I’m going to whine for a moment. I fully acknowledge that YouTube is not a charity, but a money-making organization. And as-such, ads are how they stay afloat. My philosophy with served ads is generally just ignore them and go about my business. That said, within the last month or so YouTube seems to have gotten EXTRA aggressive with the ads. I used to be able to watch Colbert monologues in piece; now I have to reload the page several times in the middle to click past them.
And now that top link, to the Adele parody: I clicked, it showed me an ad with no way to skip it, so I sighed and waited it out for like 30 seconds. Then it started ANOTHER ad, this one a minute long, so I stopped it and moved on. I suppose YouTube won, because they got me to watch an ad, although I couldn’t tell you now what it was for. But they also lost, because I refused to click the next few links. A single 15-second ad at the start of each video would have been tolerable, and they could have sold 45 seconds of ad time. Instead they got eyeballs for 30 seconds, then lost them, along with a bit more goodwill.
One of my favorite parts of the Mormon Space Love Wars movie is when the professor says marriage is becoming obsolete because divorce sucks and child support sucks. So people will stop legally binding themselves together, but will obviously keep humping and so…babbies. The student says, “what about those babbies, Professor?” His answer? “The government will expand welfare and childcare programs and raise them.” lol. That might be the funniest thing he said. But he’s not entirely wrong, young people aren’t rushing to marry and start a family as it has been written since the dawn of time. Heck, 21 years ago my wife and I met, and we said, nah, let’s just cuddle and do smoochy kisses and use birth control and travel and have adventures for years and years. So we did that for 15 years. Then she decided a baby must happen so we married and had one perfect child who never cried and is remarkably inexpensive and had no adverse effects on our free time or love life. And we lived happily ever after. The End.
I watched that Mormon Epic Space Oddity and it was awesome. I loved it. I thought Jan was a pretty foxy lady with a very confused brain that will find all the answers in the LDS Church when she’s wife #7 to her hubby. Is that the trade-off men get for pretending to eschew booze and cigs and drugs and Mountain Dew? They get as many wives as they can con into marriage? I love how the heathen world always looks through holy eyes. Sad, shallow, empty and full of billiard halls and cheap champagne and quick, tacky marriages in Vegas. No wonder they are so confused and consider LDS a better option. When a Mormon dude has a harem of wives, how is sex divied up? And, importantly, do all the other wives watch when it’s not their turn? I’m not kink-shaming them, because like the atheist zoo professor said, whatever works for them!
The song about Mitt and Paul Ryan was absolutely horrible and so on-brand for conservative bologna. Oh, Paul Ryan lowered taxes alright, but not for 99% of the conservative voters or that dude playing keyboards on the railroad tracks. The wealthy were saved trillions, which now must come from the poor and middle class via cuts to Social Security and welfare and other benefits people like that guy might need. He’s just too stupid to know which party might help him, or at least hurt him less.
Jan and Max (of the Mormon video) really need to move on and find someone to marry that already shares their values, rather than trying to force the other one into them.
That train song started out okayish and then dived right into WE HATE OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. I don't know what I expected, some kind of support of Romney's stupid plans? Saying something nice about him? Instead of just "vote for Romney because ew obama is stinky".
It always revolts me when an obvious cult of delusional, superstitious idiots gains power and wealth: Scientology. Mormonism… Hell, ALL of Christianity.
Christianity has been at it much longer, but despite the basic goodness of the teachings of Jesus, it's managed to go way off the rails pretty soon after the mythological nonsense that was celebrated last week.
Very, OT - I'm looking at a movie on the TeeVee with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore(snore) called ''Blended''...
''Two single parents are completely put off with each other after a terrible blind date, but they find themselves reunited when they each sign up for a family vacation with their kids and must share a suite at an African safari resort.''
I haven't seen so much racism and implicit misogyny in this type of film in ages..
Our dog (my wife’s, really), a golden retriever, is a retired therapy dog. He was certified and worked at the hospital visiting sick kids. He was awesome at it, and they loved him. An amazing feat, given that he was a rescue with mood issues and food-guarding as a puppy. He was trained with love and overcame (or grew out of) all that. He went blind over time (he was malnourished as a newborn puppy) and now sleeps a lot and takes daily walks in the woods. My wife keeps his diet strict, so I sneak him gravy and treats and people food often. He deserves it. :)
And Elder Pete looks so much like my (now former) next door neighbor, whom I have known since he was a wee child when we moved in forty years ago. His mom and one of his sisters still live there, so he comes by relatively frequently.
What I enjoy about the Romney song is how he's not entirely committed. He's not playing too much on the keyboard, and sort of coyly sneaking up on the delivery of the lyrics.
Ta, Robyn. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get one of the new vaccines, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed Treg among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
I’m going to whine for a moment. I fully acknowledge that YouTube is not a charity, but a money-making organization. And as-such, ads are how they stay afloat. My philosophy with served ads is generally just ignore them and go about my business. That said, within the last month or so YouTube seems to have gotten EXTRA aggressive with the ads. I used to be able to watch Colbert monologues in piece; now I have to reload the page several times in the middle to click past them.
And now that top link, to the Adele parody: I clicked, it showed me an ad with no way to skip it, so I sighed and waited it out for like 30 seconds. Then it started ANOTHER ad, this one a minute long, so I stopped it and moved on. I suppose YouTube won, because they got me to watch an ad, although I couldn’t tell you now what it was for. But they also lost, because I refused to click the next few links. A single 15-second ad at the start of each video would have been tolerable, and they could have sold 45 seconds of ad time. Instead they got eyeballs for 30 seconds, then lost them, along with a bit more goodwill.
One of my favorite parts of the Mormon Space Love Wars movie is when the professor says marriage is becoming obsolete because divorce sucks and child support sucks. So people will stop legally binding themselves together, but will obviously keep humping and so…babbies. The student says, “what about those babbies, Professor?” His answer? “The government will expand welfare and childcare programs and raise them.” lol. That might be the funniest thing he said. But he’s not entirely wrong, young people aren’t rushing to marry and start a family as it has been written since the dawn of time. Heck, 21 years ago my wife and I met, and we said, nah, let’s just cuddle and do smoochy kisses and use birth control and travel and have adventures for years and years. So we did that for 15 years. Then she decided a baby must happen so we married and had one perfect child who never cried and is remarkably inexpensive and had no adverse effects on our free time or love life. And we lived happily ever after. The End.
I watched that Mormon Epic Space Oddity and it was awesome. I loved it. I thought Jan was a pretty foxy lady with a very confused brain that will find all the answers in the LDS Church when she’s wife #7 to her hubby. Is that the trade-off men get for pretending to eschew booze and cigs and drugs and Mountain Dew? They get as many wives as they can con into marriage? I love how the heathen world always looks through holy eyes. Sad, shallow, empty and full of billiard halls and cheap champagne and quick, tacky marriages in Vegas. No wonder they are so confused and consider LDS a better option. When a Mormon dude has a harem of wives, how is sex divied up? And, importantly, do all the other wives watch when it’s not their turn? I’m not kink-shaming them, because like the atheist zoo professor said, whatever works for them!
The song about Mitt and Paul Ryan was absolutely horrible and so on-brand for conservative bologna. Oh, Paul Ryan lowered taxes alright, but not for 99% of the conservative voters or that dude playing keyboards on the railroad tracks. The wealthy were saved trillions, which now must come from the poor and middle class via cuts to Social Security and welfare and other benefits people like that guy might need. He’s just too stupid to know which party might help him, or at least hurt him less.
I really enjoyed it when the song devolved into “Obama’s gay, gay, G-A-Y!” Not.
Jan and Max (of the Mormon video) really need to move on and find someone to marry that already shares their values, rather than trying to force the other one into them.
Nothing bad ever comes from trying to force someone into becoming the person you actually want, if you try hard enough.
That train song started out okayish and then dived right into WE HATE OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. I don't know what I expected, some kind of support of Romney's stupid plans? Saying something nice about him? Instead of just "vote for Romney because ew obama is stinky".
Black AND PROBABLY GAY, don't forget that part.
It always revolts me when an obvious cult of delusional, superstitious idiots gains power and wealth: Scientology. Mormonism… Hell, ALL of Christianity.
Christianity has been at it much longer, but despite the basic goodness of the teachings of Jesus, it's managed to go way off the rails pretty soon after the mythological nonsense that was celebrated last week.
Thanks for the reminder. Time to go reread Mark Twain’s commentary on the Book of Mormon.
I believed the phrase he used was “Chloroform in print.”
Bah. I can't believe I'm this late to a Mormon post! ME!
Very, OT - I'm looking at a movie on the TeeVee with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore(snore) called ''Blended''...
''Two single parents are completely put off with each other after a terrible blind date, but they find themselves reunited when they each sign up for a family vacation with their kids and must share a suite at an African safari resort.''
I haven't seen so much racism and implicit misogyny in this type of film in ages..
Hey, Robyn! - Nothing about how you used to live within an hour of Hill Cumorah?
Obligatory [language warning]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4K8D6-KmM
Robyn, in the photo at the top of the post you say Rufus is doing nothing. I say Rufus is living his best life. Handsome and a good boy too.
I can assure you that Rufus is living his best life. And we are his faithful servants.
Our dog (my wife’s, really), a golden retriever, is a retired therapy dog. He was certified and worked at the hospital visiting sick kids. He was awesome at it, and they loved him. An amazing feat, given that he was a rescue with mood issues and food-guarding as a puppy. He was trained with love and overcame (or grew out of) all that. He went blind over time (he was malnourished as a newborn puppy) and now sleeps a lot and takes daily walks in the woods. My wife keeps his diet strict, so I sneak him gravy and treats and people food often. He deserves it. :)
Boy, that Mormon movie is truly awful.
And Elder Pete looks so much like my (now former) next door neighbor, whom I have known since he was a wee child when we moved in forty years ago. His mom and one of his sisters still live there, so he comes by relatively frequently.
Notice how, when our Romney singer outed Barack, he didn't try to rhyme Obama's gay proclivities with Tim or Lindsey?
What I enjoy about the Romney song is how he's not entirely committed. He's not playing too much on the keyboard, and sort of coyly sneaking up on the delivery of the lyrics.
Ta, Robyn. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get one of the new vaccines, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed Treg among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
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