Watching Manhunt on HBO, a documentary of all the women who spent decades working on finding and killing bin Laden. None of them looked like Jessica Chastain. Every single fucking one of them was a better actor.
Also too, I went to the bar to get a chicken sandwich to go and some young co-ed dropped a beer on my foot, and I was with it enough to blurt out “It’s ok, I remember my first beer” and make all her friends laugh.
Then I felt bad.
Switching to Donnie Brascoe on Starz because I need to have my wits with me when I watch this documentary.
Also too, you people suck. Feeling vengeful and dismissive today. If I were not so lazy I’d pick a SCOTUS argument with EEMOM and Burns.
Redshirt
How close is this bar to you? Walking distance?
mclaren
John, don’t. Arguing with eemom and burnspbesq is like reading Aeschylus to a cage of hyenas: it insults your intelligence, and enrages them.
PsiFighter37
Isn’t the appropriate time to ask, How you doin’?
I’ve been out of the game a long time, but it seems opportune. Plus, picking up the ladies while out grabbing a chicken sandwich would’ve given you many BJ points with us.
Disclaimer: BJ points are made up by me and have no real value in real life.
NotMax
Vengeful and Dismissive.
An act forever consigned to the deuce slot in vaudeville.
PsiFighter37
RAGE ALL NIGHT LONG
I dareasy I’m going to be hung over a little tomorrow. I regret not grabbing some Mickey D’s before comign home. That protein shake was also a bad idea.
Violet
I rescued an escaped chicken today. Good deed for the day.
TG Chicago
Why do you feel bad? There was nothing mean about that joke. It was funny. They laughed. Feel good!
Spaghetti Lee
@Violet:
Did you have to cross the road?
(I’m so sorry.)
Mnemosyne
I was planning to buy a new car this fall after all of the hoopla with my dad’s memorial is over, but it now turns out that my credit union is offering a 1.75% interest rate for car loans.
No, that is not a typo. Shee-it, maybe I should buy two at that rate!
Violet
@Spaghetti Lee: I did! Heh. Fortunately the chicken had only just got outside her fence and hadn’t yet crossed the road or tangled with any dogs or hawks. We managed to corral her and get her back inside the gate. Naughty, naughty chicken!
MattR
@Mnemosyne: Well, I could use a new car if you’re buying two :)
Omnes Omnibus
Unresolved anger issues. You need help.
TaMara (BHF)
Does this happen anywhere else? Here in Colorado, traffic on the busiest roads comes to a complete stop when two geese decide to leisurely cross the road. Forget getting anywhere when goslings are involved…
I love it. Means spring is finally here. That and the white pelicans are back.
And Cole is feeling ornery. Doesn’t get any better mid-week, does it?
YellowJournalism
@PsiFighter37:
So they’re kinda like bitcoins?
TaMara (BHF)
@Mnemosyne: I’ve been having a difficult time holding out for the same reason. That and I’m really annoyed at the MPGs. It’s 2013 and most cars are still under 40mpg. That’s criminal.
trollhattan
Thanks for the heads-up on Manhunt–recorder set.
Enjoying the hell out of “Veep” this season. Don’t know why, did they can all the writers or something? Elaine is killing it and who’s this before my eyes as SecDef? Clay sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit Davis.
Win.
Omnes Omnibus
@YellowJournalism: Not really; they don’t pretend to be a valid form of currency.
Alison
@trollhattan: Fucking love this show. I liked the first season more than most people, and am enjoying the second even more :)
PsiFighter37
@YellowJournalism: I’m flattered you think I have as much intelligence as those comic boy lookalikes/wannabes who were so bored they had nothing better to do than to create computational puzzles only computers could solve to generate electronic Monopoly money.
#notintendedtobeafactualstatement
ETA: bored = loaded up on Ron Paul unicorn monetary policy erotica
Calming Influence
“I went to the bar to get a chicken sandwich to go and some young co-ed dropped a beer on my foot, and I was with it enough to blurt out “It’s ok, I remember my first beer” and make all her friends laugh.”
“Then I
felt badhit on one of her hot friends.”Fixed that for you. You’re not an old man yet, Cole. Try to maintain some dignity.
Omnes Omnibus
@Calming Influence: He doesn’t seem to be able to do that shit right, does he?
MattR
@TaMara (BHF): I keep hoping if I can wait another couple years there will be a good alternate fuel vehicle on the market. The fact that I work from home and put less than 5000 miles a year on my car these days makes it easier to hold out. I spend so little time in the car that I can’t justify spending money on a new one while this one still runs. But recently finally hit 100K so I know the end can come at any time.
@Omnes Omnibus: Maybe he just needs a wing man (And no, I am not volunteering to move to West Virginia, as enticing as spending time with Tunch and Lily might be)
TaMara (BHF)
@MattR: 250,000 on mine, so I can’t wait much longer. Though I have an excellent mechanic. I want a small, zippy car, but I swear they get worse MPG than the larger cars. grumble, grumble. Al Gore is fat, doncha know.
Omnes Omnibus
@MattR:
100K isn’t close to the end of most modern cars as long as you do regular maintenance.
@MattR: He needs something.
David Koch
spent some time in wingerland, and it was hilarious. 70% of them don’t know how to spell “impeachment” (seriously) and 30% have broken keyboards, as they can only type in all caps. The best part — their new conspiracy theory stating Obummer engineered today’s Jody Arias verdict in order to knock issa’s circus off the tube.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Mrs. Pantload and I just re-watched Donnie Brascoe, recently. Depp & Pacino – you don’t see that every day. Kinda like DiCaprio & Nicholson. Catch it while you can.
Zero Dark Thirty lost me within 20 minutes. I understand what (I believe) Bigelow & Co. were trying to do in those early scenes — a sort of study of the quotidian nature of bad acts/scenarios. It just seemed to have been pulled off much more interestingly in The Hurt Locker.
Comrade Mary
/cries
Spaghetti Lee
@PsiFighter37:
Monetary policy sure leads to lots of weirdos for such a dry topic. “The currency of the U.S. government is no longer valid! Let’s use this online currency my buddies and I made up instead!” I’d say it was a scam if I hadn’t met so many libertarians who were frighteningly serious about the whole collapse-of-society thing.
ruemara
Thinking of going to comic-con, since I’m feeling like I may stick around on the mortal coil for a bit. Now, how to engineer, maybe a volunteer pass, and figure out how to find…a couch or something? Will bake for room!
askew
@trollhattan:
God, that show is funny.
MattR
@TaMara (BHF): Was so nice having a compact car as I drove throught he streets of Manhattan this evening. Don’t know how people drive SUV’s in a city.
@Omnes Omnibus: You haven’t seen the way I drive. :) I expect to get quite a few more years from my 2001 Elantra. The biggest problem is probably gonna be the exterior. I am pretty sure I got a bad paint job because it is wearing/fading in ways I haven’t seen from a car made after 1975. I am worried it is gonna rust through at some point in a few years and I am not really willing to spend that much money on that kind of maintenance. But really, I cannot complain. If I have to buy a new car next week, I have the means to do so (even if it would hurt). That is much better off that too large a portion of our country.
Wag
@TaMara (BHF):
Unless it snows again this week…
I love Colorado, I really do, but this Spring has been pretty strange.
MoeLarryAndJesus
Hey, where’s the thread about exaggerated “hero” Charles Ramsey being a convicted wifebeater?
Did I miss that one?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Wag: I remember my last spring in Denver (native who moved from there 20-ish years ago). 80 degrees in May followed by snow a couple days after that.
My last summer in Denver: Lived on the top floor (where the heat rises to) of a low-rise walk up when three straight days of 100+ degrees hit the region — and me with the air conditioner broken, and getting a repair person out was dicey at best.
My last winter in Denver, however, featured a cold wave with lows in the minus 20s — and of course, the heat went on the fritz. Woke up one morning (all bundled up, of course), turned on the hall light, only to have it explode when the filament heated the frozen bulb too quickly.
I’ll never leave the Pacific NW. I can take some rain.
MattR
@MoeLarryAndJesus: And we wonder why so many people keep walking by rather than making the effort to help a stranger like Ramsey did. We complain that so few will stop to help, then we dig up the skeletons of anyone who does. Brilliant. We get the society we deserve.
Wag
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
P*ssy. :)
I love the ever changing and unpredictable weather here. I’m a native too, and glad to be back.
Yatsuno
@MattR: I didn’t really have to buy the Malibu when I did, but I don’t regret the decision for a moment. 46K miles so far and the worst issue I’ve had with it is a bulb going out. Even my old Alero needed more TLC than the two oil changes I’ve done so far.
Suzanne
@ruemara: San Diego or Phoenix? Mr. Suzanne is freaking out for Comic-Con. Which means I will be accompanying.
We got a king-size bed with a memory foam mattress about a month ago. It is the GREATEST thing eve and it makes me sad that I have to ge up and go to work.
Mnemosyne
@TaMara (BHF):
My current car (Toyota RAV-4) gets about 20 MPG, so I’m willing to take something at 30-35 MPG. Have you looked at the Prius C? It’s cute and zippy and gets 40+ MPG since it’s a hybrid. My boss has one and really loves it.
Another Halocene Human
@Redshirt: Waking distance, surely.
scav
@MattR: it is truth universally acknowleged that only one of les neuf preux, un chevalier pûr, parfait et toujours vierge is capable of performing any act of héroïsme. We are truely blessed to have such a shining example of numinous perfection reminding us of these noble truths in presumably an incarnate triple form.
Mnemosyne
@MoeLarryAndJesus:
His ex-wife says that he apologized to her. Looking at the history and the fact that he apologized, I’m guessing he probably has a past history of drinking or substance abuse and is in recovery.
And if you don’t get the irony of a guy who was convicted of domestic violence running over to help a woman in what he thinks is “a domestic violence situation,” I’m afraid I can’t help you.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Wag: I have a co-worker from South Dakota, and from what he tells me, yeah, complaining about Denver weather is the mark of a total wuss. I never did understand why so many Nordic folk settled in the upper mid-West. My co-worker said when his grandparents did (fleeing the Nazis, as was the style in the day, if you could swing it), his grandmother cried just about every day for the rest of her life.
Mnemosyne
@TaMara (BHF):
Also, too, if you want to buy domestic, some people love the Ford CMAX, which is also a hybrid that gets 40+ MPG. And the Chevy Cruze Eco has gotten some good reviews.
NotMax
@Menmosyne
Take a gander at the Fiat 500 Abarth (not the base model 500).
Decent mpg (40 highway with standard shift), and attractive styling, inside and out. Not stellar so far as having lots of cargo space (not for family trips to Disneyworld), but zippy around town.
Mnemosyne
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
I remember seeing a stand-up comedienne in the 1980s (Diane Ford, maybe?) who explained it (I’m paraphrasing from memory):
You have to understand, I’m from Minnesota. My ancestors came from Sweden and Norway. They scrimped and saved to take the dangerous voyage across the ocean, they came to a new land, they fought the Indians, all so they could settle down in a place just as fuckin’ miserable as the one they left.
Another Halocene Human
@TaMara (BHF): Ditto!! I want to get a used car in about 2 years but it looks like I won’t have a lot of choices and will have to compromise a lot.
Toyotas are too bulky and I hate the way they drive; Hondas too expensive and have turned into sporty gas guzzlers (that will get me a ticket); small Chevies are fun (Daewoos) but have a reputation for short-lived engines; the Fiat looks cool but mileage is crap; Mazdas look cool on the outside but tend to be meh on the inside; Teslas too expensive; Ford redesigned the Focus to kind of suck but it may end up being my best bet (what a boring damn car!!); and I just can’t justify switching to a motorcycle or scooter for so many reasons.
Pooh.
Omnes Omnibus
@MoeLarryAndJesus: Really? You want to go back to this? Being heroic in a situation does not mean that one is perfect. Ramsey acted bravely in a particular situation. He deserves kudos for that.
dance around in your bones
Hey, Todd – thanks for the heads up on Pulp Fiction streaming on Netflix – I’m always catching bits and pieces here and there, but it’s been a while since I saw it start to finish.
Uma Thurman’s about to OD at the moment.
“Prank call! Prank call!”
Another Halocene Human
@TaMara (BHF): Yup. It ain’t right.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Mnemosyne: Heh.
The smart ones came here to Seattle and settled in the neighborhood of Ballard, where to this day they have a yearly Nordic festival, and where they established a Nordic museum and erected this cool statue of J.G. Ballard.
Spaghetti Lee
@Mnemosyne:
I had a professor who came from a capital-L Lutheran family. I believe the phrase she once used was “fun was highly frowned upon.”
Mnemosyne
@Another Halocene Human:
We had a Ford for a week as a rental and I frickin’ HATED that car. It seemed like it was designed for someone at least 4 inches taller than I am, so everything was just out of reach or just a little bit too tall. There’s a reason I tend to prefer Japanese cars.
MattR
@Mnemosyne: I tried to drive my mom’s new Camry and I almost couldn’t back out of the driveway. Between the angle of the back windshield and the placement of the head rest, I couldn’t find an easy way to turn my head and see what was going on behind the car. I assume it also had to do with how I had the seat positioned since my mother says she doesn’t have that problem when she drives.
Steeplejack
@Another Halocene Human:
Check out Kia and Hyundai. They are supposedly where Japanese cars were 30-40 years ago—well built and underappreciated.
Full disclosure: I have a Kia Rondo I bought about 18 months ago and really like it.
FlipYrWhig
@Another Halocene Human: Honda Fit. Answer to our secular prayers.
Bill E Pilgrim
@NotMax:
Actually those were the little-known 8th and 9th dwarfs.
MattR
@Steeplejack: Other than the paint issue I like my Elantra. A quick poke around the Internet makes it sound like there were some issues in the early 2000’s with some of Hyundai’s cars that were made in Korea. Guess I got one of a bad batch. Hopefully it will never be anything more than cosmetic. I can live with that.
Yatsuno
@Steeplejack: Seen a few Rondos around town. They’re kinda cute really, I might have to take a gander at one come next vehicle purchase. Which at this rate looks to be quite some time down the road.
Mnemosyne
@FlipYrWhig:
The Honda Fit is on my list to try out. Also the Subaru Impreza and the Mazda 3.
I’m occasionally tempted by a Kia, but I worry about reliability. I tend to keep my cars for a looonnngg time, so long-term reliability is very important to me.
dollared
@Mnemosyne: I would look at the Skyactiv Mazda 3. Read the Edmonds’ Long Term Car Test blog. They loved the car, and it was their non-hybrid, non-diesel mileage champ. 31+MPG combined over 20,000 miles, up to 43mpg on the hwy. I’m waiting for them to put the Skyactiv in the Mazda 5. Then I’ve got my high mileage 6 passenger soccer van.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Mnemosyne: I have driven a Kia, as a rental car, and they’re like driving a tin can.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
If not going on extended outings*, the Mitsubishi i (126 highway, 99 city) is pretty affordable, and comes with an 8-year, 1000,000 mile battery warranty.
*drawback is the 60 mile range on a charge.
NotMax
@NotMax
Make that a 100,000 mile warranty.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: Now that ol’ Ben has been given a hiatus, I guess Moe has decided to take over the designated total prick post
NotMax
Suppose, as the Mitsubishi i is electric, a review from a techie site is suggested.
FridayNext
@Calming Influence: @Calming Influence:
Fat middle-aged men hitting on hot coeds half their age is not dignified. Trust me on this. I know what I am talking about.
Stacy
Um, co-ed? You use that term just to highlight your age right?
Ash Can
Sorry, Cole, but women in higher education are here to stay, and have been for quite some time. The person who dropped a beer on your foot, clumsy and mockworthy or not, is a student, just like her male counterparts. Or do you call them co-eds too?
BrYanS
@Ash Can:
I had to Google co-ed to figure out what the hell it meant. Why would anyone use that term now? Seems like a throw back from the 50’s women were represented as going to college to find a husband.
Jebediah
@Mnemosyne:
As far as I am concerned, his having a record would make him more likely to just stay out of it and not get involved, since working-class black males with records don’t always have the most harmonious relations with the police. It increased the risk of it not turning out well for him, and means he gets MORE credit for going ahead and doing the right thing anyway.
ruemara
@Suzanne: San Di