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Lucius's avatar

Saying "We need a strong GOP" is like saying "every vital organ needs a LITTLE malignant cancer."

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Pliny the Younger's avatar

I'm late to the party, but I just want to point out that the House Republicans' unanimous vote for this Christofascist Mike Johnson is a sign of weakness, not of strength. His tenure as Speaker will be a one-way ticket on the fail train, and the GOP will pay for it in 2024.

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Cute Boots RocketCat's avatar

Okay okay I’m up, gott damn it schitt

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Tomorrow morning, I take Shadow to his yearly ordeal - yes, it's time for his yearly visit to the vet. I have explained to him that those pokes and prods help to keep him healthy, but he doesn't believe it. He will be 21 in March, and other than taking him to be fixed and when he had a UTI, his only visits to the vet have been these yearly check-ups.

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Darth Trad's avatar

He's heard about 'Youths In Asia'.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

Being a yank, I interpreted IA as Iowa until I clicked.

Could work for that too.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Miss Iowa has kinda dropped standards this year.

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Goonemeritus's avatar

That's a load of carbo

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Darth Trad's avatar

It's the 'trap' bit that bothers me the most.

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Goonemeritus's avatar

Without cheese escape would be trivial

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Darth Trad's avatar

Yeah.... nah..

'Trap is a slang term used in English-language online anime communities to describe a biologically male character with an attractive androgynous or feminine appearance, and is often performed by voice actresses'

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Goonemeritus's avatar

I am too old to understand anime, I will just have to live with that.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Something nice to start this week. May it be less shitty than last week.

𝟭𝟵 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-19-wildcats-set-to-bring-back-scottish-highland-species-are-thriving-in-reintroduction-program/

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Darth Trad's avatar

If they need some crocs, snakes and some murder budgies to take up the slack until wildcat numbers start to inflict fatal attacks, we can help out.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Murder budgies? Australia has fucking MURDER BUDGIES?

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Darth Trad's avatar

Well... budgie is a bit of a misnomer.... it's a bird that is 6 feet high with a 5 inch dagger claw.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

more of a murder chicken then

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Darth Trad's avatar

Yeah... it's hard to notice with the other stuff out there. The only killer snail on the planet? Guess where that lives?

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

Wait, don't tell me.....

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Goonemeritus's avatar

I had no idea Texas independent oil men were Scottish.

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Darth Trad's avatar

There are millions of Scots!

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Khavrinen's avatar

Wonder why my subconscious dredged that one up? Like I need more proof that I am A Old.

Had a dream where I was at sort of a quasi-potluck, where everyone had gone around to restaurants for take-out, and when we got together, went around explaining, "I got [dish] from [restaurant] because [reason]." There was a TV on in the next room, and I heard "Thanks for the Memories" start up, but I didn't think much of it, until I heard "Bob Hope" sing "COVID-19". That WTF made me go into the room where the TV was, and I saw it was some black-haired guy with a moustache doing a Bob Hope impression so accurate I had thought it was really him.

I haven't really thought about Bob Hope in years, except for reading that joke about the world today:

"Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope have all died. In a world where we have no Jobs, no Cash, and no Hope, I really hope at least Kevin Bacon is doing all right..."

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Told my husband last night that I am just for the people of Gaza.

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Lady MS's avatar

After three yutes were shot in nearby small town -one fatally- Moms are loudly agitating for ‘somebody’ (cops, Mayor, etc.) to ‘do something’. A modest proposal: My Mom, while not a Gazpacho, was hardcore & made it abundantly clear that every square inch under her roof was fair game so long as I chose to live there. No drawer, closet or purse (if she smelled smoke on me) was sacred. Thus, no booze, drugs or weapons would escape her eagle eye. It wasn’t complicated.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Did your mom shoot those guys? I'd take that lesson to heart too.

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Lady MS's avatar

Fair question. No - she & moms of her ilk are a dying (dead) breed. Needless to say, signed the lease on my first apt. weeks before my 18th birthday😏

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

I really think the internet died when Hot or Not started.

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Mr. Minky's avatar

Today Denver is Not Hot. It's like 14 degrees (F).

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Darth Trad's avatar

35C in Sydney today.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

A good one, but I think it started when Zuckerberg couldn't get laid at Harvard, and created a revenge pron dating site.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Morning all. ☕

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Good morning!🌞

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Mr. Minky's avatar

Thank the gods for Nyquil. I slept all night. I have a very sore throat this morning, but I don't have to go to work, so it's all good.

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Darth Trad's avatar

'I don't do illegal drugs anymore. Now I just do the legal drugs. Tonight I'm on NyQuil and Sudafed. Let me tell you something, folks. Forget about cocaine and heroin. All you need is NyQuil and Sudafed. I'm telling you right now, I took NyQuil five years ago. I just came out of the coma tonight before the fucking show!'

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

You might run a humidifier when you take it. That might help with the sore throat.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Glad that you were able to sleep all night and don't have to go to work so that you can rest today.

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Mr. Minky's avatar

This will be the second week I've been sick with this. Laura brought it home. She's going to work today...in the snow. I planned to have this weekend off for Mile High Con and didn't go because of the cold.

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El Bastardo's avatar

I am taking on horizontal.

Do not try to change my mind.

I still love you all.

Good this Night, friends.

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Good morning!

Squeaked by in six:

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The Wanderer's avatar

But you got there.

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good_duck's avatar

And I got all of the neighbors!

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El Bastardo's avatar

YOU.

I mean You - you know who you are.

Stop being an ass.

We all here love you.

Be who you are, and be friends with us, okay?

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The Wanderer's avatar

Today . . . in HISTORY!

1806: Thinking he's facing a much larger force, a Prussian general surrenders Stettin and his 5300 soldiers . . . to 800 French soldiers. Insert 'sad trombone' clip.

1817: Simon Bolivar is elected President of Venezuela.

1831: Nat Turner is arrested for leading a slave revolt.

1905: Czar Nikolai II issues an edict granting Russians some basic civil rights, including a legislature. Feeling that he'd been coerced into it, he never felt morally bound by his own edict. (Note that Russia at the time used the Julian calendar, and he issued the manifesto on October 17th).

1938: Orson Welles scares the fertilizer out of some of his radio audience by broadcasting an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds.'

1945: Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

1961: The Soviet Union sets off the Tsar Bomba, the world's largest nuclear weapon. Pika-Don!

1995: Quebec votes to remain part of Canada. Hooray!

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Orson Welles proved that many Americans are idiots.

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The Wanderer's avatar

First proof of the power of the media. Johnny Carson repeated it with the Great Toilet Paper Kerfuffle, but he used television.

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