Hey, everyone. I’m still here. I’m just taking a break. Sometimes I need to step back and clear my head of the usual manosphere nonsense for a few days. But I’ll be back soon.
In the meantime, here are some funny things from the Twitter? (And feel free to consider this an open thread.)
The foster pups, Bella and Brownie, with a functional link, I hope:
They’re adorable!
Feel better David. I can give you some links to ballets clips that always makes me feel better when I watch them if you like. Idk if it would have the same effects for you but they are beautiful.
Everyone else
Anyone interested in reading the first draft of my wedding vows and telling me what you think? I’m a dancer but not good at speaking and expressing my feelings infornt of large groups of people.
@ lainy
I’d be more than happy to if it assist; and, if you like, I can suggest some public speaking tips.
@ Big Titty Demon:
This is all lies by the Elitist Intellectuals…. The TROOTH is, David is actually a crisis actor hired by the Deep MRA Conspiracy…
Read it on Alex Jones!!!
David – glad to hear you’re taking some mental health days and not down with migraines.
I hope everyone who’s feeling poorly is better soon, too.
Husbeast and I have his mother living with us now. She is blind and is having issues with hallucinations. Things are not so good right now but we are hopeful since we found a psychiatric urgent care about 40 mins. away and they’ve referred us to county services. MIL has an appointment on the 10th. We are currently waiting out the adjustment to her meds, which will take a couple of weeks to fully take effect. The poor dear is really frightened of some of the things she sees. Husbeast is working from home this week because I’m having trouble coping myself.
So apparently now Trump thinks he’s King of the Jews? This can’t be good.
@Alan Robertshaw
That would be great. I’ve done public speaking for classes before of course. But it’s not a fun experience. I don’t want my wedding to be like that when expressing my love for my fiancé to our friends and family. This is what I have written down so far.
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher believed that when human beings were first created we had two faces, four legs, and four arms. The gods fearing our power, split us down the middle into two sperate halves. This would force us to spend our life times looking for our missing half. I didn’t have to look very far to find mind. I believe that my soul would find yours in any life time. That you are my other half I was meant to find. To be with you is to feel complete like how Aristotle described. I stand here today doing the one thing that terrifies me the most, Declaring my love and loyalty to you in front of our friends and family. I do this with faith and trust that you will never harm me, always love me, and never abandon me. Because I am also your one.
P.s I know Aristotle also thought we had both sets of sex organs, but this is a church wedding and children are going to be there.
@Lainy, do you want to make everyone cry? Because that will make everyone cry. Or maybe it’s just dusty in my office.
*has just realised that I have no idea how to use a ‘bookmarklet’.*
Google isn’t telling me how to actually this. I went to the pastebin link, bookmarked it, then came back to this page and clicked the bookmark in my bookmarks toolbar, all that happens is I go to the bookmarklet page.
What am I doing wrong??? Q__Q
@Moggie
Evidently he does think so. The polling data would show otherwise, seeing as around 85% of American Jews disapprove of him. He has a few high profile Jews that like him, and it appears that this gives him the confidence to judge all the others. The Republican Party seems to be trying to play some strange mind game where they paint Democrats as antisemitic to cover their own biases, but as far as I can tell nobody is falling for it.
The vast majority of Jews I know absolutely hate Trump. He is easily the most antisemitic president since Nixon. And possibly more of a danger to Jews due to the fact that the alt right didn’t exist under Nixon.
@Moggie
That’s not the goal but I might cry when saying it to him. I’m trying to put into perfect words how much I love him and how much he means to me. Traditional church vows aren’t really doing it for me. So I suggested we write our own vows.
@Lainy, nailed it.
@Naglfar, the whole thing is scary. When he said that any American Jew who votes Democratic is guilty of “great disloyalty”, I was appalled. To see the old “divided loyalty” anti-semitic slur being pushed by the president, of all people, and at a time when anti-semitic attacks are on the rise! And now this King of Israel nonsense. I finally can’t even.
@Lainy
My officiant gave us a list of questions that we each sent him answers for, then he incorporated them into his speech part of the vows, and the vows we each had to say were much less personal, so we didn’t end up crying (maybe some teary eyes, but we kept our composure). So that’s a potential option for you if your officiant is up for it.
@Moggie
And what’s going to make it worse is he is again going to use a minority of right wing pseudo-Jews like Jared Kushner as shields. And Ben Shapiro is going to second him on the whole thing and Trump and co will say “we can’t be antisemites! Ben Shapiro likes us.” Ben Shapiro has been saying since at least 2012 that left wing Jews are not Jews to him, so Trump’s remarks will sit well with Shapiro.
We all knew Trump was an antisemitic from the start. We just didn’t think he would be this blatant about it.
@ lainy
No, you’re crying.
That’s really beautiful!
To be honest, I think if you just look your fiancé in the eyes whilst you’re saying that, you’ll bring the house down. And the thing to remember is, your ‘audience’ are your friends and family. They want you to do well; it’s not like you have to win over a tough crowd. You’ll do great!
I thought it was well-known that when David’s job gets too much for him, he goes and does some lab work.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcT_i-aarBJNFUrtpCr8Cx3RdSbJLjjzWFK5hAoV6e37RJazW0h4
Oh, and add The Hathor Legacy to the list of feminist sites that no longer exist. Admittedly it’d been dormant for a few years now, but when I stopped by a few months ago I saw that someone had disabled images on site. When I stopped by yesterday, it had been deleted. Presumably the Wayback Machine has it archived, but otherwise all that’s left is a goodbye message.
Sad times. 🙁
@ Lainy
Those are lovely!
From one bride to another – don’t stress yourself out by trying to memorize them. Learn them, yes, but make a little cheat sheet for yourself. I learned that advice when I was getting ready for our wedding, and I didn’t think it would apply, but made the cheat sheet anyway. I’m glad I did. When my husband read his vows in front of everybody, I got so teary-eyed, I barely remembered what I was supposed to do next. But I had my cheat sheet, so it was okay.
@Lainy
I’m with Moggie and Alan, nailed it. And I’m not a big one for traditional church vows. Much too much obeying going on in those, and worshipping is not a lot better. Yours is infinitely better.
I’d suggest doing what SG-1 had to do at least yearly with Daniel Jackson:
Rehearse!
@zonuts
Those are adorable puppies! <3
@Ariblester
This sounds useful!
Why does this happen?
Okay, I feel like a jerk for nitpicking this, because yeah, lovely vows, but…
Aristotle did not say that.
That story about the double-creatures split in two and how each half looks for their other one is from Plato’s Symposium, which basically revolves around a party where Socrates and his friends talk about the nature of Love, bringing up different ideas (surprise surprise, Socrates ends up being more right than everybody else). This specific story is told by playwright Aristophanes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)#Aristophanes
I’m not saying you have to change anything, because this is really not the point of the story or of vows or of the wedding or any of that. But if you do want to, it’s a rather small change to make.
I’m really sorry for the nitpicking, I’ve been a literature student for too long and can’t really help myself.
Have a happy day! That’s the most important thing.
@RedSilkPhoenix:
Makes me wish I had access to pictures of Kinda, my cousin’s Rottweiler. Of whom my cousin said, “Have you ever tried to teach a two year old Rottweiler that she isn’t a lapdog anymore?”