Re: The boob tube, hooray!

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I don't even have a boob.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 1:44 PM
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Isn't "bandeau" more politically correct?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 1:46 PM
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It seems odd that the show has nearly all-male writing staff.


Posted by: Crytic ned | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 1:49 PM
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I think in some pictures she kinda looks like you, hb-gb.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 2:00 PM
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Without doing the "I'm so ethnic!" thing, I've been told quite a few times that I look Indian. Like I'll get ongoingly mixed up with another person who is Indian, or I'm travelling somewhere where race codes differently and people think I'm Indian. (This happened several times in Kenya, frex.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 2:13 PM
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Heebie is mexican!@#?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 4:06 PM
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Just swarthy.


Posted by: heebie-heebie | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 4:09 PM
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4: I can see the resemblance.

Looking at her progression on The Office, she appears to have taken over like a fucking boss.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 4:10 PM
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Me, too: rooting for her and glad it turns out to be likable.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 4:34 PM
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The show is really heavy on the IM SINGLE AND DESPERATE! shtick. Or at least the pilot was. But it was funny.


Posted by: heebie-heebie | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 5:23 PM
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I have given her book (Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?) to four women and my father, all of whom enjoyed it. I thought it was pretty darn funny myself.

I think she's a Republican, but in the old-fashioned 1980s moderate sense. Kind of incongruous.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 5:32 PM
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It was morbid fun to see the Gawker Media rabble turn on one another over her ("Woman of color!" "Privilege!").


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 5:38 PM
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I have to say my inherent "rooting" sense was for this one to fail. I don't really have any good reason; she was a pretty good character on The Office. It's possible I'm either racist or an asshole, or maybe both.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:14 PM
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Don't be so hard on yourself. Probably just one of the two.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:18 PM
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Now I'm getting vaguely annoyed by the pink (breast cancer awareness? Probably) shoes and sashes in Monday Night Football. Go away, asshole brain!


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:32 PM
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What, those are totally irritating. Fuck those asswipes and their combination of 1. giving barely any of the donated money to a cause that 2. is relatively overfunded compared to other disease research.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:34 PM
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Oh or it's the American Cancer Society I guess. Well, whatever. To hell with everything.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:35 PM
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Telewision! I love TV

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ひぐらしのなく頃に

1st four characters can mean "evening cicadas" or "day-to-day-existence"
then the possessive
two characters meaning weep or cry
then character for time; than maybe a participle

translated as "When They Cry" or "When the Cicadas Cry" or as I prefer, "When Every Day Howls with Pain"

This is an amazing anime series. Hardcore Slasher Horror, but I find the constant resets back to the beginning (or earlier), the unreliable narration, the slow revelation of backstory that confuses as much as explains...this is formally fascinating stuff.

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Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 10- 1-12 6:41 PM
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OT: I'm not sure what this means. I suppose I should just wait both for a longer article to be written and the appeal to the Supreme Court. What does it mean to cast a provisional ballot if there is apparently no process to make in de-provisional?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 2-12 7:04 AM
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According to twitter, I guess the provisional ballots count the same as regular ballots. Also, apparently in the primary, it was the same way with everybody asked for ID but all votes counted. Except that I don't remember being asked for ID. I'm 90% sure I remembered to vote in the primary.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 2-12 7:15 AM
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I have difficulty not lecturing people about how stupid the pink stuff is. Komen can suck it.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 10- 2-12 7:40 AM
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Is this the politics thread? I'm growing more confident that Elizabeth Warren will win in Mass. Why? Because Tom Menino has gotten off the fence.


Posted by: knecht ruprecht | Link to this comment | 10- 2-12 8:12 AM
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