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No one could have predicted…

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

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

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

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

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Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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The kid will never see this, and his parents deserve all the japery at their expense…


(Or, just possibly, KALE!)

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  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    That whole naming exercise was useful for at least one thing. It got some Air Force peeps talking about fave aircraft.

  4. 4.

    laura

    Man, none of us can imagine the size, weight, density, sheer totality of the I Hate You that young querty will have by his teen years and just what his plan for getting even with dad will be. It may involve space.

  6. 6.

    Hobbes83

    After this shit, I never again want to hear certain segments of white people complain about black folks’ names.  That shit looks like an algebra equation.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    Reminds me of a response to this news alert: BREAKING: RAPPER XXXTENTACION PRONOUNCED DEAD. “Oh, that’s how you pronounce it.”

  12. 12.

    MattF

    So, little Mr. Musk will be learning how to do cut-and-paste at an early age…

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    @Brachiator:  Too Jewish. Elon is the spawn of a South African who made a fortune in the apartheid era. Please note: this is from the Daily Mail so please take with all the applicable grains of salt.

  18. 18.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    The kids at school will be merciless

    I’m thinking this kid will be home schooled. Or placed in a space capsule, communicating to Earth via satellite link.

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    @rikyrah: My mom had a rule when my brother was naming their kids: make sure they can say and spell their names by kindergarten. Of course one of the kids is Jean-Luc Étienne so…yeah.

  20. 20.

    Anne Laurie

    @Achrachno: Trying to make Moon Unit and Dweezil seem conventional?

    IKNOWRITE?  Moon Unit Zappa is 52 years old.  Half a century after her sire (more or less) initiated the fad, naming young MuskGrimeHeir ‘George’ would’ve been the only way to one-up all the other Kre8tive Baby-Namers.

    (As someone who’s spent her whole life saying Anne, with an E… No, there’s no I in it… Anne LAURIE, not Anne Marie… I can only sympathize with the poor kid!)

  21. 21.

    Martin

    @Baud: 
    Actually in CA you can’t – no symbols or punctuation other than a hyphen, IIRC.

    Based on research while wife was in L&D at 28 weeks and I decided to lighten the mood by researching how much latitude we had with naming. There’s not much latitude – not even 7 bit ASCII let alone Unicode 1.0.

    I blame COBOL.

  23. 23.

    Salty Sam

    @laura:  what his plan for getting even with dad will be. It may involve space.

    Nuke him from orbit- it’s the only way to be sure…

  28. 28.

    Ryan

    You decide to let Flynn go and you remove all deterrents to being prosecuted for bad behavior.

  30. 30.

    Gravenstone

    @Hobbes83: and you just flagged the kid’s school nickname. “Hey Al!”

     

    “Al?”

     

    “Ya know,  for Algebra.” Proceeds to push the poor kid down the stairs.

  31. 31.

    Citizen_X

    When the kid becomes God-Emperor of Mars, and dies shortly thereafter because daddy didn’t believe in protocols for controlling epidemics and the Olympus Flu tears right through the whole colony, and his followers split into multiple factions because they can’t agree on how his name is pronounced, oh, then, then you won’t be laughing!

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @Anne Laurie:

    (As someone who’s spent her whole life saying Anne, with an E… No, there’s no I in it… Anne LAURIE, not Anne Marie… I can only sympathize with the poor kid!)

    I just noticed that an article I was reading about small business in a post pandemic world was written by Annie Lowrey.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @Anne Laurie:

    My first name is 3 letters, last is  4. And it’s pretty simple. People I went to school with for 13 years were still able to learn it incorrectly. Of course they were/still are trying to get it wrong when I went to our group 70th Bday party.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    Doesn’t roll as trippingly off the tongue as does 01 Boxer, a name of one of the characters in the South African/Canadian SF series Charlie Jade.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    I’m also wondering if the name is the worst part of growing up in that family.

  41. 41.

    patrick Il

    I happened  to be near  a secret  Airforce  base on a  small Philippine island in 1969  when the  SR 71 was still unknown.  The doors  opened on a small  hangar and a black thing emerged.  The  roar  shook  the earth,  after a short run,  the thing  pointed nearly straight  up and disappeared. My jaw  dropped and  I asked  the  guy next  to me  “What the  hell  was that?”   I only found  out some  years later.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    @Martin: Inoright.

    He should have included ctrl-g and backspace and linefeed in the name.

    So conventional.

    In this case, plus, it gets his various trials and tribulations out of the news for a while, also too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    Van Buren

    • I thought AE was pronounced eee as in Aegis,  the missile defense system.
  46. 46.

    lamh36

    Ok…this is NOT really “respite” but I just had to share it cause IDK, but it tickled me just thinking about it.

    …detected in semen; it’s still unknown whether virus can be sexually transmittedhttps://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-05-07/covid-19-coronavirus-semen

    I mean it IS still a respiratory virus….respiratory droplets aer still the mode of transmission…so how would semen get near the respiratory mucosa….LOL

    I know it’s immature, but it tickled me and I gotta get amusement where I can…

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    @bjacques:

    Yep, SR-71.

    Museum of Flight in Seattle has an A-12 M-21 variation that carried an unmanned drone. Equal parts cool and goofy. Titanium fun.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    @lamh36:

    Heh.

    Read just today that it, or its markers survive in the digestive tract and they’re pondering testing municipal sewage as a way to gauge the prevalence in the population. “Poop says, stay inside six more weeks.”

  50. 50.

    Anne Laurie

    @NotMax: Anyone else recall Kyle XY?

    Grimes, I’m betting.  She seems to have spent a lot of time on popcult minutiae, some of which might’ve been better dedicated elsewhere…

  51. 51.

    RSA

    Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)

    Already they’re calling their kid stupid.

  52. 52.

    catclub

    @trollhattan: “Poop says, stay inside six more weeks.”

     

    The Romans examined the entrails of a goat to make decisions.

    progress!?

  53. 53.

    Barbara

    Well, this isn’t much of a respite, directing energy at the baby naming exhibitionism of the look at me class in America. Onward and hopefully upward.

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    @patrick Il:

    (I posted about this a few years back.)

    I lived on Okinawa 1967–69. The flight line at Kadena Air Base was just over the ridge from our housing area. B-52s, tankers, AWACS and contract commercial jets taking off at all hours of the day and night. You could look west and see the planes heading out over the ocean after takeoff. The B-52s kind of lumbered and looked like they would never gain altitude.

    The SR-71 had a distinctive (loud!) engine roar, so sometimes you could hear when one was about to take off. You could look west and see it shoot out from behind the ridge on full afterburner and head out to sea on the same line as the B-52s, and then it would just go nose up and shoot straight up into the sky and out of sight.

    SR-71 Blackbird takeoff and other shots (not at Kadena). First clip is a takeoff. The SR-71 was known locally as the Black Habu (after a snake).

    Highway 1, the main road on the island, went right between the seashore and the end of the runway complex, and when planes took off or landed they would pass about 150 feet above the cars on the road. Impressive to see a B-52 coming in that close, but when a Blackbird was coming in all four lanes of traffic would stop and people would just marvel at it. It was some science-fiction stuff back then!

  55. 55.

    J R in WV

    @Steeplejack:

    when a Blackbird was coming in all four lanes of traffic would stop and people would just marvel at it. It was some science-fiction stuff back then!

    I’m thinking the Blackbird is still and will be Science Fiction for a very long time. IIRC it leaks fuel until it goes so fast it heats up enough to swell the tanks closed back up. So at takeoff it has to go faster than the engine flames can set it on fire…

    Crazy stuff if true, and I believe it. Titanium is too expensive to use for anything that wouldn’t melt any other metal.

  56. 56.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Work asked me if I was interested in coming in and doing 12 hours a week, I gather orders are starting to come in.  I said yes, since the manufacturing floor is the size of three tract houses and there will be only four people at time in it.  Not mention we work next to a clean room so the place is pretty well kept to keep dust from flowing around and we already have masks and gloves.  And 12 hours means I still get my unemployment.

    Which got me thinking, I wonder how many places that were forced to open in the Red States are doing something like this? After all the management doesn’t want to die or bankrupt their company just to make the GOP and lobbyist happy.

  57. 57.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Another example of the Trump admin is this dumb and it’s not some cunning strategy on their part

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-just-witness-one-nuttiest-095759283.html

    It now appears that we were thinking of the wrong ’80s action flick. Last weekend it was reported that a group of more than 100 American mercenaries, including two former Green Berets and one ex-agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration, had failed in some kind of apparent coup attempt and that some of them were being detained by the Maduro government. What was being called “Operation Gideon” perhaps unsurprisingly failed to bring about regime change, much less result in the apprehension of the country’s socialist dictator. Reports suggest that 50 of the mercenaries stormed Venezuela by sea, joining up with around the same number of fellow soldiers of fortune already waiting behind enemy lines. The Venezuelan army (and Maduro’s own paramilitary loyalist forces) outmatched them by around 350,000. A small ragtag band of American warriors attempts to force the commies out of South America against all odds? This is basically the plot of Predator if the Predator hadn’t shown up.

    Adam really need to fill us on this.

  59. 59.

    Croaker

    Some guy I know told me a story.  He was just a guy.  Had a place in the UK.  Just a place.  Was responsible for stuff.  When stuff broke “kinda specific stuff” they had to use BT to fix it.  Normally, the guy would wait around, but it wasn’t that kinda day.

    He left the BT tech guy fixing the broken stuff and went for a walk.

    Meanwhile a jet landed. Emergency.  Leaking fuel everywhere as this particular jet would.

    Out of the “jet” an alien pops out.  In all kinda special alien stuff w a “ray gun”.

    So the BT tech guy fixing the stuff finishing up comes out.  oops

  60. 60.

    Brachiator

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    What was being called “Operation Gideon” perhaps unsurprisingly failed to bring about regime change, much less result in the apprehension of the country’s socialist dictator.

    I got some pigs. Can somebody point me to the nearest bay?

  65. 65.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Brachiator: It really reads like “Stupid Bay of Pigs” which wow since the Bay of Pigs was mighty dumb to begin with.

  67. 67.

    Ruckus

    @patrick Il:

    I also got to see one fly, up close.

    When the SR71 was taken out of not so secret service back in the early 90s I was in my shop with a customer and heard a rather loud jet. He said it is the SR71, and I looked at him like he was insane. We went outside and sure enough it was flying low, to the south east and making a sweeping turn to the north west. It now flew along the high tension alley next door to my shop and was flying low enough to see the pilot, about 150-200 feet. He made an abrupt 90 deg right turn as we looked up the exhaust he hit full after burner. He now flew over the skunk works where it had been designed, which was about 4-5 miles north of my shop at about 200-300 feet and cut the throttle just before he went sonic, which took only seconds. A few years later I stood next to one at Wright Paterson AFB museum, and got to touch it as it wasn’t roped off but watching it fly was far more amazing.

  68. 68.

    Ruckus

    @J R in WV:

    I used to build titanium bicycle frames. Extremely rigid because the tubing walls could be thicker than steel because of the weight difference. Amazing bikes.

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