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Monday morning with Father Merrin

by | Mar 8, 2021 | Mondays | 2 comments

Bleargh, it’s Monday again. On the plus side, today is the LAST day that forces me to listen to one particularly arrogant arse of a professor. And when you see Didact calling someone an arrogant arse, you know that the person involved has GOT to be a roaring asshole.

Be that as it may – it is, of course, Monday, and that means that it is time for the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster. And this week’s theme comes from our good friend The Male Brain, over in Israel.

The legendary French-Austrian actor Max von Sydow died a year ago today. I’ll let Dawn take it from here:

It’s been a year since this great actor died. No one noticed it as the Covid started around that time.He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. 70 years! Wow.

Ingmar Bergman’s favourite male actor, as they cooperated in 11 films. He came to international fame after the release of 1957 film – The Seventh Seal. Where he had some iconic moments such as playing chess with Death. (Note to self – don’t play games with death, he ALWAYS wins in the end.)

Sweden was not enough for him, so he conquered the US. His first role – JC himself in the 1965 biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told. Then he went to becoming the iconic priest in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. If that wasn’t enough, he was also in Dune and Minority Report. Unfortunately he was also in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but that does not mean he didn’t do a good job.

Oh, and did I forgot to mention Conan the Barbarian, Never Say Never Again (as the villain),  Judge Dredd (the “original”)? Another funny fact is that he also played The Apostle Peter in a TV miniseries called Quo Vadis? (Yes – I too never heard of it).

The guy is not religious, not that we know of. However, he stated (and he doesn’t seem to be kidding) that he heard from Bergman after he died (around the 6min mark):

Here are some great videos and pics of the man himself, sent over by Dawn:

Unrelated, but interesting – Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean, was once in a Bond movie:

And here are some pictures of the great man:

I actually agree with Max von Sydow about this one. There are plenty of “Christian” pastors of megachurches out there today who are going straight to the Very Bad Place because of the nonsense that they are teaching right now.

You know you’re awesome when JAMES FREAKIN’ WOODS, a legend in his own right, plays you in a send-up.

I CANNOT be the only one who would watch that movie!

#BasedTucker is based:

That one above is a GREAT rant – though Tucker makes one big mistake. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15 1767, not 1867. (The Ides of March, no less – I think we’ve got TWO Great Men of the Week for that day.)

The Wicked Witch of the West is COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY NUCKING FUTS. It’s just that simple.

Mark Dice clearly OWNS Li’l Helium Boy Brian Stelter:

There is simply no way for a soyboy fatass Gamma like Brian Stelter to rebut Mark’s hilarious voice-overs. The guy has to sit there on his big fat butt and take the mockery and the humiliation. Do not be fooled, though – he is burning with rage inside.

Dave from Blue Collar Logic is unimpressed by the attempts of the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whorenalists and presstitutes to cover up their utter dereliction of duty in reporting the fact that the Kung Flu is far more dangerous to fat and old people than anyone else:

This is not news to you and me. I was telling you this A YEAR AGO. But apparently, it is news to the f***ing journos.

NOW do you understand why I want most of these people to be tried for treason and shot? Or, at the very least, given free one-way helicopter rides?

And Jason has a bit of fun at the expense of the presstitutes in explaining why y’all elect representatives to, y’know, represent you:

Bill Whittle takes on the US Navy’s attempts to turn itself into a Village People tribute band:

At this rate, in 10 years’ time, the US would be better off sending in a bunch of homosexuals dressed as cowboys and Indians and policemen to fight in the Rockpile and the East China Sea than the actual damn Navy.

Don’t get me wrong, the homos would be yeeted straight out and get their asses kicked. The difference is that they would actually kind of enjoy the process.

The Male Brain is back with lots of hilarious and informative videos to get you off to the right start on this Monday. We begin with a great AwakenWithJP video that tells Beta males how to be the best Beta they can be:

Ironic, is it not, that a fruity vegan is so good at mocking fruity vegans?

The great Dr. Thomas Sowell explains a few important things about slavery that you weren’t taught back when you should have been:

Another one from the same legend:

Dawn Pine sent me this Ryan George video about “Captain CrossFit” knowing full well that I’d immediately go off into a rant about CrossShit, and he was right:

That is about what you might expect from CrossShitters. They really are a cult, founded on a whole lot of stupid. I’ve been pointing out for years the ways in which CrossShit has absolutely no clue about good and sensible programming for building mass and strength. If you do CrossShit, yeah, you’ll become part of a cult – but you’ll also most likely injure yourself, do stupid things, and end up losing your gains.

Don’t do CrossShit. Just… don’t. Not even ONCE, bro.

Another from Ryan George about Minecraft:

And a ScreenRant pitch meeting breakdown – the screen cap will give you nightmares:

Simon Whistler fronts another Today I Found Out video about the fascinating history of the Molotov Cocktail:

Apparently there’s a story in there about a poop bomb. Make of that what you will…

Paul Ramsey has a potentially rather contentious video about how China is not, in fact, the true problem:

I don’t fully agree with him. China is a serious bad actor on the world stage. The fact that China doesn’t do even ten percent of the stupid shit that America does, is more of an issue of resources than willpower. The CCP will GLADLY engage in imperialist overreach if given the chance. It already is doing precisely that throughout Asia and Africa.

Nonetheless, Paul does make some good points.

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan

Jeremy from TheQuartering has a feel-good story for you about a man suing an all-female company for sexual discrimination:

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms provides a mercifully brief recap of the reasons why Petra, not Mecca, is the original centre of the Fake Religion of “Peace”:

Al-Fadi from CIRA International collaborates with his good friend, Dr. Jay Smith, to explain some of the MANY contradictions within the Standard Islamic Narrative about the Koran’s origins:

Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined has a quite fascinating long video up relating the infamous O. J. Simpson case with the existence of God:

China Uncensored is amused by the CCP’s attempts to ban Bitcoin from their financial system:

Yeah, good luck to them with that. Governments around the world – including my own – have tried, and utterly FAILED, to ban cryptocurrencies. They are the way of the future. It’s that simple.

America Uncovered examines the latest round of Cancel Culture stupidity – in which Dr. Seuss, a LIBERAL and avowed anti-racist, is a victim:

Jared Taylor from American Renaissance explains the manner in which liberals wilfully blinded themselves to the truth about the Black Looming Menace movement:

Terrence Popp is deeply pessimistic about the possibility of avoiding the upcoming Second Civil War:

Some classic Sharpe clips:

There’s a hilarious comment on a number of those videos that goes something like, “Sharpe is so hard, even being played by Sean Bean can’t kill him!”. Too true.

And speaking of ol’ Craggy Cheeks, here is the classic Sean Bean Death Reel:

I’ve actually seen a lot of those films. Most are very good.

Midnight’s Edge guest Kamran Pasha offers up some intriguing ideas about how the whole Carano Cock-up may lead to Queen Karen Kennedy’s downfall:

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reports that Rosario Dawson is next on Queen Karen Kennedy’s shit-list:

Gary from Nerdrotic breaks down Bill Burr’s response to the whole Carano Cock-up:

The Drinker didn’t like Terminator: GeniSh*t any more than you did – and he couldn’t even bring himself to like it when completely shitfaced:

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and it consists of an intriguing hypothesis about how smaller prey allowed humans to become smarter as we evolved:

We hypothesize that megafauna extinctions throughout the Pleistocene, that led to a progressive decline in large prey availability, were a primary selecting agent in key evolutionary and cultural changes in human prehistory. The Pleistocene human past is characterized by a series of transformations that include the evolution of new physiological traits and the adoption, assimilation, and replacement of cultural and behavioral patterns. Some changes, such as brain expansion, use of fire, developments in stone-tool technologies, or the scale of resource intensification, were uncharacteristically progressive. We previously hypothesized that humans specialized in acquiring large prey because of their higher foraging efficiency, high biomass density, higher fat content, and the use of less complex tools for their acquisition. Here, we argue that the need to mitigate the additional energetic cost of acquiring progressively smaller prey may have been an ecological selecting agent in fundamental adaptive modes demonstrated in the Paleolithic archaeological record. We describe several potential associations between prey size decline and specific evolutionary and cultural changes that might have been driven by the need to adapt to increased energetic demands while hunting and processing smaller and smaller game.

Your long read of the week is from Kenneth Vinther over at The Unz Review, and examines the deep and hidden roots of Jewish involvement in the global PR0N industry:

Jewish pornographers and Jewish organizations were also pivotal in the legalization of pornography in the United States. For instance, the Jewish plaintiff Samuel Roth (who wrote Jews Must Live, which describes the Jewish hatred of gentiles and gentile culture) is credited with stretching the legal definition of what constitutes obscenity in the Roth v. United States (1957) case by arguing that obscene material should be protected under the First Amendment. While the court ruled against Roth, it was provoked to redefine obscenity as “material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.”[10] This definition would later become the basis for the Miller test, which became the Supreme Court’s test for defining obscene material following the case against the Jewish plaintiff Marvin Miller in Miller v. California (1973).

Notable Jewish pornographers, like Al Goldstein, would later beat obscenity prosecutions by exploiting the wording of the Miller test. For instance, Goldstein brags in his autobiography about defeating obscenity prosecutors by “put[ting them] in the position of having to admit to a boner on the stand” to prove whether his material “appealed to prurient interest” or not.[11] Alongside two other high-profile obscenity cases against the pornographer Larry Flynt and the Jewish actor Harry Reems, the precedents obtained by Goldstein effectively precluded the ability to make obscenity convictions and paved the way for the normalization of hardcore pornography. Goldstein later bragged: “What makes Al Goldstein? Al Goldstein’s a fucking legend. How many people legalized pornography? I mean fucking Fishbein is coasting, and Ron Jeremy is coasting. I changed the law.”

LINKBOOKMARKRegarding Larry Flynt, while Flynt is not Jewish, he was a notable donor to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). While the ADL is one of the chief organizations spearheading the censorship of hate speech on social media platforms and at the level of the federal government, the ADL also has a history of supporting freedom of expression for pornographers. The ADL does not believe that the First Amendment should protect speech that criticizes Jews, but it does believe that the First Amendment should protect pornographers. The ADL also awarded Hugh Hefner “their American Freedom Award at a fashionable black-tie dinner-dance” in 1980, praising Hefner because “the empire he founded has had a far-reaching impact, not only on the publishing industry, but on the mores of American society as well.”[12] [emphasis added] Additionally, Abe Foxman — former National Director of the ADL — praised Jews in the pornography industry as paradigmatic Americans: “Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream.”[13]

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:

The Neo-Tsar tells it like it is, as usual:

100% CAN CONFIRM. The Russians have managed the Coof Cockabout quite well. The Europeans, and especially the Poms, have not. It is just that simple.

Russia is free. Much of America is not. Most of Britain is not. Virtually all of Europe is not.

I know where I would rather be.

History lessons of the week from Dawn Pine, all about the Battle of Quebec:

Can you believe that America lost to the Canuckies?!? I mean, in something outside of hockey?!

Your Great Man of the Week is an EPIC suggestion from Dawn Pine – Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of WWII:

Dude was a BADASS at every level. In fact, if you watch the movie, To Hell and Back, which starred Audie Murphy playing Audie Murphy in Audie Murphy’s life, you will quickly see some of the best battle scenes ever filmed – and they were toned down because the producers thought that the true stories of Lt. Murphy’s exploits in battle were too BATSHIT INSANE to be believable.

Sadly, Lt. Murphy’s victories in battle cost him terribly after the war. Back then, medical science didn’t understand the concept of “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”, and the men who came back from that war, scarred for life, did not have an easy time fitting back into society.

Yet even there, he still would not back down or surrender. He endured even worse tests after the war, mentally. And still he fought on, until the day that he died in a plane crash.

What an EFFIN’ LEGEND.

I came across a video of a really fascinating HALO: Reach mod that might actually be worth downloading and playing:

The major problem that I have with this mod is that it does away completely with the simplicity and elegance of one of the core elements of the HALO games. And that is the straightforward weapons loadouts. You now have like 10 versions of a single weapon – how the HELL are you supposed to know which one to use?!?

But, I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and say, give it a try.

Also – you know you’ve done well in life when the people who make the HALO games think that you play on God-Mode:

Life is always better after a solid dose of WARHAMMER 40K:

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Jezza looks like a pregnant Ernest Hemingway. It’s actually kind of scary to see how much he has degraded over the past 5 years. Clearly, whatever weight Captain Slow lost over the past year, Jezza really found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWhO48tyoI

Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

Oof. I’ve tried some weird pizza in my time, but nothing quite so bad as that.

Comedy hour:

I found a new comedy channel. It looks like Ryan George’s style of expository comedy is taking off… for better, AND worse.

Pics, guns, girls, starting with some good stuff from Dawn Pine. The first bunch come straight from the Roosh V Forums:

Onward:

This headline from The Babylon Bee might as well be real, at this point:

Can we now start calling Moochelle Obama a massive racist too?:

Yeah. I HATE modrenity.

Oh, IF ONLY that were true…

Clearly, polar bears can’t bloody spell either.

Damn straight.

There’s a movement that we can all support.

Yes, I do see the irony involved in posting those two pictures right next to each other. IT’S A COMEDY SKETCH. Get over it.

This next one might take a moment to work out, but when you do, you’ll shit bricks:

Contradiction in terms. A progressive is by definition constantly changing his positions, because that is what it means to progress.

I’m told that I can do a very good Gretard voice impersonation by my colleagues here. Which is kind of scary, actually.

Headlines of the week indicate that Iowa has gone completely batshit insane:

Your “Odumbass” moment of the week:

I have no words to craption this next one, just absorb the sheer glorious brilliance of it:

Related:

Your “Ass-Cancer” moment of the week:

Your “Hard Cheese” moment of the week:

Your “Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung” moment of the week:

Yes, that is a real German compound word.

Your “Everything is COVID’s Fault” moment of the week:

Here is your “Media InConsistency” moment of the week:

Yep. Feelin’ that.

Hey, where’s New York?

WORST. BOOMER. SONG. EVER.

USE YOUR HARPOONS AND TOW CABLES! GO FOR THE LEGS!

And people wonder why I love Texas.

Believe it or not, I actually remember my own grandmother doing precisely that.

That brings to mind the old gag about how Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should damned well be a convenience store, not a government agency.

And on the subject of guns:

Your Dog of the Week is the Segugio Italiano:

Lovely Segugio Italiano dog photo and wallpaper. Beautiful ...

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

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

It’s been a while since we did any proper gym idiots, so let’s bring The Trap Lord back to examine the downright idiotic idea of letting “transgendered women” (read: MEN) compete against actual women:

Trans female athletes are not women. They are mentally ill men. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

Josh Brett looks at the village idiot of the fitness industry, Vince from V-SHRED, and asks why this numbnuts is so successful:

The simple reason is because Most People Are Idiots. It’s really that straightforward. Rhetoric wins over dialectic almost every time.

Gym beast props this week go to the almighty badass Clarence Kennedy:

Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Jesus loves knockouts:

The Polish Power really showed up last night against Izzy Adesanya. He won that fight decisively.

Related – a lot of people think that MMA is nothing more than mindless bloodsport. This is a spectacularly stupid and utterly misinformed opinion. In reality, MMA is, as Toe Rogan once put it, “high-level problem-solving with devastating consequences for making a mistake”, or words to that effect.

To understand why, take a look at this brilliant breakdown of the recent Poirier-McGregor 2 fight, in which Dustin “Diamond” Poirier showed precisely how and why he came up with all of the answers to Mystic Mac’s style:

And here is a breakdown of how Mystic Mac’s problem-solving skill, and therefore his fighting style, has degraded badly over time:

And here is a fascinating, and quite thoughtful, breakdown of Conor’s loss from a proper True Geordie:

As he points out, Conor doesn’t need the money from fighting anymore. He doesn’t have the fire and fury anymore. He’s still happy to go and fight, but he only really seeks money now, and that appears to have corrupted his skills.

#MetalLands

And now here is your Instathot to get the week off to a decent start. Her name is Natalie Roush, age 25, originally from Jacksonville, Floriduh, and now living in Los Angeles, Clownipornia. She is a fairly well known (by Instathot standards) bikini model. Apparently she’s spent quite a bit of time hanging around another once-infamous Instaloot named Julia Rose, who graced a long-past Mondaydact Browser Smasher. Ms Roush is known for… uh… well, being an Instathot, I suppose, and not a whole lot else. But she’s your weekly dose of lead in the ol’ pencil.

That’s it for this Monday. Off to work with ye, gents – your government can’t misappropriate your tax money and spend it on pointless forever wars in Syria unless you do your part, after all…

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2 Comments

  1. Robert W
    Robert W on March 8, 2021 at 6:02 pm

    This Ryan George style of comedy is really a gem, it cuts out all the Hollywood and makes it just what the comic finds funny…which in his case, is very wide and consistently funny stuff. Compare this to any sitcom ever made and…the sitcome is a waste of time, every time.

    One of the other Julie Knolk videos that pops up after the one you embedded…18 million views for ‘Explaning Covid to my past self’.

    18 million views. It is certain that Jesus never had an audience so large in his entire ministry. I’ll bet even now, authors like Aristotle don’t have 18 million people who have actually read his material. This world is changing.

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    • Didact
      Didact on March 10, 2021 at 5:44 am

      Compare this to any sitcom ever made and…the sitcome is a waste of time, every time.

      I have to disagree with that. A lot of online comedy is profane and snarky these days, and Ryan George’s style doesn’t necessarily appeal to those who prefer somewhat more highbrow comedy. The Brits were masters of that – no one has yet come up with funnier sitcoms than Yes (Prime) Minister or To the Manor Born. And I still find myself preferring old 2000s sitcoms like Becker and Rules of Engagement for to most (not all) internet comedy.

      That being said, the stuff at Dry Bar Comedy is very, very funny and I like their videos a lot.

      18 million views. It is certain that Jesus never had an audience so large in his entire ministry. I’ll bet even now, authors like Aristotle don’t have 18 million people who have actually read his material. This world is changing.

      True. But Jesus changed a lot more lives over the long run, by far))

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