By David Futrelle
It’s Saturday, and I’m feeling lazy, so I’m going to ignore all the frantic, sloppy tweets coming from Donald Trump’s bedroom at Mar-al-Lago and focus on the important non-Trump news of the day.
Like the Incel Air Force’s air strike against Chad (not the country).
— Best of Nextdoor 🏡 (@bestofnextdoor) April 21, 2018
Also, just a couple of days after being celebrated semi-ironically by Jacobin as a Marxist hero of sorts, Kanye West is hailing alt-lite weirdo Candace Owens (remember her from Gamergate days?) as a brilliant thinker.
In case anyone has forgotten how Candace Owens thinks:https://t.co/mOgw6tN5gW pic.twitter.com/MPkMwA7IG5
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) April 21, 2018
What a world pic.twitter.com/9TNjyC0okb
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) April 21, 2018
I don’t know if Candace Owens is far right but I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t know if it smacked her across the face. pic.twitter.com/jZvcxgT1Rc
— Claire (@Claire_V0ltaire) April 22, 2018
I remember this tweet like it was the day before the day before yesterday which it literally was pic.twitter.com/4Uvjx2Q6ly
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) April 22, 2018
In other developments:
https://twitter.com/sbheller/status/984630605890629632
https://twitter.com/wipeoutbeat/status/987152922671747072
https://twitter.com/BBAnimals/status/987752851781939200
My husband reads a lot of Reddit, and, it turned out, was aware of the term ‘Chad’. What he didn’t know was that Chad’s last name is “Thundercock”. I was able to help out. He choked on his iced tea.
I like Chad. I envision Chad as being a nice clean-cut young man with a good attitude about women, and and a tendency to be a bit of a Dudley Do-Right. He shares an apartment with Leroy and Ahmed, and all of them date rather a lot. They take turns to do the dishes.
To dispel the bad mojo from that cursed image:
“o/` This is The Tom Green Show
It’s not the Green Tom Show
This is my favorite show
Because it is my show o/`
It’s The Tom Green Show!”
“I’d just like to say to all the other nominees in the audience, I don’t think that I deserve it any more than the rest of you. I’d like to say that. I don’t think that it would be true, though.”
— Green, accepting his five Razzies for Freddy Got Fingered at the 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards
@Podkayne Lives, your Chad Thundercock sounds like Ace Rimmer LOL
@Lunetta What a guy *sighs* lol
Awww, that pug in the corner reminds me so much of my pug Marilyn, who passed away two years ago.
She was a very good girl. Miss her to pieces.
@bestofnextdoor is one of the funniest accounts I’ve ever seen. I heartily recommend it.
I was struck by that guy misspelling helicopter twice.
The retweets on that Candace Owens tweet are like a Who’s Who of fucking assholes. Nice of them to catalogue themselves for posterity’ s sake, will save future historians some work
*waves* Still alive!
*sniff* Big Boi has now left to his new home, and adult cats just FLOPPED for a long sleep after he did. Nobody’s biting and chasing their tail, nobody’s looking for a nip to suckle, nobody’s trying to pick a teenage-like kittyfit of dominance fight. Me, a mix of proud kittymom, sad kittymom and someone who is generally glad that I don’t need to look at my feet all of the time and nobody’s messing with my meds when I try to take them…
I’m just trying to figure out what a hecolopter is, never mind how to stop them.
@Bina
It sounds like some kind of dinosaur to me.
I’ll miss the Big Boi pics, but hopefully he’s on to a happy silly kitty life now.
@Lunetta and Jamborina Squib
“Smoke me a kipper,I’ll be back for Breakfast”
So I’ma just skip the “alt-left” part cos this is one bullshit PRATT I don’t wanna have to deal with at 8am when I’ve had like three hours of sleep.
But uh, “most feared enemy” ? What did I miss ? I had to make sure Owens was indeed who I seemed to remember she was, so I’m pretty sure she ain’t my most feared enemy right now (these days that’d be the hornets flying up from the neighbor’s garden to my window).
Hecalopter? Seriously?
I’ve always thought it was the most hilariously ironic thing that Reddit and *chan incels used “Chad” as the name of a paragon of masculinity that gets all the women, while literally every woman I’ve known uses “Chad” as the name of a douchey jackass in a polo shirt who they’d never let get near them in a million years.
Also, hi y’all! I used to post here a lot but I stopped because I had kids.
Been coming back lately though because my twitter account got reported by a troll and they suspended me in like literally fifteen minutes.
I’ve reported guys whose names were things like “JasTheGews1488” and it took like six months to hear back, but apparently me making fun of some shmuck’s terrible attempt at doxxing me is crossing a line.
Anyway, I figured I’d properly say hi in an open thread because I see a bunch of names I recognize from way back when which is a really pleasing thing.
So – you’re both using the same name for the same guys. Neat! 😛
Binjabreel! Good to see you again.
@Binjabreel – I remember you, though you were posting when I were just reading. 🙂 Welcome back.
Man, I remember Tom Green, what’s he doing nowadays?
…reminiscing about when he had a show on MTV?
@Lunetta
Oh crap… are Incel and Chad like Rimmer and Ace Rimmer? Oh, god, they are, aren’t they.
‘Hecalopter’ sounds like ‘heffalump’: a word an adult uses when trying unsuccessfully to sound like a child.
Binjabreeeeel! Welcome back! Great to see you here again.
Just when I’d gotten my brain around Alan’s “helico + ptera” tidbit. A hecalopter must be a hundred-bladed craft, then.
@Binjabreel
You ever see Facebook’s bizarre moderator guidelines that were leaked? They divided everything into protected classes, like religion, gender, and race, and unprotected classes, like age, or location. Fairly good so far. The fucked part comes in when they combined them. In defiance of common sense, not to mention logic, subsets of protected classes were not protected, if the property that defined the subset was not protected!
In other words, toss one unprotected descriptor into a hate rant, and boom, no mods. “I hate white guys” is a strike, cause both race and gender are protected. “Black children are animals” is fine, because age isn’t considered suspect.
@Bakunin
Link?
@bakunin:
Holy crap that’s asinine. This is what comes of engineers not taking enough humanities classes.
@everybody:
Wow I didn’t expect an immediate response in the middle of the night! It’s nice to see that there’s still a bit of a community here. Lots of places on the net feel like they’ve lost that feeling.
Also, hahaha someone brought up the fact that the roots of helicopter are “helico” and “pter”?
I always used that as exhibit A in biology when some pedant tries to tell me apoptosis (I.e., programmed cell death, like when it has cancer or as part of development) should be pronounced “ay-POH-tosis” instead of “ay-POP-tosis” because the root “ptosis” has a silent p.
If it’s ay-poh-tosis then it should be heli-coh-ter” not “heli-cop-ter”.