By David Futrelle
Good news everyone! Today’s lil Twitter roundup is almost entirely Trump-free! Instead, it’s got dancing otters, a creepy hedgehog, and Chris Christie cradling nachos like a mama gorilla. Also, some angry gamers and a weird new conspiracy theory about Obama.
Let’s get ready to twumble!
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/891813326019334146
And don't ever again question Chris Christie's humanity after seeing him cradle those nachos like a mother primate cradling its young.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 31, 2017
Damn, I could really use some nachos right about now. Nachos are awesome.
Hedgehog cake, not so much.
https://twitter.com/chaeronaea/status/891873357448261632
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/891999259742134272
OBAMA'S SCHEDULE
8:30 Call with Media™
9:00 Confiscate America's guns
9:45 Call with Media™
11:00 Kitesurf w Richard Branson
12:30 Lunch pic.twitter.com/hySs2808lm— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/891601275418234880
MEN! Accentuate parts of your body you like e.g. good legs, to draw attention away from problem areas e.g. the things you do and say.
— manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/891748757921857537
https://twitter.com/zboah/status/892018500780380160
I’m still thinking about those nachos.
Holy crap! Is it me or is this place becoming more of a goldmine for the Mammotheers Against The Manosphere game every day?
Also, it’s nice catching up with everyone!
ETA: FIRST!
The “Angry Gamer”-type persona is right up there with “Faceless Dandy in a Suit and Tie” for “fastest way to tell someone is a disenfranchised white male and is super insecure about it”.
They’re like the heads of a hydra.
A shitty, shitty hydra.
Since they’ve been told by YouTube “philosophers” (snerk) that any well-adjusted white male is a beta cuck who is totally unhappy deep down, the heads will just keep sprouting. Ugh. Now I need nachos. Gonna go make that happen.
Great, now I’m hungry again and I just ate lunch. 🙁
I haven’t had lunch yet and this came up right on time!
What a coincidence. I was thinking of making some nachos later. I guess it’s a sign. Now I have to!
That video of Christie made me feel better about my life choices. Thanks for sharing it.
The dancing otters were delightful. I had to wonder if the butterfly even knew they were there.
I know, there’s something very “I need to prove my superiority about something, but all I know is video games and I’m not that good at those” about it. I used to watch James Rolfe regularly maybe 4-5 years ago and he is very amusing, but even the AVGN shtick got stale and given the infrequency of that persona’s posts, I think James knows it too. And yet his copycats persist.
(Side note I figured I’d toss out to the Mammotheers… for a couple years now I’ve been toying with the idea of making a 7th Guest Let’s Play. I’m not a video maker, so it would be an unflashy thing at best, but it’s one of those childhood faves that I haven’t seen get much attention and there’s so much campy goodness to riff on that I’d love to do it. The issue is both I’m unpracticed on mic [and feel weird hearing my own voice] and the time it would take to do it. Would such a project interest anybody here?)
So apropos of absolutely nothing, here’s this One Simple Trick (TM) that has helped me at least a little bit with trying not to get RSI or at least trying to stop it getting worse:
I was finding that my right wrist was worse than the left, ’cause of typing with both but mousing with one. Now I have two mice both operational simultaneously, an ordinary cheap one on the left and a “vertical” (also cheap) one on the right, and alternate using both (though I do try to mouse as much as I can with my left hand, as it’s the right that needs the respite most).
It helps!
I don’t know what would happen if I moved them in different directions at the same time – probably nothing, but I haven’t tried so as not to confuse the computer. I fuck up quite enough as it is.
Now off to scroll back up and watch otters.
@ opposablethumbs, all;
it is critical to understand, computers ARE NOT inanimate objects… they are sentient beings, evil in every sense of the word, sent from the darkest reaches of the universe to fuck with us….
I used to annoy people at work by using a “left-hand” mouse. Main reason was, having a right-hand mouse at home and work was giving me wrist cramps.
Had some useful side benefits… No one else wanted to use my workstation. “Oh, you have a left-handed mouse, nevermind.” Somehow never got around to saying, “I can switch it to be right-hand, give me about a 20 seconds.”
re: “Shawn R”‘s contention in the above tweet about “2 genders”… I’m assuming up front that the good tweeter is saying that one cannot prove (to their satisfaction, anyway) that the “2 gender” model is flawed….
I’d contend that if you can’t place anyone solely into one of two genders without a DNA test, and even with a DNA test you can’t do better than a 4% uncertainty rate, then the “2 gender” model is definitely flawed.
I haven’t played The New Colossus, but if during the course of the game i don’t hear someone say the words “Give Hitler/the nazis a chance”(preferably before being able to punch them), i will be quite dissapointed. Since we all know Hitler made the trains run on time, they should make a DLC where he has a train-based superpower. They could call him “Train Man” or something.
I think that cake would have looked fine without the teeth.
You can’t have your nachos until you take a bite outta that hedgehog cake!
Than an insult to hydras; they’re more like that fungal growth on a pile of poo. Because they can’t stop eating up the crap that other insecure guys tell them they should eat.
And the Mooch is outta there.
The BBC is reporting that Anthony Scaramucci has been sacked.
Is it true (please let it be true!)
If it is true, does that mean Trump appointments are timed in dog years?
Hahaha, the Mooch is loose. Good thing, too, because a Mooch bit my sister.
The otters make it all better. You can’t tell me they’re not playing. That butterfly is just fun times in Otterville.
But are they significant otters?
Well, the otters were worth it.
Though I never knew Shostakovich wrote “Tea for Two.”
@Weird Eddie – I have long had my suspicions that this may be the case.
Both my mice are ordinary right-handed ones; I just use one of them with my left hand. Seems fine.
Re the Mooch person – I just saw this on the news and laughed so much. Especially when the presenter commented that he hadn’t even made it to his own official starting date; that’s pretty good going.
Incidentally , he was interviewed on UK news a couple of days ago and said something about how he serves “at the President’s pleasure”. Maybe he was just sufficiently in touch with reality to recognise that with a loose cannon like Trump this was always on the cards?
Mooch is out already? Daaaaamn.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/xpectd.gif
Weirwoodtreehugger:
Great GIF! I need that for like every hour in Trumpmerica
There’s an Arrested Development gif and/or quote for pretty much every occasion.
That one’s pretty fitting for Trumpmerica too. Especially with the irony of having Trump fanboy Scott Baio in it.
Trump tweets this morning: No WH chaos!
This Just In: Scaramucci Fandan-goes Out of the White House.
http://i.imgur.com/EWEHzeG.gif
? Scaramucci, Scaramucci, couldn’t do the fandango… ?
I would just like to point out that Trump tweeted this morning that there is “No WH chaos!”
http://i.imgur.com/dA5IUA1.png
Yeah, sure. Everything is going swimmingly.
Damn. Ninja’d by JS!
Next one will stay for five day ?