Stephen leverages his close friendship with rapper Nicki Minaj to get to the meat of this week’s most explosive news story. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
He’s such a special snowflake! Do you know how difficult it is to engrave socks? https://t.co/1sdXGrAbYH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
But seriously, why are we debating whether Biden’s vaccine mandates are constitutional? All he has to do is enforce them using private citizen vigilantes who get a bounty for turning in the unvaxxed & according to SCOTUS, the courts’ hands are tied. https://t.co/rRw15TohcX
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 11, 2021
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Good lord, that reads like a parody tweet.
From a previous thread…
I want to thank b.d. for asking the question I had not thought to ask. And wrenchwench among others who so masterfully provided the solution.
I had been faced with the same problem. My workaround had been to rightclick, display in new window. This solution is more… elegant.
re: #20 b.d. (You lost, we didn’t cheat, you lost)
Playing twitter embed videos only show the top half of the video for me? It has been this way for a while. Clicking on the link and watching the video has no problems?
re: #28 wrenchwench
If you don’t check ‘Show embedded tweets’ at the top of the comments, you aren’t seeing the whole tweet all the time. If you click on the thing that looks too much like the retweet icon, more of the tweet shows, and videos play better.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Engrave socks? I do not know about him but my cotton socks are knitted; so all one has to do is get someone (or do it yourself) who knows how to knit. Geez.
So by Glenns logic I must be conservative because I own a red ballcap.
/
Note the pitiful bellowing from the misogynistic preacher as the girl literally kicks his ass.
WATCH: Preacher with sign saying ‘women belong in the kitchen’ gets decked by college student
re: #1 Charles Johnson
He’s such a special snowflake! Do you know how difficult it is to engrave socks?
I have a bas relief of Washington crossing the Delaware engraved on my underwear.
re: #5 PhillyPretzel
Engrave socks? I do not know about him but my cotton socks are knitted; so all one has to do is get someone (or do it yourself) who knows how to knit. Geez.
Youse can engrave socks in Joisey, but it’s easier just to scratch the message before the cement sets.
I can truly say I was never before more grateful for a lead story to not have video or photographs.
re: #8 Mattand
I have a bas relief of Washington crossing the Delaware engraved on my underwear.
Uh-oh, mine are full of Hessians.
Smallpox and Polio were only eradicated by vaccines.
“Natural immunity” - which you are using wrong - would mean killing off the people who get sick from it. Immunity from catching it isn’t effect.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) September 16, 2021
re: #9 Decatur Deb
Youse can engrave socks in Joisey, but it’s easier just to scratch the message before the cement sets.
*Hyper regional pedantry START*
I have literally lived here 7/8 of my life and have yet to hear a NJ native pronounce it “Joisey”.
*Hyper regional pedantry END*
re: #12 Barefoot Grin
Uh-oh, mine are full of Hessians.
Spaetzle-flavored talcum powder should clean that up quick.
re: #14 Mattand
*Hyper regional pedantry START*
I have literally lived here 7/8 of my life and have yet to hear a NJ native pronounce it “Joisey”.
*Hyper regional pedantry END*
How long did you live across the harbor? (I served two terms in Dover, but those were all displaced New Yorkers.)
Reminded of the very old Jules Feiffer cartoon. I cant find the image, but the captions read:
“I go to the laundromat to do a wash. Included in the wash are 8 pairs of socks.
Out of the wash come 6 pairs of socks plus 1 grey sock and 1 blue sock.
A week later I go to the laundromat to do a wash. Included in the wash are 6 pairs of socks.
Out of the wash come 4 pairs of socks plus 1 black sock and 1 green sock.
A week later I go to the laundromat to do a wash. Included in the wash are 4 pairs of socks.
Out of the wash come 2 pairs of socks. The other socks never show up.
The next day I go to the laundromat. As an experiment I put in nothing but my last 2 pairs of socks.
Out of the wash comes a body stocking. In the body stocking I find a note.
The note says: “Quit trifling with the laws of nature and bring the machine more socks.”
It’s good to hear someone describe Tucker Carlson accurately to millions of viewers.
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was the most-watched late-night show in total viewers for the 2020-21 television season - its fifth consecutive year at the top.”
“a total average of 2.95 million viewers”
deadline.com
” the most-watched show in cable news was Tucker Carlson Tonight, which delivered an average total audience of 3.3 million viewers”
forbes.com
Amazing how utterly horrible the right wing is.
Watch Newsmax host cut the feed and scream at a veteran guest for offering a mild critique of Trump pic.twitter.com/xozk1f5kzH
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 16, 2021
re: #18 ckkatz
Solution to the missing sock problem.
amazon.com
re: #13 Belafon
Who decides if someone has natural immunity to Covid-19? Is there a test one can take? Oh, look, you’re human. You aren’t naturally immune…sorry. If only you were a canine. Take the goddamn shot.
re: #17 Decatur Deb
How long did you live across the harbor? (I served two terms in Dover, but those were all displaced New Yorkers.)
LOL, never. South Jersey here. We’ve got the Philly bleedover (I added wooder to my cawfee and had a chawclate hoegie near Ac-uh-me.)
I’ve been around enough North Jersey folks that I figured at some point over the past 40+ years, someone would say it that way in my presence.
not gonna post this with next week’s pond.
it’s about solar and a bit clever.
we have 3 panels on the roof
they go into these 3 to 1 connectors
and one feed wire comes off the roof into the panel in the barn
we put a volt/watt/ammeter on the end of the wire, before the controller.
problem is there’s no way to know if one panel is underperforming.
we got our replacement panel this week and plugged it in.
turns out another panel went bad after this one did
gah
these early failures are disappointing but so far HQST is replacing them both.
the way forward is we need to see *at a glance*, what each panel is doing. three into 1 meter is ng.
as i said in the last post, we decided we need three feed wires to the roof - one per panel and we’re going back to butt splices as more reliable.
that means we were going to need two more wattmeters - about $15 each.
then it occured to me, a solar controller is only $20.
And yes, you can connect multiple controllers to the same batteries, in parallel!
But the inexpensive ones only display volts, not amps.
and even low voltage (clouds *or* malfunction) still displays as if ‘charging’.
Meters and controllers? no.
i started searching for controllers that display amps and i found one.
so we’re gonna have this:
panel one feed comes off the roof into the existing wattmeter then into the existing controller
panel two comes off the roof into a new controller that displays volts and amps
panel three comes off the roof into a new controller that displays volts and amps
the three controllers will then be wired in parallel to the batteries.
yes one panel per controller is a bit…odd
sounds like a lot but it’s really simple and straightforward.
and there will be pix
The big question is how long does natural immunity last?
re: #8 Mattand
I have a bas relief of Washington crossing the Delaware engraved on my underwear.
So I went to troll Greenwald on Twitter with the above sizzling bon mot and lo and behold, I’ve been blocked by him.
Here’s the thing: I have no idea why. Maybe I said something snarky years ago on his feed? No frigging idea how this happened. I’m hardly ever on Twitter.
I’m going to now shake my fist towards San Francisco and scream “DORSEY!!!!”
based on the reporting that is in evidence from the WH Press conferences for the last six months, I start to get an idea on why the Trump Administration was great for so many of the 4th estate… they’re pretty much following the same method of effort. Cop a few quotes from people who will happily misrepresent any and every damn thing. Half-ass something together, go out and grab a few drinks and maybe commiserate with folks just like them about how hard it is when nobody else understands just how tough you have it. Possibly get laid.
No effort, no nuance, hell, most of these folks just parrot GOP talking points (firmly embedded each and every Sunday, ty MSM for giving GOP an endless amount of soapboxes from which to pontificate). as frames for the questions that NO ONE is asking, missing the point, elevating minutiae while missing the big picture.
Everything must be fit into the competing factions frame, good for one political party or the other, with no actual understanding about the policy proposed… the policy is irrelevant, we’re busy keeping score!
Any time someone wants to argue comorbities, or natural immunity, I mention Bill Phillips, the Body for Life guy. Definitely health, and caught it twice, and the second time nearly killed him. He will be disabled the rest of his life.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
He’s such a special snowflake! Do you know how difficult it is to engrave socks? https://t.co/1sdXGrAbYH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
Is he really that stupid as to think saying “Fuck wall street” means you’re a leftist? Or that we’ll believe that?
There are a lot of paleocons and small-business Republicans who would echo Dr. Evil’s sentiment there.
Staunch Conservatives are wary of Wall Street - Pew Research
And even more to the point GG was certainly affiliated with the Koch brother founded Cato Institute, which is at the very least libertarian.
re: #16 JOE 🥓
Oh a friend sent me my very own certificate protecting me from anti-vaxxers!
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I will definitely need a copy of that.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Amazing how utterly horrible the right wing is.
Grant Stinchfield was expecting a cookie-cutter military veteran who would parrot GOP talking points, under the misapprehension that military veterans are all conservatives.
When said veteran did not agree with him, he became another feral conservative.
Veterans only exist for conservatives as a tabula rasa upon whom they can project whatever it is conservatives are asserting.
re: #27 piratedan
based on the reporting that is in evidence from the WH Press conferences for the last six months, I start to get an idea on why the Trump Administration was great for so many of the 4th estate… they’re pretty much following the same method of effort. Cop a few quotes from people who will happily misrepresent any and every damn thing. Half-ass something together, go out and grab a few drinks and maybe commiserate with folks just like them about how hard it is when nobody else understands just how tough you have it. Possibly get laid.
No effort, no nuance, hell, most of these folks just parrot GOP talking points (firmly embedded each and every Sunday, ty MSM for giving GOP an endless amount of soapboxes from which to pontificate). as frames for the questions that NO ONE is asking, missing the point, elevating minutiae while missing the big picture.
Everything must be fit into the competing factions frame, good for one political party or the other, with no actual understanding about the policy proposed… the policy is irrelevant, we’re busy keeping score!
And the media markets are steadily being abandoned or viewed with extreme cynicism by the serious audiences that recognize the laziness and low value of that approach.
re: #23 Mattand
LOL, never. South Jersey here. We’ve got the Philly bleedover (I added wooder to my cawfee and had a chawclate hoegie near Ac-uh-me.)
I’ve been around enough North Jersey folks that I figured at some point over the past 40+ years, someone would say it that way in my presence.
South Jersey? Which exit? (ducks)
Definitely dig into this story guys, you are really on the cusp of greatness here. https://t.co/XaLlzf20aD
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 16, 2021
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
South Jersey? Which exit? (ducks)
Sooo sick of that joke.
Also, Exit 4. I lived a mile and half from it for 15 years.
*shakes fist in direction of NE panhandle*
Because stupid people follow the lead of fascist media and kill themselves. As a propagandist that kills stupid people, you should understand this.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 16, 2021
re: #36 JOE 🥓
He’s being praised in the thread for his measuring expertise.
re: #38 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Because the virus has mutated to pick off stupid people.
re: #24 Dangerman
This is interesting because we are looking at solar panels for our potting shed. Learning all the other stuff we will need and how to best use the power in the shed. Fan. Light. Battery charging for tools. We will be asking about warranties that’s for sure.
re: #14 Mattand
*Hyper regional pedantry START*
I have literally lived here 7/8 of my life and have yet to hear a NJ native pronounce it “Joisey”.
*Hyper regional pedantry END*
That’s how people from Queens pronounce it…. you bridge & tunnel people all sort of blend together in a lump.
re: #36 JOE 🥓
Wow. Somebody got on the nerves of Mr. Planters Peanuts.
I’m going to be straight with my like…16 followers. As a military urologist if scrotal swelling was a vaccine side effect I would be the first to know. No one is more attentive to their testicles than men in the military.
— John McCauley (@erinokp99) September 15, 2021
re: #37 Mattand
Sooo sick of that joke.
Also, Exit 4. I lived a mile and half from it for 15 years.
*shakes fist in direction of NE panhandle*
Well, at least you have exits.
Over half of recent Covid deaths in Kentucky have been of people under the age of 70.
Younger people are dying from COVID with onset of delta variant this summer pic.twitter.com/FnS3RiLLpn
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 16, 2021
Tying two parts of this thread together:
Tonight on Tucker he’ll be talking about something swollen, notoriously sensitive, and totally undeserving of all the attention it gets, and then after Glenn Greenwald he’ll talk about balls
— OwMyPopehat (@Popehat) September 15, 2021
Because of people like you. https://t.co/KVXJJUKYm8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
re: #42 sagehen
That’s how people from Queens pronounce it…. you bridge & tunnel people all sort of blend together in a lump.
A New Yorker picked up my PGH accent:
“Where ya from?”
“Pittsburgh.”
“Oh. Out west.”
re: #48 Charles Johnson
I’m a little puzzled that the RWNJ could have chosen to go with
TRUMP VACCINE!!!!!!1
But, no.
538’s generic ballot shows the Dems holding a slight lead, as they have all year. But they do point out that the tide usually turns against the President’s party in midterms, usually in big numbers.
There are often early signs this will happen in the early special and off off year elections. In ‘09, Chris Christie was first elected, and Scott Brown was elected to finish Ted Kennedy’s term early in ‘10 in deep blue Mass. In ‘18, Jon Ossof greatly outperformed Trump in a congressional special election even though he lost, and this happened several times before the ‘18 midterms.
Having said all this, I am ever so slightly optimistic that Newsom’s crushing victory in the Cali recall might be a good sign for Dems heading into the ‘22 midterms. I was pretty sure Newsom would winning, but by a margin much less than his first victory in ‘18, or less than Biden’s victory there in ‘20. But the way he ran Larry Elder.ofd the floor was very encouraging, especially with the way Cali voters were fired up about it.
So with the GOP having sold its soul to the twice impeached and thoroughly disgraced Trump, the Dems *might* have success next year if they tie the GOP to Trump, and all the radicalism that entails, as Newsom did with Elder - particularly when it comes to Covid mitigation. Stressing voter suppression and the TX abortion law would help too.
Strong emphasis on “might.”
re: #47 Sir John Barron
It’s not?
No, it’s an actual Greenwald tweet:
Really baffled that people on this site question my leftist bona fides when I literally have a pair of socks engraved with the slogan: FUCK WALL STREET.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 16, 2021
I’m going to skeedaddle off to bed. Catch y’all later.
Trying some things to fix that video issue some of you have with smaller screens. Reload the page and let me know if videos are fitting any better now.
Here’s a test.
Lyft driver in Tennessee freaks out and leaves a passenger on the side of the road pic.twitter.com/YBUwjJkMPi
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 15, 2021
re: #49 Decatur Deb
A New Yorker picked up my PGH accent:
“Where ya from?”
“Pittsburgh.”
“Oh. Out west.”
In college with a bunch of prepster New York and New Jersey kids who went to Massachusetts prep schools:
“where are you from?”
“Illinois”
“That’s in Chicago, right?”
re: #51 The GOP is a terrorist organization
538’s generic ballot shows the Dems holding a slight lead, as they have all year. But they do point out that the tide usually turns against the President’s party in midterms, usually in big numbers.
There are often early signs this will happen in the early special and off off year elections. In ‘09, Chris Christie was first elected, and Scott Brown was elected to finish Ted Kennedy’s term early in ‘10 in deep blue Mass. In ‘18, Jon Ossof greatly outperformed Trump in a congressional special election even though he lost, and this happened several times before the ‘18 midterms.
Having said all this, I am ever so slightly optimistic that Newsom’s crushing victory in the Cali recall might be a good sign for Dems heading into the ‘22 midterms. I was pretty sure Newsom would winning, but by a margin much less than his first victory in ‘18, or less than Biden’s victory there in ‘20. But the way he ran Larry Elder.ofd the floor was very encouraging, especially with the way Cali voters were fired up about it.
So with the GOP having sold its soul to the twice impeached and thoroughly disgraced Trump, the Dems *might* have success next year if they tie the GOP to Trump, and all the radicalism that entails, as Newsom did with Elder - particularly when it comes to Covid mitigation. Stressing voter suppression and the TX abortion law would help too.
Strong emphasis on “might.”
The GOP will help by nominating rabid Trumpers in suburban districts, because their base is insane. Newsom couldn’t have asked for a better opponent than Larry Elder.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Another reason not to use Lyft. As for the picture it is okay on my MacBook.
Americans making less than $200K would see bills drop under Democrat tax plan: Report - Newsweek https://t.co/PELrnyga2V
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) September 16, 2021
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Looks fine, though I have a big screen.
re: #49 Decatur Deb
A New Yorker picked up my PGH accent:
“Where ya from?”
“Pittsburgh.”
“Oh. Out west.”
Forgot whether I’ve asked before, but how accurate is the PGH accent? The Philly one is pretty spot on.
I also just recently discovered the word “Yinz”. I still can’t get a grasp on how it’s used.
Fahrenthold tweet:@Fahrenthold: this sort of backdoor approach seems like an assault on something much bigger than just abortion in Texas. Hear him, @jsg20815 & @CongressmanRaja dig deep into Texas case and more at https://t.co/5UQUqxNEMy pic.twitter.com/ZgKho5RwwF
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) September 16, 2021
re: #59 PhillyPretzel
Another reason not to use Lyft.
Jesus, if you’re a Lyft/Uber driver and you feel the need to put warning tape in your car like that, you might not be cut out for rideshare.
re: #62 Mattand
If memory serves, “Yinz” is basically the Pittsburgh version of “y’all”.
re: #38 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Who is represented by those numbers going up?
The unvaxxed.
If they work why are the numbers going up
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 15, 2021
Ok, I guess it kinda makes sense—some folks are guessing that GG was trying to make fun of AOC and her gala dress in the “engraved socks” tweet that blew up on him.
re: #62 Mattand
Philly=Youse
Pittsburgh=Yins Yinz
re: #41 Rightwingconspirator
This is interesting because we are looking at solar panels for our potting shed. Learning all the other stuff we will need and how to best use the power in the shed. Fan. Light. Battery charging for tools. We will be asking about warranties that’s for sure.
Anything we can do to help…
re: #69 We all walks this ways
Youse is one of the words one of my supervisors uses quite a bit.
re: #70 Dangerman
Anything we can do to help…
Thanks. Gonna run some specifics by you before we pull the trigger on anything.
Absurd country, idiotic party, just ludicrous at every level. pic.twitter.com/9IPa8Bpsdm
— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) September 16, 2021
Who knows? It’s a complete mystery. A puzzlement. Baffling. Why indeed? https://t.co/GoZp376Awr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
re: #73 JOE 🥓
Soon, chopping their coins into bits to make change.
re: #73 JOE 🥓
Conservative dipshits are better described as backward, because that’s the direction they move society.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 16, 2021
re: #24 Dangerman
not gonna post this with next week’s pond.
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sounds like a lot but it’s really simple and straightforward.
and there will be pix
Interesting work around. While I’m enjoying my last two days in Hawaii we’re having Solar installed on our roof at home. We’ll have an app that gives us panel-by-panel performance (21 panels) and all the other things - energy to the house, to the grid, from the grid - looking forward to finally having this.
re: #77 darthstar
Interesting work around. While I’m enjoying my last two days in Hawaii we’re having Solar installed on our roof at home. We’ll have an app that gives us panel-by-panel performance (21 panels) and all the other things - energy to the house, to the grid, from the grid - looking forward to finally having this.
Now if there was only a solar water supply…
The fraudit report is coming! The first step in reinstating the one troo President!
BREAKING: In a court hearing in our public records lawsuit just now, the attorney for the Arizona Senate confirmed that the Senate plans to release its Maricopa County “audit” report next Friday.
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) September 16, 2021
re: #79 No Malarkey!
The fraudit report is coming! The first step in reinstating the one troo President!
They’re releasing it on Friday. Are they trying to bury it or trying to over-hype it?
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Don’t you think the antivax idiots who are killing themselves and others are the actual problem, because they were told by far-right trash that government is the problem?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 16, 2021
re: #71 PhillyPretzel
I never lost it. And yes I say “wooder”.
re: #73 JOE 🥓
“And the length of my the first part of my thumb shall be the length of an inch.”
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
The big question is how long does natural immunity last?
All your life because it’s a genetic trait. You are born with it.
re: #75 jaunte
Soon, chopping their coins into bits to make change.
“UK Plans To De-Decimalize The Pound”
re: #83 Belafon
“And the length of my the first part of my thumb shall be the length of an inch.”
Not 3 Barley Corns laid in a row?
So Britain is basically telling the metric system to fuck off? Is that what’s happening here?
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
So Britain is basically telling the metric system to fuck off? Is that what’s happening here?
Meat is packaged in 2.2lb containers because Americans can’t adjust to calling it 1kg. I think there will be a lot of odd numbers on packages because metric will be converted to native units.
re: #82 We all walks this ways
I never lost it. And yes I say “wooder”.
I’ve been taking voice over lessons and can now switch between “wooder” and “wahter”. I will switch back and forth for practice.
re: #78 darthstar
Now if there was only a solar water supply…
We used to have one of those. If there was no solar we would get rain. Then the climate shifted to drought. Plenty of Solar though… /
Idaho Allows Overwhelmed Hospitals to Ration Care If Needed (NYT via MSN)
Death panels caused by immature morons who can’t manage to get vaccinated now that it’s their own responsibility rather than their parents.
The “Conservative” subculture stunts mental growth.
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
So Britain is basically telling the metric system to fuck off? Is that what’s happening here?
Look at it this way:
America is no longer the country with the most nonsensical system of measurements.
re: #90 Mattand
I picked up the Canadian “aboot” for about and saying out like “oot”. Went Lindsay Ontario almost weekly for close to 5 years. They ingrained in me. I still say it, eh?
re: #62 Mattand
Forgot whether I’ve asked before, but how accurate is the PGH accent? The Philly one is pretty spot on.
I also just recently discovered the word “Yinz”. I still can’t get a grasp on how it’s used.
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Depending on the neighborhood it is also ‘Yunz’. I grew up understanding I was saying “You ones”, for a Pennsylvania-Dutch influenced “Y’all”.
Chilling, from @evan7257 https://t.co/XKdNmy45Nb
— Noah (@NoahMF) September 16, 2021
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Pittsburgh= “HEY!”
Philly= “YO!”
re: #80 Dopamine Fish
They’re releasing it on Friday. Are they trying to bury it or trying to over-hype it?
Bury it. Friday dump, because they’ll have nothing except innuendo, speculation and lies.
re: #96 jaunte
I will take your word for it. I was getting a pop-up that was trying to get me to subscribe to the paper.
re: #99 PhillyPretzel
Here’s a key passage:
Like most American Jews, I belong to a denomination that believes life begins at birth and places the utmost value on that life — especially when carrying a future child. That’s why, for example, rabbis have developed a specific process for accommodating a woman’s pregnancy cravings if she happens to hanker for a slice of honey-glazed ham. Her wellbeing, and that of the fetus, matters far more than Kosher law.
That’s also why Danny Horwitz, a rabbi at Congregation Beth Yeshurun, once explicitly instructed a woman to get an abortion after hearing about how another child would put undue stress on her preexisting health issues.
“Thus, when this woman came to me for direction, I told her not that she could have an abortion, but that she must have an abortion, that the God of my understanding would want her to do it,” he wrote.
That advice alone would likely be in violation of SB 8.
I have to wonder how long until a self-proclaimed “baby-murder bounty hunter” like state Rep. Briscoe Cain, one of the bill’s sponsors, fixes his metaphorical crosshairs on my synagogue.
I also have to wonder how long until someone drops the metaphor.
re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg
If memory serves, “Yinz” is basically the Pittsburgh version of “y’all”.
you’uns
Because there isn’t enough Brexit-induced chaos and confusion yet. https://t.co/uE4Ybp6GXV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
re: #98 No Malarkey!
Bury it. Friday dump, because they’ll have nothing except innuendo, speculation and lies.
That’s what I thought.
Also:
Synagogues have already become targets in our nation’s increasingly violent culture war. In 2018, a white supremacist terrorist murdered 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh because they supported refugees. The anti-abortion movement hasn’t hesitated to shed blood in pursuit of its own crusade, killing doctors, clinic employees, and security and law enforcement. In 2015, three people were murdered and nine injured in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. Anti-abortion extremists are considered a domestic terrorist threat by the Department of Justice.
Now Texas has explicitly put the authority to enforce SB 8 in these extremists’ trigger-happy hands. Frustrated by the bounds of the Constitution, with his signature, Gov. Greg Abbott effectively deputized untrained and unregulated vigilantes to pursue its public goals, and it is hard not to see how things can get worse — much worse — very quickly. In fact, the predictable violence inspired by SB 8 has already begun.
re: #104 Charles Johnson
So when do they start the process of un-decimalizing the pound? I’m sure everyone looks forward to returning to the extra math that will require.
(And yes, if my spelling didn’t make it clear, I’m not British. Just bleakly amused by British self-sabotage) https://t.co/VGrIyPRitg— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) September 16, 2021
re: #94 We all walks this ways
I picked up the Canadian “aboot” for about and saying out like “oot”. Went Lindsay Ontario almost weekly for close to 5 years. They ingrained in me. I still say it, eh?
Well it will be interesting if I start picking up a Canadian Vocab after my Sister has been here a while. That’ll drive some people I know right up the wall. *evil laugh*
re: #96 jaunte
I realize they didn’t ask for this, but they really should be front and center of lawsuits against the government.
At the bottom of the WaPo piece Milley’s revelation about Trump leaves us with five questions
… comes the one that might make the biggest change in our society going forward:
“Finally, why did the media consistently underplay President Donald Trump’s incoherence, and why do they still resist confronting Republicans about their blind loyalty to a crackpot? I do not have a good answer for that one. Perhaps they need to rethink their role. They are not custodians of the myth of moral equivalence between the parties. They are truth-tellers whose prime obligation is to democracy. They might start taking that obligation seriously, beginning with asking every Republican if the 2020 election was stolen, if the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were justified and how they could continue to heed the direction of someone whose lunacy has not abated since he lost the election.”
Until the media starts actually telling us what’s happening, rather than trying to serve some Magical Balance Fairy, the country will not come to grips with how bad the modern GOP has become …
re: #109 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Well it will be interesting if I start picking up a Canadian Vocab after my Sister has been here a while. That’ll drive some people I know right up the wall. *evil laugh*
From moving constantly, Wife has a generic Army-brat accent except when talking to her parents. Then she’d fall back to their KY/TN accent, even on the phone.
re: #77 darthstar
Interesting work around. While I’m enjoying my last two days in Hawaii we’re having Solar installed on our roof at home. We’ll have an app that gives us panel-by-panel performance (21 panels) and all the other things - energy to the house, to the grid, from the grid - looking forward to finally having this.
yeah, proper install of a house sized system would include that kind of panel level info - the circuitry is easy enough for them to build it right in
our approach and how it all evolved is ….different
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Depending on the neighborhood it is also ‘Yunz’. I grew up understanding I was saying “You ones”, for a Pennsylvania-Dutch influenced “Y’all”.
That is exactly my experience as well.
Basically second person plural which English lacks.
I always assumed based upon immigrants familiar with languages having that second person plural, such as Celtic languages, German, etc.
Other amusing Yinzer terms include:
redd
chipped-chopped ham
jumbo
nebby
gumbands
jagoff
dippy
n’at (pronounced ‘an at’)
slippy
The capitol of our nation is pronounced Worshington
Can’t speak of elsewhere, but in Squirrel Hill the phrase “Kennywood is open” had a specific meaning. Not having to do with Kennywood. (Kennywood was the local amusement park.)
We should bring back thou, but, in a total twist to old English, make it be the plural form.
re: #114 ckkatz
That is exactly my experience as well.
Basically second person plural which English lacks.
I always assumed based upon immigrants familiar with languages having that second person plural, such as Celtic languages, German, etc.
Other amusing Yinzer terms include:
redd
chipped-chopped ham
jumbo
nebby
gumbands
jagoff
dippy
n’at (pronounced ‘an at’)
slippyThe capitol of our nation is pronounced Worshington
Can’t speak of elsewhere, but in Squirrel Hill the phrase “Kennywood is open” had a specific meaning. Not having to do with Kennywood. (Kennywood was the local amusement park.)
The sooer pipe broke and I got sooerage all over my hands. I gotta worsh them in hot wadder.
re: #114 ckkatz
That is exactly my experience as well.
Basically second person plural which English lacks.
I always assumed based upon immigrants familiar with languages having that second person plural, such as Celtic languages, German, etc.
Other amusing Yinzer terms include:
redd
chipped-chopped ham
jumbo
nebby
gumbands
jagoff
dippy
n’at (pronounced ‘an at’)
slippyThe capitol of our nation is pronounced Worshington
Can’t speak of elsewhere, but in Squirrel Hill the phrase “Kennywood is open” had a specific meaning. Not having to do with Kennywood. (Kennywood was the local amusement park.)
Yes I remember “Kennywood’s Open” and what it meant when I said it to a teacher in High School Hell and I got detention for that.
re: #114 ckkatz
…
The capitol of our nation is pronounced Worshington
…
i used to joke that a bunch of ‘Rs’ migrated south and west from the Mass/Boston area
I’m very tired of this framing — suggesting we shouldn’t tell people the truth because they can’t handle it. https://t.co/P2OYwaa5hB pic.twitter.com/BSjghWZfuL
— German Lopez (@germanrlopez) September 16, 2021
re: #118 Dangerman
i used to joke that a bunch of ‘Rs’ migrated south and west from the Mass/Boston area
I read a linguist’s study on Pittsburghese—She identified it as a very small enclave, except for a weird extension that ran it up to Erie.
When my family first moved into our Pittsburgh house back in 1961, the city sent a tax assessor out.
The assessor said to my father (who was from Brooklyn) that one tax factor was, as my father heard it “The toweled bathroom”.
My father said back “How about if we remove the towels.”
The reply was “Towels; T-I-L-E-S; Towels”.
And grandmother, from Western Missouri took the bus downtown (aka dahntahn) one day. She asked a policeman where Forbes Avenue was, so she could catch bus back. He looked confused “Forbes? Forbes? Oh Fo-Bus!” and then gave her correct directions.
Antivax trash are all talk.
JUST NOW: “Single digits.”
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on the number of resignations they have had so far over vaccine requirements. Single digits as 90% have been vaccinated.pic.twitter.com/kPkHi9Jcwk— John Berman (@JohnBerman) September 16, 2021
re: #121 ckkatz
When my family first moved into our Pittsburgh house back in 1961, the city sent a tax assessor out.
The assessor said to my father (who was from Brooklyn) that one tax factor was, as my father heard it “The toweled bathroom”.
My father said back “How about if we remove the towels.”
The reply was “Towels; T-I-L-E-S; Towels”.And grandmother, from Western Missouri took the bus downtown (aka dahntahn) one day. She asked a policeman where Forbes Avenue was, so she could catch bus back. He looked confused “Forbes? Forbes? Oh Fo-Bus!” and then gave her correct directions.
At least they didn’t tax his terlet.
re: #120 Decatur Deb
I read a linguist’s study on Pittsburghese—She identified it as a very small enclave, except for a weird extension that ran it up to Erie.
Yes, Pittsburgh is surrounded by the “Mid-Land” accent. It extends down into Arkansas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas. When I was stationed at Ft Sill and Ft Chaffee, I was always amused because the local accent was quite familiar except for the Southern and western affectations.
I had not thought about the Erie extension before. But now that you mention it, that fits folks I knew from Erie.
Who wants to tell her? pic.twitter.com/WNwy3ZcUWc
— Armand Hamouth (@AreMond2) September 15, 2021
Speaking of dialects or lingo, after watching the TV announcer from Trinidad talk to Nicki, I’ve decided to start using “bacchanal” in my day-to-day speech. “You give me this bacchanal story?”
re: #117 JOE 🥓
Yes I remember “Kennywood’s Open” and what it meant when I said it to a teacher in High School Hell and I got detention for that.
I am so sorry that you got caught up in that. That seems to me quite unfair.
(For the uninitiated, it means “Your pants fly is open”. I am have no idea how that came to be.)
re: #119 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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tell us what exactly we should do that would be ‘productive’
i mean as opposed to those other people getting instantly and productively vaccinated
“Please, sir. Could you spare a few more pets?”https://t.co/N7JxNqoSul pic.twitter.com/JDMqEnlJHn
— ARF (@ARFtweets) September 16, 2021
re: #125 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Me
re: #30 Belafon
I will definitely need a copy of that.
Simply place your soul in the postage-paid return envelope…
re: #126 Barefoot Grin
Speaking of dialects or lingo, after watching the TV announcer from Trinidad talk to Nicki, I’ve decided to start using “bacchanal” in my day-to-day speech. “You give me this bacchanal story?”
I started using the term ‘posse’ in place of a ‘gang of friends’.
More generally, someone recently pointed out that with so many first and second language speakers, English has significantly diverged and the UK is no longer the adjudicator of the language. Although certain forms are still considered to convey more or less status.
re: #121 ckkatz
When my family first moved into our Pittsburgh house back in 1961, the city sent a tax assessor out.
The assessor said to my father (who was from Brooklyn) that one tax factor was, as my father heard it “The toweled bathroom”.
My father said back “How about if we remove the towels.”
The reply was “Towels; T-I-L-E-S; Towels”.And grandmother, from Western Missouri took the bus downtown (aka dahntahn) one day. She asked a policeman where Forbes Avenue was, so she could catch bus back. He looked confused “Forbes? Forbes? Oh Fo-Bus!” and then gave her correct directions.
stuff like this always amuses me when rednecks demand that other people “SPEAK ENGLISH!”
The story is important and horrific. But I find the badly written tweet obnoxious:
An alarming study shows pregnant women are 15x more likely to die from COVID than uninfected pregnant women.
An alarming study shows pregnant women are 15x more likely to die from COVID than uninfected pregnant women. @HeidiNBC joined @joefryer on #MorningNewsNow to with the story of one woman who contracted the virus while pregnant. pic.twitter.com/gNZMaYttNL
— NBC News NOW (@NBCNewsNow) September 16, 2021
re: #121 ckkatz
When my family first moved into our Pittsburgh house back in 1961, the city sent a tax assessor out.
The assessor said to my father (who was from Brooklyn) that one tax factor was, as my father heard it “The toweled bathroom”.
My father said back “How about if we remove the towels.”
The reply was “Towels; T-I-L-E-S; Towels”.And grandmother, from Western Missouri took the bus downtown (aka dahntahn) one day. She asked a policeman where Forbes Avenue was, so she could catch bus back. He looked confused “Forbes? Forbes? Oh Fo-Bus!” and then gave her correct directions.
My west Texas mother said plowers for pliars.
re: #134 ckkatz
Yes it is badly written. I checked a little further down on the thread and there was the corrected version.
re: #134 ckkatz
The story is important and horrific. But I find the badly written tweet obnoxious:
Uninfected people can only die of COVID when an antivax nut takes the hospital bed they need for something else. Do you want to try a rewrite?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 16, 2021
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
stuff like this always amusing me when rednecks demand that other people “SPEAK ENGLISH!”
On dialect differences, there’s the Great Northern Cities vowel shift going on in a lot of cities _relatively_ near to Pittsburgh but not in Pittsburgh itself.
I had heard about it from a then linguistics grad student friend of mine, and first heard it in action when listening to NPR interviewing someone in Chicago* , who I heard as saying, “It’s two _blacks_ away”. I of course did a double take, then realized, he was saying “It’s two _blocks_ away”.
*okay, not that close to Pittsburgh, but part of the dialect area of “Inland Northern American English”
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
stuff like this always amuses me when rednecks demand that other people “SPEAK ENGLISH!”
Yes, the concept that an American, who is speaking a local dialect, is speaking “English” reminds me of the old Stonekettle saying about the self-awareness of a dog….
Particularly when coupled with anti-big government, the concept of what exactly is English, and who decides that. They seem to want some sort of federal “Académie Français” with the force of law.
re: #139 ckkatz
Yes, the concept that an American, who is speaking a local dialect, is speaking “English” reminds me of the old Stonekettle saying about the self-awareness of a dog….
Particularly when coupled with anti-big government, the concept of what exactly is English, and who decides that. They seem to want some sort of federal “Académie Français” with the force of law.
“Do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Pittsburgh?”
re: #132 ckkatz
I started using the term ‘posse’ in place of a ‘gang of friends’.
More generally, someone recently pointed out that with so many first and second language speakers, English has significantly diverged and the UK is no longer the adjudicator of the language. Although certain forms are still considered to convey more or less status.
Great Britain itself has many more regional dialects and accents (and also Scots which is really a separate language), which are more different from their standard English than American dialects are from General American. Of course, this happened over the 1700 years or so since the Angles and Saxons migrated to Great Britain, took over and imposed their language on the locals (and intermarried with them), and developed changes due to distance.
Some of the different British English dialects also have influence from Old Norse (due to Danish rule over large parts of Great Britain — the “Danelaw”).
And immigration has had a huge influence even on Britain’s English. London’s Cockney English has borrowings and influence from Yiddish and Romani.
And then there’s Indian English, which is at least 200 years old at this point, and the various other Englishes of the former British Empire which are used as either a native language, or as a lingua franca.
Well, I just got an email from HR. We are required to report our vaccination status as part of President Biden’s COVID-19 mandates.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Show you wearing them in a pic or it didn’t happen, Griftwald…
re: #143 Eric The Fruit Bat
Show you wearing them in a pic or it didn’t happen, Griftwald…
He’s trying to make what he thinks is a clever dig at AOC. Failing miserably as usual.
re: #141 aatharuv
Great Britain itself has many more regional dialects and accents (and also Scots which is really a separate language), which are more different from their standard English than American dialects are from General American. Of course, this happened over the 1700 years or so since the Angles and Saxons migrated to Great Britain, took over and imposed their language on the locals (and intermarried with them), and developed changes due to distance.
Some of the different British English dialects also have influence from Old Norse (due to Danish rule over large parts of Great Britain — the “Danelaw”).
And immigration has had a huge influence even on Britain’s English. London’s Cockney English has borrowings and influence from Yiddish and Romani.
Boris will declare everyone must speak Shakesperian. Solved!
Some years back, the NYT had a test that attempted to identify where the reader was from. It basically used various regionalisms.
The ones that surprised me the most were the regional synonyms for the median strip and the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street.
Another was the generic name for carbonated cola drinks: Soda, Pop, Coke, etc.
re: #145 Rightwingconspirator
Boris will declare everyone must speak Shakesperian. Solved!
English changed every 50 miles in Shakespeare’s era. 5th century Anglo-Saxon For The Win!
Or just ditch the language of the commoners and go to his favorite two languages, Ancient Greek and Latin.
I’m OK with putting feral teens down. We have enough stupid violent people, and there’s no path from this to being a reasonable person.
re: #145 Rightwingconspirator
Boris will declare everyone must speak Shakesperian. Solved!
They could go even more OG. Anglo-saxon. Welsh is technically the modern version of the language of the original “Britons” but I’m sure that’s a bridge too far for these racist reactionary clowns.
re: #141 aatharuv
Great Britain itself has many more regional dialects and accents (and also Scots which is really a separate language)
There’s Broad Scots which is vaguely English-like, spoken in the Borders and Western Central Scotland (aka Glasgow and environs). That’s what I grew up with. There’s also the Doric which is a Highland and Islands Scots dialect with a very distinctive sound. Scots Gaelic is something else and entirely different.
It’s complicated.
re: #148 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m OK with putting feral teens down. We have enough stupid violent people, and there’s no path from this to being a reasonable person.
Its terrible, but I still oppose the death penalty, and I don’t believe in teens being irredeemable.
re: #141 aatharuv
Great Britain itself has many more regional dialects and accents (and also Scots which is really a separate language), which are more different from their standard English than American dialects are from General American. Of course, this happened over the 1700 years or so since the Angles and Saxons migrated to Great Britain, took over and imposed their language on the locals (and intermarried with them), and developed changes due to distance.
Some of the different British English dialects also have influence from Old Norse (due to Danish rule over large parts of Great Britain — the “Danelaw”).
And immigration has had a huge influence even on Britain’s English. London’s Cockney English has borrowings and influence from Yiddish and Romani.
And then there’s Indian English, which is at least 200 years old at this point, and the various other Englishes of the former British Empire which are used as either a native language, or as a lingua franca.
Years ago I was on a tour that also had a number of ‘Brits’. Based upon their accent, it appeared to me that all the other Brits were able to identify both the region where each member came from and each’s general socio-economic class.
Meanwhile, I had a hard time even figuring out who was from South Africa versus Australia versus the Isles. I was, however, able to pick out the Canadians because they mostly sounded like Northern Midwest Americans to me, though.
Of course, it also took me decades before I was able to pick out some of the regional Southern accents.
re: #148 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m OK with putting feral teens down. We have enough stupid violent people, and there’s no path from this to being a reasonable person.
this is about the only fear i have as a runner*
but generally not 15 year olds. mine is morning commuters who ignore stop signs, etc.
runners *in a crosswalk* are not pedestrians to them.
*and spider webs spun across bridal paths
re: #153 Dangerman
“Bridal paths?” Do you ordinarily disrupt weddings?
re: #154 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
“Bridal paths?” Do you ordinarily disrupt weddings?
neigh neigh
Not all anti-vaxxers are stupid white people, even if most are.
Nicki Minaj fans in Atlanta protest the CDC in Atlanta. They say they trust her medical advice on the vaccine.https://t.co/EnbctVeqRR
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) September 16, 2021
re: #157 No Malarkey!
Not all anti-vaxxers are stupid white people, even if most are.
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re: #151 No Malarkey!
Its terrible, but I still oppose the death penalty, and I don’t believe in teens being irredeemable.
I do. Being so awful that you kill someone for laughs is not redeemable. There’s no way to ever make up for what you’ve done. She would have gotten away with it if a relative hadn’t contacted the police.
re: #152 ckkatz
Meanwhile, I had a hard time even figuring out who was from South Africa versus Australia versus the Isles. I was, however, able to pick out the Canadians because they mostly sounded like Northern Midwest Americans to me, though.
It’s possible some of the “Canadians” were embarrassed US-ians who sewed a maple leaf on their jackets and backpacks.
re: #152 ckkatz
Years ago I was on a tour that also had a number of ‘Brits’. Based upon their accent, it appeared to me that all the other Brits were able to identify both the region where each member came from and each’s general socio-economic class.
Meanwhile, I had a hard time even figuring out who was from South Africa versus Australia versus the Isles. I was, however, able to pick out the Canadians because they mostly sounded like Northern Midwest Americans to me, though.
Of course, it also took me decades before I was able to pick out some of the regional Southern accents.
South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand’s English dialects and accents (just like America and Canada) developed out of a mixture of various British Isles accents and dialects + L2 immigrant speakers, except with far less time to diverge.
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On conference calls, I’ve generally been able to pick out the Canadians by their accents, and yes “aboat” is one of the signifiers. However, it’s not perfect and I’ve met an occasional American from a border town whose accent was basically Canadian (and others from the same area whose accent wasn’t.).
Imagine what this Newsmax assclown was like as a kid.
Probably pretty much the same as now. https://t.co/t959KX8pAg— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
Cleo is having a bad day. She went to the vet and got sentenced to two weeks of wearing a cone of shame because she chewed what appears to be a lump or cyst on the base of her tail. It’s been bleeding but we couldn’t see where it was coming from because she has a triple GSD fur. The doc shaved the area so we could monitor it better while it heals up. We had to exchange the cone for an inflatable collar because she about knocked us both down the stairs yesterday and kept knocking things off the coffee table with it. She also has an infection in her ears and another bump on her back hip we have to have looked at. This shit isn’t cheap and we still haven’t got her yearly shots and meds and all that yet. Sigh. Cleo would also like all of you to know that she hates this stupid collar thing and she is going to bite it as soon as she figures out how.
re: #159 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I do. Being so awful that you kill someone for laughs is not redeemable. There’s no way to ever make up for what you’ve done. She would have gotten away with it if a relative hadn’t contacted the police.
Yup. Killing that guy could be an accident, by someone who doesn’t understand how powerful a car is, laughing about how he flew over the windshield is another matter.
re: #145 Rightwingconspirator
Boris will declare everyone must speak Shakesperian. Solved!
Our school North of PGH used a pure Sheakspearian word as a toilet euphemism: “jakes”.
My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the wall of a jakes with him.
—Lear Act2, Scene 2
re: #156 Dangerman
neigh neigh
If I recall correctly, bridle paths meaning a horseriding trail, was used in Pittsburgh.While there are several big horse riding communities locally in the DC area, I don’t remember anyone using that phrase. I will need to ask my neighbor who was big into that.
I wonder if it is regional or standard American usage. Wiki lists a bunch of synonyms.
re: #157 No Malarkey!
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nb: can’t-vaxxers are NOT anti-vaxxers
Nicki Minaj fans in Atlanta protest the CDC in Atlanta. They say they trust her medical advice on the vaccine.https://t.co/EnbctVeqRR
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) September 16, 2021
Can’t we fire vaccine darts at them?
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re: #125 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I guess she was told there wouldn’t be any math…..
The Republican Party finally gets its death panels. https://t.co/Qo2CH5ddNc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
re: #158 Belafon
Nicki will have a smaller fan base.
She’s going to kill some of her stupid fans, and lose her smarter fans for siding with the virus.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 16, 2021
If smarter Nicki Minaj fans are a thing.
re: #166 ckkatz
If I recall correctly, bridle paths meaning a horseriding trail, was used in Pittsburgh.While there are several big horse riding communities locally in the DC area, I don’t remember anyone using that phrase. I will need to ask my neighbor who was big into that.
I wonder if it is regional or standard American usage. Wiki lists a bunch of synonyms.
We used it in SoCal.
re: #161 aatharuv
On conference calls, I’ve generally been able to pick out the Canadians by their accents, and yes “aboat” is one of the signifiers. However, it’s not perfect and I’ve met an occasional American from a border town whose accent was basically Canadian (and others from the same area whose accent wasn’t.).
i did telephone sales and support for a while.
when i eventually met a lot of them at trade shows, i assumed they would all be taller//
It never stops being bizarre to me that we fought a 20-year war thinking that we could bring democracy to Afghanistan through military force, when we’re barely able to bring democracy to Georgia and Texas.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 16, 2021
In college a lit professor breezily told us that Chicago accents have more in common with Brooklyn than with Champaign downstate. He explained that the migration to Chicago originally followed the Great Lakes whereas the people in my parts came through Indiana from Kentucky. It kind of follows with my dad’s family. Started in Boston in 1634, then to New Haven, then to the area between Erie and Cleveland, then to farms in north and western Illinois. My maternal grandmother’s family started in Paris, Ky area in late 1700s and made it to central Illinois.
re: #171 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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If smarter Nicki Minaj fans are a thing.
She’s a pretty good rapper, but this definitely means she’s lacking in some critical thinking areas.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Massive projection by a bunch of Republican sociopaths. We just didn’t realize it at the time.
re: #166 ckkatz
If I recall correctly, bridle paths meaning a horseriding trail, was used in Pittsburgh.While there are several big horse riding communities locally in the DC area, I don’t remember anyone using that phrase. I will need to ask my neighbor who was big into that.
I wonder if it is regional or standard American usage. Wiki lists a bunch of synonyms.
bridle path
horse trail
riding trail
rec trail
the snooty ones over in Wellington use equestrian trail..
…
in the early AM they are just web covered trails
Japanese vending machines are amazing. Now you can get fried insects in Saga Prefecture.
Foods with insect extracts and edible insects are being sold in vending machines across Japan.
One such vending machine was installed in Miyaki Town, Saga Prefecture, western Japan on Tuesday. It is said to be the first edible insect vending machine in the prefecture.
It is offering 12 types of whole insects, including bamboo caterpillars, crickets and water beetles.
They are fried and sold in bottles for 1,000 yen, or about nine dollars. Each bottle contains around 20 to 30 bugs.
Insects have been drawing attention as an alternative source of protein to solve the global food shortage.
Koga Takahiko, who set up the vending machine, said many people tend to dislike insects, but they taste good. He described them as rich in protein, minerals and nutrition, and expressed hope they will become accepted.
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
It’ll really take off if he turns them into a keto energy bar.
….If you need to give out Not-Reaching pouches to help reduce deadly force, maybe you should just work on addressing the whole deadly force thing. https://t.co/IrL2JDAvZ5
— Chris Vander Slik (@BloopMighty) September 16, 2021
re: #154 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
“Bridal paths?” Do you ordinarily disrupt weddings?
re: #166 ckkatz
If I recall correctly, bridle paths meaning a horseriding trail, was used in Pittsburgh.While there are several big horse riding communities locally in the DC area, I don’t remember anyone using that phrase. I will need to ask my neighbor who was big into that.
I wonder if it is regional or standard American usage. Wiki lists a bunch of synonyms.
ah
i realize now i typo’ed the whole thing to begin with
re: #167 Dangerman
nb: can’t-vaxxers are NOT anti-vaxxers
Obviously if you can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons, that doesn’t make you an anti-vaxxer.
Thiessen actually writes: “The idea that Trump would start a nuclear war is ludicrous.”
I’ll trust the judgment of a seasoned military veteran who was actually there, instead of propaganda from a WaPo columnist with a long history of blatant gaslighting just like this. https://t.co/2jI23U1RT0— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2021
A note left on the hospital staff whiteboard by Dr. Kenneth Krell, director of eastern Idaho’s largest intensive care unit. #idahoCovid19 pic.twitter.com/ez4vOvJXVr
— Sally Krutzig (@sallykrutzig) September 16, 2021
There’s nothing wrong with an opinion piece. We need editors who will realize some opinions are fucking stupid and don’t deserve to promoted.
re: #184 jaunte
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every time i get in my car i gotta put my license, reg and insurance in this pouch so you dont shoot me???
re: #188 No Malarkey!
Obviously if you can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons, that doesn’t make you an anti-vaxxer.
obvious to who? (// 1/2)
re: #191 jaunte
Handwriting checks out. That is a doctor.
re: #193 Dangerman
every time i get in my car i gotta put my license, reg and insurance in this pouch so you dont shoot me???
Only if you are black.
“On Saturday, that’s a setup. If people don’t show up they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s a lack of spirit.’ And if people do show up they’ll be harassed.”— Former President Donald Trump, talking to The Federalist about the rally at the Capitol this weekend.
man’s afraid of a weak stream
re: #186 Barefoot Grin
This is the future.
The dystopian future caused by not getting the population under control. I’d prefer to produce less people with a higher quality of life.
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re: #128 Dangerman
tell us what exactly we should do that would be ‘productive’
i mean as opposed to those other people getting instantly and productively vaccinated
Idiots like being told that they’re the real smart people, so if we wanted to lie to them to get compliance, we’d tell them they’re the real smart people for waiting until full approval, and it’s time to get vaccinated.
The thing is, I don’t think we have a duty to lie to idiots to save their lives against their will.
re: #153 Dangerman
Now you have me thinking about how much worse it would be in Australia. With giant bird eating spiders, Goliaths, golden silk orb-weavers, and… Martha.
re: #202 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We’ve coddled quacks, morons, racists, assholes with undiagnosed oppositional defiant disorder, conspiracy theorists, and people who insist on continuing to profess ideas that have been long since debunked for far too long. Now is as good a time as we will get to start saying no more.
re: #190 Charles Johnson
The NYT is badly broken by this kind of nonsense, and now the WashPost wants to follow them off the cliff?!?
re: #201 ckkatz
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re: #205 ckkatz
The NYT is badly broken by this kind of nonsense, and now the WashPost wants to follow them off the cliff?!?
Someone will need to set up a WaPo Pitch Bot account on Twitter now.
re: #29 aatharuv
Is he really that stupid as to think saying “Fuck wall street” means you’re a leftist? Or that we’ll believe that?
There are a lot of paleocons and small-business Republicans who would echo Dr. Evil’s sentiment there.
Staunch Conservatives are wary of Wall Street - Pew Research
And even more to the point GG was certainly affiliated with the Koch brother founded Cato Institute, which is at the very least libertarian.
GG is also a case of someone who has gone so far left that they wake up in morning in bed with the right wing…so anti-Wall Street that they are anti (((cosmopolitan))) so anti-globalist that they are Nationalist. Nationalism plus Socialism…hmmm, rings a bell somehow…
re: #204 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
We’ve coddled quacks, morons, racists, assholes with undiagnosed oppositional defiant disorder, conspiracy theorists, and people who insist on continuing to profess ideas that have been long since debunked for far too long. Now is as good a time as we will get to start saying no more.
…and Methodists. Don’t forget the Methodists.
re: #200 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The dystopian future caused by not getting the population under control. I’d prefer to produce less people with a higher quality of life.
The higher quality of the vastly increases the consumption of each individual living at that standard?
Malthusian population control doesn’t work because consumption is not equally distributed and the people selling the idea of less people are the one that keep escalating their consumption exponentially.
Also…people in Japan already eat insects. A bunch of regional speciality food you can buy at train stations are bug based. This isn’t necessarily about privation.
re: #209 Decatur Deb
…and Methodists. Don’t forget the Methodists.
“Take this down: I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!”
*looks around for a pen*
“Could you repeat that sir?”
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Guess where Sarah Palin (she of death panels fame) was born and went to college?
re: #104 Charles Johnson
Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit
And bring back farthings, crowns, sovereigns and guineas as units of currency?
re: #206 Decatur Deb
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re: #184 jaunte
….If you need to give out Not-Reaching pouches to help reduce deadly force, maybe you should just work on addressing the whole deadly force thing.
The equivalent of making women wear full body coverings to keep them from getting raped…
re: #216 William Lewis
The Leica is kicking in.
We aren’t going to be fed cockroach flour products because there’s too many people, we’re going to be fed cockroach flour because it was never sustainable to feed your family hamburger every meal and drive thirty minutes for anything, but most especially because people with private jets and gold-flake-coated tomahawk steaks will never admit that they’re hording of resources creates the privation they “solve” through mandating the lifestyles of everyone else.
The panic about overpopulation that prompted Malthus was literally the British kvetching over the Irish—while in the process of stealing all the valuables and all the labor that would allow Irish people to actually thrive.
re: #217 Rightwingconspirator
Gorgeous
I try to have a camera with me every time I go out and about. This is a reason why.
That Leica is an expensive toy but my it’s been worth the money to me. This was with a mid 50’s Chiyoko (now Minolta) 50/2 lens. Makes a great combo.
Stares in historian https://t.co/8M8lCblvml
— Margaret O’Mara (@margaretomara) September 16, 2021
St. Peter don’tcha call me cause I cain’t go
I owe my soul to the Company store
This is why nobody at Davos should be allowed in public without having a fucking shoe thrown at them. Every single one of them pontificates about how the world must tighten its belt, accept a new regimine…but their core conceit is that they get their cut first and then they dictate to the rest of us what we can do with our money, and then use their overwhelming money to hijack plans to make life better to literally play with our lives.
Every day in Bill Gates’ life should be like an earthquake at a chancla factory.
I can see Josh Hawley interviewing people for 1-6.
“Qualifications?”
“Stampeding cattle.”
“That’s not much of a crime.”
“Through a BLM protest.”
“Kinky! Sign here.”
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did somebody say “Amazon company town”?
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re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did somebody say “Amazon company town”?
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What do you call a shanty-town around an Amazon facility?
Jeffburg?
Bezosville?
Amazonia?
Funny thread.
1/ Hello everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Florida GOP Committee on Health Policy. We’re meeting today in this parking lot behind a Hooter’s because Dale, our treasurer, died of COVID-19 last night and he had sole access to the accounts, so we couldn’t rent out…
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) September 16, 2021
Put them on the pile.
Alabama Pickers, couple known for reselling and vaccine opposition, both dead of COVID
al.com
Edna Iyatunguk caught these musk oxen head-butting up on Anvil Mountain outside of Nome. pic.twitter.com/9FGc9hx92f
— Crude Magazine (@crudemag) September 16, 2021
re: #223 jaunte
Company towns can be good…until, the company decides to pull out and move elsewhere.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Company towns can be good…until, the company decides to pull out and move elsewhere.
I grew up in Gary, Indiana.
‘Nuff said
re: #231 Dave In Austin
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Edna Iyatunguk caught these musk oxen head-butting up on Anvil Mountain outside of Nome. pic.twitter.com/9FGc9hx92f
— Crude Magazine (@crudemag) September 16, 2021
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Company towns can be good…until, the company decides to pull out and move elsewhere.
It’s how we got London.
re: #230 Decatur Deb
Put them on the pile.
Alabama Pickers, couple known for reselling and vaccine opposition, both dead of COVID
al.com
…what was the joke about the final stage of Covid Denial being setting up a GoFundMe page?
“Dusty died Thursday, almost three weeks after his wife did, according to the GoFundMe page set up by one of their children.”
Florida Man Strikes Again!
Naked Driver Takes Toll On Collectors
Cops: Man exposed self seven times at plazas
Mark Fillyaw, 41, was arrested Saturday and charged in connection with a one-week exposure spree that began on August 31 and victimized workers at three separate toll plazas in Osceola County.
Fillyaw exposed himself seven times while passing through the cash lanes of the plazas, according to an arrest report.
Murdaugh bond is $20,000. His drug-dealer’s bond for helping him out in his “suicide” attempt is $55,000.
The judge did not believe Murdaugh is a threat to the community.
I would beg to differ…
“A grand jury working with special counsel John Durham’s office handed up an indictment Thursday of lawyer Michael Sussmann, who prosecutors have accused of making false statements to the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reports.New York Times: “The charge centers on a Sept. 19, 2016, meeting with an FBI official in which Mr. Sussmann relayed concerns by cybersecurity researchers who believed that unusual internet data might be evidence of a covert communications channel between computer servers associated with the Trump Organization and with Alfa Bank, a Kremlin-linked Russian financial institution.”
well that sure made it all worth it //
re: #235 Dangerman
this town aint big enough for the both of us
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If only the city planners had made towns big enough for everyone.
Giant pickups? Scary black guns? “Beta male” projection? Organized incels? Guys like Walsh have no idea how obvious it is that they are desperately compensating. I’ve seen enough. President Biden should appoint a blue ribbon commission to study the precipitous drop in penis size and general virility among certain white men. . Since it is not all white men (harrumph!) the commission must seek some narrower factor as a cause. Inbreeding? Over consumption of certain brands of beer? Mercury poisoning from Swanson’s fishsticks? All possibilities must be considered.
Matt scared of a spider crouching on a table trying to kill it with a vacuum. Harry standing next to his death bird. pic.twitter.com/x2vo6Sp6AU
— MosquitoCoFL Podcast (@MosquitoCoFL) September 16, 2021
re: #239 BeachDem
Man, these people are fucking connected. How else do you explain the kid glove treatment?
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, these people are fucking connected. How else do you explain the kid glove treatment?
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Former President Donald Trump offered his public support to those accused of joining the January 6 riot at the Capitol, claiming that suspects are “being persecuted so unfairly.”He added: “In addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a two-tiered system of justice.”
he’s right
who’s complaining they are locked up, the conditions suck and it’s ‘not fair’?
There’s a reason these people ended up hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, because all of his posturing about science and eugenics was just a socially normal aspect of being super rich: you talk about other people as widgets, and argue with your peers about the ideal arrangement of the widgets in a disinterested manner because widget-arrangement is never an existential problem, just an exercise in trying to maximize comfort and advantage.
If you’ve already decided that you can destroy a body through labor because have a contract, if you’ve already decided that your vague notions of futurism allow you to let people die for a better tomorrow…the guy taking that one extra step of “hey, I contracted these bodies to be mine, that’s totally normal” is understandable.
Different kinds of treating people as solely means to your ends are comorbid.
I am not a huge fan of Sarah Kendzior’s twitter feed because everything there seems, to me anyway, to be presented as “We’re all going to die!!!!!” emergency. And there are only so many 5-alarm fires that I can handle at a time.
But she did make an interesting observation recently:
“There was a *huge* amount of illicit activity in the 2016 election: foreign influence, hacked voter databases, dirty money. But the GOP was clever and backed the Dems into a corner by crying ‘Rigged!’ and prompting Dems to claim rigging was impossible.” https://t.co/RvlFfEweDo
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) September 15, 2021
Once upon a time, Illinois state government was known for hollowing out its public services. No longer.
When our youngest families succeed, our whole state reaps the benefits. That’s the Illinois our residents deserve—and together, we’re making it happen. https://t.co/q8zfvHph9M— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) September 13, 2021
re: #248 The Ghost of a Flea
It is easy to see other people’s purpose in serving the market: the market that you own and control, of course.
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, these people are fucking connected. How else do you explain the kid glove treatment?
Murdaughs are a great example of how American regions can and do have aristocracy.
re: #176 Barefoot Grin
In college a lit professor breezily told us that Chicago accents have more in common with Brooklyn than with Champaign downstate. He explained that the migration to Chicago originally followed the Great Lakes whereas the people in my parts came through Indiana from Kentucky. It kind of follows with my dad’s family. Started in Boston in 1634, then to New Haven, then to the area between Erie and Cleveland, then to farms in north and western Illinois. My maternal grandmother’s family started in Paris, Ky area in late 1700s and made it to central Illinois.
Mine, too. Originally from Mt. Vernon, farther to the south, then most of my school years through BA in Champaign. Family on both sides through Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois or Ohio to Indiana to Illinois.
re: #249 ckkatz
I am not a huge fan of Sarah Kendzior’s twitter feed because everything there seems, to me anyway, to be presented as “We’re all going to die!!!!!” emergency. And there are only so many 5-alarm fires that I can handle at a time.
But she did make an interesting observation recently:
I still have a terrible crush on Sarah K and fantasize about sitting up with her (afterwards, of course) smoking and discussing modes of authoritarianism…
re: #238 JOE 🥓
Florida Man Strikes Again!
Naked Driver Takes Toll On Collectors
Cops: Man exposed self seven times at plazasMark Fillyaw, 41, was arrested Saturday and charged in connection with a one-week exposure spree that began on August 31 and victimized workers at three separate toll plazas in Osceola County.
Fillyaw exposed himself seven times while passing through the cash lanes of the plazas, according to an arrest report.
“LOOK OUT, ETHEL!!!!”
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, these people are fucking connected. How else do you explain the kid glove treatment?
They’re the powerful family that made life hell for their neighbors, who say none of them are innocent, and are very happy to see them fall.
re: #171 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If smarter Nicki Minaj fans are a thing.
Hey now, shots fired. She’s got some good tunes.
re: #258 JC1
Hey now, shots fired. She’s got some good tunes.
Gosh it almost fits in a Wheel Of Fortune puzzle!
re: #255 JOE 🥓
PROPS TO JB PRITZKER!
AND
The Governor would call this a meal, not just a sandwich!
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re: #161 aatharuv
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re: #224 The Ghost of a Flea
This works down. I’m poor. Legitimately. When my mom was alive in 1993, we both lived on her Social Security and my state disability check. When she died, I got the furniture and that was that.
A LOT of well-to-do liberals have no problem telling me how to live, judging me on their stereotypes, and getting pissed at me when I challenge them.
I’m white, so for everyone else not-white in my shoes, multiply difficulty by 20x.
re: #224 The Ghost of a Flea
And I will forever refer to Davos as Davros, since both of these entities have the same level of ethics.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Company towns can be good…until, the company decides to pull out and move elsewhere.
RCA, Camden, NJ.
All those people didn’t reinvent themselves!
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re: #249 ckkatz
I am not a huge fan of Sarah Kendzior’s twitter feed because everything there seems, to me anyway, to be presented as “We’re all going to die!!!!!” emergency. And there are only so many 5-alarm fires that I can handle at a time.
But she did make an interesting observation recently:
I stopped following her completely. A lot of survivalists go around the bend like Sarah did, and promote the same hysteria that they write about.
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