I’m trying not to return to the mood I hit yesterday morning. I had thoughts about ice, sliding, clusterfuck. But it’s not just a running joke. Nothing deserves to be associated with the maggot world. Hell, not even maggots. Sorry for my thought crimes, pandas. You seem nice.
More links to effective ways for terrified citizens to respond properly, please. Besides yelling "fuck you" and hysterically calling 911 from inside your own home while standing next to a window overlooking armed agents.
More links to effective ways for terrified citizens to respond properly, please. Besides yelling "fuck you" and hysterically calling 911 from inside your own home while standing next to a
Excellent Tabs! as always, but oh my god, as a woman who grew up in a family of short men, all of whom were excellent examples of compassionate and kind masculinity, I'm so fucking tired of OH HA HA HA AND LOOKIE HE'S SHORT TOO being the go-to insult our side flings at men on the Right (it's not just Wonkette, although I am a bit disappoint to see it here). My dudes, dudettes and all of humanity in between, the only reason to say male height=male worth is the Patriarchy. Are we supporting the Patriarchy? Come on folks, we're better than this. They got plenty of other stuff you can insult them over. But as a rule, I think insulting people over the things that are really just part of our own genetics- height, weight, age, how close we naturally align to the accepted standards of beauty, what-have-you, in an attempt to make them "less than" is crummy, no matter how offensive the person is in their actions. You know, choose instead to judge based on the content of their character and stuff. I think some short guy said that.
I agree with your point, but I think Wonkette, maybe clumsily, is doing something more subtle than just picking on Bovino about his height. I think it is more about recognizing his malevolence as having some basis in *his own* sense of inadequacy.
I hear you, and I get the thinking behind it (AOC has done it, too) but I'm saying it's faulty thinking, because it's basically, "Yes, and they have reason to be insecure, because THEY ARE SHORTY SHORT SHORTS." And I'm saying that I think that's more damaging, in the long run. Because Bovino is not reading Wonkette; oodles of men and women of all different shapes and sizes and ages and levels of attractiveness-as-determined-by-our-Western-society, are, and the message that is being sent is not a zinger at Bovino; it's a zinger at men who are short. Even if that wasn't the intent, that's the result.
Sorry I was so bummed last night, y'all. The bad news about my beloved MiL's cancer is just upsetting and I keep forgetting that it's real, so it's still happening this morning. Even stupid stuff. My parents are wanting to get a kitten but don't want to leave it if my aunt's memorial service would happen at the same time (my loser uncle hasn't filled people in, but then he told me April). So I said "April" and my husband was like, "well, but we don't know if mom will..."
I'm sorry and it's dumb and I know that so many of you here are dealing with worse. And it happens with everyone who loves anyone, but I just feel horrible. And of course she's not my mom, so I feel worse because I just love my husband (obviously) and my sister in law, and my nieces and it's worse for them and I can't help.
You have every right to feel what you feel and your friends and people who love you will always sit with you and be there and not be put out that you are feeling badly, but only want to share their love with you.
You're helping by being a beloved DIL. I hold that position in my own small family, and please do not underestimate the importance of beloved in-law. She isn't your birth-mom, but I'm sure she sees herself as mom.
I almost hate "mother in law" jokes because my mom loves my husband probably more than she does me, and my mother in law has loved me like her own since the moment I met her!
It's kind of like grandkids, I think--"how come you let (grandkid) do THAT? You NEVER let me do that!"
I always joked that if we split up, my mom would want custody of my husband. And his mom once warned me of a cancer that runs in the family, forgetting we're not actually related. Sounds like you got lucky, as did I. So did our MILs!
YOU help me more than you know, when I wake up in the middle of the night and hear well-told tales of the kitties and the wood and all of that from your frozen oasis!
So I want to tell you a story that is both sad, very sad— I just wanna warn you about that— but also joyous in its own way and the kitten made me think of this.
A young woman that I had watched grow up from a child died last year, and it was wrenching and unbearable and unexpected and the worst. I went to her funeral, and one of the things she was known for when she went to church with her family, she would smuggle snuggle in babies: baby rabbits, baby kittens. She would pull them out with a little smile and hand them to other people during the service. She raised prize-winning rabbits, and this helped them become comfortable with people so they were calm during the competitions.
And during the funeral, which was wrenching and unbearable, someone took out baby rabbits, and started passing them around surreptitiously during the service.
I remember telling you about your friend and her rabbits! I think that surreptitious rabbits should be a thing!
I had one bunny who was freaking amazing, and would even come when called. I had another who would not die and was the most nasty creature God ever created. He taught me more, but maybe it would have been better if his formative years had been spent being in the company of your friend.
It may be better that the Trump DOJ not investigate or charge Ross for civil rights violations. They'd only fuck it up so that double jeopardy would attach. There is no statute of limitations for murder. There is a concern they'll destroy evidence but I would hope, should they do that, a future administration will criminally charge those who ordered it and carried it out.
Your pandemonious header gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/thatsnow-ordinary-panda
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ee845f44-b6c3-400a-8df2-b8b0ac97737b
Pandaring to the audience
What's black and white and black and white and black and white and black and white?
A panda rolling downhill!*
* "A nun falling down the stairs" also would have been acceptable.
Pandas are like rental cars
That's something you should know
They only get to live their lives
Where China let's them go
Zookeepers get to care for them
Folks learn to love them so
The pandas entertain us
With eucalyptus in the snow.
So watch them start as little cubs
And get to see them grow
But China always grabs them back
It's hard to see them go.
Are there any pandas left in the wild?
Only in preserves in China.
Where the workers dress in panda costumes to interact with them.
Q: Why did the panda leave his saxophone in the snow?
A: Because he liked cool jazz!!
Nice!
A perfect time for pandas in the snow
The world deserves a pandas in the snow version of this:
https://youtu.be/-tOHtuPFUYU
Epic
This is what allergy to snow looks like.
I’m trying not to return to the mood I hit yesterday morning. I had thoughts about ice, sliding, clusterfuck. But it’s not just a running joke. Nothing deserves to be associated with the maggot world. Hell, not even maggots. Sorry for my thought crimes, pandas. You seem nice.
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
Pandas are just all wrong evolution-wise, they only exist because they are so stinkin’ cute!
And they have great personalities, too.
Can't hardly get them to fuck, and when they do it's practically a national holiday!
Panda play! (I know, too obvious)
(wink)
Black and white fluffs frolicking in the white, cold fluff!
Da Bears...
"Perfidy". Didn't know the name, but I know the tactic. "Surrender and we won't shoot." "I surrender!" BANG. B###h!
When I try to watch your links, e.g., to The Big Wedding". I just get un skippable ads.
Yeah, what's up with that.
More links to effective ways for terrified citizens to respond properly, please. Besides yelling "fuck you" and hysterically calling 911 from inside your own home while standing next to a window overlooking armed agents.
More links to effective ways for terrified citizens to respond properly, please. Besides yelling "fuck you" and hysterically calling 911 from inside your own home while standing next to a
window.
Those ICE agents berating the kid for crying? Wait'll these shitheads get brought up on charges and perp walked.
Niagara Falls.
"...creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”
This is a tacit admission that the lives of the public are endangered by ice.
Excellent Tabs! as always, but oh my god, as a woman who grew up in a family of short men, all of whom were excellent examples of compassionate and kind masculinity, I'm so fucking tired of OH HA HA HA AND LOOKIE HE'S SHORT TOO being the go-to insult our side flings at men on the Right (it's not just Wonkette, although I am a bit disappoint to see it here). My dudes, dudettes and all of humanity in between, the only reason to say male height=male worth is the Patriarchy. Are we supporting the Patriarchy? Come on folks, we're better than this. They got plenty of other stuff you can insult them over. But as a rule, I think insulting people over the things that are really just part of our own genetics- height, weight, age, how close we naturally align to the accepted standards of beauty, what-have-you, in an attempt to make them "less than" is crummy, no matter how offensive the person is in their actions. You know, choose instead to judge based on the content of their character and stuff. I think some short guy said that.
I agree with your point, but I think Wonkette, maybe clumsily, is doing something more subtle than just picking on Bovino about his height. I think it is more about recognizing his malevolence as having some basis in *his own* sense of inadequacy.
I hear you, and I get the thinking behind it (AOC has done it, too) but I'm saying it's faulty thinking, because it's basically, "Yes, and they have reason to be insecure, because THEY ARE SHORTY SHORT SHORTS." And I'm saying that I think that's more damaging, in the long run. Because Bovino is not reading Wonkette; oodles of men and women of all different shapes and sizes and ages and levels of attractiveness-as-determined-by-our-Western-society, are, and the message that is being sent is not a zinger at Bovino; it's a zinger at men who are short. Even if that wasn't the intent, that's the result.
When you realize halfway through reading tabs that you’re in a full body clench.
Please raise your hand if you remember tabs as recipes and AD tours. [seizes means of tabs production] Like this:
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Remember Velveeta? They’re still making that shit. Here! Eat some. You’ll feel better. Or sick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEMpWYljgo
I dumped some Smoked Gouda With Bacon into my grits the other morning and it turned out very good.
That is so very tabs of you!
I ate apples with peanut butter last night before I went to bed.
How did the peanut butter like the apples?
They play happily together.
Sorry I was so bummed last night, y'all. The bad news about my beloved MiL's cancer is just upsetting and I keep forgetting that it's real, so it's still happening this morning. Even stupid stuff. My parents are wanting to get a kitten but don't want to leave it if my aunt's memorial service would happen at the same time (my loser uncle hasn't filled people in, but then he told me April). So I said "April" and my husband was like, "well, but we don't know if mom will..."
I'm sorry and it's dumb and I know that so many of you here are dealing with worse. And it happens with everyone who loves anyone, but I just feel horrible. And of course she's not my mom, so I feel worse because I just love my husband (obviously) and my sister in law, and my nieces and it's worse for them and I can't help.
The only thing worse than being in pain is seeing someone you love being in pain. It's not dumb. It's being human. A decent human.
You have every right to feel what you feel and your friends and people who love you will always sit with you and be there and not be put out that you are feeling badly, but only want to share their love with you.
You're helping by being a beloved DIL. I hold that position in my own small family, and please do not underestimate the importance of beloved in-law. She isn't your birth-mom, but I'm sure she sees herself as mom.
I almost hate "mother in law" jokes because my mom loves my husband probably more than she does me, and my mother in law has loved me like her own since the moment I met her!
It's kind of like grandkids, I think--"how come you let (grandkid) do THAT? You NEVER let me do that!"
I always joked that if we split up, my mom would want custody of my husband. And his mom once warned me of a cancer that runs in the family, forgetting we're not actually related. Sounds like you got lucky, as did I. So did our MILs!
You’re helping more than you know just by caring so much.
YOU help me more than you know, when I wake up in the middle of the night and hear well-told tales of the kitties and the wood and all of that from your frozen oasis!
So I want to tell you a story that is both sad, very sad— I just wanna warn you about that— but also joyous in its own way and the kitten made me think of this.
A young woman that I had watched grow up from a child died last year, and it was wrenching and unbearable and unexpected and the worst. I went to her funeral, and one of the things she was known for when she went to church with her family, she would smuggle snuggle in babies: baby rabbits, baby kittens. She would pull them out with a little smile and hand them to other people during the service. She raised prize-winning rabbits, and this helped them become comfortable with people so they were calm during the competitions.
And during the funeral, which was wrenching and unbearable, someone took out baby rabbits, and started passing them around surreptitiously during the service.
That is beautiful. I am moved to tears and have to tell my bestie to slip in kittens and puppies at my goodbye party.
I remember telling you about your friend and her rabbits! I think that surreptitious rabbits should be a thing!
I had one bunny who was freaking amazing, and would even come when called. I had another who would not die and was the most nasty creature God ever created. He taught me more, but maybe it would have been better if his formative years had been spent being in the company of your friend.
That was so difficult.
I think a stealth kitten would be the making of the memorial service.
I am exceedingly grateful for the cute pandas at the top of this post. Because the news is mostly just yikes.
Thank you for the Diane Keaton palate cleanser.
It may be better that the Trump DOJ not investigate or charge Ross for civil rights violations. They'd only fuck it up so that double jeopardy would attach. There is no statute of limitations for murder. There is a concern they'll destroy evidence but I would hope, should they do that, a future administration will criminally charge those who ordered it and carried it out.
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It must be ten years since the Brazilian invasion of this mommyblog.
“You will never guess who allegedly did the Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue arson, just kidding yes you will. [JoeMyGod]”
Um, a Synagogue with Jewish ties? An Evangelical who hates Jews (but probably loves Netanyahu’s Israel)?
Weird. I thought Liberals were the ones who were anti-Semetic.