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Monday morning bullet bending

by | Dec 21, 2020 | Mondays | 14 comments

Monday is here again, unfortunately, and it really IS unfortunate for my readers over in PommieBastardLande, thanks to the latest idiotic stunt that the government there just pulled. That’s right, they’re all going back into lockdown for the FOURTH time this year, for reasons that no one can understand and which their feckless, gormless, indecisive, useless Prime Minister cannot articulate.

Boris Johnson has to be the greatest example of the Dilbert Principle in action since Barack Obama’s Presidency. I was telling my dad just yesterday that BoJo and his coterie of Etonite Toryboys were GREAT at writing clever witty op-eds that criticised the governments at that time, and were SUPERB at stabbing their own people in the back. But they are totally HOPELESS at actually governing anything when given the opportunity and the responsibility to do so.

There’s a huge difference between pretending that you know what you’re doing when you have no authority or responsibility, and actually governing when you are given both authority and responsibility. BoJo will likely go down in history as one of the absolute worst Prime Ministers that the UK ever inflicted upon itself – which, given the records of previous title-holders like John Major, Tony Blair, and Harold Wilson, is saying something.

If he cucks and runs on Brexit – which at this point I actually expect him to do, given his record thus far – he will destroy the Tories as a political force for a generation or more. And he knows it. But I don’t think he has the balls or the guts to stand up for his country. He certainly hasn’t stood up for his people thus far.

But let’s try to get our minds off of that stuff for a bit. And there’s no better way to do that than by letting your browser consume your PC’s memory like a starving supermodel mainlining cocaine off a mirror while trying to load and run the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster.

We start off this week with some classic moments from the 2005 film, Wanted:

Bullet bending is of course physically impossible. But boy does it ever look cool. That movie was really underrated – and it was from back in the days when Angelina Jolie was seriously sexy.

She went and ruined it all with the tattoos and other nonsense. But at one point, she was genuinely gorgeous.


His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, could order the 101st Airborne and the 2nd Marine Division to march on Washington, D.C., TOMORROW, and practically everyone below the rank of, oh, Major would obey instantly:

Which is why a whole bunch of us are wondering why the hell he doesn’t just DO it already. If the (((media))) are going to call him a fascist no matter what he does… maybe it’s time to act like one for a change?

This picture was sent to me by FotS Magister Ludi – he’s also an acolyte of our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day – and it rather illustrates the yawning gulf between what we THINK Trump is, and what he ACTUALLY is:

We are going to find out over the next month whether Trump is a lion or a lamb. So far, signs point to the former. But we’ll see.


#BasedTucker is based:


Mark Dice now understands all of the crazy media propaganda behind the vaccine, the Fake President-Elect, and the suddenly no-longer-suppressed investigation into Hunter Biden:


Dave from Blue Collar Logic talks about his favourite charity, which involves – and I’m not making this up – donating money to buy cows for people’s farms:

In all seriousness, that actually sounds like a pretty worthy cause.

And Jason looks at the utter hypocrisy of Gov. Gavin Newsom of Clownipornia:


Bill Whittle has a new series called Moving Back to America, which essentially consists of him live-streaming his thoughts about how to return to a Constitutional, law-bound America:


The Male Brain has been busy over the past week, but he still sent over some good stuff for this Mondaydact Browser Crusher. We start with an excellent reading list for 2021, courtesy of John Stossel:

And here are a pair of Wisecrack videos. The first is all about how the iconic character of Tyler Durden changed from the book to the film:

Never let it be forgotten that Fight Club – the book – is gay, served on a bed of gay, with gay sauce, and gay on the side, washed down with gay, with gay for dessert. The movie is radically different.

And here’s another one from the same folks about the changing nature of censorship:

The video references Woodrow Wilson, who for my money was perhaps the second or third WORST President in American history. THE worst is of course President Lincoln for his tyrannical behaviour and imperialist war against the South – which was NEVER about freeing the slaves, by the way, but was rather about destroying states’ rights and firmly establishing the power of the Federal government.

But Wilson was definitely a close second or third. His Administration was nothing short of a disaster and got America involved in a European war that it never should have entered. Following that, Wilson’s idiotic 14 Points that drove the atrocious Treaty of Versailles simply made the recurrence of war all the more likely. And, inevitably, 20 years later – in the span of just a single generation – the entire world went to war, not just Europe and associated nearby powers.

Indeed, America got something of a miracle, sort of, when Wilson suffered from a stroke in 1919 following the stress of his travels and work on the Treaty of Versailles. His wife essentially ran the country after that until the end of his term in 1921, which meant that “his” leadership was actually pretty ineffective.

Moving on – Ryan George asks what would happen if video game companies made jigsaw puzzles the way that they make modern video games:

Yeah, you’d have to download 150GB worth of patches JUST TO MAKE YOUR PUZZLE WORK. And you still wouldn’t be able to complete it.


Paul Ramsey has given up on the idea that the God-Emperor will stay President, and provides his thoughts on what kind of a POTUS he thinks Trump was:

I don’t agree with him about Trump leaving office. The outlook is certainly grim and the God-Emperor faces a really severe battle to stay in power. But for now, I think that he will do precisely that.


PJW is thoroughly unimpressed and unamused by the latest round of lockdowns in PommieBastardLande:

I’ve seen a lot of epic government stupidity in my time. But I’ve NEVER witnessed anything as feckless, stupid, cowardly, and unscientific as the way that Boris Johnson’s pack of idiots running around making shit up on the fly and destroying so many lives in the process. Matt Hancock, in particular, should be tried for criminal incompetence at this point.

The new Kung Flu strain is no more lethal than the previous ones, and indeed there does appear to be an inverse relationship between disease lethality and infectiousness, as a general rule. (There ARE exceptions – the bubonic plague, smallpox, and the Spanish Flu all stand out, of course.) Also, it’s apparently been spreading since September. And yet, the government’s response to it is to shut down everything with yet another round of Lockdown Hell – which worked so well the last time that the number of CommiePox cases were HIGHER after the lockdown than they were before it!

Mark my words, brothers, there will eventually come a time when the people behind these insane policies will face firing squads and lynch mobs for what they have done. And they will thoroughly deserve their fates.


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan was not in the least bit surprised or impressed by the SCOTUS’s punting of the Texas lawsuit:


Here’s a pair of videos from The Dizzle that shows the continuing implosion of the Islamic world for all of the rest of us to see:

The Great Heresy is crumbling before our very eyes. All that was required was for good people to stand up to it. And that’s exactly what happened under the God-Emperor. It is NOT coincidental that within the span of the blessed reign of the God-Emperor, ISIS was essentially destroyed and Islamic immigration to Europe began to reverse – which is another bit of news that has gone rather under the radar.

I’ll be talking a bit more about this probably in my New Year podcast, but for now, you should understand clearly that we were not given a spirit of fear, but of hope. And we see signs of hope all around us, every day. We just have to pay attention to them.


Dr. Frank Turek does what he does best, which is to make you THINK, hard, about what the Bible and science actually say:


China Uncensored reveals the astonishing extent to which the ChiComs have corrupted and ensnared foreign governments:

I wonder how many of those governments were co-opted by a case of “Yellow Fever”, the way Eric Fartwell was… Inquiring minds want to know!


America Uncovered has an interesting update on the sheer scale and epic f***ery of the fraud surrounding Dominion voting machines:


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance offers up some sage advice about how America might separate out into two nations, one Black and one White:

It won’t be two countries in the end, it’ll probably be more like 4. But yes, there is no doubt that America needs to separate out now. I really hope that it will be a peaceful separation. But it almost surely will not be. Blood will run red in the streets before it is done.


Terrence Popp is EXTREMELY pleased with his awesome new studio, and celebrated the event by fat-shaming the land-whales that terrorise America:

Well done, sir. Well done indeed. You’ve come a very long way in the past, oh, 6 years or more that I’ve been watching and reading your work. 1st Sgt. Popp, I salute you.


In the wake of the triumphant ending of the second season of The Mandalorian (which I’ve never watched because I’m so thoroughly sick of Devil Mouse Wars at this point), Midnight’s Edge offers up an intriguing analysis of the sheer scale and completeness of Queen Karen Kennedy’s failure as the head of LucasFilm:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock breaks down the original Jar Jar Abrams script for Devil Mouse Wars 8, and… actually, it turns out that Jar Jar had some very good ideas:

I stand by my opinion that Jar Jar is a colossally overrated hack who can, at best, create pastiches of other people’s far superior works. But judging by the details given of the script by Lawrence (LEGEND) Kasdan and Jar Jar Abrams, THIS version of the film would have been VASTLY superior to what we actually got thanks to Ruin Johnson and Queen Karen Kennedy.

Of course, that’s not exactly a very high bar to clear. A film made up of strobe lights and fart noises would have been better than The Last Straw.

If you think about it, though… “strobe lights and fart noises” – that’s basically a description of pretty much every Jar Jar Abrams film ever made. Including Cloverfield.

It’s important to note that nobody has ANY clue whether this script is genuine. Honestly it sounds way too good for anything that Jar Jar Hackbrams could possibly be associated with as a writer. There’s still a lot of stupidity in it, but it’s not nearly as bad as either The Last Straw or The Fall of Skywalker.


Gary from Nerdrotic offers up his own perspective on whether or not the Devil Mouse is actually going to erase the sequel trilogy using the Veil of the Force or whatever it’s called, in the upcoming Ahsoka Tano series:


The Drinker reviews one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time – and no, this one doesn’t star Bruce Willis:


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and it’s all about something to do with fluctuations in the quantum realm:

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) can measure giant ripples in space-time that race across the cosmos. But in 2019, physicists used it for something else: to measure fluctuations at the quantum scale that jiggle the detector’s super-sensitive mirrors. They published their report in Nature in July.

Theorists have long predicted this behavior at the interface of light and matter, but this study is the “first to experimentally prove it” at such large scales and at room temperature, says physicist Haocun Yu of the MIT Kavli Institute, who worked on the project. It’s also the first time that scientists have quantified these quantum effects. These measurements, they say, will improve gravitational wave detectors and other instruments that are influenced by quantum noise.

According to quantum mechanics, the subatomic realm is replete with particles popping in and out of existence, a phenomenon that gives rise to these fluctuations. Physicist and MIT School of Science Dean Nergis Mavalvala, who also worked on the new experiment, calls these fluctuations the “spooky popcorn of the universe.” (Spooky harks back to Albert Einstein, who once called quantum entanglement “spooky action at a distance.”) Because this “popcorn” is everywhere, it can affect the measurements needed to find big things like gravitational waves.

Mavalvala’s group set out to measure and control these quantum effects as a way to improve gravitational-wave detection. Advanced LIGO, housed in tunnels in Louisiana and Washington state, works by measuring how long it takes lasers to travel to a distant mirror. Gravitational waves — from neutron star collisions, or when black holes devour ordinary stars — can change the speed of the lasers’ trip.

This all reminds me of an old silly Asian joke:

An Asian man walks into the currency exchange with 2000 yen and walks out with $72. Next week he walks in with 2000 yen, but gets $66. He asks the lady why he gets less money this week than last week.

The lady says, “Fluctuations. “

The Asian man says, “Fluc you clazy Amelicans too!”

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Your long read of the week is, apparently, a classic Manosphere post shared by longtime reader Johnny, which made some disturbingly prescient predictions 10 years ago:

Genetic research has shown that before the modern era, 80% of women managed to reproduce, but only 40% of men did.  The obvious conclusion from this is that a few top men had multiple wives, while the bottom 60% had no mating prospects at all.  Women clearly did not mind sharing the top man with multiple other women, ultimately deciding that being one of four women sharing an ‘alpha’ was still more preferable than having the undivided attention of a ‘beta’.  Let us define the top 20% of men as measured by their attractiveness to women, as ‘alpha’ males while the middle 60% of men will be called ‘beta’ males.  The bottom 20% are not meaningful in this context. 

Research across gorillas, chimpanzees, and primitive human tribes shows that men are promiscuous and polygamous.  This is no surprise to a modern reader, but the research further shows that women are not monogamous, as is popularly assumed, but hypergamous.  In other words, a woman may be attracted to only one man at any given time, but as the status and fortune of various men fluctuates, a woman’s attention may shift from a declining man to an ascendant man.  There is significant turnover in the ranks of alpha males, which women are acutely aware of. 

As a result, women are the first to want into a monogamous relationship, and the first to want out.  This is neither right nor wrong, merely natural.  What is wrong, however, is the cultural and societal pressure to shame men into committing to marriage under the pretense that they are ‘afraid of commitment’ due to some ‘Peter Pan complex’, while there is no longer the corresponding traditional shame that was reserved for women who destroyed the marriage, despite the fact that 90% of divorces are initiated by women.  Furthermore, when women destroy the commitment, there is great harm to children, and the woman demands present and future payments from the man she is abandoning.  A man who refuses to marry is neither harming innocent minors nor expecting years of payments from the woman.  This absurd double standard has invisible but major costs to society. 

To provide ‘beta’ men an incentive to produce far more economic output than needed just to support themselves while simultaneously controlling the hypergamy of women that would deprive children of interaction with their biological fathers, all major religions constructed an institution to force constructive conduct out of both genders while penalizing the natural primate tendencies of each.  This institution was known as ‘marriage’.  Societies that enforced monogamous marriage made sure all beta men had wives, thus unlocking productive output out of these men who in pre-modern times would have had no incentive to be productive.  Women, in turn, received a provider, a protector, and higher social status than unmarried women, who often were trapped in poverty.  When applied over an entire population of humans, this system was known as ‘civilization’. 


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


The Neo-Tsar basically handed an Italian bloke Russian citizenship, which is great PR but probably not a great precedent:

To give that chap his due, he speaks excellent Russian – far better than mine, though I can understand him quite well without subtitles. (Just shows you how good, or bad, my own Russian is.) His accent is quite solid too – you can hear the Eytie in it pretty well, yes, but that’s to be expected. Italians simply cannot shake their awesome accents, no matter where they end up.

And he’s lived in Russia, adopted Russian customs, and become part of Russian society. That’s exactly the kind of person that the Russians actually like.

You need to understand this about the Russkies – they HATE freeloaders. Can’t bloody stand them. If you come over to Russia expecting people to take care of you, they’ll give you a swift kick up your ass and throw you out. But if you come over to live there, work, learn the language, integrate into their society, and behave yourself, they will welcome you with open arms.

That’s why I love the Russians. They are truly a wonderful and warm-hearted and kind people. But you must earn their trust.


History lessons of the week:


Your Great Man of the Week is the legendary privateer Sir Francis Drake:


Ever wondered what the various SPARTAN generations in HALO are all about?

To be honest, I was not impressed by the way that the SPARTAN-IVs were introduced into canon in HALO 4. Not necessarily because having the new SPARTANs was a Bad Thing, but because their leader, Commander Sarah Palmer, is a thoroughly dislikeable and nasty piece of work:


Via reader Randale6, to whom I gave some tips on investing some time back, we have some videos from a hilarious channel called FlashGitz:

Obviously I do not agree at all about HALO 4‘s depiction in those memes – that’s my favourite game in the series, though HALO 3 is definitely better to play overall. But they’re still quite funny.

It’s a bit like Robot Chicken gone COMPLETELY mental.


This is why you DO NOT F**K with The Batman:

And speaking of ol’ Gamma-Bait Bats… the DCAU is coming up with a 70s-inspired kind-of-sort-of Batman/Bruce Lee/Black Dynamite crossover:

That should be hilarious.


What would happen if the Japanese were to animate a STAR WARS series?

Judging by that clip – AWESOMENESS would happen. Among other things, the Japanese don’t go in for all of the SJW bullshit.


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour, starting with some funny shit from our Jewish friends courtesy of The Male Brain:


Pics, guns, girls, starting with a couple of funny memes from Dawn Pine:

Here’s your new Pfizer vaccine delivery system:

Onward:

Open mouth, insert BOTH feet.

That one is wrong – it should be FOUR jackasses. We all know by now that Roberts is a liberal cuck.

WHO WANTS TO SEE THE GOD-EMPEROR SETTLE THE ELECTION WITH A BAT’LETH DUEL?!? ANYONE???

Yeah. F**K that.

Clearly an even greater nemesis than the Joker.

You know how I truly deeply loathe journalists? Fact-checkers are rapidly reaching that same level on my list of “people deserving free helicopter rides”.

God bless Texas!

Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man is up to his old tricks again:

Your “Estrogen Stack” moment of the week:

Your “Definitely NOT Aliens” moment of the week:

Your “I RESEMBLE That Remark!” moment of the week:

Yep. The Didactic Mind podcast is now a spreader of MISINFORMATION. Beware. BEWAAAAAAARE!!!!

Your “Punting Pointer” moment of the week:

Your “Journalistic Integrity and Consistency” moment of the week:

Your “Globohomo History Month” moment of the week:

It’s not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off the top floor of Nakatomi Tower.

Speaking of which – let us take a moment to acknowledge a true and great American hero:

Also – you know how I insist that Die Hard is a Christmas movie? Turns out, the Jews might actually get dibs on this one over us:

Huh. Well how about that? @Dawn Pine – care to weigh in?

This next one has Christmas written all over it:

For those who don’t recognise the reference – check out the true story of St. Nicholas and the way that he punched out the heretic Arius at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. We NEED a lot more Christians like that.

CAN. CONFIRM.

Your philosophical thought of the day:

And speaking of chickens:

This next one had me howling with laughter:

I just left mine – was a lot larger and more powerful than I expected, actually.

ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

This next one might take a moment, but it’s quite funny once you figure it out:

I imagine that more than a few of you will argue that this next one is all about me:

That is so true! I totally would!!!

And that’s why I love Texas.


Your Dog of the Week is the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever:

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Dog Breed Information

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:


Gym beast props this week go to Mahmoud “Big Ramy” Ellsbiay, the 2020 Mr. Olympia winner:


Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Also, as if the Buakawminator wasn’t terrifying enough:


Jesus loves knockouts:


Synthwave keeps things futuristic:


Ludwig van Beethoven was the most metal classical composer ever – though I will entertain those who would put Richard Wagner first in that list. If you want proof, here it is:

Here’s something similar from EXMORTUS:

Truly, if deaf ol’ Ludwig were around today with electrical amplification and a badass tenor to sing along, he would be the mastermind behind… well, something that would probably sound remarkably like IRON MAIDEN, to be honest.


#RazorbladeMeltdown

Cozy Powell. Bob Daisley. David Stone. RONNIE JAMES DIO. RITCHIE MOTHERF***IN’ BLACKMORE.

SMH… they just don’t make ’em like that anymore, boys. About the only rock bands that we have of THAT calibre left are IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST, and they aren’t technically supergroups – though in fact if you look at the individual members of IRON MAIDEN, each is a hugely accomplished technical musician in his own right.


And finally after much cocking about, here’s your Instathot to get the week off to an interesting start. Her name is Kasia from Poland. That’s literally all that I know or can find out about her. She’s very obviously quite plastic, and almost certainly in her thirties.

She’s also a good example of the reason why we do rather like the Poles around here. From what I’ve seen, the Russians and Ukrainians have a higher average level of hotness, but the Polish have some true individual knockouts that compare extremely well with the best from around the world.

Indeed, it’s something of a mystery to me as to why more Slavic women haven’t won the Miss Universe and Miss World contests. If you look at the Miss World contest, Venezuela and India (!!!) have the most title holders – 6 each – with the UK and Jamaica in second and third place. And if you look at the Miss Universe contest, the USA leads the pack with 8 titleholders, followed by Venezuela with 7, and then Puerto Rico with 5. (Exactly how Puerto Rico counts as a separate country, when it’s actually an American protectorate, is quite beyond me.)

All I can say is that those pageants have some odd criteria. It’s probably a good thing that I’m not a judge for such things – the Slavs would win every time with me in that position.

Anyway, that’s all for this Monday. “Six days shalt thou do all the work that thou art able – the seventh the same and clean out the stable”, so you’ve got your orders, get to work.

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14 Comments

  1. MrUNIVAC

    That blogger actually came out of retirement to write a sequel to the long read of the week. It starts about halfway down, but the stuff in front of it is pretty good too:

    https://www.singularity2050.com/gems.html

    Also, here’s a video that I haven’t watched yet. I would vote for Reach since it’s like a Halo Greatest Hits album (and also because Long Night of Solace is my personal GOAT level), but I’d agree with our host in putting 3 on top as the best “original” campaign.

    https://youtu.be/o9v0L0nPCNw

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    • Johnny

      Yeah, that is the more current sequel that I had posted.

      I am surprised that Didact didn’t know about the Misandry Bubble, apparently. It is not just nearly the most famous red-pill article ever, but is the only other major red-pill contribution by a South Asian.

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      • Didact

        I am surprised that Didact didn’t know about the Misandry Bubble, apparently. It is not just nearly the most famous red-pill article ever, but is the only other major red-pill contribution by a South Asian.

        Yep. I’ve never come across it before. It just didn’t enter into the works that I read going into the Manosphere – because I came through the more philosophical route of people like Vox Day and others of the neoreactionary bent, not so much the economics and game side.

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    • Didact

      Also, here’s a video that I haven’t watched yet. I would vote for Reach since it’s like a Halo Greatest Hits album (and also because Long Night of Solace is my personal GOAT level), but I’d agree with our host in putting 3 on top as the best “original” campaign.

      Good video. Thanks. That’s going into next week’s compilation. H3 is definitely the best of the OG campaigns, for sure.

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  2. Kapios

    Wait is that Batman movie for real or a prank? If so, I love the creativeness of DC with their animated movies. Batman ninja was especially enjoyable. The ending was more satisfying than communist superman animated movie. I think the writers kind of ran out of ideas for the ending. Still, it’s a 100 times better than any of the mainstream movies.

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    • Didact

      Wait is that Batman movie for real or a prank?

      It’s real.

      Batman ninja was especially enjoyable. The ending was more satisfying than communist superman animated movie. I think the writers kind of ran out of ideas for the ending. Still, it’s a 100 times better than any of the mainstream movies.

      Yeah, Batman: Ninja was wild. Great movie. The Japanese may well be batshit nuts by Western standards, but they DO know how to animate a great story.

      The Superman: Red Son film was based on the original one-shot graphic novel, and that one had a rather odd ending for sure. I liked the concept but as that one wore on, I found it becoming more and more stupid.

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  3. TheMaleBrain

    Up for the challenge:
    1. He does have a point, however
    2. It should be about the terrorists trying to convert him first
    3. Oh, there aren’t carbs in there. Jewish holidays (Hanukkah especially) have a lot of carbs.
    4. We were here first.
    5. That doesn’t mean that we are right always.
    6. What’s wrong with me? Arguing over a tweet. I’ve sunk low this year

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    • Didact

      6. What’s wrong with me? Arguing over a tweet. I’ve sunk low this year

      It’s been one of THOSE years, dude. The only thing missing is a plague of frogs.

      If the rivers start turning to blood, I’m hoofing it over to Russia again. At least the Russkies have their heads screwed on straight.

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  4. JohnC911

    Woodrow Wilson. He would be 3rd on my list.

    I would have to put Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2nd. Granted Woodrow Wilson made the 3rd bank of the United States (Federal Reserve System) and move the United States into a war that they should of stay out (WW1). Because he passed away in 1919 almost all his other policies, laws and especially his internationalist dream League of Nations (which the US Senate refuse to sign) all got reserves or were drop.

    FDR on the other hand had some much influence on the United States and its people. Many of his laws and policies still in place today. Even how to deal with a depression is still under the influence he left. Either start government works, lower tariffs, and intervened in the economy or go to war.

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    • Didact

      That more or less matches my list. Lincoln the worst, FDR second, Wilson third. Fourth is a tough one – Carter, Nixon, LBJ, GWB, and Obama could all take that spot with ease. Fifth would probably date somewhere back to before the War Between the States, but again, it’s a tough call.

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  5. Post Alley Crackpot

    “Yeah, you’d have to download 150GB worth of patches JUST TO MAKE YOUR PUZZLE WORK. And you still wouldn’t be able to complete it.”

    Realising they’d made enough mistakes to annoy their purchasing base into not buying the next puzzle, the puzzle’s makers release a “free puzzle DLC” that works with the original puzzle, deftly inserting pieces to “fix” the problems of the original puzzle and providing a few more hours of “interesting game play”.

    What they didn’t realise was that some of the new DLC pieces fit the missing piece spots in a bizarrely wrong way, and the net effect is like playing the puzzle on “no clippping” mode.

    Nobody notices.

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  6. Dire Badger

    Body by Ikea

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    • Didact

      Actually that brings to mind a truly hilarious possibility.

      Can you imagine the utter chaos that will ensue when IKEA starts selling build-your-own-RealDolls?

      Trying to figure out the instructions alone would be a source of endless amusement. And that’s before we get to the inevitable inattentive berk who crosses a few wires or leaves out a ring-washer or three while assembling his very own Þorkilsdóttir model.

      The end result would, indeed, probably look something like Kassia up there.

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      • Dire Badger

        I dunno, it might be cute seeing a few of the more aggressive types feeling like they have to actually compete with a cheap sex doll.

        Not something I particularly approve of, but one gets tired of seeing the marketplace awash in thirsty guys willing to spoil every entitled princess convinced of her own value that comes along.

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