More thoughts on the election from the Manosphere. These are from the comments section of Chateau Heartiste, in response to that little manifesto from Mark Minter we talked about the other day, and which Minter also posted at the Chateau.
Here John Salt suggests that “force” works better than voting. And, oh yeah, he’s also as racist as Hitler.
Here Sidewinder offers some “optimism” for the future:
You’ll notice that no one there voices opposition to any of these sentiments.
From the related videos in freitag’s link. So much adorable.
So, I actually have a pretty relevant story from today, I went to see a presentation by the Right Honourable Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada and the Honourable Frank McKenna, former Premier of New Brunswick. The presentation was starting off a series of talks by various people and was about the importance of transparency in politics, and how holding debates on policy publicly can foster better trust and favour among people. Basically like having a political organization devoted to opening up debates and public policy proposals to the public would help in numerous ways. The presentation was in fact also to commemorate the opening of just such a thing.
@aworldanonymous
And how was it?
Hello there, can I request some ideas? I am bringing home a kitten today that a colleague found abandoned, all its other litter mates were dead next to it : (
She can’t keep it, and I am a known kitty lover so I was the first port of call. I get it this afternoon and am taking it to the vet to find out its sex and general state of health before taking home to the family and my soon to be discombobulated other cat, Mrs Molly Miggins.
The name the kitty was given is Lucky and, although understandable, I don’t really like it. I trust you guys implicitly to help me out.
@Kim
It went spectacularily, I might go to the rest of the talks in the series, but I’m not sure yet.
@BigMomma
I have no ideas for names, but good luck to you and TinyCat. Also a pre-warning that you will have to poop it, but it will be worth it because KITTY.
Please keep us updated.
Possible kitten names:
Yargetoutofityabastard
wellyoushouldn’thavebeenstandingthere
mumthere’ssomethinghorribleunderthebed
Magpie, they’re clearly camel names.
/Discworld
My absolute favorite dog greeting soldier video is this one:
I love how the dog is all like “I am so happy that I cannot coordinate tail wagging and licking and jumping all at once!”
My cat has a name but I usually end up calling her Stopscratchingthefuckingleatheryoulittlebastard.
Good orphan cat names:
Oliver (after Twist)
Dexter (for similar life circumstances)
Alembert (encyclopedist and mathematician, abandoned as an infant)
Tarzan (parents killed as an infant, raised by another species)
@freitag – those videos are adorable. I just watched the eleven-minute one of Honey the dog and Muesli the kitten making friends. There are clips further in it of Honey as a pup with Lemon, Muesli’s predecessor. Sad ‘cos Lemon’s passed over now, but sooooo funny watching a gangly Great Dane pup and a kitten playing!
BigMomma: not sure, we usually let them hang for a few days so we can get an idea of their personalites. Good luck with kitten rescue!
BigMomma, what hellkell said. They’ll tell you their names if you give them time. How kind and wonderful of you to take it in and give him/her a good home.
Kitteh’s Unpaid help, aren’t they unbearably cute? I’m watching the video Shadow posted, and getting kind of emotional about it. Such a lucky little kitten to have such a good big friend.
Dogs and soldiers. Yes. Happy loving dogs having their soldier back. Also this:
http://cheezburger.com/6760227072
The amazing ability to love. Ain’t it grand?
@aworld, great!!
Cat logic: I should get a reward for being combed even though I really enjoy being combed.
::brushes ineffectively at fur smeared all over self::
Big Momma, very best wishes for the kitten adoption! Maybe she could be called Discombobulate, though that’d end up as Disco. 😉
The names usually evolve over time. The kitty might start out as Lucky and then become Lucky Ducky, then shift to Daffy Ducky, depending on how you incororate their behavior an personality into the conversation you have with them.
One of my cat friends started out with the perfectly reasonable name Freckles, because she had some. This evolved to Freckles zee Boo, then Zee Boo, took a few turns and ended up Zee Monster by the time she was a year old.
thebewilderness – I did a count of how many nicknames my cats ended up with years ago. One of them had fifty!
You have a good heart, Big Momma — I hope kitty grows up healthy and happy in your tender care.
Morphing cat names: I’ve had my rescue kitties for about a year now. Hazel has now become (predictably) Hazelnut, or Pretty Girl; Buster is still either Buster or some variation of OHMYGODWHATAREYOUDOINGGETOFFTHATNOW!
My rabbit is called Little Bugger (or occasionally Don’t Eat That!)
My dog’s nickname is Poop and my new cat’s nick is either Stinker or Porker.
yeah, I’m liking the idea of letting the kitty tell me its name, but I’m precolating some of the ideas through my head…Tarzan was a front runner until I imagined yelling it from the front door of a night. The 9yr old is desperate to name it (she is responsible for Molly’s middle name of Lovecat…she was just 6yrs old at the time when she came up with that). Assuming all goes well at the vet, I’ll post pics later. Keep suggestions coming cos i love you guys’ creativity.
percolating, dammit
Precolating made me think of that great phrase ‘deviated preverts’ from Dr Strangelove. 😀
I’ve analysed these guys. More will be forthcoming after din-din. See you in an hour!
Another good “abandoned and raised by another species” name is Mowgli.