No, we don't need to "re-shape" masculinity. And Kamala Harris makes her Hail Mary pass: she goes on Fox News. It goes pretty much like you'd expect. Welcome to another For Funk's Sake Friday.
4. Thank you Lillia. Surprised to see my name in your excellent post today. Still can’t play some of the videos but it works sometimes if I log out & come back later. No clue why but I’ll let you know 🤔
I can’t play the videos on my phone often because the data doesn’t stream fast enough, I think. I’ve also had problem on an older computer when it’s getting to the point where it’s time to switch out because it can’t handle the amount of data.
And thank you for pointing out the spin and manipulation of video.
I know for a fact that about half the country is stupid, I see it every day when I drive past the "Harris/Walz" signs in front of their houses. The Dems realize that they are losing, so they trot out the "FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR DOOM GLOOM" boogeyman arguments.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm mainly a lurker just trying to survive this election cycle, thank you for continuing to do all of these article scans and keeping your sanity at the same time.
You're not really sane until you consider the way we treat people who use toothpicks:
-
“Here,” said Wonko the Sane, “we are outside the Asylum.” He pointed again at the rough brickwork, the pointing, and the gutters. “Go through that door” — he pointed at the first door through which they had originally entered — “and you go into the Asylum. I’ve tried to decorate it nicely to keep the inmates happy, but there’s very little one can do. I never go in there myself. If I ever am tempted, which these days I rarely am, I simply look at the sign written over the door and I shy away.”
“That one?” said Fenchurch, pointing, rather puzzled, at a blue plaque with some instructions written on it.
“Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.”
The sign read:
“Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.”
“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
Yeah, I was probably going more for the joke of the question that Baier was trying to get Kamala to answer (about "is half of the country stupid?"), and you're absolutely right. The real issue here is that most people have decided which media bubble they want to live in, and refuse to listen to the other side. I'm probably just as guilty as this with all of my reading and listening habits as well.
There are crazies everywhere, and sometimes they do get significantly involved.
I think my all-time favorite as far as conspiracy claims goes was a statement from a member of Gen-Z for Change, an NPO advocating for Harris, who claimed that ~30% of the black population is being shot unarmed by cops each year.
I commented somewhere recently about Bubbling using "unarmed black people shot by police" to illustrate my point. I didn't use exact numbers but the intent is the same It was something like...
Here it is. It was on El Gato Malo last week:
"It's part of why they're so taken in by the whole Woke Agenda. If you ask people, for example, how many unarmed people were shot by police in the previous (to any) year, many people - and I'll wager a significantly greater share of liberals - think it's in the hundreds but it's never more than a couple dozen ( which is not intended to underplay it; merely to note the distorted perception). They live in a very narrow slice of culture and because they know a gay couple, a tranny, and an avant avant garde artist, that 40% of all people identify as something other than... Normal. They don't even realize this is weird, that it's a caricature of their own narrative."
Yeah, false consensus effect is real, and surprisingly it and the false-uniqueness effect are not mutually exclusive.
I often come back to this particular example because it's so egregious. Like overblowing it from around 10-20 to 100-200 or even 1000-2000 is one thing, but 13.2 million per year is psychotic. Like just think of the logistics necessary for that to be true.
Also, when he's told that it's around 8-20 per year he tries to ask if 15-20% is fair like he thought they were talking about percentages and not absolute, and the fact that he tries to negotiate a statistic. For me that exchanges highlights both the lack of competency and the lack of morals so succinctly.
They’re not only stupid but they are also leeches who feed off other people’s taxes. They are dependent on the government for healthcare, education, food stamps, housing and income. They are either employed by the federal/state/city/local government as a teacher, bureaucrat, or DEI administration; or indirectly as a college or admin or some kind of government contractor. They would vote for Hitler if their next pay check, EBT card, or doctor’s visit depended on it. This is what happens after decades of American Socialism; unsustainable dependence on fewer and fewer private sector producers.
It's pretty hard to be a Not-Producer in the Private Sector. If your Boss discovers that, it pretty much means you'll be a Non-Employee real quick like.
I think a big part of what is sparking Harris to get more involved is the fact that her team overestimated their ability to coast on a brat summer and vibes to an election victory in autumn as it's now clear that they might run out of gas. Trump for his credit has been putting in the work by making all sorts of media appearances that he would never done before as a means to secure the independent vote, and that effort seems to be reflected in the polls with the slight gains he's been making in recent weeks. Harris' decision to expose herself to increased risk to stay her advantage, as she might just eek out a win if you called it as the polls are now.
It's also, as something Nate Silver pointed out, a big reason why both candidates are entertaining an appearance on the JRE, whose makeup of largely independent, and young (who make up the majority of non-committed voters), may make or break either candidate's ability to close it out, for which the JRE would be lambasted regardless of how it would play out.
Is half the country stupid? I really want to know. It seems stupid to me to believe only one source (may as well be, with MSM basically parroting each other) without listening to any others. I try to at least hear some of what the other side is saying, tho I will admit that I can't stay there long. The Free Press is about as much of the "other side" as I can handle, and I can't handle even that on some days. So maybe I'm just as bad. Am I on the stupid side?
I watched Tucker's interview with Mark Halperin, and found it interesting that he believes Trump will win, but also believes that it will cause a mental health crisis in our country. So what do you think? Does that mean that the Harris voters will be mentally unstable and burn it all down?
If you're asking if you're on the stupid side, you're probably not. Stupid is a lot like crazy. Crazy people never wonder if they're crazy. They don't have the capacity.
As for half the country, I suspect there are number reasons for this sort of bifurcated reality. But one big one is media. Media always has had a bias, but for a long time they had a basic code of ethics. They might not give you the whole story, but they gave you the truth as far as they knew it. And the media was filled with liberals, and liberals were distrustful of power. So people could trust that, for the most part, they would, as the saying goes, speak truth to power. None of that is true anymore, but I don't think a lot of people understand that. They're living in the past. And so they continue to consume the media uncritically and live in the world the media creates for them.
The Free Press has a political ax to grind and they pretend they don't. That makes them very difficult to read. I've found I'd rather gather a grouping of independent journalists, watch the "for you" on Twitter to see opinions in small bites that I can clip away from, and read sources like Axios and occasionally CNN. I like Ground News. They just "gather" stories from all sources. I think the left-center-right ratings system is useless to a degree. It's more like "establishment" and "anti-establishment" but they are a good way to see what's being talked about in certain blindspots.
As for the mental health crisis, I think we're already in it. Will there be violence if Trump wins? I don't know. Joy/sorrow may be right that the election will be an excuse. The bigger question, because it's actually the bigger problem, is, if there is violence will the establishment right use that as an excuse to become as totalitarian as the establishment left?
If there is violence after the election is decided, it will more than likely be that Trump won. But after J6 I can see there being violence even if he loses. I just don't believe that it will truly be from Trump supporters. I no longer trust those in our alphabet agencies to be those who help, especially if Trump wins because they see him (rightly I hope) as a threat to their existence. It will be difficult to navigate regardless of the outcome. Thanks for the Ground News suggestion. I'll check it out. You're probably right about the mental health issue. There are times when I fear I've lost my mind these days.
Violence is more likely if Trump wins, I agree, mostly because it's become acceptable and excused by half the country to riot against "Hitler." I too will mistrust any stories of violence if Trump loses, especially if the people involved are wearing khaki pants and white masks.😏 In all seriousness, all the times I've been told Trump supporters will rise up, and it hasn't happened. Even J6 itself wasn't nearly as violent as it could have been for a bunch of people with access to firearms, and since the FBI won't be open about what "assets" they had in the crowd and how what those "assets" were doing? I will definitely treat any stories with extreme skepticism.
If there's any violence as result of either candidate winning, the election would be the excuse, not the reason.
You already saw this with much of the riots of 2020, where people used George Floyd as an excuse. His death was far less of an injustice, for instance, than Eric Garner, yet the response for Floyd was much larger despite the fact that was obvious Chauvin would have gone to jail for manslaughter.
On the subject of the never-ending masculinity/femininity debate, my opinion is that this was pretty much settled by Marcus Aurelius in Meditations (what is it, nearly 2000 years now? time sure flies):
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Of course I can more than understand why people like to talk about because like everything social, political, or cultural, pretty much everybody and anybody has an opinion on these subjects, even if there really is no right answer.
Speaking of The Viking and other Apocalypses…A very recent headline read something like: “South Korean Military Opens Fires on North Korea.”
Having recently finished Annie Jacobsen’s OUTSTANDING book entitled ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario” and noting that the scenario started from an ‘out of the blue’ attack from North Korea, I want to point out that the whole thing was pretty much thoroughly cooked in minutes. MINUTES. (In this scenario, the President didn't make it. Neither did anyone else much.)
“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable. He is unfit to be President of the United States.” –Kamala HQ
Not to be a Debbie Downer (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) but my points are as follows:
1) I sincerely hope we actually have 1 month…or even two weeks.
2) If Kamala HQ is correct and stability is actually a meaningful thing, then read your effing ROOM. (Hint for slow learners. It’s the whole world.)
Later, of course, I learned that the woman I was seeing wasn't Doug. It was actually Peppermint Patti. But by then it was too late. I was infatuated. (To this day, she hates it when I tell this story and that I still, lovingly, call her Doug.)
I think you need to issue content warnings before some of these Popular Science/Mechanics articles. They're getting actively hazardous for a thinking person to read.
I kid more than a little. We're a cool little outfit. "We" were a little e-commerce startup and two and a half years ago were acquired by our biggest competitor - they were the Big Fish, we were the Comer-Uppers - and it's been pretty lucrative.
The big money-maker: Merchandising. We manage state-wide Hunting, Fishing, associated Rec Activities (campsites, watercraft...) but, when we just provided a good technical solutions, and a very good user experience (that's our upsell), but we didn't realize how much people love Hats (I'm wearing my Nebraska Game and Parks knit cap as we, uh... speak) and Scarfs and Hand Warmers with your Local Fish and Game and Trapping and Parks and Wildlife and Hunting, and... Plastic Hard Cards. Dag, sportsman love having their Hunting License and their Deer Stamp and their Migratory Bird Permit and Winter Crab Endorsement on a little credit card with a choice of background pic: Trout, Quail, Deer.
A Brit is visiting the US and, only having been exposed to the Balls-to-the-Wall action sport Cricket, his hosts took him to a baseball game.
They end up sitting behind a very enthusiastic fan who, every time the home team was at bat, the pitcher would throw the ball, he'd narrate "Steeerike!" or "Nope -Ball away" but when the batter hit the ball and dropped the bat, the fan would stand and yell, "Run, you Son of a Bitch! Run!" Our UK friend was duly impressed.
So by the 4th inning or so, our Limey Friend is in the spirit - which is to say, he's had 3 Giant $15 Bud Lites and a couple Vodka Lemonades - and, when the batter took a Ball 4, dropped his bat, and started toward 1st Base. Our visiting friend stands and yells, "Run, you Son of a Bitch! Run!"
The fan in front turns and says, "He has Four Balls. He can Walk."
To which the Brit replies, "Walk proudly, young man!"
4. Thank you Lillia. Surprised to see my name in your excellent post today. Still can’t play some of the videos but it works sometimes if I log out & come back later. No clue why but I’ll let you know 🤔
I can’t play the videos on my phone often because the data doesn’t stream fast enough, I think. I’ve also had problem on an older computer when it’s getting to the point where it’s time to switch out because it can’t handle the amount of data.
And thank you for pointing out the spin and manipulation of video.
Could play on laptop. YAY! but some were just unwatchable. Joy Reid? OMG can't even.
Well, I'm not responsible if you click on a video of Joy Reid and claw your eyes out. I just provide the content.
And I'm really glad you finally got the videos to play. Some are fun.
Not to worry. I didn’t watch “it”
I’ll try on my laptop.
"... the government doing something shady"
*sniff sniff*
I love the smell of Ron Swanson in the morning.
Happy Friday, Lil! *waves*
Same to you, Mr. Pi. *waves back*
I know for a fact that about half the country is stupid, I see it every day when I drive past the "Harris/Walz" signs in front of their houses. The Dems realize that they are losing, so they trot out the "FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR DOOM GLOOM" boogeyman arguments.
Oh, and I haven't seen you for a while. I was thinking about you the other day. Thank you for chiming in and I hope things are well.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm mainly a lurker just trying to survive this election cycle, thank you for continuing to do all of these article scans and keeping your sanity at the same time.
You’re welcome.
And I don’t know if I would call myself “sane” anymore. That might be pushing it.
You're not really sane until you consider the way we treat people who use toothpicks:
-
“Here,” said Wonko the Sane, “we are outside the Asylum.” He pointed again at the rough brickwork, the pointing, and the gutters. “Go through that door” — he pointed at the first door through which they had originally entered — “and you go into the Asylum. I’ve tried to decorate it nicely to keep the inmates happy, but there’s very little one can do. I never go in there myself. If I ever am tempted, which these days I rarely am, I simply look at the sign written over the door and I shy away.”
“That one?” said Fenchurch, pointing, rather puzzled, at a blue plaque with some instructions written on it.
“Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.”
The sign read:
“Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.”
“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
This is true.
True story: side of "Inflate a tire" or whatever it's called reads (or at least it did at one time) "do not weld to rim." There's a story there.
I don't call them stupid. I call them trapped and naive. But I get your point.
And I love how they keep saying Trump is the "fear" candidate. Just watch a few minutes of Joy Reid or Rachel Maddow . . . that is fear mongering.
Yeah, I was probably going more for the joke of the question that Baier was trying to get Kamala to answer (about "is half of the country stupid?"), and you're absolutely right. The real issue here is that most people have decided which media bubble they want to live in, and refuse to listen to the other side. I'm probably just as guilty as this with all of my reading and listening habits as well.
We all are guilty of bubbling. But at least you are aware.
There are crazies everywhere, and sometimes they do get significantly involved.
I think my all-time favorite as far as conspiracy claims goes was a statement from a member of Gen-Z for Change, an NPO advocating for Harris, who claimed that ~30% of the black population is being shot unarmed by cops each year.
https://x.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/1658030104608473089
Truth is indeed somehow crazier than fiction sometimes.
See also, “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/the-actual-pauline-kael-quote%E2%80%94not-as-bad-and-worse/
And that was in 1972 as well.
Not unbelievable given how much people like to be ensconced in their own bubbles, especially today, but still kinda crazy.
I commented somewhere recently about Bubbling using "unarmed black people shot by police" to illustrate my point. I didn't use exact numbers but the intent is the same It was something like...
Here it is. It was on El Gato Malo last week:
"It's part of why they're so taken in by the whole Woke Agenda. If you ask people, for example, how many unarmed people were shot by police in the previous (to any) year, many people - and I'll wager a significantly greater share of liberals - think it's in the hundreds but it's never more than a couple dozen ( which is not intended to underplay it; merely to note the distorted perception). They live in a very narrow slice of culture and because they know a gay couple, a tranny, and an avant avant garde artist, that 40% of all people identify as something other than... Normal. They don't even realize this is weird, that it's a caricature of their own narrative."
Yeah, false consensus effect is real, and surprisingly it and the false-uniqueness effect are not mutually exclusive.
I often come back to this particular example because it's so egregious. Like overblowing it from around 10-20 to 100-200 or even 1000-2000 is one thing, but 13.2 million per year is psychotic. Like just think of the logistics necessary for that to be true.
Also, when he's told that it's around 8-20 per year he tries to ask if 15-20% is fair like he thought they were talking about percentages and not absolute, and the fact that he tries to negotiate a statistic. For me that exchanges highlights both the lack of competency and the lack of morals so succinctly.
Yo, Woody!
They’re not only stupid but they are also leeches who feed off other people’s taxes. They are dependent on the government for healthcare, education, food stamps, housing and income. They are either employed by the federal/state/city/local government as a teacher, bureaucrat, or DEI administration; or indirectly as a college or admin or some kind of government contractor. They would vote for Hitler if their next pay check, EBT card, or doctor’s visit depended on it. This is what happens after decades of American Socialism; unsustainable dependence on fewer and fewer private sector producers.
I like your new pic, BTW.
Indeed. I should make mine more like really me. Like, with The Husky Dawg. Or plucking a Ukulele. Or smoking something.
"private sector producers"
and also
"Welcome to life in the private sector."
It's pretty hard to be a Not-Producer in the Private Sector. If your Boss discovers that, it pretty much means you'll be a Non-Employee real quick like.
https://youtu.be/C2UK0l6TwVs?si=iNfDlyxCLe0dFZhB
Dolphins and Other Stories - "Doesn’t this make you wonder how they tested the dolphins’ exhalations to figure this out?"
Nurse Ratchet: "Stop playing around. Turn your head and cough."
I for one, have never understood the the dolphin fantasy all that well and may well never understand it.
Though I am in agreement that psychiatric treatment might be an appropriate response.
I think a big part of what is sparking Harris to get more involved is the fact that her team overestimated their ability to coast on a brat summer and vibes to an election victory in autumn as it's now clear that they might run out of gas. Trump for his credit has been putting in the work by making all sorts of media appearances that he would never done before as a means to secure the independent vote, and that effort seems to be reflected in the polls with the slight gains he's been making in recent weeks. Harris' decision to expose herself to increased risk to stay her advantage, as she might just eek out a win if you called it as the polls are now.
It's also, as something Nate Silver pointed out, a big reason why both candidates are entertaining an appearance on the JRE, whose makeup of largely independent, and young (who make up the majority of non-committed voters), may make or break either candidate's ability to close it out, for which the JRE would be lambasted regardless of how it would play out.
Is half the country stupid? I really want to know. It seems stupid to me to believe only one source (may as well be, with MSM basically parroting each other) without listening to any others. I try to at least hear some of what the other side is saying, tho I will admit that I can't stay there long. The Free Press is about as much of the "other side" as I can handle, and I can't handle even that on some days. So maybe I'm just as bad. Am I on the stupid side?
I watched Tucker's interview with Mark Halperin, and found it interesting that he believes Trump will win, but also believes that it will cause a mental health crisis in our country. So what do you think? Does that mean that the Harris voters will be mentally unstable and burn it all down?
If you're asking if you're on the stupid side, you're probably not. Stupid is a lot like crazy. Crazy people never wonder if they're crazy. They don't have the capacity.
As for half the country, I suspect there are number reasons for this sort of bifurcated reality. But one big one is media. Media always has had a bias, but for a long time they had a basic code of ethics. They might not give you the whole story, but they gave you the truth as far as they knew it. And the media was filled with liberals, and liberals were distrustful of power. So people could trust that, for the most part, they would, as the saying goes, speak truth to power. None of that is true anymore, but I don't think a lot of people understand that. They're living in the past. And so they continue to consume the media uncritically and live in the world the media creates for them.
The Free Press has a political ax to grind and they pretend they don't. That makes them very difficult to read. I've found I'd rather gather a grouping of independent journalists, watch the "for you" on Twitter to see opinions in small bites that I can clip away from, and read sources like Axios and occasionally CNN. I like Ground News. They just "gather" stories from all sources. I think the left-center-right ratings system is useless to a degree. It's more like "establishment" and "anti-establishment" but they are a good way to see what's being talked about in certain blindspots.
As for the mental health crisis, I think we're already in it. Will there be violence if Trump wins? I don't know. Joy/sorrow may be right that the election will be an excuse. The bigger question, because it's actually the bigger problem, is, if there is violence will the establishment right use that as an excuse to become as totalitarian as the establishment left?
If there is violence after the election is decided, it will more than likely be that Trump won. But after J6 I can see there being violence even if he loses. I just don't believe that it will truly be from Trump supporters. I no longer trust those in our alphabet agencies to be those who help, especially if Trump wins because they see him (rightly I hope) as a threat to their existence. It will be difficult to navigate regardless of the outcome. Thanks for the Ground News suggestion. I'll check it out. You're probably right about the mental health issue. There are times when I fear I've lost my mind these days.
I know I start questioning reality.
Violence is more likely if Trump wins, I agree, mostly because it's become acceptable and excused by half the country to riot against "Hitler." I too will mistrust any stories of violence if Trump loses, especially if the people involved are wearing khaki pants and white masks.😏 In all seriousness, all the times I've been told Trump supporters will rise up, and it hasn't happened. Even J6 itself wasn't nearly as violent as it could have been for a bunch of people with access to firearms, and since the FBI won't be open about what "assets" they had in the crowd and how what those "assets" were doing? I will definitely treat any stories with extreme skepticism.
If there's any violence as result of either candidate winning, the election would be the excuse, not the reason.
You already saw this with much of the riots of 2020, where people used George Floyd as an excuse. His death was far less of an injustice, for instance, than Eric Garner, yet the response for Floyd was much larger despite the fact that was obvious Chauvin would have gone to jail for manslaughter.
"the election would be the excuse, not the reason."
THIS
Great work as always.
On the subject of the never-ending masculinity/femininity debate, my opinion is that this was pretty much settled by Marcus Aurelius in Meditations (what is it, nearly 2000 years now? time sure flies):
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Of course I can more than understand why people like to talk about because like everything social, political, or cultural, pretty much everybody and anybody has an opinion on these subjects, even if there really is no right answer.
Speaking of The Viking and other Apocalypses…A very recent headline read something like: “South Korean Military Opens Fires on North Korea.”
Having recently finished Annie Jacobsen’s OUTSTANDING book entitled ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario” and noting that the scenario started from an ‘out of the blue’ attack from North Korea, I want to point out that the whole thing was pretty much thoroughly cooked in minutes. MINUTES. (In this scenario, the President didn't make it. Neither did anyone else much.)
“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable. He is unfit to be President of the United States.” –Kamala HQ
Not to be a Debbie Downer (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) but my points are as follows:
1) I sincerely hope we actually have 1 month…or even two weeks.
2) If Kamala HQ is correct and stability is actually a meaningful thing, then read your effing ROOM. (Hint for slow learners. It’s the whole world.)
“Bu the men the “ should be “But the men the”
Thank you!
Also, "menfolx" not "menfolk"
:^ )
Aaargh. Never, I say.
🤭🤣
I can't find the meme but it says something like: "LatinX? Then why is it not ChinX?"
"You see, the left is trying to redefine “real” men."
I did not know that Doug Emhoff has red hair. He's almost pretty.
Egads, man!
Later, of course, I learned that the woman I was seeing wasn't Doug. It was actually Peppermint Patti. But by then it was too late. I was infatuated. (To this day, she hates it when I tell this story and that I still, lovingly, call her Doug.)
*wide eyes, comprehends fully*
DOUBLE Egads, man!
https://youtu.be/LemG0cvc4oU?si=7ddsuMLTe4hzART2
Plus *Julia Sweeny has entered the chat*
I think you need to issue content warnings before some of these Popular Science/Mechanics articles. They're getting actively hazardous for a thinking person to read.
I'm sorry. Popular Science and Mechanics are fun because they are so obviously propagandistic sometimes. I just have to point and laugh.
No need to be sorry. I'm just grumbling.
Grumble away.
*makes Shush gesture*
I'm in our Q3 company-wide meeting. Rocks, Shout-outs, Misses, Yaaaaaay Team!
I kid more than a little. We're a cool little outfit. "We" were a little e-commerce startup and two and a half years ago were acquired by our biggest competitor - they were the Big Fish, we were the Comer-Uppers - and it's been pretty lucrative.
The big money-maker: Merchandising. We manage state-wide Hunting, Fishing, associated Rec Activities (campsites, watercraft...) but, when we just provided a good technical solutions, and a very good user experience (that's our upsell), but we didn't realize how much people love Hats (I'm wearing my Nebraska Game and Parks knit cap as we, uh... speak) and Scarfs and Hand Warmers with your Local Fish and Game and Trapping and Parks and Wildlife and Hunting, and... Plastic Hard Cards. Dag, sportsman love having their Hunting License and their Deer Stamp and their Migratory Bird Permit and Winter Crab Endorsement on a little credit card with a choice of background pic: Trout, Quail, Deer.
Sorry. The boss is talking...
"Ragnarök"
Basically the Titanomachy but Blondes and Less Chest Hair.
*also, Lucifer has entered the chat*
"The only one to blame for the Salem Witch craze is the murderous crazies."
*sigh*
We're never going to get you to understand that _you_ are a victim if you keep this up.
"To be that “blessed” and never know."
I'd have known, that's for sure.
This reminds me of a joke...
A Brit is visiting the US and, only having been exposed to the Balls-to-the-Wall action sport Cricket, his hosts took him to a baseball game.
They end up sitting behind a very enthusiastic fan who, every time the home team was at bat, the pitcher would throw the ball, he'd narrate "Steeerike!" or "Nope -Ball away" but when the batter hit the ball and dropped the bat, the fan would stand and yell, "Run, you Son of a Bitch! Run!" Our UK friend was duly impressed.
So by the 4th inning or so, our Limey Friend is in the spirit - which is to say, he's had 3 Giant $15 Bud Lites and a couple Vodka Lemonades - and, when the batter took a Ball 4, dropped his bat, and started toward 1st Base. Our visiting friend stands and yells, "Run, you Son of a Bitch! Run!"
The fan in front turns and says, "He has Four Balls. He can Walk."
To which the Brit replies, "Walk proudly, young man!"
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
That's a joke I'm going to have to share with the other half.
"He found Captain Winky!"
*shivers*
I knew how the scene ended and I couldn't stop watching.