you broke my grill posted:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

What is it with people and not loving showering when they're showing?

https://twitter.com/nealbrennan/status/1289990168665968642

Knormal posted:

One of my grandmas was convinced manx cats were created by breeding a normal cat with a rabbit, but at least she didn't think that turned the offspring into worm gestalts somehow.

Vib Rib posted:

This really sums up conservative ideology in a bunch of ways. Probably more than they realize.
It gleefully wishes pain on others. It suggests hurting children until they act "right". It savors the idea of violence upon those they've personally deemed "stupid" (meaning "disagrees with me" because conservatives are never wrong). It reflects on progress, protection of children, safety, improved health, and better consciousness as bad. My favorite of all might be that suggesting stupid should hurt is perfect because it's basically admitting that without some kind of immediate physical trigger they'd never recognize when they're acting stupid. There's no other way to tell!

Absurd Alhazred posted:

What is it with people and not loving showering when they're showing?

https://twitter.com/nealbrennan/status/1289990168665968642

JT Smiley posted:

So what was the context of this post? Like why share this with the internet?

Brawnfire posted:

I literally had mud spattered up my knees and elbows after working in the garden today, are they trying to convince me they'd just leave that? Because those parts don't get dirty?

I picture this person with cracked rhino feet and fuckin dead-rear end sore-pocked zombie leather for legs

Dewgy posted:

Don’t forget assigning the thought to a fictional character who never would have said it!

Arivia posted:

Do you not know who Joyce Carol Oates is? Like she’s pointing out what the use of the term “Ivy League education” is, and that it generally refers to bachelor/undergraduate degrees. That’s it. The comments from graduate/law students back her up, pointing out that Harvard Law is very prestigious but the category of that prestige in law schools is called something different.

Kevin DuBrow posted:

It's like if they made Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes complain about how kids these days aren't respectful.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

What is it with people and not loving showering when they're showing?

Skwirl posted:

Haven't seen a "maritime admiralty law" post in a while.

https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1290097335557435393?s=19

Baron von Eevl posted:

Welp always take a look at who is actually tweeting things, folks.

Arivia posted:

I think absurd alhazred had a bad day. In both this thread and the cspam culture warriors one he posted a couple tweets that look really stupid/terrible if you don’t look at who’s actually made them. (The other one was “what menstrual supplies do you use”, which is a horrible thing for a regular reply guy to ask, but much more reasonable from the practicing gynecologist who made it.)

Then looking at it here removes it of context so you’re less likely to notice the Ivy League tweet is by Joyce Carol Oates and just think of it as IOSM since it’s in the context of other IOSM. It’s a mistake still, but a far more understandable one.

rodbeard posted:

Okay I looked up Joyce Carol Oates, but I still don't understand the point of splitting hairs over where the pedophile lawyer went to school.

rodbeard posted:

Okay I looked up Joyce Carol Oates, but I still don't understand the point of splitting hairs over where the pedophile lawyer went to school.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I just checked and the last time I posted on the C-SPAM thread was in February, so I think you have the wrong person.

Also JCO is a self-important Princeton-based literary shithead and is absolutely being a "well, actually" idiot here.


She's defending her institutional power from guilt by association.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

I've been following the GRRM mess.

1. ConZealand requested pronunciation guides from some (perhaps not all) nominees, then apparently did nothing with them. Mary Robinette Kowal, one of the individual category presenters, wasn't given a pronunciation guide and took it upon herself to check with nominees for the correct pronunciations.

2. Apart from the mispronounced names, GRRM went on and on. The entire ceremony was supposed to last 2 hours; it went on for 3.5 because of the length of GRRM's reminiscences, spilling over two sessions of panels that had been scheduled afterward. An irritated fan commented "I cut a THREE HOUR & THIRTY-FIVE MINUTE CEREMONY down to 1:41:02 *JUST* by cutting out Martin & Silverberg." (I don't know details about Bob Silverberg's speech other than that people hated it.)

3. Apart from the length, GRRM sees himself as a raconteur and spent all his time telling stories about himself and his friends in the 20th century. There was little mention of works and authors from after 2000. It was focused on the Great Men of the past: Campbell, Heinlein, et al.

4. Last year Jeannette Ng, who had just won the John M. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, began her speech with "John M. Campbell was a loving fascist." It was a barnburner of a speech. Shortly thereafter, after years of complaint, the award was renamed the Astounding [the magazine] Award for Best New Writer. This year, GRRM not only spent a lot of time reminiscing about Campbell as a giant of the field, but pronounced "Astounding Award" with an audible sneer every time. It was widely seen as sweet sweet justice that Jeannette Ng's 2019 speech won this year's Best Related Work Hugo.

5. He made a "real men have dicks" joke.

So. He had real things to apologize for, and his "all have sinned" post didn't address them.

https://www.pretty-terrible.com/george-r-r-martin-2020-hugo-awards/ (Disclaimer: Natalie and I follow each other on Twitter, but that's the extent of the acquaintance. This post is not solely based on Natalie's blog post.

Arivia posted:

My bad, the Jen Gunter tweet was posted by another poster named just Alhazred. No wonder I thought it was you though.

quote:

Also I’m more inclined to think that the English professor and literary short story novelist is trying to safeguard specific language instead of covering for Dersh who has absolutely nothing tying them in common.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I don't know what I did to you, but if you have some kind of grudge, how about working it out somewhere else?

quote:

I didn't say she was covering for Dersh, I said she was trying to dissociate her elite institution from his elite institution on spurious grounds. I agree that English professors and writers are very good at weaponizing words for such nefarious purposes.

Arivia posted:

I don’t think she’s trying to disassociate her institution or defend anything. Her original tweet is way too tentative and way too conciliatory to be anything but a terminology clarification.

Arivia posted:

Huh? No, no grudge. I’m just saying it’s understandable I thought it was you because the other poster’s name is literally part of yours.


I don’t think she’s trying to disassociate her institution or defend anything. Her original tweet is way too tentative and way too conciliatory to be anything but a terminology clarification.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I don't know what I did to you, but if you have some kind of grudge, how about working it out somewhere else?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

This thread doesn't need you creating content for it, there's plenty elsewhere.

quote:

Getting a JOB during COVID is hard.

But, if you’re not willing to pay the price,

You don’t even deserve to get it...

Let me tell you something.

I know 2 guys who were laid off during COVID

3 months after that -

The 1st guy is still watching Netflix.

Drinking beer.

“Trying” to find a new JOB.

Put simply - waiting for the perfect time.

He is complaining every day.

He has applied 27 times already. (wow!)

But no reply.

He is 100% sure he is the best PRO in town.

But companies are just not hiring now. (of course!)

The second guy lives in a different world.

He went ALL IN!

He applied 148 times.

With a polished CV plus a nice LinkedIn profile.

He has been working hard all these 3 months.

He was building his network.

He didn’t have much time to relax.

Because his goal was to find a JOB, not to relax!

7 days ago he had his 4th interview.

Today he has a job. The one he wanted.

Now his friends are saying “he is lucky”.

Well, let me ask you this:

Did he create the luck or just get it from nowhere?

I remember this quote by Seneca:

“Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity.”

Do you agree?

seiferguy posted:

LinkedIn is a loving cancer sometimes:

StillFullyTerrible posted:

as a Frenchman, he would prefer you not think of the years before 1945

seiferguy posted:

" Did he create the luck or just get it from nowhere? "

Vib Rib posted:

Well given that he sent out 150 applications and got the job from the one he wanted most, I would say luck.
Hell, those other applications were unrelated at best and a loving waste at worst. He could've just applied at the one place he wanted and he would've gotten it.

HiroProtagonist posted:

I don't get it, that's factually, objectively correct?