, and boys aspiring to that? According to feminist activists, that answer is YES, and that Â“masculinityÂ” is nothing more than the most cartoonish parody of caveman masculinity. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4706

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 20, 2014 06:38 PM (XvHmy)

7 MLK was short? He looked so big on TV. Sounded big.

Posted by: The Big and Tall Store at January 20, 2014 06:38 PM (YNUNs)

8 Nice ONT Maet. I don't think honest reporting is a risk for the liberal media.... Eindy Davis comes to mind It's Pat'll be just fine.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 06:38 PM (TE35l)

9 Howdy, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 06:39 PM (T1005)

10 Having a geeky good day today. Jr stayed home from school sick, so we watch a Star Wars marathon. Started with OT, then he decided he wanted to see PT too. Got halfway through Ep II before bedtime. Now I'm introducing the BIL to Firefly. Like I said, good day.

Posted by: Bomber at January 20, 2014 06:39 PM (G8OL9)

11 Hey! That's my book you fags!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at January 20, 2014 06:40 PM (jucos)

I know just as much about the supernatural as I do about interior design.

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 06:41 PM (9gNQd)

13 Nobody does lynch mobs like Progressive-Socialist Victim Collectives.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 06:41 PM (LLNW+)

14 I'd kill for the kitchen pictured at the link

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 20, 2014 06:41 PM (DmNpO)

15 Google buses are for the privileged few which is so unfair to the masses. They are also private, using public facilities, that is also unfair.

Posted by: The Fund for Equality at January 20, 2014 06:42 PM (YNUNs)

16 Just changing my sock. And ignoring my bedtime, hoping for a shitload of snow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 06:42 PM (eQJwb)

17 I need a chlorine shower after that last thread.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 20, 2014 06:42 PM (tcK++)

18 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 20, 2014 10:41 PM (DmNpO)

Me too. The only time I've ever had a big kitchen is when I was married, which took the enjoyment out of it.

Posted by: Country Singer at January 20, 2014 06:42 PM (CWquH)

19 Google Buses and Income Inequality Ah, nothing quite like a little blue on blue fight.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 20, 2014 06:43 PM (XvHmy)

20 That Foxy movie, is Jo based on Wendy Davis?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 06:44 PM (LLNW+)

21 >>>Now I'm introducing the BIL to Firefly. Tried that with Cougar. It didn't go well.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 06:44 PM (eQJwb)

22 Regarding the Grantland article, I think you're missing the point of the criticism. Her transgendered status (or whatever the hell you call it) had nothing to do with the story. Not to mention that the reporter "outed" her to an investor in that company, something he shouldn't have done. I've not seen anyone say that the fraud she engaged in wasn't fair game.

Posted by: Chris at January 20, 2014 06:44 PM (ApnMt)

23 Someone revive the chicken. It's in an exhaustion-induced coma

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 06:45 PM (Xfl0F)

24 Just changing my sock. And ignoring my bedtime, hoping for a shitload of snow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 10:42 PM (eQJwb)

___________________

Looks like we are getting a foot or more out here.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 20, 2014 06:45 PM (jucos)

25 Oh look, something to trip over in the kitchen. Why not have an ice floor?

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 06:45 PM (AO9UG)

26 Google YubiKey, for the masses who need to be positively identified.

Posted by: Positive Identification, LLC at January 20, 2014 06:45 PM (YNUNs)

27 Open kitchen? Been the choice of hobos since antiquity.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 20, 2014 06:46 PM (tcK++)

28 In boulder co on business It seems like Frisco but with mountains Sandals and panhandlers

Posted by: mccool at January 20, 2014 06:46 PM (gT2FQ)

29 I am NOT going towards the light.

That could be a big bonfire for all I know.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 06:46 PM (LSDdO)

30 29 I am NOT going towards the light.
That could be a big bonfire for all I know.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 10:46 PM (LSDdO)
Bring marshmallows and hot dogs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 20, 2014 06:47 PM (m2Izr)

31 http://youtu.be/Np4mAy-HlmQ

Posted by: Son of a Nun at January 20, 2014 06:47 PM (X3GkB)

32 "Tonight's post brought to you by the guide:" Given Hollyweird's dearth of ideas, they will be making a Beetlejuice 2 movie soon. Or worse, they'll reboot it. It'll (rightly) still make more money than Harvey whats-his-name's anti-NRA movie.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2014 06:47 PM (WlWt+)

33 That could be a big bonfire for all I know.

Or an oncoming Acme Train.... *beep beep*

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 06:47 PM (LLNW+)

34 >>> Tried that with Cougar. It didn't go well.

Mrs Bomber has watched the whole thing with me, liked it well enough. BIL has seen the movie. We're watching the pilot right now. He's enjoying it. I'm trying real hard not to quote along with it.

Posted by: Bomber at January 20, 2014 06:48 PM (G8OL9)

35 We may have to send a rescue party to the previous thread....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 06:48 PM (LLNW+)

36 Posted by: Chris at January 20, 2014 10:44 PM (ApnMt) How to put this.... this person had issues... being Transgendered WAS one of them... Part of the pattern...

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 06:48 PM (lZBBB)

37 Open kitchens are a horrible idea. You're in there, working with large knives, moving hot items to and from cooktops and ovens, creating spatter and smoke, and you want people to distract you? I'm thinking that open kitchens are good for 30-50% more kitchen accidents than standard kitchens.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 06:48 PM (T1005)

38 Are bus stops built only for public buses?

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 06:48 PM (AO9UG)

39 Nooooo Nooooo don't.

HE'LL come with them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 06:49 PM (LSDdO)

40 In new of the circular, Nascar is proposing pretty radical changes to the Chase -- ie their 10 race post-season. The new system will let 16 drivers make the Chase. Every 3 races the bottom 4 will be eliminated until the final race where the final 4 will have their points reset so the finale is a win or go home scenario. Nascar is determined to make their races more TV friendly. They want more "game 7" moments. More win or go home moments. Traditionally the Nascar season rewarded consistency. The Chase was a huge change a decade ago to add drama. But Nascar has decided it doesn't create enough drama. The hard-core fans are super upset, but Nascar has generally ignored the hard-core fans for 25 years now as it tried to grow beyond it's regional sport roots and become a true national and even international sport. That strategy worked great in the 90s and most of the 2000s. Really hit a wall during the Great Recession.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 06:49 PM (ZPrif)

41 >>>Looks like we are getting a foot or more out here. I don't trust the weather idiots. If we get six inches I'll be shocked (TWSS!)

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 06:49 PM (eQJwb)

42 Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:48 PM (T1005)

You just made that up, didn't you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 06:50 PM (LSDdO)

43 Tranny Mafia?....damn, they're everywhere.

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2014 06:50 PM (j7iSn)

44 Transgenderism is a scam. They're mentally ill and need treatment, not to be mutilated and then have society pretend that they are the opposite sex.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 06:50 PM (rOyNu)

45

Tranny freaks. Just more poor souls for the Left to use to Fuck With Normal.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 20, 2014 06:50 PM (gYIst)

46 As for the Economist: I quit reading it in the 2000s. There was already a strong "anti-zionist" *wink* bias, which often travelled along with its anti-Bush bias.

The mask just won't stay on with antiSemites, try as they might

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 06:51 PM (Xfl0F)

47 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 06:51 PM (JMmQ9)

48 Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 10:48 PM (AO9UG)

Some locales don't allow stopping for any reason in bus stop marked areas. so yeah. Plus they're using the shelters put there by the public system.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 06:51 PM (LSDdO)

49 Lookie here - the Chi-Coms are using an "island landing ship" for their drills in the South China Sea. Gee, I wonder they need *that* for? http://tinyurl.com/mpkvgz8

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2014 06:51 PM (WlWt+)

50 22 Regarding the Grantland article, I think you're missing the point of the criticism. Her transgendered status (or whatever the hell you call it) had nothing to do with the story. Not to mention that the reporter "outed" her to an investor in that company, something he shouldn't have done. I've not seen anyone say that the fraud she engaged in wasn't fair game.
Posted by: Chris at January 20, 2014 10:44 PM (ApnMt)

Well when nearly every single thing the subject of a story tells a reporter turns out to be a lie, is the reporter then supposed to just ignore that and work around it somehow?

And keep protecting the subject by not telling what he knows to anyone else?

Posted by: Mætenloch at January 20, 2014 06:52 PM (pAlYe)

51 mccool: yeah, and the panhandlers here are pros. Always able-bodied young men and 30-ish women. They take the bus in or carpool.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 06:52 PM (Xfl0F)

52 From the Dr. V story: "The sport loses about 1 million players per year." Really? Then why the fuck is it still damn near impossible to get a tee time before 10am on Saturday?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 20, 2014 06:53 PM (0LHZx)

53 I'm not going to bother wading through the article again (if it's the same one I read a few days ago) but Dr V also killed himself 3 months before the article was published. I guess trannies are ~~psycho~~ psychic.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 06:53 PM (vuh7l)

54 I want to change the cabinets in my Kitchen so that the bank over the counter-top/breakfast bar* that seperates the kitchen and dinning area are gone. So that when I am cooking I can actually see the heads of the people at the bar*. (Standard early 60s rambler). Beyond that no other open concept changes.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 06:53 PM (TI3xG)

55 In other racing news, Michael Schumacher is still in a coma and things are not look good. The longer you are in a coma the odds you ever get out go down. I've heard that most who recover do within 2 weeks. He's just finished up his 3rd week and heading into the 4th. That's not good.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 06:53 PM (ZPrif)

56 "Tonight's post brought to you by the guide:"

Given Hollyweird's dearth of ideas, they will be making a Beetlejuice 2 movie soon. Or worse, they'll reboot it.

It'll (rightly) still make more money than Harvey whats-his-name's anti-NRA movie.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2014 10:47 PM

Everytime I look at the guide to see what's on TV, movie wise, I'm seeing stuff that makes me think, "oh, might watch that again", etc, but, it's just about always the same ruse...

Total Recall... remake

Planet of the Apes... remake

Texas Chainsaw Massacre... remake

Evil Dead... remake

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 06:53 PM (9gNQd)

57 Grantland is pretty predictably progtard.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 06:54 PM (ZPrif)

58 42 Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:48 PM (T1005)

You just made that up, didn't you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 20, 2014 10:50 PM (LSDdO)

82.4% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 06:54 PM (T1005)

59 I don't trust the weather idiots. If we get six inches I'll be shocked (TWSS!) Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 10:49 PM (eQJwb) It's going to be the light, fluffy stuff. Nice to shovel, but it piles up.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 06:54 PM (MpP9p)

60 ever heard of John Milius? Wrote Conan, Red Dawn, Apocalypse Now, Dirty Harry, the USS Indianapolis dialogue in Jaws the whole Moron filmography and the Walter Sobchek character in The Big Lobowski is based on him and he is a conservative (duh) and on the board of the NRA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 06:54 PM (zOTsN)

61 In boulder co on business
It seems like Frisco but with mountains
Sandals and panhandlers

AKA, target rich environment.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 20, 2014 06:54 PM (wSrLR)

62 Night y'all.

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 06:55 PM (eQJwb)

63 If the San Francisco people are so upset about income inequality maybe they should hand half their income over to the poor folks in Oakland. Better yet maybe San Francisco and Oakland should merge and form one, big city. They could share city services. They could form one big school district and allow anyone to attend any school in the district. Kids from Oakland could attend any school in San Francisco, and kids from San Francisco could attend any school in Oakland. There should be no private schools because that is based on income inequality and isn't faaair! They could limit what people are allowed to sell houses for, so that poor people could live in the same neighborhoods as professionals and middle class people. It would be a liberal utopia I tell ya.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 20, 2014 06:55 PM (wVAX5)

64 I would like to be one of the first that congratulates our fellow African American countrymen in gaining equality in 2015. But I also think that, despite being the greatest President, in my mind, in our history, it took another hundred and fifty years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 06:55 PM (Q6HBD)

65 The only way for Grantland to avoid revealing Dr. V's transgendered "status" would have been to bury the story. There was absolutely no freakin' way they coulda withheld those details and still prevent the cascade effect of other reporters or internet people digging further into the story. It woulda come out within days, and then they'd look like cowards and fools for concealing drop dead obvious facts.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (kqGWM)

66 Transgenderism is a scam. They're mentally ill and need treatment, not to be mutilated and then have society pretend that they are the opposite sex. Posted by: Colorado -------------- So, I'm thinking you aren't down with using taxpayer dollars to pay for the 'alteration'...., let alone for prisoners?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (aDwsi)

67 The issue is when is it ethical to out someone, not whether it is ethical to criticize that person.

In this instance, the subject used their new female name (Vanderbilt) to defraud investors. The name change from male to female then becomes part of the story and I don't see how the author could have avoided mentioning it.

Posted by: Jose at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (zc/sw)

68 Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 10:53 PM (9gNQd) But they are thankfully remaking 'Star Ship Troopers'... and the author who wrote the Thor script is doing it... So.... maybe.... I mean anyone who can write the line "he drank, he fought, he made his ancestors proud'.... may actually put stinking Powered Armor in this one...

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (lZBBB)

69 Well you'd be wrong because a lot of people in SF seem to hate Google, hate Google employees, and hate their free bus rides and blame them for income inequality in the city.

I love it. Those Google commie Obama loving douchebags are being accused by other commie Obama loving douchebags of being big evil capitalists. Nothing better than to see commie on commie bashing

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (JivuR)

70 >>> Night y'all.

Too early for that.

Posted by: Bomber at January 20, 2014 06:56 PM (G8OL9)

71 why is it forbidden to mention someone's transgender status? Is it a dirty dark secret?

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (zOTsN)

72 The article from "Uncoached" makes the mistake that many non Catholics and non believers make: "Well on one hand who's more primed to accept an immaculate conception story than the Catholic Church." What Mary had was a Virgin Birth. The iImmaculate Conception is the doctrine that Mary herself was conceived without sin, and most traditional Christians believe that Jesus was the child of God, not impregnated by a human being, but I suppose that it's too much trouble for the people at "Uncoached" to get it correct.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (7kkQJ)

73 DC - Night.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (aDwsi)

74 So, I'm thinking you aren't down with using taxpayer dollars to pay for the 'alteration'...., let alone for prisoners? Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 10:56 PM (aDwsi) You have the Right to change your sex.... But it is NOT a Right, if someone ELSE has to PAY for it.

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (lZBBB)

75 Trannies are pretty much by definition mentally ill. Self-mutilation is a disease.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (ZPrif)

76 ever heard of John Milius?

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 10:54 PM

Dillinger (1973)!!!!

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 06:57 PM (9gNQd)

77 So if one is an incestous transgendered bi pedo, is that the ultimate? Or am I missing something here? Asking for a friend....

Posted by: Meremortal at January 20, 2014 06:58 PM (1Y+hH)

78 Someone who thinks genital mutilation will solve their mental issues might be unstable. Who knew?

Posted by: --- at January 20, 2014 06:58 PM (MMC8r)

79 why is it forbidden to mention someone's transgender status? Is it a dirty dark secret? Posted by: Wendy's -------------- Generally, they celebrate the outing of someone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 06:58 PM (aDwsi)

80 Posted by: Meremortal at January 20, 2014 10:58 PM (1Y+hH) Add in Multi Ethnic....

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 06:58 PM (lZBBB)

81 Ugh, don't get me started about the open kitchen. I swear, whoever "designed" our first floor was either a stoner or a jackass. We basically have one HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE room with a half wall dividing the dining room from half the living room. It makes no sense at all, and most annoyingly even though the kitchen itself is quite large, it's arranged so my work space is nearly non existent...all so we can have the world's largest pass thru between the living room and kitchen. Not. A. Fan.

Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (hFL/3)

82 Well, more a symptom than a disease.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (ZPrif)

83 I could a sworn I mentioned the beetlejuice book a few days ago and poof: here it is. this blog is written just for Meeeeeeee!

Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (4oOLZ)

84
So was it a good putter or not?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (n0DEs)

85 Posted by: Meremortal at January 20, 2014 10:58 PM (1Y+hH) Seems like there should be an animal involved.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (Q6HBD)

86 So, I'm thinking you aren't down with using taxpayer dollars to pay for the 'alteration'...., let alone for prisoners?
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 10:56 PM (aDwsi)

You would be correct. If someone wants to mutilate their body, they can pay for it themselves. And we as a society shouldn't be acknowledging it as anything more than a mutilation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 06:59 PM (rOyNu)

87 @57: "Grantland is pretty predictably progtard." One of Bill Simmons's friends and regular podcast guest Â— Jacko Â— is an Ace Of Spades reader. He mentioned one of Ace's JFK conspiracy tweets during a podcast back in November. I'd guess Simmons isn't as hard left as you might expect in this day and age.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:00 PM (kqGWM)

88 Abortion Barbi wanted a Hit It n Quit It Ken, not a husband and children.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 20, 2014 07:00 PM (VjL9S)

89 So if one is an incestous transgendered bi pedo, is that the ultimate? Or am I missing something here? Asking for a friend.... Posted by: Meremortal ------------------ Well, I might add 'predator', but that would be wrong.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:00 PM (aDwsi)

90 I want that putter.

Posted by: free tibet, etc. at January 20, 2014 07:01 PM (jAc/f)

91 Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 10:59 PM (hFL/3) Is there enough room to make a sammich? Uhhh, my account was hacked!

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:01 PM (Q6HBD)

92 81 Ugh, don't get me started about the open kitchen. I swear, whoever "designed" our first floor was either a stoner or a jackass. We basically have one HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE room with a half wall dividing the dining room from half the living room. It makes no sense at all, and most annoyingly even though the kitchen itself is quite large, it's arranged so my work space is nearly non existent...all so we can have the world's largest pass thru between the living room and kitchen.

Not. A. Fan.

Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 10:59 PM (hFL/3)

Eichler?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:01 PM (T1005)

So I'm guessing that some of you newly Jewish folks are going to be pretty pissed off about having to give up bacon.

I never really understood the fascination with it anyway.

You'll get used to it...

eventually.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at January 20, 2014 07:01 PM (BZAd3)

94 84
So was it a good putter or not?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2014 10:59 PM (n0DEs)
She was able to put it in the hole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 20, 2014 07:02 PM (m2Izr)

95 "The sport loses about 1 million players per year."
Obama's taking all the tee times.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 07:02 PM (vuh7l)

96 Slackers. The missing word is "tranny".

Posted by: Pat Sajack at January 20, 2014 07:02 PM (1Y+hH)

97 why is it forbidden to mention someone's transgender status? Is it a dirty dark secret?
Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 10:57 PM (zOTsN)

Years ago, on an internet forum with a decidedly left-wing bent, there was a discussion about whether or not a transgender had a responsibility to tell their partner that they had had a sex change operation. They only decided 'yes' because to do otherwise might risk harm to the tranny if the partner found out.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 07:02 PM (rOyNu)

98 glad to hear about the starship troopers remake. it was nothing like the book. watching the iron lady. its terrible. watching her arguing in parliament on YouTube is far more entertaining.

Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at January 20, 2014 07:03 PM (4oOLZ)

99 59 I don't trust the weather idiots. If we get six inches I'll be shocked (TWSS!)

Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 10:49 PM (eQJwb)

****

Well prepare to be shocked then

Posted by: Long Dong Silver at January 20, 2014 07:03 PM (z+4T3)

100 One of Bill Simmons's friends and regular podcast guest Â— Jacko Â— is an Ace Of Spades reader. He mentioned one of Ace's JFK conspiracy tweets during a podcast back in November. I'd guess Simmons isn't as hard left as you might expect in this day and age. Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 11:00 PM (kqGWM) --I hope not. Simmons was fairly in agreement with leftard Patton Oswalt not long ago.

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 07:03 PM (X3GkB)

101 But they are thankfully remaking 'Star Ship Troopers'... and the author who wrote the Thor script is doing it...

So.... maybe.... I mean anyone who can write the line "he drank, he fought, he made his ancestors proud'.... may actually put stinking Powered Armor in this one...

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 10:56 PM

Sounds promising. I mean, not ALL remakes are bad. There are some that are actually better than the original. But, precious few. I just hope that they don't take a great script and CGI + shaky cam the shit out of it and make it unwatchable. For all of Verhoeven's faults with the 90's version, there are some fantastic battle scenes in it, with effective CG that doesn't take you out of the scene. Peobably due to the economical shots.

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 07:03 PM (9gNQd)

102 *glares at "hacked" RWC*

Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 07:04 PM (hFL/3)

103 44 Transgenderism is a scam. They're mentally ill and need treatment, not to be mutilated and then have society pretend that they are the opposite sex.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 10:50 PM (rOyNu/I]

You mean I'm not really a woman?! I'm just a man with a mutilated penis!

Posted by: "Mrs." Garrison at January 20, 2014 07:04 PM (LI48c)

104 82.4% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.
Duh! 74.78% of all people know that.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 07:04 PM (vuh7l)

105 Abortion Barbi wanted a Hit It n Quit It Ken, not a husband and children.
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 20, 2014 11:00 PM (VjL9S)

Abortion Barbie comes with three fraternity bros and 12" dildo. Husband and children sold separately.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 07:04 PM (rOyNu)

106 For all of Verhoeven's faults with the 90's version, there are some fantastic battle scenes in it, with effective CG that doesn't take you out of the scene. Peobably due to the economical shots. Two words: coed showers.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 20, 2014 07:04 PM (UAMVq)

107 I've read Grantland a fair bit. It's been reliably left-wing.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:05 PM (ZPrif)

108 The real crime would be if he/she has been using the red tees.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:05 PM (aDwsi)

109 Evening 'rons. What was the opening number/line/spread for the Ganja Bowl?

Related question: How do I describe the scent of Petouli(sp?) oil to a UK mate?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 07:05 PM (2aTiE)

110
   "Change sex by an operation?????"

      Bull fucking shit.

     You are born either male or female and you will die as one or the other.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2014 07:06 PM (SAMxH)

111 @44: "Transgenderism is a scam. They're mentally ill and need treatment, not to be mutilated and then have society pretend that they are the opposite sex." Dr. V's webpage for the putter company Â— yargolf.com Â— is beyond weird. You've really gotta see it for yourself, and dig down a little bit, in order to appreciate the slow motion car crash spectacle of this story. Let's just say "she" was one of those folks who likes to randomly capitalize words in the middle of sentences 'cause it adds an extra meaning that only she is clever enough to understand.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:06 PM (kqGWM)

112 OK, I'll repost my comment from Neo's open kitchen thread: My house was built in the 50s, so it has a closed kitchen. The roof and siding have been replaced, but the interior is pretty much original. The kitchen even has Formica countertops with the little colored boomerang squiggles. Lots of people pay good money for Â“retroÂ” styling. Mine are original. I wouldnÂ’t dream of replacing them. Then again, maybe IÂ’m just a cheapskate.

Posted by: rickl at January 20, 2014 07:06 PM (sdi6R)

113 102 *glares at "hacked" RWC*

Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 11:04 PM (hFL/3)

Get a room.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:06 PM (T1005)

114 Circumcisions for some... free American flags for others!

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:06 PM (Xfl0F)

115 I hope ya'll have seen Kevin De Leon's gun rant. It has potential to be another 'shoulder thing that goes up.'

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (Q6HBD)

116 the rifftrax starship troopers takedown was pretty good iirc

Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (4oOLZ)

117 Related question: How do I describe the scent of Petouli(sp?) oil to a UK mate? Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 11:05 PM (2aTiE) smells like hippie

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (j7iSn)

118
Two words: coed showers.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 20, 2014 11:04 PM (UAMVq)

The good news is that they're coming to the modern Army! The bad news is that they'll be filled with angry butch lesbians and delicate little flowers who will file a harassment charge the minute you look in their direction.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (rOyNu)

119 "Eichler?" Nah, just one of the generic "master planned community" builders.

Posted by: Lauren at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (hFL/3)

120
The Left's inconstistencies are really hard to keep track of, eh?

You know what it reminds me of?

THE PRISONER

Remember how they drove Number 6 crazy? Every day he'd be subjected to utter nonsense.

That's what the Left wants to do to You. They want to BREAK YOU.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 20, 2014 07:07 PM (gYIst)

121 Calling for snow tomorrow, 7 deg tomorrow night in W. NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:08 PM (aDwsi)

122 And speaking of someone who believed in the Virgin Birth, here's a short clip of John Vianney-my newest favorite Saint (the patron saiint of parish priests-) from the one many show "Vianney" which goes to different dioceces. What particularly struck me was a character (a townsperson) saying "I worshipped the Emperor as a Messiah". I guess things haven''t changed much in 200 years in that respect : http://tinyurl.com/n3t5a6x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:08 PM (7kkQJ)

123 109 Evening 'rons. What was the opening number/line/spread for the Ganja Bowl?

Related question: How do I describe the scent of Petouli(sp?) oil to a UK mate?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 11:05 PM (2aTiE)

Eau de bohemian hipster wannabe?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:08 PM (T1005)

124 No! The FUCK you say!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 07:09 PM (vuh7l)

125 The Free Beacon participates in the facade by referring to the fraudsters as "she" when "she" was born and ever was a male.

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 07:09 PM (X3GkB)

126 4 Transgenderism is a scam. They're mentally ill and need treatment, not to be mutilated and then have society pretend that they are the opposite sex. Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 10:50 PM (rOyNu/I] Yep-only you're not allowed to say that in public in Obama's America

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:09 PM (7kkQJ)

127 94 84 So was it a good putter or not? Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2014 10:59 PM (n0DEs) She was able to put it in the hole. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 20, 2014 11:02 PM (m2Izr) You need the right equipment when putting from the rough.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (UAMVq)

128 @100: "I hope not. Simmons was fairly in agreement with leftard Patton Oswalt not long ago." Meh. Oswalt is occasionally amusing, and Simmons isn't above being seduced by others' celebrity. I never said he's a CATO member. Equally so, I don't think he's a hardcore left winger either.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (kqGWM)

129

Remember what DRAGO said to ROCKY in ROCKY 4?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (gYIst)

130 and most annoyingly even though the kitchen itself is quite large, it's arranged so my work space is nearly non existent...all so we can have the world's largest pass thru between the living room and kitchen.>>

That is a description of my house. Kitchen at one end, dining middle, living the other end and bedrooms parallel in the back half. But because of an entry door into the kitchen on the end wall a huge amount of wasted space.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (TI3xG)

131 Open Kitchen Concept: Good or Bad? Without it, DIY/HGTV networks would cease to exist.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (bCEmE)

132 121 Calling for snow tomorrow, 7 deg tomorrow night in W. NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 11:08 PM (aDwsi)

Will you cut that out? I know I need to get out of here, and was thinking that NC was a "nice place".

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:10 PM (T1005)

133 I bet that made her putter stand!

Posted by: zombie johnny carson at January 20, 2014 07:11 PM (vuh7l)

134 My personal theory about the Google bus "protests" is that real estate developers want to chase nerds out of town, make them sell cheap, buy the suddenly low-value buildings, and then sell them high to the next group of suckers.

Of course, if they chase the nerds out, there may not be another group of suckers.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 20, 2014 07:11 PM (cvXSV)

135 Here's the rule: XX chromosomes = Female XY chromosomes = Male

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:11 PM (aDwsi)

136 123 109 Evening 'rons. What was the opening number/line/spread for the Ganja Bowl Dance of the Frito Lay Fairies.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 20, 2014 07:12 PM (tcK++)

137 Remember what DRAGO said to ROCKY in ROCKY 4? If it bleeds, we can condition it?

Posted by: whIte people r pushovers at January 20, 2014 07:12 PM (R6JT1)

138 Will you cut that out? I know I need to get out of here, and was thinking that NC was a "nice place". Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 11:10 PM (T1005) He's talking mountains.

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2014 07:12 PM (j7iSn)

139 132 Calling for snow tomorrow, 7 deg tomorrow night in W. NC 82 and sunny here it gets to be so boring

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:12 PM (At8tV)

140 Will you cut that out? I know I need to get out of here, and was thinking that NC was a "nice place".

You can come down here. Predicted low of 42 tonight, high 80 tomorrow.

'Course, summer is a bit warmer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 20, 2014 07:13 PM (wSrLR)

141
Related question: How do I describe the scent of Petouli(sp?) oil to a UK mate?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 11:05 PM (2aTiE)

Imagine distilling failure, shame and cheetos and mixing it with liberal arrogance.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 07:13 PM (rOyNu)

142 Just wanted to pop in and say "Hi!"

Posted by: Chelsea Manning ...at the moment at January 20, 2014 07:13 PM (FcR7P)

143 hi all

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 07:13 PM (9GG/0)

144 Will you cut that out? I know I need to get out of here, and was thinking that NC was a "nice place". Posted by: cthulhu -------------------- If you avoid the research triangle, Asheville, Charlotte, and the places where they use vinegar-based barbecue sauce, you'll be fine. Think center-north of the state.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:14 PM (aDwsi)

145 Serious lake-effect snow setting up in N. Indiana. Calling for 1-2 FEET overnight.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 20, 2014 07:14 PM (tcK++)

146 I don't trust the weather idiots. If we get six inches I'll be shocked (TWSS!) Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 10:49 PM (eQJwb) Just the tip. Cross my heart and hope to die.

Posted by: Weirddave at January 20, 2014 07:14 PM (N/cFh)

147 On GunBroker and I can't find a ghost gun that shoots a 30 magazine clip in half a second. Damn my luck.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:14 PM (Q6HBD)

148 I'm sure Hawaii is very lovely but personally I would not want to live in a place that was 82 all year round. I like the change of seasons, although admittedly the cold gets a little harder to tolerate as I get older.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:14 PM (7kkQJ)

149 There's also hash oil. Comes with a free box of Ka-Boom from what I've been told

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:15 PM (Xfl0F)

150 woohoo I get to pickup T's new Kimber tomorrow of course i may have to run a few boxes of ammo through it

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:15 PM (At8tV)

151 Yep-only you're not allowed to say that in public in Obama's America Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 11:09 PM (7kkQJ) "And celebrate! You'll celebrate or be berated forevah! -U No Hoo

Posted by: Meremortal at January 20, 2014 07:15 PM (1Y+hH)

152 Imagine distilling failure, shame and cheetos and mixing it with liberal arrogance. ...which explains the high cost of Kaboom.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2014 07:15 PM (FcR7P)

153 A little cold weather is good for you. It is a reminder that nature can kill you if it cares to.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:15 PM (aDwsi)

154 7 deg tomorrow night in W. NC So, do you have seven dogs or are you going to have to borrow some from neighbors? ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:16 PM (7kkQJ)

155 Beetlejuice did have a great view of the afterlife. No heaven or hell just bureaucracy a for those who died in an unexpected way. No one in the waiting room died of old age, all by accidents. The afterlife is a waiting room with them serving number 3 and you have 3,893,443,235.

Posted by: Trevor@TJexcite at January 20, 2014 07:16 PM (bkAvJ)

156 140 Will you cut that out? I know I need to get out of here, and was thinking that NC was a "nice place".

You can come down here. Predicted low of 42 tonight, high 80 tomorrow.

'Course, summer is a bit warmer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 20, 2014 11:13 PM (wSrLR)

Where is "here"?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:16 PM (T1005)

157 Imagine distilling failure, shame and cheetos and mixing it with liberal arrogance.

Kind of like Teh Barrel, but with added smug

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:16 PM (Xfl0F)

158 Sleepy Hollow was pretty good but damn, season finale already? In freaking January? Long wait for a cliff hanger.

Posted by: CDR M at January 20, 2014 07:16 PM (LsJl8)

159 148 I agree I really miss spring and fall and squirrels I really really miss squirrels

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:17 PM (At8tV)

160 22 Chris, When your identity is a fraud from your credentials down to your gender and people have handed you 60 grand based on the deceit it is germane. Oddly the media doesn't call me for ethical permission on political matters. The TGs do *not* get to demand a special 1st amendment exemption.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:17 PM (TE35l)

161 Had an interesting chat about kitchens and their history, before the last gun club meeting, with a retired archeology professor. A buddy had just brought him a stack of garage-sale early 60's remodeling guides. This guy has been remodeling rooms on the side since he was a teenager. We talked about all the classic "open" kitchens of the original bungalows, with their separate appliances and exposed plumbing. He'd converted scores of those into modern-looking galleys after Korea. Then there were family-dining snack counters, as the dining rooms became rumpus rooms, and knocking out the counters to make islands, and then knocking out the wall and the island to make kitchens the size of two rooms...

He's about 85 now, but he thinks he might come out of retirement to convert some of those back into fabric-skirted bungalow kitchens, if the fad goes that way.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 07:17 PM (xq1UY)

162 Ut oh.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 20, 2014 07:17 PM (1Y+hH)

163 Where is "here"?

Phoenix metro.

Or were you asking in a metaphysical sense?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 20, 2014 07:17 PM (wSrLR)

164 I really really miss squirrels. I'll be happy to ship a few of the rats with bushy tails over to you. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:18 PM (7kkQJ)

165 They're big into hash oil in Canadia. You dip your cigarette in it and walk around covertly smoking your Camel in happy dalliance. Pray, let them toke in peace!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 20, 2014 07:19 PM (V4CBV)

166 What is the biological requirement that a male body, for example, can not be born with a female brain?

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 07:19 PM (AO9UG)

167 I would gladly take them but state agriculture would not be pleased the cats would be very pleased on the other hand

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:20 PM (At8tV)

168 I really really miss squirrels>>

Watch some of the old timey aerial channel news broadcasts. You'll get your fill of squirrels for at least 3 more years.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 07:20 PM (TI3xG)

169 Sounds like "Bettlejuice" was influenced by C.S. Lewis: Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. Â– The Screwtape Letters

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:20 PM (7kkQJ)

170 So, do you have seven dogs or are you going to have to borrow some from neighbors? ;^) Posted by: Fenelon -------------------- 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 wife, 1 down quilt, 1 gas-fired boiler. It works out. I know what you mean though. My feet are generally are cold from November until late March. Once the temps drop below 50 deg, the long undies go on, and remain in use until the daytime temps go above that number.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:20 PM (aDwsi)

171 166 a male body, for example, can not be born with a female brain? we have the ability to shut up once in a while?

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:21 PM (At8tV)

172 I really really miss squirrels

I don't. The tree rats hurl themselves at transformers and take out power for the entire block. Ugh.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 07:21 PM (9GG/0)

173 currently 13Â°, the high tomorrow projected to be 9Â°, plus wind I'd make the "global warming" joke, but it is January in Michigan, so this shit is expected

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 07:21 PM (JMmQ9)

174 159 148 I agree
I really miss spring and fall
and squirrels
I really really miss squirrels

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 11:17 PM (At8tV)

Just drink enough that the rats look fuzzier.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:21 PM (T1005)

175 50 Maetenloch, It's ludicrous, the reporter had an ethical duty to put the data out there. This is another group demanding editorial control of the news. It's destroying society, because it is hard enough to avoid fraud even when geuine factual data is available-now we are expected to allow fraudsters to hife behind their genital mutilation as a "don't bully me bro!" Shield?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:22 PM (TE35l)

176 I like my open kitchen. It adjoins the family room and when my son was young I could keep an eye on him while he was playing.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 07:22 PM (RZ8pf)

177 159 148 I agree
I really miss spring and fall
and squirrels
I really really miss squirrels

****

Hmmmm....I wonder what a squirrel feels like....

Posted by: Richard Gere at January 20, 2014 07:23 PM (z+4T3)

178 Need moron horde memory bank help. What 80s song had a music video where they guy calls one of those girl phones and the person on the other end is an ugly old lady smoking and ironing as she talks to him?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 07:23 PM (RZ8pf)

179 Squirrels in Massachusetts like as a squirrel should look: ready for winter. In California squirrels looked half-assed.

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 07:23 PM (AO9UG)

180 we have the ability to shut up once in a while? Posted by: navycopjoe ----------------- Yeah..., that, and I can walk past a shoe store without giving it so much as a glance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:24 PM (aDwsi)

181
re: Shemale golf

In addition to the ESPN editor's denunciation of the writer for thought crime, there's a second screed by Christina Kahrl, who's also a he/she.

Pic of Kahrl: http://tinyurl.com/bqvwrrx

Yep. Nothing odd about that.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 20, 2014 07:24 PM (kdS6q)

182 I also read that the suicide rate among transgendered people is higher than in the general population. And in the story he notes that "Dr V" had tried to commit suicide before

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:24 PM (zOTsN)

183 175 50 Maetenloch, It's ludicrous, the reporter had an ethical duty to put the data out there. This is another group demanding editorial control of the news. It's destroying society, because it is hard enough to avoid fraud even when geuine factual data is available-now we are expected to allow fraudsters to hife behind their genital mutilation as a "don't bully me bro!" Shield? Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 11:22 PM (TE35l) But doesn't golf rule all? I wouldn't know, why ruin a good walk.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 20, 2014 07:25 PM (HVff2)

184 Anyone here watch the new Sherlock? I thought it was not too bad. However, I thought the characterization of Sherlock was a bit.. off? A bit too emotional and needy for the character they have built to this point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 07:25 PM (TGgNi)

185 135 Here's the rule: XX chromosomes = Female XY chromosomes = Male Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 11:11 PM (aDwsi) Sometimes there are chromosomal defects, like XXY. They can display a mixture of sex characteristics and used to be called "hermaphrodites". I wonder how many transgender people fall into that category. Oops, I said "defect". It's the re-education camp for me.

Posted by: rickl at January 20, 2014 07:25 PM (sdi6R)

186 176 I like my open kitchen. It adjoins the family room and when my son was young I could keep an eye on him while he was playing.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 11:22 PM (RZ8pf)

Back in the day, mothers could monitor an entire house -- going on alert when she heard a heavy "thump", then relaxing again when the crying began....'cause the little brat couldn't be too injured if they were carryin' on like that.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:25 PM (T1005)

187 Ah, nothing quite like a little blue on blue fight. Posted by: The Political Hat For the last time: Red denotes OpFor, Blue/Green is for your own team. RED ON RED

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (cxs6V)

188 I don't really understand the concept of a "female" or male brain really. I think much of it is social conditioning. Perhaps it might be better if people (I'm taking about transgendered people) looked beyond gender stereotypes instead of getting mutilated. I knew this man with an extremely high IQ who spent lots of money for surgery and hormone treatments and then went off an lived with a woman, I'm not sure the change ultimatelyy made him happy. I often wonder if all of this, too, has to do with too many artificial hormones in foods,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (7kkQJ)

189 Sleepy Hollow was pretty good but damn, season finale already? In freaking January? Long wait for a cliff hanger. Posted by: CDR M at January 20, 2014 11:16 PM I actually caught 30 minutes of Sleepy Hollow this evening (the most TV I've watched since Seinfeld went off the air in 199

. I may very well be tuning in for Season Two; it seems to be very good

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (JMmQ9)

190 Need moron horde memory bank help. What 80s song had a music video where they guy calls one of those girl phones and the person on the other end is an ugly old lady smoking and ironing as she talks to him?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 11:23 PM

Aeorosmith "sweet emotion"?

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (9gNQd)

191 Need moron horde memory bank help. What 80s song had a music video where they guy calls one of those girl phones and the person on the other end is an ugly old lady smoking and ironing as she talks to him?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 11:23 PM (RZ8pf)

______________________

Cindy Lauper. Girls Just Want to Have Fun? I think

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (jucos)

192 @178: "Need moron horde memory bank help." Aerosmith. Sweet Emotion. Video from the 1991 reissue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cJgPXU-ik

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (kqGWM)

193 I don't think most people getting transgender surgery are clinically hermaphrodites.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:26 PM (7kkQJ)

194 Who remembers a three-wheeled microcar in the late 70's that was, like all of them, just about to go to market when the deal unraveled, and the enthusiastic, aggressive blonde who headed up the one-woman venture turned out to be a man, baby?

That's how far we've fallen. 35 years ago, you had to fail at founding a new car company to be a significant tranny. Now, a putter will do it. Big Bertha my ass.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (xq1UY)

195 Jeez, iPad. Stop helping me.

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (AO9UG)

196 Studies in America and Holland report one in 20 post-operative transsexuals changes his or her mind after surgery, and one in ten never adjusts and often becomes deeply depressed. The Transgender Task Force reports 41% attempt suicide. In the Transgender Task Force transgenders survey, they admit they selectively eliminated from the survey all regretters who reverted back to their birth gender. The people whose suicide was a success or the transgenders who go back to their birth gender do not have a voice. It is amazing how poor the surgical results are when you collect the documented studies where 61% of transgenders report suffering from psychological problems, 41% attempt suicide and 10% who never adjust to the gender change.

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (zOTsN)

197 NJC, Which Kimber did you get her?

Posted by: lindafell says WTFP anymore? at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (PGO8C)

198
Understand this, I'm a man with a functioning cock!

Posted by: Chaz Bono at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (pJF+c)

199 I don't. The tree rats hurl themselves at transformers and take out power for the entire block. Ugh. Posted by: chemjeff -------- My engineer pals and I have a joke about that. Our theory is that the crews keep a fried squirrel on the truck, then when one of their lame non-resetting breakers pops, they show up and throw the squirrel on the ground. If anyone asks, they point the carcass, and say "Squirrel."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (aDwsi)

200 I thought the new Sherlock was good, not great. But yes they made him a bit more emotional which didn't fit with who he had been in previous seasons.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 07:27 PM (RZ8pf)

201 The buses are a pain in the ass because they are huge, stop traffic in both directions, double park and generally are not good neighbors. If there were just one or two I could live with it but there are dozens plying these European size streets at all hours.

So, yeah, count me in with the Google bus haters.

Posted by: navybrat at January 20, 2014 07:29 PM (AW7Gr)

202 "I don't trust the weather idiots. If we get six inches I'll be shocked (TWSS!) Posted by: DC in Towson at January 20, 2014 10:49 PM (eQJwb)" I don't think I ever saw a correct weather forecast when I lived in MD. Something about the Bay I guess. They couldn't all be incompetent boobs.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 20, 2014 07:29 PM (x/17G)

203 knew this man with an extremely high IQ who spent lots of money for surgery and hormone treatments and then went off an lived with a woman,

A guy with a high IQ was emotionally unstable and had no fucking idea of his place in the world? Amazing.

Posted by: someone who's visited a college math department at January 20, 2014 07:29 PM (Xfl0F)

204 A 2003 study by Ilan H. Meyer of Columbia University found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals. The author explains this prevalence in terms of minority stress, writing in the journal Psychological Bulletin that "stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems." Though transgender people weren't included in the study, these same stressors apply, experts say or they were predisposed to depression, sort of chicken/egg

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:29 PM (zOTsN)

205 183 Misanthropic H, Quite, the only happy part of the story is "her" making golfers look more like dorks than their hats accomplish.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:29 PM (TE35l)

206 oh hell deadspin got ahold of the clark bear craze oh god

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:30 PM (At8tV)

207 200 If the past two season are any guide, they usually have two really strong episodes and one okish one. I am hoping they got the okish one out of the way at the beginning here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 07:30 PM (TGgNi)

208 #109: Kind of sweet, kind of musky, kind of peppery. And always used liberally.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 07:31 PM (/96QU)

209 Thanks gang! I love this place, asked and answered.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 07:31 PM (RZ8pf)

210 Deadspin also has an update about the Grantland and Dr. V thing. "This weekend, Gerri Jordan, proprietor of Yar Golf, agreed to speak with me about the chain of events that led to the October suicide of her partner, Essay Anne Vanderbilt. Today, she declined to carry through. 'I have spoken with an attorney,' she wrote in an email, 'and we are gathering information for potential legal action.'" Big fucking surprise.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (kqGWM)

211 Back in the day, mothers could monitor an entire house -- going on alert when she heard a heavy "thump", then relaxing again when the crying began....'cause the little brat couldn't be too injured if they were carryin' on like that. Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 11:25 PM (T1005) I remember as a kid telling my mom that I could hear my little brother crying in the backyard. We were both in the house but she couldn't hear it. A minute later, big brother was bringing him into the house with his hand on little brother's bloody forehead. Little brother ran into the electric meter on the back of the house while playing football and required a whole pile of stitches.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (MpP9p)

212 If you like your dick, you can keep your dick. Or you can have surgery and addadicktome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (HVff2)

213 180 I can walk past a shoe store without giving it so much as a glance. a few years ago we at the mall walking past the Jimmy Choo store and they were have a sale on boots I think t had an orgasm

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (At8tV)

214 the transgendered woman in this story lived with a female golf pro. So, trangendered lesbian?

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (zOTsN)

215 I suspect if Sonny had stayed alive, Chaz might've turned out different.

Probably still ghey but with more of a handle on things.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:32 PM (Xfl0F)

216 knew this man with an extremely high IQ who spent lots of money for surgery and hormone treatments and then went off an lived with a woman, A guy with a high IQ was emotionally unstable and had no fucking idea of his place in the world? Amazing. Posted by: someone who's visited a college math department Knew the same person. Had some really bad days from the hormone replacement therapy too.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 20, 2014 07:33 PM (ApiTO)

217 To my infinite regret, we never asked anyone knowledgeable enough about transgender issues to help us either (a) improve the piece, or (b) realize that we shouldnÂ’t run it. ThatÂ’s our mistake Â— and really, my mistake, since itÂ’s my site. So I want to apologize. I failed. More importantly, I realized over the weekend that I didnÂ’t know nearly enough about the transgender community Â– and neither does my staff. I read CalebÂ’s piece a certain way because of my own experiences in life. ThatÂ’s not an acceptable excuse; itÂ’s just what happened. And itÂ’s what happened to Caleb, and everyone on my staff, and everyone who read/praised/shared that piece during that 56-hour stretch from Wednesday to Friday. So for anyone asking the question Â“How could you guys run that?,Â” please know that we zoomed through the same cycle of emotions that so many of our readers did. We just didnÂ’t see the other side. We werenÂ’t sophisticated enough. In the future, we will be sophisticated enough Â— at least on this particular topic. WeÂ’re never taking the Dr. V piece down from Grantland partly because we want people to learn from our experience. We werenÂ’t educated, we failed to ask the right questions, we made mistakes, and weÂ’re going to learn from them. To our dismay, a few outlets pushed some version of the Grantland writer bullies someone into committing suicide! narrative, either because they wanted to sensationalize the story, or they simply didnÂ’t read the piece carefully. ItÂ’s a false conclusion that doubles as being recklessly unfair. Caleb reported a story about a public figure that slowly spun out of control. He never antagonized or badgered anyone. Any mistakes happened because of his inexperience, and ours, too. Also, was that worth tormenting him on Twitter, sending him death threats, posting his personal information online and even urging him to kill himself like Dr. V did? Unbelievably, for some people, the answer was Â“yes.Â” I found that behavior to be sobering at best and unconscionable at worst. You canÂ’t excoriate a writer for being insensitive while also being willfully insensitive to an increasingly dangerous situation. --Gosh, B.S. may be a squishy libtard? Stab me with a feather!

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 07:33 PM (X3GkB)

218 I think t had an orgasm Posted by: navycopjoe --------------------- Too much sun.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:33 PM (aDwsi)

219 What '80s song had a music video where they guy calls one of those girl phones and the person on the other end is an ugly old lady smoking and ironing as she talks to him?
There was a TV cop show that had something similar. I think it might have been either Hill Street Blues or NYPD Blue (probably the former and the "blue" is sticking in my mind from the latter) where there was a bank of operator-type centres (another clue to it probably being the former) that all had fat and/or ugly women working the receivers (or whatever they're called).

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 07:34 PM (vuh7l)

220 I suspect if Sonny had stayed alive, Chaz might've turned out different.

Probably still ghey but with more of a handle on things.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 11:32 PM

huhuhuh uh huhuh... "handle"... huhuhuh

Posted by: butthead at January 20, 2014 07:34 PM (9gNQd)

221 214 Wendy's shriveled conscience, Hetero gender disguiser...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:34 PM (TE35l)

222 197 the master carry pro for the record she bought it, I don't have that kind of money

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:35 PM (At8tV)

223 "We werenÂ’t educated, we failed to ask the right questions, we made mistakes, and weÂ’re going to learn from them." ------------- Subtext: "We're groveling."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:35 PM (aDwsi)

224 Happy-ish Monday evening, all y'all ... Grocery run to commence shortly.

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 07:35 PM (hrU8o)

225 that means, don't sue me

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:35 PM (zOTsN)

226 Â“ThereÂ’s Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp woman.Â” Twist that knife.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:35 PM (Q6HBD)

227 That Grant,and story was worth the read. The editor's note and the other editorial were not. I had no idea that GLAAD has a style book for writing that all libs should consult before publishing anything, As for the crazy NUTless who offed herself, it was a total scam artist and a public nuisance--sued people, harassed people. It sounds like the putter actually works, but it was being sold as the brainchild of a scientific genius which this Whacked-Off-A-Doodle was not.

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:36 PM (o6g4X)

228 The plastic surgery industry does not know to keep an already beautiful actress pretty as she ages -- they damn sure don't know how to make dude look like a pretty woman.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:36 PM (ZPrif)

229 I thought the new Sherlock was good, not great. But yes they made him a bit more emotional which didn't fit with who he had been in previous seasons. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 11:27 PM I haven't seen the new "Sherlock"; I've always thought the definitive "Sherlock" was the Jeremy Irons PBS (yes, I know) series. Since we're on the subject, anyone have an opinion on the Robt. Downing, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movie? I saw it in the $5 bin at Walmart this evening; the kids are starting to develop an interest in the Sherlock Holmes story...

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 07:36 PM (JMmQ9)

230 Love how there are no links available to comment on either B.S. Or Chris Kahrl's articles on Grantland.com.

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 07:36 PM (X3GkB)

231 for the record she bought it, I don't have that kind of money
Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 11:35 PM (At8tV)

Of course not; you have a wife and daughter.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (rOyNu)

232 Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 11:22 PM (TE35l)

I look forward to the day when all newspaper and TV reporting by official media consists of blank pages and dead air.

Of course, there will still be an exception for news about how evil the Republicans, TEA Party, and Constitutionally minded are!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (o3MSL)

233 huhuhuh uh huhuh

Unintentional. Apparently I should be more sensitive to what I type. Please know that I zoomed through the same cycle of emotions that so many of my readers did.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo, applyin' for Grantland at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (Xfl0F)

234 So, Grantland confirmed my progtard suspicions.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (ZPrif)

235 220 I suspect if Sonny had stayed alive, Chaz might've turned out different.Probably still ghey but with more of a handle on things. Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 11:32 PM No skiing. No Cher concerts.

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (AO9UG)

236 @217: "Gosh, B.S. may be a squishy libtard? Stab me with a feather!" Again, my gut feeling is that he's not all that squishy in his private life. And you gotta remember that he works for Disney/ABC/ESPN, and he's trying to save his vanity project from the rainbow colored lynch mob. I sure as hell wouldn't wanna be in his shoes right now.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (kqGWM)

237 What a bunch of mealy-mouthed cowards they got on staff.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (Xfl0F)

238 they damn sure don't know how to make dude look like a pretty woman. Posted by: Flatbush ------------------------- If Chaz be the evidence, they can't do much the other way either.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:37 PM (aDwsi)

239 @109 I believe patchouli to be as easily accessed in England as it is here.
It was Queen Victoria who first popularized it. As a moth repellent.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 07:38 PM (xq1UY)

240 I think I recall reading somewhere that Chaz was molested by her female baby sitter and Cher's response was it "expanded her horizons" or some such malignant bull***

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:38 PM (7kkQJ)

241 #229: I liked it. Holmes came across as sort of autistic/schizophrenic, while Watson was actually pretty badass. This seems well in keeping with the books to me.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 07:38 PM (/96QU)

242 Back in the day, mothers could monitor an entire house -- going on alert when she heard a heavy "thump", then relaxing again when the crying began....'cause the little brat couldn't be too injured if they were carryin' on like that.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 11:25 PM (T1005)

my radar would appear if there was silence in the house for more than 5 minutes.

mad dash through house, to see what the heathens were into , onto, but silence was always a bad thing.

Posted by: willow at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (nqBYe)

243 188 I don't really understand the concept of a "female" or male brain really. I think much of it is social conditioning. Perhaps it might be better if people (I'm taking about transgendered people) looked beyond gender stereotypes instead of getting mutilated. I knew this man with an extremely high IQ who spent lots of money for surgery and hormone treatments and then went off an lived with a woman, I'm not sure the change ultimatelyy made him happy. I often wonder if all of this, too, has to do with too many artificial hormones in foods,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 11:26 PM (7kkQJ)

During a certain period in development male fetuses produce very high levels of testosterone (levels not seen again until puberty) and it's believed that this changes the neural development of the brain into a 'male mode' from the default female one. This plus the fact that in even in environments designed to be completely gender neutral both boys and girls tend to revert to stereotypical gender behavior is strong indicator that you're dealing with biology and not social conditioning.

Posted by: Mætenloch at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (pAlYe)

244 214 the transgendered woman in this story lived with a female golf pro. So, trangendered lesbian? The transgendered I have known (an OB/GYN and an anesthesiologist, both make to female) considered themselves lesbians and wanted to stay married to their wives. One wife said "no way" and took him to the cleaners. The other one stayed for a while, but I think they got divorced. Both of them had young children.

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (o6g4X)

245 188 I don't really understand the concept of a "female" or male brain really. I think much of it is social conditioning. Perhaps it might be better if people (I'm taking about transgendered people) looked beyond gender stereotypes instead of getting mutilated. I knew this man with an extremely high IQ who spent lots of money for surgery and hormone treatments and then went off an lived with a woman, I'm not sure the change ultimatelyy made him happy. I often wonder if all of this, too, has to do with too many artificial hormones in foods,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 11:26 PM (7kkQJ)

There are real issues, and there are real success stories....but they're drowned out by the thousands going "loooooook at meeeeeee!" and their enablers. And, to be sure, when the percentages are examined it certainly doesn't look like "healthy" is the right term.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (T1005)

246 they damn sure don't know how to make dude look like a pretty woman.

It's enough to look like a 5/10 and to pull desperate guys at chatrooms, bars, and okCupid

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (Xfl0F)

247 223 Mike Hammer, We'll use whichever bathroom you prefer.... //grantland

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (TE35l)

248 222 197 the master carry pro for the record she bought it, I don't have that kind of money Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 11:35 PM (At8tV) VERY nice!! I'm jealous, I only have a little old Aegis

That's a new line they have out, I haven't seen any of them before.

Posted by: lindafell says WTFP anymore? at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (PGO8C)

249 People think because we can install fake tits that look semi real (if you ignore the scar and how fake they look) that we can install fake vajajays. There aren't fake genitals on a shelf ready to be implanted.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (ZPrif)

250 What exactly were the right questions? "if I research this persons backstory will he/she turn out to be batshit crazy?"

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 20, 2014 07:39 PM (RZ8pf)

251 "Sherlock" was the Jeremy Irons PBS (yes, I know) series. ---------- Jeremy Brett?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 07:40 PM (aDwsi)

252 my radar would appear if there was silence in the house for more than 5 minutes. mad dash through house, to see what the heathens were into , onto, but silence was always a bad thing. Posted by: willow at January 20, 2014 11:39 PM (nqBYe) My mom: "What are you doing?" Us, collectively: "Nothing!"

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 07:40 PM (MpP9p)

253 239 @109 I believe patchouli to be as easily accessed in England as it is here. It was Queen Victoria who first popularized it. As a moth repellent. It works pretty effectively as people repellent now.

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:40 PM (o6g4X)

254 The article was not published until three months after the suicide. Everyone has noticed that, right?

Posted by: Dianna at January 20, 2014 07:41 PM (X6oOY)

255 The first RDJr Sherlock is fine. Worth a fiver if you hadn't seen it before. I didn't see the second.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:41 PM (Xfl0F)

256 male and female neurological difference are real and have been measured over and over again. Shocker: men and women are different.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:42 PM (ZPrif)

257
I suspect if Sonny had stayed alive, Chaz might've turned out different.Probably still ghey but with more of a handle on things.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo

So you're saying having Gregg Allman shooting up smack on the living room couch before he joined the line headed upstairs to bang Cher might have messed up Chasity a tad?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 20, 2014 07:42 PM (kdS6q)

258 Dr V lied about being a Vanderbilt About going to MIT About going to Wharton Business School About "the science" About working for the DoD on the Stealth Defrauded an investor Engaged in lawfare Had previously attempted suicide Its an interesting story he couldn't tell the story of the fraud without talking about the fraudulent identity

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:42 PM (zOTsN)

259 #194

You're probably thinking of the Dale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Car_Corporation

My father was in the car business until he died in '77. He brought home some of the printed material they pitched at car sellers and so I got to look at it.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 20, 2014 07:42 PM (bPxS6)

260 @254: "The article was not published until three months after the suicide." *after the second known suicide attempt

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 07:43 PM (kqGWM)

261 232 hrothgar, For 4 minutes a day we'll be on every byline... "Red Sox lost today because Mitt Romney gave a woman cancer..."

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:43 PM (TE35l)

262 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 11:38 PM (7kkQJ) Geeze, just looked it up - 'This will be a good life experience for you.'

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:43 PM (Q6HBD)

263 Remember that story about the nationally acclaimed sportswriter (for the L.A. Times, I think), who was transgendered and killed himself. The hospital I work at did those procedures for a time, but quit long before I got there because of the high incidence of suicides in the post-op patients.

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:43 PM (o6g4X)

264 248 she gets to carry because of work so its a tax write-off I haven't seen it yet but want to compare it to my new storm next week

Posted by: navycopjoe now with 3X the hate at January 20, 2014 07:43 PM (At8tV)

265 he couldn't tell the story of the fraud without talking about the fraudulent identity I so agree!

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:44 PM (o6g4X)

266

The unintentionally funniest part was Simmons apology, where he acknowledged one of their mistakes was in pronoun usage. He admitted they'd failed to follow GLAAD's style guidelines.

I'm not making that up.

Posted by: Ted K. at January 20, 2014 07:44 PM (zo6Ub)

267
"they damn sure don't know how to make dude look like a pretty woman."

It's enough to look like a 5/10 and to pull desperate guys at chatrooms, bars, and okCupid
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo

Hey now, no one's judging you. Those thing happen.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 20, 2014 07:45 PM (kdS6q)

268 I think men and women are different. I also think there are probably success stories with transgender surgery, but I think there are probably people who get the surgery when they really needed therapy instead of surgery.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:45 PM (7kkQJ)

269 It's mental illness. They aren't really female inside. They should just take meds till they calm down and stop wanting to mutilate themselves.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:45 PM (ZPrif)

270 Cher in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cher_February_2009_Crop.jpg

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:45 PM (Xfl0F)

271 249 People think because we can install fake tits that look semi real (if you ignore the scar and how fake they look) that we can install fake vajajays. There aren't fake genitals on a shelf ready to be implanted. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 11:39 PM (ZPrif) Dogs have fake testicals, can't remember what they are called, noodicals?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 20, 2014 07:46 PM (HVff2)

272 But those aren't for girl dogs.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 07:47 PM (ZPrif)

273 Us, collectively: "Nothing!"

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 11:40 PM (MpP9p)

or a point at anyone else (mikey-fake name ), did it! the seven month old not walking yet.

Posted by: willow at January 20, 2014 07:48 PM (nqBYe)

274 It's worth noting that famous conservative lesbian feminist Tammy Bruce also doesn't think transgenderism is really a thing.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 07:48 PM (/96QU)

275 #219

Pretty sure it was Aerosmith, around the time they were making their big comeback.

Ah, here it is. Sweet Emotion decades after the song originally charted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cJgPXU-ik

Posted by: Epobirs at January 20, 2014 07:48 PM (bPxS6)

276 Link from Drudge on a poll of Israelis re whether they trust Pres. Obama to keep Iran from getting a bomb: http://tinyurl.com/kbberpw What is fascinating to me in a really trainwreck kind of way is what exactly is the President thinking: 1) Does he truly believe that the Iranian program is peaceful? I think this is the least likely option since anyone can see they want nukes simply by the size and scope of their program. 2) Does he think they want nukes, but that they want them for "respect" reasons? This is much more likely in my view. People seem to have a tendency to ascribe their motives in a situation to other people. Since he cannot imagine using nuclear weapons, he believes they would not either. 3) Does he think they want nukes, and will use them when they have a reliable way to deliver them, but is just trying to run out the clock so that it will be someone else's problem? Because to do anything about it, he would have to sign off on the same type of military adventure that the left excoriated President Bush for 8 years. To go into a foreign "rogue" state because they have the potential of having nuclear weapons and the will to use them. I think the third could be the most likely. However, I could also see the second. That is a poor choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 07:49 PM (TGgNi)

277 The Grantland thing reminds me of an incident from high school. Lit teacher talking about the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont and what caused it. Black kid says "why'd the guy have to be black?" Lit teacher clearly didn't understand what he meant at first but then said "because he was". Seriously took the guy like 10 minutes to shut up about "why'd he have to be black".

Posted by: Adam at January 20, 2014 07:49 PM (Aif/5)

278 259 #194

You're probably thinking of the Dale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Car_Corporation

My father was in the car business until he died in '77. He brought home some of the printed material they pitched at car sellers and so I got to look at it.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 20, 2014 11:42 PM (bPxS6)

wait, there was an actual car company named after Ayn Rand's ill-fated socialist example in Atlas Shrugged? lol

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 07:49 PM (9GG/0)

279 Neuticals.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:50 PM (Q6HBD)

280 "...This plus the fact that in even in environments designed to be completely gender neutral both boys and girls tend to revert to stereotypical gender behavior is strong indicator that you're dealing with biology and not social conditioning." Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch There was a study following many children who underwent transgender surgery (due to anatomical issues) and raised as the "opposite" sex. Virtually all of them were furious about it by the time they reached their twenties and thirties. Wanted to change back and the whole study put the kibosh on the idea of gender as a social construct. Nature has a lot of variation but the hormone pulses at specific times seems to actually change the wiring of the developing embryo.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 20, 2014 07:50 PM (DbhrR)

281 So here's the thing: those lesbians who like their partners to be really butch. I guess you can't get more butch than a dude who becomes a lesbian.

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:50 PM (o6g4X)

282
BTW - insta TV review:

Starz has a new pirate series starting next week called Black Sails. First episode is up on youtube.

Pretty good. Kinda like Master and Command crossed with Vikings. And it's pay cable so, cursing blood and boobies. Quite like the pirate accountant on the ship trying to figure out how to make a profit on the carnage.

Also, the BBC has a new Three Musketeers series called -- er The Musketeers. Take the Lester 3M and make it gritty and you have the vibe. Not bad so far.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 20, 2014 07:51 PM (kdS6q)

283 I think men and women are different. I also think there are probably success stories with transgender surgery, but I think there are probably people who get the surgery when they really needed therapy instead of surgery.

Exactamundo.

Call me crazy or behind the times, but actually my understanding of the term "transgendered" is re people who want to live as the opposite sex, but choose NOT to have the reassignment surgery. Supposedly most TGs don't want to go though the hassle anyway.

Which is actually 100% okay with me. I'm sure too many switcheroo surgeries are on the public's dime. No surgery, no bills. I can't believe the estrogen therapy isn't significantly cheaper long-term. Plus, no surgery means it's much easier for the person to switch back to their birth sex if they find they're still not happy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 07:51 PM (HVI5a)

284

When you spend hours at a time, cooking and cleaning, you feel less like a Galley Slave when you're doing it in an 'Open Kitchen' design.

So personally...I like them.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 07:51 PM (Wq5le)

285 274 It's worth noting that famous conservative lesbian feminist Tammy Bruce also doesn't think transgenderism is really a thing I love that woman! (But not in that way!)

Posted by: runningrn at January 20, 2014 07:51 PM (o6g4X)

286 So here's the thing: those lesbians who like their partners to be really butch. I guess you can't get more butch than a dude who becomes a lesbian. Posted by: runningrn well PIV is so heteronormative and rapey

Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 07:52 PM (zOTsN)

287 those lesbians who like their partners to be really butch

Make little sense to me. Humans who look butch exist, they're called "men". Or, at least, were called that. Before PJ-Boi.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:52 PM (Xfl0F)

288 It will come to the point (and it's fast headed that way _where we cannot report anything negative on a person in a PC group, that it will be a crime to do so and nothing but bad things on those that aren't part of it. In other words, all transgendered people are loveable and socially well adjusted and all conservative Christians are pure evil instead of the fact that there are good and bad people in every group

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 07:53 PM (7kkQJ)

289 off to bed, have a lovely evening .

Posted by: willow at January 20, 2014 07:53 PM (nqBYe)

290 I think the third could be the most likely. However, I could also see the second. That is a poor choice. Posted by: Aetius451AD He is such a self -centered egotist he probably thinks he can outwit them and negotiate away the problem, and solve it himself. I mean, he's SO much smarter than Boooosh, and he already has that Nobel Peace Prize. This is going to get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it. And really, I'm not trying to sound like a smart ass.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at January 20, 2014 07:53 PM (+1T7c)

291 Watching on DVR But Jay Leno has Obama on tonight.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 07:54 PM (TI3xG)

292 Anybody watch "The Price of Gold" on ESPN this month?

Can't believe it's been 20 years since the Kerrigan-Harding tussle.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 07:54 PM (HVI5a)

293 @259 That's the baby, thanks. "Liz" Carmichael, and "The Dale."

http://tinyurl.com/oh2qdce

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 07:54 PM (xq1UY)

294 Military Channel finally had some good shows on tonight. Amazingly no SS Bigfoot divisions using ancient alien technology. Imagine that.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 07:55 PM (Q6HBD)

295 291 must be a replay. sorry.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 07:55 PM (TI3xG)

296 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 11:38 PM Watson was always a badass; always ready to do the "rough work" that Holmes would not do. (in the books) Most of the movies, and even the vaunted PBS Jeremy Irons series project Watson as a rough dullard, taking Holmes' direction Not so (in the books). Watson was a free thinker. That Holmes is written as such as genius, any other character would pale in comparison.

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 07:55 PM (JMmQ9)

297 I'd really have liked, in hindsight to have pursued the scout who was looking into one of my high school peer who was cross country runner's potential offer to go to Michigan's team as a walk-on... I think mom and dad divorcing eas a mistake so I'm just ginna pretend every bad decision in the 14 years beyween their splitting and that day everyone in my family made all broke the other way and market myself as an NCAA champion runner who has a nifty design for scientically superior running shoes... Thanks to my career from my PhD at McGill I never got or took a single step towards... Dr. V was aeither a nut, or a grifter par excellence, wanting your life to be diffrent even from conception doesn't mean you get to demand evetone play in on the gag and humor you. We are what we do, and how we impact one another. Life is an ensemble saga, not a solo vehicle.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 07:56 PM (TE35l)

298 From the "Top Headlines" sidebar: "Oddball Trivia: Can You Name The Only Mammal... with Scales?

Janet Reno??

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 07:56 PM (HVI5a)

299 Norah Vincent is an interesting case. Lesbian. Dressed up like a man to see what it was like in a man's world. Ended up pretty much going nuts - because she didn't like being a man.

It's in her book "Self-Made Man".

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 07:57 PM (Xfl0F)

300 From the "Top Headlines" sidebar: "Oddball Trivia: Can You Name The Only Mammal... with Scales?>>

Humans. I own a scale.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 07:57 PM (TI3xG)

301 269 It's mental illness. They aren't really female inside.
They should just take meds till they calm down and stop wanting to mutilate themselves.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 20, 2014 11:45 PM (ZPrif)

No, I believe that some people really are cross-gendered between their brain and body. Anything that's biological in nature can and will have occasional biological glitches.

So it's possible that someone with XY chromosomes for whatever reason never had their brain transformed into a male brain. Also there was the female Olympic runner a few years ago who turned out to be XY even though she thought and felt that she was a woman. In her case her body just didn't respond to testosterone so she developed into a woman.

Posted by: Mætenloch at January 20, 2014 07:57 PM (pAlYe)

302 290 It would be easier to take if he was gambling on whether the tire he changed was going to fall off at speed rather than hundreds of thousands of lives in Tel Aviv being incinerated.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 07:58 PM (TGgNi)

303 Mine are original. I wouldnÂ’t dream of replacing them I kept my parents old 50s range. Chrome. Double ovens, broilers and a griddle. I hope to redo the kitchen here one day soon & make it the centerpiece. I'm keeping the white tile counters too.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 20, 2014 07:58 PM (f6+ji)

304 Thanks all for the replies to the Petouli question. Also for the timely response for PGiSeattle music vid question.

>Opine time:
My fave Aerosmith LP's
PUMP
Permanent Vacation
Eat the Rich(?)

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 07:59 PM (2aTiE)

305

158 Sleepy Hollow was pretty good but damn, season finale already? In freaking January? Long wait for a cliff hanger.

Posted by: CDR M at January 20, 2014 11:16 PM (LsJl

--------

Yep...a damn long wait.

I've been enjoying Sleepy Hollow, for several reasons.

It's good to see the historical references, combined with a real battle against true evil.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 07:59 PM (Wq5le)

306 Studies in America and Holland report one in 20 post-operative transsexuals changes his or her mind after surgery, and one in ten never adjusts and often becomes deeply depressed. The Transgender Task Force reports 41% attempt suicide. In the Transgender Task Force transgenders survey, they admit they selectively eliminated from the survey all regretters who reverted back to their birth gender. The people whose suicide was a success or the transgenders who go back to their birth gender do not have a voice. It is amazing how poor the surgical results are when you collect the documented studies where 61% of transgenders report suffering from psychological problems, 41% attempt suicide and 10% who never adjust to the gender change. Posted by: Wendy's Shriveled Conscience at January 20, 2014 11:27 PM (zOTsN) Case in point: Euthanasia Comes To A Social Construct http://tinyurl.com/jw8t4yn

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 20, 2014 07:59 PM (AymDN)

307 Back in the days of yore, Tower Records had some very wild material in their video rental section. One that I rented touted itself as a sequel to Mondo Cane. Among other things, it followed the life of a Thai ladyboy as it progressed through the stages of hormonal and surgical treatment. This included video shot in the OR.

Pretty much the most horrific thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 20, 2014 08:00 PM (bPxS6)

308 277 Adam, Yup, the cult of victimology demands reality and history bend to the narrative instead of the other way around. Part of why I may run like hell if it goes much further is the tantrum when it crashes will be profound.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 08:00 PM (TE35l)

309 Jeremy Brett?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 11:40 PM (aDwsi)

Jeremy Brett was indeed the definitive Sherlock Holmes. He was both a fan of the literature and a remarkable actor, always surrounded by a remarkable cast. His shows were produced by Granada Television, and were titled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" etc. etc.

I think "Sherlock", however, is the current series starring Benedict Bandersnatch, er Cumberbatch.

However, this need to constantly "re-invent" classic mystery/drama is a phenomenon that I do not understand, except in the context of "we don't have any new ideas, so let's re-make something with a pedigree".

Posted by: CQD at January 20, 2014 08:00 PM (rvJrw)

310
And one more TV review, The BBC also has a series that's been going on for a few months called Tudor Monastery Farm. Available via the usual file sharing methods.

Fantastic. A group of people work a farm of the Elizabethan Era using the technology of the times. You learn a heck of a lot on how the farmers did things like make cheese, grown peas, tile floors, make paper and dozens of other processes. Rather like the Foxfire books brought to life.

Fascinating, and really makes you admire people who did this every day to survive.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 20, 2014 08:01 PM (kdS6q)

311 No matter where you go, there you are - Dr. Buckaroo Banzai.

We really need to see the second movie darn it!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:01 PM (LLNW+)

312 Survivors of Pearl Harbor/USS Arizona can be interred in the ship. Crewmembers who were assigned to the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, have the right to have their cremated remains interred inside the barbette of gun turret four by National Park Service divers

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:02 PM (Q6HBD)

313 so let's re-make something with a pedigree". Posted by: CQD ----------------- Yeah. They seldom work out. The same is true of music.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:03 PM (aDwsi)

314 #285: I'm with you there, RunningRN. She is pretty awesome!

I have a feeling her view is probably very common among lesbians in general. After all, a transgendered dude didn't have the experience of growing up as a woman, period, let alone as a gay woman. And then he gets himself surgically mutilated and tries to claim he's a woman? And, often enough not to be some sort of anomaly, a lesbian in his own right? I suspect the average true lesbian really resents such pretensions toward being like her.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:03 PM (/96QU)

315 215 I suspect if Sonny had stayed alive, Chaz might've turned out different.... Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 11:32 PM (Xfl0F) One of the things that irritated the hell out of me with Cher was the way, after Sonny died, she waltzed in and took center stage for the funeral. She had been divorced from him for ages, he had a new wife, and she just had to steal the attention from the widow. The man died and she had to make it all about her. Typical, shallow, attention seeking celebrity.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 20, 2014 08:03 PM (wVAX5)

316 when i was a toddler, my ma would put me in dog halter and tie it to big tree in little lot the trailer was in and i'd play there all day while she could look out window and watch me. do that these days and lose the kids and end up in jail.

Posted by: FortWorthMike at January 20, 2014 08:04 PM (gvekq)

317 No, I believe that some people really are cross-gendered between their brain and body. Anything that's biological in nature can and will have occasional biological glitches. So it's possible that someone with XY chromosomes for whatever reason never had their brain transformed into a male brain. Also there was the female Olympic runner a few years ago who turned out to be XY even though she thought and felt that she was a woman. In her case her body just didn't respond to testosterone so she developed into a woman. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at January 20, 2014 11:57 PM (pAlYe) That's the thing. Those are "glitches" or medical abnormalities. Having such a condition does not affect your worth as a human. The problem is that the rabid Left believe that all gender is a "social construct." The only difference between the sexes is the cosmetic presence of a penis or the lack thereof. Heck, even California is declaring that if two men or two women can't naturally have a child between them, they will be considered infertileÂ… completely ignoring the fact that that is not how babies are made! Heck, they have seven or eight "genders" and about the same number of "sexes" and "sexual orientations." They also declare that only 10% of people are actually straight. *bangs head into desk*

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 20, 2014 08:04 PM (AymDN)

318 312 RWC, They had a baseball game to play that afternoon IIRC... Life got in the way. God bless and keep them all.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 08:04 PM (TE35l)

319 It's also fun to remember that one of the Wachowski brothers began a decade long gender transition just after the first Matrix movie was released. I dunno about you, but I gotta think that might have had something to do with how awful the two sequels were.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 08:05 PM (kqGWM)

320 However, this need to constantly "re-invent" classic mystery/drama is a phenomenon that I do not understand, except in the context of "we don't have any new ideas, so let's re-make something with a pedigree". >>

For the Black and white movies shows it was a way to make more money off the same show but in color so the kids would buy it. Same thing now the young wont go back and search what has been made. So a good story will always mean money. Hell New and Improved has been a way for manufactures of commodity products for things like soap to keep reusing the same idea with a twist to make money too.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:06 PM (TI3xG)

321 Posted by: Aetius451AD Good post. I remember when he was running in 2008 he had a "foreign policy committee" of something like 347 people organized into regions. Looking at some of the players you found folks with such radical ideas that I wondered how even they could sit in the same room with each other. That might explain some of his ideas. I think the other part is the curiously passive approach he takes to some real foreign threats. I've thought in the past that he was raised on such a boilerplate Soviet style "the West is a global imperialist monster" screed that he actually defaults to that thinking even when something like the obvious soon-to-be Iranian bomb looms. It maybe his way of voting 'present' when his instincts, his political advisors, his State and Military and allies are all pulling in different directions. He certainly seems to think someone else will play containment.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 20, 2014 08:06 PM (OpqT8)

322 Walter Freeman: nah, I think "The Matrix" is one of those stories that just had a natural ending where it ended. There shouldn't have been sequels. In fact there weren't sequels. STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 08:07 PM (Xfl0F)

323 Surprising to see the Star Wars MMO made $139 million last year

Posted by: The Dude at January 20, 2014 08:07 PM (bStrg)

324 316 FortWorthMike, Amen, we must have been indestructible I guess. Apologies for the typos, the nook color plus is acting up or I am coma typing.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 08:07 PM (TE35l)

325 Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 12:04 AM (TE35l) Like I said, it was a pretty good show. They are replaying them now. They had Jap footage showing a movie screen on one of the ships as well as a canopy on deck for Sunday services. Yes, God Bless them all.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:07 PM (Q6HBD)

326 The man died and she had to make it all about her. Typical, shallow, attention seeking celebrity. Posted by: nerdygirl -------------------------- Kind of like the Dems at Wellstone's funeral..., or Obama at Mandella's.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:07 PM (aDwsi)

327 My understanding from another site is that one of Grantland writers/editor is on the board of GLAAD, so this shouldn't surprise anyone. Grantland is the place to go if you need a box score breakdown with comparisons to The Wire and Teenwolf.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 20, 2014 08:08 PM (WdbF7)

328 Would you really want someone re-doing Blade Runner? New cast, new director, more CGI?

Pretty boy Chris Pine instead of Harrison Ford.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:08 PM (LLNW+)

329 OK, I'm out. Tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 08:08 PM (JMmQ9)

330 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 21, 2014 12:01 AM (kdS6q) I'm quite interested in Tudor history. Sounds like a good program.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2014 08:09 PM (7kkQJ)

331 called Tudor Monastery Farm
There are a few of those around. Our PBS (TVO) has been running one about an Edwardian farm for example. They are very interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_Farm

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:09 PM (vuh7l)

332 I'm thinking a preemie or something. The baby weighed nine pounds! That's a hearty growth inside you to "not know about it." I mean, I can see your robes hiding it from the other Sisters, but you've got to know. I would say, and you've got to know where/when/who except if you're so self-unaware as to not know you're growing that big a bun, you really might not know how it got in the oven. Whatcha all been talkin' 'bout for three hundred comments? And did I miss any exciting discussions or new AoSHQ memes over the day while I was pretending to be busy? And you folks up North? I'm shipping this air back, all righty? Not what I ordered.

Posted by: webworker on a Monday night at January 20, 2014 08:09 PM (U13jb)

333 309 Jeremy Brett is great. My favorite for those stories most faithful to the original. Sherlock is probably my favorite of the other ones done. It has done the best job of staying faithful to the original material while setting it in the modern age. I did not think it would work nearly as well as it did before I watched the first episode.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 08:10 PM (TGgNi)

334 Can't believe it's been 20 years since the Kerrigan-Harding tussle.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 11:54 PM (HVI5a)

dam, it has been a long time! I remember Nancy's vid right after the assault "Why me? Why me? Why me?"

I forgot if Tonya even skated in the Olympics?

She then went on to do low budget porn and a boxing or an WWF event?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 08:10 PM (2aTiE)

335 when i was a toddler, my ma would put me in dog halter and tie it to big tree in little lot the trailer was in and i'd play there all day while she could look out window and watch me. do that these days and lose the kids and end up in jail.>>

Well being boxed up in a trailer with a pissed off Mom that you are irritating is so much more humane.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:10 PM (TI3xG)

336 Typical, shallow, attention seeking celebrity. Posted by: nerdy girl at January 21, 2014 12:03 AM (wVAX5) I remember Sonny dying & that he was remarried to a republican. I didnÂ’t remember that Cher took over the funeral. I agree with boulder toilet hobo that Chaz would have stayed a girl because Sonny wouldnÂ’t have put up with it.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 08:10 PM (z4WKX)

337 Wow, Big Homo sure is flexing it's muscles

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 08:11 PM (jsmDz)

338

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 12:08 AM (LLNW+)

would have no problem with a film that actually films DO Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Posted by: The Dude at January 20, 2014 08:11 PM (bStrg)

339 Big Homo sure is flexing it's muscles

Those glutes can pack quite a wallop

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 20, 2014 08:12 PM (Xfl0F)

340 #296: Right, Watson is supposed to be a badass. That's a big part of why the movies with RDJ are so good. Watson always seemed sort of useless in previous movie adaptations; he was like Robin in the Batman comics, someone for the real hero to explain the plot to so us regular folks could understand what was going on.

Watson never really seemed like a badass in the older movies. The RDJ Holmes movies do a good job of restoring Watson to what he should be, a strong character in his own right, who makes things happen himself and not just some blank slate who serves as a stand-in for the viewer.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:12 PM (/96QU)

341 Those glutes can pack quite a wallop Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 21, 2014 12:12 AM (Xfl0F) Must be a power bottom. What's a power bottom?

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:13 PM (Q6HBD)

342 And there was a Wiki link for the Tudor show at the Edwardian page...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Monastery_Farm

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:13 PM (vuh7l)

343 @322: "STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD" The best part? Larry aka Lana then married a woman after becoming a woman himself, er, herself, um, nevermind. The same BDSM dominatrix he, uh, she, uh, began seeing six years earlier when he divorced his first wife. Speaking of GLAAD grammar manuals: Are we supposed to use someone's new gender pronoun retroactively when referring to actions pre-transition? Or only post-transition?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 20, 2014 08:13 PM (kqGWM)

344 They also declare that only 10% of people are actually straight. *bangs head into desk* Posted by: The Political Hat --------------------------------- Yeah. I recall that the narrative is/was, "If you have ever had a deep and abiding affection for another male, then you're ghey." Heh. I reflect on the men I have known throughout my life ( I call them 'friends'), and I have and still do feel a 'deep and abiding affection' for many of them, but not the remotest attraction. Throwing the BS flag on the narrative.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:13 PM (aDwsi)

345
A Good Laugh stolen from the insty headline:

https://twitter.com/exjon/status/425419707240312832

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2014 08:14 PM (n0DEs)

346 307 Back in the days of yore, Tower Records had some very wild material in their video rental section. One that I rented touted itself as a sequel to Mondo Cane. Among other things, it followed the life of a Thai ladyboy as it progressed through the stages of hormonal and surgical treatment. This included video shot in the OR.

Pretty much the most horrific thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 21, 2014 12:00 AM (bPxS6)

Proving that everything old becomes new again -- http://tinyurl.com/ksz5olo

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 08:14 PM (T1005)

347 I saw it in the $5 bin at Walmart this evening; the kids are starting to develop an interest in the Sherlock Holmes story... Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 11:36 PM (JMmQ9) I don't know how old your kids are, but for reading or watching in a movie, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" seems like a good one to start with. When I was in 4th or 5th grade a teacher read that to us.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 20, 2014 08:15 PM (wVAX5)

348 I donÂ’t care much for the Olympics but the fact that it is 20 years from Nancy Kerrigan being hurt is a reminder just how time passes. I watched the skating because Nancy was from a city within miles from here. Her brother was or still is in jail for contributing to the death of their father.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 08:15 PM (z4WKX)

349

332 I'm thinking a preemie or something. The baby weighed nine pounds! That's a hearty growth inside you to "not know about it."

Posted by: webworker on a Monday night at January 21, 2014 12:09 AM (U13jb)

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Yeah, exactly...I'm not buying the "I didn't know" excuse either.

Babies kick, flop around and generally make themselves known after about 4 months.

She knew she was pregnant.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 08:16 PM (Wq5le)

350 she/he/it shortened as s/h/it.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:16 PM (vuh7l)

351 I want that putter. Posted by: free tibet, etc. at January 20, 2014 11:01 PM (jAc/f) I think I know where you can pick one up on the cheap.

Posted by: Bill H at January 20, 2014 08:16 PM (3sZO1)

352 Met Sonny's widow once at a political rally. Articulate, thoughtful lady.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:16 PM (aDwsi)

353 "If you have ever had a deep need to put your dick in another males ass, then you're ghey."

That sentence works this way.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:17 PM (TI3xG)

354 What happened to celebrating diversity? Is that old and busted already?

I'm always behind the times. Yet, I just want to be behind Kate Upton.

Saw Lone Survivor today. A friend dragged me along, for which I thanked him after. The last movie he drug me to was Warhorse, for which I roundly denounced him for months. He made it up today.

And it's upsetting liberals? Sauce for the goose. Two thumbs up.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 08:17 PM (wNF3N)

355 We really need to see the second movie darn it! Posted by: Anna Puma #twoweeks

Posted by: webworker on a Monday night at January 20, 2014 08:17 PM (U13jb)

356 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 11:49 PM (TGgNi) Nobody in The West has the resolve to go do the needful with Iran. Remember "Weakness is provacative"

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 08:18 PM (jsmDz)

357 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is sufficiently different from Blade Runner it would not be a remake. Unlike oh Solaris.

I still love a quote from Richard Benjamin - I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (LLNW+)

358 This plus the fact that in even in environments designed to be completely gender neutral both boys and girls tend to revert to stereotypical gender behavior is a strong indicator that you're dealing with biology and not social conditioning. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at January 20, 2014 11:39 PM (pAlYe) Not always.

Posted by: Pajama boy sipping cocoa at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (wVAX5)

359 352 Mike Hammet, While true can Mr. Bono's widow f*ck the entire 7th fleet?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (TE35l)

360 "If you have ever had a deep need to put your dick in another males ass, then you're ghey." That sentence works this way.
Extra credit!

Posted by: common core at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (vuh7l)

361 Now that I think back on it, Tonya looked like a hooker on ice 20 years ago. I wonder what she looks like now. I called Comcast this morning to get rid of all the channels I donÂ’t watch, Starz, HBO & Cinemax. Starz is always included. I told man I donÂ’t ned sports but they have TCM tied into that. I made sure to answer question at beginning of call that I would give my feedback. I told them they should offer channels a la carte.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (z4WKX)

362 356 - Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)

363 340 I think the Granada series did a good job with Watson. In the series I liked Hardwicke better than Burke's Watson. My facorite Watson line from that series: (while holding a suspect at gunpoint) "I was a soldier in India. I have killed far nobler creatures than you."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2014 08:20 PM (TGgNi)

364 When is the 'Prometheus' reboot coming out?

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:21 PM (Q6HBD)

365 Okay nighto all...keep on keeping on...

Posted by: sven10077 at January 20, 2014 08:21 PM (TE35l)

366 While true can Mr. Bono's widow f*ck the entire 7th fleet? Posted by: sven ------------------------ Hmm. I didn't think to ask.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:21 PM (aDwsi)

367 Tonya Harding can be seen with Todd Bridges and others on Tru TV's The Smoking Gun Presents....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:22 PM (LLNW+)

368 Yup. Time to wrap it up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 20, 2014 08:22 PM (aDwsi)

369 Tonya Harding went to the Olympics... and came in 10th. Completely washed out after all the publicity (and, whether she deserved it or not, press harassment) in Lillehammer. Remember her crying to the judges that her lace broke and asking if she could start over?

Ah geez.

Meanwhile Kerrigan pretty much washed out too. She mher already-filthy-rich manager Jerry Solomon (who had cheated on his wife for her), did SNL and a few more ads and a REALLY cheesy family film called "Ice Angel," and then she pretty much disappeared. IMHO her attitude actually just turned out to me "got my million bucks, bye!"

One of the things the new ESPN doc is great about exposing is the rank classism and snobbery in Pro Figure Skating. Also, a fantastic line from Tonya Harding in the doc: "Nancy's a princess and I'm just a pile of dog crap."

Of course Tonya made big dumb mistakes... but there's others out there (cough*Mike Tyson*cough) who've done FAR worse to other people and yet made out like bandits.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:23 PM (HVI5a)

370 anyone here know what I should use bitly for?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 20, 2014 08:23 PM (rDidD)

371 RWC. Are you nutz? I keep hoping the Engineering is ripping the heads off the whole team behind that movie. Saving Ridley Scott for last.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:23 PM (LLNW+)

372 Oops... Kerrigan married her manager. Missed that typo.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:24 PM (HVI5a)

373 #361: She looks pretty much the same now, only about three times as wide.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:24 PM (/96QU)

374 370 anyone here know what I should use bitly for?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 21, 2014 12:23 AM (rDidD)

for teeny-weeny bits?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 08:24 PM (9GG/0)

375 These useless people, properly doused in a flammable fluid, could serve as guttering torches. Then they would at least be useful. Keep away mosquitoes.

Posted by: Usul, the base of the pillar at January 20, 2014 08:25 PM (zxaA2)

376 Now that I think back on it, Tonya looked like a hooker on ice 20 years ago. I wonder what she looks like now.

Carol: NOT good. She has *not* aged well, sadly.

Meanwhile from what I've seen, Kerrigan's face looks... frozen in time. Piles of Botox most likely. I'd be surprised if she can still talk.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:25 PM (HVI5a)

377 RE: The Dr. V story. I didn't read the whole story as 1) any article that I have to scroll through 10+ pages to read will go into the queue. 2) Golf is in the lower tier of my personal sports interests.

I like Grantland as it does kinda/sorta breaks away from the mothership of ESPN. I'd betcha that B.S. had to put something out there for the benefit of Big Brother aka Dizney.

Speaking of tranny sports... Renee(one or two E's?) Richards anyone?
Wasn't RR supposed to play Bobby Riggs at one time? With or against?
What would the mix double match be called then?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at January 20, 2014 08:25 PM (2aTiE)

378 At least the typo wasn't "murdered", qdpsteve!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:25 PM (vuh7l)

379 #363: Okay, that sounds pretty cool!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:25 PM (/96QU)

380 Tennis without balls.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:26 PM (vuh7l)

381 371 RWC. Are you nutz? I keep hoping the Engineering is ripping the heads off the whole team behind that movie. Saving Ridley Scott for last. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 12:23 AM (LLNW+) Was kidding. Movie with potential that should have been on SyFy channel.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:26 PM (Q6HBD)

382 Who remembers a three-wheeled microcar in the late 70's that was, like all of them, just about to go to market when the deal unraveled, and the enthusiastic, aggressive blonde who headed up the one-woman venture turned out to be a man, baby? That's how far we've fallen. 35 years ago, you had to fail at founding a new car company to be a significant tranny. Now, a putter will do it. Big Bertha my ass. Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 11:27 PM (xq1UY) Took me a few seconds but it was called the Dale. Had Motor Trend quite buffaloed as to just how good it was IIRC.

Posted by: Bill H at January 20, 2014 08:26 PM (3sZO1)

383 BBL

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 20, 2014 08:27 PM (vuh7l)

384 The part that pisses me off most about the GLADD crowd most. Is they think I give a rats ass who they are fucking. Hell I'm just as confused about several hetro couples I know and how they ended up with a particular partner.

Don't care just keep your shit private (and that doesn't mean secret just be a little discrete about your sex life in public)

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:27 PM (TI3xG)

385 andy: true.

Anyway I had the biggest crush on Kerrigan way back when. Then along came Monica... ;-)

Unfortunately I've always had a thing for girls waaay out of my league.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:27 PM (HVI5a)

386 later.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 20, 2014 08:28 PM (otKL9)

387 The *really* sad thing about Tonya Harding: she could do stuff (like a triple axel) almost no other skater has ever been able to do.

She didn't have a huge amount of grace, but she had lots of power on the ice.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:28 PM (HVI5a)

388 367 Tonya Harding can be seen with Todd Bridges and others on Tru TV's The Smoking Gun Presents.... Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 12:22 AM (LLNW+) Heh. Was going to mention that. You know your bad when the trainwreck of a cast treats you as the ultimate trainwreck.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:29 PM (Q6HBD)

389

Since we're on the subject, anyone have an opinion on the Robt. Downing, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movie? I saw it in the $5 bin at Walmart this evening; the kids are starting to develop an interest in the Sherlock Holmes story...

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 11:36 PM (JMmQ9)

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I've seen both the Robt. Downey Sherlock movies.

If your kids are in their teens, they'll probably like them.

There is a lot of steampunk gadgetry and fast paced action scenes.

Downey's dialogue is a little hard to follow at times, but the writers have him stuck in a stream-of-consciousness mode as their homage to the character.

So...kids might not enjoy that part of it.

But all in all, I think those two movies are safe for kids to watch.

No gruesome blood and guts, or anything.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 08:30 PM (Wq5le)

390 "...in environments designed to be completely gender neutral..." -MÃ¦tenloch "Not always." -Pajama boy sipping cocoa No, see, you're missing the environment part there, mama's boy...

Posted by: webworker on some enchanted evening at January 20, 2014 08:30 PM (U13jb)

391 Bumming out tonight.

Recently found out a master electrician I knew and worked with in the past got electrocuted a while ago. Good guy, only 40 and he left a wife and daughter.

Note to self: don't ever work on docks/marinas solo, which he was fond of doing.

RIP Sean Davis.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 20, 2014 08:30 PM (zxsxA)

392 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 rule of life #4, "the victim/suposed victim will never, ever voluntatily give up their victimhood" It defines their life and is is part of their 'Core' gay=victim

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 08:31 PM (jsmDz)

393 385 andy: true.

Anyway I had the biggest crush on Kerrigan way back when. Then along came Monica... ;-)

Unfortunately I've always had a thing for girls waaay out of my league.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 21, 2014 12:27 AM (HVI5a)

Really? I thought Tonya was the cuter of the two.....and she seemed much more "approachable".

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 08:31 PM (T1005)

394 #391: Sorry to hear about your colleague, Purp. Best wishes for his wife and daughter.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:32 PM (/96QU)

395 http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/classic-pin-up-girls-01.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:32 PM (LLNW+)

396 cthulhu: Tonya was *definitely* more approachable. She also came from a much humbler background, and while Kerrigan's family basically put EVERYTHING on hold so that she could have her career, Harding got slapped around by her mom a lot. But Harding was always considered way too butch for her sport.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:34 PM (HVI5a)

397 #395: Thanks for the link, Anna! I really appreciate your ability to bring classically sexy pics to the conversation.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:34 PM (/96QU)

398 RWC, okay on Prometheus. As a flop it does need a remake.

Yeah they treat Tonya as the special snowflake. Frank Stallone, Todd Bridges, Daniel Baldwin, Leif, and Bonnaduce. A murders' row of wash-ups.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:34 PM (LLNW+)

399 PW, this one just in time for Valentine's Day
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/classic-pin-up-girls-06.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:35 PM (LLNW+)

400 391 Bumming out tonight.

Recently found out a master electrician I knew and worked with in the past got electrocuted a while ago. Good guy, only 40 and he left a wife and daughter.

Note to self: don't ever work on docks/marinas solo, which he was fond of doing.

RIP Sean Davis.

Posted by: Purp at January 21, 2014 12:30 AM (zxsxA)

That sucks. So much of life is intrinsically hazardous, and we get conditioned into thinking it's part of the routine (driving and taking a shower come to mind). Then reality intrudes.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 08:36 PM (T1005)

401

391 Bumming out tonight.

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My condolences on the sad news, Purp.

Sounds like he was taken way too young, and even more tragic that he left a young family behind.

I'm in awe of those who work around high voltage.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 08:36 PM (Wq5le)

402 Anyway, here's a link to the ESPN special on Kerrigan/Harding:

http://tinyurl.com/logcqub

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:36 PM (HVI5a)

403 the view back here stinks!!

Posted by: daffy at January 20, 2014 08:37 PM (PlzOe)

404 336 Typical, shallow, attention seeking celebrity. Posted by: nerdy girl at January 21, 2014 12:03 AM (wVAX5) I remember Sonny dying & that he was remarried to a republican. I didnÂ’t remember that Cher took over the funeral. ... Posted by: Carol at January 21, 2014 12:10 AM (z4WKX) Yup, she gave a eulogy and sucked as much attention out of it that she could get. And Sonny was a U. S. Congressman as a republican. His second wife took over his seat after he died.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 20, 2014 08:37 PM (wVAX5)

405 Oh, and you can catch a quick look at today's Tonya Harding in the clip at that link.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:37 PM (HVI5a)

406
Magpul has some pinup posters for sale. Not necessarily classically sexy pics. But close enough for me.

http://store.magpul.com/product/HOT002/69

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:39 PM (TI3xG)

407 Wind map http://hint.fm/wind/ I'm going to go crawl under the covers and come out when 60Â° returns... which is not in the ten-day forecast.

Posted by: webworker on the verge at January 20, 2014 08:39 PM (U13jb)

408 #399: Nice!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:40 PM (/96QU)

409 Prometheus could have been good. But it was ruined by what apparently was Ridley Scott's and the Studio's absolute demand that it have fantastic new franchise options. All they gave a shit about was the $$$$$$$$.

Thus, the ending defies all logic. And most of the story threads don't get any kind of satisfactory closure.

Wish I hadn't wasted my money on the blu-ray.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:42 PM (HVI5a)

410 Of course Tonya made big dumb mistakes... but there's others out there (cough*Mike Tyson*cough) who've done FAR worse to other people and yet made out like bandits.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 21, 2014 12:23 AM (HVI5a)

Yeah I saw that 30 for 30. I thought they were going to humanize Tonya and give her side of the story, but she came out far worse than before.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 20, 2014 08:42 PM (WdbF7)

411 Here's a pretty good cover of a rock and roll classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9RiO8QXsvI

It's more guitar-heavy than the original, which I think provides a nice contrast with the lighter, oh-so-slightly higher-pitched voice of the singer.

Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 20, 2014 08:43 PM (/96QU)

412 Adam Smith: it works both ways for Tonya. She gets humanized, but it's also obvious she's bitter.

And I just can't believe Kerrigan *still* refuses to talk or share anything about it, *20 years* after the fact. Instead she sends her big bad rich hubby out for her. What a coward.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:45 PM (HVI5a)

413 Magpul has some pinup posters for sale. Not necessarily classically sexy pics. But close enough for me. http://store.magpul.com/product/HOT002/69 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 12:39 AM (TI3xG) Made in WY, USA!

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 08:46 PM (jsmDz)

414 Winter Storm watch for Boston area, CT too. It is supposed to start today around 1 pm through Wednesday at 1 pm, and it is going to be in low single digits or near zero. IÂ’m so glad the contractors came today and sealed the new windows from outside and put in steel door in back hall. They came before I took a shower and i donÂ’t have door on room I get dressed in now and thought they would come here after ten. They were here before 8 am to put in door. They are good & usually rehang curtains etc. I think steel door has longer window. My option was no window or a window. They thought that there were more options. IÂ’m going to JC PenneyÂ’s website to see if I can buy thermal curtains for door because I recÂ’d 15% off coupon when I ordered others. Good Night, Horde.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 08:47 PM (z4WKX)

415 For a more modern pin-up. From FB Jessica Nigri looking very nice.
http://tinyurl.com/mndauvb

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:47 PM (LLNW+)

416 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 12:39 AM (TI3xG) Oleg has the best woman/gun photos in my opinion.

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 08:48 PM (Q6HBD)

417 The Grantland scandal is just bullshit. There is simply no way you could do justice to discussing this bizarre Dr. V character without such a major detail coming into play.

Want to keep your history under wraps? Don't actively engage members of the press in your business while making absurd claims that will demand investigation. That this person was a career con artist strikes me as a far greater factor than their penchant for surgical self-indulgence. Criminality trumps any societal prejudice against those who hesitate overly long when presented with a choice of restrooms.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 20, 2014 08:49 PM (bPxS6)

418 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9RiO8QXsvI It's more guitar-heavy than the original, which I think provides a nice contrast with the lighter, oh-so-slightly higher-pitched voice of the singer. Good night, everyone! Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 21, 2014 12:43 AM (/96QU) The singer is kinda cute.

Posted by: The Musical Hat at January 20, 2014 08:50 PM (AymDN)

419 Your socon views on the transgendered is why the GOP will continue to lose elections. Also its bigoted towards my "wife"

Posted by: Mr. Mu Mu at January 20, 2014 08:52 PM (LI48c)

420 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 21, 2014 12:47 AM (LLNW+)>>

I always like the retro pinups you ink. But knew I couldn't compete in that realm. Now I just know I can't compete.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 08:52 PM (TI3xG)

421 I think its lethal to know me. Three electricians I've worked with in the past are dead now. Two electrocutions, one suicide.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 20, 2014 08:52 PM (zxsxA)

422 Hickster, keep them coming. Variety is something we all need.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:53 PM (LLNW+)

423 a few laughs here " I can cook minute rice in 58 seconds...." http://thechive.com/2014/01/20/stay-fresh-do-what-you-want-40-photos/

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 08:54 PM (jsmDz)

424 Purp, I doubt that. We haven't kee.......afughakdfgh4t24gz

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 08:55 PM (LLNW+)

425 Two electrocutions, one suicide.

Helpful tip: when they arrive at the house, stop "surprising" them in your Femskin suit.
[/rimshot]
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:55 PM (HVI5a)

426 421 I think its lethal to know me. Three electricians I've worked with in the past are dead now. Two electrocutions, one suicide.

Posted by: Purp at January 21, 2014 12:52 AM (zxsxA)

It's lethal to be born. Sometimes it just takes a while.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 08:55 PM (T1005)

427 Anna, what happened to your hair? And why is your whole body smoking like that?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:56 PM (HVI5a)

428 Hmmm, Anna's not answering. She's just lying there. Oh well.

[walks away whistling]

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 08:57 PM (HVI5a)

429 where did everyone go?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 08:59 PM (9GG/0)

430 Prometheus could have been good. But it was ruined by what apparently was Ridley Scott's and the Studio's absolute demand that it have fantastic new franchise options. All they gave a shit about was the $$$$$$$$.

Thus, the ending defies all logic. And most of the story threads don't get any kind of satisfactory closure.

Wish I hadn't wasted my money on the blu-ray.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 21, 2014 12:42 AM

I'm dubious that Prometheus could have been good. It was fucked up from the concept and is pretty much looked in to retardedness with the name. If it was an actual Alien movie, maybe. But Ridley Scott got lazy a long, long time ago. The problem with Prometheus, apart from totally sucking on just about every level, is that it addresses questions that I bloody well don't want answered. The boneship, space jockey and all that... are best left as mysteries.

Posted by: otho at January 20, 2014 09:01 PM (9gNQd)

431 Will someone offer Caleb Hannan COB status?

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 09:01 PM (4JkHl)

432 where did everyone go? Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 12:59 AM (9GG/0) I'm here!

Posted by: Vendette was a great chemistry student in high school at January 20, 2014 09:01 PM (MpP9p)

433 I think its lethal to know me. Three electricians I've worked with in the past are dead now. Two electrocutions, one suicide.>>

My Grandfather (who was missing 3 fingers) taught me an important safety lesson when I was a lad. When you are working with power-tools if you feel completely comfortable expect your hand to look like mine. Don't fear it but respect it's power was the point and nowhere is that more important than with the silent killer of electricity. I may cheat on the safety glasses now and then (well side shields since I wear glasses) but lockout tag out not so much.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:01 PM (TI3xG)

434 So if I understand the clowns of SF, Google should be using helicopters?

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 09:02 PM (4JkHl)

435 Will there be Muslim terrorists this winter? Nah, that's impossible.

Posted by: and irresolute at January 20, 2014 09:02 PM (RqHWH)

436 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 01:01 AM (TI3xG) Senator Jon Tester is missing three fingers. Farming accident.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:03 PM (MpP9p)

437 52 "The sport loses about 1 million players per year."

Really? Then why the fuck is it still damn near impossible to get a tee time before 10am on Saturday?

Well, they get better...

Posted by: Anachronda was once turned into a newt at January 20, 2014 09:04 PM (U82Km)

438 "As for the Economist: I quit reading it in the 2000s. There was already a strong 'anti-zionist' *wink* bias, which often travelled along with its anti-Bush bias."

Their editorial direction since 2008 has been HUGELY slanted in a pro-Obama and pro-Obamacare direction. ("Necessary humane reforms to America's cruel and inefficient health care system", that sort of bunk.)

And they were absolutely bought and paid up members of the global warming circus until last year, when finally they had to grudgingly recant some of their prior obsessive carbonphobia after being repeatedly mugged by reality.

It's really a shame, because the world really does need at least one intellectually substantive newsmagazine that doesn't waste column space on lifestyle and celebrity dreck, and that looks critically at politicians of all stripes, but _The Economist_ is not that publication. At least not at present.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 20, 2014 09:04 PM (gqT4g)

439 434 So if I understand the clowns of SF, Google should be using helicopters?

Posted by: Jean at January 21, 2014 01:02 AM (4JkHl)

Teleporters.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:04 PM (T1005)

440 Will there be Muslim terrorists this winter? Nah, that's impossible.

No worries, I'll blind 'em with my fabulous hairless chest. Then KGB will take care of the rest.

Posted by: Vlad "your friend in government" Putin at January 20, 2014 09:04 PM (HVI5a)

441 Senator Jon Tester is missing three fingers. Farming accident.>>

I live out in farming country and that is quite common for those that survived.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:04 PM (TI3xG)

442 429 where did everyone go?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 12:59 AM (9GG/0)

Probably off to the chive link to see if there were the usual T+A.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:06 PM (T1005)

443

421 I think its lethal to know me. Three electricians I've worked with in the past are dead now. Two electrocutions, one suicide.

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Nuh nuh nuh...don't think like that, Purp.

You're not the reason they died.

Being an electrician is hazardous work, period. And accidents happen.

The suicide? Well, who knows what goes into the thinking of someone who takes their own life.

But you weren't to blame for that one either....unless you were standing over the guy saying "Do it! I double dog dare ya!"

And I doubt you were.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 09:06 PM (Wq5le)

444 I think that we should focus all of our attention upon the most obvious place. That would be Obama smart and not racist, unless there is a video that makes them do it!

Posted by: and irresolute at January 20, 2014 09:06 PM (RqHWH)

445 Hey, where'd chemjeff go?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:06 PM (T1005)

446 Posted by: Anachronda was once turned into a newt at January 21, 2014 01:04 AM (U82Km) Resists urge to launch into tirade against Moo Moo...

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:06 PM (MpP9p)

447 429 >> where did everyone go?

We're all trying to pretend that we don't know Purp while backing away quickly.

Who is that guy, anyway? *avoids all wall sockets*

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 09:07 PM (wNF3N)

448 Really? I thought Tonya was the cuter of the two.....and she seemed much more "approachable".
Posted by: cthulhu

With a bottle of cheap wine

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 09:07 PM (4JkHl)

449 That Hannan article doesn't even seem like an attack, its actually presenting the fraud in a rather favorable view.

I knew a fake PhD decades ago who's facade started falling apart in a manner similar to this when details started to be poked at. Once I was convinced of the fraud I just walked away and didn't bother probing further. That one actually DID have a defense job at Raytheon.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 20, 2014 09:07 PM (zxsxA)

450 that's reassuring to know

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 09:07 PM (9GG/0)

451 well I just discovered, what I thought was a meat thermometer, was actually just an empty case.
so I guess I don't know if my chicken is done or not. oh well.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 09:10 PM (9GG/0)

452 448 Really? I thought Tonya was the cuter of the two.....and she seemed much more "approachable".

Posted by: cthulhu

With a bottle of cheap wine

Posted by: Jean at January 21, 2014 01:07 AM (4JkHl)

Considering the rough trade in her inner circle, you probably could've gone with Coors.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:10 PM (T1005)

453 Posted by: Anachronda

Saturday and Sunday (mornings especially) are prime time for golfing, due to people still having jobs and shit. You can get some real deals on weekdays. And frequently, your choice of tee times unless it's a top tier course.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 09:11 PM (wNF3N)

454 ...so I guess I don't know if my chicken is done or not. oh well.

You could always use "nature's probe," but I wouldn't recommend it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 09:11 PM (HVI5a)

455 451 well I just discovered, what I thought was a meat thermometer, was actually just an empty case.
so I guess I don't know if my chicken is done or not. oh well.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2014 01:10 AM (9GG/0)

If the flesh is white and the juices flow clear, either your chicken is done or you know Tonya Harding really well.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:12 PM (T1005)

456 One of the electrocutions was a lockout deal. Dude was working some 277v commercial lights. Someone turned the shit on, and the spasms knocked him right off the ladder. He was dead before he hit the floor.

277v can do some real damage.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 20, 2014 09:12 PM (zxsxA)

457 BOTTLE OF RED WINE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5_ffW8N_s

Posted by: DEREK AND THE DOMINOS at January 20, 2014 09:12 PM (Sj7JH)

458

Chemjeff...if the meat is falling off the bone, then it's done.

You can wiggle the drumsticks, and if they fall away from the chicken, then it's done.

Or the wings. Same deal.

Posted by: wheatie at January 20, 2014 09:13 PM (Wq5le)

459 456 One of the electrocutions was a lockout deal. Dude was working some 277v commercial lights. Someone turned the shit on, and the spasms knocked him right off the ladder. He was dead before he hit the floor.

277v can do some real damage.

Posted by: Purp at January 21, 2014 01:12 AM (zxsxA)

Oh, man. The guy who flicked the switch wasn't the suicide, was he?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:14 PM (T1005)

460 As if it ain't bad enough to be dead, imagine having a thermometer shoved up your dead butt.

*sigh* It's tough being a chicken.

Posted by: The zombie Chicken at January 20, 2014 09:15 PM (wNF3N)

461 chemjeff, no pink = done

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:15 PM (MpP9p)

462 "My Grandfather (who was missing 3 fingers) taught me an important safety lesson when I was a lad. When you are working with power-tools if you feel completely comfortable expect your hand to look like mine."

I keep various bits and bobs of scrap around, and every time before I start in to use power tools, I specifically take a moment and cut some of it. Both to test the tool and to remind myself that my flesh is even more easily cut. Still have all digits.

"Don't fear it but respect it's power was the point and nowhere is that more important than with the silent killer of electricity."

Ah yes. Not only must you fear the tool, you must fear what makes it work.

_Deadly Shipmate_, U.S. Navy technical training film, 1960.

They don't make them like this any more.

https://archive.org/details/MN8990115VoltsDeadlyShipmate1960

Posted by: torquewrench at January 20, 2014 09:15 PM (gqT4g)

463 *sigh* It's tough being a chicken.

Tell me about it!!

Posted by: John Boehner at January 20, 2014 09:16 PM (HVI5a)

464 277v can do some real damage.>>

Though I'm not an electrician my work requires us to do biannual electrical safety training. The one I'm scheduled for is Arc Spark. That is some scary shit.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:16 PM (TI3xG)

465 Purp, it sounds like the 'lockout' was done without an actual, you know, lock.

Which is the whole point sorta.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 09:17 PM (wNF3N)

466 462 "My Grandfather (who was missing 3 fingers) taught me an important safety
lesson when I was a lad. When you are working with power-tools if you
feel completely comfortable expect your hand to look like mine."

I keep various bits and bobs of scrap around, and every time before I start in to use power tools, I specifically take a moment and cut some of it. Both to test the tool and to remind myself that my flesh is even more easily cut. Still have all digits.

"Don't
fear it but respect it's power was the point and nowhere is that more
important than with the silent killer of electricity."

Ah yes. Not only must you fear the tool, you must fear what makes it work.

_Deadly Shipmate_, U.S. Navy technical training film, 1960.

They don't make them like this any more.

https://archive.org/details/MN8990115VoltsDeadlyShipmate1960

Posted by: torquewrench at January 21, 2014 01:15 AM (gqT4g)

My latest f-up didn't involve the tool coming to a full and complete stop....it was picking up the little nub I'd just cut off a bar of aluminum. I was fortunate enough that I didn't blister.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:19 PM (T1005)

467 229 Since we're on the subject, anyone have an opinion on the Robt. Downing, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movie?

I'm still boycotting Robert Downing, Jr. because I'm still pissed that I spent good money to see Less Than Zero.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 20, 2014 09:21 PM (U82Km)

468 452. hey whoa!!! Do I need to get my gun?

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 20, 2014 09:21 PM (8sFfo)

469 468. Oh Tonya Harding Im watching you guys

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 20, 2014 09:22 PM (8sFfo)

470 464 277v can do some real damage.>> Though I'm not an electrician my work requires us to do biannual electrical safety training. The one I'm scheduled for is Arc Spark. That is some scary shit. Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 01:16 AM (TI3xG) Will the training include some of that cool Tesla coil stuff?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 20, 2014 09:24 PM (LIQGY)

471 no T & A in that chive link

well not on the 1st link

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:26 PM (jsmDz)

472 469 468. Oh
Tonya Harding

Im watching you guys

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 21, 2014 01:22 AM (8sFfo)

Whoa! Whoa!!! Take a deep breath, there. Before you grab your gat and go stampeding into the night, reflect on the fact that you're a five-hour plane ride from ANYWHERE.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:26 PM (T1005)

473 Will the training include some of that cool Tesla coil stuff?>>

No just videos like this.

http://tinyurl.com/lo3j3w6

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:27 PM (TI3xG)

474 Well, now we know that 'T' doesn't stand for Tennessee.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:27 PM (Sj7JH)

475 I gotta waait up to see Andrea Tantaros new pushup bra that NDH mentioned earlier today,

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:28 PM (jsmDz)

476 32 minutes, snarkster.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:28 PM (Sj7JH)

477 Well, now we know that 'T' doesn't stand for Tennessee. Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 01:27 AM (Sj7JH) If it does, it was a happy day in the NCJ household on Sunday.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:29 PM (MpP9p)

478 31 minutes now

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:29 PM (jsmDz)

479 31 minutes until what?

and thanks, yeah it had no pink, so it was done

Purp so sorry about your friends' electrical mishaps, although I always thought it was the current moreso than the voltage that was dangerous

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 09:32 PM (9GG/0)

480 oh, Andrea Tantaros pushup bra

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 09:33 PM (9GG/0)

481 and everybody vanished again?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 20, 2014 09:36 PM (9GG/0)

482 oh, Andrea Tantaros pushup bra

Where's the safety video for *that*??

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 09:36 PM (HVI5a)

483 I'm watching Todd Hoffman not find gold in Guyana.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:37 PM (Sj7JH)

484 It's never a good thing when you hear a helicopter flying in circles over your establishment.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:37 PM (MpP9p)

485 Â“Is Arapahoe High School Administration responsible for KarlÂ’s choices? No! Are they responsible for their lack of action? Yes!Â”

Rust claims he and other security guards at the school expressed concern to school administrators prior to the Dec. 13 shooting in regards to a death threat allegedly made by Pierson directly to speech coach Tracy Murphy, as well as Â“symbolsÂ” the teen drew on his math tests and his recurring use of the word Â“comrade.Â”

Rust also says the security team reported to school officials that Pierson was looking up guns on his computer in the school cafeteria and that the Â“administration came back and told the security team it was KarlÂ’s personal computer and he can do what he wants.Â”

Posted by: Unabomber at January 20, 2014 09:37 PM (e8kgV)

486 277v can do some real damage. Posted by: Purp at January 21, 2014 01:12 AM (zxsxA) Oh, man. The guy who flicked the switch wasn't the suicide, was he? Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:14 AM (T1005) AN/SPS 40D Radar... Main bang going to the Power Klystron on a 1/2 Million Watt Air Search Radar.... Someone up there was looking out for me that day....

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 20, 2014 09:38 PM (lZBBB)

487 Uh oh.
Enjoy your taxpayer-funded vacation at Guantanamo Vendette!
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 09:38 PM (HVI5a)

488 I gotta waait up to see Andrea Tantaros new pushup bra that NDH mentioned earlier today, Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 01:28 AM (jsmDz) --If NDH has already mentioned, then it has already been documented --allegedly. POIDH.

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 09:38 PM (X3GkB)

489 Night all. Here is "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" by Judas Priest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGMQ-ySqOY

Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at January 20, 2014 09:38 PM (AymDN)

490 I haven't vanished ... I haven't even lost weight ...

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 09:39 PM (hrU8o)

491 whoa! Just watched the unrated vid "Blured Lines" that had the girl Ace linked to in the UK Daily Mail earlier in the side bar She's hot, but that is alot of nekked I can see why she is in the SI swimsuit issue

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:39 PM (jsmDz)

492 Uh oh. Enjoy your taxpayer-funded vacation at Guantanamo Vendette! ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at January 21, 2014 01:38 AM (HVI5a)

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:39 PM (MpP9p)

493 "Big Caps are not your friend"

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 09:39 PM (4JkHl)

494 "Big Caps are not your friend"

SEZ WHO??!!?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 20, 2014 09:40 PM (HVI5a)

495 Vendette at January 21, 2014 01:37 AM (MpP9p) chasing them up and down the street with your gun is a bad idea, even if the safety switch is on ...

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 09:41 PM (hrU8o)

496 Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:14 AM (T1005) hello, cthuhu, I am still on JCP website trying to find thermal curtains for steel door. It is still cold in that back hall. They would have put curtain up if it fit. One day one man was going to fix the rod on two that I had reversed. I was going to fix them but knew I was getting new windows & left to fix when up. Tony was going to fix for more & IÂ’m sure at no charge. I lack housekeeper gene. I donÂ’t do things that well as far as hanging curtains,etc. One more pair once I find out that the ones I had in hall donÂ’t fit & all curtains & drapes are up for years. I only need one for back hall, the dryer is in there. I need one carbon detector & I will finally qualify for 75% off insulation up to $2,000 per unit. there are two. That was January 31 of last year, I hope MA Saves didnÂ’t come with expiration date.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 09:41 PM (z4WKX)

497 Open Kitchen needs a lot more ventilation...otherwise they are ok with me.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:41 PM (Sj7JH)

498 chasing them up and down the street with your gun is a bad idea, even if the safety switch is on ... Posted by: Adriane... at January 21, 2014 01:41 AM (hrU8o) The pistol or the shotgun?

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:42 PM (MpP9p)

499 I can see why she is in the SI swimsuit issue>>

But she has an ugly bellybuton.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:42 PM (TI3xG)

500 ...and Blurred Lines Brunette is a Goddess.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:42 PM (Sj7JH)

501 "Purp so sorry about your friends' electrical mishaps, although I always thought it was the current moreso than the voltage that was dangerous"

A few milliamps will fatally fibrillate your heart under certain conditions.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 20, 2014 09:43 PM (gqT4g)

502 486 277v can do some real damage.

Posted by: Purp at January 21, 2014 01:12 AM (zxsxA)

Oh, man. The guy who flicked the switch wasn't the suicide, was he?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:14 AM (T1005)

AN/SPS 40D Radar... Main bang going to the Power Klystron on a 1/2 Million Watt Air Search Radar....

Someone up there was looking out for me that day....

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 21, 2014 01:38 AM (lZBBB)

I tend to get really plodding and methodical around things that could kill me. Even "fussy", perhaps -- checking and rechecking like an OCD training film.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:43 PM (T1005)

503 Open Kitchen needs a lot more ventilation...otherwise they are ok with me. Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 01:41 AM (Sj7JH) I like them mostly, except when one of the people I'm entertaining is my mom. Then I can stick her in the formal dining room or living room while I'm cooking. That way she is not telling me what to do and how to do it

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:44 PM (jsmDz)

504 AN/SPS 40D Radar... Main bang going to the Power Klystron on a 1/2 Million Watt Air Search Radar....

Someone up there was looking out for me that day....

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 21, 2014 01:38 AM (lZBBB)

And, BTW, that would have been like getting hit with a Star Trek weapon.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:45 PM (T1005)

505 The problem with an open kitchen is that everyone sees the dirty dishes.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:45 PM (MpP9p)

506 But she has an ugly bellybuton. Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 01:42 AM (TI3xG) don't care

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:45 PM (jsmDz)

507 Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:43 AM (T1005) I was looking for a voltage fluctuation.... had to do it live... ship took a really weird roll... hand slipped.... not sure how long I was out for.... but I'm OK /twitch... twitch...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2014 09:47 PM (lZBBB)

508 I like them mostly, except when one of the people I'm entertaining is my mom. Then I can stick her in the formal dining room or living room while I'm cooking.

That way she is not telling me what to do and how to do it>>

What kind of safe door did you install on the formal dining room?

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:48 PM (TI3xG)

509 And, BTW, that would have been like getting hit with a Star Trek weapon. Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:45 AM (T1005) Nah.... Star Trek weapons just vaporize you.... they don't throw you across the room...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2014 09:48 PM (lZBBB)

510 The helicopter seems to have moved.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:48 PM (MpP9p)

511 Someone up there was looking out for me that day....

Posted by: Roomeo13 at January 21, 2014 01:38 AM (lZBBB)

18KV line on an AN/AWG-9 transmitter. Arced about a foot from my head. At night. Lit up the whole panel. Yep, that got my attention. My little short ass was standing on a tie-down chain so that I could look into the panel...funny, it didn't SEEM that far down to the deck when I stepped up there...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at January 20, 2014 09:49 PM (xa1/W)

512 don't care Posted by: the snarkster>>

I don't either but read people were listing it as a fault and thought it was funny.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:50 PM (TI3xG)

513 The problem with an open kitchen is that everyone sees the dirty dishes. Posted by: Vendette at January 21, 2014 01:45 AM (MpP9p) not if you build it right and have two (2) dishwashers, with stainles steel tubs that are almost silent my next house will have 2 or each fridge dishwasher washer dryer microwave

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:51 PM (jsmDz)

514 "I am still on JCP website trying to find thermal curtains for steel door. It is still cold in that back hall. They would have put curtain up if it fit."

I would guess you can buy half inch foam board insulation at Home Cheapo, cut it to fit with a serrated kitchen knife, and adhere it to the door steel with spray adhesive. Should help.

Beware of state-sponsored home insulation schemes. Much ineptitude, some of it actively dangerous (foil backed insulation up against exposed electrical wiring). Much criminality (shady insulation contractors claiming job done to spec when only partially complete, or burglars sunlighting on insulation crews).

Note also that any really good draftproofing and insulation job may leave you with indoor air quality problems. You can never change only one thing.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 20, 2014 09:51 PM (gqT4g)

515 (FWIW, standing on the tie-down chains was considered a Bad Thing...)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at January 20, 2014 09:51 PM (xa1/W)

516 >> but I'm OK /twitch... twitch...

The line between electrician and electrocution is a very fine one.

Glad you came out of that (mostly) okay, Romeo.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 09:51 PM (wNF3N)

517 Why do you even need one microwave?

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 09:52 PM (Sj7JH)

518 496 Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 01:14 AM (T1005)

hello, cthuhu,

I am still on JCP website trying to find thermal curtains for steel door. It is still cold in that back hall. They would have put curtain up if it fit.

One day one man was going to fix the rod on two that I had reversed. I was going to fix them but knew I was getting new windows & left to fix when up. Tony was going to fix for more & IÂ’m sure at no charge.

I lack housekeeper gene. I donÂ’t do things that well as far as hanging curtains,etc.

One more pair once I find out that the ones I had in hall donÂ’t fit & all curtains & drapes are up for years. I only need one for back hall, the dryer is in there.

I need one carbon detector & I will finally qualify for 75% off insulation up to $2,000 per unit. there are two. That was January 31 of last year, I hope MA Saves didnÂ’t come with expiration date.

Posted by: Carol at January 21, 2014 01:41 AM (z4WKX)

Steel doors can conduct heat, unfortunately. They are more secure than wood, are more durable, and last longer.

If I understand your layout, your best bet would be to curtain off the entire end of the hall that the door is on, and not just the door.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 09:53 PM (T1005)

519 491 whoa! Just watched the unrated vid "Blured Lines" that had the girl Ace linked to in the UK Daily Mail earlier in the side bar She's hot, but that is alot of nekked I can see why she is in the SI swimsuit issue Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 01:39 AM (jsmDz) You just watched it? Missed out of a couple months of hotness. Her soft-core tape is much better - yeah, it was 'leaked' Suuuuuuure. http://tinyurl.com/lpbkklm

Posted by: RWC at January 20, 2014 09:53 PM (Q6HBD)

520 Why do you even need one microwave? Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 01:52 AM (Sj7JH) kids, when they are hungry number1 priority is getting chow in them yeah I know poor planning and all but life happens when the BH and I both work

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 09:54 PM (jsmDz)

521 What does a carbon (I assume carbon monoxide) detector have to do with insulation? Are they afraid you're going to insulated that well?

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 09:56 PM (4JkHl)

522 The line between electrician and electrocution is a very fine one. . Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 01:51 AM (wNF3N) Yeah... Working on live gear... in a big metal can... tired... undermanned... and Capt. and or Admiral screaming? Eventually you will get bit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2014 09:57 PM (lZBBB)

523 On the Swedish private insurance thing: Canucks have private insurance to cover prescriptions and dental, among other things.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 09:57 PM (MpP9p)

524 I am still on JCP website trying to find thermal curtains for steel
door. It is still cold in that back hall. They would have put curtain
up if it fit. >>

A new steel door should not be that cold to need a curtain. Unless they fucked up the seal.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 09:58 PM (TI3xG)

525 >> kids, when they are hungry number1 priority is getting chow in them

The problem with eating a Chinese dog is that an hour later you're hungry again.

Posted by: Baracky The Dog Eater at January 20, 2014 09:58 PM (wNF3N)

526 Back to work...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at January 20, 2014 09:59 PM (xa1/W)

527 A new steel door should not be that cold to need a curtain. Unless they fucked up the seal. Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 01:58 AM (TI3xG) or put no insulation in it a quick fix is hang a blanket over the door. have you stood by the door? maybe the seal around it leaks

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 10:00 PM (jsmDz)

528 Holy crap just saw on the late news Sidco 4x4 is on fire in the town near me.

http://sidco4x4.com/customer-rigs/

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:01 PM (TI3xG)

529 Night all. Finished doing some writing, over in someone else's world.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 10:02 PM (LLNW+)

530 520 Why do you even need one microwave?

Posted by: garrett at January 21, 2014 01:52 AM (Sj7JH)

kids, when they are hungry number1 priority is getting chow in them

yeah I know poor planning and all but life happens when the BH and I both work

Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 01:54 AM (jsmDz)

A microwave oven is an extremely versatile tool for doing a lot of different things in a kitchen. That said, the average homeowner will use one 2/3 of the time for things that it is not suited for (see @104), or in a way that negates any advantages it might provide (e.g. nuking untoasted bread, which can do nice things like melt cheese or butter, but leaves the bottom of the bread a soggy mess -- and may make the middle resemble styrofoam).

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:03 PM (T1005)

531 On the Swedish private insurance thing: Canucks have private insurance to cover prescriptions and dental, among other things. Posted by: Vendette at January 21, 2014 01:57 AM (MpP9p) private is always better than public public transportation=nope public bathrooms=nope anyway you get it

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 10:03 PM (jsmDz)

532 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 02:01 AM (TI3xG) Besides the fact that a fire is serious, can you tell us about the location?

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:04 PM (MpP9p)

533 The pistol or the shotgun? hmmmm .... which one's shiny and which one is blued?

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 10:05 PM (hrU8o)

534 no Tantaros on Direct TV. Will have to record it, per the schedule not for 2 more hours

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 10:06 PM (jsmDz)

535 Good night, Anna ... Happy writing.

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 10:07 PM (hrU8o)

536 public transportation=nope public bathrooms=nope anyway you get it Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 02:03 AM (jsmDz) public transportation = dealt with that in Canuckistan and it worked pretty well public bathrooms = only in the malls, and they were generally OK Health care: no paperwork, which was nice, and when my brother blew out his ACL it was a great thing his doctor got him into surgery several months earlier than scheduled Please note that I was born and grew up in Canuckistan.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:08 PM (MpP9p)

537 Besides the fact that a fire is serious, can you tell us about the location?

Small town and this business is one that sits along a frontage road. Enough space between them so it likely wont be a hazard to neighbors. I've gone 4 Wheeling with the owner is the big reason I felt need to post something.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:09 PM (TI3xG)

538 private is always better than public public transportation=nope public bathrooms=nope anyway you get it Posted by: the snarkster at January public - hookers private - mistresses

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 20, 2014 10:10 PM (rDidD)

539 Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 02:09 AM (TI3xG) I hope everything works out well!

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:10 PM (MpP9p)

540 cthulh, Ive got this old kelly kettle. I can step out back, light it off with twigs and get 4 cups of water to boil faster then the microwave or stove. Amazes the kids.

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:11 PM (4JkHl)

541 Good Night, I am still trying to find 48 inch drapes/curtains i they exist, JCP has 63 inch.

Posted by: Carol at January 20, 2014 10:11 PM (z4WKX)

542 Proof that the two sides live in alternate universes; one made of matter, the other of antimatter (or AntiChrist, both could be true).

Â“ThereÂ’s Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp woman.Â”

Who made this statement? If you guessed The Mooch, proceed to the parimutuel window and collect your winnings.

from WZ

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 10:11 PM (wNF3N)

543 Thanks Adriane. That seems appropriate the two chapters was 1,492 words long. The setting is in the New World.

Word from John Cox
http://www.johncoxart.com/2014/01/book_cover_illustration_idea_124.html

Maybe I should see if he can draw a cover for me.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 20, 2014 10:11 PM (LLNW+)

544 Good Night, I am still trying to find 48 inch drapes/curtains i they exist, JCP has 63 inch. Posted by: Carol at January 21, 2014 02:11 AM (z4WKX) Can you find a place that does them custom-made?

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:12 PM (MpP9p)

545 Does JCP still exist?

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:14 PM (4JkHl)

546 Who made this statement? If you guessed The Mooch, proceed to the parimutuel window and collect your winnings. Well ... maybe when she said 'she was finally proud of her country' she mean north Vietnam ...

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 10:14 PM (hrU8o)

547 I hope everything works out well!>>

I left out the most important part. No one was there when the fire started. So other than the Firefighters having to work in -6f and crappy wind conditions no one should have been hurt.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:15 PM (TI3xG)

548 540 cthulh, Ive got this old kelly kettle. I can step out back, light it off with twigs and get 4 cups of water to boil faster then the microwave or stove. Amazes the kids.

Posted by: Jean at January 21, 2014 02:11 AM (4JkHl)

Chesterton's fence -- Home Economics edition.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:17 PM (T1005)

549 public = Detroit pensions
private = Madoff's fund

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:17 PM (4JkHl)

550 542 To elucidate for the slow -- I consider Jane to be the antithesis of anything good; I'm still mad at myself for watching Cat Ballou about 6 years ago. Curiosity got the better of me. To call Jane anything but a traitor is to be kind to her.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 10:18 PM (wNF3N)

551 I left out the most important part. No one was there when the fire started. So other than the Firefighters having to work in -6f and crappy wind conditions no one should have been hurt. Posted by: The Hickster at January 21, 2014 02:15 AM (TI3xG) That is a good thing! Although I hope that the business can get up and running again soon. Meanwhile, the helicopter has gone away.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:18 PM (MpP9p)

552 I left out the most important part. No one was there when the fire started. So other than the Firefighters having to work in -6f and crappy wind conditions no one should have been hurt.

Posted by: The Hickster

oily rags in corner?

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:19 PM (4JkHl)

553 544 Good Night, I am still trying to find 48 inch drapes/curtains i they exist, JCP has 63 inch.

Posted by: Carol at January 21, 2014 02:11 AM (z4WKX)

Can you find a place that does them custom-made?

Posted by: Vendette at January 21, 2014 02:12 AM (MpP9p)

Heaven forfend! That's going to cost.

Carol -- are you talking width or length?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:19 PM (T1005)

554 Please note that I was born and grew up in Canuckistan. Posted by: Vendette at January 21, 2014 02:08 AM (MpP9p) I'll be nice private plane or Delta private beach or public beach city bus or private vehicle pooping at a bus station or your own house library computer or personal computer

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 10:20 PM (jsmDz)

555 Chesterton's Fence - Gay Marriage edition

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:20 PM (4JkHl)

556 549 public = Detroit pensions
private = Madoff's fund

Posted by: Jean at January 21, 2014 02:17 AM (4JkHl)

Yeah, and the common thread is uninvolved "owners" who assume that everything is fine.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:21 PM (T1005)

557

public = Detroit pensions
private = Madoff's fund>>

And the people that payfor their losses.

Detroit=by force of govt
Madoff= by choice

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:22 PM (TI3xG)

558 So in the spirit of keeping warm and twigs -- http://tinyurl.com/2ugvw5g

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:23 PM (4JkHl)

559 private plane or Delta *Delta Airlines has done its job for the most part. The times it hasn't, they put me up in a hotel (BTW, this also refers to Northwest Airlines). private beach or public beach *No beach. I hate beaches. city bus or private vehicle *I loved jeepneys when I was in the Philippines. pooping at a bus station or your own house *Privacy is key library computer or personal computer *library for library searches only.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:23 PM (MpP9p)

560 oily rags in corner?

Could have been. I know I haven't spent any dough there recently.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:24 PM (TI3xG)

561 545 JC Penney still exists, but is on life support. Their stock is approaching junk status, and they recently announced another round of store closings.

Of course, KMart has been thru bankruptcy twice and they are still kicking.

Most brick and mortar joints are in serious trouble. THat's why the politicos will eventually pass the internet sales tax over our strenuous objections. The BnMs will throw everything at them to git-R-done.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 10:25 PM (wNF3N)

562 555 Chesterton's Fence - Gay Marriage edition

Posted by: Jean at January 21, 2014 02:20 AM (4JkHl)

Actually, when I met Gabe at a Berkeley MoMe, that's what I spent my time yelling at him (it was loud) about. I was going from the angle that "with so much family court nonsense, pre-nups, and bad divorces, you'd have to be insane to throw gays into the mix. You might as well add penguins.....and it's not like gays are going to benefit by being thrown into the mess." But that was before I realized and embraced the paradox of Chesterton's Fence -- I'd gotten the tune right, but didn't have the words.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:26 PM (T1005)

563 Night all.

Posted by: The Hickster at January 20, 2014 10:32 PM (TI3xG)

564 private plane or Delta *Delta Airlines has done its job for the most part. The times it hasn't, they put me up in a hotel (BTW, this also refers to Northwest Airlines). we are prolly talking past each other but private plane, the only people on it are the ones you invite it flys when and where you want it to/no layovers you don't go thru TSA you arive 10 minutes before take off Delta, lugage rules TSA 2 hours before takeoff non direct flights/layovers their flight schedule other passengers can't pick your own movie can't use a cell phone

Posted by: the snarkster at January 20, 2014 10:33 PM (jsmDz)

565 Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 02:33 AM (jsmDz) I wish I could do that.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:36 PM (MpP9p)

566 you don't go thru TSA

you get a TSA looksee at Signature (eg) at major airports, not with general aviation. With general aviation its on the pilot's pre-clearances into specific adiz's

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:36 PM (4JkHl)

567 the major reason to go private flight - no hub and spoke. You can go direct from small airport to small airport.

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2014 10:38 PM (4JkHl)

568 564 private plane or Delta *Delta Airlines has done its job for the most part. The times it hasn't, they put me up in a hotel (BTW, this also refers to Northwest Airlines). we are prolly talking past each other but private plane, the only people on it are the ones you invite it flys when and where you want it to/no layovers you don't go thru TSA you arive 10 minutes before take off Delta, lugage rules TSA 2 hours before takeoff non direct flights/layovers their flight schedule other passengers can't pick your own movie can't use a cell phone Posted by: the snarkster at January 21, 2014 02:33 AM (jsmDz) --Crank it! http://youtu.be/a14HjVs56Tg

Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2014 10:38 PM (X3GkB)

569 564 I haven't flown since 2005 and I HATE to blemish that record.

I can drive anywhere in the lower 48 in under 3 days; less if I've got Radar Love on autorepeat in the CD player.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 10:39 PM (wNF3N)

570 477. T of course is for Tonya And she was a vol so the forehead made her happy Sunday And hush garrett

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 20, 2014 10:41 PM (pFBJd)

571 And she was a vol so the forehead made her happy Sunday Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 21, 2014 02:41 AM (pFBJd) Happy wife, happy life.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 10:45 PM (MpP9p)

572 T FOR TEXAS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY63KTMrkTM

Posted by: LYNYRD SKYNYRD at January 20, 2014 10:47 PM (xY1ca)

573 570

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 21, 2014 02:41 AM (pFBJd)

....and here, I'd been assuming that you called her "Tootsie." That's what the BH calls me when she can't remember my name.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 20, 2014 10:53 PM (T1005)

574 Fuckin' Rossington sounds sick on that.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 10:54 PM (xY1ca)

575 mmmm, penis.

Just 38 days until Spring Draining. Er, Training, dammit.

Posted by: Clark, the new Cubs mascot at January 20, 2014 10:55 PM (wNF3N)

576 Clark the Bear is already looking to the Boystown of Summer, I see.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2014 10:57 PM (xY1ca)

577 575. Damnit Why did they get a damn pedobear of all things? Isn't my life on this blog hard enough with cutler?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 20, 2014 10:59 PM (frroL)

578 That's how far we've fallen. 35 years ago, you had to fail at founding a new car company to be a significant tranny. Now, a putter will do it. Big Bertha my ass.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 20, 2014 11:27 PM (xq1UY)

That microcar was the Dale. Brainchild of Dale Carmichael, IIRC. A tranny. And a scammer, BIRM. I wonder if the new Elio 3-wheeler being promoted in Lousiana is also a scam?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2014 11:00 PM (8Fl6F)

579 Isn't my life on this blog hard enough with cutler? Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 21, 2014 02:59 AM (frroL) Remember, Navy has beaten Army 11 years in a row.

Posted by: Vendette at January 20, 2014 11:00 PM (MpP9p)

580 573. I have no idea what part of my body would be removed while I sleep if I call T tootsie Ill take the side of caution and not find out

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 20, 2014 11:01 PM (frroL)

581 Kerrigan had *those teeth*.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2014 11:03 PM (VGDJR)

582 577 Just busting your chops, ncj.

I don't even watch baseball (or football, for that matter).

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 11:12 PM (wNF3N)

583 581 Kerrigan had *those teeth*. Posted by: SFGoth at January 21, 2014 03:03 AM (VGDJR) --Not to mention a ginger extraordinariness.

Posted by: logprof, married to Starcraft fiend at January 20, 2014 11:17 PM (X3GkB)

584 Maybe I should see if he can draw a cover for me. Go Big! Saul Bass!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 11:18 PM (hrU8o)

585 Jon Cox does look the funky though. I can't draw. Wish I could.

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 11:19 PM (hrU8o)

586 Hey Kids

me lurk long time

Posted by: jc at January 20, 2014 11:22 PM (PlzOe)

587 Hey jc ... Happy-ish Monday Morning. Getting ready to load the dishwasher and hit the hay. Tackled the front yard of the old new house and need! to tackle the tackling of the backyard ASAP.

Posted by: Adriane... at January 20, 2014 11:25 PM (hrU8o)

588
Tackled the front yard of the old new house and need! to tackle the tackling of the backyard ASAP.

Posted by: Adriane... at January 21, 2014 03:25 AM (hrU8o)

====

well, a good tackle should probably be followed by a Richard Sherman impersonation

Posted by: jc at January 20, 2014 11:35 PM (PlzOe)

589 To further my earlier statement about JC Penney, ZH has an article yesterday about them and Sears that I hadn't even read b4 commenting:

http://tinyurl.com/lo76uyj

Damn, it's worser than I thought. If you have a Penney extended warranty, now's the time to weep.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 11:47 PM (wNF3N)

590 ====well, a good tackle should probably be followed by a Richard Sherman impersonation hmmm .... but i have a sister in Atlanta ...

Posted by: Adriane is easily confused ... at January 20, 2014 11:47 PM (hrU8o)

591 590 ====well, a good tackle should probably be followed by a Richard Sherman impersonation

hmmm .... but i have a sister in Atlanta ...

Posted by: Adriane is easily confused ... at January 21, 2014 03:47 AM (hrU8o)

====

can she impersonate Hank Aaron?

Posted by: jc at January 20, 2014 11:50 PM (PlzOe)

592 http://www.bing.com/images/search? q=spirals+in+nature&FORM=hphot4 Some serious beauty ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at January 20, 2014 11:50 PM (hrU8o)

593 ====can she impersonate Hank Aaron? maybe ... she is an old bat come to think about it ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at January 20, 2014 11:51 PM (hrU8o)

594 >> Some serious beauty ...

Cool beans.

Commies are red
Liberals are too
Scratch one commie
Get both, as in two

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2014 11:57 PM (wNF3N)

595 589 To further my earlier statement about JC Penney, ZH has an article yesterday about them and Sears that I hadn't even read b4 commenting:

http://tinyurl.com/lo76uyj

Damn, it's worser than I thought. If you have a Penney extended warranty, now's the time to weep.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 03:47 AM (wNF3N)

Retail is about to get very, very ugly. If you're old enough, you might remember the regional department stores -- they weren't Macy's or JCP or Sears, but there used to be Ford's in California (12 stores), Bullock's, I. Magnin....not to mention national chains like Montgomery Ward's, Service Merchandise, or Best Products.....all of 'em were rolled over as retail models changed.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:00 AM (T1005)

596 Since we're on the subject, anyone have an opinion on the Robt. Downing, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movie? I saw it in the $5 bin at Walmart this evening; the kids are starting to develop an interest in the Sherlock Holmes story...

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2014 11:36 PM (JMmQ9)

The two Robert Downey Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" movies have nothing to do with the canon other than the names of the characters. So if you are trying to introduce your children to the literature, they won't get you very far. If all you want is some relatively innocuous (well, PG13 anyway) CGI-enhanced robot-karate-ninja-type adventures, they're OK I guess.

Posted by: CQD at January 21, 2014 12:01 AM (rvJrw)

597 no matter how much I procrastinate my work never does itself and none of the deadlines move themselves back.

I may have to reassess the strategy.

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 12:03 AM (PlzOe)

598 597 no matter how much I procrastinate my work never does itself and none of the deadlines move themselves back.

I may have to reassess the strategy.

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 04:03 AM (PlzOe)

Or become Preznit!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:05 AM (T1005)

599 I may have to reassess the strategy. I am very proactive when it comes to moving deadlines back ... Unfortunately, the deadlines are even more proactive ... and retroactive!

Posted by: Adriane ... at January 21, 2014 12:09 AM (hrU8o)

600 595 >> If you're old enough, you might remember the regional department stores

Woolworth's. I remember them. They used to have great chocolate covered graham crackers. There also was an old hardware chain that existed around the same time (60s-70s); damn, I can't remember their name. I spent money there too, though. The last Woolworth's closed in 1997.

It sucks getting old.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 12:10 AM (wNF3N)

601 Woolworth's is now FootLocker. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:10 AM (T1005)

602 Or become Preznit!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 04:05 AM (T1005)

====

do I have to marry a mean bitch?

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 12:10 AM (PlzOe)

603 602 Or become Preznit!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 04:05 AM (T1005)

====do I have to marry a mean bitch?

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 04:10 AM (PlzOe)

You'll need some sort of beard, but can still attend the boyz' nights out, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:13 AM (T1005)

604 Cranberries are red ... And sing about Linger, I'm suggesting to myself that I stay up late and comment, But my tired self is giving me the finger ... Good Night, all Better tomorrows ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at January 21, 2014 12:15 AM (hrU8o)

605 Okay I recovered that memory (many Bothans died to bring me this information): the old hardware chain was named Western Auto. Every town used to have one, it seemed like.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 12:18 AM (wNF3N)

606 603 602
Or become Preznit!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 04:05 AM (T1005)

====do I have to marry a mean bitch?

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 04:10 AM (PlzOe)

You'll need some sort of beard, but can still attend the boyz' nights out, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 04:13 AM (T1005)

=====

don't see how hanging around a bitch that absolutely no human or other mammal wants to boink serves as much of a beard.

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 12:19 AM (PlzOe)

607 night, Adriane

Posted by: jc at January 21, 2014 12:20 AM (PlzOe)

608 Or not....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 12:32 AM (TE35l)

609 Do you not have a son?And would you not allow said imaginary son to play football?'Cause that's very important to being Prezint.

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 21, 2014 12:34 AM (3bbd3)

610 Kragen auto parts got absorbed into O'Reilly.

In the greater scheme of things, chains used to evaluate their markets, then try to make deals with manufacturers based on that understanding -- "I bet I can move 4000 of these in my stores at $6, so I'll make a deal to buy 4000 of em from XYZ Corp. for $3." The fact that some other chain got 5000 for $2.85 on the other side of the country didn't matter. If the chain bet wrong, they had to dump their excess or pay more for extras.

Nowadays, a store will say, "I'll take 8 kazillion of the widgets, financed with funny money from the Fed at 0% interest, and I'll return anything I don't sell"....which explains the crappy customer service and lack of expertise about anything -- there's no money in it, so why bother?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:36 AM (T1005)

611 608 Or not....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 04:32 AM (TE35l)

Do I recognize you from some place?....'cause you seem awfully familiar.

[not doing one post per 11.05 minutes? Slacker!]

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:40 AM (T1005)

612 611 cthulu, I get that a lot...people think I'm Sven10075...he's next door

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 12:49 AM (TE35l)

613 How much is that tranny in the window;
I sure hope that trannys for sale.
And if that hermaphrodite ain't selling,
At least I hope she ain't yelling.

(Our next regularly scheduled skankathon is due in Spring, 2014)

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 12:55 AM (wNF3N)

614 612 611 cthulu,

I get that a lot...people think I'm Sven10075...he's next door

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 04:49 AM (TE35l)

All kidding aside, I see something from you and I think, "there's sven, posting like a manic hummingbird on crack....all is right with the world."

I'm not sure if that says more about you or about me.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:56 AM (T1005)

615 Yeah, that sven10755 -- he's a pussy. Ignore him.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 12:56 AM (wNF3N)

616 612 611 cthulu,

I get that a lot...people think I'm Sven10075...he's next door

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 04:49 AM (TE35l)

Is he doing "hit on the head" lessons?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 21, 2014 12:57 AM (T1005)

617 Well y'all have a groovy morning.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 01:01 AM (TE35l)

618 Go see Lone Survivor
make a liberal weep into their cornflakes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 21, 2014 01:01 AM (wNF3N)

619 Ah, no the neighbor is more poetic...although I wonder if he used to be a she... "Dr. S"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2014 01:03 AM (TE35l)

620 I was disappointed in the new Sherlock season opener, echoing Ace. After looking forward to the show for so long I thought the opener was sort of half-hearted and not clever. Sherlock is supposed to be cleverly done, but Moffat screwed up on this one. And the whole fall explanation was overly contrived.

Posted by: MTF at January 21, 2014 01:03 AM (B+HTd)

621 Caleb Hanna needs to sue his peers for harassment and slander and eat their kid's ice cream.

Posted by: cackfinger at January 21, 2014 01:04 AM (OsCtd)

622 #595

My mother is continuously confused by the changes. Online shopping is incomprehensible to her, by and large. She understands what it is but cannot see why Amazon has made life so hard for the kind of places that were the standbys of nearly her whole adult life. The idea that the big malls that grew up with the suburbs could cease to be produces a logic error in her head.

Sure, the economy sucks but retail seems to really be suffering in terms of business model. The number of empty store fronts and the portion of the rest who appear to be barely treading water is kind of frightening. It used to be a middle-class nicety that you could go into a good retail store and get useful advice to drive your purchase. This is increasingly becoming a premium service and the average consumer is more on their own. There are vastly better information resources but the changes they wrought mean you're screwed if you don't know how to properly exploit them or can afford to pay someone to deal with it for you.

Problem is, a lot of the people who once filled that role don't strike me as competent as they once did. Which wouldn't be bad if I felt I'd become more competent myself but instead I just feel as though I know enough to be dangerous and recognize it in others.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 21, 2014 01:26 AM (bPxS6)

623 Hoping things go well this week. AMRL, a lab certification group, is going to be testing us. Another supervisor told me I'm not supposed to have to be part of it till I've been there 6 months. I've been there almost 3. I'm doing 7 of the fifteen tests we're going to be doing for them. To be fair, my coworker is doing tests that the guy I replaced usually did. I'm just wishing I had a bit more experience on mine.

Posted by: teej at January 21, 2014 01:44 AM (M7Cfv)

624 Same boat as your mom Epo. I understand why the storefronts have a hard time competing but miss being able to talk to competent sales folks. Tech people too. The current one, my dryer died. You'd think I could call up and give model # and such and find out which part is the likely culprit. You'd think.

Posted by: teej at January 21, 2014 01:56 AM (e0nsQ)

625 310 And one more TV review, The BBC also has a series that's been going on for a few months called Tudor Monastery Farm. Available via the usual file sharing methods. Fantastic. A group of people work a farm of the Elizabethan Era using the technology of the times. You learn a heck of a lot on how the farmers did things like make cheese, grown peas, tile floors, make paper and dozens of other processes. Rather like the Foxfire books brought to life. Fascinating, and really makes you admire people who did this every day to survive. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 21, 2014 12:01 AM (kdS6q) They've done a number of these series. Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, etc. Victorian and Edwardian Farm are excellent. You forget how labor intensive everything was back then.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 02:10 AM (E4MKN)

626 Big Tranny. What we are seeing is typical commie behavior. Like Mao's Red Guard, they are going to destroy everything they can...because.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 02:15 AM (E4MKN)

627 Seriously, who did he out her to? She was long dead when he published his article. Anyone who knew her or saw a photo of her, unless they wore beer goggles, knew she was a tranny. I have tried to find stats regarding the suicide rate of trannys. There isn't any. One was floating around a few years ago but there really was no legitimate source for it. Considering the number of people I read about who have the operation and then kill themselves later, it's got to be significant. So, where are the studies? What are they hiding?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 02:19 AM (E4MKN)

628 A lot of the people calling for Caleb to be prosecuted for a hate crime are in the UK where the law is an ass.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 02:34 AM (E4MKN)

629 There is no such thing as a "transgendered" person, only dudes in dresses and women with short hair wearing flannel shirts. If someone wants to do that - just like gay sex and any other perverted sexual activity with another consensual adult - that's their prerogative and society shouldn't be able to violate their rights for it. But that doesn't mean it's not abnormal or unworthy of disapproval, either, and it certainly doesn't mean they should have special rights from the government and be free from criticism. Also, just to be clear, a person is fee to call himself whatever name he wants, but pronouns are pronouns. A name is a social construct, biology is immutable. A guy can call himself, "Chelsea," all he wants, but he is still HE as long as he has XY chromosomes and it's absurd and illogical to say otherwise.

Posted by: Mr "Hate Crime" at January 21, 2014 03:09 AM (WknoA)

630 These days all it seems to take is to declare you are of the opposite sex and your name is X. They don't even bother using the courts. And everyone is expected to comply...

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 21, 2014 03:17 AM (E4MKN)

631 462 They don't make them like this any more. https://archive.org/details/MN8990115VoltsDeadlyShipmate1960 ------------------------------------------------ I remember seeing this in BEEP school lo those many years ago! We snickered at the old school narration, but I wish more films used that "Voice of Authority" with its tight-assed gravitas. Any morons have that "Wild Women of Watusiland" reel? Any 'ettes in it? Remember the firefighting film on the USS Forrestal disaster? That one stuck with me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 21, 2014 03:38 AM (QBm1P)

632 Ugh, another idiot who uses "immaculate conception" incorrectly. It has nothing to do with virgin birth, ok? Look it up.

Posted by: docweasel at January 21, 2014 03:54 AM (gW7Y2)

633 I love that reporting is now a crime. Do these people believe the shit they say? Seriously, do they? I cannot believe that they do.

Posted by: Monkeytoe at January 21, 2014 04:07 AM (sOx93)

634 Late to the party as usual, but... I don't really see how the Grantland story could have gone any other way. The basis for the claims of the putter's superiority was the science background of its inventor. That background turned out to be a lie, and her TG status was part of that lie. The story is perfectly valid as it stands. On transgenderism in general, I guess I'm a little more sympathetic than most of y'all. I have several TG friends, and I've seen up close what a tough road it can be for them. Many TG people elect not to have surgery for a number of reasons, (expense, recovery time, pain, the less than perfect state of the art, etc.) Those that don't have surgery generally do go on hormone therapy. The fact that many of them end up with partners of the same sex is, I'm told, irrelevant. As one friend put it, "It's not who you go to bed with, it's who you go to bed as." Being the live-and-let-live kinda guy I am, I'm happy to respect the identities they've chosen. I don't think they should lose their job, or be discriminated against in public accommodations and the like. That said, I don't think anyone is immune from criticism, and certainly if one is making fraudulent claims about his or her background in order to sell something, or gain some advantage, well, you've pretty much opened yourself up to whatever comes your way. I thought the Grantland article was fantastic. The writer's journey from "Hey, that's an interesting looking putter" down the rabbit hole of Dr. V's fraudulent identity and decidedly weird backstory was compelling. I think it's a shame he's being raked over the coals for it now.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 21, 2014 05:44 AM (P8oOy)

635 "Transgendered" people are mentally ill, it's not some race of new people.

Do you really think a transgendered person is "happy" once they've made the "choice" of being the gender they think they should be? It usually ends up something along the lines of this story.

As a society, we shouldn't be encouraging mentally ill people to act out by making them some sort of protected class.

Posted by: McAdams at January 21, 2014 06:53 AM (3PXBx)

636 I know at least one transgendered person (female-to-male) who is extremely happy with his choice. He is much more at ease in his own skin than he ever was as a woman. About the others, I couldn't really say. I didn't know them before they transitioned, so I can't tell if they're any happier, or more or less miserable.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 21, 2014 07:34 AM (P8oOy)

637 If the Grantland story had started with "there is this interesting new putter invented by an person who looks like they might have used to be a man...something's fishy here" then those criticizing might have a point. But that's not what happened. This is a reporter who just looked into a putter. The journey went thru these steps: 1. Look at putter from those that advocate it. 2. Go to source. Get details. 3. Check out details. Verify info. Now at this point the author upon finding out that the entire background of the inventor did not seem to exist...and that the inventor did not seem to exist before a certain date...did not assume the inventor a fraud as many would. He gave the benefit of the doubt that perhaps these things were done under another name. The inventor got odd and snippy about it all. To a reporter staring at possible fraud... ...the inventor acted like a guilty person. Upon discovery of the transgender issue the reporter was looking at a story about a putter that had an inventor that lied about everything involved in its production and also lied about everything involved in her own background bio. Nothing about the woman's life that was shared was accurate or true...including the fact that she was not genetically a woman. Now...a lesser writer might have connected these detail directly. A column that weaves the tale of a man who decided to become a woman decided to become a fantasy life to everyone. a man masquerading as a woman is masquerading as an expert. THIS WAS NOT done in the ARTICLE. The reveal of the transgendered status was done thru innocent investigation into a story that became more confusing as it went. it is unfortunate that the subject committed suicide but it is not the cause of the writer. This poor person was very obviously deeply emotionally disturbed. I say this not by the fact that she was transgendered but by the nature of her behavior. Without some serious intervention and help...this was likely an unfortunate inevitability. The fact that this was not the first attempt bears that out. The writer of the article has nothing to be ashamed of.

Posted by: Chris at January 21, 2014 07:47 PM (GVo9y)

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