![]() |
![]() |
#4996 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
|
Let toad ebay them for you! Or use them to inspire your minions.
__________________
The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4997 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
Yeah, I checked ebay to see what they are worth. They aren't worth the trouble.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4998 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
|
Diz is being really needy today.
Has to be held like a baby, and when he is, he licks my ear and my cheek and smacks his licky-chops really loudly. Grrr. I still love him. Eugh - just shifted him round (typing one-handed) and he started licking my neck. He goes bye-bos at 12.00. Thank goodness. I have a bathroom to clean and photos to upload. ETA, having taken a photo. Of course Diz is used to the camera. As soon as I switched it on the tell-tale sound motivated him to pose.
__________________
Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4999 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
|
Where does he go at 12?
__________________
The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5000 |
Now living the life of a POW
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: The Lost Corners of Colorado
Posts: 202
|
To that big kitty litter box in the sky?
__________________
This space left intentionally blank. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5001 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
|
We have cat-shifts, because Diz is a bully. Sigh.
Mia is more of an outdoor cat. She comes in at about 06.30 - depends on my schedule - but if I'm working that's about right. She goes to bed about 08.30, by choice, so Diz gets the run of the house. Diz goes to bed about 12.00. If I am not home he's ready for it. If I am home he's pretty much ready for it anyway as he gets half a handful of beebles and he knows it. From about 11.00 he's woawing and fussing. Switch over again at 20.00. Mia doesn't have as much time in the house as she is much older and she prefers to be out at night anyway. When she's in she wants to sleep. None of us (humans) are really happy with it, but the boy can be a terror ![]()
__________________
Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5002 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
|
Those young turks...
__________________
The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5003 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
|
So I finish shopping at our local chain "we carry everything" store, and go to check out.
One cashier is working (feverishly), and another is just standing there doing nothing behind her register. Another staff comes by and asks why she is not checking. "It won't let me sign in... it says I have to wait another 5 minutes" MY GOD ! A computer program that won't let an employee even start work ! The only lightness was when the customers in line all began laughing or cussing, according to their own natures. . |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5004 | ||
We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
|
There's a constant, low level (or sometimes much louder!) misogynistic buzz on social media (and across the internet) with jokes about domestic violence and rape, or just disdainful about women and their sexuality, vile comments posted in reply to women blog writers and sites dedicated to distributing naked photos of ex-girlfriends with the derision in the comments flowing freely.
It just is what it is. In some settings, sexist jokes can be funny. Like for instance, when one of you guys tell one of us girls to go make a sammich. It's funny because it's aware and plays with the boundaries we have all set for each other in humour. Likewise, I have laughed at rape jokes, depending on the joke - there are ways of being funny about that without further degrading rape victims or offering tacit acceptance of rapists. Each joke, each picture, each slight, on its own is often not very much. But they aren't made in isolation from each other. Together they combine to make a very unpleasant bubbling undercurrent to our popular culture. It isn't just the obvious stuff, either. It infects our mainstream media. Female politicians whose press coverage seems to consist mostly of an analysis of their hairstyles and fashion sense, newspapers covering rape stories with a prurient focus on what was done to the women, as well as a tone that implicates the victims as somehow responsible for what happened to them. It's everywhere, all the time. Most depressingly, women engage in it too. Often as viciously. Women's magazines (mainly written by women, but often with a man at the head of the publication) are some of the worst culprits for creating a culture disdainful of women, hyper-critical of their physicality and solidly centered on assumptions of womanhood realised through male attention and approval. Anyways...that's just a little context: what's irritating me is a post on facebook that appeared in my timeline. An old school chum I haven't spoken to for years. Posted by a woman: Quote:
__________________
Quote:
Last edited by DanaC; 03-05-2013 at 04:54 AM. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5005 | ||
We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
|
Oh bollocky bollocks, here's another. Same woman:
Quote:
__________________
Quote:
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5006 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
|
Was that the whole joke? Pretty lame.
If it had built up a bit, with the couple arguing about whose turn it is to cook, or about how she's out working so he should make dinner etc, and then have the punchline it could have been better. No need to call her an ungrateful cow, tho. I think it'd come across funnier as a hopeless-male-trying-to-be-good-but-failing-dismally sort of twist. The background static ... yeah, it's there.
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5007 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
|
You're right. i was trying to work out why that joke irritated me, when much naughtier ones around the same theme have made me laugh. And it's the nastiness and aggressive tone of it unmitigated by a broader scene.
__________________
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5008 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
|
That second one is horrible just for the language abuse. :p
Seriously, there are times when it is right to object to that sort of thing. You don't have to cause a big scene, but let them know you don't like it. Groups and individuals determine their guidelines about behaviour through this kind of feedback, and at least a bit, it works. We've seen it here in the last year. tl;dr: smack that bitch down!
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5009 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
|
I suppose I should be grateful it's not the same person as the one posting a combo of crystal waving unicorn wisdom and anti-muslim humour, That's quite enough cognitive dissonance for anyone to handle.
__________________
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5010 |
Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago suburbs
Posts: 2,916
|
Here's one I heard much like the first one, but much nicer.
A young couple get married and move to a different city where the husband has obtained a job. The wife who was still looking for employment got into the habit of making elaborate dinners. The husband tells the wife, "You don't have to make these elaborate dinners. We can live on Loooooove. She keeps making the dinners and he keeps telling her they can live on Looooooove. The next night he comes home to find his wife naked, sliding down the bannister. "What are you doing honey?" She turns to go up one more time. As she slides back down she smiles and says, "Warming dinner." Not very funny here because you all knew what was coming.
__________________
![]() ![]() ![]() Talk nerdy to me. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Tags |
mild cheddar |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 24 (0 members and 24 guests) | |
|
|