Slow-Burn
I’m having one of those days:
and one of these days:
Fuck you, that’s my name!
::ahem::
So… er… Open Thread?
[Click the links below for a list of the movies featured in the clips. And click this link for more of Harry Hanrahan’s genius.][via Pajiba and Pajiba]
[cross-posted]
Linda Featheringill
abl:
Hi, Kiddo. Nice bridges.
Regardless of what the actual numbers are, I think it’s hot and muggy here. I ventured out and did a little yard work and crawled back into the house, huffing and puffing. Well, at least part of the lawn is a little less shaggy now. Tomorrow is another day.
For the free market folks: I have read [forgot where] that this country hasn’t practiced free market capitalism since about 1890. Ever since that time, the fat cats have expected the government to get involved and help regulate the system to facilitate a flow of goods and services. [Also to make profits private and losses public but that’s another story.]
One could think that every president since 1890 has cooperated with the government-as-nanny-for-big-business. But I guess it’s Obama’s fault anyway.
Linda Featheringill
I actually found the source for the article referenced in #1.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036236/posts
I was a bit off with the 1890 date. The article refers to the Progressive Period around 1900. I think I made that mistake because I associate that period with the 1890s as well, although I could be wrong.
Interesting essay, by the way.
Joel
Try not to suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot!
Countme In
I notice Glengarry Glen Ross garnered three spots on the 100 best movie insults of all time.
And all that BEFORE David Mamet decided to take the side of the goat-fucking murderous Republican Ayn Rand vermin Alec Baldwin character.
In which case, let me award Mamet second place – a set of cheap steak knives inserted up his ass one at a time by his orally talented mother.
Joel
I was going to wonder where “fat, drunk, and stupid” went, but it’s in the second video made by this guy.
Phyllis
Ooh, two scenes from ‘In Bruges’. That’s a f*cking great film.
Valdivia
man I can’t wait to see what you decide to blow up when you’re having a really bad day :D
After a coffee crisis this am, I spent the whole morning looking for the perfect 4-5 cup coffee maker (not manual) and finally, thanks to a tip-off from my old roommate and bestie I found the classic Melita Gevalia 4 cup brewer on ebay. Can’t wait to get it later in the week, nothing worse than excellent coffee gone to waste because of a no-longer-in-working-order machine.
Sunny and kinda hot in DC and now that my back allows it I may even sit for a little bit in the balcony and read.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
But not Colin Farrell telling the fat guy he’s too fat to climb the tower. I was looking for that one.
gnomedad
You’re having two days today? I can barely squeeze in one.
jeffreyw
Remember, y’all, hot sauce is an important food group.
General Stuck
One of my fav movie moments was the bridge blowing in Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with Tuoo sticking his butt up out of the bomb crater.
and him saying “blow up the bridge and maybe these idiots will go somewhere else to fight”
Ed Marshall
@2 Some Austrian wrote that. They have an economic nirvana based around the “Free Banking Era” that everyone else sane remembers as a period of incessant banking panics, fake banks that just robbed everyone and left and general chaos.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
slapshot, national anthem
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
slapshot, national anthem
Mike in NC
@jeffreyw
Half Moon Bay Trading Company sells the best stuff on earth.
Ruckus
I just see an average day at the ruckus house.
TheMightyTrowel
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
No day is a bad day that has Monty Python in it.
jeffreyw
Bold talk from a feller not named Pete.
Elizabelle
Off to a dog show. Got to do something to lift the doom and gloom.
Monkeyfister
Tunch vs. John: http://animalsbeingdicks.com/page/11
It’s not John, but I think he should keep this gif in mind for his own strategic awareness. We know Tunch and Rosy are in cahoots, now…
:) Cheers!
–mf
J Frank Parnell
Wow, that was like a whole episode of “Deadwood.” I miss that show.
ruemara
the friend that was supposed to help me install my cabinets yesterday hasn’t come at all, much less called. I can’t figure out how to get to my thermostat or even how to remove the fricking radiator hose and nearly everyone who thought it would be awesome to get together for 4th for a bbq has either turned me down or just not responded to my invite. Plus getting closer to the end date for housing with no real clue in sight. I’d hate everything but I’m too despondent to hate.
Roger Moore
@TheMightyTrowel:
Don’t give me any of that, you snotty faced heap of parrot droppings.
Linda Featheringill
Ah, rumara #22.
Poor baby.
Why don’t you stick around, insult Jane Hamsher, and maybe John Cole will pick a fight with you?
The thermostat is in a car? Is it included in the radiator cap mechanism? They used to be but that was back in the 17th century.
Why do you want to remove a radiator hose?
Do put on some music that you like.
ruemara
I’m trying to fix the all important transport and I think the issue could be the thermostat is broken and making it overheat. This is due to my mad car skills which involve…driving…putting gas in it and adding water to the reservoir. But if it was something to cook, I’d be gold.
As far as Hamster, she can go peroxide something, I only care when they are actually doing something useful. John will have to just ask her out on a date like everyone else.
Linda Featheringill
ruemara #25
You might get some real information from an auto parts stores. They frequently have people working there who really know about cars.
Yutsano
@ ruemara:
You can always get blind stinking drunk then crash a party somewhere. That might work.
Linda Featheringill
rumara
On second thought, if you don’t know where the thermostat is, you probably don’t have tools.
ruemara
Linda, I have a spanner, a flathead, and some…I think these are, you know I don’t know what they are, but they have these sizes you put on a thingy and makes a ratchey noise. But I was turning a bolt thingy that looked like a flathead screw but a bolt and 2 minutes of going around and nothing moved, it just made the noise. I do think I know where the thermo is. I started to remove the heater hose but it seems it is not there but at the engine. At least I’ve learned not to remove the heater hose.
boss bitch
I don’t think any of that tops this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/111154/family-guy-quagmire-goes-off
Quagmire goes off on Brian – the best.
Sko Hayes
Before trying to replace your own thermostat, go by one of those auto parts stores, and have them test the anti-freeze in the radiator. If you’re adding water frequently (probably are, if it’s overheating), there may be no anti-freeze protection.
That being said, thermostats are fairly easy to replace if you can get to the part and have the proper tools (socket wrenches is what you’re thinking about).
Do you perhaps have a friend with the proper tools you can bribe with a six pack?
Sko Hayes
By the way, I’m still getting the cucumber and girl (“She loves her veggies!”) ad everyone was seeing the other day, why, John, why?
Cheryl from Maryland
Thank you John Cole for posting about Restorer for furniture and floors. My mother-in-law is selling her house, and that product spruced up the wood floors just fine.
Jeremy
@ABL-
Synchronicity! Just finished watching “Duck, You Sucker” Friday night.