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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.


Allyson - May 21, 2012 10:32:59 am PDT #6083 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 just wonder at what point the seams start to strain and the bullshit leaks through...

Ten bucks says he frequents MRA chats and is oblivious to the fact that his words can't put a dent in her, and while she goes on to have an awesome historical legacy, he will be the quote used in articles to show how douchey people were back then. He's the guy with the firehose and the dogs, and any progeny he manages to eek out will feel deeply ashamed and change their names to avoid association with him.

So there's that.


Allyson - May 21, 2012 10:35:37 am PDT #6084 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

Of course, I just had to vanity google myself, and am grateful that I get my amazon page and some good book reviews and blog posts. I hope I don't screw up my google.


Zenkitty - May 21, 2012 10:42:04 am PDT #6085 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Given that I know we have an ex-porn-marketer cannibal on staff

...how did you even get into the conversation where someone admits that?


§ ita § - May 21, 2012 10:43:24 am PDT #6086 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

either a cannibal or someone who didn't bother to google the term "long pig" until it was too late

He says he knew what he was doing--I don't have enough reason to judge, since I can't work out why anyone would spin accidentally eating human. However, a lot he does boggles me, so I'm not sure why I'm trying to force my template on him here.

My vanity google is nice and tidy. And misleading. LinkedIn and IMDB are the only actual mes that you get.


Jesse - May 21, 2012 10:49:03 am PDT #6087 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, I suddenly look super legit on google, thanks in part to this start-up nonprofit I'm on the board of which turns out to have a fancy-looking website up, with bios! (NB: The board has had one meeting. The organization just got its 501c3 within the last month.)

Oh, except the comment I left on some random website in the 90s when websites had guest books is still there. I guess it could be worse?


tommyrot - May 21, 2012 10:50:10 am PDT #6088 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, should the military and the State Department be allowed to produce propaganda to be used on US citizens?

For a long time, this has been against the law.

Proposed US law makes domestic propaganda legal

The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”

According to this official, “senior public affairs” officers within the Department of Defense want to “get rid” of Smith-Mundt and other restrictions because it prevents information activities designed to prop up unpopular policies—like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


§ ita § - May 21, 2012 10:56:41 am PDT #6089 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

how did you even get into the conversation where someone admits that?

It wasn't even my conversation. I used to sit next to him, and he does support, and apart from asking everyone to submit him for an award, he does A LOT of offtopic chatter.

The worst I've been subjected to by him directly was the "feeding live goats to your snake" conversation. But since the "worst snake owner conversation" title is held by the friend who shared with me that he used to have his boa constrictor in bed with him during sex, no harm no foul, not tripping the meter.


flea - May 21, 2012 10:58:19 am PDT #6090 of 30001
information libertarian

People do not *have* these conversations in front of me. Why do they have them in front of ita !? Does it have something to do with the links?


Jessica - May 21, 2012 10:58:44 am PDT #6091 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

boa constrictor in bed with him during sex

NO NO NO


Sue - May 21, 2012 10:59:16 am PDT #6092 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I look boring on Google. The maddening thing is that my twitter account is the top result even though my last name is nowhere on the account.