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[Irish YJ]

88 days dick.

Sounds like someone can't wait to rock their new Cheeto in Charge costume. Counting down the days!!!

 

[Irish YJ]

They were also selling mittens and thermal underwear and those puffy jacket vest things. I stuck with water, wine, vodka, coffee and a sweet handtruck/dolly.

Be careful in the sample line. There's been a rash of 72 year old on 70 year old violence lately. Might want to make sure you're strapped. Costco is no joke!

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article215857825.html

 

[loomis41973]

I don't do samples...those people look miserable.

 

[Irish YJ]

I don't do samples...those people look miserable.

You are not living if you're not doing samples. That's half the Costco experience. Especially now that you can't get a polish dog...

 

[greyhammer90]

Honestly I wouldn't mind the season creep so much except that it completely fucks up the seasonal food rollout to the point where I can't even enjoy something at the appropriate time. Example: Beer. They start selling Oktoberfest in August now. Great right? Good beer for longer so that we can enjoy it throughout the fall, right? WRONG. This means they also put out the Winter beers too early, which means they replace the Oktoberfest on the shelves and on the taps. So in August I can buy Oktoberfest, but late-October/early-November (AKA when everyone wants to actually drink fall beer because its getting crisp outside) Winter beer is the only thing available. This happens with nearly everything now.

 

[ACamp1900]

Honestly I wouldn't mind the season creep so much except that it completely fucks up the seasonal food rollout to the point where I can't even enjoy something at the appropriate time. Example: Beer. They start selling Oktoberfest in August now. Great right? Good beer for longer so that we can enjoy it throughout the fall, right? WRONG. This means they also put out the Winter beers too early, which means they replace the Oktoberfest on the shelves and on the taps. So in August I can buy Oktoberfest, but late-October/early-November (AKA when everyone wants to actually drink fall beer because its getting crisp outside) Winter beer is the only thing available. This happens with nearly everything now.

This is true...

Also, I just cleared the top shelf on my pantry. Its now ready for the dozen different boxes pumpkin spice cereal I’m going to go nuts on....

 

[SonofOahu]

I'm a huge Halloween/Fall nerd... and yeah I'm getting nerdgasisms as we move closer... lol

We usually decorate super early and get the most out of our boxes and boxes of Halloween/fall stuff. I have already hit up Michael's (already has their stuff out) and have the dates for Target and Kirkland Home... it's bout to be on.

If it makes you happy, I just noticed that our Safeway put out all the Halloween candies already.

 

[Bishop2b5]

How about Victoria's Secret creeping Valentine's Day a bit and putting out the red lingerie the day after Christmas? Nobody'd complain about that. OK, my wife would. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't like candy corn in August, OK?

 

[Legacy]

The Portland Police know how to handle these. The Oregonian has some good photos.

Protests converge in Portland, but remain mostly peaceful

 

[Legacy]

Facebook, Apple and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones (Guardian)

Following that suspension, a Facebook spokesperson said: “More content from the same pages has been reported to us – upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanising language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.”

"This is a co-ordinated move ahead of the mid-terms to help Democrats. This is political censorship. This is culture war," InfoWars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson tweeted today.

 

[Irish YJ]

Salon workers recorded hitting customer with broom after botched wax | Fox News

That one chick is very handy with a stick...
LOL... NYers...
Looks like someone needs a Cynthia Nixon intervention.

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[loomis41973]

mount up

 

[connor_in]

Sweet Meteor O’Death has account locked for threatening to wipe out all white people

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When the wokeness algorithm can’t recognize sardonic context <a href="https://t.co/UotGkJf4Z5">pic.twitter.com/UotGkJf4Z5</a></p>— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) <a href="https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/1026704817794600960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[BGIF]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-urinals/paris-residents-peeved-at-very-public-eco-friendly-urinals-idUSKBN1KY1L7


Paris installs mailbox like urinals for those with the urge.

Putting real meaning into eau de toilette.

San Francisco wants to know if it stops people from crapping on the sidewalks.



Paris residents peeved at very public eco-friendly urinals
Jack Hunter
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PARIS (Reuters) - A new set of eco-friendly but completely exposed urinals deployed on the streets of Paris are provoking uproar from locals.

One of the bright red “urinoirs” installed on the Ile Saint-Louis, not far from Notre Dame cathedral and overlooking tourist boats passing on the Seine, has caused particular indignation.

Locals have written to the town hall to demand its removal and are planning a petition.

“There’s no need to put something so immodest and ugly in such an historic spot,” said Paola Pellizzari, 68, owner of a Venetian art store.

“It’s beside the most beautiful townhouse on the island, the Hotel de Lauzun, where Baudelaire lived,” she said, referring to the 19th-century French poet.

She feared the urinal, installed around 20 meters (22 yards) from a primary school, “incites exhibitionism”.

The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”. The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens.

But Ile Saint-Louis locals said the receptacle, with no stall around it of any kind, could blight their ultra-chic neighborhood.

“It’s horrible,” said the 50-year-old owner of a nearby art gallery, who declined to give his name.

“We’re told we have to accept this but this is absolutely unacceptable. It’s destroying the legacy of the island. Can’t people behave?”

Local mayor Ariel Weil insisted the devices were necessary, however. Paris authorities have rolled out four of the stand-up loos in spots where public peeing has been a problem, and a fifth is planned.

“If we don’t do anything, then men are just going to pee in the streets,” he said. “If it is really bothering people, we will find another location.”

Some have even branded their installation discriminatory.

“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”

“It’s absurd, no one needs to urinate in the street.”

 

[Irish#1]

From the IndyStar. A few incidents like this and convenient store robberies may take a serious decline.


Robbery suspect at convenience store shot and killed by customers
Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star Published 9:36 p.m. ET Aug. 11, 2018 | Updated 9:42 p.m. ET Aug. 11, 2018

A robbery suspect was shot and killed inside a convenience store Saturday after two customers fired their personal weapons.

The adult male suspect was taken to Eskenazi Hospital where he was pronounced dead, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Captain Karen Arnett said.

The man's identity was not immediately released. The vehicle he was driving was stolen, police said.

Arnett said officers responded to an attempted robbery call at 6:26 p.m. at GetGo on Pendleton Pike and Shadeland Avenue. She said three or four shots were fired.

Police said they were investigating which person fired the shot that struck the suspect.

Police ask that anyone with information about the incident contact the Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.

 

[zelezo vlk]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">brb joining ISIS <a href="https://t.co/6YSo1PfRHC">pic.twitter.com/6YSo1PfRHC</a></p>— Matthew Walther (@matthewwalther) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewwalther/status/1031912266231373824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And the inevitable followup

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Note the Twins hat. American League. This is just the inevitable playing-out inherent logic of the designated hitter.</p>— Stephen White (@SWhiteEPPC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SWhiteEPPC/status/1031913608974946305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[NorthDakota]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">brb joining ISIS <a href="https://t.co/6YSo1PfRHC">pic.twitter.com/6YSo1PfRHC</a></p>— Matthew Walther (@matthewwalther) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewwalther/status/1031912266231373824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And the inevitable followup

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Note the Twins hat. American League. This is just the inevitable playing-out inherent logic of the designated hitter.</p>— Stephen White (@SWhiteEPPC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SWhiteEPPC/status/1031913608974946305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trololololol what a power move tweet.

 

[wizards8507]

Fake news. "Leave" implies paid time off. That's not what this is, it's just working from home. Loads of people at actual legit companies can work from home whenever they want.

 

[wizards8507]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You know it’s time to get off Twitter when you read that we now have to call lady-parts “front holes,” and instead of being sad for the world, you’re just sad that all of the good jokes have probably already been Tweeted. <a href="https://t.co/w8MjnAcUrN">https://t.co/w8MjnAcUrN</a></p>— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1031946130718744576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Whiskeyjack]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">While we don't have great data on loneliness over time, we can look at a very narrow definition of whether people are living alone (in a household with no other people, and not in group quarters) over a long period. Here I take the series back to 1900. <a href="https://t.co/TfLJlmzQIu">pic.twitter.com/TfLJlmzQIu</a></p>— Gray Kimbrough (@graykimbrough) <a href="https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1032346792711606273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[zelezo vlk]

Yup

 

[Whiskeyjack]

This should be fun. Walther just published another anti-pet rant titled "How America is anthropomorphizing pets and abandoning babies":

No doubt in an attempt to alleviate all the serious hardships visited upon upper-middle-class pet owners, a marketing firm in Minnesota recently announced that it will grant employees who have purchased new animals the ability to work from home for a period of one week.

"Fur-ternity leave," as the policy has been internally dubbed, is "kind of a no-brainer," a representative of the company told The New York Times. In the same article, it was reported that a "data company" (imagine that) in New York (ditto) is offering two full weeks of paid time off to anyone who adopts a dog or an "exotic pet," such as an iguana.

I would say that this is nice work if you can get it, if it weren't for the whole not working part. I mean, really. Dogs are a hobby, and I, too, have hobbies. I would love to be able to email my boss and say, hey, I just got a great deal on a Rega 3 Planar turntable I found at a shady electronics store — a "rescue," you might say — and I need to take some paid, non-vacation time to get my baby used to her new home.

I make no secret of my hatred of pets and (most of) their owners. My friends who have them always sigh and say that I should not let the behavior of a few pet owners color my feelings about normal, socially well-adjusted adult behavior, like claiming that you have a disease that forces you to bring your animal to bars, restaurants, airplanes, even churches. What is the hard limit on this sort of thing, I wonder? If "anxiety" is reason enough to carry Rover on a two-hour flight, why not a tarantula or a boa constrictor — or, for the Second Amendment loonies out there, an AR-15?

Dog strollers, dog birthday parties, dog hotels, dog therapy, dog aromatherapy, dog yoga, dog church, the Exquiste Dog Coloring Book: Mindfulness and Stress Relieving Patterns, "The 6 best dog swimming pools to buy in 2018." We no longer have a "dog culture" in the United States — our culture is dogs. Paid pet leave — "t was not," according to our paper of record, "immediately clear whether 'fur-ternity' or 'paw-ternity' was the industry standard term" — is the foreseeable progression of several interrelated and equally deplorable trends. One is the cloying sentimentality of a country in which so much money and attention is lavished upon animals. Another is the ever-widening, now more or less Grand Canyon-sized gap between the working class and our entitled upper-middle-class professionals.

In this country millions of women every year give birth to children whom they are forced to surrender to the daycare industrial complex after two unpaid weeks away from their vital mission of ensuring that customers know how to locate the Coupon Center. Poorly remunerated, crippled with debt, they are forced to plod on because without their collective labor, GDP would drop by a fraction of a fraction of a percent and the consumerist reign of the finance bros and the tech overlords and the hangers-on who "market" all of the former's non-achievements would be stalled. The conclusion is irresistible: Babies are worth less than some people's dogs.

You don't need a conscience to find this state of affairs appalling. It is unacceptable on purely aesthetic grounds. If we're going to have an elite, they should at least use their ill-gotten gains to construct vast rococo palaces full of chinoiserie and paintings of naked shepherds and scheming cardinals. Our Netflix-dog park-tapas boboism is the least appealing decadence in the history of civilization.

By now the knee-jerk libertarian is muttering and stomping his feet because he cannot wait to unburden himself of the totally original argument that "This is, like, something private companies are free to do. Who cares?" This kind of reasoning makes me writhe with wicked glee. You're right. Giving someone two weeks of compensated free time to see to Rover's no-doubt intricate needs is something that American companies are free to do — for now. But it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be for the simple reason that the law is a teacher and among the many things the law should not teach is that the psychological fantasies that enthusiasts project upon their pets are more valuable than the well-being of actual infants.

If taking care of your pet is a duty on the same level as looking after small children, anything might be. A casual glance at America circa 2018 suggests that most of us have already accepted this premise.

 

[Bluto]

This should be fun. Walther just published another anti-pet rant titled "How America is anthropomorphizing pets and abandoning babies":

Good article. Thanks for posting.

 

[Legacy]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">While we don't have great data on loneliness over time, we can look at a very narrow definition of whether people are living alone (in a household with no other people, and not in group quarters) over a long period. Here I take the series back to 1900. <a href="https://t.co/TfLJlmzQIu">pic.twitter.com/TfLJlmzQIu</a></p>— Gray Kimbrough (@graykimbrough) <a href="https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1032346792711606273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Three Pew Research analyses:
In Post-Recession Era, Young Adults Drive Continuing Rise in Multi-Generational Living

A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multi-generational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in 1980.1

After three decades of steady but measured growth, the arrangement of having multiple generations together under one roof spiked during the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and has kept on growing in the post-recession period, albeit at a slower pace, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Young adults ages 25 to 34 have been a major component of the growth in the population living with multiple generations since 1980—and especially since 2010. By 2012, roughly one-in-four of these young adults (23.6%) lived in multi-generational households, up from 18.7% in 2007 and 11% in 1980.

Young Adults Now More Likely Than Oldest Adults to Live in a Multi-generational HouseholdHistorically, the nation’s oldest Americans have been the age group most likely to live in multi-generational households. But in recent years, younger adults have surpassed older adults in this regard. In 2012, 22.7% of adults ages 85 and older lived in a multi-generational household, just shy of the 23.6% of adults ages 25 to 34 in the same situation.

The increase in multi-generational living since 2010 is apparent across genders and among most racial and ethnic groups. While the share of young adults ages 25 to 34 living in multi-generational households has increased most rapidly, the share increased across all age groups with one exception: Among those ages 65 to 84, the share living in a multi-generational household decreased slightly between 2010 and 2012....

Smaller Share of Women Ages 65 and Older Are Living Alone

After rising steadily for nearly a century, the share of older Americans who live alone has fallen since 1990, largely because women ages 65 to 84 are increasingly likely to live with their spouse or their children. The likelihood of living alone has grown since 1990 for older men and for women ages 85 and up.

Between 1900 and 1990, the share of adults ages 65 and older living alone increased nearly fivefold, from 6% to 29%. This growth was spurred by a host of factors, including improved health and longevity among older Americans and the economic security that came with social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare. 1

A new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data finds that from 1990 to 2014, the share of older adults living alone declined by 3 percentage points, to 26%. Among older women, the share declined to 32% in 2014 from 38% in 1990. Among older men, the share living alone ticked upward to 18% in 2014 from 15% in 1990...

Family Support in Graying Societies

How Americans, Germans and Italians Are Coping with an Aging Population

The Growing Population of Older People in the U.S., Germany and Italy

 

[Irish#1]

The Indianapolis Colts fired long time radio broadcaster Bob Lamey for repeating a story that contained the "N" word. He was retelling a story that former Indy Car and Formula 1 driver Derek Daley had told 35 years ago. Several days after Lamey was fired, local station WISH-TV fired Derek Daley as their race analyst for the story he told 35 years ago, I repeat 35 years ago.

Well it just gets worse. Eli Lily just revoked their sponsorship of Conor Daly's car because of what his dad said 35 years ago. Conor Daly wasn't even born!

Don't misconstrue this because I don't condone the word, but to fire someone over something said 35 years ago is very sad. To drop a sponsorship because he's the son is even sadder.

 

[gkIrish]

This Bride Canceled Her Wedding After Guests Refused to Give Thousands of Dollars to Help Fund It

I have no words. Explicit language within the article so I won't quote the whole thing.

 

[ulukinatme]

This Bride Canceled Her Wedding After Guests Refused to Give Thousands of Dollars to Help Fund It

I have no words. Explicit language within the article so I won't quote the whole thing.

Just saw that on Facebook. There's Bride-zillas, then this woman is in a whole category by herself. The rant made for a hell of a read though.

 

[Wild Bill]

This is the product of poor parenting, and most of the blame should be laid at the feet of the groom's father who failed to teach his son one of the simplest lessons when it comes to women - you sleep with crazy women b/c they're good in bed, not b/c you want to marry them.

 

[Irish#1]

This Bride Canceled Her Wedding After Guests Refused to Give Thousands of Dollars to Help Fund It

I have no words. Explicit language within the article so I won't quote the whole thing.

That's hilarious. Toward the end I began to wonder if this is real or just someone posting a funny story in the wedding thread. After all, who leaves their kid to go hiking in South America for two months?

 

[greyhammer90]

This Bride Canceled Her Wedding After Guests Refused to Give Thousands of Dollars to Help Fund It

I have no words. Explicit language within the article so I won't quote the whole thing.

My BS detector is going off like crazy. No picture of the crazy person, no source, no link to the actual group. Smells like a made up story. If true though, yikes.