Cards Against Humanity
After generating your meme, it will be submitted for review.Upon approval, you’ll receive an email containing a link to your #CosbyMeme By clicking “submit”, you agree to the terms of use. ~ Ten Days Or Whatever of Kwanzaa by Cards Against Humanity ~ And I told my youth poet if he didn’t write the poem, I was gonna write the poem. He wrote the poem. ~The only word that rhymes with poem is jeroboam. Definitions: a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC) ~ There was an article in RFD years ago. It was about a restaurant in backwoods Kentucky that was a regional hangout. The owner said, in so many words, that you could have a hundred gay men, and they would have a good time. If you have a dozen lesbians, there would be a fight. ~ @pourmecoffee Retweeting haters to get others to attack on your behalf makes you the Aquaman of Twitter. ~ “What does reality tv tell us” turn the idiot box off ~ What about the bystanders who have no interest in the quarell, and just want to work/play/live in harmony? ~ This responsibility includes determining that you are being told the truth. ~ In September, the Confederates abandoned the city. There was a fire at this time. This was the fire in “Gone with the Wind.” As for the Yankee naysayers in this comment thread … y’all are not much better, and in some cases worse. The civil rights movement was largely a southern movement, with significant white support. ~ Ok, I am through with my blog post, so I could participate in this facebook fracas. It is better to stay out of discussions, and produce something. This is especially true when the topic of discussion is none of your business. Just because a rabble rouser has your attention is no reason to wrestle with a hog. The wrestling hog does not care that you are covered in mud. All he knows is that he had a good time. ~ Many of these trouble makers have more rhetorical skills than integrity. ~ please be careful. Recovery from major surgery is recovery from major surgery. Don’t push too fast. ~ I thought this was an open thread about being an open thread ~ Now I know this is an official ARF thread. ~ I used to work for someone with a love of cliches. When he heard you say me, he would interrupt you and say this is a we company, not a me company. Does this mean that a meme should be more properly called a wewe? ~ The problem is that the haters spoil it for a lot of others. When hate is being spread behind your back, you don’t know who is infected and who is not. It is easier to just stay away. ~ You’ve reached the end of the Top Tweets for #WhyIWasFiredFromWalmart. View all Tweets. ~ This site is intended for entertainment purposes only. It in no way reflects the thoughts of Deepak Chopra. ~ @JesusIsAJerk I swear to drunk I’m not God, but seriously, stay in drugs, eat school, and don’t do vegetables.. ~ Oh, I remember. You are the French guy. ~ @punsquad Stop using mental illness symptoms as insults dear goodness ~ @punsquad @steveroggenbuck you prefer to use body parts and hygiene appliances as insults? ~ Dealing with our current healthcare mess might be a job for Satan. ~ Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Random Trivia Questions
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5:52 am. Breakfast is cooking. A day out in the world awaits. Can You Answer 13 RANDOM Trivia Questions? The header ad is the Pillsbury doughboy. Apparently those funeral rumors were just somebody’s idea of a joke. Pop Tart, and Aunt Jemima, will be relieved.
5:54 am “How many innings does a baseball game have?” These things always start easy. Maybe, with the popularity of useless honesty, the question should be how many outings a game will have. 5:56 am “What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s pet dog?” These things make me goofy. Pluto is a buddy of Socrates, and Donald is a duck. All are cartoon characters.
5:57 am “What is the general name for a group of wolves?” Why are wolves compared to a box of playing cards? The ad here is Consumer Reports, which also comes in a pack. Is writing down those times too much work? Should you go take a look at breakfast? Cleaning up a burned out pot is not going to be helpful. “Which two fairytale characters ended up in a house made of gingerbread?” If the gb house was on a hill, it would be Jack and Jill. Johnny Carson has a routine about censorship. He honked a horn at the dirty parts. Jack and Jill went up the hill, honk, honk, honk.
“Which movie actor uttered the famous words, “I’ll be back.”” Three famous Hollywood tough guys, with only one American in the crew. Sooner or later there is going to be a wrong answer. “Which bird was commonly used by humans to send messages?” “TRUE or FALSE: In Greek mythology, Hades is the God of The underworld.” “What is the longest river in the world?” “Who said “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?” The last one is a misquote. The astronaut said it was a small step for a man. The product here is a toilet bowl scrubber. “TRUE or FALSE: Earth is the 3rd closest planet to the sun?””Scurvy is the result of a deficiency in which vitamin?”
“Steven Tyler is the singer of which famous band?” The pharmaceutical ad, with the scrolling side effects in fine print, has been replaced with the soft scrub toilet bowl cleaner. “The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a gift from which country? Somehow, the guessing game was good for 10 correct answers, Goofy, Hades, and Scurvy were the only things to fail. The fourteenth correct answer is to say no, do not post this to facebook or twitter.
Jeopardy Ready! From Mickey Mouse to Pigeon carriers, you know your absolutely random trivia! You need to have an exceedingly diverse knowledge range to be able to succeed on a quiz like this – and you did! We don’t know where along your life you picked up information on scurvy, or what Aerosmith song you listen to that reminds of Steven Tyler… you dominated this quiz! Share this quiz with your friends and family. Let’s see how well they do on these super random trivia questions!
Whoever wrote the winners notes did not pay attention to the results. Questions about Mickey Mouse, and Scurvy, were missed. Maybe Mickey’s dog was named Scurvy. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. 6:32 am Breakfast finished cooking without incident.
Words To Ban In 2015
TIME magazine has been around a while. It issues product every week, hopefully accompanied by paid advertising. When they run out of news to report, it is time to get creative. This is the spirit of Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?
This is the fourth time for the contest. The previous winners are OMG, YOLO and twerk. These expressions are still with us. TIME magazine readers voting to ban a word does not mean very much.
This reality is lost on Blogher. Infuriating: TIME Puts ‘Feminist’ on List of Words to Ban in 2015. There was a tweet, alerting chamblee54 to the situation. @lanceburson Let’s ban @TIME instead RT @BlogHer: Infuriating: TIME Puts ‘Feminist’ on List of Words to Ban in 2015
“ARE. YOU. KIDDING. ME? … I’ll stop “throwing this label around” when the pay gap disappears, when mothers aren’t systematically punished in the workplace for caring for children, when men can access paternity leave freely, when women aren’t asked what they were wearing before getting raped.”
The first quoted sentence is in all caps. There are four words, three periods, and one question mark. Maybe this will help eliminate rape culture and the pay gap.
So, TIME is voting on what words to ban in 2015. The contestants are bae, basic, bossy, disrupt, feminist, I can’t even, influencer, kale, literally, om nom nom nom, obvi, said no one ever, sorry not sorry, turnt, yaaasssss. The terms are helpfully provided in alphabetical order.
According to the Urban Dictionary, bae is a Danish word for feces. Feminist is the only word ending in ist, to the relief of the ban-worthy racist and terrorist. Kale is literally om nom nom nom. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Broke In Three Places
A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he’s doing a show in Arkansas.
With his dummy on his knee, he’s going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting: ”I’ve heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person’s hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It’s guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person, because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against, not only blondes, but women in general…and all in the name of humor!”
The ventriloquist is embarrassed and begins to apologize, when the blonde yells, ”You stay out of this, mister! I’m talking to that little jerk on your knee!”
A man goes into the doctor.He says, “Doc, you gotta check my leg. Something’s wrong. Just put your ear up to my thigh, you’ll hear it!”The doctor cautiously placed his ear to the man’s thigh, only to hear, “Gimme 20 bucks. I really need 20 bucks.””I’ve never seen or heard anything like this before. How long has this been going on?” The doctor asked.”That’s nothing Doc. Put your ear to my knee.”The doctor put his ear to the man’s knee and heard it say, “Man, I really need 10 dollars. Just lend me 10 bucks!!””Sir, I really don’t know what to tell you. I’ve never seen anything like this.” The doctor was dumbfounded.”Wait Doc, that’s not all. There’s more, just put your ear up to my ankle,” the man urged him.The doctor did as the man said and was blown away to hear his ankle plead, “Please, I just need 5 dollars. Lend me 5 bucks, please, if you will.””I have no idea what to tell you. There’s nothing about it in my books,” he said, as he frantically searched all his medical reference books.”I can make a well educated guess though,” he continued. “Based on life and all my previous experience, I can tell you that your leg seems to be broke in three places.”
This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
The Docket Book
twitter synchronicity ~ The third commandment says not to make a political football out of a sacred name. ~ Has the Atlanta Board of Education tweaked the Georgia statistics? ~ @Jizismyname Rose McGowan said gays are shallow & misogynistic? Please, what does that useless hole know? Did ya see what she’s wearing? Go make a baby. ~ When you click on the link, you have to sit through a pop up ad for master charge which you cannot turn off. ~ The Sheriff’s Department is required by law to provide certain information to the public regarding inmate admissions and releases from the Detention Center. Originally, a written docket book or log located in the facility’s lobby was the access point for this information. This docket book was replaced with a public computer terminal in the lobby and is now available on-line via the Internet. ~ Our commenting rules are pretty simple: If you make any overly offensive comment (racist, bigoted, etc..) or go way off topic when not in an Open Post, your comments will be deleted and you will be banned. If you see an offensive or spammy comment you think should be deleted, flag it for the mods and they’ll be forever grateful and give you their first born (although, you probably don’t want that). ~ Stuff the ballot box. ~ I’m listening to an ambient station on Jango, and one of the suggested similar stations is “Thomas Kinkade Radio.” I can’t even imagine. ~ Statistics are like bikinis. They look good but they don’t show everything. ~ lord funkbottom go piss up a rope then get back on your medication ~ Luther, You Can Help Stop Ebola Support organizations working in West Africa so they can stop the disease and save lives. ~ Editing pictures, with the Falcons game in the background. Trying to decide if the company of faeries is worth the effort of driving across town. ~ Tetanus vaccines found spiked with sterilization chemical to carry out race-based genocide against Africans ~ Top APS employee suspended w/o pay after some donated cans of food, toiletry items went missing from a charity event. ~ Read your Bible, Steelers! “And the Lord said, ‘Let not Bieber into your inner circle, or thou will be smitten by the lowliest of enemies.'” ~ @MobyDickatSea those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound. ~ pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
Eighty Percent
It is a T shirt treasure, and a coffee cup classic. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” This gem is blamed on Allan Steward Konigsberg, better known as Woody Allen. The percentage goes up and down, and life is sometimes substituted for success.
The quote was recently featured at WIST, or Wish I’d Said That. This quote site is known for giving a source, unlike the sites featuring purring platitudes in front of a cultural kitten. The current top offering is “Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.” Virginia Woolf attributes the baroque comment to Roger Fry who was not afraid of the author.
Getting back to Mr. Allen and success statistics. He accepts full responsibility for the remark. In 1989, notorious conservative columnist William Safire asked Mr. Allen about whether he said life or success. The answer was rather surprising.
“The quote you refer to is a quote of mine which occurred during an interview while we were discussing advice to young writers, and more specifically young playwrights. My observation was that once a person actually completed a play or a novel he was well on his way to getting it produced or published, as opposed to a vast majority of people who tell me their ambition is to write, but who strike out on the very first level and indeed never write the play or book.”
In other words, you don’t just show up empty handed. If you have an idea, you have to employ the writing formula, ass + chair. You have to turn the tv off, leave the beer in the refrigerator, sit down, and push buttons on the keyboard.
The second part of today’s entertainment is an encore presentation, Inspiration Is For Amateurs. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
PG was listening to an interview with a fiction writer. Someone said “Inspiration is for amateurs.” PG has always been more impressed by action than beliefs, and this phrase made sense. This repost is a good excuse to post some more pictures from The Library of Congress.
The phrase is from a painter named Chuck Close. His output is expensive, and widely enjoyed. A spinal injury left him paralyzed, but did not stop him from producing. Here is the full quote:
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
A man once made pottery. It was said that the man only worked with passion, and that if he didn’t feel this passion he did not work. When PG heard that, his thought was that if PG worked that way, he would never finish anything. Most of the sticker pictures take a while to finish. PG always gets tired of the picture before it is through. The idea is to go to the studio, start to do stuff, and before long the enthusiasm will return. Any image requires a certain amount of time with the belly pressed against the work table, or the digital equivalent.
The formula for writing is ass plus chair. A teacher once said to not stare at the blank page, waiting for a bolt of lightening. Start to write something, and the ideas will start to sputter out of the pipeline.
It is not enough to have a bright idea. You have to work the problems out. Sometimes, you spend more time finding out what does not work, than what does. You have to do it wrong before you can do it right. Genius is ninety nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration. If any cliches have been overlooked, please add them to the comments.
One thing that is helpful is to be focused. The internet can be a problem. When you should be thinking about your product, it is very tempting to see the latest on Facebook or Twitter.
The Rose And Bret Show
After the media stormette about Rose Arianna McGowan this week, PG decided to give the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast episode a second listen. In the opening monolog, BEE discusses a quote he was blamed for. It was about women who direct movies. BEE was mistakenly quoted as saying half the population cannot direct films. He learned to never give an interview over drinks.
The monolog rambled over something called the male gaze, or the male oriented viewpoint of most movie makers. Soon, RAM was in the show, and talking misogyny. “I can tell you stories that would curl your hair.” RAM then mentioned the time when she called out a young man for calling “Golden Girl” Blanche a slut. This is a story that RAM likes to tell.
The first movie RAM worked was six weeks after her boyfriend was murdered. “I had never acted before. I was discovered standing on a street corner. I never tell that part of the story.” The director was Gregg Araki. RAM noted that “gays can be as misogynistic as …” She would return to that theme later. “I have an indictment of the gay community.” BEE “I do too.”
The Beverly Hills Hotel issue soon came up. For those who are new here, BHH is owned by the Sultan of Brunei. A proposal to enact Sharia law was enacted over there. “Armchair activists” in Southern California decided not to do business with the BHH. The trendy people went elsewhere for their $20 martinis, to the delight of people who work elsewhere.
RAM is not pleased. She mentions Richard Branson denouncing BHH, after making a deal with Saudi Arabia. As someone who puts Arab gasoline in his vehicle, PG is loath to throw stones.
No such inhibitions were on display during the podcast. At the 32 minute mark, RAM says “I have heard nobody in the gay community, no gay male, standing up for women on any level.” At 35 minutes, “no help for the African American community, no help for lesbians.”
At the 44 minute mark is a commercial break. Larry King, and his ?th wife, have a podcast. They invite you to see what it is like to live with him, and her. It is a material world.
After the break, BEE and RAM talked shop. The film industry is not as much fun as it never was. At the 57:29 mark, RAM says “I digress. Damn, I digress so much I forgot what I was talking about. … you know, Tom Cruise’s q rating isn’t what it used to be.” PG wonders what RAM’s q rating is today.
The poem today is adapted from Psalm 51. Pictures by chamblee54.
Christian Privilege
There is a lot of chatter about privilege these days. Where people used to talk about racism, today the buzzword is privilege. Chamblee54 has tried to contribute to the dialog (polylog) with recent posts about black privilege and white privilege. This is a repost.
One day recently, PG was exercising his vehicular privilege. The thought occured to him about another form of privilege. This privilege is stronger than race based privilege. In fact, many of the people, who whine about white privilege, benefit from this privilege. The president of privilege in America is Christian Privilege. (CP)
If you ask Mr. Google about CP, you get 3.6 million results. The first few give us plenty of text for this feature. A report about CP from About.com Agnosticism / Atheism has the traditional list of examples. The last few paragraphs tell more about the story.
A nonconscious ideology is analogous to the water fish swim in: fish don’t think of the water as wet because this environment is all they know — it structures their experience of life itself. Water simply is. Members of privileged groups don’t have to think about their environment because, for them, that environment simply is. They don’t have to be concerned about others’ opinions because it’s safe to assume that most think like them.
Those who don’t benefit from such an environment do have to think about it all the time because they are so susceptible to being harmed by it. For members of less privileged groups, what others think matters a great deal because their opinions and actions control access to the larger benefits of society. Fish don’t have to think about the water; mammals must remain conscious of it at all times lest they drown.
In most of the examples here, we can replace Christian/religion with male/gender or white/race and come up with the same results: examples of how our social, political, and cultural environment reinforce the dominance of one group over others. Male privilege and white privilege are closely related to Christian privilege because they have all been undermined by modernity and have all become part of America’s Culture Wars.
Christians realize that many of the above privileges are in decline. They interpret this as persecution because privilege is all they have ever known. The same is true when men complain about the decline of male privilege and whites complain about the decline of white privilege. The defense of privilege is a defense of dominance and discrimination, but for those who benefit it’s a defense of their traditional way of life. They need to become conscious of their privileges and realize that in a free society, such privileges are inappropriate.
A blog called Shakesville weighs in with On “Real” Christians and Christian Privilege . It tells the story of being asked not to identify Ann Coulter as a Christian. PG totally understands being embarassed by Ms. Coulter. There was a radio show once, with Ann Coulter promoting a book and PG listening. Some famous person was mentioned, and Ms. Coulter started to make jokes about what would happen to this famous person when he died. The line was that when he gets to heaven, he is going to wish he had been a Christian. This assumption that your ideas about life after death are correct, and universally practiced, is one especially vile example of CP.
The feature at Shakesville (which is easier to pronounce than Shakespearessister) is about how many people deflect complaints about bad behavior by saying “He is not really a Christian”. This is unsatisfactory on a number of levels. Many of the “good” Christians support “bad” Christians in their evil work. This excuse is one reason why PG prefers to say Jesus Worshiper to describe the members of this tribe. Shakes addresses this issue: “Frankly, it’s hurtful to me when Christians address what happened to me by saying, “Those aren’t real Christians,” expecting me to salve their discomfort about the baggage of privilege by not disagreeing. People who would never in a million years think to try to console a victim of a hate crime with “All [white/straight/cis/abled] people aren’t like that!” nonetheless responded that way to me when I was targeted and threatened by droves of self-identified Christians.”
Shakes is a good writer. She says things much better than this slack blogger. Maybe we should just let her explain a few things.
Christianity has a 2,000-year history that has seen countless iterations of the religion based on countless interpretation of the text and shaped to fit countless times and spaces and needs in disparate cultures all around the world. Christians have done great things, and not-so-great things—and anyone who makes the personal choice to carry the Christian mantle associates themselves with a history that includes all the good stuff and all the shitty stuff, too. One can’t say, “I only associate with the good Christianity—not the inquisitions and the genocides and the warmongering and the colonialism and the institutional misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, anti-Semitism…”
That’s all part of Christianity’s legacy, too—and it just isn’t intellectually honest to say, “Well, those weren’t real Christians.” Yes, they were. And so are the Christians who do shitty stuff today. They might not be the same kind of Christian as you are, but they are nonetheless Christians.
Christianity, at least (and especially) in America, is a privilege—and, like any privilege, it can be uncomfortable to face the ugly reality of what other members of a privileged class can do to non-privileged folks, even if you don’t do it yourself. I’m white, I’m straight, I’m cisgender: I understand the impulse to distance oneself. But as a white person, I am obliged to acknowledge that the history of white supremacy in America is one of slavery, of lynchings, of segregation, of sundown towns, of internment camps, of genocide, and of all manner of institutionalized racism. I don’t get to say (nor do I want to) that the KKK aren’t “real” white people. They sure as hell are.
That Christianity is a chosen privilege does not mean its members can claim a lower standard of rigorous self-examination. And it doesn’t mean that less privileged Christians, i.e. progressive Christians, can claim a lower standard, either, just because the more privileged Christians marginalize them. Poor whites don’t get to disclaim their white privilege just because they are further marginalized by their lack of wealth.
In fact, chosen privileges demand, if anything, a higher standard of self-examination, because one has a choice whether to participate in the privilege. But so often, the fact that Christianity is a choice is instead used to deny the effects of that privilege altogether—”I’m not one of those Christians; I’m one of the good ones!”
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