Pilate washed his hands, so, maybe.
In conclusion, I would like to address the concerns of those who proudly remark that laundry, showering, and other matters of personal hygiene are NOT "heavy metal." Well, right on, brother, that's hilarious, but will you still be laughing when you die a virgin?"
Illiteracy is not metal, JM.
Washing your clothes BY HAND, dude! See, I would argue that preferring artisanal to machine methods is the antithesis of metal; however, washing by hand (a.k.a. "hand-washing") will prolong the intensity of blackness, and of course it's loads cheaper, so there is potentially a debate to be had.
Ben, that's a great idea, you should totally be working in the private sector. It's recession-proof too, since as job searches go up so do your blackmail opportunities.
Ben, that's a great idea, you should totally be working in the private sector. It's recession-proof too, since as job searches go up so do your blackmail opportunities.
Makes sense to me. As soon as I started using Gmail I just started awaiting the day when Google would start blackmailing me.
Ben's plan obviously would not work. Nobody would pay! Pretty much all the Kids These Days would come to the following conclusions: 1) maybe that job won't care if there's a photo out there of me doing a kegstand at college, 2) if the first job cares, surely there's another job that doesn't care, 3) jesus christ, doesn't everybody have something embarrassing in their pasts? this is so passé!, and 4) blackmailers of course never cease asking for money: if I pay now, I will always be subject to exposure and thus blackmail, so fuck'em.
See, I would argue that preferring artisanal to machine methods is the antithesis of metal;
Regarding the claim that dryers are false metal, a facebook-friend of a friend countered "a machine that generates brutal heat and total internal darkness isn't metal? Disagree."
blackmailers of course never cease asking for money: if I pay now, I will always be subject to exposure and thus blackmail, so fuck'em.
But we would be compassionate blackmailers.
One of the things I was most impressed with about Barton Gellman's biography of Cheney was that it started with an account of attempted blackmail. Briefly: Cheney collected really personal info on Gov. Keating, a potential VP, and then released it to destroy Keating's attempt to play hardball on cabinet appointments. I have grown increasingly curious these past eight years about how much flat-out blackmail goes on in Washington, and it's really rare to glimpse any discussion of it at all.
8: The contextual ads of Google Mail yesterday were encouraging me to purchase a brand new "slaughterline" for pigs. ("This is a very modern slaughterline with a horizontal bleeding conveyor and a double Goliath dehairing unit.")
Shit, I should've called it "Blackmail 2.0".
Blackmail 2.0 would be entirely different, of course. It would be synergistic and click-and-go!
15: What exactly were you emailing about at the time?
I'm usually surprised by how on-topic the suggested ads are. They are sometimes eerily accurate.
What exactly were you emailing about at the time
Probably emailing Emerson about candidates for the hog farm. If they only knew.
18: Well, it wasn't anything that I wrote. I got one of those "Tasting Table NY" emails and it was about incorporating some kind of special bacon into every meal and forwarded it to my brother with the text "ew." What's funny is that my Google Mail banner ad is -- almost invariably -- a link to 101Cookbooks.com , a vegetarian cooking site.
4: ""Our relationship with the natural world is a healing force in our lives. If you listen to Black Metal, but you don[']t know what phase the moon is in, or what wild flowers are blooming th[e]n you have failed. The music is about wild forests, unfettered rivers, nature: furious and vengeful."
The last time I spoke with a woman whom I didn't already know at a concert, it was a Wolves in the Throne Room concert.
Did you tell her what wild flowers were blooming, IYKWIM?
16: iBlackmail. It's like the old kind, but the user interface is seamless.
14: My alternate career path is to start a high end hooker service in DC, fully aware that sooner or later the hammer will come down, at which point I'll switch to blackmailing the former clients. Three years in country club prison making connections with the likes of Madoff, then out to leverage my ill gotten gains based on the insider info from my cell mates, synergistically cross correlated with the info squeezed out of my blackmail victims. And I'll get away with it too, as long as I can avoid those meddling kids and their oversize dog.
It was still the winter of my heart, and not even her smile could cause the young shoots to break through the permafrost.
16: Toss "AJAX" in there as well, and I think you've got a business plan. Remember, the term of art is "monetizing our unparalleled databases".
Damn. This conference answers almost all the question I never knew I had about metal music. I'm sure that somewhere in there is an answer to the hand-washing question.
The fundamental question of metal: How can a man who is true, produce music which is not true?
Oh my God, I am in love with the Casio of Darkness. That photo made my day.
Speaking of blackmail, what the hell was this guy thinking?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=6750266&page=1
Blackmail is really labour-intensive. Someone has to read and understand all the personal data and analyze it for blackmail opportunities. I expect that it's not the kind of work that can cheaply be outsourced to China, either: you need a good cultural understanding of the kinds of things that people are embarrassed enough about to pay up. So it sounds like a bit of a cost sink.
What you need is a Web 2.0 approach to blackmail, in which the identification of the targets is done for free by the FaceBook community itself. Perhaps some kind of "game" which shows players the anonymized details of randomly chosen FaceBook users and asks them to vote on the blackmail potential of those details?
Maybe it can be self-reinforcing: we will offer a reduction in the amount requested of initial blackmail targets in exchange for their successfully fingering other targets.
35: And then chain/pyramid it like Amway, so you can even turn it to a profit if you get nailed early enough.
32: This is going to get people killed.
38. To be sure. Date Rape is low no matter what, but the CIA station chief is supposed to show some judgment, no? International incidents are the CIA's stock in trade, but not like this, unless there is more to the story.
Jeez. For that, if there's good evidence that he did it, I'd favor waiving his diplomatic immunity (if he has it) and extraditing him (using all appropriate legal process) to Algeria.
if there's good evidence that he did it
Like the sex tapes?
I have a particular disgust for fratboy date rape behavior, probably stemming from a college incident. Without going presidential to fill you in on all the sordid details, let me just say that it is not impossible to stop if your partner says no, even if she has changed her mind more than once.
Oh, I scanned it, and hadn't realized that the sex tapes definitely existed. Yep. Let the Algerians have him.
39: I wonder if this is related to the Bush administration's affirmative action policy for sociopaths.
Of course, since it involves CIA types.... what could this be covering up, if it were fabricated?
Of course, since it involves CIA types.... what could this be covering up, if it were fabricated?
It is not outside the realm of possibility that the women are counter espionage agents sent to discredit the station chief with a known vice. I know you've seen that movie more than once.
Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September.
STANDS TO REASON, THE RAPEBASSADOR WAS A MUSLIMs
RELIGION OF PEACE LOL
Have ToS and Opinionated Grandma merged?
The O.G. has had to up her game with ToS in town.
At least cellists can breathe a little easier now.
The couple said that they had been "dining out" on the hoax for years, but decided to confess after seeing "cello scrotum" referenced in an article last month in the journal.
A spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition.
Possibly if they had faced the sack in a more timely fashion, they would have figured it out.
TOS NEVER QUOTES THE PERSON HE'S RESPONDING TO
One really shouldn't say "faced the sack" when talking about scrotums.
I dined out on cello scrotum for a while, but got tired of always facing the sack.
You really cannot discuss scrotums with any authority unless you have faced the sack a number of times.
counter espionage agents sent to discredit the station chief with a known vice
"Honey-pots", please.
Please please please let there not be evidence that the CIA affirmatively covered for him.
"Honey-pots", please.
One for me, too, as long as your up.
The question lingers, in the honey pot scenario, as to whether the ruffies were known to the CID agents, or a surprise.
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If you cannot afford to incarcerate people at Constitutional standards, you cannot afford to incarcerate them at all. If a judge has put your prison system into receivership for providing such poor health care that it is unConstitutional, you should have gotten the message that your prison systems are pretty fucked up.
Changing the messenger will neither put money in the treasury nor fix the prison health care, so I wish that Jerry Brown weren't fighting this. I am sure that we don't have $8B to make sure prisoners get adequate health care, but the solution is not a different receiver.
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I am sure that we don't have $8B to make sure prisoners get adequate health care
Adequate health care, yes. yoga rooms and therapy kitchens, not so much.
50: Yes, but there's still cello anus to be dealt with.
Far more uncomfortable.
The incidence of cello anus wouldn't be so goddamned high if cellos weren't shaped precisely to get stuck midway.
Authentic people go for viol de gamba anus.
The voice between her lips,
and the viol between her legs,
she'll be fit for a consort
very speedily.
--Thomas Middleton
63: The anus was the original endpin stopper. Thus.
Made by a company that specializes in non-slip rubber products
64: Authentic peopleArtisinal wankers
This was exactly the case in a recent performance of my cello trio. I used a small circular rubber endpin stop and a Stahlhammer endpin, but despite this, when I put any amount of weight on my cello, it slipped forward with a horrible noise.
Cellists know "small circular rubber endpin stop" is a euphemism. For anus.
62: Just another person with a certain extracurricular interest.
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It's hilarious; California this year sounds like the Texas of 1988 or so. Bum mortgages, a prison system supervised by a federal judge, etc. Nobody learns nuthin'.|>
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['Dysfunction junction.']
I have grown increasingly curious these past eight years about how much flat-out blackmail goes on in Washington, and it's really rare to glimpse any discussion of it at all.
Both Advise and Consent and The Best Man, which are practically the same movie set in different sections of American government, give the impression that there were always people looking out for chances to blackmail (or agonizing over whether to do so). Cheney's thing sounds like kompromat; maybe it's an obsess over the Cold War/Russia, become like your enemy thing, or maybe he was just always like that. It's not really unique to Russia.
I've often thought that something like "Google unveils new 'Google Blackmail' service" would make a great Onion story.
"A Google representative said that all Gmail users, as well as anyone that has ever searched for information using Google, will automatically become subscribers to the new service, which carries a recurring fee of $50 a month.
'Over time, we've built up a valuable store of information about our users,' said CEO Eric Schmidt, 'and it's time we became more aggressive about monetizing that resource.'"
Authentic people go for viol de gamba anus.
I thought they went for sackbut.
The incidence of cello anus wouldn't be so goddamned high if cellos weren't shaped precisely to get stuck midway.
"One time, at band camp..."
