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
It's still consuming all of my mail from Gmail so I haven't had a chance yet to put its search features through their paces. Apparently the search is supposed to be seriously robust now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That would be nice. Outlook's search is just awful. Sadly, all the decent searches I know are web-based?
- Jered Hofker
Postbox's search feature is really killer, too. Actually, I like Postbox all around except for the price tag.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't know why they're upgrading, when they totally have the best software named after something bums drink prize locked up yet again.
- Matthew DeVries
I almost walked out of the house with my shirt on inside out.
- Yolanda
Aw yeah, that picture is always great.
- Jordan Hofker
A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."
- Stolee
I *almost* wrote a check this morning. Luckily, Molly is taking care of that. I'm just slightly annoyed at <redacted />. :-) *points to Bitchfest room*
- Jordan Hofker
i've cut more than USD1000 in cheques this week already. not enjoying.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I squashed a fly this morning. Unfortunately it was on my shirtsleeve at the time =/
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Danger! High Voltage may be the best song ever created for a first dance
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOU! @RAPatton You're close! They played Danger! High Voltage for the garter toss. =)
- Jered Hofker
They also played Nuclear War (on the Dance Floor) for the song after the first dance where they welcomed everyone else out to start dancing.
- Jered Hofker
We're experimenting with it a bit where I work. Limited range of applicability, but it serves its purpose?
- Jered Hofker
I'd love to try some actual pair programming - not all the time, obviously. Pair IT-ing, though? Does someone need help googling something, or what?
- Ryan Versaw
It was very good, but dang...usually when I say 'no rice or beans in the burrito', they don't double up on meat. I think I ate an entire goat.
- Admiral Anika
That's beef, I think. It's barbacoa de res, no?
- Adrian
No, I wasn't referencing what it is, I was referencing how much meat was in the burrito.
- Admiral Anika
CVs are hard to write but I've learnt a lot from others and my previous managers have helped. I also had a CV writing company rewrite mine, which improved it a lot. I find it hard to write what I do. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I can sympathise - I had to do mine last week. Maybe you could crowd-source it? :)
- WorldofHiglet
Usually, it is best to write from left to right... :P
- JA Castillo
Looking atyour LinkedIn, you have plenty of experience, so I would go chronological
- Shevonne
Once I get something I don't hate I'm going to post the txt here and get some feedback. I'm still jetlagged, not to mention stressed, so I'm sure my spelling/grammar/train of though could use a lot of help. At this point it's just frustrating putting information from my two most recent jobs since they were so different (both the duties and the companies). The last place was small so there weren't corporate recognition programs like at MCI: the newest section looks teeny tiny!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Create a 'master' CV that includes *everything*, then (for each position you apply to) cut it down to what's most relevant for that position.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Yep, I have about 10 different covering letters depending on the job I'm applying for. I sometimes tweak my CV too for each.
- Kol Tregaskes
I always change up the cover letters per job (a set format per type of job and drop in the appropriate information where necessary). The biggest difference between the two jobs at this point is the awards/honors, so that might be the section I drop in/out based on what I'm applying for.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
check out jobspice.com for a place to format/share and PDFize your resume
- Jeff Quinton
That's one of the nice things about Open Office, actually: I can save my doc as a PDF natively.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
On a Mac ANY printable document can be saved as a PDF through the Print dialogue box. ^^
- David C. Cooper
Windows offers the same with Cute PDF. OO doesn't even require the print dialog box, though: just press the PDF button and you're off
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Office 2007 would require a significant monetary investment on my part so I don't have it (but nice to know on the plugin, in case I get a job that has MSO07 already).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I did the open office thing too for saving as a PDF, just have played around with job spice for layout changes I'm considering.
- Jeff Quinton
Like it matters, nobody is fucking hiring. Well at least where I live, one resume is just one out of 1,000 people applying for the same job.
- orionstarr
Dude, I've been there... The only reason I'm really hopeful right now is because I've got CS training experience and there are actually a couple of places here hiring for that. There aren't that many trained trainers around here so hopefully I have a shot.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm sure you'll be okay, I have just lost hope for myself
- orionstarr
I just saw this, too late to be critical tonight, but I'm an excellent proofreader (just many many years experience) so if you want send it over tomorrow?
- Amy℠
Har har. VS just isn't doing what I expected as far as letting me dig into stuff with IntelliSense. I can pretty much guarantee this is more of a user issue than an actual problem with VS. =)
- Jered Hofker
I'm not going to add any content to FB until FF is officially dead. I want to see exactly where they are going before committing myself.
- Stolee
Yep, unfortunately, that's it exactly, Clark.
- Jered Hofker
My thought is: % of people i'm connected to on X network that I actually WANT to see my content: Twitter 80%, FF 100%, FB: 5%.
- Stolee
Ditto Stolee. Most of the people I'm friends with on FB don't care and I probably don't care if they see it. Also, I'm pretty sure I have more friends on here and Twitter than I do on FB...
- Jordan Hofker
thanks, Barry. Got anything stronger, like Scotch? ;-)
- Anna Haro
Anna - will bourbon do? Scotch and me... we ain't talking... it's complicated...
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
No, I'm not bailing today, but I suspect a few will be. I am travelling today and have limited access. I'll read and absorb it all.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from fftogo
And I feel like I only just met you. :-(
- Michael Liss
Know what makes for a *great* drive home? 82 degrees, top off the car, driving down a scenic country highway. ... Stuck behind a big truck driving under the speed limit. ... That is full of smelly cows. ... And getting peed on by said cows. ... Twice. =(
I'm pretty sure that, as a 54 year old guy, it is not wise for me to randomly send a comment to other FF'ers saying "Hey, when you gonna let me tap that?"
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Dammit! I only got ONE proposition! Get with the program people!!
- Chrimmus Tad
But let's NOT extrapolate that into 'That's What Akiva Tweeted'.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Is there an FFer called "Motherlode of Gold Ore"?
- Spidra Webster
for the record, the response i got was "LOL - actually you're the only one. :D"...i think that this random ff'r has some self-esteem issues
- Trent Olson
The response I got was: "Uhhh, tap what?" and then he took the p*ss for me not posting this here...I'll choose better next time....:PPPP
- WorldofHiglet
LOL! Cristo, I suppose this explains the subscription email I got!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You have to defeat Lindsay first in unarmed combat. - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer --- does not compute --- error
- chaz2b
So, do we actually have to follow through, or is the DM good enough?
- Steven Perez
... and so another great experiment in social networking devolves into 4chan, which I believe to be the natural state of the internet. =)
- Jered Hofker
One more response today: "i thought you already were!! ;)"
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Doesn't anyone make an alarm clock radio with a digital radio tuner? I can't find one. Every single one I find is using the old style analog tuning wheel. Even the Timex that says "digital tuning" apparently is not what I'm looking for.
Its hard to find a good quality one in the UK that's not digital by default.
- Jim Connolly
This is a puzzling topic, why do we still have analog radio tuners?
- Bwana ☠
I prefer them. I feel like I an get the station better. Sometimes the station drifts and if a digital radio tuner only has exact points, it can't really get the in-between places a station might drift to.
- Spidra Webster
The Emerson is an analog tuner as well...I'll look closer at the Sony you linked to...thanks Justin and everyone.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I have a few iHome ones that are also iPod docks. You may also want to check in to Tivoli.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I've looked for the same thing on and off for years, specifically for when NPR goes into fund raising mode and I want to flip between KQED and KALW without fumbling with a dial :-) I used a GPX CR4004DT http://www.amazon.com/dp... until I bought a Roku SoundBridge Radio, which is the coolest alarm clock EVER.
- Ken Sheppardson
LOL Mark, all the Tivoli stuff is way over $50
- Alex Scoble
from IM
/me kicks Jim in the naughties
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I'm using a Sony clock radio/iPhone dock that works well. Digital tuner. 2 alarms that can be set to beep, radio, or iPod. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-IC...
- Rodfather
I'm a little surprised you're not on Windows 7 yet :)
- Ryan Versaw
The laptop on the right is Win7. My main box is Server 2008. I just haven't had time for a day of downtime getting everything set back up yet. I'm waiting for our current coding phase to finish so that I can upgrade, though. Yeah, three monitors. Middle is a 24", left is 22", and right is a 17" I think. I've only been here a year, so I'm happy I was able to collect this many so far.
- Jordan Hofker
Stolee, I'm pretty sure we have the photo from you guys at home in the kitchen. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
Clark, I do, too, but I figured I shouldn't complain. When we start, your monitors options are two 22"s or one 24". My boss chose for me before I started, so I ended up with the 24". At home I have dual 23's, though. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
HEY OCD GUYS WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS: |||||||||||/||||
- Jered Hofker
IMHO this is how men should do it. Let alone the saving, and money. It teachs you how to be calm, how to do things like men do: "avec classe". The fast-food... fast-everything mentality is ruining good ol' things :)
- directeur
Agreed. I've always used a brush and soap. It's my morning meditation.
- Rob Haas
I shave with a brush and mug shaving soap but as far as razors, I'm sticking with a modern computer-aided design, vibrating triple-blade.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
This is what I use. For about a year now. In that time, one ingrown hair. My electrics, and my Vibrating Gillette Sensor12's At least 4 ingrown hairs a week. I cut myself a bit, but that's 200 times better than an ingrown hair
- Matthew DeVries
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I'm tired of giving Gillette all my money. Those quadruple blades are a rip off. I get a great shave, but it ain't cheap. Plus, I like the idea of creating a ritual and exploring and buying all the accoutrements.
- Graham English
I'm 32 and to be honnest I still have a very smooth and fragile skin, but I don't fear to cut myself. Sure I used to cut myself when I was 15-16, but now it's all zen :)
- directeur
always admire a man who actually shaves like this and doesn't have the gear in their bathroom for show.
- Anna Lynn M.
Complete ignorance here, but a friends roommate in the dorms who was black once told me that the natural curl of black men's hair make is more prone to becoming ingrown (could be total bullshit, he was like that), thus most black me used safety razors or straight razors.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: It's true. Depilatory cream is another popular option. /Jews have 'fros too.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Tis true. I used to use a depilatory until I just let my facial hair grow out. More often than not, I have a beard, but the commercial mass market razors have gotten better.
- Derrick
This is how I have shaved now for years. Could never go back to crap supermarket stuff now. Love my Merkur razor and Castle Forbes Cream!
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
The article recommends against grain. No no no. With, even across, but never against. Asking for trouble.
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
My alum block lasts years. Years I say. I have had it for 3 years and it is like new
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
Against is fine on the second shave, but never on the first.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew - maybe I have a wuss face , but if I do that my face is destroyed by a gazillion ingrown hairs. I go with grain, then across grain, and I get a baby butt smooth shave.
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
That's how my late husband shaved - and he used his father's old safety razor, with a shaving mug and badger brush.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Anyone looking to start needs to check out Mantic59's videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user... --- I've been shaving this way for the last couple of years and the only downside is that it's somewhat time consuming. Fortunately, my boss doesn't care whether I'm clean-shaven every morning, so I shave every couple-few days and it works great.
- Jered Hofker
Yeah, Jared. I spent a good hour watching most of his videos. Great stuff.
- Graham English
Graham, at any point did you start to feel like a creep for spending so much time watching a dude shave? =)
- Jered Hofker
LOL I definitely laughed at myself for watching a dude shave for so long. Laughed at him too. He's pretty corny but made me laugh out loud a few times. :) He's like the David Pogue of shaving.
- Graham English
Thanks for posting this Graham! I usually have a full beard but have been experienting w/ a clean shave lately. I bought an electric razor month ago and it just hacks my face up. My shave seems to better w/ disposable razors. I'm going to try out this method to how this works. How long does one razor last? Black guys generally do have more issues w/ ingrown hairs and I'm no exception.
- Vaughn
from BuddyFeed
Razor life depends a lot on how coarse your facial hair is, from what I understand -- think I usually get 3-5 shaves out of a blade. When you can get good blades for $0.20 each, that's not so bad. =) http://www.amazon.com/Derby-E...
- Jered Hofker
Never thought of it that way, but I can definitely see the David Pogue there. lol
- Jered Hofker
Ok, I got my Alum Block. What do I do with it?
- Matthew DeVries
Oh, BTW - recent lesson. While this type of shaving does recommend doing the shave right after the shower, if you happen to be showering because you just got back from the gym and today was upper body day, DO NOT SHAVE AFTER THAT SHOWER FOR GOD'S SAKE. Those towels I ended up throwing away looked evidence from a CSI episode.
- Matthew DeVries
PROJECT - I want your jokes! Call or text my Google Voice number 321-AKA-TINA (321-252-8462) and tell me a joke (but only if you're ok with me sharing the audio/screenshot of the message). OK? YAY Friday fun!!!
sadly, most of my jokes are pretty weak and the ones that are good i frequently ruin with poor delivery.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I haz a joke! Dead Silence, you can always text me the joke: delivery doesn't matter then.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
i had texting disabled cos of the amount of CRAP i was getting from unknowns, so it would have to be voice.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Alright then: call me and leave me a VM and I'll use the transcript instead of the actual VM message. It won't come out right at all which will make it even funnier!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks for the jokes, keep 'em coming!! And, while I can tell who's sending me the snail jokes, it's kind of hard when the rest of you text me and don't include a name....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from fftogo
I just discovered, I can't paste a Google Voice number into GTalk and send a message to it. I expected this feature
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I tried to text you from gv using 321AKATINA (no digits). let me know if you get it. and no its not a joke, sorry ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, I didn't get it =( I also received what I assume is Herb's (919 area code?) but there's a TON of distortion. It winds up sounding like some kind of electronica music, which is kind of neat but not particularly funny...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
If we send you a text and we aren't in your phone's directory, will your phone list our full name? Does it pull it from the 411 registry even on a text?
- Soup
I'm not getting caller ID for any number that's texting or calling so far, though I don't know which of those numbers are GV numbers, mobiles, other voip, etc vs a landline.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Grumble! Yeah, that was me (919). I'm testing out a piece of equipment (shh, confidential) and it has been causing intermittent problems with outgoing cell phone quality. I'll have to call back and try again.
- Herb Hernandez
No problem Herb. Let me know if you'd like me to post the mp3 so you can hear the quality (you know, for testing purposes).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Alright, 'sticky' and 'not a good conductor' are crackin' me up (plus Herb's second try at his joke)! I'm going to have to decide the best way to share these...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
LOL! That one prompted me to call in and leave one of my own that's slightly related. I'll have to group 'em together when I decide how I'm going to share all these =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Noah, it was the only area code available that had the number I wanted. Yes, I'm vain like that. And yay Heather for sending me a new one! I'll have to go check for it =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives. And we've got the latest example. On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, he wrote: "Funny stuff.""
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Ah, the shoe's on the other foot and they don't seem to like it. For eight years we were subjected to a variety of caricatures of President Bush. Now we're told that to do so is racist. Hmmm.
- Craig Eddy
And then they have the gall to call Sotomayor a racist. LOL! LOL!! LOL!! The self-parodying party.
- Chrimmus Tad
I wish they'd stop referring to Obama's plan as socialist. It's false advertising. If it really were socialized medicine, I'd be more enthusiastic about Obama's plan.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
And you know what? The only people who get bent out of shape when they hear the "socialist" word are the others in the right-wing. It's lost any punch it had with the middle and the left, so it has no rhetorical effect any more. Every time I hear the word now, I just laugh. Maroons.
- Ladybug Heather
Craig, caricatures in and of themselves aren't automatically racist.
- Andrew C
Obviously, Andrew. But because Obama is half black, any caricature made could be called racist. Why does depicting him as a medicine man mean it's "racist"? Because most "medicine men" were Native Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Craig Eddy
And for full disclosure, I despise any such depictions of our presidents, regardless of party. The office deserves more respect that this, but it is not racist.
- Craig Eddy
Can you really post articles about the R's wanting to keep the "rich white man" in power one day and say this is racist the next without feeling a bit hypocritical?
- Jered Hofker
"Because most "medicine men" were Native Americans " - and yet the emailer himself said it was depicting Obama as an African witch doctor. More specifically, this is racist because it gets back to depicting minorities as wild savages. Some things simply will not mean the same thing if you invert the race of the depicted person, because to do so ignores the context of racism in America.
- Andrew C
Jered - talking about race or racial issues is not /being/ racist, so I fail to see where you've drawn out any hypocrisy.
- Andrew C
So racial "blindness" is one way. It's not inherently racist to say that white people are keeping the minorities down, but it's totally targeted and racially motivated when you mock up the most powerful man in the free world in a joke about health care. You're issue picking. I'm not saying it isn't disrespectful, but you're purporting to understand the intent behind why some guy typed...
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- Jered Hofker
If the photo wasn't racist, then why would the AMA need to act on it?
- Steven Perez
I could care less what party you're in. That photo looks pretty racist to me. It reminds me of those old propaganda cartoons from back in the day except Obama's skin isn't actually black (#000000). Also, rich white men ARE in power. How is pointing that fact out racist? It just is.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Jered: If 'common sense' means thinking that portraying Obama as an African witch doctor is no more racist than talking about how the R's are trying to preserve the system's current biases in favour of the rich, the white, and the male, then you can keep it.
- Andrew C
Sorry, I take the "common sense" back. Call it built up frustration at the direction my FF feed (is that redundant?) is going this week. Here's the thing: You say that you KNOW the artist had racist intent because he rendered our President as an "African" Witch Doctor. Then you say that you don't see anything racist about holding a belief that the system deliberately favors whites......
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- Jered Hofker
From my point of view, at least, the R's and the D's are two sides of the same coin, keeping everyone distracted on superficial issues while moving us toward a mutual goal of control. Hope you'll forgive me for venting. I'm getting frustrated with both sides, here. Also, drinking + FF makes this stuff INTENSE =)
- Jered Hofker
The President being black doesn't mean there isn't systemic racism any more.
- Andrew C
Given the consistent level of invective that has somehow passed for "humor" concerning this president, I fail to see how this photo isn't racist.
- Steven Perez
And quite frankly, I'm at a loss as to why excuses need to be made for people who are clearly not interested in any kind of honest debate about policy, but seem to wallow in juvenile, grade-school antics and then try to backtrack and tell those of us who take offense at their chicanery that somehow it's our fault for not "getting the joke".
- Steven Perez
hey, if you don't believe this to be racist, you share as much of a screwed up, ignorant mentality as what fuels this McKalip guy. people like you all need to reassess your values and ethics 'cause you just ain't living right if you're willing to give a pass to these kinds of actions.
- Cee Bee
If you think that this sort of thing is okay and not racist, it's time to pull your huge head out of your tight ass.
- ::Kristen::
"Given the consistent level of invective that has somehow passed for "humor" concerning this president,"...wait, which president are we talking about?
- Craig Eddy
Yeah, I kinda left that one out there for ya, Andrew. Steven, George Bush was consistently the brunt of a similar stature of "humor" (redneck, retard, looks like a monkey, etc.). It's all disrespectful toward both the men and the Office, but it comes from both sides. The people who make those jokes are never interested in a straightforward debate, and, quite honestly, that's probably for the best. Cee Bee, Kristen, that's the blanket hatred I'm talking about. You're contributing.
- Jered Hofker
Jered, yes, GWB got a lot of relatively crude insults, but _those were not racist_. I mean, I think the claims that Obama's actually kind of dumb and inarticulate without a teleprompter are stupid, but those aren't racist either. OTOH, this picture is, because, well, it is racist.
- Andrew C
And for the record, I'm not saying I never laughed at a GW joke, or an Obama joke, or a Monika & Bill joke. What I'm saying is that I dislike how both sides "dish it out, but can't take it".
- Jered Hofker
I never said I wasn't interested in a straightforward debate. I also never said that the caricatures of Bush were okay either, so don't say that I'm "contributing" to anything. Bush was made fun of because he said stupid shit and made up words that didn't make sense. I shouldn't have to explain why this photo of Obama is racist. If you're going to attack our current President, do it in...
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- ::Kristen::
Andrew, I understand what you're saying, but my point was that the level of hate is the same -- they're both extremely derogatory. I'm not sure it's productive to differentiate that on race anymore, but that's probably a different discussion. Edit: Err, at least I think that was my point? I might have to read up -- this conversation is slipping away. ;-)
- Jered Hofker
Jered: "They did it first"? Yeah, not a good argument.
- Steven Perez
i'm contributing to hate here? nah, dude. you're completely wrong about that. if you're a shithead and think this is justifiable or benign in any way, prepare to get called out on it because it's absolutely not. i'm not about to tolerate intolerance just because someone thinks this contributes to the tug of war between political affiliations. this goes beyond those limits. there's just no room for this kind of nonsense.
- Cee Bee
Indeed, Cee Bee. If anyone has to make a single excuse for this, they're the ones who are "contributing."
- ::Kristen::
I guess Derrick was right earlier: "Interesting to me that people who often call out the lack of/overuse of the claims of racism are rarely victims of it."
- Steven Perez
Derrick ++ then! (and Steven gets the assist)
- Andrew C
Kristen, I absolutely agree: It's all counterproductive. Steven, I wasn't going for a "they did it first" there. You'd have to go back deeper than the history I've got. It's a distraction. It happens from both sides. That was really my whole point from the beginning. You've hit a lot of stories lately about the Evil Conservatives and I just happened to pick this particular thread, so I...
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- Jered Hofker
Oh shoot, forgot to respond to Derrick/Steven's comment: That's a great line, but somewhat unfair. A lot of the ones who are MOST sensitive to racial issues are those same people. Also, I have no idea why the AMA is getting involved, Steven. Did a Doctor make the image? =o
- Jered Hofker
Clumsy dodge, because it avoids the obvious: the picture is racist, and he spread it.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oh, and discovering the boundaries of what is or isn't racist is never counterproductive. Merely not pleasant.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oh, lol. The "conservative activist" is an MD. I wasn't trying to dodge; I just wasn't paying attention.
- Jered Hofker
Parties picking at each other is counterproductive. Racism conversations are definitely unpleasant.
- Jered Hofker
And again: pointing out specific acts of stupidity does not equate to party identity.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It doesn't, but a guy starts to notice a trend. You're entitled to your opinion and the good moments are still good. I just don't know if you're marriage material anymore? I- I hope we can still be friends. ;-) Have a good night!
- Jered Hofker
So much for intelligent conversation.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Sorry, my mommy always told me not to go to bed mad? I'd like to take one more stab at this, since this guy's having his career ruined (no one cares about that because he's a "*gasp* Conservative"): This guy received this email, clicked Forward, typed "Funny Stuff" or something and hit Send. Despite the triviality in that, we're judging him on it. We're assuming that when he saw that...
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- Jered Hofker
" Isn't it possible that he thought "LOL It's funny because this will be the state of our healthcare system"?" Yes. "Possible" in the same sense as it's /possible/ flying monkeys could steal the Statue of Liberty and take it back to Mars, yeah.
- Andrew C
Everything is "racist" with this administration. It's one of their tools they use regularly.
- Spencer
Those guys are getting really desperate, aren't they? I don't know if it is racist but it is sorta nasty..
- David Gross
Dear Irrelevance, looks like we are going to get a chance to meet face to face after all. Signed, The GOP.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2009... "UPDATE: The source of the image? Hard to say, but the first one that matches (on Google image search) is found on the New York White Pride website. And it's exactly what you think it is."
- Andrew C
I feel bad for anyone who did not know that was a fake pic LOL
- David Gross
from email
It seems very possible that she's receiving absolutely no counsel on these speeches.
- Graham English
Thank god the other side didn't win. Geesh.
- Joshua Schnell
Well, the least she could have done was edit her own speech, then! Or ask her husband or a friend or SOMEONE to get a second set of eyes on it. Lord.
- Ladybug Heather
You're right. And that's the point. She's insular.
- Graham English
I'm confused. Did they edit a transcript or an actual draft of the speech? This looks like someone at the Federal News Service transcribed what she said. Not saying it was a good speech (it wasn't), but that does make a difference. Also, Vanity Fair's floating-in-your-face ads suck!
- Jered Hofker
Jared, it was a transcript. But generally, people read speeches. So I doubt she said anything different from the written speech except for maybe the intro and some nervous transitions.
- Graham English
I so enjoyed this, though it's shocking to think this was Palin's final version of the speech, considering how painfully awkward it was. It's clear that the highly paid operatives that came along w/ the McCain team are now long gone. The sheer rambling incoherence of this speech—and all that it unintentionally reveals about her—oy. I wanted to be even harder on this than the Vanity Fair eds were. (Must be nice to have a team of eds, griped the entire lit/copyedit/rsch dept.) :)
- Ayşe E.
Your picture looks all weird and mostly green? I give up
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Jered, Helvetica, baby. It is one of the choices for a theme here at FF. I love it because it is minimal and yes it is white. One thing I have found out about FF is that it is not boring.
- Brent - Loving Life
Rasmus, My picture is green, or at least a lot of it. Excuse me, but I don't have Photoshop, so I swapped colors with a jet black background with the lime green. The green is for those poor souls in Iran, those seeking and giving up their lives for freedom.How long it is going to stay like that I don't know.
- Brent - Loving Life
nothing is wrong - not every tool is right for every user - ff is satisfying it's original intent for those ~7k subs - as a presence aggregation environment...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Apparently, they're making a sequel?
- Jered Hofker
Buying the DVD kinda ruined my childhood. I watched the "how they made it" and realized how all of the cool computerish effects I thought were there were just optical printing tricks and a lot of hand-painting.... although the computer effects that were there were still damn cool.
- Wirehead
I've never seen it, but I just watched the trailer for the sequel and it made my pants tight.
- Derrick
LOL Derrick. The original one *still* makes mine tight. Some of the graphics look dated, but this was a groundbreaking film for its time. The story is still top-notch.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Akiva, I'm with you on that blu-ray situation. I just moved this baby to the top of my queue.
- Derrick
"Master Control here, put him to work on the game bridge"
- BryanSchuetz
from iPhone
Rochelle and my 'first date' was the infamous Tron night: when Tron finally came out on DVD, I invited apparently 50 people to come over and watch it. Rochelle just never left.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Is Mr. Boxleitner in the sequel? If not- no deal.
- Noah Belson
BTW if you guys decide to get a DVD version of Tron, get the 20th anniversary one. It's not much more expensive and they gave it the works, it's cleaned up, no jitter, effects pop more, everything. Plus they remastered the sound. http://www.amazon.com/Tron-20...
- Phil G
I'll admit to still having the laserdisc version of this movie. *sigh*
- Phil G
You know what would be great? The ability to strip out @replies from Twitter that get fed into our FF streams with no context or easy links to the original tweet. This works well in the Facebook Twitter app, which strips out anything I tweet starting with '@'.
I agree, @replies do not need to be fed into the FF stream. I would love to see FF fix this. It is rather annoying to see them...
- Randy Shapiro
I like the idea. Would this include retweets or just tweets where @username is first in the tweet?
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Probably just @reply tweets. I'd love to at least see an option to turn them off.
- Thomas
Tony- people retweet several different ways: RT, "retweeting:", or sometimes (via @user), so that might be a little trickier. Losing replies would help a lot, though! In fact, I started @replying a lot more when Twitter stripped them out of others' feeds when both parties were not being followed, since I felt like I was bugging people less. Here, it's still contributing to noise.
- Sarah Lane
It's especially messy if you comment here and elect to also send it as an @reply via the FF option...
- Thomas
How about an option to strip out @ replies UNLESS they are addressed to you?
- George Brickner
What you don't want all 5+ thousand knowing all you business... Hmm go figure... lol Kevin
- Kevin
from email
I like it the way it is. Find lots of people I should be following by following the @ trail.
- Justin Whitaker
As an experiment I tried hiding ALL Twitter traffic on Friendfeed - and I've left it that way. I don't miss it at all. From time to time I'll check what I'm missing (there's a "show hidden entries" link at the bottom of the page) and there's very rarely anything worth noting.
- Leo Laporte
Funny how I find this exact same thing desirable on the Twitter side, but completely agree with you in the context of FF.
- Jered Hofker
Hmm. In the Facebook-Twitter app, doesn't it only block tweets that START with an @reply? I suppose I wouldn't mind if FriendFeed did that, since mostly when I put an @reply in the middle of a tweet it's not really directly addressed to them, or they're retweets or something of the sort. And usually retweets are something I want FriendFeeders to see.
- Gus Cuddy
There is a link to the original tweet, it's just not obvious. On a FF post that came from Twitter, click on the word "Twitter" and you'll find it's a link to the original tweet (the URL has statuses/big_number in it). From there, you can click on "in reply to whoever" to see what the reply was actually to.
- Otto
That is a good idea. Add a way to filter out #FollowFriday and I am a very happy man
- Asgeir
I agree with Leo though. I hid all twitter entries from my stream (unless they have comments or likes), and this definitely cut down the noise. I figure if they had likes or comments on them, then they might contain something of interest.
- Otto
If everyone did that, would any tweets get comments or likes? :) If I can get rid of just the @reply's, I'll be a happy man...
- Thomas
Though there are many versions of the re-tweet, it'd be nice to at least filter out anything starting with RT.
- mark
They care about colour, but money and power can romance them into forgetting about it temporarily.
- Kandeezie
Racism is not over because we have a black President. However (and I mean this as a genuine question), at what point are we no longer benefited by acknowledging its presence or treating it as a special form of hatred? I live in Nebraska and I can tell you that we've encountered bigotry, but I can also tell you that the vast majority of the people here won't tolerate it, even as a joke.
- Jered Hofker
Not long ago, I watched a white man scream at a hispanic man so many racial things I wanted to cry on the spot for this person. It was broad daylight outside. It's not a black/white issue but a human issue and I agree -- it has not stopped.
- Patricia
I can't believe how many times I've seen that line of argument, that minorities have no right to call out racism now that we have a black president.
- Victor Ganata
Rahsheen, I guess I was thinking more in terms of government acknowledgment of race when I typed that. I don't really want to get into an Affirmative Action discussion, but things like that and hate crime legislation don't seem potent anymore? Sorta feels like it's time for the government to set an example by treating everyone the same (stop asking me my race on forms) and passing the responsibility on to the people. As a society, maybe we're ready to take on the responsibility to call out racists?
- Jered Hofker
I'll freely admit that where I live could be playing a huge part in my opinion on the matter.
- Jered Hofker
I think Jered means, at a certain point, we're going to collectively have to move past the issue of racism and just declare victory. We're not going to end racism until we stop sorting people by the artificial construct that we call "race". It's an antiquated model and that model is the source of racism. There will always be prejudice, but racism doesn't have to exist. The biggest...
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- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
It's beautiful and incredible until it grows for another year or so and eats all the butternut squash in yer garden! Just ask my grandpa. ;-) But really, they are adorable.
- Jered Hofker
That's reindeer right? Haven't really seen them in real life.
- charles