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Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

T R E 4 5 O N

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Hot air and ill-informed banter

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    Sweet. At least the kidlets is learning one important thing. And music is as old as humanity.

  4. 4.

    MMM

    1. I didn’t think John Cole allowed for his pictre to be shown on this website

    2. I didn’t know he could sing that well…outside of the shower….

  5. 5.

    2th&nayle

    What a voice! I’m going out on a limb and say that money was not the first consideration for this teacher. What a gig! I’m jealous.

  9. 9.

    Trentrunner

    1. One continuous take.

    2. Live singing, no lip-synching

    3. Amazing tone and presence.

    Suck on THAT, every single frackin’ pop star out there right now.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    Could we get a new, non-ABL thread? Please?

    She puts up a completely innocuous, non-political, brief post, and you still lose your shit? Feel free to fuck off and die at any time.

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    I asked for an Open Thread too, down below.
    Get your fucking little girl panties out of your bunched up crack.
    History has proven some peoples’ Open Threads are better threads for some things.
    You fucking wankers.

    edited

  21. 21.

    gbear

    I don’t get it. How does a thread about kids singing get this nasty this quick? Was it snark?

    The kids are great.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    @gbear
    No one is slagging the kids. They are great. And it’s great to get them some pagehits.
    Get a grip.

  25. 25.

    ABL

    She puts up a completely innocuous, non-political, brief post, and you still lose your shit? Feel free to fuck off and die at any time.

    haha. wow. this is some kind of record.

    I write “I love these kids” and “You’re welcome” and still shenanigans ensue.

    You folks slay me.

  26. 26.

    Amir_Khalid

    Saw this interesting British comedy at the movies today, The Infidel. Contrived and implausible ending, but well worth seeing if it ever shows up in America.

    The movie was preceded by the trailer for Take Me Home Tonight with Topher Grace: it went on for too long, and it made me hate the movie as well as Topher Grace. Apparently, the movie had been sitting unreleased from 2007 until this year. It must suck pretty bad.

    @Corner Stone #19:
    At whom are you angry? ABL, her defenders, or 13th Generation?

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    @Amir_Khalid
    I’m not angry at anyone. read the thread for yourself.
    Not one person said anything bad about these kids. And nothing at all negative about ABL.
    Just asked for something they wanted. No insults, denigration, slagging, nothing.
    Yet some started the “hate” talk and the you can FOAD. For some damned odd reason.
    Tell you what. You read the thread and tell me who did what.

  28. 28.

    Not!ABL

    At whom are you angry? ABL, her defenders, or 13th Generation?

    Figuratively-speaking, CS likes to chase me around here pulling my pigtails and throwing mud pies at me.

    I reckon he has little else going on.

  29. 29.

    Amir_Khalid

    @Corner Stone #27:
    I did read the thread. This tangent started with 13th Generation asking for a new, not-by-ABL thread. 13th Generation didn’t say what was wrong with this one, but did leave the implication that what (s)he didn’t like was ABL’s byline.

    That sounded to Cat Lady and Yutsano like a gratuitous dig at ABL; Yutsano was particularly offended, justifiably I think. ABL herself seems bemused but not all that surprised. Your tone seems angry, as I said, or maybe impatient; but I still can’t tell at whom.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    @Amir_Khalid
    Hmmm. Maybe you should ask Keith G about an ABL thread where he was warned about being banned for commenting on the local weather in an Open Thread by ABL?
    Or maybe you can ask Lil Tim, Interrupted about being banned? Or maybe ask Lil Bob Lob about getting the can in an Open Thread by ABL. Oh, wait. You can’t.
    Point being, 13th didn’t say shit about ABL. But history proves if you wanna get banned here you can say some things in an Open Thread by ABL and get your wish.
    Victimhood at it’s ne plus ultra I guess.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    Just saying. There is nothing wrong for a commenter asking for what they want. The worst can happen is Cole shows up with the GWB middle finger poster.
    13th didn’t bash anybody. Somebody show me where that happened.

  33. 33.

    13th Generation

    @Corner Stone

    Always liked the cut of your jib. I think you and I have been around here for about the same length of time, but I’m just an innocent bystander. Thanks for having my back.

  34. 34.

    13th Generation

    @Amir_Khalid

    Yutsano has told me more than once that I’m a newbie, or to get my own blog. Whatever. I just wanted a new, fresh post.

    And no, I don’t particularly like the Angry Black Lady.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    I’m just curious where Amir or the Original Moral Scold(tm) Yutz can show where anyone made a negative remark? About anyone?
    Otherwise this seems like a victim’s parade.

  38. 38.

    Chyron HR

    Get your fucking little girl panties out of your bunched up crack and show me where I made a negative remark about any of you fucking wankers.

    You forgot to say “fuck you”, Mr. Sunshine.

    Oh, wait, never mind.

  39. 39.

    Svensker

    Figuratively-speaking, CS likes to chase me around here pulling my pigtails and throwing mud pies at me.

    When I was in grade school, that stuff meant a big-time crush for sure.

  40. 40.

    Corner Stone

    You forgot to put “Obongo” in there somewhere. You’re slipping, you wanker.

  41. 41.

    Amir_Khalid

    @Corner Stone #35:
    Please re-read the first paragraph of my comment #29. Especially that last sentence: 13th Generation’s negativity toward ABL was not stated, but clearly implied.

    @13th Generation #34:
    You certainly have the right to not particularly like the Angry Black Lady. But you could easily exercise that right by skipping over her Balloon Juice posts. Or, as Yutsano helpfully suggests, by starting your own ABL-free blog. Demanding that she not post, or that other front-pagers post instead, is simply not going to fly with the Great Blog Lord (praised be His Name, and His Cat, and His Dog, and His Other Dog) John Cole. For thine is but the minority opinion, and the Blog Lord hath a super-majority when he decideth who may post in Balloon Juice … eth.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    @Svensker
    Oh Svensker. I’d throw a mud pie at you anytime, you little Canuck transplant you.

  44. 44.

    Brian S

    I just wanted a new, fresh post.

    Why exactly, 13th Generation? What was it about this new, fresh post that was so unacceptable to you, that you felt a new one was warranted after precisely 10 comments, other than the fact that ABL had started it?

    And Corner Stone, if you’re saying you can’t figure out how that request is a negative remark, well, you’re a damn liar, because you’re not stupid.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    Brian, I asked for an Open Thread in a couple posts before too.
    And if you can ignore the basis for that request then you’re a fucking moron.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    God. What a clusterfuck. Someone asking for an Open Thread, with nothing negative said, and no trash talking, is now a problem for deep introspection.
    Man, victimhood is rife. Rife, I tells ya!

  47. 47.

    Brian S

    Corner Stone, asking for an Open Thread in an Open Thread is about the dumbest request a person can make, so I guess you are dumb enough to not get what 13th Generation was doing. My apologies for overestimating your intelligence.

  48. 48.

    Corner Stone

    Hey, you fucking moron, you know how to read?

    Hmmm. Maybe you should ask Keith G about an ABL thread where he was warned about being banned for commenting on the local weather in an Open Thread by ABL?
    Or maybe you can ask Lil Tim, Interrupted about being banned? Or maybe ask Lil Bob Lob about getting the can in an Open Thread by ABL. Oh, wait. You can’t.
    Point being, 13th didn’t say shit about ABL. But history proves if you wanna get banned here you can say some things in an Open Thread by ABL and get your wish.

  51. 51.

    mac

    I see cute open thread about a choir at PS22, and I see a lot of garbage in the comments and now I am sad.

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    @Amir
    Obviously it was not what was requested.
    What was the request?
    If you have a problem with the request then say so, like Yutz and someone else fainted away over. If you want to be a Moral Scold(tm) then that’s ok too.
    But don’t conflate.

  54. 54.

    tkogrumpy

    Almost forgot my response to the vid reading thru this disaster of a thread,A new generation picks up the torch.

  56. 56.

    No one of Importance

    @Brian S

    What was it about this new, fresh post that was so unacceptable to you

    Same as it always is with these idjits – too much black and lady in their white manly world. They like Kay and Anne Laurie because they have acceptable levels of melanin. But black ladyness is a burden too great even for a scroll button to bear.

    Great clip. That kid is such a cutie, and his chorus isn’t too shabby either.

  58. 58.

    eemom

    I. cannot. believe. this. shit.

    No, not even I, shit-slingerator extraordinaire, can believe that the haters would get their asshole on in this kind of a thread.

    It just makes it so very obvious that that’s what they are, and no more: haters.

  59. 59.

    Lojasmo

    Tim interupted deserved to be banned, corner stone. 13th generation does too. And so do you, corner stone, you goddamned troll.

    Kids are cute, they can stay.

  61. 61.

    Allan

    @ABL: I picture Corner Stone scrolling through old threads re-reading the contributions of his fallen comrades while listening to the Carpenter’s Greatest Hits and weeping.

  62. 62.

    Corner Stone

    Bee Gees, with a little Godsmack thrown in.
    Hall Monitor, I have to hand it to you. It must’ve given you quite a thrill to make John Cole STFU and back down off his own blog. To blink, if you will.
    Cole tried to reassert his pack leadership but that was short lived. You got him to retract and repost, post haste.
    I had a good laugh about it, at the time. But now I see you’re the clear victor in this mishagosh between Cole and his blog stable, and have put Cole in his place once and for all.
    Nicely done, and kudos.

  63. 63.

    mike in dc

    …and all my loneliness
    I have felt today
    It’s a little more than enough
    to make a man throw himself away

    But I continue
    to burn the midnight lamp
    alone…

    (loneliness is such a…
    …drag)

  64. 64.

    Laertes

    Adorable video. Thanks for posting it.

    Shame about the trolling, and the troll-feeding. Y’all deserve each other.

  65. 65.

    Chad N Freude

    Corner [email protected]:
    mishagosh? If you’re going to use Yiddish words, at least spell them correctly.

    BTW, I agree with Amir_Khalid. I can’t think of any reason other than insult by implication for 13th Generation’s request. It’s the specific reference to “non-ABL thread”, which, BTW, doesn’t translate directly into “open thread”; I read it as “thread started by anyone who is not ABL”.

    I eagerly await your explanation of why my assertions about spelling and interpretation are wrong.

  66. 66.

    ABL

    shit-slingerator extraordinaire

    Oh you got the extraordinaire model. Fancee!

    I am hoping to upgrade soon.

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    I heard it on a video conference call with an NYC attorney. It sounded nasty, yet appropriate in context. With the attendant hand waving it seemed apropos.
    Sue me.

  68. 68.

    pete (I'm tired of using my initials, PS)

    This is really sad. The kid’s so cute and the passive-aggressive assholes who claim that they are not being personally insulting when anyone with a brain knows they are lying are just spoilers. Sad.

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