Sitting around watching the Penguins game and knocking back a couple eleventy drinks with a bunch of 40-somethings at my house (It’s like Thirtysomething, but without the good looking people or the sex), rocking the Cult, and generally having a good time, but we have all come to the same conclusion.
Thank fucking god there was no Facebook when we were teenagers or in college.
flukebucket
Ain’t that the god damn truth.
slag
I’m pretty sure Facebook’s present existence proves that there is no God.
beltane
Facebook is good for keeping up with my son’s high school gossip. It was the absolute last thing I would have wanted my mother doing when I was in high school, but the kids these days don’t seem to care about things like that. Living in a state of constant surveillance is normal to them.
Redshirt
Everyone’s got babies/kids now. I love the little ones, but wow does it change the whole vector of “having fun”.
Friends came over with their newborn the other day, lay her on my bed for a nap, she promptly projectile vomits over her small blanket onto my bed. Thanks!
Mnemosyne
This week was INCREDIBLY crappy, so I got home and made some risotto. It turned out okay, though I probably undercooked it. Not bad for a first effort, though.
South of I-10
I have photo albums full of pictures from college if anyone gets crazy with their scanner. Do not mess with me, you have no idea what I have in there.
Mnemosyne
Is it weird that my cell phone company sells wine now? Or is it yet another move towards world domination by Richard Branson?
JenJen
I love listening to the Friday edition of “NHL Live” on XM, simulcast on the NHL Network. Today, they had Alyssa Milano as a guest, and I think she’s at the game tonight; she was cutting the ribbon on a new Pens gear store featuring her line of women’s fan wear.
Loved the way she said that when it came to fan clothing for women, the motto used to be “pink it and shrink it.” Count me as one fangirl who adores Alyssa and what she’s done for sporty girls like me who also happen to love fashion. Before her line, if you wanted to look cute wearing team colors instead of the dreaded pink, you had to buy a man’s jersey and take it apart your damned self.
Linda Featheringill
Having this blog is risky enough.
You realize, don’t you, that the internets never forget.
Hunter Gathers
@slag:
No, it proves that God has a sadistic sense of humor. And he loves to play Mafia Wars.
Davis X. Machina
Huge Irish extended family. Six sibs. Nineteen nieces and nephews. Inlaws, outlaws, and Hubert Laws. (Not really Hubert Laws….)
I don’t know how it all got done before FB, but FB’s a godsend.
The trick is to go to confession once and a while, so you can still tell the difference between FB and it.
Redshirt
@JenJen: I love Alyssa Milano! She’s awesome in so many ways, not least among them having threaded the needle of childhood celebrity.
She’s entirely and utterly hot, also, too.
Stooleo
Nice, I hope you’re listening to “Love” cause that is an amazing album.
TooManyJens
@Redshirt: Last year during the Iran election protests, a lot of people were trying to figure out how to help Iranians get the information out despite their censored internet access. I remember Stephen Fry trying to be helpful and sending his gazillion Twitter followers the list of known proxy servers. Which of course was exactly the wrong thing to do, because you didn’t want to make the addresses public. Meanwhile, there’s Alyssa Milano posting the actual useful information about how to set up proxy servers and TOR nodes. And that was when I discovered that she is awesome.
Kevin
I’ll try a different approach than from the previous thread:
Tunch’s diary:
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/index.php/2010/11/16/cats-vs-dogs/
A rare glimpse into his thoughts…
Redshirt
@TooManyJens: Exactly what I’m referring to. She’s a remarkable person.
THE
The Internet is evolving into God.
Jeffro
@Stooleo: Love AND Electric…
…and “The Witch”…
…and the remixes…
Redshirt
Love Removal Machine
is one of the best rock songs ever. All time. There, I said it.
sb
“Thank fucking god there was no Facebook when we were teenagers or in college.”
High School English teacher here. I don’t get a chance to talk like this during the day so I thought I would say, “Fuck yeah! You go, motherfucker, you go!”
I’m not great at swearing so I hope that sounded okay. Bravo, sir.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne:
Seconded.
Did you ever see my risotto cheat I sent BHF? If not I can post it again, takes twice the time but it’s about a tenth of the work plus it works perfect every time.
Comrade Kevin
Gotta agree with that Facebook comment, John. I use it, but only because it’s a good way to keep up with my relatives in Ireland, and a few friends here I don’t see very often.
You’ve got Crosby and Malkin, we’ve got Thornton and Marleau. I’ll give you a slight edge there.
JenJen
Gosh, here we were just minding our own business and talking about how awesome Alyssa Milano is (and she is, dammit), and all around us the board was blowin’ up or something.
I’m afraid to look at the other threads after being away this evening. Yeeks.
mumu
Dearest Mr Cole.
Regarding that Penguins game…. that overturning of the non-goal, where the refs ignored their own whistle (much less the ‘intent to whistle’ rule), was complete bullshit.
I am so going to Twitter furiously about this.
Sincerely,
A Canes fan and Balloon Juice reader.