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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Globos verdes y dos trajes de neopreno

Globos verdes y dos trajes de neopreno

by David Anderson|  June 4, 20201:48 pm| 102 Comments

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Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom @AFP https://t.co/csPGMAnQOq

— Hazel Ward (@WardieJerusalem) June 3, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Tony Jay

    June 4, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    Not surprised. We all knew it was bound to turn out this way.

  2. 2.

    eric

    June 4, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    @Tony Jay: not talking about Cummings. (yet)

  3. 3.

    Aleta

    June 4, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    The service for George Floyd is streaming live now.  At the Post, etc.

  4. 4.

    MattF

    June 4, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    I wonder, though, what’s the connection between the image and the tweet? I don’t see any toads or wax penises there.

  5. 5.

    Spanky

    June 4, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    Toad venom? So he’s been reading old Newton plague cures too, eh?

    (Must be Toad Day here on BJ.)

  6. 6.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    June 4, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    I had two thoughts reading that tweet.

    1. Wow, that’s a lot of unexpected twists and turns to pack into one sentence.

    2. What scent exactly do those aromatic phalli have?

  7. 7.

    Baud

    June 4, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    We asked how 2020 could get any worse.  Now we know.

  8. 8.

    Mart

    June 4, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    @Baud:  I dunno, sniffing some psychedelic toad venom sounds like a pretty good option right about now.

  9. 9.

    kindness

    June 4, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    Venom?  I thought that the psychedelic stuff from toads was succreted out of glands in their skin.  I always associated venom to be related to a biting thing.

  10. 10.

    Calouste

    June 4, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    @MattF: Random police car to indicate it is a crime story. Fairly common in Europe if there aren’t any suitable pictures related to the actual crime available, and publishing pictures of suspects is not common. Sometimes there might be other pictures, an article about fraud might get a picture of a stack of money for example.

  11. 11.

    Tom Levenson

    June 4, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    I saw that story, thought about posting it, and quailed.

    David is made of sterner stuff.

  12. 12.

    Lavocat

    June 4, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    Sure picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue. And don’t call me Shirley.

  13. 13.

    CaseyL

    June 4, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    That tweet should be shown, discussed, and celebrated in Journalism Schools everywhere as the absolute best Who/What/When/Where/Why ever.  Tells you everything you need to know in one sentence, while also leaves you wanting to know more.  (In this case, “WTAF???”)

  14. 14.

    PenAndKey

    June 4, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    @CaseyL: Tells you everything you need to know in one sentence, while also leaves you wanting to know more.

    Informative, but no… I’m okay not finding out more.

  15. 15.

    The Moar You Know

    June 4, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    I wonder, though, what’s the connection between the image and the tweet? I don’t see any toads or wax penises there.

    @MattF: I gotta be honest, given the substance of the story, I flat-out don’t want to see ANY pictures that could be associated with it.

  16. 16.

    West of the Cascades

    June 4, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    @Calouste: They couldn’t find a photo of a venomous toad?

  17. 17.

    Another Scott

    June 4, 2020 at 2:17 pm

    Let’s see “neopreno” sounds like a kind of rubber…

    rofl.  :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    June 4, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama today advised never to inhale psychedelic toad venom.

    donald trump and assorted magats: hold this diet coke.

  19. 19.

    West of the Cascades

    June 4, 2020 at 2:19 pm

    Headlines like the one on this post make me deeply, deeply sorry I am aware of all internet traditions.

  20. 20.

    Benw

    June 4, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Apparently quails used to be native here on Long Island and kept the tick and bug population in check. We wiped out their habitat and now we’re stuck with shitloads of ticks and lyme disease. The moral of this story is: fuck Donald Trump.

  21. 21.

    Timurid

    June 4, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Where it’s at? I got two ball gags and a poison toad.

  22. 22.

    CaseyL

    June 4, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    @PenAndKey:

    Really?  You would have missed out on knowing Vidal’s “25-centimetre aromatic candles of the male genitalia, [are] available in black, white or cerise.”

    Now, that is some hard-hitting reportage!

  23. 23.

    LuciaMia

    June 4, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    Should this be considered a respite thread?

  24. 24.

    MattF

    June 4, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    @LuciaMia: Is that a toad in your pocket?

  25. 25.

    Anomalous Cowherd

    June 4, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    The Sonoran Desert toad, Bufo alvarius, has parotid glands and skin liberally laced with DMT – a potent but short-acting hallucinogen. People have been known to scrape the flattened toads off the asphalt to take home and smoke the dried skin.

    However, if one is taking a MAOi the combination may well be fatal.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    June 4, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    I did not have this on my Fuck 2020 bingo card.

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    June 4, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    @MattF:

    Or are you just happy to see me?

  28. 28.

    catclub

    June 4, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    @CaseyL:

    You are doing a bang-up job yourself!

  29. 29.

    catclub

    June 4, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    @Timurid: I got green balloons…. maybe too late.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    June 4, 2020 at 2:29 pm

    @LuciaMia: Depends on your particular kink.

  31. 31.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    June 4, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    @Tom Levenson:

    Chicken.

    I\ts been my favorite news item of the last day or so.

  32. 32.

    TomatoQueen

    June 4, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    Loathesome creatures.  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article243089741.html

  33. 33.

    WereBear

    June 4, 2020 at 2:32 pm

    It did remind me of this classic :

     

    Gordon Ramsay’s dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in badger den

  34. 34.

    Josie

    June 4, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    This thread is exactly why I like to visit BJ several times a day.  The things you learn on a full service blog.

  35. 35.

    The Thin Black Duke

    June 4, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    “Toad Venom Ritual” will be the name of my next band.

  36. 36.

    PenAndKey

    June 4, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    @Josie: The things you learn on a full service blog.

    Is that what we are here?

  37. 37.

    VOR

    June 4, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    That’s a Prius police car. That model, the Prius V, is often used for taxis.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    June 4, 2020 at 2:40 pm

    Look, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with psychedelic toad venom is a good guy with psychedelic toad venom.

  39. 39.

    Subsole

    June 4, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    It depends. Sandalwood, Musk, New Jockstrap, Cinnamen.

    Or so I’m told.

  40. 40.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 4, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    Do you notice that the only unions Republicans do not have a problem with are POLICE UNIONS? #GeorgeFloyd— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) June 4, 2020

  41. 41.

    Subsole

    June 4, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    @p.a.:

    Nah. They’re too busy freebasing drain cleaner.

  42. 42.

    Subsole

    June 4, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    @Timurid:

    What about folks that go both ways, y’know, like AC-DCs?

  43. 43.

    cmorenc

    June 4, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man’s death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

    Wonder how much she (actually he) charged the man for that party.  Hope Nacho got paid up front, doesn’t look like much chance of collecting an any outstanding balance.

  44. 44.

    zhena gogolia

    June 4, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Oh, great. There’s a guy servicing our A/C and he has Rush Limbaugh blasting from his radio in the driveway. “You dare to disrespect a policeman?”
    Vomit.
    We used to have a nice local oil company with friendly service people. They got bought out by a big impersonal company. This guy has NY license plates (we’re in CT). I guess it’s time to switch.

  45. 45.

    Bill K

    June 4, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    What balloon juice goes in green balloons?

  46. 46.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 4, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    PELOSI: "Soldiers on steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Bureau of Prisons officers in Lafayette Square. The National Parks Service hassling peaceful protesters… who's in charge? What's chain of command & by what authority do these National Guard people come in from other states?" pic.twitter.com/mGp8sjREZk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2020

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 4, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    (Clicks on Next button from downstairs)

    Well, ummmmmm, this is unexpected.

  48. 48.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 4, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Well, he does go by bjdick(mayhew) on twitter.

  49. 49.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 4, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    Porn industry is considering shutting down because of Covid and tapping into their Strategic Reserve of Lisa Ann videos.

  50. 50.

    cmorenc

    June 4, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    When you come to a psychedelic toad in the road, which fork should you take?  The left one or the salad fork?

  51. 51.

    JaySinWA

    June 4, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    @p.a.:

    President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama today advised never to inhale psychedelic toad venom.

    “Inhaling psychedelic toad venom is not a useful preventative treatment for Covid-19”

  52. 52.

    Argiope

    June 4, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    Florida called, and they want their man AND their toad back.

  53. 53.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    June 4, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    Well, if anyone needed a reason to start drinking early, I’d say this is it.

  54. 54.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    June 4, 2020 at 3:03 pm

    @cmorenc:  Isn’t there a dedicated toad fork? My brother and I don’t get invited out to dinner often, so my knowledge of silverware is limited.

  55. 55.

    Eric NNY

    June 4, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Nacho Vidal needs to become a category on this site reserved only for gems such as this.

  56. 56.

    Mary G

    June 4, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Speaking of venomous toads, somebody else has been reading polls and decided maybe that ass doesn’t need kissing so much any more:

    Im placing holds on 2 Trump Admin noms until I get reasons 4firing 2 agency watchdogs as required by law Not 1st time ive raised alarm when admins flout IG protection law Obama did same& got same earfull from me All I want is a reason 4 firing these ppl CHECKS&BALANCES
    — ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) June 4, 2020

  57. 57.

    Kent

    June 4, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    @Argiope:Florida called, and they want their man AND their toad back.

    Seriously.  I thought that kind of extreme crazy involving animals only happened in Florida.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    June 4, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    Criterion Channel says on twitter that they’ve taken down their paywall on some of the films in their collection that represent Black Lives.  https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1268586676068257792/photo/4

  59. 59.

    Subsole

    June 4, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I thought that asshole was supposed to be dying?

    Ahead of schedule, I mean.

  60. 60.

    sdhays

    June 4, 2020 at 3:21 pm

    …during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom…

    As one does….

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    June 4, 2020 at 3:25 pm

    @Aleta: The Colour Purple.

    All The Colour Purple. It just hit me how that film changed my perspective on AA lives.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    @Aleta

    films in their collection that represent Black Lives

    Both of them?

    //

  63. 63.

    sdhays

    June 4, 2020 at 3:29 pm

    @JaySinWA: YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!1!! THERE HAVEN’T BEEN QUADRUPLE-BLIND TRIALS COMPLETED YET!!1!

  64. 64.

    Origuy

    June 4, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    In 1964, the Beatles performed at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. They refused to appear if the audience was segregated. Kitty Oliver was 16, black, and a Beatles fan. She cleaned houses to save money for a ticket. She sat alone, among a nearly all-white section, and sang “Love Me Do” along with everyone else.

  65. 65.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

    Why are there no 34th degree Masons, Alex?

  66. 66.

    zhena gogolia

    June 4, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    @Subsole:

    It was either him or somebody imitating him.

  67. 67.

    chopper

    June 4, 2020 at 3:54 pm

    looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing psychedelic toad venom.

  68. 68.

    different-church-lady

    June 4, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    Good to see things are getting back to normal.

  69. 69.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    June 4, 2020 at 3:56 pm

    There’s a televised memorial service for George Floyd on right now. Al Franken is speaking. It’s on NBC, CBS, and ABC. Interestingly enough, neither PBS or Fox (the entertainment channel) are carrying it

  70. 70.

    raven

    June 4, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Jesus, the huge outbreak in Albany was from a funeral, this doesn’t look to good.

  71. 71.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    June 4, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    @Anomalous Cowherd: Michal Pollan included a chapter on toad venom in his book about psychedelics, How to change your mind.

    https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/09/20/what-lsd-mushrooms-and-toad-venom-taught-michael-pollan-about-spirituality/

  72. 72.

    prostratedragon

    June 4, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    @zhena gogolia:
    Few of years ago I experienced a multi-day carpet-laying job by a fan of Rush or Jones or somebody. Reminded me then that there was a time when people working in the homes or offices of others kept things like that to themselves. I thought it both threat and harbinger. (Was in Michigan at the time)

  73. 73.

    zhena gogolia

    June 4, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    @prostratedragon:

    Yes, I think it’s highly inappropriate. But I guess these days we can’t complain.

  74. 74.

    prostratedragon

    June 4, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    @Eric NNY:
    Substitute for Florida Man? Subcategory thereof?

    My first reaction after an abbreviated Trudeau: … and we’re supposed to have something to say?

  75. 75.

    prostratedragon

    June 4, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    @zhena gogolia:  Know what you mean. I grinned and bore it, probably still would. Just not worth even the possibility of hassle.

  76. 76.

    SFBayAreaGal

    June 4, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    @Baud: I busted out laughing

  77. 77.

    SFBayAreaGal

    June 4, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    @Lavocat: I love this movie

  78. 78.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Kick him out and report him to his employer. “I don’t need your employees blasting their racist talk radio fetish into my house.” I’ve sent countless contractors and employees away for that shit, to the extent that my opinion of trades has gotten quite low. I have one white contractor that I like – and all the others are minorities, because I cannot deal with another old white fucker that looks like me deciding that I’m the right person to start complaining about the negros to.

    Small sample size, but roofers are the absolute worst.

  79. 79.

    raven

    June 4, 2020 at 4:12 pm

    @Martin: You have white roofers? It’s almost all hispanic folks here.

  80. 80.

    Elizabelle

    June 4, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    @Martin:   Agreed.  The rightwing crap would get me to find another tradesperson.

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    June 4, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Ugh, wingnut contractors! Pardon the redundancy. (Though technically, I am a contractor.) I believe I shared photos here of the MAGA-mobile that showed up to install our A/C last year.

    The MAGA choad left his Tupperware container of macaroni or whatever on the floor of the hallway when he interrupted his lunch break to take a call, and Daisy stuck her tongue ALL the way in it. I didn’t say a word! :)

  82. 82.

    zhena gogolia

    June 4, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Hahaha

  83. 83.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    @prostratedragon: White privilege can be used as a force for good. I have no problem getting these people fired. I’ve even insisted on sending their employer a compliant in writing just to ensure that they had something to put in their file. cc to the CEO.

    But because these people tend to hide their behavior around minorities and surface it with me, it’s my responsibility to dox them to their employer and ensure that others don’t need to suffer from them.

    It has to be worth the hassle or else things won’t change. I learned this from my staff many years ago when I first became a supervisor. We were in a period where we were hiring temps to get through a difficult hiring period and one of my staff pulled me aside and asked that a temp be sent back for what I at the time considered fairly minor reasons. And in that conversation I realized that they were only minor to me, but they were major to the people that were having to more regularly deal with their shortcomings. After that I got a reputation for sending  temps back before lunch of their first day. I learned that it didn’t matter if it was a hassle for me if I was creating a hassle for a bunch of other people by not dealing with it. My reputation became such that the head of HR would regularly tell me ‘yeah, we have some temps in the pool, but you’ll send them all back, so can you wait a few days?’ I got much better temps after that, also in part because I’d hire the good ones on full time, which is what the head of HR wanted for the temps, so I became the pipeline for the best of the pool – and man, did I get some great employees after that.

    If you can in any way make the effort, do it. It’s less work than the alternative.

  84. 84.

    Elizabelle

    June 4, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    Just in, Richmond VA.  Not only protesters are roaming its streets.  From the Richmond Times Dispatch.

    Of course there’s a bear roaming the city. 

    Fuzzy Wuzzy, as the approximately 1-year-old black bear was named, was spotted and found around lunchtime Thursday afternoon behind a building at 500 E. Cary St. in downtown Richmond.

    He was “happy as a clam, just walking around, looking into windows, looking into buildings,” said Christie Peters, director at Richmond Animal Care & Control. RACC arrived on the scene and called the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, who tranquilized the bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy will be taken to another location in Virginia and released into the wild.

    … RACC received multiple calls Wednesday night from the city’s Windsor Farms [hyper expensive and old Richmond] neighborhood about bear sightings. It’s presumed to be the same animal, she said.

    … [Might be pandemic-related.] “It’s been really crazy lately – people are staying in so all the animals are coming out,” she said, including a baby fox, groundhogs, snakes and all sorts of injured birds, from a hawk to a great blue heron.

  85. 85.

    Barbara

    June 4, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I would make them turn it off not matter what it was.  If you can hear it it’s too loud.  Fixing your A/C isn’t a license to bother you with his preferred radio broadcast material.

  86. 86.

    raven

    June 4, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    @Barbara: It would be pretty dumb to fuck with someone who is working on a piece of equipment like that.

  87. 87.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    @raven: Yeah, I’m mystified as well. Would not be the least bit surprised if there was some organized effort to keep the minority roofers out.

    My favorite is our exterior painters. I do all the inside stuff, but I can’t really work fast enough to deal with the exterior, and I don’t want that a many different ladders. The owner of the biz is Korean and barely speaks any english, but he’s fluent in spanish because all of his workers are latino, and his crew bosses translate from english to spanish for him. It’s pretty hilarious, and his crew is great. The owner is a stickler – he’ll swing by and find something that even I didn’t see (and I’m a very good painter) and tell them to fix it.

  88. 88.

    Jager

    June 4, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    This is Nacho’s IMBD profile:

    Nacho Vidal, Actor: Back 2 Evil. Already one of the most popular and hard-working men on the hardcore scene, Nacho Vidal has only been in the business since 1998. He’s a Spanish-born super-stud whose swarthy good looks and wild-eyed approach to his work have kept him very busy over the past few years. Nacho has built a reputation as a Spanish Rocco Siffredi, a guy who is at his …

    He wrote his own profile

  89. 89.

    raven

    June 4, 2020 at 4:36 pm

    @Martin: Our painters are awesome. The owner is Mexican and most of his guys are Guatemalan. When I had a hernia operation the owner and his wife brought me pupusas! These folks work so damn hard and they deserve better than they get.

  90. 90.

    prostratedragon

    June 4, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    @Martin:  1) It wasn’t my call/contract; 2) I’m not white.

  91. 91.

    prostratedragon

    June 4, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    @Jager:
    “He wrote his own profile”

    Lies, LIES, I tell you.

  92. 92.

    Punchy

    June 4, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    This is why I’m not a porn star.

    Also…could a porn star’s name be any cheesier than “Nacho”?

  93. 93.

    Brachiator

    June 4, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    Coming late to the venemous toad story stuff.

    Is this the respite thread?

  94. 94.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    @raven: I start with the call to the employer. If they’re not a tiny business, they’ll recall the contractor without involving you – the cable company or gas company have a zillion employees to send a replacement.  If they’re an independent contractor, I’ll tell them I need them to pack up their tools and stop the work. I’ve had a few go off in a huff but these folks usually rely too much on word of mouth to get business, so they usually go quietly. They’ll ask why, and I tell them we’ll talk about it at their truck after they’ve packed up – I do it on their territory, and without making a scene or embarrassing them in front of my family or whatever. I try to not be mean about it, but I am direct. I’ll tell them Rush is a racist, and I’m not going  to tolerate that on behalf of myself and my neighbors and society at large. If he wants to listen to it on his time, fine, but don’t bring it here. If they do good work, I’ll tell them that  too, that being skilled at their job isn’t enough to make up for that behavior.

    The tricky ones are the employees of small businesses –  the owners know who their employees are, and are usually on board with it. Those can get ugly, with me telling off the owner on the phone, usually in close enough proximity for the tradesperson to know something is up, and then me angrily shoving the trade off my property mostly because I’ve now got my irish up and lost all sight of diplomacy.

    In one of the weirder interactions, the trade was fine but the owner made comments when he stopped by to check on the work. The trade apologized to me on behalf of his boss, and I offered to hire him independently, which I later did when he got his own insurance and struck out on his own.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    June 4, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    Aqua Buddha and Nacho Vidal walk into a bar . . .

  96. 96.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    @prostratedragon: Sorry, didn’t mean to infer you were. Just a reminder to everyone to use whatever privilege they happen to have. I talk to the room a lot without being clear that I’m talking to the room.

    Homeowners can do a lot more than renters. People with money can do more than people without money. Use those for good.

  97. 97.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    @Punchy: Gouda? Maybe Velveeta.

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    June 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    ?

  99. 99.

    SFBayAreaGal

    June 4, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    Never a dull moment here at Balloon-Juice

  100. 100.

    cckids

    June 4, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    @Martin: I cannot deal with another old white fucker that looks like me deciding that I’m the right person to start complaining about the negros to.

     

    I feel you. I’m a part-time cashier at a Kroger store in Bellevue WA, many of my co-workers are people of color, many of them immigrants (as is a huge part of our customer base). I’m older and so white; lots of the old white people seem to take that as license to come through my line to bitch and dunk on my crew-mates. They always seem shocked that I am not. here. for. that. shit.

    This is my second job, people, I need it, but don’t NEED it. Also, I’m old enough & have been through enough that I have given away all my f*cks. Don’t start racist talk with me.

  101. 101.

    Martin

    June 4, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    @cckids: I think people would be shocked at how common it is for older white guys to get together with complete strangers and decide to spontaneously do racism. Every time I just want to stab them in the heart.

  102. 102.

    evodevo

    June 4, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    @Martin: Nah…I just up and say “Oh, you’re one a them redneck racists, huh.”  They get all bent out of shape trying to say they aren’t, but then I say “Well, it sure sounded like it!”  And, since I am a small old white female, WNFLTG, they usually find they have something pressing to do elsewhere…

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