Social WR Lounge v268: Keep your little 10 dollars edition

[LazaRRus]

So he can finally return to your property when his vacation is over?

 

[Armbars]

20 game pits of course

 

[Possum Jenkins]

As a kid I was more or less a vegetarian by taste. I mean every once in a while I'd eat meat but if left to my own devices I'd largely avoid it. To be fair part of that is because as a Muslim any meat I might have access to outside the home was haram so I'd avoid it and I think that helped me develop a taste for vegetarian food.

Wait, wat

I've never heard of this. Is this something for kids only? Or does this refer to halal meat?

If the latter, how do you deal with it now? All halal all the time or do you go occasionally go to restaurants?

 

[Islam Imamate]

I often forget that not everyone lives on the coast. Poor daft buggers.



Yeah, I mean even if your main objection is that you only like fiction set in our reality, there's still both fantasy and scifi (near future stuff especially) that caters to that. Although you'll get your Margaret Atwoods that claim that what they write isn't scifi.
Likewise there's crossovers with essentially every other genre, from horror, crime, historical fiction, political fiction through to comedy and romance.
Although in terms of movies/TV the range and depth is a lot more limited than with books.

Have you read A Handmaid's Tale? I haven't but something about it really turned me off from it and I think Zizek articulated it well

Angela Negle also has a good article on it

As with so much progressive discourse, we still talk as though it were the 1950s, the nuclear family was still intact, and an ultra-traditonalist, tyrannical patriarchal order reigned. We like to imagine ourselves fighting the simpler battles of the cultural revolutionaries of the sixties.

The real material unfreedom women experience today is a product of the subordination of everything to the market, not to traditionalism. Indeed, the rightward turn represented by the emergence of the youthful Trumpian right may be in part a product of the failure of progressive movements to diagnose our new problems of loneliness and atomization with calls for more of the sixties — individual freedoms, self-expression, and non-conformism. Today, women having children are treated as an expense and a nuisance. Traditionalists long for a past to which they can never return. But in an age of automation we should all be working less and having more time for the things that give life meaning yet somehow the reverse has happened.

In so many ways The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction that progressives tell ourselves, that we’re still fighting the simple battles of the past. Even the Reagan and Thatcher era despite its much more militant conservative rhetoric than anything found in the Trump administration, succeeded only in bringing about more market liberalism in which cultural liberalism continued to flourish.

Pretending we live in a perpetual 1950s is not going to help us to think through our new problems, let alone solve them. Childlessness, just like childbearing, is not a freedom unless it’s a choice. The traditionalists who wish to take away women’s reproductive rights are a real threat that we should continue to fight. But the much greater yet more inconspicuous dystopia all around us today remains the pressure of the market to make profit for others and call it freedom, to remain ideal employees even at the expense of life itself.

Wait, wat

I've never heard of this. Is this something for kids only? Or does this refer to halal meat?

If the latter, how do you deal with it now? All halal all the time or do you go occasionally go to restaurants?

I'm just saying that growing up there weren't many restaurants that served halal meat or at the very least my family wasn't aware of many. There were some ethnic restaurants but even then my family rarely eat out. Most of the time I ate out it was on a fast food run with friends and the only sandwiches I could order were fish ones, which on a side note is why I largely rank fast food places based on how good their fish sandwiches are.

I had a period where I stopped observing the halal dietary rules but these days I do. These days it feels easier to find restaurants that serve halal meat and if anything I can always order vegetarian dishes when I eat out.

 

[A Lurker]

No opinion on the internet counts as bizarre.

Furrries who are also Nazis, that’s a bizarre opinion, thinking you are part of the master race whilst also dressing up as a mascot and having sex with other like minded individuals.

 

[Ruprecht]

Have you read A Handmaid's Tale? I haven't but something about it really turned me off from it and I think Zizek articulated it well

Angela Negle also has a good article on it

No, I had a gander at it, but it didn't really seem to my tastes. I mean it was published in the mid '80s about '70s gender politics.
In that sense it's dated much like Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.

I have read and enjoyed Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood though.

 

[Ruprecht]

Furrries who are also Nazis, that’s a bizarre opinion, thinking you are part of the master race whilst also dressing up as a mascot and having sex with other like minded individuals.

I can still write that off as, "it came from the internet".
In my reality furries don't actually exist.
Although unfortunately I have seen a massive, obese, hairy, nearly 7 foot tall, australian "man" dressed as sailor moon who decided to come to china town during a local anime convention.
It was very hard to pretend that didn't exist, but damnit we gave it our best shot.

 

[luckyshot]

I don't know if anything he said in that interview was meant to be serious. He went from Jesus Christ to Marxism to Elon Musk within 30 seconds.

He seemed like such a normal, down-to-Earth guy, but as soon as he got a few minutes on the mic, he revealed himself to be nuttier than squirrel shit. In fact, Tony may have been the compartively sane participant in the fight.

 

[Sketch]

I can still write that off as, "it came from the internet".
In my reality furries don't actually exist.
Although unfortunately I have seen a massive, obese, hairy, nearly 7 foot tall, australian "man" dressed as sailor moon who decided to come to china town during a local anime convention.
It was very hard to pretend that didn't exist, but damnit we gave it our best shot.

Why didn’t you and your pals just ask him to leave? Politely of course.

 

[Ruprecht]

Why didn’t you and your pals just ask him to leave? Politely of course.

I managed an IT sales, service and consultancy business in there at the time. He wasn't in my business, but the bakery and food court across the road. I guess I could have gone over and asked them all (he wasn't alone, he just stood out like... a massive caucasian guy dressed as a Japanese school girl) to leave china town because they were an embarrassment, but the only time I intervened in other businesses like that was with thieves.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I can still write that off as, "it came from the internet".
In my reality furries don't actually exist.
Although unfortunately I have seen a massive, obese, hairy, nearly 7 foot tall, australian "man" dressed as sailor moon who decided to come to china town during a local anime convention.
It was very hard to pretend that didn't exist, but damnit we gave it our best shot.

I've seen a furry. It was before I knew what they were. Weirdos to state the obvious.

 

[Ruprecht]

I've seen a furry. It was before I knew what they were. Weirdos to state the obvious.

The idea of reading about these guys on the internet and thinking to yourself, "yeah, that sounds like something I'd like to do" is beyond my ken.

 

[Sketch]

I managed an IT sales, service and consultancy business in there at the time. He wasn't in my business, but the bakery and food court across the road. I guess I could have gone over and asked them all (he wasn't alone, he just stood out like... a massive caucasian guy dressed as a Japanese school girl) to leave china town because they were an embarrassment, but the only time I intervened in other businesses like that was with thieves.

lol, I've watched more than my fair share of what happens to thieves in Asia. I take it you've been part of a couple boot parties

 

[Mr Holmes]

I can still write that off as, "it came from the internet".
In my reality furries don't actually exist.
Although unfortunately I have seen a massive, obese, hairy, nearly 7 foot tall, australian "man" dressed as sailor moon who decided to come to china town during a local anime convention.
It was very hard to pretend that didn't exist, but damnit we gave it our best shot.

How far off was it from Jeff's attempt?

 

[Bald1]

@Gregolian they make dogs in your size

"Chinese" Tibetan Mastiff? Fucking CCP.

 

[Sketch]

Just caught the wife using my large scale to weight some chicken. My brain immediately thought 'Why is she weighing food that is for drugs'

smh

 

[Ruprecht]

lol, I've watched more than my fair share of what happens to thieves in Asia. I take it you've been part of a couple boot parties

No laying the boot in, I just retrieved property and detained them to wait for the cops. The usual culprits were actually groups of high-school kids, but there was also a mental health program, government legal services and methadone program on the block, so Thursdays we used to get them coming in just to sit down, nod off and occasionally try to pinch stuff.
Most physical I had to get was to chase a bunch of highschool kids down the street and grab the one that had pinched one of our clients laptop that he'd had open on a desk at the front, then stuffed it under his blazer. They weren't exactly hardened criminals, the kid that had stolen the laptop started crying when I told them they were on video and we'd be sending it to their school.

 

[Andy Capp]

didn't know you were a sex machine.

+respect

 

[Sketch]

No laying the boot in, I just retrieved property and detained them to wait for the cops. The usual culprits were actually groups of high-school kids, but there was also a mental health program, government legal services and methadone program on the block, so Thursdays we used to get them coming in just to sit down, nod off and occasionally try to pinch stuff.
Most physical I had to get was to chase a bunch of highschool kids down the street and grab the one that had pinched one of our clients laptop that he'd had open on a desk at the front, then stuffed it under his blazer. They weren't exactly hardened criminals, the kid that had stolen the laptop started crying when I told them they were on video and we'd be sending it to their school.

When you detained them, did they try and bargain with you? Or was it just lots of tears flailing around.

 

[Ruprecht]

How far off was it from Jeff's attempt?

I'm disturbed to see at least one other individual has had a similar idea.
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