Hope you all are having a lovely day today, whatever this day means to you (or doesn’t). Consider this an open thread, to discuss whatever, from presents to politics to cats to whatever holiday stress you might be feeling.
And here’s some stuff I found on the Twitter.
— David, who is hanging in there
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄🎅 pic.twitter.com/YfyTsQ95de
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) December 25, 2017
At this time of year, take a few moments to remember who Christmas is truly about… pic.twitter.com/TQ9tSP5EED
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) December 24, 2017
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. I needed this. pic.twitter.com/2aQFpugdis
— deray (@deray) December 7, 2017
Brian Eno, Paris, 1973 (with Christmas 2017 augmentation) pic.twitter.com/hRwMDTOUKv
— Brian Eno News (@dark_shark) December 25, 2017
“Fun” pic.twitter.com/tsAdsZeez8
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 24, 2017
#MerryChristmas 🎄🤶🏻 pic.twitter.com/IahMZhf5gc
— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) December 25, 2017
Same. pic.twitter.com/kcNPdrLy6R
— Adrenalin (@adrenalindenver) May 24, 2017
🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅🎈🐾🐅
All of a sudden …
🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/fza8NZioI0
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) December 25, 2017
Human: My cat has an easy life
Me: pic.twitter.com/e8kvlVhUdR— Curious Zelda (@CuriousZelda) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/945193410662682624
Pizza
and light reading (from earlier this month)
Happy Holidays all.
Regarding non verbal communication, this year’s Royal Institution lectures have some interesting stuff about that.
And for our Corvid fans there’s a really clever raven.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l1916
The Milo editor comments are hilarious. I’d normally cringe in sympathy reading someone’s work get such a harsh critique but like the Cerno AMA, no sympathy for that asshole.
“Not the time or place for another black dick joke”
LOL, “another” how many black dick jokes do you think were in the manuscript? He brings it up like it makes him interesting, though it probably is a top 3 interesting thing about him….
The two lonely twitter comments supporting Milo and accusing the editor of changing Milo’s ‘message’ was just the icing on the cake!
“Good deeds rarely get mentioned – they’re something you do, not something you brag on in public.” Unless you’re Trump, in which case you demand praise for something you probably didn’t do.
“Milo can go sit on a cactus.” Why do you hate cacti? What have they done to deserve such a fate? Even legos should be spared the indignity of Milo walking on them.
And … today’s tortured justification for acting like a complete hypocrite award goes to anti-gambling crusader Kathy Gilroy*!
*Milo Yappylittleshit hadn’t commented on the editor’s comments at time of award, or he’d have been a lock.
Bad link again. Here’s a good one. http://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/Anti-gambling-crusader-who-shut-down-raffles-wins-25-000-in-gaming-parlor-sweepstakes_163993227
And today’s my eyes just rolled so hard they’ve achieved escape velocity award goes to… Bono!
Because there’s certainly no outlets for white male rage anymore. It’s certainly not on full display every time we go online or anything. And it’s not like women and girls ever experience anger. No, girls are sugar and spice and everything nice!
I was hoping that that Bono article would name some female artists who have that rage he’s looking for, so that I would have someone new to listen to. But they went with… Taylor Swift? Ok, I have nothing against Taylor Swift, I suppose, but she’s not exactly a riot grrrl, is she?
@WWTH
Come on, you gotta give bono a break. Clearly in bono’s tiny mind, rock’n’roll (especially the very angry kind) has always been about getting record deals and ruling the airwaves, so if bono personally doesn’t hear it, it must not exist.
Nothing more punk rock than selling out, right?
(/s obviously. I’m in the mood for punk rock and misandrony. You down y/n?)
@Shadowplay
“or the tab of a stripper?”
;_; I’m so fucking dissapointed. ;_; ;_; ;_;
@Moggie
TS said she was going to shake it off. The violence! (/sssssssssss)
Hey now, Shadowplay’s stripper was really hot!
@Moggie
…That’s… really not a good sign. I suggest tossing that stripper outside immediately.
Sorry about the link – I’m not sure what’s happening. Checked it three times, and the page we’re on got added to the link I pasted. 🙁
Re: Bono
I like him. He sang for my partner while she was working. she was buzzing about that for days. 🙂
Not listened to U2 since the Joshua Tree though.
Given Milo’s known reliance on ghostwriters, it sounds like he had a different ghostie for each chapter. Would explain a lot.
So, when the hell is David going to start a Last Jedi spoilers thread or something similar?
“It’s other people entering I oppose. Me winning is cool.”
I have rarely seen such a blatant self-aggrandizing hypocritical rationalization on display. Yuck.
ETA, Surplus why do you want to spoil TLJ so badly? Lol
God wanted her to have that money. You can’t argue with that.
mrex:
Hot air is great for removing varnish and paint, provided you have good ventilation. I have one of those strippers myself. Protip: store it well away from your hair dryer. You wouldn’t want to mix them up.
Moggie,
I’m guessing the Taylor Swift mention is more of a reference to her being a mean girl who’s always feuding with someone and sending her minions after them, not the actual music. But as an oldish person, I wouldn’t hate if the Mammotheers who know new music had some good angry girl music recs. I know my 90’s music very well but have been too lazy to keep up since maybe 2006/7.
My favorite teenage angst song was “girly” and angry.
There are more quality rageful Ani songs, but I had lots of unrequited crushes back then, so this is the one that I loved most.
Aren’t there about a billion Star Wars fan sites or more general SF/fantasy fan sites to discuss Last Jedi?
I’m probably not going to end up seeing it until it’s available to rent at home so I’ve accepted that I’ll get spoiled a bit eventually, but there does seem to be people here still planning to see it in the theaters and given that David’s not actively posting again, he’s probably not going to see requests for a thread on it in the comments anytime soon, so for the time being it might be best to discuss the movie in other places.
@Moggie
“I have one of those strippers myself.”
So would you find it a good sign if your stripper’s body suddenly became very hot? You didn’t say that shadow’s stripper was blowing hot air (which, well whatever floats your boat), you said that *Shadow’s stipper* was hot. Personally, I would be concerned, but then again, that just might just be my deep dissapointment talking. ;_;
I’ll stick with Anastacia. Not modern, but who cares 🙂 . Great voice, pissed off lyrics. Also she does a song that speaks to me hard.
Romeo’s Daughter is pretty good, too. 😛
ETA: @mrex
Hey! The guy doing the video would scrub up decent. 😛
@WWTH
Shit you have great taste in music. ;p
@Shadowplay
“Hey! The guy doing the video would scrub up decent. ?”
He does have nice hands. And I do like hands.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/28/1728250/-NEW-Devin-Nunes-Campaign-Donor-Was-Original-Funder-Of-Trump-Russia-Dossier?
Bah ha ha ha ha!
This explains *so* much of Nunes’ behavior. He needs to GO.
@mrex
Do you really need to pick apart grammar over an obvious play on words?