The unimportant news thread

[Florestan]

I am serious btw. Too many people go to university.

Because there are too many universities.

[North Star]

Because there are too many universities.

That's just a result of having too many academics.  0:)

[Florestan]

That's just a result of having too many academics.  0:)

Of course!

Show me the university which Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe graduated from --- and I´ll show you the Neverland! 

[Karl Henning]

But . . . I needed college to study music in.

I grant readily, I am no Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe 

[Florestan]

But . . . I needed college to study music in.

You did --- precisely because

I grant readily, I am no Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe 

Objection overruled.

(sorry, couldn´t resist  )

[Karl Henning]

My fault for placing so powerful a temptation before you 

[Todd]

I am tempted to start a new thread, Too many people go to university.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

"Triggering" claptrap has trickled down to the middle school level where I live, and where my daughter attends middle school.  (By this I mean that teachers discuss the concept of "triggering", "trauma triggers", etc.)  There is a glimmer of hope in that young teens already rightly mock this idiocy, and some enterprising sorts have taken to claiming that homework is a trauma trigger. 

[ibanezmonster]

"Triggering" claptrap has trickled down to the middle school level where I live, and where my daughter attends middle school.  (By this I mean that teachers discuss the concept of "triggering", "trauma triggers", etc.)  There is a glimmer of hope in that young teens already rightly mock this idiocy, and some enterprising sorts have taken to claiming that homework is a trauma trigger.

Have they talked about otherkin yet? 

[Todd]

Have they talked about otherkin yet? 

Not yet.  I suspect it is only a matter of time. 

[Florestan]

My fault for placing so powerful a temptation before you 

Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ! 

[Jo498]

Following the time-honored custom of putting offensive or triggering material in a language not everybody understands?
(I don't really but these three words I understand. I once met a guy who learned "you have beautiful eyes" by heart in a dozen or so languages, don't know if it helped with the girls, though.)

[Karl Henning]

Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ! 

Любовь зла – полюбишь и козла.

[Karl Henning]

Following the time-honored custom of putting offensive or triggering material in a language not everybody understands?
(I don't really but these three words I understand. I once met a guy who learned "you have beautiful eyes" by heart in a dozen or so languages, don't know if it helped with the girls, though.)

Любовь зла – полюбишь и козла.

A proverb, meaning roughly "Love is evil: you might even love a goat."

[Ken B]

A proverb, meaning roughly "Love is evil: you might even love a goat."

I have faced this fucking goat-fancier prejudice all my life. Haters.

[Ken B]

Hating on Thomas the Tank Engine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11602184/Christopher-Awdry-why-sour-Lefties-are-wrong-about-Thomas-the-Tank-Engine.html

The funniest bit is the complaint, from lefties spouting the vacuous nostroms of their set, about conformity.

[mc ukrneal]

Hating on Thomas the Tank Engine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11602184/Christopher-Awdry-why-sour-Lefties-are-wrong-about-Thomas-the-Tank-Engine.html

The funniest bit is the complaint, from lefties spouting the vacuous nostroms of their set, about conformity.

Just silly. Thomas is so innocuous. 

[Todd]

Looks like Kamala Harris (aka, the next Senator from the great state of California) gets to fight a tomato can.  She won't even break a sweat.

[North Star]

Wacko in Waco

[Karl Henning]

This article has spoilers about Mad Men:

. . . those young, dewy-eyed optimists singing about buying the world a Coke . . .

[Karl Henning]

Wacko in Waco

A spokesman for the Twin Peaks restaurant chain said on Monday that it was revoking the franchise agreement with the operators of the Waco restaurant.