oy

Holy crap!! That bull has some nads, huh?

Good stuff!

re: #2 Cannadian Club Akbar

Holy crap!! That bull has some nads, huh?

That's all that you took away from this serious politico-philosophical videotreatise?

re: #4 Sergey Romanov

That's all that you took away from this serious politico-philosophical videotreatise?

No. I also thought it was funny when Triumph said the guy that was meditating wouldn't be occupying a vagina anytime soon.
//I am the 99%!!!!

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog always delivers. Hilarious.

re: #2 Cannadian Club Akbar

Holy crap!! That bull has some nads, huh?

*obligatory brass balls joke*

re: #5 Cannadian Club Akbar

//I am the 99%!!!

Image: 3Ffk5.jpg

re: #5 Cannadian Club Akbar

No. I also thought it was funny when Triumph said the guy that was meditating wouldn't be occupying a vagina anytime soon.
//I am the 99%!!!

Maybe he doesn't want any./

re: #2 Cannadian Club Akbar

Holy crap!! That bull has some nads, huh?

A few months back a rightwing religious group held a prayer service at the WS bull. I thought they were supposed to stone the makers of bronze idols, but WTH.

re: #9 Sergey Romanov

Maybe he doesn't want any./

Like a dog chasing a car....

re: #10 Decatur Deb

Weren't those the ones touching the bull from all sides?

re: #12 Sergey Romanov

Weren't those the ones touching the bull from all sides?

Something like that, blessings, laying on of hands. I thought they were going to sacrifice Erin Burnett.

Semi-OT

So I saw the GTAV trailer and...

As long as we're talking about insulting...

Bankrupt church wants donations for pastor's sick wife ferried in limo

What to do with bull nads.

re: #16 Cannadian Club Akbar

What to do with bull nads.

The first recipe calls for 40 testicles. That takes a lot of balls.

re: #14 laZardo

Semi-OT

So I saw the GTAV trailer and...

I still have hope for the GTA franchise. As a PC gamer it will be years before I get to play it. Maybe if the economy recovers enough I can afford to buy a console.

re: #17 Spocomptonite

The first recipe calls for 40 testicles. That takes a lot of balls.

Find them here!!!
[Link: www.motorcyclemonster.com...]
The Rock Creek Lodge is throwing the annual Bull Testicle Festival where they will feed over 2 1/2 tons of bull balls to more than 15,000 fans!
Proof that people need hobbies.

re: #19 Cannadian Club Akbar

Find them here!!!
[Link: www.motorcyclemonster.com...]
The Rock Creek Lodge is throwing the annual Bull Testicle Festival where they will feed over 2 1/2 tons of bull balls to more than 15,000 fans!
Proof that people need hobbies.

Compensating for something?
///

re: #19 Cannadian Club Akbar

Find them here!!!
[Link: www.motorcyclemonster.com...]
The Rock Creek Lodge is throwing the annual Bull Testicle Festival where they will feed over 2 1/2 tons of bull balls to more than 15,000 fans!
Proof that people need hobbies.

Do they grow on trees or sumphin.//

re: #14 laZardo

Semi-OT

So I saw the GTAV trailer and...

Thanks been wondering if GTAV would be released. Loved Red Dead Redemption. Was more meh on L.A Noir though it was a neat change.

Always a joy to see Triumph!!

Triumph in Chinatown

re: #21 Sergey Romanov

Do they grow on trees or sumphin.//

That would make them a fruit.

re: #25 Cannadian Club Akbar

That would make them a fruit.

Nuts, silly.

2 comments in and this now a ball thread.

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Thanks been wondering if GTAV would be released. Loved Red Dead Redemption. Was more meh on L.A Noir though it was a neat change.

Red Dead never came out on PC. I was a little let down by the last GTA. The money was useless in the game (you couldn't buy properties, etc) and I found the cell phone really annoying. In previous GTA games the sidequests were kinda fun but I hated being nagged constantly by NPC's to go bowling.

re: #19 Cannadian Club Akbar

Find them here!!!
[Link: www.motorcyclemonster.com...]
The Rock Creek Lodge is throwing the annual Bull Testicle Festival where they will feed over 2 1/2 tons of bull balls to more than 15,000 fans!
Proof that people need hobbies.

It's an efficient use of resources. Ranchers need steers (or rather, a lack of bull) and why would something go to waste when it can be eaten by 15,000 at a giant party?

I'm waiting for the day Epic Meal Time does rocky mountain oysters.

re: #24 Gus 802

Why does some moustached guy fist Triumph?/

re: #28 Killgore Trout

Red Dead never came out on PC. I was a little let down by the last GTA. The money was useless in the game (you couldn't buy properties, etc) and I found the cell phone really annoying. In previous GTA games the sidequests were kinda fun but I hated being nagged constantly by NPC's to go bowling.

Yeah, I liked GTA IV but I agree with your points The best game in the series for my money is San Andreas. I think they rushed IV. Stinks they didn't release RDR on the PC. I thought it was a fine game. I am looking forward to finally playing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker this winter because they're finally porting it to the PS3 as part of a MGS HD collection.

re: #30 Sergey Romanov

Why does some moustached guy fist Triumph?/

Veterinary Proctology student exercising his rights.

This is good stuff. Always got a kick out of Triumph and Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse always has some of my favorite SNL stuff.

Watching 'Spy' mode is weird. Tonight's Sign-ons are going over the day's battlefield like medieval peasants at Agincourt.

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Veterinary Proctology student exercising his rights.

Not so sure, given Triumph's tastes as shown in the last segment...

re: #34 Decatur Deb

Watching 'Spy' mode is weird. Tonight's Sign-ons are going over the day's battlefield like medieval peasants at Agincourt.

Careful. It's addictive.

Is Triumph what Rush will become after he is reincarnated?

re: #34 Decatur Deb

Watching 'Spy' mode is weird. Tonight's Sign-ons are going over the day's battlefield like medieval peasants at Agincourt.

LOL!
looting the corpses

That video was nothing short of awesomely funny, but Conan still sucks.

re: #37 Sergey Romanov

Is Triumph what Rush will become after he is reincarnated?

Triumph's poop if he's lucky.

re: #37 Sergey Romanov

Is Triumph what Rush will become after he is reincarnated?

ALL I know is that I don't to be anywhere near that concert...

///

re: #41 wlewisiii

ALL I know is that I don't to be anywhere near that concert...

///

You'll smell it from afar.

Oh shit! I got this a month ago! Do you suppose the offer is still good?

Dear Friend,

My name is Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, I am the senior son of the Libya President Moammar Gadhafi. I am writing you this letter with all hope and courage from Almighty Allah that you will be able to help my family and meddling this hour of need and persecution throughout my father’s regime, I was given a lot of contracts to execute by various ministries, which I successfully completed, and the contract value paid to me accordingly.

We are therefore very surprised that the rebels are protesting against my father position, his political enemies and even those who benefited immensely from my father has all abandoned us. I made a lot of money during my father’s administrator. My father has already forfeited some money to the rebels in order to bring peace in the country, but all seems to be in vain.

About $700 million dollars cash was given to me by my father to keep and I was able to move about $40 million through diplomatic immunity baggage system with presidential plane to an undisclosed location abroad for safe keeping in a finance deposit company. I am now writing you this letter and soliciting your assistance to enable us retrieve this money. No risk involved, but due to our restricted movement and lack of money for my family as our family houses is burnt by the protesters, I would want you to present yourself as the beneficiary of the funds with the password, which I will give to you, and all the necessary documents with which the money was deposited will be sent to you on agreement.

You will be entitled to 30% of the total sum, as your share while 60% will be for us. The remaining 10% is to cover all expenses that may be incurred in the cause of this transaction. This arrangement is known to you and our Lawyer (barrister Saliu Azeeze) only. He will work directly with you. I will stop here for now. If you are interested please send me an email to my personal email address as follows: for detailed explanation and further discussion. Also include your telephone and fax numbers. My telephone and fax numbers shall be revealed to you once you indicate your interest. May Allah bless you as you assist my family?

Yours faithfully,

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi.
For my family.

re: #34 Decatur Deb

Watching 'Spy' mode is weird. Tonight's Sign-ons are going over the day's battlefield like medieval peasants at Agincourt.

I highly recco this guy....he just wrote a book about Agincourt last year....tasty stuff

re: #41 wlewisiii

ALL I know is that I don't to be anywhere near that concert...

///

me neither...I can't wait to miss it

re: #43 wrenchwench

No, I already took it! Na na na na!

re: #43 wrenchwench

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity! Jump in it!

re: #46 Sergey Romanov

No, I already took it! Na na na na!

Damn!

Did you help him with his English too?

re: #31 HappyWarrior

It sounds like GTAV has a more unique story line than the previous editions. I think GTA could take a break from the Scarface/Godfather thing anyways. I'd like to see it more like Clockwork Orange. Everyone plays the game like a sociopath anyways.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

It sounds like GTAV has a more unique story line than the previous editions. I think GTA could take a break from the Scarface/Godfather thing anyways. I'd like to see it more like Clockwork Orange. Everyone plays the game like a sociopath anyways.

Yeah seems like most of the plots have had the same arc. I hope they do a good job on it. The one thing I always enjoy about Rockstar games though is how they incorporate humor and satire into the game.

re: #43 wrenchwench

I like how they always use "barrister".

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

As long as we're talking about insulting...

Bankrupt church wants donations for pastor's sick wife ferried in limo

An insult to a nice tradition. One of my college friends lost her father as a young teenager. The church ladies brought them casseroles for months, since her mother was very much down for the count.

re: #50 HappyWarrior

Yeah seems like most of the plots have had the same arc. I hope they do a good job on it. The one thing I always enjoy about Rockstar games though is how they incorporate humor and satire into the game.

They've lost a little bit of edge to political correctness but I hope they start pushing the boundaries more.

re: #44 albusteve

I highly recco this guy...he just wrote a book about Agincourt last year...tasty stuff

No linky...?

re: #34 Decatur Deb

Watching 'Spy' mode is weird. Tonight's Sign-ons are going over the day's battlefield like medieval peasants at Agincourt.

What happened in the last thread? I stuck around long enough to see Buck pop up.

BTW, G20 is over with? No massive solidarity riots with OWS? Did it flop or are they waiting for Guy Fawkes night?

I'm sure everyone has seen [Link: www.419eater.com...] but if someone didn't, take a look. Craziest stories there in the Letters Archive.

re: #55 SanFranciscoZionist

What happened in the last thread? I stuck around long enough to see Buck pop up.

Imagine arguing about the Kama Sutra with Dustin Hoffman as Rainman.

re: #54 Decatur Deb

No linky...?

had it up and didn't add it...my bad
Cornwell is just excellent
[Link: www.bernardcornwell.net...]

re: #55 SanFranciscoZionist

What happened in the last thread? I stuck around long enough to see Buck pop up.

buck pop? what?

(goes back to sleep...)

re: #58 Decatur Deb

Imagine arguing about the Kama Sutra with Dustin Hoffman as Rainman.

Now you're making me think I should go back.

re: #59 albusteve

had it up and didn't add it...my bad
Cornwell is just excellent
[Link: www.bernardcornwell.net...]

Ah--second page, 'Azincourt'. Thanks, I'll check my wife's Nook account.

“I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother,” Cain told a crowd at a Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity gathering in Washington Friday.

*head desk*

Hi ho!!

Rain in So Cal. Really brutal. 35 minutes (when it's good). 1.75 hours tonight. All I did was try to keep away from the crazies. Phew!

re: #63 goddamnedfrank

*head desk*

Because when trying to position yourself as an outsider, the best strategy is to say I'm tight with these two insiders? Cain's a political idiot.

re: #64 Stanley Sea

Hi ho!!

Rain in So Cal. Really brutal. 35 minutes (when it's good). 1.75 hours tonight. All I did was try to keep away from the crazies. Phew!

Hey--missed you last night. Happy Birthday +1.

re: #63 goddamnedfrank

“I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother,” Cain told a crowd at a Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity gathering

Related:

brianbeutler Brian Beutler
by Gus_802
RT @toddzwillich BREAKING: Koch Bros' mother to file complaint against Herman Cain for "inappropriate" remarks that made her "uncomfortable"

Thanks to OWS in Oakland, the city is more ghetto than ever.

Way to go folks!!

re: #63 goddamnedfrank

Well, in context (joking) it's not as bad.

Fox Nation story:

EPA Chief Calls Republicans 'Jack-Booted Thugs'

With the link at the bottom sourcing their story to Weasel Zippers (which in turn links back to Red State).

Politico reports that it's all BS:
[Link: www.politico.com...]

According to video of the event Thursday and a transcript of the speech provided by the EPA, Jackson spent part of her speech debunking earlier inaccurate media reports that claimed the agency intended to “triple its budget and add 230,000 new regulators to cut greenhouse gas emissions from sources like — be prepared — backyard grills and cows.”

In fact, she noted, the EPA had proposed a “tailoring rule” meant to limit the permitting requirements to the biggest industrial emitters.

“A massive expansion was never a possibility — and the people who cited the 230,000 new EPA jack-booted thugs knew that,” she said. “That number comes from an administration document explaining why you needed a Tailoring Rule.”

Politico prodded Redstate into a sort-of-retraction, while FoxNation's regurgitation of the made-up story remains unchanged.

Though Honestly I don't really mind the cloud of pot smoke that seems to permeate about.

Drudge pimping Alex Jones again (it's bee a while). Some crap about Jesse Ventura leaving the country.

re: #67 publicityStunted

Related:

Beautiful.

re: #64 Stanley Sea

A good day not to have to drive.
So. Cal drivers, do NOT understand wet roads.
And what is up with all the cars that stall out in the rain?
Their rubber bands melt, or what?

re: #68 eclectic infidel

Thanks to OWS in Oakland, the city is more ghetto than ever.

Way to go folks!!

Oakland was pretty ugly. I don't think the movement is going to last much longer. We'll see but I think we might see it fade over the next couple weeks.

re: #72 Killgore Trout

Drudge pimping Alex Jones again (it's bee a while). Some crap about Jesse Ventura leaving the country.

Does he need someone to drive the U-haul? I also offered for Paul Newman and every other douche who threatens but doesn't follow through.

Herman Cain reminds me of the HA HA guy.

re: #72 Killgore Trout

Drudge pimping Alex Jones again (it's bee a while). Some crap about Jesse Ventura leaving the country.

And there was great rejoicing.

re: #75 Killgore Trout

Oakland was pretty ugly. I don't think the movement is going to last much longer. We'll see but I think we might see it fade over the next couple weeks.

It has its nice neighborhoods but my comment really doesn't hold much water. After all, downtown Oakland is never really busy anyway and after 5 pm on any given day, the place becomes even more obnoxious and even somewhat hostile.

So I live here for the affordable rent, but spend quality time in San Francisco for fun and entertainment.

re: #63 goddamnedfrank

“I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother,” Cain told a crowd at a Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity gathering in Washington Friday.

Actually that is doubtful, considering Koch Sr.'s social and political views.

/

re: #62 Decatur Deb

Ah--second page, 'Azincourt'. Thanks, I'll check my wife's Nook account.

you won't regret reading his stuff

re: #80 Sergey Romanov

Actually that is doubtful, considering Koch Sr.'s social and political views.

/

Bircher wasn't he? Pops Koch this is.

re: #82 HappyWarrior

Race mixing is Communism.

re: #82 HappyWarrior

Bircher wasn't he? Pops Koch this is.

A founder, I think.

re: #75 Killgore Trout

Oakland was pretty ugly. I don't think the movement is going to last much longer. We'll see but I think we might see it fade over the next couple weeks.

there is no mission...there is no message
it's a bust, from the beginning....WS doesn't give a rats ass

re: #84 wrenchwench

A founder, I think.

Yeah just wikied him. JBS are and were nuts.

re: #66 Decatur Deb

Hey--missed you last night. Happy Birthday +1.

Thanks mucho! It was a good one. No more food for me though (well I'm off meat for while) I macked like no other!! Lol!!

re: #71 eclectic infidel

Though Honestly I don't really mind the cloud of pot smoke that seems to permeate about.

Drowns out the patchouli soap, does it?

i think i must have saved 100 grand offa the price on my house in the hills overlooking the treetops because of the word 'oakland'

re: #88 SanFranciscoZionist

Drowns out the patchouli soap, does it?

It's a start. Water-cannons loaded with Dial wouldn't hurt either, follwoed up by street-sweepers full of lysol concentrate. OWS et al are a sort of moveable bio-hazard. Expect the free clinics to have lots of custom in the weeks ahead.

Ugly, childish GOP shit:

I Do Not Agree With That Obama As Qaddafi Cartoon I Was Waving Around

An aide said Rehberg was handed the cartoon and by the man he’s talking to in the clip. “It’s not like he carries it around with him,” the aide said.

The staffer said Rehberg’s brandishing of the cartoon was “one of those situations in which you’re not going to be rude.”

You know, that's a situation where it's okay to be rude.

Jackass.

re: #71 eclectic infidel

Though Honestly I don't really mind the cloud of pot smoke that seems to permeate about.

Breitbart tried to make a big deal out of video evidence of pot at OWS Portland. I live in a nice neighborhood and the backyards here in summer of full of pot. A few years ago somebody put a huge bag of weed in my mailbox for no reason.

Pregnant with her fiancé's child, a woman in South Africa was horrified to learn that the father of her baby is her own brother.
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

Think of this the next time you think you're having a bad day.

re: #92 Killgore Trout

Breitbart tried to make a big deal out of video evidence of pot at OWS Portland. I live in a nice neighborhood and the backyards here in summer of full of pot. A few years ago somebody put a huge bag of weed in my mailbox for no reason.

Like zucchini, in more orthodox neighborhoods. Nice.

re: #92 Killgore Trout

Breitbart tried to make a big deal out of video evidence of pot at OWS Portland. I live in a nice neighborhood and the backyards here in summer of full of pot. A few years ago somebody put a huge bag of weed in my mailbox for no reason.

You were a good boy that year!///

re: #91 Obdicut

Ugly, childish GOP shit:

I Do Not Agree With That Obama As Qaddafi Cartoon I Was Waving Around

You know, that's a situation where it's okay to be rude.

Jackass.

cockroaches

On the opposite end of the moral spectrum:

The U.S. Congress held a ceremony on Capitol Hill on November 2, 2011 to award the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian honor, to more than 1,000 Japanese-American veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II.

re: #96 albusteve

cockroaches

No, the bar looks pretty clean. I doubt there are any cockroaches in there.

re: #88 SanFranciscoZionist

Drowns out the patchouli soap, does it?

Incidentally, can anyone explain why hippies and other assorted counter-cultural types adopted a traditional moth repellant as their chosen fragrance note? it's always mystified me - it'd be as if we conservatives all started dousing ourselves in camphor.

re: #92 Killgore Trout

Breitbart tried to make a big deal out of video evidence of pot at OWS Portland. I live in a nice neighborhood and the backyards here in summer of full of pot. A few years ago somebody put a huge bag of weed in my mailbox for no reason.

Note: Leave mailman larger box of Christmas cookies.

re: #97 Obdicut

Thanks for the link. It is about time!

re: #92 Killgore Trout

Breitbart tried to make a big deal out of video evidence of pot at OWS Portland. I live in a nice neighborhood and the backyards here in summer of full of pot. A few years ago somebody put a huge bag of weed in my mailbox for no reason.

Because everything is better with a bag of weed.

re: #99 Guanxi88

There actually was zero patchouli down at OWS when I was there.

And it's probably just because it's an eastern scent.

re: #103 Obdicut

Does it smell bad?

re: #97 Obdicut

On the opposite end of the moral spectrum:

The U.S. Congress held a ceremony on Capitol Hill on November 2, 2011 to award the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian honor, to more than 1,000 Japanese-American veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II.

Awesome. I had to fact check an article about Japanese Americans in WWII this summer at my internship. Senator Inoyve is one of the few WWII vets in office still.

re: #103 Obdicut

There actually was zero patchouli down at OWS when I was there.

And it's probably just because it's an eastern scent.

So's garlic. I guess they chose right, though.

re: #104 Sergey Romanov

Does it smell bad?

High quality Patchouli smells strong but good.

Unfortunately, the normal stuff sold in most shops smells like, as Patton Oswalt put it, "Dirt that's been fucked by a hobo".

re: #104 Sergey Romanov

Does it smell bad?

Which, patchouli or OWS?

Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time Tea with honey. Cinnamon Pop Tarts.
Watching Tosh.0.

Hell yeah.

re: #108 Guanxi88

Which, patchouli or OWS?

Patchouli.

re: #109 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time Tea with honey. Cinnamon Pop Tarts.
Watching Tosh.0.

Hell yeah.

That's five points off your man card.

re: #107 Obdicut

High quality Patchouli smells strong but good.

Unfortunately, the normal stuff sold in most shops smells like, as Patton Oswalt put it, "Dirt that's been fucked by a hobo".

that is so clever...you should steal it

re: #110 Sergey Romanov

Patchouli.

I've never minded the smell of, as Obdi points out, good quality patchouli. Again, though, it's a strongish odor.

But I'm a guy who likes the smell of latakia and perique tobacco, so, to each his own.

re: #112 albusteve

Nah, I'd rather just use it but attribute it to Patton so he can get the credit for it, and maybe more people will check him out.

re: #99 Guanxi88

Incidentally, can anyone explain why hippies and other assorted counter-cultural types adopted a traditional moth repellant as their chosen fragrance note? it's always mystified me - it'd be as if we conservatives all started dousing ourselves in camphor.

It's actually a commonly used perfumers note. (Recent years have seen much complaining in perfume forums about the prevalence of 'fruitchouli' as a modern fragrance trend.) As a one-note hippie fragrance, I think it became popular through Indian body oils, and was favored because--before it became the signature scent of hippies everywhere--it was exotic. Eastern, rich, and not the smell of the White Shoulders your mother sent you off to college with.

There may be a more specific reason.

re: #111 Obdicut

That's five points off your man card.

He needs a snack after his bath.
/

ALSO

OS appears to have moved out of Westlake to the community college. The local anarchists have turned it into a commune.

Also haven't been around there much, for being a CAPITALIST WAEG SLAEV* and everything.

_{*safeway checker, 8.77/hr but it's a start :3}

re: #110 Sergey Romanov

Patchouli.

To me, it just smells like small shops on Telegraph. A little cliched, but nice enough.

re: #111 Obdicut

That's five points off your man card.

I'm so far into the negative, it doesn't bother me.

re: #119 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm so far into the negative, it doesn't bother me.

FULL MAN POINTS RESTORED

re: #99 Guanxi88

Incidentally, can anyone explain why hippies and other assorted counter-cultural types adopted a traditional moth repellant as their chosen fragrance note? it's always mystified me - it'd be as if we conservatives all started dousing ourselves in camphor.

From you? Mr. Snuff? (btw - hi!!)

Counter mainstream will always be appealing. always.

re: #114 Obdicut

Nah, I'd rather just use it but attribute it to Patton so he can get the credit for it, and maybe more people will check him out.

[Video]

hey, use it everyday...twice

My brief and somewhat unpleasant experience w/OWS Oakland, Wed Nov 2nd:

Well...on Wednesday I was very tired. Didn't sleep well on Tuesday and in order to make sure I didn't fall asleep on BART whilst heading home, I had to quaff a couple pints of coffee to be safe.

So I arrive at 12th St City Center, downtown Oakland, literally in a daze, buzzed on caffeine but not really "there" (yes, I'm hinting at the whole there "there" thing but anyway, *ahem*). I walked into the far too bright sunlight and found myself standing in a crowd of somewhat serious and obviously stoned people, with a woman on a bullhorn trying to gather people to march forward. Yes, I literally walked right into the path of a march.

I got out of the way immediately, and attempted to find my bearings. This thought process was immediately interrupted by some guy, literally getting in my face and saying, "yos, whys you here? yous some buisness man come to check on us?"

I wasn't dressed in a suit. I had jeans on, with a button up, dress shirt tucked in with a belt with a fedora atop my head. My bag was strapped across my front and I was holding one of those travel coffee mugs. I think I looked more like a software engineer than a businessman, but whatever.

Suffice to say I didn't respond. I looked at him and his friends who were laughing at me, and I turned around and left. I remember seeing a "Palestinian" flag, a few anti-capitalist signs, and numerous references to Oscar Grant.

That isn't my crowd and really, I want nothing to do with it. While I think they have legitimate grievances, I don't see this movement going anywhere fast.

if you really want to know what scent hippie encampments reek of, it's burning sage

(aside from the scent of reefer which is about ubiquitous in any american gathering with an average age under 40 these days)

fucking sage 'incense'... getting on my nerves...

re: #115 SanFranciscoZionist

It's actually a commonly used perfumers note. (Recent years have seen much complaining in perfume forums about the prevalence of 'fruitchouli' as a modern fragrance trend.) As a one-note hippie fragrance, I think it became popular through Indian body oils, and was favored because--before it became the signature scent of hippies everywhere--it was exotic. Eastern, rich, and not the smell of the White Shoulders your mother sent you off to college with.

There may be a more specific reason.

No memory of patchouli from the 60s. Hippies smelled of wine, sweat and weed--serious people smelled of tear gas.

It is night #7 with no power in my (formerly) leafy Hartford, CT suburban town. I just finished my takeout Chinese food and opened both fortune cookies.

Fortune cookie number one said "God will help you overcome any hardship."

Fortune cookie number two said "Happiness always accompanies with you." (sic)

I wish one of my fortune cookies had said "Northeast utilities is working in your neighborhood."

re: #123 eclectic infidel

Well it is Oakland.

/partial

I grew up in the 60's. This whole OWS thing is like *Deja Vu all over again.

*great album, by the way

re: #121 Stanley Sea

From you? Mr. Snuff? (btw - hi!!)

Counter mainstream will always be appealing. always.

So conservative, I adopt the vices of the 18th century. Have had some Indian snuffs - can't stand them, far too floral and oleaginous. Give me a good, clean Scotch snuff, or maybe even a maccoboy. Even in exotic vices, I'm conservative.

re: #123 eclectic infidel

Fedora? Totally bad-ass.

re: #122 albusteve

hey, use it everyday...twice

That would be kind of weird, Steve. Especially if the subject wasn't patchouli. You want to keep the phrases like "Dirt that's been fucked by a hobo" to the situationally appropriate occasions, or you'll get a reputation.

re: #130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Fedora? Totally bad-ass.

Own three, wear them in regular rotation, except when the humidity's too high. Man has to have a hat.

I hate patchouli. Every now and then someone gives me a one or a five dollar bill infused with it. Pollutes the whole drawer and I have to give it all away.

/on that last bit

re: #128 EdDantes

I grew up in the 60's. This whole OWS thing is like *Deja Vu all over again.

*great album, by the way

so did I...the massive anti war demos had an effect after a while...the OWS is so mickey mouse that I have no interest

NORQUIST: Four keys to conservative victory in 2012

Yeah, good luck with that list, Grover.

re: #126 _RememberTonyC

In Connecticut, utilities are saying that 99% of the customers will be restored by Sunday.

I kind of laughed...

Who wants to be in that 1%?

re: #123 eclectic infidel

My brief and somewhat unpleasant experience w/OWS Oakland, Wed Nov 2nd:

Well...on Wednesday I was very tired. Didn't sleep well on Tuesday and in order to make sure I didn't fall asleep on BART whilst heading home, I had to quaff a couple pints of coffee to be safe.

So I arrive at 12th St City Center, downtown Oakland, literally in a daze, buzzed on caffeine but not really "there" (yes, I'm hinting at the whole there "there" thing but anyway, *ahem*). I walked into the far too bright sunlight and found myself standing in a crowd of somewhat serious and obviously stoned people, with a woman on a bullhorn trying to gather people to march forward. Yes, I literally walked right into the path of a march.

I got out of the way immediately, and attempted to find my bearings. This thought process was immediately interrupted by some guy, literally getting in my face and saying, "yos, whys you here? yous some buisness man come to check on us?"

I wasn't dressed in a suit. I had jeans on, with a button up, dress shirt tucked in with a belt with a fedora atop my head. My bag was strapped across my front and I was holding one of those travel coffee mugs. I think I looked more like a software engineer than a businessman, but whatever.

Suffice to say I didn't respond. I looked at him and his friends who were laughing at me, and I turned around and left. I remember seeing a "Palestinian" flag, a few anti-capitalist signs, and numerous references to Oscar Grant.

That isn't my crowd and really, I want nothing to do with it. While I think they have legitimate grievances, I don't see this movement going anywhere fast.

Feet on the ground. Actual reporting, very appreciated.

re: #123 eclectic infidel

so, are you a software engineer?

re: #133 wrenchwench

I hate patchouli. Every now and then someone gives me a one or a five dollar bill infused with it. Pollutes the whole drawer and I have to give it all away.

/on that last bit

Heh. Yeah, I hear you. I routinely smell that, Nag Champa incense, and SOMETHING ELSE on a regular basis here in the SF Bay Area.

re: #133 wrenchwench

I hate patchouli.

Oy. Patchouli. I don't know who thinks it smells good. It reminds me of people who haven't bathed in a while, so they douse themselves in patchouli to cover the smell.

re: #131 Obdicut

That would be kind of weird, Steve. Especially if the subject wasn't patchouli. You want to keep the phrases like "Dirt that's been fucked by a hobo" to the situationally appropriate occasions, or you'll get a reputation.

I wouldn't know...the whole stupid thing is beneath me, but I've no doubt you have it figured out

re: #133 wrenchwench

I hate patchouli. Every now and then someone gives me a one or a five dollar bill infused with it. Pollutes the whole drawer and I have to give it all away.

/on that last bit

People have strong reactions to the note sometimes. I don't mind it, but can't really wear it in perfume. Except for Clinique's Aromatics Elixir, which is beautiful.

re: #139 eclectic infidel

I routinely spell that, Nag Champa incense, and SOMETHING ELSE on a regular basis here in the SF Bay Area.

Smellchecker is your friend!

//sorry

re: #134 albusteve

so did I...the massive anti war demos had an effect after a while...the OWS is so mickey mouse that I have no interest

The ant-war movement was focused and had an admirable goal: to end that horrible war.

re: #141 albusteve

I wouldn't know...the whole stupid thing is beneath me, but I've no doubt you have it figured out

Um, what is beneath you? Stand up comedy? Patchouli?

You seem a little cranky. Maybe another blanket?

re: #138 engineer dog

so, are you a software engineer?

Ah no, I just have a few friends who are so and that is how they dress for the most part. I'm a jack-of-a-few-trades and am currently a culinary student.

re: #136 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

In Connecticut, utilities are saying that 99% of the customers will be restored by Sunday.

I kind of laughed...

Who wants to be in that 1%?

Nobody believes that bullshit about 99% by midnight on Sunday. My town and at least one other have already cancelled school on Monday.

re: #144 EdDantes

The ant-war movement was focused and had an admirable goal: to end that horrible war.

yup, they took a hit and rocked on anyway...bigger and bigger until the weight alone was something DC could not accept....maybe a once in a lifetime gig

On the subject of exotic counter-culture vices, etc.

Company I work for is German.

So, on my coffee break, I sneak off to have a pinch of snuff. Find a quiet spot, and am about to dust my nostrils when I look over and see a "suit" looking at me.

"Schnupftabak?" he asks.

"Ja," I tell him, and extend my snuffbox.

Old Fritz there takes a huge double pinch, sniffs, and we both sort of laugh - he'd never had Ntsu (South African, super strong) before - when he has to lean against the wall for support when the rush comes on.

Good times.

re: #143 Sergey Romanov

Smellchecker is your friend!

//sorry

Very thoughtful. Thank you. :)

semi-random,

this looks like a terrible (or maybe terrifying) idea.

Image: Einschienerp.jpg

re: #142 SanFranciscoZionist

What ever happened to Lancome's Magie Noir?

Me likey.

The Fawkes disease has infected even the Russian ultranationalists. Here's from Nov. 4 "Russian March":

Image: maskak.jpg
Image: maskar.jpg

re: #145 Obdicut

Um, what is beneath you? Stand up comedy? Patchouli?

You seem a little cranky. Maybe another blanket?

weak

re: #153 Sergey Romanov

V masks are the worst thing ever added to (non-violent) protests ever.

re: #149 Guanxi88

Only in America, and only in Texas, could a German and an American enjoy a South African snuff while surrounded by mystified and quizzical folk speaking Spanish.

re: #153 Sergey Romanov

I'd rather see commedia dell arte masks.

Image: 6833378.jpg

Image: masque-de-venise-commedia-dell-arte-zanni-1469.jpg

Image: masque-de-venise-commedia-dell-arte-trifaccia-1490.jpg

re: #156 Guanxi88

Only in America, and only in Texas, could a German and an American enjoy a South African snuff while surrounded by mystified and quizzical folk speaking Spanish.

Or Argentina. Or in California. Or Mexico. Or a lot of other places, really.

re: #155 windsagio

V masks are the worst thing ever added to (non-violent) protests ever.

seriously?...why?

re: #155 windsagio

Esp. the Fawkes' stache and goatee.

re: #149 Guanxi88

That is one habit I will never get a grasp on.

re: #152 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What ever happened to Lancome's Magie Noir?

Me likey.

It's still on the market, although I can't swear it wasn't reformulated.

GF of mine wears it. Lovely stuff.

re: #158 Obdicut

Or Argentina. Or in California. Or Mexico. Or a lot of other places, really.

Except that it's most unlikely that I'd be working for a German company in Argentina. And they'd never set up in California - hell, you left it yourself. And as for Mexico, well, they only make tires there.

But your pedantic and hair-splitting point is taken. Theoretically, a German and an American could enjoy a South African snuff while in proximity to persons speaking Spanish.

“In Chile, O’Hara is a name of honor. Many Germans in Chile are named O’Hara.”

Image: beat_the_devil.jpg

Underrated movie.

re: #161 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That is one habit I will never get a grasp on.

Gotta try it. It's the best.

re: #163 Guanxi88

Except that it's most unlikely that I'd be working for a German company in Argentina. And they'd never set up in California - hell, you left it yourself. And as for Mexico, well, they only make tires there.

But your pedantic and hair-splitting point is taken. Theoretically, a German and an American could enjoy a South African snuff while in proximity to persons speaking Spanish.

LOL!

re: #153 Sergey Romanov

The Fawkes disease has infected even the Russian ultranationalists. Here's from Nov. 4 "Russian March":

Image: maskak.jpg
Image: maskar.jpg

I've noticed a few MSM articles today explaining the Guy Fawkes thing. I'm all for pointing out violent extremism but I get the impression most folks don't know or care what the mask really means. It's just a cool radical uniform like a Che t-shirt.

re: #167 Killgore Trout

I've noticed a few MSM articles today explaining the Guy Fawkes thing. I'm all for pointing out violent extremism but I get the impression most folks don't know or care what the mask really means. It's just a cool radical uniform like a Che t-shirt.

yup...protest chic

re: #157 Obdicut

I'd rather see commedia dell arte masks.

Image: 6833378.jpg

Image: masque-de-venise-commedia-dell-arte-zanni-1469.jpg

Image: masque-de-venise-commedia-dell-arte-trifaccia-1490.jpg

Giu La Maschera

re: #162 SanFranciscoZionist

Put the right amount on Michael Moore and I'd buy him a drink.

re: #167 Killgore Trout

As I see it, those events are a bit like ancient history. Like wearing a Chingiz-Khan mask, meh.

re: #158 Obdicut

Or Argentina. Or in California. Or Mexico. Or a lot of other places, really.

Addendum:

Never could happen in California. Two reasons:

1) It's tobacco use, which is a crime on a par with conservatism there;

2) It's a factory actually hiring people, and not fleeing confiscatory taxation and punitive regulation.

WH chic...
Mao Christmas tree ornaments...
classic

re: #163 Guanxi88

Except that it's most unlikely that I'd be working for a German company in Argentina.

Why?

And they'd never set up in California - hell, you left it yourself.

I used to hang with a bunch of German and Austrian dudes from the SAP office in Palo Alto. Nice guys. SAP products are fun, because if you get them to crash hard enough, they give debug asserts in German.

re: #168 albusteve

I'm curious why you asked me why, when you clearly already knew :p

Also, they're a little self-important.

re: #175 windsagio

I'm curious why you asked me why, when you clearly already knew :p

Also, they're a little self-important.

I don't scroll up

re: #176 albusteve

even for you steve, that makes absolutely no sense at all :D

re: #174 Obdicut

Why?

I used to hang with a bunch of German and Austrian dudes from the SAP office in Palo Alto. Nice guys. SAP products are fun, because if you get them to crash hard enough, they give debug asserts in German.

Why not Argentina? Because I'm not there. An excellent reason

As for the Germans in Cali: Who said they weren't nice guys? But, as you know, there are far better opportunities for industry outside of the California Republic.

And, again, it's tobacco, which is rather frowned upon there, so defectors report,

re: #177 windsagio

even for you steve, that makes absolutely no sense at all :D

so I'm in your club?

re: #171 Sergey Romanov

As I see it, those events are a bit like ancient history. Like wearing a Chingiz-Khan mask, meh.

Like wearing a zoot suit at woodstock?

re: #171 Sergey Romanov

As I see it, those events are a bit like ancient history. Like wearing a Chingiz-Khan mask, meh.

Sure. I mean, no one in living memory was almost blown up by Guy Fawkes. It references the movie, not the historical figure.

Which is, to my mind, not much better. I really hated that movie.

re: #172 Guanxi88

Addendum:

Never could happen in California. Two reasons:

1) It's tobacco use, which is a crime on a par with conservatism there;

2) It's a factory actually hiring people, and not fleeing confiscatory taxation and punitive regulation.

Oh, mindless California-bashing. Never mind.

It's cool that you like Texas. I'm glad you're happy there.

If you do visit the real California, rather than the bizzarro parody version where patchouli-stinking snipers shoot cigarettes out of the mouths of hapless long-haul truckers, check out The Oaks Smokes, a really cool tobacco place that a friend of mine used to work at. They have everything, and what they don't have, they'll get for you.

re: #181 SanFranciscoZionist

That too.

> I really hated that movie.

Why?

re: #180 Guanxi88

Like wearing a zoot suit at woodstock?

thankfully, Santana passed on that count

re: #179 albusteve

na, see I actually have a point.

You just try to get people mad (and look like you're too tough and cynical to be fooled by anything!)

---

re: #161 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That is one habit I will never get a grasp on.

It's not hard. Takes a few days' practice, and before you know it, you're hitting ebay looking for a silver snuffbox. Intense nicotine hit, very few (perhaps no) real risk of carcinoma, and very few people "bumming" from you when they run out. Managed to get three smokers at the plant to start snuffing, and hope to switch a few more over before it's all over.

I can't quite catch the drift of this Germany/California thing.

re: #185 windsagio

na, see I actually have a point.

You just try to get people mad (and look like you're too tough and cynical to be fooled by anything!)

what is your point?

re: #188 windsagio

I can't quite catch the drift of this Germany/California thing.

Nobody lives in California anymore because it's too crowded.

re: #190 Obdicut

Nobody lives in California anymore because it's too crowded.

And every other place is ruined because all the Californians moved there.

re: #182 Obdicut

Oh, mindless California-bashing. Never mind.

It's cool that you like Texas. I'm glad you're happy there.

If you do visit the real California, rather than the bizzarro parody version where patchouli-stinking snipers shoot cigarettes out of the mouths of hapless long-haul truckers, check out The Oaks Smokes, a really cool tobacco place that a friend of mine used to work at. They have everything, and what they don't have, they'll get for you.

There are no snipers in Cali. You folk are disarmed.

And yes, I was needlessly bashing your beloved former home state. Primarily to tweak the nose of one from whom I haven't heard in a while, and to have a bit of fun at the expense of the sunshine state.

re: #190 Obdicut

Nobody lives in California anymore because it's too crowded.

Are you channeling Yogi Berra?

re: #185 windsagio

You just try to get people mad (and look like you're too tough and cynical to be fooled by anything!)

Yet here we are with you mad and Steve is still cynical. Who do you think is "winning"?

re: #186 engineer dog

and which bastion of low state taxes, regulatory free industrial areas, and proud and assertive tobacco indulgence do you live in?

Why, Texas, of course. Where it's legal so long as you hide the bodies real good.

re: #191 wrenchwench

And every other place is ruined because all the Californians moved there.

like a disease

re: #192 Guanxi88

There are no snipers in Cali. You folk are disarmed.

And yes, I was needlessly bashing your beloved former home state. Primarily to tweak the nose of one from whom I haven't heard in a while, and to have a bit of fun at the expense of the sunshine state.

Heh. Just check my safe sometime.

re: #188 windsagio

I can't quite catch the drift of this Germany/California thing.

Maybe this will help.

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Yet here we are with you mad and Steve is still cynical. Who do you think is "winning"?

all that without even a bow

re: #192 Guanxi88

It kind of falls flat, since your version of California's reality departs so wildly from what it is, the humor falls off the tracks along the way.

Maybe you could spell it with a K or something. Kalifornia. That'd be new and rad.

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Communism!

Na seriously, it all works out in the long run, except for the occasional outbreak of tribalism, people are a lot less likely to fall for the schtick than they used to be.

'lol U mad' isn't a very good argument tho' :(

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Yet here we are with you mad and Steve is still cynical. Who do you think is "winning"?

Charlie Sheen

re: #183 Sergey Romanov

That too.

> I really hated that movie.

Why?

Because it was stupid!!

OK, in more detail:

1. Futuristic dystopias have to be really good to make me like them. (Now the movie of Out of Blue Six, that would be awesome.) This is one I've seen a lot of times, and it's not all that original or well-done.

2. The plot seemed both dull and wildly improbable.

3. The fact that it was V holding and torturing Evie and not the 'actual' bad guys just broke it for me. Huh say what, sure that makes sense.

Anybody know what is going on in Stockholm?

solhog Sol Hog
!!!!! RT @Afrahnasser: one BIG explosion in #Stockholm at #Hagsatra now ! :O #Sweden

re: #193 _RememberTonyC

Are you channeling Yogi Berra?

"the future ain't what it used to be"

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Yet here we are with you mad and Steve is still cynical. Who do you think is "winning"?

Buck.

re: #202 _RememberTonyC

Charlie Sheen

Tiger blood!

re: #191 wrenchwench

Man, the memories there. Cali hate was like our bread and butter up in Seattle in the old days :D

re: #201 windsagio

Image: stalin-u-mad-bro.jpg

re: #188 windsagio

I can't quite catch the drift of this Germany/California thing.

look up!...ZOOM!

re: #200 Obdicut

It kind of falls flat, since your version of California's reality departs so wildly from what it is, the humor falls off the tracks along the way.

Maybe you could spell it with a K or something. Kalifornia. That'd be new and rad.

You should visit, perhaps, the theocratic backwater of exploited industrial labor and benighted racism that is the Texas of your own fevered imagination. You'd rather like it, I daresay, for it's a great place.

Though, if you're touchy and literal, folk will look at you askance.

re: #192 Guanxi88

There are no snipers in Cali. You folk are disarmed.

Oh dear. How to put it? "There are some parts of Oakland I would advise the Reich not to attempt to invade..."

re: #195 Guanxi88

Why, Texas, of course. Where it's legal so long as you hide the bodies real good.

please forgive my ill temper

it's inexcusable, especially since i don't have to live someplace that's not california

re: #211 Guanxi88

When have I ever said a negative thing about Texas?

Are you confusing me with someone else?

re: #214 Obdicut

When have I ever said a negative thing about Texas?

Are you confusing me with someone else?

Now, are you going to pretend, after all the exchanges we've had, that you hold no brief against Texas? If so, sir, well......

re: #208 windsagio

Man, the memories there. Cali hate was like our bread and butter up in Seattle in the old days :D

I know. I moved from California to Oregon to Washington to New Mexico. But I was born in Wisconsin so I'm immune.

re: #209 Obdicut

I think you defeated that conversation :p

re: #215 Guanxi88

Now, are you going to pretend, after all the exchanges we've had, that you hold no brief against Texas? If so, sir, well...

No, there's no pretense. I have no beef with Texas. People who have beefs with states are idiots. I don't like what the Texas Board of Education does, but that's not Texas. That's a part of Texas. Texas is just another place, filled with humans, with it's up sides and down sides to it.

Why do you think I have a 'brief' against Texas?

re: #214 Obdicut

When have I ever said a negative thing about Texas?

He appears to be nursing a grudge over this weird-ass thread. No idea why, as it was several months ago.

re: #205 albusteve

"the future ain't what it used to be"

Pizza guy to Yogi: "do you want me to cut the pie into 8 slices or 6?"

Yogi to pizza guy: "6 slices, because I'm not hungry enough to eat 8."

Incidentally, the state with the highest proportion of smokers is West Virginia, and I swear to God, I don't know why anyone in that state is still alive, except that they're tough as hell, and possibly mutated.

re: #216 wrenchwench

I know. I moved from California to Oregon to Washington to New Mexico. But I was born in Wisconsin so I'm immune.

The only place I've lived in that I hold actual antipathy for is Boston, but that's more because I was going through a really shitty time while I was there. I wasn't really sorry when my wife didn't get into Harvard medical-- and it wasn't an MdPhD program, so luckily it didn't upset her too much either, since she got into the program here.

re: #218 Obdicut

No, there's no pretense. I have no beef with Texas. People who have beefs with states are idiots. I don't like what the Texas Board of Education does, but that's not Texas. That's a part of Texas. Texas is just another place, filled with humans, with it's up sides and down sides to it.

Why do you think I have a 'brief' against Texas?

Ahh, back to hair-splitting. No brief against texas, just elements of the government, elected by the people and/or appointed by those elected by the people thereof.

So, what you mean to say, then, is that in terms of the geographical area described on survey and USGS maps, you have no problem with Texas, but you disapprove of what goes on there, in accordance with the wishes of its population?

High praise, indeed. Very tolerant of you.

re: #221 SanFranciscoZionist

That's the most likely explanation given polonium in tobacco.

re: #182 Obdicut

mindless California-bashing

having spent most of my life living in either nyc or california, i've heard a lot of crazy things about each over the years

californians on nyc: "how can you live in a place where you have to carry a handgun if you go out after dark?"

new yorkers on california: "when you're living in california, don't you miss trees?"

re: #220 _RememberTonyC

Pizza guy to Yogi: "do you want me to cut the pie into 8 slices or 6?"

Yogi to pizza guy: "6 slices, because I'm not hungry enough to eat 8."

Here's another: Always go to people's funerals or else they won't go to yours. My all time favorite is his reaction to being told that Dublin had a Jewish lord mayor. "Only in America."

re: #225 engineer dog

having spent most of my life living in either nyc or california, i've heard a lot of crazy things about each over the years

californians on nyc: "how can you live in a place where you have to carry a handgun if you go out after dark?"

new yorkers on california: "when you're living in california, don't you miss trees?"

When you live in California during winter storms, you just hope the trees miss you.

re: #223 Guanxi88

Ahh, back to hair-splitting. No brief against texas, just elements of the government, elected by the people and/or appointed by those elected by the people thereof.

Er, yeah. Elements. Kind of like how if someone doesn't particularly like Obama, they're not anti-American.

So, what you mean to say, then, is that in terms of the geographical area described on survey and USGS maps, you have no problem with Texas, but you disapprove of what goes on there, in accordance with the wishes of its population?

No, just the educational standards getting fucked up by theology. Other than that, i don't really know much about Texas politics to be able to comment one way or the other.

What is the deal, man? Do you honestly feel that someone who thinks that Texas is screwing up their educational standards has a brief against Texas? What about Texans who feel that way?

re: #221 SanFranciscoZionist

To be nasty about, they are like the Tribals in Port Lookout in Fallout 3.

re: #219 publicityStunted

He appears to be nursing a grudge over this weird-ass thread. No idea why, as it was several months ago.

You have a great memory or a scary set of files....

Or both!

re: #219 publicityStunted

He appears to be nursing a grudge over this weird-ass thread. No idea why, as it was several months ago.

No, I'd rather forgotten that one.

I was merely tweaking Obdi, a long-time and honorable sparring partner here, following a long absence, and boosting the state that has seen job growth keep pace with an explosion of outsiders (from other, presumably better, places) moving in.

let each man be happy where he is.

re: #223 Guanxi88

Ahh, back to hair-splitting. No brief against texas, just elements of the government, elected by the people and/or appointed by those elected by the people thereof.

So, what you mean to say, then, is that in terms of the geographical area described on survey and USGS maps, you have no problem with Texas, but you disapprove of what goes on there, in accordance with the wishes of its population?

High praise, indeed. Very tolerant of you.

isn't this blog full of people criticizing government of every kind everywhere

isn't that like, all of the blogosphere in a nutshell, criticizing foreign governments, domestic governments...

re: #223 Guanxi88

Wait. Are you saying that the whole Texas should be held accountable for BoE? But that means you are condemning Texas (unless you approve of Texas BoE which would make you... well, I don't want to derail this derailment just yet ;).

Seems like we're more charitable to Texas.

re: #226 HappyWarrior

Here's another: Always go to people's funerals or else they won't go to yours. My all time favorite is his reaction to being told that Dublin had a Jewish lord mayor. "Only in America."

Or Argentina. Or California. Or Mexico. or anyplace, really.

re: #225 engineer dog

having spent most of my life living in either nyc or california, i've heard a lot of crazy things about each over the years

californians on nyc: "how can you live in a place where you have to carry a handgun if you go out after dark?"

new yorkers on california: "when you're living in california, don't you miss trees?"

One of the things I miss about California is palm trees.

re: #234 Guanxi88

Or Argentina. Or California. Or Mexico. or anyplace, really.

Yes, that was the point of that quote, given that Dublin is not in America.

re: #225 engineer dog

new yorkers on california: "when you're living in california, don't you miss trees?"

New Yorkers think they have more trees than Cali?

Image: california-giant-sequoia-trees.jpg

re: #236 Obdicut

Yes, that was the point of that quote, given that Dublin is not in America.

Well, except this Dublin:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Which has a kick-ass St. Patrick's Day parade.

Buck is defending Cain on a dead thread.

Buck wins!

re: #237 windsagio

My favorite part of California is very short on trees:

Image: rawlings-walter-coastal-hills-of-marin-county-at-dusk-california-united-states-of-america-north-america.jpg

But they're there.

re: #228 Obdicut

Except, of course, educational standards aren't fucked up here in Texas. Latino and Black students in the publics here supass those in Illinois, among other places.

And the bug-bear of theocracy in Texas is laughable on its face. Comparable to the fears of Obama's secret muslim-ness.

As for the distinction between the state and its government and its people, well, that's splitting the hair three ways, is it not? Or do you suppose the state is anything other than the expression of the collective will of its people?

Secede already.

re: #240 Obdicut

The trick is you have the option. I'm convinced most urban east coasters don't know what a real tree is.

re: #236 Obdicut

Yes, that was the point of that quote, given that Dublin is not in America.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
Really interesting guy by the way. Worked hard to help Jewish refugees during WWII.

re: #236 Obdicut

Yes, that was the point of that quote, given that Dublin is not in America.

See, that's what we call "Humor", Obdi. As a literalist (except when it does not serve whatever point or collection of points you wish to defend at the moment), it escapes you.

re: #241 Guanxi88

I'm assuming you got that from the Institute of pulling it out of your ass?

re: #242 Amory Blaine

Secede already.

You'd be lost without us.

re: #242 Amory Blaine

Secede already.

Or at least spell "surpass" correctly.

re: #246 ProLifeLiberal

I'm assuming you got that from the Institute of pulling it out of your ass?

U.S. Department of Education changed its name recently? They need to update their letterhead, then.

re: #227 SanFranciscoZionist

re: #235 wrenchwench

re: #237 windsagio

New Yorkers think they have more trees than Cali?

Image: california-giant-sequoia-trees.jpg

yeah - on closer questioning of people in nyc who said things like that, i found out that california is a giant venice beach consisting of sandy beaches with woodies filled with surfboards, highways, blond surfer dudes and bikini babes, highways, movie openings at grauman's chinese, laws compelling everybody to wear sunglasses 24 hrs a day, and highways - that all go to the beach

re: #239 wrenchwench

Buck is defending Cain on a dead thread.

Buck wins!

Oh dear. Poor Buck.

re: #249 Guanxi88

Links or it didn't happen?