Quite randomly and without much forethought, as I sat here watching Breaking Bad, I cut and pasted a link to all 80 people I saw with green dots next to their name to signify availability for facebook chat. This is what I sent them.
I’m going to sit back and see what happens now.
I’m bored.
gbear
What if nothing happens?
Redshirt
Not gay in the least.
WereBear
You are a dangerous man.
lamh36
ok, as someone who’s never watched Breaking Bad, is this an inside joke?
What am I missing
Fordpowers
Post title gave me the lulz
Hawes
An unusual situation where the biggest troll on the website is the host.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: I’ve seen BB (and highly recommend it). I thought the green dots were something to do with this “Facebook” all the young people (used to) talk about.
Redshirt
@Hawes: He’s a troll savant though, as he really doesn’t understand what he’s doing. But it works!
Calming Influence
Open thread query: Is anyone here familiar with the workings of the 911 system? I just listened to a 911 recording, and as usual it struck me that the operator spent a lot of time asking questions before saying “help is on the way”. Am I misunderstanding how it works? Could they be typing “need officers at such-an-such address” while still talking to the caller?
I appreciate officers don’t want to go into a dangerous situation blind, but isn’t “there’s a shooting across the street” enough info to get units rolling while the operator gathers more information?
driftglass
Well, this happened: Professional Left Breaking Bad Mini-Cast “Ozmandias and Harriet”.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/professional-left-podcast-198b-bonus.html
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: oh. well I have a FB account. The only green dots I recall are the ones for open chats. So I guess that’s it?
I’m just overthinking it anyway…lol
lamh36
@Calming Influence: I thought it had something to do to keep open communications open until they actually have police “on the way” and also any info that police has vis a vis guns, number of assailant, nature of incident is better to know that going blindly into any situation.
But that’s not experience, that just from watching too much Law & Order…lol
Redshirt
Green dots in social media terms usually means “open for communication”. Thus, John sent this bouncy Right Said Fred song to anyone listed as “open to hailing frequencies”.
NobodySpecial
I miss SadlyNo style YouTube wars.
Calming Influence
@lamh36: Yeah, this was a situation with a woman yelling that a family member and another person had been shot, “Please hurry! Please hurry!” While the operator was asking her her address, how to spell her last name. her home address, the color of the vehicle, was the vehicle still there, etc. while her husband was bleeding out. Again, I appreciate officers don’t want to go into a dangerous situation blind, but shouldn’t they be making the call if they want to risk injury in order to possibly save a life, and not the 911 operator?
This is why I ask if anyone is familiar with how it actually works, and whether they may be dispatching help through a keyboard while at the same time gathering more info.
Felonius Monk
That’s obvious.
Bill E Pilgrim
@driftglass:
Ahem.
Comrade Mary
But are you the Chairman of the Bored?
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
If you sent it out with that title, you should have gotten this in return.
eemom
I thought you were too sexy for your phone…..or maybe that was the other way around.
burnspbesq
Died 40 years ago yesterday. For a guy who only made five records, he sure has had a lasting impact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
I don’t need your stupid video to have a dance party, asshole.
eemom
@burnspbesq:
wow….thanks for that. I’d only ever heard the Nazareth version before.
Big R
And now I want to be Cole’s Facebook friend.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Big R: It seems a lot more exciting in the abstract.
burnspbesq
@eemom:
Nazareth’s version of “Love Hurts” and Michael Bolton’s version of “Since I Fell for You” are short-listed for Worst Cover Ever.
dr. luba
Is that a young Vlad Putin in the video?
eemom
@burnspbesq:
Also a contender, Rod Stewart’s histrionic piece of shit version of Tim Hardin’s simple masterpiece, “Reason To Believe.”
driftglass
@Bill E Pilgrim: Cool!
How about zees: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-39Pv_OhRK-4/UjNhS9Ru_lI/AAAAAAAAL7c/Z0wI0KS3crQ/s400/NARKS.jpg
Bill E Pilgrim
@burnspbesq: I wish I hadn’t read that. Just knowing that Michael Bolton covered that song makes my ears hurt. I don’t have to have actually heard it, I can just imagine it.
driftglass
Also the regularly scheduled Pro Left Podcast (ep 198a) is hot and delicious:
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/professional-left-podcast-198a.html
Tommy
I think you are bing watching Breaking Bad. I so wat to tell you what happens, but I will not. I am like you, came to the show late and I love it.
Roger Moore
@eemom:
You have to watch out for those phones. There was a near riot here in Pasadena at the iPhone release.
Bill E Pilgrim
@driftglass: Weird minds think alike.
I actually don’t get the second one, but I’ve never seen the show. I was just playing with the poem title after I read (in about four places in five minutes, across the Internets) that it was the episode title.
sheilah
Just asking – how does commenting work on this blog? Kinda sorta sick of lurking and want to join in
sheilah
Gotta sign in? Make the sign on the cross? Sacrifice a goat? Help me out
Bill E Pilgrim
@Tommy: Okay so I’m thinking either “watching in clips that you find by searching online” or “watching while having some adventure on the road with Bob Hope”, all in the 30 seconds or so before I realized it was a typo and that you meant binge.
Tommy
@Bill E Pilgrim: You are right. Wrong wording on my end. I binge watched the show.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Tommy: No worries, it was a fun 30 seconds before I realized what the typo was ;)
eemom
I don’t directly watch Breaking Bad, but I’ve been in the room while my kids binge-watched it. I sort of like the lawyer character.
Tommy
@Bill E Pilgrim: I love John does not know what hapens.
eemom
@Tommy: @Bill E Pilgrim:
Could’ve been an even funner typo, i.e., bong watched.
different-church-lady
Nothing is a terrible thing to waste.
different-church-lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I thought the green dots would be something more…. “experiential”, shall we say.
Bobby Thomson
@burnspbesq: Speaking of 40 years ago, 40 years ago today we lost this guy:
Betty Cracker
I hope you’ll be current with Breaking Bad so we can all discuss the big finale in a couple of weeks, Mr. C.
Speaking of TV shows, I’m about ready to throw in the towel on Sons of Anarchy. I hate every character so much. Except Gemma, maybe. She’s a terrible person, but she knows it and has a little fun with it. I want her to punch Tara in the throat, slap the self-pity out of Jax, slam a panini press shut on Tig’s balls and garrote Clay with a strand of dental floss. I’d enjoy that episode.
I’m giving The Wire another shot since everyone I know insists I’ll love it. Tried an episode or two before and it didn’t immediately suck me in, but I’ll be more patient this time. Recently finished Orange Is the New Black — highly recommended.
ruemara
Contemplating dancing nude, in front of bonfire to beg the gods for a new job. But I’m afraid they’ll think “aging pole dancer” would count. And narrowing down podcast/video short possibilities. I got 9 more months of employment and that’s tenuous at best. At this point I think I was born with the universe’s knives pointed at me. But right now, I have decaf and two loving cats, so, not bad day.
different-church-lady
Was working a corporate event yesterday, for a medical devices company. They had a patient come in from Reno and do a testimonial. When he had his heart attack his wife called in the 911, but neither of them realized their Vonage thingamabob was still registered to their old address in Kansas City. So when she made the call it took precious minutes for the 911 operator to figure out they were in a completely different city than the one the call went through to.
jl
We get this instead of pet pix? Yeesh. I want my blog dues back.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@eemom:
That’s Bob Odenkirk, of HBO’s “Mr. Show” fame, which was one of the great sketch comedy shows. The show itself has long been off the air, but you can get the DVDs from Netflix.
burnspbesq
Coming from the stodgy old Telegraph, the Toriest of Tory papers, this eruption of anti-Schauble snark is quite remarkable, and quite welcome.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025568/my-grovelling-apology-to-herr-schauble/
jl
News internet blurb on AP story about House GOP antics I’ve seen for awhile since this afternoon:
” House votes to derail Obamacare, fund government
The GOP-controlled House voted Friday to cripple President Barack Obama’s health care law as part of a risky ploy that threatens a partial shutdown of the government in a week and a half. ”
Does the bromide that any press is good press apply here?
Maybe voters won’t believe the story. I mean “GOP” and “risky ploy” in the same sentence? What could that be about?
jl
@efgoldman: The impertinent Brit apologizes for his correct predictions and for the lousy ECB being wrong about everything, or almost everything. The cheek/balls/chutzpah of being correct.
Really impossible apologize for the mortal sin of being right, and the fact that this smarmy Brit did apologize makes it worse.
MikeJ
@efgoldman: The Germans have been the most hard core boosters of austerity. It succeeded in making life worse for working people, as everyone knew it would, but failed at fixing the economy. The idea that the Tories would make fun of austerians is rather shocking.
aangus
@jl:
The correct internet protocol is “DELETE MY FUCKING ACCOUNT!”
https://www.google.ca/#q=%22Delete+my+fucking+account%22
Bill E Pilgrim
@MikeJ: It is a Tory paper, but looking back at this guy’s articles, he doesn’t seem to have been an austerity booster, more the opposite.
@jl: I’m not sure if you got it, but he was being highly sarcastic. Maybe you are as well, but I can’t tell.
I first saw the piece linked from here.
jl
@efgoldman: Evans-Pritchard knows some economics, and selectively puts it to good use when he can use it to bash the European Monetary Union and the European Union, both of which he hates with an absolute passion. In other matters, he can be a nutcase.
And, he’s not a Tory that has any say in Cameron’s miserable failure of economic management.
Felonius Monk
I watched Rollerball earlier this evening on TCM. Made in 1975, but the setting is 2018 when the Corporations control the world. I guess that was prescient.
Jon-a-thon, Jon-a-thon!
MaryJane
@Calming Influence:
In most cases, yes, help is on the way as the dispatcher (or call-taker) is asking questions. Precisely how it works depends a lot on the size and/or budget of the agency. Most squad cars are equipped with computers so the officers can see the info as it’s coming in.
jl
@Bill E Pilgrim: I was being highly sarcastic. I read it a few days ago. But as I mentioned above, Evans-Pritchard is a very mixed bag, depending on the subject. But always great at sarcasm and high toned diatribe.
Bill E Pilgrim
@jl: Yeah I saw your following post, you know him in more depth than I do. I know the type you’re describing though, so enough said. The ability of some of the people in the UK to pretend that their destroying their economy with austerity was superior to how other places did it represents world class chutzpah.
BruceFromOhio
Count how many of them correctly spell “you’re” ?
jl
@Bill E Pilgrim: I haven’t followed his commentary on the current UK economic folly. Now you’ve perked up my interest in finding out. He might be a big hypocrite as well as a great artist at sarcasm. I first learned about him years ago when reading about the international zoo of crazy Clinton conspiracy mongers (he was one of them).
But it was a funny and refreshing column, nevertheless.
Edit: especially with the pic of the crabby German banker.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Simply don’t have the time to carve out for SoA, so no opinion there. BB hooked me at the pilot and while immersion therapy might could be okay, I suspect the slow week-to-week, season-to-season mode is better for letting it sink in, especially because of the cinematography and character development.
re. The Wire, having watched Homicide is, I think, the needed hook. They dovetail brilliantly and to be honest, Homicide at it’s best was never topped by The Wire.
Have a size 11 brain in a size 9 skull, because I didn’t notice that triple-hopped 22 oz IPA weighs in at 11.3%. Holy shit.
Also, too, was behind a pick-m-up with Florida plates that I swore read “Fuck Florida” in sissy script. Turned out it said “Fish Florida.” but I like the first version, especially since the driver was a dick.
http://www.myfloridaspecialtyplate.com/fish-florida.html
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: Wow, it does look like “Fuck Florida!” I might have to get one of those and take a Sharpie to it.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
I’m thinking it’s a must-do. Dude drove 3,000 miles, at 16 mpg, just to entertain me for a few golden Friday traffic minutes. Y’all are wonnerful, wonnerful folks.
p.s. To the best of my knowledge, the closest scorpions are at least thirty miles to the east.
doug r
Here’s what’s gonna happen: http://youtu.be/lxpcct7XJQY
Duane
@doug r: Life’s to short….cringe worthy but enough funny to keep me watching it……but when it missed, wow, was it bad….
Manyakitty
@Betty Cracker: The Wire and Deadwood are both worth the time. Give them 3 or 4 episodes before writing them off.
Bonus: the last two episodes of Breaking Bad are extra long! Woohoo!
Frivolous
@Big R:
Yes, me, too. Is John Cole interested in acquiring new Facebook friends?