The Justice 4 Men and Boys party — the UK electoral powerhouse — is selling these on its web store, for real. Get yours before they’re all sold out!
Men’s Rights Activists reveal greatest t-shirt in history, victory for MRAs now assured
We Hunted The MammothBucking the Backlash
What makes me laugh is that this was in reply to a modified Trump tweet, which I had SAID I was doing, but he was too dumb to understand.
What he is also too dumb to understand is that his “insults” have zero effect on me. They reek of desperation, and I’ve been dealing with morons for so long that I simply don’t get offended.
If Abunga stood by a wall, we could use him as a window. That’s how transparent he is.
Suede gives me serious sensory happies, I have a few swatches just to fiddle with… I’d probably wear nothing but suede and velvet if I could afford either of ’em. =P
I am kind of ambivalent about suede; I don’t actively seek it out, but if I find something I like, cool…I have an old suede purse that’s held up well over the years.
@ Paradoxy
I know the tanner who produces the leather for LV. It is very high quality; but they sell it for €9 per square foot. I can only assume they stitch the bags with unicorn hair or something.
Nice shirt, but they got the website wrong. It’s http://www.justiceformenandboys.com
I did say my eyesight really isn’t all that great anymore.
@Falconer, sorry, I only just saw your question.
I’d rather avoid producing another wall of text so I’ll just refer you to the first one, earlier in the thread. Hope that clears things up – long story short, it was a misunderstanding and while Macron is a threat to me, that’s not because of IVF.
@Dali
Sorry, I went a bit too fast there and ended up saying something stupid*. I usually regard the female-narrated versions as “the original” though it’s true that it can’t actually be pinpointed like that – I grew up with Nina Simone’s version and I guess that explains it, sort of.
This calls for context. Back when I did that cover (around a decade ago) I had a very low tolerance for bullshit especially whenever sex work was mentioned. There’s another, long-ass story behind that but the gist of it is that teenage-me had a knack for getting into places, situations, and friendships that you don’t expect of a teenager, combined with a hair trigger upon hearing hate speech, combined with a very broad definition of hate speech. (And it’s not like you have to listen that hard to hear hate speech against sex workers anyway.)
Aaand I assumed the songs’ lyrics were by default female-narrated. Making male-narrated versions a rewriting as far as I knew.
So, put yourself in those shoes and you can imagine how I felt the first time I noticed that The Animals’ version had different lyrics than I knew of, and made the song about the plight of the poor, poor man who gets pulled into sin by those evil harlots.
But I’m a sucker for arpeggios, and a band from my town sought me out for a cover of The Animals’ version and while I really really wanted to do it, I only accepted under the condition that I’d sing the female-narrated lyrics instead. Best of both worlds, so to speak.
*This is what happens when I don’t wall o’text. Call myself a writer, huh.
Dan,
No. If you click the links, one leads to a WHTM article about Mike Buchanan, and the other leads directly to the sales page for the shirt.
Clicked YOUR link and was confronted with a photo of Davis Aurini. I don’t think David’s not linking to that was a mistake.
Shill on your own blog, Dan. Bye, now.
@Sinkable John, ta, I read that other post and then failed to put two and two together.
Is the IVF stuff just because Abunga was hurling abuse your way? ‘Cos it really seemed to me that there was this whole political attitude in France that IVF people were Less Than, and I was going wut and trying to figure out how folks could tell.
I had A Dumb. Sorry.
“You’re going to take away things that I need to survive” makes a whole lot more sense. Lots of hugs and support, and I hope against hope that it all sorts out.
Just to weigh in on the somewhat belated topic of blind occupations, Worst Jobs In History had a segment about the treadwheel crane operators back in the Middle Ages. Because these cranes had to be operated by a person walking inside the wheel and they were often at great heights when the construction of cathedrals and castles entered the final stages, the construction crew often employed blind people to do the walking, as they were less likely to be afraid of the heights.
Granted, it was a hazardous job that required a great deal of concentration to conduct safely and a moment of panic could result in a nasty fall or limbs crushed in the wheel’s spokes, but in the Middle Ages that was a sweet gig.
In unrelated news, The Atlantic has decided to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day by… Siccing their most rabid attack dogs on the Anne Frank Centre for daring to speak out against the Trumpenführer.
I think we can safely move them from the “Mainstream media” category to the “Alt-right fake news” category now.
(No, I’m not linking to that disgusting crap; they’re spamming it all over Twitter if you really want to see it.)
…Turns up late and reads all 9 pages… On behalf of lurkers everywhere, a beautiful, beautiful pimple squeeze melt down of a post. That was my entertainment for the evening. ‘Standing clap’
@Sniper Kitty, She-Tornado
Welcome ! I just stumbled on your comment (moderation limbo + a fast thread will do that to newcomers) so I wanna let you know that it didn’t go unnoticed. For everyone else, it’s right here.
Have a welcome package and don’t mind Miggs, we mostly keep him around for the free nym generator – I see you’ve caught on to that already.
@Falconer
Well, Oogly’s mistake was because a few weeks I got annoyed because of some preacher ringing my doorbell to pontificate about the abominations spawned by IVF, actually. I ranted in a comment and that’s the first time it was brought up in my case, I believe.
I think Miggs just latched onto it when it was mentioned again on this thread and, as Miggs is wont to do, proceeded to fashion an insult out of it while entirely missing the point and getting it hilariously backwards.
On France and whether it’s hostile to IVF or not, it’s not. Except when it’s THE GAAAYS. So, y’know, nothing quite new.
@SFHC
Wasn’t Holocaust Rememberance Day in January? Why did the Atlantic start in about it now?
Today is, however the anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide (also Assyrian, who get even more forgotten).
Also the anniversary of my birth, but that’s unrelated.
Today is Yom HaShoah, Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day, from sunset, April 23 to nightfall, April 24.
@Peevee
I was referencing the link on the t-shirt itself, jokingly pointing it to the satire blog that Dick Coughlan made of J4MB.
‘Because these cranes had to be operated by a person walking inside the wheel’
They have one of these at Warwick Castle and let people have a go if they want to try it–another feature of these machines is that because the floor and ceiling alternate so quickly, and the light flickers between the planks, it can make you sick. Being blind might mitigate that.
@dreemr
Got it, thank you.
@guest – do you mean the crane that lifts around 6 tons of rocks, and then releases them to fire the trebuchet arm, and launch a 13Kg flaming* rock around 250m distance and 50m height?
You do, don’t you?
*I don’t think they light it anymore since the time they set fire to a thatched boathouse 🙂
@Dalilama – I didn’t know off the top of my head, I went to Twitter to see and it was trending, so I looked it up.
@Dan, apologies.
I never got past the photo of Aurini before my eyes started bleeding and I had to close that page.
I’ll give it a second look, now.
Again, sorry! (As you can tell, I had a visceral [over]reaction at seeing him. I’ll just take some anti-nausea meds before I go look, though.)
@Peevee no worries. Perfectly understandable, Aurini is quotable and not in a good way.
Happy birthday, Dali 🙂
I hope it’s a good day and that it brings cake (or the cake-equivalent indulgence of your choosing).
@Dalillama: Irate Social Engineer
Happy B Day.
@Dali
Happy birthday!
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I’m actually getting some huge flashbacks from Miggy’s performance here today, to a very dedicated troll from back when I played CyberNations (a “nation state” web game with a strong roleplaying community). His whole shtick was siding with the underdog; he thought it was more fun to be on the side with the most competent opponents. A lot of his mannerisms are present today; from the pompous self-regard, to the descent into typo-ridden vitriol, to the high attention to detail and past events, to the slightly-too-on-the-nose-to-be-100%-believable trollish statements.
What does that tell us? Not much really. It’s no use asking him, since if it’s the same guy, there’s zero chance he’d break character to say so. But for added comedic value, imagine this guy when reading his spiels: http://forums.cybernations.net/uploads/profile/photo-thumb-974.jpg