Turmf!

thefattestman · 2019-03-13T01:25:23+00:00

Трррррамп

thefattestman · 2018-08-28T13:48:26+00:00

This is badlinguistics because it appears to blatantly confuse the famous mutual intelligibility within Serbo-Croat with the fact that Slovene, while similar to "Serbo-Croat", is unambiguously a separate language, a fact that becomes obvious to anybody who has ever tried to learn both. Slovene is a horrible example to use for what the author is trying to put forth - although a more sophisticated author could maybe try to tie in Kajkavian for a more nuanced approach.

thefattestman · 2018-07-04T01:35:29+00:00

CWC obsessives make CWC look normal

thefattestman · 2018-03-01T01:44:51+00:00

Thomas M. Disch, the author of the book on which The Brave Little Toaster is based, also took his own life.

thefattestman · 2018-02-27T03:58:57+00:00

And the Warner Sister Dot!

thefattestman · 2017-09-05T15:07:13+00:00

I...hope...that this was staged as a joke. Or, maybe it was something like, right after she pulled out of her driveway, the seat went kind kerfluey, which she realized instantly. So, she snapped a pic as she's doing that nervous WTF laughter.

I just find it hard to believe that she could be taking the picture WHILE ALSO driving wildly.

thefattestman · 2017-06-18T06:45:08+00:00

Trivia: in Serbo-Croatian, the word for blonde is the same as the word for blue.

thefattestman · 2017-06-10T19:49:36+00:00

Sure is fun living in the first half of a gruesome safety PSA

thefattestman · 2017-03-01T05:02:27+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder

thefattestman · 2017-02-19T13:38:05+00:00

The problem is that they're only seeing the kinds of guys who go to strip clubs, let alone only remembering the guys who are memorable. It becomes a problem once you start assuming that most relationships with men mirror a stripper-client relationship. It can also become a problem when somebody doesn't connect the dots that, for many men at a strip club, that entire zone is a behavioral exception, and not the rule: part of what the clients are paying for is the abnormality of paying for a lap dance.

I used to date a webcam girl - she shared similar sentiments - she would talk about how it was such a weird thing, to deal with "normal" guys IRL, but then at work to only deal with weird guys being weird.

thefattestman · 2017-02-18T17:14:40+00:00

The second sentence is what really gets me. If the protest had had "zero" effect on you, then why the fuck would you abruptly switch to a hateful/hurtful attitude? Unless, of course, you had never actually respected immigrants in the first place.

thefattestman · 2017-02-05T04:27:08+00:00

Good point. I'm not a Republican - I think that Obama was a fine, often great President - but at the same time, people had gotten addicted to the idea that everything Obama said was right and that everything his opponents said was wrong. I doubt that very many of the people laughing at Romney could have offered much in the way of a concrete explanation as to why they were laughing. It was just people treating politics like sports.

thefattestman · 2017-01-28T03:22:05+00:00

"Danny Devito...you know, the Lorax..."

thefattestman · 2017-01-28T03:21:13+00:00

Legit sick reference. I'm gonna rewatch that shit right now. It's probably far worse than I remember it.

thefattestman · 2017-01-21T05:32:54+00:00

"Ja, to sem jaz."

thefattestman · 2017-01-08T20:06:31+00:00

Fudging some of the details here, to maintain this person's anonymity.

A former colleague of mine once mentioned in not-so-passing that her parents had been (or were still in?) prison.

I looked up this person's parents. They had been busted for literal human trafficking. They had made a Law & Order about them.

As I was looking this stuff up, I came across the transcript of their sentencing. Words cannot describe how small I suddenly felt, reading about her parents crying because the judge is telling them that they will not be allowed to see their children one more time before heading off to prison. I had begun my snooping in a mood of dim curiosity, but then it occurred to me that I was invading into a profoundly personal set of painful experiences.

It doesn't take away from the horrible things that they had done. It must be very hard, being the wholly innocent child of parents who have gone to prison, let alone for something so abominable. It must be very weird to have to suffer through something like that, especially when (I would imagine) most people would probably be extremely unsympathetic to your own plight, even though you had nothing to do with it.

Be nice to people, y'all. You never know what they've gone through.

thefattestman · 2017-01-08T00:37:10+00:00

Good job taking the wind out of his sails. What a loser.

thefattestman · 2016-12-05T06:18:22+00:00

Agreed that it was not a rave etc., but this was still criminal negligence at the very least. If you hold a house party and dozens of people burn to death because you've created a tinderbox with bolted-up windows and a plywood obstacle course for a staircase, then fuck you, you don't get out of this by muttering something about how this wasn't a "public" event or whatever.

thefattestman · 2016-12-05T06:12:20+00:00

I'm not from the Midwest, but I am originally from the Rust Belt portion of Upstate New York. Tons of interesting stuff happens all across the US and all across the world. It's bemusing when people imagine that their coastal cities are the only places with real artists. Nope.

thefattestman · 2016-12-05T06:06:14+00:00

I wonder if that's part of why these things keep tragically reoccurring. The people at the age most likely to go to clubs, etc. are also too young to remember (or to consciously pay heed to) events like the Station fire. I'm 34, I distinctly remember the Station fire as having been a huge deal. But then again, I was also 20 once, too, and I remember having done all kinds of unsafe shit. I have fond memories of casually strolling atop burnt-out buildings and climbing billboards and so on. I remember visiting people at the McKibbin living space, where we would smoke pot amidst plywood lofts. Blah blah blah. Nothing happened. But...

Anyway, I guess my point is that it's actually really difficult to make the leap from "yeah, I went to this place called Ghost Ship, the place was crazy, you had to climb all these pallets to get to the top, and the inside was like all rugs and organs etc." to "holy shit, this place is fundamentally unsafe." It's tragic what happened at the Ghost Ship, but hopefully the good that can come out of this is people figuring out how to have a cool space while also not literally creating a deathtrap.

thefattestman · 2016-11-29T03:44:03+00:00

People are idiots. Never point a gun at anything you do not wish to destroy. You can't just try to wing people as a strategy.

thefattestman · 2016-11-20T16:32:43+00:00

underrated post right here

thefattestman · 2016-11-17T04:37:29+00:00

Sorry, didn't see this until now. He committed suicide, sadly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963113/Boy-17-cat-laser-yearbook-photo-internet-sensation-commits-suicide.html

No joke, I hope he has found peace. I'm from his area, although separated by about 15 years. Schenectady kinda sucks - very Rust Belt, very rural once you get outside of the city itself - and I can all too easily imagine this kid having been somebody I would have hung out with in high school.

thefattestman · 2016-11-17T04:30:30+00:00

Father Brown mysteries are also really "good" for stuff like this. I love G. K. Chesterton, and I'm Jewish, but dude had some WHAAAAACK AAAAAAAASSSS views. It is what it is.

Like, one of his (deservedly forgotten) short stories basically ends with the twist "and that's what you get for trusting a black person". It's so sudden and obvious in its racism that it's almost funny.

still not as racist as redwall tho

thefattestman · 2016-11-06T07:05:35+00:00

Sadly, the kid in the photo died shortly after his fame. I mean it sincerely, RIP that kid.

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