Memes Going Their Own Way

Has anybody else been trying to figure out the “and then spend it on something amazing” one and only just now realised it’s an advert?

Just me then.

@ Alan

What I’m seeing is “Free Delivery”, a photo of a woman clutching her brow and of a man so awed by wonderfulness that his jaw has dropped.

And yes, it took me a double or triple take to realise it’s an ad. The font helped: I can read it without vomit rising in the back of my throat.

@Alan, others re: ads: I keep getting Weebly ads.

The internet thinks that I should start a small business and use drag-and-drop site design services, apparently.

@ mockingbird

It’s probably for the best that I don’t have the ability to toast things with my mind.

“Oh no, the President has a slightly upset stomach, who will save us now!!!”

*Swoosh*

“Thank you Telekinetic Toaster Girl!”

Oh jees, great super power. Never have a cold cup of tea, or have cold feet! Dinner’s always hot! It would be lovely.

If you’re willing to put bread on your feet, I guess. Personally I keep both my feet and my tea far away from my bread.

Maybe g is valid as a concept; maybe there is a view of intelligence that can be accurately summed up as a variable. But even if this is the case, a domain-specific view is very useful in finding out whether that is the case, too! It’s a win-win, I figure. Does that explain?

It seems like a great explanation of your perspective! I don’t know where I stand, myself. My feels are complicated! Two parts of my identity get involved in way difficult to reconcile.

On the one hand, every attempt to measure general intelligence has been a patriarchal clusterfuck that underrates the abilities of women, non-white people, the poor, people with learning disabilities, etc. etc. etc. I know that academic achievement is influenced by a lot of environmental factors like food security. I know that IQ isn’t a super great predictor of achievement. I know that studies of world-class competitors and performers consistently show that people we regard as one-of-a-kind talents actually spent incredible amounts of time on unusually diligent forms of practice. I’m very tempted to conclude that we should all stop worrying about general intelligence and just focus on making sure everyone has access to the kind of support and instruction currently available to the privileged.

And yet I don’t know any way to describe what makes a “gifted” child gifted without invoking “g.” And I am convinced that giftedness is real. There’s this population of children we can identify who seem to share not only advanced abilities but common quirks, common interests, common problems, and common needs. I grew up with them — I was homeschooled in a co-op where almost every child was a prodigy pulled out of school for poor fit — and around adults who organized lectures and conference about gifted psychology and gifted education. When I started to interact with people outside that bubble world, it certainly seemed like there was something different between us and them, and I personally cannot come up with a better hypothesis than g.

I don’t know how to reconcile these ideas. You’re certainly not obligated to get involved, but if you’re capable of assisting me, I would be grateful.

@ Snowberry – oh my! Seems like I wasn’t smart enough to comprehend such things, yet again. And rotting would count in that case, I suppose… and I bet with all those unhealthy bonbons and whatnots in our bodies, we can’t even fertilize that meadow properly while we just lie there, wasting away our lives(?)! Damn us!

(No worries, I appriciate that dark humour 🙂 )

Damn. I have two almost identical e-mails and read the blog on multiple platforms. Of course I typed the wrong one now… no sockpuppeting intended!

Really, with the rapeseed jokes

But y’all still got me like
http://memeguy.com/photos/images/when-a-title-describes-an-unlikely-situation-but-the-gif-makes-it-funny-anyway-44893.gif

Meme 1: “Respect isn’t something you demand… it’s something you EARN!”

Bull. Sure, respect must be earned first, but must *also* be demanded to get others to acknowledge it.

Just ask every civil rights movement, ever. Respect was DUE, but was not granted until those to whom it was due wouldn’t let themselves be ignored by those who should be giving it.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass

@ mockingbird

Everyone I know who’s stayed there has done so only because of that bit of history. It’s such an obvious thing to cash in on isn’t it? You could have some variation on those murder mystery weekends. Sneaking around with torches, planting bugs etc. They’d coin it in.

ETA: I used to stay at the Europa Hotel in Belfast and they were perversely proud of the fact it was the most bombed building in the world 🙂

@ bluecat

but it was kind of the algorithm pixies to think I’d want to look my best in my coffin.

Speaking of bombing and looking your best, after the 7/7 attacks my mum’s major concern was that she wanted a nice up to date photo of me for the papers in case I got blown up.

Did that motherfucker use the Rocky Horror typeface as the last one in the second pic? FUCKMOTHERING NO THAT IS TOO FAR.

Also, hi, I’m another commenter emerging from the depths of lurking.

Anyway, Ovendice, you sack of shit, if you use more than two fonts in a single design, that design has failed. And don’t you DARE abuse Rocky like that.

The ad I’m getting is of a man’s hand knocking on Opportunity’s door. No doubt he had to seek it out himself because of Misandry.