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Fun fact about the Isle of Lesbos: Some people there are really upset about what ‘Lesbian” means now.
As for Republicans, they could still get Cruz or Rubio.
And yeah, Graham and Pataki didn’t quit, they just weren’t allowed in the kids’ debate.
I’ve been saying for a while now I think Rubio will end up being the nominee, but now I’m not sure. I think Carson’s combination of coming across as a very smart guy to Republicans while being completely detached from reality might actually take him all the way there. I think his biggest obstacle now is if they chicken out at the last minute and go with a non-minority candidate instead.
Rubio has the Sword of Chang though. I’ve been betting on him since I found out.
Truth be told, I also complain about Christmas creep sometimes. But while annoying, it’s also kind of pointless to bring up, since it’s not like big box stores are going to be all “oh, customers don’t like it when we decorate earlier, so we’ll stop.”
This sounds like an anecdote that I want to hear.
EJ,
It’s a weird one. After the Chinese general Chiang Kai-Shek was exiled to Taiwan by the communists, some Republicans wanted to try funding him to raise an army and retake the mainland. George H.W. Bush thought this was such a stupid idea that he apparently turned it into a running joke. Evidently, while playing tennis, he used to threaten to “unleash Chiang” before he served. (The joke was that his serve was about as unthreatening as an American-funded invasion of China)
Jeb apparently copied his dad without understanding what his dad was talking about, and has for a long time said “I’m going to unleash Chang” before he dived in to a challenging task. When Rubio became speaker of the house in Florida, Jeb gave him a gift at his swearing-in ceremony: a glittery gold costume-party sword and the following speech:
“‘Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.
”I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.
I’m going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior.”
Didn’t know about the Chiang Kai-Shek story. I thought Jeb was just doing a Sylvia Browne bit or something. Holy shit that guy is weird.
Actually only a couple sources are reporting the Chiang Kai-Shek angle, while others are saying that H.W. was probably talking about the Chang dynasty.
While that is hilarious, I have to admit that I’m a little let down. I mean, that just sounds like another case of “rich people behaving like idiots”, which is so common as to scarcely warrant comment. My prime minister fucked a pig for the same reason.
I was hoping that Rubio was a secret WoW player or something, and this was a magic item his character had.
I’m failing to track it down now, but in the … 2010 elections maybe? … there was a race for state legislature where the Republican campaign pulled quotes from the Democratic candidate’s World of Warcraft account to describe their opponent as a woman who “likes stabbing people” and thinks “poison is awesome.”
Both of those quotes make me want to vote for her. At last, a candidate who says what we’re all thinking!
In fairness to her critics, she also said she wanted to drown Grover Norquist in a bathtub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Lachowicz
Okay, that Fury Road review just blows everything out of the water. That neckbeard with the beanie who whines about Zoe Quinn should watch this before he shoots off his mouth again about Hollywood lacking originality. The “guy ranting to a tiny audience via webcam” genre of criticism is OLD, man.
IT BEGINS
*sulks because my shitty duct-taped Frankensteiner of a laptop can’t run it* =P
Have fun on my behalf, you hear?
Right now I’m just happy I’ve never played Fallout. 🙂 I’m almost viewing this as a vacation from life. Everybody will be playing Fallout 4 for a few months, and I can catch up on other stuff.
Oh, I probably won’t get it until Christmas. In the meantime, I’ll watch Many A True Nerd play it on YouTube.
But most of my Steam friends are also my Mammoth friends so you know who you are.
The Bad News: We don’t yet have Falloit 4.
The Good News: We don’t yet have it because I pre-ordered the Pip-Boy Edition back in June für meinen Mann (anniversary present): http://i.imgur.com/RoRS76v.jpg
It will (hopefully) be delivered tomorrow.
But mockingbird – won’t you play the hell out of your husband’s present?
Why yes, yes I will.
But it’s also his favorite series.
It was a good present, dammit!
I’m not allowing myself to play it until after Christmas.
Let me know how it goes, okay? (By which I mean, rant to me constantly.)
@mockingbird:
You are the cutest couple ever. Are you going to take turns sitting there and watching one another play?
*takes a stuttering breath out*
Ohmygawd, that’s the first time I really looked at the shipping notification.
…
It shows the XB1 version.
I just checked my actual order page – it does read PS4.
Thank goodness.
@EJ – I’m hoping to cajole him into getting really into it first.
He’s shied off of games lately. I think it’s mostly been because of pressure he’s been putting on himself (improving his skillset, the never ending to do list that comes with an older house, etc), but he needs some time to blow off some steam by making super mutants’ heads explode, you know?
After he’s well into his game, I’ll jump in.
Or I’ll start it tomorrow whIle our toddler naps.
One of the two.
@EJ @Falconer re: Christmas: That’s probably the more prudent course of action.
Sorry for the delay in responding.
My toddler had finished disassembling and licking her grilled cheese sandwich, so it was time to usher her to the potty.
But, yes, my ideal scenario would involve us taking turns, especially since we tend to make really different decisions in open world games like this.
Man, I need to play more games with Beloved. We like the Tales games, though we love only a couple (Symphonia and Abyss).
Unfortunately, my boy has pretty much given up naps, and we can’t count on them being asleep before 10 or so, which leaves little time to play.
I was planning on getting the PC version of FO, seeing as I’ve got a bigger system than ever and Beloved doesn’t play FO.
Today in male entitlement
http://gawker.com/british-writer-tracks-down-teen-who-gave-his-book-a-bad-1741713016
Holy shit that’s creepy