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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Bearjew posted:

what the gently caress

I was just about to thank you for wishing us all a happy NYE but that was in the closed thread so there

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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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someone's having a happy new year

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Jon Joe posted:

i think 2019 will be a recordly normal year

I, for one, have high hopes that a Democratic House will provide the perfect counterweight to the White House, Senate, and SCOTUS, bringing peace and balance to

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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triple sulk posted:

watched bandersnatch and it was basically donnie darko lol

I just finished The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and was quite underwhelmed

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

"imagine the smell" is always at the forefront of my imagination when I try to fathom being at the Times Square ball drop

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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That DICK! posted:

here’s a free space for you. that dick has a great time posting with you all. thank you. have a great year. goodbye

Here's hoping you don't lose as many eyeballs in 2019

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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goodbye 2018, you gave us Daisy Hogg and that wasn't even the most disturbing thing of the year

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Happy New Year, C-SPAM

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Bearjew posted:

trumpy new year

I must say your festive av was a smashing success, Bearjew

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Consummate Professional posted:

we're those the sarin gas guys?

yes

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Bert Roberge posted:

Use this version. I made a ring out of a Mario 64 coin.

:nws: https://i.imgur.com/Ma3fcpe.png

Thanks, you're a real gent

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Siljmonster posted:

four balls too

Confucius say "baseball wrong: man with four balls cannot walk"

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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SHVPS4DETH posted:

i added a new faec to my apartment



she's 4 years young, has thumbs, and absolutely loves rugs

'grats

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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a helpful bear posted:

luke wilson is probably the smartest wilson

also they are right that fresh water is the thing we will fight over and will save us if we preserve it


makes u really think :thunk:

in hindsight, Owen Wilson failing a suicide attempt right around the time he was releasing a children's movie was pretty stupid for a lot of reasons

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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wear the hat, coward

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Bip Roberts posted:

how come there isn't a full genre of wh40k style blood and skull walls drawn up yet?

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Sir Tonk posted:

how many times is someone going to make this joke

everyone sounds drunk when you do this

did this guy literally take a Chris Hayes tweet, put some music in the background, and retweet as his own work

or did Chris Hayes also plagiarize it

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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hallebarrysoetoro posted:

yeah right now it's like what, a 30' high wall? with wind exposure category c or d (it will experience a metric fuckload of wind exposure one way or the other) and the steel would have to be set at 12" centers to keep people from shimmying through meaning it's basically catching almost all of the wind blowing against it....those vertical steel posts are going to need to be like W8 or so sized steel with some relatively boss sized wind bracing behind each and every one

the galvanization on the steel would need to be loving insanely thick to have a reasonable time till first maintenance unless they plan on having border patrol kitted out with cherry pickers to have them galv spray everything as they go down the line. i don't even know where to begin to see how much zinc is mined each year and how much galvanization material is produced yearly but i'm assuming it's a massive chunk of what america produces

not to mention the concrete footers or caissons necessary to support the wall, guess they're not going to ready mix that poo poo lol. i work in an area where concrete is easily brought to a site and weather conditions aren't much of an issue, i have no idea how the gently caress you would try to set concrete in a place that has such temperature extremes

the engineer in me is like "yes a giant mega project like this would be fun to see how it plays out" because it would be one of the largest engineering and construction undertakings in human history, it will require several times more concrete than the hoover dam, somewhere around 5-10 billion pounds of steel in just rebar for the concrete alone which would represent roughly 1/3rd of all american yearly steel output, and i don't know how much of that can be formed as rebar

i don't do much concrete reinforcement design in my job so i'm going to be lazy and just assume they'll use trumpcrete that is magic and needs no steel and can perfectly hold this giant dumb loving wall up from toppling forces. just to make the wall "tamper" proof it needs a continuous 5' deep concrete footer, and ideally 3' wide to prevent it from being easily punched through, and, no matter what steel it is, you need a pretty big loving footer to land all that steel in

so you get 2000mi*5*3 and you get roughly 160 cubic million feet of concrete, at roughly 150lbs per cuft for some relatively respectable strength concrete, which is about 10% of total concrete output in america (which, just the way concrete is, tends to be localized because concrete doesn't travel very well). so we need to build an insanely large supply chain for all the aggregate etc just for that alone

that $5bn number $2.5m a mile, and just using some kludge numbers for that concrete you end up using half of that money just in concrete alone lol not even including the labor to transport and put the concrete in place, all the steel necessary, and the steel wall itself

not to mention even if all regulatory concerns are somehow bypassed, it's still a legal nightmare for land acquisition because i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that 75% of the proposed route is on private land?

and that you'd need to find tens of thousands of workers who would be willing to go live out in an inhospitable area in temporary housing, along with building all the necessary logistical stuff like sanitary sewer, hospitals, potable water, food, blah blah blah

like the wall is just so loving insanely stupid from a feasibility standpoint and it hurts to even think about. it's like "yeah let's just re-direct the entirety of the american economy to build a wall that does nothing". it's loving painful to see people talk about it like it will actually happen instead of a giant grift by bechtel where $5bn is absconded with for nothing in return. $5bn barely loving covers the "cheap" part that can be done from a desktop like acquisition or design. the whole thing will run into the trillions loving easily

also not to mention people will just roll out to the wall with a torch and make off with some free steel

I keep thinking about how long it would take to cut out one of the steel slats so someone could shimmy through. At work I once used a small plasma cutter and based on the media pics of the wall mockups you could probably cut out a slat in under two minutes with that cutter, a minute to slice the top and a minute to slice the bottom. It was a pretty heavy unit, I wouldn't consider it portable in the sense that one or two people could carry it across several miles of rough terrain on their own, and it was a plug-in unit too so you'd need a generator too. I figure some sort of gas torch would be a much more practical solution, maybe that would take longer but I can't imagine it would take more than 10 minutes to cut out a couple of those slats with a variety of portable industrial equipment you can buy at Home Depot or order from Amazon.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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https://gizmodo.com/piers-morgan-cant-stop-tweeting-this-picture-of-him-eat-1822677159

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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juche avocado posted:

DONALD TRIED AND
THE KURDS ALL DIED

yeah, sure

as if the US won't honor its moral obligations by forming a free Kurdistan

how can you be so cynical

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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dads friend steve posted:

I’m alright with the Eagles and Philly in general but Nick Foles is a gigantic bitch for being the only Eagle actually willing to visit prez pissbsby

"I'd like to thank Jesus for this Super Bowl victory"

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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kinda surprised I've never seen a Fox News porn parody if for no other reason than an excuse to have a character named Brit Spume

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Billzasilver posted:

Trenton is a cool rear end name I just learned

were you watching Mr. Robot

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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The Snoo posted:

I used melatonin a long time ago but it always made me feel weird in the morning lol


ye I have a fan running and a humidifer as well but it doesn't always help. maybe rain noises or something. I can't listen to music or things with words in it

some nights it's just tough :shepface:

just hold your breath until you pass out, it works every time

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Lum_ posted:

Suffice to say her Twitter feed leaves little to the imagination.

:nws: https://twitter.com/sydneyelainexo/ :nws:


An Apple A Gay posted:

hell yeah old tree u got this

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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TrilliontonNixon posted:

I didn't watch it, did Trump puss out again?

yes

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Wamsutta posted:

Pelosi meh

Schumer really good by his poo poo standards



nah, Schumer basically said everyone agrees the border needs to be shored up but the wall isn't the way to do it, when he could have just said that border crossings are at a 45-year low and Trump has no excuse for the shutdown farce

but :decorum: won the day

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Joementum posted:

in a technical sense, these are indeed all facts

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1082857277084893184

impressive ratio on this tweet

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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by this logic, Kirsten Gillibrand is a shoe-in

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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cultural posadist posted:

the art gallery in the Trump! presidential library is gonna be :eyepop:

there's going to be a Ben Garrison wing

and that's the only wing

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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juche avocado posted:

do you really think it's shoe-in my firend

goddammit

I've been spelling it wrong for decades

thank you for your kindness

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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I'm happy for Christopher Meloni's continued relevance

heh, see what I did there, it's a clever reference to his hit show Happy

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Shear Modulus posted:

look fuckers just tell me which mario kart character it looks like

1:4 odds it's Bowser

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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BUSH 2112 posted:

i thought :v: was explicitly "this is a dumb joke that's still funny" but idk

yeah, like dad jokes:



A priest and a rabbi are walking past an elementary school playground. The priest looks over the fence, gets a beatific expression on his face, and says "I really want to screw that little boy." The rabbi ponders this, then asks "... outta what?" :v:

QED

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Whomever decided to insert layers of Stilton into Double Gloucester was a genius

Maybe he was, in fact, named Huntsman but I can't c/d

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Billzasilver posted:

have we ever seen Batman and Bruce Wayne in the same place at the same times? :thunk:

yes

there was an episode where Wayne was hauled into testify about his secret identity and Alfred dressed up in the costume and stood on a rooftop and the judge was all "case dismissed!"

edit: this was in the 1960s series, I don't watch cartoons

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Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

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Intel&Sebastian posted:

lmfao that's great

found the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r2nuYjzH_8

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