New TSA rules due to terror attack: can't get out of your seat, have anything in your lap for the last hour of flight. Good luck with that. (Update: called the TSA, they say not true)
What about a baby? Can you have a baby in your lap?
- Andy Bakun
No, all babies must be securely stowed in the overhead compartment. Everyone knows a baby can be made into a makeshift explosive device with a newspaper extremely easily, but only during the last hour of flight. That's the magic hour.
- Mark Trapp
This has all the earmarks of an urban legend: first, TSA doesn't issue rules regarding in-flight behavior; they do passenger and baggage screening. Second, there's no source cited for this, just a bunch of Twitter noise that people are repeating.
- Mistletoe Glen
So when did America become a nation of cowards? Sorry I wasn't paying attention when that happened but it must have been shortly after 9/11 made us all scared of our shadows
- WarLord
Glen: Air Canada put out a travel advisory saying the new restrictions came directly from the TSA: http://www.aircanada.com/en... The New York Times, a non-Twitter source, is reporting it as fact: http://www.nytimes.com/2009... I'm flying in an hour, I'll report on whether or not they'll confiscate my seatbelt due to it being on my lap, as well.
- Mark Trapp
Those weren't the rules on my flights; all was normal, just more inspection at security (I was patted down)
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Glen, TSA (or someone else) does issue rules for flight behavior. On all flights out of Washington National Airport, passengers have to be belted into their seats for the first thirty minutes. (Or at least that used to be the case; I haven't flown out of that airport since 2007.)
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
So for short flights that are only an hour or so long, you cannot get up at all and cannot ever have anything in your lap?
- Rochelle
Why is the only source for that Air Canada? Why is there no similar information for American, Delta, Continental, Northwest, British Airways, Air France, etc? Why is there no information from the TSA? The British have introduced mandatory secondary screenings for *all* passengers (it used to be a random selection; see...
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- Mistletoe Glen
If you search for the wording in the Air Canada info, it's all circular; all the links point back to the Air Canada info. Why would the TSA only give information to Air Canada, and not to any other airline or media outlet?
- Mistletoe Glen
What's the next step. Anesthetize everyone for the duration of the flight?
- Ian May
By the same token, why would Air Canada post the rules if they didn't get them from U.S. officials?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking...You should have gone before we left the gate.
- Rick Schmidt
Just called the TSA to confirm the story: they say there hasn't been any information disseminated to them, and that if it were true, all airlines would be putting out identical travel advisories.
- Mark Trapp
Note that *some* sort of change or notice is probably coming from the TSA, but what we're seeing right now is fear-mongering and people looking for some sort of assurance that the government is, in fact, doing something, albeit rather limited. Misinformation can spread *so* rapidly these days.
- Mistletoe Glen
Also, can a Skymall catalog be substituted for the newspaper in the baby-based explosive device?
- Andy Bakun
I called Air Canada for comment; they hung up on me when I said I was a blogger. Lulz
- Mark Trapp
from iPhone
Just went through security: they are definitely patting down people (I got spared) and checking bags far more frequently. Still waiting for my flight to arrive.
- Mark Trapp
I think it will only take a few episodes of peeing in seats for that last-hour nonsense to go away. Of course, any airline can impose those policies on its own; in the air, it's a federal crime to disobey instructions from the crew.
- Ladybug Heather
Heather just received the SECOND best gift ever, from her parents. I'm a so-excited-I'm-jumping-up-and-down Kindle owner! And let me tell you: as hurty as my hands & arms are today, I'm glad to be able to actually hold something and read from it!
... after I fill the awesomely shiny new bird feeder (Hi, Scott!) so that I can watch the cardinals and juncos and mourning doves and chickadees out back. :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Kindle is great for the hurty-handed! My reading rate is almost back to normal, now that my hands don't go numb from holding a book. And some the best stuff you want to read is absolutely free or dirt cheap!
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I can tell already, m9m! I've been drooling over the Kindle (and the Sony eReader) since they came out, but just haven't been able to justify the purchase to myself. But now, how can I justify the purchase of adorable bookmarks? ;-)
- Ladybug Heather
Ohmygosh - I love it love it love it! Reading in bed was the final test... it's funny how this is the one device that probably had the most ability to improve my quality of life, but did I have the money to spend frivolously on myself, it would probably have been a DSLR. Scott's so glad to see me with it, too.
- Ladybug Heather
feeding the birds is my entertainment that is why I always ask for bird seed if any one wants to give me anything
- VAL D. Zone
Musical teen keeps on playing (this young man has the same inherited disorder I have, though the article's descriptions are laughably incorrect) - http://news.guelphmercury.com/Life...
"KITCHENER — Like most teenage boys, Vaughan Cooke is a gangly-limbed study of constant motion. So getting him to sit still for a couple of hours to talk about his life, his genetic illness and his music, well it’s not easy. “I’m overdoing it time wise, with extra curricular activities,” the 17-year-old French horn player admits on a rare night off. “I have something every day.” A Grade 12 Eastwood Collegiate student, Vaughan teaches piano, tutors in horn, maintains an 89-per- cent grade average — low for him, he says — plays and sings in numerous musical groups." ...
- Ladybug Heather
from Bookmarklet
I think it's just hearing it way too many times. Given the number of Christmas songs in existence, you would think it would be an easy task not to play one of them fifty times a day.
- Victor Ganata
I will probably hear the second line of "Jingle Bells" as "Batman smells" until the end of my days.
- Victor Ganata
"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, The Batmobile has lost a wheel and the Joker laughs all day" Go here is you want more versions: http://bit.ly/5KQ74v
- Polly Potter
And whenever I hear "oh what fun to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight" I always hear it as "slaying" and imagine Santa Claus laughing maniacally with a scythe on his sleigh chasing bad children and decapitating them. Yeah, I may have problems.
- Victor Ganata
Now that I think of it, that was probably Futurama's fault, though.
- Victor Ganata
The German version of last Christmas, closely followed by a one hit wonder girl called whigfield's version if the same.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
from iPhone
Has anybody heard the Bob Dylan Christmas album?
- Brian Sullivan
I used to dislike Jingle Bells until I found out what the rest of the verses were. What a weird song. As for the most annoying, it really depends on the arrangement and the performers.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
@Victor - I listened to the sample and I think it's gotta be reserved for 7th circle or deeper.
- Andrew C
Most anything that tries to be modern or R&B. (I like R&B, too). At my house, we have three christmas albums, which are world music or classical. Pretty well-done stuff, actually.
- Rick Cogley
Christmas in America. And the awful Christmas shoes song. Gah!
- Ladybug Heather
I don't mind injecting a little soul into Christmas songs, provided that the singer can actually pull it off. I'm surprised I haven't heard anything Autotuned, though.
- Victor Ganata
from iPod
This is where the ladybuglets are spending Christmas. They drove southwest from Virginia Beach... and are getting a white Christmas. The Ladybuglette says that it only snowed yesterday in Dallas because she was there. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Heather has been fed in every way at last night's three worship services and the more quiet and reflective (though still with music!) service this morning. And now I'm ready for a NAP!
Like our choir director, clergy, and some of the moms and dads of acolytes, liturgical dancers, and Christmas pageant thespians, Scott and I were at the church from about 4pm until about 12:15am. Lots of Christmas carols, great descants, two sung eucharists, two singings of our anthem, and two singings of the Hallelujah chorus. It's been heavenly... and exhausting!
- Ladybug Heather
They were so beautiful! This meditation-in-dance on the Magnificat took place our our 8pm service last night. I hear the narrator was a little nervous about it...
- Ladybug Heather
Whew! Home now from taking Scott to the 28th annual Messiah Sing-along here in Virginia Beach -- his first time at this one. It was goooooood. I think he found it marginally acceptable as well. :-)
In all the time I've been an adult, I've never wrapped a single xmas present. I've always done something lame like use a gift bag, etc. Every year Lindsay tells me that she'd really like me to wrap presents - "It's the thought that counts." So this year I wrapped presents. :( They look like something a deranged 4 year old might have done.
I'm embarrassed to show them to anyone - I guess I'll bring them out just before we open gifts so she and Avynn can have a good laugh.
- Chrimmus Tad
I'm sure she will appreciate the personal touch.
- Spidra Webster
Either way - I KNOW she'll like what's within the wrapping. :)
- Chrimmus Tad
I used to wrap presents all the time. Now I don't give presents. Not giving or receiving presents makes me very zen happy.
- Cristo
I think I may just unwrap them and take them someplace to get properly wrapped.
- Chrimmus Tad
I'm all thumbs when it comes to wrapping gifts, so it takes forever unless I used "cheats" like gift bags. When my wife and I would wrap the kids' presents she could do 5 or 6 in the time I took to do just one (and, yes, I WAS really trying!) Then I worked at Borders books one Christmas as seasonal help, and they put me on--you guessed it--free gift wrapping duty! I had all of the...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
Don't, Tad. Trust me. She'll be really amused and it'll be endearing. I've purposefully poorly wrapped presents for years because it brings on the 'awwwwwwww' factor in a big way.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Tad, just get one of your girlfriends to rewrap it. ;)
- Cristo
I like that the local 'gentlemen's clubs' have free gift wrapping while you wait.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from fftogo
Gift wrapping is a marketable skill.
- imabonehead
This is one of those things men fail to learn because they know a woman will kindly (or impatiently) end up offering to do it for them. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
m9m - As for myself, the ineptitude was no mere affectation... I literally need about 45 minutes to wrap a frickin' CD! My "fine motor skillz" ain't so fine, it would seem.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Practice makes perfect....;) My husband has actually been going through this for years....struggling to wrap his gifts....but I love them all, and he actually has gotten better with time!
- Bonnie Foster
My mom could wrap presents professionally for Tiffanys or something. I mean, scary perfection that I have never been able to recreate, even going so far as to 'match up' the pattern on the paper when she folded it over (so you couldn't see the seam she would say). I am thinking of filming her doing it and making it as a how to video. Meanwhile, my father gets by with newspapers or leftover paper bags from grocery stores duct tapes / masking tape / leftover twine. I'm somewhere in the middle.
- Andrew Leyden
I too was once like you, until I got stuck in a Macy's for a long time (waiting on someone), and spent it watching the gift-wrapping people. It turns out that at least for rectangular stuff, gift-wrapping is really pretty straightforward. I kind of enjoy it now even though the Mrs. usually gets the credit for the stuff I wrap.
- Dave Roth
Michael, you know what to do. The battle is not over but the victory is assured: keep fighting. The outcome of all battles is in our Lord's hands. You are here to finish the Lord's purpose for you whether here with Him or there with Him. Our prayers are still with you and a candle has been lit. ITNOTFSAHS.
- Melanie Reed
Ever more grace and peace to you, Michael.
- Mistletoe Glen
Thoughts and prayers are continuing. Hoping for peace for you.
- Anne Bouey
"At least, I was until now. Because in my circle nothing is more embarrassing than being religious." An interesting reflection on "closeted Christianity" from salon.com
- Scott of Two Countries
from Bookmarklet
"And yet, atheists are at least as fundamentalist and zealous as any religious people I know, and they have nothing good to show for it: no stained glass, no great literature, no great art, no comfort in the face of death. Just dissipated Christopher Hitchens sounding off on "Larry King Live" and a stack of smug books with childishly provocative titles."
- Mistletoe Glen
Glen, you quoted the one paragraph that I thought was absurd. She's doing the same thing that she says her secular friends are doing, and painting non-believers with too broad a brush based on the most vocal and extreme members of the group.
- s t e v e
All in all, I found it a fairly balanced reflection. I, too, winced at that sentence, Glen... and thought to myself, "If only she'd said 'atheists CAN BE at least as' rather than 'are'!" I'm betting y'all know I'm far from a closet Christian, since the Order of Preachers kind of frowns on the closet part. There are fundamentalists and zealots in every field, in every school of thought....
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- Ladybug Heather
Ladybug Heather, through the internets, I give you the biggest hug of evar. I think people forget how good it is to have your beliefs challenged (both directly, and by the world just being itself).
- Jennifer Dittrich
Thank you, Jennifer! *hugs back* Of course, I didn't say that it FEELS good... just that it's important and we need it. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
When people say "fundamentalist atheist," what do they mean? An atheist who is a jerk about it? What would the "fundamentals" be for an atheist?
- s t e v e
No, FriendFeed is 2012, except it will come back in 2010...er, I mean FriendFeed is the Messiah or Cthulhu or something. No, wait, FriendFeed is planet Nibiru. Or it might be magnetic polar reversal.
- Christopher A Carr
Friendfeed is reversing the polarity of the neutron flow.
- DGentry
*crosses the streams and gets splattered with piss*
- Joe Silence
We've been home an hour now, and I'm still bbqgasming! Had a pulled pork sandwich with green beans and mashed potatoes. Next time, getting the burnt ends, dirty rice, and baked beans. And the time after that.....
- Ladybug Heather
from Bookmarklet
"The average man does not like to wrap holiday presents. He sees no need for it, has no facility for it and resents the whole prettified idea of it. But he does it because his culture demands it, and, by "his culture," I mean "his wife." In my experience, women eye an unwrapped present with a sort of icy skepticism, like maybe you stole it. My point is that, even though the whole gift-wrapping thing is alien to guys, they cave in. In so doing, I contend, they become just a little . . . feminized. I mean, why stop there? Why not just wear a poodle skirt and do pirouettes? I wrap Christmas gifts, but I do it My Way. It's a system I developed two decades ago." ...
- Ladybug Heather
from Bookmarklet
Plenty of good wine comes with a screw-top cap these days.
- s t e v e
Actually, the thinking in winemakers' circles for some time has been that screw caps are actually better for the wine. But customers have a lot of snobbery around it so many wineries that want to switch have not because they fear there's no amount of re-education that would work.
- Spidra Webster
++ Spidra! A lot of really good wines come with screw caps, and are more likely to be consistently bottled, and last longer without danger of going bad.
- Jennifer Dittrich
yep, sorry kids. corks are the past, screw caps are the future. ADJUST.
- Call me Bronco
Huh. I usually have to have 2-3 glasses before I start having conversations with my wine. The stuff you got must be REALLY potent!
- vicster is...
wine speaks to me. as do most inanimate objects. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
- Call me Bronco
whoahey, I'm not judging! In fact, I'm a little envious...most inanimate objects aren't on speaking terms with me. Probably because I trip over them and then cuss them out for being underfoot.
- vicster is...
I buy my wine to age a while before drinking; this tends to preclude screw caps. There's also an aesthetic quality to drinking a good wine which is obliterated by unscrewing.
- Mark H
Beat me to the aging point, Mark. And snobbery is half the fun for me :) If I want a table wine I'll buy a carton and serve it in a carafe.
- Eivind
The last articles I'd read suggested that there's little to no proof that a "real" cork vs. synthetic, or a screw cap made any difference in the (5-10%) of wines actually capable of aging perceptibly. *shrugs*
- Jennifer Dittrich
Doesn't do any harm to the wine and its much easier to open. I HATE tussliing with a cork!
- Sandra Large
Psht. I like my wine in a BOX! Or.. really, as little as I drink, I tend to buy the 4-pack of little bottles. Even then most of them end up being used in cooking.
- Ladybug Heather
Christmas baking: two dozen cupcake cheesecakes are now cooling. One dozen is destined to be topped with cherry topping. The other dozen needs no topping; these cupcake cheesecakes are chocolate swirl.
Fruit-topped cupcake cheesecakes: Ingredients are 12 vanilla wafers, 8 oz cream cheese at room temperature (I used the low-fat variety), 1/2 cup sugar (I used splenda), 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Directions: Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake cups; I used the foil ones for extra structural integrity. Place 1 vanilla wafer in the bottom of each cupcake cup. Mix...
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- Ladybug Heather
Chocolate swirl: Ingredients are 12 vanilla wafers, 8 oz cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1teaspoon vanilla extract (to which I always add a little more), 1 teaspoon melted butter/margarine, 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (or 1 oz unsweetened baking chocolate, melted, to replace the melted butter and cocoa powder). Prepare cupcake cups as above. Mix cream cheese, sugar, eggs,...
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- Ladybug Heather
The fruit-topped recipe came from Scott's mom. The chocolate swirl variety is my experiment, but they smell HEAVENLY. Taste test about to commence, even if the danged things are still warm. Results soon...
- Ladybug Heather
Okay, so they taste as heavenly as they smell. I don't think these are going to last the night. OM NOM NOM!!!
- Ladybug Heather
"A sport-utility vehicle crashed through the doors of the Hardee’s at Halprin Drive and Little Creek Road during lunchtime on Wednesday, according to dispatchers. No one was hurt in the crash, which happened about noon. There was no word from police on the cause."
- Scott of Two Countries
from Bookmarklet
Hardees. Without us, some men would starve. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Bob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe, as it happens, near Transylvania.. They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway.. It was late and raining very hard. Bob could barely see the road in front of the car. Suddenly the car skids out of control! Bob attempts to control the car, but to no avail! The car...
... swerves and smashes into a tree. Moments later, Bob shakes his head to clear the fog. Dazed, he looks over at the passenger seat and sees his wife unconscious... With her head bleeding! Despite the rain and unfamiliar countryside, Bob knows he has to get her medical assistance. ...
- Ladybug Heather
... Bob carefully picks his wife up and begins trudging down the road. After a short while, he sees a light. He heads towards the light, which is coming from a large, old house. He approaches the door and knocks. ...
- Ladybug Heather
... A minute passes. A small, hunched man opens the door. Bob immediately blurts, "Hello, my name is Bob Hill, and this is my wife Betty. We've been in a terrible accident, and my wife has been seriously hurt. Can I please use your phone?" ...
- Ladybug Heather
... "I'm sorry," replied the hunchback, "but we don't have a phone. My master is a doctor; come in and I will get him!" Bob brings his wife in. An older man comes down the stairs. "I'm afraid my assistant may have misled you. I am not a medical doctor; I am a scientist.. However, it is many miles to the nearest clinic, and I have had a basic medical training. I will see what I can do. Igor, bring them down to the laboratory." ...
- Ladybug Heather
... With that, Igor picks up Betty and carries her downstairs, with Bob following closely. Igor places Betty on a table in the lab. Bob collapses from exhaustion and his own injuries, so Igor places Bob on an adjoining table. After a brief examination, Igor's master looks worried. "Things are serious, Igor. Prepare a transfusion." Igor and his master work feverishly, but to no avail. Bob and Betty Hill are no more. ...
- Ladybug Heather
... The Hills' deaths upset Igor's master greatly. Wearily, he climbs the steps to his conservatory, which houses his grand piano. For it is here that he has always found solace. He begins to play, and a stirring, almost haunting melody fills the house. ...
- Ladybug Heather
... Meanwhile, Igor is still in the lab tidying up. His eyes catch movement, and he notices the fingers on Betty's hand twitch, keeping time to the haunting piano music.. Stunned, he watches as Bob's arm begins to rise, marking the beat! He is further amazed as Betty and Bob both sit up straight! Unable to contain himself, he dashes up the stairs to the conservatory. He bursts in and shouts to his master: ...
- Ladybug Heather
"Master, Master! ..... The Hills are alive with the sound of music!"
- Ladybug Heather
It's so adorabibble! It looks like it's happy to make me toast! It's SMILING at me! (Hmm... is this the toaster from the Heart of Gold?)
- Ladybug Heather
I wonder, did Disney ever make a "Brave Little Toaster" toaster?
- Nathan Chase
I actually would like to own one of these.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I would like one for my work cubicle.
- imabonehead
However, one needs to consider the "crumbage" if used at one's desk. (Said he who was known as much for his coffee stained working reports as for the brilliance of his analysis... and perhaps moreso the former.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Looks like a printer? Funny-looking printer. I first thought it looked like a desk lamp. :) Very cool either way.
- Kol Tregaskes
What it looks like to me: It's a robot that pukes toast. *edit* not a bad thing, really
- Michael W. May
"The German, who will be 41 on 3 January, was unveiled at the Mercedes factory in Brackley, Northamptonshire. Schumacher will partner compatriot Nico Rosberg in the team that won the drivers' and constructors' titles in 2009 in its former guise as Brawn."
- Scott of Two Countries
from Bookmarklet
"Carolyn Bennett writes Canada's Health Minister asking her to look into the materials used to make vibrators and other adult items"
- Scott of Two Countries
from Bookmarklet
Hmm... she has an 'urgent need' related to sex toys? Somebody get this woman a vibrator, STAT!
- Ladybug Heather
Key quote: "“I frankly didn't know about international orgasm day,” says Dr. Bennett. (The small, relatively unknown celebration falls this Monday, one day after the MP's birthday). " --- but they didn't give us the DATE! I want to celebrate THIS holiday!
- Ladybug Heather
By the way, Bennett was Minister of State (Public Health) from 2003-06 and is an M.D.
- Scott of Two Countries
born December 20, 1950 -- so celebrate on Monday as the article says ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
some sex toys are made of plastics and other materials that can have toxic chemicals leeched out of them when exposed to fluids. if she's talking about that then i see her point.
- Joe Silence
and, after reading the article, this does indeed seem to be the issue.
- Joe Silence
I know, Joe, but it's much more fun to make fun of the subject matter than to actually, like, read the article! ;-)
- Ladybug Heather
Planning to be rested up and fully hydrated for the Monday holiday ------------->
- Ladybug Heather
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Chrimmus Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
נתתי לו למצוץ את הפטמות שלי, אם לתת להם לשחק על החוף. לפחות לא כל כך קר על החוף.
- David Gross
from email
Thanks for the support guys. I am not actually all that sad. My budget will change, but you cannot put a price on your peace of mind. :)
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Terrible timing! Wish they'd move the heavy-gifting holidays to a fiscally more stable time of year!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
No. They did not. I was joking about that, but I have a lot of material to draw from with which to write a scathing tell-all about the company and call it the Devil Wears RSA4400 or something. :D
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
damn. i was hoping to find out about the company underbelly. you tease!
- tiffany
Wow. Sorry to hear that. How stressful. :/
- Rochelle
oh, you'll still hear about it. i just won't have to be cloak and dagger about it
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Dang, sorry to hear it, Mo. I know you'll land on your feet though. You always do.
- Derrick
Dang, but still, glad you've got peace of mind, Mo. Here's to new opportunities right around the corner! And I'd like to preorder my copy of The Devil Wears RSA4400, please.
- Ayşe E.
Oh, man. That stinks, Monique. I'm glad you've got the right attitude about it. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. (If you'd like to talk, I can handle that, too.)
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I just can't believe you didn't take the opportunity to cuss anyone out...LOL. I'm *still* trying to get my job to fire me so I can drop that ether...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Well crud. :-( I mean, congrats on your freedom and all, but, well I guess there really isn't a good time to get the speech/letter. Let us all know how we can help.
- vicster is...
I'm sorry to hear that. I was unemployed for 6 months this year too.
- LANjackal
Reading this, I'm guessing you weren't really feeling the place anyway. So I say here's to forging ahead to new opportunities and dreams and all that jazz. I know you got hustle so I'm not even worried about you. Press on.
- Lynne d Johnson
Any company that would fire someone right before Christmas is not worth working for. You'll find something better, I'm sure.
- Rick Cogley