For a significant amount of time (before online dating) I had a job where I edited and laid out newspaper personals ads. It was fascinating but also a little heartbreaking.
The way people feel they have to pick a few signifiers, cultural dogwhistles, or whatever. It provides a fast sort, I understand the impulse. If you believe you need to date a juggalo or a knitter or a MAGAnaut, then you pretty much do.
But it seems like with all our algorithms and swiping and such, we haven't come very far from liking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
Kind of related, but I just saw a GoFundMe on FB that's benefiting the $1400 A DAY medical expenses of a dog owned by some acquaintances of mine.
That must be some dog.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
people that don't like cats are republicans
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
or sounds like them at least, with their courage to finally utter the truth
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
george foreman is a belgian
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
I dont know who the captor is in the stockholm syndrome cat/owner analogy.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
'dogs and wine' appear to be the sole interests of every eligible online dating swipee
Change that to dogs and any available alcohol and I might even think about trying online dating stuff.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
You don't like dogs? Trump doesn't like dogs. Fuck you both.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
karl otm
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
James also otm
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
I don't think the beef is w dogs but with Dog People
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
unarmed incels
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
good point
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
i mean the very definition of a group to not gaf like
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
But theyre such nice guys!
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
Vampire Weekend, leave Hosono alone, wankers.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
SO many people have wanted to tell me about buying and selling their "investment properties" this week
I
DON'T
CARE
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
Stephen malkmus
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
Where/if the State of the Union address will be held.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
three booming, booming posts
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 January 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Friday, 25 January 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
despite being both a dog lover and (i think) a good person, I agree with the above. I too have known some absolute bastards who loved their friggin' dogs
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
rip Blondi
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
Blondi, Rinka, been a day for recalling some of man's best friends.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
I bought my last dog off this uber Kennel Club snob who lived in a huge farmhouse and was a massive twat. When she realised I wasn't posh as fuck she started giving me priceless advice like reminding me that dogs need walking daily, nutrition, breath oxygen and need the vets when they are poorly etc .. because lowlife like me keep 'em in cages and feed em' leftover chips of course.
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
You should have said “so that’ll improve the flavor then?”
― rob, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
loving dogs is fine
people who love dogs and hate people are bad
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
xp lol, v good
― ogmor, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
hah!
I'd forgotten how much hard work it is house training a puppy that has teeth like needles and is constantly teething and goes nuts a few times a day and rags everything in site. A couple of times I've said to him (after he's attacked my hand again): Just for that I won't feel guilty when it's time for the troublemakers to be removed.
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
:) "the troublemakers".
― Tim, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
the purported significance of the Stone indictment
― sleeve, Friday, 25 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
who's "electable"
but it's hilarious that people still think they know this
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
http://www.sportbible.com/other/news-reactions-take-a-bow-dog-accidentally-runs-half-marathon-after-being-let-out-for-pee-20190116?fbclid=IwAR0FFVR-v50pW_EhgOFU-rG5BISWwc0_jRHadjkkjiIHtZaNQambeYdn6M0
I love dogs
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
beautiful.
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
It is also believed that the dog went off track on a number of occasions, including the moment he played with a herd of cows. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED..
lol!
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
US politics. I mean that is the dumbest shit going
― ||||||||, Friday, 25 January 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
lately I've read more about brexit than anything Trump related
Kind of a once in a lifetime shitshow on both sides of the pond, I'm just burned out on this one
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 26 January 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
you'd seriously have to be trying to read more about brexit than Trump in lolmerica! But I'm so burned out on brexit i completely get your sentiment.
― calzino, Saturday, 26 January 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
easier on the internet
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 26 January 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
― sleeve
fuck it let's all watch this instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvJWKaDI9s
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
michael jackson
― marcos, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
anything to do with sports that isn't the actual playing of sports (refs, contracts/salaries/free agents/trade talk, fashion, personal lives)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
'bout the state of my hair
― calumy (rip van wanko), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
Film trailers. There's something odd about how people treat trailers as events that seems odd to me.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
I make a point of walking into movies 15-20 mins late so I can miss them.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
I used to watch trailers obsessively as a kid, over and over, hundreds of times in some cases, and I realized how much it was affecting my experience of the movie itself, always anticlimactic. going in blind is the way to go imo, or as blind as possible.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:05 (five years ago) link
You see posts on reddit, that are enormously popular, and it's 'second avengers trailer' etc. It's a strange kind of consumerism.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
Trailers > the movies they're selling, roughly 99% of the time. I like them because I'm never gonna see the movies in question anyway, so I might as well watch two minutes of bug-eyed facial expressions, explosions, and CGI punch-outs.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Metro Exodus being dropped from Steam.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link