Open Bar: Funnier Than White People Practicing Voodoo

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Unrelated to everything, my last final was this morning (not next Monday as I'd thought) and I just submitted my last piece of homework.

I AM FREEEEE!!! SUMMER BREAK WOOOOOOOOO!!!

Yay!! Enjoy your respite. You have most definitely earned it.

IIiiiii

sat in the sun and drank cider, ate a hamburger, and watched X-men while drinking ruby. And stayed up WAY past my bedtime.

It was pretty awesome.

[Suu]

Meanwhile, I can't WAIT to go back to school. These 7 months off so far have been driving me crazy. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Unrelated to everything, my last final was this morning (not next Monday as I'd thought) and I just submitted my last piece of homework.

I AM FREEEEE!!! SUMMER BREAK WOOOOOOOOO!!!

Yay!! Enjoy your respite. You have most definitely earned it.

IIiiiii

sat in the sun and drank cider, ate a hamburger, and watched X-men while drinking ruby. And stayed up WAY past my bedtime.

It was pretty awesome.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Would he be Strong?

Strong Bombadil!

[Cain]

Plot advancement and bullshit removal. Done in 7 seasons.

There may not have been as much plot advancement as you thought.

I kept holding hope that a certain someone would show up, since it was promised at the end of last season, but nope.

Hodor is not going to become King Beyond the Wall this season.  Sorry.

[Cain]

Would he be Strong?

No.  He has rather a chilly touch, if I'm thinking along the right lines.

[Cain]

Yea, sometimes being tired helps me not notice those venomous, suppurating scabs.  Sleep won't sort them out, so I direct them to overflow, because buffer is already at capacity   

Indeed.  Given my already low opinion of them, it is fairly easy to drown them out, but unfortunately it doesn't entirely get rid of them.

Is that for the research gig? Either way, good luck.

No, this is the care work I've been doing the last couple of months.  Care, incidentally, is a misleading name and a terrible occupation, and many of the people involved in it are the kind of people least suited to caring about anything and anyone in the world.  I'm seriously considering a down payment to a reliable assassin should I ever develop dementia in the future...it's better than the alternatives.

Have you considered a tontine? It adds an amusing layer of risk to growing older. It also gives the others involved an incentive to monitor each others mental faculties and assist the end as appropriate.

Sometimes, the spoils are also shared together ahead of time, as moral victories against those for whom the appointment of that fund would serve, alternatively, like something similar to early retirement from the care industry.  Hypothetically, in a dream from a parallel universe, that is.

Hah, no, but I'm sure I could find some willing lads in Naples to set me up with a similar scheme.

Hopefully, retirement from the care industry will come tomorrow.  Well, I have an interview at least.

[Cain]

I've been following the latest Twitter storm and I have to say, it is hilariously depressing.

Basically, it all started with a tweet.  Some not especially well known academic mentioned on Twitter that she had recieved rape threats from "brosocialists",  or something along those lines.

Jacobin, trendy lefty magazine, linked to the comments and the author of the piece said "And I just don't think the diminutive label of 'bro' should be used to describe more insidious sexism, let alone violent aggression like rape threats."

Then the internet exploded.  Jacobin editors caught and removed that particular link about 20 minutes after the article went up, but nevertheless the academic in question claimed, in very strong language, that Jacobin were mocking her for getting rape threats.

This somehow mutated into Jacobin editors sending her rape threats because internet.

Now the internet is divided into three camps: those defending Jacobin (despite the unwise linking), those defending the academic (despite showing a very poor level of reading comprehension not only in regards to the article, but subsequent comments about her outburst), and those of us rolling our eyes at the Perpetual Outrage Machine that is social media, and wondering if we could harness the power of outrage to solve the looming energy crisis.

Ah, internet.  Stay classy.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I've been following the latest Twitter storm and I have to say, it is hilariously depressing.

Basically, it all started with a tweet.  Some not especially well known academic mentioned on Twitter that she had recieved rape threats from "brosocialists",  or something along those lines.

Jacobin, trendy lefty magazine, linked to the comments and the author of the piece said "And I just don't think the diminutive label of 'bro' should be used to describe more insidious sexism, let alone violent aggression like rape threats."

Then the internet exploded.  Jacobin editors caught and removed that particular link about 20 minutes after the article went up, but nevertheless the academic in question claimed, in very strong language, that Jacobin were mocking her for getting rape threats.

This somehow mutated into Jacobin editors sending her rape threats because internet.

Now the internet is divided into three camps: those defending Jacobin (despite the unwise linking), those defending the academic (despite showing a very poor level of reading comprehension not only in regards to the article, but subsequent comments about her outburst), and those of us rolling our eyes at the Perpetual Outrage Machine that is social media, and wondering if we could harness the power of outrage to solve the looming energy crisis.

Ah, internet.  Stay classy.

:raises hand:

Uh... what the hell is a brosocialist?

Twid,
Doesn't even know what words are supposed to mean anymore.

[Cain]

A continuation of the hideous and recent internet tradition of putting "bro" in front of everything, because of reasons.  In this particular case, it refers to socialist men who have problems with misogyny (in that they perpetuate it).

[Nephew Twiddleton]

A continuation of the hideous and recent internet tradition of putting "bro" in front of everything, because of reasons.  In this particular case, it refers to socialist men who have problems with misogyny (in that they perpetuate it).

What does being a misogynist have to do with being a socialist? A misogynist is still a misogynist whether socialist or capitalist. Anyway brocialist sounds better than brosocialist. This is more just thinking outloud rather than asking a legitimate question.

[Cain]

I've seen both used.  And it has nothing to do with it, really.  It's just a horrible internet trend of the moment, along with the equally hideous "dudebro".

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I've seen both used.  And it has nothing to do with it, really.  It's just a horrible internet trend of the moment, along with the equally hideous "dudebro".

On the other hand, picturing a fratboy or a jock going, "the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, bro" is actually a funny image.

[LMNO]

Ok. That was funny.

[Sita]

We have switched bundle providers. So far the savings will be (after the first month or two of paying the various fees for transfer and such) about 40 dollars.
And it will be even more of a savings if we (read: husband) decide it really won't hurt to go down a package with the tv.

Oh and faster internet is nice. My computer almost feels new with as fast as things are loading now.