Re: Guest Post: Whale Activity

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Joke's on you. My kink is trying to find the whale vagina in a blurry, distant, confusing photo.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 7:13 AM
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First author on that paper is Bruce Mate!


Posted by: Kymyz Mustache | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 8:04 AM
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Balls the size of cars and zero-gravity antics, I hope a breakaway faction of ex-Disney animators is putting a storyboard together.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 8:35 AM
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3 that's the kind of thing only Studio Ghibli can really pull off.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 8:56 AM
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Ponyo loves Sosukes.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 9:46 AM
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I'm sorry, I really love Ponyo and now I feel gross.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 9:46 AM
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If it makes you feel better, I don't understand the joke anyway.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 9:47 AM
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Not to be a grouch, but I actually unfollowed Taber because I started to get the feeling that I was reading a lot of ideologized just-so stories, then I got a pretty definitive confirmation, and it put me off her for good.

I'm not going to track down the relevant threads, but to summarize: she wrote a whole thing about how the South could have a thriving treenut industry similar to, or even superior to, CA's almonds, and without the negative water impacts, but they're just too stupid/racist/patriarchal to do it, while CA farmers are the only smart ones in America*. And then someone from the relevant region tore her argument to shreds: pecans aren't remotely as nutritious as almonds (this was the very start of her premise--that they're as good or better nutritionally), the trees aren't amenable to plantation growth, etc etc. Not one bit of her argument held up. And of course she didn't respond, which was really the last straw for me: she had her loyal followers who wanted to hear what she had to say, and she didn't have to worry that (m)any of them would unfollow just because she was bullshitting them.

*except for whatever that Amish-like sect is that lives along the US/Can border. She always says good things about them


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 12:01 PM
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8: Yeah, I unfollowed a while ago. AIMHMHB I once pressed her on "so what kind of policy reforms do we need?" and she turned it back around to individual business-level efforts- essentially "people should hire me as a consultant." And she seems to be increasingly focusing on artisanally hand-stretched Hot Takes, like whether Southerners are fundamentally more racist.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 12:05 PM
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Also her podcast wasn't very good - I recall her spending a lot of time talking at the interviewees about her own normal topics rather than drawing stuff out from them.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 12:06 PM
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2: Your name's Bruce, mate! That's not going to cause a bit of confusion.


Posted by: Opinionated Bruce | Link to this comment | 04-21-23 1:05 PM
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Is the OP an effort to revive the Unfogged tradition of cock jokes? If so I will slide right in to second it.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 04-24-23 1:47 AM
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12: it was, but it seems that we're no longer able to keep it up.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 04-25-23 2:31 AM
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idk, I'm more concerned that the performance is stiff and wooden...


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 04-25-23 6:41 AM
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I would have said something here, but the right whale was too oblique for me.


Posted by: Herman Melville | Link to this comment | 04-25-23 6:47 AM
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In France in the late nineties, the derogatory graffiti joke was to make a word balloon "La baleine" on any ad in which a pretty model looked surprised-- so big, it's a whale. (12/13 memory becomes a substitute for actual interest, if literary depictions can be trusted)


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 04-25-23 7:40 AM
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8/9 Agreed that she's far from 100%, best when she links to/describes something objective.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 04-25-23 7:43 AM
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