Open Bar: Arguments About Turtles, All the Way Down

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Sorry to hear it, Roger. That sounds pretty miserable.

I've had better weeks.   

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Sorry to hear it, Roger. That sounds pretty miserable.

I've had better weeks.   

That's an understatement

[Ben Shapiro]

I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late.  I mean, even by its own low standards.

Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.

The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.

They so edgy!




I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts.  It really cuts down on the traffic.  I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.

That's actually a pretty great filter. Except for Smiggles and one other young man, I don't think I have much interest in talking to people who casually toss "faggot" around.

Even if they're glorious??

Freddy Mercury is never coming back.

[Cain]

6 day summer flu sounds really nasty.

I'm meant to be writing an article about the world's most heavily armed drug dealers you've never heard of and are not the CIA (hint: they are based in Asia)....but the beta backer for Pillars of Eternity just got released.

So nope.

[minuspace]

Left-right-left

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.






I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?




I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.

I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.

A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".

I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.

I think I'm going to start using the same response that I do when black friends call me "Nigga".

"Umm...dude...I'm caucasian."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.


I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?




I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.

I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.

A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".

I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.

I think I'm going to start using the same response that I do when black friends call me "Nigga".

"Umm...dude...I'm caucasian."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Since I have six weeks (!) to contemplate the upcoming academic year, I'm thinking that my next steps are to find a lab and apply for the Biology honors program. That will get me hands-on lab experience and make my graduate school application a little more appealing.

[Suu]

Graduate orientation is next Monday.

Shit just got real, didn't it?

[LMNO]

Remember, you both have midterms next week.

[Cain]

Not me.  I'm just waiting for an email which says "sign away half of your savings", and then I'm back in the grind.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Remember, you both have midterms next week.

[Suu]

Remember, you both have midterms next week.

   

[Cain]

So, I saw the new Godzilla film the other day.

I'll say this much: unlike the trainwreck that was Godzilla in 1998, this was an actual Godzilla film.  Which doesn't mean it is necessarily any good, of course.  IMO the best performance in the whole film was by Bryan Cranston, who then went off and died (lol spoilers), and the special effects were nothing to write home about.

But it was, nevertheless, an actual Godzilla film.  So there is that, at least.

[hooplala]

So, I saw the new Godzilla film the other day.

I'll say this much: unlike the trainwreck that was Godzilla in 1998, this was an actual Godzilla film.  Which doesn't mean it is necessarily any good, of course.  IMO the best performance in the whole film was by Bryan Cranston, who then went off and died (lol spoilers), and the special effects were nothing to write home about.

But it was, nevertheless, an actual Godzilla film.  So there is that, at least.

Way too much of Cranston's son and his uninteresting wife, too many fights teased (on various tv screens showing news footage) and not enough Godzilla.  Otherwise, I liked it.