Courtesy of NPR, and financed in part by your tax dollars! It’s a charming little animation in which ordinary citizens of all political affiliations are marginalized by a government organ as extremists, while the “progressive” left (who, I must say, seems to be getting the better end of the whole spending- of-our-tax-dollars deal) congratulates itself on resisting the urge simply to strafe the lot of these reactionary hicks with a squadron of hybrid, green-friendly fighter jets. For the Greater Good.
I’ve written several times before about how best to deal with a partisan media that under the pretense objectivity operates as an activist arm of the progressive movement, and here again I would counsel a similar — though perhaps more pointed — approach to dealing with leftist cheap shots masquerading as “reporting”: refuse to accept their terms, and then make clear what it is that in fact they are referencing.
Which would mean that any mention of “teabagging” during interviews on political talk shows would be met with an immediate interruption, followed by a correction — specifically, that “Tea Partiers are private citizens exercising their right to assemble peacefully and protest what they believe to be government excesses, a form of political redress that is so important to a democratic republic that the Bill of Rights expressly protects (and, one might add, celebrates) such activities; whereas teabaggers are private citizens who dip their scrotums into and out of the mouths of other private citizens in an erotic act that roughly resembles repeatedly dipping a teabag into a mug of hot water.
“Now. Are you asking me about the former or the latter? — neither of which, mind you, should be frowned upon in a country that prides itself on individual freedoms, but only one of which generally involves the carrying of large cardboard signs, or the appearance of guest speakers, and only one of which seems to fit the venue.”
— At least, that’s how I’d handle it. But then, I’ve been told by certain conservative pragmatists that it’s better to play defense than to go on the offensive, so keep that in mind when considering my advice…
Teabagger vs. Teabagee:
Sounds progressive!
I never got the teabag thing.
Sex, I mean. Honestly, and Ive been fully engaged in the act since 1988, does teabagging feel good? Is it a gay thing that they are “tarring” us with, suspecting that all people on the right are sexually uptight and are mortified at anything other than perfunctory missionary position sex for procreative purposes? Most guys I know are more focused on the frank than the beans, so its not something you hear a lot about in the locker room.
Most women I’ve been with appreciate the focus being elsewhere. I suspect my comments are rife with observation bias though, and other people’s mileage may vary, as is said.
That seems to be the deal, mcgruder. The left is all for protecting certain classes, but when it comes time to launch the personal attacks, it’s always that we’re fags, or kikes, or Uncle Toms, etc.
Irony requires that their be something to ironize.
The problem is getting that entire statement out without being interrupted. Progressives have short attention spans, you know.
I think being a Leftist/Statist means you’re free to use whatever racist, sexist or homophobic slang terms you choose, with impunity.
It’s really not that long a statement, cranky. And “dip their scrotums” comes with a built in silencing factor that’s good for a second or two.
What’s shocking is so many people in the comments seem to expect better from NPR.
They haven’t been paying attention.
The built in silencing factor is priceless. A few seconds on TV is an eternity. Hell, you might even get a blush out of them with that.
Um, IMHO, teabagging is more of a sophomoric prank style act than one of sexual gratification. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone literally getting off on “tea bagging”.
The context I’ve almost exclusively heard it used as, is a practical joke where person x is asleep (or passed out after excessive alcohol consumption) and person y decides he is going to rest his testicles on person x’s forehead or cheek. For laughs. In some cases, person z photographs this act. Then they post it on Facebook where it lasts until Facebook moderators delete it for violation of terms. Or so I hear.
I’ve also heard “tea bagging” used as a euphemism for getting “pwnd”. For example: “Dude, you just like soooo totally got teabagged by that guy. You are the suck at Call of Duty 2.”
But WTFDIK?
This is of a piece with the Barack Obama looking down his nose at slow Joe pic posted by the White House. They are truly insular people and really have no idea of the attitudes and perceptions of the larger audience.
My only hope is that should the Tea Party people gain a modicum of political power that they remember this episode when it comes time to cut the fat out of the Federal budget.
Pointedly remember this episode.
In both cases, it’s sophomoric and highly stupid, which is why I find it not a bit ironic that far-left douchebags like Olbermman, Cooper and Shuster can’t use it enough.
“That seems to be the deal, mcgruder. The left is all for protecting certain classes, but when it comes time to launch the personal attacks, it’s always that we’re fags, or kikes, or Uncle Toms, etc.”
As I’ve understood the term, teabagging, like cocksucking, is something that both straight and gay men can enjoy being the recipients of. If the urban dictionary is any guide, it seems that the teabagger is the one whose scrotum is the object of the act, not the performer.
But your experiences and tastes may be different. NTTAWT.
Or, I guess we could start calling progressives/Democrats “rimjobbers”. Because of all the “jobs” they’re claiming to create on the “rim” of our economy.
Yeah, it sucks, but it makes as much sense as “teabaggers”.
Talking about a real teabagger, Keith Olberman is now claiming that the CIA withheld information on the undiebomber to embarass the White House.
Pragmatically speaking, that offense (which it isn’t, quite; it’s slappy defense) doesn’t work any better than the fearful ass-kissing of the “pragmatic conservatives” does.
You have to imagine, I guess, how gooooood it feels, to some types — almost all types — to have the almost-whole world of public discourse — of speakable things — forcibly/institutionally turned firehose-on-a-black-guy style against their Other (or, “pragmatically,” showing them who their Other should be).
Their response to your rhetorical pinning move will be “Nyah neah neah boo boo.” Always. They’ll get there, I mean. They’re there, acting all not-there, all the time.
The word “butthurt” may get involved as well. They do love the ass-rape. Anyway— They enjoy that response, is my point. It’s powerless and Otherness-reinforcing.
I’m not saying anything else would work better. Violence works. But they have almost all of it.
Politics is pubescent. Obama’s “those teabag people” marks the historical height of its discourse. Sexual-slur-by-apophasis. Fancy. For the playground.
The left is forever an angry 13 year old girl who is torn between being popular with the in crowd and hating them because if she can’t have that cool new purse no one should. I love that about them.
resisting the urge simply to strafe the whole lot of these racist, homophobic reactionaries with a squadron of fighter jets
Yeah. Where are they going to get the pilots? As if leftists had even been in the same zip code as a fighter jet.
This would be of interest to anyone who lives within driving distance of NYC. Something about Dave Burge.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. The conservative blogosphere on fire as my sycophants set the blaze. I’ve watched Pamela Geller’s forbidden breasts glitter in the dark as I purge the tea baggers from the internets. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.
Charles Johnson dreams of electric sheep?
Alright, which one of you jokers is using the CJ sockpuppet today?
I don’t have a coffeemaker at home so I use those single-cup packets. Something tells me I should refrain from calling myself a coffee-bagger.
oh. I tried Ralph’s brand coffee packets when we were out of K-cups at the office and they were really wretched… but I did get rid of my coffee maker at home when I quit smoking. Later on I got a cheap one of these at Target. Is much more flavorful than packets I think.
If it fails, it fails. At least you said “dip your scrotum” on the Teevee.
Jesus H. Moses, I’ve just listened to that Olberman segment from the John Gibson show. I can’t believe what I’ve heard; it’s the most insane thing in the history of ever. That these progressive hacks think we’re stupid enough to buy the idea of the CIA withholding intelligence on the Eunuchbomber just to make Dear Leader look bad is one thing; if the White House is pushing this as it’s lame ass attempt to deflect attention from Dear Leader, well, it leaves one speechless.
Nothing annoys me more out of the left these days than their hypocritical cries of outrage when people Godwin themselves with the Hitler analogies. We put up with eight years of non-stop Hitler/Bush comparisons, Hitler/Bush protest signs/chants, Hitler/Bush toilet paper etc, and they now have the nerve to point out how foolish it is to make these types of comparisons because the right is doing it. Not to mention even jerks like Gibbs act as if none of this ever happened during the Bush years, and all the protests against his administration were intellectually deep and insightful.
Hypocritical denial-ism.
Fuck these guys sideways.
Talking about a real teabagger, Keith Olberman is now claiming that the CIA withheld information on the undiebomber to embarass the White House.
Never attribute to malice what can more easily be attributed to stupidity. The CIA, I mean–not Olbie, who scores on both counts.
“…if the White House is pushing…”
The truly weird thing, Silver Whistle, is that the White House tells us everyday who and what they are without pushing and then within mere minutes expect us to believe they are something else entirely.
I look forward to the rest of the media rebutting this absurd notion, immediately.
Just kidding.
The CIA pined and wheedled and fucked America over and helpfully helped Iran get nuclear bombs just for so they could suckle their new dirty socialist little president man’s toes. I imagine they’re vastly protective of their new toy.
hf, I’m not sure that being a French Presser is any better than being a teabagger.
As far as the linked video goes, it’s just embarrassingly sophomoric. Guess that’s what passes for nuance these days among the NPR Hemp Tote Bag crowd. Sad, really.
Reminds me of one reason why I stopped listening to Prairie Home Companion: the studio audience collapsing into gales of laughter at the mere mention of conservatives.
I didn’t think that all the way through, did I? About the french press.
You know, I like the idea, Jeff.
In fact, one wouldn’t even have to wait for the word “teabagger” to be freshly uttered. Anytime one was on MSNBC or NPR or CNN, one could just bring it up to advantageously frame the discussion.
This is probably the wrong time to admit using a Cleveland Steamer to prepare my morning Chai.
I am NOT going to look that up, bh. Nope.
Wise decision, cranky.
My mother-in-law has one of those K-cup machines now, received from her sister for Christmas. My wife and I helped her try it out when we were visiting.
Now we want. We want.
And my wife doesn’t even drink coffee.
Alpuccinno used a mung to brew his coffee. Unique bouquet and taste.
Keurig, is what the machines are called.
I asked for one of those ginormous Starbucks espresso-coffee machine for Christmas. Santa is the suck.
The most irritating thing about NPR is when the non-white reporter, after delivering the piece in flawlessly non-accented english, insists on doing an overly dramatic ethnic pronunciation of their name.
Maria Hinojosa is the most annoying example of this pretentious breed. When she gets to her name it sounds like they spliced the voice of a peruvian dishwasher into a Mary Tyler Moore speech.
One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers started off his letter as such:
Don’t jump to conclusions there, I am sure Andrew Sullivan visits “teabagger country” far more than you give him credit for.
I like the K cups… but if you can’t get the cups at retail near you it’s not a great deal… I *heard* maybe Costco has some.
Yeah. That’s not what they’re for. Now if you want to blanche your rutabagas, there’s no better way to go.
each NPR on air person is more whorish than the last… there’s also the boisterously skanky MEEshell norris. Her voice drips with something vile. Like you should wash your hands.
Now you’ve got your own shiny Minitrue, just like the BBC. How are you liking it so far?
Not to sound too teabagger-ish, but if Maria Hinojosa was still in the country she came from she would probably be selling tourists hand painted fans on the side of one of her country’s dirt super-highways.
And she knows it.
For an organization that is allegedly intellectual and educationally elite, NPR chose something very much the opposite to place on its website. The ‘perfectly modulated voice of reason’ is quite thick-headed, I think.
We need urban dictionary to keep up with the political discourse in this thread.
Where does dirty sanchez fall in this spectrum?
NPR continues to underwhelm. They exist to nourish the needs of white, middle class and higher, liberals. Their voices drip with pretension and condescension. They are sad little people.
Daniel Schorr is my fave. Consistently, he will hold forth for five minutes or so, and always leaves me with the question, “Was there a point in there?”
Speaking of NPR non-personalities, what’s with Diane Ream? She sounds like she’s about to kick the bucket at any moment.
Only on socialist state-funded radio could a stunningly dull moron like Diane Ream have an actual on-air job for more than a day.
This Michael Kelly article is about as good a take on NPR as possible.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/kelly111401.asp
My fantasy is NPR and the UN being shut down on Obama’s last day in office.
I demand a public inquiry into whether Jeff’s fantasy counterattack is in fact homophobic.
I’m……Lois…..Reitzes…..
Keurig, is what the machines are called.
I mentioned once at our old office that we might want one and my co-worker tartly informed me that K-cups were “wasteful.”
Case closed.
The Anderson Cooper Pledge: If I am ever inteviewed by Anderson Cooper for any reason, I vow to ask him “You once said about Tea Party Protestors, “It’s hard to talk while tea-bagging”. I would have thought it impossible; can you, as a broadcast professional, demonstrate for us how YOU talk while suckling testes?”
Not a bad sentiment Motionview, but given the fact that, no matter what you said, it would never see airtime I’d just settle for punching him in the mouth.
They need a guy named Bud Doses.
Or some grown-ups in charge, take your pick.
I would like to be interviewed by Anderson Cooper in a panel discussion that had Paul Begala on it. Just so that I could punch Cooper in the mouth and kick Begala in the balls. And while the intellectual pygmy writhed on the floor I would yell at him “WHO’S A HIGH FUNCTIONING MORON NOW, ASSHOLE?”
The subsequent thought of Jail time and a bankruptcy inducing civil suit does leave a bad taste tho.
If I knew in advance of Begala being somewhere in Texas, I would pay a male prostitute a $1000 to grab his ass in public.
npr-
a house of lies
built on a foundation
of ray kroc fries
“If I knew in advance of Begala being somewhere in Texas, I would pay a male prostitute a $1000 to grab his ass in public.”
Why not do it yourself for free?
DEATH THREATS!
That’s it. This will not stand! Consider Christoph banned!
My mother-in-law’s sister is a Silicon Valley retiree now in Sonoma County. She can probably buy K-cups at the corner gas station.
…along with fresh arugula.
Barney is gay gay gay. That is all.
The big purple dinosaur loves you JD. I know this because he told me several thousand times in my life.
His insides are populated with angry midget clown dwarfs stacked 2 high. I have it on good authority that they also love you, despite their anger.
nicely done, newrouter
Sonoma County is nice. Really really nice. They let me visit once.
I love violent ideation involving cable news personalities. I love it a lot.
So I clicked on this link and after watching the video several times because of the awesomeness I did what you should never do at YouTube, read some of the comments.
guym619, you are the future. Truly.
i couldn’t find a rhyme for “unsaturated fat with trans-isomer fatty acid(s)”
That was so wrong on soooooo many levels, Makewi.
Only 2 levels JD. 3 would make it impossible to put the costume on and 1 would just have him bumping into stuff.
Looks like somebody built a better Congress.
Angry midget clown dwarfs and Barney is an evil evil evil combination.
Just to put it out there, Byron Dorgan has announced he isn’t running for his Senate seat. Which, good.
Only white people are teabaggers.
And Chrissy Matthews would know, because he is mighty, mighty white.
so the p-o-r death cult has another martyr
Yeah, but how often do you ever actually see Robert Reich and Barney Frank hanging out together?
Man, I am pissed. I fired off an email to the “ombudsman” of NPR. That shit is outrageous. It’s open season on Tea Partiers. Not only the term is insulting, but the whole “vocabulary” thing…how could this shit get on ANY medium’s website?
I’m going to ask the wife is she would like a tea bag tonight.
Mrs. Darth got me one of those Keurig machines for Christmas and I really like it. Got some tea, coffee, and cocoa with it and they’re all very good.
Plus there’s the eeeeeeevil RethugliKKKan feeling I get from deliberately tossing a dead K-cup in the trash thus further hastening the total destruction of the biosphere, just so I can have a steaming cuppa.
“Mr. Cooper/Matthews, how do you know that these protesters have their scrotums sucked upon by other people? And the women in these protests – they don’t have scrotums. What are you saying?”
so much talk of balls
such paucity from the little precedent
I would like to see a return to calling the Democrat party THE DEMOCRAT party not THE DEMOCRATIC party. This happened during the Clinton years by the media. They do it on purpose (of course).
Perhaps Jeff G. would take the time to explain the difference.
I’m a little rusty with my grammar and my dictionary is still packed away. (I love words and I have an unabridged dictionary that’s about 8″ thick with thin pages but I moved and it’s still hiding somewhere).
I think one is adjectival and the other is a noun and when talking about a person who’s a member of the party, you would use the noun and not the adjective but they want that ‘Democratic’ in there cause it sounds more .. democratic (get it).
The Democrats in particular and leftists in general are all about modifying language. (Orwell KNEW what he was talking about).
Darth, I commend your environmental unfriendliness. Any enemy of Gaea is a friend of mine. I myself have switched over to using plastic utensils in my daily meals. Cleanup is fast, easy and bad for the environment- there’s no downside.
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I like the K cups… but if you can’t get the cups at retail near you it’s not a great deal… I *heard* maybe Costco has some.
My wife gets them from Amazon. Sometimes they’re on sale for 17 bucks for 50 cups.
K-cups implies very large funbags, exceedingly large in fact. But who doesn’t like?
Coffee?
Amazon is smart if you have that plan thinger.
I’m gonna think of that now when I make coffee sdferr.
I was minded of this, hf.
Yeah, now I’m just thinking about Cynthia Meyers in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. You know, the scene where she pours a cup of coffee.
Same and Other marriaging, contextually.
Well, as a Burkean libertarian type (what?), I feel less confused than Kejda might assume on my behalf.
One can think a thing and still have no desire for it to happen any faster than the body politic finds it acceptable.
One of many joys that can be found in existing beyond the single dimension portrayed by Kejda G.
With a closer reading, perhaps Kedja is expressing a bit of Burkeanism as well.
Are polygamies simply too disruptive for democratic norms, introducing too much squabbling for power? Or are they offensive for other less practical reasons?
I forgot about him. I’ve only seen the strawberries one. I wasn’t very patient with it. Also I was a bit drunk.
The Left only wishes we were teabaggers, is what I’d tell them.
Well, sdferr, I think the big picture idea is that women tame men. And if the chief big man takes all the women, that’s a whole bunch of men left untamed.
Which, frankly, I kinda agree with. But, at the same time, lots of things can be for the societal good many, many miles before I feel like saying it should be outlawed — or, more properly, considered within the realm of law.
“And if the chief big man takes all the women…”
Thing is, if the women are the choosers and pickers in the human biological mating equation (and I think they are, biologically at least, as opposed to politically), the men aren’t so much “taking” as such, but spend their efforts trying to outdo one another showing off their wares and winning the choice on the female’s part. Then the fights break out.
The Left always loses what Ric Locke described as a kind of vernacular debate. But wait, “lose”? Hell, they surrender before the war starts or is even imagined. As usual, Superlosers one and all.
We should consider “thanking them for their service”, being ready for when they might just have to ask, “what or why?”.
The fights you speak of, already happen. It’s why women hate each other. An over generalization of course, but with some truth to it.
Yes, the women are the deciders. And, even with polygamy, they make rational choices. A single man with $10 to spend on kids has fewer resources than a married guy with $1,000,000 divided in half (or thirds or quarters) to spend on kids.
The true societal problem has to do with groups of young single men. As they occasionally roam the streets at night, burning cars and overthrowing governments, society says, hey, let’s make marriage one man one wife just like we made democracy one man one vote.
Dicentra has made some very insightful comments about this before.
But, I just don’t remember what they were.
it’s even harder to remember her uninsightful comments
I’m with you, hf. Frankly, as she’s a member of the educated class like Jeff, I’m just kinda glad she doesn’t spit on me.
Dicentra has made some very insightful comments about this before.
About how the big purple dinosaur loves everybody?
I know I’m forgetful, but no way did I talk about that.
as she’s a member of the educated class
You take that back RIGHT NOW, young man. How DARE you put me in the same class as David “pants-crease worship” Brooks.
There are other ways to end up with too many young men without prospects of marriage. In both India an China boy babies are valued above girls and so with ultrasound and abortion they end up with excess males.
In the old days you put the excess in the military and started a war. Either you got rid of the excess or gained land, loot and women for them to settle down. Win-win.
Sdferr, the fundementalist Islamic socioeties have multi-wife marriages. The women don’t have much say in a society that goes to polygamy. They become property, again.
Are polygamies simply too disruptive for democratic norms, introducing too much squabbling for power? Or are they offensive for other less practical reasons?
The powerful alpha males get all the women and then what do you do with the unattached men? The poligs in rural Utah foist them off on the outside world, but if there’s no outside world, then what?
Cornell is several steps up in the “educated” scale I believe.
Hey, he claimed all of you, di, pulled you to his bosom, he did.
Myself, I’m just out here on the back porch whittling sticks into NASCAR drivers I most admire.
Me and Jeff, we oughta go visit David Brooks and ask if we are part of his educated class and then we can show him where to put it. Jeff’s strong enough to make the anatomical part work, and I’ll stand there and laugh.
Then what to the extent that they are capable they go after the successful men with the women…
Why were we mad with Tiger Woods again? On Elin’s behalf? Ha!
“The women don’t have much say in a society that goes to polygamy. They become property, again.”
That may be true, though something may have been lost in the translation as well, namely the trade off between having a say, not being quasi-property and the success of one’s offspring and incipient grandchildren.
If it wasn’t such an obvious death threat, I’d explore the notion of Jeff and dicentra “paying a visit” to Brooks.
‘Cause, it’d fix some things. And be funny. Both.
Oh, death threat? I thought they could take him a CD of Obama’s speeches or summat like that. And watch him eat ’em with catsup fer condiment.
True that. There used to be the option of going to college to obtain a Mrs. degree.
No trees please.
Trees? I hates broccoli. It’s a scourge and an abomination.
Okay, as we’re on the topic of the educated and why they may or may not spit on us, I have to give my one and only Cornell story.
When I was a teenager, I interviewed at some different schools and took the tour. The Cornell tour was given by a theater major, I simply have to assume. Towards the end of the tour, she said something that was like, “Imagine Carl Sagan walking across this very street” but we all heard this as, “Look, it’s Carl Sagan!”
A near nerd riot. Glasses askew, pointy elbows thrown, girls nowhere in sight as always. Alas, no Carl Sagan.
Upon hearing of this, Carl Sagan died. Maybe. The first part is true though. Hand on bible.
I should add that it is not sexual relations that “tames/civilizes” young males. Not just the presence of women that does it. It is the one on one building of a relationship, a home, a family that is the thing that turns young males civilized. Gives them a stake in a future larger than themselves.
“Cornell story.”
Cosmic!
Heh, right you are, Geoff. Nerd.
And, yeah, on the other topic, it’s hard to get into that whole young guy “let’s burn it down” nihilism when the “it” includes your own new family. That’s the civilizing factor.
And I envy you bh. My college stories would be more in tune with something by Sylvia Plath or William Burroughs, not Cosmos which I enjoyed and taped.
Tea bags are civilizing too, in their way. I’ve never been much for hot tea drinking, preferring sweet iced tea in general, but it’s so freezing ass cold right now that I’m thrown back on hot tea as a means to imbibition without 1) freezing, 2) staying sober more or less and 3) not drinking coffee and getting stuck awake all damned night.
But here’s the thing. I don’t have tea bags in the house; nothing but loose china tea at hand and no earthly idea how much is the right much. Spoiled for a bag, man.
tsp or so per cup oughta do it.
Oh man, Geoff. My college stories were mainly 6/10ths too many classes and 3/10ths taking the train downtown everyday to work another 4 to 6 hours.
That remaining 1/10th on Saturday night? Turns out that I’m nearly immune to hallucinogens, well, outside of the unavoidable hallucinations. Seriously. My bad trips involved running out of cigarettes.
Reminds me I have to pick up some Twinings Lady Grey for the Missus tomorrow.
bh, how’s about wandering over to this place and prodding the operators to post some new stuff? Poke ’em in the ribs with a stick if you got one.
Tablespoon a cup, roughly, I think, sdferr.
Heh, they’d probably do it for me if I wrote a check, sdferr. Problem is, they want each of us to tithe 10% of our wages with each new alum magazine.
To be honest? I frankly don’t care if someone in my class has a play off broadway or just joined doctors without borders. Yeah, I’m a dick.
They told Hinderaker (back in Sept, I think) that they’d be posting new material as the fall wore on, now the fall is gone and winter is set full in. I’m getting kinda itchy, mostly.
Or not Hinderaker, it was Scott Johnson. But whichever, they ain’t performing. And they’re sitting on a mountain of material. Bastards.
sdferr
Put some, tsp-Tbls into a coffee filter, twist-tie closed. A teabag.
Tbls probably better.
I’m going to ask permission, sdferr, and see if I can forward you a funny email thread from awhile back. No promises.
Kinda funny and very specifically relevant though.
My wife gets that spiel from U of M with their alum mag.
I’ve actually got little cloth bags now that I think of it, about 1.5″ by 2″ with a pull string at the opening, made for herbs meant for stockpots and whatnot. They’d work pretty well, and re-usable too.
Okay, don’t mean to hint without saying, sdferr. Awhile back, you were responsible for shit like that to duck being the TA type guy for discussion groups, you traded it with the other slaves. Then you never did it, because you were never paid to, never got any credit for, and only took shit when someone complained.
The practice continues.
So slip ’em a fin! I’m good for it. Heh.
Or Johnson is.
My copy of that book “Quantum Philosophy” came today so I’ll have something to read if work slows enough now that the holidays are over.
You know what’s really weird? My younger siblings. And they each want a fin each, every hour. I want to strangle each of them.
I once considered (from roughly 82 to 96) margarine to be an obscene luxury. I want to mention how they only enjoyed protein in their younger years from the care packages I sent to them, when I was the college student.
Am I sharing too much? Probably.
I also hate Yalies. I do. I admit it.
I don’t think I know any Yalies, really, ‘cept the nextdoor neighbor kid who went off to there never to be seen again much over the following thirty years. He’s out there somewhere. Oh, here he is.
He is of the devil. Yalie. Worse than a Yankees fan even.
Jenny Strauss Clay:
That’s bad.
sdferr, don’t freeze. bh ,anyone who feels that way about the Yankees is ok by me.
G’ night.
‘night, Geoff.
Another remarkably apt link, sdferr. Good stuff. If I wrote a blog again, I’d be a hat tippin’ you like crazy.
Hmmm… Yale and Yankees. Both start Ya, like Isoroku Yamamoto. Discuss.
Also Yasunari Kawabata, but which see for a beautiful thing.
It’s off to bed with me. Adios.
Booo! That’s something a fan of Yale, the Yankees and killing Americans in Hawaii would say.
Clearly misspelled by a sloppy typist confused with our non-syllabic typewriter. Yusunari Kawabata just sounds better, yes?
‘night.
Jeff! If you’re going to call them on their use of the word “teabag” then you also have to call them on the other words they have hijacked and twisted to their own, malevolent ends:
liberal
progressive
gay
I’m surprised no one else has already said this, but…
The correct response to being called a “teabagger” is, “Suck my balls!”
Ha! Love it Jeff. (I’m behind – I’ve been uber busy)
But, it’s great. Off to read comments.
“About how the big purple dinosaur loves everybody?”
I used to sing the theme song to my kids:
I hate you
You hate me.
We’re a dysfunctional family
With a great big kick
And a punch from me to you
Won’t you say you hate me, too!
I can do worse than to have the Strausses backing me up.
or for the traditionally musically inclined …
With a nicknack, paddy wack, give a dog a bone, this old man went rolling home
… it’s for the children
Is a baguette a female teabagger?
[…] now, so I guess that will keep my streak going. Here’s a good way of handling the leftists who try to define the narrative all up in your […]
Or they, flippy-floppy wise, you.
The Capitol Steps did a wonderful parody of “Christmas in Killarney” (not on youtube, alas) that started out
“It’s I Love You and You Love Me,
that creature is driving me up a tree!
It’s time to BBQ Barney, and blow up his dorky home!”
You didn’t start the Death Threats, Jeff, by any means. 8-)
BONUS: If you are on the right show you might even get a tingle going down someones leg.
My father saw reading not as a passive exercise but as taking part in an active dialogue with the great minds of the past. One had to read with great care, great respect, and try, as he always said, to “understand the author as he understood himself.”
I think another word for that is “empathy.” You put yourself in the writer’s shoes, try to see what the writer is seeing, by suspending one’s ego and having a vicarious experience. That way, you stretch your mind out as you try on new ideas like so many hats.
The current reading theories stovepipe you into one PoV forever, where what you know now and how you see the world now is all that matters.
Narcissistic?
You bet!
Not because Yalie! Yalie! YALIE!, but just because it seemed to fit over here, a Sol Stern article from City Journal called E.D. Hirsh’s Curriculum for Democracy. A quote therefrom, for the tastyness:
well…if there was anyone left in the “conservative” movement under thirty you would have known what teabagging was.
The reference to getting pwned is from gamer culture where players corpses get teabagged by the other faction or by puckish guildies while the player is waiting to rez.
You can always check the Urban Dictionary….i would think the convolution of language and evolution of culture should fascinate you Jeff.
Just word of advice……don’t call any future teabagger rallies after clam bakes or anything……the feminine of teabagging is clamdipping.
;)
A day late with news three months old. Cutting edge lingo smarts.
Oop’s nine not three, news is even older.
I want louchette back. Missing her, I am.
well…if there was anyone left in the “conservative” movement under thirty you would have known what teabagging was.
The reference to getting pwned is from gamer culture where players corpses get teabagged by the other faction or by puckish guildies while the player is waiting to rez.
You can always check the Urban Dictionary….i would think the convolution of language and evolution of culture should fascinate you Jeff.
Just word of advice……don’t call any future teabagger rallies after clam bakes or anything……the feminine of teabagging is clamdipping.
;)
You paint such a wonderfully vivid picture of a person nobody should pay attention to.
Nishi continues to push the outside of the envelope in unselfaware.
Wow. Uh, nishi? I think a lot of people here know what teabagging is. In fact, I’m quite certain that many people over 30 have balls, and have dangled them from time to time. Having said that, why would it matter if you know what “teabagging” is when you name your protests after the original Tea Party?
— Or is it the new “hip” thing to do to take anything with “tea” in it and turn it into ball dipping? “Hey! Let’s have lunch at the Russian Tea Room!” “Heh . Hehheh. We want to have somebody put their balls on our nose! Heh!”
Like a fucking 6th grader who just learned what a COCK is, you are.
How come I get the feeling that Nishi just wants to get tea bagged by a conservative. I’ve seen her picture. I ain’t sticking my balls near her, so somebody else will have to oblige.
OI, how have you seen my picture?
Did Jeff put it on 4chan or sumpin?
Like a fucking 6th grader who just learned what a COCK is, you are.
Nah, I just dig evolution of language like I dig evolution in general.
I love the UD, that consensus determines definition.
I think I get finally why you are a conservative Jeff…you think the meaning of Tea Party Patriots (for example) should remain static and attached to the original event.
But colloquial language doesn’t work like that.
Culture evolves, colloquial language evolves….we get slang, what french call l’argot.
It simply isn’t fixed in spacetime.
That is why there is LAW, and poetry, and speeches….those get fixed in spacetime.
But I don’t think you do anything about the teabagging meme at this point, except change the original Tea Party theme.
Sure, old people think of the boston tea party and taxation without representation….but young people are forever now going to associate teabagging with the Tea Party Patriots.
You can’t uncouple that meaning in our culture…there is no way.
Railing against the inexorable forces of cultural evolution and memetic transmission is pretty useless ….dude, you can’t fight biology.
Nishi, suck my balls.
no thanx.
Like a fucking 6th grader who just learned what a COCK is, you are.
ekshually…that is zactly why the teabagger meme is superglued to the teapartiers.
Because it is a sexshual snigger at the uptight family values holier-than-thou godbotherers.
That is why you can never get rid of it.
human nature.
<3
ekshually…that is zactly why the teabagger meme is superglued to the teapartiers.
Because it is a sexshual snigger at the uptight family values holier-than-thou godbotherers.
That is why you can never get rid of it.
human nature.
God you’re a fucking shut-in. Do you really not understand what a tiny subset of the universe is even aware of this back and forth?
Nishit the genocidal monster lurvs being a teabaggee and having sweaty, hairy dingleberries in her mouth.
Sorry, nishtoon — this is not your father’s Oldsmobile.
Starcaller nishi get helen thomas’s wrinkl;y penis out of your mouth
Late to the party, as usual.
“Tea bagging” appears to be (at least to me) an expression of sexual contempt. I can only imagine how much banging my nuts into someone’s teeth would make my oysters ache.
Therefore, it is probably much more exciting if your left fist is buried at least a foot into a place where the sun don’t shine, and your right hand is squeezing the life out of the tea baggee’s’s larynx.
Even more exciting when you make noises like a cow and drool a lot.
Now THAT’S true respect, eh?
Right, Neesh?
I don’t think of tea parties as being a christian thing. I think it’s important for NPR and such to try and make them out like that but that’s not what they’re about. Tea party people are an angry thing. And it’s not a righteous anger. It’s more an angry that they have to be angry anger. The dirty socialists need to stop ruining stuff on purpose. People worked hard to make this country prosperous and free and the little president man and his insipid crew of fascist pelosis are just taking a piss all over everybody’s efforts.