"Jessica Simpson appears in this bizarre video in which she puts a lit 'candle' in her ear. The pop star-turned-actress can be seen screaming and laughing as she holds the burning candle. She is thought to be trying 'ear candling', which is professionally used to regulate pressure within the inner ear. The Newlyweds star was told by her hairdresser Ken Paves that placing the lit candle in her ear would remove wax, so she tried it while he filmed it, before posting it on social networking website, Twitter. "
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Do you think there will be a spike in the number of blondes through out the world choosing to become some other color, because this is the punch line to the biggest blonde joke ever
- RAPatton
This is one of the most savvy women in existence. When was the last time you even thought about Jessica Simpson? And look at the noise this had generated.
- Michael W. May
Honestly? I thought of her the other night when I was watching The Sing Off. I'm ashamed to admit that.
- cecily
i very hopefully tried some ear candling with a boyfriend about 11 or 12 years ago. yeah, I don't think it actually does anything. but it's definitely a cool idea and kind of fun to experience.
- edythe
My wife and mother-in-law used to swear by these ear candles. I tried it a few times and it was interesting (lots of crackling). But the intended effect (drawing out impacted ear wax) doesn't actually happen. It's been disproven clinically.
- Jason Huebel
BTW, I actually think Jessica Simpson is kinda cute in her own little dumb-blonde way. If this is the worst you can accuse her of (using a homeopathic "remedy"), then she can't be all bad. At least she has a sense of humor about herself. When she isn't all made up, she's got that hometown girl appeal.
- Jason Huebel
The ear canal is a gnarly place to get a second degree burn.
- Victor Ganata
The way she was screaming, something wasn't being done right. The few times I was ear candled, it didn't burn (and it shouldn't). But again, it's a complete waste of time.
- Jason Huebel
Really bugs me when people say 'literally' and mean 'figuratively'. Republican strategist Todd Harris on MSNBC just now: "The thing Palin needs to do is literally reach through the TV and grab those working Americans..." Uhh, isn't that setting the bar a bit high, Todd?
That's like when people say theory instead of hypothesis. If it sounds better, then it naturally makes sense :-P
- Nick Humphries
haha, and when people use 'nonplussed' for 'nonchalant'.or 'decimate' when they don't mean 1/10th.
- Admiral Anika
Wow, that is remarkable that Todd Harris wouldn't understand the English language well enough to understand that what he is suggesting is absolutely impossible.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
(reviving an old thread) It turns out this is a canard. In English, literally literally means figuratively, and decimate does mean reduce. There's a good article about this here: http://www.npr.org/templat... -- that contains various quotes from Jane Austen, Alcott, Twain, and Fitzgerald using literally to mean figuratively.
- j1m
I only say literally if I mean literally. And I'm not entirely sure Todd Harris is wrong about what Palin needs to do to win. :-P
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I hear the veep say it quite a bit these days. Makes me a little crazy watching his press conferences sometimes.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
Heard a sportscaster say "It's literally a do or die game!" That got my attention.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Often, in current usage, "It's literally" is functionally equivalent to "Hear Ye, Hear Ye!" - it's simply a device to emphasize what follows.
- Micah Wittman
Is that a command Karma? If so, then, Micah, you are correct.
- Mitch
Now I'll have to google-up an essay, can't remember the who or the where, but a linguist that was building a thesis for the modern use of "like" (like... think Valley-Girl 'like'). Besides literally just reading the literature, she used discussions between her teenage daughter and her friends as sampling.
- Micah Wittman
She found 'like' was actually being used in a variety of modes, that it was relatively complex language phenomenon.
- Micah Wittman
No. Mitch, just a shorthand, but I am sure he appreciated it. :-)
- Karma Martell
If you want a great series of essays describing the perversion of English, check out "What Orwell Didn't Know."
- Mitch
Mitch, I'll have to read that. You might also enjoy this essay: "To See Truly Through a Glass Darkly: C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, and the Corruption of Language" | http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/article...
- Melanie Reed
this was mentioned in an episode of "how i met your mother", the one with the interventions, in the 3rd or 4th season:) Ted character would be correcting these all the time, however even since then, I guess I am using it in the wrong way.. well, at least I'm not a native-speaker-anchor-tv person:)
- Neşe Uyanık
"Show me how any particular site giving users the option of using a strong password is not beneficial. Key word, optional. What I am saying in the post is that a lot of sites that handle sensitive information don't have enough security options for users who care enough about the security of their information. Obviously different people have different needs, which is why I stress that these security options should be optional for the user. I don't care about the minimum length requirements of passwords— some people don't want to be burdened, I get that. But limiting the maximum length requirement of passwords has nothing to do with burdening people or policies. Registrants should be free to choose how long or how short their passwords are, and optionally, free to choose additional security measures such as OpenID or a security key."
- Nick Humphries
Another word and the forces will abolish all forms of Cilantro on this planet called Earth, message received from Planet Janet
- Janet
Message to Planet Janet: you know you love it with cilantro, baby.
- Steven Perez
Now see this is the interesting thing: if anybody posts, then you have to. So if everybody keeps posting, you'll just have to keep up with us. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I CAN ATTEST THAT PEA IS, IN FACT, ALL SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE. Argue that, and let's see how mean you really wanna be. In the meantime, my head hurts so discuss this amongst yourselves. You can summarize it for me later.
- pea
Debating tip: never try to get in the last word. Always give your opponent the opportunity to get in the last word. By some sort of mysterious karmic law, your persuasiveness will improve immeasurably. :)
- Sean McBride
Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh!!! As long as he doesn't respond.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is a point that can never be proved, nor disproved until all but one of us are dead.
- Slappy Line
So... it's kind of like a "tontine" but with a pretty weak payoff?
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, actually, it only needs to continue until Steven Perez is dead (of very old age, i of course hope). Our victory is guaranteed. Of course, if friendfeed gets eaten by fb, it's just going to be a race to get the last comment in before the site goes down.
- Slappy Line
It's okay, he's got a Catch-22 now. Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh, so long as he doesn't respond. And we all know he refutes his Bunneh status.
- Jimminy Fuller
It was real hawt in the town that night! IF I EDIT 18 hours later like now - is your last still last if comments are disabled? A hawt question.
- L Stephen Cleary
Steven is a Bunneh!!! He responded when I said he wasn't. Bunneh's can win if they want.
- Jimminy Fuller
Steven, I'm sure that not even you would resort to cheating to get the last word. I vote we just find the comment limit. It's gonna be a number ending in '0'
- Slappy Line
You did see where I said that I like my food scared and running, yeah? Mmmmm, ferret-ka-bobs ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
I do indeed see where this is headed, and no sir, I don't like it. *calls upon the forces of Voltron
- Tsali, The Native of FF
from IM
Sadly, the only Voltron to heed your call is the vehicle Voltron. And I disabled that yo-yo by pulling out the sparks plugs in the car feet.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And what is yo-yo code for in that last statement?
- pea
It's an old Navajo word for "punk-ass bitch".
- Steven Perez
from IM
very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy
- Steven Perez
from IM
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think friendfeed only put the extra "Add comment" link at the bottom of threads because of this specific thread. It took me a full 20 seconds to scroll from one end of it to the other.
- Slappy Line
hmm... 800+ comments on this thread, and this is my first, and probably last comment on this thread. I wonder should I read all the comments, or just post?
- Mike Nencetti
Are you guys still trying to win?
- Steven Perez
from IM
23 years from now, Steven will still check his MSGoogle MyFriendFace feed every morning so he can respond to this post with 3,137,783 comments...
- Joe
from iPod
After half a month there must have been moment you thought it would not be a real big deal if you eventually should NOT have the last word, I suppose?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Now that you've nearly reached 1100 comments, I realized that I hadn't officially "liked" this yet! Error rectified, though you're clearly a comment whore, you show great panache while doing so!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Ohhh, you mean that place, which is totally faked by a #viciousbunneh who was in cahoots with the government in taking all the alfalfa plants into an underground hidden bunker.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
I will allow you to have the last word. But to take that last word you are surrendering your honor to a den of sightless whores.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Eventually, the whole thread will go backwards to the beginning.
- WorldofHiglet
That sounds like more fun than I imagine you wanted it to.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It was a test. Honor is pride. A den of sightless whores is merely an event that you will carry forever. You have attained the 7th level of enlightenment.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Considering that this thread has only been around since August, and has been shut down for the last two months, that's not too bad.
- Steven Perez
from IM
2012 is just the begining of the 13th Baktun, the long cont calendar doesn't actually run out until sometimes after 4772, that is of course if you stick with only Baktuns and don't use the other 4 higher counts, I just think FF will end in 4217 on planet Tersanzar :)
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Ah, right thread. In that thread, it's asked what you think you smell like. In this thread, I told you what I think you smell like.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think this has lasted long enough. We already know what has to be the last word, it's already in the original quote. I will put it as the closing comment. I think we will all feel relieved we can now carry on to do greater things. For ourselves, our loved ones and the world.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
http://twitter.com/glenc but I have to warn you, I stopped following people on Twitter a while ago. I have about 300 subscription notices (unread) in my email.
- Mistletoe Glen
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://identi.ca/andyc Microblog about all sorts but mainly OMB and how much I dislike inferior legacy services. No names, no packdrill.
- Andy C
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle V
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
90% Oxygen, 10% Nitrogen, oh yeah that is the stuff, baby. I hear they smuggle it in from the Amazon in the lungs of Oxygen mules
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Makes me think of spaceballs and Perri-"air"
- mikepk
you mean you know you're in a liberal hotel. They need to offer this in China. The air in Los Angeles is 1000 times better than it used to be.
- David C. Cooper
Stuff like that is one reason people love to make fun of LA. Thankfully that makes up about 000000000.1 percent of what the city is actually about.
- Noah Belson
Having said that, I wouldn't mind trying personal oxygen, just so I could say I did, etc.
- Noah Belson
Snake oil comes in gaseous form now. Huh. Modern conveniences, eh.
- Micah Wittman
I'm going to watch LA Story again, for some reason...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
LA Story is great and needs no reason to be consumed
- RAPatton
from iPhone
There were a few others too, but as I've quit the groups it's difficult to list.
- Chris Nixon
s busy forum can pay for its own in ad revenues, rther than just being promoting lethargic flickr
- Ricardo Liberato
You've quit more groups than I've ever been in. Congrats! ^_^
- Almond Dhukka
it's good to quit them. I never participated in most of them and many were just things I'd been invited to that I joined at one point or another.
- Thomas Hawk
I need to do that too.. hell I'm admin of 38 groups or so???
- Jakey
i wonder how many group therrr admins ;-}
- Mo Tabesh
Good to cut a little more flickr out of my life.
- Thomas Hawk
I've also quit most of the groups a while back. Waste of time really.
- Ivan Makarov
TH: you're quitting groups... are you also done posting to Flickr (aside from the "blog related" posts)? Or just taking a break? It's been a while since you've uploaded your daily 40+ shots...
- boscbo
No, I'm still going to post images to flickr. I'm just not going to engage in community there in forums. I hate feeling like every day could be the day that they nuke my account without warning. By dropping the forums on Flickr from my life I have less of a liklihood that they can vindictively nuke my flickrstream for something I might say over there in a forum. The flickr TOS/CG is so...
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- Thomas Hawk
Dropped a few group memberships also, as I think TH has the right idea. The "other" DMU was the first one to go... I just don't enjoy the drama at all.
- Scott Coulter
Whenever a group is nuked either by admins or Flickr staff it always creates chaos. It's harmful for community and creates unnecessary drama.
- Thomas Hawk
There is a greasemonkey script I think.
- Thomas Hawk
I recently returned to flickr after a two year absence since the censorship of German flickr users. The site feels not the same anymore. It still is nice for photo sharing, but there can be no trust anymore, especially facing the ongoing unbelivable behaviour of flickr staff towards paying customers. I now use it merely as a secondary place for the occasional and cursory exchange. My content is safe on my own server.
- Ulrich Hilger
Mathew- Check out this GM script: http://userscripts.org/scripts.... It doesn't allow you to mass quit, but it's definitely easier than going to each individual group page and quitting. I quit about 200 groups yesterday using this script. Took about 15 minutes.
- Chris Martino
I need to too. I'm a member of over 600 groups.
- Nick Humphries
anybody got a script to erase faves, I'm going for the bare bones, I've got 5 groups now
- Wendy Martyn
Louis, Laura, thanks. And Cristo, domain registration is $9. I can't think of any good policy reason why people should be able to hold domains hostage. If it were "finefood.com" I could understand legitimate competing uses, but a domain of someone's name? No.
- Adam Lasnik
I've seen thousands of dollars, so it doesn't phase me. What would I have to pay for chriswhite.com?
- Cristo
Squatters are a pain, although once I was trying to get a domain for more than a year and then one day I checked to see if it was available and to my surprise it was so I snagged it as fast as possible.
- Nick Humphries
Cristo, I'd say you know it when you see it ;-). A pretty easy definition is someone who buys up domains with little or no interest in populating them with a website containing original and compelling content AND who intends to sell the domain to someone else for a profit.
- Adam Lasnik
So you're saying I didn't give you a good price? ;)
- Cristo
:p Anything over $9 is not a good price.
- Adam Lasnik
That sounds like something we have all around, art squatters, stock squatters, property squatters, rare car squatters, etc. I agree that investing in your name as a domain name is bit weird though. I wonder how they found it? Did you look it up on some seedy whois site? They would have to think that it's worth it to keep it... did you check on the site regularly? How long did they have it (was it even making a profit for them with $150)?
- John μller
Weird indeed, John. Over the course of 2 years, I made several e-mail and phone inquiries but didn't get a response. Just ended up recently with an e-mail out of the blue offering to sell it to me. The original squatter got it the evening after MattC introduced me in a blog post, so take of that what you will. The amusing/frustrating part: no monetization at all during those years. It featured a "surveysforhire" signup which consistently led to a page with only a mysql error.
- Adam Lasnik
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- LogEx
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
- LogEx
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- LogEx
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- LogEx
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- LogEx
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- LogEx
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- LogEx
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
Someone will eventually win this. However, since everyone else will have clicked "Hide" by then, they won't be able to tell anyone about it.
- Mistletoe Glen
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky