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If you make a caption under the name of flanders, I think some form of diddley is mandatory.
Okelidokeli?
Never mind that, if you make a caption I think some form of humour is mandatory.
One could dream of that, indeed.
The guy’s sign is a lot funnier!
It is pretty good. I saw one that said “Need money for hookers and booze”.
At least he was being honest. I can’t blame the guy either, if I was homeless getting drunk and laid would probably make me feel a lot better about things. Hell, I’m not even homeless and I wouldn’t mind getting drunk and laid.
$4300 seems like a lot for one hooker. I wonder if that comes with a satisfaction guaruntee?
I think I might go for a night with four $1,000 hookers. Or maybe 2 nights with two $1,000 hookers each night.
Yay! That leaves $300 for booze!
Exactly! (and maybe sandwiches for energy)
You mean Red Bull… it gives you wings.
Or, returning to the cheap hookers argument, he could have 800 5 dollar hookers.
Or 799 $5 dollar hookers and one $5 dollar footlong.
Sorry, I had to.
The hookers would probably rather have the $5 footlong.
*facepalm*
I’m glad I was redundant enough to announce the new five dollar dollar hookers and five dollar dollar footlongs.
If he’s got a footlong, he’s probably getting more than $5 for it unless he’s in some REALLY bad pronos.
He’s re-negotiating his contract with his agent actually…
Actually, that was 800 5 dollar hookers with 300 dollars left for sandwiches. or red bull. But I guess that’s 800 5 dollar hookers and 60 5 dollar footlongs. It’s great how the best things in life are 5 dollars!
Why on earth would you want to diddle Flanders?
Oh, I didn’t know diddle was a real verb! “To jerk up and down or back and forth.” or “To shake rapidly; jiggle.” sounds like things I occasionally would want to do to Flanders. The “Vulgar Sang” version … not so much.
Over here it also means to swindle or cheat, as in ‘How much did you pay for that? You’ve been diddled, mate!’
So maybe Spitzer was a double diddler!
Apparently you all missed the episode where it was revealed that Flanders has a body that most bodybuilders would kill to have, but he’s too shy to let anyone know.
Isn’t he also something like 70 years old?
Oh, yeah, that too.
I’ve also heard it used to mean “to screw,” as in, “You gonna diddle her, mate?”
I have no idea why it would be a British person diddling her, but that’s the accent in my head, so there.
Australian. You did say “mate”. Your head was close.
Brits say mate too.
Indeedeleydoodeley!
Flanders, you suck-diddly-uck!
Judging from the money on the plate, he’s a long way from his goal.
What you don’t know is one of those coins is the famed Sacagawea dollar/ Washington State Quarter worth approximately $41K. So he’s met his goal, he just doesn’t know it.
You assume the backpack isn’t already full of money.
Is that Jack Bauer?
Dammit!
Governor Spitzer is not a girl.
Yes, the sign would have been clearer with a “did” at the end.
Nor is he a governor any more!
In the news today: Pat Robertson blames Haiti’s troubles on the residents having made a “pact with the devil” (and my conservative boss also wondered out loud yesterday whether the earthquake was God’s punishment for the existence of voodoo.).
Also, Rush Limbaugh accuses Obama of politicizing the earthquake, and using it to prove his credentials with with “dark and light skinned black voters”.
@$$hat (Him, not you): Haitian Vodou (correct spelling) is an off-shoot of Roman Catholicism.
Lol! That’s what I told him, too! At that point, he told me we should probably not be discussing this where guests could hear. Of course there was no problem with asserting that God strikes down entire nations because of the “sins” of a few, but pointing out the relationship between Christianity and Vodou in guests’ hearing was “bad”. (The spelling error is mine, of course.)
Correct spelling? I’ve seen so many spelling of so many vodou/voudou/voodoo/vaudau concepts I’m beginning to think anything goes. ;p (Including “Danbala” for “Damballah” etc., of course.)
Sort of like Gaddafi?
Indeedelydoodelydeed!
If you’re going to assume Pat Robertson is credible, I’m going to do the same thing with Jeremiah Wright. Deal, cracker?
Oh, I must have missed Rev Wright’s nationally syndicated broadcast network and millions of followers.
Plus, Roberson is regularly courted by conservative politicians for his votes.
Back in your court.
Nationally syndicated? Hardly. A low-rent time slot on a bottom-tier cable station (ABC Family, or whatever they’re calling it now) doesn’t qualify.
Millions of viewers? That station’s probably never seen a million viewers in its life.
Courted? You’ll have to refresh my memory — I recall him giving an unsolicited endorsement to Giuliani, to great amusement.
Still, a good first effort.
It always cracks me up when I hear “the following broadcast does NOT represent the opinions of ABC Family…”
Then I change the channel, so that’s about all I know about 700 Club. I’m just amused at ABC Family’s attempt to distance itself.
Yeah, it’s like network executive-speak for *headdesk*.
“Yeah see… they pay us to broadcast them… no! Really! Seriously! They do! Stop looking at us like that!”
- ABC Family execs
Actually, it’s even worse than that — when Robertson sold the network years ago (to Fox, maybe?), he made one of the terms of the contract that the station would keep airing the 700 Club as long as it’s on. So they might not even be getting paid for it.
Gah… just like Jesus.. they keep coming back!
WTF is your problem? Why do you find it impossible to be civil to ANYBODY on here?
Not anybody, just idiots, liars, and trolls. PM is certainly an idiot, almost certainly a liar, and occasionally a troll.
Whatever your opinion of PM, Robertson did say the earthquake was because the Haitians had made a deal with the devil….and I don’t think PM was stating this as “Pat Robertson said it so it must be TRUE!”; so, what’s Robertson’s credibility got to do with anything?
Or were you just being cranky?
I think Dhoti’s panties are in a bunch b/c really PMs posting has nothing to do with the LOL and was just really a Trolling to bash conservatives. I found it kinda out of place, but hopefully people are smart enought to realize that Pat and Rush don’t equate to our conservative voices. Sort of like how Bill Maher doesn’t always speak for liberals.
Bill Maher swings both ways. Jon Stewart, however, does always speak for liberals.
Bill Maher is 100% pure liberal, no ifs, ands or buts. So you’re saying everything Jon Stewart says 100% of liberals agree with?
Bill Maher has pretty strong feelings about the free market, IIRC. Feelings in favor of it, that is. Nothing wrong with that, but his arguments do tend to upset unionists and environmentalists because of this. Of course, he’s also a caustic atheist, which tends to upset some conservatives. If there’s any party that he’s most closely aligned with it, it’s the Libertarian party.
As for Jon Stewart, yes. He is God, Α and Ω, the Wing Beneath My Wings, the Fart That Shall Never Be Silenced, and such.
Back of Nebbie, I’M having his lovechild.
He’s not that old. He’s only in his forties….
Also, does this mean Colbert speaks for conservatives?
(according to one of my republican co-workers the answer to that question is yes)
Wow your co-worker is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Colbert is actually mocking Conservative Pundits. Not conservative at all.
Yes….yes…I know…*hangs head in shame* She’s a very nice girl, but politically, she doesn’t have much of a brain….
Yes, yes. Anyone who cannot figure out that Colbert is mocking conservative pundits 1) has never seen a conservative pundit before or 2) does not have enough intelligence to even begin to form a rational opinion on voting.
Colbert is so over the top, that I’d actually be a little afraid of anyone who agrees with his “character’s” views.
I have met someone, and, yes, he is. Be frightened…be very frightened.
Lol…I just have to say that I read this:
…and thought “Huh — I did NOT know that about him.”
Then I realized you were speaking politically.
Well, your thought wasn’t too far off from mine, Diss!
I wouldn’t put it past Bill Maher to drop trou with anyone. After all, he was an item with the Coulter for a while!
Ewewewewewewewewewewewewewewewew.
That’s all I have to say on that topic.
Agreed. Damn, Bill, how wasted would you have to be to do her?
That’s more than beer goggles.
I would say everclear goggles. Maybe liver failure from alcohol poisoning goggles?
If you ignore the adam’s apple and horse face, she does have nice long legs……. and somewhat perky boobies…. yeah can’t get past the horse face and adam’s apple. However we do have Michelle Malkin, she’s a cutie.
That, and conservative chicks are known to be wild in bed, what with all of their repressed desires. (What? What’d I say?)
But it’s the liberal chicks that let you “experiment”.
Ok, ILPB so….I’m guessing that’s one “I’d do Coulter — if she was wearing a gimp mask and a ball gag,” then?
I’d like to speak up here for the fiscally and constitutionally conservative and sexually open women. We’re pretty hot.
Should probably throw a nice thick collar on her so you can’t see the adams apple too.
At the risk of broad brushing a situation that actually has millions if shades of grey, I’m gonna have to disagree with the assertion that liberal girls let you experiment more. In truth, they’re more likely to explain that your twisted desires are examples of the kind of patriarchal thinking that has led to the brutal subjugation of women through the ages, and suggest that cuddling might be nice until your libido marches in step with your progressive beliefs.
But…but..I like your twisted desires! I want you to experiment! We can cuddle afterward if you want! Come back! I wanna play!
Is THAT how you got the pox?
It wasn’t how that was the question. We already knew how. It was WHO that we need to find out! Who gave me the pox?
I still say, HOW did Froo know you had it? Very suspicious if you ask me.
….are you saying HOW had something to do with it?
I realized as soon as I posted that you would say that.
Nope, just saying that it’s quite suspicious that Froo knew you had the pox, don’t you think? Maybe it’s because she gave it to you, eh? Howelse would she know?
Pronouncing a pox on someone is quite different than giving someone the pox, Mabs. See? *holds out certificate* I’m clean!
So…HOW gave the pox to me AND Froo? Well, where did HOW get it from?
Intentionally misinterpreting what you’re trying to tell me is so much fun!
Well, I don’t remember enough of the original conversation to intentionally misinterpret it, but I thought you said DU was something ‘with pox.’ *looks at certificate* I dunno. This looks computer generated; probably a forgery. Where exactly was this test done?
No no, look at the seal. It’s raised, see? It says “Certificate of Live…” Oh, wait, that’s the wrong one.
*yoink*
*hands Mabs another paper*
Here’s my pox-free certificate!
Let’s face it. The liberal chicks are more likely to be the bisexual ones, and that’s where the fun is!
Really? None of my liberal friends are bisexual.
As a vaguely bisexual conservative, I find your view offensive, Rando.
As an offensive liberal froo, I find your bisexuality vague!
Well, I think the real point here is, this lol had absolutely nothing to do with Pat Robertson, Haiti, Rush or any of the things PM mentioned in his trolling comment. So, he deserves what he gets IMO.
Do I hear an echo in here?
In here…
In here…
Durn you! Typing while I’m thinking about what I’m going to be typing!!
typing…
typing…
My interpretation was that he was asserting that Robertson’s view is mainstream, or at least mainline, so I think his credibility is very important. (Which is why I think Wright is a great counter-example — he’s clearly another nutter, but people get upset when you give him credibility and say that Obama must agree with him.)
So you are unable to be civil to yourself as well? That’s just sad.
Define civil? What is so civil about war anyhows?
I don’t know, ask Ulysses Grant.
When I hear about civil wars I always have this image in my head of people drinking tea and playing chess to decide the fate of their respective nations.
Or that Star Trek (I think it was) where people would attack via a computer thing, and it would say how many people died, and the people then would be killed, or something like that.
Your turn for a gold star! {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon}
Hey I may be conservative but I hold my Geek Card true and proud.
Star Trek: the true common language of PKers!
Nanoo nanoo.
I sense an impostor in our midst.
Number One, I have to take a number two…
You’ve got numb tongue? I can fix that!
Oooh, sick burn.
Before you continue to throw around slanderous remarks, I’d like to put you on notice that in the future, I will be reporting them to the admins of this site. I know my arguments are so much better than yours that your only possible response is personal abuse, but enough is enough.
Apparently you ignored my response in your rush to seize the moral high ground. Still, if that’s how you want to play it, be my guest.
I actually haven’t gotten around to watching Danny Glover’s comments, so I can’t address them either way. Regardless of how stupid his comments may or may not have been, he:
1) Isn’t the head of an internationally syndicated network claiming millions of viewers.
2) Hasn’t claimed knowledge of a pact with the devil that doomed half an island full people.
3) Isn’t someone courted by politicians for his ability to deliver millions of votes nationwide.
My warning stands, btw. Argue with me if you will, I don’t care. Baseless personal attacks are something I will not tolerate.
Rest assured, PM, I’m treating your warning with the seriousness it deserves. (But if it finally gets you to shut your trap and stop making baseless personal attacks against me, then I’ll be impressed.)
You appear to have missed my earlier reply as well, so I’ll summarize as it relates to your claims:
1) Wrong — see above
2) Pact with the devil, global warming; they’re both religious arguments, really, so no sense fact checking them
3) Wrong — see above
But obviously, because you don’t like me, this is a personal attack and not a serious refutation, right? So email away!
You’re the one that should be reported to the admins. That was a deliberate trolling comment with the intention of provoking just the kind of responses you got. And now you want to report other posters? You should be apologizing.
Actually, he did apologize. PM & Dhoti has a long running distaste for one another. It’s not limited to this LOL in the slightest.
Oh yea, I guess he did… That’s good. And I don’t know about their history. Still I don’t think PM should be surprised by the responses he got from anyone. It’s different with someone like cgray or the other one who just make those unprovoked weird and offensive comments, they should be reported.
I don’t think PM was surprised at all by the responses he got. It was pretty blatant trolling. LOL
Which makes his threat to start snitching all the funnier.
Distaste notwithstanding, his “apology” reiterated his original point that Christians/Republicans/etc. believe what Robertson said… making it not an apology at all, really.
Sort of like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but it’s ok they’re in your court.
If you’re going to knock one, you need to knock them all. Not defending Rush (he is a fat pecker head who needs to shut his trap), it’s the whole Reid hypocrisy that’s pi$$ing me off right now.
Well neither was Mark’s post germane to LOL, but people reacted. I was also responding to Steve’s comment about Rush knowing about handling demogrpahics by skin color, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are notorious for doing such actions, so YES this is germane to the discussion.
Granted that your comment is more germane to Steve’s comment than Mark’s comment was to the LOL, but I guess what I’m really asking is do you fault Steve or Mark for not including a mention of them in the first place? I’m guessing not, but your comment that “it’s OK they’re in your court” seems to suggest that somehow Steve or Mark were glossing over their missteps. Maybe it’s because they’ve done so in the past?
Meh. I don’t like Harry Reid and only grudgingly take his side on this, but what he said boils down to “I think the electorate is still a little racist so this stuff’s going to help him,” rather that “Hey, I like him because he’s light-skinned!”
And this is from somebody who’d love to point and laugh at Reid.
And Trent Lott said something just as “inncoent” and was pushed out. Why? B/c he’s a conservative. Such comments are looked over if you’re batting for the right team.
I didn’t see what was so bad about Reids comment. It seemed to me that alot of people were blowing up about it when it wasn’t that big a thing. I’m still not even sure when ‘negro’ went from being an acceptable but seriously out-dated term to an offensive term. Jackson and Sharpton however, are just as bad as Rush and they can all STFU.
I think the problem with Reid’s comment is what it assumes about the voting public, as well as what it assumes about the typical “Negro” (i.e., with respect to their “dialect”).
He was right to apologize for it. He need not step down in my opinion, however.
Psssh. The “voting public” includes plenty of people who are juuuuust racist enough to only vote for a “non-threatening” black guy. We can all be polite and pretend that’s not true, of course.
To me it’s the same as if he’d said, “You know, the first woman to get elected President is going to have to combine phenomenal levels of intelligence and strength with stunning good looks and overall femininity, because there’s a lot of people that just aren’t going to vote for a woman they perceive as unattractive or harsh.” It’s not flattering to the voting public, but….it’s probably true.
What? Like the regular assertion that Hilary’s voice reminded people of their wives shrill shrieking voice. I wan’t much a fan of Hilary, but if you’re main reason for disliking her is because she reminds you of your spouse you might want to rethink your relationship.
I won’t defend the voting public, but I’m not an elected official. It’s usually considered bad form to insult the people whose vote you’re trying to win.
@ Du: *dingdingding* We have a winner…of course on the bright side, it doesn’t seem likely that we’ll elect a pretty face without much behind it, either — but I suspect it’s true that whoever breaks that barrier will have to think like Hilary, speak like Barbara Jordan, and look like Monica Bellucci.
I think what he said was demeaning, in that there is a “Negro dylect”, he might as well said Ubonics. And I don’t think it’s b/c the “voting public” wouldn’t vote someone with “negro dyalect = Uboncis” b/c of color, but b/c they want an articulate speaker. It’s a safety net. People lost confidence in Bush when his speaking just sucked, howver Clinton’s “what’s the definition of is” helped the public’s confidence in him. It’s not racial in my eyes. I wouldn’t vote Falvor Flav into office even if he stood on my platform, b/c his speech and mannerisms don’t give me confidence, same thing with Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy whom both share similar ideals to me.
U bone what?!
Well, if we’re going on speaking ability alone, Foxworthy isn’t that bad. Actually, he might be the only one of those three I would vote for ever, not because I agree with his politics, but Larry or Flava in politics is just a scary thought.
…as I mentioned elsewhere, ILPB, I doubt we’d elect Boomhauer on King of the Hill to office, either.
Regarding “Ebonics”, who the hell do you think came up with the term? It wasn’t initially a slur, you know, although it’s certainly been used that way by some people. And, yes, I think that’s pretty much what he meant; and, no, I don’t think we’d elect a President who talked like that, regardless of anything else about him.
Ok, research shows that apparently Reid should properly have noted that Obama rarely speaks in African-American Vernacular English. Well, that’s a mouthful.
That’s… what she said?
If you think Reid’s comments are insulting to black people, you should see the research on Racial IQ comparisons as they relate to evolution. There have been a lot of studies done and a lot of books written and they basically all say that Africans are some of the dumbest people in the world because they are less evolved than other humans. If I were of African descent I would be highly offended. The scientists stop just short of calling Africans the missing link.
Um, can you point me in the direction of some of these studies/books?
DU, there were such IQ tests done. The real result was that they revealed the biases of IQ tests, not that Africans were less intelligent. IQ tests are incredibly culturally and socially biased. I don’t know how accessible the results are; the tests I know of were done in the 70s and 80s.
Oh, well, that actually makes sense then. Now I’m not interested in reading them.
Well, since we’re all descended from Africans (the anthropologists do call it the cradle of humanity), how could they be less evolved than any other group?
I actually had an office mate in grad school whose dad used those invalid test results to ‘prove’ such ‘facts’ about African-Americans.
Well, since we’re all descended from Africans (the anthropologists do call it the cradle of humanity), how could they be less evolved than any other group?
That just goes to show exactly how stupid they are!!!*
*) !!!11111!!1!1!!!
That made sense, right? I mean, if you comprehend evolutionary science and I know you do. To explain properly would take pages and pages and pages….
Yep, it made sense.
Not really…Trent Lott said we’d be better off if we’d elected a segregationist as President. You don’t see a distinct difference in there? Ok, I actually looked up what Lott said:
Given that Thurmond’s actual party platform included the statement “We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race,” I don’t see a lot of wiggle room there.
I think the wiggle room is in assuming that Trent Lott was being ignorant about Thurmond’s record, which is actually somewhat believable.
Ah, well, I can see that aspect of it, if that was the case. How embarrassing if he was….knowing that Thurmond ran for President and not knowing he was a segregationist? Impressive ignorance on his part if he managed it.
I would think quite a few people didn’t realize Thurmond was a segregationalist.
ILPB: Younger people, yes, but you’d think someone as old as Lott would’ve known it – or someone who was extolling how much better off we would’ve been if Thurmond had won. That said, I stand by my assertion that it’s believable that he didn’t, and that his comment was just the usual insincere tripe coming out of a politician’s mouth.
Really? I thought it was pretty much….what he was famous for, other than being old.
I remember them making a big deal over it when it turned out he had an illegitimate secret black daughter.
Well they are. But we’re talking about Rush Limbaugh specifically. The conversation you’re talking about is entirely too generic for the topic at hand.
Yeah, you’re right. My comment was trollish and unwarranted. I was so disgusted with what I read, I needed to get it out in the open.
However, those of you that are offended, the proper response was, “Yeah, you’re right. Those men *are* jerks”. It is not proper to shoot the messenger.
Still, sorry for trollin’.
Stop squirming messenger…… I can’t hit you… **pulls out double barrelled shotgun and puts blow pipe away** NOW dodge this!!!!
Seriously though they are morons and idiots, but please don’t equate them to all conservatives.
You do realize there’s an alternative way to read this, don’t you?
**stuffs urine soaked rag in Nebs mouth** Stop doing that!!!!! **throws in trunk, turns up country station as “Proud to be an American” blasts driving down highway in gas guzzler doing 80 getting 3 MPG, throwing styrofoam cups out the window as I drink Bud-makes-me-Wiser!!!** You done back der?
*texts Cpt. Wow: State Trooper*
We have speeding, noise pollution, emitting carbon emissions, littering and a possible kidnapping in progress on highway 83. Please Respond. Over.
do you know how fast you were going?
umm, 65?
63.
do you know what the speed limit is here?
umm?
65!
do you know why i pulled you over?
uuuuuuuh?
littering aaaaand?
and?
littering aaaaaaand?
littering aaaaaaaaaaand?
Smokin’ the reefer.
I’m freakin’ out man!
CANDY BARS.
Meow?
Go for Darrell Worley’s “Have You Forgotten.” That song is enough to make my liberal brain bleed any day of the week.
Lol. I’m a surprisingly hard target for a big guy.
Thanks for laying out the *proper* response for us, alkie.
Leave the alkies alone * runs off*
*giggles* Your name showed up in the recent comments box as “Wino on hard times”
*passes Wino a a few bottles of wine* Here, this should help.
**Applauds** I concur.
A persons a person no matter how small!
Sorry…I’ll stop quoting Dr Seuss now.
Awww!
I likes Dr. Seuss!
“This one drives a little car
This one has a little star
See how many fish there are?”
I like the Tweedle Beatles. But quoting that is much more impressive in person because it’s a giant tongue twister! I <3 Fox in Sox!
One of my favorites:
“Look what we found in the park, in the dark!
We will take him home. We will call him ‘Clark’.
He will live at our house. He will grow and grow!
Will our mother like this? We don’t know….”
At one point when my kids were little I could recite “One Fish Two Fish” all the way through from memory….oh, and Viking Gal? I think it’s “How many, many fish there are!”
So you are NOT my mother?
*checks ovaries* Nope–you are not the fruit of my loins. Sorry!
I’ve always thought “fruit of my loins” was a strange phrase… and the mental images… sheesh.
max, i don’t know why you’d think that was so strange… that’s where i keep all my fresh fruits when i come home from the grocery store.
oranges, apples, strawberries… they’re all in the snatch.
That’s a lot of junk in the front trunk!
That sounds extremely…uncomfortable.
Well, it can hold a kid… I guess some fruits wont be too much of a stretch.
Oh god! And I didn’t mean for that pun to happen! But it did!
Do you think ‘holding’ a kid is comfortable?
My favourite phrase in regards to that “Squeezing something the size of a watermelon out a hole the size of a grape.”
Well, that would be delivery, which I didn’t actually do. (Crash c-section at 30 weeks.) I just meant the whole ‘carrying’ the kid about.
I think it was Bill Cosby who said to imagine delivery, grab your lower lip and pull it completely over your head.
Well, I’ve never had a kid so I don’t know.. Maybe I should have used to word “related” instead of “in regards”.
No, no. I love that quote. What’s really fun after having a c-section is having someone tell you that you ‘didn’t really have a child since you didn’t deliver it.’ Don’t know why my silly friends won’t let me punch people.
Well whose bloody child would it be then!?
Ghost babies! ZOMG!
Apparently it just doesn’t count…hence the thwarted punching attempt.
I hate it when they imply that having a C-section was “easy,” as though the recovery time doesn’t matter or something. I’ve seen women go from pushing out a baby to being all fine and normal within a week. It took every bit of 8 weeks for my first and 4 for my second to even start feeling human again after being sawed in half.
No sh*t. (‘Scuse my French.) However, I almost died before the c-section and was deathly ill afterward, so my experience was, fortunately, not normal. Mom, an RN, says it takes six months to recover from any major surgery.
Oh, and don’t forget the part about how you somehow ‘failed’ as a mother for not delivering your child in the ‘proper’ way.
Or that you must have done something wrong during the pregnancy to need an emergency c-section (my daughter was born at 33 weeks because my liver was about to shut down…I recovered as soon as she was born, however, so my experience was easier than yours. {{{{hugs}}}})
Yes, I literally came really close to punching someone after one of those comments: But what did you do wrong? Always delivered in that sweet, pseudo caring tone of voice.
Clearly ladies… as a single non fathering male, I can safely say, you did it wrong…
*runs away making the Daffy Duck “Woohoo” noise*
*watches Max run away*
I say, Mabs, is that not the smallest genitalia you’ve ever seen on a human male above the age of three months?
But but… I got the surgery… Annie paid for it!
*cries*
After having lapriscopic surgery last year to remove a cyst and the ovary it was attached to, I seriously regretted not saying “And while you’re in there, go ahead and take the other ovary out too.” just so I would never have to run the risk of a C-section.
Well, perhaps not, Froo. My son WAS only 5 lbs at 3 months. Say, my brother said he’d lend us his bird dog; still got that shotgun?
Pst, DU, you probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the instant menopause. But it’s ridiculous they didn’t offer to tie you off at the same time.
I’m 24, so they were trying to convince me to go for regular surgery which would allow me to (most likely) keep the ovary, but would have had a longer recovery time. They had this idea that I want to be fertile and able to have children. I told my mother what was going to happen and she started freaking out. “But your ovary! Children!” “It’s cool mom, I have a spare, and I still don’t want kids”
DU it’s not just da wimmenz they do that to. Before I went in to get my hernia repair surgery I was going to opt to have a vasectomy done as well. Because I’m under 30 the surgeon shied away from it, stating that “The medical community refrains from doing a procedure like that to folks who are just starting out in life.”
So apparently, if your junk’s in working order, they discourage you from not being able to pop one out. Silly really.
To make things perfectly even, when insulting a conservative or Republican, please make sure to cite everything bad a liberal or Democrat has ever said or done, but then to make it even again, make sure to insult everything bad Republicans and conservatives have ever said or done. That’s the only way to be fair. And would be one very long post.
Um, but what about things that are considered bad by one party, but good by the other? Or are limiting it to things only considered bad by both parties?
To be fair, you have to bring up everything that might be considered bad by all parties. No personal bias can be in your post whatsoever or else you’re just a total jackass.
Have you recently been voted the official PK “Look what those dirty conservatives are saying now” reporter? Good job!
*sigh* This has been rehashed ad nauseum — years of advance warning, a population that refused to evacuate, a poor excuse for a citywide evacuation plan that couldn’t have accommodated them anyway, an incompetent mayor, an even more incompetent governor — yet somehow it’s Bush’s fault.
Do you ever read Andrew Sullivan? You two seem to be on very similar Bush arcs.
Okay now, don’t go putting words in my mouth. The fact that Louisiana and NO was woefully unprepared for Katrina doesn’t change the fact that the Bush administration dropped the ball. And I think that’s a big reason why Obama responded as he has. He doesn’t want that kind of backlash. I don’t blame him. But you are absolutely right. The state and local government down there totally dropped the ball, and I would never lay all the blame at Bush’s feet. I just meant he reacted poorly to the situation.
*Louisiana & NO were woefully unprepared. Bah grammar fail!
The immediate federal response was hindered by the idiocy of the governor — she waited too long to ask for federal assistance. (Remember that the Coast Guard was there plucking people off of rooftops right away, because they aren’t DOD.) The later response was bad — probably average by the standards of big bureaucracy — but it wasn’t responsible for major and preventable loss of life, which puts the administration into a distant second in my blame book.
Never mind that some fairly odious individuals managed to turn “Katrina” into a racial code word.
Katrina was a total and complete kluster-fcvk. Congress had refused years of requests to repair and upgrade the levee system. FEMA had been redesigned, taking away the local input as to what the locals KNEW were the big risks, and they also allowed the purchase of toxic-laden trailers afterwards. The Governor failed to make a declaration of emergency. The city of New Orleans failed to account for the fact that a very large portion of locals did not have personal vehicles, nor the money to pay for a bus ride out. The locals without cars failed to evacuate properly. The federal government refused the offers of emergency assistance from a huge list of other nations. (the list is on Wikipedia, as well as other sources).
The only organization that prepared well was *gag* the dreaded Walmart, who had looked at the predictions for the hurricane season, and had stationed trailers full of bottled water to donate at need. Props to them, and also to CVS for not giving people difficulty in filling prescriptions when they had lost all of their documentation. Pbbbt on everyone else.
I really mean the ‘pbbbt’. The plenitude of the fault does not excuse anyone who participating in the decision-making. Including the administration at the time, the Red Cross executives, etc. They all deserve our scorn.
Obama ? Or Rush ?
In the news today: Democrat Danny Glover blames Haiti’s troubles on global warming.
Yeah, he’s definitely not helping, but what he’s probably thinking of is all of the hurricanes that hit Haiti in 2009 (which has a weak, non-deterministic, not-completely-accepted connection to global warming), but maybe I’m giving him too much credit.
Maybe. I heard lots of people who thought the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean was all due to global warming too. It’s easy to find terrible omens when you have decided on something to be scared of, I think.
Yes. And there’s no denying that there are idiots on every side of a debate.
I deny it! There are no idiots on my personal side!
….are you saying global warming doesn’t cause the slow but constantly moving plates of the earths crust to eventually build up enough pressure when they run into each other to cause an earthquake? Well, then, where to earthquakes come from?
Hah. That’s a different thing, doing it the right way around.
I’d argue he’s not thinking at all
but here I think he calls out the earthquake specifically. My somewhat incorrect phrasing was intentional; I was mimicking PortlandMark’s earlier trolling.
I think we knew. ;p
*gasp* You don’t say!
OMG I saw that guy in NYC last year!