why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

I totally get a Midwestern vibe from it over anywhere else.

yeah, it's 80% of the population who are blue-collar midwestern Protestant senior citizens.

hey represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along

I'd like to see something to back up this 80% statistic.

But, aren't we all just unceremoniously plugging along towards inevitable death and, ultimately, total oblivion? I believe that with all of my heart and still think that whatever small contribution I'm making to humanity is enough to take me out of this 80% of mindless pluggers.

Basically I find the whole concept of "pluggers" pessimistic and I think it totally devalues the exact people that these knobs are trying to laud.

They do promote interspecies marriage, so there's that.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/625be340d6c30130f9f5001dd8b71c47

Would like to get Art Spiegelman's take on Pluggers.

would not like to see Plugger artist's secret sketchbook of 'sexy Pluggers'

wait, what? pluggers? i am so confused. is this about toilets or women be shoppin?

Pluggers is about a cartoonist crowdsourcing old people for "get off my lawn" punchlines for his terrible comic

It's a term for "salt of the earth" folks who are just living their lives and doing the every day things that we all do, plugging along.

Also it's apparently well rooted in sexist gender tropes.

Also they are apparently male, with women being characterized solely in their relationship to pluggers. And they are incontinent, per the first posted comic.

there are some lady plugger strips

unsurprisingly, they are terrible

for example: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/16

normal people be navel gazing i guess

and also: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/14

I kind of identify with the nap one, tbh. A PLUGGER IS ME.

basically I want to destroy everyone related to this comic strip: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/01

Always love the Comics Curmudgeon's reactions to Pluggers: http://joshreads.com/?cat=57

(His comment for that first one pplains posted above - "Pluggers just have to poop all the time.")

Wait, so Hatlo's "Tip o' the Hat" were CROWD-SOURCED???

I have never seen these plugger comics before, and now I'm scrolling through them and gawking in the way one might look at a car accident

Comic's Curmudgeon on Pluggers is all you need, really. It's like he's holding your hand and reassuring you that it's really not you. It's them.

digging this one

http://joshreads.com/images/13/07/i130727pluggers.jpg

I'm reading the curmudgeon posts and... my god, there really are a lot of them about pooping

all of these strips are actually hilarious when you think about old people experiencing these moments of existential horror and then going "boy, this needs to be in Pluggers!" *sends snail mail*

http://joshreads.com/?p=588

LOL

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/whenclimbingan0aincline2ctryto0akeepyourgo-chair0amovingif0ayoumuststop2c0astartupagain0aslowlyandth-fbcover.png

Always awesome when the watermark is in bigger text than whatever hell inspirational passage is being quoted.

MOVING IF
WHEN
INCLINE, SET
ALLOW IT
TO ENSURE
DESCENT

i'd forgotten about pluggers! i should start reading CC again, i never found out what happened with mary worth and aldo

I read way too many Pluggers today via CC.

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/batteries-default.png

otm

I had only been working for **censored** for a few weeks when a friend of mine came for a visit. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s an extraordinary person, full of love and compassion. She is also pro-abortion.

As the social media coordinator, I have the responsibility of finding stories on LifeSiteNews.com and posting them to Facebook and Twitter.

I spend a lot of time reading articles. While my friend was visiting, I was reading an article that contained the illustration displayed here, of a D&E abortion of a 23 week old baby.

My friend looked over my shoulder and gasped.

“What are you LOOKING at?” she asked, horrified.

“That’s an abortion,” I answered plainly.

“But, that’s a baby!” she exclaimed. “That doesn’t happen!”

“That’s a 23 week abortion. That happens quite frequently, actually.”

I tried to remain calm.

She’s not stupid. Really, honestly, she isn’t. She’s actually incredibly intelligent, educated. She has a degree.

I truly believe that my friend has been deceived.

How else could an intelligent, loving individual be completely “pro-choice”?

Deception.

People are told what they want to hear, that it’s “just a blob of tissue,” or they’re told, “abortion is OK in certain circumstances,” and most importantly, they’re told “abortion is a woman’s right.” But when they are presented with the reality that what they thought was a blob of tissue was actually a baby, a human being, a lot of them change their minds. Yes, a lot.

She just stared at the illustration with pain in her eyes.

“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.

The reason I am telling you this story is not simply to share the pro-life message.

I am telling you this to explain to you the importance of supporting pro-life organizations and sharing the truth.

It’s one thing to read a story and have your pro-life beliefs affirmed, but it’s another thing entirely to take that information and spread it as far and wide as you possibly can.

And we have seen time and time again that the truth is what changes hearts and mind. …

“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.
“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.

gross, on many levels

Then she said:

"You know, the fact that Abortion happens is direct proof that God does not exist. Bob Marley"

An African tribe does the most beautiful thing.

When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him.

For two days they'll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.

The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as Good, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.

But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.

They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he'd temporarily been disconnected:

"I AM GOOD."

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the wrong deed was sharing the above on Facebook presumably

"um... well, we quite liked that "I know what I like in your wardrobe" song, you drummed on that, didn't you?"

Ha. "Well, admittedly, 'Ignition' is hella catchy"

"'Goodbye My Love' is a hell of a record... oh, that wasn't you? Huh."

I don't want to start another thread about these but dear lord.

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Most cab drivers in Vegas are actually required to pay your entry fee into strip clubs if you ask them.

There's no way that last one can be true.

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The stores will not let you do this, guess you'll have to outhack another fox.

Or the first one, now that I look closer.

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Out of pillow cases? Use a t-shirt.

This just makes me angry. Out of pillowcases? DO LAUNDRY YOU FUCKING INGRATE. Using a t-shirt instead of a pillow case doesn't make you a lifehacker. It makes you a slob.

If you put as much energy into keeping your living situation clean as you do in trying to find ways to game the system, you would be 100x less gross and expend 50% less energy. #lifehack

i am actually wearing a pillowcase with arm holes cut into it today so that heads know i am a lifehaxor

Hey beats washing t-shirts!

I'm sorry, can I just

“What are you LOOKING at?” she asked, horrified.

“That’s an abortion,” I answered plainly.

Am I weird for thinking that the pro-life person dispassionately looking at pictures of dismembered babies is the terrifying one here?

It's her job to post that on Facebook.