Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

Started by Syt, December 06, 2015, 01:55:02 PM

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Martinus


Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Valmy

Wait what? Why was that so bizarrely hostile? She did ask.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ed Anger

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derspiess

#1924
:lol:  Still not sure I understand what mansplaining is.  Feel dumb for asking the question after you see the answer?  Then the answerer is guilty of mansplaining!
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Ed Anger

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Habbaku

Quote from: derspiess on November 03, 2016, 11:52:53 AM
:lol:  Still not sure I understand what mainsplaining is.  Feel dumb for asking the question after you see the answer?  Then the answerer is guilty of mainsplaining!

It varies slightly from sidesplaining in that one is done on main street and the other done on the sidewalk. :smarty:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

LaCroix

Quote from: Valmy on November 03, 2016, 11:47:44 AM
Wait what? Why was that so bizarrely hostile? She did ask.

I'm guessing her first tweet was meant as *obvious* sarcasm. when someone replied seriously, she may have taken offense and assumed the guy was talking down to her. though, it is a pretty weird exchange.

derspiess

Quote from: Habbaku on November 03, 2016, 12:03:39 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 03, 2016, 11:52:53 AM
:lol:  Still not sure I understand what mainsplaining is.  Feel dumb for asking the question after you see the answer?  Then the answerer is guilty of mainsplaining!

It varies slightly from sidesplaining in that one is done on main street and the other done on the sidewalk. :smarty:

Damn it!  Did it twice, even.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: derspiess on November 03, 2016, 11:52:53 AM
Still not sure I understand what mansplaining is. 

There's the surprise of the decade.  :lol:
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson


Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Valmy

As the good Lord said: "Love thy neighbor as thyself, unless he's Turkish, in which case, kill the bastard!"
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Martinus

Yeah, what's up with hate combined with smileys/cartoon characters? It seems to be a "thing".

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall