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[King Zultan]

I hate Rafadan Tayfa. Not in a "this sucks and it is awful" kinda way.

You know that feeling when you look at something really cute and want to kill it violently? That is my hatred for this stupid fucking kids show. The characters are annoyingly good at endearing themselves to the viewer, and their faces are so baby-like.

I love it. I want to tear it apart.

Wanting to murder the shit out of kids cartoon characters is the healthy and natural response to most kids cartoons.

[scriver]

When I'm elected king my first decree will be the forbiddance of screaming, shouting, and hollering in all children's cartoons forever

[Il Palazzo]

I would ban children's cartoons altogether. Those I like I'd proclaim adult cartoons.

Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe banning children would be simpler.

[Eric Blank]

Observations show that moths that acquire the lamp and do not die (because its an LED), will sit on the lamp and do nothing.

[Jopax]

A friend was talking about some stuff that's happening in the world that apparently the Simpsons predicted a decade ago, which reminded me of the other times that happened and it got me thinking of a story idea.

So there's this shadowy cabal of massive Simpsons fans that's working behind the scenes of the world at large that's trying to make as many of the random things the show 'predicted' come true. Orchestrating revolutions, murders, rises to fame and pretty much everything else they can to align the world to the one in the show. Once it's perfectly aligned the eldritch entity that embodies the show will manifest in our reality and do something or other.
A different twist on cosmic horrors invading reality I'd say.

[dragdeler]

And then the world will be swallowed by goofy yellow comic tentacles... Reality outrunning satire checks out. Careful with those hypotheses.

[King Zultan]

That moment when you realize that Cthulhu isn't as powerful an eldritch entity as Homer Simpson is.

[MaxTheFox]

Observations show that moths that acquire the lamp and do not die (because its an LED), will sit on the lamp and do nothing.

Spoiler: I thought I was going nuts or dreamed this xkcd up because it was neither in the comic or the what-if website, but it was actually from the second what-if book (click to show/hide)

[dragdeler]

Spoiler: I was promised 700k virgins in paradise, all I got was this lousy permanent blindness (click to show/hide)

[Frumple]

Simply Irresistible is a song about meeting someone into pegging for the first time and finding out you're really, really into it. "Breaking every law" includes the sodomy laws that were still on the books in the states at a minimum when it was released.

[Laterigrade]

Simply Irresistible is a song about meeting someone into pegging for the first time and finding out you're really, really into it.

Wow, I didn’t know that. I wonder if Mary Harron meant something by putting it in the cab scene in American Psycho.

[Frumple]

Uh, just to make sure it's clear, I'm not saying that with anything approaching actual authority or likely accuracy. It was just a random thought on hearing the song again after a long period of not. It's not impossible it's true, but I'm not aware of anything regarding Palmer that makes it particularly likely (sadly? It's a much spicier and subversive song if it's true, which is generally pretty neat).

... it really does fit remarkably well from the presentation and the lyrics, though. Almost all of it fits really well into a femdom framing at a minimum, and a fair amount of how it's phrased suggests pretty strongly the "inscrutable methods" involve penetration happening to the singer for the first time.

[dragdeler]

"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is like: sigh yeah so? unproductive statement that can do nothing but increase the mental burden on the individual at no benefit, since no next course of action can be derived from it...


ON THE OTHER HAND


"there exists no ethical tourism" is still largely considered too extreme of a position to hold, even by radical leftists but there we have some truism that should be fairly obvious to everybody and that is extremly actionable. Sure travel is a normal fact of life, we need to get from A to B and and we get to choose what A and B represent without having to justify a necessity... But tourism is not travel, tourism is the commodification of travel and besides a bit of employment, provides nothing to us as a collective. Whereas it's disadvantages are all too obvious.

[Maximum Spin]

I was thinking about this just now in the actual shower, and I felt like it deserved an airing.

So, for mystifying reasons, many people refuse to accept that Columbus had no earthly clue where he had ended up and continue to refer to native Americans as "Indians". They also, like everyone else, call Indians "Indians". This is actually sort of fascinating. Not in and of itself, but because, notwithstanding, nobody (within margin of error) confuses the two - you never hear horror stories of anyone making an awkward attempt to engage his Mumbaikar doctor in small talk about peace pipes or pueblos. Regardless of using the same word, people still recognize the distinction right in front of their faces; even though all Indians are Indians, Indians are not the same as Indians. We might say, Indians· are not the same as Indians*.
That may sound obvious, but it's interesting because it underscores the fact that Orwell was wrong. Language doesn't control thought. Words are just arbitrary content-free symbols that don't actually "mean" anything - and replacing one word with another consistently is a semantic null-op. Despite using the same word, people will look at one person and see that person, and at another person and see a different person - adding native Americans to the colloquial definition of "Indian" in the 15th century didn't change how people thought about Indians, but how people thought about the word.
Naturally, this means that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was always obviously fraudulent, in case anyone ever really believed that. I think it's a pretty uplifting message, that Newspeak wouldn't actually work and calling something by a name doesn't change the thing or how people view it.

[Il Palazzo]

Linguists hate him. See how with this one simple shower thought MS has exposed their fraudulent claims.