Achievement Unlocked

Terrell Starr is attracted to lots of kinds of women but not men at all, but is coming out as queer. Words used to be useful vehicles for conveying meaning. Ah, the good old days.
One of the things that maybe confuses teen girls is that their sex drive is not as strong as for guys, but that doesn’t mean they are not women.

Maybe if I read it backwards, or under UV light.
I’d be hesitant to get a UV light out anywhere near some place these pre-verts have spent any significant time.

Maybe Terrell Starr coming out as queer but not attracted to men means that he thinks he is a male lesbian?

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Farce today, real tomorrow
Example there of a joke on a joke on a joke, all neutralizing each other.
“A nuclear war is worth it if it just saves one life” is quite good, reminiscent of Norm MacDonald’s “What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?”

Heh.

Yes, this makes perfect sense.

You might have to turn on the translate but this is exquisite in the German:
Hilarious. And I see that the Germans borrow our “shitstorm” rather than use the perfectly good “Scheißesturm”.

Is today a Not-Friday?

[…] young people are still developing their identities up to the age of 25 [….]

What the flying fuck is that bullshit?
There’s a building at West Point named Cullum Hall (https://www.westpoint.edu/military/directorate-of-cadet-activities/hostess/cullum-hall-history). When I was there over 40 years ago, there was a plaque on the wall for a graduate who had died in 1918. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the young officer’s name from that plaque, but he died as a Colonel during the fun of 1918 in France. (There’s a lot of boring trivia around that he may have been a Colonel in set A of the US Army at the time, but still considered to a 2LT in the ‘real’ set of the US Army at the time. That trivia still existed in WW2.)
Here’s a 25 year old (http://forwhattheygaveonsaturdayafternoon.com/wp-kia1915/edwin-richardson-kimble) who died as a field grade officer. When I was 22, my job was to take my M60 tank (M60A1 RISE Passive in the beginning then M60A3 RISE TTS, for those who would care about such things (who probably aren’t reading any of this)) with another 4 of them to a location somewhat near a border of a Warsaw Pact member to kill as many of the invading military as possible to delay them.
I was barely 17 years old when I volunteered to do that. I had to do the work to get the nomination when I was 16. If you don’t know who you are by 25, you are worthless.

I should mention that the young officer who died in 1918 was a 1915/1916 graduate; I believe that should have put him to be a rather bit younger than 25.

sigh I was barely 17 when I became a cadet. I was almost 22 when I was a platoon leader with the aforementioned tank platoon.
I had absolutely no doubts about what it meant to be a US Army officer at the age of 16 when I did the work to become a cadet at the age of 17. So, I had volunteered to “do the needful” when I showed up at West Point when I had been 17 for ~3 months.
(This is getting close to spamming. I extend my apologies to our host for my being so unfocused.)

Is today a Not-Friday?
Alas, time and circumstance didn’t permit the usual compiling of ephemera. And despite rumours to the contrary, I do try to maintain some semblance of quality control. But by all means use this thread to share anything of interest.
For instance, a notable fashion solution. It makes a statement, I think.

It makes a statement, I think.
The Milhouse cartoon is spot on.

When I was 22, my job was to take my M60 tank…with another 4 of them to a location somewhat near a border of a Warsaw Pact member to kill as many of the invading military as possible to delay them.
And the likelihood was that the tank platoons would not survive the battle. Life expectancy measured in days, a USMA graduate told me.
Measured in hours for a National Guard air refueling wing, as I recall, because they could maximize the range of B-52’s by doing the refueling rendezvous beyond the point where the tankers would have enough fuel to get home.

Chair – Fat Studies Area
Specially reinforced?
She is known to all as “Two Chairs”.

Apparently, it’s imperative that fighter pilots “learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community.”
“High Speed, Low Drag”.

“And no I shouldn’t need to ask for an extender. It should just be easy! @delta,”

…Delta’s seatbelts range in size from 40 to 45 inches.

“I mean really, just change around 2000 or so seat belts on all your planes”, she added, “so I don’t have to be inconvenienced or pallet loaded on a C-17″*.
*(I may have added the second quote)

Trunk Monkey*, for all your motoring needs.
*(Boot Monkey not currently available)

“A dude” hesitates about making a choice.
When you’ve fallen down the identity well.

“Scientists agree…”, thus again proving social sciences aren’t.

Trunk monkey: a classic. Now probably violates animal rights.
Uni job without salary: going back to the earliest days of Cambridge, where you got a room and meals in the commons as a prof unless you had your own income.
Skinny librarian “lady”: talk about cognitive dissonance!
Crowder: he is hilarious. Makes his point so well. I get spammed daily with invitations to be an honored speaker at a vaguely defined conference in Malaysia or China or somewhere, and they will accept any abstract at all. It is either a business (for the real conferences) or a scam (you pay registration and go and there is no conf). The uni decline started with the “studies” programs. Because it was either feminist or black, you could not criticize them. Because they were fundamentally based on lies and used critical theory as their method, you got BS piled on top of BS, but no one could say anything. The rot spread.

Thinking about the uni job without salary, it seems to me this is perfect for a NGO staffer (Greenpeace, WWF, Extinction Rebellion, etc) who has a salary to become an instant professor and increase his creds.
Hippies objected to rigor. “Just be relaxed and casual, man, here have a joint. Don’t be uptight.” (I was there, I remember) Because being on time, and accurate, and thinking through problems is hard work and causes anxiety they are to be banished. So the precision of words is to be vanished (women, equality, harm, violence) and public policy should be just based on feelings–let’s just ban fossil fuels, virtuous renewable energy will just fill in!

Hippies objected to rigor. “Just be relaxed and casual, man, here have a joint. Don’t be uptight.”
Gawd, that brings back memories.

When you’ve fallen down the identity well.
A proper response.