Yay! I'm not alone!!...No doubt I'm on video at the grocery store, but I do exactly the same thing while I'm standing in line for checkout! I turn them back to and upside down and put them where they cannot be seen. That stuff is nasty toxic waste.
I never thought of this, but Berkeley Bowl and Andronico's only feature food magazines and magazines like National Geographic and special magazines like Beatles specials. I don't think the magazines you're talking about sell in Berkeley.
I just pile the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and NY POST face down on the lowest shelf I can reach, and cover them with whatever is less objectionable—often that free 50+ magazine a lot of places around here hand out.
Ole, I think I quit scanning mags decades ago. After a horrible week, waiting to check out, one tabloid cover screamed "Priest Bursts Into Flames During Exorcism". I laughed like crazy, and couldn't stop. I almost couldn't speak, I was laughing so hard.
Ok, this is a surprise. We don't have candy at checkout. In Andronicos they keep the chocolate bark in the back of the store, so I go there first to get a few pieces. It has hazelnuts and dried cherries in it (and is not cheap). Berkeley Bowl keeps its seasonal candies back where the organic produce begins (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries.) I just checked and see that the bark is $24 a lb. However, we have solar, and although gas is $5gal we have EVs, so we don't pay for gas. It all works out, even when you live on Social Security.
Kathleen, I checked the large magazine section at a large Safeway a couple weeks ago. There were hundreds of other mags but not one single TIME. I checked a couple checkout stands. Not a one.
Mary, 1A Freedom of Speech is another tangle since maga. A magazine cover of a serial rapist, white supremacist, racist, serial liar, violent insurrectionist, treasonous person to me is a chance to RESIST and stop the lies & hate. A small gesture but a pushback.
True. They can print whatever they want (for now) and we who hate it can hide it from public view whenever we want. For now. I’m sure dictator trump will find a way to stop us eventually. That’s what dictators do. At least hiding magazines harms no one.
Proof You’ve Failed As A Man: Having one single goddam fucking thing to say about how women give birth. Sit The Fuck Down and Shut The Fuck Up Forever.
I don't understand how politicians impersonating a doctor isn't a crime. They only thing they know about women's bodies is where the penis goes. I think we have too many alcoholics running the country. These sound like bar conversations. Because I have to be drunk to understand what the fuck they're talking about.
Talk about ruling on something they know nothing about, Republican males are as out-of-touch with the female reproductive system as they are about how the Internet works. Let me help: “And again, the female reproductive system is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your sperm in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
Well, it appears that the guy with 2 first names Mark-Wayne did a smooth Madison Cawthorn and ratted out the fact that Senators show up drunk to vote. There should be a breathalyzer test to get on the floor after 6:00PM when we know half of the "good ole boys" are well into their afternoon cocktails. From the looks of it half of them are toast by 2:00PM after their 3 martini lunches, they certainly talk like a bunch of drunks.
I had a cousin who worked as an AP reporter in the White House for two administrations. She told us how Washington is a big glass bubble of people who are completely out of touch with their voters. Lots of drunks and skirt chasers. It's a miracle anything gets accomplished. The extremes of dysfunction. Her words.
To think these jackasses are paid $174k/yr or more for the leader of their “party” is a travesty. I want a job where I can sit and spew BS for that kind of money. No doubt they couldn’t make that much anywhere else. 🤬
I've had some interesting conversations with drunk MAGAs at the Buck Snort Saloon in Pine, Colorado . It got a little crazy. Bring on bullies. I'm ready for them. 🖕
Pine had a community of old timers for decades. Then the trust fund babies moved in. My daughter started a side business cleaning AirBB rentals in and around Pine and Bailey. The entitled trust fund babies ruined everything. Now, there's a group that's hard not to bitch slap. Fucking demanding assholes. Started buying out everyone and building their McMansions and fighting over land and water rights. So, many of the old hippies are gone. I loved them. I was at a party discussing an LLC, when they asked if I wanted LSD. Too funny. It's pretty sad. My daughter got fed up and sold her business. The BuckSnort has new owners. That's a story in itself. I think that was established in 1876. Cool place.
Choosing between becoming a raging alcoholic, drug addict, or simply putting the next gilded age of robber barons and oligarchs in my rear view mirror, the choice is easy! Besides the next Arctic Blast is upon us here in MN Lisa!!
I'm sticking to gummies. Yeah, its fucking cold as hell here. My older lady friends bailed on the March today. Why in the fuck do they do these in January? My brain is frozen till at least March. 😄 We're going to have to disengage at times for sanity purposes. I don't like waking up every morning with these thoughts of horror.
In one word to the premise of screwball r.paul GUILTY! He is the guy that got a certificate from a group of like minded nuts, the ass ociashun that gave a certificate was him, his association he made up. Sch an asshole!
😂 My side is splitting. I can't stop laughing. Same for me, I can't follow anything these people say, it registers as gilbberish or a foreign language I don't know. If it weren't for Jeff explicating, I'd have no idea what is happening.
Well if there’s man who knows about childbirth t’would be Elmo Leon. He’s got 12 rugrats not quite a baker’s dozen, but not to worry, we’ll get to meet the next one in about 5 or 6 months. Since moving into the golf motel with trumpet, I’m sure he had the pick of the crop.
Like everything associated with that asshole, childbirth is something he, and any other fucking mansplainer on the planet, knows nothing about. Just because you shot your wad doesn’t mean you’re a gynecologist.
Oh now that is simple. The prostate is a doughnut shaped structure located around the urethra that swells and slows the flow of urine. It also gets cancer. As for ED, the circulatory system(tubes, lots of tubes)get obstructed and keeps the blood from giving men an erection. I know this because(checks notes)Google. Also, because I had biology, anatomy and physiology classes in school getting ready for my vocation. It’s almost like some of these idiots are scared of learning anything past their own noses.
Wondering how many of Muskrats offspring were born naturally or by C-section? Could be 50-50. The world's wealthiest turd probably will never say but he'll continue to post and spew his usual hypocritical bullshit as we sit here continuing to wonder how the fucking hell we got here.
They did use ocean water but you can’t use much of it because salt is corrosive and will destroy the planes and the homes and all of the soil so you won’t be able to grow anything on it for who knows how long.
“Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why firefighters typically avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
Salt is corrosive, and it can damage metal equipment, including critical equipment in water dumping planes and fire pumps.”
Wildfires in the foothills also cause the additional problem of mudslide risk. Vegetation must grow quickly to help hold the soil in place, and seawater ensures that almost nothing will grow. This caused a problem in the 1993 Malibu fires, and the amount of seawater used was minimal.
And during very strong winds, like the insane winds during these fires, the liquid gets dispersed into mist long before most of it hits the ground. Making it largely ineffective.
If he had the ability to think, he would’ve been able to figure that out before saying something stupid. I’ve said this before. Same ilk as the nitwits who made fun of me for being good at science and then pressured me to let them cheat off my tests.
Susan, while I agree with you I keep reminding myself of Mencken's various quotes on the difficulty of underestimating the taste of the American people and how we will elect (and have now elected) a complete nincompoop (sp?) to the presidency.
The romantic image of Americans as striving for self improvement is a myth, at least insofar as most white folks are concerned. The image of people of color and recent immigrants, legal or otherwise as rapists, drug dealers or welfare abusers is merely the projection of the fantasy lives of the white trash onto anyone superficially different from themselves.
I personally suspect that New Apostolic Reformer sleezebag, grifting Justice Alito was pretending he did not know what was on Pornhub. He is a liar and cheat, so why believe that he does not know that Pornhub is not like Playboy. For one thing it is on the internet, not in a magazine you buy at the grocery store.
Susan, so if the net is a series of tubes, if my wifi goes down, I can fix it by banging on my under the sink pipes? Same thing, a collection of tubes.
I always thought the University of Missouri in Columbia was a class place, since it has a great classical Greek pottery collection. Some of it came to Berkeley about 30 years ago and I took my son and his best friend to see it, since I knew they'd never get a chance to see examples of this type again. Is the University any good otherwise and does it specialize in anything special?
You know, like Berkeley, Physics and Physics Nobel Prize Winners?
Susan the dumbassedness of these fucking morons .. it would be more humane to lobotomize every fucking one of them.. every single day I’m at.. OH fuck what now?!?!
Perhaps the guy who thought the internet was a series of tubes was stuck in a time where pneumatic tubes were used to send documents from one room in a building to another. The department store I where I worked in high school had those tubes. Some people do get stuck in a particular phase of their lives.
Oh dear God, the richest man in the world is the dumbest man in the world. If he had taken any Anatomy and Physiology courses in college he would've have known the birth canal doesn't determine brain size. The birth process is to squeeze the amniotic fluid from the lungs so baby's first breath is air. Donny and Elmo= Dumb and Dumber.
You're welcome. Registered Respiratory Therapist for over 40 years. I know a few things about lungs. We're all about to start taking deep breaths for the next 4 years come Monday.
I'd never recognize "abdominal thrusts." I wish they'd stop changing names. In Berkeley you can tell how old people are by what they call the streets and schools. Columbus School is now named after the lady who refused to move to the back of the bus, and a section of the main business street is now named after an Asian Indian woman, whom I believe was the the first Indian property owner in Berkeley. It really doesn't matter, now it's almost impossible to drive down or park on anymore.
Did ACLS also. CPR class also had non clinical staff. I think the terminology gets changed so more lay people are familiar with performing life saving skills in terms they can understand and remember.
I mean this is said by the man who believes he's Johnny Appleseed & has the right to spreed his intelligent seed everywhere to make sure we have more high intelligent babies!..🙈lololol🍸
Actually there is a complex process in the lungs involving sodium and chloride and cellular pumps that helps to resorb lung fluid before birth. The passage through the birth canal does not “squeeze water out of the lungs”. I am a neonatal nurse practitioner and worked with many neonatologists researching this very topic. C-section babies whose mother did not have active labor are at a greater risk of respiratory distress because the labor didn’t activate these cellular pumps before birth. If the mom did have active labor prior to the CS the babies risk of respiratory distress was much less.
Interesting, in 1981 when I had my daughter I ended up having an emergency C-section. I had 12 hours of non-progressive labor. I was in pain and just wanted it over with. It didn’t even register when she was finally delivered that I didn’t hear her immediately cry. I learned later they rushed her to the table and were suctioning out her lungs because she’d had meconium aspiration. She was considered a sick newborn and while not sent to a nic-u, she was closely monitored. Definitely a scary time.
I remember my obstetrician having me go for an x-ray because I was a week late. He never gave me an explanation. When I saw him for my post delivery follow up I asked him why the x-ray and he said I wouldn’t understand. I was ticked so I said, “ explain it to me in layman’s terms “. According to him, while my pelvis etc. was wide enough side to side, it seems my front to back was fairly narrow. Since my labor was non-progressive all I can imagine is she would was hitting her head against my pelvis trying to access the birth canal? She wasn’t big by any standards 6lbs 5ozs and 21 inches 😲. All that matters is she’s a beautiful, talented, young women I’m proud to call my daughter ❤️
Good to know. I didn't know that was researched but it makes sense. When I was on that side of acute care it was induced labor because baby, it was thought was having respiratory distress
I meant C section done due to thinking baby was having respiratory distress. It's nice to know that there is research in this area. I've been out of acute care since 2014 and more focused on patient education.
Oh Steve that's hysterical - I haven't heard that expression in years & when I shared this with my friend she cracked up into laughter & said similar "ur not the sharpest tool in the shed" & then it just took off!! 👋🤣
Funny thing about those Playboy articles. Back in the dark ages before the internet, my hubby subscribed to Playboy for the articles. So, I read the articles. They were good articles. Interesting stuff. The kind of stuff you might want to chat about with your hubby. When I tried that, he never had any idea what I was talking about.
And now the world's biggest piss-stained snowflake is pretending the cold weather is why he has to move his coronation indoors (and not the shitty crowd size)
I have to apologize for a post from yesterday, I imagined that he would be BIG MAD at Mother Nature but now I realize that he actually will be grateful to her for saving him the embarrassment of having a teeny tiny crowd at his inauguration. And I am loving all the MAGA interviews about how they "spent $5000" and now they have to watch it on TEEVEE. "We might as well have stayed home' "Weather doesn't stop us from milking the cows" "I traveled from WARSHINGTON to be here". Bless their hearts.
Jayme, you're reading magas wailing over the inaugural being moved inside: they "spent $5,000"? Probably livid over egg prices. Maga's are unacquainted with the concept of preparing a budget.
And there's the hair-do thing. If any wind is forecast, that pissed-stained badger pelt stapled to his forehead (that's a JT descriptor) doesn't do well and Donny gets nervous.
Their license plates say "Crossroads of America": translation, "If you're in our state it's probably because you're driving through on your way somewhere else."
I lived there from 1979 to 1982 when I worked at Marble Hill. The construction of a nuclear power plant. It never was completed. The state of Indiana needs a fucking enema. It's a KKK state. It was and still is a horror.
Hey Lisa, I lived in Indiana from mid 1980 to mid 1983. Yeeeesh. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Kept my car and voter registration at my parents' place in Ohio because I did not want to contribute to the county Republican party, which was the system in place then for vehicle registration. And at that time Ohio was definitely more purple/blue than Indiana. I loathed Reagan with the heat of a thousand suns, so my vote for Jimmy in 1980 was a bit more impactful in Ohio, I reasoned.
I hear ya. I couldn't leave fast enough either. I don't think Indiana puts democrats on their ballots.😅 It's a horseshit state. They never finished building Marble Hill, but they stuck the residents with high utility bills to cover their loses. It has the lowest work comp benefits in the country. It has the worst of every thing. I've got stories about that shit-hole racist
I went to Indiana on purpose, but only to further my goal of visiting every state (I'm up to 41.) Kind of ironic that it borders Illinois, which I consider to be an honorary West Coast state lol
Elon, got sad news for you. The Evolution Genie doesn't wake up one fine day and realize that women are getting C sections so now brains can be bigger. How long will it take the Evolution Genie to come up with those bigger brains? Hint: Elon's great great great great grandchildren won't be born yet.
Incidentally, female scores on the math SAT have gone up 30 points in the last 20 years. It isn't because their brains have evolved.
I hope that women have enjoyed their brief years of freedom and that they will fight for that freedom with all their might. We are not going back to the cave. We are going out to kill something for dinner.
As the conservatives continue to wreak havoc on education and amplify their Xtian tradwife bullshit, watch the gains made by females recede. Truly sickening.
And Biden’s under-the-wire final word on the ERA (hey! now, 100 fucking years after it was first introduced, one half of the American population has to recognize the legal rights of the other half!) will do nothing to stop it.
Wow, improvement in scores! By the way, Elon, women’s brains are a bit smaller than men’s, on average, as are the rest of their bodies. Perhaps they are just more efficient in a smaller size. Elon, have you come up with an explanation for the higher college graduation rates of women over men in recent years?
Women? More conformist? Wouldn’t that be a good thing from R perspective, as long as the men decided what the women would conform to?
Which would encourage conformity more, a “leftist” college or an evangelical mega-church?
Girls do better in elementary school because they mature earlier and are able to sit still longer. This says more about elementary schools than about girls or boys and their intelligence.
And those who buy those large dogs for protection soon after get hit with the real reality that those cute little feisty dogs r better at protecting ur home - they r ankle levels & they r faster & have little big dog syndrome!!
I had a big dog which I did not buy for security. Got him as a puppy abandoned puppy and he grew into 80 pounds. He had such a booming bark that he turned Jehovah's Witnesses back from my front door for 11 years.
Elon's not.......let's just say, very knowledgeable about biology. His approach to technology came from the computer/math-oriented side of the aisle, and without a basic understanding of chemistry and its eventual complex transformation into cellular life, anything he opines about medicine or biology is just as worthless as something out of RFK Jr.'s mouth. The biggest curse of this whole internet age we're in is the epidemic of people who know absolutely nothing about a subject endlessly stating their views about that subject. The average person sees all these opinions and statements being pushed out there with no sort of filtering effort to separate incorrect information from the factual, and so the misconceptions just get spread and repeated ad infinitum. The genie's escaped from the bottle and, much like toothpaste, it can never be squeezed back inside again.
"They should be having a hot cup of shut the fuck up in a managed care facility." 😂
The Internet is a series of tubes that essentially can get clogged if too much information flows through there. 😂
God doesn't want us to be vaxxed or use masks when faced with a pandemic, according to an Indiana law maker? I know that God can be a real bitch with all the smiting he's into, but what happened to "God helps those who helps themselves"? I guess HOW you help yourself must be controlled here on earth by the MAGA regime. It's a good thing I'm not religious, since I prefer to do what I damn well please for myself without interfering with anyone else. Real freedom is funny that way.
Lol - well I am a believer & I love doing what I damn well please because GOD gave us all "FREE WILL" because he knew life would be hard - so even GOD encourages doing ur own thing!☝️😁
Jeff, I see where President Musk invited the head of the fascist neo Nazi AfD German party to the inauguration… WTF? I wonder how all of our soldiers who are buried at Arlington feel about it, disgraceful… Inauguration moved inside for the uber wealthy and leaves MAGA outside in the cold? I guess these unwashed masses might react like they did 4 years ago…. break up the Capital, spread shit on the walls and attempt to murder the VP… Yup, First Felon.. a man of the people… best to all.
Stephen Knight wrote a column here on Substack yesterday about how Sam Harris and Musk's friendship ended over COVID disagreements. Harris was stunned to find out how little about science Musk understands. The column is worth a read.
As un- American as it may be, I have no social media. I tried FB a long time ago and it got infected with garbage, even with tight security settings. The whole idea just never appealed to me.
My good fortune to miss incels, misogyny and people who let me know just how wrong I am.
Excuse me but I think you need to understand that a seemingly "snug" vagina indicates that the woman is not ready. It has nothing to do size. She may be tense, afraid, or any number of things but she is definitely not aroused, and going ahead anyway will be painful.
I’ve actually heard of men who WANT their wives to have a c-section, rather than give birth naturally, because they worry it will stretch the woman’s vagina out too much. So thoughtful.
Jeff's saying "it's easy to solve the all the world's problems when you have no fucking clue what you're talking about" should be adopted by the Dems as a slogan to describe the GQP. Not only because it's irrefutably true but because they show it every fucking day.
💥💥💥💥 DON'T MISS THIS!!! 💥💥💥💥
Danny Cherry Jr. wrote this, and it is NOT stupid.
I’m in the grocery store, and I’m near the magazine rack. Trump’s “person of the year” Time Magazine cover is prominently displayed.
This older white man takes the issues, and stuffs them behind other magazines, where they can’t be seen.
I laughed and he said, “No one needs to buy this shit.” 😭
https://substack.com/@dannycherryjr/note/c-86319241
Yay! I'm not alone!!...No doubt I'm on video at the grocery store, but I do exactly the same thing while I'm standing in line for checkout! I turn them back to and upside down and put them where they cannot be seen. That stuff is nasty toxic waste.
I hid The Nat Inquirer obsessively to the lowest shelf, behind copies of other mags.
I never thought of this, but Berkeley Bowl and Andronico's only feature food magazines and magazines like National Geographic and special magazines like Beatles specials. I don't think the magazines you're talking about sell in Berkeley.
I just pile the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and NY POST face down on the lowest shelf I can reach, and cover them with whatever is less objectionable—often that free 50+ magazine a lot of places around here hand out.
After you had scanned through it, right? Admit it
Ole, I think I quit scanning mags decades ago. After a horrible week, waiting to check out, one tabloid cover screamed "Priest Bursts Into Flames During Exorcism". I laughed like crazy, and couldn't stop. I almost couldn't speak, I was laughing so hard.
The last time I even looked at the cover of National Enquirer I felt my brains draining out of my ear. I now avert my eyes.
Ole, I've never scanned mags at checkout. Too busy looking at which kinds of candy and how many to buy!
Here we talk to the checkers or other people in line...
Ellen, that too. But the Siren's call of chocolate is strong 🧆🥮🍪
Ok, this is a surprise. We don't have candy at checkout. In Andronicos they keep the chocolate bark in the back of the store, so I go there first to get a few pieces. It has hazelnuts and dried cherries in it (and is not cheap). Berkeley Bowl keeps its seasonal candies back where the organic produce begins (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries.) I just checked and see that the bark is $24 a lb. However, we have solar, and although gas is $5gal we have EVs, so we don't pay for gas. It all works out, even when you live on Social Security.
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Proud to say I do the same!!
THIS MADE MY DAY!
Cherry deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I love it!
This old white lady would do the same!😂😂
Excellent!👍👍😂
Hero!
Kathleen, I checked the large magazine section at a large Safeway a couple weeks ago. There were hundreds of other mags but not one single TIME. I checked a couple checkout stands. Not a one.
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Freedom of the press comes under the 1st Amendment, in case you forgot. What's wrong with you people???
Mary, 1A Freedom of Speech is another tangle since maga. A magazine cover of a serial rapist, white supremacist, racist, serial liar, violent insurrectionist, treasonous person to me is a chance to RESIST and stop the lies & hate. A small gesture but a pushback.
True. They can print whatever they want (for now) and we who hate it can hide it from public view whenever we want. For now. I’m sure dictator trump will find a way to stop us eventually. That’s what dictators do. At least hiding magazines harms no one.
Proof You’ve Failed As A Man: Having one single goddam fucking thing to say about how women give birth. Sit The Fuck Down and Shut The Fuck Up Forever.
I don't understand how politicians impersonating a doctor isn't a crime. They only thing they know about women's bodies is where the penis goes. I think we have too many alcoholics running the country. These sound like bar conversations. Because I have to be drunk to understand what the fuck they're talking about.
Talk about ruling on something they know nothing about, Republican males are as out-of-touch with the female reproductive system as they are about how the Internet works. Let me help: “And again, the female reproductive system is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your sperm in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
Oh, that's perfect!! 😅
I'm confused but..YEA..what you said!!
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I mean, this is brilliant.
Best post I've read anywhere all day!
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Well, it appears that the guy with 2 first names Mark-Wayne did a smooth Madison Cawthorn and ratted out the fact that Senators show up drunk to vote. There should be a breathalyzer test to get on the floor after 6:00PM when we know half of the "good ole boys" are well into their afternoon cocktails. From the looks of it half of them are toast by 2:00PM after their 3 martini lunches, they certainly talk like a bunch of drunks.
I had a cousin who worked as an AP reporter in the White House for two administrations. She told us how Washington is a big glass bubble of people who are completely out of touch with their voters. Lots of drunks and skirt chasers. It's a miracle anything gets accomplished. The extremes of dysfunction. Her words.
Correction. There should be a breathalyzer test 8:00, AM 1:00 PM, and every time they enter the building after that.
I don’t like that idea I love it!
One first name: Markwayne. Truly. And he did blow the whistle, didn't he? Oblivious of consequences.
There’s serious truth in this statement, many of these fat cats don’t stop at 3 either Jayme!!
To think these jackasses are paid $174k/yr or more for the leader of their “party” is a travesty. I want a job where I can sit and spew BS for that kind of money. No doubt they couldn’t make that much anywhere else. 🤬
Back in the old days, we used to refer to people like that as 'supportive management'. As in, they had to be supported after their liquid lunches.
There isn't enough alcohol on the planet to make sense of their bloviations.😂😂
I've had some interesting conversations with drunk MAGAs at the Buck Snort Saloon in Pine, Colorado . It got a little crazy. Bring on bullies. I'm ready for them. 🖕
I was last at the Buck Snort about 45 years ago. Bad it's still around. Is Pine now a resort area like almost every place in the mountains? Hope not.
Pine had a community of old timers for decades. Then the trust fund babies moved in. My daughter started a side business cleaning AirBB rentals in and around Pine and Bailey. The entitled trust fund babies ruined everything. Now, there's a group that's hard not to bitch slap. Fucking demanding assholes. Started buying out everyone and building their McMansions and fighting over land and water rights. So, many of the old hippies are gone. I loved them. I was at a party discussing an LLC, when they asked if I wanted LSD. Too funny. It's pretty sad. My daughter got fed up and sold her business. The BuckSnort has new owners. That's a story in itself. I think that was established in 1876. Cool place.
I meant to say "Glad" it's still around. NOT bad.
Charles: But I'm gonna give it my best shot.
Being drunk wouldn’t provide any sense of the blathering nonsense, of these deleterious derps Lisa!!
But, if I'm drunk it helps. 🤣
Choosing between becoming a raging alcoholic, drug addict, or simply putting the next gilded age of robber barons and oligarchs in my rear view mirror, the choice is easy! Besides the next Arctic Blast is upon us here in MN Lisa!!
I'm sticking to gummies. Yeah, its fucking cold as hell here. My older lady friends bailed on the March today. Why in the fuck do they do these in January? My brain is frozen till at least March. 😄 We're going to have to disengage at times for sanity purposes. I don't like waking up every morning with these thoughts of horror.
In one word to the premise of screwball r.paul GUILTY! He is the guy that got a certificate from a group of like minded nuts, the ass ociashun that gave a certificate was him, his association he made up. Sch an asshole!
Some don’t even know where the penis goes!
😂 My side is splitting. I can't stop laughing. Same for me, I can't follow anything these people say, it registers as gilbberish or a foreign language I don't know. If it weren't for Jeff explicating, I'd have no idea what is happening.
Well if there’s man who knows about childbirth t’would be Elmo Leon. He’s got 12 rugrats not quite a baker’s dozen, but not to worry, we’ll get to meet the next one in about 5 or 6 months. Since moving into the golf motel with trumpet, I’m sure he had the pick of the crop.
Like everything associated with that asshole, childbirth is something he, and any other fucking mansplainer on the planet, knows nothing about. Just because you shot your wad doesn’t mean you’re a gynecologist.
I hope he passes a 9# kidney stone after he's carried it for 9 months without pain medication.
I’ve seen a 2mm stone make a grown man cry so 9# would be a real show.
It surely would be. I'd pay to watch.
Sweet comparison.
Thanks! If only, right.
Women should seriously start lecturing men on ED and prostate problems.
Something in the way of “You’ve failed as a man if you can’t get it up without medical assistance”?
👏🏼 yes! This is exactly what we should do. The perfect example of “failing as a man”.
The only sex organ is a man’s brain.
Not in my experience.
Oh now that is simple. The prostate is a doughnut shaped structure located around the urethra that swells and slows the flow of urine. It also gets cancer. As for ED, the circulatory system(tubes, lots of tubes)get obstructed and keeps the blood from giving men an erection. I know this because(checks notes)Google. Also, because I had biology, anatomy and physiology classes in school getting ready for my vocation. It’s almost like some of these idiots are scared of learning anything past their own noses.
Elmo is the jack of all trades and master of none.
jackass of all trades
Amen MzNicky🙌🏽
would he even recognize any of them?
Likely not, except for the 3-year old who sits on his papa’s shoulders being strutted around while Elmo thinks he’s hard at work.
It's a human shield!
Dubious Nancy!!
He does them by IVF so he doesn’t even do the heavy lifting part.
🥂 Perfectly said!
Wondering how many of Muskrats offspring were born naturally or by C-section? Could be 50-50. The world's wealthiest turd probably will never say but he'll continue to post and spew his usual hypocritical bullshit as we sit here continuing to wonder how the fucking hell we got here.
Some were born via a nameless surrogate. That means Elmo could have a baby for every single one of his little spermies! Let the IVF begin.
Amen!🙏 🙏🙏🙏
Perfect!
Amen, MzNicky!!!
You win MzNicky! A++++++
Being drunk wouldn’t provide any sense of the blathering nonsense of these deleterious derps Lisa!!
Lisa59 tell him please. Being drunk is her euphemism for la, la, la I can’t hear you fuckhead!
Indeed Mz!!
They did use ocean water but you can’t use much of it because salt is corrosive and will destroy the planes and the homes and all of the soil so you won’t be able to grow anything on it for who knows how long.
“Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why firefighters typically avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
Salt is corrosive, and it can damage metal equipment, including critical equipment in water dumping planes and fire pumps.”
https://www.aol.com/why-california-t-ocean-water-194705217.html
Wildfires in the foothills also cause the additional problem of mudslide risk. Vegetation must grow quickly to help hold the soil in place, and seawater ensures that almost nothing will grow. This caused a problem in the 1993 Malibu fires, and the amount of seawater used was minimal.
I just wrote this but you've got the source. Thanks. I didn't even think of the corrosion to equipment.
Canadair CL-415 "SuperScooper" aircraft (the big yellow planes) are designed for salt water, but nothing else is. And there are not many CL-415s.
And during very strong winds, like the insane winds during these fires, the liquid gets dispersed into mist long before most of it hits the ground. Making it largely ineffective.
The CL-415 won't even fly in wind above 45 mph as it's too dangerous.
Did not know this but makes sense, sea water is very corrosive.
If he had the ability to think, he would’ve been able to figure that out before saying something stupid. I’ve said this before. Same ilk as the nitwits who made fun of me for being good at science and then pressured me to let them cheat off my tests.
He's not stupid and knows exactly what he's saying. He's speaking to his audience, and it's not you or me.
He supposedly was/is an ophthalmologist. Your eyeballs would end up falling out of he was your doc.
A self-certified ophthalmologist.
He made up his own board to get a certification
His wife was "The Board"
I keep forgetting that. There’s no way I’d trust him with my vision.
Yes finally!! Exactly..
Especially the soil afterwards
I apologize on behalf of all sane Missourians (yes there are a few left) for the uneducated morons who got elected and cant spell.
And Alito really asked that question? 🤦♀️ No wonder he's a frustrated, angry dude.
But "The Internet is a Series of Tubes"? That's it. I'm done. 😂😂
Can we please start finding intelligent people to vote for?
Unfortunately, the direct descendant of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s is ascendant in the US now. Intelligent people need not apply.
Susan, while I agree with you I keep reminding myself of Mencken's various quotes on the difficulty of underestimating the taste of the American people and how we will elect (and have now elected) a complete nincompoop (sp?) to the presidency.
The romantic image of Americans as striving for self improvement is a myth, at least insofar as most white folks are concerned. The image of people of color and recent immigrants, legal or otherwise as rapists, drug dealers or welfare abusers is merely the projection of the fantasy lives of the white trash onto anyone superficially different from themselves.
Outstanding comment, Stephen. I've only known a half dozen or so immigrants, but they've all been law abiding and the hardest workers you'll ever see.
The biggest A-holes i know are white and home grown.
💯 spot-on!
He's (Alito) just jelly that he never got to visit the Hef mansion.
He's the reason why the pages always stuck together!
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I wish he'd wash his hands before turning the pages on Pornhub.... 🧐
I think that fossil Chuck Grassley said that too back in 2009.
The only fossil I've seen that wasn't dug up
He really does need to lie down and make it official.
Celeste 😂😂😂 🏆
Mitch has the look, too. With that turtle profile he looks positively dinosaurian
Grassley has been saying stupid since 1909
are they wheeling him in on a stretcher yet?
But he's third in line for the presidency so there's that.
I personally suspect that New Apostolic Reformer sleezebag, grifting Justice Alito was pretending he did not know what was on Pornhub. He is a liar and cheat, so why believe that he does not know that Pornhub is not like Playboy. For one thing it is on the internet, not in a magazine you buy at the grocery store.
Like you said, we are a nation of morons.
Susan, so if the net is a series of tubes, if my wifi goes down, I can fix it by banging on my under the sink pipes? Same thing, a collection of tubes.
Do that, then adjust the "rabbit ears" antenna, and for good measure jiggle the toilet handle
Steve 😂😂😂
My sentiments exactly.
I always thought the University of Missouri in Columbia was a class place, since it has a great classical Greek pottery collection. Some of it came to Berkeley about 30 years ago and I took my son and his best friend to see it, since I knew they'd never get a chance to see examples of this type again. Is the University any good otherwise and does it specialize in anything special?
You know, like Berkeley, Physics and Physics Nobel Prize Winners?
Mizzou is known for their journalism school.
Thank you!
Susan the dumbassedness of these fucking morons .. it would be more humane to lobotomize every fucking one of them.. every single day I’m at.. OH fuck what now?!?!
Perhaps the guy who thought the internet was a series of tubes was stuck in a time where pneumatic tubes were used to send documents from one room in a building to another. The department store I where I worked in high school had those tubes. Some people do get stuck in a particular phase of their lives.
Oh dear God, the richest man in the world is the dumbest man in the world. If he had taken any Anatomy and Physiology courses in college he would've have known the birth canal doesn't determine brain size. The birth process is to squeeze the amniotic fluid from the lungs so baby's first breath is air. Donny and Elmo= Dumb and Dumber.
Thanks! I did not know this.
You're welcome. Registered Respiratory Therapist for over 40 years. I know a few things about lungs. We're all about to start taking deep breaths for the next 4 years come Monday.
If you're choking good in the neighborhood
Who ya gonna call? It's Mingo!!!
I just renewed my CPR card last week. It's no longer called the Heimlich maneuver but referred to as abdominal thrusts. Inquiring minds want to know.
Abdominal thrusts sounds like something you find on pornhub.
I'd never recognize "abdominal thrusts." I wish they'd stop changing names. In Berkeley you can tell how old people are by what they call the streets and schools. Columbus School is now named after the lady who refused to move to the back of the bus, and a section of the main business street is now named after an Asian Indian woman, whom I believe was the the first Indian property owner in Berkeley. It really doesn't matter, now it's almost impossible to drive down or park on anymore.
It's been called abdominal thrusts for several years now. It's not a new term for the Heimlich technique. Don't RTs have to take ACLS also?
I've been calling it the Heimlich maneuver for 45 years... guess y'all have to wait till I die.
Did ACLS also. CPR class also had non clinical staff. I think the terminology gets changed so more lay people are familiar with performing life saving skills in terms they can understand and remember.
I have asthma-well controlled now but I ALWAYS carry my inhaler just in case!!
Yeah! Get ready everyone!
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That's a given.
Mingo - even without that, baby & brain have developed in 9 months so the birth canal could not shrink or expand the head. Sheesh…
The head does become temporarily misshapen in some cases. The skull is still relatively soft. It in no way affects brain size.
Only in the space nazi's alleged mind.
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I mean this is said by the man who believes he's Johnny Appleseed & has the right to spreed his intelligent seed everywhere to make sure we have more high intelligent babies!..🙈lololol🍸
I'm convinced that the only thing he's capable of spreading is his overwhelming greed.
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I wonder how many of his offspring will show degrees of autism. It can run in families.
🙈 lolol
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Actually there is a complex process in the lungs involving sodium and chloride and cellular pumps that helps to resorb lung fluid before birth. The passage through the birth canal does not “squeeze water out of the lungs”. I am a neonatal nurse practitioner and worked with many neonatologists researching this very topic. C-section babies whose mother did not have active labor are at a greater risk of respiratory distress because the labor didn’t activate these cellular pumps before birth. If the mom did have active labor prior to the CS the babies risk of respiratory distress was much less.
Interesting, in 1981 when I had my daughter I ended up having an emergency C-section. I had 12 hours of non-progressive labor. I was in pain and just wanted it over with. It didn’t even register when she was finally delivered that I didn’t hear her immediately cry. I learned later they rushed her to the table and were suctioning out her lungs because she’d had meconium aspiration. She was considered a sick newborn and while not sent to a nic-u, she was closely monitored. Definitely a scary time.
I remember my obstetrician having me go for an x-ray because I was a week late. He never gave me an explanation. When I saw him for my post delivery follow up I asked him why the x-ray and he said I wouldn’t understand. I was ticked so I said, “ explain it to me in layman’s terms “. According to him, while my pelvis etc. was wide enough side to side, it seems my front to back was fairly narrow. Since my labor was non-progressive all I can imagine is she would was hitting her head against my pelvis trying to access the birth canal? She wasn’t big by any standards 6lbs 5ozs and 21 inches 😲. All that matters is she’s a beautiful, talented, young women I’m proud to call my daughter ❤️
Good to know. I didn't know that was researched but it makes sense. When I was on that side of acute care it was induced labor because baby, it was thought was having respiratory distress
I meant C section done due to thinking baby was having respiratory distress. It's nice to know that there is research in this area. I've been out of acute care since 2014 and more focused on patient education.
Thank you for your factual clinical reply.
Plus, the human brain is inside a human's SKULL, for God's sake! It's the skull that has to push through the birth canal, not the brain.
When you're not the sharpest pickaxe in the emerald mine, you don't have to be concerned with brain size
I love “not the sharpest pickaxe in the emerald mine.” But Elon does seem to think brain size is what matters.
Oh Steve that's hysterical - I haven't heard that expression in years & when I shared this with my friend she cracked up into laughter & said similar "ur not the sharpest tool in the shed" & then it just took off!! 👋🤣
Ahhhh… yes intelligence.. thank you Mingo
Funny thing about those Playboy articles. Back in the dark ages before the internet, my hubby subscribed to Playboy for the articles. So, I read the articles. They were good articles. Interesting stuff. The kind of stuff you might want to chat about with your hubby. When I tried that, he never had any idea what I was talking about.
Haha. BTW, it was in a Playboy interview that John Wayne opined that Black people weren't smart enough to be equal to white people.
Oh, so that is why John Wayne Mullins of OK got his namesake…
Consider the source.
Wow! I didn’t know that
Guess he wasn’t buying it for the articles 😂😂
Most of us guys don’t care to look at naked airbrushed women.
☝️🤣 for sure!!!
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I liked those articles too! I read my husband's. The subscription my mother provided for him. Different times.
And now the world's biggest piss-stained snowflake is pretending the cold weather is why he has to move his coronation indoors (and not the shitty crowd size)
I have to apologize for a post from yesterday, I imagined that he would be BIG MAD at Mother Nature but now I realize that he actually will be grateful to her for saving him the embarrassment of having a teeny tiny crowd at his inauguration. And I am loving all the MAGA interviews about how they "spent $5000" and now they have to watch it on TEEVEE. "We might as well have stayed home' "Weather doesn't stop us from milking the cows" "I traveled from WARSHINGTON to be here". Bless their hearts.
Jayme, you're reading magas wailing over the inaugural being moved inside: they "spent $5,000"? Probably livid over egg prices. Maga's are unacquainted with the concept of preparing a budget.
My local paper reports today that "more than a 1000" locals have headed to DC "to witness history." Hahahahaha.
They could have just stayed home and watched on TV, saved themselves money to spend on "Biden's Inflation Eggs."
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And there's the hair-do thing. If any wind is forecast, that pissed-stained badger pelt stapled to his forehead (that's a JT descriptor) doesn't do well and Donny gets nervous.
Fvck I’m cracking up thank you Bethany.. I almost choked on my hot tea but damn it was worth it!!
He is SO fragile.
Terri: translated: he is the ultimate snowflake
I’m sooo glad we don’t live in Indiana! Oh. Wait. Shit. We live in Ohio. Just as fucking bad!
My in-laws live in Ohio, they donated to and voted for Sherrod Brown and Kamala, and they share your pain.
Everything I learned about Ohio was from WKRP.
haha you're dating yourself
I be old..
Same here
Ohio (as a whole) proved itself unworthy of Sherrod Brown
When I go cross country, I hold my breath and drive through Indiana as fast as legally allowable. 🙄
Their license plates say "Crossroads of America": translation, "If you're in our state it's probably because you're driving through on your way somewhere else."
I lived there from 1979 to 1982 when I worked at Marble Hill. The construction of a nuclear power plant. It never was completed. The state of Indiana needs a fucking enema. It's a KKK state. It was and still is a horror.
Hey Lisa, I lived in Indiana from mid 1980 to mid 1983. Yeeeesh. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Kept my car and voter registration at my parents' place in Ohio because I did not want to contribute to the county Republican party, which was the system in place then for vehicle registration. And at that time Ohio was definitely more purple/blue than Indiana. I loathed Reagan with the heat of a thousand suns, so my vote for Jimmy in 1980 was a bit more impactful in Ohio, I reasoned.
I hear ya. I couldn't leave fast enough either. I don't think Indiana puts democrats on their ballots.😅 It's a horseshit state. They never finished building Marble Hill, but they stuck the residents with high utility bills to cover their loses. It has the lowest work comp benefits in the country. It has the worst of every thing. I've got stories about that shit-hole racist
misogynistic state.
I think I hear Alabama saying, "Hold my beer!".
I went to Indiana on purpose, but only to further my goal of visiting every state (I'm up to 41.) Kind of ironic that it borders Illinois, which I consider to be an honorary West Coast state lol
Fucking enormously glad I live in CA. 🇺🇸👍❤️😍
Agree about Ohio, Lisa.
Elon, got sad news for you. The Evolution Genie doesn't wake up one fine day and realize that women are getting C sections so now brains can be bigger. How long will it take the Evolution Genie to come up with those bigger brains? Hint: Elon's great great great great grandchildren won't be born yet.
Incidentally, female scores on the math SAT have gone up 30 points in the last 20 years. It isn't because their brains have evolved.
I hope that women have enjoyed their brief years of freedom and that they will fight for that freedom with all their might. We are not going back to the cave. We are going out to kill something for dinner.
Ron Brownstein was on The Bulwark, breaking down the results od 2024 election. 2 out of 3 non college educated pro choice WOMEN voted for tRump! Sad
We women got a taste of freedom and clear air and WE R NEVER GOING BACK. NEVER. 👎🏼
WTAF.. seriously.. just WTAF
Makes no sense- i wonder if many of them could read at a 6th grade level?
Ron Brownstein was on The Bulwark, breaking down the results od 2024 election. 2 out of 3 non college educated pro choice WOMEN voted for tRump! Sad
Just can’t explain DUMB.
Thank you!
As the conservatives continue to wreak havoc on education and amplify their Xtian tradwife bullshit, watch the gains made by females recede. Truly sickening.
And Biden’s under-the-wire final word on the ERA (hey! now, 100 fucking years after it was first introduced, one half of the American population has to recognize the legal rights of the other half!) will do nothing to stop it.
Wow, improvement in scores! By the way, Elon, women’s brains are a bit smaller than men’s, on average, as are the rest of their bodies. Perhaps they are just more efficient in a smaller size. Elon, have you come up with an explanation for the higher college graduation rates of women over men in recent years?
I know the answer to that:: women want to make a decent living and don’t want to be under a totalitarian regime.
It has always astounded me that some small dogs are just as smart if not smarter than large dogs. I don't get it.
Sorry to let you know this but many right wingers think women are more conformist and that's why they do better in leftist institutions like colleges.
Women? More conformist? Wouldn’t that be a good thing from R perspective, as long as the men decided what the women would conform to?
Which would encourage conformity more, a “leftist” college or an evangelical mega-church?
Girls do better in elementary school because they mature earlier and are able to sit still longer. This says more about elementary schools than about girls or boys and their intelligence.
And those who buy those large dogs for protection soon after get hit with the real reality that those cute little feisty dogs r better at protecting ur home - they r ankle levels & they r faster & have little big dog syndrome!!
I had a big dog which I did not buy for security. Got him as a puppy abandoned puppy and he grew into 80 pounds. He had such a booming bark that he turned Jehovah's Witnesses back from my front door for 11 years.
Elon's not.......let's just say, very knowledgeable about biology. His approach to technology came from the computer/math-oriented side of the aisle, and without a basic understanding of chemistry and its eventual complex transformation into cellular life, anything he opines about medicine or biology is just as worthless as something out of RFK Jr.'s mouth. The biggest curse of this whole internet age we're in is the epidemic of people who know absolutely nothing about a subject endlessly stating their views about that subject. The average person sees all these opinions and statements being pushed out there with no sort of filtering effort to separate incorrect information from the factual, and so the misconceptions just get spread and repeated ad infinitum. The genie's escaped from the bottle and, much like toothpaste, it can never be squeezed back inside again.
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And they’re just (global) warming up.
Neal, yer funny.
You might get a different answer from my wife.
Again, you are would most assuredly get a different answer from my wife. Plus she’s funnier than I.
Too much of a good thing?
"They should be having a hot cup of shut the fuck up in a managed care facility." 😂
The Internet is a series of tubes that essentially can get clogged if too much information flows through there. 😂
God doesn't want us to be vaxxed or use masks when faced with a pandemic, according to an Indiana law maker? I know that God can be a real bitch with all the smiting he's into, but what happened to "God helps those who helps themselves"? I guess HOW you help yourself must be controlled here on earth by the MAGA regime. It's a good thing I'm not religious, since I prefer to do what I damn well please for myself without interfering with anyone else. Real freedom is funny that way.
Fvck yeah Jennifer 🙌🏽 preach it sister!!
Lol - well I am a believer & I love doing what I damn well please because GOD gave us all "FREE WILL" because he knew life would be hard - so even GOD encourages doing ur own thing!☝️😁
Take way my liberty but don’t take away my porn. What’s that?
You can take my porn when you pry it from my warm sticky hands!
Thanks Robert. I'm still chuckling.
And I’m cracking the Fvck up!! Thank you Robert I really needed that this morning. Damn that’s funny
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Hahaha ewwww hahahaha
Project 2025 bans porn, right?
Imagine the Republican deviants and child molesters would not take kindly to that!
Jeff, I see where President Musk invited the head of the fascist neo Nazi AfD German party to the inauguration… WTF? I wonder how all of our soldiers who are buried at Arlington feel about it, disgraceful… Inauguration moved inside for the uber wealthy and leaves MAGA outside in the cold? I guess these unwashed masses might react like they did 4 years ago…. break up the Capital, spread shit on the walls and attempt to murder the VP… Yup, First Felon.. a man of the people… best to all.
Incels don’t care about Elon Musk-ish big brains; they just want all women to die and leave them in peace.
Stephen Knight wrote a column here on Substack yesterday about how Sam Harris and Musk's friendship ended over COVID disagreements. Harris was stunned to find out how little about science Musk understands. The column is worth a read.
Here is Sam Harris's account of his breakup with Elon Musk.
https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon
If all women died, incels would no longer have to worry about rejection
I think that’s their brand of misogyny. Then again, we wouldn’t have to deal with them anymore, so there’s at least that
I don't deal with them now. Why would I.
They infect social media
As un- American as it may be, I have no social media. I tried FB a long time ago and it got infected with garbage, even with tight security settings. The whole idea just never appealed to me.
My good fortune to miss incels, misogyny and people who let me know just how wrong I am.
👋🤣 😁👍🏻 & eventually disappearing themself off the face of the earth!!
A woman could have the narrowest, most snug vagina on the planet...& Elmo STILL wouldn't be able to satisfy her.
What the fuck, dude????
YIKES! 😳
Wonder if he thinks tampons in different sizes means the size of the vagina?? 🤔
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Excuse me but I think you need to understand that a seemingly "snug" vagina indicates that the woman is not ready. It has nothing to do size. She may be tense, afraid, or any number of things but she is definitely not aroused, and going ahead anyway will be painful.
Thank you Beth.. just thank you.. I’m still at WTF 😳
Me too. Sounds dangerously like thinking tiny teenagers are the best fuck. Ewww 🤮
I’ve actually heard of men who WANT their wives to have a c-section, rather than give birth naturally, because they worry it will stretch the woman’s vagina out too much. So thoughtful.
Huh!!🥴🥴
That’s not the point, but thanks for your unneeded opinion, I guess
Jeff's saying "it's easy to solve the all the world's problems when you have no fucking clue what you're talking about" should be adopted by the Dems as a slogan to describe the GQP. Not only because it's irrefutably true but because they show it every fucking day.
I honestly now believe that I can get through the next four years because of you, Jeff. Proud subscriber.
We are all in this together as Jeff says.