So, the C-SPAN clip cuts away as she's about to respond. I'm not normally too curious about the particulars of boxing and brawling among these sorts of people, but I'm kind of curious about what she said.
Hilarious. You know you've gone too far when you embarrass Jonah Goldberg.
I knew her, very slightly, when I lived in NYC. Quite a character. Yale conservatives are the weirdest conservatives. (To be fair, Seavey is also a loon, and he went to Brown.)
I vaguely recalled this* and the guy's creepy personal ad linked here. The seeds of the behavior exhibited in the clip are quite evident.
If you answered "no" to all these questions, there may be hope of us getting along and even building a romantic relationship. But read on and learn the other nine Rules for Dating Todd.
10. If you answered as suggested to all the questions above, are an undeformed female, and are somewhere below the age of menopause (not that I'm knocking the various hot older women I've met, but we ought to think long-term here), then let's consider building a romantic relationship.
Non-monster lady, on the other hand, if you're out there, drop me a line. If you're smart, you know how necessary this personal ad's various complaints are and won't be put off by them. If you're not smart, well, a universe of singles bars and online dating sites awaits you, so go to it, missy, and good luck!
LayDEEZ....
*But certainly not across a name change and a move across the world--I assume it was some serendipitous name googling that led to ogged making the connection. Right?
Oh, I know them both, and have actually spent a fair amount of time with him.
Nosflow mentioned Todd Lokken the other day, and now this. I'm going to have to take a pseud to avoid the negatives associated with my name.
Speaking of TV, what are people's thoughts on Sesame Street's "move" to HBO? (All new shows will air on HBO and then become available to public television stations later.)
Someone should write a book about people sometime: They're peculiar.
I can't get all that excited about the Sesame Street/HBO thing -- JHP has always been a for-profit endeavor, even if CTW is not. And public television is lousy with commercials now anyway, so what's the dif?
Not to mention, Big Bird is basically a dinosaur, so what's the dif?
If you're not smart, well, a universe of singles bars and online dating sites awaits you
Was there ever a universe that included both singles bars and online dating sites?
The young women I supervise represent that they live in such a universe, and they seem plenty smart to me.
In case there was any doubt that the review was in bad faith:
Since the end of Jim Crow, authors who have asserted that white America is not just misguided but actively wicked in its dealings with black America have tended to grow hazy when it comes to what benefit, exactly, white America derives from this villainy. Here we see why: Generally it is the least plausible link in an already tenuous logical chain.
What benefit? Who could say, really? Money, power, alleviation of anxiety, justification to resolve cognitive dissonance, sadistic pleasure -- nah, impossible. Human beings have never sought to gain such benefits from other human beings. And certainly not in a structural way.
Emphasis in the blockquote was mine, by the way.
13. I'd have thought singles bars and online dating sites served quite different strategies. Plenty of room for both, and swiping right too.
When AI takes over, single bars will be full of machines swiping right, forever.
Is a "singles bar" an actual thing? When I was a kid watching Three's Company, I imagined there were. But now I'm old and all the bars I've been to were just bars, with more or less suitable demographics.
10: I've shown the kids Sesame Street on Netflix and Hulu, but never on PBS. After 45 years, I'm not sure world actually needs more episodes of Sesame Street. The ones online range from somewhat to very old and they serve just fine.
The bar where all the boxers hang out in Requiem for a Heavyweight probably doesn't qualify as a singles bar. The clientele might have been mostly unmarried, though.
20: I expect Internet dating has put the old-timey "singles' bar" out of business but yes, it was a thing. My aunt actually met her current hubby at one.
23: How would one know one was in a singles bar and not just a regular old married-people bar?
The one we had here advertised itself specifically as a single's bar, including the name of the bar itself (I think it was called "Mingles"). I suppose if you just wandered randomly into it without any preparation, the fact of most of the clientele being over forty and decidedly not married would become evident pretty quickly.
The ones online range from somewhat to very old and they serve just fine.
I've had this thought about every children's show. If you have a completely new audience every three years, why not just run the same shows forever and ever? Is the 80s Gummy Bears really particularly different than 2015's Adventures of Tinkerbell?
26 Hey kids! It's Howdy Doody time!
Past a certain point the episodes might feel too dated, but yeah.
I definitely don't see the no-HBO general public disadvantaged by a nine-month delay.
My associates refer to the "V**gra Triangle " a district in that shape because of the street pattern. They've all been there even if not habitués and while the men are often fortyish the women are much younger and perched on very high heels. That 's where the singles bars are.
"Thanks to Viagra, I've got a triangle shape in my pants. Ladeez."
26: It wasn't a television show but I think Roy of the Rovers was famous for doing this.
I think the average quality of (even pretty bad) children's programming has risen in the past 30 years, at least in the PBS Kids segment of the market. 80s-vintage Gummi Bears would be pretty intolerable. But my kid has no problem with 2000s-vintage Thomas and Friends videos or somewhat-stale Sesame Street. Similarly, he adores Ice Age (and Dumbo, for that matter) and doesn't know what a minion is yet.
31: I think Silver Age comics in general did this a lot. Jimmy Olsen switched bodies with a gorilla at least twice.
I feel like there was a singles bar in Omaha in the '90s with a name like "The Omaha Meat Market" or something like that -- a double-entendre on the city's historic place in the meat packing and cow transport industries.
Also, there was at that time a still-extant fern bar in Omaha, with rough cut diagonal wood paneling and lots of wine on the menu. It was weird.
Odd that when we say "singles bar" we're defaulting towards heterosexual versions of that institution, when queer people have always done the bar hook up scene so much better.
Was 80s-vintage Gummi Bears even all that tolerable in the 80s?
34.last continued: Odd to compare this:
http://www.amazon.com/Evening-Crowd-Kirmsers-Life-1940S/dp/0816636222
To this:
http://thecolu.mn/20598/throwback-thursday-check-out-these-ads-for-the-saloon-from-the-early-1980s
|| If you run a cash-only parking garage that only gives change in coins, it seems to me this should be stated at the entrance, not just the exit. Also, what should I do with 18 one dollar coins? I'd almost prefer 72 quarters. |>
To unify the thread: Why not just have PBS play the same three years of Three's Company over and over again during prime children's viewing hours?
Omaha doesn't still have a fern bar?
Also, what should I do with 18 one dollar coins?
Suspend them in eggs of gelatin and give them out as party favors at your next bachelor/ette party using one of these:
http://www.vice.com/read/the-emerging-fetish-of-laying-alien-eggs-inside-yourself
[Totally safe for work as you can see by the utterly benign URL]
[Did anyone post this here yet?]
39: It might, I haven't been back since 2000
There's an excellent steakhouse here which has the most amazing gold-digging scene of all time. It's just known as a place to feel welcome if you're an old, rich man with a vaguely sleazy much younger woman, and it really takes it to 11 with the scene.
To the OP, I've decided what I really want is an Grand Theft Auto style action game that lets you play as a scary, Huey Newton style armed black radical whose mission is to terrify and rob ivy league conservative dweebs. I would play that game for hours.
37, 40: I was going to say "deposit them," but 40 gives a whole new twist to that phrase.
What is the greater sleaze: To patronize a steak house, or to own one?
There's an excellent steakhouse here which has the most amazing gold-digging scene of all time. It's just known as a place to feel welcome if you're an old, rich man with a vaguely sleazy much younger woman, and it really takes it to 11 with the scene.
Tweety and Halford really played up the glory of the restaurant-bar where we held the LA meet-up, in its dated amazingness. It was sort of funny to hail from middle America and be taken to a place renowned for its middlingness. You guys would love whole other states.
You don't need a barbecue to see which way the sleaze blows
Shouldn't you be out surfing, or drag racing or something? I'm only home because I forgot to take my medicine before work and wound up feeling to crummy to do anything fun. Just another day closer to the grave, might as well spend it here.
I went somewhere with air conditioning. Also, far enough away to not be reminded that though my building is usually pretty quiet, the walls between apartments are fairly thin.
It's raining here. I did just go out to run some errands, but I'm back now.
Just another day closer to the grave, might as well spend it here.
You leave 1600 comments and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
The smokiness on potrero hill this morning was quite strong, hard to tell if it's the lake county, Oakland or combo of fires.
Suburban Buffalo is very much warmer than I thought it would be.
Also, the amount of international tourism (not counting fake-international stuff like Canada) is staggering to me.
I was just looking at inciweb, which doesn't have your fires (due to land ownership?) and holy crap is there a lot of fire between Redding and Eureka.
(http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/#)
Too damn hot here, too. I should take more advantage of being bald, but now that even the stubble has fallen out I feel too self-conscious to go out without a scarf or cap, and those things are fucking hot as hell.
Well, I had a nice long nap in the air-conditioning, and some tasty Target macaroni & cheese for supper. Life just doesn't get any better than this.
I just got back from 9 nights in Yellowstone and the weather was awesome. Didn't see any bear this time but the bison and elk were everywhere and the trout were rising on the Gibbon.
Sometimes the trout rise on the Gibbon, sometimes they decline and fall.
Other times they scream and throw their own shit.
Yes, I was trying to think of a Gibbon three-way, as it were, but I couldn't quite bring it off.
Some of these threads must look pretty weird to the people with the Natilo-blocker macro.
Trout science was being conducted, man. Up near the Virginia Cascade where the water temp was 17 or 18 C it was all brook trout. Down near the falls where there's more hot springs and the water was north of 20 C, nothing but browns.
So what's that in real temperatures?
I wonder just how uncomfortable a difference of 5 degrees F actually feels to a fish. I mean, is the geographic (limnographic?) distribution the equivalent of people clumping up together at parties? Is it important to fish cultures?
I don't know about trout, but small differences in water temperature are a big deal for salmon (which are closely related).
Natilo, you ignorant slut, 5 degrees C is a big deal. And it's interesting to see in real time where you have a river with varying temps and several species via misguided introductions from the past. (the only trout native there are cutthroat, as for exotics in general and why people would introduce them, browns are hardy and also smart, brooks are enthusiastic hitting dry flies, and rainbows are the greatest fighters on the line)
Here's an enthusiast's summary for two species, conveniently in Imperial. Tokerance ranges overlap, so its interesting that populations don't spatially.
https://www.troutmagnet.com/article.php?id=45
So the chart in 75 would seem to indicate that both locations were easily within the tolerance range.
And I'm genuinely curious: Obviously, the fish aren't consciously thinking "I'd better move upstream to ensure I'm at the optimal temperature for breeding and survival" -- but what DOES it take to get them to move -- a nudge or a shove?
Starting from pure theory: its hard for closely related species to share a niche; small phenological differences can dortbin space; they may differ in prey preference or predator tolerance and the other animals may have sharper temperature preferences. Gswift probably has specific hypotheses about a bunch of these differences, and there's nothing like finding the fish to test them.
Get out of here with your technical jargon words like "dortbin".
Fishing partner/consulting ichthyologist/dad was taking the temps and suggested we'd really see a difference north of 20 degrees.
Hot fishes, test them and see,
If this was Celsius, they'd be 33
|| Apparently, all the Alaska Airlines computers are down, so no one can board on any flights. (I've made it to Seattle).
Next time anyone hears me talking about flying anywhere, please fell free to ask 'do you really have to take this trip?' |>
Ok, they got it. The flight boarding ahead of us was going to Redmond. That seems awfully close to Seattle. Is the traffic really that bad?
Ok, they got it. The flight boarding ahead of us was going to Redmond. That seems awfully close to Seattle. Is the traffic really that bad?
I hear Windows 10 is a major improvement over Windows 8 (what happened to 9?), so maybe that's it. I'm still on Windows 7 and have no intention of changing.
In other airline news, I almost got stuck in Tununak yesterday. Seattle would have been preferable.
I'll see your Gibbon and raise you the Tjuleån. No brook trout, but grayling and brown trout. We just spent five days walking there. Also, the swedes named an entire river after Ume. That was gratifying.
85: From how people seem to keep finding new privacy violations every week or two in it I'm starting to wonder if those positive reviews are just coming from people who got a politely worded letter from Microsoft about what was on their computer.
Windows 9 got a girl pregnant and had to get a job at Burger King instead of finishing his programming degree.
85: Redmond is so close to Seattle, in fact, that it's utterly implausible you could get a flight there from SEATAC. Are you at a municipal airport or something?
Google sez: There's a Redmond, OR, and Alaska flies there. Carry on.
The fake underground-elevator in suburban Buffalo is not as good as Pittsburgh's Stratavator despite having much higher production values.
I've never tried that one, Moby, but the Canalside stuff they've done recently makes a nice family-friendly spot. The girls and I had a great time on a pedalboat there.
We're at the waterfall part of suburban Buffalo.
I've just seen the first harbor seal to undergo cataract surgery. But not, to be fair, the surgery itself.
People who train marine mammals seem really defensive about where the score their livestock.
Makes you wonder if they are hiding something, like maybe they got the kids in wetsuits from white slavers.
It has been a lovely day here in Brussels. The temps are in the high teens.
The state of New York calls unimproved rest areas "text stops."
91 -- Anyone who sees me posting after about 10 pm should feel free to ask 'do you really need to be on the internet?'
101: I thought that was hilarious, in a sad sort of way.
It was funnier before I learned there was no way to dry your hands at the improved rest stops.
In our state those are the ones where you are supposed to back into the parking spot if you are looking for anonymous sex.
How should you park if you want a manservant to hand you a fresh towel for drying your hands? Hire a chauffeur?
If you pull in head first, they expect you'll want nonymous sex and have supplied yourself with two forms of identification.
94: I find standing by the rapids right above the falls to be the most stimulating/terrifying--like right along the Robert Moses Pkwy*. In my youth I recall that a barge was stuck on a rock upriver on the Canadian side; I could not stop staring at it imaging what it would be like to be on it (ah I see it is still there, and has a Wikipedia article: Niagara Scow.)
* Sort of near where this disturbing thing happened (man goes into river just above the while TV show is being filmed).
Some seven-year-old boy went over the thing and lived. It's probably not even dangerous.
