Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. I found a new source of HHD fodder, so I am a happy camper. Let’s get started.
The song is a repeat, but it’s been a while.
Now for the hunks.
Yes.
Light and shadow.
Reminds me of Jason Momoa.
Nice smile.
Last, but not least.
Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
November 28, 2018
Categories: 9/10 Dentists Would Smash, As Little as Possible, BANGLAR!, beefcake, Hunks, Hunky Hump Day, Say "What" Again, Space pens, Stetson (for men), STFU, Where's Cyn?, Your mom likes this . . Author: roamingfirehydrant
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The Official Sports Team of The Hostages
I had someone say to us “that’s not the last $5000 mistake you’ll make.”
The number really isn’t important because it’s relative, however, it’s the permission from ourselves to make the wrong decision. It happens to everyone. And it will not end life as we know it unless it’s some dummy like Biden fooling around and bragging about having access to the nuclear codes.
My husband often says after we (or our children) make a decision, “now, make it the best decision.” Which of course means, make it work.
Also, CAULK!!
Get TITS2 & The H2 Stuff
Carin, I hope Oschi gets better.
oy!!
sean’s derp brought the funny – nice job.
nice camping outfit roamy.
roamy – any of your gear on the latest mars escapade?
I lol’d at the COCK! all over the place. *cough*
Jam, I worked a little bit on Mars Insight. What I was doing became a moot point when they figured they were going to miss the previous launch window.
wakey wakey
As long as you didn’t point and laugh, Mare. They hate that.
MOMMMMMM!!! j’ames is at it again!!!
Virtual Sausage Party
He who smelt it, dealt it.
I’ve had “Swinging on a Star” stuck in my head for days now. There are worse earworms. It is, however, motivating me to see if I can stream “Going My Way” over the weekend. I’m just in the mood for something like that.
aww, that’s cute, thinking you’ll get an earworm of something you actually like…
The key is counterprogramming. Always have a handful of proven earworms at the ready to displace an unwanted lyrical intrusion.
Evidently there are things about Shapiro that I am not aware of. I only know him through the youtube videos of his college lectures. Apart from that I’ve watched a few of his podcasts, but otherwise I know almost nothing else. I’ve never read any of his books.
If Ace has issues with him, I’ve evidently missed posts where he has laid them out.
I’ll just leave it at that.
Shapiro’s pro-deplatforming. A sufficiently cynical observer would say he’s using the SJWs to take out his competition. I’ve no use for someone willing to do that.
what do you mean by pro-deplatforming?
Oschi update: Follows me around insanely. Ate last night pretty well. This morning she wanted more treaty things, and didn’t touch her bowl (but she may have eaten before I woke up – she does that). Not a ton of energy, but a little lethargic. That’s to be expected. Coughs still, but sounds like a productive cough.
My memory may be getting twisty on the subject, ignore my statement. Unless I can find what I’m (probably only half) recollecting.
My memory gets twisty on lots of things. The wonderfulness of my brain.
I put a potato in the microwave and pushed the pizza button…
Global Warming Pinned On Kid Who Keeps Leaving The Front Door Wide Open While The Heater Is On
LOL When I was a kid if I heard “Were you born in a barn?” once, I heard it a million times.
I no longer feel weird for bring Purell into restaurants.
https://tinyurl.com/y6wt5ckj
I bet they would have the same results if they swabbed menus.
Do those ever get cleaned, Car in?
Restaurant door handles, same results.
People are gross.
* orders more hand sanitizer *
Our menus get cleaned every night, and whenever the hostesses having nothing to do.
Secret Satan shopping. One gift would be perfect, but the shipping is more than the gift itself. The other will probably work, but I’m not sure since I know my recipient has rather “specific” tastes.
I’m going to make this for Oschi.
http://www.njboxers.com/satin-balls-recipe.html
Order online from your own phone, then. Oh wait, there’s poo on that too, if you don’t clean it all the time.
He thinks Twitter has every right to ban and shadowban and still pretend to be a common carrier when it’s really a publisher. He also cheered when Rosanne was fired.
Good news about Oschi!!
Im thinking GM can EABOD. Laying off people right before the holiday. Reeks of political sabotage. Didnt we bail these motherfuckers out in 08 / 09 ?
I read Shapiro, and he often makes very good arguments. But then sometimes he doesn’t.
Same is true with Jonah Goldberg. His latest book is phenomenal. As I told Pat, the man is educated, and his ability to digest the works of others and lay it out in a cohesive manner is good. Analyzing the situation in front of him? Not necessarily as good. Perhaps he’s too close to some issues, and entanglements since he’s become a beltway insider. But he hasn’t gone Max Boot.
GM is looking for another bailout. Fuck ’em.
Laying off people while admitting the economy is good, also.
I have no problem with twitter doing whatever they want. Everyone declaring them a neutral party is the part I have difficulty with.
Im thinking GM can EABOD. Laying off people right before the holiday. Reeks of political sabotage. Didnt we bail these motherfuckers out in 08 / 09 ?
Yeah, but now we want them to go back to piss poor management decisions that caused them to almost declare bankruptcy before?
To be clear, I’m with Car in: sometimes he’s right, sometimes not so much. Just like everyone else. He’s really good with combative lefties. Not so good with combative wingers.
They’re not a neutral party. Nor is FacePenis. Anyone who believes otherwise is nuts.
On the Roseanne thing, he’s wrong to take ABC’s side. I didn’t see anything racist in her remark. If a person looks like a chimp, it should be an allowed remark. Jarrett looks like a chimp.
Nobody ever complained when a million pictures of GWB portrayed as a chimp were published.
Oooh, that sounds like doggie heaven, Car in!
If Twitter is a publisher (they are) then they have a mountain of trouble coming in terms of liability/slander/etc. Shapiro ignores that because his ox is yet to be gored.
GM makes shit cars. No one wants the volt of the cruze.
Their long term plan isn’t to make cars at all. Only trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.
Good luck!
But Trump will bail them out somehow to keep the jerbs.
Shapiro strikes me as a smarmy little shit. The kind that stabs you in the back in order to get ahead.
CAFE standards make the “truck only” model essentially impossible, as I understand it. Ford would like to just make F-series trucks if they could. The Escort only existed to keep their “fleet mpg” high enough.
Please correct me if I’ve got bad info here, but that’s what I was told by a number of folks.
This guy is maximizing his Photoshop skills: Dad Photoshops Daughter Into Dangerous Situations To Freak Out Relatives
That makes sense, Leon.
Only the government would force a company to make something people don’t want in order to keep making the thing that the people do want.
GM will keep selling some shitty little econobox at a loss, and it will be built in Messico to minimize that loss.
I drive a Mini. It’s a hell of a car, and a blast to drive. Could Ford or GM make something to compete with the Mini? Yeah, probably, but they’re idiots, so they don’t.
I also drive a Porsche.
GM’s idea of a sports car is the fucking Corvette – an overpowered platform with unstable suspension – piece of shit.
Ford’s idea is the Mustang – same characteristics with blind spots all over the fucking place.
Chrysler tried the Viper – LOL.
The problem for Ford and GM is that the majority of Americans don’t want to drive Minis. They want to drive F-150s and Yukons.
You are correct CoAl, but if they made a good Mini at least people would buy it. But they don’t. They make a garbage piece of shit just to appease the EPA.
Bottom line, Goldberg and Shapiro cannot say that Trump is kickass because their pride gets in the way.
“What? How is it possible someone as smart as I am got this entirely wrong? Hey, is it possible that America needed a new kind of leader, not a spiritual leader but someone who puts Americans and American interests first? And this new kind of leader doesn’t blow smoke up all our asses like all other politicians before him have done?”
I doubt that enough people would buy it to justify the production costs.
Millennials and soyboys would drive the GM “mini” if it were styled right.
I not so sure. I suspect that part of their appeal is the “European” nature of the vehicles.
“Yeah, but now we want them to go back to piss poor management decisions that caused them to almost declare bankruptcy before?”
Go back to?? Seems to me if your’e laying off 14,000 people right before the holidays they never left the piss poor mgmt stage to begin with. But, I do admit to not knowing about anything GM business outside of ultra shallow perspective
Its shitty optics for them that’s for sure and I very seriously doubt that the timing wasn’t considered or discussed before the decision was made. If they waited til after the holidays would it have bankrupted them?
If by European nature you mean high performance high fuel economy small engines in a stable suspension system that corners like it is on rails, and high visibility all around the interior, I’ve never understood why Detroit can’t achieve that.
GM changed nothing in ’09 other than hiring younger UAW guys at about half the old starting wage (a concession from the organized criminal outfit in a conspiracy of older workers against younger ones). They didn’t have to, they got the cash infusion they wanted and got to screw over their bondholders, and the people who could took their pensions and severance packages and ran.
Do you really think soibois care about all of that? No, the customers are going to be largely the kind of assholes who dream of living in Brooklyn but can’t afford it, so they buy an overpriced apartment somewhere in the downtown of a midwest city and try to make it a second-rate Portland.
They definitely screwed over the bondholders and shareholders to bail out the unions. And loads of taxpayers said they would never buy another GM or Chrysler product.
The UAW got bailed out in ’09 by the taxpayers. Who is going to bail them out this time?
Hopefully no one.
americans have forgotten what Free Market really means.
&
CAFE standards are an exclamation point that proves it.
I desperately want to see CAFE die. We’d be so much better off. The Japanese and Koreans can fight over the sedan market and Ford can just make trucks, might even be able to bring the price down.
GM can die in a fire.
I just want Pat to buy another Insight before Honda starts making us pay market price (right now, they practically give them away so that the fuel efficient cars get the proper “market share”). Pat’s old one is around 350,000 miles. With nothing major done to it at all. /knocks on wood.
“Millennials and soyboys”
Chablis guzzlers.
Laying off people isn’t inherently bad, especially when you’re killing production of a car that no one wants.
After the announcement the stock price went up 10%.
the gm et al bailout was a massive breach of contract perpetrated by a criminal government through implicit force of arms.
if a private company had done such a thing the management team would be in prison.
we have no free market; it follows that we therefore have no choice.
Following this path leads us to no gm / chrysler / ford minis.
you get to choose from the various vanillas and chocolates on the list – no jalapeño for you beotch!
I don’t think anyone drinks chablis anymore.
It’s pinot grigio.
lay-offs have a multifold effect:
adjusting stock values most likely were factored in, but it is also a fuck you to trump and his tariff policies.
Christmas layoffs send a message – tee roy has the right of that.
The corvette is bonkers. It’s a pretty nice driving car but it looks really…odd. Like a douchebag come to life. It’s all plastic on the inside.
I just don’t see the market for it anymore. At that price point a lot people are going to buy an import.
Comment by Car in on November 28, 2018 12:05 pm
I don’t think anyone drinks chablis anymore.
It’s pinot grigio.
Soibois would drink panty grease.
Annual bonuses come in the January timeframe per UAW contract iirc, so they dodged that.
what leon said:
Fuck GM
“Soibois would drink panty grease.”
*throws up a little*
“panty grease” was my dad’s nickname for pinot grigio, for the obvious implication.
I can’t wait until the Northern Michigan properties start becoming available!!!!
I really don’t see this as an FU to tariffs. I think its convenient cover for moves that were going to be made anyway. It’s possible the plans were accelerated due to raw material costs.
GM has a 5 year plan that is going to be implemented, no matter what.
I see why people care but I also can’t see why anyone has an attachment to a car company that can’t get its shit together. We continually bail them out and they continually produce terrible cars.
The Volt. The fucking Volt. What a POS.
I have no idea which end is the front.
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Dog head on foot. But I have to go to the store to make that special dog food.
We’ve had the same thing with vacation real estate in Lincoln and Millinocket after paper mills shut down. It’s nice country with awesome lakes but too far to drive to and from on a routine basis.
Satin Balls sounds like a trannie pornstar name
But, speaking as a hypothetical dog, if you served me up some satin balls I’d scarf them down like a fat kid eating cake
J’ames – how was the pecan pie bread pudding?
Soibois would drink
pantyboxer brief grease.FTFY
Pecan pie bread pudding is the scheduled afternoon snack, I’ll let you know.
Little tastes says pretty good. Others in the office have had a piece, but they never say if anything is good. They don’t even say thank you. They would have to talk to grouchy programmer if they did.
IIRC (and I may not) GM is heavy on sedans, sales of which just aren’t there any more. The facilities being idled were mostly sedan production.
Correct. They are shutting down the Volt and Cruze plants. Although they are unallocated, which simply means they have no planned replacements after production ceases.
The UAW negotiations are coming up soon, though. We’ll see which plants get which vehicle near the end of the year.
In other words: Nothing personal, just business–and probably fairly good business sense at that (for once, and provided the UAW doesn’t foul the plan).
Don’t get me started on the faggoty looking Fiats.
Unless you’re a 16-18 year old girl. PFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT!
What amazes me is that there seems to be an inverse relationship between the size of the woman and the size of her vehicle. Big girls driving minis while 5’0″, 100 lbs soaking wet girls are driving F-250s.
There it is! De-platforming = banning from twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. Not allowing a voice.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/11/jesse-kellys-twitter-account-reinstated-conspiracies-abound/
Twitter just re-activated Jesse Kelly’s account, caving to Ben Shapiro and his right-wing transphobic mob. Really fucking pathetic, @jack. Sets a horrible precedent. pic.twitter.com/x3IK4YS8j6
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) November 27, 2018
GM spent $10.5 billion since 2015 in a stock buy-back. That’s twice what they will save on the shutdown / layoffs…
Saw a 5’2″ woman once who drove a truck…an eighteen-wheeler.
You never can tell.
Didn’t GM have a lock on the sedan market with the Impala as a fleet vehicle not too long ago?
Impalas replaced the Crown Vic as the preferred cop car and corporate perk car.
Now, the Charger seems to be the preferred fleet vehicle. For police dept, anyway.
That probably huet GM a LOT.
*hurt
(Is huet even a word? Why not autocucumber THAT, stupid phone?
Fiat. LOL
America & It’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Racism
Give it a chance.
Oschi’s meatballs are made. She likes them. I have zero idea how much to give her per day.
Comment by Jay in Ames on November 28, 2018 3:06 pm
America & It’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Racism
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Jay, that was great!
The one thing that gets me, my beloved first car was a Corsica. I loved that car. (I did not name it “Brad” or anything else.) Drove it until it died, got it used in ’94, went to honorable retirement at the end of ’04. I would have gotten another if it hadn’t been phased out; instead, I admit my heart was set on someday getting an Impala.
Thus do all things pass.
oh man, pecan pie bread pudding is awesome
So we’re going to get the stuttering botox shit for brains for speaker of the house again. How the hell does she pull that off?
Even all of my liberal friends think she’s an asshat.
Interesting DoD contract from yesterday.
They buy some nice toys…
“Barrett Firearms Mfg. Inc., Christiana, Tennessee, was awarded a $7,952,249 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of M107, Caliber .50 Long Range Sniper Rifle systems with scope, suppressor and spare kits, M82A1M Caliber .50 Rifle and M107A1. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 26, 2023. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-19-D-0009).”
She gets things DONE!
You gotta read this. It’s pure gold.
This is racist somehow
https://tinyurl.com/y6vhjyls
Can’t click on your link, Hotspur.
Fucksticks. BRB
Hopefully those .50 cal Barrett rifles will only go to the Army and our trusted allies and not the Postal Service or HUD.
I think it’s great news, Hot’n’Tot. She’s the gift that keeps on giving for our side!
It’s not like she’ll get sane as time passes. Just imagine the gems we’ll be able to mine over the next few years.
Now you can clicky.
Unless the GOPe goes along (and we know how that goes), she ain’t gettin’ squat done. May God starch the Senate’s spines.
2020’s going to be real interesting. And by “interesting” I mean “hope your bug-out bags are good”.
MJr?
It’s fine, the Singularity comes in 2029 and an uploaded Elon Musk will conquer Mars the following year, and we can all go join him in Martian cyber-heaven.
We’ll be stuck in a war between Elon Musk’s army of AI droids and Jeff Bezos’ sentient computer system.
I thought we had an interesting discovery today, but it turns out the other engineer is dyslexic and wrote numbers down wrong.
Whatev’s Alex, you’re just jelly that I’ve already booked a holosuite the size of the Lower Peninsula populated entirely by horny Allison-Hannigan-in-her-prime simulacrae.
Hotspur, I can’t believe I’m saying this but the republican legislature in Michigan seem pretty smart.
Well they certainly hoodwinked the dems, who are going batshit. I love it.
Plus the media lies about minimum wage as it applies to tipped employees. They always report that the minimum hourly wage for tipped employees is lower than the normal minimum wage.
What they don’t report is that if the combination of wages and tips doesn’t bring the employee’s wage to the higher minimum, the employer has to increase the wages so that they do.
As I read that article my primary thought was that this is the kind of shit they usually pull on the Republicans
And, look for people to tip lower when they see the cost of the food go up and know the waiter isn’t as dependent on tips.
If you look at the group of people protesting at the capital they are a nice assortment of freaks. The left is always gross.
Whatev’s Alex, you’re just jelly that I’ve already booked a holosuite the size of the Lower Peninsula populated entirely by horny Allison-Hannigan-in-her-prime simulacrae.
Honestly, I’d take Gillian Anderson simulacrae instead, if I had the choice.
And, look for people to tip lower when they see the cost of the food go up and know the waiter isn’t as dependent on tips.
Or not go out to eat at all.
I’ve pretty much stopped altogether unless dragged out, and it’s usually in Indiana nowadays.
Did everyone to go bed early?
I went to the gym.
Dmitri excessively rebuked Polly.