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jaspersdad's avatar

I posted this last night. Nothing, don't know if anybody listened to it, but seriously you must pay attention to this. Young Fathers with I Saw at the UK Mercury Prize ceremony.

https://youtu.be/qTRx3K2kPBw

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Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

Brought the Lionel and Marx trains up from the storage locker. There will be a restoration of this car which I broke as a child.

https://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_6431_flat_car.htm

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Parakeetist's avatar

I say: been watching the Brighton Hove Albion vs. Burnley (soccer) match.

Won't post spoilers.

It's been okay so far.

Updates can be found at BBC Sport.

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ICC's avatar

You know that story we were happy about yesterday? The woman who was carrying a fetus that could never survive and the judge approved a termination?

Yeah, that didn't last long.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abortion-texas_n_6573e471e4b0fca7ad20d39b

Texas Supreme Court Pauses Lower Court's Order Allowing Woman's Abortion

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EyeQueue's avatar

Can she at this point fly to a state that will help her and just circumvent this fucking horseshit?

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Elderly John's avatar

It would be good if one of the many people in Texas who own private places gave her a ride so that she could avoid unnecessary attention. A terrible situation that can only be made worse by the press and some government agencies hounding her. Can they prosecute her when she gets back? There are thousands of miscarriages a year in every state. It happens.

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Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

She probably will, but I am sure they are pushing it because she should not have to.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Would that moot the court case if she did that?

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ICC's avatar

The problem is that bullshit reporting thing they have in Texas about abortion. I wish they hadn't published her name.

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EyeQueue's avatar

Yeah, I just scrolled down and saw that discussion.

GOD DAMN THESE FUCKING SHITTERS!

*goes off to break several items in garage*

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Tecolote's avatar

The Supreme Court said that, “without regard to the merits” of the arguments on either side, it had issued an administrative stay in the case, to give itself more time to issue a final ruling. —NYT

More time for her to suffer.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Sadistic fucking [very bad word; plural].

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Maureen's avatar

indeed

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Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

Yeah, we think we can pencil in a preliminary review some time near the end of January ...

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Paxton can't help himself. Fuck that guy. And fuck him again.

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Maureen's avatar

I'm not above a hearty "fuck you" when the situation demands it. But sometimes, you want to tell someone, "I hope you never get fucked again in your miserable life, you useless son-of-a-bitch." And that his life is long and miserable.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I broke some things secondary to the rage that manifested within me when I saw that news break last night.

I hope that I've gotten all of the glass out of the carpet. I always go barefoot at home and don't want another cut that I didn't even feel leaving me bleeding all over the damned floor making another mess that I'd have to clean up like I did last week.

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Parakeetist's avatar

I hope so as well.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I needed to mop the kitchen floor anyway, but that incident necessitated getting down to business straight away.

It was a Cat the Ripper related broom attacking incident. My lower left leg got in Ripper's way and he laid open the back of my left leg where I don't have much feeling left. I'd leaked a good bit before I looked down and registered what in the hell was going on.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Paxton is a cruel, evil, twisted fuck. He SHOULD be in prison, but he's free to torture the vulnerable citizens of Texas.

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

Can't she whip up a gofundme and go out of state?

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

I suppose so. But maybe they can be anonymous? I don't know much about it.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

That's what worries me. If this poor woman and her husband attempt to take it on the lam, leave the state and seek care elsewhere one or more of those self-righteous motherfuckers is going to try to hurt them...or worse.

This should NOT be happening here!!!!

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Momo's avatar

The Caturday marathon continues unabated. Mother Freckles abides in her banana box abode. https://substack.com/@momom/note/c-45084440?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kykc8

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Maureen's avatar

pretty!

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Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

Yay!! After a week and a half of feeling like a blob of semi human goo from a random viral infection I woke up feeling fully human and energized to start the day!!!!

*Looks at piles of stuff and not done chores piling up for 2 weeks*

I'm going back to bed.....

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

The world is going to hell, by an Old Geezer...

"At Dobson Ranch Golf Course we know that you want to have fun. To make that happen, you need to find an exciting, upbeat place to play. The problem is, most golf courses enforce stiff policies that kill any chance of having a good time. The day you play, should be the best day of your week, which is why we break with tradition and provide AZ’s most fun and friendly golf experience.

Golf is supposed to be fun. We create an upbeat atmosphere with music everywhere!

Compete with your buddies or dial in your yardages with Toptracer and enjoy a cold drink & cool tunes.

Billiards, booze, & backyard games... There’s always something Rockin’ at the Ranch!"

Editor's Note: The music they play "everywhere" pumping it out at the driving range, practice green, and clubhouse, is "Bro Country".

Just shoot me.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Needs moar feral pigs.

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EyeQueue's avatar

I hope not, b/c I'm going to be living about a mile away from Dobson Ranch starting in about May.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

for reals? we got to get a wonkmeet together!

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EyeQueue's avatar

Yep! That's where I'll be, and yeah, we should do a wonkmeet. There are more Wonkers in that area than I had previously realized. I thought it was just you, Hammy, and PhxDogLover, but I see others chime in from time to time that they are in the Phx area.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Do you still have my email, EyeQueue?

I would love to get together with you!

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

If you listen carefully, you can hear the faint strains of some guy with a thick southern accent singing about beer and the women who reject him.

I kid. You'll be fine.

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EyeQueue's avatar

Oh, I'm an AZ Native, born and bred, and I lived in that area my own self for many years.

I've just been a transplanted NoCal grrl for the past 23 years. XD

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

Will flocks of pooping geese suffice?

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Demme Fatale's avatar

Once saw a demo with a working border collie in NY.

Her main job was "herding" Canada geese off of golf courses.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Are they from Canada? Then I'll allow it.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

The course I used to play, the 18th green had extra hazards from all the Canada geese shit on it

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

Play it as it lies.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I always did, but it was like pinball at times

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SkeptiKC's avatar

While both of my parents enjoyed golfing the sport just never appealed to me at all; I don't really even understand the rules.

It's primary redeeming values are that you get to play outside and drink while doing so.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I like the rules which keep unbearable doucheschooners off the course.

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Zeitgeist's avatar

Unbearable Doucheschooners is my Kundera quoting Yacht Rock cover band.

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

"Golf is supposed to be fun!"

No, that's not the point of golf. Golf is a metaphor for existence. A continuous struggle. A lifelong challenge to overcome adversity. Outdoors. In the wind and rain. :-)

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Yes, I see you do play! I like it because you can’t really blame any other fule if you fuck up.

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ICC's avatar

I slept like the dead last night and my cold/flu whatever seems to have mostly passed. I just feel weak now. Yay?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

It sounds as if the worst is over but you still want to try to just give yourself a break and kick back and relax today.

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Russell Jones's avatar

New Big Big Train music, in advance of an album to be released in March. Broke my heart when the brilliant David Longdon died a couple of years back. Of injuries sustained in a fall at home. At the ripe old age of 56. What a waste.

But BBT ultimately hired Alberto Bravin, formerly of the Italian prog band Premiata Forneria Marconi, and carried on. Sounds p. godamn good!

Please, Jeebus, let 2024 be the year BBT crosses The Pond for a tour.

https://youtu.be/TZjAreGfqlU

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Wow, I saw PFM way back in 1974. I didn't know they were still around.

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SayItWithWookies's avatar

Gertrude wishes you a happy Caturday! Well she would if she weren't sleeping -- but if she weren't sleeping, she wouldn't have let me take a picture of her.

https://substack.com/profile/156018579-sayitwithwookies/note/c-45083354?r=2kw0pf

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ICC's avatar

She's adorable!

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NatalyaResists's avatar

Her fur is so pretty!

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Snoozing Beauty.

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Spotts1701's avatar

A holiday Cletus Safari. Next time, CNN, just give us a fruitcake.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/politics/louisiana-red-neck-christmas-parade-trump/index.html

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Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

Boot straps. Find 'em and use 'em.

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SayItWithWookies's avatar

They're deemed a "persistent poverty county" and yet they quote two people saying that they didn't have all these problems when Assmouth was president. Persistent poverty didn't start yesterday, but the brave reporters don't seem interested in any facts.

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Momo's avatar

I've decided that the opposite of Cletus is Comic Book Guy. As in, "Comic Book Guy went to visit Cletus, and for some reason wrote a blog post about it."

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Buncha rich posers pretending they are totes "redneck" and flauting their expensive trucks in front of their poor neighbors.

OH and whining about how their property tax went up and that is Biden's fault

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Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

My aunt, from Michigan, married to a Ford VP, on forced multi family fun vacations to various locations in the South during my youth, loved to "pretend" to be one of those poors and try to be as trashy redneck as she could conceive a stereotype. My brother and I use that as reason #1,549 why we went no contact with my father's side of the family when I turned 21 and had all my adult legal rights and responsibilities. I'm older, but we agreed it wasn't fair one of us go no contact and the other forced to see them.

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Spotts1701's avatar

They live in their own reality, and they want to drag the rest of us into it.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Yuk yuk yuk...

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

I slept in. It was everything I imagined it to be and less.

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GrandParadeOfLifelessPackaging's avatar

Next time, instead of sleeping in, sleep through ...

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jeffocaster's avatar

Do you think Michigan should prepare to sucede and become part of Canada?

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Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

So, you thought we are building the Gordie Howe Bridge for fun? It's called the Back Up Plan for a reason!

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

A bridge named for WJM TV's weatherman of 50 years ago? That's cool.

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Resource NW's avatar

Should this one be frostbite instead of a burn?

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Gordie Howe's back up plan, anyway...

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MRK's avatar

No. But then I think we're going to keep beating these fascists in our country.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Shhh! Don't tell anybody - we already are!...

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Larry Schmitt's avatar

The difference between humans and animals? Animals would never allow the dumbest one to lead the pack.

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Billy Bob's avatar

Dogs will not follow a unstable leader, humans on the other hand…..

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jeffocaster's avatar

Lemmings......

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Queen Méabh's avatar

They wouldn't last long if they did, which is a form of Natural Selection. I imagine humans were the same back when we were hunter-gatherers.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

There are levels of stooopitt that have to be "learned."

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Schmannity's avatar

Maccabee Bar: A Hanukkah Pop-Up Is Back

Boston’s Hanukkah pop-up bar, Maccabee Bar, is back for its sixth year with an extended run at Noir in Cambridge starting just after Thanksgiving weekend and going all the way through New Year’s Eve.

There will be brand-new cocktails to try, along with past years’ favorites, such as the Latke Sour (apple brandy, potato, lemon, Havana & Hyde Bitters) and Ocho Kandelikas (olive oil gin, honey, apricot, almond, lemon). Noshes will include special snacks from Noir’s kitchen (including latkes, of course!), as well as jelly doughnuts by Kate Holowchik’s Lionheart Confections.

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

Sounds kosherrific!

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SkeptiKC's avatar

A latke sour sounds intriguing.

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