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Re: What’s your favorite example of lampshading in pop culture?

jamietie — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:35:59 -0000

Hermes' line about the cigar raising further questions might actually be my favorite in all of Futurama.

Re: These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War

jamietie — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:11:21 -0000

No, using language to obscure a point is Orwellian, and as the "Compromise of 1850," wasn't a compromise as much as the North giving in to Southern demands, it was Orwellian (in this case, quite an anachronistic term, but accurate) to have it called that in the first place, since it conceals the true nature of the bargain.

Re: These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War

jamietie — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:08:06 -0000

I would argue just "correctness," even though it might not agree with your ideology.

Re: Stormtrooper arrested outside Lynn school - 7News Boston WHDH-TV

jamietie — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:33:17 -0000

After considering this, I think you're right. She had no way of knowing whether it was real. I suppose I'm angrier about him actually being charged with something. Calling the police was a better safe than sorry move.

Re: Stormtrooper arrested outside Lynn school - 7News Boston WHDH-TV

jamietie — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:46:23 -0000

No, no I would not be thanking her. There's a difference between being cautious and being stupid. That gun does not look like a real gun. It looks like a prop from a movie. Which is what it is.

Re: Can you take me high enough?: 24 songs with a pivotal key change

jamietie — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:03:20 -0000

I feel like anything common enough to have a TV Tropes entry probably shouldn't make it as an AV Club Inventory.

Re: Can you take me high enough?: 24 songs with a pivotal key change

jamietie — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:00:50 -0000

Exactly! You know which songs end with a key change? Nearly every damn country song from the 1950s and 60s! Modulating up a half step or a whole step does not make something epic.
But I will admit to being a sucked for the key change in "Massive Nights."

Re: Sickbed successes: 20 great works created by the gravely ill

jamietie — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:19:09 -0000

I was given that album as a Christmas present about three weeks after my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer (he recovered). I cannot listen to that song without bawling.

Re: Check Out Kawasaki's Totally Illegal Ninja Superbike

jamietie — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:51:59 -0000

It's the lights more than anything else. There aren't any power restrictions from NHTSA, but federal law requires headlights, taillights, brake lights, and in some cases, turn signals.

Re: Gunfire rings out as feds investigate police shooting of teen

jamietie — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:07:36 -0000

In every account he was moving away from the police and didn't have a gun. So even if we believe the officer that he went for the gun, he didn't succeed. How is that a capital offense?

Re: Gunfire rings out as feds investigate police shooting of teen

jamietie — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:46:31 -0000

That is a perfectly good reason to shoot someone dead.

Re: Ted Nugent mocks ‘unclean dipsht’ Native Americans: Whites ‘stole their land’ is ‘bullsht’

jamietie — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:04:04 -0000

not to mention the fact that he has bragged repeatedly about pooping his pants as a ploy to avoid being drafted.

Re: Giraffe riddle: Why you're probably answering the Facebook riddle wrong

jamietie — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:58:04 -0000

yes

Re: Obama Tells Colleges He's Going to Start Ranking Them

jamietie — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:54:29 -0000

The government should move to make student loans interest-free, offer more federal financial aid, and more strictly regulate the predatory private student loan companies. Pay as you earn is a great idea, but there's a lot more the government needs to do with student loans.

Re: The Guide to Being Funny at Work

jamietie — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:58:35 -0000

It makes me feel dead inside to note that it should be SWOT instead of SWAT. If you need me, I'll be balled up in the corner, lamenting every decision that has led to this moment.

Re: Girls With Slingshots - GWS #1663

jamietie — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:24:36 -0000

I have a few weddings coming up. This would be a great gift.

Re: Meet the Career Con Man Who Pulled Off a Federal Sting That Cost Google 500 Million

jamietie — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:54:01 -0000

That is truly tortured logic, and not least because we DO use a government agency (the health departments of various states, counties, etc) to protect us from dangerously bad restaurants. And these sites weren't filling prescriptions. They were selling controlled substances without any prescription whatsoever. That's no different that Google accepting an ad from the guy who sells heroin on the street corner.

Re: Toronto Mayor: 'I Do Not Use Crack Cocaine'

jamietie — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:31:21 -0000

The latest reports seem to suggest the drug dealers have disappeared, which is their wont. I dislike Ford a lot, but I'd like to see real evidence before jumping to conclusions.

Re: Former FBI counterterrorism agent implies that US records all US phone calls

jamietie — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:10:45 -0000

This is both possible and plausible, but I can speak to at least this: I worked scheduling repair visits for [Very Large Phone Company] part-time from 1998-2001, and when the police occasionally called us directly asking for things like recordings, we told them that VLPC didn't record phone calls, only the dialing, etc, and that they should reach out to corporate security.

True? I don't know, but think of the immense amount of computing it would take to make this happen.

Re: Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human?

jamietie — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:09:59 -0000

Cute, but even if that is what the British do, it doesn't work "Every Time." I point you to the 1981 Hunger Strikes by IRA prisoners protesting revocation of political prisoner status in Long Kesh. Ten of them died, and all refused food consistently. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Buzzfeed fingers bombing suspect in triple homicide based on Internet comments

jamietie — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0000

Whether he did it or not isn't really the issue. It's the fact that this is about the textbook definition of reckless disregard, one of the standards for libel. As it happens, you can't libel the dead, but this is a truly distressing development and further proof that Buzzfeed is great if you want to see animal gifs, but not serious news.

Re: What does ambergris look like?

jamietie — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:55:57 -0000

Precious hamburgers?

Re: Obama on Guns: 'Shame on Us' — and the Gun Lobby

jamietie — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:48:07 -0000

There was an armed guard at Columbine--he even exchanged fire with one of the shooters. It did no good. The problem is TOO MANY guns, not too few.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/...

Re: Have yourself 3D-scanned and turned into a human gummi

jamietie — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:22:30 -0000

I'm shocked, and somewhat appalled. that no one has mentioned a gummi Venus de Milo.

Re: Arkansas Just Adopted a French-Style Abortion Policy

jamietie — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:00:33 -0000

But that presumes a man is willing to use them. Giving women access to contraception--as easily and freely available as condoms are--is essential, but is not happening.

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Re: What’s your favorite example of lampshading in pop culture?

Re: These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War

Re: These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War

Re: Stormtrooper arrested outside Lynn school - 7News Boston WHDH-TV

Re: Stormtrooper arrested outside Lynn school - 7News Boston WHDH-TV

Re: Can you take me high enough?: 24 songs with a pivotal key change

Re: Can you take me high enough?: 24 songs with a pivotal key change

Re: Sickbed successes: 20 great works created by the gravely ill

Re: Check Out Kawasaki's Totally Illegal Ninja Superbike

Re: Gunfire rings out as feds investigate police shooting of teen

Re: Gunfire rings out as feds investigate police shooting of teen

Re: Ted Nugent mocks ‘unclean dipsh*t’ Native Americans: Whites ‘stole their land’ is ‘bullsh*t’

Re: Giraffe riddle: Why you're probably answering the Facebook riddle wrong

Re: Obama Tells Colleges He's Going to Start Ranking Them

Re: The Guide to Being Funny at Work

Re: Girls With Slingshots - GWS #1663

Re: Meet the Career Con Man Who Pulled Off a Federal Sting That Cost Google 500 Million

Re: Toronto Mayor: 'I Do Not Use Crack Cocaine'

Re: Former FBI counterterrorism agent implies that US records all US phone calls

Re: Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human?

Re: Buzzfeed fingers bombing suspect in triple homicide based on Internet comments

Re: What does ambergris look like?

Re: Obama on Guns: 'Shame on Us' — and the Gun Lobby

Re: Have yourself 3D-scanned and turned into a human gummi

Re: Arkansas Just Adopted a French-Style Abortion Policy

Re: Ted Nugent mocks ‘unclean dipsht’ Native Americans: Whites ‘stole their land’ is ‘bullsht’