well the horrors may be beyond YOUR comprehension, but I comprehend them perfectly
"The network told me, You can't wear your Jewish star, your character can't wear her Jewish star.
I asked why, I mean, I'm Jewish, my character is Jewish, why not?
They said Middle America doesn't want to see it.
And I said Oh in that case nobody can wear crosses, because Middle Americans don't want to see that, either. Either I wear my symbol or nobody wears theirs."
-Gabrielle Carteris on playing Andrea on Beverly Hills 90210 in the 1990s
Remember when Futurama created Executive Bot Gamma is who is programmed to underestimate Middle-America? "It's funny but will it get them off their tractors?" "It will play in Peoria."
Networks in the 90s genuinely loved to underestimate Middle America. When Gabrielle performed on Circus Of The Stars and her partner was black, she was warned that she shouldn't touch him. So she hugged him hard. She was scolded, because "Middle America won't like a white woman hugging a black man." She upped the ante by outright kissing and hugging Alfonso Ribeiro on live TV. Turns out, not as many viewers were as "outraged" as the executives thought.
Remember when Star Trek Deep Space Nine had that kiss between two women? Once again, executives assumed literally nobody would want that. Many many many people wanted that.
It wasn't Middle America being full of bigotry so much as the executives, called out harshly by one of their own (thanks, Chuck Rosin).
doesn't it piss you off corporations act like you were born to see ads. why it's so bad for trying to escape them??? the way it's okay for websites to make ads sooo annoying you feel like you have no choice but buy premium. and even then you can't escape ad reads. i don't want to waste hours of my life skipping ads. finding the x button. or being woken by an ad that pops at the end of 3 hours long white noise video. using spotify without premium is a nightmare. i hate how ads are everywhere and somehow it's normal to say 'if you don't want to see ads on youtube and use adblock then you're stealing from them!' what. i'm gonna install adblock on every computer elders in my family use as a preventive measure bc too many websites put ads in between news articles!!!
there's a post where someone said "can you respect trans women who look like men" and someone responded something like "hell yeah I love people who fuck with gender!" and like... yeah that's cool, but in a lot of spaces "trans woman who looks like a man" is a lot less likely to be someone who is intentionally comfortably presenting masculine, and a lot more likely to be a girl who hasn't started transition, or can't safely, or just didn't or couldn't put in the effort to pass as fem today, and a lot of them will just look like schlubby dudes and not a radically presenting queer person. and you should be able to respect that.
I’m sorry but I’m VERY bothered by this video, and you all have to watch it with me, and then sit around me patiently, with candles burning, while I go like this
😶
🙏
Until I emerge from my trance with the perfect joke, okay
I think my joke is going to be something like, “when you try to rehome your dog with the fairies but they won’t take him”
Look the FUCK out, Macbeth
Macbeth: Bring me no more posts! let them fly all:
Till someone explains what the fuck is going on with Birnam wood, no, seriously, what the fuck
Enter a Servant]
Macbeth: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
Servant: what
MACBETH: Geese, villain!
Servant: apparently this is because of Storm Babet and it’s in Stirlingshire, Scotland. I’m fairly certain that knowledgeable Americans will point out that letting your dog stand on this is absolutely bugwild behavior because your brain SHOULD be screaming “sinkhole,” and not doing that. but, to be absolutely and completely fair (not that you SHOULD let your dog stand on it; he looks like he’s about to be swallowed into the unhesitating maw of a muppet, like the Tim burton sleepy hollow film, or stranger things snot trees, or a cookie crunched up by Cookie Monster) but Scotland’s terrain is usually SO stable! you can invent the entire academic discipline of geology on it. This is almost certainly just the tree roots. Hello!!!
Macbeth: I am SO tense right now for SO many reasons
Hat tip to @watsdaughter for finding an embedded video, sorry, im still in Jokes Mode
Now I want a Helpful Ecologistᵗᵐ to tell me whether this is an effect of forestry plantation of lots of relatively young trees in a regimented manner or whether pine tree root systwms really are just that shallow.
Geology more than ecology tbqh
theres a hole in the wall in my brothers’ room because they were fighting (for fun not anger) in there once and one of them knocked the other into the wall so hard his head made that hole, so they put two small skeletons in there for decoration
they tapped up the “décor” sign up because according to them the skeleton is named décor and the one underneath him is his husband. also worth noting that they found 2 dollars in there the other day
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I just love it when Décor the Skeleton finds his way back onto my dash
I had a friend named Kaylee in high school. A friend named Kayley in college. A friend named Kailee in my 20s. One of my fictional characters is named Kaylee.
What kind of question is "what kind of name is _?"
"Kaylee is a feminine name of British origin, meaning “laurel” and “crown” that is thought to be a combination of the classic names Kay and Lee. However, Kaylee also has roots in many other languages, including Irish and Arabic."
Do you feel more informed about the name Kaylee?
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I first read “if you were lazy you would be having fun” on your blog and it has genuinely been a life-changing piece of advice for me and my friends - I’ve said it to like four of my other executive dysfunction judies and without fail it earns a ten second silence followed by a single revelatory “fuck”
My dad and I actually ran into the speech language pathologist who told me that over 20 years ago at a town hall a few months back—she is retired now, but still advocating for disabled students at IEP meetings and being a nuisance to school administrators. I thanked her for everything, and she was delighted to hear that I was passing her words along to other people who needed to hear them!
call me a first level warlock the way i can do one thing before i need to lie down for eight hours
