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Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

quote:


“I tell you, there’s only one fork I eat with,” her daughter-in-law said one night over dinner. “And it’s got to be this one.”

“That’s autism,” Kathy said.

lol

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I went to school with a few people from equally crushed families. It's p sad

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Developing incident on London Bridge, another vehicle run-down potential-attack.

https://twitter.com/WillHeaven/status/871113905686413312

https://twitter.com/WillHeaven/status/871114525113712642

https://twitter.com/WillHeaven/status/871115739775860736

It's still in the "nobody knows what happened" phase with armed police on-site. That source is the editor of a paper in Britain.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

gently caress people and their crocodile tears over the rural poor now that a sufficiently emotional article has come out. I remember in the aftermath of the election when the entirety of D&D was baying for their blood and stating that rural America could never be helped and should just die off and leave coasties alone.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

In good news the SpaceX Launch was awesome as heck

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Buca di Bepis posted:

gently caress people and their crocodile tears over the rural poor now that a sufficiently emotional article has come out. I remember in the aftermath of the election when the entirety of D&D was baying for their blood and stating that rural America could never be helped and should just die off and leave coasties alone.

Their tears might be insincere, but I'd lay that solely on the fact that DnD is made up of liberal coastal commies filled with seething hatred for anyone with "incorrect" opinions. Some folks are actually capable of empathy with those who have come from different walks of life.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
Let's keep d&d, and it's posters, out of this forum

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
The worst part about the recent WHITE RURALS thing is most of these counties people are screaming about voting against self interest had like 20% voter turnout

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
From the BBC

quote:

Police are searching for three suspects - reports
Posted at
18:27
Police are now searching for three suspects, a BBC reporter at the scene says.

He says there are also reports that some people have been stabbed.

The priority for the police is now to get people - many whom where enjoying a nightout in central London - out of the area.

The police cordon is being moved further and further out, our reporter adds.

Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN
You're poor. You're stupid. Your career options are fast food or retail, and you'll need to work until the day you die.

Do you:

A. Support workers' rights and nationalized healthcare and MAYBE give your kids' kids a shot at being a dignified adult. (PS you can't leave work on election day, so I dunno, use your amazing trouble-problem skills to figure that one out)

or

B. Stay home on election day, collect SSDI, and convince your kids (and your kids' kids) they are retarded.


It makes a lot of sense. poo poo, even the ones who break the mold and light-out for money and adventure by enisting just wind up doing the same poo poo- except they feel even more justified because THEY FAWT 4 U. Work sucks.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
In the lifecycle of a country, isn't this the part where its poorest and stupidest emigrate and work their asses off to make a better future for their children, who within a generation or two will return to recolonize the homeland with a smarter form of government and cooler guns?

Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Victor Vermis posted:

You're poor. You're stupid. Your career options are fast food or retail, and you'll need to work until the day you die.

Do you:

[_]A. Support workers' rights and nationalized healthcare and MAYBE give your kids' kids a shot at being a dignified adult. (PS you can't leave work on election day, so I dunno, use your amazing trouble-problem skills to figure that one out)

or

[_]B. Stay home on election day, collect SSDI, and convince your kids (and your kids' kids) they are retarded.


[X]C. Vote for the guys saying, Workers Rights, Minimum Wages, and Healthcare is dirty socialism and who knows you might win the lottery and then you'll be happy they didn't tax rich people.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
Surely they have the patience and wisdom to shore up our shortsighted hot takes on why the rich must be eaten and the self-identified disabled poor should be fed to the puppies they keep dropping on the floor.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

crazyivan45 posted:

They need to send astronauts to Memphis to practice driving on the surface of the moon. This city destroyed the suspension on two of my cars in under a year. Instead of fixing pot holes the city just throws giant 2inch thick metal plates over them. Because hitting one of those fuckers at 50mph doesn't have any negative repercussions

I live in Memphis burbs too, and I gotta say the roads become instantly poo poo when you leave Germantown and enter Memphis.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Zeris posted:

In the lifecycle of a country, isn't this the part where its poorest and stupidest emigrate and work their asses off to make a better future for their children, who within a generation or two will return to recolonize the homeland with a smarter form of government and cooler guns?

Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not.

i don't know why this thread and subforum would ever have a problem with brokebrained alcoholics on government welfare tbh

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nobody really knows quite what's going on, as police are entering bars and telling people to get down, but Donnie is currently:

1) Retweeting the Drudge Report story about it, using numbers way more inflated than anything else I've seen.

2) Saying "this is why we need my Travel Ban".

:cripes:


Whoa: https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/871144729760722944

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jun 4, 2017

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

redneck nazgul posted:

i don't know why this thread and subforum would ever have a problem with brokebrained alcoholics on government welfare tbh

More competition for opioids and everclear.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


MazelTovCocktail posted:

More competition for opioids and everclear.

Thats more TCC.

D&D is competition for our antidepressants.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
OK so Trump's Muslim ban, some things I'm trying to figure out. If memory serves it was a "temporary pause" of 90 days while we made america great and safe again by doing whatever idiotic brain droppings oozed out of his word-hole, right?

We're past his hundred day mark in office so what the gently caress has he been doing for those 90 days if things aren't great and safe yet? Like, what am I missing here that isn't "gently caress you muslims because you're brown"? What would he have done that necessitated the "temporary" totally not-racist ban that he hasn't been able to do without it?

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one
As a brown English dude that isn't a Muslim, I currently want to knife punch every person that affiliates with ISIS through the loving throat. You cunts can't win but thanks for making my life harder again.

CoffeeQaddaffi
Mar 20, 2009

bird food bathtub posted:

OK so Trump's Muslim ban, some things I'm trying to figure out. If memory serves it was a "temporary pause" of 90 days while we made america great and safe again by doing whatever idiotic brain droppings oozed out of his word-hole, right?

We're past his hundred day mark in office so what the gently caress has he been doing for those 90 days if things aren't great and safe yet? Like, what am I missing here that isn't "gently caress you muslims because you're brown"? What would he have done that necessitated the "temporary" totally not-racist ban that he hasn't been able to do without it?

I believe the DHS Secretary quietly wrote guidance memos that effectively did the same thing, though "just" lessening the amount of visas not cutting them completely like the ban would have.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

FastestGunAlive posted:

This article is generating a lot of attention I think: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/lo...m=.148c2598899a

I've shared several similar articles that explore "dying" American rural areas and I've felt a mix of disgust and pity for the people every time. This one I feel genuine sorry for. No idea how the hell you fix this. Hopefully one of the kids can break the cycle and get a half way decent job or something

Bwahahaha I grew up in New Madrid and Pemmiscott Counties. I know these people. I'm a goddamned success story from that poo poo hole known as the bootheel. And I'm insane. The only way out is military service. Service guarantees an exit. But it's hard to find mentally/physically fit enough kids to even fill recruiter quotas in that area. And oh poo poo do the recruiters cover a large geographic area. My recruiter was based out of Blytheville Arkansas and covered the entire bootheel of MO.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009

Zeris posted:

In the lifecycle of a country, isn't this the part where its poorest and stupidest emigrate and work their asses off to make a better future for their children, who within a generation or two will return to recolonize the homeland with a smarter form of government and cooler guns?

Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not.

thank u 4 hero

American Indian tribes had their children separated and sent the boarding schools, on the basis of their ethnicity. We've come to decide it was a lovely practice, but what's keeping philanthropists and donors from seizing these kids and reeducating them? The fact that they're white?

Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jun 4, 2017

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
In a year or two, sad European couples will come to USA to adopt retard

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Oh poo poo, european angelina jolie gonna come adopt mah babbies?


Let's not pretend something like that wouldn't turn out like that woman from Tennessee that adopted a russian 8 year old and sent him back alone on a plane to moscow because he was the devil incarnate or something.

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Zeris posted:

In a year or two, sad European couples will come to USA to adopt retard

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Zeris posted:

In a year or two, sad European couples will come to USA to adopt retard

You really think someone wants Cole?

Solaris 2.0
May 14, 2008

Zeris posted:



Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not.

D&D lurker / sometimes poster here. I actually hold this forum in high esteem when I nearly enlisted 5 years ago during a rough patch in my life. I was talking to an Army recruiter and he was totally selling me on the "sure enlist and then you can work your way up to officer!" Since all I had to show in life was a history degree and a $30K job. (No one wanted me for officer).

I ended up reading the "so you wish to join the military " thread and it told me that enlisting with a degree is stupid and all my ex-military friends agreed. So I went back to school and studied IT. I still don't really like my job but at least I make OK money.

TL&DR this forum saved me from making a big mistake thank you for your service.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Solaris 2.0 posted:

D&D lurker / sometimes poster here. I actually hold this forum in high esteem when I nearly enlisted 5 years ago during a rough patch in my life. I was talking to an Army recruiter and he was totally selling me on the "sure enlist and then you can work your way up to officer!" Since all I had to show in life was a history degree and a $30K job. (No one wanted me for officer).

I ended up reading the "so you wish to join the military " thread and it told me that enlisting with a degree is stupid and all my ex-military friends agreed. So I went back to school and studied IT. I still don't really like my job but at least I make OK money.

TL&DR this forum saved me from making a big mistake thank you for your service.

Jeez, thanks for not joining

Chichevache posted:

You really think someone wants Cole?

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Zeris posted:

Also D&D is totally welcome here / in this thread, I'm just worried they have an inferiority complex with respect to how much we're heroes and they're not.

As one of the non-military regulars in this thread, if I ever called any of my military friends or family heros, I believe I'd get laughed at so hard I might have to kill myself.

egyptian rat race
Jul 13, 2007

Lowtax Spine Fund 2019
Ultra Carp
poo poo's going down in London.... Van sped into crowds on London Bridge, plus reports of three men stabbing "indiscriminately".

drat it :smith:

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

egyptian rat race posted:

poo poo's going down in London.... Van sped into crowds on London Bridge, plus reports of three men stabbing "indiscriminately".

drat it :smith:

Me and my mates here reckon it's the last of the idiots left over from the Manchester attack. Can't fault them for execution, now's the right time if you want to mess with Britain.

We aren't gonna let them do that though, we'll be fine. Goddamn, I am loving angry though.

Beeb
Jun 29, 2003

Hexyflexy posted:

As one of the non-military regulars in this thread, if I ever called any of my military friends or family heros, I believe I'd get laughed at so hard I might have to kill myself.

:same:

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
As someone who was in the military I am only a hero for exploitation purposes i.e. getting into theme parks free

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
:same:

Some place I went last week for lunch was all "want to donate a dollar to vets?" and I said something to the effect of "no because I am one". Felt good. And got me a discount.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
So I drove like halfway across the country today.

I listened to Trevor Noah's book about his life in South Africa. It was amazing. You should all read it, or better still, listen to him narrate the audio book. It had me literally crying in parts.

Serjeant Buzfuz
Dec 5, 2009

M_Gargantua posted:

So I drove like halfway across the country today.

I listened to Trevor Noah's book about his life in South Africa. It was amazing. You should all read it, or better still, listen to him narrate the audio book. It had me literally crying in parts.

That book is really good, second that recommendation.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871143765473406976

Because a 90-120 day moratorium on travel from a bunch of countries that don't have Trump hotels in them have large Muslim populations will surely prevent the hordes of dastardly Mohammedians from coming into America and clearing out their local Enterprise rental lot and driving them into churches, yep yep.

At the very least, I'm glad that Trump can't stop flying off the cuff because his tweets will be great in front of SCOTUS.

:sad:

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Bernard McFacknutah
Nov 13, 2009

Hexyflexy posted:

Me and my mates here reckon it's the last of the idiots left over from the Manchester attack. Can't fault them for execution, now's the right time if you want to mess with Britain.

We aren't gonna let them do that though, we'll be fine. Goddamn, I am loving angry though.

My money is on local lads. The MO is different and the van looks like it was hired in London. I think we are going to see a lot of bollards getting put up all over the country now.

300m from my old nick. Nice to see a BTP officer try and split their heads in with a friction lock baton. It took 8 minutes to shoot them.

It's high time there was a travel ban on all Brits getting in to the US until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

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