GalacticAcid posted:

he’s also an entirely insane MAGA dotard and would be in the hall of fame if he hadn’t worn a t-shirt about lynching journalists, which offended the people who vote for the hall of fame (baseball writers, ie journalists)

Private Cumshoe posted:

which one is sucking the life out of the other?

exmarx posted:

'shark' meaning bad person came before 'shark' meaning fish!

Thump! posted:

lol saddam had gold plated toilets I bet trump was jealous

my brother shat in one of em once

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330

Thump! posted:

lol saddam had gold plated toilets I bet trump was jealous

my brother shat in one of em once

Private Cumshoe posted:

A former baseball player conned the state of rhode island out of a $75 million loan for a ridiculous MMORPG project

And he was still a "maybe" to challenge Liz Warren's seat after that because hey, Red Sox!

Kitfox88 posted:

Aussie PM floated out to see and vanished then they named a swimming center after him

quote:

The Prime Minister Was a Spy is a 1983 book by British writer Anthony Grey. The book's premise is that Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967, was a lifelong spy for the Chinese government, under both the Nationalist and Communist regimes. Its most famous claim is that Holt faked his own death – rather than drowning, he boarded a Chinese submarine stationed off the Australian coast and lived the rest of his life in Beijing. The book was widely ridiculed upon its release, and has been identified as containing numerous factual errors.

Anthony Grey was a former Reuters correspondent, best known for being held captive by the Chinese government from 1967 to 1969. He later turned to writing novels, several of which featured main characters who fell in love with Asian countries as young men.[1] In May 1983, Grey received an anonymous call from a man claiming to have discovered the final fate of Harold Holt. They spent the next two months going over a manuscript, and eventually agreed that the story would be published under Grey's name.[2] Grey's anonymous caller was later identified as Ronald Titcombe, a former Royal Australian Navy officer.[3] Titcombe left the navy in 1968, apparently to avoid a court martial, and over the following decades pursued various business interests. Several of his companies went bankrupt, and at one point he had his assets seized for non-payment of debts. He was appointed secretary of the Melbourne Club in 1982 but was asked to resign when it was discovered he had failed to disclose previous financial improprieties.[4] After an initial tip-off from an Iraqi civil servant, Titcombe claimed to have "gradually pieced together a more comprehensive story from a series of meetings with several different Chinese government officials".[5]

The Prime Minister Was a Spy made the following claims:[6]

Holt's involvement with the Chinese government began in 1929 when he was a student at the University of Melbourne. After one of his research papers came to their attention, he was recruited by the consul-general in Melbourne to write pro-Chinese articles for a business newspaper.

In 1931, a section was created within the Kuomintang's intelligence service to report directly to Chiang Kai-shek. Holt became the group's agent in Australia and given a handler based in Sydney.

After being elected to the House of Representatives in 1935, Holt was earmarked for special training in espionage. He was initially intended to be a sleeper agent, but was considered too valuable and was soon reactivated. He began passing on cabinet papers and other information, writing in code and making use of dead drops.

Holt again became a sleeper agent when the Chinese Communist Revolution broke out, but in 1952 was contacted by a Kuomintang agent (now based on Taiwan) and paid £30,000 to resume his spying. However, in 1954 he voluntarily deactivated because he had transferred his sympathies to the Communists.

In 1957, Holt discovered that the Kuomintang agent who had contacted him in 1952 was, in fact, a representative of the Communist Party. He agreed to be reactivated once the Chinese government agreed to various conditions, and for the next ten years continued to pass on state secrets. He was given an "escape route" in case he was discovered – a submarine positioned off the Australian coast.

In May 1967, Holt began to suspect that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had become aware of his activities. He faked his own death on 17 December 1967, pretending to drown while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria – in reality, after Holt slipped below the surface two Chinese frogmen dragged him down by the ankles and guided him to the conning tower of the waiting submarine. Holt spent the rest of his life in Beijing, and ASIO erased any trace of his defection to cover up its own errors.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Wait, so how did that one bit of Norway come up with "shark-man" before "shark"?

Was it a Street Sharks situation, or more of a Wonder Boy 3 misinterpretation?


There's a book called Cooking for Dictators, where Saddam Hussein's personal chef (among others, there's stories from Idi Amin's chef, Pol Pot's chef, and so on) said that if you hosed up the grill and burnt the meat, Saddam would say you wasted x dinars, cough up

One time they went out on a boat and Saddam wanted to be grill dad, so the chef prepped the meat and left them to be cooked

Saddam burnt them, the chef commented and someone overheard, Saddam summoned the chef before him, the guy was convinced he was going to die and be thrown off the boat, and Saddam apologised and gave him the cost of the meat in cash

Basically Saddam is your dad who loves BBQ if your dad was also a murderous dictator

Eat This Glob posted:

the golden toilet or a trump?

Kitfox88 posted:

did he shat in saddam or trump don’t leave us hanging

HashtagGirlboss posted:

When Margaret Thatcher died and people thought Cher was dead because ofTwitter #nowthatchersdead

HashtagGirlboss posted:

When Margaret Thatcher died and people thought Cher was dead because ofTwitter #nowthatchersdead

Spergin Morlock posted:

he and Randy Johnson took the Diamondbacks to the world series where they beat the Yankees immediately after 9/11. it was great. he is a dumbass though

gradenko_2000 posted:

DoubleDonut posted:

It's a bible.

muscles like this! posted:

Trump bleating on about "chain migration" and then brought over Melania's parents who got fast tracked for citizenship.

TeenageArchipelago posted:

anyone have that Friedman tweet where he was talking on the phone with people who said that he had child porn on his computer?

Hand Knit posted:

https://youtu.be/fPHnXrU5JzU

GWBBQ posted:

Jesus loving Christ. I forgot how long CNN has been so terrible.

Hand Knit posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHnXrU5JzU

Apoplexy posted:

Stephen A. Smith is the only person there who's not just blatantly screeching for eliminationism based on 'they're a minority, you can't trust them, they have no morals like us ~good Christian black woman~ and ~blonde Jewish scumbag lawyer lady~' and poo poo. I wonder how far back we have to go for CNN to be just directly presenting 'We all know God Hates Fags... but does he think we should KILL them? Here's our panel to discuss the pros and cons of this fast-gathering political action movement!'

Prurient Squid posted:

I've not seen the clip and I'm not interested but I feel the need to point out that the whole point of the Parable of the Good Samaritan is that the moral value of a person is how they act towards others and not the religion they espouse. But somehow people can go ahead and believe that you need to have the correct belief system to be a good person.