Steerzing in a New Direction...

[John D]

This is pretty funny.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

They should instead just hitchhike from trailhead to trailhead, then write a complete fantasy story inspiring memoir about it, like Cheryl Strayed.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

So - yeah. Sometimes Peterson goes in a strange direction... and sometimes his stories are "just so" kind of explanations. But, IMHO, when he gets on a roll he is pretty inspirational. I am going to see him tomorrow in Detroit with some friends at the Filmore Detroit.

Maybe it is just me... but I think I am not alone. This little rant helps me focus on improving my behavior. LISTEN! I fail at this far too often. LISTEN!

So what I hear you saying is, it's impossible to argue with either lobsters or Steersman.

[MarcusAu]

JP looks like he has aged 20 years in the last 10.

Not sure how it's going - but I would not be particularly surprised if things do not end well...

[Service Dog]

AT. ... It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

Yeah-- that trail has developed a subculture-- it's like the motivational slogans printed-on Lululemon yoga pants. And it's not just the women. There's a bunch of narrow-shouldered sensitive males who think like those women-- with the same emotional profile.

Banning selfie-sticks would be a good start.

[Lsuoma]

For those of you with a longish memory:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/star-wars-kid-t ... l-shadows/

[John D]

For those of you with a longish memory:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/star-wars-kid-t ... l-shadows/

Thanks for posting. Great video.

[Steersman]

Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/3owzW5c1 ... Wk/200.gif

What are these "women" you speak of?

#NotABiologist

:(

:-) Clearly a bunch of jam tarts - do none of them have penises and testicles? ;-)

Though I'd argue that many women certainly seem to have more "balls" than do many "adult human males" ...

But ICYMI, seems Keir Starmer - along with many of his "estimable" collegues on both sides of the aisle ... - seems to have some difficulty answering that question:

Sir Keir Starmer has struggled to say whether a woman can have a penis as he insisted that debates on trans rights need to be done differently.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/star ... -hbbw2sspw

Mealy-mouthed ignorant arseholes - of both or neither sexes.

But seems likely that that is going to be the proverbial $64,000 question (inflation ...) in the upcoming UK elections:

Can you become a woman by simply saying you are one? Should legislation be based on facts or feelings? ....

What was once a deeply private matter has become a public “gotcha” moment. Sir Keir Starmer was merely the latest Labour politician to fall into a familiar trap this week, paralysed by platitudes the moment anyone asks if a woman can have a penis. What do they expect when for years they have been repeating that blank, infuriating mantra, “trans women are women”. You can almost hear the whirr of brain cogs in interviews as they scramble through the shrinking list of words and phrases that won’t offend. Their inability to articulate a simple answer has prompted a campaign — “Respect my sex if you want my X” — which will put candidates under scrutiny before local elections next month.

Share coupon, if it's still valid, to that Times article available at the GC News site, link below, a bonus being my comment thereat ;-)

https://gcnews.substack.com/p/friday-ap ... 847200?s=r

But don't think many people quite realize the pervasive and quite pernicious rot that ideological dogma has wrought, so to speak. And from both the transgender and feminist tribes and their ilk. It's not just an academic question - as much as many here seem to think that that is the case - how we should define various categories - "woman" and, more broadly, "female" in particular. There's some rhyme and reason, some logic in how we might or should do so - it's not just the transloonie nutcases and feminists who give some evidence of being "logic-challenged", who have some seriously untenable “prior commitments” they have to deal with.

But I have to concede, am more or less pleasantly surprised to see, that at least some feminists are starting to read the writing on the wall:

Effectively, the stupid story [transgenderism?] functions, for mainstream feminism, as a reductio ad absurdum: it reduces most of contemporary feminism to risible absurdity, necessitating urgent reflection on the tenability of prior commitments to explain how the absurdity ever got such a firm grip.

https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/fe ... t-camp?s=r

Amen to that lady, amen to that.

However, while I wish the author of that – “philosopher” Kathleen Stock – every success in her “reflections”, I think the jury is still out on whether she has enough intellectual honesty, enough “balls” to do justice to that task.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

More sick revelations about Kentanji Brown Jackson's leniency toward pedos:

https://nypost.com/2022/04/02/ketanyi-b ... sex-cases/

[Steersman]

This is pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVPH2CN9sps

:-) Bunch of amusing quips, notably that, as Smith is apparently not into any drugs or booze, the only rock that he has ever smoked has been Chris ...

But another video on "smack-gate" that had popped up was one by Matt Walsh who argued, not without some justification, that the real villain in the contretemps was Jada Pinkett:



I remember seeing a cartoon - probably some 50 years ago in Playboy :shock: - which showed the opening scene of a couple of 18th century duelists, back to back, pistols at the ready, while in the background some demure coquette, complete with parasol, awaited the outcome of a defense of her "honour". Subsequent panels showed the duelists pacing off the requisite distance, turning, and both shooting the "lady" in question.

Seems rather too many "white knights" - of many skin colourations - are defending of the "honour" of various "ladies" which is often rather tarnished at best.

You may know of the famous mathematician Évariste Galois who was apparently, and criminally, killed in similar duel before he was hardly 20:

I am the victim of an infamous coquette and her two dupes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89var ... Final_days

Probably a major loss for mathematics and all of civilization to boot.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

'Journalist' who regulary smears and doxxes, pulls a Malady Hensley:

[Steersman]

So - yeah. Sometimes Peterson goes in a strange direction... and sometimes his stories are "just so" kind of explanations. But, IMHO, when he gets on a roll he is pretty inspirational. I am going to see him tomorrow in Detroit with some friends at the Filmore Detroit.

Maybe it is just me... but I think I am not alone. This little rant helps me focus on improving my behavior. LISTEN! I fail at this far too often. LISTEN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1JWRFIzppA

So what I hear you saying is, it's impossible to argue with either lobsters or Steersman.

:-) "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts". ;-)

And reason and logic, though conclusions tend to be only as good as the premises. Which are often more in the way of conjectures or working hypotheses than actual facts. Euclidean versus non-Euclidean geometry for example. The modus operandi is generally if the reasoning leads to contradictions then there's probably something wrong with the premises, or aren't as universal as expected; physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, my kind of gal:

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Though most people tend to base their "conclusions" more on feelings than on either facts or logic - a case in point being the recently described clusterfuck in the UK over the inability of various "politicians" to say whether some women have penises or not. But something I ran across recently from Pascal that underlines that dichotomy:

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

In any case, Peterson's suggested policy for arguing - "steel-manning" - seems quite reasonable. Though he has a tendency to get overly emotional - maybe not entirely without reason. But the tail-end of his talk was looking a bit hysterical or somewhat akin to "precious bodily fluids":

Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? ... He said "War is too important to be left to the generals." When he said that, fifty years ago, he may have been right. But today war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

[Brive1987]

Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

They should instead just hitchhike from trailhead to trailhead, then write a complete fantasy story inspiring memoir about it, like Cheryl Strayed.

That was the PCT of course. Unreadable book. Unwatchable film. Apart from the “yellow blazing” she didn’t even start at Campo - and didn’t bother with the whole Washington State to Canada bit either. One day she might complete her section hike. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

[Steersman]

JP looks like he has aged 20 years in the last 10.

Not sure how it's going - but I would not be particularly surprised if things do not end well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMyB_8eWfak

It's always darkest just before it goes pitch-black ... ;-)

Guy is clearly articulate, and insightful, even if rather overly emotional at times - maybe with some justification. He's clearly had a great deal of exposure to the tragedies of many people's lives which has to be - and clearly was for him - rather devastating.

Maybe too easy for all of us to have a too superficial regard for what's happening under the hood with the many horrific stories we read about. Reminds me of the movie "Being There":

Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in Washington, D.C. He has spent his whole life tending the garden and has never left the property. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively tells the lawyers that he has no claim against the estate and is ordered to move out.

Chance wanders aimlessly, discovering the outside world for the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There

Seem to recollect from watching it many years ago that "Chance" had a TV remote that he took with him and when he saw some street violence he pointed the remote at it supposedly "thinking" it was just an unpleasant story that could be safely ignored and deleted. Arguably the "entropy of feeling" that zoologist Konrad Lorenz called one of "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins".

But someone once quipped that to those who think, life is a comedy while to those who feel, life is a tragedy. Most manage to do both while generally not giving either tendency free rein or allowing them to become debilitating.

[Service Dog]

I didn't make it past the headline. Somebody tell me whether this re-creation of my 90's local video store--
includes the computer by the cash register. That thing knows how many times I rented the same Vanessa Chase porn tape.

https://deadline.com/2022/04/kims-video ... 234991922/

[Service Dog]

[Service Dog]

[Matt Cavanaugh]

[Service Dog]

he has not been shown to have committed a crime, much less one that his father was involved in. He is a piece of shit but the Trumpers had to go further than his misdeeds, as cringeworthy as they were and make stuff up.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Jumanji Jackson Brown has no opinion on whether we have inalienable rights:

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[Service Dog]

https://media.patriots.win/post/KxGhqn0Cojco.jpeg

[free thoughtpolice]

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[Service Dog]

I just like to see the Slymepit as fair and balanced as possible. A little MAGA bashing to counter the lefty pedo bashing.

It was a good truce. John promised to stop talking about ftp licking his butthole. And Free Thoughtpolice promised to stop being a pedophile.

And, yes, I admit, technically: John broke the truce. I don't think John realized what he had done. I made a joke about The Waltons-- 'goodnight, John-Boy.' And John responded with a quip-- that he was going to dream of Steersman kissing his ass. "and ftp too" was a mere afterthought.

And-- ever since then-- you truly-have provided a fair & balanced counterbalance to those of us who would like to see Joe Biden, James Biden, Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland & the FBI-- punished for their cover-up of Hunter's sexual abuse of his underage niece.

True true true... Trump making common cause with Putin... against the Biden Pedophilia Incest Ring-- is a rather bold move.
On the other hand-- don't forget The Perfect Phone Call. Trump *first* tried to enlist our friends in Ukraine.

Don't blame the messenger.

That's what she said.

Unfortunately, "she" is Ketanji Brown Jackson, and "the messenger" are child traffickers and distributors of kiddie porn.

[Brive1987]

Fuck me. It’s a 160 day hike which seems to attract mentally broken women desperate to prove they are strong and whole. And failing.

They should instead just hitchhike from trailhead to trailhead, then write a complete fantasy story inspiring memoir about it, like Cheryl Strayed.

That was the PCT of course. Unreadable book. Unwatchable film. Apart from the “yellow blazing” she didn’t even start at Campo - and didn’t bother with the whole Washington State to Canada bit either. One day she might complete her section hike. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Here is a 25 part takedown on the book by a thru hiker. The post is titled: I hate Cheryl Strayed

https://cherylstrayedisaliar.blogspot.c ... nd-on.html


The map is mine.

[Brive1987]

A taster:

"Strayed," incidentally, is the last name Cheryl chose for herself upon the finalization of her divorce. She chose this name because she was a lying, cheating whore who had sex with multiple men while still married to her seemingly perfect husband, and she thought it would be incredibly clever to give herself the last name "Strayed" because...wait for it...she STRAYED in her marriage.

If you don't hate her a little bit already, you should probably refrain from reading all future posts on this book review and go waste your money on her bullshit memoir. You'll just love it.

And Cheryl, if you're reading this, good luck "zapping" it out of existence.

[Service Dog]

MSNBC “The Cross Connection” host Tiffany Cross on Sunday attempted to explain the Will Smith slap of Chris Rock at last week’s Oscars to white people, who she claimed did not understand why black people wanted them to refrain from opining on the incident.

TheGrio columnist Michael Harriot asserted it was “hard to explain to a white person what’s the difference between an open-handed slap and a punch,” adding that “they consider it all violent.”

Cross said there was “nuance to what happened” and likened it to a guest commenting on an incident inside someone else’s home.

“I will try to put this in context for our white fellow countrymen as best I can,” Ms. Cross outlined. “And really, truly, black America, there’s a commonality amongst us all. And if we went to a white person’s home, and it was their family dinner, and we were sitting at the table, and the mother hauled off and slapped the father. And everybody at the table has an opinion. You know, the sister is like, ‘Mom, you always do this.’ And the brother is like, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this.’ And Dad is like, ‘You’re terrible.’ If I weigh in as the guest in this home and I say, ‘Yeah, you guys are terrible.’ Everybody’s like, ‘I’m sorry. When did you get an opinion? This is our family table.'”

She added, “That’s what this moment felt like for many of us. And there’s a nuance to what happened that we should get into.”

[Brive1987]

🤣

If, in the future, I were ever at a party and Cheryl Strayed happened to walk up to me and introduce herself, I would punch her right in the face. Before you start mentally reprimanding me for that, let me explain that it would be an instinctual reflex, or something like Tourette's, and I could not realistically be held accountable for my actions. My body knows how much my brain hates her, and it would react accordingly. Feel free now, however, to reprimand me for saying that I HOPE I MEET CHERYL STRAYED AT A PARTY ONE DAY.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I read that entire blog. It's long and in-depth, but absolutely hilarious.

[Service Dog]

[John D]

🤣

If, in the future, I were ever at a party and Cheryl Strayed happened to walk up to me and introduce herself, I would punch her right in the face. Before you start mentally reprimanding me for that, let me explain that it would be an instinctual reflex, or something like Tourette's, and I could not realistically be held accountable for my actions. My body knows how much my brain hates her, and it would react accordingly. Feel free now, however, to reprimand me for saying that I HOPE I MEET CHERYL STRAYED AT A PARTY ONE DAY.

So... yeah. I am not a particularly powerful guy. 5'8" and 175 pounds. Mostly torso. But... I have through hiked Isle Royale twice. About 65 miles with no place to run. Once you are half way across the island your only choice is to hike to the end. I have hiked at least a few hundred miles in my life... AT and Porcupine Mountains and Rainier and Glacier. Five and six days straight. Stuff like that.

A few years ago the ladies in our book club decided that "Wild" would be a good book for us to read. All my male friends, who are all backpackers, thought it was lame. Stupid really. And we thought Strayed was some kind of cunt. All the ladies thought she was brave and honest. Haha.

There is a scene in the book where she has taken off her boots. One boot accidentally slips off a cliff and plunges to a point where it cannot be recovered. Strayed decides to then throw her other boot off the fucking cliff because "how can you hike with one boot." My male friends are like.... "What... is she retarded? You wrap your bare foot in a towel and continue as best you can. How can it be better to have no boots?" And the ladies in the group are like "Really?" Oh my fucking god. I don't think Strayed hiked more than 50 miles in her life. Your boots are the most precious thing in your life. Stupid fucking cunt.

And really. Who takes the PCT with a 100 pound pack? For a 130 pound woman this is impossible. Hell, I do whatever I can to get my pack below 45 pounds. I have never carried 100 pounds. 65 pounds max.... and that was a really bad time. Again... I am not a big guy, but I am bigger than Strayed.

Haha. Side story. Hiking through the Porkies last year, a solo dood hiked by us. He was packing a Colt 45 in an open carry holster. He was about 6 foot 6 and had a pack the size of a pickup truck. He had two hiking poles that where small tree trunks... something like three inches in diameter. I yelled at him "Hey... those are not hiking poles... those are hiking trees." Seriously, they where like 7 feet long. He complained to us that the night before he could not leave his tent because there were a thousand black flies around his tent. I believe him. The black flies were hell that year.

Same trip we camped at the same sight with two cute little college girls. They had no rain gear and they had no way to hoist their food. It was pouring rain and they were just sitting in the woods freezing. My pals and I gave them some rope and hoisted their food. The Porkies have lots of aggressive black bears that will eat your food. You have to hoist your food. So... haha... us 60 year old men are helping these 18 year old little girls try to survive the night. We were on the trail before they got out of their tent the next day.

Same night... we ran into a 24 year old woman who was hiking the whole park. Damn. She was fine as hell. Way out of my league...haha. She was solo hiking 50 miles. She had great gear and a satellite phone to talk to her dad every night. She was no Strayed. We had a nice chat about engineering since she was a civil engineer. She was single. She didn't find a dood she liked well enough. I can understand why. She was fucking intimidating. Not that it mattered to me... but I do feel a bit sorry for women who are very accomplished. There are not many men in world for them. 5 foot 9 inches... 150 pounds... through hiking the Porkies... Engineering degree... WTF. What dood can match that shit? One of god's masterpieces.

It is kind of nice being an old average sized guy. Women don't see me as a threat so we can talk. I have no interest in hooking up or anything, so I say whatever I think and they just chat back. There is some real freedom when you don't give a fuck. Sloppy cunts like Strayed are kind of repulsive to me. Vacuous, self-centered, drama whores... fuck off.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Cheryl Strayed is the Cluster B Nightmare Combo -- BPD + NPD.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

An old friend from high school, who's had ongoing mental health issues, but who is also very self-absorbed, recently went on 'Walk About' to 'process' some lockdown related depression. So he walked from Southern Oregon to San Francisco. In the middle of the Summer. In Converse All-Stars. Wearing a Tom Sawyer hat. Wielding a walking stick adorned with a mystical feather given to him by a mystical Native American friend.

Purified, purged, recharged, refocused, he celebrated by bowing to the Golden Gate Bridge and kissing the asphalt. Then his wife picked him up and drove him back home.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

At least he dropped a few pounds, cuz he was starting to look like Gerard Depardieu.

[fuzzy]

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine ... mp-1693210

In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early, and to again help our partner, Trump, to become president."

But Russia never helped Trump get into power. How could they help him again?

That horse died a long time ago. You can stop beating it now.

Um: you, Cavvers, or Doggy telling anyone to stop beating a dead horse?

By my lights one of those horses is long dead whereas the other one health is at least in some dispute. Or are you trying to tell me that Russia gate is true?

[fuzzy]

I guess some people still believe the piss soaked Russian hotel bed story is true.

[fuzzy]

And the Mexican cactus.

[fuzzy]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-mexican-pet/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cactus-attacked-us/

[fuzzy]

Or that this violent alcoholic ever set foot on the noon

[fuzzy]

Yeah and when I want to know what FTP thinks about anything, I just eliminate the middleman and go straight to CNN

[fuzzy]

So John D, a few weeks ago I found myself bleeding in my living room with strangers in my house because I had called 911. I have weak vision and my glasses were somewhere in the shards of porcelain and I had abandoned them in the future proceedings when I learned I was in fact bleeding etc. At some point some minutes later I am invaded by a host of emergency responders, and at one point I remark after having seen a man in a T-shirt with a printed badge signifying law enforcement I complained geez law enforcement ... When's they responded that well when you call 911 that's kind of part of the deal, and I immediately agreed, but in the end it turns out that was Blocker, my hoss Cartwright - descended somewhat acquaintance. Only after reflecting on events some days later did I realize that was blocker, partly because in the ambulance the sheriff had remarked when I mentioned blocker that he had been in the house, and I finally put it together a few days later. At some points in the event I was in an emergency room in great pain with a tourniquet on my arm, actually the pain only set in after a period of time, you can wear it tourniquet for 20 or 30 minutes I guess before your arm starts screaming that it's going to die. So this doctor is doing things to my arm and I'm conscious and there's a room full of people watching because this is an educational event at the local hospital and I'm not objecting, and I have no idea what the faces of any of these people look like. You know Becky wears pretty thick glasses

[fuzzy]

Okay, so I live in a fairly small community of some few tens of thousands, so I'm going to bump into lots of these people who saw me, and they're going to think yeah that was that guy in the emergency room, and I'm going to look at them and think, nothing.

So when a week vision the kid is playing soccer or something in the schoolyard maybe he's not wearing his glasses you know and he's paying attention to everybody's feet but not their faces. And maybe somehow when this happens steadily over long period of time something happens in your brain where you don't really recognize what's going on with people's faces.

So I'm about to relate some embarrassment I suffered because I couldn't put together a face and a name, as you describe it something that I could perhaps fix if I would just concentrate harder on it but, no such problem exists because it's a weird brain disorder and I must take responsibility for everything I do or say, no I'm just saying that there is a like a speedy circuit like a graphics card that develops in the brain of a developing child, and maybe in a week vision child that thing doesn't develop like it ought to

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Omicron came from lab mice?

https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/exc ... a-lab-too/

[Matt Cavanaugh]

And the Mexican cactus.

Jumping Chollas are a thing, though. One attacked my dad once.

https://www.gardenguides.com/13426565-w ... actus.html

[fuzzy]

And I would really like to apologize for the spelling of 'weak' because I am trying to learn how to dictate using a piece of shite. So let's start over again. A kid with weak vision has weak vision, and doesn't really want to wear those stupid f****** glasses when they're playing at recess. Gosh it is eerie how the spell checker has adapted to my spelling of weak. This factoid actually comes up in the police report about the crazy person who created a false fake book account and false threatening letter to herself, to her misspelling of the word ridiculous turned up in both the supposed threatening letter from me, and several posts of hers. I'm easily distracted, and I don't even remember what the hell I started talking about when I began this paragraph.
But I do know that I really like John D. So yeah what are you doing about a little three to six year old kid with bad eyesight? It's hard to know because you know it's easy to cheat on vision tests if you're a clever young child, and maybe when you're playing sports you decide it's okay to take off your glasses. And then 40 years later, when a dear friend dies and you are talking to one of his two daughters, which you assume is the one whose husband just died and the funeral you're at, but is in fact, her sister who appeared in a video right here on the slimy pit at the top of a page a few page ago how about that

[free thoughtpolice]

[Bhurzum]

I have never carried 100 pounds. 65 pounds max.... and that was a really bad time. Again... I am not a big guy, but I am bigger than Strayed.

I done a career course alongside a bunch of paras (Parachute Regiment) many years ago. Part of the course involved a two-weeker "in the sticks" complete with longback, webbing, weapons, radios and all of the generic crap we lug around. One of the paras, a wee short-arse of about 5'6" height, had the most insane bergen I'd ever clapped eyes upon - the fucking thing was nearly the same size as him and weighed about 120lbs.

The little fucker humphed it around for the full exercise, zero complaints, and even set a blistering pace on several platoon moves. Mind you, the dude looked like a walking packing-crate - he was as wide as he was tall, pure muscle and hair-trigger-temper.

I miss cutting about on "angry camping" sessions. :(

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I have never carried 100 pounds. 65 pounds max.... and that was a really bad time. Again... I am not a big guy, but I am bigger than Strayed.

I done a career course alongside a bunch of paras (Parachute Regiment) many years ago. Part of the course involved a two-weeker "in the sticks" complete with longback, webbing, weapons, radios and all of the generic crap we lug around. One of the paras, a wee short-arse of about 5'6" height, had the most insane bergen I'd ever clapped eyes upon - the fucking thing was nearly the same size as him and weighed about 120lbs.

The little fucker humphed it around for the full exercise, zero complaints, and even set a blistering pace on several platoon moves. Mind you, the dude looked like a walking packing-crate - he was as wide as he was tall, pure muscle and hair-trigger-temper.

I miss cutting about on "angry camping" sessions. :(

I attended a Summer YMCA day camp when I was about 11. Final night was an overnight campout. We had to trudge up this rocky path over a steep wooded hill to the campsite with our gear. This one freaky kid, who'd told everyone he was really a rabbit, and ate grass and leaves to prove it, was whining and whimpering the whole way with his little rucksack. Another kid, 7 years old, was gamely dragging a fucking Samsonite his mom had packed him, and kept telling rabbit boi to shut up or turn back or just eat grass and die. He was brutal and hilarious. I finally took rabbit's pack and slung it on my should along with mine and told him to shut up cuz now he had nothing left to whine about, and besides look at the 7 yo dragging a damn Samsonite and having a good time doing it you freak.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Another story. When we were building the barn, my former partner and I went to the hardware store to pick up a load of 50 lb sacks of concrete. She goes in, places the order, then backs the truck up to the bay. I start loading while she goes back in to buy other stuff. I used to load two sacks at a time (and two 50 lb sacks of grain at a time, too) to save time. So I'm loading the truck and saying to myself, geez I'm starting to lose my edge cuz I can barely heft these sacks of concrete. When my partner comes back I tell her I think I'm getting weak and THEN she sez, oh yeah, I decided to buy 80 lb sacks instead.

Bitch.

[fuzzy]

So John D i fouled up the facts of my story a little bit, and I want to correct all that even though Matt will tell me that it's a bad storytelling technique, and he is as always correct, but I just want to say that the deceased was the husband of one of these two sisters, not the father is I had incorrectly stated in my previous doodad, and I approached the possible if only fuzzy were a church going guy kind of potential wistful life memory woman, and a dressed her as if she were the widow.

[fuzzy]

So John D, all over the county everybody that sees me is thinking gee whiz I looked that guy right in the eye and we did some kind of facial communication of the sort that's being prevented by masks now, and which is always been kind of a problem for visually impaired sorts of people like me, but it's all pretty easy to dismiss is the dudes of space Case you know because you is we looked each other in the eye and now he doesn't even remember that so he's a weirdo

[fuzzy]

Fortunately, I am quite normal so this is not a problem.

[fuzzy]

Flies will be easier to swat once we endow them with down syndrome.
https://archive.ph/Fn3LS

[Bhurzum]

Another story. When we were building the barn, my former partner and I went to the hardware store to pick up a load of 50 lb sacks of concrete. She goes in, places the order, then backs the truck up to the bay. I start loading while she goes back in to buy other stuff. I used to load two sacks at a time (and two 50 lb sacks of grain at a time, too) to save time. So I'm loading the truck and saying to myself, geez I'm starting to lose my edge cuz I can barely heft these sacks of concrete. When my partner comes back I tell her I think I'm getting weak and THEN she sez, oh yeah, I decided to buy 80 lb sacks instead.

Bitch.

Heh.

I have moments like that every week. The only difference is, I'm actually losing my edge.

Growing old is a proper bastard!

[Bhurzum]

Flies will be easier to swat once we endow them with down syndrome.
https://archive.ph/Fn3LS

https://loginportal.funnyjunk.com/thumb ... 1dff73.png

(with apologies to FTP - it's just a joke, mate)

[John D]

And I would really like to apologize for the spelling of 'weak' because I am trying to learn how to dictate using a piece of shite. So let's start over again. A kid with weak vision has weak vision, and doesn't really want to wear those stupid f****** glasses when they're playing at recess. Gosh it is eerie how the spell checker has adapted to my spelling of weak. This factoid actually comes up in the police report about the crazy person who created a false fake book account and false threatening letter to herself, to her misspelling of the word ridiculous turned up in both the supposed threatening letter from me, and several posts of hers. I'm easily distracted, and I don't even remember what the hell I started talking about when I began this paragraph.
But I do know that I really like John D. So yeah what are you doing about a little three to six year old kid with bad eyesight? It's hard to know because you know it's easy to cheat on vision tests if you're a clever young child, and maybe when you're playing sports you decide it's okay to take off your glasses. And then 40 years later, when a dear friend dies and you are talking to one of his two daughters, which you assume is the one whose husband just died and the funeral you're at, but is in fact, her sister who appeared in a video right here on the slimy pit at the top of a page a few page ago how about that

Well... I am honored to have your friendship Fuzzy. I am not quite sure what I have done to deserve it. I guess I just try to be honest... and I find the world to be a pretty comic place. Glad you are back on the pit. It reminds me of how many times you made me laugh out loud... for minutes. Haha. The pit still does this to me. One of you posted the meme that said "Why isn't Will Smith happy... he just got a miniature statue of his wife?" Haha. That was funny. I used that joke at a dinner party on Saturday. Really good stuff.... and so offensive.

Names and faces are a bitch. I know that people love it when someone remembers their name and face. I often screw this up. I do find that being honest helps. I will often just be honest and say... "Hi, I know you, but I honestly can't remember your name. What is your name?" ... and I will laugh and grin and shake their hand and repeat their name and apologize. It works pretty well for me. I find most people forgive you for forgetting as long as you are genuine in being kind to them. Some people are really offended if you forget their name. These people are hard for me to build a relationship with.

[John D]

I just like to see the Slymepit as fair and balanced as possible. A little MAGA bashing to counter the lefty pedo bashing.

It was a good truce. John promised to stop talking about ftp licking his butthole. And Free Thoughtpolice promised to stop being a pedophile.

And, yes, I admit, technically: John broke the truce. I don't think John realized what he had done. I made a joke about The Waltons-- 'goodnight, John-Boy.' And John responded with a quip-- that he was going to dream of Steersman kissing his ass. "and ftp too" was a mere afterthought.

And-- ever since then-- you truly-have provided a fair & balanced counterbalance to those of us who would like to see Joe Biden, James Biden, Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland & the FBI-- punished for their cover-up of Hunter's sexual abuse of his underage niece.

True true true... Trump making common cause with Putin... against the Biden Pedophilia Incest Ring-- is a rather bold move.
On the other hand-- don't forget The Perfect Phone Call. Trump *first* tried to enlist our friends in Ukraine.

Don't blame the messenger.

That's what she said.

Unfortunately, "she" is Ketanji Brown Jackson, and "the messenger" are child traffickers and distributors of kiddie porn.

Well... I will admit that my ass-hole joke became stupid and boring. I really only kept at it because it really was pissing off FTP. Haha. It was just a stupid obscene joke.

I am pretty sure FTP was honest in that he thinks I am a pervert that spies on my daughter having sex. Not sure where this came from in FTPs head. Really weird. I wouldn't mind if FTP was just joking... but they were not just joking.

So... I was intentionally telling a stupid obscene joke and FTP actually thinks I spy on my kid having sex. So... yeah. There is a difference. I have admitted that I was just telling a dumb joke... but FTP has not stated the same. Must be that FTP is serious in their accusation of me. So... fuck them... right?

Maybe I just share too much for FTP. I share a lot. I do have a colonoscopy next Monday. Perhaps I will share a story.

[Service Dog]

.

Another BLM mansion has been discovered-- by a New York Magazine reporter.
This one's in LA, $6 Million.

The article looks good, but I didn't make it past the part where BLM described their activities as: Abolition+

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04 ... house.html

___

This next story ends with Hunter Biden's laptop & a scheme to strip the US Postal Service of assets-- then sell-off the parts, for profit:

Bill Clinton had a buddy in college named Roger Altman, who was known for pursuing "golf and girls" over studies. Altman was involved in the Whitewater deal, and Altman resigned due to Altman's direct involvement in the fraudulent accounting.

As president, Clinton appointed Altman as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. In 1994, during the Whitewater hearings in Congress, Altman admitted that he had tipped-off the Clintons about 9 criminal referrals-- for election misconduct-- in Clinton's 1985 gubernatorial campaign. This ethical violation forced Altman to resign from Treasury.

Altman then founded Evercore, an investment firm.

Altman remains on the Council on Foreign Relations, and is "always keen on globalism". He is a neocon warhawk. He also focuses on indebted nations.

Altman says he is opposed to "classical liberal" philosophy.

Oh, by the way, when General Motors neared bankruptcy, Altman arranged a $46 Million fee-- if he could find a buyer. Failing to find a purchaser-- Altman still sought a $17.9 Million "success fee", payed from govt bailout funds. I mean, technically then, I guess he did find a purchaser... the taxpayer.

Altman was deeply involved in the Hamilton Project-- a more entreprenurial spin-off of Brookings (think Clinton Foundation). Hamilton went largely-dormant in 2008, because so many members joined the Obama Administration.

Altman's investment firm Evercore has a contract with the United States Postal Service.

An email in Hunter Biden's laptop reveals that Hunter and his Rosemont Seneca partners were solicited to locate a player to "fund this" "huge play". The laptop email sez: "Evercore has a contract with USPS, who knows what they do, strategic advice they say...probably they are just selling off the real estate quietly"

"I still love this idea!" replied Hunter.

Maybe China would like to own the Penn Station post office!

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/04/01 ... l-reveals/

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I have moments like that every week. The only difference is, I'm actually losing my edge.

Growing old is a proper bastard!

Oh that story is almost 20 years old. My upper body muscles can still handle 100 lbs, but it's my lower torso muscles giving way I'm worried about.

Now though, I do have to lift my 15 yo, 80lb dog into the truck. Growing old is a proper bastard, indeed!

[John D]

Ron Filipkowski (blue check Ukraine flag poster) intentionally leaves out the part where she says we are a "partner and our husbands wife". A subtle and important difference. He intentionally misquotes her. A Christian marriage is a partnership with slightly different roles for men and women. Women and men join into a partnership in a Christian marriage. Perhaps you don't know how well a traditional Christian marriage can work. Some work... some don't... but most non-Christians do not understand the way men and women make a traditional marriage work. I wouldn't expect you to understand how a traditional Christian marriage might work because I think you are a bit of an idiot. My sister, my brother, my parents... they all had a Christian marriage. They have had pretty happy and successful lives. I don't really know any non-Christians who have done any better.

I had a period in my life where I attacked this marriage model. I was a very militant atheist. I bashed all the Christian traditions as much as possible. Things look different to me now. Duty and honor are very useful models of behavior. My children can be stressed and undirected. Sam Harris is wrong...etc.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Matt will tell me that it's a bad storytelling technique

All I did was observe the Hollywood maxim, 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story.' Which, if you replace 'truth' with 'History', gets you SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, or with 'the laws of Physics', gets you INTERSTELLAR.