Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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Dashcam video posted on YouTube Wednesday captured a drunken man singing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the back of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) cruiser.

The man begins by insisting that he had “done nothing wrong” and urging the officer to consider the “brotherhood of man of man on the planet Earth.”

Clearly that wasn’t working so the man removed his glasses and began serenading the officer with a animated rendition of Queen’s classic tune for six minutes, including a drum solo on the cruiser’s bullet-proof safety glass.

Anyone know if Punchy or JSF have made any trips to Canada lately?

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  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Hmm. Are Mounties allowed to post their dashboard camera videos on YouTube? Those videos are surely Crown property, and might need to be kept confidential if they are to be used as evidence.

  8. 8.

    Tom The First

    Just bought tickets for Hunger Games from Fandango… god help me. At least the theatre serves booze.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    It definitely wasn’t me. I can’t grow that good a beard. I will check my passport to make sure though.

  12. 12.

    supertrooper

    I was absolutely sure it was not until Wrong Again Cole said the same thing. Now I am not sure.

  13. 13.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Hah, laugh now while you can. Just you wait. Mitt Romney will be singing “We are the Champions” off-key in the back of a secret service limo in 3,2,1…

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nope, I definitely wasn’t in Canada on that date. At least, not legally. I fall back on my beard defense.

    @Amir Khalid: Epic.

    @tweez:

    This is so close to something I might do, it’s making me consider abstinence.

    This is going to make you give up sex?

  22. 22.

    tweez

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m gonna give up alcohol, stimulants, hallucinogens, and karaoke. The sex don’t enter into it, but I certainly would consider making a vow not to reproduce if one of my kids were gonna turn out like that

  23. 23.

    trollhattan

    Heard a radio story this morning of a parrot stolen in the UK that sings Bohemian Rhapsody, and the owner suspects the thief won’t be keeping him for long because of that.

    One hopes so.

  24. 24.

    muddy

    “Physical violence is the least of my priorities.” He doesn’t mention violence done to the song.

  25. 25.

    joeyess

    The previous thread was titled “Testing Stuff” and then Cole shows up in a RMCP cruiser singing Queen. Wow.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    I understand that when they got to the station, our friend in the back seat asked to be released. But the Mounties replied, “Bismillah, no! We will not let you go!”

  30. 30.

    James Gary

    I’d just like to add that I don’t even need to drink to spontaneously belt out a full-length a capella version of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Sad, really.

  32. 32.

    Auldblackjack

    @Cowbelle:
    Needs more Cowbell.

    Good thing this thing happened in Canada, because I think singing “Momma, just killed a man. Put a gun …etc” would qualify you for a vacation in Gitmo if you did it in the USA.

  35. 35.

    Concerned Citizen

    “Physical violence is the least of my priorities” was the best. The RCMP have it right man. Not like down here. That guy would’ve gotten his ass kicked.

  36. 36.

    Lojasmo

    Cops got called to my cousin’s house for a domestic because her hubby was singing Queen to their son at bedtime. True story.

  37. 37.

    opie jeanne

    @Tom The First: I hope you have read the book. The movie tries to give us the entire book which is impossible in 2 1/2 hours, so some of the motivation is missing along with most of the character development.

    The book was very good, I was surprised by how much I liked it, and I thought the movie did it justice.

  38. 38.

    John - A Motley Moose

    Things that make you go “hmmm…”
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    1) Singing in the back of a police cruiser.
    2) Injuring yourself while mopping in the nude and then blogging about it.
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    Vote | Results

  39. 39.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    i don’t think ogre would have had his psychotic break if stan gable hadn’t been off at a men’s studies retreat.

  40. 40.

    MikeJ

    @opie jeanne: I read the book yesterday because I figured people were going to talk about the movie and I didn’t want spoilers. Pretty entertaining. Not the greatest YA novel of all time, but fun.

  44. 44.

    dollared

    @Omnes Omnibus: Omnes, that’s one way of reminding me that your a Cheesehead.

    Rule 1. Never waste beer.

    Off topic question for you: Did you see the bit where Judge Prosser is claiming that he can’t be disciplined because only the Supreme Court can discipline a Supreme Court justice, and since he throttled the other judge in front of the entire court, they are all witnesses and can’t decide the case? Can that argument possibly succeed?

    Do your obligations prohbit you from answering that?

    Oh, and have you filed anything with the WSBA about Micheal Best & Friedrich yet? Gad, I have friends who worked there…..

  47. 47.

    Carrie

    Had to check the clip to make sure it wasn’t my ex.
    It’s not. I’m quite relieved.

  48. 48.

    RedKitten

    Yep. When we Canucks get hauled in by the law, we do so with panache and style. :)

    I was expecting the cop to either join in during the operatic section. I’m disappointed that he didn’t.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dollared: I gotta stay clear of anything regarding those questions. We have an election Tuesday and my little corner of the world has been, and will be, very busy.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’d never makes an argument appealing to the brotherhood of man on planet earth.

    Must be Punchy.

  54. 54.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I actually got to take that ride once, although Officer Llewellyn let me ride in the passenger’s seat after I correctly spelled his name.

  55. 55.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I actually got to take that ride once, although Officer Llewellyn let me ride in the passenger’s seat after I correctly spelled his name.

  56. 56.

    Svensker

    This makes me proud of my adopted home.

    Does he have an Albertan accent, or is that just me?

    Physical violence is the least of my priorities. Yay! A Quaker drunk!

  57. 57.

    Tony the Wonderhorse

    Magnifico!

    I royally mounted a Canadian once but it’s a long, sordid tale (so’s my johnson). Ba-boom!

  59. 59.

    joel hanes

    He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
    Spare him his life from this monstrosity

    Easy come easy go – will you let me go
    Bismillah! No – we will not let you go – let him go
    Bismillah! We will not let you go – let him go
    Bismillah! We will not let you go – let me go
    Will not let you go – let me go (never)
    Never let you go – let me go
    Never let me go – ooo

  60. 60.

    shortstop

    @Auldblackjack: While watching this in high amusement and with no little admiration, I was thinking that if this had happened in the U.S., the cops likely as not would have dragged him out of the car and beat him senseless. Those Mounties are a stoic bunch.

    Also, Canadian drunks apparently keep their shirts on. Mildly naughty boys, mildly naughty boys, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

  62. 62.

    shortstop

    I cannot identify a single word in my comment that should have gotten me moderation. Does that mean swearing like a longshoreman comes so naturally I can’t even locate my own poor verbal conduct?

  64. 64.

    JGabriel

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    Amir Khalid:

    Are Mounties allowed to post their dashboard camera videos on YouTube?

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    According to an update at the end of the story, the video was posted by the drunk guy himself:

    UPDATE: The Smoking Gun reports that the Canadian crooner is Robert Wilkinson, 29, a home-brewer who posted on Facebook last month that he was “solving the worlds problems, one beer at a time.” Wilkinson is the person who originally posted the footage to YouTube, after receiving it during the process of discovery in his own case, in which he is currently acting as his own lawyer.

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  67. 67.

    dollared

    @Omnes Omnibus: Seriously, isn’t it great that this guy feels he has enough margin for error that he can live like this?

    And good luck this week. You live in interesting times…

  69. 69.

    JCJ

    He may just well be the next Susan Boyle! I hope he gets a recording contract!

    You know, Edson, Alberta isn’t very big. I’m amazed he made it through the whole song before they arrived at their destination.

  71. 71.

    YellowJournalism

    Edson is not far from me. Just a few hours. Surprised I never heard of this before now.

    My husband and I have been doing our own sing-a-longs to this for years in the hope that when we’re still doing it when our kids are in their teens, it will be joyously embarressing for them.

    Or it could backfire, and this will be my son in 25 years…

  72. 72.

    NorthLeft12

    Mr. Wilkinson should base his defence on this video.

    “Your worship, how can an intoxicated man “faultlessly” sing Bohemian Rhapsody? It is just not possible! Move for dismissal.”

    By the way the guy should be let off just for this:

    Physical violence is the least of my priorities right now.

    I am proud to call him a fellow Canadian.

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