The Random Thoughts About Anything, except VAR, Thread [R]

Meanwhile...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ort-is-a-joke/ar-BBXKx7R?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

LONDON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Democrats' impeachment report was a joke with no merit and complained that a hearing had been scheduled while he was out of the country.

Hey Moron!
It's a Congressional Committee and report. Not a Democrat report. It's how the country works. We know you don;t like it.....

 

Outside: a hurricane rages.

Inside: Republicans argue that it's sunny and 70 degrees.

 

I'm not thoroughly convinced we're getting rid of him in 2020, so I hope y'all are ready for the long haul.

 

Then trump rewards his faithful.

‘What cruelty looks like’: Trump finalizes plan that would strip food aid from 750,000 low-income people by 2020

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/wh...od-aid-from-750000-low-income-people-by-2020/

 

Well, that's debatable. There's plenty of people in the cities and educated ones in the suburbs to get that dumb f uck out. The problem is that the Democratic party is a circular firing squad. Who knows though, a lot can happen in a year. In 2015, the Republican party was the big joke with their candidates that seemed like a clown show. The way our media spins things and makes everything a sound byte for Instagram, is just awful. Our debates are a joke. What can you possibly say of substance in 60-90 seconds?

 

Anything's possible, but recent actual votes in critical areas are heavily against Candidates he backs. Also - all it will really take to get rid of him is some mobilization.His vote is already maxed out.

In fact, if I were google I would set up a temporary "learning/training/thinking" campus in certain states and transfer in a few thousand or some tens of thousand workers for thought-studies in November next year.from California where there is a large voting surplus. Reminding them all that they have a civic duty to register and vote.
If rigging the population works for one it should work for all......
(Oh, and just for the record, for Congress, all voting districts should be drawn with straight lines.)

 

dunno - this maybe....
"Like I say, we went out there with a game plan, put them under pressure, and like I say, at the end of the day, we found a way to win."

 

Some of them were underage, so don;t tell anyone else....

 

Racism is a powerful drug.

Likewise misogyny.

 

A couple of Obituaries that take me back to the 80's ...

first (been a couple of weeks now) but this man was one of the funniest geezers to ever pick up a pen..... or open his mouth ....
R.I.P. Clive....
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/27/clive-james-obituary


and today, Bob Willis passed on ..... he of that great downhill run to shatter the cocky Australians back in the hot summer of 81....

 

Clive James witticism



A brown condom filled with Walnuts .... surely one of the greatest descriptions ever....

In 1962, a young man arrived in the UK from Australia, and – irreverently, joyously, hilariously – set about demolishing the walls between high and low art. The Observer TV columns that made him famous were essays of comic genius that treated all genres with equal seriousness and equal mockery. People who didn’t even own a TV bought the paper to read the high-wire weekly performance. Clive James was a TV critic who was also a TV star, a literary reviewer who was at the same time a poet and novelist, practising what he mocked, thin-skinned about being mocked right back.

 

How do you guys as Americans feel about this.

Make America 36th Out of 41 Developed Nations Again’: Social justice index of developed nations puts US near bottom



Hey we're above Turkey, Chile and Mexico.

 

Got to love the way these arseholes can spin theft of matches we watch on TV, to us paying for a system that still has bugs. Reports of buffering, forgive me if I'm wrong but there's none of the DVR advantages. So you have to watch when they publish the time, can't record, can't run back ( to check VAR )
BIGGEST DAY EVER... For them.


Amazon Prime smash new sign-ups record as Premier League broadcast makes Wednesday their BIGGEST DAY EVER, beating any Black Friday and the launch of the Grand Tour

The retail giant and streaming service rarely gives any window into their numbers, but has done so following figures that have eclipsed Black Friday and the launch of the Grand Tour.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...unch-Grand-Tour-Amazons-biggest-day-ever.html

 

DAZN isn't any hot shit either. for the Brighton match it took 15 effing minutes for the game to show up. yesterday I wanted to re-watch the first 45 from Weds, no way would the damn thing load ("problem with this video. try later"). I gave up after about 30 minutes. bastids.

it took TV broadcasting - what? - 60 years to get to the point it's at now for picture quality, reliability and so on. not sure I can wait that long for the effing web to reach those standards.

 

What, exactly, goes into the "social justice index?"

 

Dunno.

Edit: But Wiki does. So there.

The Social Progress Index (SPI) measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. Fifty-four indicators in the areas of basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and opportunity to progress show the relative performance of nations. The index is published by the nonprofitSocial Progress Imperative, and is based on the writings of Amartya Sen,Douglass North, and Joseph Stiglitz.[1]The SPI measures the well-being of a society by observing social and environmental outcomes directly rather than the economic factors. The social and environmental factors include wellness (including health, shelter and sanitation), equality, inclusion, sustainability and personal freedom and safety.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Progress_Index

 

Interesting.

 

Having lived in Ireland and Switzerland I 'm surprised that Ireland is a place above Schweiz....
the internal spirit of well-being, I suppose....

 

your breakfast bacon is swinging through the trees ...

Monkey-pig hybrids created by Chinese scientists

 

not a joke .....

Boris Johnson said female suffrage only happened because men realised women could “run them down” with cars, in a video that has resurfaced on social media.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-cars-oxford-video-social-media-a9237281.html

 

Reminds me of a bit on the old Man Show (Comedy Central in the 90's) where they tried to end women's suffrage by getting women to sign their petition . This is the type of shit you would never see in this age...

 

guess who won"