my dad loves Willie Geist and said he would be really bummed if he ended up getting outed as a predator. he was like "he's supposed to be just a great guy, a good family man, has kids, married his middle school sweetheart..." lol i was endeared by my dad's uncharacteristically sincere appreciation for morning tv show host Willie Geist
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
I met Willie Geist at a journalism convention in 2013 and he came off like the puffy-faced sociopath in Breaking Bad but with a wicked wit (which he flexes on Morning Joe)
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:08 (six years ago) link
which puffy faced sociopath, Dale Boettecker? the guy that ends up paralyzed?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
and yea he's hilarious
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
A few words on my history with Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegone and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION which may surprise you...I grew up LOVING A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION.— Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy) November 29, 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
I don't wanna hear it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
not to spoil thrasher's tweetstorm but he quickly learns the error of his ways
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Keillor looks like a melted candle made of dough
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
Okay, Lauer clearly needs to be arrested at this point.
This story has changed. The original version said only that Lauer "had sex with her." Now it says he "locked the door and sexually assaulted her" and that she "passed out and had to be taken to a nurse." https://t.co/jHJg03HglB— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) November 30, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
welp egg on my face. adam otm!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
Keillor looks like a radiation victim
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
Most charitable theory is that the lock-button keeps people popping in and making the “hey, are you on the phone? Can we talk after?” gesture.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
it's probably for when you fire someone and they leave your office and you immediately lock the door so they don't come back and kill you.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
President Keyes, you made me legit lol with "I'm a fool to do your flirty work"
Just to do devil's advocacy: My wife's a journalist who works from home. I can actually imagine situations where a door lock that she could activate without getting up would be helpful. The scenario would be: she's been trying to get an interview with an elusive and/or nervous source with sensitive information. She's left the source voice mail saying "feel free to call me at your convenience." The source calls her out of the blue, ready to talk, and it's at an odd time, like just before dinner. So she's doing a critical interview, finally getting a shy source to speak. And... the children or I bound into the room to ask her whether we have guacamole or hey the toilet's stopped or hey do you know where my charger is.
That's a reasonable professional explanation why a person WHO IS ALONE would want to be able to lock the door without telling the other person on the phone, "wait a minute while I get up and go lock the door."
THAT SAID, Matt Fucking Lauer is not a reporter working on breaking stories with nervous sources. He's a person who says things that other people wrote. So, fail.
criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation
Yeah uh, no. People are saying it's possible to do courtship in a way that doesn't even look like predation. And they're calling out predation as what it is: predation.
― here come the warm jorts (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
this is so gross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yruIL5lVGE4
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
Lauer has a button under the vanity to stop his toilets whenever he wants
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
one of my students wrote about this frontline doc for her final paper, and in her response/recommendation section, she suggested that cameras in supervisor's offices are recording during all shifts since that is where many of the assaults occurred. from my perspective, there is no excuse for matt lauer being able to lock people into his office from a secret button on his desk.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
Is he locking them in or keeping people from barging in and witnessing?
― Evan, Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
who cares?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
the latter, or so I choose to believe. I've never even seen an interior door lock that can't be unlocked by simply opening the knob* from the inside
* = DOORknob, you pervs
― here come the warm jorts (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
xxp both, also la lechera otm
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
Well the former would make the whole thing WAY more frightening.
― Evan, Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
it's the same either way imo
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
..... why are people so confused about the way the fucking lock works
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
Being physically prevented from escaping is extra nightmare fuel, so I just wanted to clarify.
― Evan, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Because "I need to not be disturbed" has legitimate business uses.
"I need someone who's in my office to not be able to get out" does not.
A business that allowed the first is explicable. A business that allowed the second is actively evil.
― here come the warm jorts (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
ya a door locking someone IN, somehow, is prob false imprisonment & nbc could feasibly have some liability imo as it seemed they knew abt these contraptions
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
if he needs to not be disturbed he can walk right over and lock the doorwhy are people going out of their way to defend a door lock button?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
I get what Evan is saying but now IM confused because an electric deadbolt would be a clear fire code violation I believe
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Sorry, who is confused or defending door lock buttons here?
La Lechera you said: "there is no excuse for matt lauer being able to lock people into his office from a secret button on his desk."
So I thought "holy shit he's locking them IN?!" and asked the question.
Isn't that all we're clarifying here?
― Evan, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
Of course he's locking them in.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
maybe you are not thinking about what it feels like to be locked in a room alone with a gross creep like matt lauer regardless of the mechanics of his stupid gross door lockit's not like the lock is the only thing going on here -- regardless of how the lock works, YES he is locking them in while he claims to be locking other people out
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
evan, you think the lock only works when there is one person in the room?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
sometimes it's better to google than ask
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
lock thread
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
NBC is definitely liable for SOMETHING if they let him turn his office into a panic room with a deadbolt that can only be unlocked from his desk.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:10 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If that's what you meant- got it! But aside from that if the other person in the room can't physically leave unless they reach under the desk and push the button again themselves then (again) holy shit it's worth pointing that out.
― Frederik B, Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:11 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no? ...what???
― Evan, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
p sure i read on twitter or elsewhere this was not unique to his office, @ least some other nbc offices have the same mechanism. i think it has to be how ye mad puffin sez, keeping ppl from entering not from exiting
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Thursday, November 30, 2017
Ned Ragged with a button at his desk.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
*Raggett
Perhaps.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
the button-down mind of ned raggett
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
top button buttoned
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
Good DeRo piece at the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-has-r-kellys-career-thrived-despite-sexual-misconduct-allegations
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
i guess i've never even seen office doors that had locks, like usually if my bosses door is shut it means do not disturb or they are on a call or something but also we have a lot of glass walls, but yeah it seems weird to have locks on office doors IMO
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
i’d kill for an office with a lock, the quality of my sleep would improve markedly
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
oy, now horovitz.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/theater/israel-horovitz-sexual-misconduct.html
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Derogatis piece is weird. Does it contain any new info or r is it a blandly philosophical piece abt not separating art from artist? If he’s not doing investigative journalism on the ppl still pushing/enabling r kelly whats the pt
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
Not a bad idea to remind people about it in this new climate
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
This is that kind of annoying copycat journalism that takes the Weinstein headline subtext (Ronan farrow goes after the guy who enabled Woody Allen post abuse allegations!) and tries to bank off it without doing the legwork in a difft context, idk feels weirdly exploitative
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link