Thought this was going to be the Weiner thread.
We can always make it one, JM.
Not yet you can't. I've gotten messages at work that, when opened, said the sender wanted a return receipt. However, it did offer you the option of not sending said receipt.
I think it was labeled "passive-aggressively stall". But when it is really important, they also email my boss's secretary.
I request the receipt when I send secure messages to my parents medical team. They haven't been prompt about some financial stuff at the health center portion. For me that's like sending something by certified mail.
I believe it took me about 5 seconds to turn that function off when Apple added it to iMessage in an iOS update. Sent shivers down my spine, it did.
Man did I wish I knew if my AIM messages had been read, back in college.
I'm not fond of this feature, or ones like it. But far far more do I hate Gmail's new multiple inboxes. NOT HELPFUL.
(Yes, I know I can turn it off -- but it also means that the emails my organization sends out will be auto-routed to nevernever land. Bummer.)
In other news, I wasn't following the Anthony Weiner story at all until my Twitter feed started filling up with women bemoaning Huma's stand-by-my-husband moment.
Carlos Danger is almost as good as Ron Mexico. Almost.
Sometimes I imagine Huma Abedin looking like Marisa Paredes on account of Huma Rojo, her character in All About My Mother. (Yesterday I started talking to a friend about how I found How I Met Your Mother only moderately funny only I said All About My Mother and moderate hilarity ensued. "I thought that was about a bunch of people with AIDS....?") I am really not on topic. I'm sorry Huma-Geebie.
I'll say this about Anthony Weiner: at this point, I wish he were a more useful public servant because someone this entertaining would be fun to have to kick around for awhile.
He might make a good borough president.
9: God, nothing, NOTHING is as good as Ron Mexico.
God, nothing, NOTHING is as good as Ron Mexico.
I know of a few dogs who might disagree.
14 was cute, but I'm sure she diligently checks the IP logs anyway.
Can we all agree that anyone who requests a read receipt by default on every email is insane?
(Not quite as insane as anyone who sends every email "high priority" by default, but close.)
You remember how there are anthropomorphic personifications of abstract concepts in Terry Pratchett? I think at this point, that Anthony Weiner may be the actual personification of a penis.
The head of my old firm used to send every single email high priority, regardless of the topic. !YOU ARE INVITED TO A SUMMER BARBECUE. That the emails often arrived between 4-5 am was also a nice touch.
Can we all agree that anyone who requests a read receipt by default on every email is insane?
(Not quite as insane as anyone who sends every email "high priority" by default, but close.)
Can we all agree that anyone who requests a read receipt by default on every email is insane?
(Not quite as insane as anyone who sends every email "high priority" by default, but close.)
Uh oh. He's finally starting to lose it.
I can't even imagine the likely mental state of someone who set their default settings to send every email high priority AND request a read receipt. I just feel lucky that I've never encountered such a person. They must be out there.
18: Is that anti-semitic? I've always felt a bit embarrassed by my antipathy to the man, but his confirmed sleaziness has gone a long way toward remedying that.
18: Looking forward to The Penis of Rats.
How do I turn off this gmail feature?
28: Click on the little gear in the upper-right corner. Select Settings. Choose Inbox. UN-check all of the boxes except Primary. Save changes.
26: No, it's not anti-semitic if you can find a Semite to agree with you, and that's so, so easy in this case. The guy might be talented but he's got the judgment of a horny teen. Fine for them, not for anyone with power.
In other news, unanticipated consequences of wearing a full-skirted sundress: Just got the inner-thigh patdown from the TSA.
Maybe I just look dangerous. Probably the pearl earrings.
31: On the other hand, if after all this he can get his wife on stage with him, he might just be the best mayor ever because he's so persuade.
8: Yes, I know I can turn it off -- but it also means that the emails my organization sends out will be auto-routed to nevernever land. Bummer.
How so? How so the organizational emails get sent to nevernver land? I turned it off after a couple of hours of experimentation, and as far as I can tell, my gmail inbox now looks exactly the way it used to.
(I can see some use for tabbed, multiple inboxes -- after all, that's how I have thunderbird set up -- but gmail seems to want to make guesses for me, which is a no-go. It's not customizable enough.)
Or actually, thunderbird doesn't provide actual tabs for the multiple folders (inboxes); I think Eudora used to. I liked Eudora :(
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Fair enough, I should have qualified my comment.
On the other hand, if after all this he can get his wife on stage with him, he might just be the best mayor ever because he's so persuade.
The woman must be deranged.
39: well she's got to be getting there by now, if she wasn't before.
I feel sorry for Weiner. He has to choose. If he is mayor of New York, the whole world looks at him, but no one looks at his penis. On the other hand, if he finds some nice lady on the internet who wants to look at his penis, he can't be mayor of New York and have everyone looking at him. What is an exhibitionist to do?
I sometimes have a sort of solidarity-based crankiness response to certain versions of genderqueerness that seems related to LB's. It goes sort of like: "do you think that the rest of us don't chafe at the social construction of our gender? And also, hey, don't just jump ship and disavow femalekind, that's not nice or responsible!" (This is then followed by a similar "Oh shut up, me, you don't know what you're talking about.")
Oh good, wrong thread! Well done, me.
I believe that 41 gets it right.
On the other hand, if after all this he can get his wife on stage with him, he might just be the best mayor ever because he's so persuade.
Hang on now, didn't he say when he announced his candidacy that there would probably be more revelations of waywardness? I assumed, then, that he'd already told Huma about all that.
I totes don't get why he's persisting in running for office. Maybe he thinks he's in France or Italy.
44.last: be the filanderer you want to see in the world
Anyway, it's all role-play! He did not actually have sex with that woman! It's like cosplay.
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I am stuck for hours in the airport listening to these IDIOTIC television anchors blather on and on about the royal baby.
Comment, people! I need entertainment.
(I'm honestly debating whether to start timing the number of minutes devoted to this story compared to other news.)
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Good grief. The anchor just said "That's Diana in Milan in 1985, and that's Kate in London in 2008. Notice anything similar? That's the SAME SHADE of pink."
I really really wish I had one of those remotes that let you shut off televisions.
listening to these IDIOTIC television anchors blather on and on about the royal baby.
And these are American anchors, I take it? It's a bit ridiculous.
41 made me laugh. So: is Weiner still a viable candidate at this point (if he ever was one)? Or is the latest, er, revelation enough to do him in?
48.1: Obviously America needs its own Royal Family. I'd like to propose Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
50: No, that seems like a perfect position for Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin to take.
I'm sympathetic to the Privatize the Royal Family discussion, I'll tell you that.
Geeze Louise. I just realized I can actually see (not just hear) this TV. The station is CNN. Holy smokes. I had no idea how far they had fallen.
The station is CNN.
Isn't all airport television CNN?
54: I have no idea. I have a lifelong habit of staying as far away from airport television as humanly possible. I'm hoping that now that it's 8:30pm here the rest of the airport has emptied out enough that I can move soon, since I still have another 2+ hours to sit around.
55: I think in Dallas it might be Fox News.
53: I'm not sending you a picture so you don't need to bother imagining. Stop asking.
I wasn't asking you to send a picture.
I'm sympathetic to the Privatize the Royal Family discussion, I'll tell you that.
"We pity the plumage, but forget the dying bird," as Shelley once put it.
But living in the States has really softened my anti-monarchical stance, I have to say. I used to be outraged -- outraged, I say! -- by the meaningless archaic pomp and circumstance of the spectacle of so-called "royalty," by the frilly collars and the folderol. Watching US state governments turn out the lights, however, because they can't agree on a budget to pay for the electricity (because the state budget process has been captured by wingnuts and weirdos) has been a bit of an eye-opener.
I still support democracy over monarchy. But republicanism over monarchy? I'm not sure.
Can we all agree that anyone who requests a read receipt by default on every email is insane?
No we can't. We can assume that they're being ridden by a deadline fixated boss with too much time on their hands.
60!!!! So true. The person doing the requesting might have an insane boss.
The early capitalism gets the worker.
If a politician could just say "my partner and I have an open relationship" and still get elected, we'd have a lot fewer fake scandals.
I don't know. I suspect that the couples where both are fine with an open relationship exist now and aren't making scandals.
"We have an open relationship, but don't tell my spouse."
Yes, that is what I was thinking of. Plus, when you see somebody acting like Weiner, I think maybe he gets off on the risk more than the women.
If a politician could just say "my partner and I have an open relationship" and still get elected, we'd have a lot fewer fake scandals be ruled by a bunch of hippies. Do you want to be ruled by hippies? Nothing on C-SPAN but Phish concerts and hacky-sack marathons?
Not to psychoanalyze when I've had no training and never met the guy.
Although hacky-sack marathons could add a certain frisson to the filibuster rules.
I liked the fact that in the movie Bulworth that Bulworth and his wife had a completely sham marriage where the wife had a new boyfriend, without spelling it out in dialogue Hollywood-style.
I would like to be ruled by hippies.
68 is right. A guy in Weiner's position has easy access to extramarital nookie if he cares to pursue it. Doing it by means where the chance of getting caught and humiliated is high has to be part of the draw.
Maybe Weiner should have an aide write up a white paper titled, "The advantages of having an affair with someone you can physically touch and who has reasons of her own not to talk to the press and/or whatever the fuck 'The Dirty' is."
Doing it by means where the chance of getting caught and humiliated is high has to be part of the draw.
He doesn't seem humiliated. Politicians (and their insane spouses) want to be on television, talking about whatever they can. If it has to be a confession, they can make themselves comfortable with that.
79: I think he's to some extent getting off on the whole thing, so maybe humiliation is not quite the right term. His wife certainly seems humiliated. Poor woman. DTMFA.
I've always gotten the sense that Weiner's favorite part of politics was dashing from microphone to microphone.
When Huma's sexts come out, that's when the scandal will get fun.
You're just raising my hopes because you enjoy seeing them crushed.
Oh, she'll be fine. Every press conference just adds to the value of her inevitable book contract.
84: The Gift of the Magi/Pina Colada Song twist ending would be that, unbeknownst to each other, they'd been sexting each other all along. ("Huh. Turns out it's surprisingly hard to identify someone from their genitalia.")
87: As a song I was familiar with that trope via Kate Bush's "Babooshka" (although certainly not my favorite song of hers). I see that it came out relatively soon after Pina Colada.
Babooshka as a sexily adulterous pseudonym? I thought that was the word for a little old Russian woman in a headscarf.
From Wikipedia: Kate Bush said that's "something I didn't realise at the time," when she learnt that Babushka is the Russian word for "grandmother" (although the stress in Russian falls on the first syllable, not the second).
"The Russian language has no word for 'grandmother.'"
Way OT: This study, via. I am annoyed at the emphasis on spillover effects (and the implicit assumption that black workers are payed less because they are less productive (due to fewer social contacts and the skills thereby gained)) in the abstract and the NPR story, when any effects could easily (and more intuitively, to me at least) be explained by social networking's benefits in job hunting. Also, am I being unfair by scrolling down to Figure 1 and deciding there's no way you can conclude anything as complicated as what they are proposing from that data? This is a tiny trend, and I can imagine any number of stories that could be consistent with the data. But I'm not a $RELEVANT_OCCUPATION, and I only skimmed the article, so.
Is it just me or did the adds on gmail get much more obtrusive and annoying yesterday?
[Perhaps they just figured out how to get around the adblocking plugin I have -- but even so it seems that the adds have moved from the sidebar to the top line of the inbox. Annoying.]
64: Or "my partner and I have a non-sexual relationship because I get off on sexting strangers and she's Hillary's girlfriend."
92. Laughably bad. shitty fit, shitty attempt to identify other relevant variables (eg distance from Atlanta).
Whoops, via MeFi, which has a link to the credulous NPR story.
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Huh. The woman who was my "other mother" from roughly toddlerhood through 1st grade, and who has remained a close family friend over the many years and miles of separation, now has a grown, redheaded son of her own who is running for Congress in Iowa. I didn't realize until just now, as I was listening to MSNBC on the satellite radio and heard him interviewed, that the seat he's running for is the one held by insane racist Steve King. Go, Jim!
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98: Huh. At first I couldn't tell if he was a Democrat or Republican, but okay, Democrat. Maybe he has a shot, between his soldier cred and the fact that Republican leadership is kind of pissed off with Steve King (and none too happy with Marco Rubio, either) over their stances on immigration reform. Jim should totes talk up a pro-immigration reform stance. Go, Jim!
Oh, but there are a lot of 2016 presidential hopefuls sucking up to Steve King, so.
I'm sure everyone knows by now, but the the royal baby is another George.
How much must it suck not to have much of a say in how your baby is named?
Also, wait: George. Alexander. Louis. What is this, an agglomeration of greats?
How much must it suck not to have much of a say in how your baby is named?
I know a lot of men who don't.
How much must it suck not to have much of a say in how your baby is named?
Yeah, it's not so bad.
103: Not so bad -- as long as you get to choose the baby's internet pseudonym.
Boy George. Ok, but I still think Spencer wouldn't been more forward leaning.
I thought they might be fans of Prince and Joseph Heller and so decide to name the kid Prince.
Or else maybe they would be angling for a reality TV crossover, and name the kid, South.
The Prince Formerly Speculatively Known as Prince.
Slate dares to ask the big question!
Will All Babies Be Named George Now?
I haven't read the article, but I'm guessing the answer is no.
Royal Labor Has Royally Begun:94 -> one-half of 108.