Oh, wait, there’s a debate open thread

 

Talk amongst yourselves.

Posted on October 22, 2012, in debate, off topic, open thread and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 103 Comments.

  1. Why is it that no MRA is capable of understanding what libel is, and what libel isn’t?

  2. cloudiah, at this point we should just be surprised he called it libel and not slander.

  3. Tulgey, are you calling me surprised? That’s a tort!

  4. HEY! You two aren’t crediting my comment in your responses to it. Get ready for an intellectual rights lawsuit!

  5. he thinks the Iranian route to the sea is through Syria.

    Is it some reference to Israel and Iran saying that it wants to push Israel into the sea?

  6. Oh yeah, well I’m filing an amicus curiae brief and since I used Latin first that means I win. QED. Op. cit. WTF.

  7. thebewilderness

    One of the sad consequences of having 17 of Bushes advisers now working as Romney advisers is that he thinks the Iranian route to the sea is through Syria.
    Tragical.

    My mistake to blame this on Mitts advisers. He has been claiming that Syria is Iran’s only path to the sea since February. So he knows he is lying, he just doesn’t care as long as it works.

  8. Inurashii, you will be getting an Op Ed from my lawyer.

  9. The weird thing about Omega’s second to last post is the fact he is ignoring that families can be families without kids.

    He also is whining that the woman who supports him does not support him in the exact way he wants to be supported therefore she is evil and wrong. *sighs*

  10. lowquacks - I just showed your pic of Romney to my workmate. It was a dangerous move, he nearly snorked his coffee all over my desk. The word “awesome” was used when he could breathe again.

  11. It’s like the joke about how the U.S. needs to bomb other countries in order to know where they are, except incredibly sad and scary because it’s about a guy who has a shot at the Presidency.

  12. Secret tunnel!
    Secret tunnel!
    Through the countries,
    Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel!

  13. I haven’t derailed a thread in a while, so here are some bouncing cats.

  14. cloudiah has the best kitteh vids :D

  15. That’s one creepy expression even without the captions!

  16. This is an open thread, so…

    Guess what I’m playing next Sunday at 3!

    This

    and this

    and this

    and finally this

    It’s gonna be great!

  17. Aaaah! That’s a kickass line-up Falconer. What instrument?

    I’ve played everything but the Harry Potter suite (can’t imagine it’s too much different than the rest of Williams’ oeuvre though) and they’re even fun on the viola.

  18. Ooh, Danse Macabre! One of my favorites.

    My town does a Thriller reenactment/zombie parade every Halloween, but every time I hear Danse I wish we’d also have some kind of skeleton dance too; the plot for it sounds like it’d be a lot of fun to pay homage to.

  19. Falconer, that sounds amazing!

  20. @Tulgey Logger
    Well, to be fair, in many states in the US are consolidating libel and slander into a single common law charge due to the internet likely to make slander spread via reporting in papers,

  21. Thanks, everyone! I play the trombone. Dearly Beloved plays the viola.

    @Nepenthe: The Harry Potter is mostly in 3/4, 6/8 and 9/8. Occasionally the composer went mad and wrote a phrase in 4/4 (the horror!). I’ve played a little bit of Williams, mostly arrangements of the Star Wars Main Theme and the Theme from Superman the Movie, but my impression is he looooooooooves threes. Specifically, he loves to leave an eighth-note rest at the start of a measure, which always trips me up despite the fact that I’ve been playing ‘bone since, like, 1989.

  22. @gelar

    I love you for that reference. Best. Cartoon. EVAR.

    @Falconer

    “Danse Macabre” is one of my favorite classical pieces. It’s part of my Halloween lineup, which I am listening to on Shuffle at work right now!

  23. I used to play the cello. Now I play the penny-whistle, and I just started the bagpipes. In theory I am also working on the banjo (as it’s a friendlier instrument).

  24. Now I play the penny-whistle, and I just started the bagpipes. </blockquote.

    Are you trying to win the hearts and minds of your neighbors? 'Cause boy, have I got news for you. /snark

    (Not to be taken seriously or by mouth.)

  25. Shaka, when the walls fell!

    Elam, on CNN!

    I borked those quotes but good.

  26. Falconer: As I said on my twitter, when I move from practice chanter, to pipes… I can terrorise entire neighborhoods. :D

  27. I’m sorry, I don’t have a Twitter account :( I figure youse guys don’t need a play by play of my boring ol’ life. And anyway, it goes so fast, I couldn’t keep up.

  28. I keep mine to a small number of followers. Mostly I use it to pass around cool links.

    This, of course, means I tend to no longer make “chain link” posts, on my blog.

    I find, for the people I care about, it’s a lot handier than FB.

  29. I just finally saw this post and all I could think when I saw that picture at the top was “Huge……..Tracts of land!”

  30. The Kittehs' Unpaid Help

    The Swamp King! ROFL!

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