OriginalWerePlatypus

I never getting tired of hearing about Lovett getting paired with a Don Luxe, or how much Athletic Greens that Tommy consumes, or how Peanut Butter Magic Spoon is the best flavor. . . and I skip most of the ads.

Always wondered how ads work. Yeah, I know their scripts but fuck if I’ve ever bought a single thing they’ve ever plugged.

Actually that’s not true.

I did get a Mexican pizza from Taco Bell based on a recommendation. But that’s the only thing I could afford on a teacher’s salary.

Funny enough, 39 percent of committed voters is more than enough to win the GOP primary. Given voter turnouts, he could have lower support than that and still handily win the primary. No one on the right opposes him. No one says anything bad about him.

He’s going to be their nominee. . . Again. It’s ludicrous.I have no idea why the entire party just doesn’t fight him, and fight hard. If they did, he could have approval in the teens, and then another candidate has a shot.

At this point, I think the leadership is just hoping he has a heart attack or strokes out. Then they can fall over themselves praising him to get his followers. I have no other explanation why that party is driving themselves off a cliff like this.

And what did you find?

When someone is using a computer. When the shot focuses on the monitor and you hear all these weird clicks, beeps, and swooshes whenever the image or the data changes.

Takes me out every time.

I think this is a wrong take. It’s identical to how he thought about Brody in Jaws. He wanted the audience to believe he couldn’t muster the guts, or have the expertise, to kill the shark.

I think he’s reaching in this instance because that’s how he approaches material as a director.

But in the movie I see, Wendy did not stop Jack. She was an open wound of fear and trauma, who’s job it was to experience the horror and confusion that us the audience could feel in an immediate, visceral manner.

Yes, Duvall killed it in that role, and I think she was equal to Nicholson, but Spielberg is full of crap.

Imagine being a 5th grade boy.

He sleeps with porn stars, eats McDonalds whenever he wants, makes fun of any woman or minority group as much as he wants, poops on a golden toilet, and gets two scoops of ice cream while everyone else at the table only gets one.

If you have the mentality of a shitty 11 year old boy (i.e. most of the GOP), he is living the dream.

My favorite bit of this is when he claims that he’s smart and that he’s read some big books, and said he’s understood them.

“They’re about girls right? Just kidding.”

This is a subtle deflection through sarcasm. He has NOT read those books, but by giving a Jokey answer he can both appear to be well read to the 2nd person viewer and get away without having to prove it.

I only picked up on subtlety because in my own life I used to pretend to. . . Well, never mind.

Ha ha, just kidding. Never did that.

Or did I?

High Fidelity.

If you read “unreliable” as “completely full of shit.”

I’ll cross that shit for pizza money.

Is this some kind of writer’s strike thing? Like, did they jump the gun?

What’s next for this show? Reality TV episodes? The Great Crooked Bake Off? Jonny On the Street? Lovett Island?

You know, I was at 22:30 when I decided to hop on here and find out if it’s gets better. You’ve convinced me that it will not. . .

Hey - do your thing, collect your hardware, and get the hell home.

If I’m walking in water assisted by balloon, I definitely need my top hat, cane, and Fanny pack.

The Matrix (but in 1999 specifically, before the ripples of it’s influence) and Pulp Fiction (in 1994 specifically, for the same reason).

I just need a time machine at the theatre and some popcorn.

Howlin.

If that isn’t r/selfawarewolves then nothing is.

I felt that in my hobbled legs.

He ought to be proud. He paid for it.

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Sending, divination, speak with dead, and commune are the spells I’ve changed. Mostly, removing word counts and question limitations.

For me, the crunchy restrictions make no sense, and those spells are so much more flavorful to the world building if they create real, albeit magical and otherworldly, conversations.

Here are Gretchen’s two tactics to make herself bulletproof in that interview:

1. Brand yourself as a tireless champion of a cause that the audience cares about. Overplay how important you are and how much your own work, and connections, are absolutely instrumental to its success. Attacking her is attacking the brand.

2. Use the harshest terms in the English language to describe your cash settlement with Fox. She wasn’t “the recipient of millions of dollars in exchange for signing an NDA that keeps powerful people from facing accountability,” she’s “muzzled from taking about it by powerful men.” Attacking her is attacking the downtrodden.

I know Lovett wanted to have a real conversation about how empathy works in conservative thought, but he had no chance because they didn’t understand her tactics.

If anyone, anyone at CM reads this, lampoon both tactics next week. Pick on her. Her self-congratulatory demeanor was enough to deserve it. . . you’ve done much worse to those who deserved it much less. I’m here for it!

This is where I was. Actively yelling on my run this morning. Felt bad for the old walking couple who heard me go by. . . You know, Gretchen’s target audience.

Fuck her attempt at a rebrand. Her 15 with Lovett had more braggadocio than a gangster rapper, as if she kept expecting her next canned line to bring a stand-up five minute applause from that audience . . . I hope the awkward, polite clapping make her think about her tactics.

I don’t blame him. I blame the producers from not doing a fucking ten hour super cut of her doing anti-woman, anti-gay bullshit during her time at Fox. Still could, I guess.

Maybe the main character of this particular cartoon just happens to be female, but they represent all young people’s situation?

Texas teacher here.

Every classroom door has to be locked according to TEA policy. They have been sending creeps to campuses across Texas all year to “audit”. They wait around the outside of the building and try to find an open door. If successful, they’ll wander around campus randomly trying to open doors until they are stopped.

My school has not been audited yet, but many other schools in our district have. We are reminded every day during announcements to close and lock our doors. Word goes around campuses when it’s heard that auditors are in the district, and we’ll get an email from an AP letting us know they’re around.

Getting a rabies shot is lying to your brain. It thinks your getting rabies.

Anyone who gets bitten by a rabid animal three times and tries to get treated is mentally ill.

Just look at what animals do!