The beach is always nicer on the other side of the fence.

Sure was beach weather in So. Cal today.
A nice dip in the ocean to cool off!
Yeah!

weet dreams all!

The fear is crazier on the other side of the crazy.
[Link: tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com...]

The National Rifle Association is in the field with a call campaign asking recipients a rather leading question -- "Should third-world dictators and Hillary Clinton dictate our gun policy?"
Some countries are pushing to begin negotiations on a global treaty to stop such illegal smuggling, and the NRA believes that kind of treaty would take away gun rights from Americans. But those nations that want a treaty have specified that countries would have the exclusive right to regulate arms trade within their borders. That language is a concession to the United States. In 2006, the U.S. was the only country to vote against beginning treaty negotiations.

re: #1 Sharmuta

The sand is always softer, maybe?

Portishead: Mysterons

re: #1 Sharmuta

That's not a fence, that's an Apartheid wall that prevents the sand from rightfully moving freely to the parking lot.

re: #1 Sharmuta

The beach is always nicer on the other side of the fence.

I've heard that about grass too. Which reminds me, I need to do some yard work tomorrow.

Damn neighbors and their obsessions with their yards.

re: #2 Floral Giraffe

Sure was beach weather in So. Cal today.
A nice dip in the ocean to cool off!
Yeah!

Yeah I was pissed, it was a perfect day to ride my motorcycle but I slept in too late and had to rush to work.

A wall.

Walls are useful... especially firewalls, as any vendor, such as Amazon, needs to keep their information from being seen by unauthorized eyes ...

Which is very important for these vendors for there are only 69 shopping days left to Christmas!

re: #6 iceweasel

Portishead: Mysterons

[Video]

"Who is Mysterion?!"

re: #6 iceweasel

Lovely. I prefer Sour Times. But still. Any Portishead is great.

Ah, the weekend. 2 free days to paint.

re: #13 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ah, the weekend. 2 free days to paint.

Weekend... and work?

re: #12 enoughalready

Lovely. I prefer Sour Times. But still. Any Portishead is great.

I was JUST listening to that:

re: #6 iceweasel

That is gratuitous ding-whoring there. FBV would be proud.

re: #14 ArchangelMichael

Weekend... and work?

This kind of painting ain't work

re: #17 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Yer airbrushing nekkid ladies at the Playboy Mansion, ain't ya?

re: #17 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

This kind of painting ain't work

I know, it's your WH 40K stuff, but I was looking for an excuse to try out my new video clip.

re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth

Yer airbrushing nekkid ladies at the Playboy Mansion, ain't ya?

Not quite, though I wish my airbrush was working, it would get some of the bulk work done more quickly and I could work on the detailing.

re: #16 Slumbering Behemoth

That is gratuitous ding-whoring there. FBV would be proud.

I learn from the best. FBV rocks.

pan left, and you should be able to see Catalina...

i could from Mulholand this morning.

/now i just have to find that fruitcup... %-)

re: #9 ArchangelMichael

There's always tomorrow!

re: #19 ArchangelMichael

And excellent clip, which could have many applications here. Bookmarked!

re: #22 redc1c4

Long time, no read. Howse you been? Howse school?

Remember to not scare Mike Nelson

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

And excellent clip, which could have many applications here. Bookmarked!

Yep there's a lot of things I've looked for on youtube or the internet in general forever and couldn't find that would be very appropriate here. So I just started making them myself.

re: #7 Fenway_Nation

Lots of the drainage system has walls that look similar to this. For the rain runoff. Yeah, when we have some. BTW, it's not safest to go into the ocean near a storm drain. NASTY bacteria build ups wash into the ocean. Best to wait a few days.

there it is!!! right next to the everclear... how convenient!

a couple quick stirs and there ya go: Fruitcup!

hep yo' selves...

Youtube is so sad. The comments are like a festival of trolling:

ilikemonkeys100
why are you getting mad? i just said it sounds like a phone vibrating. your mom is a c--t.

moodysenor
You dyslexic twat! Its spelt MUM. Yank fuck!

England and America...divided by a common language. hee.

re: #22 redc1c4

You doing OK? Missed you...
Bet you have some rat stories.
Do tell?

re: #25 Slumbering Behemoth

Long time, no read. Howse you been? Howse school?

kickin it's ass... but they keep waiting for me to play by the rules and act like the rest of them...

gonna be damn tired a'fore that happens. %-)

re: #30 iceweasel

Youtube is so sad. The comments are like a festival of trolling:

England and America...divided by a common language. hee.

Never been to the UK and for years I spelled the words armor and flavor as "armour" and "flavour". I have no idea why either.

re: #30 iceweasel

Youtube is so sad. The comments are like a festival of trolling:

England and America...divided by a common language. hee.

Ahh, YouTube. Home of the most idiotic comments to ever grace mankind.
/...no, not sarc. :)

re: #33 ArchangelMichael

Never been to the UK and for years I spelled the words armor and flavor as "armour" and "flavour". I have no idea why either.

Because you have excellent taste. //

I bookmarked that clip of yours as well. Excellent!

re: #31 Floral Giraffe

You doing OK? Missed you...
Bet you have some rat stories.
Do tell?

they move.

we notice.

they move again, and HRH gets her dander up.

theyBANG...

and we start over.
/Darwin

i'm a lucky man...
(and a well behaved one %-)

Robert Stacy McCain is flipping out. He's obviously freeked out boutz teh ghey.

re: #34 Varek Raith

Ahh, YouTube. Home of the most idiotic comments to ever grace mankind.
/...no, not sarc. :)

you've never spent time on Usenet.

re: #34 Varek Raith

Ahh, YouTube. Home of the most idiotic comments to ever grace mankind.
/...no, not sarc. :)

Youtube comments are like the São Paulo slums of the Internet.

Sleepy time for me.
Nice to "see" you Red.
Keep up the good work at school.

G'night, Lizards, G'night!

re: #32 redc1c4

I think they get so accustomed to dealing with fresh out of high school "blank slates" that they have no clue how to deal with older adults who have more life experience.

I find it entertaining.

re: #39 ArchangelMichael

Youtube comments are like the São Paulo slums of the Internet.

great place for an Olympics then, eh?

re: #39 ArchangelMichael

Youtube comments are like the São Paulo slums of the Internet.

Is that why you disabled commenting? I would have left a nice one, really. I promise.
Just subscribed to your channel!

re: #37 BigPapa

I think he has issues of the self hating, closet variety.

re: #44 Slumbering Behemoth

I think he has issues of the self hating, closet variety.

He's, like, 18, ya know. The guy is doubling down hard.

re: #39 ArchangelMichael

Can't knock Sao Paulo entirely. After all, these dudes hail from there.

I haven't been around much today; did anyone post this yet?

re: #47 sagehen

Heh.

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

I think they get so accustomed to dealing with fresh out of high school "blank slates" that they have no clue how to deal with older adults who have more life experience.

I find it entertaining.

more like coasting on old successes... half the class is older, but mostly Left LA, so their expectations are st00pid to begin with. the chilrens are mostly just our of school, with everything paid for, who, having realized they have no skill, are conning mom and dad out of yet another program to stave off the inevitable.

me?
i'm old.
i have no children.
i'm not healthy, and i have no insurance, and i'm glad for all of the above.

i can see what's coming down the road with the blinding certainty of a fighter pilot with 10/20 vision on the Bonneville flats... hell, Helen Keller could see it with a blindfold on.

i'll be dead before it goes boom, but remember: i told you so.

>> seconds on fruitcup, anyone?

Hmmm. Time to go to Vegas again soon. Anyone know of any interesting restaurants that have opened in the last 6 months?

re: #43 iceweasel

Is that why you disabled commenting? I would have left a nice one, really. I promise.
Just subscribed to your channel!

Yeah, I disabled everything since I figured I'd only be using them here. I also left out tags and named them in a way that they shouldn't easily be found.

I don't want Paramount or Sci-Fi channel coming after me for 20 second smart ass clips.

re: #50 enoughalready

Hmmm. Time to go to Vegas again soon. Anyone know of any interesting restaurants that have opened in the last 6 months?

In-n-Out

re: #51 ArchangelMichael

Yay DMCA

re: #52 redc1c4

Haha. Yeah. Not quite what I meant but thanks.

re: #33 ArchangelMichael

Never been to the UK and for years I spelled the words armor and flavor as "armour" and "flavour". I have no idea why either.

Because you read a lot of Dickens and Austen at an impressionable age?

re: #53 enoughalready

Yay DMCA

I tried to put up a short clip of Captain Pike asking Sulu if the parking break was on, but Youtube Gestapoed it. I don't know how they recognized it but not the other one during upload.

re: #51 ArchangelMichael

Yeah, I disabled everything since I figured I'd only be using them here. I also left out tags and named them in a way that they shouldn't easily be found.

I don't want Paramount or Sci-Fi channel coming after me for 20 second smart ass clips.

Is it better if we unsubscribe? I will just bookmark it if you'd rather.

re: #57 iceweasel

Is it better if we unsubscribe? I will just bookmark it if you'd rather.

No I don't care if you subbed it. I was trying to be obscure, not invisible hehe.

re: #58 ArchangelMichael

Security by obscurity. The best kind.

re: #52 redc1c4

In-n-Out

We've got one under construction about 10 minutes from mi casa. My wife is very excited.

re: #49 redc1c4

Everything is coming down the road. Always has been, always will be. I ain't worried.

Just recently, a relative of mine was going on about all these devastating floods on the east coast, and how we need to stock up on survival supplies to prepare for these catastrophic events that are happening. These are the Final Nights, dontchya know.

I haven't seen anything on the news about recent east coast floods, and the internet turns up nada.

What I see coming down the road? Same old shit, different label.

re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth

Everything is coming down the road. Always has been, always will be. I ain't worried.

Just recently, a relative of mine was going on about all these devastating floods on the east coast, and how we need to stock up on survival supplies to prepare for these catastrophic events that are happening. These are the Final Nights, dontchya know.

I haven't seen anything on the news about recent east coast floods, and the internet turns up nada.

What I see coming down the road? Same old shit, different label.

I'm still hoping for the whole Zombie Holocaust to hit.

re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth

Los Angeles is Burning

it's mid October and i'm going swimming tomorrow because it's gonna be 90+ in my back yard... only thing left to burn is Malibu, OC and points south...

but they are ready to burn.

re: #60 bosforus

We've got one under construction about 10 minutes from mi casa. My wife is very excited.

lucky you, except that it indicates you're near traffic

/Animal Style Baby!

re: #62 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I'm still hoping for the whole Zombie Holocaust to hit.

What do we want?
- BRAAAIIINS
When do we want them?
- BRAAAIIINS

re: #63 redc1c4

Los Angeles is Burning

it's mid October and i'm going swimming tomorrow because it's gonna be 90+ in my back yard... only thing left to burn is Malibu, OC and points south...

but they are ready to burn.

Guess that means it's time to learn to swim.

re: #65 enoughalready

What do we want?
- BRAAAIIINS
When do we want them?
- BRAAAIIINS

The only Zombie song you'll ever need

re: #62 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

You take point, I'll take rear. We'll have us a good ole fashioned zombie stomp.

5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics (That Will Get You Killed)

re: #67 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The only Zombie song you'll ever need

[Video]

Nah.

re: #64 redc1c4

lucky you, except that it indicates you're near traffic

/Animal Style Baby!

I suspect it'll increase traffic for the first few weeks (since it's going up on the main connecting road between the freeway and the side of town I live on). I'll try to keep my rage to a minimum.

re: #68 Slumbering Behemoth

You take point, I'll take rear. We'll have us a good ole fashioned zombie stomp.

5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics (That Will Get You Killed)

best anti-Zombie tactic is to go on the offense as quickly as possible

Good news (for me). No fever. The cough seems to have gone. Not quite as good: the rest of the family seems to be getting sick.

re: #66 bosforus

Guess that means it's time to learn to swim.

Twistin' by the pool!

re: #71 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

best anti-Zombie tactic is to go on the offense as quickly as possible

And shoot them in the brains.

re: #70 bosforus

I suspect it'll increase traffic for the first few weeks (since it's going up on the main connecting road between the freeway and the side of town I live on). I'll try to keep my rage to a minimum.

go to the company web page, and check out the off menu items...

just so you can be hip when you go... %-)

re: #74 enoughalready

And shoot them in the brains.

Why waste ammo? Plus the shot will attract more. Best way is two man team armed with polearms and catchpoles.

re: #76 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Chainsaw fist and a boom-stick, baby. Groovy.

re: #71 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

best anti-Zombie tactic is to go on the offense as quickly as possible

re: #78 ArchangelMichael

What film is that clip from?

re: #79 Slumbering Behemoth

What film is that clip from?

Episode 11, Season 2 of True Blood.

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

Chainsaw fist and a boom-stick, baby. Groovy.

No, that was demonic possession, completely different set of rules there.

Like I'm working with a bunch of amateurs. Sheesh.

/

All this talk of BWAINZ is mekin me hungwy...

re: #80 ArchangelMichael

Never heard of it. I haven't had cable since about 1995.

The recent series of beach and ocean scenes by Charles is highly symbolic: the primordial purity of the calm ocean (the Pacific!); the white swath of sand devoid of all human presence; the perfect, cobalt-blue sky and in the above image, the foreground vigorously bisected by the diagonal line of the wooden fence arbitrarily dividing the area into two nearly equal volumes.

There is a quiet celebration of purity here, the desire for a return to the unsullied emptiness of origins. Empty, but not undifferentiated: the fence is there as a reminder of the literal importance of lines drawn in the sand: of ethics, values and analytical categories.

As in most of Charles' beach-and-seascapes, human presence is either totally absent or reduced to a fleeting reference: there a life-guard tower (how significant in itself!); here a distant tanker, containing the nearly unattainable promise of renewal and energy - and implicitly, a reference to a sense of exhaustion and fatigue.

Charles's somewhat minimalist images reveal much more than the sparse elements they contain: here, distance speaks of profound emotion; the sparse geometry, of purity and singleness of purpose.

They are touching in their refusal to compromise. There is dignity in their refusal to render themselves more pleasing to those seeking a more reassuring representation of the world.

re: #83 Slumbering Behemoth

Never heard of it. I haven't had cable since about 1995.

Vampire series on HBO loosely based on Southern Vampire Mysteries series of books.

True Blood theme:

re: #86 iceweasel

True Blood theme:

[Video]

Every time i see "God Hates Fangs" I crack up.

re: #84 ryannon

the Pacific, being larger than any other ocean, is the most dangerous...

shit builds up out there that you'll never see anywhere else, and if you see it there, you're dead.

I kind of wish they made a movie or series based on the Necroscope series.

re: #84 ryannon

And here I just thought it was a picture of water.
/

re: #90 Slumbering Behemoth

And here I just thought it was a picture of water.
/

you're underexposed...

re: #84 ryannon

Your argument is invalid.

re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I never finished that series of fiction, I think I left off with book three. Someone did make some comic books out of them back in the '90s.

FF is going south, so i'm gonna go get a beer and a dip in the pool... since it's still warm.

hasta y'all...

L8r!

re: #90 Slumbering Behemoth

And here I just thought it was a picture of water.
/

Water and beaches that LA and Orange County have announced as shutdown because of storm runoff (fecal matter mainly).

The fecal matter reminds me of Stacy McCain and his ilk polluting the center-right.

re: #88 redc1c4

the Pacific, being larger than any other ocean, is the most dangerous...

shit builds up out there that you'll never see anywhere else, and if you see it there, you're dead.

Certainly. But that's not Charles is choosing to represent. Again and again, I might add.

re: #92 bosforus

Your argument is invalid.

In the words of Stan Marsh "Holy shit dude. This is pretty fucked up right here".

I almost cried I was laughing so hard.

re: #95 Athos

Water and beaches that LA and Orange County have announced as shutdown because of storm runoff (fecal matter mainly).

The fecal matter reminds me of Stacy McCain and his ilk polluting the center-right.

And there you go.

re: #92 bosforus

Your argument is invalid.

That's just WRONG!

re: #84 ryannon

Whoa dude. Deep. Too deep for me at the moment.

They are touching in their refusal to compromise. There is dignity in their refusal to render themselves more pleasing to those seeking a more reassuring representation of the world.

My guess? David Hockney, the santa monica/ california/ ocean paintings. Possibly not a conscious influence but a few of these remind me of Hockney.

What the So-Cons are doing to the Fi-Con "RINOs".

re: #97 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #99 Athos

Google search "your argument is invalid" and you'll find some more silliness.

re: #102 bosforus

re: #99 Athos

Google search "your argument is invalid" and you'll find some more silliness.

Google image search...

re: #100 iceweasel

Whoa dude. Deep. Too deep for me at the moment.

My guess? David Hockney, the santa monica/ california/ ocean paintings. Possibly not a conscious influence but a few of these remind me of Hockney.

You can't live in Southern California and not be reminded of Hockney.

He's the default position of SoCal reality.

But Charles is somewhere else. His stuff is not derivative.

re: #102 bosforus

re: #99 Athos

Google search "your argument is invalid" and you'll find some more silliness.

or just check my avatar

re: #101 ArchangelMichael

What the So-Cons are doing to the Fi-Con "RINOs".

Heh. Flashback to the GOP convention logo.

re: #105 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

or just check my avatar

Ha ha, I saw your avatar earlier today and it gave me a chuckle.
Well, I'm off to bed.
G'night y'alls!

re: #90 Slumbering Behemoth

And here I just thought it was a picture of water.
/

And believe it or not, I just woke up.

I can hear it coming: no, I'm not going back to sleep.

/

re: #104 ryannon

You can't live in Southern California and not be reminded of Hockney.

He's the default position of SoCal reality.

But Charles is somewhere else. His stuff is not derivative.

of course, and influences don't = derivative. Influences are part of being a culturally literate person, that's all.

Catch y'all laters.

G'nite Lizards.

re: #104 ryannon

You can't live in Southern California and not be reminded of Hockney.

Todd Hockney?

What about McManus, Fenster, Keaton, and Kint?

re: #109 iceweasel

of course, and influences don't = derivative. Influences are part of being a culturally literate person, that's all.

I hear you.

And on some level,we are all David Hockneys.

Yikes.

Ok, maybe I'd better go back to sleep after all.

re: #111 ArchangelMichael

Todd Hockney?

What about McManus, Fenster, Keaton, and Kint?

What do law firms have to do with all of this?

re: #113 ryannon

What do law firms have to do with all of this?

Nothing unless they have a lawyer named Kobyashi.

re: #111 ArchangelMichael

Todd Hockney?

What about McManus, Fenster, Keaton, and Kint?

All this is getting too verbal for me.

I'm still awake.

And everyone else has fallen asleep.

Karma's a bitch.

hahahahaha!

dead thread!

like the phantom of the opera, I can give full reign to shit I'd never dare to admit when the forum is alive:

I LOVE THE FILMS OF GUY MADDIN!

And may he haunt your uneasy dreams as he does mine.

Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun

Ducks Revenge

Shocking parrot pron from New Zealand!

Good night. Sleep...IF YOU DARE.

I found a version of what I was trying to put up before.

"Is the parking brake on?"

Inspired Bicycles

Anything is possible for a willing mind

re: #123 Bagua

Totally brilliant!

I wonder how many spills he had to take to get to that point of perfection?

Has anyone seen Keyser Soze yet?

Oh shut the FUCK up.

*Whew!*

I am plesed to report another [marginally] successful update of the Not Another New England Sports Blog!

re: #126 TheMatrix31

Oh shut the FUCK up.

Also insulting to ghosts, ghouls and vampires!

re: #128 ryannon

Just another reason I hate this fucking hellhole cesspool.

re: #129 TheMatrix31

Los Angeles, I mean.

re: #128 ryannon

Well, the undead do have some political sway, y'know? I mean look at how many dead people turn out to vote in Chicago...

re: #131 Fenway_Nation

They were just racists.

/

re: #132 TheMatrix31

When will this blatant disregard for the rights of undead-Americans and extraterrestrial-Americans stop!?

/Applies Vick's Vap-o-rub adjacent to eyes for those extra-convincing tears.

re: #130 TheMatrix31

Los Angeles, I mean.

I love to visit (Venice Beach, my old haunts up in the Hollywood Hills) but I'm not sure I'd want to live there unless I had the money to do nothing but hang out a few bars, hit the galleries and museums and enjoy the view from a beautiful house above the Pacific...

re: #133 Fenway_Nation

When will this blatant disregard for the rights of undead-Americans and extraterrestrial-Americans stop!?

"Zombie eat brains, but zombie can not swallow this injustice!"
:)

re: #134 ryannon

This city has to be the most overrated city on the face of this planet.

re: #135 Varek Raith

And let's not overlook the plight of vampires blooksucker-Americans...

/took alot of effort not to type 'lawyers', which I just did...

re: #135 Varek Raith

"Zombie eat brains, but zombie can not swallow this injustice!"
:)

Zombie ate his/her/its own brains and has developed quite an appetite for injustice.

re: #136 TheMatrix31

This city has to be the most overrated city on the face of this planet.

I've never been in one that wasn't.

re: #136 TheMatrix31

What about Lahore or Peshawar?

re: #136 TheMatrix31

This city has to be the most overrated city on the face of this planet.

Cities or even small towns, it's all turning into shit at warp-speed.

re: #140 Fenway_Nation

What about Lahore or Peshawar?

I was in both, back in the day.

Interesting at the time, but I'm sure glad to have gotten out.

re: #141 ryannon

Cities or even small towns, it's all turning into shit at warp-speed.

That reminds me...speaking of turning to shit.

re: #126 TheMatrix31

Oh shut the FUCK up.

That IS offensive.

Southern California immigrant rights group has asked Target stores to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants.

The costume features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with"illegal alien" written across the front.

I'm all for politically incorrect costumes, but 1) if you have a green card, you are not an illegal alien and 2) orange jumpsuits are what death row inmates in CA wear.

So yeah, I think that costume is hella offensive.

re: #142 ryannon

I was in both, back in the day.

Interesting at the time, but I'm sure glad to have gotten out.

Yeah...as we've seen this week, not everybody makes it out of there in one piece lately.

re: #143 Fenway_Nation

That reminds me...speaking of turning to shit.

"In a sign of U.S. continuing support, President Barack Obama signed on Wednesday a $7.5 billion aid bill for Pakistan over the next five years."

Buying time.

re: #144 iceweasel

Whatever, it gets a giant who-cares.

re: #144 iceweasel

Dunno how to break this to you, icy...but orange jumpsuits are what just about every inmate is wearing from capital crimes to check kiting...to *gasp!* illegally entering this country.

re: #140 Fenway_Nation

Meh, those aren't rated. No one thinks Peshawar is the beacon of the American dream and so cool because of Hollywood and cool music stars and awesome celebrities and bullshit sports teams and fake ass people and generally unintelligent sub-communities of people.

re: #148 Fenway_Nation

Dunno how to break this to you, icy...but orange jumpsuits are what just about every inmate is wearing from capital crimes to check kiting...to *gasp!* illegally entering this country.

How about making your own costume?

re: #148 Fenway_Nation

Nah dude, racist. Definitely racist.

/

re: #149 TheMatrix31

Meh, those aren't rated. No one thinks Peshawar is the beacon of the American dream and so cool because of Hollywood and cool music stars and awesome celebrities and bullshit sports teams and fake ass people and generally unintelligent sub-communities of people.

There's no Peshawar Sharia show about Yuppie mullahs?

re: #148 Fenway_Nation

Dunno how to break this to you, icy...but orange jumpsuits are what just about every inmate is wearing from capital crimes to check kiting...to *gasp!* illegally entering this country.

yeah, and IIRC they're specifically used in the CA prison system for death row.

You do see how you're not defending the costume, right? Your info reinforces the idea that the orange jumpsuit connotes "convict" for the entire nation-- not just CA.

re: #152 MandyManners

There might be, but I don't think its replacing The Whores Hills anytime soon.

re: #152 MandyManners

Could be for all we know...

re: #153 iceweasel

yeah, and IIRC they're specifically used in the CA prison system for death row.
/blockquote>

Personally, I've always preferred mauve.

re: #154 TheMatrix31

There might be, but I don't think its replacing The Whores Hills anytime soon.

re: #155 Fenway_Nation

Could be for all we know...

Hyderabad Hills Houris?

re: #157 MandyManners

Hyderabad Hills Houris?

Thank God for India.

re: #157 MandyManners

The Real Housewives of Karachi?

re: #153 iceweasel

So those guys I saw by the side of the freeway in San Diego last year picking up trash were death row inmates?

re: #158 ryannon

Thank God for India.

Speaking of which...you hoped you'd never see it again, did you?

Heh.

re: #160 Fenway_Nation

So those guys I saw by the side of the freeway in San Diego last year picking up trash were death row inmates?

Did you need to reread 153 again?

The costume needs to be banned.

Every word you're writing about this reinforces the idea that an orange jumpsuit = CONVICT, and therefore that the costume is propagating the notion that all immigrants, legal and illegal, are criminals and potential criminals.

re: #162 iceweasel

I need to re-read 153 about as much as you need to start putting [more] words in my mouth, icy.

Blabbity, blah, blah FUCKING blah.

I see more offensive shit on the street every day of my life.

The Brady Bunch.

re: #162 iceweasel

Did you need to reread 153 again?

The costume needs to be banned.

Every word you're writing about this reinforces the idea that an orange jumpsuit = CONVICT, and therefore that the costume is propagating the notion that all immigrants, legal and illegal, are criminals and potential criminals.

No sarcasm here: we're all potential criminals. But before considering that, how about all the kids, black, white or other, who dress up in jail-bird costumes?

Of course they're not targeting a specific nationality, but the whole idea of illegal aliens has become a cultural stereotype due to the reality of the phenomenon.

Being a fair-minded dude, I have to say that I see your point, though. I really do. Imagine for a minute costumes representing 'Zionist Aggressors' or 'White Cracker Mofos'.

Wait a minute...

Ok, ok.

One doesn't justify the other.

re: #163 Fenway_Nation

I need to re-read 153 about as much as you need to start putting [more] words in my mouth, icy.

I haven't put any words in your mouth, nor would I.

But you have completely succeeded in helping to prove the point that the orange jumpsuit means that the costume is offensive and warranted banniing.

re: #166 ryannon

My favorite was the old-time striped jailbird costume partnered up with the football referee...

Ball and Chain Blues

re: #165 MandyManners

The Brady Bunch.

Is that really a pink Cadillac they're grouped around?

Who knew - Mary Kay is behind all this!

Maybe if this immigration group protesting the sale of this fucking costume spent their time actually getting illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship the right way instead of bitching about a fucking Halloween costume, things would be better.

re: #168 Fenway_Nation

My favorite was the old-time striped jailbird costume partnered up with the football referee...

I remember wearing a striped jailbird costume as a kid...

AND USING IVORY SOAP TO WHITE-OUT SHOP WINDOWS!!!

re: #166 ryannon

Being a fair-minded dude, I have to say that I see your point, though. I really do. Imagine for a minute costumes representing 'Zionist Aggressors' or 'White Cracker Mofos'.

Wait, is Target selling those? Did someone defend these hypothetical costumes?

Being a fairminded dudette, I would like to know, so that you and I can object to those too.

re: #167 iceweasel

And if I remember correctly, you're the one who set the righteous indignation-meter into the red by insisting orange jumpsuit = death row.

By the way, last night I heard a report on one of our local radio stations that the parents of Balloon Boy called 911 after they placed their first call for help - to a local television station with a helicopter.

I haven't seen any confirmation of this anywhere, and the station in question isn't a news station by any stretch, so it's at least somewhat questionable as a source. Has anyone else heard this?

Why would you downding my plea for IMMIGRATION GROUPS to help immigrants actually apply for citizenship properly?

re: #171 TheMatrix31

Maybe if this immigration group protesting the sale of this fucking costume spent their time actually getting illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship the right way instead of bitching about a fucking Halloween costume, things would be better.

Maybe if you got a clue you'd realise why it's offensive to market costumes called 'illegal alien' that feature a GREEN CARD.

re: #174 Fenway_Nation

And if I remember correctly, you're the one who set the righteous indignation-meter into the red by insisting orange jumpsuit = death row.

Orange jumpsuit= criminal, convict. You helpfully provided info to back that up.

Ah...so much bizzare shit going on in the world. Some of it timely, some of it a gratuitous opportunity to post stock photos of attractive, scantily clad women on my blog...

But that will have to wait 'til later as I need to catch some Z's...

/One item did make it to the spinoff links, tho'.

re: #177 iceweasel

So if they took out the green card, it'd be ok to sell? That's the only point of contention?

re: #177 iceweasel

Maybe if you got a clue you'd realise why it's offensive to market costumes called 'illegal alien' that feature a GREEN CARD.

So it would be ok without the Green Card?

Ok, ok.

No need to respond to that.

re: #170 SixDegrees

Is that really a pink Cadillac they're grouped around?

Who knew - Mary Kay is behind all this!

Notice how Western they all look?

re: #182 MandyManners

Western? What do you mean by WESTERN?

/

re: #171 TheMatrix31

Maybe if this immigration group protesting the sale of this fucking costume spent their time actually getting illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship the right way instead of bitching about a fucking Halloween costume, things would be better.

Yesss! But, that would shut down the threatre of grievance.

re: #180 TheMatrix31

So if they took out the green card, it'd be ok to sell? That's the only point of contention?

You were bitching that those costumes were just fine.

Do you see nothing wrong with them? Why do you think people are objecting to them?

In your view, what, if anything, is wrong with them? You're the person who brought it up after all.

re: #183 TheMatrix31

Western? What do you mean by WESTERN?

/

Not a burkha in sight.

re: #182 MandyManners

Notice how Western they all look?

Notice how happy they all look?

Bra-clad Somali Women Publicly Whipped By Al-Shabaab Militia.

No bras
No soccer
No cell phone ringtones
No Dancing at weddings.

/There is no cleavage joy in Islam

re: #185 iceweasel

Nothing is wrong with them. They're a freakin' Halloween costume.

I wish they'd make a Halloween costume making fun of MY people. Black pants, black shirt, stinky cologne, hairy backs, slick back hair, and a few gold chains ought to do it.

re: #184 MandyManners

Yesss! But, that would shut down the threatre of grievance.

Maybe you should explain why you think this objection is about 'grievance'. Enlighten us.

re: #187 ryannon

Notice how happy they all look?

Osama was just 15. When did the radical bug bite him?

re: #188 Fenway_Nation

Bra-clad Somali Women Publicly Whipped By Al-Shabaab Militia.

No bras
No soccer
No cell phone ringtones
No Dancing at weddings.

/There is no cleavage joy in Islam

Since Casey struck out.

re: #188 Fenway_Nation

Bra-clad Somali Women Publicly Whipped By Al-Shabaab Militia.

No bras
No soccer
No cell phone ringtones
No Dancing at weddings.

/There is no cleavage joy in Islam

Linky no worky.

re: #190 iceweasel

Maybe you should explain why you think this objection is about 'grievance'. Enlighten us.

No, thanks.

re: #191 MandyManners

Osama was just 15. When did the radical bug bite him?

I'd say it bit us.

re: #191 MandyManners

Osama was just 15. When did the radical bug bite him?

When he ran out of teh happy.

re: #189 TheMatrix31

Nothing is wrong with them. They're a freakin' Halloween costume.

Excellent backpedal. I'll accept that.

re: #194 MandyManners

No, thanks.

Good thinking.

Really?

How about now, MM?

re: #197 iceweasel

No backpedaling. I posted the link bitching about the people bitching about them for no reason. That's why I find nothing wrong with them. I didn't find anything wrong with them to begin with. Again, that's why I was bitching about the "immigration group" bitching about it.

re: #199 TheMatrix31

No backpedaling. I posted the link bitching about the people bitching about them for no reason. That's why I find nothing wrong with them. I didn't find anything wrong with them to begin with. Again, that's why I was bitching about the "immigration group" bitching about it.

This is one bitchin' thread!

re: #197 iceweasel

The Glacies is most kind this day.

All hail the benevolent glacies!

re: #200 ryannon

Heh, yeah it is.

re: #199 TheMatrix31

No backpedaling. I posted the link bitching about the people bitching about them for no reason.

It's been explained why its worth 'bitching' about -- i.e, objecting to on the grounds that it's racist, bigoted, and intended to stoke anti-immigration sentiment by implying that all immigrants-- regardless of legal status-- are illegal, and that all immigrants are criminals or potential criminals.

re: #195 Bagua

I'd say it was a swarm of them that did the stinging.

re: #201 Fenway_Nation

The Glacies is most kind this day.

All hail the benevolent glacies!

Why are you being a jerk lately, fenway? Seriously.

Well then I hope that they remove the green card and re-sell them. All illegal immigrants technically ARE criminals, because they're ILLEGAL immigrants.

re: #205 iceweasel

re: #205 iceweasel

lol wow

re: #195 Bagua

I'd say it bit us.

I'm serious. Wasn't he a student one day and then a jihadi the next?

re: #197 iceweasel

Good thinking.

Why?

re: #206 TheMatrix31

Well then I hope that they remove the green card and re-sell them. All illegal immigrants technically ARE criminals, because they're ILLEGAL immigrants.

And without the orange jumpsuit, which implies they're criminals.
And without the alien mask, which implies they aren't human.

In other words, if they totally fucking destroy that costume and make an entirely new one, then maybe we can all get behind that.

re: #209 MandyManners

And here...we...GO

re: #203 iceweasel

It's been explained why its worth 'bitching' about -- i.e, objecting to on the grounds that it's racist, bigoted, and intended to stoke anti-immigration sentiment by implying that all immigrants-- regardless of legal status-- are illegal, and that all immigrants are criminals or potential criminals.

But Iceweasel, it's the American way!

re: #209 MandyManners

Why?

Because you already admitted you had nothing to say.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

re: #203 iceweasel

It's been explained why its worth 'bitching' about -- i.e, objecting to on the grounds that it's racist, bigoted, and intended to stoke anti-immigration sentiment by implying that all immigrants-- regardless of legal status-- are illegal, and that all immigrants are criminals or potential criminals.

I'm not sure it is possible to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment in SoCal. All the illegal immigrants have done a pretty good job of stoking.

re: #208 MandyManners

I'm serious. Wasn't he a student one day and then a jihadi the next?

Ran out of teh Bud Lite.

re: #205 iceweasel

Oh...that's just me being my usual knuckle-draggey mysogynist jingositic bitter, clingey provincial self, glacies.

re: #210 iceweasel

I just explained to you how illegal immigrants are criminals. Because they're ILLEGAL.

And the fact that they have alien masks doesnt suggest "subhuman". It suggests alien...as in...ILLEGAL ALIEN.

Otherwise it would just be someone in an orange jumpsuit. What the fuck would that be? It could be a prisoner, it could be a construction worker, it could be a fucking pitcher of Tang if the guy was fat enough.

re: #214 rwdflynavy

Exactly.

re: #215 ryannon

Ran out of teh Bud Lite.

Was it bud light lime...

re: #217 TheMatrix31

I just explained to you how illegal immigrants are criminals. Because they're ILLEGAL.

They're selling a costume featuring a green card. Immigrants with green cards aren't illegal.
The costume is offensive and designed to stoke anti-immigration sentiment.

re: #217 TheMatrix31

Who was the band who showed up in their music vdeos in orange jumpsuits?

re: #213 iceweasel

Because you already admitted you had nothing to say.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

No. I turned down the opportunity to say anything. Not the same.

re: #216 Fenway_Nation

Oh...that's just me being my usual knuckle-draggey mysogynist jingositic bitter, clingey provincial self, glacies.

Is it? Who called you that? Not me, pal.

re: #222 MandyManners

No. I turned down the opportunity to say anything. Not the same.

And as I said then: Good thinking.

This thread, and it's manufactured outrage, is entirely too reminiscent of Malkin's site at the moment.

To employ Charles' latest label, it's an attempt to stir up a nontroversy.

Too bad someone didn't bother actually tracking down the news for themselves before slathering spittle all over the place.

re: #221 Fenway_Nation

Who was the band who showed up in their music vdeos in orange jumpsuits?

Who was the band that didn't?

re: #220 iceweasel

While I'm trying to get some Z's, maybe you can draw up a list of what isn't designed to 'stoke anti-immigrant sentiment'?

I'm sure it will be a shorter list...

re: #208 MandyManners

I'm serious. Wasn't he a student one day and then a jihadi the next?

Raised Wahhabi, he was "religious" by the time he was in college, left college to go fight jihad against the Soviets.

re: #225 SixDegrees

No, its not "nontroversy". It really doesn't matter to me. In the end, it's just me pointing out yet another example of the nonsense political incorrectness that is helping to hurt our society.

re: #227 Fenway_Nation

I'm wearing skull & bone boxers. Those may be offensive to pirates. Or the Oakland Raiders.

/Then again, the Oakland Raiders are offensive to themselves, and to the NFL, and to the viewing public anyway.

re: #225 SixDegrees

Too bad someone didn't bother actually tracking down the news for themselves before slathering spittle all over the place.

Your pragmatism is outrageous!

Or, to Be Mad is To Be.

re: #220 iceweasel

I said those statements under the assumption/your suggestion that the card should be removed.

re: #225 SixDegrees

This thread, and it's manufactured outrage, is entirely too reminiscent of Malkin's site at the moment.

To employ Charles' latest label, it's an attempt to stir up a nontroversy.

Too bad someone didn't bother actually tracking down the news for themselves before slathering spittle all over the place.

I object to that objectification of this disability on behalf of myself and all other conversationally disadvantaged individuals!

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Live

re: #229 TheMatrix31

No, its not "nontroversy". It really doesn't matter to me. In the end, it's just me pointing out yet another example of the nonsense political incorrectness that is helping to hurt our society.

My comment wasn't directed in your direction.

re: #235 SixDegrees

Thought so. I figured I'd respond just in case it was, my bad.

Target's Illegal Alien costume stirs outrage

Hey, it is an Alien mask, as in E.T.! This isn't racism, it's Species-ism.

How insulting to extraterrestrials.

re: #235 SixDegrees

My comment wasn't directed in your direction.

Right. It's the people who point out the nontroversies who are really to be blamed. //

re: #224 iceweasel

And as I said then: Good thinking.

Why?

re: #237 Bagua

Target's Illegal Alien costume stirs outrage

Hey, it is an Alien mask, as in E.T.! This isn't racism, it's Species-ism.

How insulting to extraterrestrials.

Dude doesn't look very Hispanic to me.

re: #240 ryannon

Dude doesn't look very Hispanic to me.

But...but...but it objectifies Hispanics by...not looking like them! Yeah, that's it!

re: #228 Bagua

Raised Wahhabi, he was "religious" by the time he was in college, left college to go fight jihad against the Soviets.

His Wiki says he left to fight the Commie invaders in 1979 but, they didn't invade until Christmas of that year.

re: #228 Bagua

Raised Wahhabi, he was "religious" by the time he was in college, left college to go fight jihad against the Soviets.

I'm trying to think of the name of the founder of Wahhabiism. Muhammed something or other.

re: #241 SixDegrees

But...but...but it objectifies Hispanics by...not looking like them! Yeah, that's it!

Maybe the rage is that he got a Green Card and Hispanics didn't?

re: #241 SixDegrees

I didn't even SEE the picture of the costume. I just read the fucking article on the ABC7 site.

Wow. I can't believe I wasted so much time arguing about this. What the hell does this have to do with Hispanic people then? Arent they, by acknowledging this, thereby acknowledging that there is a MAJOR problem with people of their ethnicity coming into the country illegally?

I would just like to apologize to all the Martians out there for offending them by supporting this costume. I'm sorry! Please don't probe me!!!

re: #246 TheMatrix31

I would just like to apologize to all the Martians out there for offending them by supporting this costume. I'm sorry! Please don't probe me!!!

Bro.

re: #246 TheMatrix31

I would just like to apologize to all the Martians out there for offending them by supporting this costume. I'm sorry! Please don't probe me!!!

Watch out, Cartman!

re: #248 MandyManners

Respect...my...authoritai!

re: #245 TheMatrix31

And as I suspected, there's a whole narrative that comes with the costume (which is marketed for adults, not childredn, for what it's worth).

re: #243 MandyManners

I'm trying to think of the name of the founder of Wahhabiism. Muhammed something or other.

Muhammad ibn 'Abd Al-Wahhab ibn Sulaiman ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rashid Al-Tamimi

re: #250 SixDegrees

LOL. Awesome.

Angelica Salas needs to shut up.

Of course, no one is going to object to this

After all, they probably don't know any better.

Not like the parents buying their kids Illegal Alien costumes for Halloween.

re: #250 SixDegrees

And as I suspected, there's a whole narrative that comes with the costume (which is marketed for adults, not childredn, for what it's worth).

How nice. The costume even has Illegal Alien stenciled on the orange jumpsuit...just like orange TShirts and jumpsuits have DOC etc stenciled on them.

And marketing them to adults makes them way less offensive, for sure.
/dripping

Ciao for now.

re: #249 TheMatrix31

Respect...my...authoritai!

Who killed Kenny this time?