When the world is in trouble, it calls out to the men of Right Angle. If they’re available, and it’s not too inconvenient, and if the pay is reasonable, they ride to the rescue.
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Right Angle: Backstage (06-08-2021)
When the world is in trouble, it calls out to the men of Right Angle.
28 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (06-08-2021)”
I know the backstage discussions are for members but that story about the lady working the convenience store hitting “La Raza” has to be put up on YouTube to show my friends that arent initiated into BW.com.
Bill, put the bottle cap down . . .
I meant to post this Wednesday but I didn’t. I’m guessing you all know about this however, maybe you don’t.
Klingon Style.
https://youtu.be/CayMeza487M
We are grateful for all that you do for us, too! May this mission continue and grow.
The “IKE Shooter Gangnam Style” video is fun. My brother was a nuclear reactor operator on Ike’s maiden deployment,
I watched that, too. Guys having fun on the job.
I just added 1 to the Baby Shark Dance count. I don’t think I’ll ever forgive you.
Baaaby shark! do do do do …
God knows I hate that song, and my kids (all adults now) love to play it when they either want to cause me to loudly groan or they want me to leave the room.
These will be fun!
And thanks for almost an hour!!
Mrs Ron currently works in a shop in our small city. The other day someone from the shop across the street called and told her that a known shoplifter who had been banned from their store had just gone into hers. The woman was well dressed but carried an empty satchel. My wife called the shop owner and loudly enough to be heard by the wanna-be thief, told the owner there was a known shoplifter in the store and asked if she should call the police.
The woman left in a hurry. My wife of course said, “Thanks for coming in, have a nice day!”.
People do not expect to have their behavior called out, when they do they turn tail. Mrs Ron also had her purse next to her just in case.
Getting back to my soapbox… Please take a vacation, guys. You’ve earned it & we don’t want to see you guys burn out, especially as intense as things are right now. I see three ways you can do it:
1) Film extra short, non-topical thought pieces until you have a week or two worth of material to post while you’re out.
2) Bring in guests to sub for you guys – Zo did a great job pinch hitting for Scott. Kruiser would be at the top of my list, while Ron Swanson’s Alter Ego suggested that scurillous human being with whom Bill used to film videos at the old shop.
3) Put up a Gone Fishin’ sign for two weeks. The members will support this, although I don’t know how this would affect your non member viewership after you return.
I’ve been saying that 2021 is going to make 2020 look like 2019, and hopefully I’ll be wrong. If I’m right though, we’re going to need you three at full strength. And if I’m wrong you deserve a break anyway.
I’m taking the family to Mexico in August, and I’m not bringing my laptop or iPad — Kindle ONLY!
The real question is how much good tequila will you be liberating from Mexico?
To keep the alcohol content for RA at a reasonable level, I can be had as a fill-in
very cheaply, well for a reasonable barter.I’m pretty sure I outbid you. See above.
HA! Don’t let Ron SAE pull a fast one on you! 🙂 Cubans and a good blue agave reposado are not cheap, even as barter.
I’ll do it for a few Nicaraguan EMS Churchills and some Cuervo Gold.
We should be working together to drive up the price not down.
Ai caramba! You are correct, Senor. What was I thinkin’?
Brian over at Honey Badgers describes social media as video games for females.
… and soy boy beta males (possibly gammas since they are a t the bottom of the food chain).
It’s the (no so) local gossip group at the hair salon.
I was yelled at by a literal squirrel at UCLA when I promised him food and then didn’t deliver.
That little hispanic lady is my hero for today
Oh yeah! I realize that this is presumptive of age, but that enraged man finally learned that you don’t mess with Granny.
My best time in high school cross country was on a rainy day, when I had something else to think about instead of my feet and legs.
I’m guessing the little angry lady was the owner? Guess he found out some Mexicans do own that bit of California again.
Bill has a rabbit gang in his hood? heh.
Baby Shark is one example of many of how you can whether someone has kids… if you have them you have seen it, if you don’t, you have no idea what it is.
Bill’s first idea about Bezos was similar to mine.. I wondered whether his ex-wife would have enough money to pay someone to break something.
The press is holding a pillow over the Russian news, covering it (until it stops breathing).
The rich people can always pay more of their wealth, nothing is stopping them at all… so I call out Lizzie Warren. Also, I think I saw a similar article asking how Pro Pub got those tax fillings… IRS filings are supposed to be secret.
Bill, Scott, Steve I am totally on board. I’ve actually met Bill once and am hoping for a chance to meet you all.
I’m in that age group where we were shepherded into the hallway of the elementary school and instructed how to basically bend over and kiss our asses goodbye in the event of nuclear attack. I was way too young to process this. So I don’t feel like this honed my amygdyla. Vietnam was winding down and my draft number (by my birthday) was 4. But they canceled the draft right before, so my amygdala again had a chance to rest. As the editor of my snarky, off-colored medical school paper “The Cadaver” I got sued by the nursing school for publishing an unsigned letter to the editor (from a jilted boyfriend) that pointed out that no teachers in the school had worked as an actual nurse. My grades went down and it was stressful, but the medical school dean had the suit thrown out because he said that it was true. Again a rested amygdala. First world problems indeed.
Of course, I’m joking about stress, especially since I have survived a 14 hour surgery for cancer followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy. But, in America can you can find lots of people like me that have skated through, relatively stress free.
I am struggling currently with the horrible stress of trying to get my asking price on my house. Egads! The inconvenience!
That was great, thanks for sharing that. It’s wonderful to hear about someone who realizes and appreciates how good things are, even when they know firsthand that sometimes they’re not so good. A 14 hour cancer surgery is something I’ve never been faced with. I’m glad you made it through that and I hope the treatment and surgery were successful. Be well.
Scott? It’s the basal ganglia that is often called the “lizard brain”. This comes from the triune brain view of brain anatomy. The reason it’s called the “lizard brain” is because that part of the brain is about all a lizard has. Just because a lizard and a human brain contain certain similarities does not mean they are the same thing, though there is a certain poetic convenience that has made the idea very popular.
But it’s not the same thing as a lizard has because if you could somehow magically graft the rest of a human brain onto a lizard it would not suddenly walk on its hind legs and take up teaching calculus at MIT.
It takes a complex and highly developed nervous system to go along with that brain. It takes a genuine human brain to come up with something as twisted, convoluted, regressive and downright mean as Neo-Marxism.
The truth is that you have the most unique and complex organic computer in all of the known universe housed inside that bone box you carry around on your shoulders. It didn’t get that way by layering better brains over older, less successful brains.
The “lizard brain” theory has since been vigorously challenged as knowledge about human brain anatomy and evolutionary biology has grown. The “lizard brain” idea will likely be around for a while yet but its shelf life is limited.
Bill is however correct in saying that the human brain is trained by dealing with experience. He’s right when he says that the means to deal with situations is a learned response.
This is how military training works, by placing you in as close to certain situations as possible. Your brain learns from those experiences whether you want it to or not. Reflexes are created and refined, sensory stimuli are more closely heeded, examined, then acted upon and the fear response is tamed and put to use. The more intense and involved the training, the more that individual is likely to carry those responses on into later life.
This is even more pronounced in people who have been in an actual fight and survived it. It is also the basis for PTSD and why that sort of thing is such a problem. I.E. being scared stiff and overcoming that to actually move and move correctly sets up a sort of a dynamic tension that doesn’t ever go away and can only be dealt with, not cured.
Are you sure? /sarc. Well at least not at MIT but given what some professors are caught spewing, a poisonous Gila Monster would be an improvement.
Regarding marxism, there is that saying something like it takes someone very smart to come up with something so stupid.
Reminds me of the book Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall For Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn. He also wrote Why The Left Hates America.