News Roundup

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Because:


...well I’m not going to share my stash, so find your own buddies.


...I’m reminded of the Texas high school which had to hold its prom in the next-door town because they weren’t allowed to dance in theirs.


...oh fuck off, Shorty — we first have to kill our more dangerous enemies (i.e. Democrat Socialists), so you wait your turn.


...let’s see how the trannies wriggle out of this one.


...especially if he were to start singing again.


...I’ll just leave commentary to The Englishman:  “Well, old chap, the French have always been revolting.”  Wait till you see the reason for this one…


...wait, the French have a navy?  After all Lord Nelson’s efforts?

From the Train Smash Files:


...if you think her saggy lil’ momboobs are worth a look, follow the link.


...and you thought your job was tough.


...if not him, then it’s Trump or “climate change”.

And the winner in the “Most Incomprehensible Headline” competition:


...what was the middle bit, again?


...in the marketing world, this is what’s known as “product improvement”.

And in INSIGNIFICA:

     

  ...honey, let me introduce you to this guy: 

And finally, speaking of women who need (and get) a regular pounding:

 

…and I know, the superstructure isn’t imposing, but its features are always on display:

 

And you too should now be pounding the pavement as you head off to work.

Quote Of The Day

From Othias at C&Rsenal, talking about the Russian Contract Winchester 1895:

“I can’t be held responsible for what you learn in fiction.”

In context, he was talking about people whose sole exposure to guns is through RPG-play on their computers, but if you think about it, it’s applicable to so many other areas: movie depictions of gunplay, books’ descriptions of romance, movie depictions of auto-driving, newspaper hypotheticals, and let’s not forget political hyperbole (e.g. the 9mm Europellet “blowing a lung out of the body”).  All fiction, and all often paraded as fact when of course they aren’t, no matter how plausible.

Classic Beauty: Veronica Lake

Always one of my favorite stars of the era, Veronica Lake was very much an “accidental” film star — she got her first role when she accompanied a friend to an audition — but was never really cut out to be a celebrity.  None of that matters, now.  All we’re left with is her beauty.

Changing Perspectives

Chris Harris asks the important question:

What happens when cars like the 296 appear is they cause geeks like me to stop and rethink what we had assumed were accepted ‘classes’ of cars. This happened to me when I was driving the 296 and following Paddy in the Pagani Huayra BC. Because he was driving something that looked like a livid insect, I assumed it would simply disappear in a straight line. It didn’t.

What we now have is an ‘entry level’ Ferrari that is as fast as one of the craziest hypercars ever sold. It’s a remarkable reset in the history of fast cars, yet it seems to have passed most people by. Perhaps that’s because these machines are so competent that people expect such things to happen. But I can’t quite get my head around the level of performance a 296 offers.

I have no idea where this is all going.  I’ve written before how cars’ performance has increased to the point where very few people can actually drive them without wrecking them — 600hp engines? FFS — and here’s Ferrari making a “street” car that could have won the Monza F1 Grand Prix race as little as ten years ago — or even more recently.

I should also point out that Longtime Buddy and Former Bandmate Knob is on the waiting list for a 296.  I hate him.