The sloth is totally my totem animal!
Mine too! I even have an LJ icon!
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - May 27, 2011 11:18:42 am PDT #9896 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Allyson - May 27, 2011 11:20:49 am PDT #9897 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
A bunch of Facebook posts by people not realizing The Onion is fake.
I find it irritating. I need the moment when the OP figures out that s/he's an idiot who doesn't get satire and becomes indignant. That's always my favorite part. I feel like I'm being denied the ending when the emperor figures out that s/he's both buck naked and has a piece of toilet paper trailing from his/her crack.
Without that moment of realization, I just feel sad.
Steph L. - May 27, 2011 11:23:17 am PDT #9898 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Allyson, I had the same reaction.
§ ita § - May 27, 2011 11:23:37 am PDT #9899 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Without that moment of realization, I just feel sad.
I kind of wish they weren't vaguely anonymised, because people really should be called out on that idiocy.
Calli - May 27, 2011 11:24:27 am PDT #9900 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Harking back to posts of yesterhour, I'd also be up for a couch-to-3k group (although I'm not interested in actually racing--just in knowing I could jog the route). Do all runners and runners-to-be know about Map My Run? Apparently they have some sort of friend function where people can keep up with each others running stuff. Of course, we already have b.org.
Allyson - May 27, 2011 11:31:12 am PDT #9901 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I kind of wish they weren't vaguely anonymised, because people really should be called out on that idiocy.
I am a firm believer in this, also. I read one comment about the tumblr that it was all just snobby elitists picking on rubes.
And I can't figure out how anyone is supposed to stop being a rube if you don't say to them, "this is satire. You may also want to acquaint yourself with Poe's Law.
P.M. Marc - May 27, 2011 11:38:32 am PDT #9902 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yep. That's how I knew I came in last on my corporate team.
What was your time? (I ran mine in about 45 minutes, but "run" is a strong term for what I did.)
§ ita § - May 27, 2011 11:40:01 am PDT #9903 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ah, Christwire. I just saw it cited seriously the other day.
Allyson - May 27, 2011 11:49:43 am PDT #9904 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I read something that came up in a search result the other day that I thought was satire, but was actually a neo-nazi message board.
Toddson - May 27, 2011 12:03:02 pm PDT #9905 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I manage our weekly e-newsletter and a few months ago had someone send me an article to be included ... from The Onion. Never did get straightened out if she realized that it was satire ....