Ridiculous question: has anyone seen the August issue of Vanity Fair (the one with the MSFT article) on newsstands anywhere? Yes, I want to read that. The excerpt on the site talks about Reader, which was my first job there.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Atropa - Jul 12, 2012 9:31:12 am PDT #13498 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 9:31:42 am PDT #13499 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so Tosh (a few months back) encouraged male members of his audience to tape themselves touching (assaulting?) women - he did this as part of his act.
And of course members of the audience did and these videos I guess are hosted on Comedy Central?
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 9:33:29 am PDT #13500 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela - Jul 12, 2012 9:39:05 am PDT #13501 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
le n, the second video you linked is a nice palate cleanser after the first (not that I can watch either of them from my office).
Jessica - Jul 12, 2012 9:41:04 am PDT #13502 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
encouraged male members of his audience to tape themselves touching (assaulting?) women
The FUCK?!?!?!
Gah, I feel dirty just having accidentally watched a few seconds of his show before TDS starts.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 9:44:14 am PDT #13503 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The comments on that first link, le n, are GREAT. I am not sure why anyone thinks it's their job to decide I don't feel threatened by being deliberately touched by strangers for no reason other than touching itself (and recording and sharing with other strangers), or that hearing the scenario of being raped by five people in the room shouldn't make you feel uncomfortable *or* if you are uncomfortable this is exactly how you should act...
Like, can't you go as far as "I wouldn't react that way, but I see that I'm not every person, not even every reasonable person" and leave it there? It's not like the responses involved lighting babies on fire and drinking their flaming blood. They were societally proportionate, pretty much. Even if they're not yours.
Sue - Jul 12, 2012 9:47:14 am PDT #13504 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I was scared driving across a mesa in Arizona -- too open! Too exposed!
The Southwest totally freaked me out because it was a completely alien landscape and climate. But it also fascinated me. I'd love to go back sometime.
When I lived in Vancouver, I missed the ocean. I know, there's water everywhere! But the mountains were so dominant. And the Pacific Ocean is no North Atlantic, let me tell you.
Jessica - Jul 12, 2012 9:53:10 am PDT #13505 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ita, I think you missed the point. Everyone who is offended by the suggestion that hecklers should be gang-raped is a butthurt militant feminist. As noted first amendment expert "schnitzengiggles" put it:
Whole lotta bitches pms’ing in here.
Theodosia - Jul 12, 2012 9:57:09 am PDT #13506 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
As a child, I spent too much time at the beach staring out over the flat flat flat flat ocean, to be scared of big skies.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 9:58:08 am PDT #13507 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why does the shortest distance to equality seem to involve a great deal of raped men?
HOW IS THAT EVEN....AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!11!
(Thank dog men can be raped now, at least. A couple years ago, they didn't even have that freedom. MRA, not for naught.)