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FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant
I can't believe alleged CNN journalist Don Lemon flicked off Larry.

That guy is seriously gunning for Wolf Blitzer's spot as Chief Skidmark on CNN's airwaves.

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FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

DemeaninDemon posted:

I feel bad for the kids when they realize the gravity of what happened.

I'm surprised some sleazy journalist, somewhere, has never found anyone who did this as a child, grew up, and is willing to talk about it, even anonymously.

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.
Thanks, Obama.

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



It's the half-year anniversary of that one time we made a goof and bombed a hospital with doctors and civilians inside haha what a crazy mistake. Looks like someone might get disciplined, though, so I guess it's all taken care of.

We definitely aren't going to let an independent inquiry take place or have a court hearing on the matter, though because this case is so thoroughly solved that there's no need to reopen it again, let alone let anyone else participate in the investigation.

Rexicon1
Oct 9, 2007

A Shameful Path Led You Here

Combed Thunderclap posted:

It's the half-year anniversary of that one time we made a goof and bombed a hospital with doctors and civilians inside haha what a crazy mistake. Looks like someone might get disciplined, though, so I guess it's all taken care of.

We definitely aren't going to let an independent inquiry take place or have a court hearing on the matter, though because this case is so thoroughly solved that there's no need to reopen it again, let alone let anyone else participate in the investigation.

Man. Bummer no white people died, else we would have had a potential Benjamin Ghazi on our hands.

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Give it time, and the bombing of that hospital might possibly produce future conservative talk show guests, book writers, even possible US representatives.

I'm saying that Americans are either indifferent to war crimes, or they cheer them on, as long as it's them doing the criming.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



cheerfullydrab posted:

Give it time, and the bombing of that hospital might possibly produce future conservative talk show guests, book writers, even possible US representatives.

I'm saying that Americans are either indifferent to war crimes, or they cheer them on, as long as it's them doing the criming.

I thought the cycle was that we roll in and commit a bunch of war crimes, then award ourselves Oscars 20 years later for movies about how bad we feel about it

Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT

bowser posted:


Oh no doubt, and it will be a delight watching Republicans slowly realize what a big mistake popularizing the term 'Obamacare' was as more people thank it for saving their lives or their children's lives.

I think you will find that Romneycare was a republican invention. :colbert:

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Happy Monday, have some arzy:

We are one terrorist attack away from a Trump presidency.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Happy Monday, have some arzy:

We are one terrorist attack away from a Trump presidency.

Hillary has a contingency plan for that. Next debate or town hall she'll pull out the severed head of Osama bin Laden. If that doesn't work she'll get the head of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and put it on a pike attached to her plane.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Yep former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is gonna get washed in a foreign policy debate with Trump/Cruz

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
Proceed, citizen (Trump).

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Ravenfood posted:

:vince:

Seriously, especially in the last year he has been incredible to watch speak. I can't wait to see what he does post-Presidency when he gives even fewer fucks.

I really wish that former presidents would run for the congress like JQ Adams. Could you imagine these last few years if Bill and W were both serving in the House or Senate.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Fat southern boy shoots home intruder (after missing 11 times) while he was trying to leave with a hamper, and then publicly mocks him.

I think we've hit peak America.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/01/alabama_boy_shoots_burglar_mocks_him_for_crying_like_a_little_baby.html

The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

FilthyImp posted:

I can't believe alleged CNN journalist Don Lemon flicked off Larry.

That guy is seriously gunning for Wolf Blitzer's spot as Chief Skidmark on CNN's airwaves.

Apparently they're actually friends.

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Charlz Guybon posted:

I really wish that former presidents would run for the congress like JQ Adams. Could you imagine these last few years if Bill and W were both serving in the House or Senate.

Hell, it'd be fun if they ran for some local office. Like city councillor or something. In small countries this isn't that unusual, for a former Prime Minister or President to keep participating in some small way.

I suppose former Presidents make too much money and want to plow that into charity if they're civic-minded, they'll accomplish more that way.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Michelle Obama running for a random school board would be amazing.

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

The Larch posted:

Apparently they're actually friends.

He was smiling while doing it, too

Xanderkish
Aug 10, 2011

Hello!

Combed Thunderclap posted:

.

...that said apologies in advance to women looking for hot dates here because hoo boy it is true that the straight dating scene is flooded with (People Who Think They're) The Next President of the United States.

This sounds amazing and I want to hear more about it.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

Inferior Third Season posted:

Fat southern boy shoots home intruder (after missing 11 times) while he was trying to leave with a hamper, and then publicly mocks him.

I think we've hit peak America.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/01/alabama_boy_shoots_burglar_mocks_him_for_crying_like_a_little_baby.html

Kyle is very happy about boollets.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Xanderkish posted:

This sounds amazing and I want to hear more about it.
Porn, politics, and rock & roll are the best ways for non-rich ugly guys to have sex with attractive women. Porn and rock require natural gifts or tremendous effort (also, ugly guys in porn hasn't really been true since the 80's), leaving politics as the seemingly easiest path to success.

Quorum
Sep 24, 2014

REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

Xanderkish posted:

This sounds amazing and I want to hear more about it.

Like Manhattan, DC is a city where you go to get ahead in life, though for DC it's politics and government consulting rather than finance. This means it's necessarily stuffed with narcissistic assholes eternally obsessed with their own success relative to that of everyone around them, as measured by the eternal First Question at every meeting: "what do you do, where do you work?" Some answers are more prestigious than others.

This is most noticeable in the straight dude community, if only because women don't tend to engage in as many obvious pissing contests and gay guys are used to a narcissistic and self-absorbed dating pool regardless.

You can get away from it if you try, but my straight friends always used to complain about awful first dates a lot.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Inferior Third Season posted:

Porn, politics, and rock & roll are the best ways for non-rich ugly guys to have sex with attractive women. Porn and rock require natural gifts or tremendous effort (also, ugly guys in porn hasn't really been true since the 80's), leaving politics as the seemingly easiest path to success.

Have you watched porn since the 80s? The men clearly aren't being chosen for their faces.

TheImmigrant
Jan 18, 2011

Combed Thunderclap posted:


DC is cool and good, our psychopath/egomaniac per capita rate is higher than average but this only makes it easier to find people to ridicule, and those rates still aren't as high as Manhattan. Not that this is too difficult.

...that said apologies in advance to women looking for hot dates here because hoo boy it is true that the straight dating scene is flooded with (People Who Think They're) The Next President of the United States.

DC is paradise on earth for a presentable single guy with disposable income. My best friend in DC is female - her assessment of DC men is that they are almost all either gay, insufferably douchy, or married.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Quorum posted:

Like Manhattan, DC is a city where you go to get ahead in life, though for DC it's politics and government consulting rather than finance. This means it's necessarily stuffed with narcissistic assholes eternally obsessed with their own success relative to that of everyone around them, as measured by the eternal First Question at every meeting: "what do you do, where do you work?" Some answers are more prestigious than others.

This is most noticeable in the straight dude community, if only because women don't tend to engage in as many obvious pissing contests and gay guys are used to a narcissistic and self-absorbed dating pool regardless.

You can get away from it if you try, but my straight friends always used to complain about awful first dates a lot.

poo poo, I imagine House of Cards hasn't helped mitigate that in the least. I recall Boiler Room being one of those situations where a lot of shitters identified with the bad guys. Probably the same with HoC where everyone thinks they're some ~triangulating mastermind~ like Frank Underwood and just glosses over the trail of corpses.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

FAUXTON posted:

poo poo, I imagine House of Cards hasn't helped mitigate that in the least. I recall Boiler Room being one of those situations where a lot of shitters identified with the bad guys. Probably the same with HoC where everyone thinks they're some ~triangulating mastermind~ like Frank Underwood and just glosses over the trail of corpses.
Apparently douchey assholes with slicked back hair in expensive custom-tailored suits wasn't really a thing in Manhattan until everyone saw Wall Street and decided that Gordon Gecko should be emulated rather than despised.

fosborb
Dec 15, 2006



Chronic Good Poster

FAUXTON posted:

poo poo, I imagine House of Cards hasn't helped mitigate that in the least. I recall Boiler Room being one of those situations where a lot of shitters identified with the bad guys. Probably the same with HoC where everyone thinks they're some ~triangulating mastermind~ like Frank Underwood and just glosses over the trail of corpses.

Eh, my experience is that it's the same set of horny 20-somethings you'd find anywhere but in DC they're more likely to be wearing cufflinks.

edit: that said, yeah there is prestige. Anyone working for State, for instance, is going to be smart and ambitious as hell. They won't necessarily be douches, but it's a winning combination of they are....

Best tip I have from friends in the area is to find the politically-aligned bars and avoid them at all costs

fosborb fucked around with this message at 14:25 on May 2, 2016

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


What the hell I didn't even post in this thread yet. Future proofing I guess but I would have rather gotten a Lum avatar instead.

That Wilmore dinner speech was pretty great and the awkward pauses and boos from the audience made it better.

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



Xanderkish posted:

This sounds amazing and I want to hear more about it.

Dana Perino's account of trying to find someone to date in DC is pretty much the prototypical experience.

quote:

Years before she became press secretary to President George W. Bush, Dana Perino had what she describes in her new memoir as a “quarter-life crisis.” In 1997, at age 25, Perino felt stuck in her career on Capitol Hill and, “on the personal side of things, I hadn’t had a boyfriend in years.” Now 42, married, and a host on Fox News’s “The Five,” Perino offers very specific thoughts on why the male dating pool in Washington was — and remains — so unappealing:

I had many friends that I hung out with a lot, but the dating scene in D.C. was pathetic. (It still is, right, ladies?) I remember thinking that there just weren’t that many men I was interested in around Washington. Most of the guys didn’t look like they’d ever worked outside a day in their lives — soft hands, limp handshakes, pale skin, and pudgy middles. The good-looking ones were either already hitched or married to their political ambition with little senses of humor. It was slim pickings for a single woman.

Don’t worry. Perino’s love life worked out all right — she met her future husband on a plane that same year, on her way from Denver to Washington. And no, he wasn’t a Washington guy but a Brit. The accent helped, she explains: “American women fall for it every time.”

EDIT: Anyway the moral of the story is Go to Colorado, The Best State, If You Want to Find Happiness and True Love :smuggo: :co:

Combed Thunderclap fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 2, 2016

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Inferior Third Season posted:

Apparently douchey assholes with slicked back hair in expensive custom-tailored suits wasn't really a thing in Manhattan until everyone saw Wall Street and decided that Gordon Gecko should be emulated rather than despised.

If your're serious, this reads pretty close to sarcasm. Not that I'd be surprised either way because art imitates life and all, but when I went to college there was a huge growth in those types and I wasn't even going to a school known for its business majors (it was well-known for being a big engineering school due to the large companies in the state needing aero and structural engineers and NASA needing nerds for space poo poo) but the influx of bros made a mess out of the greek orgs, IIRC one (possibly more) ended up getting shut down over hilariously stupid hazing antics like playing chicken with a pickup full of hogtied pledges.

In short, my anecdote :v:

Old James
Nov 20, 2003

Wait a sec. I don't know an Old James!

bowser posted:

Obama is going to be the Reagan of the left. Regardless of all his shortcomings, he was undeniably a cool and likeable President and that's really what will be remembered. I look forward to candidates in the 2044 Democratic Primary debates invoking his name reverently :allears:

In Austin, TX there's a major road that, when it enters Conservative Williamson County is renamed Ronald Reagan Blvd. I look forward to Austin renaming their stretch Barak Hussein Obama Lane (currently Parmer Lane).


EDIT: Repeat across the USA

Old James fucked around with this message at 15:02 on May 2, 2016

Grand Theft Autobot
Feb 28, 2008

I'm something of a fucking idiot myself

Inferior Third Season posted:

Fat southern boy shoots home intruder (after missing 11 times) while he was trying to leave with a hamper, and then publicly mocks him.

I think we've hit peak America.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/01/alabama_boy_shoots_burglar_mocks_him_for_crying_like_a_little_baby.html

Yeah, sorry, this story owns.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Grundulum posted:

Have you watched porn since the 80s? The men clearly aren't being chosen for their faces.

I feel sad now and I'm going to drown my feelings in food.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008


Don't worry Trump will close that gap when he progressively picks Condoleeza Rice as VP. Shoring up female, black, and establishment blocs of voters.

Godlessdonut
Sep 13, 2005

Inferior Third Season posted:

Fat southern boy shoots home intruder (after missing 11 times) while he was trying to leave with a hamper, and then publicly mocks him.

I think we've hit peak America.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/01/alabama_boy_shoots_burglar_mocks_him_for_crying_like_a_little_baby.html

Kid seems like he's destined to be a cop.

Winkie01
Nov 28, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I88Gtsr4mzI



The ads this election are going to be great on both sides.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

There's a star maaaaaan
Over the rainbow

Antti posted:

Hell, it'd be fun if they ran for some local office. Like city councillor or something. In small countries this isn't that unusual, for a former Prime Minister or President to keep participating in some small way.

I suppose former Presidents make too much money and want to plow that into charity if they're civic-minded, they'll accomplish more that way.

Welcome to Mooseport was not a good movie.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


El Disco posted:

Kid seems like he's destined to be a cop.

He's probably has slightly better aim than the average LEO.

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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Mr Hootington posted:

Don't worry Trump will close that gap when he progressively picks Condoleeza Rice as VP. Shoring up female, black, and establishment blocs of voters.

Condi Rice would sooner light herself on fire and run naked down Broadway at rush hour than set foot in Washington again.

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