Jolt Country

So what you're saying is that you aren't "in favor" of King Charles here.

I thankfully keep forgetting the royal family exists, and then I see shit like this. This was on LinkedIn, a terrible site. This ... this is not work news, by the way, but:

This was one of my fave pics. When people were losing their shit about Michelle Obama touching the Queen, she reciprocated with an arm around the waist. Like "Everybody calm down, I'm good!"

I wish I had the vocabulary to describe how pathetic literally every single part of this is. But I don't. I'll start with, "God, imagine bolting out of bed on a Thursday and getting on Work Facebook and writing about this, like any of it fucking matters."

Casual Observer wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:09 pm

Now, this doesn't show up (it just says "image") because I'm that guy at parties who uses anti-tracker browser extensions, but I'm gonna say it anyway:

Who's that?

It is Queen Elizabeth II.

His greatest work....

Fuckers won't let me inline the clip. Just hit the link

I would like it if we could spend 33 hours acting insane towards each other in celebration of Nurse Ratched

AArdvark wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 2:54 amI would like it if we could spend 33 hours acting insane towards each other in celebration of Nurse Ratched

Okay. I will be damned! You know what, all this time i thought the character's name was Nurse Ratchet. You fucking bastard, how dare you force me to have to go on Wikipedia and verify what you said! Look what you made me do, you son-of-a-bitch!

Hey, 'Vark, that insane enough for you? I can be nastier and more crazy if you want...

"Well, we're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy."
- Seal, Crazy

Well I plan on voting for Eisenhower this November. That makes me the bull goose loony

AArdvark wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:21 am Well I plan on voting for Eisenhower this November. That makes me the bull goose loony

Harry Truman allegedly spoke about what it would be like for Eisenhower once he takes office.

"Poor Ike. He's going to hate being president, He won't realize this isn't the army. He'll say 'Do this,' and 'do that,' and nothing will happen."

Er, you didn't read the book, did you

AArdvark wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:26 pm Er, you didn't read the book, did you

You're right; it was my memory. Looking it up, while my quote was not exact, I did get the essence of the quote. I found the exact quote at the world's largest library of facts and information, stored in hundreds of millions of places:

QUOTATION: When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.”
ATTRIBUTION: HARRY S. TRUMAN.—Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power, the Politics of Leadership, p. 9 (1960).
SUBJECTS: Presidency

The original place where I read it noted that Truman was wrong; Rosenmhpwer did understand and knew something about how, after four years of grueling war (1941-1945) the country needed time to recover, and heal. Yes, and again it's not exact and at 3 in the morning I'm too tired & lazy to look it up.

Oh hell, if I don't check it, someone\a gonna ding me for it anyway. You guys are probably more pedantic than I am.

So, on second thought, it probably took as long or longer to say I was too tired to look it up than to just look it up in the first place. Here it is, with attribution:

Harry Truman didn't think his successor had the right training to be president. "Poor Ike -- it won't be a bit like the Army," he said. "He'll sit there all day saying, 'Do this, do that,' and nothing will happen." Truman was wrong about Ike. Dwight Eisenhower had led a fractious alliance -- you didn't tell Winston Churchill what to do -- in a massive, chaotic war. He was used to politics.
- Fareed Zakaria, "Sun King Syndrome", Washington Post, Washingtonpost.com, August 21, 2001 at this location.

I meant the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Eisenhower is purely incidental. In the book it was a small one-upmanship contest between McMurphy and Harding to decide who was the defacto leader of the inmates.

No way!

That comic accordion lifestyle finally caught up with her

A bit late but I enjoyed this one..

Jean-Luc Godard
The director died at age 91 by assisted suicide in Rolle, Switzerland. Godard's longtime legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, told The New York Times on September 13, that the filmmaker "decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, 'Now, it's enough.'"

FUCK THIS PLACE!!

Judy Tenuta acted in half a dozen movies in 2020. When the pandemic hit she slowed down and during that time she was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. After her death, her publicist confirmed that Judy was born in 1949, not 1965 like she told everybody. Tenuta's tape was one of the first ones I bought as a teen as I was transitioning from my parents' comedy albums to my own and I'm sure all my friends got sick of hearing it (and me repeating those bits).

She wrote:Death

Oh man, no more Mrs Pots!