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- 07 Feb 2019, 19:08
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2024 for AOC
- Replies: 168
- Views: 3334
Re: Calling 2024 for AOC
Anyone who looks at that picture and thinks that the boys are thinking about anything other than bewbs has clearly never met a teenage boy before. Some of them might be thinking about her legs ... ? Also ass, but as we've been warned, that will make men gay. The more I think about that, the more co...
- 06 Feb 2019, 14:18
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Music for the Masses
- Replies: 1164
- Views: 83739
Re: Music for the Masses
Huh, I don't think I've heard that song before; the riff does not ring a bell. But Love/Hate is another band I only know of due to that soundtrack (which I never would've bought had I known the "Hands on Me" song from the movie was NOT on it).
- 04 Feb 2019, 15:55
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Antivaxxers
- Replies: 39
- Views: 734
Antivaxxers
We've had many discussions about antivaxxers in various places, but I don't think we have a dedicated thread about those idiots. Here's a lengthy but interesting article in today's Slate taking a deeper look at antivaxxer motivations (and also mentioning, in its opening paragraph, that a measles out...
- 02 Feb 2019, 13:28
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Ladyfashun
- Replies: 558
- Views: 30443
Re: Ladyfashun
It is the law: if you are going to have a complete shoe blowout, with a large piece of the sole suddenly separating itself from the rest of the shoe, this WILL happen as soon as you're officially too far from home to turn back and put new shoes on.
- 31 Jan 2019, 16:47
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: If We Build It, They'll Probably Still Come
- Replies: 363
- Views: 19506
Re: If We Build It, They'll Probably Still Come
ICE is force-feeding detainees who went on hunger strikes.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... ke-1138316
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- 30 Jan 2019, 18:17
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Twitter!
- Replies: 2260
- Views: 100596
Re: Twitter!
To be fair, if you never went on Twitter before and then suddenly you did, that DOES count as "unusual behavior" for you.
- 30 Jan 2019, 17:20
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Masculinity, so fragile
- Replies: 607
- Views: 24835
- 30 Jan 2019, 16:39
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Abortion Thread
- Replies: 184
- Views: 9773
Re: The Abortion Thread
It is no overstatement to say that the Supreme Court will determine the future of Roe in a matter of days. (TW: Slate) Within one week, the Supreme Court will decide whether to block a Louisiana law designed to shutter the state’s abortion clinics through draconian regulations. If the court refuses...
- 29 Jan 2019, 16:51
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 3091
- Views: 139123
Re: What are you reading?
Here's something I found mildly amusing in a "how things change" kind of way: I recently read Black Fire , a Star Trek TOS novel. (I do read lots of TOS and TNG novels, which I consider kind of the intellectual equivalent of potato chips -- no nutritional value, definitely don't treat them like a st...
- 29 Jan 2019, 01:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: But honestly, did we really see it coming?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 5103
Re: But honestly, did we really see it coming?
I actually caught a glimpse of Donald Trump once in the mid-90s, when he still ran his Atlantic City casinos and a friend and I stayed at one for a night -- IIRC, it was the Taj Mahal. It was one of those spontaneous impulse things you do when you're still in college or just graduated, have no real ...
- 28 Jan 2019, 21:22
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Food
- Replies: 4698
- Views: 208555
Re: Food
Wine tasting analysis here. There's a difference between bitter and sour. Oh, definitely. I should've specified -- when I compared grapefruit's lack of "bitter, with potential" to lemon's potential -- I should've said "sour with potential." Because, while of course I don't like eating straight lemo...
- 28 Jan 2019, 18:42
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Elizabeth Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act"
- Replies: 192
- Views: 5887
Re: Elizabeth Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act"
Started the same convo on Facebook, and the state v. federal distinction was brought up, but also there was this: ME: Wait a minute: I just checked A1S8 of the constitution, which says in part that "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts...
- 28 Jan 2019, 17:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Elizabeth Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act"
- Replies: 192
- Views: 5887
Re: Elizabeth Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act"
Semi-related and not worth starting a new thread over IMO: there's is talk of Warren's proposed "wealth tax" on super-high fortunes, and pretty much everything I've seen has said this is (or would be declared) unconstitutional. But here is a question I've not seen answered or even addressed: why wou...
- 28 Jan 2019, 16:51
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Food
- Replies: 4698
- Views: 208555
Re: Food
Serious question: I know there some sort of genetic thing which determines whether you like cilantro -- some people say it's delicious, others say it tastes like soap, and I gather you can tell who's who just by looking at a certain snippet of their DNA. Is there something similar with grapefruit? B...
- 27 Jan 2019, 19:41
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Moochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine
- Replies: 174
- Views: 7008
Re: Moochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine
The Mooch is a Harsh Mistress
- 26 Jan 2019, 20:42
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Food
- Replies: 4698
- Views: 208555
- 26 Jan 2019, 09:58
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Op-ediots
- Replies: 496
- Views: 21088
Re: Op-ediots
Kevin Williamson has gone off the rails since he got fired by the Atlantic. A little while ago, he said he loved the laws of Switzerland and thought it was the best governed country in the world. Now he compares Warren’s wealth tax* to the liquidation of kulaks. Warren would've been far less scary ...
- 23 Jan 2019, 16:11
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 6681
- Views: 221791
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Ugh, Shakespeare in Love was/is a very pretty movie IMO (I actually spent a whopping 50 cents to buy the DVD at a library sale a couple months ago), but the glaring anachronisms in what was supposedly a prestige period piece kept yanking me out of the story and into paroxysms of Comic Book Guy-style...
- 22 Jan 2019, 18:10
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 268
- Views: 11644
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
Oh, fuck, PLEASE let the Dem nominee for 2020 NOT be Kamala Harris. Ugh.
- 21 Jan 2019, 14:14
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Groping Resistance - Pfft.
- Replies: 1079
- Views: 39077
Re: Groping Resistance - Pfft.
It is REALLY FUCKING NAUSEATING, seeing TSA workers held up as examples of noble selfless public servants being harmed by the fedgov shutdown.
- 20 Jan 2019, 15:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Petty annoyances
- Replies: 9497
- Views: 363177
Re: Petty annoyances
JD, do you ever read the "Choosing Beggars" subreddit? LOTS of people like that in there.
- 18 Jan 2019, 14:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: How's the weather? v. 1.1
- Replies: 3374
- Views: 145521
Re: How's the weather? v. 1.1
When I had to shovel -- especially the three-foot Loudoun snowfall I dealt with myself because Jeff was in South Carolina at the time -- since I don't have a hell of a lot of upper-body strength I only made use of about a quarter of my snow shovel's capacity each time: instead of digging the entire ...
- 18 Jan 2019, 13:57
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: How's the weather? v. 1.1
- Replies: 3374
- Views: 145521
Re: How's the weather? v. 1.1
Man, reading these winter-weather complaints REALLY has me feeling left out, since I moved to Atlanta. When people are talking about snowfalls measured in feet, somehow "The frost on my car was almost thick enough to be opaque this morning" loses what little frisson it had.
- 17 Jan 2019, 23:06
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2024 for AOC
- Replies: 168
- Views: 3334
Re: Calling 2024 for AOC
I don't really see what the problem is. She can't afford two residences before the first paycheck arrives but has a good network so she's fine. The problem is that, when a reporter asked her why she didn't immediately move to DC after winning the election, she mentioned the expense as a reason, and...
- 17 Jan 2019, 23:02
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2024 for AOC
- Replies: 168
- Views: 3334
Re: Calling 2024 for AOC
I don't think empathy on that scale is a thing, jen. The sneers I've seen basically boil down to "She should be able to handle this with no difficulty," though whether the critics think every 29-year-old should be able to pull this off, or only the ones who successfully ran for Congress, will somet...