You ever wonder why …
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You ever wonder why …
You probably have more serious things on your mind though. Well, here’s your opportunity to share with the rest of us. It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
New marketplace: blood from young people now being put up for sale to the old.
Although between Nancy Pelosi and RBG, I’m surprised there’s any left.
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I don’t know why this amused me as much as it did. Probably his repeated commitment to the bit.
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Troops in Afghanistan heartbroken after Speaker Pelosi’s visit cancelled
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Buzzfeed tried to attack President Trump. Don’t usually see failure that grand without an ACME product being involved.
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the end of the world will be caused by…
Just baffling anyone would look at today’s society and think the problem is too much masculinity. It’s like how all the shouting about gun control seemed to reach its peak when gun violence was at a twenty year low.
I love how trailers now have a couple second pre-trailer because they’re afraid people won’t watch the trailer if they aren’t teased with the best scenes of it.
I enjoyed Green Book, but I was a bit turned off by how melodramatic and blatantly Oscar-bait it was.
I didn’t actually watch the Gillette ad. You all convinced me it was very tedious.
There’s a lot of people these days confusing what is fair with what is true.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use the word “bourgeoisie” in a way that didn’t make me want to punch him.
DEMS: “We really, really care about bigotry. It’s not just partisan posturing for us.”
REPUBS: “Well here is some bigotry in your own party you could handle.”
DEMS: “Mmm… we’d rather not. But I did I tell you how Mitt Romney is basically George Wallace?”
I don’t know what Cardi B is. Sounds like something that should come with a long list of potential side effects.
I think ever since I was a kid I’ve mainly been bored by popular music and then a decade or two later I like it out of nostalgia.
I would also like to throw my hat in the ring for 2020. My promise as president is to do nothing other than cash my check each week.
Actually, I assume it’s some sort of bi-weekly direct deposit, so I’ll do even less than that.
I don’t like the new Slack logo. The hash meant something. This new logo is just generic. It makes me think I’m pulling up billing from a local hospital.
Everyone is free to criticize Christianity, just own up when you’re criticizing it. Jesus probably would be called a bigot by a lot of people today.
And a liberal sissy by others.
I think a big hang up these days is people put almost a religious significance on their lusts and the idea they should be able to satisfy them when they want, and the Bible is not in line with that. How many people these days still consider fornication a bad thing?
What’s the phrase? “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Always be evaluating what you consider important and why.
pitching Beto to the DNC
“That whole women and minorities thing? That fad is over. What we need for 2020 is a bland, rich white male… and the blander and richer the better! I’m talking Richie Rich eating mayo on white bread!”
People are going to scream even more about President Pence than they did about President Trump and I am not looking forward to it.
Oh, I never knew that “Parabellum” from 9mm Parabellum meant “prepare for war.” I always thought it described the shape of bullet or something.
My wife signed up our three kids for tee-ball/softball/baseball, and they start practices about the same time our fourth kid is due. So gonna… gonna be busy.
I’ve been hearing about Dragon Ball Z for decades now, and I still have no idea what it’s about. But every single image I’ve ever seen of it makes it look really dumb.
Weird buff baby people with ridiculous hair all looking intense.
It’s weird talking about the baby in the last month of pregnancy. We’re like, “We can’t wait until the baby gets here!” but the baby right there, kicking and squirming. Feels like we’re being rude and talking in front of him like he’s not there.
But Trump’s wall design isn’t going to stop rugs. They’ll be able to slip them right between the steel slats.
I wouldn’t kill baby Hitler. I’d just show him that Gillette ad so he’d know how to behave appropriately.
There’s no scientific debate about when human life begins. What there is is a religious debate of when do you place value on that human life. That’s something science can inform but not answer.
I wonder how life would be different if we prevented that unidentified assassin from murdering baby Hitler.
Wait; which time line is this?
Okay, when I first talking about how dumb Dragon Ball Z looked, I didn’t even know what the title of the new movie was which almost seems like someone playing a joke on me or a translation error.
At some point we’re all just going to have to admit that Trump has never done anything wrong and is a scandal-free president.
Now that Buzzfeed has been disproven, can we go back to worrying about loose rugs at the border?
Buzzfeed’s credibility is shot. Next time they say, “Look at this hilarious cat video!” we’ll be like, “No. Not getting burned again.”
Everything will be good and peaceful when we all agree on the right people to angrily scream at.
My 3yo just woke up from her nap singing Baby Shark at the top of her lungs.
It would be funny if they gave the new Ghostbusters movie the same name as the cartoon: The Real Ghostbusters.
Not only is not joining in a Twitter mob the vastly more moral course of action, it’s actually the easier thing to do.
I don’t care what the facts are! I want to be angry!
Blood moon! I was half expecting a monologue from Zelda.

The people who claim to be raging against hate and bigotry these days usually end up just demonstrating it.
The key to the Democrats winning in 2020 will be finding someone who is just mediocre and not actively terrible.
When we finally have a woman president, isn’t she going to seem pretty anticlimactic compared to Margaret Thatcher being prime minister way back in 1979? I’m guessing sexism was worse then.
While focusing on how bad everyone else is, don’t forget that you are also bad and you are also the person you have the most direct control over.
Twitter mob reading 1984
“Two minutes? How do they get by on so little hate?”
We all have to get over our prejudice, hatred, and bigotry if we want Trump’s Space Force to be successful.
The sickest thing are the people reacting like a vampire to a cross to the suggestion that maybe they shouldn’t hate that kid. They are everything they claim to despise.
As president, I wont fight for you. I won’t even care about you. Yes, that makes me no different than the other presidential candidates, except I’m being forthright about it.
I just wish you people would stop pretending to be motivated by tolerance or justice or whatever because it’s obscene. What you like is hating groups of people because it makes you feel important, and you squeal like stuck pigs at the mere notion you shouldn’t rush to hate.
The reason you’re so sure other people are hate-filled bigots is quite obviously because of something called “projection.”
I watched that Once Upon a Deadpool. I liked the parts where he spoke to camera and made references to things I knew. It sounds sarcastic but it’s true.
If the left really think the world is going to end from climate change, shouldn’t they being ceding every social and economic issue in order to get the Republicans to go along with them? Every single issue you argue about doesn’t matter next to the world ending.
“We’ll outlaw all abortions in exchange for a carbon tax.” That would really get the Republicans’ attention on climate change.
With climate change, there’s a lot of rhetoric saying the whole world is at risk, but there aren’t a lot of actions saying it. And that’s why people tend to dismiss it as partisan silliness.
I didn’t find Black Panther to be particularly special beyond being a top tier Marvel movie, but I still support it winning best picture over some boring stupid movie that doesn’t even have explosions in it.
These Oscar nominations seem like a boon for Netflix which is known for having extremely mediocre movies. I could check out Roma right now if I were so inclined (but I haven’t even started Punisher season 2).
I never even heard of The Favourite. Going by the ‘u’, it looks foreign.
Of the movies I saw last year, the only thing that blew me away was Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse. And Avengers: Infinity War to a lesser extent — more for the unique spectacle of 18 movies leading up to one.
That Elton John piano ad should have gotten an Oscar nomination.
The best picture noms tend to be those “eat your vegetables” movies where I really have to force myself to watch them. “Come on, Frank; it’s good for you! You’ll feel so good afterwards.” But I’ll immediately tear open a bag of Doritos.
It’s not the best analogy because as an adult I really like vegetables now… but you probably get my point.
I remember in the long long ago when I was a bachelor and had Netflix DVDs through the mail, I always had “important” movies in my queue. They tended to sit around forever while I immediately watched any forgettable blockbuster that arrived.
I also watched a lot of Zatoichi movies. Those got increasingly dumb, but they made me feel sophisticated because they were black and white and had subtitles.
If you’re a millionaire and live next door to a billionaire, how much time should you spend being thankful for your good fortune versus being angry you have so much less than that other guy?
The twitter mob stuff resonates because everyone can imagine themselves as being the victim of one.
I’d buy the culturally significant argument for Black Panther. I think it will be remembered years from now — which a lot of Best Picture nominees can’t say.
So is it now that anytime someone touches their pointer finger to their thumb, it’s a sign of being a nazi?
Just live your life so a single moment could never be taken out of context and used to destroy you.
Everyone is always imaging themselves to be Captain America and ending up an off-brand nazi.
“The child has been found guilty of facecrime. Allowing him tell his side on the Today Show will only further harm all of us attacked by his expression.”
“I want to be praised for my hate because I picked the right target!” -racist Southerns in the 60s, absolutely everyone else
Did spewing all your hatred at a random teen cure racism yet?
What really gets me is these people claim to be against hate. That’s like a guy randomly firing an AR-15 into a crowd claiming to be against guns.
This is all still the warm up act for when Trump has to replace RBG.
Now for sale: a robot dog that teaches itself tricks.
Swell… am I supposed to be consoled by the fact that the inevitable robot apocalypse will now be adorable?