Conservatives also often like to hold up "gay rights" as an example of our superiority to muslim countries, only to discard them the moment they are no longer comparing us to muslim countries
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Also:
having said that, I've been going on for a long time about what "belief" really means and it seems to me to be multifaceted: the performative, the social, the identitarian, the ideological, the spiritual and the unconscious all play into the concept but none of them define it or make up the totality of it. this is one of the reasons Dawkinites are idiots. memes feed into this too as they become this field of statements without depth, without sincerity, just endlessly playing at rhetoric when their real purpose is anything but the dissemination of knowledge, arcane or otherwise.
I like this a lot, can we start a thread on it
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
I feel like focusing on the flight attendant when you're seated on a plane near a woman who visually resembles a language is burying the lede
― rob, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
he could tell because she was sitting from right to left, instead of the normal way
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
wow that is noxious shit. guessing it's been around since the early 80s since both characters feel like they belong in Airplane!. or The Cannonball Run really.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
seriously who are you staying friends with that posts that kind of thing? i mean normally this thread is just dummmmb naive/inspirational/hackneyed whatever where you might roll your eyes and go "oh, uncle fred," not instantly hate uncle fred and cut him out of your life.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
It was a much, much older person, sort of friend from work, with a lot of chronic health problems who posted that.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
It is totally noxious I agree. But let us roll the hate-train on to this fucking thing:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/27750358_10160047922330296_5288289111146163215_n.png.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=93f78cc0b0be6259e4462ed5f521fe35&oe=5B149AAA
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
listening to 6 straight hours of portishead will bring anyone down (i like portishead)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
He should have gone to the happy coffee shop again for his second cup.
― jmm, Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
He should have spent 6 hours peacefully staring out the window at the sunshine until a creative thought emerged far enough for him to set pen to paper.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
he should have played video games all day and then felt mildly guilty but not really that bothered because there's enough books by white dudes already
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
what did you expect from 6 hours sitting in a featureless room
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
wait its not featureless there is a window to the infinite majesty of god's creation right behind his head
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
The utter narrowness though. 'Coffee', 'free time', 'favourite song' as gold standard requirements for creating something.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Best part of the airplane story is (I swear)
― frogbs, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
Love how all those EPIC CLAPBACK viral stories spend so many words explaining just how funny and true they are. The professor didn’t miss a beat!! We all laughed until we choked and now we’re all dead!!
― frogbs, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
all those EPIC CLAPBACK viral stories
My favorite one is where he's in the crowd at a Grand Funk concert incognito and shows up Mark Farner with an improvised guitar solo.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
there's a larger phenomenon of clickbait articles that beat you over the head with how funny the thing you're about to read/watch is, at which point, if it actually were funny (which it never is anyway) they have already sucked the life out of it
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Number 7 will make you rupture your bowel with laughter
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 February 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
Are You Always the Last to Get Jokes? A Bit Slow On the Uptake? Humourless Dullard? We'll Tell You Which Parts Are Funny!
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 12 February 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
Here it comes! The funny! Brace yourself!
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Is this a trick question?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV1FTpQXcAAVQXt.jpg:large
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
it's a riddle
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
The "6 hours later" gag seems pretty harmless compared to most of this thread
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 12 February 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
I've really been prepared for imagining I'm a hungry hippo...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
i've never seen a facebook post "shared" by a hungry sea turtle
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
nyt did a good piece on working class sea turtles who voted trump, interesting perspective
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 February 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's refreshing to see things from their point of view.
Also, I'm pretty sure a jelly fish smells different than a plastic bag.
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
they should just make plastic bags out of jellyfish carcasses. if we can put a man on the moon...
― scott seward, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
http://theendearingdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fast-Food-Sizes-Ads-vs-Reality-1.jpg
Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.
― Evan, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/994073_941702799198349_6577129238738459728_n.jpg?oh=9a2278e4ede15807b35d755c0d021137&oe=5B06EE89
― omar little, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
As opposed to a song about fingernails.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
Learned so much about the human spirit from Too Fighters
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27750383_10208906557699561_3248336623527691082_n.jpg?oh=1788bb8433afcf036f0b08cd6259df79&oe=5B19F48D
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
wow
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
There's clearly at least one wall.
― jmm, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
Ppl should stop meaning quite so well
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
Did you find that in a left-leaning FB group or a right-leaning FB group?
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
that was circulating around last year after the election. i had some variation of it hanging on my door.
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
(classroom door)
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
What about Preston and Cody?
"YOU are not going to shoot us. ... (are you?)"
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think that's as shallow or empty as a lot of the stuff here.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
female students: men are not able to grab you
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
if only they'd stop trying
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
I understand the cynicism but literal statements are good for, you know, children
― mh, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
the problem for me is that it puts the words "rapists" and "drug dealers" right next to the word "latino/a", day after day week after week. yeah there's a "not" there but it's still defining that category in relation to racists' ugliest thoughts instead of something of positive
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
affirmative positive statements are better but decrying the negative ones are essential
― mh, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
using "latino(a)" vs "latinx" suggests a lack of responsible preparation also telling teenagers who follow islam that they aren't terrorists as their defining quality but hey
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link