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It's about sexual assault. It's not about rude words.

Man can't believe the libs got uo in arms over the word pussy and nothing else

i feel like walking into the dressing room unannounced -- which he bragged about on howard stern -- was worse than the grabbing tape. he just says that he "can" grab women and they'll love it, not that he has done it. in the tape the actual behavior he brags about is taking some women furniture shopping.

but in general i think it was just more evidence for what we know about the man: that he is a misogynist; that he can't conceive of human interactions -- must less sexual interactions -- in a way that isn't gross and objectifying; that he just sucks and is the worst person i have ever heard about, even in fiction

the virus has spread to this thread

He didn't exactly say "they'll love it" as much as "when you’re a star, they let you do it". He definitely said "I just start kissing them... I don't even wait" but, yeah, it was something less than a confession of sexual assault.

The stories about Trump's behavior subsequently told by women he assaulted support the idea that his statements to Billy Bush accurately describe things he'd done, not just thought about.

yeah, totally

everything about him is predatory.

Trump wins the 'who is more petty and childish' fight vs anyone, even his own kids.

He beats his kids. At that.

he is more self-centered and impulsive -- and less concerned with the feelings of others -- than any actual child i have ever witnessed and i was a middle school teacher

he is like a parody of a human being. it's so weird.

wait. are these supposed to be controversial opinions?

Americans are a fundamentally broken people who actively seek their own destruction but are only able to articulate that impulse by empowering the purest avatar of their collective damage.

MAGA = "Please kill me."

controversial opinion - popcorn is gross

ok, I don't really feel that way unilaterally, and some 'corn is delish, but I often feel sick to my stomach after eating even a quarter of a small bag.

I've got mixed feelings about popcorn but I rarely feel satisfied by it

Americans are a fundamentally broken people

Only controversy there is that it is a bit too sweeping in its scope. Right now our politics is very driven by the id, more so even than the ego. Whenever a nation lets their collective id get in control, it is a frightening, dangerous time. But there are still lots of egos in power in D.C., thank goodness, even if the Chief Executive is being steered by his id 90% of the time.

* I used to work in a cinema and had to clean popcorn off the floor every day
* I also saw what the ridiculous mark-up was on the stuff and couldn't believe people were willing to pay that much
* It's cooked in palm oil, which is really not great
* It always has nasty hard bits in the bottom which stick around in your teeth
* Nobody is ever happy finishing off a bucket of popcorn
* I hate popcorn

i stand with camaraderie at arms length. i eat popcorn but i hate it.

microwavable popcorn

Oh, I forgot about butter-flavour microwave popcorn, which smells like someone died in an open sewer

At a screening this morning I spent almost $8 on a serving of popcorn as large as a vacuum cleaner bag.

for eating?

That's some breakfast

Just to be clear, I absolutely understand that trump is a misogynist and likely has sexually assaulted women or at least harassed them. I just mean that the quote itself is much less effective as anti-trump propaganda than the people who keep putting it on posters, posting it on Facebook etc think it is. It gives less the impression of a predator and more the impression of a gross 12-year-old. And the fascination and obsession with the quote suggests to me a titilation alongside the genuine concern.

So, you are saying that something that reminds you that our president thinks and acts like a gross twelve year old is not effective at engendering in you antipathetic feelings toward him, but rather toward the people who think this is a negative trait in him?

* I used to work in a cinema and had to clean popcorn off the floor every day
* I also saw what the ridiculous mark-up was on the stuff and couldn't believe people were willing to pay that much
* It's cooked in palm oil, which is really not great
* It always has nasty hard bits in the bottom which stick around in your teeth
* Nobody is ever happy finishing off a bucket of popcorn
* I hate popcorn

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 6 May 2017 21:21

I cleaned at a school and I hate chewing gum more than I already did for that. Flavour lasts a minute, if you need to freshen your breath there are other things you can buy, and chewing mint gum long enough will make your mouth stink. It makes a horrific mess of public places but that's also a problem of littering.
Chewing gum is one of the worst popular products ever.

chewing gum was an unpopular treat and it still is

i also hate chewing gum quite a lot

Chewing gum is great, but most flavors are nonsense. I've enjoyed a gum so much it has turned to gritty pulp in my mouth. Trident original flavor is pretty cool, but wtf is it supposed to taste like?

original

I had to make popcorn and wipe down the popcorn maker at my video rental job. The amount of grease, my god.

* I used to work in a cinema and had to clean popcorn off the floor every day
* I also saw what the ridiculous mark-up was on the stuff and couldn't believe people were willing to pay that much
* It's cooked in palm oil, which is really not great
* It always has nasty hard bits in the bottom which stick around in your teeth
* Nobody is ever happy finishing off a bucket of popcorn
* I hate popcorn

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 6 May 2017 21:21

I cleaned at a school and I hate chewing gum more than I already did for that. Flavour lasts a minute, if you need to freshen your breath there are other things you can buy, and chewing mint gum long enough will make your mouth stink. It makes a horrific mess of public places but that's also a problem of littering.
Chewing gum is one of the worst popular products ever.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, May 6, 2017 10:59 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, agreed on this too. Never saw the point of chewing gum, and since I got a false tooth I dare not chew anything sticky.

tri-flavor christmas popcorn tin is life

I like those kinds of popcorn i will admit

chewing gum was an unpopular treat and it still is

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:01

I don't know if people think of it as a treat but a huge amount of people buy the stuff. I just can't wrap my head around people who keep buying it.

I do cos i like chewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGmJgv6bEY

Grim Reapah

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I chewed a lot of gum when I had a problem with grinding my teeth.

I would chew gum all the time if it didn't make my nose itch. This is a problem I've never heard of anyone else having. But gum is probably the second worst despoiler of public space, behind dog shit.

No. dog shit washes off in the rain. gum turns into black goo and never goes away until they carve it off with water and solvents at high pressure. the force required to remove old gum is about the same as what it takes to remove paint.

But gum is probably the second worst despoiler of public space, behind dog shit.

cigarette butts tbrr

cigarette butts have never ruined a pair of shoes, you guys are all on drugs

xxp That's true but at any given moment I would rather step in gum. It's fairly easy to remove it with Goo Gone or similar product whereas dog shit seems to leave a lasting taint