Maybe a little comic relief is in order. You know, after the week, month, year, nearly a decade of what we have been through.
I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/3UTMkF9DW3
— Rock (@TheCensoredRock) March 13, 2024
Open thread.
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Maybe a little comic relief is in order. You know, after the week, month, year, nearly a decade of what we have been through.
I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/3UTMkF9DW3
— Rock (@TheCensoredRock) March 13, 2024
Open thread.
Without comment. pic.twitter.com/JDmCZDowP0
— Tony Stark (@Iron_Man_Actual) May 10, 2023
… We may have discovered another Thing Skippy Can’t Do.
(And gems like this are why Twitter isn’t dead, yet.)
There is a reason why Murphy the Trickster God manifests as a coyote, folks!
The (I am not a lawyer) correct answers are as follows:
Article 15, BDE level for endangering fellow soldiers and various property violations
No, do not feed it. Do not give it alcohol. Do not put a coyote in your car to take it to the vet. It will kill you.Do not blackmail.
— Tony Stark (@Iron_Man_Actual) May 10, 2023
Asking for a friend
— Henry Simpson (@_Henry_Simpson_) May 11, 2023
Promote trooper WAY ahead of peers
Promote the murder puppy to company mascot
— Medium Zee, Ursine of Armored Cavalry (@WiednerZach) May 11, 2023
So you guys get coyotes, but when ONE alligator follows me in the SCIF…
— Syntaxin Bach (@Synntaxxin) May 11, 2023
Saturday Morning Open Thread: <em>Hypothetically… </em>Post + Comments (103)
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1.) If these were women people would be losing their fucking minds
b.) cue the dusty old-timers talking about how they never did shit like this back in the day blaming this on wokeness or insufficiently masculine ads
iii.) grand pap did even weirder shit in the Pacific Theater https://t.co/PFofXGsfrb
— Affable Himbo Critical Russ Theory (@RPG_volley) April 25, 2023
Somebody needs to make sure the Blogmaster sees this… and also the replies.
People are gonna watch this and honestly think the Corps is going soft.
That scene in Jarhead exists for a reason. Marines have been doing this shit since Samuel Nicholas in 1775. It’s been passed down as our most hallowed tradition. pic.twitter.com/TCu4jQQFnj
— Kyle (@SonOfUhGunn) April 24, 2023
Of course, I’m sure Army tank dudes (like Cole) were *much* more serious about their tasks & purpose…
Yeah until these millennials came we were good at war because all we thought about was killing pic.twitter.com/ymVsE508aj
— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) April 25, 2023
Rude Diversions Open Thread: Who’s On Twitter?Post + Comments (37)
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Vote GOP! We’ll fix the economy by making the rest of life worse, too! (gift link to full article)
Excerpts from Alexandra Petri’s latest column
Voters! We are thrilled to see that so many of you are leaning R this fall! And we hear it’s because of … the economy? Wild!
…
To our knowledge, we haven’t been saying anything about the economy or offering any kind of exciting plan to fix it! As far as I can see, we’ve just been calling Joe Biden a socialist, fear-mongering about the existence of trans people and suggesting that people who want us to denounce antisemitism are Like “1984,” But Worse!
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That’s why we appreciate your confidence so much! As you clearly have realized, when one thing is going very poorly, you have options! Try to fix it, or just make everything else worse, too! Vote Republican, and we guarantee to do our level best to distract you from the economy by impeaching everyone in government, putting Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge of more things, and, in our spare moments, urging the Supreme Court to eliminate any more rights or protections that might be lying around!
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In the meantime, look forward to lots more bills preventing you from mentioning that gay people exist, and requiring children to have genital exams to play sports! And maybe we’ll even come for gay marriage! Who knows! Anything to keep your mind off the economy! You’ll be so busy watching your liberties erode right and left (but mostly right) that you won’t even notice the rise of gas prices!
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As you hurtle across state lines in an ambulance on the brink of death, your rights decimated, your vote uncounted, your libraries shuttered — I guarantee the last thing you’ll be thinking about is the economy! Just like you wanted! Vote Republican today!
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Share the gift link on social media, and let Alexandra Petri help us spread the word.
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I want this movie so bad https://t.co/10TNnfzMm7
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 1, 2022
True story: Since a lot of our friends were serious Society for Creative Anachronism people, I’d been joking for years that if we ever *did* get married, I’d insist on a SCA-themed gown so that I actually could wear it again. (This had not yet become a cliche, in the early 1990s.) When the Spousal Unit’s dad finally called our bluff with an offer we couldn’t refuse, of course we planned to pay for the wedding party’s outfits: plain shirts and dark trousers with brocade vests matching his tunic; plain shifts & skirts with bodices from the same brocade as my dress.
The doyenne of our friend group was mildly horrified: “You’re dressing your escorts as serving wenches?!?“
plus you just know those guys take plagues more seriously than Red Lobster
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 1, 2022
Late Night Open Thread: Unionize the Serving Wenches!Post + Comments (55)
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In the words of George W. Bush, that was some weird shit https://t.co/YqYvfzH16Z
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 31, 2022
Sarah Palin lost her bid for a new trial in her libel case against The New York Times. A judge ruled that she had failed to produce “even a speck” of evidence to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial. https://t.co/fCeia4GPZo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 1, 2022
welcome to the boob report. i'm your host, rod dreher, author of the benedict option pic.twitter.com/895N60mJto
— flglmn (@flglmn) May 31, 2022
In the Benedict Option, “Dreher argues for the formation of virtuous Christian communities in response to an increasingly secular culture”…
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I’m still crazed, so posting remains a challenge, but my even-more-magpie-like-than-me older brother tossed these over the transom just now, and it struck me as jackal bait.
Did you hear that Leo Tolstoy’s novel, ‘War and Peace,’ has been renamed? It’s now called ‘Special Operation and High Treason.’
Putin is dead and after burning in hell for a time, they decide to release him and he comes back to Earth. He finds himself on a street in Moscow and walks into a bar. He orders a vodka and asks the bartender a question: “Does Crimea still belong to us?” “Yes,” the bartender answers. “How about Donbas, Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine?” “All still part of Russia,” the bartender answers. Satisfied, Putin finishes his drink and he asks the bartender, “How much do I owe you?” The bartender says, “Five euros.”
I’ve heard that one thing bullies and autocrats really hate is ridicule. So enjoy–share more such jibes if you’ve got ’em–and have some open thread.
Image: Joos van Craesbeeck, Portrait of a man clasping a drink, between 1635 and 1661.