Coronavirus 2020

[WOTR]

Dear Mr. Dubb,

I need your advice on hairstyling.   Like most, I haven’t had a haircut in some time now and while I stopped wearing my hair “high and tight” when I retired from the Navy I have never had to deal with hair as long as mine is now.   I am considering going to a pony tail, man bun or dreadlocks.  Which do you think would work best for me or should I just continue to stuff the overhang in my ears as I am presently doing.

Sincerely, 

Confused on Coiffure

I shall, of course yield to Mr. Dubbs advice. However, I believe that Shreddie was saying that the comb-over is all the rage on the London runways (and golf courses) this season.

[Kidnostad3]

I shall, of course yield to Mr. Dubbs advice. However, I believe that Shreddie was saying that the comb-over is all the rage on the London runways (and golf courses) this season.

Noted. 

[Dr. MD MD]

So, you’re happy with most US businesses being there then? You’re still for this? We’re weaklings otherwise?

The lawyer was justifying human rights abuses in the name of the collective. : :

I guess I’ll take your silence as a yes, I am for fascism.

[albrecht]

As a management consulting firm McKinsey recognized early on that corporations could increase profits by shifting production to “offshore” locations where labor costs were much lower.  It then proceeded to persuade its clients to pursue such retrenchment and to facilitate those moves by cultivating relationships with foreign governments and manufacturers and acting as the go between in deal making.  Having established those relationships, which worked out very well for the foreign business entities, It then became the management consultant of choice for many of those self same foreign entities, most notably China.  It has been serving as a advisor, public relations advocate and lobbyist for China among others for a number of years now.

I don’t think McKinsey set out to strip the U.S. of its manufacturing capacity and help China become the largest and most powerful economy.  I think it just followed the money at every step which is what any business concern might do and is in fact a fiduciary responsibility of management in the case of publicly held companies.  At some point McKinsey must have realized that the outsourcing that it facilitated and its representation of foreign concerns was working to degrade the U.S. economy, but, companies like McKinsey are amoral, non ideological and entirely profit driven.  Nothing McKinsey is doing or has done is in violation of law or regulation including the contributions it makes to various campaign funds to ensure that legislation to curtail or reverse the migration of U.S. jobs overseas is not enacted.  Trump is the only one who has taken positive steps in that direction through policy revisions and executive orders and that among other things is why the Dems and their corporate partners are determined to remove him from office.  I can see why there is a lot of resentment towards McKinsey but the fault lies primarily with our politicians.

Lest I sound like a commie- and to crib from a possibly apocryphal quote- "capitalism will produce the rope to hang itself" (or something my lockdown mind failing myself after some hours in attic moving some stuff.) But I understand your comments and also tend to agree that a business's- especially a public corporation- sole duty is to profit the shareholders. But there should be morality in people and also some rules/laws in society. And since, legally, corporations are people they might also have some moral imperative? Especially if granted a charter or get some monopoly- natural or by regulatory capture (corruption.)  And I also do advocate anybody, or entity, to avoid taxes and maximize profits. Legally. But don't feed the beast, either one: government and greed.

ps: I thought one interesting point was that the short-term strategy of outsourcing, eliminating middle management,  Pareto or Welch RIF ideas, etc might not be good for long-term and, by extension, national security.  The quick profit, think quarterly is sometimes nice for the individual but not for the entire company....or country.

[albrecht]

Dear Mr. Dubb,

I need your advice on hairstyling.   Like most, I haven’t had a haircut in some time now and while I stopped wearing my hair “high and tight” when I retired from the Navy I have never had to deal with hair as long as mine is now.   I am considering going to a pony tail, man bun or dreadlocks.  Which do you think would work best for me or should I just continue to stuff the overhang in my ears as I am presently doing.

Sincerely, 

Confused on Coiffure

Clippers. Mullet. To honor Joe Diffie, Corona-Chan victim. And easier to do in a lockdown and no mirror confusion. "Business in the front, party in the back."

[Kidnostad3]

I guess I’ll take your silence as a yes, I am for fascism.

Your question is a bullshit straw man that begs to be ignored. 

[Asuka Langley]

I am trying to pull my spring fashion look together to go with my Keffiyeh. I was thinking i could go for a simple black ISIS shirt but i think it might be a little too Passive-aggressive?



Then i thought maybe a simple I love Allah shirt might be a little less loud



Or maybe i should just go total mindfuck and wear a star of Remphan shirt with the Keffiyeh?

[Dr. MD MD]

Your question is a bullshit straw man that begs to be ignored.

Hardly. Either you’re for the way the CCP rolls or you’re not. I’m not. You are. Just be honest, if that’s even possible for someone as conflicted as you.

[albrecht]

I am trying to pull my spring fashion look together to go with my Keffiyeh. I was thinking i could go for a simple black ISIS shirt but i think it might be a little too Passive-aggressive?



Then i thought maybe a simple I love Allah shirt might be a little less loud



Or maybe i should just go total mindfuck and wear a star of Remphan shirt with the Keffiyeh?

I will defer to K_Dubb in fashion but I think it depends on the season- or news cycle as some call it. Like the wearing of white or certain hats. Both would be appropriate depending on the date and circumstances and, Emily Post aside, are the same thing? 

[K_Dubb]

Dear Mr. Dubb,

I need your advice on hairstyling.   Like most, I haven’t had a haircut in some time now and while I stopped wearing my hair “high and tight” when I retired from the Navy I have never had to deal with hair as long as mine is now.   I am considering going to a pony tail, man bun or dreadlocks.  Which do you think would work best for me or should I just continue to stuff the overhang in my ears as I am presently doing.

Sincerely, 

Confused on Coiffure

Dear Confused,

I beg forgiveness if I am mistaken but I believe I detect a feminine hand in your decor (candles, placemats) and I would defer in all respects to the person who has to look at you daily as your body belongs to her as you may have vowed ("with my body I thee worship").  Though it could just as easily be the fetish for homeyness common in Navy men who have lived for significant stretches in impersonal surroundings -- I have seen it before.

In the event I am mistaken, my answer would depend entirely upon the strength of your chin, which you must evaluate with a ruthless eye.  Once the chin fails, we must claw back manliness with every tonsorial trick possible so as to forestall the inevitable slide into soft obscurity and join the ubiquitous lumpy drones who, for all practical (i. e. sexual -- forgive me, but that is the entire reason for style display) purposes, might as well be pieces of furniture, invisible, non-players.  Various arrangements of facial hair (which you do not address) have been devised to shore up the sagging, and, when it comes to the coiffure, tightly shaved sides are the first resort to restore some sense of strength to the physiognomy.

If you have somehow managed to preserve your jaw, by all means let it grow.  A man should have long hair at some point in his life -- I wore it quite long for many years -- and this is the perfect time to experience the wonderful freedom of never having a set style, letting people (or, I suppose, a person if you insist) run their hands through it, play with it, do it up according to their whims or let it fall sensually around them in the heat of passion.

If, however, we are fighting a defensive action (as I have been doing for years) get out the clippers.  The simplest bowl cut which I sport (and, with quarantine, is quickly losing its neonazi association thank God -- my people have been wearing it that way for generations) is easy to achieve at home by first parting the hair on each side at the temples and shaving everything below to the desired length -- start with a 2 and work down.  I just use dog clippers which I found below the sink (the dogs -- shih tzus, which will surprise no one -- are long dead) and check the back in a three-doored medicine cabinet.  For the top, just grab fistfuls of hair and, with scissors, cut down to the length you desire, ALWAYS CUTTING AT AN ANGLE AND NEVER STRAIGHT ACROSS (forgive the emphasis but this is critical) to achieve something approximating what fine salons call "texture" or "chunkiness" -- it is amazing how forgiving hair is once you dispense with the barbershop idea that it is all supposed to be the same length.  I regret I have not progressed beyond this most basic of styles but I offer it as one well within reach at home (of course that is its origin) and still very much au courant.

You can also use this same approach -- parting at the temples on each side and clipping below -- coupled with a much longer comb on top to make something like a Julius Caesar where it is plastered down with your product of choice or, perhaps, roughed up or fllipped up at the front for a touch of insouciance.  Among my friends it is about evenly split with the more conservative opting for this style while we who want a little more style and play opting for the longer, hand-cut top.

If, however, you are blessed with curls you can get by with using clippers with a much longer comb to maintain the lower 3 inches or so of your style, relying on the natural unevenness of your hair fall to blend what, in straight hair, would be an unsightly line.  What I wouldn't give for a bit more wave right now!

I wish you the best of luck, and of taste, in your style choice and pray that I have given you, and everyone, some hope that a well-maintained coif need not be sacrificed on the altar of expediency and that we may meet this crisis in all our finery.

Yours respectfully,
K_Dubb

[K_Dubb]

Now that I'm done laughing, I think that will be how I shall refer to them.

I do have two pink shirts (one western, one dress). I can pull them off pretty well. But I just don't think  that I can make a pink coofiyat work...

I ordered a few from your link (thank you) and saw that the rainbow coofiyah was sold out, regretfully.  Not that I am given to draping myself in that symbol, but the irony would have pleased me.

[Kidnostad3]

Lest I sound like a commie- and to crib from a possibly apocryphal quote- "capitalism will produce the rope to hang itself" (or something my lockdown mind failing myself after some hours in attic moving some stuff.) But I understand your comments and also tend to agree that a business's- especially a public corporation- sole duty is to profit the shareholders. But there should be morality in people and also some rules/laws in society. And since, legally, corporations are people they might also have some moral imperative? Especially if granted a charter or get some monopoly- natural or by regulatory capture (corruption.)  And I also do advocate anybody, or entity, to avoid taxes and maximize profits. Legally. But don't feed the beast, either one: government and greed.

ps: I thought one interesting point was that the short-term strategy of outsourcing, eliminating middle management,  Pareto or Welch RIF ideas, etc might not be good for long-term and, by extension, national security.  The quick profit, think quarterly is sometimes nice for the individual but not for the entire company....or country.

I wouldn’t take issue with anything you’ve said.  The line between appropriate government actions to preserve a nations  industrial capability/capacity, breakup or prevent unfair monopolies, etc., and interference with free enterprise is fine indeed.  One’s position on any such action most always depends on whether it is one’s ox that is being gored by way of the measure or someone else’s and someone is always left unhappy. 

[albrecht]

I ordered a few from your link (thank you) and saw that the rainbow coofiyah was sold out, regretfully.  Not that I am given to draping myself in that symbol, but the irony would have pleased me.

Find a local "church," steal it, and refashion their Rainbow flag into a Muslim face-covering garb. But don't burn it. This story is so wild that it must be true. Even Hollywood couldn't create such a scenario.

https://www.kcci.com/article/im-guilty-as-charged-man-says-he-doesnt-regret-burning-church-lgbtq-banner-at-gentlemens-club/27982018

[Walks_At_Night]

I am trying to pull my spring fashion look together to go with my Keffiyeh. I was thinking i could go for a simple black ISIS shirt but i think it might be a little too Passive-aggressive?

Or maybe i should just go total mindfuck and wear a star of Remphan shirt with the Keffiyeh?

^^^^^ This.  Go for the Jungian thing.  In honor of Laura London and the side boob.   

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/16b00776-a24f-4cea-b379-7a918a0188d5

[Kidnostad3]

Dear Confused,

I beg forgiveness if I am mistaken but I believe I detect a feminine hand in your decor (candles, placemats) and I would defer in all respects to the person who has to look at you daily as your body belongs to her as you may have vowed ("with my body I thee worship").  Though it could just as easily be the fetish for homeyness common in Navy men who have lived for significant stretches in impersonal surroundings -- I have seen it before.

In the event I am mistaken, my answer would depend entirely upon the strength of your chin, which you must evaluate with a ruthless eye.  Once the chin fails, we must claw back manliness with every tonsorial trick possible so as to forestall the inevitable slide into soft obscurity and join the ubiquitous lumpy drones who, for all practical (i. e. sexual -- forgive me, but that is the entire reason for style display) purposes, might as well be pieces of furniture, invisible, non-players.  Various arrangements of facial hair (which you do not address) have been devised to shore up the sagging, and, when it comes to the coiffure, tightly shaved sides are the first resort to restore some sense of strength to the physiognomy.

If you have somehow managed to preserve your jaw, by all means let it grow.  A man should have long hair at some point in his life -- I wore it quite long for many years -- and this is the perfect time to experience the wonderful freedom of never having a set style, letting people (or, I suppose, a person if you insist) run their hands through it, play with it, do it up according to their whims or let it fall sensually around them in the heat of passion.

If, however, we are fighting a defensive action (as I have been doing for years) get out the clippers.  The simplest bowl cut which I sport (and, with quarantine, is quickly losing its neonazi association thank God -- my people have been wearing it that way for generations) is easy to achieve at home by first parting the hair on each side at the temples and shaving everything below to the desired length -- start with a 2 and work down.  I just use dog clippers which I found below the sink (the dogs -- shih tzus, which will surprise no one -- are long dead) and check the back in a three-doored medicine cabinet.  For the top, just grab fistfuls of hair and, with scissors, cut down to the length you desire, ALWAYS CUTTING AT AN ANGLE AND NEVER STRAIGHT ACROSS (forgive the emphasis but this is critical) to achieve something approximating what fine salons call "texture" or "chunkiness" -- it is amazing how forgiving hair is once you dispense with the barbershop idea that it is all supposed to be the same length.  I regret I have not progressed beyond this most basic of styles but I offer it as one well within reach at home (of course that is its origin) and still very much au courant.

You can also use this same approach -- parting at the temples on each side and clipping below -- coupled with a much longer comb on top to make something like a Julius Caesar where it is plastered down with your product of choice or, perhaps, roughed up or fllipped up at the front for a touch of insouciance.  Among my friends it is about evenly split with the more conservative opting for this style while we who want a little more style and play opting for the longer, hand-cut top.

If, however, you are blessed with curls you can get by with using clippers with a much longer comb to maintain the lower 3 inches or so of your style, relying on the natural unevenness of your hair fall to blend what, in straight hair, would be an unsightly line.  What I wouldn't give for a bit more wave right now!

I wish you the best of luck, and of taste, in your style choice and pray that I have given you, and everyone, some hope that a well-maintained coif need not be sacrificed on the altar of expediency and that we may meet this crisis in all our finery.

Yours respectfully,
K_Dubb

Dear Mr. Dubb, 

Thank you so much for your valuable advice which I will adhere to as it applies.  I must express some disappointment in learning that it was most likely not my mind that attracted my wife to me but my physical appearance.  Notwithstanding, I will endeavor to carry on as best I can as a compliant sex object. 

Thanks again,


Confused

[Dr. MD MD]

Dear Mr. Dubb, 

Thank you so much for your valuable advice which I will adhere to as it applies.  I must express some disappointment in learning that it was most likely not my mind that attracted my wife to me but my physical appearance.  Notwithstanding, I will endeavor to carry on as best I can as a compliant sex object. 

Thanks again,


Confused

But your wife does know you’re gay, right?

[Walks_At_Night]

From the CDC - map of Corona-Chan cases in an "open office" plan:



Not looking good for WAN once the work opens up again.   

[albrecht]

From the CDC - map of Corona-Chan cases in an "open office" plan:



Not looking good for WAN once the work opens up again.

Could be worse and they* take you to a secret room when you go to mail a letter.  Secret room blueprints here....

https://api.ning.com/files/xkdyc06BM0vwUTz9gs6C-o-2-fNMbclOc2HxkTQBTYhyrh4uN0Ty0ZGAAq49mOPNKXq-pQZQwKwUzeXl43CAo8ksF2MAfElU/100525.martial.lawUSPS1.pdf

* they= "foreign UN troops and FEMA police-state regional police, with indoctrinated multicultural post office workers"
ps: how many "bosses" do you have?

[Walks_At_Night]

Could be worse and they* take you to a secret room when you go to mail a letter.  Secret room blueprints here....

https://api.ning.com/files/xkdyc06BM0vwUTz9gs6C-o-2-fNMbclOc2HxkTQBTYhyrh4uN0Ty0ZGAAq49mOPNKXq-pQZQwKwUzeXl43CAo8ksF2MAfElU/100525.martial.lawUSPS1.pdf

* they= "foreign UN troops and FEMA police-state regional police, with indoctrinated multicultural post office workers"
ps: how many "bosses" do you have?

What the hell kind of murky shit is that?   LoL   Looks like Friedman's Majestic 12 stuff.   

[paladin1991]

He's a pussy with no life which he blames on boomers, globalist, the FBI/CIA, CHICOMS, Henry Kissinger, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir etc., etc., etc. while ignoring the fact that he's mentally ill, or, in clinical terms, bug-fuck crazy.  I thinking paranoid schizophrenia is just one of his diagnoses.

I work, manage my homestead and have a family.  No matter how long I am on the 'puter or what time of day or night, Dickdr is on the forum lying in wait.    Funny, huh?  Sure must be busy as a Dickdr. 

[albrecht]

What the hell kind of murky shit is that?   LoL   Looks like Friedman's Majestic 12 stuff.   

Some stuff I happened to recall. I forget the whole scenario. There were stickers on the back of road signs. Russians training in our country. The Presidio and our national parks given over the Gorby and the UN. And the Post Office as center for the ops.  (Hidden in plain sight. Accepted in urban and rural areas. Can drive around without anyone questioning motives. And the secret rooms.)   
 
Col. "Jim" was referenced in some of the emails. He had things to say. Not sure what his thoughts on the Corona-Chan are. He has retired?

https://cfgc-usa.com/staff/founders/
https://www.icaleaders.com/

and they used to say to not immanentize the eschaton

[Dr. MD MD]

I work, manage my homestead and have a family.  No matter how long I am on the 'puter or what time of day or night, Dickdr is on the forum lying in wait.    Funny, huh?  Sure must be busy as a Dickdr.

Your generation still hasn’t grasped that everyone’s mobile now. Adorable! Now, have some milk and cookies and climb back into bed.

[paladin1991]

Demonize?  Really?  Take a look at your posts which now number over 43,000 and tell me again who does the demonizing  on these boards.  You are the vilest, most unhinged spewer of bilious and obscene invective that I have ever witnessed and I'm a former sailor.  No one has to demonize you--you do that very well for yourself. 

OBTW, assigning labels to people works for Trump because he applies those labels aptly.  You on the other hand use labels to cover your inability to respond to reasoned argument and it always fails.  Yeah, I know--I'm a globalist fagot.

Well how about that?   Meeeee tooooo.  Just ask anyone at the FBI.

[Dr. MD MD]

Well how about that?   Meeeee tooooo.  Just ask anyone at the FBI.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to getting better.

[K_Dubb]

Dear Mr. Dubb, 

Thank you so much for your valuable advice which I will adhere to as it applies.  I must express some disappointment in learning that it was most likely not my mind that attracted my wife to me but my physical appearance.  Notwithstanding, I will endeavor to carry on as best I can as a compliant sex object. 

Thanks again,


Confused

Ah, my best to Mrs. Nostad!  My perspective on such things is perhaps a little skewed by experience but, if she is one of those women who does not think of you as a compliant sex object, it is my firm belief that no harm, and in fact a great deal of good, can come from persuading her that you are one.

[paladin1991]

This one made me laugh for real.  A (hitherto entirely theoretical) nationwide vaccine program revealed by the Kittitas County (WSU, Ellensburg) Incident Management Team.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washington-state-coronavirus-updates-real-time/281-83ef92ae-959e-4e7c-a54d-2412abee015a

Screw that.  No vaccine for me. 

[ItsOver]

I am trying to pull my spring fashion look together to go with my Keffiyeh. I was thinking i could go for a simple black ISIS shirt but i think it might be a little too Passive-aggressive?



Then i thought maybe a simple I love Allah shirt might be a little less loud



Or maybe i should just go total mindfuck and wear a star of Remphan shirt with the Keffiyeh?

Shirt?  Why is this even a question?

[paladin1991]

CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm/

I'm shocked, simply shocked.  A government bureacracy fucked up. Oh, yeah.  Sign me up for testing.  :

I served in the Corps too long to be shocked.  I kinda expected it.

[paladin1991]

My humiliation knows no bounds.

Yeah I only wear mine because for the first time in my life I actually look kind of badass in a lean, hungry Intifada kind of way.

Stop it.  You're giving me a hard on.

[paladin1991]

I heard this early on, at least a month ago, yet all the morons -in- charge were treating a temperature check like it was a gold standard for Corona Chan.  I could have a fever due to a number of reasons or I could NOT have a fever and could be a bioreactor full of Corona love. Or I could just be Johnny.

hell, you're right.  Who here doesn't break out in a fever when Kdubby posts about 'baking.'