Hilarious Video: Kids React to a Mysterious Machine Called a “Typewriter”

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The Fine Brothers come through with another hilarious video, showing kids reacting to that mysterious ancient forerunner to the computer, the typewriter. Interestingly, they all seem to know what it is — but figuring out how it works is another story.

UPDATE at 8/4/14 2:29:36 pm by Charles Johnson

Yes, I’m feeling old after watching this. Here’s my beloved Smith Corona Electra 120 from high school in Hawaii, when Typing was a required course.

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1 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 4, 2014 1:44:13pm

I do not miss typewriting.

2 Targetpractice  Aug 4, 2014 1:45:07pm

Hell, that’s even older than the ones I remember messing with as a kid.

3 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 1:45:14pm

Germans do.

4 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 1:48:28pm

One of those kids really annoyed the crap out of me by talking like a toddler.

My grandkids don’t talk that way unless they are, you know, like 3 years old.

5 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 1:48:53pm

I felt ancient when I saw exhibit “IPod” in Musée des Arts et Métiers.

6 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 1:51:10pm

Hey Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light), it seems every time I see your name on the screen I’m all like “See the city, see the zoo, traffic light won’t let me through.” :D

7 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 1:53:29pm

My favorite Kids React has to be the Nirvana episode.

Youtube Video

8 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 1:53:43pm

My mom (who is 90) still has an IBM Selectric that she got in the ‘70’s, with the changeable font balls. You could had to drop in a new ball if you wanted to type in italic.

It was all monospaced and you had a choice of “Courier” and “elite”

No “Times New Roman” and no way the TANG “memos” could have been typed on that model.

9 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 1:54:02pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

Hey Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light), it seems every time I see your name on the screen I’m all like “See the city, see the zoo, traffic light won’t let me through.” :D

It’s from a Far Side cartoon

10 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 1:55:14pm

re: #8 Pie-onist Overlord

My mom (who is 90) still has an IBM Selectric that she got in the ‘70’s, with the changeable font balls. You could had to drop in a new ball if you wanted to type in italic.

It was all monospaced and you had a choice of “Courier” and “elite”

No “Times New Roman” and no way the TANG “memos” could have been typed on that model.

Did this blog not gain a great deal of early notoriety for distinguishing between a real IBM selectric and a faked copy?

11 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 1:56:26pm

re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Did this blog not gain a great deal of early notoriety for distinguishing between a real IBM selectric and a faked copy?

Who knows? That was in the era of our forefathers.

12 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 1:57:29pm

re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Did this blog not gain a great deal of early notoriety for distinguishing between a real IBM selectric and a faked copy?

Yep.

13 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 1:57:46pm

re: #11 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Who knows? That was in the time of our forefathers.

No, it was around 2004, when the memos purporting to show that GW Bush never appeared for his Air National Guard duty in Alabama…got Dan Rather fired from CBS News, it did…

That was about the time I started following this blog.

14 Stanley Sea  Aug 4, 2014 1:59:03pm

re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s from a Far Side cartoon

Awesome.

15 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 1:59:12pm

re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

No, it was around 2004, when the memos purporting to show that GW Bush never appeared for his Air National Guard duty in Alabama…got Dan Rather fired from CBS News, it did…

That was about the time I started following this blog.

You don’t say!

16 Romantic Heretic  Aug 4, 2014 2:01:23pm

re: #1 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I do not miss typewriting.

Moi aussi. I have a minor motor control problem that makes typing rather difficult. When I used a typewriter about every third word had to be whited out.

Now I can correct as fast as I make mistakes,

17 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 4, 2014 2:01:24pm

re: #15 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

You don’t say!

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18 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 2:03:31pm

re: #15 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

You don’t say!

One of the things that put this blog on the map

19 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:03:47pm
20 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:04:37pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

One of the things that put this blog on the map

Really?

21 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:05:01pm

re: #19 jaunte

He looks 80.

22 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:06:11pm

re: #21 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Exploiting every breaking crisis does put the years on.

23 Teukka  Aug 4, 2014 2:06:35pm

*Misses his old East German portable all-mechanical typewriter*

24 darthstar  Aug 4, 2014 2:06:50pm

re: #19 jaunte

Israel was safer when the tunnels were open and the airport was closed.

25 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 2:07:20pm

re: #20 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Really?

Would I be Putin you on?

littlegreenfootballs.com

26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:08:14pm

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Would I be Putin you on?

littlegreenfootballs.com

I think that post has wrong kerning. You sure it’s not fake?

27 andres  Aug 4, 2014 2:09:13pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

My favorite Kids React has to be the Nirvana episode.

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Video

This was one of my favorites:

Youtube Video

28 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 2:09:23pm

Here’s my beloved Smith Corona Electra 120. No longer works, unfortunately - the mechanism is frozen up.

29 b_sharp  Aug 4, 2014 2:11:51pm

re: #4 Pie-onist Overlord

One of those kids really annoyed the crap out of me by talking like a toddler.

My grandkids don’t talk that way unless they are, you know, like 3 years old.

Hey, my 2 yr old grandkid doesn’t talk at all yet.

30 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:12:48pm

Is there a Kids React to Marilyn Manson episode?

31 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:13:21pm

re: #21 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

He looks 80.

You are what you act. I wonder what good he thinks he’s going to do by being there. Nothing ever comes good of Sean Hannity being anywhere.

32 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 4, 2014 2:13:32pm

I learned to type in Dvorak a couple years ago. Funny that QWERTY was introduced to slow typists down. I think I type faster with Dvorak, but it’s a hassle being the only person around here who does so.

33 thedopefishlives  Aug 4, 2014 2:14:16pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Here’s my beloved Smith Corona Electra 120. No longer works, unfortunately - the mechanism is frozen up.

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Now if only Dan Rather had had one of these, his career might not have been wrecked.

Evening Lizardim.

34 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:15:13pm

I took typing in junior high summer school, but managed to make it through to the computer keyboard era with nothing but longhand and hand lettering.

36 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:16:15pm

Michael Brown in the Christian Post:

If Americans realized that less than 2 percent of the population was gay rather 10 percent (let alone 25 percent), they would have a very different view of “gay rights.” … You don’t overhaul the legal system to the point of attacking freedoms of speech, conscience, and religion based on the sexual and romantic desires of a tiny percentage of the population, nor do you engage in a massive social experiment, like redefining marriage, because of a statistically tiny group of people.

37 Bear  Aug 4, 2014 2:16:56pm

With respect to typewriters, the ancient manual ones will work without power. Will the electric ones or the computer do so? You say batteries but can they be charged if there is no power for days.
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38 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 2:16:59pm

re: #34 jaunte

I took typing in junior high summer school, but managed to make it through to the computer keyboard era with nothing but longhand and hand lettering.

I had to take both typing and what they called Business Data Processing (i.e., learning how to use a word processor) in high school.

I wouldn’t go back to a regular typewriter if you paid me. I like being able to correct my mistakes on the fly.

39 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:16:59pm

re: #35 Lidane

Ted Nugent: ‘My Lifestyle…Is More In The Indian Tradition Than Many Of The Indians Themselves’

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Ted, Indian Tradition isn’t going around being a right wing shill and calling people who disagree with you subhuman vermin. Deal with it asshole, being a bigoted asshole is why people with any decency don’t want anything to do with your ass.

40 EPR-radar  Aug 4, 2014 2:17:12pm

re: #33 thedopefishlives

Now if only Dan Rather had had one of these, his career might not have been wrecked.

Evening Lizardim.

Dan Rather failed because he started believing what he wanted to believe regarding Bush’s TANG service or lack thereof. “Fake but accurate” was likely true in that case, but that is no excuse for passing off frauds as authentic documents.

41 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:17:13pm
massive social experiment

Wotta maroon.

42 Ace-o-aces  Aug 4, 2014 2:17:20pm

Hey, typewriters were outdated by the time I was in high school. On the other hand, I was utterly unable to explain to my daughter what “film” is.

43 EPR-radar  Aug 4, 2014 2:18:36pm

re: #35 Lidane

Native american myths are just full of stories of brave warriors that lived in their own shit rather than go off to war.

On second thought, I don’t think so.

44 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:18:43pm

re: #36 jaunte

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Conservatives just need to get over the fact that gay people can and should have the same rights as them when ti comes to love and marriage.

45 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 2:19:58pm

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Seems like the ‘massive social experiment’ fear should be reduced if it’s just 2% of the population.

46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:20:01pm

re: #27 andres

Awwww, Ducktales, yoo-hoo.

47 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:21:38pm

re: #45 jaunte

Seems like the ‘massive social experiment’ fear should be reduced if it’s just 2% of the population.

Yeah you don’t say.

48 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:22:40pm

re: #46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Awwww, Ducktales, yoo-hoo.

Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg.

49 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:24:30pm

I love these though having a 13 year old brother who is technically the same generation but because we’re fourteen years apart, it may as well be a generation gap since his responses to my old TV viewing shows like Ren and Stimpy, Are You Afraid of the Dark, etc are fun to watch. He likes to rip on the 90’s and call it lame.

50 ausador  Aug 4, 2014 2:27:03pm

re: #36 jaunte

Who the fuck ever thought that gays were 10-25% of the population to begin with? Every single piece of demographic data ever collected going back to the very first surveys (with attempted % correction due to not many being willing to admit it then) has suggested the number is between 3 and 5 percent of the population at best.

51 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:27:58pm

They used to show Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, etc. in Russia in early 1990s. Good times.

52 thedopefishlives  Aug 4, 2014 2:28:32pm

re: #40 EPR-radar

Dan Rather failed because he started believing what he wanted to believe regarding Bush’s TANG service or lack thereof. “Fake but accurate” was likely true in that case, but that is no excuse for passing off frauds as authentic documents.

I was somewhat joking, but yeah. Undoubtedly he would’ve torpedoed his own career sooner or later (my money is on sooner).

53 Teukka  Aug 4, 2014 2:29:11pm

re: #50 ausador

Who the fuck ever thought that gays were 10-25% of the population to begin with? Every single piece of demographic data ever collected going back to the very first surveys (with attempted % correction due to not many being willing to admit it then) has suggested the number is between 3 and 5 percent of the population at best.

Same thought as anything else from the right as of late, “now what tall tales can I come up with which scare out demographic enough to spur them into action?”

54 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:29:12pm

re: #50 ausador

Who the fuck ever thought that gays were 10-25% of the population to begin with? Every single piece of demographic data ever collected going back to the very first surveys (with attempted % correction due to not many being willing to admit it then) has suggested the number is between 3 and 5 percent of the population.

I always heard 10 at the absolute most. Never anywhere near as high as 25%. Honestly, I want to know what these people think having a gay couple have the same rights they do with their spouses hurts society and why we need to ban it. If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t attend a gay wedding or perhaps realize that their love isn’t effecting you in anyway.

55 HappyWarrior  Aug 4, 2014 2:29:51pm

re: #51 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

They used to show Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, etc. in Russia in early 1990s. Good times.

Good times I bet. I have fond memories of early 90’s Nickeldeon that I watched with my middle brother.

56 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 2:33:22pm

re: #36 jaunte

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From the last paragraph of the article:

To these men, the all-powerful gay rights movement has “duped” us all, tricking us into supporting equality while craftily scheming toward some vague leftist takeover. It’s a highly contradictory form of the persecution complex, wherein gay people’s scarcity somehow becomes an indicator of their strength. […]

This is very similar to antisemitic canards & conspiracy theories. Anti-Muslim ones too. SSDD—it seems to be a standard formula for bigots.

57 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:34:22pm

re: #55 HappyWarrior

I also used to watch the Russian version of Fox Kids already in my young adult years. Eek the Cat, Life with Louie, The Tick… All the stuff had a “double bottom”, iykwim.

58 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 2:34:55pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

Honestly, I want to know what these people think having a gay couple have the same rights they do with their spouses hurts society and why we need to ban it.

It’s no accident that the same people who are so virulently against gay marriage are also against sex ed, birth control, women outside the home, etc. They’re convinced that sex only exists to make babies, and the only reason anyone should ever want to have sex is to make babies. Any kind of sex that doesn’t immediately result in babies is evil and twisted and wrong and must be stamped out everywhere.

If you give a gay couple the same rights as a straight couple, then you’re legitimizing sex for something other than babies. That’s bad in their opinion.

59 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 2:35:10pm

re: #56 CuriousLurker

From the last paragraph of the article:

This is very similar to antisemitic canards & conspiracy theories. Anti-Muslim ones too. SSDD—it seems to be a standard formula for bigots.

The smaller the group, the more powerful they are - such is the logic of conspiracy.

60 De Kolta Chair  Aug 4, 2014 2:37:52pm

Having learned to type on a pitilessly tough Royal like this one, to this day I avoid using my pinkies for fear of pulverizing their phalanges.

61 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 4, 2014 2:38:03pm

re: #51 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

They used to show Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, etc. in Russia in early 1990s. Good times.

Darkwing Duck is a hidden treasure.

62 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 2:38:15pm

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

The smaller the group, the more powerful they are - such is the logic of conspiracy.

Yeah, apparently a group being smaller just means they have craftier hiding skills.

63 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:39:09pm

re: #61 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Darkwing Duck is a hidden treasure.

Youtube Video

64 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 2:39:14pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Here’s my beloved Smith Corona Electra 120. No longer works, unfortunately - the mechanism is frozen up.

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I had one of those!

65 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 2:39:33pm

The typewriter in the video looks exactly like the one my mom used while I was growing up. She could really make that thing clatter.

66 Archangelus  Aug 4, 2014 2:40:23pm

re: #19 jaunte

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Haven’t we suffered enough?!?! /kinda

67 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 4, 2014 2:41:08pm

re: #63 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Ever see Count Duckula?

68 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:43:11pm

re: #67 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Ever see Count Duckula?

Nope.

69 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 2:43:15pm

The heartbreak of being an 80s kid

“We got you the toy robot you wanted!”
*opens package to find a collection of shitty cars*
“I said I wanted Voltron.”
“The box says Voltron.”
“Why do you hate me?”

70 ausador  Aug 4, 2014 2:43:52pm

I remember my old IBM Selectric with the broken correction tape function fondly (NOT!). I so much enjoyed spending five hours typing a two page paper to hand in (approx. two of those hours spent cursing my fumble fingers or waiting for wite-out to dry) to my instructor. I especially enjoyed having to go to the local supermarket and put quarters into this new-fangled thing called a photon-copier (or something) so that I could retain a copy of my work.

Ahh, those were the days!

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71 De Kolta Chair  Aug 4, 2014 2:45:35pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Here’s my beloved Smith Corona Electra 120. No longer works, unfortunately - the mechanism is frozen up.

I have a manual SCM Smith Corona with “Error Control” (whatever that is). Haven’t used it in years, but it loyally hibernates in its protective shell under my bed, waiting, waiting, waiting.

Image: m8T0vZ4hhiMf9YOjEMjFPFw.jpg

72 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 2:45:36pm

When I was in junior high, I saw the typewriter as a potential tool of my oppression. People said, ‘Learn to type. You’ll always have something to fall back on. You can be a secretary.’ So I didn’t learn.

I am my own tool of oppression sometimes.

73 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 2:45:42pm

re: #62 CuriousLurker

Yeah, apparently a group being smaller just means they have craftier hiding & deception skills.

By that logic, then a conspiracy of one is the most powerful conspiracy of all. So the time has come to reveal myself at last:

I AM the Illuminati!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

74 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 2:46:07pm

re: #67 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Saw this tho: Youtube Video

75 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 4, 2014 2:46:34pm

re: #68 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Nope.

Even better than Darkwing Duck, with an even better theme song.

A great episode:

Youtube Video

76 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 2:47:08pm

There is only one thing harder than the keyboard of a manual typewriter: the keyboard of a PDP console.

And now you know why so much unix consist of 2-character commands.

77 makeitstop  Aug 4, 2014 2:50:27pm

Jim Wright hits yet another home run:

Since 2012, Benghazi has been examined in more detail than nearly any other event in US history. It has been torn apart item by item by ideologically driven fanatics determined to remove the president from office. Benghazi has now been investigated by the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the independent State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

All of them have found exactly the same thing.

All of them, every single investigation, has come to the same conclusion, exactly, the same conclusion: Dick.

78 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 2:50:31pm

re: #70 ausador

I remember my old IBM Selectric with the broken correction tape function fondly (NOT!). I so much enjoyed spending five hours typing a two page paper to hand in (approx. two of those hours spent cursing my fumble fingers or waiting for wite-out to dry) to my instructor. I especially enjoyed having to go to the local supermarket and put quarters into this new-fangled thing called a photon-copier (or something) so that i could retain a copy of my work.

Ahh, those were the days!

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carbon paper…I hated it.

79 thedopefishlives  Aug 4, 2014 2:51:47pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

carbon paper…I hated it.

Ah, I remember working with carbon paper. My grandmother had a supply when she worked at her small town’s utility office.

80 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 4, 2014 2:52:56pm

re: #50 ausador

Who the fuck ever thought that gays were 10-25% of the population to begin with? Every single piece of demographic data ever collected going back to the very first surveys (with attempted % correction due to not many being willing to admit it then) has suggested the number is between 3 and 5 percent of the population at best.

Which means there are enough of them to start a successful revolution unless they are stopped right now!
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81 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 2:53:16pm

What the actual fuck. I made over 100 calls today. All of them voice mail, switchboard, or messages with the gatekeeper/receptionist.

I need a new gig. This is uncool. No one needs to make that many phone calls in a day.

82 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 2:54:31pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

carbon paper…I hated it.

I think I have front-to-back dyslexia. I always put it in backwards.

83 De Kolta Chair  Aug 4, 2014 2:58:26pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

carbon paper…I hated it.

I think it depends on what you use it for. In high school I published a poetry and prose ‘zine using a mimeograph machine. The issues were multicolored by using different colored carbons for different areas, like layers in Illustrator.

84 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 4, 2014 3:03:50pm

Didn’t Masters and Johnson come up with the 10% number? And it was sketchy from the beginning?

85 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:04:52pm

re: #84 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I think so.

86 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:04:54pm

re: #81 Lidane

What the actual fuck. I made over 100 calls today. All of them voice mail, switchboard, or messages with the gatekeeper/receptionist.

I need a new gig. This is uncool. No one needs to make that many phone calls in a day.

My feet got longer. Now I’ve got to go donate a bunch of awesome shoes ‘cuz them shits don’t fit anymore.

Betrayed by my own goddamned feet!

87 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 3:05:23pm
88 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:05:44pm
89 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:06:55pm

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

My feet got longer. Now I’ve got to go donate a bunch of awesome shoes ‘cuz them shits don’t fit anymore.

Betrayed by my own goddamned feet!

Mine got wider. I think it happens to all women, but most of them blame it on bearing children, which I have not done.

90 Skip Intro  Aug 4, 2014 3:09:05pm

Well, I’m convinced.

Youtube Video

Not.

91 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:09:23pm

re: #84 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Didn’t Masters and Johnson come up with the 10% number? And it was sketchy from the beginning?

The question is what does that 10% represent, people dedicated to a gay sexual lifestyle as adults, people who admitted to having at least one same sex experience, or people who just have homosexual ideation.

There’s wiggle room there, some dirty dirty wiggle room.

92 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:10:52pm

Leather bound encyclopedia with gold leaf edged paper for the win.
(Although in our poor household, dumpster diving for ancient editions of Encyclopedia Craptastical was the order of the day).

“BUT MA!!! The moon landing didn’t even happen yet!!! And we’re missing Au through G!!!!”

93 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:11:29pm

re: #90 Skip Intro

It’s prolly great for Surface. And that’s about it.

94 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 3:11:42pm

re: #91 goddamnedfrank

people who just have homosexual ideation

The American Family Association?

95 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 3:12:22pm

re: #82 wrenchwench

I think I have front-to-back dyslexia. I always put it in backwards.

I really hated when that happened.

96 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 3:12:45pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

carbon paper…I hated it.

Ditto machines! First job I had to type stuff on ditto paper, didn’t know there was a “safe” sheet between the main page and the ink page. Typed about 100 sheets before I realized it.

97 Jordy LuhPhorj  Aug 4, 2014 3:13:24pm

re: #81 Lidane

I took an average of 70 incoming calls per day, many times upwards of 100, at an ISP tech support call center, for five loooong years. There was usually over 100 people in the waiting queue so they were always red hot when they got to me. Death threats, cursing, aggression, screaming, all day every day, 5 years, because their stupid internet didn’t work. It certainly soured me on the public a bit. But you can do it! My advice is to just zen out and turn into a unfeeling robot at work, at least thats how I made it through the day.

Edit: weed helps

98 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 3:15:56pm

re: #83 De Kolta Chair

I think it depends on what you use it for. In high school I published a poetry and prose ‘zine using a mimeograph machine. The issues were multicolored by using different colored carbons for different areas, like layers in Illustrator.

The carbonless paper forms? Those were really cool.

99 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:16:43pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

Mine got wider. I think it happens to all women, but most of them blame it on bearing children, which I have not done.

I think mine got wider too. Sidi Genius and Dominator pairs, can’t even get the strap to ratchet in anymore, big toe all jammed in. Some nice carbon fiber Northwaves all useless now. This isn’t edema either, I had a bout of that that awhile ago from Amlodipine but had my meds adjusted. Lately I’ve gotten serious about diet and exercise, I’m losing a ton of weight, fixing up the bikes and none of my fucking shoes fit.

So much rage.

100 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:18:30pm

re: #99 goddamnedfrank

I think mine got wider too. Sidi Genius and Dominator pairs, can’t even get the strap to ratchet in anymore, big toe all jammed in. Some nice carbon fiber Northwaves all useless now. This isn’t edema either, I had a bout of that that awhile ago from Amlodipine but had my meds adjusted. Lately I’ve gotten serious about diet and exercise, I’m losing a ton of weight, fixing up the bikes and none of my fucking shoes fit.

So much rage.

That’s like 98% good news there. 100% if you enjoy shopping for new shoes.

101 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:19:30pm

re: #100 wrenchwench

That’s like 98% good news there. 100% if you enjoy shopping for new shoes.

Don’t take this away from me. Anger keeps me young.

102 De Kolta Chair  Aug 4, 2014 3:22:43pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

The carbonless paper forms? Those were really cool.

Trust National Cash Register to come up with such a fiendishly clever thingamajig.

103 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:23:50pm

Do people actually buy t-shirts on Farfetch?

Something is seriously wrong with society.

104 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:24:24pm

re: #101 goddamnedfrank

Don’t take this away from me. Anger keeps me young.

OK:

re: #99 goddamnedfrank

I think mine got wider too. Sidi Genius and Dominator pairs, can’t even get the strap to ratchet in anymore, big toe all jammed in. Some nice carbon fiber Northwaves all useless now. This isn’t edema either, I had a bout of that that awhile ago from Amlodipine but had my meds adjusted. Lately I’ve gotten serious about diet and exercise, I’m losing a ton of weight, fixing up the bikes and none of my fucking shoes fit.

So much rage.

OMG! THOSE SHOES ARE IRREPLACEABLE AND VERY VALUABLE. CAN’T YOU GET SOME FOOT SURGERY OR SOMETHING

105 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:25:00pm

re: #103 goddamnedfrank

But their taxes are too high!!

106 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 3:25:25pm

re: #84 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Didn’t Masters and Johnson come up with the 10% number? And it was sketchy from the beginning?

It wasn’t Master & Johnson, it was the sex researcher before them. Kinsey.

107 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:26:01pm

I bet you buy a t-shirt like that you get a free bowl of soup.

Oh, but it looks good on you.

108 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:27:05pm

All teh shiny brings out my manly beer gut.

109 Patricia Kayden  Aug 4, 2014 3:27:27pm

re: #35 Lidane

???

He would be funny if he weren’t insane.

110 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:28:20pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

OK:

OMG! THOSE SHOES ARE IRREPLACEABLE AND VERY VALUABLE. CAN’T YOU GET SOME FOOT SURGERY OR SOMETHING

OR SHOE SURGERY

111 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:28:25pm

Plz to click on teh link to make the .gif go.

112 Patricia Kayden  Aug 4, 2014 3:29:19pm

re: #36 jaunte

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Such a stupid argument. Aren’t Jews around the same percentage of the population? So if a minority is small, it’s okay to discriminate against them?

113 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 3:29:48pm

From today’s Google Alerts: What a stupid article—someone actually spent time writing 800+ words about this. Let’s see how long it takes to become a creeping sharia/impending global caliphate thing. Added emphasis mine.

Mosque-Building Bin Ladens Buy Marble Once Used for Churches

A €45 million euro ($60 million) deal signed on July 30 in Tuscany, Italy, gives the construction group controlled by Osama’s Saudi Arabian family the largest single stake in an Italian firm that quarries Michelangelo’s favorite white Carrara marble—the very stone he used to create the iconic sculptures of the nude David, sling in hand; of Mary mourning the crucified Jesus in The Pietá; and of Moses glowering from the tomb of Pope Julius II.

These defining works of Christian art show off the creamy white sheen of the prized Tuscan marble, which has long caught the eye of the Bin Laden family firm, a construction giant where Osama’s half-brother Bakr is chairman, because the marble’s rich luster works so well in the mosques and mansions of the Muslim world. […]

“They are one of the biggest construction groups in the world and can give Marmi Carrara the push it needs,” Luigi Piacentini, the head of the group that sold its 50 percent stake in Marmi Carrara, told The Daily Beast. “Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.

It was Piacentini who revealed that Marmi Carrara had supplied marble for interiors at the Freedom Tower in Manhattan, meaning the Bin Laden family is now the largest single shareholder in a firm that helped complete the skyscraper erected at Ground Zero. […]

But Piacentini, for his part, said he had no qualms about a Muslim firm taking a slice of the Italian quarries which have provided the building blocks for so much Christian history and culture. […]

thedailybeast.com

I’m guessing the marble itself didn’t express any religious preferences. //

114 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:31:30pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

So if a minority is small, it’s okay to discriminate against them?

GO ON…

115 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 4, 2014 3:32:09pm

re: #106 Pie-onist Overlord

It wasn’t Master & Johnson, it was the sex researcher before them. Kinsey.

Thank you for the correction. I knew it was an old number.

116 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:34:30pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

OK:

OMG! THOSE SHOES ARE IRREPLACEABLE AND VERY VALUABLE. CAN’T YOU GET SOME FOOT SURGERY OR SOMETHING

That’s more like it. I actually looked into foot surgery some time ago, ‘cuz my second and third toes are joined to the first knuckle. Apparently that happens. The people who’d had the surgery said it was a horrible mistake, that the recovery was ridiculously painful and prolonged.

Anyway, thanks for validating my petty concerns, I’m fairly sure world peace depends on it.

117 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 3:34:46pm
118 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:35:01pm

re: #113 CuriousLurker

From today’s Google Alerts: What a stupid article—someone actually spent time writing 800+ words about this. Let’s see how long it takes to become a creeping sharia/impending global caliphate thing. Added emphasis mine.

I’m guessing the marble itself didn’t express any religious preferences. //

You’d think they were turning the Pieta into a minaret or something.

It’s easier to make it to 800 words when you use plenty of

this may strike some people as particularly ironic

119 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 3:35:08pm

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Such a stupid argument. Aren’t Jews around the same percentage of the population? So if a minority is small, it’s okay to discriminate against them?

Apparently so:

re: #56 CuriousLurker

From the last paragraph of the article:

To these men, the all-powerful gay rights movement has “duped” us all, tricking us into supporting equality while craftily scheming toward some vague leftist takeover. It’s a highly contradictory form of the persecution complex, wherein gay people’s scarcity somehow becomes an indicator of their strength. […]

This is very similar to antisemitic canards & conspiracy theories. Anti-Muslim ones too. SSDD—it seems to be a standard formula for bigots

120 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 3:35:38pm

re: #113 CuriousLurker

“These defining works of Christian art” which are not actually the marble sheets that will be purchased at fair market price. Why do they hate Italian capitalists and artigiani?

121 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:36:43pm

Bruce Rauner, GOP Candidate for Illinois Governor, Promises Government Shutdown and Mass Firing of Public Workers

In a newly surfaced video, Illinois’ Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner suggested if elected governor, he will fire public employees and potentially shut down the government to address his state’s fiscal challenges.

The video, circulated today by the Illinois Federation of Teachers, shows Rauner addressing the Tazewell County Republican dinner in March. In remarks to that group, Rauner said: “We may have to go through rough times. We may have to do what Ronald Reagan did with the air traffic controllers. Sort of have to do a do-over and shut things down for a little while. That’s what we’re gonna do.”

Youtube Video

122 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 3:36:53pm

re: #118 wrenchwench

You’d think they were turning the Pieta into a minaret or something.

It’s easier to make it to 800 words when you use plenty of

INORITE? LOL

Yeah, there was lots of filler in there.

123 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:37:29pm
124 Patricia Kayden  Aug 4, 2014 3:39:14pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Please let this sink him (fingers crossed)!

125 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 3:39:54pm

re: #113 CuriousLurker

One of my former co-workers spent a lot of time in Pietrasanta, the quarry town near the marble source. He said one of the major industries in the town (aside from all the sculpture) was bathroom fixtures. A ravine behind his apartment was full of broken marble toilets and sinks, which apparently didn’t hurt The Pietá or the David.

126 Targetpractice  Aug 4, 2014 3:40:11pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Bruce Rauner, GOP Candidate for Illinois Governor, Promises Government Shutdown and Mass Firing of Public Workers

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Does Dark know about this?

//

127 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:40:38pm

I’m going to have to quit work early to allow time to watch the rest of this. The first 5 minutes were great.

Youtube Video

128 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:42:07pm

The billboard says “Donbass will choke the fascists”.

Ummm, whatever.

129 ObserverArt  Aug 4, 2014 3:43:44pm

re: #96 BeachDem

Ditto machines! First job I had to type stuff on ditto paper, didn’t know there was a “safe” sheet between the main page and the ink page. Typed about 100 sheets before I realized it.

I was waiting for someone to bring up Ditto/mimeograph stencil masters and having to type on them. I did a newsletter back in high school once. Once. What a chore. And then cranking out the duplicates without getting the ink all over was almost as bad.

130 blueraven  Aug 4, 2014 3:44:14pm

re: #122 CuriousLurker

INORITE? LOL

Yeah, there was lots of filler in there.

The daily beast is just plain ridiculous these days

re: #128 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The billboard says “Donbass will choke the fascists”.

Ummm, whatever.

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Excuse my ignorance, but who/what is Donbass and who are they calling fascists?

131 goddamnedfrank  Aug 4, 2014 3:44:14pm

re: #113 CuriousLurker

From today’s Google Alerts: What a stupid article—someone actually spent time writing 800+ words about this. Let’s see how long it takes to become a creeping sharia/impending global caliphate thing. Added emphasis mine.

I’m guessing the marble itself didn’t express any religious preferences. //

What the …? It’s a quarry, literally a hole-in-the-ground. That headline might have well as read “Terrorists rub their testicles all over the Vatican!”

132 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 4, 2014 3:44:31pm

re: #128 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Looks more like choking the chicken…

133 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 3:44:35pm

re: #125 jaunte

One of my former co-workers spent a lot of time in Pietrasanta, the quarry town near the marble source. He said one of the major industries in the town (aside from all the sculpture) was bathroom fixtures. A ravine behind his apartment was full of broken marble toilets and sinks, which apparently didn’t hurt The Pietá or the David.

Yeah, but they were broken marble toilets and sinks that were probably made by Christians and destined for Christian bathrooms!!11!

134 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:46:07pm

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That’s why “wtf”.

135 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:47:12pm

re: #130 blueraven

The daily beast is just plain ridiculous these days

Excuse my ignorance, but who/what is Donbass and who are they calling fascists?

Donbass = Donetskij bassejn = Donets basin
fascists = Kiev govt

136 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:47:16pm

re: #133 CuriousLurker

Yeah, but they were broken marble toilets and sinks that were probably made by Christians and destined for Christian bathrooms!!11!

POSSIBLY FOR THE POPES OWN POOP

137 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:48:16pm

re: #136 wrenchwench

Holy poop!

138 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 3:50:49pm

re: #133 CuriousLurker

Bin Ladens have us by the marbles!!!

139 Mike Lamb  Aug 4, 2014 3:51:35pm

re: #36 jaunte

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If it’s only 2 percent of the population, then how is it a “massive social experiment”?

Also, too, so what’s the percentage that needs to be met before we can’t discriminate? 5%? And where’s that written in the Constitution? I think the “everyone gets equal protection provided that they make up at least 10% of the population” clause was left on the editing room floor.

140 blueraven  Aug 4, 2014 3:52:29pm

re: #135 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Donbass = Donetskij bassejn = Donets basin
fascists = Kiev govt

Thanks, that is kind of what I thought, but I get confused with some of the names/places.

141 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:54:06pm

re: #138 jaunte

Bin Ladens have us by the marbles!!!

Speaking of marbles, the left one is getting smaller by the day:

142 Mike Lamb  Aug 4, 2014 3:54:12pm

re: #77 makeitstop

Jim Wright hits yet another home run:

Shhh…don’t give them ideas. Reaching the “Dick” conclusion was how they got Clinton…

143 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 3:54:26pm

re: #138 jaunte

Bin Ladens have us by the marbles!!!

Osama was unavailable for comment. //

144 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:54:28pm

re: #139 Mike Lamb

If it’s only 2 percent of the population, then how is it a “massive social experiment”?

Also, too, so what’s the percentage that needs to be met before we can’t discriminate? 5%? And where’s that written in the Constitution? I think the “everyone gets equal protection provided that they make up at least 10% of the population” clause was left on the editing room floor.

And how is traditional marriage not a massive social experiment which has largely been used to oppress people?

145 blueraven  Aug 4, 2014 3:54:53pm

I am making food for my dog and man, does it smell good!

Chicken, rice, diced sweet potato and green beans.

146 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 3:55:46pm

re: #145 blueraven

I am making food for my dog and man, does it smell good!

Chicken, rice, diced sweet potato and green beans.

I’ll be right over. I mean, my cat will be right over.

147 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:56:13pm

re: #141 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

For comparison, July 9:

148 Mike Lamb  Aug 4, 2014 3:57:00pm

re: #144 wrenchwench

And how is traditional marriage not a massive social experiment which has largely been used to oppress people?

Because shut up!

149 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:57:08pm

Nothing is as american as watching some dude squeeze a bag of soup into a pot then charge you 5 bux for a cup of it. Ouch.

150 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 3:57:42pm

re: #149 Amory Blaine

Nothing is as american as watching some dude squeeze a bag of soup into a pot then charge you 5 bux for a cup of it. Ouch.

Where is dat.

151 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 3:58:04pm

Downtown Milwaukee Wisconsin.

152 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 3:59:05pm

re: #147 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Are they being captured, or slipping east?

153 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 3:59:40pm

Oh, well if Glenn doesn’t like it, then it must be OUTSTANDING.

154 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 4:00:17pm

Looks like he’s saying “kerfuffle.”

155 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:00:35pm

He has major Dudebroface. Ed WhiteAsSnowden isn’t going to out-Dudebroface The Glennster.

156 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:00:39pm

re: #152 jaunte

Are they being captured, or slipping east?

Some are deserting, some are killed, some are captured. Not sure about slipping to Russia, if you meant that.

157 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 4:01:28pm

re: #156 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

No, I mean just slipping eastward into the other pocket of separatist control.

159 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:01:36pm
160 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 4:01:52pm

re: #148 Mike Lamb

Because shut up!

See the oppression inherent in the system!!!!!!!!!!!!1!

161 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 4:02:27pm

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

Whenever I see GG’s or Ted Cruz’s face I feel like punching my monitor.

162 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:03:00pm

re: #157 jaunte

Oh, those who can, do.

163 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 4:04:41pm

re: #162 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Oh, those who can, do.

So if the separatists in Donetsk collapse, what are the separatists in Luhansk gonna do at that point? Keep fighting or throw in the towel?

164 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 4:05:31pm

See the mucho mas embiggando version here.

165 dog philosopher  Aug 4, 2014 4:06:02pm

re: #145 blueraven

dog and man

i sometimes fit this description

166 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:06:24pm

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

I wouldn’t know, but I would expect the desertion rates to increase. Of course, capturing Donetsk and Lugansk will be the most complex task. We’ll see how it goes.

167 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 4, 2014 4:07:36pm

re: #158 Amory Blaine

State’s largest police group responds to Gov. Walker’s suggestion on expanding Act 10 to police & fire unions

Did those idiots really expect he wouldn’t stab them in the back?

168 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:08:29pm

The two cities are not as densely populated as Gaza, but it could still get ugly.

169 ObserverArt  Aug 4, 2014 4:09:08pm

re: #164 wrenchwench

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See the muy mas embiggando version here.

All of those were fun. I wonder if my brother and some relatives in Arizona would like to see them?

Probably not. /

170 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 4:09:23pm

re: #166 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I wouldn’t know, but I would expect the desertion rates to increase. Of course, capturing Donetsk and Lugansk will be the most complex task. We’ll see how it goes.

Capturing Donetsk would be a serious blow to the separatists; it might give their counterparts in Lugansk pause for reflection. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if desertion rates increased significantly at that point - the fall of Donetsk to Ukrainian forces would be a “game over” signal.

171 Teukka  Aug 4, 2014 4:10:43pm

re: #170 Dr Lizardo

Capturing Donetsk would be a serious blow to the separatists; it might give their counterparts in Lugansk pause for reflection. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if desertion rates increased significantly at that point - the fall of Donetsk to Ukrainian forces would be a “game over” signal.

Or the signal for uncle Vlad to step in. I can see many ways this can go sideways.

172 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:11:28pm

re: #170 Dr Lizardo

If they capture or kill Girkin, that would ruin the morale.

173 Targetpractice  Aug 4, 2014 4:12:16pm

re: #167 William Barnett-Lewis

Did those idiots really expect he wouldn’t stab them in the back?

Didn’t they come out in favor of Act 10 at the time?

174 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:13:38pm

re: #161 CuriousLurker

Whenever I see GG’s or Ted Cruz’s face I feel like punching my monitor.

GG & Chris McDaniel, separated at birth?

175 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 4, 2014 4:14:36pm

re: #173 Targetpractice

Didn’t they come out in favor of Act 10 at the time?

Yep. Morons. The rest of us told them this would happen.

176 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 4:15:18pm

I’ve had a cart full of dirty laundry sitting about 4 feet from my desk for the past hour & a half or so. I keep glaring at it, but it refuses to wheel itself down to the laundry room, fill the washing machines, and start them for me, so I guess I’m gonna have to do it myself.

Remember when you were young how you couldn’t wait to move out of your parents’ house and be on your own? Yeah, that whole “benefits of being an adult” thing is a total crock. The world’s greatest bait-and-switch.

*SIGH*

BBL

177 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 4:15:57pm

re: #173 Targetpractice

Some did, mostly police. Many firefighter unions and some police were out in Madison supporting the protests against Waffles.

Waffles

178 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:16:18pm
179 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:16:41pm
180 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 4:18:59pm

These are firefighters conservatives were/are calling “union thugs”.

Youtube Video

181 ausador  Aug 4, 2014 4:19:31pm

re: #158 Amory Blaine

State’s largest police group responds to Gov. Walker’s suggestion on expanding Act 10 to police & fire unions

Bwahahahaha…

Didn’t have a problem with it when it was just the teachers, social workers, and other government flunkies getting screwed did they? Nope Walker was their “friend” and promised them increased funding and no changes for their unions.

Now less than a week after the State Supreme Court upheld 10 as being constitutional he is going after them too. Gee, who could have seen that coming?

Effing idiots!

182 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 4:19:32pm

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

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I know this isn’t a happy fast day, so I don’t want to say have a “good” fast sooo… Hope you have an easy/successful fast?

183 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 4:21:38pm

Oh, right. Laundry. Ugh….

Laters.

184 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:24:01pm

re: #182 CuriousLurker

I know this isn’t a happy fast day, so I don’t want to say have a “good” fast sooo… Hope you have an easy/successful fast?

This is a day of mourning so it’s not supposed to be a comfortable fast. The Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed because of “causeless hatred” so we are supposed to purge our hearts of hatred.

Some haters give themselves the excuse: “But my hate isn’t ‘causeless’ I hate because ‘reasons’!” Uh uh yr doin in wrong.

185 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:24:34pm

I don’t know how Muslims can do this for an entire MONTH.

Tisha B’Av=Instant Ramadan.

186 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 4:26:31pm

re: #172 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

If they capture or kill Girkin, that would ruin the morale.

Oh, definitely.

187 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 4:26:41pm

re: #184 Pie-onist Overlord

This is a day of mourning so it’s not supposed to be a comfortable fast. The Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed because of “causeless hatred” so we are supposed to purge our hearts of hatred.

Some haters give themselves the excuse: “But my hate isn’t ‘causeless’ I hate because ‘reasons’!” Uh uh yr doin in wrong.

In that case I wish you a successful fast. :)

188 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:26:57pm
189 Dr Lizardo  Aug 4, 2014 4:27:20pm

re: #185 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t know how Muslims can do this for an entire MONTH.

Tisha B’Av=Instant Ramadan.

Only the first three days are a pain. After that, it’s not so bad.

190 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:27:39pm
[I]t is true in general that an infinite that at some time was to be gone through never can be actually gone through; nor can there ever be a last [element] of such an infinite…. But an infinite that at no time was to be gone through but always had been gone through can be gone through despite its infinity. This is the reason why in virtue of the very fact that something has been gone through which at some time was to be gone through, it is finite. But if anything has been gone through which never was to be gone through, it need not be finite but can be infinite. Now, however, if the world existed from eternity, it never was the case that all past years were to be gone through, because at no temporal instant would this proposition have been true; “All these years (indicating all those [now] past) are to be gone through.” Therefore, the conclusion does not follow.

~ William of Ockham, 14th century

191 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:27:48pm

After the Fast, there is Pie!

192 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:29:05pm

re: #191 Pie-onist Overlord

After the Fast, there is Pie!

What kind of?

193 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 4:29:12pm

re: #190 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

~ William of Ockham, 14th century

You’d think he coulda shaved that down a little.

194 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 4:29:51pm
195 Teukka  Aug 4, 2014 4:30:14pm

Meanwhile in Sweden:

Town faces evacuation amid huge forest fire

o Fire described as ‘out of control’
o Norberg, population 4,500, prepared for evacuation.
o Volunteers rescued from flames.
o Italy provides firefighting planes after EU appeal.

In Pictures: Forest fire in Sala

This year has seen record many forest fires. And still, some claim GloBULL warming is a liBULLar hoax to take over the world!

*smh*

196 dog philosopher  Aug 4, 2014 4:33:10pm

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

i double checked when i got married under a jewish ceremony to make sure that we hadn’t scheduled it for the tish b’av

197 allegro  Aug 4, 2014 4:40:11pm

So I was enjoying a leftover from my impromptu dinner party over the weekend, a grilled chicken leg quarter, sharing some bites with The Boys (dogs). Blossom didn’t like being left out so I offered her a bite of chicken as well. She ignored the small piece I offered and instead faked me out and snatched the entire leg quarter out of my other hand and ran.

Whoever suggests birds are vegans is wrong. LOL

198 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 4, 2014 4:42:47pm

re: #197 allegro

So I was enjoying a leftover from my impromptu dinner party over the weekend, a grilled chicken leg quarter, sharing some bites with The Boys (dogs). Blossom didn’t like being left out so I offered her a bite of chicken as well. She ignored the small piece I offered and instead faked me out and snatched the entire leg quarter out of my other hand and ran.

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Whoever suggests birds are vegans is wrong. LOL

Youtube Video

199 Bulworth  Aug 4, 2014 4:43:14pm

re: #194 Pie-onist Overlord

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hurr hurr, uh, Reagan never celebrated his birthday when he was president and uh, something benghazi.

200 Bulworth  Aug 4, 2014 4:44:20pm

The Daily Caller has some item about one of the Obama daughters. I’m sure it’s really classy. //

201 andres  Aug 4, 2014 4:44:36pm

re: #164 wrenchwench

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See the mucho mas embiggando version here.

My only nitpick: it’s “version agrandada” or “version mas grande”, not “embiggando version”. :P

202 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 4, 2014 4:46:05pm

re: #193 wrenchwench

You’d think he coulda shaved that down a little.

Youtube Video

203 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 4:47:17pm

re: #197 allegro

She is so cute. :)

204 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 4:48:33pm

re: #201 andres

My only nitpick: it’s “version agrandada” or “version mas grande”, not “embiggando version”. :P

Lo siento mucho. No hablo Espanol. Looks bad when I try. Six year olds make fun of me, when they aren’t heaving big sighs of frustration.

205 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 4:51:20pm

re: #174 Pie-onist Overlord

I think this shows their similarity even better

206 allegro  Aug 4, 2014 4:53:12pm

re: #203 Amory Blaine

She is so cute. :)

Not to Buddy the Chihua-bull. To him she’s a screaming pterodactyl who chases him and bites his tail. He finds her amusing not at all.

207 Stanley Sea  Aug 4, 2014 5:05:15pm

re: #205 BeachDem

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I think this shows their similarity even better

2 jerk faces with a side of derp.

McDaniel is winning the loser lottery for me. Greenwald I just ignore now.

208 Stanley Sea  Aug 4, 2014 5:05:34pm

re: #206 allegro

Not to Buddy the Chihua-bull. To him she’s a screaming pterodactyl who chases him and bites his tail. He finds her amusing not at all.

Aw!

209 Timothy Watson  Aug 4, 2014 5:05:34pm

re: #197 allegro

So I was enjoying a leftover from my impromptu dinner party over the weekend, a grilled chicken leg quarter, sharing some bites with The Boys (dogs). Blossom didn’t like being left out so I offered her a bite of chicken as well. She ignored the small piece I offered and instead faked me out and snatched the entire leg quarter out of my other hand and ran.

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Whoever suggests birds are vegans is wrong. LOL

Does that count as cannibalism?

210 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 5:05:36pm

re: #205 BeachDem

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I think this shows their similarity even better

That freaks me out.

211 BongCrodny  Aug 4, 2014 5:09:06pm

re: #200 Bulworth

The Daily Caller has some item about one of the Obama daughters. I’m sure it’s really classy. //

I read it, courtesy (*cough*) of Yahoo.

It was about as “THE OBAMAS ARE EEEEEVIL” as you’d expect.

212 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 5:11:51pm

re: #207 Stanley Sea

They both certainly have that Snidely Whiplash sneer going on, don’t they?

213 allegro  Aug 4, 2014 5:12:30pm

re: #209 Timothy Watson

Does that count as cannibalism?

Probably. But we’ve never told them. Years ago after one of our big cook-outs we had a couple of whole smoked chickens left. Just to see what would happen, my husband hung one from a chain in our Moluccan flight with Punky and The Muncher. There was meat and bone flying like we’d put it in Mix Master. There was nothing left.

214 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 5:12:37pm

re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord

That freaks me out.

I’m so sorry.

215 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 5:13:45pm

re: #212 BeachDem

They both certainly have that Snidely Whiplash sneer going on, don’t they?

Snidely Whiplash was a dudebro! Who knew?

216 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 5:15:25pm
217 Belafon  Aug 4, 2014 5:17:12pm

re: #37 Bear

The ancient manual ones won’t work without ink or paper.

218 Stanley Sea  Aug 4, 2014 5:25:43pm

That story posted today - My Receipt Was Not Good Enough - whoa.

ICYMI

roxanegay.tumblr.com

Tell me about the whites are suffering or whatever that stupid hashtag was. Typical deflection of what they themselves are aware they are guilty of.

219 EPR-radar  Aug 4, 2014 5:25:45pm

re: #190 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

A nice demonstration that if you’re going to try to reason about infinity, best to do it mathematically rather than in words.

220 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 4, 2014 5:28:24pm

re: #219 EPR-radar

A nice demonstration that if you’re going to try to reason about infinity, best to do it mathematically rather than in words.

Dealing with limits in the calculus will do rather more nicely than words in such a case.

221 EPR-radar  Aug 4, 2014 5:29:39pm

re: #220 William Barnett-Lewis

Dealing with limits in the calculus will do rather more nicely than words in such a case.

Indeed. And for infinite sets, finding one-to-one correspondences is the key idea.

222 PhillyPretzel  Aug 4, 2014 5:32:03pm

Just one minute as to the picture of the Smith-Corona. My dad had one just like it. Wow. That brings back memories.

223 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 5:32:19pm

GOP Rebranding Alert:

Gotta love that Latino outreach.

224 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 5:33:05pm

re: #223 Lidane

The Breitbarts are spreading that rumor around, too.

225 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 5:34:12pm

re: #223 Lidane

GOP Rebranding Alert:

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Gotta love that Latino outreach.

226 Romantic Heretic  Aug 4, 2014 5:35:18pm

re: #126 Targetpractice

Does Dark know about this?

//

The Conservative candidate in the recent Ontario election promised much the same thing.

He lost. Thank God.

227 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 5:36:25pm
“…No human ebola illness ever has been contracted in the Western Hemisphere and none of the 30,340 unaccompanied minors released this year to relatives or sponsors, including the 245 children placed in Indiana homes, have ebola, according to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The refugee agency notes on its placement-reporting website that all children receive vaccinations and medical screenings before being released to a relative or sponsor, and no child is released who has a contagious condition.”
nwitimes.com

228 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 5:38:15pm

re: #227 jaunte

FACTS ARE USELESS AT A TIME LIKE THIS

229 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 5:41:05pm

re: #228 wrenchwench

FACTS ARE USELESS AT A TIME LIKE THIS

He spoke with a doctor, ffs, and only added one word to what the doctor said.

EBOLA

230 wrenchwench  Aug 4, 2014 5:44:41pm

Later, lizards.

231 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 5:48:29pm
232 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 5:54:55pm
233 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 5:56:21pm

re: #232 Charles Johnson

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234 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 5:58:55pm

Dim Jim on Ebola:
Didn’t they used to say the same stupid myth about AIDS?

235 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 4, 2014 5:59:13pm

re: #197 allegro

So I was enjoying a leftover from my impromptu dinner party over the weekend, a grilled chicken leg quarter, sharing some bites with The Boys (dogs). Blossom didn’t like being left out so I offered her a bite of chicken as well. She ignored the small piece I offered and instead faked me out and snatched the entire leg quarter out of my other hand and ran.

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Whoever suggests birds are vegans is wrong. LOL

My cousins had a cockatoo that was 20+ years old and ate meat. Saw it eating turkey at Thanksgiving on more than one occasion.

236 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 5:59:19pm
237 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 5:59:57pm

re: #234 Pie-onist Overlord

African Villagers Won’t Give Up Their Bat & Bush Meat Despite Warnings

And to think they could just run down to the nearest Subway or Applebees.

238 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 4, 2014 6:03:08pm

The Feline Overlords are annoyed. I gave them both 3-4 fresh catnip leaves and then stuffed a few more into a hollow plastic ball that also has a small jingle bell in it.

All I can hear in the other room is the bell ringing as the cats knock it around because “MOAR NIP! NOAW!”

239 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:04:53pm
240 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 6:11:50pm

This Benghazighazighazi crazy person is a white racist—who coulda guessed?

241 Stanley Sea  Aug 4, 2014 6:14:12pm

re: #239 Kragar

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There’s a song called “Three Little Birds?” Never heard it.

242 Joanne  Aug 4, 2014 6:16:42pm

re: #158 Amory Blaine

State’s largest police group responds to Gov. Walker’s suggestion on expanding Act 10 to police & fire unions

It’s always ok…until it’s you.

I understand a lack of desire to raise taxes for others to get benefits you, personally, don’t get. I get it. But until we stop the race to the bottom, we all lose. Every last one if us, whether we’re unionized or not.

243 Kid A  Aug 4, 2014 6:17:19pm

The New York Times will be shut down tomorrow at noon. #waronwhites

244 BongCrodny  Aug 4, 2014 6:19:39pm

re: #243 Kid A

The New York Times will be shut down tomorrow at noon. #waronwhites

First they came for my John Tesh albums…

245 Joanne  Aug 4, 2014 6:24:37pm

re: #226 Romantic Heretic

The Conservative candidate in the recent Ontario election promised much the same thing.

He lost. Thank God.

Love Hudak. He took what should have been a gimme to the PC’s and handed it to the Libs on a platter.

I cheered when he conceded. :-)

246 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:25:04pm

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

This Benghazighazighazi crazy person is a white racist—who coulda guessed?

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247 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:27:23pm
248 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 4, 2014 6:29:09pm

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

This Benghazighazighazi crazy person is a white racist—who coulda guessed?

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Someone needs to remind her of the early Christian communism as witnessed by Acts 2:42-47.

249 Justanotherhuman  Aug 4, 2014 6:29:31pm

Hi, all! How are tricks?

I do see the RWNJs are still up to theirs.

So—-3 Americans have the ebola virus, which they contracted in Africa, are immediately returned to the US when diagnosed, and go straight into isolation at Emory with the best medical care in the world. And I wish them a great recovery.

Would be nice if Africans could do the same, wouldn’t it? There wouldn’t be the threat of it spreading like wildfire among people with virtually no health care at all in the first place.

250 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:41:25pm

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