I am screaming in laughter. https://t.co/iSa7IXsu66
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 21, 2018
.
“Lack of candor”, it’s a term of art… and he’s an artistic little bigot!
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.
One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that…
Two months ago, Sessions was interviewed by Mueller’s team, and the federal inquiry related to his candor during his confirmation process has since been shuttered, according to a lawyer representing Sessions.
“The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress,” attorney Chuck Cooper told ABC News on Wednesday…
Always remember, children: It’s not a lie if you actually believe it…
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Outside of Bishop and National Geographic documentaries, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Indigenous Australians in international (non-Australian) pop culture.
Magda in Black
Funny how these things happen. Purely coincidence, I’m sure.
Cermet
If Sessions goes, Mueller would quickly follow; so, for now, Sessions is needed. Sickening but necessary.
Mary G
Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the FBI or DOJ who said Sessions isn’t currently under investigation for lying to Congress chose their words very carefully. Hopefully Mueller has some cards up his sleeves on Bilbo Bigot.
rikyrah
@Cermet:
Hmmm, we will see.but, you tell the truth
ruemara
Hate hate haaaaaaaaate these people
Baud
@Cermet: Sessions will never resign.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Cermet:
Someone mentioned that Trump would have to go through dozens of people to fire Mueller.
Mary G
Wonder if we’ll get to hear it?
JPL
@Mary G: CNN said they found out what’s in it.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Is this shit ever going to end? I’ve seen fucked up, surreal movies that I thought would never end. Most of them, I just gave up and stopped watching. That’s the good thing about movies. You don’t have to see them through to the end if they’re bad enough to not be worth watching. The hitch here is that we are the fucking movie. It’s so fucking tiring.
JPL
@JPL: According to the Austin Stateman
I’m not sure that it will mention the motive.
JPL
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): yup
Adria McDowell
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Does Eurovision count as international pop culture? Last year’s Australian entry was performed by an indigenous Australian, and this year’s entry will, too.
Chyron HR
@JPL:
“Wow, this guy is REALLY mad about ethics in Magic: The Gathering card design.”
Gravenstone
@Mary G: Confession, or manifesto?
gene108
@Adria McDowell:
If Australia gets an entry into Eurovision, why don’t we get an entry?
We have a lot of aspiring would-be pop stars.
Roger Moore
@Mary G:
They’ve also released information (including store video) of him shipping the packages at FedEx. He was actually wearing gloves and an obvious wig in the store, and he shipped them as “Kelly Killmore”. I guess “Erik Killmonger” sounded too black.
Omnes Omnibus
@gene108: We lucked out?
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@gene108:
We have American idol.
Mike J
@Adria McDowell: Outside of cricket I don’t hear that much about any Australians.
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: Somewhere, James O’Keefe mourns the loss of a kindred spirit.
MisterForkbeard
@Chyron HR: Better that than Ethics In Gaming Journalism.
Baud
OT. WaPo
Fascinating.
Baud
I’m not sure the new Pacific Rim will be as good as the original.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
At least this time, the camera work appears to have improved.
Half the battles in Pac Rim 1 were obscured by the bad lighting conditions.
Gravenstone
@Baud: The original was good? Learn something new everyday.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Looks too flashy in the ads.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Since when have action movie trailers ever been accurate?
dmsilev
@Baud: I’m sure it will be the Godfather II of giant robot vs. giant monster movies.
TenguPhule
@Gravenstone: How could you not love a Kaiju vs Giant Robot homage to B movies?
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: I think that’s probably one of the Evangelion movies.
Baud
@TenguPhule: There usually better than the actual movie.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Baud:
How are millennials defined?
EBT
@Chyron HR: This is an actual topic that cropped up. MtG added an expressly trans character to the canon and some folks flipped the hell out. Mostly the same people angry a grand master level or whatever judge was fired for being a huge sex assaulting creep.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Touché.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/03/21/how-millennial-women-may-change-our-politics/
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
You know that was all CGI, right? The lighting was virtual.
Jay Noble
Midnight Oil “Beds are Burning”, Quigley Down Under, Crocodile Dundee, Walkabout, The Simpsons, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert . . .
I know I’m missing some better examples but they’re out there
Major Major Major Major
@EBT: ah, I remember that.
TS
@Mike J: Well the Australian PM believes trump will keep his word on promises – hahahahaha – the rest of the country wants Obama back.
We have a livable minimum wage which the current RW government is trying to decimate – because rich folks need tax cuts.
Just had the hottest summer on record – but there is no climate change
Immigration minister wants to offer white South African farmers easy entrance – because they aren’t treated well by their government.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne: Which makes it even worse.
Mnemosyne
Adam Schiff just sent me a fundraising email with a subject line of, “Are There No Adults Left?”
As always, the answer to a Cavuto mark is, “No.”
SiubhanDuinne
I know we’re all beyond weary of Trump’s tweets, but I have to say this pair from earlier today knocked me back on my heels a bit:
First, yes, Obama called Putin after his (Putin’s) 2012 reëlection victory, but he deliberately waited five days before placing the call and he explicitly did not congratulate him.
Second, does anyone on the planet think Trump knows, let alone knows how to spell or use, the word “excoriate”? Who wrote this?
Third, “even the coming Arms Race” sounds aspirational. He is slavering for an arms race, presumably with NoKo, but who knows with him?
Finally, that all-caps “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!” gives me flashback gollywobbles to the rhetoric of Stalin’s USSR. But it’s more his own style — a totally different writing style than the “excoriate” bit. Is he tweeting by committee now? Is there a Trump Twitter Team now?
“PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!” is weirding me right out.
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well it was a nice planet while it lasted.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jay Noble: “Beds Are Burning” is not one of MO’s best songs.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
As well it should, tovarich, as well it should.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: I can assure you that Ukraine does not desire the “help” of Trump or Putin.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Anderson is tearing apart Trump’s approach to Putin on CNN.
MisterForkbeard
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep. It brings this to mind for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0Iet8lFf0
That was supposed to be over-the-top conservative demogogue. It’s an accurate representation of today’s republican party.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
Despite what whiny white men claim, it’s still better to be a white man in this country than any other gender and/or race. That’s why white millennial men are sticking with white male supremacy while everyone else switches away from it.
moops
@SiubhanDuinne:
un-DJT-like vocabulary detected, indeed.
Newsweek
Also keep in mind that Trump’s mental faculties have diminished since this analysis.
TenguPhule
And to continue to the barrage of bad news, Wapo announced they reached a bipartisan deal on the budget crisis.
Again.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Baud:
I’m paywalled.
Major Major Major Major
So today I had about five hours of meetings, about three wildly different and 80% conflicting projects I’m on. It was… not productive. Grump grump grump.
Eric S.
@Baud: when the first one hit cable I was renting my second bedroom to a friend. He watched it one night. He’s a great friend but in retrospect I should have kicked him out immediately.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
So far, that’s going with my observations. It’s not really age. It’s increasing activation and numbers of minorities that are going to have to save us, because my fellow white men are determined to be complete assholes. It’s ridiculous that women, technically a majority, are a minority, but that’s the society we live in. And signs from the last year are they are PISSED. Since Trump’s election, politics has become personal.
Jay Noble
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Born between 1982 and 2000 – if you use 18 years as a generation and measure from 1946, the start of the Baby Boom.
There is no Generation Y.
I like to call the kids born after 2000 until now the iGeneration. What most people think of when talking about generations is actually more about when people “Came of age”. So if you slide everyon over 5 years, you get a better idea of what really influenced and was part of that generation – if it was there when you were 5, it was always there.
The Greatest Generation – 1910-1927
The Silent Generation – 1928-1945
Baby Boomers – 1946-1963
Gen Xer’s – 1964-1981
Millenials – 1982-1999
The iGeneration – 2000-2017
The ???? Generation – 2018-????
SiubhanDuinne
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
The Summer 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney featured Aboriginal Australian culture prominently in the opening and closing ceremonies, and IIRC with several sidebar features on NBC. I recognize that that kind of coverage can be glib and stereotypical, but I also suspect it introduced millions of viewers to a culture and a people they had never previously heard of nor thought about.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Are you trying to tell us that the filmmakers didn’t actually stage battles between giant robots and giant monsters just off the coast of Hong Kong? My innocence is shattered.
Major Major Major Major
@Jay Noble:
I both love and despise that name. On the one hand, naming an entire generation after a corporate product line, really? On the other hand, Infinite Jest is a good book.
CarolPW
@TenguPhule:
“And to think. . . It started out like any other world. Intended, one might almost have been led to believe, to last for a good long time.”
Kenneth Patchen
We have been here before, and we somehow managed.
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think Trump believes that to “excoriate” a person means removing them from Korea. Whoever edited that tweet before it went out must have added the word. There may be a committee now that curbs the most intemperate of Trump’s ill-considered eruptions, but they haven’t really succeeded in mitigating their stupidity.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Also too, expect that slogan to be emblazoned on banner carried during a military parade.
“Any similarity to any authoritarian regime, actual or fictional, in this production is purely coincidental.”
Another Scott
@Cermet: As I said a few hours ago…
One could easily imagine a Good Cop/Bad Cop thing going on with Sessions. E.g. Sen. Mark Warner said there are various “red lines” that Trump better not cross, including doing “anything” to interfere with Mueller’s investigation. We all know that Donnie hates Sessions for one simple reason – that he recused himself in the Russia investigation and lost control of Mueller. So the only reason why he would fire him would be as a stepping stone to getting rid of Mueller.
Everyone knows that, so Sessions is pretty much guaranteed a job as long as Donnie is afraid of the blowback if he fires him. Warner and the rest of the Democrats would have a tough time demanding his head for anything (no matter how horrible) until Mueller is done. Therefore, since Jeffy is untouchable, why shouldn’t he do all the horrible things that he’s dreamed of all his life?? No consequences!!
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Who doesn’t really think there’s a GC/BC thing here, but who does think that Sessions is safe for the foreseeable future.”)
TenguPhule
@CarolPW:
The controllers of the nuclear weapons of all three major powers were tyrannical assholes with no redeeming qualities whatsoever before now?
Matt McIrvin
@SiubhanDuinne: “Peace through strength” was a Reagan-era Cold War slogan. He’s doing the Eighties nostalgia thing.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Obama would not have called Putin if Putin had interfered in the previous election, BELIEVE ME!
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
We all wanted to believe so, didn’t we? Damn you, Guillermo Del Toro! ?
TenguPhule
@Another Scott:
I think Sessions has begun to realize he faces no official legal consequences from spiking Mueller’s investigation….Provided Trump remains in power.
I feel he’s gonna go all in on treason.
CarolPW
@TenguPhule: During the missile crisis I hated both Kennedy and Khruschev with a burning passion, because it was all dick swinging just like now. Who are you considering the third major nuclear power?
ETA: I haven’t thought of the Patchen quote for decades, but it has been appearing in my mind for the last two years.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
From the Pew Study that the story is based on.
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/03/20113922/03-20-18-Party-Identification.pdf
TenguPhule
@CarolPW:
China.
This is beyond dick swinging. This is ball smashing.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Damn! I meant to mention “problems with…Ukraine” in my comment, but forgot. Thanks.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
There are moments I regret not owning a TV. This is one. Will try to find a clip later.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: that’s Pew’s new definition, yeah. I think the big divide between myself (1985) and the next generation is going to be about how old you were in 2006-8, when Facebook and Obama and the financial crisis happened.
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: My theory of how Trump’s tweets are composed is based on a report from a few years ago that he dictates them to an aide, with some discussion. That would account for the occasional extra-credit vocabulary word embedded in Trumpian garbage. Although I do think that the recent one that had something like five errors in it may have come from his own tiny fingers.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Just One More Canuck
@SiubhanDuinne: doesn’t sound at all like STRENGTH THROUGH JOY
SiubhanDuinne
@Matt McIrvin:
It gives me the creeps. Especially in ALL CAPS.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Wait, I’m really 15 years older than you?
Cripes.
germy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/open-primaries-are-a-double-edged-sword-for-progressives.html
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Seems like generational definitions are getting mushy. Defining events happen so rapidly now.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
This I will tell you!
BellyCat
@Jay Noble:
The WTF?!?! Generation
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
Trump gives us 1,984 reasons to fear and fight him.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I disagree—generation-defining differences like having social media as a child, or being in your crucial early career years during a worldwide financial catastrophe, are not happening any faster.
@Mnemosyne: I could’ve told you that!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: This whole division into generations is so arbitrary and it began its life as a marketing tool. I don’t know how useful it is to predict someone’s political orientation.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
No worries, efgoldman and I are at least 15 years older than most of y’all.
My server just informed me that today is her 26th birthday and “OMG I AM SO OLD!” I refrained from pointing out that I am nearly treble her age.
Mike J
@Jay Noble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDT19fU3a9I
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
@schrodingers_cat:
Age will mean nothing once we’re all bots.
WereBear
@Frankensteinbeck: I see Republican women as victims of Stockholm Syndrome. Even though that gives some too much credit.
Mary G
Saccone has conceded, so Conor Lamb is now the representative of PA18.
ETA: Zuckerberg has left the bunker and will be on CNN in 15 minutes.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: How do you know that I am not a bot or a cat, for that matter?
Steeplejack
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Open in a private or incognito tab/window.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Whippersnapper.
;)
OldDave
@Mnemosyne:
I don’t want to talk about it. :-)
chris
I kinda like the “unleaded generation.” (with handy chart.)
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: What difference does it make to me what your true nature is?
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Whippersnapette.
;)
moops
@TenguPhule: yeah, at this point Sessions might just un-recuse himself, then fire Mueller. Who’s going to stop him? It would make a bunch of people upset, but I’m not sure Sessions cares all that much. The only thing stopping him might be that if Sessions wants to take a post running another agency and needs to be confirmed again.
mad citizen
@Jay Noble: I’ve always hated the generation definitions. I’m 1960, but have never identified with the Baby Booomers. I think if one wasn’t aware of, and could not participate in, the cool music/culture in the 1960s, you can’t be a Baby Boomer. By the time I got around to seeing The Who, Keith Moon was dead. We drove to Chicago one night to get a Chicago Tribune with the form to order Led Zeppelin tickets. Unfortunately the same night John Bonham died.
NotMax
@Baud
“It’s A Hard
KnockBot Life.”schrodingers_cat
@Baud: It doesn’t? Now I has a sad. I thought we were friends.
FlyingToaster
@WereBear: Most of the Republican Women I know (and I grew up with several fucktons of them) are racist, tribalist, xenophobic bitches.
I used to egg them on in HS by saying the old “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”, or worse, “you do realize that Jesus was a Rabbi?”
raven
Van
Wild Children
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: who says I’m not already?
WereBear
@mad citizen: i agree. How can some being old enough to attend Woodstock on their own share the same coming of age experiences as those who got the Bee Gees and the Hustle?
Absurd.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: And how would our relationship change if you are a bot?
NotMax
@Baud
Depends on whether you’re a top.
/couldn’t resist
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: You were at a meetup recently and had your picture taken.
Steeplejack
@dmsilev:
The Retro channel is running a marathon of Japanese monster movies right now. Currently: Son of Godzilla (1967).
TenguPhule
@Baud:
We’ll be arguing over who remembers when upgrades didn’t take 8 hours and three reboots to complete.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Cats like the British.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Was it you who mentioned liking MeTV? They’ve picked up WKRP in Cincinnati. Begins showing there April 1.
As with the DVD collection, some music from the original broadcasts will be replaced.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: well, somebody was.
Amir Khalid
Given Jeffbo Three’s outright lying in his own dealings with Congress, it is hypocritical of him to sack Andrew McCabe for exercising due discretion in deciding what to disclose. The American media should be pestering him, Jeffbo, about this at every public appearance. I am, of course, no longer curious that it does not.
TenguPhule
So apparently young white men are skewing Republican, according to Wapo.
FlyingToaster
I’m sitting here waiting for the asymptotic snow to arrive.
[It was supposed to start at 9am, then 2pm, then 6pm, then 9pm. There seems to be a shield over greater Boston, the snow is going around us on either side and closing in north of us in New Hamster.
debbie
When you’ve lost Ted Olson…
WereBear
@TenguPhule: I understand this already jeopardizes their chances of dating.
Which is just as well :)
TenguPhule
@WereBear: So more aggressive and prone to commit sex crimes then.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
Even the Berniebros?
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
Do you even have to ask?
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: I like the British, just not their Empire.
NotMax
OT.
Woo-hoo! Score!
Dashed out to the supermarket a short bit ago because needed fresh mushrooms for a dish will be preparing tonight. Lots and lots of wear-dated packaged trays marked down almost 60%.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Jay Noble: @Baud:
In that case, I guess I’m a Millennial since I was born in 1995. A late one, but one none the less.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Brachiator: Which is why Wilmer’s son says we need to pander to white, racist terrorists (photo). [Note: he said that 2 weeks after Charlottesville]
I wonder where he got that idea from.
raven
@NotMax: Hana?
WereBear
@TenguPhule: At least that is illegal and actionable. Indulging them is unconscionable, and far more suffer then.
Brachiator
@chris:
Kids born today will be the first generation in decades who will never be ToysRUs kids.
divF
@BellyCat: From a storefront in downtown DC.
ETA: This may be old news to locals, but I saw it for the first time when I was in town a few weeks ago, and was stunned.
japa21
@germy: I am tired of all this bitching about Illinois’ open primary system. There is no other option in the state, number one. Number two is that there is no concrete reason to conclude that there was sufficient cross voting to make a difference in the specific primary being referred to.
First, you can only have a closed primary if the state requires party preference be noted at the time a person registers to vote. Illinois does not do that. So fine, some say, just have Illinois require that. Sure that would work with new registrations, but then you are asking all the millions of registered voters to somehow declare their preference for future elections.
How are you going to do that? About the only way is to have someone go and find every registered voter in person and ask them to declare. Sending out notices is not going to work. They never have and never will.
You could make them declare the next time they vote in an election, but that would mean going through several election cycles to even think you have a sufficient percentage declared.
You could start doing things now, but probably the earliest you could have a closed primary is 2030.
So would those that are bitching about this, come up with a way of doing what you want to see or stop the bitching.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
I’m 20 years older. Crikey.
NotMax
@raven
Fine thanks, how are you?
:)
Didn’t check the pedigree. To be used to make mushroom sauce for a faux coq au vin dish I used to make. Gonna try to adapt it for the Instant Pot.
Frankensteinbeck
@TenguPhule:
Nothing that I see has changed. Whatever was going on before is still going on. Take some deep breaths. I’m not being snarky when I say that I know this has been nonstop terrifying to you since Trump’s election, but so far almost none of it has materialized. You can panic when something actually happens.
@TenguPhule:
China was ruled by Mao for most of the century, and that man was more insane, dangerous, and incompetent than you can imagine. Not in Trump’s stupid sense, but in being so wedded to dogma and his own ego that hundreds of millions died from the environmental, agricultural, social, and economic disasters he created. He was absofuckinglutely nuts. Similarly, Stalin was a violent paranoid, and his successors were merely a slow process of cooling down from that through varying levels of conspiracy-obsessed autocrat who viewed the rest of the world as The Enemy. This is not as new a situation as you’d think.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Brachiator:
Back when I was in HS (4-6 years ago), I was tutoring elementary school kids at an after school program. I was shocked to learn they wanted ipads and phones instead of toys. Even kids in the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s played with real toys. Or at least I did.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I’m a quarter of a century older than M*4, he’s two years younger than the kid.
raven
@NotMax: I meant where was the grocery store. I made green curry in the pot. I thought the recipe called for too long on the sweet potato. . . it was.
EBT
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: I always forget how young you are.
MomSense
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
I have a kid your age. He was more into Vegeta though.
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
Meeting multiple times with the Russians wasn’t treason?
NotMax
@raven
Market is just down the street. Would walk there except the bad leg and uphill don’t play well together.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator:
Thanks, Mitt.
TenguPhule
@Frankensteinbeck: But not all three at the same time. We came closest to that with Nixon and Bush Jr. But my history doesn’t recall this level of malevolence and incompetence from all of the major players simultaniously, we always had at least one (relatively) cool head to prevail.
Trump’s arms race comment is just setting off all kinds of alarms in me.
raven
@NotMax: Foodland Pukalani?
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Something have always been mildly curious about:
I ask this entirely non-critically; merely goaded by none-of-my-damn-business curiosity. You, dear NotMax, seem to be deathly allergic to the first-person singular in your comments. I understand a reluctance, if not a full-blown aversion, to beginning an inordinate number of sentences with “I” or “My,” but your routine reluctance to insert the pronouns in question seems to indicate a real repugnance.
You are welcome to tell me to fuck right off.
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
That was gateway treason.
I’m afraid Sessions is headed towards “Burn all your bridges behind you, because that’s the only chance you have to survive” treason.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
I loved Midnight Oil’s performance of the politically charged “Beds Are Burning” during the closing ceremonies.
Another Scott
@divF: I did a double-take the first time I saw a “FCUK” sign.
Cheers,
Scott.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Guh
TenguPhule
@Frankensteinbeck: Also, Trump’s degradation of common spelling along with his minions at the Whitehouse is driving me insane. As a pedant, seeing this government peppering their press releases with common stupid errors is unforgivable.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@MomSense:
Eh, I can see why people would like him, but he was always kind of a whiny dick who put his pride over everything else (though to be fair literally every character in Dragon Ball aside from Future Trunks fucked around with their enemies and let things get worse). He also didn’t start to reform until well into the Buu Saga. Fun fact: Toriyama has admitted in interviews that he gave Begets qualities he hated in people.
For my part, I always tended to like Gohan best.
raven
@Major Major Major Major: babysan
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
It’s an affectation emanating from being schooled in journalism back when. Especially averse to starting sentences with I.
@raven
Shall neither confirm nor deny.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: NotMax telegraph operator for forty years (stop) Learned to cut out extraneous words long before twitter (stop)
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Weeping.
raven
@NotMax: I’m just trying to get a better grip on where you are. I can’t believe it’s coming up on 6 years since I was there. I’ve lost touch with my buddy on the Big Island, he just stopped communicating.
Brachiator
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Of course you can play video games on these devices, but I take your point. It seems like a definite shift in popular culture.
Maybe something a bit similar. My college age niece and nephew never played any board games. Not even Monopoly. Not Trivial Pursuit. The entire category of games was dead to them.
Major Major Major Major
@Brachiator: settlers? Magic? Cards against humanity?
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
My great-niece was born in 1997.
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She’s in college, and engaged to be married.
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(Any of you whippersnappers — not you, Goku — who pulls any of that “OMG I am SO old!” crap, be advised I will fucking CUT you.)
Mike E
@MomSense: GameCube and Gameboy :-)
Miss E was into Blue’s Clues and she named her 1st kitten Periwinkle…kitty is still in the bldg btw
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
“Like” is way too strong a word. It is the dismal vehicle for my daily dose of Perry Mason, Peter Gunn and, lately, 77 Sunset Strip. Most of the ’70s-90s stuff has not aged very well, except for The Rockford Files and a few others. But thanks for the heads-up.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
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SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Explanation makes sense STOP No interest in pursuing matter further STOP Heading off to mind own fucking business STOP END
EDIT fucking
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@SiubhanDuinne:
I feel old when compared to when I was 7 years old. Getting down on my knees on a hard floor hurts now.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: hey, you still got your original knees though.
Jay Noble
@BellyCat: I like that
The Pale Scot
@Jay Noble:
“Welcome to Woop Woop”
I was saying “Well Fuck Me Dead” continuously for a couple of weeks, it’s a great swear phrase.
NotMax
@NotMax
And … I screwed that up.
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(Wetting noodles now in prep for flagellation.)
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
True. I don’t look forward to old age. Time already seems to be moving too quickly.
MomSense
@Mike E:
I think I liked blues clues better than my kids and I probably had a bit of a crush on the Kratts’ creatures brothers.
NotMax
@raven
Gotta cling to at least a tattered shred of mystery in life.
:)
@SiubhanDuinne
I take no offense. In my mind ’twas a fair question.
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Hahaha!!
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
It ain’t the getting down on the knees, it’s trying to rise from that position.
danielx
@Matt McIrvin:
Actually I’m waiting for “peaceful coexistence” to make a comeback.
Jay Noble
@The Pale Scot: That one sounds wonderfully twisted!
Brachiator
@Baud:
The early reviews are mixed. But some suggest that the movie will definitely knock Black Panther off the Number 1 perch this weekend.
But…was the original any good?
Omnes Omnibus
Has anyone heard from WaterGirl since she broke her ankle?
The Pale Scot
@WereBear:
The Divide is the Oil Crisis
If u weren’t driving, ur not a BB
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Whut?
Radiumgirl
@chris: Is that why they lean Democrat?
hugely
@Mnemosyne: actually the answer is “the only one i can see is Adam Schiff”