TGIF! And hello to our new year. My New Year’s Resolution is to continue being awesome.
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How about some famous people cheating? I know they all do, but these are the a couple that are public.
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques wife died in 1990. He then told his son how he had an ongoing 13 year old affair with a flight attendant named Francine. Oh, and he had two children with her as well. Jacques and Francine, now rid of the of the old battle axe, married in 1991. Jacques transferred control on his nonprofit to Francine the next year, causing his son to quit. Then things got grim. In 1997 Jacques himself died with Francine talking full control of the “Cousteau” name. Jacques children and grandchildren were forbidden to use the Cousteau name for oceanographic purposes. Lawsuits followed and Francine won. Can you imagine not being able to use your own name in your business? Eventually Francine won the trademark to the “Cousteau” name. Christ, what an asshole.
Henry Lyons
Reverend and leader of the National Baptist Convention. Things started going awry when his wife found a deed in his briefcase for a beachfront property co-owned by the Reverend and a church employee named Bernice. She searched the property and found her husband’s clothes in Bernice’s closet. She did a little math, then burned the property down. This got a lot of attention, of course, and the National Baptist Convention underwent a financial audit. This did not go well for Lyons. He was charged with grand theft, racketeering, tax evasion, money laundering, and bank fraud. He ended being sentenced to 5 years in prison which seems kind of light.
More cheaters next week to help all of you set your resolutions. PSA: Don’t cheat.
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Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to the comments!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-venezuela-s-maduro-captured-after-strikes/ar-AA1TuO3n
I’m sure this will go over well.
To be fair, Venezuela is the financial heartbeat of Mexico.
So, apparently MURICKA has decided to bomb Venezuela.
Awesome. Just terrific.
Huh, I guess we were about due for another unjustified war.
Update:
Apparently a Chinese special envoy landed in Venezuela earlier this evening
This is so dumb
I just rewatched SLC Punk for like the 11th time.
It still has good things to say.
Some reports & videos of explosions & helicopters in Caracas Venezuela tonight…
Jesus, we suck.
I’ve already formulated an exit strategy.
Sexy Friday. MAGA style!
Oh for Chrissakes.
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Mathilda Tantot has a twin sister, BTW.
This photo didn’t make the cut for the last of the Barcelona series.
And that’s a shame because I owned this motherfucker.
That’s a sexy photo.
Good God
All the Iran stuff has the Pahlavists in my part of town all confused. On the one hand, they’ll take whatever help they can to get rid of the mullahs. On the other, they’re horrified at having to support a regime that wouldn’t think twice about deporting them back to Iran if they tried crossing the border.
That’s not their regime.
It’s an “enemy of my enemy” situation for a lot of them. They’re convinced every President is beholden to Israel, but also want Israel and America to liberate their country without sticking around afterwards.
We tried that with The Shah.
That didn’t end up well.
Salut!
Grueling 1 day work week.
But we battled through.
Now the news is running a public service announcement about how your pets are cold too, and that you should limit how long you walk your dog for.
My dog: https://makeagif.com/i/kdHcBt
Here’s lady number 4 in the winter time.
After the Holiday Bowl ended, (with Kevin From The Office drenching people with eggnog for…reasons, I guess?), and the local news led with a story about a pedestrian fatality on the street in Waterbury I used to walk to school on.
Neat.
I arrived on the scene shortly after a pedestrian was hit in a crosswalk. Watched the cops cover her with a sheet. There is a flower arrangement on a sign pole there now, always freshly changed, to remind me of that sad day.
In 2009, the ex-wife and I were in DC for some reason. We were visiting a college buddy’s that evening, and it happened to coincide with the Penguins playing the Capitals in the Playoffs. I know it was 2009, because that was Sid, Geno, and Letang’s first Cup.
Anyway, our friend had a small watch party. After the game concluded, he, one of his buddies, and I walked to the corner store to get more beer. I didn’t see what happened next, but I heard it.
A very brief vehicle horn, tires screeching, and a WHOMP.
An Asian woman on a bicycle wasn’t paying attention, and rode through a red light, where a city bus just turned her into goo. We had to stick around for while to tell the responders what we witnessed. Again, I didn’t actually see it happen, but did see some of the aftermath.
Pay attention to your surroundings, people. I can’t stress this enough. And yes, she died instantly.
I try to ride my bike like I am driving a car; i.e. stop at stoplights, slow roll through stop signs, signal my turns. And ever since I had that fall last year I always, always, *always* wear my helmet.
Thank you! I’m always amazed at the dumb shit people on bicycles do and I don’t want to kill some random person while I’m driving. I know it’s a minority of bicyclists, but that minority is a menace and they cause a lot of damage, not just to themselves.
Yeah they can be wrong as hell, but you’ll still feel awful if you hit them.
For sure. I make zero assumptions on the bike.
I’ve seen much worse down range, but just coming home from work… It’s the context.
I refused to watch the outdoor hockey game they played in Miami.
So stupid.
If they wanted to hold an ice hockey game somewhere inappropriate, I would suggest Albuquerque and the “ice” is meth.
Mayo Bowl just ordered a late batch of Bananacakes…
My pleasure
Banana and mayo sandwich? Sounds like something Elvis would eat
Throw some extra bacon and lard on it.
Can the Ice Giants play every game outside for the rest of eternity forever?
Found a funny:
f*ck it I don’t care anymore
That’s how we got Trump.
I hate when shows (“Sanctuary”, in this case) do a good job of building subtle parallels to their source material (i.e. witch trials) while constructing a legal framework to have them existing in normal sciety and then throw it out the window in one stroke (a bunch of high school kids hold a witch’s daughter underwater and instead of pressing charges against them for attempted murder the principal is like “eh, everyone is stressed out right now; boys will be boys.”).
Also they made it look like she had died (exhaling her breath while underwater) at the end of one episode, but when the next one starts it’s like, oh, the school nurse says she’s fine, you can take her home.
That sounds consistent with real life, though. Unless I’m missing something.
The Season G Dice Baseball Playoffs run through Brooklyn. PLAY HOV, FOUR MORE TIMES AFTER THIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYXVwrWz4Y
Seems like Iran might be entering “the cool zone”…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1/several-killed-as-iran-protests-over-rising-cost-of-living-spread
doesn’t seem ROCKING…
The Christian Ya’ll Qaeda that runs this country will be clamoring — again — for an invasion.
BUT BUT BUT
OUR HOLY, BLESSED children CANNOT fight! That would UNCHRISTIAN to have the offspring of policymakers and hangers-on fight another war! SEND THE POORS! God hates them, anyway!
Trump wimped out in July. His party and the right are even more divided on this now.
I don’t know, they’ve proven themselves to be pretty good at ruthlessly crushing dissent. Would be great if they ended up with a better government though
I remember this song in 2009. I would say that this time, the regime knows Twitter is the enemy, but these fucking idiots were still using WhatsApp to message their Axis of Resistance homies right up until they got bombed to Hell.
At least WVU didn’t qualify for a bowl game, thus sparing them the embarrassment the rest of the Big 12 (16) is going this post season.
Gonna try caramel hojicha and spiced rum, smells good so that’s a good sign
Winner! And good for dunking butter cookies in!
You piqued my interest at “caramel hojicha”
I got it in a Japanese snack box, I did the one from Sakuraco last year
Found a good Desktop Design UX lecture
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ&pp=ygUiQXJlIHdlIHN0dWNrIHdpdGggdGhlIHNhbWUgRGVza3RvcA%3D%3D
That Francine Cousteau is a lot of woman. Bogarting her lover’s name to fuck over his family. Uf 🥰
Dream client too #Obvio
Bomb Finland!
But it’s the country where I’d like to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner
Or snack lunch in the hall.
So turns out I blew off a lot more work than I thought I was blowing off over the past week. I doubt I’ll actually do any work over the weekend so I guess I’ll be waking up early on Monday to cram some extra work in!
Mondays are not easy work days.
Mondays after vacation days are more not easy.
Whoever came up with the idea to just put an on-ice power play timer in red and no scorebug one, may your death be slow, laborious, and excruciating.
Fightin’ Blax, due u even BEAR DOWN, bruh???
I think #3 is wearing the Outfit of the Year!
Alexa, play Despacito, but outdoors.
https://youtu.be/kJQP7kiw5Fk?si=jrshXJV-iO_Apugn
That’s Rocking 🤘
That was most definitely…
Rocking.
Es muy caliente! They could melt the fragile ice with that song!