I have given pleasure to the world because I have such a beautiful ass.
Bud, some might say that's a pretty shallow argument.
Well, some might say I'm a pretty shallow guy. But a shallow guy with a great ass.
All animals have to have flat asses because without opposable thumbs, they can't wipe their butts except if their asses are flat.
Aren't unfogged comments justified already? It seems like they are.
I may have the casual ordering wrong. Maybe humans become bipedal and this requires a musculature that leads to a non-flat ass which, after a many very disgusting generations, leads to opposable thumbs so that butt wiping was possible.
I'm not a registered scientist. I don't know all the answers.
I assume it means baboons will eventually develop opposable thumbs and than giant pandas are going extinct because they have thumbs without having de-flattened their asses.
Back to the topic. I justify myself with science and/or spurious reasoning.
I want to kiss you in Paris
I want to hold your hand in Rome
I want to run naked in a rainstorm
Make love in a train cross-country
You put this in me
So now what, so now what?
Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love
Hoping, praying
For you to justify my love
I want to know you
Not like that
I don't want to be your mother
I don't want to be your sister either
I just want to be your lover
I want to be your baby
Kiss me, that's right, kiss me
Yearning, burning
For you to justify my love
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
Talk to me - tell me your dreams
Am I in them?
Tell me your fears
Are you scared?
Tell me your stories
I'm not afraid of who you are
We can fly!
Poor is the man
Whose pleasures depend
On the permission of another
Love me, that's right, love me
I want to be your baby
I'm open and ready
For you to justify my love
To justify my love
Wanting, to justify
Waiting, to justify my love
Praying, to justify
To justify my love
I'm open, to justify my love
I'm sort of shocked Moby hasn't watched Red Dwarf. You and your son could bond over something besides Minecraft!
I was only vaguely aware it existed.
Is it about butts, bipedalism, or self-justification?
The wikipedia page made it sound too British for me.
I'm just doing this on the advice of my employer's attorney.
(The UMN psychiatry department really is the gift that keeps giving, for people who follow it. The state legislature is considering having the state monitor psychiatric research at the university themselves, rather than letting the university do it. The University is lobbying against it on the grounds that their commitment to maintaining high ethical standards would make that unnecessary.)
22: I've seen one episode and it was incredibly unfunny. I put it down to British people not having cable, because socialism.
I'm ancient and I like to roam the land.
Is 25 a reference I don't get or just a general statement of principle?
A little from column a) a little from column b)
28 is definitely a reference I don't get. Judging by the tone ,hopefully not a statement of principle.
Well, it was a statement of principle for Lister. And for Kryten when he overrode his programming.
I could google these things, but feel my time is better spent writing this snide comment. It really was desperately unfunny.
31 How do you feel about Father Ted? Before you answer that I should probably warn you that that's the question that comes right after the tortoise on its back in the desert question on the Voight-Kampff test.
Red Dwarf is great. A little slow, by the standards of contemporary comedy, but great.
33: The slow early seasons--the first one, maybe the second--were wonderful. It really added to the sense of isolation, to the point where you could easily imagine Lister doing anything for a damned laugh just to break the lonely monotony.
Here's a good example of Red Dwarf being funny.
you could easily imagine Lister doing anything for a damned laugh just to break the lonely monotony.
Good description. It reminds me that I watched Red Dwarf on videotapes that somebody had recorded when the local public television station did a Red Dwarf marathon as a fundraiser. I'm not sure how many seasons I watched -- judging by IMDB I watched though season 4 and then saw season 5 sometime later -- but that context set the right tone to appreciate the series.
32: Never seen it. If that means you put me down, that's alright. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
35 is pretty funny. Wouldn't want to watch half an hour o that though.
Wouldn't want to watch half an hour o that though.
That isn't representative of the whole show. In fact, that particular episode (one of my favorites) is their Casablanca homage. The clip is from the opening, and the throw-away reference to Casablanca is foreshadowing.
"Tell me only good things you remember about British comedy."
37 I would never put you down, Mossy. Though I may have to retire you.
40 fa wins the Red Dwarf subthread.
My almost-5-year-old is on record, on video, declaring that Star Wars "has a lot of fighting, killing, and dying... I love those parts." I still don't think I can justify taking her to any Blade Runner celebration-type activities in L.A. in three years. I'm a little bummed about this.
Lucas certainly understood his core demographic there.
Does 45 imply that Moby has a more or less sophisticated sense of humor than Childe Nosflow?
I don't know, but I assume I'm much more sophisticated now.
"Sophisticated" means "uses most poop jokes", right?
OT: hey, I'd mentioned before that I'd be ininneapolis today. Turns out I'm leaving tonight but have a few hours to kill, so if anyone wants an afternoon drink/barfight opportunity in Downtown Minneapolis RIGHT NOW let me know. Otherwise I'm off to the Flour Museum?? Because that looks like something to do.
Childe Nosflow to the Low-Hanging Fruit Came.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Update: the flour mill museum is closed and it claims that Minneapolis is the "cradle of carbohydrates." I knew something was wrong with this fucking place.
Carbohydrates: the hydrocarbons of the Midwest.
52: If the flour museum is out, you could go to the University of Minnesota and laugh at the psychiatry department.
There's a nice art museum on the U of M campus.
The only part of Minneapolis I know well is the airport. It has a big mall and a loop you can walk. Plus, if you go to the least-populated part of the loop, there are comfy chairs with charging stations.
Also, the "wide stance" memorial stall.
Update: wandered through the public library (awesome) and the strip club district (old school). Am now at what appears to be an old school bar but is a bit too upscale.
The public bikes are cheap and are, um, structurally sound and go at safe speeds.
But you could wander pretty far in the city without ever using one on a road for more than maybe a block or two. If you're around the Mill museum you could easily go ask the Lake Harriet elf a question. You'd probably need a SASE though, if you really wanted a response. And the river path, midtown greenway, and cedar lake trails are all really nice, and give a decent sense of the city if you spend some time on them.
Know what's really exciting? An ultrasound screen cap from the daughter showing a healthy 12 week old.
Way to rain on my wander pontlessly around Minneapolis parade with your birth of a beautiful new human life distraction. Anyhow I'm nkw at some place called "Ike's" which attracted with its neon but feels touristy.
According to google, you're not far from a place called Butcher & The Boar.
Unfogged babysplosion was great. I'm not sure my self-image is comfortable with everybody becoming grandparents.
I'm not saying don't have any grandkids. I'm just saying lets not do it all at once.
There's also a Fogo de Chão within a block or two.
I'm not sure how much there's going to be in that general area that isn't either fancy/touristy or basic stuff for the people who work around there (you could be at a Dunn Bros!). The Gay '90s, maybe?
There's a fogo de chao within a couple blocks of the convention center in basically every city in America, I think.
RT: Sorry, just saw this. Not sure when you're heading out. If you're still around and want to catch a drink, I'm up for it. If not, hope you enjoyed your time here!
OT:
The vote-by-mail ballot I received in California has a note indicating that NPP voters get ballots with the presidential primary race omitted by default. They can request a ballot with the Democratic (or a few other parties') primary candidates printed on it, but have to affirmatively make this request and wait for the new ballot to arrive. This may be the first ballot I've cast by mail in a presidential primary, but I certainly remember voting in the Democratic primary in 08 or 12 or both, without having to make special requests. So, question time!
- Do I have a moral obligation to request a new ballot so I can vote in the Democratic primary?
- Do I have a moral obligation to help other voters get ballots that will allow them to choose between Bernie and Hillary or the like, as is their right?
- Should I be actively working to change this weird default policy?
- Is this a bad pretext for me to use if I want to just, you know, avoid voting in the primary at all, as I am 90% committed to doing, stamped sealed envelope etc.?
- Am I missing something here?
This may be the first ballot I've cast by mail in a presidential primary, s/b something like "in an election that included a presidential primary contest."
69: It's a churrascaria chain restaurant.
Basically it's an enormous grill and the servers just walk around brandishing huge knives with huge chunks of meat on skewers and cutting chunks of it off onto the plates of people they pass by. It's like a reverse buffet where you just sit there and people throw meat at you until you feel ill.
I keep meaning to go to one of those (not that specific chain).
Speaking of British comedy's inadequacies, I was pretty struck by the recent TV-ification of No Such Thing As A Fish. It's on BBC Two, so not mainstream but not exactly substitute-for-Youtube fodder either. And it's literally a live recording of the podcast from the comedy club down the road from me. I mean, I guess I'm glad the people behind the excellent podcast are getting (I assume) paid for it, but, Jesus, American TV wouldn't do it like that.
70 -- sadly I'm at the airport. Sucks to have missed you!
I like Fogo de Chao but the best part is if you set your coin to "green" instead of "red" they just keep serving you unlimited meat until you turn to red. Shockingly I can never comvince my wife to go there for a "date night."
Slightly less than 24 hours in Minneapolis impressions coming up in the next comment! I am an expert!
I went to the FdC in Las Vegas once, I think. I tend to overindulge when presented with unlimited anything, though. I remember wondering what else there was beyond meat and salad after a very short while.
77: As I recall, there was extensive cheese and seafood at the salad bar area.
OK, Minneapolis impressions from the expert, me, R. Tigre, expert on Minneapolis:
-- the "Minnesota nice" thing reminds me more of Texas than anything else I've been. Different accent, but same basic attempt at superficial friendliness. Why does no one admit this?
-- Based on my extreme social science method of wandering around for a few hours, this is the most black/white interracial city in America. Like for real large grpups of mixed black and white friends or couples. In LA or NY you see more multi-racial bands of whites blacks asians etc but I don't think I've been anywhere where there have been as many thoroughly mixed black and white groups. I hate to embarass us in front of our British commenters, but this is not that common in America.
-- Possibly related: both of my (I think Somali) drivers were playing the pop country station. Do they actually enjoy this, or did they put it on for the cracker in their car? I am an entertainment litigator wearing a custom tailored suit, mot a cracker! We don't all look the same, you know.
-- Best collection of 30s and 40s New Deal and vaguely socialist looking architecture I've seen in the US in Downtown. No wonder it produces radicals like Natilo and Frowner -- it's the most Soviet-looking city in the US, especially combined with something northern about the light.
I am an entertainment litigator wearing a custom tailored suit, mot a cracker!
Have you been to the Midwest much? Lots of crackers wear tailored suits.
71 Some Sanders folks have filed a lawsuit about that. I'm not seeing it, but who knows, maybe the federal judge in Oakland will spend more than the 0 minutes I have looking at the law.
79.2 Have you been to Kings Dominion?
I am in skavsta airport with a reindeer sandwich and a glass of nasty red wine. Meetup, anyone?
I am in skavsta airport with a reindeer sandwich and a glass of nasty red wine. Meetup, anyone?
A jug of nasty red wine, a loaf of bread, and a hunk of reindeer meat.
Folks may have seen my daughter's post just now at the other place about the impending kiddo. Surprisingly exciting!
I'm guessing that 86 explains who wrote 60.
Also, I just looked and don't see it on your wall.
78
You assume that one can stand up and get to the salad bar and seafood after a round or two of dead mammals.
Not to mention various liquid refreshment.