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Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  May 18, 201611:57 pm| 94 Comments

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You’ve all been good even though I have been punishing you with rants the past few days, so here is a video of baby goats in sweaters:

Wasn’t that worth it?

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  1. 1.

    Schlemazel Khan

    May 18, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    FUCK THEM!!!

    I feel better now

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    May 18, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    At first I thought you were kidding, and apparently you were.

  3. 3.

    Lamh36

    May 19, 2016 at 12:00 am

    oh lord…another plane disappeared

    CNN will be insufferable, it already is actually

    #EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo goes missing: What we know about weather in flight path cnn.it/1TIp5br

    BREAKING: EgyptAir says rescue teams being deployed after Flight MS804 vanished from radar abcn.ws/27C4XBV pic.twitter.com/w1NGIt8mS7

  4. 4.

    John Cole

    May 19, 2016 at 12:01 am

    @Punchy: I should ban you for that

  5. 5.

    Schlemazel Khan

    May 19, 2016 at 12:02 am

    @Lamh36:
    I am betting a black hole swallowed them

  6. 6.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 12:02 am

    FUCK!

  7. 7.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 12:03 am

    Also, what have you done with Anne?

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    May 19, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Can we stop for ice cream?

    Can we? Pleeeze?

  9. 9.

    Mai naem.mobile

    May 19, 2016 at 12:04 am

    I wish I had a property where you could have goats. Goats are cool.

  10. 10.

    Lamh36

    May 19, 2016 at 12:06 am

    alright it’s pass my bedtime but I was trying to catch some news about the plane that disappeared…but I’m too tired to keep my eyes open… Good night BJ

  11. 11.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 12:06 am

    From experience, baby goats are one of the cutest things on this green Earth.

    But they grow up, into something else…

  12. 12.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:07 am

    I am hammered in Miami and watching my guys throw negative game at extremely attractive Paraguayan identical twins (female). That said, as soon as I mentioned I was married to the one not wearing heels and not married, she ran away. I literally don’t give two shits outside of being a presence, but I think it speaks to a mildly quiet desperation around today’s youth when meeting anyone in person.

  13. 13.

    MikeBoyScout

    May 19, 2016 at 12:08 am

    The market is rigged for baby goat sweaters!
    They’re so cute it is unpossible to throw a chair at them!

    REVOLUTION!

  14. 14.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:08 am

    BABY GOATS IN SWEATERS!

    Also, come back downstairs folks, we have a Tbogg Unit to finish.

  15. 15.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:09 am

    @efgoldman: Second

  16. 16.

    TheMightyTrowel

    May 19, 2016 at 12:15 am

    @Punchy: I would like to deliver some internets to you. could you please provide me with the best delivery address?

  17. 17.

    FlyingToaster

    May 19, 2016 at 12:15 am

    @Mai naem.mobile: I prefer llamas, but that’s because we have coyotes.

  18. 18.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:17 am

    @efgoldman: Maybe that’s it. But I went to dinner with 3 single guys, and have encountered a few other single girls tongiht, and either everyone is just looking to get laid (quite possible) or everyone is really, really fucking lonely.

  19. 19.

    RedDirtGirl

    May 19, 2016 at 12:20 am

    John posted a tweet that said, “Trump – He’s not Hitler”. Reminds me of a bumper sticker (I still have) that says, “George W. Bush – not a cokehead anymore!”

  20. 20.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:20 am

    And I just got back from the bathroom to see some hardcore desperate game-throwing.

    I am quite happy to be married. Go me

  21. 21.

    Davebo

    May 19, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Cabrito in six months! Lose the sweaters….

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:20 am

    @PsiFighter37: I’d vote lonely. Kind of a lonely vibe going on tonight.

  23. 23.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:21 am

    M3 +7 shitty beers and +4 margueritas.

    You’re a better man than me, Cole

  24. 24.

    Davebo

    May 19, 2016 at 12:24 am

    @Lamh36: Airbus. Just saying.

    More Guy Clark memories! Randall Knife

  25. 25.

    amk

    May 19, 2016 at 12:25 am

    bj’ers – transfer the fucks to the last thread, ffs.

  26. 26.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:27 am

    @amk: wait for the fucking tbogg unit, fuckhead

  27. 27.

    FlyingToaster

    May 19, 2016 at 12:27 am

    @Davebo: No, a 737-800.

  28. 28.

    AkaDad

    May 19, 2016 at 12:28 am

    Let’s not talk about Bernie or Hillary and instead we can talk about how much Hamilton and Prince sucks.

  29. 29.

    EBT

    May 19, 2016 at 12:28 am

    The only baby sheep you need. https://youtu.be/WQO-aOdJLiw

  30. 30.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Still some attempted game-throwing going on.

  31. 31.

    FlyingToaster

    May 19, 2016 at 12:29 am

    @AkaDad: bag, salted dicks, eat, etc.

  32. 32.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Let’s just skip straight to the screaming goats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0

  33. 33.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 12:31 am

    @AkaDad: I hate pets too.

  34. 34.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:34 am

    @redshirt: even young Samwise? https://imgur.com/a/50iuI

  35. 35.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 12:36 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Ug. Fucking cats.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    May 19, 2016 at 12:37 am

    In case anyone didn’t know, Hillary is a Hamimaniac.

    (In fact, she’s an OG fan of LMM since In The Heights.)

  37. 37.

    Davebo

    May 19, 2016 at 12:38 am

    @FlyingToaster: The Egyptian Airlines? CNN reports A320.

  38. 38.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 12:39 am

    Now at the stage of playing drinking games. I’m too old for this

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 12:43 am

    My mail-in ballot was apparently sent on the 12th and I still haven’t gotten it. Should I request a new one? (San Francisco)

  40. 40.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 12:44 am

    Nothing a Weber, some Kingsford and Sweet Baby Ray’s couldn’t solve.

  41. 41.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    May 19, 2016 at 12:46 am

    @FlyingToaster: Paris to Cairo, of course.

    EDIT: A320 is what Guardian is reporting.

  42. 42.

    AkaDad

    May 19, 2016 at 12:48 am

    @FlyingToaster:

    I already had my midnight snack, but that was sweet of you to offer.

  43. 43.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 19, 2016 at 12:54 am

    @Prescott Cactus: My thought was do these come with soup or salad and a choice of two sides?

  44. 44.

    The Lodger

    May 19, 2016 at 12:56 am

    @Schlemazel Khan: Who died and made you Micky Kaus?

  45. 45.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 12:59 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Not sure how you are tracking (may be a CA thing), but consider getting a provisional ballot and hand it to a human being.

    Love mail in ballots. I have faith in USPS. Zero in AZ keepers of the ballots, but it beats the fiasco we had last election when 300 polling places was reduced to 60, because . . . stupid.

  46. 46.

    AdamK

    May 19, 2016 at 1:05 am

    Baby goats–bah. You might as well just vote for Trump.

  47. 47.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 1:06 am

    @Prescott Cactus: Yeah, SF (probably other places?) has a little online ballot tracker, because of course we do.

  48. 48.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 1:14 am

    @Major Major Major Major: AZ has you put it in the mailbox and you are good to go (GTG). USPS has it, rain, snow(?), sleet or hail.

    Once it reaches the scurvy hands of the Rethug Machine I have my doubts.

  49. 49.

    Luthe

    May 19, 2016 at 1:19 am

    @Punchy: Cole knew all those Bern threads were really getting our goat(s).

  50. 50.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 1:22 am

    @Adam L Silverman: The Rolling Stones have a great recipe from 1973 the would be appropriate.

    So we have a soup, and I’ll work on the sides.

    ETA: While I’m working on those sides remember, “you can’t always get what you want”

  51. 51.

    Betty Cracker

    May 19, 2016 at 1:37 am

    OMFG, those baby goats are cute!

  52. 52.

    Origuy

    May 19, 2016 at 1:39 am

    It’s goat season here in the Bay Area. All the parks and large landowners in the hills bring in goats to keep the grass down before fire season starts. They also love to eat poison oak and star thistle. The latter is poisonous to horses.

  53. 53.

    eemom

    May 19, 2016 at 1:40 am

    I tried to make Cole’s thread earlier a TBogg unit. I mean I really TRIED. Jussayinzall.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 19, 2016 at 1:46 am

    @Prescott Cactus: But you can get what you need.

    Have a good night, I’m racking out before I go back into the previous thread and ban a schmuck.

  55. 55.

    seaboogie

    May 19, 2016 at 1:50 am

    Thank you, John. I am surviving on Netflix “Unlikely Animal Friends” because the “stupid” sweet beasts large and small actually can find comity…congress – obsessed about what is in our underpants these days while they cozy up to derp fuhrer.

  56. 56.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 2:08 am

    Ditched everyone else. The remaining guy was trying too hard to get laid. We stopped at our hotel, whose bar was closed. I got out and peaced without hesitation, while the other guy stayed in the Uber. He was trying to hit on the very life-confused girl riding in the front while trying to attract the interest of the single mom in the back. Jesus Christ what a weird dynamic.

    !Non-ironically, I thank any higher powers that I am happily married and not surfing through Tinder and awkward bar meetups.

  57. 57.

    Betty Cracker

    May 19, 2016 at 2:09 am

    Christ Jesus, the missing plane coverage is stupid. What’s wrong with covering the pertinent facts (which would take 90 seconds, tops) and saying they’ll let us know just as soon as new facts come to light?

  58. 58.

    DivF

    May 19, 2016 at 2:10 am

    The ad that is flashing above the front page says

    Bob Portman is fighting Obama to keep Guantanamo bay open

    From Portman’s senate campaign committee. WTF?
    ETA: what in my browser traffic makes them think I’m their target demographic ?

  59. 59.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 2:10 am

    @Betty Cracker: Lost.

    Spoiler alert!

    Locke did it.

  60. 60.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 2:15 am

    Going to sleep. Waking not up in 3.5 hours to run in the oppressive South Florida humidity. I hope I’m sober by then.

    PF37 +12

  61. 61.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 2:18 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Schmuck status is right on the corner of the strike zone of banishment. Have a good night, sleep well and if they posted ass-hattery during your sleepy time, rid them of our world. . .

    Remember, it’s not like they won’t try and re-enter the Gates of Cole.

    Peace

  62. 62.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 2:20 am

    @PsiFighter37: Good luck with that!

  63. 63.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 2:22 am

    @PsiFighter37:

    I hope I’m sober by then.

    Better chance of seeing the FSM.

  64. 64.

    PsiFighter37

    May 19, 2016 at 2:26 am

    Just read in NYT that Jeff Weaver was referenced as an actual comic book store owner. Is that real, or Did they get massively trolled?

  65. 65.

    Eljai

    May 19, 2016 at 2:27 am

    @Betty Cracker: Amen! Or at least they could go back to some mildly entertaining programming and update us every 15 minutes to tell us they still don’t know anything.

  66. 66.

    Mike J

    May 19, 2016 at 2:29 am

    @Betty Cracker: Official tweet from Airbus:

    Airbus ‏@Airbus 2 hours ago
    We are aware of media reports. At this time we have no further details, but we will provide further information when available.

  67. 67.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 2:29 am

    @PsiFighter37: It’s real. He’s comic book guy.

  68. 68.

    Prescott Cactus

    May 19, 2016 at 2:33 am

    @redshirt: working with a comic book character !

    Bernie, the amazing math deficient candidate !

  69. 69.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 2:35 am

    @Prescott Cactus: The Denialist! Able to deny any truth or fact!

  70. 70.

    Peale

    May 19, 2016 at 2:40 am

    @DivF: I saw that one the other day. I fully expect his next ad to be “The number of civilians killed by police is way too low. Come to my web site to see my plan to increase them.”

  71. 71.

    opiejeanne

    May 19, 2016 at 3:08 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Spoiled for choice, but maybe one has been worse than the others.

    I’d ban Becnel just for saying “Cali”.

  72. 72.

    Jonathan Holland Becnel

    May 19, 2016 at 3:21 am

    @opiejeanne:

    I’d ban Becnel just for saying “Cali”.

    I bet all these cute baby goats were from Cali!

  73. 73.

    Jonathan Holland Becnel

    May 19, 2016 at 3:23 am

    Bonus points to who can guess how quickly the missing airplane eclipses the Nevada Dem Meltdown…

  74. 74.

    Cacti

    May 19, 2016 at 3:26 am

    @Jonathan Holland Becnel:

    Bonus points to who can guess how quickly the missing airplane eclipses the Nevada Dem Meltdown…

    Is it a hot topic down in Luzi?

  75. 75.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 3:26 am

    @Jonathan Holland Becnel: There’s a nuclear damn meltdown?

  76. 76.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 3:37 am

    @redshirt:

    Homer, your bravery and quick thinking have turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three-Mile Island.

  77. 77.

    MomSense

    May 19, 2016 at 3:39 am

    Is there a market for goat sweaters? I could totally make those. Those kids are wicked cute.

  78. 78.

    Carolinus

    May 19, 2016 at 3:42 am

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-campaign-accuses-head-of-dnc-of-favoritism.html

    For weeks, some current and former Sanders campaign workers have privately acknowledged feeling disheartened about Mr. Weaver’s determination to go after the Democratic National Committee, fearing a pitched battle with the party they hope to support in the general election. The intraparty fighting has affected morale, they say, and raised concerns that Mr. Weaver, a longtime Sanders aide who more recently ran a comic book store, was not devoted to achieving Democratic unity. Several described the campaign’s message as having devolved into a near-obsession with perceived conspiracies on the part of Mrs. Clinton’s allies.

  79. 79.

    Jonathan Holland Becnel

    May 19, 2016 at 3:43 am

    @Cacti:

    It’s a Hot Topic in Cali fo sho!

    And NAWLINS too

  80. 80.

    Jonathan Holland Becnel

    May 19, 2016 at 3:53 am

    @Carolinus:

    From the same NYTimes article:

    Privately, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said Mr. Sanders could win California but emphasized their confidence that Mrs. Clinton would still win the nomination. She now has a total of 2,293 pledged delegates and superdelegates; she needs 90 more to win the nomination, although superdelegates can shift their support up to the convention. Mr. Sanders has 1,533 pledged delegates and superdelegates.

    Obvious hit piece by the pro-Clinton NYT.
    Nice to see them run a quote from a Nevada State Official repping socialism and progressivism though!

  81. 81.

    redshirt

    May 19, 2016 at 3:55 am

    @Carolinus: Literally, Comic Book Guy might throw the 2016 election towards Donald freaking Trump. Scary thought.

  82. 82.

    Cacti

    May 19, 2016 at 3:58 am

    @Carolinus:

    Speaking of Jeff Weaver.

    Politifact rates his claims of fraud and misconduct at the Nevada Democratic Convention as false.

  83. 83.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 19, 2016 at 4:01 am

    @Jonathan Holland Becnel: pro-Clinton NYT? LOL!

  84. 84.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    May 19, 2016 at 4:09 am

    @MomSense: Damn kids, get off my lawn.

  85. 85.

    MomSense

    May 19, 2016 at 4:11 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    No, get on my lawn so I don’t have to mow it!

  86. 86.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    May 19, 2016 at 4:44 am

    @MomSense: I have a landlord for that. He does it twice a year, whether it needs it or not.

  87. 87.

    Amir Khalid

    May 19, 2016 at 4:45 am

    @Jonathan Holland Becnel:
    Well, nobody was physically harmed in Nevada (although the threats made against certain people need to be taken seriously) and the delegate count was ultimately unaffected. The missing Egyptian plane has on board nearly 70 people, whose friends and loved ones are fearing the worst right now. Which story do you think is more important?

  88. 88.

    Amir Khalid

    May 19, 2016 at 4:50 am

    @Betty Cracker:
    Remember MH370 and how CNN latched on to that?

  89. 89.

    kd bart

    May 19, 2016 at 5:47 am

    Which one of the cable news channels will be the first to go to Trump HQ to get Trump’s reaction to the missing plane story?

  90. 90.

    kd bart

    May 19, 2016 at 5:53 am

    @redshirt: I always wanted a Seinfeld episode where George ran for President. We’re getting it now.

  91. 91.

    rikyrah

    May 19, 2016 at 8:59 am

    I’m usually not a fan of the animals in clothes thing, but the goats are cute.

  92. 92.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    May 19, 2016 at 9:40 am

    When I watched the goats, an ad popped up selling vinyl horse fences. When I saw it first, though, I thought it was selling vinyl horses. I thought, “Who needs a vinyl horse?” Then I thought about Republican politicians…

  93. 93.

    Miss Bianca

    May 19, 2016 at 9:48 am

    @Adam L Silverman: If it’s the schmuck I’m thinking of, I wish you would.

  94. 94.

    opiejeanne

    May 19, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    @Jonathan Holland Becnel: You really are a special snowflake. From Loozi.

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