Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to my American brothers, sister Jen See, and I hope everyone is looking forward to a fine meal of turkey, stuffing, sweet taters, mashed taters, candied taters, ambrosia salad, string beans con bacon bits, rolls and pun’kin pie with loved ones you are not supposed to be seeing.
Very fun, though, let’s be honest. Thanksgiving food is terrible. Every bit of it. And we must blame the British because I don’t think our Native Americans would have been so cruel as to come up with ambrosia salad.
Thinking about the British, here, where do you put J.R.R. Tolkien on the list of great British authors?
Near the top?
Above or below Evelyn Waugh?
I used to not care for Tolkien but he has grown on me over the years, especially his depictions of evil (Orcs etc.) in the Lord the Rings trilogy.
Even Tolkien, though, could not have come up with a more horrific tableau than was witnessed in Morro Bay, California last week where a typically cute n cuddly sea otter attempted to eat the face off a shark.
Michael Harris, of the California department of fish and wildlife, told the website Win for Outdoors, “To my knowledge … this is the first documented horn shark capture by a sea otter. There are reports of sea otters capturing skates and rays, but this is the first report of a shark. Sea otters will feed on fish, but it’s a very rare observation in California.”
The not-for-profit Sea Otter Savvy added, “Not surprisingly, while some nibbling may have occurred, the prey was not consumed.”
I don’t why “not surprisingly” and I don’t know what’s worse for the shark. Having half its face eaten or all of it eaten.
At the end, would you rather have shark face for Thanksgiving or turkey?
I’m on the fence.
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Nice young lady too, and was really pretty before the permanent solution.
Chas the only true monsters , in the Lord of the Rings are humans ….. all they had to do was throw it in the volcano and be done with it …. but lust for power and greed was their downfall ….Took a fucking hero , Midget Gardener and hobbit Samwise Gangee to save the humans from themselves.
The Greatest Living Author in English …. Salman Rushdie ….. Midnights Children is a fucking masterpiece and thoroughly deserved the Booker of Bookers .
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”meets “ A Ring of Bright Water “
Only in your dreams my hairy Prince.
The history of European discovery in California, pre gold rush is incredible.
You in a smoothie or in your whisky kinda guy?
Considering Dez’s persistence in pursuing the EJC story, would the term ‘Horn Shark’ possibly become a suitable nom de plume?
He was born in South Africa… Why do the English always claim the shiny things they like from their colonialism exploits but don’t owe up to the distruction they’ve caused in so many countries? The history of the English make the holocaust look like a walk in the park.
Cause they’re all dead?
No…. They also claim the ones that are still alive ..the arrogance
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs
England is more like a mud pie.
The sun never sets on the oppression, indentured servants, forced opiate addiction, colonization, abuse of indigenous people, etc. Happy Thanksgiving.
Yeah mate… Absolute cunts
Every day must be a struggle carrying around that weight?
Not guilty of my ancestors crimes. They came to America on the Mayflower.
What a relief.
Sleep well oh saintly one.
At least I’ve come to terms with the reality of being a foreign immigrant to a land that was inhabited ten thousand years before me. All these dot com billionaire shitheads that live near me have no idea and do not care one bit about the history of this area. I do. Kalohole Andino probably has no idea why the name of his town is Spanish.
Probly cause the Spaniards were more familiar with an arid climate
The euros looked at a map of America and decided to set up the first colony at the same latitude as Portugal which had mild winters. They didn’t know enough about weather to know that there would be snow and freezing cold weather at the same latitude over here.
Dumb fuckers had no idea about the gift of the Gulf Stream to Western Europe .
Let’s hope he says at ,least a prayer , to Saint Clement , if he makes it to the final at Trestles
They probably took a caliper and measured your great grandfathers skull or the distance between his eyes in England and categorized him as an undesirable and sent him to Australia. The beginning of eugenics.
No, but his grandson came in the sixties.
Thought he’d give the joint a bit of class
“I’ll bite your face cunt.” Alf on Doodle Burgers Home and Away haha.
That shit was amazing. Will watch again
I’m in! haha.
https://youtu.be/XS4edlvY-ks
Is ‘shark face’ a surfing-adjacent social media pouting style, meant to have a slimming effect on the model?
A la ‘duck face’?
A million toothy Shark influencers can’t be wrong CB.
This chick at my work seems to think she has a bit of an influence on the gram and had some lip stuff done recently. Not a subtle amount either. Now she sucks her lips ALL the time. It’s the oddest thing.
It’s sad to see narcissism in the wild like that.
When you look over and see her sucking her lips, does it make you visualize anything?
Yes it does. But not what you’re thinking. It makes her look somewhat mental challenged.
WTF is ambrosia salad?
what the fuck is salad?
You don’t win friends with it. Homer taught us all that!
It’s the bastard love child of Sal Masekela and Surfads.
Enjoy the thanksgiving, Seppos.
We gave you this.
Could be living in a goat shit hut in Somalia, so much much to be thankful for. Dumb luck where you are born. You won the lottery also.
I’m glad you call it luck and not white privelege.
I see I’m having an effect on you.
Bex you are the filthiest of organisms that inhabit the planet, and I’m drinking IPA’s because it’s a holiday. You don’t need to be scared that the Democrats will bulldoze the suburbs and build low rent high rise units full of over sexed blacks that want to have sex with white women. It’s OK don’t worry.
Bit harsh
Not worried
You have it exactly right. Tex Vagina is so worried that he feels put upon. How dare anyone harsh his vibe.
Clever, but the misogyny lingers
According to un-named sources, the otter had been on Nicolas Cage film binge while on a self-imposed lockdown. Inspiration arrived after watching the film ‘Face/Off’.
Have you seen the Egyptian remake?
It Sphinx.
Fez/Off
looks more like a loving embrace than a face chewing, but in all fairness, its been a while since I engaged in either activity.
After driven to near extinction, looks like the cuddly little sea otter toughened the fuck up.
They’re heading down to Newport again, attacking anybody that resembles an over coached London style kid. So-Cal is in trouble.
Probably high on meth … hanging out near an outfall
After watching the first half hour of the first Lord of the Rings movie I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t my kinda thing.
Similar with Brideshead Revisited on TV.
Guess I’m not part of either Tolkien or Waugh’s target audience.
Each to their own though, maybe Derek likes them…
Fast forward until Liv Tyler appears
RIDE HARD
When it comes to British television series it doesn’t get much better than “Absolutely Fabulous”
That show was absolutely fuked, apart from Mike from The Young Ones
https://youtu.be/Wpfe3as5mo4
Forgot about the Young Ones. Haha. I was sharing a house with three Irish skinhead punk rockers and a fifteen foot reticulated python at the time. We moved into an all black neighborhood in the city, put on helmets and sat in shopping carts careening down a steep hill out front. Nobody messed with us after that. I was living that show.
Vivian is a girls name anyway.
is the “p” silent Rick?
Keeping Up Appearances with a nice tea and biscuits. Fantastic.
Father Ted? Black Books?
Appropriate article for the turd I dropped whilst reading it.
Me too!
Oh. Not like that.
Benjamin Franklin believed the turkey to be “a bird of courage” that “would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on.”
Sharkface sounds like a villain in a BeachGrit comic book
Shark face is the new Scar Face …..drawing interesting lines