On the live Jawbreaker album Blake dedicates a song to "everyone of the Gemini persuasion" or somesuch. Is the singer a Jawbreaker fan?
My cousin was an alpaca farmer killed by an acoustic guitar player, you insensitive ass.
This one goes out to all the oatmeal in the crowd!
1: Oh! That might be it. A reference, gone over my head. I'll have to ask him.
You know who knows how to be respectful of alpaca farmers. Newspaper reporters, that's who.
I suppose there is unlikely to be a thread to which this is more relevant.
"Socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men"
Alpaca is a word I used probably never before six months ago and now use with a frequency that makes me wonder if I have become some kind of giant raging geekosaur weirdo.
Speculation about the appropriateness of "become" in that sentence is politely discouraged.
Urgh, I keep deleting my identity. I hope nothing metaphorical is going on. 10, me.
7, also relevant by the transitive property of literalist word association:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_hyDfap5U
"This one goes out to all the shut-ins in the crowd!"
River Crabs, out! No more River Crabs! What a great euphemism.
The painting in 14 is awesome. A guy in a skirt, having just done a massive bong hit, sings and plays a weird string instrument.
Apparently this is from the "Orientalist" genre, which I have elsewhere heard described as sleazy, exploitationist, and racist. I think I need to see more of it.
1, 4: I asked. It wasn't a Jawbreaker reference. The song was in fact about a Gemini (among other things).
I was solicited for an unwanted threesome at the weekend. This seems like an Unfogged-worthy topic.
19 I've heard people say this, but I never understand how it works. Are you standing at the bar minding your own beer and a couple wander up and say, "You really don't look like you want a threesome but we thought we'd ask anyway", or do they come up one on each side of you and try to frogmarch you off, or what?
She just spoke up and asked. I have no idea if she had even consulted her husband, who was a couple of chairs away. Later I found out she'd been following the opinionated academic around and telling her she was "fascinating", so I presume she was envisaging one with herself, the OA, and me rather than an MMF.
How do you know she (they) didn't want a foursome? Did she announce that she'd like to have sex with you and one other person to be determined at a later time?
Possibly she intended to put you on hold while she looked around to score a third partner.
No, she specifically said "threesome".
Anyway, I replied that I didn't think OA would be up for it.
This answer has the advantages that it doesn't involve telling a lie, doesn't give anything away, and doesn't involve saying anything ungallant.
Maybe she was going to steal kidneys and wanted to be more efficient.
Perhaps she was just after your tightie whities, since these apparently now fetch $200 on the open market.
Now you know which of your shirts is most attractive to polyarmorists. The rest of us just don't know.
To be frank, it's the shirt I'd have picked.
It's like the joke that if you'll sleep with someone for a million dollars you're a prostitute, and now we're just haggling on a price. Once you agree to a threesome, it's a short step to having sex with seven people and a cow on a stage in Amsterdam.
Once you agree to a threesome, it's a short step to having sex with seven people and a cow on a stage in Amsterdam.
Oh please. I'd say it's more like, once you agree to a threesome, there are a lot fewer people who will agree to a twosome with you. It's less like a slippery slope and more like a terraced hillside that is harder to go up than down.
Also, I think the "Once is cool; twice is queer" rule applies.
Really? I can't say, thinking of people I know, that their participation (or not) in threesomes has made a blind bit of difference to their ordinary sexual/romantic lives. Maybe I'm not working with a big enough sample set.
Or maybe you hang out with a bunch of queers.
32: Maybe you should let Alex help you pick your next shirt.
32. I suspect this is more a function of Knifecrime being on balance less sexually uptight than the the Land of the Three, no doubt because we need to get us much as we can before somebody cuts us too deep.
32: I think it has been found (?) that heterosexual USian men have much greater anxiety about partners who they perceive to have "too much experience" or to be queer or whatever.
It's alright, I am quite able to pick my own, iykwimaittyd.
re: 36
Yeah, I suppose there is that. I always forget to factor in 'Americans are weird'.
29's referent seems to be missing? I certainly didn't state or imply that.
Once, when I was about 17, a couple of older women basically offered to pay me to participate in same. My sort of ex g/friend who was present found it highly amusing and tried to persuade me [not sure how serious she was] to take them up on it. My head was full of urban legends, so 'not bloody likely' quoth I. Although, iirc, I did let them buy me some drinks. I can't remember what shirt I had on at the time.
I posited to my early American lit class this semester that the fragility of US masculinity has something to do with the total helplessness in the face of phallic symbols--our images of purely symbolic masculine power are so extraordinary that actual human men aren't just competing with other men for dominance; they're also competing against everything they own or could own. One is supposed to "be a man" when choosing a car, choosing clothes, choosing what to eat, when to fight, whom to hate, etc. It's too much competition. It makes them crazy.
Of course I presented this in the context of stories like this one, and not in context of why it's hard to be a woman in 2011.
My head was full of urban legends
It's not as if you really need both kidneys.
What was the shirt, btw? Your 'Setun Working Group' t-shirt?
re: 43
Yeah, or finding out that the husbands who were 'away on the rigs' were actually a lot closer to hand. Something similar to which did actually happen to a friend of mine, the dénouement of which story involved him climbing out of a window half-naked and running away while tripping on what was, I think, one of his first ever acid-trips.
climbing out of a window half-naked and running away while tripping on what was, I think, one of his first ever acid-trips.
You don't need jealous husbands to do this.
47: Sure, but doing it to save fifty cents on paper towels just seems overly effortful.
Maybe I'm not working with a big enough sample set.
That's not a sample of n=3, ttaM, it's n=1.
40: I was just making a lame joke, but at the risk of making it lamer -- people were speculating that maybe she really wanted a threesome, so I was joking that she was starting the negotiations with a threesome, and then working her way up past a foursome into a seven-plus-cow-some.
20: I never understand how it works.
Yeah, once people have decided on The Threesome they're often pretty blunt about it. I think the most interesting technique I've encountered was a woman I was chatting with at the after party for some rock show or other who suddenly said, a propos of nothing, that she didn't think it was fair that people always assumed that threesomes should involve two girls, she'd personally prefer it with two guys and what were my thoughts. (It wasn't exactly that wording, but that was the jist.) And I was thinking, "oh, so this is how people do it."
Please tell me your answer began with "As a feminist ...".
53: Were I a threesome sort of guy, I would've probably gone with "as a 'choice' feminist . . . "
Something similar to which did actually happen to a friend of mine, the dénouement of which story involved him climbing out of a window half-naked and running away
This happened to a friend of mine while he was working in Texas. That made it extra scary to a Lutheran from Michigan.
Lutherans: Our slowest denomination.
re: 55
Heh, my friends story was in Bo'ness, which isn't much like Texas in many respects. Less guns, certainly.
44: A Fred Perry, style number M5117. Googling this gives you surprisingly few results. Mine is the off white/three tone blue shoulder tape version.
55: Especially given the notorious Texas Penal Code Article 1220 (repealed in 1973): "Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband upon the person of any one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided the killing take place before the parties to the act of adultery have separated."
before the parties to the act of adultery have separated
You have to kill them before withdrawal?
61: Read the chapter for some specific cases.
• Yes, people were cleared of wrongdoing by this law.
• No, you couldn't kill your wife as well.
• No, your wife could not kill her husband's adulterer.
• No, lesser harms were not covered. For instance, you couldn't tie up the adulterer and cut off his penis. ($300 and 30 days in the county jail for that one.)
• No, your wife could not kill her husband's adulterer.
What if it was a male adulterer rather than an adulterrix?
61: In Texas, adultery is safer the shorter your penis is.
Lord Barnard was lucky he wasn't in Texas to deal with the little Musgrave. Should have killed a naked man and not pratted about.
once you agree to a threesome, there are a lot fewer people who will agree to a twosome with you.
I keep telling myself, "Self, this is the last time you'll be surprised by AWB's negative experiences with men," and yet I keep being surprised anew.
66: Really? In my experience the number of men who have weird little madonna complexes* is huge. I have had a number of conversations with groups of men in which I am by far the outlier in my willingness to consider someone with a rich and varied sexual history as serious girlfriend material.
* For values of "madonna complex" where some prior sexual experience is not disqualifying.
49, 66: Haven't you people seen Chasing Amy?
68: That movie really sucked. It was like watching uninteresting paint dry slowly.
I definitely found it common for guys I was considering dating to be thrown by the sheer number of people I'd slept with. Even when they had similar numbers. I'd assume they'd be intimidated if I'd had a threesome in my past, too.
By the end of my dating career, that kind of insecurity was a deal-breaker for me. This is what I've done, I'm interested in you now, so don't play games with me about my past. But I indulged it for awhile.
Okay, fair enough, both of you, especially about Chasing Amy--which used to be one of my favorite movies, precisely because it makes clear what a total idiot the protagonist is being, and doesn't have a happy ending. I'm happier imagining that everybody has absorbed this lesson, though this is obviously not so.
I guess I don't have enough of these conversations.
69: it's a movie that I feel might be like Catcher in the Rye (which I haven't read, and feel too old to read now)--I can't imagine enjoying it unless you're young enough, or new enough to sexuality, to feel some kinship and sympathy with protagonists being immature and thoughtless about this stuff. (And it doesn't help, I suppose, that the characters are older than the viewer really ought to be, for this to be the case--which is the whole point, really; the protagonists need to grow up.)
guys I was considering dating to be thrown by the sheer number of people I'd slept with
Guys you were considering dating? I can see sharing that information with someone you've begun to date, and with whom things have become serious, but before actually dating? This surprises me.
73: Like all female soccer players, Heebie wears a flipboard around her neck.
72: I think I'm probably about the same age as Ben, but maybe I was too old for the movie. Also, comic books aren't my thing so I found it hard to take any of the characters that seriously.
I must be old-fashioned. My flipboard is seekrit.
No, the latter. Guys I was already having a few dates with, or already hanging out with, or whatever. Love was in the air, but debating whether to escalate things. Sometimes someone I'd already slept with, sometimes not.
76: Good lord, parsimon. Heebie's flipboard is old-fashioned, but I figured that was just a hipster thing. Get with the times already.
70: Even Prince has (had?) problems with those feelings of insecurity!
I guess I shoulda closed my eyes
When you drove me to the place
Where your horses run free
Cause I felt a little I'll
When I saw all the pictures
Of the jockeys that were there before me
Believe it or not
I started to worry
I wondered if I had enough class
78: I'd be embarrassed to put on that gold bra.
Love was in the air
A couple of strategically located Glade PlugIns can usually take care of that.
I'm almost 31, so I probably should have been too old for the movie when I saw it ten years ago. But as it happened, I was right at the sweet spot where I felt morally superior to the characters while also feeling close enough--not in terms of either of the characters' particular neuroses, but in general hopeless-about-this-mysterious-sex-and-relationships-stuff terms--to feel sympathy. Eh. I'm not going to defend it as a great work of art, but I found it moving at the time, and I think it has a good message given its intended audience--remedial sexual politics, not even 101.
Okay, 78 actually gave me a laughing fit.
77: I'd still probably get further advanced in the relationship before we started swapping people-I-have-slept-with information. It's too dangerous! Possibility of jealousy, insecurity, derailing the emergent relationship from what it actually is here and now, to addressing the other person's past. And so on. Not that it should be avoided forever, but I'd have to feel pretty confident in the relationship before having conversations like that.
I'm not saying you're wrong, or being all scandalized or anything: I'm just surprised.
I think you're reading me too closely. I didn't sit down and take their hand and tell them there was a few things we needed to discuss. But sometimes topic would arise. On the more juvenile end of my lovers, they'd sometimes get their panties twisted. As I matured, that was a deal-breaker.
I'm always surprised to see what a liberal bubble some people live in. Next there'll be people saying "Really? There are men out there who are okay with their 16-year-old sons having sex, but not their 16-year-old daughters? Where?"
I assume there's some terrific flamewar in some feminist blog somewhere about Chasing Amy, ending with bitter recriminations and tears and threats and personal insults. I guess if not we could be the change I want to see in the world.
You certainly appear to be trolling someone, Halford.
I liked Chasing Amy, although was in high school when I first saw it and maybe I'd find it hadn't aged well, I don't know.
I've long thought that my total number of people dated/kissed/slept with/whatever was lower than is "normal" for someone in my general position, certainly lower than I'd like, so I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had a problem with dating someone who had had a handful more partners than me. I'll bet Chasing Amy itself is partly to thank for that. I have to admit, though, that that if the disparity were really huge it might have been a problem for me. I'd say it would be because of compatibility issues, but who knows how much that would be true and how much it would be simply a pretext for the ego issues.
72
(And it doesn't help, I suppose, that the characters are older than the viewer really ought to be, for this to be the case--which is the whole point, really; the protagonists need to grow up.)
Ben Affleck and Jason Lee were 25 and 27 when the movie was released, so let's assume that their characters were the same age, and it's easy to think of lots of men in their mid-20s with the general maturity level of their characters. Yes, they need to grow up, but it's not particularly contrived or unique to Hollywood or otherwise implausible that they haven't.
85
I'm always surprised to see what a liberal bubble some people live in.
Sometimes it surprises me myself. A few weeks ago I went to a graduation party for a good friend of mine. Of the crowd of 30 or so people (ballpark) at the party, his roommate, me and my girlfriend were the only people who knew him better than they knew his fiancé. So basically, we were the visiting team. We had been forewarned that it was a fairly conservative, right-wing family. I had been mentally preparing to not talk about certain other friends of mine, or be ready to change the subject when someone told off-color jokes. However, I was not mentally prepared for the bride-to-be's father just coming right out during a brief speech and saying that he would have preferred sons. That did not strike me as the kind of thing a sane person in a healthy family would say. But no one else there reacted, so maybe I'm the weird one!
Why not you? You know what sucks? Whatever cognitive science you're in that I haven't been able to figure out. Also, anything and everything related to Boston sports.
82, I'm 10 years older than you, and Chasing Amy is one of my faves.
Of the crowd of 30 or so people (ballpark)
Quick, run and tell the Pirates how you got 30 people to a ballpark.
Oh, also electronic music is noise played by losers who could never make it as real musicians. And copyright law is awesome.
Heebie: Just hang in there, baby, you're doing' great. Ringo's proud of you and so am I. It's almost over. Now, I want you to go in that bag, and find my flipboard.
Parsimon: Wh-- Which one is it?
Heebie: It's the one that says Bad Neighbor.
90: Because nothing conveys deep longing and wisdom earned through regret quite as well as Affleck's emotionless stare.
In Chasing Amy, I thought Kevin Smith was ludicrously sympathetic to the Affleck character, who was just a prick and whose prick-ness wasn't even treated as a matter for examination.
85: I've shaped my own liberal bubble, expunging shitheads from my life - at least my romantic life. Heebie apparently did the same ("As I matured, that was a deal-breaker.") I get that certain kinds of people exist, but why have them in your life when so many other types of people exist?
Has anyone here successfully managed, while in an established MF relationship, to pick up a third for a MMF threesome? Any pointers or antipointers? The girlfriend and I are looking for a Stunt Cock.
my total number of people dated/kissed/slept with/whatever
I'm not sure when this happened (it was before I got together with ST), but I have forgotten my number. I can sit down and count it up if I feel like it, and when I've done so I recognize the number ('Oh yeah, that was what I had figured out last time'), but then I'll promptly forget it again. It's pleasant to go around not having an exact number.
95: His prick-ness loses him his hot girlfriend and his best friend and creative partner. Did you maybe need him to break his ankle as well?
98: That would be great. Also, a hip.
The girlfriend and I are looking for a Stunt Cock
Don't lead off with the Ring of Fire. It can be intimidating.
but I have forgotten my number.
About the time I got fed up with game-playing, I also deliberately misplaced my number. And since then, genuinely lost it, and happier for it.
100: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes?qt=qt0447156
96: It'll be hard: people whose cocks are stunted tend to be shy.
94: I didn't dislike the movie as much as Moby did, but I do have similar feelings about Ben Affleck's performance.
It'll be hard
One would certainly hope so. Difficult to do stunts otherwise.
Any pointers or antipointers?
I'd stay away from twitter for a while.
Any pointers or antipointers?
A good friend of mine has served as Stunt Cock for two different couples. He (gay, male) had always wanted to have sex with a woman (not because he is particularly attracted to women, more in a try-everything-once kind of way), and both times got involved with the couples when they answered his gay-male-for-straight-woman personal ad.
not because he is particularly attracted to women, more in a try-everything-once kind of way
And, yet, apparently, he tried it twice!
his gay-male-for-straight-woman personal ad.
Does Craigslist have a "people who are kidding you or themselves" section?
Of course we made fun of him along the lines of 111.
Does Craigslist have a "people who are kidding you or themselves" section?
We talked about this a lot at the time, with me trying to explain to him why it was unlikely that some random woman would think it was a good idea to sleep with him. I think the MF couples were the only serious replies he ever got.
His prick-ness loses him his hot girlfriend and his best friend and creative partner. Did you maybe need him to break his ankle as well?
Nope. I just needed it to be understood that his losses were an appropriate result in a just world, and that this character was not an appropriate figure of sympathy.
I just needed it to be understood that his losses were an appropriate result in a just world, and that this character was not an appropriate figure of sympathy.
But the latter doesn't follow from the former.
116: True. I'm making an argument specific to this movie, and not stating a general principal.
And, yet, apparently, he tried it twice!
I think it's in an early Salman Rushdie novel where the protagonist finds a guy raping a donkey on two separate occasions, who explains, "You have to try everything twice, once to find out if you like it, twice to be sure.
Right, because you never know if you didn't get a bad donkey.
Way to bring the victim-blaming, Moby.
118: This guy won't be making sure about raccoon sex.
Oh hey, speaking of when you tell people stuff about your past: at what point do you tell the white woman you've been sleeping with that you're "supposed to marry a Korean girl"? Do you wait until she asks if you're planning to leave her for an Asian girl?
Regarding previous dating history, I only fairly late in the game realized that there's no need to refer to an ex-girlfriend as such if a story doesn't need that detail. I tripped over myself a lot trying to tell a story before I had that "oh, duh" moment.
"This crazy story I'm telling you all took place while I was at the beach with...um...a friend. Yes. That's it. Together, we found five dollars."
104: Thanks.
95.2: I've shaped my own liberal bubble, expunging shitheads from my life - at least my romantic life. Heebie apparently did the same ("As I matured, that was a deal-breaker.") I get that certain kinds of people exist, but why have them in your life when so many other types of people exist?
If we're still talking about numbers of people slept with, and/or in what ways, I just don't think of those who might be taken aback by numbers or configurations beyond what they themselves are familiar with as shitheads. Not necessarily.
Sure, if they're so taken aback that they decide you're a slut, it's all off. But this kind of thing goes both ways: those who have a fairly robust sexual history can be taken aback by those who've been relatively chaste. It's certainly not necessary that there be a match in sexual experiences between two parties. Just that everyone be cool with the other.
122: I think I'll make that into its own post.
Actually, I take back that last link, which was really lame. I was hoping it was going to be about people who date people they know they won't be serious about, without telling the other person this--like in AWB's stories. There was a weird bit of nostalgia when I saw the byline, though--wasn't she the third host on MTV's Loveline, back in the late 90s?
I know several white girls who were dumped for that reason. In one case, the man has not yet married and his mom wrote to my friend to take the blame and apologize. So far, it has cost her grandkids.
I was going to remark on how all the no-Asian-intermarriage anecdotes I've heard are about Asian guys being forbidden from marrying white girls, but I just realized I know an Asian-girl-defying-parents-about-white-guy story. So, uh. I guess this is a pretty lame comment.
123: there's no need to refer to an ex-girlfriend as such if a story doesn't need that detail
This. Totally. Later, once you know one another well enough to know the names of the respective exes, okay, but otherwise, there's no need to specify.
Between 125 and 126, one of us should feel pretty dumb.
but I just realized I know an Asian-girl-defying-parents-about-white-guy story
Regular readers of the blog know at least one.
Between 125 and 126, one of us should feel pretty dumb.
I don't mean to be a jerk, but that's a very high "number." Also, what's with the imprecision? I mean, I guess it depends how you count things...
I don't go around telling people I'm dating about my extremely varied and extremely infrequent sexual experiences, but I am out about being bi and not trying to rush into a constant-contact monogamous-type relationship. I think the most attractive kind of woman is a strict hetero who has had a ton of sex but only in one or two relationships.
I'm with Blume on numbers. I didn't stop counting because it got too high; I stopped counting when I realized it wasn't going up much anymore.
Actually that's a joke because I don't date.
it wasn't going up much anymore
But you repeat yourself.
I think the most attractive kind of woman is a strict hetero who has had a ton of sex but only in one or two relationships.
There now, we see why this is such a dangerous conversation.
There now, we see why this is such a dangerous conversation.
Because people talk about expectations that they encounter?
Really, everyone should post their number, or numbers, depending.
139: Oh, did I misunderstand? I thought AWB was speaking in her own voice, and that's fine, of course; but did I misunderstand and she's saying that this is just an expectation that she encounters? That would make more sense.
142: Okay. I really did misunderstand, and was a little thrown.
Sweet fancy Moses:
Andrew Breitbart, personally in attendance at Rep. Anthony Weiner's press conference, just took to the stage, grabbed the mic and held forth to the assembled media. This was before Weiner took the stage.
From TPM.
145: Freals. I just saw a bit of that and wondered if TPM had screwed up their headline. CWAA.
Apparently there are additional revelations about Weiner, which don't necessarily look good for him.
I wish I were all muscular like today's congressmen. Maybe I should do more yoga?
COCK PICTURES PROMOTE CYCLING, STUDY FINDS
I feel like sexting is, on a percentage basis, more common among members of the US House of Representatives than it is among 16 year olds.
115, 117: Dude makes mistake, dude learns from mistake. What did he do that was so terribly unsympathetic for you, besides be played by Ben Affleck*?
* also, I think Affleck is way better in Chasing Amy than in most of the movies I've seen him in.
I wonder what the point of lying about that was. I mean, I get the point, especially if you're not a public figure, but the washington press corps only gives up on small, insignificant stories, like torture and financial fraud and unemployment. They weren't going to let this go.
I think Affleck is way better in Chasing Amy than in most of the movies I've seen him in
Armageddon is underrated, but most people don't realize that you can root for the space rock.
155 to 154? If so, you should always avoid telling the truth if you liked a Affleck movie.
Good heavens. Breitbart told the truth about something -- what are the odds?
I hadn't followed the Weiner story for several days after it started. I wish I'd stuck with that.
I feel so bad that I wasn't making really horrible jokes about this on the grounds that it probably wouldn't amount to anything.
This kind of opportunity doesn't come very often.
And when it does, it's all too brief.
I shouldn't get all pumped up over nothing, I suppose.
Oh man. I was just defending Weiner last night. D'oh.
Oh man. I was just defending Weiner last night. D'oh.
It seems Weiner can stand up for himself.
165: I can't condom that kind of behavior.
But what can you say but aw, nuts.
I think that part of the boot camp training for aspiring politicians should be how to engage in sexual misconduct in ways that won't get you busted. Obviously there are some who will do it no matter what, so lets make sure they stay out of the headlines so the press doesn't have these feeding frenzies to distract them from reporting stuff that's actually worth knowing about.
Dude makes mistake, dude learns from mistake. What did he do that was so terribly unsympathetic for you, besides be played by Ben Affleck*?
I saw that long enough ago that I won't vouch for my memory, but it seems to me that the only lesson the Affleck character retained was that he was ill-served by his narrow-mindedness. I don't recall any regret for the damage he'd done anyone else. (And did he really repent? Or just recognize that life presents us with unfortunate dilemmas?)
I think I only saw that movie because my previous two girlfriends had both been named Amy. That did not make the movie worthwhile.
174: Holden writes a comic recapping the events of the movie, which ends with an explicit apology to Alyssa.
Since the whole movie is more or less a recursive self-examination of wrongs done plus apology from Kevin Smith to Joey Lauren Adams, I suppose how you feel about the one will pretty much inform how you feel about the other, but it seems like it was good enough for her.
158: Good heavens. Breitbart told the truth about something -- what are the odds?
Yep, that's the worst part--he'll eat dinner off of this one for years. I suspect all of the activity that made it look like it was a hoax or setup was from a few folks who had gotten wind that something was up (maybe some of the other "romances" in addition to this one) and were closely monitoring and ready to spring. Or, hell, this one itself might still have actually been posted via the yfrog exploit knowing it would probably smoke out the other stuff.
Christ, what a dick.
176
... Or, hell, this one itself might still have actually been posted via the yfrog exploit ...
Weiner admitted he sent it. He acted guilty from the start. This is what happens when people really hack the accounts of prominent politicians.
His not confirming or denying his own wiener now looks like he knew the charge might stick and he wanted to be jokingly dismissive so that he did not say anything that could be proven false.
176: Oops, missed that, did not know he admitted this specific tweet,
Thank goodness Congress is only ceremonial or this kind of stuff could be a problem.
The top post at Balloon Juice right now notes that Weiner's seat is safe for a Dem to replace him, so not to worry Congressionally too much.
It won't be hard for the Dems to stretch the fabric of the district into a fruitful climax after a stiff fight at the poles.
182: You don't think they have to worry about electile dysfunction?
AFAICT, the Weiner story is politically important only if you're invested in Weiner's mayoral prospects. Which have endured some shrinkage.
I thought what's his name was mayor for life.
184: and, as previously pointed out many times, boy was he a fucking tool about bike lanes.
No pun, if you'll believe it, intended.
Speaking of bikes, I saw a sweet-looking mixte yesterday and thought of Blume and Tweety, one (or both!) of whom mentioned mixtes here previously.
I have a long-standing grudge against Anthony Weiner. Still, he should retain his congressional seat--although God knows what horrific positions he'll have to take as pay-off to his local powers-that-be. His star will be a bit dimmed, though: he's unlikely to be covered as "mayoral-hopeful Anthony Weiner" or "2016 dark-horse Anthony Weiner" at this point.
"Internet pervert Anthony Weiner..."
AFAICT, the Weiner story is politically important only if you're invested in Weiner's mayoral prospects.
Apparently, Weiner was pretty much the only congressperson willing to press the point that Clarence Thomas seems to have misreported multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying money on his disclosure forms.
189: Ugh -- I forgot he was all up in that. Gross.
191: it's not just that, I'm afraid. Weiner was consistently willing to push back, hard, against Republican bullshit. (That's what made it believable, even to a real cynic like me, that his Twitter account had been hacked or whatever; he seemed like a likely target for ratfucking.) Given that, his diminished stature (har-har) will be bad news for Democrats across the board. I mean, he's funny, quick on his feet, and willing to throw a punch. I can't really think of another person in the caucus with those qualities. Plus, for a Jew, he's pretty well hung.
Sigh, he was our tighty whitey knight.
