Monday Open Thread- Now more Warhammer adjacent!

wwWarhammerWarhammerWarhammerMany years ago, I worked for a CRO whose name started with a Q.  Not going to name and shame as they could be very litiginous. Anyway,  it is approaching Christmas, morale in the toilet as there were no raises that year, we had lost a couple of holidays that had been corporate holidays so they were paid vacation days, and the holiday party was being cut from staff and partners to just staff.  Nobody wants to work or is motivated to work, and then the most amazingly motivational email is received company wide: the CFO gives his thoughts on the year and how he knows that everyone is doing such a fantastic job through such hard times.  Now, if he had not prefaced this inspirational speech by saying that he thought all of this while having breakfast on his boat enjoying the sunrise as he is headed to a private safari somewhere in Africa, it could just be laughed off as the usual upper level corporate bullshit.  But no, the true lack of compassion, the sheer chutzpah of this email. The way I felt in that singular moment, after reading that email, is now how I feel all of the time now.  No particular reason, just felt the need to share.

Now, this is sort of tangetially adjacent to Warhammer, as I am getting ready to buy Warhammer 40k Boltgun to play on my steam deck.  Because I actually want to feel the same excitement of playing Doom! only this time as a Space Marine.  Well a stoned Space Marine, hmm, Space Marines can’t get stoned.  Maybe I’ll just say I inhaled too much of the smoke from the incense used to sanctify my weapon, yeah, that will work.  And is it paranoia when you know the God Emperor is watching you? – I bet Space Marines don’t masturbate because he might peek in unexpectedly.  They do, I read, have junk that works!  It is in case they get stranded on a world and if they integrate into the community (Dr. Evil saying “Riiiiiiiiight”) but they are supposed to spread the genes of the greatest of humanity so that the local population would eventually become a good pool to pull new Marines from!

OK, sports tonight – i assume hockey is still going on, the NBA is always on, MLB should have started the show by now, and the NCAA will be pulling in more money through the effort of younger and probably more moral young men.

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Mid 50's geek/nerd, avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, manga, Chinese Web novels, and British mysteries, cult movies are my thing (have you seen Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter?)
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blaxabbath

Arizona’s first round opponent is playing with a fired coach.

https://theathletic.com/5348619/2024/03/17/long-beach-state-ncaa-tournament-dan-monson/

Brick Meathook

Graumann’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood

https://ibb.co/gWwTqJh

Gumbygirl

You just know they’re going to stick the duck with the bill

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BugEyedBoo

A priest, a nun, and a rabbit walk into a bar. The rabbit says, “I think I’m a typo.”

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Today was weird. Didn’t feel like a Monday. Just felt off.

Doktor Zymm

I’ve been unemployed for something like 15 months. Days of the week are a mystery to me

WCS
Gumbygirl

I can’t be sure, but I think this is one of the ones that end in day. I should look it up.

blaxabbath

Leap year.

Mr. Ayo

You’re looking live at Climate Pledge Arena, which will soon Release the Kraken!!!

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SonOfSpam

Better be released sustainably.

ballsofsteelandfury

That brings up a good point:

Every ejaculation is sustainable. So have at it!

Doktor Zymm

Supposed to be good fertilizer so give Onan a miss and lay that seed on the ground!

Gumbygirl

Or at least into your potted plants!

Senor Weaselo

Or in the Nile!

BugEyedBoo

Onan is all about seed on the ground. Yahweh ain’t down with that.

7And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.  8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.  9And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.  10And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. 

ballsofsteelandfury

Considering the alternative is to knock up a sister in law, yeah spilling the seed is no big deal.

SonOfSpam

Look all I know is as a Catholic, I should never jerk it, so I never have.

The demonic entity that controls my right hand is sorta indifferent to Catholicism.

BugEyedBoo

I cheated you out of a verse. And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

When Er was killed by Yahweh (verse 7), clan law at the time was for Onan, his brother, to marry Er’s widow, Tamar. So Onan isn’t cheating on his brother, he just doesn’t want to raise a kid for his brother’s immediate family.

TIL the term “levirate marriage” for being forced to marry your brother’s widow.

Gumbygirl

The LORD is kind of a dick, just saying.

BugEyedBoo

Old Testament Yahweh is definitely an abusive dad kind of god. Look at that whole Tree of Knowledge thing. Or that, “Fuck it, I’m wiping everyone out and starting over,” flood thing. Or that whole Sodom and Gomorrah thing.

Doktor Zymm

I hear Kraken have some pretty kickass suckers on their tentacles. Didn’t think of this last night, but perhaps one of those tentacles could suction out those busted bolts!

Brick Meathook

It’s Lemony Fresh!

blaxabbath

Is this Climate Pledge brought to us by Scott’s Tots?

scotchnaut

Someone threw up Bad News Bears in Horatio’s thread so here’s Kevin Smith (who has lost a lot of weight but I still think he’s cancer-ridden because I’m a piece of shit that can’t wish anyone well) talking about it. He hit the nail on the head about the kid’s performances being so raw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbYX72_jXcA&ab_channel=ChiefScheider

Doktor Zymm

Oh, the ACTUAL bad news bears, not bad news about the bears misjudging the qb market and sorta getting flayed for letting Justin Fields go for too little even though it would have been super weird to keep him given that they’re obviously set on ruining another dude.

scotchnaut

The Bears were sitting in that horrible sweet spot-no matter what they did, there’d be an uproar in the old media and among the terminally on-line fans.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

He was actually hospitalized for a heart attack (I think) at the hospital right up the road from Casa Deadly. He almost died. I’d not be surprised if he very much took that shit to heart and changed his lifestyle in a huge way.

Brick Meathook

Lasted about two hours into Dune II; blew off the last 45 minutes. I just never could take it seriously and didn’t enjoy any of it.

ballsofsteelandfury

Didn’t know why you went in the first place.

BTW, I was in your hood today.

Brick Meathook

I had a meeting in Hollywood and had to kill time.

ballsofsteelandfury

Makes sense. Funny thing is I had the opposite. Had a meeting in your area. Wanted to eat at the LAX In-N-Out, but it ran long and I wanted to get the fuck out before traffic got too bad.

blaxabbath

HAVE YOU TRIED WHATABURGER?

ballsofsteelandfury

I actually have. It’s great!

Doktor Zymm

Missed quite a few in my music postings of a couple days ago, but Macy Gray was the worst omission
https://youtu.be/WEQ0l_m3Xm0

Doktor Zymm

She’s one of those fascinating people who thought she was an awful singer but still made it in a competitive industry through people who believed in her talent

ballsofsteelandfury

But if the Space Marines are masturbating at the thought of God Emperor watching them, doesn’t that make it okay?

WCS

It’s all good in SoCal.

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Redshirt

“If God involved, it’s kosher.”
-Various Religions

Doktor Zymm

Makes sense, the celibate warrior thing always seemed pretty short sighted. Although quite a few eunuchs ended up being functional but sterile which wasn’t actually great for harem guarding with no hanky panky. Unless they got some weird hormonal stuff going on, I’m gonna go with Space Marines still having the occasional tug. After all, evangelical youths do even though they’ve been convinced god is omnipresent

scotchnaut

Speaking of eunuchs, there’s a wonderful detective series featuring Yashim-he’s doing his thing in 19th century Turkey and it starts with The Janissary Tree. She is written by an historian-good stuff.

Doktor Zymm

Will check it out! Thank you!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Guarding a harem when the only people who know you’re still “functional” are the inhabitants?

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ballsofsteelandfury

Funny thing about that: even if it didn’t work, didn’t they have tongues?

Or was oral not a thing?

Doktor Zymm

Probably wasn’t actually. Lots of dudes are weird about it, and even blow jobs weren’t super common 200 years ago

Gumbygirl

Might have something to do with the annual baths.

ballsofsteelandfury

Okay, now I’m SUPER curious how blow jobs became a thing…

Down the rabbit hole I go….

ballsofsteelandfury
ballsofsteelandfury

Turns out that, according to the Kama Sutra, eunuchs DID perform oral!

Doktor Zymm

To be super candid, when the circumstances are right I actually love giving oral. But unless there is a previous relationship there a guy should not expect it, and if there are smells and uncleanliness then hell no.

scotchnaut

This runs contrary to something I read regarding the use of some rudimentary form of lipstick among Chinese(?) prostitutes, which indicated that they would perform that act.

Doktor Zymm

I’m sure it’s been around for ages. Just not super common. I know it was really alien for Victorian prostitutes, which says something

ballsofsteelandfury

Here’s something on cunnilingus:

https://noveltrove.com/a-short-history-of-cunnilingus