Bad Lip Reading looks back at the 2018-2019 NFL season…
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— 🌊🌊Blue Tsunami—IMPEACH THAT MF!!!🌊🌊 (@Jaimebugs) February 3, 2019
The Bad Lip Reading was pretty good. I wasn’t expecting such a wide variety of video clips being bad lipped.
re: #2 HappyWarrior
She was warned.
I was going to say, we kept saying this over and over and over. People just looked at the White House’s fictitious “average tax cut” garbage and swallowed it whole.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
It’s funny because you’re a terrible person that voted for racism.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2019
re: #4 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I was going to say, we kept saying this over and over and over. People just looked at the White House’s fictitious “average tax cut” garbage and swallowed it whole.
Precisely.
Conservatives don’t realize that the crops we eat have a fairly narrow window of ideal growing temperatures, and too much heat quickly stresses and eventually kills them.
Agriculture doesn’t work the way you think. “each degree-Celsius increase in global mean temperature would, on average, reduce global yields of wheat by 6.0%, rice by 3.2%, maize by 7.4%, and soybean by 3.1%.” https://t.co/pcTbd4lhQi
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2019
re: #4 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I was going to say, we kept saying this over and over and over. People just looked at the White House’s fictitious “average tax cut” garbage and swallowed it whole.
Reminds me of the old saying about these kind of claims:
“If you have one hand in a pot of boiling water and another in a pot of dry ice, on average you’re comfortable.”
Is Joe Walsh imbibing some illegal drug concoction that he made up himself?
Yes, wearing a Klan outfit or blackface is racist and offensive, and should disqualify one from serving as an elected official.
But do you know what’s worse than that? The racist actions of Trump. Yet Repubs still voted for him and they still support himhttps://t.co/loEe9HWSM4— Bryan 🇺🇸 #FamiliesBelongTogether (@swimmerbr78) February 3, 2019
re: #10 Patricia Kayden
Is Joe Walsh imbibing some illegal drug concoction that he made up himself?
If Northam were a Republican, we’d be hearing about how the KKK was a Democratic organization and Democrats are the real racists and LEAVE NORTHAM ALONE HE WAS YOUNG AND STUPID.
Not into the Super Bowl? Perhaps you’d like to read about some Superb Owls instead. https://t.co/HFfKZmYc4v
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 3, 2019
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THREAD. After much fun at Northam’s expense, a serious though: A few tweets have run along the lines of, “Even in the South, 35 years ago, everyone knew that wearing a Klan outfit or blackface was racist.” Having been in college myself at that time, I started nodding. 1/x
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) February 2, 2019
Ah here we go.
The lawyers representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and his family said Friday they have sent letters to media outlets, individual journalists, celebrities and Catholic organizations as the first step in possible libel and defamation lawsuits.
The list includes 50-plus names of organizations or individuals: from presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren to actress Alyssa Milano; individual journalists including Maggie Haberman, Ana Cabrera and David Brooks; national media outlets like the The New York Times, CNN, GQ and TMZ; and the dioceses of Covington and Lexington as well as the archdioceses of Louisville and Baltimore.
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah here we go.
The lawyers representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann and his family said Friday they have sent letters to media outlets, individual journalists, celebrities and Catholic organizations as the first step in possible libel and defamation lawsuits.
The list includes 50-plus names of organizations or individuals: from presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren to actress Alyssa Milano; individual journalists including Maggie Haberman, Ana Cabrera and David Brooks; national media outlets like the The New York Times, CNN, GQ and TMZ; and the dioceses of Covington and Lexington as well as the archdioceses of Louisville and Baltimore.
Yeah, that’s not going to go well.
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
Discovery is a fucking bitch and these fuckers should realize that facts are an absolute defense to their statements.
Same as with the Proud Assholes and the SPLC.
re: #15 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’d love to see all the folks on that list reply with a “Fuck You” to that shyster.
Except Maggie and Chuck U Todd. They’ll apologize!
re: #7 goddamnedfrank
Conservatives don’t realize that the crops we eat have a fairly narrow window of ideal growing temperatures, and too much heat quickly stresses and eventually kills them.
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Also…insects.
It’s called “The Windshield Problem”.
Have you noticed that when you drive, you don’t get a car covered in dead bugs anymore? Great Britain researchers have noted an 80 percent plus drop in insects captured in traps. Costa Rica and Puerto Rico….92% drop! The Amazon Basin…over 80%. Over 80% drop in pollinator flies in Germany.
Similar drops in birds, reptiles etc that feed in these insects.
Insects evolved to live in a specific temperature range. We shot that all to hell….and we have no way to pollinate crops without them.
People don’t understand how bad this is. We have started the 6th mass extinction event and we have no control over what happens next.
re: #15 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, that’s not going to go well.
That was my thought as well.
Plus, it is not likely in the best interests of the high schoolers or their families. If the suits proceed, they are likely to be trapped in this as symbols for quite a few years. And lose any control of their public image for the rest of their lives.
men are temporarily banned from writing until we figure out what the hell’s going on pic.twitter.com/HAQi383QRr
— Aisling McCrea (@ambientGillian) February 2, 2019
‘You guys ever heard dead baby jokes?
I got a dead baby.
His name was Joaquin Oliver.
He was gonna be 18, but now he’s dead.
And that’s not a joke.’
— Parkland dad Manuel Oliver recorded this ‘stand up’ set in response to Louis CK pic.twitter.com/Hx8pFPt1nz— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 1, 2019
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
— 🌊🌊Blue Tsunami—IMPEACH THAT MF!!!🌊🌊 (@Jaimebugs) February 3, 2019
THIS is the single most important achievement of the current Republican Party. Everything else is just a strategem for gaining the power to do it. It is the reason they sold their country out to the Russians and threw children in cages and courted corrupt theocrats and suppressed votes. It is their do-all and end-all. It is the deal they have made with many devils. Ultimately, they will fail, not because they are evil, but because their supporters are, of necessity, both evil and stupid.
THERE ARE KANGAROO CHEERLEADERS AT THIS YEAR’S PUPPY BOWL!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/LU1020vtKI
— SB Nation (@SBNation) February 3, 2019
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
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Her perspiration was like skydrol; burning sensations enveloped his face as he pushed forward between the sleek nacelles of her breasts….
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) February 3, 2019
re: #21 Scottish Dragon
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The bit at the end. Heartbreaking. He should have been able to send his son to college this past fall. I have liked Louis CK’s past work but he acted like a total jackass mocking the Parkland kids.
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
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Reminds me of Erin Scafe’s thread on Stone’s lawyer’s book:
You guys.
Roger Stone’s attorney has written a novel. It’s a political thriller.
Please enjoy the blurb. pic.twitter.com/9hNVuX9oAV— Erin For President (@erinscafe) January 26, 2019
moron
With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security. Dems do nothing. If there is no Wall, there is no Security. Human Trafficking, Drugs and Criminals of all dimensions - KEEP OUT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2019
but in the meantime, there’s GOLF!!!
Everyone is asking how Tiger played yesterday. The answer is Great! He was long, straight & putted fantastically well. He shot a 64. Tiger is back & will be winning Majors again! Not surprisingly, Jack also played really well. His putting is amazing! Jack & Tiger like each other.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2019
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
men are temporarily banned from writing until we figure out what the hell’s going on pic.twitter.com/HAQi383QRr
— Aisling McCrea (@ambientGillian) February 2, 2019
Oh, I see what’s wrong. “Warplane” is usually rendered as one word.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
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I always like threads like this because they’re very insightful. Good find VB. I have to admit it here that for a long time, I fell for some of the CSA mythos. I never thought the CSA cause was right or anything like that but I definiely fell for Robert E. Lee was a man of honor and crap like that. I was definitely guilty of viewing the war through only a white man’s prism.
re: #32 HappyWarrior
I always like threads like this because they’re very insightful. Good find VB. I have to admit it here that for a long time, I fell for some of the CSA mythos. I never thought the CSA cause was right or anything like that but I definiely fell for Robert E. Lee was a man of honor and crap like that. I was definitely guilty of viewing the war through only a white man’s prism.
It was only recently that I came to the realization that Lee wasn’t the immense strategic genius that the whitewashed history books make him out to be. He gets talked up so much because he was winning, but his opponents up until Grant were borderline incompetent. The Lost Cause authors gave him a reputation that I feel is undeserved, but it sticks around because we can’t disparage this noble, honorable warrior general.
Serious question: If, Senator Connor Gress had a meeting where he pulled up a picture from his past, say the mid-eighties, of him wearing blackface and apologized, saying that he was naive back then, and has learned much since, how would you react?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 3, 2019
re: #33 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It was only recently that I came to the realization that Lee wasn’t the immense strategic genius that the whitewashed history books make him out to be. He gets talked up so much because he was winning, but his opponents up until Grant were borderline incompetent. The Lost Cause authors gave him a reputation that I feel is undeserved, but it sticks around because we can’t disparage this noble, honorable warrior general.
Yeah I totally bought that too. He wasn’t a bad general but he wasn’t the genius the LC makes him out to be either. What I didn’t know and this is what I was talking about is the full extent of his slave owning cruelty and how the Army of Northern Virginia treated black POWs. Man of honor, my ass.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
Yeah I totally bought that too. He wasn’t a bad general but he wasn’t the genius the LC makes him out to be either. What I didn’t know and this is what I was talking about is the full extent of his slave owning cruelty and how the Army of Northern Virginia treated black POWs. Man of honor, my ass.
When I was a kid, he was the reluctant general that didn’t really like slavery but fought for his side out of loyalty.
A whole lot of people here in Texas still believe that.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
Yeah I totally bought that too. He wasn’t a bad general but he wasn’t the genius the LC makes him out to be either. What I didn’t know and this is what I was talking about is the full extent of his slave owning cruelty and how the Army of Northern Virginia treated black POWs. Man of honor, my ass.
That assumes they took the black soldiers prisoner and didn’t just execute them on the spot, as did happen sometimes.
re: #33 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It was only recently that I came to the realization that Lee wasn’t the immense strategic genius that the whitewashed history books make him out to be. He gets talked up so much because he was winning, but his opponents up until Grant were borderline incompetent. The Lost Cause authors gave him a reputation that I feel is undeserved, but it sticks around because we can’t disparage this noble, honorable warrior general.
He was widely hated in his duties earlier in the war, where he made the dashing cavaliers in the western forts dig entrenchments, which was no kind of a job for heroes such as themselves—“The King of Spades”, he was known as.
As developed later by Longstreet in particular, field fortifications like that—reaching full flower in WWI—were the main Confederate contribution to the art of war. Nobody wants to talk about that, though.
re: #33 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It was only recently that I came to the realization that Lee wasn’t the immense strategic genius that the whitewashed history books make him out to be. He gets talked up so much because he was winning, but his opponents up until Grant were borderline incompetent. The Lost Cause authors gave him a reputation that I feel is undeserved, but it sticks around because we can’t disparage this noble, honorable warrior general.
He was the superintendent of West Point and one of the strategy & tactics instuctors, and before that a hero of the Mexican-American war. He couldn’t have been a total doofus.
re: #40 sagehen
He was the superintendent of West Point and one of the strategy & tactics instuctors, and before that a hero of the Mexican-American war. He couldn’t have been a total doofus.
As Happy said, he wasn’t a bad general, but he wasn’t a god of strategy like some authors make him out to be.
re: #37 Belafon
When I was a kid, he was the reluctant general that didn’t really like slavery but fought for his side out of loyalty.
A whole lot of people here in Texas still believe that.
We got that in Virginia too even into the 90’s. And also influenced by fiction like Killer Angels, which is a great book but still fiction. We got the same portrait of Jefferson and Washington when it came to slavery too. I only discovered later doing some research for the history magazine I worked for that Jefferson was a brutal slave owner.
re: #40 sagehen
He was the superintendent of West Point and one of the strategy & tactics instuctors, and before that a hero of the Mexican-American war. He couldn’t have been a total doofus.
Not a bad general but not the best ever either. It’s sort like sports. Someone can be an all time great player and still be overrated.
re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
As Happy said, he wasn’t a bad general, but he wasn’t a god of strategy like some authors make him out to be.
I think the war turns out differently if he has an equal peer in those early 1861-62 battles. McClellan was on paper brilliant but IMO too timid a general and oto sympathetic to the CSA.
re: #39 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
He was widely hated in his duties earlier in the war, where he made the dashing cavaliers in the western forts dig entrenchments, which was no kind of a job for heroes such as themselves—“The King of Spades”, he was known as.
As developed later by Longstreet in particular, field fortifications like that—reaching full flower in WWI—were the main Confederate contribution to the art of war. Nobody wants to talk about that, though.
Longstreet made a few mistakes in his post war life that earned him the everlasting eminity of the Lost Causers: He criticized Lee in his memoirs, became a Catholic, became a Republican, and rekindled his friendship with Grant and I believe served in his or the Hayes administration in some capacity. Longstreet I think is the most underrated general of Lee’s Army IMO. I believe he may have also admitted that the war was done ot preserve slavery too.
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jack & Tiger like each other!
I want to add something that does frustrate me and I see Republicans and conservatives do it all the time but reduce the war ot Democrats versus Republicans. First off, the Republicans of that era deserve credit. They were easily all Unionists from what I saw given that part was formed to stop the spread of slavery and it of course was the party of Abe himself. However, there were Secessionist former Whigs and Unionist Democrats. Lincoln’s old debating rival, Douglas before he died was a huge supporter of the Union as was former President Van Buren and a few of Lincoln’s top generals- Winfield Scott Hancock were Democrats as well.
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
kinda creepy, eh?
Tiger shot a 64! Which is exactly what I shot…on the front 9! Hay oh!!!!
re: #45 HappyWarrior
Longstreet made a few mistakes in his post war life that earned him the everlasting eminity of the Lost Causers: He criticized Lee in his memoirs, became a Catholic, became a Republican, and rekindled his friendship with Grant and I believe served in his or the Hayes administration in some capacity. Longstreet I think is the most underrated general of Lee’s Army IMO.
On the other side, I’ll say a few words in defense of Ambrose Burnside. He took the blame for a lot of things, only one of which was his fault, which was continuing to butt his head against the wall at Fredericksburg. At Antietam he’s excoriated for continuing to try to cross at the bridge—as ordered—and for not having a modern USGS map showing there was a ford a few hundred yards downstream. Then he’s blamed for the Crater fiasco, when the (black) unit he’d trained for the operation was withdrawn at the last moment and replaced with (white) recruits.
When he was left to his own devices in East Tennessee, he behaved with distinction. There was no barbed wire in those days, but he used wire and mines and deadfalls with great innovation. He and Longstreet basically invented WWI between them—for better or worse.
Makes you wonder if all these techniques had had to be invented in 1914 instead of being studied by strategists for decades beforehand, how the course of that war might have changed.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
I think the war turns out differently if he has an equal peer in those early 1861-62 battles. McClellan was on paper brilliant but IMO too timid a general and oto sympathetic to the CSA.
Yes, would have turned out differently, but there’s an argument to make that it would have actually been worse. The war ends in 1862, then there’s no Emancipation Proclamation because there’s no Battle of Antietam. Without that, and Sherman’s March to the Sea, devastating the Southern economy and bringing the war home to the Confederacy, then there’s no utter defeat but instead a negotiated one that likely would have meant the Union accepting some form of slavery to bring the war to an end and the South back into the fold.
Of course, both things are moot because it took time for the Union to get to the sort of war footing necessary to confront the Confederacy (which had been gearing up for years prior) on equal footing. Even good generals fail when they lack the resources to win battles. Erwin Rommel is recognized as one of the finest icons in armored warfare, yet he lost the African Campaign because the Reich lacked the means to keep him supplied with men and materiel in the amounts he needed to match the Allied forces.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
I think the war turns out differently if he has an equal peer in those early 1861-62 battles. McClellan was on paper brilliant but IMO too timid a general and oto sympathetic to the CSA.
If Meade or Thomas had been commanding in the east early on, it would have been better for the union. However the raw recruits of the Union needed serious training and McClellan was excellent at training. That was his weakness as a combat commander - he hated to see them die.
Upside-Down Photos of Human Faces by photographer Anelia Loubser pic.twitter.com/8P4YST7CUs
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) February 3, 2019
Sourdough Rye Bread pic.twitter.com/HHNsRArR29
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 3, 2019
re: #53 William Lewis
If Meade or Thomas had been commanding in the east early on, it would have been better for the union. However the raw recruits of the Union needed serious training and McClellan was excellent at training. That was his weakness as a combat commander - he hated to see them die.
Yeah his men adored him. He’s an interesting guy.
re: #55 The Vicious Babushka
They look delicious.
re: #52 Targetpractice
Yes, would have turned out differently, but there’s an argument to make that it would have actually been worse. The war ends in 1862, then there’s no Emancipation Proclamation because there’s no Battle of Antietam. Without that, and Sherman’s March to the Sea, devastating the Southern economy and bringing the war home to the Confederacy, then there’s no utter defeat but instead a negotiated one that likely would have meant the Union accepting some form of slavery to bring the war to an end and the South back into the fold.
Of course, both things are moot because it took time for the Union to get to the sort of war footing necessary to confront the Confederacy (which had been gearing up for years prior) on equal footing. Even good generals fail when they lack the resources to win battles. Erwin Rommel is recognized as one of the finest icons in armored warfare, yet he lost the African Campaign because the Reich lacked the means to keep him supplied with men and materiel in the amounts he needed to match the Allied forces.
It’s definitely an interesting what if. I’m just glad slavery was ended.
In which Tulsi reveals that she is in cahoots with GeeGee to ratfuck the Democratic party:
@ggreenwald exposes that @NBC used journalistic fraud to discredit our campaign. But more important is their motive: “to smear any adversary of the establishment wing of the Democratic Party – whether on the left or the right – as a stooge or asset of the Kremlin.” https://t.co/JnROpficM9
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) February 3, 2019
re: #53 William Lewis
If Meade or Thomas had been commanding in the east early on, it would have been better for the union. However the raw recruits of the Union needed serious training and McClellan was excellent at training. That was his weakness as a combat commander - he hated to see them die.
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a Major General.
— Marshal Foch
re: #59 HappyWarrior
John Lewis at the SB with Andrew Young.
Andrew Young? Now there’s a name I hadn’t thought about for a long time.
re: #60 The Vicious Babushka
In which Tulsi reveals that she is in cahoots with GeeGee to ratfuck the Democratic party:
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— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 3, 2019
THE REFEREE DIDN’T MENTION THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY!!!
re: #60 The Vicious Babushka
In which Tulsi reveals that she is in cahoots with GeeGee to ratfuck the Democratic party:
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Go home Tulsi.
It had to happen. pic.twitter.com/6Lv4r8GSY0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 3, 2019
I think there needs to be a third party. They could call it the Ratfuck Everybody Party.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 3, 2019
Ouch. Commercial for The Handmaid’s Tale season three does a hard parody of St. Ron’s “It’s Morning Again In America” campaign ads.
Sounds like the next season of Survivor is set in Jurassic Park. I might watch if it was.
re: #67 Targetpractice
Ouch. Commercial for The Handmaid’s Tale season three does a hard parody of St. Ron’s “It’s Morning Again In America” campaign ads.
Oh man that’s gonna trigger people.
Here’s an interesting parallel for Northam: Damon Wayans Jr. made some homophobic and transphobic comments approximately ten years ago that have now come to light. Here’s his statement regarding them:
When I was a young comic trying to find my voice, I made some immature and hurtful tweets that I deeply regret at the expense of the LGBTQ community. When I tweeted those comments, almost 10 years ago, I was unaware of the emotional impact they could have. I am not excusing that behavior but that is not who I am today. Society evolved and so have I and it is something I will continue to do both personally and professionally. You know better, you do better.
Is that enough? Would that be enough for a politician to keep his job?
re: #67 Targetpractice
Ouch. Commercial for The Handmaid’s Tale season three does a hard parody of St. Ron’s “It’s Morning Again In America” campaign ads.
The Avengers Commercial. A few more clues. The sign about moving on is rather intense:
“Some people move on. But not us.” Watch the brand new Marvel Studios’ #AvengersEndgame spot that aired during the Big Game. See the film in theaters April 26. pic.twitter.com/5ZJE9cHHK9
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) February 3, 2019
re: #71 Belafon
Here’s an interesting parallel for Northam: Damon Wayans Jr. made some homophobic and transphobic comments approximately ten years ago that have now come to light. Here’s his statement regarding them:
Is that enough? Would that be enough for a politician to keep his job?
I think that’s a solid apology. Better than the Kevin Hart or Northam ones.
Rapper 21 Savage arrested by ICE… https://t.co/yecf5jXdYF
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 3, 2019
I’m officially ancient now because every time a rapper gets arrested I’ve never heard of them before.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2019
re: #71 Belafon
Here’s an interesting parallel for Northam: Damon Wayans Jr. made some homophobic and transphobic comments approximately ten years ago that have now come to light. Here’s his statement regarding them:
Is that enough? Would that be enough for a politician to keep his job?
Big difference between comedian and politician.
re: #60 The Vicious Babushka
In which Tulsi reveals that she is in cahoots with GeeGee to ratfuck the Democratic party:
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re: #71 Belafon
Here’s an interesting parallel for Northam: Damon Wayans Jr. made some homophobic and transphobic comments approximately ten years ago that have now come to light. Here’s his statement regarding them:
Is that enough? Would that be enough for a politician to keep his job?
If Northam had stayed with his initial statement of admission and apology, he might not have saved his ass but at least he would have earned some measure of good faith and possibly be able to rehabilitate his political career.
Now? No, he’s toast, he’ll always be remembered as that moron who couldn’t decide whether it was worse to be caught in blackface or KKK sheets.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
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The only music I listen to was recorded in a previous millenium.
re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The only music I listen to was recorded in a previous millenium.
Gregorian chants?////
re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The only music I listen to was recorded in a previous millenium.
You kids and your phonographs.
re: #10 Patricia Kayden
Is Joe Walsh imbibing some illegal drug concoction that he made up himself?
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It’s either drugs… or a Möbius strip of cognitive dissonance… or he’s just a clueless grift artist that somehow managed to get elected into the House of Representatives.
Or it’s all of the above, Katie.
Why do people watch this shit?
A half dozen officials in a goddamned kiki to decide what the infraction was, American football is a ridiculous fucking sport.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 4, 2019
re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The only music I listen to was recorded in a previous millenium.
There was actually a time I didn’t even like the music of the 90s—namely, when it was coming out. But tuning into my local public-radio ‘modern pop’ station, started reconciling me not only with that but with truly recent music. It’s all a matter of fighting your natural inclinations to become hidebound in terms of music somewhere between age 12 and age 20.
It doesn’t hurt that the synth is considered a more acceptable instrument since 2005 than it was between 1991 and 2003, either.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
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That was good. I was in college in Atlanta at that time. A lot of us went to a march in Forsyth County over its treatment of black residents in 1987. I wasn’t at the first violent march, but the second in response.
re: #84 goddamnedfrank
Why do people watch this shit?
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They should just stand at opposite ends of the field and sue each other….
re: #76 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Big difference between comedian and politician.
That’s what I’m getting at, though. I was alive in the 80s. I was too nerdy to do a lot of stuff, but there is a whole lot of truth in the idea that people my age and older are lucky there weren’t the number of cameras back then that there are now. So lets say someone else did what Northam did. Which of these would allow that person to keep their job:
1. Come out now and say what they did, that they were naive and have evolved.
2. Have someone find out, release them, but you quickly come out and apologize.
3. Have them released, but refuse to retire.
4. Hope that no one finds out.
If it’s 3 and 4, things are going to be real ugly for the party and the country.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
I think I literally just hit that cusp, because I recognized Bow Wow…who is now less Lil and more Middle Aged…when he got arrested the other day.
(and it was for domestic battery, so fuck him)
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
she really has an overwhelmingly huge impression of herself
I am so throughly unimpressed by her.
re: #86 Barefoot Grin
That was good. I was in college in Atlanta at that time. A lot of us went to a march in Forsyth County over its treatment of black residents in 1987. I wasn’t at the first violent march, but the second in response.
Speaking of Atlanta, do you think we can get Stone Mountain sandblasted clean in our lifetime?
re: #73 Belafon
The Avengers Commercial. A few more clues. The sign about moving on is rather intense:
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Freeze the commercial at 5 seconds and stare at the picture of the Statue of Liberty.
re: #89 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think I literally just hit that cusp, because I recognized Bow Wow…who is now less Lil and more Middle Aged…when he got arrested the other day.
(and it was for domestic battery, so fuck him)
I still say “Little Stevie Winwood”, so….
re: #91 Chrysicat
Speaking of Atlanta, do you think we can get Stone Mountain sandblasted clean in our lifetime?
No
re: #71 Belafon
Here’s an interesting parallel for Northam: Damon Wayans Jr. made some homophobic and transphobic comments approximately ten years ago that have now come to light. Here’s his statement regarding them:
Is that enough? Would that be enough for a politician to keep his job?
As with everything, it depends on context. What was the original transgression and what has happened in the interim? For me, if the original transgression reflects thoughtlessness, rather than malice, and the passage of time and the person’s actions since show decency and justice, then a simple apology is absolutely enough. If, say, one of the privileged little turds that hooted and smirked at the Lincoln Memorial grew up and devoted his time and works to the benefit of many, and showed that he no longer had the mindset of a smarmy white teen growing up in a culture of casual racism, I’d totally forgive that.
Actions based in malice are much harder to forgive. Voting Trump, for instance. I haven’t yet seen or met a person I would forgive for that.
re: #91 Chrysicat
Speaking of Atlanta, do you think we can get Stone Mountain sandblasted clean in our lifetime?
I’d be ok with that. They used to do “Dark Side of the Moon” laser shows there. Maybe they could use military lasers to efface that monstrosity.
re: #82 HappyWarrior
You kids and your phonographs.
You know that’s not totes a funny and ironic thing, right?
That there’s nearly as much music sold on vinyl today as there are CDs, though both are way behind no-hard-copy?
re: #97 Chrysicat
You know that’s not totes a funny and ironic thing, right?
That there’s nearly as much music sold on vinyl today as there are CDs, though both are way behind no-hard-copy?
Yeah I know.
re: #89 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think I literally just hit that cusp, because I recognized Bow Wow…who is now less Lil and more Middle Aged…when he got arrested the other day.
(and it was for domestic battery, so fuck him)
I remember Bow Wow Wow, not that they were ever Lil…
re: #89 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think I literally just hit that cusp, because I recognized Bow Wow…who is now less Lil and more Middle Aged…when he got arrested the other day.
(and it was for domestic battery, so fuck him)
He’s 31 now.
re: #87 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
They should just stand at opposite ends of the field and sue each other….
I’m surprised the NFL didn’t set up a 900 number for folks to vote on which way a ref decision should go.
re: #91 Chrysicat
Speaking of Atlanta, do you think we can get Stone Mountain sandblasted clean in our lifetime?
Unpopular opinion: both Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore should be sandblasted. But both will be defended to the hilt by people who will never understand or comprehend why they were ever mistakes, so I doubt it will ever happen.
re: #102 Myron Falwell
What’s so bad about Rushmore?
re: #101 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m surprised the NFL didn’t set up a 900 number for folks to vote on which way a ref decision should go.
You pay for skybox, you get to dictate the ref’s call once per game.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s so bad about Rushmore?
You mean other than the fact that it’s basically carved into the Lakota version of the Temple Mount?
re: #104 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
You pay for skybox, you get to dictate the ref’s call once per game.
This is probably one of the most accurate comments I’ve ever seen on this website.
re: #105 Chrysicat
You mean other than the fact that it’s basically carved into the Lakota version of the Temple Mount?
TBF I don’t think EC knew that.
A Bud Light commercial segueing into a GoT teaser. Nice.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s so bad about Rushmore?
It sits on land that the US allowed back to the Lakota Nation via the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which has been continuously subverted in some way or another since the 1880s.
re: #89 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think I literally just hit that cusp, because I recognized Bow Wow…who is now less Lil and more Middle Aged…when he got arrested the other day.
(and it was for domestic battery, so fuck him)
I recognize Bow Wow but my head is still fucked up after not knowing who Tekashi69 was and then making the horrible decision to read his entire wikipedia page.
Note: if you read that page then you have to post it somewhere else and fuck up someone else’s head. Same rules as that videotape from The Ring.
re: #107 HappyWarrior
TBF I don’t think EC knew that.
I’m sure you’re right. I’m also not sure if that’s an excuse after 2010, because even the wiki article about the place mentions it.
Still, I apologise if I came off violent and snarky. I should understand that it’s everyone’s first time to learn something.
re: #106 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
This is probably one of the most accurate comments I’ve ever seen on this website.
I am 100% a false prophet but the goody bag almost compensates for the inevitable fall from grace and fiery demise.
The Super Bowl: A Confession
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re: #112 Chrysicat
I’m sure you’re right. I’m also not sure if that’s an excuse after 2010, because even the wiki article about the place mentions it.
Still, I apologise if I came off violent and snarky. I should understand that it’s everyone’s first time to learn something.
It’s all good. Know you didn’t mean any harm.
re: #116 I Would Prefer Not To
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So, there’s a game on. Ok. Not much else going on.
Made a chicken bean stew.
1 large can diced tomatoes
1 can of tomato paste
1 can white beans
1 can roman beans
6 chicken breasts
chicken stock (made with tumeric and my scape pesto)
sriracha to add heat.
celery, green onion, onion.
Not quite a chili but damned good. And far better than watching guys who might concuss themselves into oblivion.
Not a football fan, but this may mean only one thing: Northam is resigning during the game and telling top staffers at the least opportune moment. https://t.co/1T39tAg26W
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 4, 2019
Another of these. I like this one because it shows Reagan as a step down from Nixon, which he was in competence and vision. Reagan was the real beginning of the mess in which we now find ourselves. The GOP could have recovered from Nixon, it has not recovered from Reagan and in fact has gotten progressively worse.
re: #111 goddamnedfrank
I recognize Bow Wow but my head is still fucked up after not knowing who Tekashi69 was and then making the horrible decision to read his entire wikipedia page.
Note: if you read that page then you have to post it somewhere else and fuck up someone else’s head. Same rules as that videotape from The Ring.
I’ve been consuming small amounts of Youtube content creator bullshit drama until I developed an immunity to bullshit drama people. Mithradatism, baby.
Anyway, I’m a lonely enough person that television demon person visit doesn’t sound entirely bad….
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another of these. I like this one because it shows Reagan as a step down from Nixon, which he was in competence and vision. Reagan was the real beginning of the mess in which we now find ourselves. The GOP could have recovered from Nixon, it has not recovered from Reagan and in fact has gotten progressively worse.
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IMO Reagan was just as crooked as Nixon as President but his charisma saved him.
re: #120 lawhawk
Best time for him to get out, BTW.
re: #120 lawhawk
And at this time last year everyone was asking me for the score.
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another of these. I like this one because it shows Reagan as a step down from Nixon, which he was in competence and vision. Reagan was the real beginning of the mess in which we now find ourselves. The GOP could have recovered from Nixon, it has not recovered from Reagan and in fact has gotten progressively worse.
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He wasn’t president, but Goldwater has to be in there somehow, as Reagan basically ran the same campaign he did 16 years later.
De-evolution is wholly appropriate.
re: Monuments. I think that the original plan for Mt. Rushmore was to include Native American heroes, but then conservative forces intervened and the Stone Mountain guy was brought in to make it white guys only.
Unpopular opinion: we might be better off if Trump spent even more time watching tv rather than running the government. TBH, I’d be ok with 100% executive time. https://t.co/h8qhhPPIwZ
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 3, 2019
re: #127 Myron Falwell
He wasn’t president, but Goldwater has to be in there somehow, as Reagan basically ran the same campaign he did 16 years later.
De-evolution is wholly appropriate.
Goldwater deserves credit for disowning the religious right. But he deserves scorn for being the front runner of the GOP’s move away on civil rights.
re: #112 Chrysicat
I’m sure you’re right. I’m also not sure if that’s an excuse after 2010, because even the wiki article about the place mentions it.
Still, I apologise if I came off violent and snarky. I should understand that it’s everyone’s first time to learn something.
It’s okay. The Treaty of Fort Laramie is not common knowledge by any means.
If more people were actually aware of the fact we’ve been continuously violating that treaty since it was enacted in 1869, the views on Mount Rushmore would undoubtedly change.
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Another of these. I like this one because it shows Reagan as a step down from Nixon, which he was in competence and vision. Reagan was the real beginning of the mess in which we now find ourselves. The GOP could have recovered from Nixon, it has not recovered from Reagan and in fact has gotten progressively worse.
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More stupid and more evil, step by step. The next GOP nominee to follow Trump will have to be a zombie apocalypse.
re: #129 Targetpractice
Seems Ralph’s defiance was measured in micro-Scaramuccis.
Looks like Two CentiScaramuccis equals One Northam.
re: #132 NO SMOCKING GUN!
More stupid and more evil, step by step. The next GOP nominee to follow Trump will have to be a zombie apocalypse.
If it’s either Rick Scott or Ron DeStupid, you may right on the money.
*rammstein guy asking his wife what she wants for breakfast*
do
do hash
do hash browns
do hash browns sound good
do hash browns sound good— savory gardettos blend (@doublequibble) February 2, 2019
re: #134 Myron Falwell
If it’s either Rick Scott or Ron DeStupid, you may right on the money.
I think they might actually nominate a literal CSA flag.
What happens to the GOP if Ike has another running mate?
They’re bringing back The Twilight Zone…again. Okay, didn’t know about that.
re: #139 Targetpractice
They’re bringing back The Twilight Zone…again. Okay, didn’t know about that.
CBS’s streaming app needs a new flagship after STD (Star Trek Discovery) bombed so badly.
re: #139 Targetpractice
They’re bringing back The Twilight Zone…again. Okay, didn’t know about that.
Jordan Peele is behind it. Should be good. I’m genuinely impressed with how he tells horror and suspense given he’s a great sketch comic.
re: #140 Kilroy was here
CBS’s streaming app needs a new flagship after STD (Star Trek Discovery) bombed so badly.
Did it? I like it.
re: #131 Myron Falwell
It’s okay. The Treaty of Fort Laramie is not common knowledge by any means.
If more people were actually aware of the fact we’ve been continuously violating that treaty since it was enacted in 1869, the views on Mount Rushmore would undoubtedly change.
I always wanted to do a cover of Beds Are Burning tweaked to be about Rushmore. Take the Penguin Air Force on a bombing mission… ;)
re: #140 Kilroy was here
CBS’s streaming app needs a new flagship after STD (Star Trek Discovery) bombed so badly.
I’m finding myself more supportive of the second season…even if the most recent episode was utterly ridiculous.
I know y’all aren’t deep into cryptocurrency much, so this link might be total gobbledygook to you, but it’s an amazing bit of detective work.
medium.com
tl;dr - that Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that went belly up appears to have been insolvent. It appears to have had no reserves of Bitcoin on hand, at least not in the amounts it reported to the courts. Also, it appears the operator of the exchange was honoring withdrawal requests by using other users deposits.
As I mentioned earlier, the ledger aspect of bitcoin and its kin means we can track the flow of funds from one address to another, and draw conclusions from those flows. That’s what the OP did.
re: #145 Targetpractice
I’m finding myself more supportive of the second season…even if the most recent episode was utterly ridiculous.
What they did to Spock’s history is a fricken disaster..
🔥 This little SuperbOwl is very happy being petted 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Q014msH99f
— Damn Nature, You Lit! (@NatureLitAF) February 3, 2019
Translation: Northam’s classmates were fine with racism until they could use it as a weapon to control women’s bodies. https://t.co/H3cC6uXCgo
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 4, 2019
The Dr. Gupta Make a Wish sketch on Key and Peele quite honestly is one of my favorite sketches. It’s both funny and surprisingly dark.
re: #147 Kilroy was here
What they did to Spock’s history is a fricken disaster..
To be fair, they’ve never really gone too deep into Spock’s history before DISC, provided you don’t count the Kelvin timeline films. My biggest gripe with DISC has to do with the total visual disconnect that seems to be inspired by said films.
re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That is so sweet.
re: #149 jaunte
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So yeah, just as surmised yesterday, this shit was out there but only became public knowledge the moment it became politically advantageous (i.e. killing a bill that wingnuts hate with a passion).
re: #154 Targetpractice
So yeah, just as surmised yesterday, this shit was out there but only became public knowledge the moment it became politically advantageous (i.e. killing a bill that wingnuts hate with a passion).
I think the evidence was there when it was a Roy Moore associated outfit that published it.
re: #128 Barefoot Grin
Not an unpopular opinion by me. I’m grateful that Trump has no work ethic. Scary to think what he could have done with a bit of that and better home training. In fact, I wonder if it weren’t for the win, if he wouldn’t just let the clock run out on this term and then go home permanently. What would another four years do for him anyway?
As it is he’s skimming or scamming off his re-election funds as it is. True, I doubt if he would need a lot of it-an incumbent President just needs to prepare for whoever his opponent happens to be. The RNC with a normal President would know that, and expend its efforts in trying to elect more Republicans elsewhere. But by merging Trump 2020 with this, there will be scant funds available for other candidates. #ETTD.
re: #156 CarolJ
Not an unpopular opinion by me. I’m grateful that Trump has no work ethic. Scary to think what he could have done with a bit of that and better home training. In fact, I wonder if it weren’t for the win, if he wouldn’t just let the clock run out on this term and then go home permanently. What would another four years do for him anyway?
As it is he’s skimming or scamming off his re-election funds as it is. True, I doubt if he would need a lot of it-an incumbent President just needs to prepare for whoever his opponent happens to be. The RNC with a normal President would know that, and expend its efforts in trying to elect more Republicans elsewhere. But by merging Trump 2020 with this, there will be scant funds available for other candidates. #ETTD.
Just another Trump grift.
3 - 0 Evil Empire at the Half.
What an exciting game.
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re: #152 Targetpractice
To be fair, they’ve never really gone too deep into Spock’s history before DISC, provided you don’t count the Kelvin timeline films. My biggest gripe with DISC has to do with the total visual disconnect that seems to be inspired by said films.
It was sold as prime time line not Kelvin.
The tech is wrong, the Klingons are a mush mouthed mess with no relation the either Enterprises or TOS (including movies). The main character is a total an unlikable Mary Sue.
The Orville is much much better Star Trek. And it isn’t Star Trek.
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
3 - 0 Evil Empire at the Half.
What an exciting game.
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Punting aficionados have had a lot to appreciate.
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
3 - 0 Evil Empire at the Half.
What an exciting game.
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I think there’s a possibility that Arthur Blank, Mercedes, Georgia, and the city of Atlanta have a case to sue the NFL.
For failure to provide contracted services— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) February 4, 2019
re: #127 Myron Falwell
He wasn’t president, but Goldwater has to be in there somehow, as Reagan basically ran his campaign 16 years later.
De-evolution is wholly appropriate.
True that. During the 1964 primary campaign the progressive (Rockefeller-Scranton) Republicans made a practice of saying that they were fighting for the future of the Republican party. It seemed like hyperbole at the time, but it turned out to be nothing less than the sober truth. Through her book A Choice, Not an Echo, Phyllis Schlafly provided much of the philosophical underpinning for Goldwater’s campaign. She had first risen to national prominence at the 1960 GOP convention, with a noisy but unsuccessful “revolt” against the Nixon-backed platform’s civil rights plank.
re: #140 Kilroy was here
CBS’s streaming app needs a new flagship after STD (Star Trek Discovery) bombed so badly.
Narrator: “Star Trek: Discovery didn’t bomb.”
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
3 - 0 Evil Empire at the Half.
What an exciting game.
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And, the commercials aren’t all that good either
re: #162 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
True that. During the 1964 primary campaign the progressive (Rockefeller-Scranton) Republicans made a practice of saying that they were fighting for the future of the Republican party. It seemed like hyperbole at the time, but it turned out to be nothing less than the sober truth. Through her book A Choice, Not an Echo, Phyllis Schlafly provided much of the philosophical underpinning for Goldwater’s campaign. She had first risen to national prominence at the 1960 GOP convention, with a noisy but unsuccessful “revolt” against the Nixon-backed platform’s civil rights plank.
I think her start was actually opposing Ike in ‘52.
re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
As Happy said, he wasn’t a bad general, but he wasn’t a god of strategy like some authors make him out to be.
I seem to recall that at one point, Lee could have essentially won the war by marching on Washington. Somehow the bulk of the union army had gotten out of position and left a path. I don’t know if confederate espionage was strong enough to have picked up on the mistake, though.
re: #159 Kilroy was here
It was sold as prime time line not Kelvin.
The tech is wrong, the Klingons are a mush mouthed mess with no relation the either Enterprises or TOS (including movies). The main character is a total an unlikable Mary Sue.The Orville is much much better Star Trek. And it isn’t Star Trek.
After the first season, I would have agreed with you and felt justified if CBS pulled the plug.
The second season? It’s caught my interest, even if I wish they’d excise the whole Klingon mess with a precision nuclear strike.
re: #167 Targetpractice
After the first season, I would have agreed with you and felt justified if CBS pulled the plug.
The second season? It’s caught my interest, even if I wish they’d excise the whole Klingon mess with a precision nuclear strike.
Captain Pike is a ray of sunshine. I had hope until the episode three of this season. It was a hot mess. I think the worst Star Trek Episode.. in history. That covers a lot of ground.
re: #169 Ace Rothstein
These commercials are pitiful.
Luckily, the commercials have been groundbreaking….
(s)— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) February 4, 2019
re: #140 Kilroy was here
CBS’s streaming app needs a new flagship after STD (Star Trek Discovery) bombed so badly.
I tried to watch Discovery but it just does not click for me. It misfires just like Enterprise.
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
I tried to watch Discovery but it just does not click for me. It misfires just like Enterprise.
Same. I’m ready for a new non prequel ST series.
You most certainly did not. https://t.co/0T1G3gu6kS
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) February 4, 2019
I like Maroon 5, I like Travis Scott. This blows.
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
Same. I’m ready for a new non prequel ST series.
It’s just time to move on and put Trek to bed. You can go to the well only so many times. And I feel the same way with the Peele re-re-re-reboot of Twilight Zone.
Can’t the networks at least try to do something original?
Worst halftime ever….
And the marching band was done much better with Tusk.
Oh, best commercial so far has to be the NFL 100th anniversary one, with all the players scrumming for the football during what would be a normal rubber chicken dinner gala.
re: #177 jaunte
They poured Trump’s face paint in it.
re: #175 jaunte
That looks like the grease bath that C-3PO bathed in to get clean.
Remember, the loser of this Super Bowl doesn’t have to go visit Trump.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
As usual PBS has some very good programs. A re-run of Downton Abbey to start. Last weeks episode of Victoria and the latest episode is next.
re: #175 jaunte
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What the ever loving fuck is that monstrosity. I’ve seen better looking “queso” at gas stations across the nation.
re: #182 jaunte
These teams are playing like they know whoever wins goes to the White House
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) February 4, 2019
re: #175 jaunte
lol, Dana recreated Roger Stone’s spray-tan solution
Good points! Not sure if you noticed but you’re a US embassy in a country led by a military dictator who came to power in a coup that overthrew an elected leader. The Egyptian dictator has detained thousands of dissidents and routinely uses torture. Might want to look into that? https://t.co/VvwLXl81uk
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 3, 2019
re: #177 jaunte
How does cheese get to be that color?
That appears to be a block of Velveeta and a can of Hormel Chili (no beans) melted in a crock-thing. Not… necessarily awful, but not queso.
re: #193 NetworkKed
That appears to be a block of Velveeta and a can of Hormel Chili (no beans) melted in a crock-thing. Not… necessarily awful, but not queso.
I got a feeling she just scooped the cheese out of a bottle of Cheez Wiz.
re: #168 Kilroy was here
Captain Pike is a ray of sunshine. I had hope until the episode three of this season. It was a hot mess. I think the worst Star Trek Episode.. in history. That covers a lot of ground.
The third episode was sort of the distillation of all that was bad about the first season: the horrible “new look” of the Klingons, the fourth-wall breaking efforts to address the total disconnect between this series and prevailing Trek canon, the whole Mirror Universe BS, Section 31, etc.
The first two episodes felt like classic Trek. The third? Felt like bad fanfiction.
re: #193 NetworkKed
That appears to be a block of Velveeta and a can of Hormel Chili (no beans) melted in a crock-thing. Not… necessarily awful, but not queso.
That’s a case of cold compresses and ass burn tomorrow…..
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
Same. I’m ready for a new non prequel ST series.
Picard is coming back in a new series!
re: #193 NetworkKed
That appears to be a block of Velveeta and a can of Hormel Chili (no beans) melted in a crock-thing. Not… necessarily awful, but not queso.
That’s the dip I used to make back in the day. My dip, however, looked much healthier than that.
re: #175 jaunte
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Good God, my fellow white people, is there nothing we cannot fuck up?
re: #165 HappyWarrior
I think her start was actually opposing Ike in ‘52.
She was a delegate at the ‘52 convention and endorsed Ike’s opponent Robert Taft. She also ran for Congress that year and lost. By the 1960 convention, she was a star player on the Hunt brother’s far right team, but she did not achieve really national prominence until she led the revolt against civil rights.
re: #187 Dave In Austin
Looking for any excuse to deflect from that grease bath you called queso.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 4, 2019
re: #197 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Picard is coming back in a new series!
Yes and I am very stoked about that.
The Sum of All Fears had a better Super Bowl
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) February 4, 2019
And for those who don’t get the joke - terrorists nuked the Super Bowl.
A 2014 https://t.co/22QkmIEhyJ petition to “Have Weird Al Yankovic Headline the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show” received more than 100,000 signatures. #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/6w6DBFa8T7
— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) February 4, 2019
re: #152 Targetpractice
To be fair, they’ve never really gone too deep into Spock’s history before DISC, provided you don’t count the Kelvin timeline films. My biggest gripe with DISC has to do with the total visual disconnect that seems to be inspired by said films.
That’s a consequence of competing intellectual property rights. The TV show is barred from making sets and costumes look too similar to the movie franchise. It is also unlikely we’ll see an adult Spock or a young Kirk, for much the same reasons.
re: #175 jaunte
Okay, so I have a standing observation that fascists generally create shitty art. The best fascist art was created by the Italians…who were the worst at fascisting, so inverse proportion, perhaps?
The other day Buzzfeed had an article about cooking on Gab and the atrocities that white supremacists perform to food before proudly photographing it to display to other shitheels.
Long before, I encountered MRAs giving each the worst fucking cooking tips ever on Men Going Their Own Way blogs.
In general, white people do not know how to season food. Even Wakandans know what’s wrong with Karen’s potato salad.
All I’m saying is, that “quesorrhea” is another datapoint in a grand theory about that narcissicist pathologies and general shitheeldom correlate with lack of taste, both figurative and literal.
A local personal injury attorney did a GoT style commercial for the SB, last year. This year he played a superhero. Ugh.
re: #197 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Picard is coming back in a new series!
I’m hopeful largely because Patrick Stewart made clear ages ago that he was done with ST and playing Picard, that he wouldn’t come back for any amount of money. So when I heard he agreed to come back for a new series if he got a say in the creative process…well, it would be like Sean Connery announcing he was coming back to acting to play Bond one last time.
re: #204 lawhawk
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Well, in the book (Denver, wasn’t it?). In the movie it was just a regular football game
re: #200 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
She was a delegate at the ‘52 convention and endorsed Ike’s opponent Robert Taft. She also ran for Congress that year and lost. By the 1960 convention, she was a star player on the Hunt brother’s far right team, but she did not achieve really national prominence until she led the revolt against civil rights.
Ahhhh thanks for the history.
— Left Shark (@leftshark) February 4, 2019
re: #199 Targetpractice
Good God, my fellow white people, is there nothing we cannot fuck up?
No. It’s our Super Power.
re: #208 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I’ll be back later.
I have a Genius Grant proposal to write.
I watched part of the half-time show. I’m waiting for some white guy to whine about why that rap music has infected the NFL.
re: #212 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yeah, a fizzle at that - but the snow reflected the nuke to make it seem much bigger than it actually was.
Never saw the movie, but I thought the game in that was located in Baltimore?
We (white people) do pierogis well but I’m sure if there were PoC in Eastern Europe, they’d be even better.
When you say “gone”, i assume you mean the hazmat team showed up.
— Dave policy policy policy (@Bizzdave) February 4, 2019
re: #219 lawhawk
Yeah, a fizzle at that - but the snow reflected the nuke to make it seem much bigger than it actually was.
Never saw the movie, but I thought the game in that was located in Baltimore?
I believe it was. I saw it once, many many moons ago.
re: #159 Kilroy was here
It was sold as prime time line not Kelvin.
The tech is wrong, the Klingons are a mush mouthed mess with no relation the either Enterprises or TOS (including movies). The main character is a total an unlikable Mary Sue.The Orville is much much better Star Trek. And it isn’t Star Trek.
CBS can sell it however they want. They can call it Prime Timeline, but, in practice, no matter the intention in 2009, Prime Timeline is a useless marketing buzzphrase that simply means “not-Abrams.”
Fine, CBS, you want to call Discovery “Prime.” Okay, it’s ” prime. ” Then I reclassify TOS as the ur-Timeline from which the Prime and Kelvin timelines derive. The Abrams films only really establish that fifty-something year old Spock and 157 year old Spock look like old Leonard Nimoy and that at some point, the Prime Enterprise crew looked like the movie cast during the filming of Star Trek V.
And since Star Trek V invented a spurious half-sibling for Spock, contrary to DC Fontana’s proclamation that Spock was an only child, I would argue that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Prime Timeline from the original ur-Timeline is that it is one in which Spock has “secret” half- and foster-siblings.
And that’s how I watch DISCOVERY without the visual and other continuity glitches driving me crazy - er, crazier.
re: #204 lawhawk
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Thomas Harris beat them on that.
“I want to develop the Voight-Kampf test, but for shitty wypipo that shouldn’t be trusted.”
re: #221 teleskiguy
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Elitist? Uh no Dana. They’re called people who don’t burn cheese.
That’s the shit Gollum fell into on Mount Doom.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 4, 2019
re: #195 Targetpractice
The third episode was sort of the distillation of all that was bad about the first season: the horrible “new look” of the Klingons, the fourth-wall breaking efforts to address the total disconnect between this series and prevailing Trek canon, the whole Mirror Universe BS, Section 31, etc.
The first two episodes felt like classic Trek. The third? Felt like bad fanfiction.
Ep 3 had too many subplots for a one-hour time slot. You’ve got Tilly and her intelligent parasite, Michael and her missing brother, Michael’s main squeeze and his Klingon mistress(??), the mirror universe empress and Section 31, and the red angel story arc nonsense. Would have worked much better to have distributed those subplots across two or three episodes.
The first two eps were OTOH pretty good. Not cluttered with extraneous action and story lines.
re: #228 jaunte
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Nah, it’s what happened when I would make nachos in the middle of the night when I was 15.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
Elitist? Uh no Dana. They’re called people who don’t burn cheese.
FFS, I had guys in my college dorm who could cook better than that. And they set popcorn on fire. MICROWAVE. POPCORN.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
Elitist? Uh no Dana. They’re called people who don’t burn cheese.
Burn cheese? Separate cheese and oil and turn it into a greasy mess?
She checked off on both.
re: #219 lawhawk
Yeah, a fizzle at that - but the snow reflected the nuke to make it seem much bigger than it actually was.
Never saw the movie, but I thought the game in that was located in Baltimore?
Yeah, movie game was in Baltimore
re: #221 teleskiguy
It probably would have helped if Dana had stirred it before taking the picture. Someone needs to politely explain to her that just having cheese doesn’t make it Spanish-cheese.
re: #235 teleskiguy
Who eats salad while watching the Super Bowl?
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
FFS, I had guys in my college dorm who could cook better than that. And they set popcorn on fire. MICROWAVE. POPCORN.
“You know how there’s always a lot of unpopped kernels? I think it needs to nuke for a lot longer. I mean A LOT. What’s the worst that could happen?
She could learn to laugh at herself but has to do the time honored right wing tradition of calling people elitists. I’m sure there’s plenty of humble Mexican families that can teach you to make queso Dana.
re: #207 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
That’s a consequence of competing intellectual property rights. The TV show is barred from making sets and costumes look too similar to the movie franchise. It is also unlikely we’ll see an adult Spock or a young Kirk, for much the same reasons.
There was talk last year about Viacom and CBS getting back together…National Amusements agreed to put such talk on the backburner for 2 years after Moonves got ran out on a rail.
re: #229 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Ep 3 had too many subplots for a one-hour time slot. You’ve got Tilly and her intelligent parasite, Michael and her missing brother, Michael’s main squeeze and his Klingon mistress(??), the mirror universe empress and Section 31, and the red angel story arc nonsense. Would have worked much better to have distributed those subplots across two or three episodes.
The first two eps were OTOH pretty good. Not cluttered with extraneous action and story lines.
It’s why I characterized it as a distillation of the whole first season: Trying to keep too much shit up in the air at the same time and thus giving nothing adequate characterization beyond “This is a thing that matters.”
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
FFS, I had guys in my college dorm who could cook better than that. And they set popcorn on fire. MICROWAVE. POPCORN.
I used to make what I called bastardized nachos. Tortilla chips with melted cheese on them. Not good but better than what Dana shared.
re: #239 Blind Frog Belly White
“You know how there’s always a lot of unpopped kernels? I think it needs to nuke for a lot longer. I mean A LOT. What’s the worst that could happen?
Though to be fair, the funniest one was when I was visiting our sister wing on a Friday night, and one of the women set fire to a batch of no-bake cookies.
re: #243 HappyWarrior
I used to make what I called bastardized nachos. Tortilla chips with melted cheese on them. Not good but better than what Dana shared.
Mrs. Fish and I make those when we need a cheap, fast snack with some salty flavor. Perfect for drunk nights.
This is what to do when somebody points out you did a faux pas==>
Hi @PopChassid - thank you for bringing this to me. We cannot + will not move forward without deep fellowship and leadership with the Jewish community. I’ll have my team reach out. 💜
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2019
Super Bowl Halftime Show Marred By Functioning Sound System https://t.co/GTTrnLB9Se
— Meg Graham (@megancgraham) February 4, 2019
re: #223 A Three Hour Tour
CBS can sell it however they want. They can call it Prime Timeline, but, in practice, no matter the intention in 2009, Prime Timeline is a useless marketing buzzphrase that simply means “not-Abrams.”
Fine, CBS, you want to call Discovery “Prime.” Okay, it’s ” prime. ” Then I reclassify TOS as the ur-Timeline from which the Prime and Kelvin timelines derive. The Abrams films only really establish that fifty-something year old Spock and 157 year old Spock look like old Leonard Nimoy and that at some point, the Prime Enterprise crew looked like the movie cast during the filming of Star Trek V.
And since Star Trek V invented a spurious half-sibling for Spock, contrary to DC Fontana’s proclamation that Spock was an only child, I would argue that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Prime Timeline from the original ur-Timeline is that it is one in which Spock has “secret” half- and foster-siblings.
And that’s how I watch DISCOVERY without the visual and other continuity glitches driving me crazy - er, crazier.
I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.
re: #245 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Mrs. Fish and I make those when we need a cheap, fast snack with some salty flavor. Perfect for drunk nights.
Yeah perfect late night snack.
re: #223 A Three Hour Tour
CBS can sell it however they want. They can call it Prime Timeline, but, in practice, no matter the intention in 2009, Prime Timeline is a useless marketing buzzphrase that simply means “not-Abrams.”
Fine, CBS, you want to call Discovery “Prime.” Okay, it’s ” prime. ” Then I reclassify TOS as the ur-Timeline from which the Prime and Kelvin timelines derive. The Abrams films only really establish that fifty-something year old Spock and 157 year old Spock look like old Leonard Nimoy and that at some point, the Prime Enterprise crew looked like the movie cast during the filming of Star Trek V.
And since Star Trek V invented a spurious half-sibling for Spock, contrary to DC Fontana’s proclamation that Spock was an only child, I would argue that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Prime Timeline from the original ur-Timeline is that it is one in which Spock has “secret” half- and foster-siblings.
And that’s how I watch DISCOVERY without the visual and other continuity glitches driving me crazy - er, crazier.
If they had done this to Star Wars Chewbacca would be a Ewok and the Millennium Falcon would look like the Jupiter II (See 1960s Lost in Space).
If you like STD great. If it wasn’t called Star Trek I may have enjoyed it. But this smoldering pile of dog flop you have to pay a subscription for is beyond my ability to handle.
“My methodology requires monitoring eye movements, heart rate, and galvanic skin response while interacting with an uncooked chicken breast, a spice rack, and basic cooking tools.”
“Anybody that sticks the chicken in the oven in a grill pan plain will likely sympathize with resurgence worldwide totalitarianism and should be deem a national security threat.”
“Individuals capable of understanding the application of salt and pepper could be safely transitioned back into society after extensive re-education about what you fucking do with paprika.”
“However the application of white sugar, and only white sugar, while displaying no physiological signs of distress indicates… secret Hitler.”
re: #238 jaunte
There’s a range of acceptable colors. Dana’s was burned to a crisp and separated.
re: #246 The Vicious Babushka
This is what to do when somebody points out you did a faux pas==>
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Props to her seriously on this. I know a lot of lefties that ignore Corbyn’s Antisemitism because they like the socialism. Alexandria should also look at his indifference to Britain’s immigrant communities.
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
FFS, I had guys in my college dorm who could cook better than that. And they set popcorn on fire. MICROWAVE. POPCORN.
Just recently, it seems like, it’s impossible not to set microwave popcorn on fire. If you try to pop the bag past half full, you start smelling smoke and there’ll be a smoldering lump of popcorn in the middle. I’ve tried everything—lower power (Takes longer, so makes it worse), two bags at once, can’t avoid it. I think it happened when the standard 3.5 oz. bag shrunk to whatever it is now—2 1/4 oz.maybe? They don’t say on the bag any more.
Just. Quit. https://t.co/kTEDNHUna2
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 4, 2019
re: #256 Dave In Austin
Nothing says narcissist like making your staff attend a meeting about your career while the Super Bowl is on.
It’s SOUP WEATHER!!!
Last night it was Beef and Barley, or as I like to call it “Beef and Bar Fly”, aka “Snake And Spider Stew”.
Tonight it’s Portugese Kale and Potato. 15 more minutes and it’s time….
re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.
How many different eras have Marge and Home made out at the golf course?
re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.
I used to love to find inconsistencies and say “They really ought to write some of this stuff down.” It’s just a game. It’s just TV.
The announcers are going crazy…. over a 65 yard punt.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
This may be the most boring football game I’ve ever watched.
so apparently this Super Bowl thing is kind of a big deal … looks like Netflix viewing in the US is down about 32% compared to a normal Sunday
— Netflix US (@netflix) February 4, 2019
re: #262 lawhawk
The announcers are going crazy…. over a 65 yard punt.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
It’s a Superb Owl record. That’s great and all, but … mehhhhhh
re: #256 Dave In Austin
There are possibly three people that want him to stay, and two of them are Ralph Northam and his ego.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 4, 2019
re: #258 jaunte
Nothing says narcissist like making your staff attend a meeting about your career while the Super Bowl is on.
The meeting is probably a lot more interesting.
re: #162 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
True that. During the 1964 primary campaign the progressive (Rockefeller-Scranton) Republicans made a practice of saying that they were fighting for the future of the Republican party. It seemed like hyperbole at the time, but it turned out to be nothing less than the sober truth. Through her book A Choice, Not an Echo, Phyllis Schlafly provided much of the philosophical underpinning for Goldwater’s campaign. She had first risen to national prominence at the 1960 GOP convention, with a noisy but unsuccessful “revolt” against the Nixon-backed platform’s civil rights plank.
Which gives a whole ‘nother level of meaning to Ford’s choice of Rockefeller as his VP… I’m sorry I didn’t realize that at the time.
re: #258 jaunte
Nothing says narcissist like making your staff attend a meeting about your career while the Super Bowl is on.
Normally yes but this game is awful.
re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s SOUP WEATHER!!!
Last night it was Beef and Barley, or as I like to call it “Beef and Bar Fly”, aka “Snake And Spider Stew”.
Tonight it’s Portugese Kale and Potato. 15 more minutes and it’s time….
re: #270 jaunte
Saints woulda won.
Although if it had been Saints-Chiefs, like I wanted, that might not have been a guarantee, but it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting.
re: #268 sagehen
Which gives a whole ‘nother level of meaning to Ford’s choice of Rockefeller as his VP… I’m sorry I didn’t realize that at the time.
Ford deserves more credit than he gets.
re: #272 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Although if it had been Saints-Chiefs, like I wanted, that might not have been a guarantee, but it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting.
It would have been.
re: #270 jaunte
Saints woulda won.
Along those lines, I’m petty enough that I don’t mind a few missed pass interference calls in LA’s favor in this game.
The official hashtag of this game will be #puntcity
I can’t take it anymore.
Here you go, America. Save yourself. https://t.co/4Z8FBJXROf— Beatrix Hephalmeyer (@WTFareyouhere) February 4, 2019
I needed a laugh
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Unless Northam’s wondering how he’s going to announce his resignation and wants to query his staff, then this meeting is just about delaying the inevitable. There’s nothing he could do or say that would get people to back his choosing to stay after yesterday’s boondoggle.
re: #258 jaunte
If he’s quitting, he needs to tell his staff, since they are losing their jobs too. And during the Super Bowl, he’s assured that the meeting won’t be interrupted by well…just about anyone or anything. Besides, if he’s like a lot of people, since no team even remotely local is in it, they would be content to just get updated scores anyway.
What a sad ending to a political career for him. Not that he was on the track for the Presidency, and it looks like the Senate was going to be locked up for a while, but still.
Based on my memory of the past 40-something years: Almost every Superb Owl game falls into 1 of 2 categories. A complete blowout like 56-7 or a very low scoring game. Both are boring in their own way. “Good” ones have been the exception not the rule.
Besides, If I was playing in this game, I really would be handwringing about how I would deal with the whole going to see Fuckface von Clownstick thing too. Seriously.
re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.
Well, until they make a formerly male superhero into a female one, anyway. Or cast a black guy to play Heimdall.
C’mon, Fuckaface Von Clownstick! Tweet about the game!
PUNT CITY! LOW ENERGY! SAD! SHOULD BRADY RETIRE? DISGRACE!
re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.
Under most circumstances, I’m in this boat but since 2009 (actually since the fucking garbage TNG movies) it’s not only updated for modern times. It’s fundamentally changed into a totally different thing. The whole point of Star Trek seems to be completely lost on anyone that’s touched it since “All Good Things”.
Some of the new stuff has been “good sci-fi/action” movies or shows. None of it was good “Star Trek”.
re: #223 A Three Hour Tour
I approach Star Trek now the same way I approach comic books. You have a basic framework for Kirk, Spock, Batman, Superman, et alia, but the details can change according to the time in which the characters are being used. Batman and Supe have been around since the 1930s, and the details of their civilian identities and origins have changed with every decade. Lois knows Clark is Superman. Lois doesn’t know Clark is Superman. Lois dislikes Clark, is hot for Superman. Lois marries Clark, doesn’t care for Superman. Lois marries Superman, no mention of Clark. They have a kid. They don’t have a kid. Superman is the sole survivor of Krypton. He has a dog. He has a cousin. There’s Argo City. There’s Kandor and the Phantom Zone. He’s the sole survivor again. But the multiverse!
So, I don’t care if there are different flavors of Star Trek. If the stories and characters are good, I enjoy the show. If they suck, well, we can apply Sturgeon’s Law and move on.
Amid growing concern of its dangers, football’s enrollment has declined 6.6 percent in the past decade. Those who still play are increasingly low-income students, because it’s seen as a ticket to a better education.https://t.co/QChe2iTdCA pic.twitter.com/QvyeKqpBYK
— NPR (@NPR) February 4, 2019
“…America’s dual commitments to football and racial oppression have meant that the danger of the sport will increasingly fall on the shoulders of low income black and brown kids,” [Albert Samaha, a BuzzFeed News investigative reporter] said.
Meanwhile, he says, the money from the sport is mainly going to white coaches and white owners.
Samaha likened the disparity between the people who participate in football and the people who benefit to a “gladiatorial dichotomy.”
re: #146 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I know y’all aren’t deep into cryptocurrency much, so this link might be total gobbledygook to you, but it’s an amazing bit of detective work.
medium.comtl;dr - that Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that went belly up appears to have been insolvent. It appears to have had no reserves of Bitcoin on hand, at least not in the amounts it reported to the courts. Also, it appears the operator of the exchange was honoring withdrawal requests by using other users deposits.
As I mentioned earlier, the ledger aspect of bitcoin and its kin means we can track the flow of funds from one address to another, and draw conclusions from those flows. That’s what the OP did.
Thanks for continuing to post about QuadrigaCX. This is completely crazy, but engrossing.
re: #207 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
That’s a consequence of competing intellectual property rights. The TV show is barred from making sets and costumes look too similar to the movie franchise. It is also unlikely we’ll see an adult Spock or a young Kirk, for much the same reasons.
Discovery has an adult Spock. He’s being played by Ethan Peck.
re: #290 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I approach Star Trek now the same way I approach comic books. You have a basic framework for Kirk, Spock, Batman, Superman, et alia, but the details can change according to the time in which the characters are being used. Batman and Supe have been around since the 1930s, and the details of their civilian identities and origins have changed with every decade. Lois knows Clark is Superman. Lois doesn’t know Clark is Superman. Lois dislikes Clark, is hot for Superman. Lois marries Clark, doesn’t care for Superman. Lois marries Superman, no mention of Clark. They have a kid. They don’t have a kid. Superman is the sole survivor of Krypton. He has a dog. He has a cousin. There’s Argo City. There’s Kandor and the Phantom Zone. He’s the sole survivor again. But the multiverse!
So, I don’t care if there are different flavors of Star Trek. If the stories and characters are good, I enjoy the show. If they suck, well, we can apply Sturgeon’s Law and move on.
Star Trek Pope is conducting your damnatio memoriae tomorrow, apostate.
re: #288 Jack Burton
Some of the new stuff has been “good sci-fi/action” movies or shows. None of it was good “Star Trek”.
It lost its direction and tone after Roddenberry passed away. It was inevitable.
re: #294 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
Star Trek Pope is conducting your damnatio memoriae tomorrow, apostate.
For that reason, I never post such thoughts in Twitter or on fansites, because of the Star Trek Army of the Holy Inquisition.
re: #293 A Three Hour Tour
Discovery has an adult Spock. He’s being played by Ethan Peck.
Will he be a supporting character, or just a one-episode appearance before he and Pike continue the five-year mission?
If I wanted to watch a bunch of angry guys not score I’d go on the internet
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) February 4, 2019
45 minutes.
No Touchdowns.
Combined score: 6 points.
GO FOOTBALL!!
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re: #295 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It lost its direction and tone after Roddenberry passed away. It was inevitable.
Gene Roddenberry was like George Lucas though. He needed people around him to help mold his vision into something great (without deviating from his idea too far).
Star Trek The Next Generation is IMO the “Gold Standard” of what Star Trek was supposed to be. Gene Roddenberry had most control over the first three seasons of TNG and they are universally rated the worst of TNG, even by Star Trek nerds like myself. TNG didn’t fall off a cliff until someone said “hey let’s make a movie”.
re: #295 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It lost its direction and tone after Roddenberry passed away. It was inevitable.
Uh, no. If anything, Trek flourished in the way that Star Wars didn’t because Lucas was still around to keep dictating how things went. Both were successful in the beginning because they had not yet reached the status of legends and so could be told “That doesn’t work” without the person saying such worrying they’d be run out of the industry.
To give you an idea, Gene had two different ideas for a Trek feature film: Finding “God” only to discover he was a malfunctioning machine which had conned humans across centuries of time. Or sending the Enterprise crew back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination. And he was the guy who thought the Ferengi would replace the Klingons as the big-bads of TNG.
re: #300 Jack Burton
Season 3 and later of TNG and Deep Space Nine were the high points of Trek IMO.
re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg
Season 3 and later of TNG and Deep Space Nine were the high points of Trek IMO.
Yeah but it wasn’t until mid-Season 3 that TNG started to get really good.
re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg
Season 3 and later of TNG and Deep Space Nine were the high points of Trek IMO.
Deep Space Nine was successful largely because A) The Powers That Be were too busy on TNG 2.0 (aka Voyager) to micromanage the series and B) Gene was dead and thus things that went against his “vision” could be explored.
re: #285 Jack Burton
Based on my memory of the past 40-something years: Almost every Superb Owl game falls into 1 of 2 categories. A complete blowout like 56-7 or a very low scoring game. Both are boring in their own way. “Good” ones have been the exception not the rule.
Besides, If I was playing in this game, I really would be handwringing about how I would deal with the whole going to see Fuckface von Clownstick thing too. Seriously.
If my team is playing, a good game is either my team blowing the other team out or holding on at the end. The only other good Superbowl game is a team preventing Tom Brady from scoring the game winning drive that he is very good at.
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Burrowing owls do not dig their own burrows and rely on other animals to create them. One man has made 182 artificial burrows for them on the site of a WWII military base. pic.twitter.com/r2LXTIPtOr
— Damn Nature, You Lit! (@NatureLitAF) February 4, 2019
re: #291 jaunte
Rome must have its’ gladiators even as the empire crumbles.
Christ, is this one of those Bowls that “gets really good” in the last 2 minutes of play?
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— National Corn (NCGA) (@NationalCorn) February 4, 2019
re: #308 Targetpractice
Christ, is this one of those Bowls that “gets really good” in the last 2 minutes of play?
Unless it’s this: sports.theonion.com
I ain’t watching.
re: #310 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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We all make mistakes! Sorry for tagging the wrong @MillerLite
— National Corn (NCGA) (@NationalCorn) February 4, 2019
Apparently there’s some kind of sporting event happening.
re: #310 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Lol it reminds me of this:
re: #315 Charles Johnson
We’re talking elite foodie stuff.
“How DARE they suggest that corn syrup not be used for brewing piss water?!”
re: #318 Targetpractice
“How DARE they suggest that corn syrup not be used for brewing piss water?!”
Only an elitist wouldn’t brew piss in corn syrup.
re: #315 Charles Johnson
Apparently there’s some kind of sporting event happening.
Seems to be a kicking competition of some kind, because they sure as fuck can’t pass worth a damn.
re: #315 Charles Johnson
Apparently there’s some kind of sporting event happening.
Barely.
ANOTHER punt coming up.
So, apparently Burger King is using Andy Warhol to selling burgers now.
re: #323 Targetpractice
So, apparently Burger King is using Andy Warhol to selling burgers now.
I mean, he’s been dead for 30 years so why the fuck not?
Waiting for the NYT “Make Queso With Peas” article.
re: #323 Targetpractice
I lost all faith when Led Zeppelin started using their music to sell Cadillacs.
re: #315 Charles Johnson
You’d be hard pressed to find one tonight.
Who would have thought Dana Perino forgetting how to make proper queso would be more entertaining than the sportsball event itself?
re: #327 lawhawk
You’d be hard pressed to find one tonight.
Curling World Cup on NBCSN.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 4, 2019
re: #292 mmmirele
Thanks for continuing to post about QuadrigaCX. This is completely crazy, but engrossing.
Blockchain forensic analysis has come a long way since the famous Mt Gox implosion in 2014. The cast of characters behind QuadrigaCX does not inspire confidence, and anyone who entrusted more than $100 to these people should hang their heads in shame. The principals succeeded in the beginning by offering Canadian traders an easy on-ramp from Canadian dollars to cryptocurrencies, but the management, such as it was, was inept and apparently dishonest, as well. It may well turn out that QuadrigaCX had no cold storage at all, and the now allegedly deceased CEO could have been using clients’ funds for his own investment schemes.
The irony of cryptocurrencies is their intended purpose is to decentralize assets so that no one person or entity has control of them. Yet people willingly hand over control of their assets to exchanges and projects which have less-than-transparent management.
For other examples of greed gone wild, look up OneCoin and Bitconnect, which are and were clear examples of pyramid/Ponzi schemes. Bitconnect collapsed when the Bitcoin markets tumbled and the operators couldn’t cover payouts with income. OneCoin is still in operation in some jurisdictions worldwide, promising its customers riches beyond their wildest imaginations.
re: #326 teleskiguy
I lost all faith when Led Zeppelin started using their music to sell Cadillacs.
When Harlan Ellison was doing Geo commercials….
Queso recipe: velveeta, rotel, cream of mushroom soup, cream cheese, sausage, bacon, heavy cream, diced jalapeños, fresh tomato & cilantro
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) January 10, 2016
re: #323 Targetpractice
So, apparently Burger King is using Andy Warhol to selling burgers now.
Would he have have approved or disapproved?
re: #333 jaunte
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re: #334 Belafon
Would he have have approved or disapproved?
He seemed rather…unenthusiastic in the clip.
So this might be another one of those “there’s what most of the US thinks is good Mexican Food and there’s what San Diegans know is good Mexican Food” things, but… WTF was Dana Perino trying to make? Is she leaving words out of the name of her abomination?
To me “queso” is cheese, nothing more. She’s definitely not making cheese. So what am I missing from the land where people mispronounce taco and quesadilla?
re: #338 Eclectic Cyborg
Finally a TD
Problem is, it was the Patriots with about eight minutes to go.
I hate the Patriots with the heat of a thousand suns, but they are doing what they always do, which is finding ways to win.
Whether they’re legit ways to win, that’s another thing.
And they’re making a TV series based upon the scary story books I read as a kid…20+ years ago. Way to stay current, guys.
re: #339 Jack Burton
So this might be another one of those “there’s what most of the US thinks is good Mexican Food and there’s what San Diegans know is good Mexican Food” things, but… WTF was Dana Perino trying to make? Is she leaving words out of the name of her abomination?
To me “queso” is cheese, nothing more. She’s definitely not making cheese. So what am I missing from the land where people mispronounce taco and quesadilla?
The same people who think a taco bowl with hamburger meat and American cheese is an olive branch to Hispanics
re: #341 Targetpractice
And they’re making a TV series based upon the scary story books I read as a kid…20+ years ago. Way to stay current, guys.
The Alvin Schwartz ones? You know. I may watch.
re: #344 HappyWarrior
The Alvin Schwartz ones? You know. I may watch.
I may as well…if only because sleeping at night is overrated.
re: #340 TedStriker
Problem is, it was the Patriots with about eight minutes to go.
I hate the Patriots with the heat of a thousand suns, but they are doing what they always do, which is to find a way to win.
I hate that Brady and Belichick will tie Pittsburgh for the most of all time.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
The same people who think a taco bowl with hamburger meat and American cheese is an olive branch to Hispanics
Trump and the Denny’s taco bowl photo op on Cinco de Mayo Day…
re: #346 Targetpractice
I may as well…if only because sleeping at night is overrated.
Those stories I swear are why I love folklore to this day and yeah scary.
re: #349 Myron Falwell
Trump and the Denny’s taco bowl photo op on Cinco de Mayo Day…
Yep. That looked like bad dog food.
re: #348 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I agree that Roddenberry as a details guy sucked. His overall vision of the series, though, is what I think has been lost.
Gene’s vision was best when filtered through others. Unfiltered, you got the first seasons of TNG, along with an editorial direction that could best be described as “cement shoes.”
To give another example, Gene decreed to staff writers that there was no mourning of the dead by 24th century humans. And this didn’t just apply for adults, he declared that a draft script for an episode where a child takes solace in the death of his mother by retreating to the holodeck didn’t work because kids were expected not to mourn but to just accept death and “move on.”
re: #353 Targetpractice
Gene’s vision was best when filtered through others. Unfiltered, you got the first seasons of TNG, along with an editorial direction that could best be described as “cement shoes.”
To give another example, Gene decreed to staff writers that there was no mourning of the dead by 24th century humans. And this didn’t just apply for adults, he declared that a draft script for an episode where a child takes solace in the death of his mother by retreating to the holodeck didn’t work because kids were expected not to mourn but to just accept death and “move on.”
That would only work in a universe where we wouldn’t care about each other.
re: #340 TedStriker
Problem is, it was the Patriots with about eight minutes to go.
I hate the Patriots with the heat of a thousand suns, but they are doing what they always do, which is to find ways to win.
Whether they’re legit ways to win, that’s another thing.
This SB totally disinterested me because of the Patriots and the Rams.
The way Stan Krohnke screwed over St. Louis the way he did by moving the Rams back to LA, I can’t root for them. (Shades of when Art Modell and Al Lerner screwed Browns fans by moving the team to Baltimore in 1995).
re: #355 Myron Falwell
This SB totally disinterested me because of the Patriots and the Rams.
The way Stan Krohnke screwed over St. Louis the way he did by moving the Rams back to LA, I can’t root for them. (Shades of when Art Modell and Al Lerner screwed Browns fans by moving the team to Baltimore in 1995).
I always felt awful for how Modell screwed Cleveland fans and I’m a Pittsburgh fan.
re: #356 HappyWarrior
I always felt awful for how Modell screwed Cleveland fans and I’m a Pittsburgh fan.
For similar reasons, one of my college professors refused to support the Indianapolis Colts because of the way they left Baltimore.
re: #356 HappyWarrior
To illustrate how much LA couldn’t give a shit about football, my brother, who lives in LA, still thought the Chargers played in San Diego. They just finished their second season in LA.
re: #358 Ace Rothstein
To illustrate how much LA couldn’t give a shit about football, my brother, who lives in LA, still thought the Chargers played in San Diego. They just finished their second season in LA.
Yeah LA isn’t a football town at all.
re: #356 HappyWarrior
I always felt awful for how Modell screwed Cleveland fans and I’m a Pittsburgh fan.
Yep. It’s a shame that the current franchise’s abysmal track record from 1999 to last year sullied the Browns-Steelers rivalry, one of the better rivalries in all of pro sports. (That and Rothlesburger is simply HOF-worthy once he retires.)
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Yeah LA isn’t a football town at all.
But the NFL wanted a team there for whatever reason. They did just fine without a team in LA for 20 years, so it beats me.
Fun fact: the Rams were established in Cleveland back in the 1930s, but fled to LA in 1946 once Paul Brown assembled his namesake team in the All-American Football Conference.
re: #354 Belafon
That would only work in a universe where we wouldn’t care about each other.
Roddenberry had some odd ideas about the progress of human civilization. Humans in 200-300 years will not be much different from humans of today, though we would be irreversibly changed as a species if we encounter another intelligent species. Our basic emotional constitutions will not change, though.
I’m now on book three of the Three Body Problem trilogy. It took me a while to appreciate what was happening in the first book, but overall the trilogy is well worth the effort. The premise is quite different from the United Federation of Planets, where intelligent species work together. Instead, the author proposes the universe is a “dark forest,” where each intelligent species faces a grim future: remain hidden from view and try not to be discovered, or reveal oneself to either destroy the enemy or be destroyed by a more advanced civilization. However, I’m at the point where Earth and the invading species have reached detente, perhaps disproving the dark forest premise.
re: #355 Myron Falwell
This SB totally disinterested me because of the Patriots and the Rams.
The way Stan Krohnke screwed over St. Louis the way he did by moving the Rams back to LA, I can’t root for them. (Shades of when Art Modell and Al Lerner screwed Browns fans by moving the team to Baltimore in 1995).
Arsenal fans are cheering for the Pats. They hate what Stan has done to their team.
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