Not a meme, but I have been recently thinking about the Nick Lowe song, "What's So Funny (about Peace, Love, and Understanding)?" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3r-TuIcK2k
Sorry to go off-topic so early, but this isn't a serious thread anyway... has anyone tried National Novel Writing Month or similar efforts in recent years? I was thinking about it this November, but then I stumbled on this and related stories, and now I'm not so sure.
The original tweet is from an account that's now locked but I find this meme very amusing
https://x.com/thighhighrules/status/1555671600745283589?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
I hope I have understood the assignment
There's one going around that's just a picture of couple paragraphs of text that starts "Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country..." which I've seen shared a surprising amount in my various feeds. I finally shared it myself, because why not?
This is the dumbest thing I've seen all week and it's great. (Only visible if you're on Bluesky.)
Amorous couple' arrested after allegedly causing flooding of Melbourne train stations
And some people say that romance is dead.
The silliest meme that I saw recently (which, apparently, is 5 years old) was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/dicrga/nice_day_for_a_cardigan/
7 is a worrying sign of the creeping Bollywoodification of the West.
The land value rentier-pump, as illustrated in "The Silicon Valley Economy" cartoon in this substack.
Dammit, cannot find the "consultant dog is consulting" video.
Dammit, cannot find the "consultant dog is consulting" video.
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Princess Mononoke is fucking great.
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In June "a first batch of 693,500 doses of the R 21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine" arrived in the DRC, the WHO said in a press release at the time. "These doses are intended to vaccinate children aged 6 to 23 months against malaria, a disease that affects millions of people in the DRC and across the African continent," the statement said. The same vaccine has already been introduced in other African countries including Kenya, Cameroon, Malawi and Benin.|>
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A former commander of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s.|>
I may not have understood the assignment.
The Good Place is actually good! Who knew?!
I haven't seen it. I developed an allergy to Ted Danson during "Becker"
We're watching it with the kids right now! We're at the end of season 2. It really is so great.(I've seen it before though.)
20: he really is charming in The Good Place.
22: Charming, among other registers! I haven't seen Becker, but Danson is consistently good in this role.
Danson might be the best thing in The Good Place. Literally on Friday, I had occasion to look up Michael's explanation of Jeremy Bearimy:
Chidi: What the hell is this? The dot over the i. What the hell is that?
Michael: How do I explain this concisely? This is Tuesdays, and also July.
Janet: And sometimes it's never.
Michael: That's true. Occasionally that moment on the Bearimy timeline is the time-moment when nothing never occurs.
And the final episode is very satisfying.
The amount of charm in that show is remarkable. Danson is a standout for sure, but all of the main cast except Jameela Jamil are very lovable.
Kristen Bell's character works much better in TGP than hers in Nobody Wants This which we are struggling through at the moment.
We mostly enjoyed the first two episodes of Nobody Wants This, but haven't gotten back to it since there's new episodes of Only Murders in the Building. Some clear problems with the show though (really in inappropriate amount of negativity aimed at Jewish women for a show written by a convert), but hard to turn down the chance to watch Veronica Mars and Dave Rygalski together.
That Adam Brody married Leighton Meester is such a hilarious amount of teen TV starpower in one couple.
I tried to watch The Good Place and I'm in anaphylaxis now.
I made that up. I have no idea how you could tell so easily.
I'm in anaphylaxis now.
You're allergic to something in it? Or do you mean more like metaphorical hyperglycemic shock?
Thank you for respecting my health concerns more than some people.
Well, it's a couple decades out of date but I felt that "bourgeois bohemians" was trite but also skewered me pretty good.
37: I hear you can cure your allergy by watching the Whoopi Goldberg roast where Danson wore blackface.
That was probably not his best idea.
At least SOMEONE understood the assignment.
Wrong link to "bad syndrome" in last one, though also excellent. Here, however, is the classic.
Can you train a cat to crap on the skylight of a particular house, assuming the skylight is accessible to the cat? Asking for a friend.
Sorry, Charles Mingus didn't write a book about that but I'm sure you can improvise on his text.
I think that to even attempt it using the Mingus method you would need a skylight that is accessible not only to the cat but also to you. In which case surely it would be much easier just to climb up there and put some cat shit on the skylight yourself.
Yes but you'd have to make sure no one was home when you did it while having a trained skylight pooping cat doubles the fun.
"What's that noise, wait, is that a cat on the skylight?"
"Oh, she's so cute, how did she get up there?"
"I hope she can find her way down alright and we don't have to call the fire department"
"What's she doing up there?"
"Oh Christ!"
I guess it's not going to be a good business plan.
Maybe it would be easier with a more readily trainable sort of animal. Cats aren't very trainable, but you could try with a dog or a horse.
Maybe a raccoon? It has to be an animal you can keep easily in a city because the money is in the franchising.
The Making Of A Japanese is gentle and interesting. It's a pity one can't know how much is real.
52 a horse would probably break the skylight. How about a monkey? Of course there the challenge would be getting to poop on the skylight and only the skylight.
It might be easier to train a monkey or raccoon to just shit wherever it wants and then carefully scoop up the results and place them by hand on the skylight.
Or indeed to obtain, say, a large bucket of horse manure, and train a monkey or raccoon to take handfuls of the contents and put them on the skylight. This would have the added advantage of misdirection. If Moby's neighbours grow angry about their skylight covered in raccoon shit, and then notice that Moby has a trained raccoon, there will be a real risk of them connecting the dots. But under my plan, Moby's safe. "I can't believe our skylight's covered in shit" they will say. "Do you think it has something to do with Moby and his trained raccoon?" "No, no," they will respond. "That's horse shit on the skylight. Moby doesn't have a trained horse and even if he did he couldn't get it up on our roof without breaking the skylight. Must be just one of those mysteries."
It might be easier to train a monkey or raccoon to just shit wherever it wants and then carefully scoop up the results and place them by hand on the skylight.
It is now. But I'm a disrupter.