paranoid randroid posted:

know who else cut a chart-topping album in the UK? Crazy Frog

Volkerball posted:

Muse were more popular than Jesus in England for several years. They were the Usain Bolt to England's Jamaica.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

that can't be true

paranoid randroid posted:

okay fine it was a chart topping single

point being - it took Jarvis Cocker like 20 years to crack radio play, but the Brits cheerfully embraced an obnoxious frog. the UK has completely fuckawful taste.

paranoid randroid posted:

okay fine it was a chart topping single

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

i've lost my faith in humanity

Volkerball posted:

What's up guys just listening to the new Jarvis Cocker album. I love the song on there he did with Wellington Dicknose.

Volkerball posted:

What's up guys just listening to the new Jarvis Cocker album. I love the song on there he did with Wellington Dicknose.

paranoid randroid posted:

yeah we get it youve got the musical taste of an mall industrial goth circa 2005

stone cold posted:

this is more like an emo kid hanging out by the hot topic

Volkerball posted:

Nah I listen to bands like rammstein that bring energy while you all go stand in the back of shows where teenage girls play acoustic guitar and everyone stares at you because it is very weird for someone as visibly old as you to be there.

Volkerball posted:

Nah I listen to bands like rammstein that bring energy while you all go stand in the back of shows where teenage girls play acoustic guitar and everyone stares at you because it is very weird for someone as visibly old as you to be there.

Volkerball posted:

Nah I listen to bands like rammstein that bring energy while you all go stand in the back of shows where teenage girls play acoustic guitar and everyone stares at you because it is very weird for someone as visibly old as you to be there.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

stone cold posted:

ok I'm being driven insane; what on earth is this even supposed to be?

quote:

4 Tbsp Salt (Morten Kosher)
3/4 cup Canola Oil
2 Tbsp leftover pasta sauce
1 1/2 cups Popcorn kernals
2 Cinnamon sticks

Put all ingredients into a small saucepan and place sauce pan on low pile of more salt on kitchen counter. Let sit for 35 min.

Volkerball posted:

It's totally not weird because I think she's a good a musician and it's not like I want to gently caress her I mean she's only like 17 by God. So anyways did you guys see the latest episode of Magasuki big tit schoolgirl friends? It was great. So well written.

Volkerball posted:

It's totally not weird because I think she's a good a musician and it's not like I want to gently caress her I mean she's only like 17 by God. So anyways did you guys see the latest episode of Magasuki big tit schoolgirl friends? It was great. So well written.

Volkerball posted:

It's totally not weird because I think she's a good a musician and it's not like I want to gently caress her I mean she's only like 17 by God. So anyways did you guys see the latest episode of Magasuki big tit schoolgirl friends? It was great. So well written.

Volkerball posted:

It's totally not weird because I think she's a good a musician and it's not like I want to gently caress her I mean she's only like 17 by God. So anyways did you guys see the latest episode of Magasuki big tit schoolgirl friends? It was great. So well written.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Volkerball posted:

Hello dickeye! Mr comic book distributer here again. We've got a new series that's really been a hit. It's called cardigan, and it's about a woman who fights crime with the powers bestowed upon her by her sweater that was developed in a secret government laborat-

Dickeye, puking. "Get the gently caress out of my store"

Volkerball posted:

the latest episode of Magasuki big tit schoolgirl friends? It was great. So well written.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

I don't even know what you're trying to say here but I'm proud of you for attempting to use the English language to communicate ideas

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

are they infusing popcorn kernels? does that even work?

Volkerball posted:

We're on to the "you all jerk it to scantily clad cartoon girls" part of the debate. Please keep up.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

sometimes i feel like listening to marching music on youtube, but then all the recommended videos are from obvious neo-nazis

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U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

Putin's objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to "split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore," the official said.

Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don't fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to harm Clinton's candidacy by leaking embarrassing emails about Democrats.

The latest intelligence said to show Putin's involvement goes much further than the information the U.S. was relying on in October, when all 17 intelligence agencies signed onto a statement attributing the Democratic National Committee hack to Russia.

The statement said officials believed that "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities." That was an intelligence judgment based on an understanding of the Russian system of government, which Putin controls with absolute authority.

Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. Their use of the term "high confidence" implies that the intelligence is nearly incontrovertible.

"It is most certainly consistent with the Putin that I have watched and used to work with when I was an ambassador and in the government," said Michael McFaul, who was ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

"He has had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, that has been known for a long time because of what she said about his elections back in the parliamentary elections of 2011. He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order. And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump's views on Russia," McFaul added. Clinton cast doubt on the integrity of Russia's elections.

As part of contingency planning for potential retaliation against Russia, according to officials, U.S. intelligence agencies have stepped up their probing into his personal financial empire.

American officials have concluded that Putin's network controls some $85 billion worth of assets, officials told NBC News.

Neither the CIA nor the Office of the Director of National Intelligence would comment.

A former CIA official who worked on Russia told NBC News that it's not clear the U.S. can embarrass Putin, given that many Russians are already familiar with allegations he has grown rich through corruption and has ordered the killings of political adversaries.

But a currently serving U.S. intelligence official said that there are things Putin is sensitive about, including anything that makes him seem weak.

The former CIA official said the Obama administration may feel compelled to respond before it leaves office.

"This whole thing has heated up so much," he said. "I can very easily see them saying, `We can't just say wow, this was terrible and there's nothing we can do.'"