I’m opening this thread a bit early today because holy crap is there a lot to talk about.
In the meantime, I’m going to prepare for the debate by taking a nap.
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Everything is terrible, so watch this video which might just be the best cat video on the internet:
> HawkAtreides
I have seen enough hentai to know where it will lead…
I wonder, however, if it exists a octopuss taco.
The best tako bowls are made in Trump Tower!
(I couldn’t resist the pun)
See also this guy, who earlier this week was probably the most ridiculed man in Britain, at least for 24 hours or so.
@Wetherby. In this day and age there’s no excuse for the young idiot you linked to being so ignorant of female anatomy. And if he was ‘just trollin’ he’s had that backfire in his face and is still an idiot. (Facepalms.)
@Wetherby I saw some stuff about that earlier this week, and it set my skepticism senses tingling. I smell a troll.
Fun fact: Trump is currently losing the Breitbart election poll. Hell, I even voted after someone hipped me to it. Trump just loves wining meaningless online polls, so lolololololol etc etc Feel free to vote and help make Trump sad.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/19/poll-won-third-presidential-debate/
Also, greeting Mammothteers! It’s been a while, I hope y’all are doing swell.
@brooked
I’m doing fine & hope you are too.
I voted in the Breitbart election, and HRC is still winning. Thanks for the link.
Have you seen that the Clinton campaign bought the domain nastywomengetshitdone.com?
It’s a little piece of awesome in this shitstorm.
http://nastywomengetshitdone.com
@ Kat
The President and the former Secretary of State in plaid pants… Cool
My Facebook feed alerts me to two facts that prove that Clinton is a stone cold calculating machine. I look forward to her being in charge:
1. She wore a red suit to the first debate. Everyone said it looked good on her but nary a second thought. She wore a blue suit to the second debate. Still no lapel pin, she must hate America. She wore a white suit to the third debate. Oh snap!
2. Her suit was so white that the camera focused on her would get its white balance compensation screwed up in predictable ways. That boosted her stage presence to the TV audience (“angelic look” and other such words are being used).
That, and the Machado affair in the first debate that she knew would demolish trump, and the well-timed October surprise — I’m thinking Trump is almost right: Clinton rigged it. She rigged it fair and square, and she’s going to rig everything as president so she can get shit done.
This is going to be an awesome ride.
@ numerobis
There is something in that. Things like lighting (intensity and filtering) and outfit colour and skin tone can affect how cameras film things. In practice the campaign teams will have told the TV producers in advance what outfits their clients would be wearing and liaised with the make-up artists.
It’s less important these days as modern cameras can cope with a wider range of brightness and colour balances and TV lighting is set to be reasonably ‘neutral’; but lighting that is flattering to one skin tone isn’t necessarily to another so you can bet this has all been thrashed out behind the scenes.
@wwth
I’m embarrassed to say that I never picked up on that until it was pointed out to me recently. (and I definitely knew Divine growing up. Well, not personally.) For my money Ursula has the second best Disney Villain Song (Number 1 in my book is “Hellfire” from Hunchback, which I was amazed they even allowed to be made.)
About the suit: https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/788918264512466944
@ScarlettAthena
Oh my god. How is this election real?
tee-hee…
&op=noop
(hope this comes thru ok)
hmmm, doesn’t look like it’s gonna 🙁
authorialAlchemy:
Why the fuck would someone wishing harm on America go through the extremely tough and long-winded process of getting in as a refugee, when it would be far easier to get in as a tourist?
As for what Trump’s followers will do if he loses, I’m expecting a “Million Patriot March” on DC, which will end up consisting of maybe 200 people.
I couldn’t keep listening to the debate–partly because Trump wasn’t as engrossing to watch.
I think what was said on last night’s Daily Show really applies to me: Trump has ruined normal politics for folks like me.
I would definitely vote HRC for Interplanetary Leader of the Future.
one more time….
How long has 2016 been so far? It feels like about three years. Hopefully the remainder will zip by after the election.
fooey…
trying to post a gif, having “limited success”…
computers do not love me….
🙁
I’m torn between “Hellfire” and “Be Prepared” from The Lion King. They’re both amazing, and I also very much love “Poor Unfortunate Souls”. Definitely top three songs.
But, in all seriousness, Judge Frollo is one scary motherfucker. As I get older, I think he might be the scariest Disney villain. I mean, he takes “Love Me or Else” to scary fucking lows, so much so that if he was a real person in modern times he’d no doubt end up on here.
TVTropes has an interesting bit about how the movie deconstructed the Whore-Madonna Complex trope.
Frollo sees Esmeralda as the whore, a symbol of lust and desire, whereas Quasimodo saw her as a Madonna because she saved him, she was a symbol to idolize and worship. And both of those are not-great ways to look at women.
And that’s why she was drawn to Phoebus, because he saw her as a person, and she was also drawn to the figure of the Madonna in the church because she saw her as a person to relate to rather than a deity to worship (“God Help the Outcasts”).