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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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Johnny Truant posted:

also, animal control are the cops of the animal world, cause they loving suck poo poo. I recently had to deal with them and they're as worthless as pigs(not the animal they're cool)
Hey, I used to work animal control :mad:

(You're not necessarily wrong, it depends a bunch on both the individual and the department how poo poo they can be)

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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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Cool Dad posted:

I'm racking my brain trying to think of a party I could bring this to
If you can't find one, host your own!

Jesus Jello Jamboree

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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Little local schad: there's an eclipse today. The best viewing will be in the southern part of my state, but you can still see it up where I am at about 80% occlusion. Some people were scheduling watch parties. Except it clouded up this morning about an hour before it started, and now that it's over the clouds are starting to break up.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Archonex posted:

This is about as close to it as we're likely to get. :colbert:

Also, political schadenfreude that is unlikely to lead to a derail:



From today right after Jim Jordan realized he wasn't going to be speaker.
Is that Scalise in the background?

lmao

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Aug 9, 2004

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This would be even better if the guy was somehow able to dig the front wheel out, but then the car took off because he left it in gear.

My favorite one of these from a previous thread was this older black gentleman, who was carrying an AR-15 when he went out to confront the thief. Guy stealing the package is very much :dogstare: and gently sets it back down before retreating to the waiting car.

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Aug 9, 2004

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davidspackage posted:

I wish Musk's plans to become Mars Emperor of the chosen few wasn't pie in the sky boershit, because it'd rule if he took all the world's dumbest people with him into space and they all never came back died on the way there because he personally designed the capsule.
I mean, that'd be the most likely scenario.

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Aug 9, 2004

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freeedr posted:

Weird that it took so long but also weird that they’re acting like it’s strange for there to be a conman in congress
I think it's a lot like "saying the dogwhistle part out loud" in that we expect some level of dishonesty and fuckery from our elected officials, but he outright lied about 99% of everything. Not just exaggerating a bit, complete and total fabricated bullshit. Plus the whole campaign finance crimes. Just being a pathological liar probably wouldn't have gotten him expelled.

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Aug 9, 2004

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dialhforhero posted:

I'd like to think that hawk's thought process was this:

Are you serious dude?

No I mean are you for loving seroius?

No, get the gently caress out. You done hosed up.

I got you now bitch.

Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.

Considering that's a falcon and a lot of falcons' primary diet is other birds, I'd say that clip shows remarkable restraint. It could've just been like "oh neat food delivery is here!" but instead it rather painfully escorts the pigeon to the exit, and then waits for a bit to be sure the lesson is learned.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Huh, he shot himself in the left nut, so I guess that makes his right nut the left one now.
No, it makes his right nut the one left.

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Aug 9, 2004

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LobosJr is a fun streamer, does a lot of Souls/soulslike stuff but does other games as well. Friendly community and his mods are good about keeping people in line.

On Giuliani, it's funny AF and I read that he might file for bankruptcy protection which is also funny AF. Because I'm sure that all his finances are above board and to get approved you have to let someone go over your poo poo with a fine-toothed comb. Alex Jones tried that to get out of his 1bn judgement and ended up with InfoWars in receivership.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Scratch Monkey posted:

I can tell you it 1000% was not a thing in the 90s. At least the early 90s
I graduated in '89 ( :corsair: ) and it totally was a thing at my HS.

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davidspackage posted:

I bet that tastes great coming back up
Nope, sure doesn't.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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Please don't throw scooters into rivers. It's bad for the environment.

Responsibly dispose of them in dumpsters.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Hawk tries to eat tiny kitten, gets foiled by some mysterious force field protecting it???

https://i.imgur.com/2M4nZJ3.mp4
I like the hawk looking at the person filming with a very "wtf man" expression.

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Aug 9, 2004

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freeedr posted:

How are people still using desktop computers for anything
Why are TVs still a thing when you can just watch videos on your phone? Sometimes you use the app because you want to shitpost on the toilet or the bus, and sometimes you want to sit at a chair (or in my case on the couch) and shitpost on a large screen.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Rappaport posted:

Isn't Elon supposed to start replacing some volunteers' eyeballs with USB sockets this year, or something like that? Obsolete tech thread, welcome the human sensory organs

what the gently caress

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Aug 9, 2004

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Touch of schad on the drive home: had a fast-moving snowstorm come in. Weather service knew and a good close approximate time to when it would be hitting. Just in time for the evening commute, of course. Going home people were doing about 25-30 on the freeway which was fine, traffic was at least moving smoothly and safely. All of a sudden a highway patrolman comes up in the far left lane with lights and sirens going. About a half mile up the road was another HP vehicle and a big jacked up truck slid well off the road and halfway down the embankment. It's almost invariably 4x4's you see either smashed into the divider or in a ditch when bad weather hits because the concept of "being able to go does not equate to being able to stop" is completely foreign to them.

Also rereading this I realize that it sort of sets up the cop for having an accident and so I apologize for not being able to provide that particular schad.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

Excellent work, 47.
Huh, I didn't know that was an option, I just dropped the light rig on him.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Kit Walker posted:

I love the snow and snowy climates, but reading about avalanches and what you're supposed to do if you get caught in one has made me really comfortable with just enjoying the snow in nice, safe, city environments

(The advice is to try to treat the flow like water and stay floating as long as you can. Apparently you can kind of swim in it when it's moving like that. If you've been pulled under by the time it stops you should try to scoop some snow out from in front of your face before it fully settles which will buy you maybe thirty minutes of oxygen if you're lucky so hopefully someone can find you before you suffocate to death. Once the snow settles it's pretty much as rigid as concrete so you're absolutely hosed unless someone else digs you out)
The avalanche itself generates some heat from the friction of all the snow crystals rubbing together, which is why it turns to cement as it freezes up again. You may be able to dig yourself out before this happens, but only if you're very near the surface. I live in Salt Lake and we have world-class ski resorts like 30 minutes from downtown. The resorts will do avalanche control after big storms where they literally fire artillery at the mountain to knock stuff loose :black101: Most avalanche deaths come from people going off and loving around in the backcountry. Major resorts also have S&R teams with dogs who can get up on the mountain quickly and start looking for people/digging them out. There are also things sort of like scuba equipment for people who do go backcountry so you can breathe longer if you get buried.

Snow is neat and good, but it's just frozen water and like water a handful is harmless but a whole lot of it can be extremely loving deadly if something goes wrong.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Karate Bastard posted:

Yes. Everyone is their avatar, this is known.
Are you the mother, the baby, the cow, or the calf?

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Aug 9, 2004

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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Does that star the “where’s the beef?” woman?
That was Clara Peller, I believe. DSoMMWS is one of the Golden Girls.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Oh hey I know right where that is. Also it was very nice of the runaway trailer to crash into some parked cars instead of going onto the light rail tracks.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Nah, South Salt Lake, 39th south and (as the sign helpfully indicates) 2nd west.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Yo I heard this thread likes to see cops eating poo poo

https://i.imgur.com/ohXYFpR.mp4
I like how the horse barely reacts to its rider biffing it. Poor Freckles, thought of gravity and then started thinking about something else.

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Tiggum posted:

Nah, rent is bullshit because it's literal theft by extortion. Even if it cost much less and never increased, you would still be paying for someone else to own something. If you go into a shop and pay for something and then someone else picks it up and walks out with it, that's theft. But if you pay for someone else's house and then they keep it and throw you out, that's rent. It's bullshit.
There's really nothing wrong with the concept of renting a place - if something breaks you call the landlord and they fix it. You generally don't have to do any yardwork or maintenance. And if you need/want to move you don't have to deal with getting rid of your existing place. But like a lot of things, it gets hosed up by greed and a lack of regulations so people end up paying out the rear end for a shithole.

I lucked the gently caress out with my house. Bought in 2003 just before everything went apeshit and paid 90k. The house itself isn't huge, 800sf but it's perfect for a single person. The yard is big, it has hardwood floors and a fireplace, all the things that were on my dream list. Originally the interest rate was 5%, which was a tad higher than the going rate at the time because I went through a local nonprofit that does stuff for first time homebuyers. It cost me $500 to move in. I refi'd in late 2021 right before everything went to poo poo again, got some cash out so I can do some yard improvements and that interest rate is 2%; again right before everything went to poo poo and shot up to 7. I feel super bad for anyone trying to buy a home for the first time now, my place appraised for 450 loving K when I refi'd. Benefits me sure but who the gently caress could afford that on a normal person's salary? You'd have to be DINK and earning way above median wage around here.

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Aug 9, 2004

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Really a roundabout way of doing it

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gay picnic defence posted:

Play stupid games, win circumcises

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Aug 9, 2004

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It may have even been in this thread, but I remember someone posting a clip of a penguin slipping and falling on ice and it made a sound very much like gently caress and all the other penguins looked at it and also made a sound except it was FUUUUUUUUUCK.

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Captain Hygiene posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQNe-vq7Tgo
Will a youtube short embed? Let's find out, together
:tipshat:

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Aug 9, 2004

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Tiggum posted:

People are all like "once you turn 30, your body is a broken husk and life is pain" but actually I don't think you can blame age for that. Try improving your health and fitness maybe? I dunno. All I can tell you is that I'm 39 next month and I don't injure myself doing everyday activities. I can also stay up past midnight and drink a bottle of wine and still feel fine the next day.
The "I hurt myself sleeping" stage didn't kick in for me until I was around 45.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

For the record, I was still very active up until the past couple of years and I gotta get back on that because post-50 you really have to stay on top of things

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Aug 9, 2004

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Robobot posted:

Zarathos sighs and begins cursing themselves for bonding with a Minnesotan.
I'm cursing myself for getting this reference

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Aug 9, 2004

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This year the Utah legislature passed an anti-trans bathroom bill. It says that people must use the bathroom that corresponds to their birth sex in government buildings. It also mandated that the Utah Auditor's office investigate reports of violations of this law. An online reporting tool was created for people to submit alleged violations. It's going about as well as you'd expect.

tldr is: "We're lovely people who passed a lovely law and people are griefing it by submitting 4000 false complaints over a couple of days which the government is now required to investigate."

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