By David Futrelle
Enjoy your 4/20, however you choose to celebrate it! Or not celebrate it! (Does anyone outside the US know what it is?) Some tweets.
Also, like all Today in Tweets posts, consider this an OPEN THREADDDDDD.
#420day pic.twitter.com/A2g8eWfq1e
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) April 20, 2018
Today is 4/20, so here’s a reminder that if y'all support the legalization of marijuana, you also need to be supporting decriminalization & the release of everyone in prison right now for marijuana-related charges (some of whom are serving as much as 20+ years). #420day
— Deniz S. (@MrFilmkritik) April 20, 2018
Happy birthday to actress Jessica Lange who is turning 69 today, 4/20. pic.twitter.com/CEKUAILTMk
— Vsauce (@tweetsauce) April 20, 2018
Please join me in feeling terrible for this man who has now been paid by 3 major media outlets to discuss why HE is persecuted for believing that 1 in 4 women should be executed by the state pic.twitter.com/Fm8piIm7O6
— Marcia Belsky (@MarciaBelsky) April 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/987396861844709376
https://twitter.com/TurdyMcFergy/status/986614052339290112
https://twitter.com/lesander_/status/987268137665159170
Let me leave you with this image in your head:
Science proves flies enjoy ejaculating https://t.co/IgJPw0kllG pic.twitter.com/YIChYfC5Hj
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 19, 2018
The Brigid Finch one about Comey’s notes was taken directly from @drmistercody from a year ago. It is even the same note he wrote.
https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/864618372553506816?s=19
Otherwise, Jessica Lange?
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There are people celebrating 420 in Canada as well.
In more unpleasant news former Smallville actress Allison Mack has been arrested on sex trafficking charges. The charges are in connection with her involvement in Keith Raniere’s NXIVM group.
Fellow Smallville alum Kristen Kreuk was also involved in NXIVM, but claims to have left the group five years ago. She claims she didn’t see any “nefarious activity” while a member.
@PeeVee, yeah I saw that this morning. He was quite subtle: “nice tweet, Brigid” 😀
I’ve seen a lot of people online asking the same “does anyone outside the US even know what 4/20 is?” and it’s weird.
I know it originated in the US, but it’s literally a global thing now. Our Greens party here used the day to launch their new cannabis legalisation policy, frex.
420?
Have burned ’em before, and will burn ’em again. Like right after dinner digests a bit. I just fried us up a mess o’ cheeseburgers! 😀
(Which of course included seasoned hamburger, toasted buns, and all the condiments.)
Friend said: Damn, this is better than Portillos!
I am a pretty good cook, if I do say so myself 🙂
And, a discovery I recently made: Arby’s “curly fries” are now sold in bags at grocery stores. We had some of these too. And of course beer.
I think it was a good “420 feast” 🙂
@Mish, I figured you might…we follow a lot of the same folk, I think. ?
(Because, GMTA. ?)
Our POTUS:
Spelled “shady” s h a d e y.
Referred to a “Wendy Wasserman-Schultz”.
Spelled it “Special Council”. Twice. In the same tweet.
I couldn’t be prouder. /s
Anyone else getting these CRTV ads lately? Buncha white dudes in front of American flags, talking about rants, and not being PC, and and saying it so you don’t have to. Latest one I saw was blatantly Islamophobic.
I get the feeling Philip K Dick was being over-optimistic with the targeted ads from Minority Report.
I’m guess the CRTV ads are showing up b/c of my posts about jordan peterson; the ad targeting software obviously can’t distinguish pro from anti-Peterson articles. But hey at least they’re wasting their money with their ads.
If an ad is offensive or bigoted, you can report it to Google adsense by clicking on the triangle thing at the top right corner of each ad, then the “ad choices” link. There are links for reporting ads at the bottom of the page it takes you to.
I’ll remove the pilfered tweet too.
Counterpoint: I’ve lived in several countries and the only people who cared about 420 in any of them were dudebro expats.
(Also, there aren’t twenty months in the year and even if there were, it’s not the fourth of any of them.)
I don’t really have any desire for pot or even most alcohol-is a selection of (at least marginally) pot-themed musical numbers, 1 from Family Guy and 6 from Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical an acceptable 420 contribution?
“A Bag O’Weed”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZwkDgz_Ek
“Reefer Madness”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_qjLhtA74
“The Stuff”-original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTvqFhrWOTw
“Down at the Ol’ Five and Dime”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK9NCWQdBp0
“Little Mary Sunshine”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKxv6Dgyjs
“Murder!”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2J7SKcsWnw
“The Stuff (Reprise)”:
@Jo
The whole backwards date thing drives me mad too, I will confess. Different spelling of certain words – don’t care. Metric or not – don’t care. But why switch the day and month, whyyyyyyyy? *sob*
Yep. Me too. Gets really damned annoying at times. I wind up sharing a lot of docs with US colleagues and nearly every time there’ll be a clarification note needed. To be fair, that runs both ways, but still. Irritating.
Amusingly 4/19 (U.S.) was bicycle day which celebrates the first intentional acid trip by LSD’s inventor in 1943 (to be honest I only noticed because some psychedelically colored ‘adult novelties’ crossed my tumblr feed and it was a celebratory promotion).
re: date formats
I’m an American and even I think our system makes no sense.
In other news I’m planning on walking/running my first 5k on Wednesday,
I’m doing a virtual race with this app called “Zombies, Run!”.
Seen multiple times on twitter: “Writing 4/20 is best because we say ‘April 20th'”. No shit? “We write it this way because we say it this way” isn’t much of an argument! Why not just say “mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy are both arbitrary, and yyyy-mm-dd is clearly superior, so let’s not fight”?
Don’t Americans ever say ‘the twentieth of April’?
(Also, perhaps it’s my bias, but there is a pattern in big-endian and little-endian that I don’t see in middle-endian.)
I like the fact that we are all smack talking US date formats while they’re sleeping…
I guess I “celebrated”, in a way, since I smoked, but then I do that everyday anyway so…
I did wanna take it outside and maybe try and find folks to enjoy the stuff with but social anxiety kept me in. Not to mention cops likely all over the fucking town because to them it’s an all-you-can-harass buffet. I can’t exactly afford to let them racket the stuff off me (and no I don’t give a shit that fucking Macron took down the fines for possession, just because I get slightly less shit because of something I need to stay alive and somewhat sane still doesn’t make me like him).
Re: date formats, the thing I find funniest is the number of Americans who absolutely insist on mm/dd/yyyy, but won’t stop talking about the fourth of July…
Also, can someone explain the Ben Shapiro thing? I have absolutely no idea what’s going on there, except that I assume Shapiro is an idiot, on the grounds that he’s being praised by the type of person who says “XX destroys YY.”
@Rapid Rabbit,
You mean that pearl of wisdom on pot-smoking that’s being shared around reverently?
Not sure what’s worse: that he thought it was worth posting, or that people have turned it into an actual shareable thing. Actually, now I think about it, the latter is worse.
@Mish
Whatever the thing in the OP is about. I can’t bring myself to click on it.
@Tim Gueguen
I’ve never heard of NXIVM so I decided to look it up. From https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html;
O_O
Is there any way to keep my phone from being hijacked from those “congratulations! You’ve been selected!” sites? It’s happening more and more and I’m getting really tired of it.
I’m really thankful that 4/20 is over and I hopefully won’t have to interact with all the incredibly obnoxious people that celebrate it for another year.
@PeeVee:
You can turn off JavaScript. That will also take out a lot of random website functionality but will also shut down every miserable pop up and even the legitimate ads that still hijack your browser.
You can also wipe the browser memory in your phone but that will also take out stuff like stored passwords and cookies and stuff like that, so be cautious.
AdBlockPlus totally gets rid of those ads.
I know there’s not a prayer of this happening in the US right now, but I really think there should be some regulation of this. An ad that redirects your browser and won’t yet you leave the page is entirely not okay.