why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Remove the asshole mt. sinai vibe from lifehack, but pour in a healthy dose of Pluggers, and you've got Top Tips.

omg yes

(Pluggers for those who don't live in the new world:

http://assets.amuniversal.com/6ec10c70d9830130fc16001dd8b71c47

rustybumpers.blogspot.com

pluggerm✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧ - can't make that up.

I love Top Tips, it's the Lifehacks for the Lilian Vernon set.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y48VWOPr6lU/SsD1H0KQ4BI/AAAAAAAAFtI/IcKJbicBaEs/s400/092709+Lillian+Vernon.jpg

hahaha "ENTER IF YOU DARE"

I dunno, it is a Halloween HAUNTQUARTERS, not sure I can handle that

what am i missing about bagel transport?

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i don't think these moms understand how disruptive this is to how we think about food containers today. poor, ignorant fools.

Site needs more nylon netting.

love when a plugger has a pet that's the same species as them

CD spindle things smell weird and I think they would make my bagel smell weird and they are probably not dishwasher safe, either, so that is super dumb.

With the food kit, I like to imagine some the face of some smug lifehacker grandly handing an embroidery floss case full of tiny snacks to their five-year-old in the backseat as that child immediately dumps the entire contents of the box all over the car, where the lifehacker will continue to find raisins and cinnamon candies for the next eight years until he finally sells the car in despair.

I had no idea what a "plugger" is but the caption on that cartoon made it seem like someone actually draws a cartoon devoted to anthropomorphic animals who seek to clog public toilets.

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Yeah, that's pretty much the nail on the head.

What's a plugger, though.

lady if you have to ask

I've always heard it in the context of "plugging away". As in, these anthropomorphic animals never did much great in life, but have made it to a ripe old age by virtue of keeping to a moderate pace.

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers

America’s first interactive, reader-participation comic -- Pluggers chronicles the hardworking people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along -- balancing work, play and family life.

We talked about the strip a little bit over here during the past month -- golf, amirite? ilx's comic strip voting thread is now open

Pluggers = the poor schmucks that "What's the Matter With Kansas" was written about, sort of, maybe.

I totally get a Midwestern vibe from it over anywhere else.

yeah, it's 80% of the population who are blue-collar midwestern Protestant senior citizens.

hey represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along

I'd like to see something to back up this 80% statistic.

But, aren't we all just unceremoniously plugging along towards inevitable death and, ultimately, total oblivion? I believe that with all of my heart and still think that whatever small contribution I'm making to humanity is enough to take me out of this 80% of mindless pluggers.

Basically I find the whole concept of "pluggers" pessimistic and I think it totally devalues the exact people that these knobs are trying to laud.

They do promote interspecies marriage, so there's that.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/625be340d6c30130f9f5001dd8b71c47

Would like to get Art Spiegelman's take on Pluggers.

would not like to see Plugger artist's secret sketchbook of 'sexy Pluggers'

wait, what? pluggers? i am so confused. is this about toilets or women be shoppin?

Pluggers is about a cartoonist crowdsourcing old people for "get off my lawn" punchlines for his terrible comic

It's a term for "salt of the earth" folks who are just living their lives and doing the every day things that we all do, plugging along.

Also it's apparently well rooted in sexist gender tropes.

Also they are apparently male, with women being characterized solely in their relationship to pluggers. And they are incontinent, per the first posted comic.

there are some lady plugger strips

unsurprisingly, they are terrible

for example: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/16

normal people be navel gazing i guess

and also: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/14

I kind of identify with the nap one, tbh. A PLUGGER IS ME.

basically I want to destroy everyone related to this comic strip: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/01

Always love the Comics Curmudgeon's reactions to Pluggers: http://joshreads.com/?cat=57

(His comment for that first one pplains posted above - "Pluggers just have to poop all the time.")

Wait, so Hatlo's "Tip o' the Hat" were CROWD-SOURCED???

I have never seen these plugger comics before, and now I'm scrolling through them and gawking in the way one might look at a car accident

Comic's Curmudgeon on Pluggers is all you need, really. It's like he's holding your hand and reassuring you that it's really not you. It's them.

digging this one

http://joshreads.com/images/13/07/i130727pluggers.jpg

I'm reading the curmudgeon posts and... my god, there really are a lot of them about pooping

all of these strips are actually hilarious when you think about old people experiencing these moments of existential horror and then going "boy, this needs to be in Pluggers!" *sends snail mail*

http://joshreads.com/?p=588

LOL

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Always awesome when the watermark is in bigger text than whatever hell inspirational passage is being quoted.

MOVING IF
WHEN
INCLINE, SET
ALLOW IT
TO ENSURE
DESCENT

i'd forgotten about pluggers! i should start reading CC again, i never found out what happened with mary worth and aldo

I read way too many Pluggers today via CC.

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otm

I had only been working for **censored** for a few weeks when a friend of mine came for a visit. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s an extraordinary person, full of love and compassion. She is also pro-abortion.

As the social media coordinator, I have the responsibility of finding stories on LifeSiteNews.com and posting them to Facebook and Twitter.

I spend a lot of time reading articles. While my friend was visiting, I was reading an article that contained the illustration displayed here, of a D&E abortion of a 23 week old baby.

My friend looked over my shoulder and gasped.

“What are you LOOKING at?” she asked, horrified.

“That’s an abortion,” I answered plainly.

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“That’s a 23 week abortion. That happens quite frequently, actually.”

I tried to remain calm.

She’s not stupid. Really, honestly, she isn’t. She’s actually incredibly intelligent, educated. She has a degree.

I truly believe that my friend has been deceived.

How else could an intelligent, loving individual be completely “pro-choice”?

Deception.

People are told what they want to hear, that it’s “just a blob of tissue,” or they’re told, “abortion is OK in certain circumstances,” and most importantly, they’re told “abortion is a woman’s right.” But when they are presented with the reality that what they thought was a blob of tissue was actually a baby, a human being, a lot of them change their minds. Yes, a lot.

She just stared at the illustration with pain in her eyes.

“I don’t know if I’m OK with that.” She said with finality.

The reason I am telling you this story is not simply to share the pro-life message.

I am telling you this to explain to you the importance of supporting pro-life organizations and sharing the truth.

It’s one thing to read a story and have your pro-life beliefs affirmed, but it’s another thing entirely to take that information and spread it as far and wide as you possibly can.

And we have seen time and time again that the truth is what changes hearts and mind. …