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Showing content with the highest reputation on 11/25/20 in all areas

  1. That's right, mang. Out of each wine box I get 3 4x6" blanks, and then I cut the extra scrap into "baseball cards". I draw the cartoon (usually an autobiographical Ape character), and then I drop in some color, either acrylic paint, or gel marker. I do them really fast and sell them really cheap. Like box wine.
    26 points
  2. 21 points
  3. Says something about how far Europe’s come that they can’t do mass graves right anymore
    14 points
  4. It’s just the oatmeal cartoon on steroids. So, Yes. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe ndawgs post above was nice as well.
    11 points
  5. There have been less than 30 deaths to date here in Harris County. It’s not the big deal everyone is making it out to be. https://bing.com/covid/local/harris_georgia_unitedstates
    10 points
  6. And now a reading from the Book of Reveilleation.
    9 points
  7. It’s not a hearing. Jesus Christ. No one was sworn. It was in a conference room at a shitty hotel. Youtube is very useful to figure out how to wire a dimmer switch. It is very dangerous because poors and rubes think edited and unsourced videos have evidentiary value. Did you ever consider that those videos are produced to cause the exact type of reaction in people who don’t really navigate the world very well or have mental health issues? I have never watched a political YouTube video because I am not stupid.
    8 points
  8. I’m picturing the Forest Gump followers on the desert highway saying with defeat, “What are we supposed to do now?”
    8 points
  9. Leave it up to 2020 to make this quote on this board difficult to decipher.
    8 points
  10. That's pretty much how all of corporate America works.
    8 points
  11. Este, but also one more thing. When someone zealously believes in utter nonsense, they'll react in a predictable way the closer your dialog threatens to reveal that nonsense. They'll get more violent, specifically -- the subconscious detects when it has to protect some irrational belief. They're not deciding to get angry... their ego is just stepping right in front of their consciousness and making an executive decision to get angry on their behalf. So, if the root cause of their particular worship of Trump is that, for instance, they want to get back to their idea of the "glory days" of America when they can work a union job for $25/hr and a pension... well, the closer you get to showing them how unlikely it is that such a job and retirement will ever return to America, the more angry they'll get. They can't help it. (And actually, the more likely root cause is that they are insecure about their financial future, but anything that touches on the "glory days" motif will be close enough to that root cause to trigger them) All the stupid arguments they engage in are also defense mechanisms. They're designed to keep the conversation about abstract things that don't impact them, so that the conversation never runs the risk of broaching their underlying brokenness. Notice that they'll never, ever willingly talk about anything that matters to them. They lose the moment they admit to caring about anything, because once that happens, the empathy channel opens, and their stupid ego loses agency. I'm not a religious man, but it's possible that Jesus (even the imaginary one) didn't just say "before you take the plank out of your friend's eye, take it out of your own" out of an egalitarian sense of fairness. He might have also been providing a clue for how to disentangle someone else's hypocrisy. If other people first see you model a willingness to self-reflect, they might be nudged slightly towards becoming comfortable to do the same. And if everyone around them models similarly, eventually they might realize it's safe to stop pretending to invulnerable. You just have to not come across as weak in the process (because they still respect "strength," after all). These are people that are extremely afraid of being themselves. That's why they appropriated a shared "tough guy" identity in the first place. They're hurting. It's hard to feel any sympathy for them, given how their reaction to that hurt has led them to be complicit in a whole lot of cruelty, but so long as they're among us in line to vote, our destiny is tied to theirs. Oh fuck, I did it again. 2020 is like the year of suddenly discovering I'm off-gassing on an internet forum. What a tense, shitty year it's been.
    8 points
  12. Made myself a Thanksgiving Eve Old Fashioned. I approved.
    7 points
  13. The Gettysburg Undress?
    7 points
  14. Not fair at all. Chooky has moved to Parler
    7 points
  15. Some pics. Come to think of it, I’d asked for a satin finish on the back, glossy on the headstock. But when I got it, I didn’t care enough about the difference to send it back.
    7 points
  16. Had the text exchange with the magat fam the other day. Told mother I had to be at the office last week, lots of people, not a good idea for me to be around. Then an avalanche of bullshit from trumpkin father, bil, etc calling me names (snowflake, sheeple, libtard) and other horse shit. All their messages go to a folder named "fuck heads" which is auto cleared every day.
    7 points
  17. 6 points
  18. Were you diagnosed with mesothelioma during your hospital stay that resulted from the dui related accident you were involved in after your wife filed for divorce because you were illegally laid off? If so, we can help!
    6 points
  19. If Texas gives a shit about its football program, it will hire Urban. The program has been bad for a decade. There is a HOF coach available. It is simple. That's how you get out of your own way. Despite all the bullshit articles you may read or the wishcasting from fans of other schools, there is nothing about Texas that prevents it from winning - Texas wins when it has good coaches and doesn't when it has bad coaches - other than the degree to which it prioritizes winning. If Texas won't replace its obviously mediocre coach with Urban Meyer because Herman happens to win a few games against - seriously - Baylor and West Virginia and Iowa State and the Kansas schools...well, then Texas isn't really all that concerned about its football program, and we probably shouldn't be either. Herman will always be mediocre. Meyer will be great. If Texas chooses mediocre over great...well, at least we know what to expect and can set our expectations accordingly.
    6 points
  20. Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The President has no public events scheduled so I take it there will be no comment either in person or on twitter (not that I am surprised about this or anything). So, on behalf of women around the world I will leave this text taken from the former Vice President, and now President-Elect, Joe Biden on November 24, 2010: Worldwide, may nasty women and the men who love them keep working to make the world a better safer place for all humanity.
    6 points
  21. Comment regarding the President's supposed joining of Giuliani in Pennsylvania: Ka-Pow!
    6 points
  22. This is exactly the concern I've had the last few weeks, except that UM may not still be available a year from now so there's nol happy ending then. It's why I wanted them to go ahead and fire TH after OU when there was justification so we wouldn't risk losing UM by just assuming TH will step on his own dick one more time rhis year when he knows he has to win them all. I've seen this program fuck up golden opportunities time and again by being indecisive and worryimg about optics over winning, not the least of which was missing out on Saban. I'm fully preparimg for TH to fuck us over by winning out, CDC deciding he can't make a move this year, and UM going off the market. All because we hesitated when we should have acted after OU. If we fuck up this chance I don't care if TH stays or goes. We'd just make yet another underwhelming hire and rinse and repeat history. There's too much going on in life for me to obsess over a second rate program that can't get out of their own way to realize their potential. My interest has already been fading for a number of years, and if we don't get it right this time with UM I don't think I'm going to really care much anymore anyway. I gtew up a diehard Cowboy fan and now I can't even stand to watch the NFL at all anymore. It just wasn't fun anymore and I lost interest. I've been starting to feel the same loss of interest in UT and am afraid it's on the same path. Losing UM may well seal the deal like hiring Switzer did in Dallas.
    6 points
  23. This person has always been a fucking idiot.
    6 points
  24. A BYU, Coastal Carolina, Northwestern, and Cincinnati playoff would be the perfect playoff for 2020.
    6 points
  25. 6 points
  26. I've been saving this in my cellar for years, just waiting for the right moment. It's finally time to celebrate!!!
    6 points
  27. If you guys want to continue to discuss fat fucks there is now a thread for that. Keep that shit off this thread. This thread is for using stats from the wrong county to support your ideas.
    6 points
  28. Remember when someone tried to do that with school lunches? That went over great.
    6 points
  29. Things like this make me feel bad for the guys who write for The Onion.
    5 points
  30. How fucking hard is it to swallow the "I'm a leader, I've got to lead by example, even if it sucks, this is EXACTLY what I signed up for" pill?
    5 points
  31. As long as Trump is the first one executed, I am all fkn for it.
    5 points
  32. She would have fit in well here. She hated his dumb ass. Here's more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/index.html She's clearly on top of her grift game.
    5 points
  33. Hot out of the oven. Sure smells good here.
    5 points
  34. Honestly Trump really doesn't believe that he has any prayer at the WH whatsoever. He's just using his surrogates to incite the base, whom he's currently lobbying like crazy to fund all of this legal mumbo jumbo. That's also why, IMHO, he's incredibly thin on talent as far as attorneys are concerned: find cheap lawyers, take in as much in donations as possible, then throw the lawyers under the bus. I distinctly remember telling people in 2016 "just watch as he does a literal repeat of the USFL." This kind of shit is exactly what I was talking about.
    5 points
  35. Being the country that fucks it all up in record time while also fixing it in record time is about as American as it gets.
    5 points
  36. 5 points
  37. Here it is, in short. I would need to cross check some things to make sure it is all correct, but this is the story in brief: Some time in March, 1944, the 45th was moving into Germany in near constant combat. Grandad was a machine gunner. His best friend was named Dizzy, and Dizzy carried the tripod in the three man crew. Dizzy was killed in combat. At that time, the Allies had an agreement among themselves that if any of the Allied powers liberated POWs from the Germans, they could use them in their own armies until the war ended, rather than go through everything it would take to repatriate them. Shortly after Dizzy was killed, Grandad's unit received a Soviet POW named Stanislav Ordinsky. He was Ukranian, a former university professor who spoke seven languages fluently, but not English (haha). Grandad was a farm boy from Royse City, Texas, and spoke some Spanish. And that was how they communicated until Stanislav learned English. They became good friends through combat and some other escapades, and when the war ended, Stanislav gave Grandad his address in Kiev and headed east for the USSR. Every year on VE Day for the next 45 or 46 years, Grandad would drop a letter in the mail for Stanislav. There was never a response. Then the Wall fell, and sometime that year or next he got a letter back from Stanislav. Turns out that after he got home, Stanislav was sent to a Gulag in Siberia for a number of years, a consequence of having served with the Americans. When he got out of the Gulag, the Soviets had expunged his military service records. This was devastating, because without service records a person could not easily get any sort of quality medical care from the state. Nevertheless, he carried on. Late in the 1980s, Stanislav's son died, leaving a son of his own for Stanislav to care for. Then the grandson came down with leukemia, and because Stanislav could not get good medical care, this was a death sentence. And finally, after all of this time, he received the first letter from my Grandad. The state had let the mail through at last. And so he was writing my grandfather to see if there was any way to recover US Army records which might prove to Ukranian authorities that he had served. Grandad and Grandma hopped a plane to Washington, DC and started poking around. Before long, someone from the State Department heard their story and got involved. They flew my grandparents to Kiev, and brought Stanislav and his grandson back to the United States for medical treatment. The boy recovered, Stanislav's service records were amended, and I learned as a teenager that everyone from the former USSR weren't monsters after all. My Grandad was a great man.
    5 points
  38. there is so much irony in this thread. advocating for a healthy eating/exercise/weight loss initiative at a national level. in this country. we have real, recent experiences of how well that message is received by...a certain 'segment' of the population. which has significant crossover with the segment pissed about health and safety protocols implemented at local levels in this country impinging on their freedom.
    5 points
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