Thursday, April 4, 2024

Oopsie: Confirmation Bias Is Hard On Your Wedding Tackle

Splashed all over the Rightosphere in the last day, and aging rather poorly, with scalded hands all around for the confirmationally sloppy:

As found, multiple places.











Natzsofast, Guido. Five Pinocchios awarded.

Wikipedia: Highgrove House

As the property is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, control of the House was transferred to William, Prince of Wales, when his father acceded to the throne and he became Duke of Cornwall on 8 September 2022. The King and Queen will lease the house from the Duchy to use as a country residence.

So tell me @JoseyWales, do you feel stupid?










Maybe next time you're going to spread patent horseshit, pick some house in West Palm Beach, or Monaco, etc. Probably best not to pick a house so famous it has its own entire Wikipedia page, nor one that draws 40,000 visitors a year to the private garden tours, right? Just saying.

And getting trolled by Russian propaganda so hamfistedly dopey even the fucktards at Snopes could spot it?!? Epic, man. Truly epic. Walk tall. Probably want to shut down your internet account for a month or two, and take a fishing trip until this all blows over.

I'm open to discussion on any wild contention, if anyone can cite something more authoritative than "Sumdood on the Internet, with sooper-secret inside scoop", versus that bastion of accuracy™, the one internet platform that any one of 8 Billion people can add information to with a couple of keystrokes.

But until something more substantive than Sumdood makes an appearance, some folks should probably take the fish hook out of their own cheek, slap a CAT-T around their jangly bits, avoid grabbing hot stoves with both hands, and give friend Timmy a listen regarding some wisdom he'd like to share with them:


















In other news, Zelensky hasn't purchased Hearst Castle, the Vatican, nor Buckingham Palace, nor has he given the Hope Diamond to his wife Olena, either; it's still on display at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. But thanks for providing some welcome comedy relief today. ðŸ¤£

And for those who posted this horseshit (we aren't calling names off the roll), but won't either pull it entirely, or at least admit belatedly that you got bamboozled by Russian propaganda, this one's for you:
That isn't pee in your underpants.
Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.
We point and laugh because we care.
And it's a bit late to try the "We didn't know this was bullshit" excuse.
Assuming you can still tell the difference.



12 comments:

Anonymous said...

The number of people who should know better than this, but still jump on their own weinies without taking even a moment to check up on things first, is a constant source of amazement.

Crow will be served lightly seasoned today.

Plague Monk said...

I've largely eliminated visiting the sites of several members of the Putin Brown Nosers, which gives me more rime to engage in highly esoteric arguments with other Warhammer fanatics as to the latest inane pronouncements from Games Workshop. Much more intellectually stimulating than reading the discharges of oral dysentery from con artists, morons and human Snotlings, many of whom are constantly begging for money for dubious reasons.(no names; they know who they are...SPIT!)

Unlike these wasters of oxygen, I've had the chance to talk with several refugees from the Ukraine here in the SW Ohio area, at varying places ranging from exotic pet stores to bookshops and gunstores. Unlike the dindus and other "human" trash coming over the border in search of welfare and underage girls, these people are working and or raising families here, assimilating into what remains of the best of American society. Some of them are working and living alongside Russian immigrants who have fled from Putin's thugocracy, while wondering about their families back in the old country.

Zelensky isn't perfect, but I have a lot of respect for the Ukrainians who are trying to keep their country free from Putin's Orcs. I don't agree with the Pedo-In-Chief on very much, but I do support aiding the Ukrainians with tax dollars. As long as the money is going to be spent somewhere, I'd rather spend it on people trying to remain free as opposed to the usual gibbsmedat bunch.

And yes, I have put money where my mouth is. My funds are limited these days, but I try to donate a hundred or two every month to these people, along with another group that is fighting off invaders.

Dave Amundsen said...

Hell, I thought he purchased the White House.

B said...

Plague Mon:

Feel free to send half your retirement to Ukraine....'cause that's the direction we are going as inflation devalues the rest of our savings.

If we had a surplus then maybe. But we don't, wo those dollars we don't have that are given to Ukraine are just made up...if we'd CUT something to give to Ukraine, I might consider it. And if those aid dollars were, you know, accountable, then maybe I'd consider them well spent, but no one knows what happens to them once they are given over. The military aid (about 20% of the total) is also unaccounted for once it leaves the US....
We've given LOTS of money to Ukraine. And it appears, (but no proof 'cause we can't see an accounting) by the support that our politicians are giving for ever more aid, that a significant portion is going to them and their families.



John Wilder said...

Okay, that's funny.

Allen said...

sad thing is, we'll still be debunking this 9 months from now.

like the "zelensky bought 2 yachts!" hoax. Howie Carr on boston radio still spouts that hoax. anyone who calls to correct him, he cuts off.

from the mobster whitey bulger wanting him dead for his reporting, to falling for every russian hoax that comes across his desk. it's sad how far people have fallen.

Tucanae Services said...

Saw this pop up on the radar and gave it no heed as I find anything associated with Royal as gaseous omissions from my nether regions after consuming 32ozs of baked beans. I could see how its a nice fit -- wannabe dictator overcome by events presages their exit from the scene with provisions of Swiss bank accounts and posh digs in well heeled neighborhood of some Western country. Hell Charlie Chaplin made a movie of it.

But as they say in the real estate game, its location, location, location. The internet game its -- provenience, provenience, provenience. Facts before fiction.

Anonymous said...

I've had similar experiences with those recently immigrated.
While I feel their is room to discuss specifics, especially relating to fighting corruption, I believe that the sooner Russian expansion is stopped, the better.
I'd rather spend American money in Ukraine than American blood anywhere - and if Putin isn't stopped now, where will he be stopped?
He is good at propaganda; assume anything he says publicly is lies for his benefit.
Jonathan

ga6 said...

But there is a rumor that the BCF have put in a bid.
(Biden Crime Family)

Aesop said...

@B,

All that and more may certainly be true.
Publish that. Not hamfisted Russian propganda.

Zelensky may be a totally corrupt bastard.
Our own idiot in the White House (and his criminal family enterprise) certainly is.
What Zelensky unquestionably isn't, and what vexes Putin so harshly, is that he isn't Moscow's bitch, unlike all his predecessors back to independence in 1991.

And the greater point is that this story was always and still is total bullshit.
When people burn up their credibility in a rush to post bullshit, they don't have any anymore, and like virginity, once you loose it, it doesn't grow back afterwards.

There is no excuse for beclowning oneself by repeating such obvious nonsense.
The only salvation lies in noting "We totally fucked up. Sorry. We'll try not to do anything that stupid again."
Any lesser response makes one as bad, and probably worse, than the NYSlimes, WaPo, or ABCNNBCBS.

Anonymous said...

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. - Nemo

Delta Mike said...

Saw the price tag and knew it- 20m pounds wouldn't touch more than a few of the "Lifestyles of the Famous" homes, let alone royal pedigree digs...

Delta Mike