OPEN BAR: it rubs the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What is it about holidays that make people assume anyone with an ounce of creativity OWES them something for free / a mere pittance? When I did computer graphics people wanted free graphics and/or web design. When I write people want 'custom-order fanfic' *shudder*. When I get my yarn on, people want free blankets, free 'high-end acrylic' armor that THEY CAN SELL.

Because the world is full of assholes who have been told "It never hurts to ask".

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I love watching Georgians act like idiots in bad weather. Being from Pennsylvania and then living in Iowa for ten years, I understand what 'winter' is. What it means when the sky turns funny colors and what the solid state of water looks like when it's pelting from the sky at a rapid clip. These things are not unknown to me.

Down here though. Down here . . .

Lady a few doors down pulls out of her garage. Sees snow. Freaks out. Still in her driveway. Slams the gas pedal. Reverses right across the street into a light pole. Cries hysterically.

Dude with a manly-man pick-em-up truck tries to go up the icy, icy hill. Stalls out. Gets out and pushes. Slips. Rolls across the street to get out of the way of his truck which is now rolling and sliding down the hill backwards.

After that I start carrying my phone so I can take pictures as proof for the Darwin Awards.

The sidewalks are icy. At the moment you can't really discern a difference between sidewalk and street. So people just walk in the street. Right into on-coming traffic. On an icy road. Where cars have no traction. Yep.

Yep. I am loving this shit. From the comforts of my house, of course. I don't go any farther than the porch when the stupidity is this high.

Yeah, stupid warm-climate people should all have to spend a year driving in Wisconsin so they can learn to drive in snow! And all those idiot cold-climate retards that go all stupid and die when they have unprecedented heat waves should all be required to spend a month in Death Valley so they can figure out how air conditioners work.

I support both these motions.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

What is it about holidays that make people assume anyone with an ounce of creativity OWES them something for free / a mere pittance? When I did computer graphics people wanted free graphics and/or web design. When I write people want 'custom-order fanfic' *shudder*. When I get my yarn on, people want free blankets, free 'high-end acrylic' armor that THEY CAN SELL.

Because the world is full of assholes who have been told "It never hurts to ask".

Beatings shall commence until common sense prevails.

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What is it about holidays that make people assume anyone with an ounce of creativity OWES them something for free / a mere pittance? When I did computer graphics people wanted free graphics and/or web design. When I write people want 'custom-order fanfic' *shudder*. When I get my yarn on, people want free blankets, free 'high-end acrylic' armor that THEY CAN SELL.

Because the world is full of assholes who have been told "It never hurts to ask".

Beatings shall commence until common sense prevails.

"I beat that bitch with a hit"

[LMNO]

Filled out my healthcare.gov application.

Still cannot afford it, still outragously high deductible.

Still need a biposy for a "mole" that failed A,B,C, and D. E is still good though.

This is one of those things where you can compare what it would cost if the local government went along, and then raise holy hell, not at the ACA, but at the state gvt. It's also a good bait and switch, because you can draw wingnuts in with "I can't get decent insurance" and then slap him with "because [name of senator/congressman] is an asshat."

[Cain]

This is my delightful reading for the day.  Keep this in mind the next time you hear about "the world's largest democracy"

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/INDIA932.PDF

Torture is widely practiced in Kashmir as a means of extracting information from detainees, coercing confessions, punishing persons believed sympathetic to the militants and creating a climate of political repression.  One doctor in Srinagar who has treated torture victims estimated that he had seen four times the number of torture cases in 1992 than in previous years. He attributed the increase to intensified government operations. The PHR/Asia Watch investigations indicate that most detainees taken into custody in Kashmir are tortured.

Lawyers interviewed by Asia Watch/PHR stated that security personnel routinely ignore procedural safeguards when taking persons into custody. Although Indian law requires that everyone taken into custody must be produced before a magistrate within 24 hours, in fact,
detainees are rarely produced at all.  Prohibitions and safeguards against torture in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CCrP), which prohibit the use of coerced confessions and prescribe inquiries into deaths in custody and prison terms for officers
guilty of torture, are also routinely disregarded.

During a crackdown in the Telbal neighborhood of Srinagar on October 13, 1992, BSF forces detained fifteen young men. All of the detainees were taken to an empty house where they were interrogated and tortured. Several of the detainees were later admitted to the hospital withacute renal failure. F., 22, who works as a private driver in Srinagar, was beaten with lathis on his buttocks, arms and hands. His feet were tied, and he was beaten on the soles of his feet with lathis while being suspended. There were approximately twenty BSF soldiers present while he was being beaten, among them three officers who ordered the others to carry out the torture. The officers, identified as Yadav, Chander and Qadiri, each had two or three stars on their uniforms.  While beating him, the soldiers accused F. of being "a commander of the militants." F. was also tortured with the roller on his thighs, and was beaten so severely he began vomiting. He was detained for about three hours

[LMNO]

Not that it was a documentary, but the opening to Slumdog Millionaire was bascally the police beating the ever-loving shit out of a kid because he was suspected of cheating on a game show.  And no one really commented on that.  At all. 

I know, I'm conflating fiction and reality; but it seemed totally normal.  So I guess I'm not surprised.

[EK WAFFLR]

This boy. This boy right here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558223/10-year-old-boy-steals-parents-car-visit-grandparents-tells-police-dwarf-forgot-drivers-license.html

[Cain]

Not that it was a documentary, but the opening to Slumdog Millionaire was bascally the police beating the ever-loving shit out of a kid because he was suspected of cheating on a game show.  And no one really commented on that.  At all. 

I know, I'm conflating fiction and reality; but it seemed totally normal.  So I guess I'm not surprised.

And their attitude towards raped women.  Incidentally - lots of officially sanctioned rape going down in Kashmir.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I love watching Georgians act like idiots in bad weather. Being from Pennsylvania and then living in Iowa for ten years, I understand what 'winter' is. What it means when the sky turns funny colors and what the solid state of water looks like when it's pelting from the sky at a rapid clip. These things are not unknown to me.

Down here though. Down here . . .

Lady a few doors down pulls out of her garage. Sees snow. Freaks out. Still in her driveway. Slams the gas pedal. Reverses right across the street into a light pole. Cries hysterically.

Dude with a manly-man pick-em-up truck tries to go up the icy, icy hill. Stalls out. Gets out and pushes. Slips. Rolls across the street to get out of the way of his truck which is now rolling and sliding down the hill backwards.

After that I start carrying my phone so I can take pictures as proof for the Darwin Awards.

The sidewalks are icy. At the moment you can't really discern a difference between sidewalk and street. So people just walk in the street. Right into on-coming traffic. On an icy road. Where cars have no traction. Yep.

Yep. I am loving this shit. From the comforts of my house, of course. I don't go any farther than the porch when the stupidity is this high.

Yeah, stupid warm-climate people should all have to spend a year driving in Wisconsin so they can learn to drive in snow! And all those idiot cold-climate retards that go all stupid and die when they have unprecedented heat waves should all be required to spend a month in Death Valley so they can figure out how air conditioners work.

I support both these motions.

Actually, no joy quite matches mine when some cocky cold-climater who is all "LOL I'm from a place where there are real winters, you temperate-zone morons don't understand snow" gets in their car and tries to drive in 1/2" of 30-degree snow, and promptly totals their car because they don't understand the physics of snow that close to the melting point. Or laughs off the city warning to stay indoors because they know what real weather is, and gets killed by falling ice.

Because it's true, people who never, ever have to drive in snow don't know how to drive in snow. And on the other hand, people who have only ever driven in cold-climate snow are the most dangerous fools on the road, because they think they know how to drive in warm snow, and they don't.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This boy. This boy right here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558223/10-year-old-boy-steals-parents-car-visit-grandparents-tells-police-dwarf-forgot-drivers-license.html

Now that's metal!

[Suu]

I love watching Georgians act like idiots in bad weather. Being from Pennsylvania and then living in Iowa for ten years, I understand what 'winter' is. What it means when the sky turns funny colors and what the solid state of water looks like when it's pelting from the sky at a rapid clip. These things are not unknown to me.

Down here though. Down here . . .

Lady a few doors down pulls out of her garage. Sees snow. Freaks out. Still in her driveway. Slams the gas pedal. Reverses right across the street into a light pole. Cries hysterically.

Dude with a manly-man pick-em-up truck tries to go up the icy, icy hill. Stalls out. Gets out and pushes. Slips. Rolls across the street to get out of the way of his truck which is now rolling and sliding down the hill backwards.

After that I start carrying my phone so I can take pictures as proof for the Darwin Awards.

The sidewalks are icy. At the moment you can't really discern a difference between sidewalk and street. So people just walk in the street. Right into on-coming traffic. On an icy road. Where cars have no traction. Yep.

Yep. I am loving this shit. From the comforts of my house, of course. I don't go any farther than the porch when the stupidity is this high.

Yeah, stupid warm-climate people should all have to spend a year driving in Wisconsin so they can learn to drive in snow! And all those idiot cold-climate retards that go all stupid and die when they have unprecedented heat waves should all be required to spend a month in Death Valley so they can figure out how air conditioners work.

I support both these motions.

Actually, no joy quite matches mine when some cocky cold-climater who is all "LOL I'm from a place where there are real winters, you temperate-zone morons don't understand snow" gets in their car and tries to drive in 1/2" of 30-degree snow, and promptly totals their car because they don't understand the physics of snow that close to the melting point. Or laughs off the city warning to stay indoors because they know what real weather is, and gets killed by falling ice.

Because it's true, people who never, ever have to drive in snow don't know how to drive in snow. And on the other hand, people who have only ever driven in cold-climate snow are the most dangerous fools on the road, because they think they know how to drive in warm snow, and they don't.

Gee, and here I feel bad for folks in the south dealing with this shit when they aren't prepared for it. Clearly, I'm not judgmental enough about others thrown into circumstances beyond their control. As a southerner who moved to the north, I don't really understand why the cocksuckers from where it "really for real" snows have to be such assholes about it when Atlanta gets an inch. They don't have a fucking clue how to deal with it, people are, you know, dying because they need to get to work/school and don't understand that nobody should drive on ice, ever, but hell, let's point and laugh at their misfortunes, because it's not like people up here don't fucking panic or act like idiots either. It's not like Providence is a snowy paradise where the plows do their job and nobody has a hard time getting around ever. 

Now if you excuse me, we're having a Nor'Easter today. So I intend to go outside and yell at people for doing it wrong.

[Eater of Clowns]

I don't think we do ENOUGH natural phenomenon mockery.

"Look at all those assholes getting their homes burnt down by wildfires, it's like LOL dude learn how to firefight."

"Check out this guy getting buried by a mudslide - that's not how you dirt, pal."

"I can't believe these people don't know how to deal with a simple flood - you don't sob for the loss of your cherished home and belongings until AFTER the national guard air rescues you off your roof after three days of drinking tainted water IDIOT."

[Suu]

I don't think we do ENOUGH natural phenomenon mockery.

"Look at all those assholes getting their homes burnt down by wildfires, it's like LOL dude learn how to firefight."

"Check out this guy getting buried by a mudslide - that's not how you dirt, pal."

"I can't believe these people don't know how to deal with a simple flood - you don't sob for the loss of your cherished home and belongings until AFTER the national guard air rescues you off your roof after three days of drinking tainted water IDIOT."

Seriously. Like, Rhode Island doesn't even have flood insurance. How lame is that? We're on a goddamn coastal plain. If that hurricane barrier fails, Providence is gone. Don't these Northerners know how to hurricane?

[Suu]

"Have you shipped it yet?"

"No, I told you that I need to receive the balance due before I ship."

"Well go ahead and ship it today and I'll send you the balance owed when I get it."


You're gonna be waiting a long fucking time, buddy.