Jump to bottom

93 comments
1 Olsonist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:17:50am

With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?

2 makeitstop  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:18:54am

re: #1 Olsonist

With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?

Rupert denied direct responsibility. He essentially blamed the help.

3 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:13am

re: #1 Olsonist

With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?

In Canada we have a legal provision that specifically allows you to apologize without incriminating yourself.

All in all, the Brooks testimony is kinda dull. I've been watching it on and off for the past hour.

Obama is apparently giving a speech in I think 10 minutes about the debt situation though.

4 Olsonist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:21am

re: #2 makeitstop

I hate to natter, but he actually profusely apologized first and then denied responsibility for both himself and his executives even though Tom Perkins said the settlements had been discussed at the board level.

5 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:34am

Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.

6 jamesfirecat  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:26:31am

re: #5 Charles

Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.

So it was over before people even thought it was properly started... fitting considering I've known Fox Series like that like...

(ONLY 13 EPISODES OF FIREFLY? DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!)

7 makeitstop  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:26:57am

re: #5 Charles

Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.

I thought they were just taking a break. That was anti-climactic.

8 Obdicut  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:37:53am

Here's BBC post-mortem:

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]

9 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:50:07am

Will someone post if they see that the white house (OBama) press briefing has begun?

10 Stanghazi  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:53:34am

re: #9 Alexzander

Will someone post if they see that the white house (OBama) press briefing has begun?

From Pam's House Blend - the transcript on her FB page

I think it already happened?

11 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:55:58am

re: #10 Stanley Sea

I guess you are right.

Cantor is speaking on the house floor right now..

[Link: cspan.org...]

12 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:59:08am

Cantor is getting all angry - yelling etc.

13 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:25pm

I'm sitting here thinking about the wizarding government. Has any government ever been so bullying, yet so utterly ineffective?

A real threat faced their world, and they were regulating the width of cauldron bottoms.

I wouldn't actually be talking about anything in the real world, of course.

14 Obdicut  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:31pm

re: #12 Alexzander

Warning Republicans that they were elected precisely to be economic idiots.

15 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:56pm

re: #12 Alexzander

Cantor is getting all angry - yelling etc.

Every time I see video or pictures of him, my mind instinctively inserts the caption "Douchebag"

16 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:01:32pm

Hilarious discussion here on RedState concerning Cain's comment that "communities" should be able to ban the construction of mosques.

Some rightfully raise a variety of constitutional and ethical concerns.
Some actually stand by the claim that mosques are outposts to destroy the American government. WTF.

17 Alexzander  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:01:46pm

Oops - forgot the link;

[Link: www.redstate.com...]

18 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:09:36pm

re: #1 Olsonist

With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?

I had no idea what was going on. I'm terribly sorry my staff did this without my knowledge.

19 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:10:18pm

re: #16 Alexzander

Hilarious discussion here on RedState concerning Cain's comment that "communities" should be able to ban the construction of mosques.

Some rightfully raise a variety of constitutional and ethical concerns.
Some actually stand by the claim that mosques are outposts to destroy the American government. WTF.

I think they need to be more afraid of the FSM than mosques.

20 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:10:42pm

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

I had no idea what was going on. I'm terribly sorry my staff did this without my knowledge.

They shall be sacked.

21 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:11:30pm

re: #20 b_sharp

They shall be sacked.

If it turns out that a mistake was made, those who sacked them will also be sacked.

22 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:11:47pm

They GOP wants amend the constitution so that any action which would increase the ratio of revenue to spending requires a simple majority, while any action which would decrease it requires a 2/3 majority.

Yeah. That's not a ridiculous trap or anything. What could possibly go wrong?

23 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:13:57pm

re: #21 SanFranciscoZionist

Eh. The møøse don't care.

24 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:14:16pm

This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.

25 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:15:42pm

re: #24 Killgore Trout

This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.

Someone's going to come along in a minute to claim that Soros does all of this and more, but are we complaining about that?

26 allegro  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:17:52pm

re: #22 Fozzie Bear

They GOP wants amend the constitution so that any action which would increase the ratio of revenue to spending requires a simple majority, while any action which would decrease it requires a 2/3 majority.

Yeah. That's not a ridiculous trap or anything. What could possibly go wrong?

Ask California.

27 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:18:16pm

re: #26 allegro

Ask California.

Nicely said.

28 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:18:51pm

Rep Ribble (R-Wisconsin) is actually blaming the fact that bond rating agencies are threatening to drop our bond rating from AAA on the size of the debt.

Um. No, douchebag. The bond rating might be downgraded because the risk of a default due to failing to raise the debt ceiling. Moody's has explicitly said this.

It's amazing. If you are a Republican, you can literally just make shit up, and NONE of your colleagues will call you on it. Nobody.

Fuck facts. Facts are for fags, or something. I guess.

29 Ericus58  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:19:47pm

re: #28 Fozzie Bear

might want to rephrase that...

30 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:20:29pm

re: #28 Fozzie Bear

It's amazing. If you are a Republican, you can literally just make shit up, and NONE of your colleagues will call you on it. Nobody.

Fuck facts. Facts are for fags, or something. I guess.

Facts are very French.

31 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:20:45pm

re: #29 Ericus58

might want to rephrase that...

Facts are for homoqueeroids

32 BishopX  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:24pm

re: #29 Ericus58

I think that Fozzie's statement is an accurate statement of republican lawmakers sentiments.

33 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:36pm

For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:

First, oral sex is not natural. It is contrary to natural law. If oral sex is OK, then are anal sex or nasal sex also OK?


[Link: wessner.ca...]

34 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:39pm

I'd like a constitutional amendment that says that if you say the word "Obamacare" on the floor of the legislature, you have to spend 20 minutes explaining what medicare part D is, and how much it costs, using figures from the GAO. Also, you have to say which party enacted it, and who voted for it. Furthermore, you have to explain why it's a good idea to legally prohibit Medicare from negotiating for lower drug costs.

Then you have to eat your own shoes.

That would be my constitutional amendment.

35 Ericus58  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:22:58pm

re: #32 BishopX

I think that Fozzie's statement is an accurate statement of republican lawmakers sentiments.

I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.

36 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:29pm

re: #33 Sergey Romanov

For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:


[Link: wessner.ca...]

"Oral and anal sex are sins except when I force my wife to do it."
--Dumb Bigot

37 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:55pm

re: #33 Sergey Romanov

For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:


[Link: wessner.ca...]

I have some...questions...about nasal sex, but if people are enjoying themselves, who am I to worry about it?

As for God, I can only assume that she realized a long time ago that there wasn't much we wouldn't try, even if that wasn't the original blueprint.

38 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:57pm

re: #35 Ericus58

I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.

I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.

39 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:26:50pm

re: #38 Fozzie Bear

I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.

HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE totally

40 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:27:47pm

Read the following phrases, and close your eyes and try to picture the persons speaking.

1. Bob is a homosexual.
2. Bob is gay.

Am I the only one that sees:

1. Raging fundie.
2. Any non-fundie.

?

41 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:27:53pm

re: #38 Fozzie Bear

I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.

Maybe you should have said "sodomite".

42 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:28:28pm

re: #37 SanFranciscoZionist

And of course the Urban dictionary explains the nasal sex.

43 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:28:30pm

re: #33 Sergey Romanov

First, oral sex is not natural. It is contrary to natural law. If oral sex is OK, then are anal sex or nasal sex also OK?

Don't look in his Internet History. It probably won't be pretty. Or arousing.

44 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:29:15pm

re: #33 Sergey Romanov

that's a lot of text!

Humans are so fucking stupid sometimes :D

45 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:29:56pm

re: #38 Fozzie Bear

I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.

[Link: revealingerrors.com...]

46 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:30:29pm

re: #40 Fozzie Bear

I think it is used in academic context.

47 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:05pm

JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?

48 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:07pm

re: #46 Sergey Romanov

I think it is used in academic context.

True. Lets try an expanded version of the picture-the-speaker game.

1. Bob is a homosexual.
2. Bob is gay.
3. Bob is queer.
4. Bob is a fag.

I picture:

1. Either an academic in the context of a research paper, or a raging fundie.
2. Indeterminate. Any non-fundie.
3. The speaker is either gay, or supportive of the LGBT community.
4. The speaker is either gay, or a homophobe who thinks he is speaking to a like-minded audience.

Am I alone in this impression? There's coded meaning within the word choice, I think.

49 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:55pm

re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist

Yeah, and his wifey tried to beat the attacker :)

50 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:35:52pm

re: #48 Fozzie Bear

Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?

51 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:35:59pm

re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist

JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?

Yes, indeed. Some nutbar in a plaid shirt attempted to throw a simulated pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, and recieved an epic bitch-clap from Murdoch's wife instan-fucking-taneously, before he could even fully complete the act of pie-ing Murdoch's face.

He was promptly hauled off, and is in deep shit.

52 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:36:43pm

re: #50 Sergey Romanov

Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?

I don't know about in other areas, but in areas I have lived, it's generally been co-opted by the LGBT community.

53 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:36:50pm

re: #50 Sergey Romanov

Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?

Yep. It's also a self-identification.

54 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:37:56pm

re: #52 Fozzie Bear

That' doesn't exclude derogatory use. And if you're aiming for a full list, where are "homo", "fairy" and the like?

55 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:12pm

re: #53 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

"among other uses"

56 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:24pm

re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist

JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?

Footage:

57 Ericus58  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:47pm

We have achieved 'spin cycle'....

58 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:51pm

re: #45 publicityStunted

[Link: revealingerrors.com...]

That's revealing, and hilarious.

59 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:41:17pm

re: #55 Sergey Romanov

"among other uses"

Just making it clear. It's part of the alphabet soup. (None of the gay f words are in there.)

60 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:10pm

re: #49 Sergey Romanov

Yeah, and his wifey tried to beat the attacker :)

Good for her. These people with the pies and the glitter never seem to realize that YOU CAN'T TELL they're not carrying a real weapon when they start to move, and that they are in fact committing assault and battery.

61 BishopX  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:20pm

re: #35 Ericus58

I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.

I think that we're running into the a case of internet tone deafness here. There are two ways of interpretting his statement. You can read it has fozzie himself saying that "facts are for fags" or you can read it as fozzie imitating a bigoted republican lawmaker expressing disdain for facts. One of these is acceptable, the other is a flippant use of a slur. IRL the difference is a matter of facial expression and tone of voice. I read it as the latter, you seem to have read it as the former.

62 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:53pm

Yeah I'm sure an exhaustive list of commonly used terms would be huge. I just picked a handful of the more common ones to illustrate the point.

63 sagehen  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:43:09pm

re: #24 Killgore Trout

This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.

Lawrence O'Donnell brough up something interesting -- when the investigation is about NYC, the Police Commissioner all through the 90's and well into the 00's was Bernie Kerick. As crooked a cop as ever crooked, *very* close to Fox News, *very* close to the Post, formerly veryverycloser to Judith Regan.

When the FBI is ready to interview Bernie about these matters, he'll be easy to find -- he's currently serving a four year sentence in the federal pen. How good might his memory be, if its gets him a year or two or three off his sentence? Or if they tell him amnesia will add time to his sentence?

(please god let roger ailes be implicated amen)

64 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:43:50pm

re: #61 BishopX

I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.

65 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:44:49pm

re: #59 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.

Wait...

HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PUSHED IN SKOOL!!11!
(/)

Back to seriousness, like every other word in the history of language, it's meaning has changed over time. Same with "gay", as it used to mean "happy" or "festive" (thus the "Dawn we now our gay apparel").

66 BishopX  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:44:57pm

re: #62 Fozzie Bear

For most of the terms you can get a quick judgment by tone of voice. "Homosexual" stands out as being almost entirely a red flag for certain brands of homophobia.

67 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:46:04pm

re: #60 SanFranciscoZionist

Good for her. These people with the pies and the glitter never seem to realize that YOU CAN'T TELL they're not carrying a real weapon when they start to move, and that they are in fact committing assault and battery.

Yup. That guy is lucky he wasn't tazed, beaten, or shot. You don't jump up and assault people in a legislative body, unless you have a pressing urge to meet your maker.

68 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:46:55pm

re: #65 commadore183

Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.

Wait...

HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PUSHED IN SKOOL!!11!
(/)

Back to seriousness, like every other word in the history of language, it's meaning has changed over time. Same with "gay", as it used to mean "happy" or "festive" (thus the "DawnDon we now our gay apparel").

(They sounded the same)

69 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:48:28pm

re: #68 commadore183

(They sounded the same)

At least you caught it before somebody could say "deck the halls with bows of holly" or some other smartass remark.

70 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:49:57pm

re: #69 Fozzie Bear

And I would have deserved it LOL.

71 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:52:02pm

A guy just came in here and said he wanted to look around because he's "bike-curious". That was cute, but he kinda reminded me of Arte Johnson, so it was simultaneously a little creepy.

72 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:53:21pm
U.S. stocks get early boost from earnings, then jump again on signs of progress in debt-ceiling and deficit-cutting debate in Washington.


Dow +200

73 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:54:27pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

A guy just came in here and said he wanted to look around because he's "bike-curious". That was cute, but he kinda reminded me of Arte Johnson, so it was simultaneously a little creepy.

How is Arte these days? I know he had an ugly suicide attempt a while back, Did he ever return?

74 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:56:25pm

I was just informed that a friend of mine, who is Bulgarian, is having a friend come to visit him from home soon.

His friend's name:
Last name Balzack.
First name Svet (but his friends call him Sveti).

My inner four year old could not restrain the hysterical laughter. Even better, I had to take a moment to explain. My friend started giggling when I got halfway through the explanation. We spent like 3 minutes just giggling on the phone.

God help me, i'm a 36 year old man, and I still can't help myself sometimes.

75 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:10pm

re: #74 Fozzie Bear

I mean, I'm sure I have made this name up in adolescence. What are the chances!

76 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:13pm

re: #73 Killgore Trout

How is Arte these days? I know he had an ugly suicide attempt a while back, Did he ever return?

I had no idea. Wiki only says

Arte has performed some memorable audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan (2006) and more than 80 other books.

In 2005, he appeared in an episode of Justice League Unlimited as the voice of Virman Vundabar. Today he lives in Southern California with his wife Gisela, and does voice tracks and recordings.

77 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:24pm

re: #74 Fozzie Bear

Had to think for 10 seconds there. ;)

78 uncah91  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:00pm

re: #64 Fozzie Bear

I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.

I don't know, there are some words that are "beyond sarc". The N-word for example. I don't think you would have attempted to use that word sarcastically. I think there is a move to make that word just as unacceptable.

Not a judgement, more of a conversation of semantics and the ever changing social etiquette.

79 makeitstop  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:18pm

re: #65 commadore183

Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.

Wouldn't that be 'Red Badge Of Courage?'

80 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:57pm

re: #64 Fozzie Bear

I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.

Or just blot out the letters? That way, no harm/foul.

81 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:02:00pm

re: #79 makeitstop

Wouldn't that be 'Red Badge Of Courage?'

Ah, that would be it. Ugh, I really should have looked that up. Been too long since I've read the book.

82 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:02:30pm

re: #80 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Or just blot out the letters? That way, no harm/foul.

I tried that, but then when I scroll down, the letters reappear. ///

83 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:04:30pm

Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

84 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:05:43pm

re: #83 Fozzie Bear

There are lots (lots!) of Chinese who have a names that in Russian is an obscene word for "dick".

85 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:11:09pm

re: #67 Fozzie Bear

Yup. That guy is lucky he wasn't tazed, beaten, or shot. You don't jump up and assault people in a legislative body, unless you have a pressing urge to meet your maker.

And if a guard shoots you, there's much moaning about police brutality, whereas if the victim's WIFE clobbers you, really, who can say she shouldn't have.

86 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:12:28pm

re: #74 Fozzie Bear

I was just informed that a friend of mine, who is Bulgarian, is having a friend come to visit him from home soon.

His friend's name:
Last name Balzack.
First name Svet (but his friends call him Sveti).

My inner four year old could not restrain the hysterical laughter. Even better, I had to take a moment to explain. My friend started giggling when I got halfway through the explanation. We spent like 3 minutes just giggling on the phone.

God help me, i'm a 36 year old man, and I still can't help myself sometimes.

I once sat down with friends to play a game in which you could earn something called "PP points". I do not recall what it stood for. I do recall that I could not stop laughing. I was over thirty at the time. Every time someone said "PP points", I lost it again.

87 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:13:45pm

re: #83 Fozzie Bear

Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think I would adopt a name in their language, just to avoid being mocked relentlessly.

Maybe Svet would like to be called Steve while he's here.

88 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:14:57pm

re: #87 SanFranciscoZionist

If pronounced correctly, "Balzak" isn't actually offensive I think.

89 andres  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:16:25pm

re: #13 EmmmieG

I'm sitting here thinking about the wizarding government. Has any government ever been so bullying, yet so utterly ineffective?

A real threat faced their world, and they were regulating the width of cauldron bottoms.

I wouldn't actually be talking about anything in the real world, of course.

Nice HP reference. I just finished reading that book. :)

90 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:19:23pm

re: #88 Sergey Romanov

If pronounced correctly, "Balzak" isn't actually offensive I think.

You mean there's a way to pronounce it other than they way they do in The Music Man?

[52 seconds in]

91 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:22:14pm

re: #90 wrenchwench

Ahaha!

PS: Yeah, just don't pronounce it as if it were an English word. ;)

92 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:39:55pm

re: #83 Fozzie Bear

Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I never met the person, but there used to be someone in the corporate email directory whose name was either Ding Dong or Dong Ding.

93 Funky_Gibbon  Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:57:50pm

You didn't miss that much by putting the video up late, it was the weakest inquisition (apart from MP Tom Watson) I've ever seen. Half the MPs there had to state before they spoke that they had some kind of link to News International.

One of them is even a Facebook friend of a Murdoch...

Certain politicians are neatly sweeping it under the carpet and hoping it goes away.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT
LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal
Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ...
Cheechako
Yesterday
Views: 39 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 0
A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...
KGxvi
Yesterday
Views: 95 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 1