Get Your Act Together Chompsky, WDT, Today Until Later

You know the inauguration was on a Sunday and a holiday, right? And that there are 3.4 unemployed people for every job opening (and it used to be worse: it was 6.7 in 2009), not even including disability?

 

But presumably, basic arithmetic and days of the week aside, we can all agreed that inaugurations are boring as balls.

 

At first I read this statement as relating not to a dog, but rather a man who happens to box.


It was very much more interesting, and I mentally commended you and your Husband for having such an open (and Open) marriage.

 

I think there's a Constitutional amendment against that sort of thing.

 

Dude, SPOILER that shit.

 

I didn't say anything about the unemployed, but of course, I didn't say anything racist either. You seem to want to infer things that just aren't there.

Carry on....

 

I believed you when you said that it wasn't a racial statement, hence why I said I wasn't sure you were being racist or just accidentally using the same language as racists. The reason I wondered being that "Who would want to watch Obama get inaugurated? People on welfare, that's who!" is pretty close to what is known as a "dog whistle." Not everyone who uses the language intends to use it as such, which is what makes those terms tricky and effective.

And I'm merely pointing out that the idea that people are on disability because they don't want readily-available jobs is a mathematical impossibility, given the number of jobs and job-seekers. It's the equivalent of saying that you can't put 10 gallons of water in a 5 gallon pail because the water is lazy.

 

Come on, you guys really think people on welfare are lame enough to actually watch the inauguration?

Now, public servants hanging around the lobbies of their office buildings. That's who watches the inauguration.

I'm also suspicious of message board members who post about how boring the inauguration is. How would you know, since you're so busy working and being a productive member of society and all?

 

I miss when political posts just got deleted and there was a "no politics" rule on this board. This place was so much more pleasant.

 

Things that weird me out (it's a short list):

Couples that look alike, ala Milhouse's parents.

Coming home today I saw a couple waiting in line at the local Cuban takeout window. If they weren't holding hands I would have thought they were siblings. I'm assuming they weren't from Arkansas since Arkansas doesn't allow brown people.

Do they not notice this? How do you have sex with someone so eerily similar in physicalities, especially after someone makes that off handed comment? Or maybe that's half the allure.

 

Genetic sexual attraction, sir.

 

I thought you were supposed to be attracted to opposites. Isn't that the whole point of sexual reproduction? Increasing genetic diversity? Like how when we kiss we exchange MHC, and enjoy it more if it's someone with an immune system most opposite our own. Couples that look alike make me think of inbreeding, which isn't pleasant. If you want to go fuck yourself there's no need to leave the house.

 

Simpler explanation: you think all minorities look alike.

 

My ex and I apparently looked so much alike that his own grandmother kept confusing me for his sister when we had Thanksgiving together. She kept talking to me in French and they'd be like "You have to slow down, she doesn't speak French that well." And she'd get mad and start defending me like "Of COURSE she speaks French, what are you talking about?" It was one of the most awkward experiences of my life.

Or, when we'd both be hanging out in our hometown and he'd run into an old family friend he hadn't seen in a long time, they'd turn to me and start talking to me like I was his sister.

About 75% of the people I find really attractive have similar features to him (slash me, I guess), and it has weirded me out enough to merit some contemplation. The best I can come up with is that I'm a narcissistic asshole.

 

Does anyone watch Amish Mafia? I just watched a couple episodes and can't think of a more fake reality show. So these Amish drive around in Cadillac's and buy digital camera's to capture religious leaders banging whores.

What a shitty, ridiculous show. The Soprano's was more realistic.

 

I saw one episode and while it was kinda amusing... yes, fakest show ever. The dude took out a rifle and shot someone's windshield because they may have hit a lady's buggy.

 

I work with a few guys who think that show is real, they also think moonshiners is real, all these shows are a crock of shit.

 

Everything that was once good and decent in TV has officially jumped the shark. TLC has the kind of programs and focuses on the type of people that you see stealing gum out of public bathroom urinals. Discovery is becoming kore idiotic on an hour-tohour basis, and CNN-- the network theat once broadcasting live during the first shots of the Persian Gulf War-- has fired almost their entire investigative journalism team to make way for absolute non-stop crap with holographic idiots spouting opinionated nonsense. Even National Geographic is leaning this way. National. Fucking. Geographic.

Being stupid is the new smart.

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