We're gonna rock this town, we're gonna rip this place apart

[thorne_scratch]

Gumby on the Google page is kind of freaking me out, but I've always been inexplicably afraid of him. I think it's because he seems sort of indestructible.

You know what topic breaks the ice at any cocktail party or social gathering? Hillbilly Handfishin'. Everyone in the goddamn world has an opinion on that show, and if they haven't heard of it,

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[likethewatch]

Great links. I have to play at your meme. My pairing: the id and the ego of one Sigismund Freud.

[thorne_scratch]

Thanks! I... *scratches head* Okay? Um. But hey, I'll try anything twice. I never learn the first time.

1. My instinctual thought is some kind of daddy roleplay. Possibly there's spanking involved-- for both parties!

2. Gonna have to go with Id. Id probably tries more styles; Ego probably has had the same sensible haircut since forever.

3. All that fucking cocaine Id insists on doing.

4. Ego, hands down. By Ego's very nature, he's set to cope better.

5. Ego and Id have tumultuous sex; Id and Ego fight over balance of power; Id briefly goes back to ex-partner Super-Ego; Ego realizes life is really kind of boring with the perfect balance of Id and Super-Ego canceling each other out; Ego stands outside of Id's window with a boombox playing Peter Gabriel; Ego and Id reunite happily and continue to fight but always make up afterward. Check, please.

[likethewatch]

Bravo!!!

[thorne_scratch]

Shit, now I kind of want to read the fic for it.

[horizon_greene]

Okay, a few things.

Pope Benedict XVI's wobbling scrotum while mid-coitus in the reverse cowgirl
Why why why are you making me think of this oh god.

The rule stands: One space after a period. Period.
YES. FFS, people, we're not typing on actual mechanical typewriters anymore. (Unless, of course, we are.)

WRT to the meme, in honor of all the Caps-related thoughts swirling through my head courtesy of you, I present-in the "Don't Think About the Teeth" category-Ovechkin/Lincecum for your consideration.

[thorne_scratch]

Hateful and full of spite, remember? Or spiteful and full of hate, whichever works. You know, originally that sentence was just "the pope's junk" but I decided it really needed to go all the way to where it did to really give people a striking mental image for their day.

I am willing to grant concessions for baseball porn written on typewriters. Exceptions to every rule and all that.

Oh. Oh man. This one makes me think thinky thoughts.

1. Sloppy but really enthusiastic blowjobs. Lots of hair grabbing on both ends.

2. Tim, by a country mile. Ovi has notoriously terrible hair. His mom cuts it. Plus, you know, this picture. I would find and link the one where he's wearing an afro wig, but he has honestly inflicted so many other transgressions against the lair of hair, it will just make you tired. Whereas I never get tired of wanting to put pigtails on Tim

[flidgetjerome]

The rule stands: One space after a period. Period. Thank you, seriously. This one drives me nuts.

I am bound and determined to continue to ignore that and stick to the old ways. It's like subtly adding stealth exclaimation marks to everything you write! Since I want to add an actual exclaimation mark to everything I write this compromise is best for everyone.

[thorne_scratch]

PEOPLE LIKE YOU GIVE PEOPLE LIKE ME HEADACHES WHILE EDITING.

Ooh, I like. I myself am secretly trying to force more semicolons into the world; I feel it is a noble goal.

Baby, ask me for a pairing because you always bring the interesting ones.

[flidgetjerome]

I'd give you a pairing except my head's been eaten by Katekyo Hitman Reborn! again.

How do I even explain this? The mangaka recently introduced a new set of characters who are pretty much alternate versions of the existing core characters. The main character is a magical moe super-uke*. Trying to imagine the main character in the same bedroom with his counterpart, who is a magical super-uke even more moe than he is, is like trying to shove two powerful magnetic fields of the same polarity together.

Which is actually quite fun, since now I'm imagining them making confused puppy expressions as they're bounced off walls by invisible forces.

* Disclaimer, in case that sounds interesting. Tsuna starts out as a waste-of-breath everyman loser that's a standard in shounen gag manga**. It's only around volume four that he grows a spine, though not a pair.

** To this day I can't tell you why I kept reading for long enough for it to get better because I spent those first four volumes wishing he'd fall in a pit and die.

[thorne_scratch]

I was actually earmarking you for Tom Daley and Blake "Black" Aldridge.

Ooh. Now I'm intrigued. Though I have to query, does this actually ivnolved reborn/reincarnated hitmen, or is this another case of blatant false advertising like Selfish Mr. Mermaid? I have been burned once; I now wait warily, or at least, until Twig catches me off guard and flings porn at me to read.

[aphelion_orion]

Wait, so that's the reason for all the extra work I've been getting while editing? I just thought people had no idea how to use punctuation. XD

Pope Benedict XVI's wobbling scrotum while mid-coitus in the reverse cowgirl
Also, I think I may hate you. XD

[thorne_scratch]

I am constantly amazed at the basic rules people don't know. (And constantly ashamed of myself when I catch myself making dumb mistakes.)

You know you love it! The pope knows too!

[aphelion_orion]

Well, mistakes are mistakes for a reason; the scripts I tend to deal with (don't know about you) tend to just be a basic disregard for anything punctuation-related, and sometimes basic-grammar-related.

AUGGGGH! YOU CAN'T IMPLANT THIS INTO MY BRAIN. YOU HAVE POSTED TOO MANY HOT PICTURES IN THIS POST. I WILL JUST LOOK AT THESE AND IT'LL ALL GO AWAY LALALALA.

[thorne_scratch]

Michael Phelps' abdominal muscles fix everything They could promote world peace!

[squeemu]

I WILL BITE

Give me: Touga and Saionji! And while we're at it, Utena and Anthy.

I would pick a sports pairing for you, except I don't know what's in style any more. So if you want to go down that road, uh, pick your own and I am certain I will be entertained regardless. That or give Xu and Quistis. Totally the same thing, right? And is there anyway to go with Zack, Cloud, and Sephiroth? You'd have to change 4 to "if the others died."

I am glad to know that the double space thing is actually no longer a rule. I'd been ignoring it for awhile, but always felt a little guilty about it. Do you still need two spaces after a colon in a title? Because my advisor made me add two spaces and I always felt kind of passive aggressively angry about it.

I really want to know who the target audience is supposed to be for those plush dolls, I mean, seriously. And I am so excited about the link for those report cards. HISTORY ABOUT THE 1920s, AW YES.

[squeemu]

Also, that article "Scientist in a Strange Land" is fascinating, especially the (very small) bit about how blogs could end up changing the nature of discourse in Science Land. I can't decide what I think about a more instantaneous dialogue occurring. On the one hand, it's really important to not just immediately accept something as fact and move on, but I don't know that opening science up would really do that. And if we could make it a more public thing, we could get a lot more disciplines cross-pollinating and adding ideas, which can only be a good thing.

But it also risks upending a system that provides a credible scientific record and an impartial forum for rigorous, professional and civil scientific debate.

Not sure whether I agree with this or not. Sure, this is how it's supposed to work, but I've heard too many stories to assume it actually happens like this. There's a lot of politics and backstabbing that seems to happen in science, even with peer-reviewed publications.

[thorne_scratch]

It is, isn't it? And, well, I can tell you firsthand-- SO MUCH POLITICS AND BACKSTABBING. Peer-review is totally not a guarantee a paper can get a fair and honest appraisal. That part of the article made me keep making noises and going, "But, but, how it REALLY works is..." and so forth.

On the one hand, it's really important to not just immediately accept something as fact and move on, but I don't know that opening science up would really do that. And if we could make it a more public thing, we could get a lot more disciplines cross-pollinating and adding ideas, which can only be a good thing.

Exactly. You're going to get your mix of reasoned, intelligent debate and discussion, and your dumbass, biased responses which can muddy the issue and actually change people's widescale perceptions. Just like any discussion, really, but there's just a LOT of gray area. So many details, and not clearcut.

[squeemu]

Do you have any good stories about the politics and backstabbing (and ham bribery)? One of my professors shared some pretty amazing stories, including one in which she was personally involved. (She was one of the "YOU ARE SO WRONG, SO WRONG" people. She is also usually very nice.)

Another thing that's unfortunate about opening science up more with blogs etc. is that a lot of people can access the blogs and (completely wrong) news articles, but most of the actual publications you still need to pay to read. Or, you know, be at a university that pays for you to be able to read them. Sigh.