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[Atticus Grinch]

Not news: Tucker Carlson grabbed a man's weener when in high school.
News: Because he wanted to hold onto the guy until the cops arrived.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
He didn't come out and say he's never done sexual things with other men.

Apparently he did open his press conference on Tuesday by saying, without apparent irony, "I want to thank you all for coming out today."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Not news: Tucker Carlson grabbed a man's weener when in high school.
News: Because he wanted to hold onto the guy until the cops arrived.

• CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and -- and --
  
  ABRAMS: And did what?
  
  CARLSON: Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!

the hitting thing could be read two ways

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski


the hitting thing could be read two ways

as justified assault or unjustified assault?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
as justified assault or unjustified assault?

which head. either way it was unjustified assult. I suppose under those facts it's like the free hit the defensive linemen get when the offense jumps offsides.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
which head. either way it was unjustified assult. I suppose under those facts it's like the free hit the defensive linemen get when the offense jumps offsides.

Anyway, my guess is Tucker's problem is he keeps showing up at the public bathroom in his bowtie and preppie clothes. That's more blatant than a wide stance.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Anyway, my guess is Tucker's problem is he keeps showing up at the public bathroom in his bowtie and preppie clothes. That's more blatant than a wide stance.

My guess is that if someone ever hit on Tucker in a bathroom, he awkwardly declined, and then wished later he'd dealt with the situation in a better way, leading him now to share a little fiction about returning and hitting the guy. 'Cause his story just doesn't sound right at all.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My guess is that if someone ever hit on Tucker in a bathroom, he awkwardly declined, and then wished later he'd dealt with the situation in a better way, leading him now to share a little fiction about returning and hitting the guy. 'Cause his story just doesn't sound right at all.

Agree. His story sounds a bit like Costanza coming up with the witty comeback a few hours later, except then pretending he had it while there.

(I'm surprised a gay rights group hasn't come after him already for basically assaulting someone--it's not like he grew up in Wyoming)

If a guy whipped it out on me, there's no way I'd grab ahold.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My guess is that if someone ever hit on Tucker in a bathroom, he awkwardly declined, and then wished later he'd dealt with the situation in a better way, leading him now to share a little fiction about returning and hitting the guy. 'Cause his story just doesn't sound right at all.

True. Still, I think the Scarborough bit about Carlson loving his wife, and FTR Scarborough not being gay, either, compensates nicely for any factual flaws contained within the overall narrative.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Let's not adopt the Chinese system:

• In the absence of government funding, hospitals . . . have been turned into pharmacies on steroids, with more than half their recurrent funding from the sale of drugs. Much of the rest comes through diagnostic tests, which explains why some Chinese hospitals have better equipment than in the west.
  
  The system has in-built incentives for everyone to sell as many drugs as possible, including doctors, whose salaries are tied to prescription targets. As a result, rich China gets good hospitals, while poor China is lucky to get a clinic. It would be easy to blame the hospitals for shaking down their patients at the front door, but they have to grab money where they can. . . .
  
  The most common prescription is for antibiotics, with devastating effect. The health ministry announced the results of a survey this week showing about 70 per cent of child pneumonia patients were resistant to drugs used to treat the disease, because of overuse of antibiotics. In three children's hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the country's wealthiest cities, the figure climbed to 90 per cent.
  
  . . . A Chinese journalist visited 10 hospitals this year and, pretending to be a patient, provided tea in the place of a requested urine sample. Six of the hospitals said they had discovered "blood cells" in the "urine" and immediately prescribed drugs.

FT

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
It is splitting hairs, no? He didn't come out and say he's never done sexual things with other men.

I agree. If I were about to get tossed out of the Senate for looking to smoke some cock, I'd be fucking depressed, not gay.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
he was a man ruined for nothing. he was a dedicated senator who was forced to resign since his diary indicated he convinced an aide to fuck him. at long last do you have so little empathy that you can call him a gnat?

You are somewhat late in realizing that SD is not all broken out with empathy.

S_A_M

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

If a guy whipped it out on me, there's no way I'd grab ahold.

No straight man would ever do that. But a bow tie wearing, self loathing preppie with homosexual tendencies would.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If a guy whipped it out on me, there's no way I'd grab ahold.

I would grab it and smoke it, even.

EXCEPT NEVER IN A GUY'S BATHROOM. For the life of me, I can't figure out how anyone could fool around in the men's room. Buzz. Kill. I've had to use unisex bathrooms with urinals in them a handful (eh) of times, and Good God that shit smells like the homeless. Ain't no urinal cake gonna make it better either.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Spanky
No straight man would ever do that.

I'm not a big movie trivia guy, but I'm pretty sure it's a move that's been used by putatively straight action stars. I think Arnold did it in something. Total Recall?