"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

Heh, I actually quit taking improv classes in Chicago when I realized that I didn't care to commit the after-hours social time that seemed necessary for me to feel like I "fit in" with my classmates

Yeah, you kinda have to put in the time if you wanna make the most of it. I kinda can't even imagine walking into a roomful of relative strangers every single week (a growing percentage of whom had spent some time together outside of class) and trying to make that work.

But a little more on topic: Facebook...what's that all about?

The other day FB undid my default post settings, which are to post to "friends , but exclude these people" (and the exclusion list is quite large, its family and all the ppl I basically dont know). I was merrily posting crap to EVERYONE only FB for 2 days before I realised. I'm pissed it happened without my say so. I dont know wth happened.

What happened was Facebook's endless around fucking with their stupid site, which seems to result (unsurprisingly) in their constantly breaking or undoing things.

Least it didnt make me do public posts. Never understood why anyone does those. I'm paranoid I'll get run over one day and the newspaper will filch pics of me from my FB.

Also tbf a weirdo did come up to me trying to make friends after the Richard Pinhas show, but in doing so he made a facile joke (you can imagine which one)

"Have you heldon to your ticket?"

Now that would have been a good joke!

this former high school classmate (not a friend or someone i know personally really) is always posting those crazy xtian jesus/blood porn videos, and today she has this gem
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/419646_357261340975334_100000744148158_1085275_248131062_n.jpg

Yeah my aunt posted that the other day and my eyes are still rolling.

God signs His name with a pretty saucy little calligraphy font there

def installing god-font asap

it would be better if god signed off, "hope that helps, god"

God coming off a little passive-aggressive there imo

Really I'd just be happy if God could stick with one font for awhile.

he is fontnipotent

for such a massive important deity there sure are a lot of 'silver bullets' that keep him at bay during times of crisis.

like, 'thanks god for carrying me a few yards down the beach but my grandmother is dying.'

Dear God, No need to be a dick about it, signed concerned student

HA HA!

YOU MUST POST THAT!

signed, an internet person

I bring a rain of toads and a 40 day flood but I'M NOT ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS ;_;

I am dying at that.

Dear god: yr a grown man, the hell you want to be in a school for, you old pervert.

WELL THEN WHY ARE THE CAVEMEN RIDING DINOSAURS IN MY EVOLUTION TEXTBOOK, GOD
signed, A concerned student from Kentucky

Dear God, No need to be a dick about it, signed concerned student

Really wanting to put image LL posted on my FB wall with that as a caption.

DO IT

hmm maybe I will do that too...

I might. I'm just not feeling the devil in me atm. Wish I had thought to post it in 2008 before I unfriended some of the dildos I went to HS with.

God staying out of school due to influx of dildos.

Rarely has anything blown up my end of facebook quite like the following post (also as jpg):

Monsanto owned companies: Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker) Betty Crocker (General Mills) Bisquick Duncan Hines Hungry Jack Jiffy Mrs. Butterworths Pepperidge farms (campbells) Aurora Foods Kraft/Phillip Morris (post cereals) Hershey’s Nestle (Carnation) Holsum (interstate bakeries) Best foods (Knorr) Kellogs Nature Valley Nabisco (Phillip Morris) Pillsbury Heinz Hellmans Hunts KC Masterpiece Frito-lay/Pepsi Delicious brand cookies Famous Amos Keebler/Flowers Industries Banquet Green Giant Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Kid Cuisine (stouffers) Lean Cuisine (stouffers) Marie Callenders Ore-ida Smart ones Power Bar Brand Chef Boyardee Hormel Loma Linda Morningstar Lipton (Unilever) Uncle Ben’s Rice-a-roni/Pasta-roni Tombstone Pizza Totinos Orville Redenbacher Pop Secret Pringles (Procter and Gamble) Coca Cola Minute Made Pepsi Cadbury/Sweppes Capri-sun Cool-aid Ocean Spray V-8 Prego Pasta Sauce Ragu sauce

What do they even mean? Those are not owned by... oh it's a facebook thing never mind

Some of them not even companies.

Now, if you said that there's a high possibility that there are products derived from Monsanto-sold crop seeds in pretty much everything in that list, that is highly probable

Oh yeah, no doubt. But my problem is with the concept being wrong in the first place as well as being horribly disorganized.

Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker)

Yeah, like does Quaker have a side product called Jemima to capture the parental offspring hating demographic?

Oats (Quaker)

So we should probably discuss that viral video about Joseph Kony

yeah wtf that thing is blowing up-- 30 min viral video is kind of crazy (havent watched it yet)

http://i.imgur.com/khtOV.jpg

haha otm

trying to gauge the lols/butthurt ratio i will get by posting that

I don't really care how people become social activists?

I don't want to watch the video, can someone summarize it for me plz?

Video: "Joseph Kony is a bad man." (And he is, indescribably so.)

This, however, is also making the rounds:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

The video itself is really boring and patronising too, at least usually these things are engaging or funny.

Related:

http://jezebel.com/5891269/think-twice-before-donating-to-kony-2012-the-meme-du-jour

Please tell me if I have this correct:

A long (relative to most viral videos) video about this murderous, insane Ugandan paramilitary monster goes viral.
People feel a little self-congratulatory about watching/sharing it.
Somebody made a tumblr criticizing the motives/method/efficacy of the organization that made the video.

xp I will read that article TIA

Yeah pretty much.

Oh, okay, the video is soliciting money for a charity that sounds about as ultimately useful as Children International or whoever those shitbirds that send earnest college students out into the streets to solicit donations from passersby.

Jezebel article was a good summary. Thank you!

wait, I'm reading the Jezebel article - and it quotes something saying that their finances haven't been externally audited, but then it links to audited financial statements prepared by an independent firm. The audit shows two years of financials, and maybe it was undertaken in response to the Charity Navigator complaint? It would be quite o_O for an organization with that large a budget to not conduct an independent audit. I'd imagine that some of their institutional funders would require it.

But looking at the financial statements - they show that the vast majority of their expenses were program-related. It is unclear whether the travel and compensation were for people providing services in Africa or not. It is unclear what "production cost" is.

It generally raises my hackles when people that aren't familiar with non-profit accounting and finances make statements like that.

http://i.imgur.com/c2W4b.jpg