Today in unappetizing misogynistic metaphors for women: Hamburger Helper

I don’t know if this has been posted before but it is powerful.

The opening is difficult because gendered slurs are used but there is a point and in context it is needed to make the point about violence against women.
https://youtu.be/PscD6h1iNiI

David, please delete if necessary

@Virgin Mary

I don’t think we’ve got that in France. Really, the last time I saw any sort of creamer was in California. But then again I tend to go through the store and grab what I need pretty quickly so it’s entirely possible it’s been sitting right there next to my coffee/beer/foodz my whole life and I never noticed it once.

The thing with powdered milk though is that it also seems to last forever (well, actually, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, but with the amount of coffee I drink the boxes tend to go out pretty quick) but creates an entirely different result from what you’d get with actual milk or even creamer. My theory is that it’s because it doesn’t add any more water and just mixes with the coffee, but chemistry ain’t exactly my field so I dunno.

@Penny Psmith

No apologies needed, tho I was a sub guy, LA Class even. My main problem with the food is that you were always shoveling it down because people are waiting for your seat in the galley and you need to get back to working quickly. Just dump the weak ass Texas Pete hotsauce on everything and put it in your face.

@ Imaginary Petal, have you ever tried salty plums? They are wonderful – salty, sour, sweet, and even a bit plummy. Haw flakes are not bad either, and don’t have the big plum pit.

My link failed.

Here is the clip I am referring to
Cousin Eddie Hamburger Helper

What’s funny is that us in the UK do basically have all the same products as you US peeps, but you have to shop about to find out what you are buying and the closest comparitive product. A lot of the Knorr stuff the Polish shops sell are exactly the same as the U.S. products. It’s harder with candy, but since we got Poundland there are more American sweets doing the rounds over here than there used to be. Some of my favourites are hard to get tho, the Lifesavers which glow in the dark (wintergreen) and anything cinnamon based. Seems American tastes are a bit more spicy than UK tastes. Some stuff is a British spin on the same thing, ie Jelly Babies are pretty much like Gummy Bears. All Haribo stuff is the same both sides the pond.
If anyone I know goes to America I ask them to bring me back Hot Tamales and Big Red gum.

Lame.

(The MGTOW post, I mean.)

@Nikki
I used to dip my fries in my frosty (for anyone who doesn’t know what that is, it’s somewhere between a milkshake and soft-serve ice cream, and only came in chocolate at the time). One time I and a group of friends were all doing that and a woman came over to complain to us that now her kid wanted to dip their fries in their frosty, too. We all looked at her and said, “So? It’s good that way.” And we went back to eating them.

Impeachment of Brazil’s President Rousseff

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/31/parliamentary-coup-impeachment-of-brazils-president-rousseff-hands-power-to-corrupt-unelected-right-wing/

Salon reached out to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Brazil and has been extensively reporting on the issue for months.

“It’s both sad and infuriating to watch a young, vibrant democracy abandon the fundamental principle — the people who decide who leads them — and install a right-wing faction that has been repeatedly rejected by voters, and which is both unelected and unelectable,” he said, responding to the impeachment.

“What just happened in Brazil is a warning to people throughout the democratic world about the ability of media barons and oligarchs to override democratic elections at will in order to impose a self-serving political agenda that they know has never been, and could never be, democratically ratified,” Greenwald added. . . .

When Rousseff was ousted from the government in May, she was not charged with a crime. Her use of budget maneuvers is a non-impeachable offense and is common practice for governments.

It’s a sad day for Brazil and a sad day for democracy everywhere.

Dilma Rousseff, the first female president of Brazil, was also a victim of torture by the military dictatorship several decades ago.

Fifty-nine percent of the Brazilian Senate members who voted for impeachment are under investigation for corruption.

The acting president is under investigation for corruption. Because of this, he is ineligible to run for office in 2018.

Dilma Rousseff, however, is eligible to run.

May Katie guide and protect the newly impeached president of Brazil.

My thoughts are with our Brazilian commenters and the nation of Brazil. Stay safe. Stay strong.

JoeB: Ha, that pretty much sounds like something he’d say. If it turns out you served on OK City in the early 2000s I might need to try and remember his nickname.

Kat, thanks for posting about Brazil, I was coming to do exactly that.

It is a hard blow to all of LatibnAmerica. Only three strong popular governments remain: Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. Brasil was rhe largest, most powerful ally and was now brought down.

The region’s right wing gorvernments are already pushing the international organism like Mercosur to an alliance with the Us -which would mean big business for the tiny elites and hunger for the rest of us.

I’m Argentina, the right wing government was rightfully elected (unless we count the disproportionate and intended manipulation of mass media) and things are already getting ugly, poverty- and violence-wise.

Please, I’m begging all of you, do not let this go unnoticed! Share the news, post something on social networks, contact the newspaper or comment on their websites. Whatever it is you do will help.

Don’t let them silently get their way with this, because they are waiting for the world to look elsewhere in order to begin the extermination.

This is not exaggeration or fear mongering. Our military troops are already being trained by the U.S., like in the 1970s dictatorship.

Mass media and key economic activities are monopolized in very few hands. The cover-up is ready.

Please don’t let us go down unnoticed. Roussef’s fake impeachment is not the end goal, it’s merely the beginning. The end goal is to wipe out all opposition to the right wing plans, especially unions (they really, really hat the strongly unionized Argentinean workforce. They. Hate. Us.).

PLEASE TAKE ACTION. ANY ACTION. WE NEED YOU.

@Kat thank you.

I know governments and powerful business men are NOT the whole of US people.

And you guys have your own huge orange priblem to deal with, whuch I can hardly help with.

I don’t feel really good about my posting here lately, but it’s about the only place where I can find people from all over the world who care about all of us.

I don’t want to become a troll who only posts about this, either.

I’m just very sad and scared and worried.

David, please consider an open post about Dilma Roussef.

I know it’s kind of off topic, but the type of violence she suffered is *exactly* what we can expect in a world where Trump is president of the US. And if we’re lucky and Clinton wins, she will be subject to most of the treatement Roussef and Kirchner endured.

@Luzbelitx

I, for one, don’t mind getting updates on the political situation in South America. It’s severly underreported here as well, and my Spanish/Portuguese is far from good enough to be able to read news sources in those languages.