okay, mitt romney is TERRIBLE at retail politics.
i'm sort of torn on this. on the one hand, i think i'd hate doing this as much as romney obviously does. on the other hand, if he just relaxed -- i.e., if he wasn't looking for the sharp or witty line (which doesn't work in these settings), or so quick to deliver a false greeting (and it shows), or so gifted as ruining the possibility of conversation (see virtually every effort to engage a voter here) -- he'd be okay.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:41 PM Bookmark Permalink
so basically you are saying if Mitt Romney was a little less like Mitt Romney, he'd be okay
― OH NOES, Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:42 PM Bookmark Permalink
no.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:44 PM Bookmark Permalink
i am saying if mitt romney were a lot less like mitt romney, he'd be okay.
― OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
missed italics on "lot" but still lol
Pretty sure referring to one's political opponents as either stupid or crazy is unlikely to convert many of them.
― M. White, Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
depends how stupid / crazy they are
― iatee, Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― nuhnuhnuh, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
fyi they dont kill the animals with guns in factory farming
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:34 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
of course not, anyone with sense would go for the unarmed ones
― OH NOES, Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry you spent too much on Cheetos, markers. Poor people have been feeling this for years
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:09 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
big lol @ dan's post.
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Friday, 2 December 2011 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
tonight i bought a quart of regular "golden nog", a quart of "vanilla nog" and a fifth of captain
― k3vin k., Friday, December 2, 2011 1:28 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
i apparently sold a serial comma as well
nogl
― wil smif, Friday, December 2, 2011 1:35 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
this thread went from sex to word problems way too quickly
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, December 5, 2011 2:56 PM Bookmark Permalink
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ needs to be c&p'ed to 'Solitary Posts' imo
― wrinklepause, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I think about most often to calm my anxiety. For instance I was on a flight recently and I started to get really nervous. I'm not the greatest flyer. Then I started thinking about how not everything is about me and how insignificant I am and how unlikely it was that the plane would crash just because I was on it. It helped. So did the benzos.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:46 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
thanks I will help you open up ms word later
― iatee, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 3:02 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― sterl, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
can't be stopped can't be tamed
Hoos, just remember that most americans's would subscribe to the observation of Sam Rayburn: "any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one."
You have to offer something constructive, other than anger and wilding around in the streets or most of america will tune you out.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:23 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
what, they built a barn like yesterday
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:24 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― big popppa hoy, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Rich in lols, that thread.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
From Gun Etiquette thread:
The guns are at the left of the plate. People get confused about which to use first, but just work from outside in (left to right). There may be an oyster gun on the right but it's much smaller than the others and easy to tell apart.
― not uplifting (Abbott), Thursday, December 1, 2011
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Loool
― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Also most people into polyamory are kinda ugly.
― Homosexual II, Thursday, December 8, 2011 1:20 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
...
I have a theory that they never got laid enough or enough attention as an adolescent because of said ugliness, and are now making up for it and then some.
― Homosexual II, Thursday, December 8, 2011 1:22 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
Remember how all the kids in marching band used to pork each other? Same thing.
― Homosexual II, Thursday, December 8, 2011 1:23 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― nuhnuhnuh, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
that is a truth lol
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Three people this week have told me to buy a laptopand three times I have denied them
― you are a baby seal (Abbott), Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
you are the judas of laptops.
― estela, Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 9 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
re: "Moves Like Jagger"
why can't i rep for something as stupid but catchy if you get to rep for Cee-Lo Smeezington? ― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, December 9, 2011 3:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, December 9, 2011 3:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
because "Fuck You" is like a beautiful pastiche of 70s soul and 00s pop and this song is like a Pokemon diharrea fight
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Friday, December 9, 2011 5:46 PM Bookmark Permalink
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh DAMMIT, I was going to post a link to a Boston place that had a drink on their menu made with veal stock but they've since taken it off of their menu
it was called the ABATTOIR
http://www.citysbest.com/boston/news/2011/03/28/weird-cocktail-of-the-week-veal-stock-martini-at-the-gallows/
― OH NOES, Friday, December 9, 2011 2:46 PM (18 minutes ago)
Try ABATTOIR. It will slaughter you!
― M. White, Friday, December 9, 2011 2:48 PM (17 minutes ago)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
From this post forward
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
$10,000 bet was amazing. Romney fucked this debate up in an incredible way.
― Adrien Brony (step hen faps), Sunday, 11 December 2011 05:37 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
"I will bet one night with my wife that you are incorrect"
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 December 2011 05:46 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
"which wife"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Sunday, 11 December 2011 05:51 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
"mr. gingrich, please wait until you're being addressed"
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:00 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Stevie, Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
In re: Childish Gambino:
--
wow i just heard this and oh shit i don't like it
― remy bean in exile, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:56 AM
I got a girl on my arm dude, show respectSomething crazy, an Asian, Virginia TechShe too fineI do dimes
― remy bean in exile, Monday, December 12, 2011 12:00 PM (53 minutes ago)
Something crazy, an Asian, Virginia Tech
haha is this real?
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, December 12, 2011 12:01 PM (52 minutes ago)
Sadly, yes.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, December 12, 2011 12:07 PM (45 minutes ago)
i dont think even iatee could defend that line.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, December 12, 2011 12:14 PM (39 minutes ago)
I don't actually like this guy I was just bored the other day
― iatee, Monday, December 12, 2011 12:17 PM (35 minutes ago)
solitary posts that effortlessly sum up ilx
― Mordy, Monday, December 12, 2011 12:47 PM (5 minutes ago)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
i'm super good friends with several ilxors now, it's a little weird telling people how we met since we didn't know each other growing up or in college or working together. i almost just want to say we met high fiving at a gloryhole behind the lake street kmart because it sounds less lame.
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:31 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I met someone during a Lake Street Kmart gloryhole high-five. It wasn't the lamest thing I did that day.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQE3lldhDfMVri0UgKlO0GO_D2ROcOLRKq0t1trNoL4UvbuHd2Bw
― nuhnuhnuh, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yes I know it is Too Soon (c) but I could not help myself in the land of unfortunate headlines.
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwa8osRq9P1qz6z0no1_500.jpg
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I need the misfortune of that one explained to me. Because of the slang slash = piss?
― William (C), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
✔
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
because of the slang
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
POLLemicist who SLANGED all, freely, with witlook i ilxed it
― Never translate German (schlump), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, WmC, you innocent. Slash is one of the following:
ChampagneLobsterAnal sexPicnics
would you care to guess which?
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
I only knew the cut, piss and sexy fanfic meanings.
― William (C), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
(actually yes I know, technically it doesn't have to involve anal sex (though it mostly does, because it's totally a slash ~thing~) but it's phrase that's been repeated often in his threads so my mind made the obvious leap)
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
I got an email the other day from someone who put one space BEFORE every fullstop and no spaces afterwards. BONKERS.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:20 (52 minutes ago) Permalink
^ not how I remember Chuck D's lyric
― nashwan, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:22 (50 minutes ago)
― sleeve sandbox, Friday, 16 December 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was gonna post that one
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
things that shd happen to ppl who say 'pandas are an evolutionary dead end & shd be left to die out'
(...after several quite imaginative suggestions:)
they should be pissed and shat upon by a panda.― another suggestbanite (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 16 December 2011 12:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― another suggestbanite (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 16 December 2011 12:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
LOLled
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
deep down we're all a little bit straight, Tuomas
― Extreme Lifestyle, Friday, December 16, 2011 1:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― slandblox goole, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
This pic wins excelsior FOREVER
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwazoqN7pv1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
-Z S
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
The use of "lady doctor" has faded considerably, now that women are not only going to med school in greater numbers, but are often choosing to serve in the less glamorous roles of family medicine and pediatrics, so they are often one's main doctor. As for "female musician", I have never encountered it. Not once. And I don't seem to be a carrier for the idea that musicians are male by default. Composers and conductors, otoh...
"Male nurse" is still going strong, although they are less of a rarity now.
― Aimless, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:28 (Yesterday) Permalink
i have yet to encounter "lady doctor" within the field of medicine
― river wolf, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
Anyone run into "lady strawman" yet?
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
― sterl, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
Chris Martin is right! I don't like his music but if listening to OK Computer got him that babe Gwyneth then you can't say it's that terrible!
― billy goat, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:27 PM Bookmark Permalink
Gwyneth was totally insufferable and intolerable until, like, 3 years ago?
― OH NOES, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:37 PM Bookmark Permalink
and now she's . . . ?
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:38 PM Bookmark Permalink
vegan!
― flexidisc, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:38 PM Bookmark Permalink
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
lookit the paragraph starting "'Fangtasia,' Pam said" -- there's places where the gaps between words are larger than the words themselves -- now admittedly i. a small subset of people will care and ii. this appears to be from one of those true blood novels so w/ei don't know, i assume the normal response is "why in the hell would that bother you" and then i say "you don't know it but it's crippling your reading experience" and then i turn into that guy who starts the dynamic range compression threads and refuse to go outside because i might hear some music that's not on my perfectly magnetically balanced insulated and feng shui-ed hi fi system― thompp, Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:16 PM (2 days ago)
i don't know, i assume the normal response is "why in the hell would that bother you" and then i say "you don't know it but it's crippling your reading experience" and then i turn into that guy who starts the dynamic range compression threads and refuse to go outside because i might hear some music that's not on my perfectly magnetically balanced insulated and feng shui-ed hi fi system
― thompp, Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:16 PM (2 days ago)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 December 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
I dont like watching an undead 3D model in an evening gown run awkwardly down hallways for hours at a time for a fleeting external environment money shot― oPal, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:01 AM (10 hours ago)what game is this a reference to?― zappi, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:59 AM (5 hours ago)last year at marienbad HD― Mordy, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:01 AM (5 hours ago)
― oPal, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:01 AM (10 hours ago)
what game is this a reference to?
― zappi, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:59 AM (5 hours ago)
last year at marienbad HD
― Mordy, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:01 AM (5 hours ago)
pretty good one from the Games thread
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
will no one think of the adult straight dudes???
All day.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
will no one think of Gwyneth Paltrow?
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know what tumblr whites is but it sounds like a dryer setting.
― M. White, Thursday, 29 December 2011 17:26 (37 minutes ago) Permalink
― sterl, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
haha what thread?
― lebateauivre, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
tumblr whites lemonade
― In other news: worldwide MJpopcorn.gif shortage (snoball), Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Texts from Bennett, LBI
― ~connecticut~ (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link