May 2010
1 post
Housekeeping
In case anyone is still reading this, there’s going to be some serious (or possibly light-hearted) rebranding/renaming/re-everything of this here blog.
So keep an eye on this space. Or if you’re following me, then just keep refreshing your dashboard like crazy.
Laters.
October 2009
21 posts
#78: people who comment "well said"
There’s absolutely nothing on the Internet that’s actually well said
If you have nothing more to add to the discourse than sycophancy, you’re wasting time and bandwidth. We’re all, in ways large and small, content creators on the Web. That’s a responsibility we carry when we hit the “submit” button. Try not to suck.
#77: people who come up with arbitrary reasons for...
Galliani demands compensation from USA Football... →
#76: people who made bacon overexposed and uncool
“Meleanie Hain’s loaded pistol — with a bullet ready in the chamber — was...”
– AP
#75: people who try to fit more than 8 words into...
Pro tip: if you want people to read something, it helps to make it readable.
CIGNA Employee Flips Off Mother Of Dead Girl... →
youngmanhattanite:
skybarn:
caraobrien:
From the Huffington Post, excerpt:
A CIGNA employee gave the finger — literally — to a woman whose daughter died after the insurance giant refused to cover her liver transplant.
Hilda and Krikor Sarkisyan went to CIGNA’s Philadelphia headquarters, along with supporters from the California Nurses Association, to confront the CEO Edward Hanway over...
#74: people who play that Kings of Leon song
I mean, fucking fuck, of all those bands from 2005, these fucking guys get airplay?
#73: people who wear workout clothes to nice-ish...
#72: supposedly reasonable conservative...
Frum, you’re cool, Douthat, you’re pushing it, but fucking fuck, Brooks, we let you into our homes and you proceed to get drunk and shit on our rug. Stop doing that.
#71: people who use skateboard decks to convey...
Especially when:
Skater culture as we know it is almost 40 years old
The decks are used as a corporate branding piece unrelated to skateboarding
The designs incorporate poor Wild Style imitation…
Which isn’t as bad as the poor Ed Hardy imitation
peterfeld:
Harvey Weinstein, via josephweisenthal:
Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion…We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.
September 2009
56 posts
#70: people who try too hard with baby names
Me: What are you doing?
Adisynn: Poopin'.
Me: Let's go poop in the potty.
Adisynn: No.
Me: Please, it's what big girls do.
Adisynn: No.
Me: But Adisynn that's gross.
Adisynn: Noooo!
Me: Elmo poops in the potty, you know.
Adisynn: Ok.
Someone named their child Adisynn?
#69: anyone who's taken a side on the Polanski...
It doesn’t matter which is side you’re on, you’re wrong, okay?
Tufts University bans nookie if roomie ‘is... →
notthatkindagay:
“You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room,” tuts Tufts’ 2009-10 guest policy, newly revised in response to student gripes about rambunctious roomies and their raunchy romps.
Tufts spokeswoman Kim Thurler told the Herald the 8,500-student school has fielded roughly a dozen complaints from chagrined scholars “who expressed concerns that...
baxterp:
Oooookay there, America. Gosh, I just don’t get why the rest of the world hates us.
Sorry Mo, I love you and it might just be my sarcasm detector on the fritz, but that phrase there is a huge pet peeve of mine.
#68: people who tell you that a show jumped the...
“Pandas are my frequent whipping boy. Here is a species that, of its own accord,...”
– Chris Parkham, BBC
Lamar Wants Prenup -- But There's a Problem |... →
nbaplayoffs2009:
With the “weddding” on Sunday, Lakers “wacky” sixth man Lamar Odom will most likely have a postnup deal with Khloe “Bitey” Kardashian.
Another interesting note sleuth’ed out by TMZ, the producers of the Kardashians reality series is footing the one million dollar bill, but only if they get married by Sunday.
Rep. King On Obama: "Hitler Actually Negotiated... →
notthatkindagay:
Today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) took a break from making offensive comments about Hurricane Katrina victims and gay marriage in order to attack President Obama’s foreign policy. Speaking on the House floor, King criticized Obama’s decision to cancel Bush-era plans to deploy missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland. King suggested that Obama’s attempt to “pacify the...
brianvan:
I know I made fun of this earlier, but I want to point out something disconcerting that indicates something about the way we live today:
Of all the TV shows I’ve ever heard people discussing, by a very wide margin, Mad Men is the one where the most people talk about the ongoings of the real-life actors who star on the show but always use their stage names. Every single time. If Jon...
Famous people who make boring sex tapes and sue. →
Seriously, why do famous people make the worst sex tapes?
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#66: people who lay off employees →
Reposting this since there was another round, this time affecting my work directly. Fucking fuck, people.
ATTN BLACK PEOPLE: It's still not okay for dorky...
notthatkindagay:
Just wanna make sure I’m current on the rules.
PWSBS: Non-black people answering this.
Also, just do the standard Ol’ Dirty Bastard radio edit and replace all instances of the n-word with “Nuh”.
Or, if you want to be kind of a dick, do the Tom Breihan and say “ninja”.
#68: people with uninteresting or indecipherable...
#67: people who use "Baba O'Riley" in their ads
It’s not that I have a problem with using classic rock tracks in commercials. It’s just that when you use The Who, you’re kinda cheating. It’s like bringing Wagyu to a cook-off and serving it tar tar - yeah, people might dig it, but not because of anything you did.
#66: people who lay off employees
For one thing, it doesn’t make sense financially. The net cost is negative and you’ll probably end up hiring freelancers (often the very people you fired!) at a higher rate*, nevermind the hit on productivity, morale and loyalty.
*Not that I’m complaining. Doesn’t mean it’s not stupid, though.
#65: people who don't get it
“In the U.S. while we do get paid a mechanical (licensing fee) from ITunes, we...”
– via ANIMAL New York
ohhleary:
Climate change is bad for beer
Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and his team have concluded that climate change is bad for beer.
Silly liberal east coast elite blogger. Don’t you know Al Gore invented climate change? And it’s been debunked because an area of the globe just had a cool summer, which obviously couldn’t possibly ever happen if there’s climate...
WatchImma let you finish, but Hugh Grant had one of the best on-couch mea culpas of all time.
#64: people who breathlessly tell you about this...