Comments on: FISTBUMPS

By: Me

Me — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:53:55 +0000

Amen!

By: Default User

Default User — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:37:18 +0000

Oh look! It’s learned how to change it’s name too! They grow up so fast.

By: mdav

mdav — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:52:52 +0000

Obama LOLs instantly net hundreds of comments that have nothing to do with the picture.

I like that he fist-bumps. Informality can be refreshing.

By: President Obama

President Obama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:02 +0000

…(*facing camera*) ‘Breaking-up is hard to do…’…

By: President Obama

President Obama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:46:09 +0000

…we’ve found somebody more suitable to the task…

By: President Obama

President Obama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:44:29 +0000

…your time is up…hand over your citizenship…

By: Default User

Default User — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:15:02 +0000

I think it’s finally learning to communicate with people other than itself. Though the comment below this one shows it’s definitely in need of practice.

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:11:43 +0000

…You’ve no proof we’re a person, Eric…

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:07:25 +0000

…because in the contest that finished Knowledge 1/ Jamal nil we thought it…was…what’s that scent you’re wearing, dear?…

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:58:33 +0000

…HE’S GOING TA’ HARVARD!!!…

By: Nebton

Nebton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:57:46 +0000

Speaking of the ICC, I believe the most recent health care bill is also abusing it.

I kinda hate to admit it, but I think these guys have a point:
{http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000011728.cfm}

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:53:32 +0000

Repurposing! And, yes, it was a take on the snarky term Cafeteria Christian/Cafeteria Catholic.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:51:28 +0000

Shoot. Here I thought I was being clever.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:48:46 +0000

Mabs: I’m pretty sure that’s where diss is stealing, er borrowing, the term from in the first place.

{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Christianity}

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:43:37 +0000

This gives me the idea for the real religious fundies: Cafeteria Bible Thumpers. Since they pick and choose which parts of the Bible they’re using as the ‘verbatim word of god’ depending on which subject they are discussing.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:38:53 +0000

I think an awful lot of things with noble intentions are hinked in there under the Commerce Clause as if it were some type of all-purpose justification. Apparently if you think about it long enough you can relate anything to interstate commerce.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:35:25 +0000

I like that term, “Cafeteria Constitutionalists”, but if you think about it too much you might find that you fall into the camp yourself. (That’s not meant as a dig to you personally.) I often find myself waffling on certain things. E.g., doesn’t it seem that during the fight for civil rights in the ’60s the interstate commerce clause was roundly abused? I think their motives were good, but constitutionally…

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:07:08 +0000

I luuuurrrrrv my entire Constitution, thankyouverymuch! But, yes, I know what you mean. Picking and choosing seems to come at both ends of the political spectrum….Can we start calling people that do that “Cafeteria Constitutionalists”?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:48:25 +0000

Should be a conservative value, I agree. Funny how Second Amendment nuts get all silent when discussing Habeas Corpus and the Fourth Amendment, and get absolutely apopleptic when the ACLU goes to bat for the First Amendment.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:46:15 +0000

Actually, the Urban Dictionary says it can be used for religious or political debates. (I hope you realize that Bitter Wino was joking; I doubt the first poster was.)

By: T

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:42:59 +0000

Is there a word for the political equivalent of a “Poe”?

By: T

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:39:49 +0000

Not to mention all of the “militias” that were busted during that time. (Remember, white == militia, brown == terrorists.)

By: T

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:37:46 +0000

I’ve read that after it failed to go off (and he received groinal third-degree burns), he kind of went limp and complied readily with authorities. I wonder if he realized what a tool he had been to get sucked in.

By: T

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:35:44 +0000

No, no, it’s best to treat the people who think they are in some holy war as if they are some special class of enemy. /sarcasm

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:08:20 +0000

Actually I’ve been training some of the local bartenders to call it a Dirty Shirley. Aged makes it sound like an old lady.

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:52 +0000

Does that make Duh more fraudulent than Obama?

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:04:10 +0000

I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be fumping your bists in public.

By: Aremis

Aremis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:48:32 +0000

Whaddya mean deteriorating. My teachers taught me math very well in the fourth grade

*Holds up 3 fingers*

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:36 +0000

“Whoa….dude. Has it always been that color?”

By: froofrou the fierce

froofrou the fierce — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:47:20 +0000

It is Keanu Reeves, after all. I’m not sure he’s noticed that the sky is generally blue.

By: HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard

HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:33:39 +0000

And don’t forget the massive amounts of dog droppings on Paris streets because the French don’t believe in cleaning up after their pets.

*sigh* I love that filthy town!

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:56:58 +0000

I don’t see how we can expect math and science to be well learned here when so many people here think dinosaurs are a hoax, the earth is 6000 years old and/or astrology is a science (‘But it ENDS in -ology.’).

I very dyslexic, so you could probably write BISTFUMPS and I would automatically switch it back. FYI, words in all capitals are harder to read for most people.

I do wonder, now, what “bists” are and why you are “fumping” them….

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:51:37 +0000

I’ve heard teachers here complaining about it for as long as I can remember.

What’s worse though, is I keep reading the title of this thread as BISTFUMPS. Something in my head doesn’t like FISTBUMPS. I worry me. :p

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:43:59 +0000

It’s not just here? *sad*

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:39:36 +0000

Sounds intriguing. And considering the deteriorating quality of math education (at least here), possibly the only kind people of the future will be able to wrap their ickle heads around?

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:39:13 +0000

And I have proof of its existence: 7,170,000. Twice as likely as Obama voter fraud. (Does that mean I win?)

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:35:20 +0000

The new and up and coming field of mathematics: google probability.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:34:25 +0000

(First check: “duh should die” has 2,700,000 hits. Who woulda thunk.)

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:33:51 +0000

Wow. You mean a high number of hits on a search on a combo of words makes it more true? This is awesome!

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:32:29 +0000

Probably fewer men urinating on the sidewalk, if Paris is anything like it was when I visited in ’85. (I remember my dad telling me not to step in the puddles. )

However, I do remember pointing out a couple of, as I called them, scantily clad men lying on the quay next to the river. My dad promptly leaned over, looked down and said, reverting to his Montana accent — and laughing, “They’re nekkid.” Mom and I inspected them closely and confirmed this observation. They were lying face down, though.

Don’t imagine you see THAT in Iowa.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:30:46 +0000

That depends on how close you are to the farmyards (in Iowa) or the [I-really-don't-wanna-know-what] (in Paris).

By: HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard

HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:28:17 +0000

And cleaner air.

By: HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard

HelOnWheels the Gene Pool Lifeguard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:25:56 +0000

@n10 – You seriously think I was blaming the U.S. for the Rwandan genocide??!!! That’s what you got out of my comment? Your world view is too simplistic and naive. You’re too eager to classify the U.S. as always being the good guys. We’re not. There aren’t always good guys – my Rwanda was an example of that. In that situation the U.S. had a chance to be the “good guys” but didn’t take that opportunity. We were neither the bad nor the good guys in Rwanda; we weren’t there and nobody else was either, thus, no “good guys”. Example of when the U.S. has been the bad guys? Torturing prisoners in Gitmo and using extraordinary rendition to torture people in secret foreign prisons. The U.S. thought we were still the “good guys”. Inexcusable. Disgusting. And what the U.S. would call “EVIL” were it another country involved in the same acts.

By: Aremis

Aremis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:13:30 +0000

Call it and Aged Shirley Temple

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:50:25 +0000

I approve of where this discussion has gone…

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:47:50 +0000

Nitpick: it's habeas, not habeus. I made that spelling mistake for a long time (and my spell check doesn't recognize either spelling).

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:21:10 +0000

The amazing thing about that story is that Keanu apparently wandered off oblivious to her hair being on fire!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:54:51 +0000

I think my response would be worse, “Aren’t you Richard Petty’s son?” I mean, defining you in terms of “you’re someone’s child” rather than as a competitor in your own right…

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:44:23 +0000

And some grenadine. It’s like a shirely temple, but it gets you drunk.

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:30 +0000

Woohoo! Elbow gropes!