The Swamp

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:30 pm**

Sounds like the clown got into a fight and wants some witnesses to back his story.

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:01 pm**

Or a serial clown killer finally slipped up and left some witnesses (s)he is desperately trying to track down...

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:27 pm**

A woman I went to high school with posted a video from Michelle freakin' Malkin talking about how awful it was the Robert DeNiro dropped the f bomb talking about Trump the other night.

As if that wasn't bad enough, then someone commented about how Malkin is 'so right here. She's always so level-headed and right on target'.

Man, did I fight hard not to respond, and post this little gem:

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:53 pm**

ISO = in search of.

The rest of it read like a "missed encounter" ad from Craigslist/want ads.

Sounds like Market Basket was lit.

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:35 pm**

Got into a debate with one of my Nazi cousins on Facebook and I don't know why I bother.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:14 pm**

This is the type of person we're talking about in the politics thread. This dude has no actual argument but he still somehow thinks he was oppressed and now with Trump the shackles are off and we have freedom again or some shit.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:47 pm**

Yeah, nearly instantly unfriended a guy today. If you're coming at me with this shit and I only know you because your wife taught my daughter for half a day in first grade or some other bullshit reason, it's a no-brainer at this point. At least I threw-in reference to his pearl-clutching questions to me earlier this summer about the local waterpark getting "too ghetto" later in the day.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:56 pm**

Giff wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:47 pm Yeah, nearly instantly unfriended a guy today. If you're coming at me with this shit and I only know you because your wife taught my daughter for half a day in first grade or some other bullshit reason, it's a no-brainer at this point. At least I threw-in reference to his pearl-clutching questions to me earlier this summer about the local waterpark getting "too ghetto" later in the day.

Heh, just read that. Absolutely loved your response to "I didn't hear you complain about it under Obama," with "you didn't know me 2 years ago."

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:44 pm**

I thought his response made him no better. When they go low, he should go high. Reach across the aisle.

Posted: **Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:41 am**

God bless both of you Laura. I'm sure you made his ladder years good ones considering how well you cared for him.

Because he's climbing towards gd?

Posted: **Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:04 am**

Never knew a Siamese twin had only 1 name. Seems odd.

Posted: **Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:31 am**

bfj wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:41 am
God bless both of you Laura. I'm sure you made his ladder years good ones considering how well you cared for him.
Because he's climbing towards gd?

Poor man's Stairway to Heaven?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:58 pm**

It just occurred to me that I have 3 facebook friends named Al Schwartz.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:05 pm**

Related, does anyone else have an unrelated FB friend with the same name as them?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:38 pm**

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:05 pm Related, does anyone else have an unrelated FB friend with the same name as them?

No, but I'm friend of a friend of another David Irwin. Once we both posted on our common friend's status and it was a bit disorienting.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:11 pm**

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:05 pm Related, does anyone else have an unrelated FB friend with the same name as them?

yup. im friends with a guy named ben daniel who lives in massachussetts. sometimes he hops on my comments and says ridiculous things hoping my friends dont pay attention and think its me. hes a massive asshole. i like him

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:25 pm**

Yup. Two others. One in NH and another in Boston.

The guy in NH was a student when I was working at UNH and we used to get library holds and such messed up all the time.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:51 pm**

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:05 pm Related, does anyone else have an unrelated FB friend with the same name as them?

I was a state congressman in California for a while. Not sure if that's still the case.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:29 pm**

I can state unequivocally that anybody with my surname is a fairly close relative, and I don’t believe any share my first name. Helps sometimes when dealing with customer service reps on the phone that can assure them they can look you up simply by your name.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:57 am**

Do you pronounce it "e-a"? Or with a harder r?

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:38 am**

I really want SC’s name to be Todd Diarrhea.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:41 am**

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:38 am I really want SC’s name to be Todd Diarrhea.

Ha ha. The old English sitcom The Young Ones had an episode where a girl named Helen joked that she was happy and relieved that her last name wasn’t “Back”, because Helen Back would be such an awful name. Then she explained that actual last name was Mucus.

And Chedda, we just anglicize our pronunciation since it’s a made up Ellis Island type name anyway. (But if someone says it the French way I don’t correct them.)

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:01 pm**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:41 am
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:38 am I really want SC’s name to be Todd Diarrhea.
Ha ha. The old English sitcom The Young Ones[/] had an episode where a girl named Helen joked that she was happy and relieved that her last name wasn’t “Back”, because Helen Back would be such an awful name. Then she explained that actual last name was Mucus.

And Chedda, we just anglicize our pronunciation since it’s a made up Ellis Island type name anyway. (But if someone says it the French way I don’t correct them.)

Todd Diarrhear then? You're not an Anglophile, you know.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:27 pm**

Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:47 pm**

I stopped looking at social media since Thursday morning during the first #2 of the day (FB, Twitter, and IG), and it's been surprisingly refreshing. I suggest taking some time off every now and then to give your attention to other things, even unimportant crap.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to read some Finnegan's Wake.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:29 pm**

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:47 pm I stopped looking at social media since Thursday morning during the first #2 of the day (FB, Twitter, and IG), and it's been surprisingly refreshing. I suggest taking some time off every now and then to give your attention to other things, even unimportant crap.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to read some Finnegan's Wake.

Yeah, you gotta stop getting into arguments with Trump supporters, especially on Trump supporting accounts, because they keep popping up in my feed.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:57 pm**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:29 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:47 pm I stopped looking at social media since Thursday morning during the first #2 of the day (FB, Twitter, and IG), and it's been surprisingly refreshing. I suggest taking some time off every now and then to give your attention to other things, even unimportant crap.

Now if you excuse me, I'm off to read some Finnegan's Wake.
Yeah, you gotta stop getting into arguments with Trump supporters, especially on Trump supporting accounts, because they keep popping up in my feed.

Haha. Same. Stay off that IJR-Red account or whatever it is. I'm Extremely Online myself but there's no way I could interact with Trump supporters for longer than two minutes without wanting to drink a cyanide smoothie.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:00 pm**

Yeah guys, sorry about that. Didn't realize me commenting showed up on other people's feeds until the GF would say "why are you getting into fights again online with [Fredo] supporters?"

I guess I looked at it as a way of knowing the enemy, but shit, man, FB is truly the lowest common denominator.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:02 pm**

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:00 pm Yeah guys, sorry about that. Didn't realize me commenting showed up on other people's feeds until the GF would say "why are you getting into fights again online with [Fredo] supporters?"

I guess I looked at it as a way of knowing the enemy, but shit, man, FB is truly the lowest common denominator.

I don't give a shit that it appears in my feed. I can ignore that. I legitimately worry more about the mental well-being of anyone spending time in that sewer.

Posted: **Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:07 pm**

Deleted FB for the week (vacation). Feeling good about this.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:16 am**

rass wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:07 pm Deleted FB for the week (vacation). Feeling good about this.

I had been off of FB for three months and ...

yeah, if you're friends with me you know what I'm referencing

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:32 am**

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:16 am
rass wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:07 pm Deleted FB for the week (vacation). Feeling good about this.
I had been off of FB for three months and ...

yeah, if you're friends with me you know what I'm referencing

Sounded like some heavy stuff. Good on you for dealing with it head on.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 9:02 am**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:32 am
Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:16 am
rass wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:07 pm Deleted FB for the week (vacation). Feeling good about this.
I had been off of FB for three months and ...

yeah, if you're friends with me you know what I'm referencing
Sounded like some heavy stuff. Good on you for dealing with it head on.

Thanks. The worst is being accused of X/Y/Z from people who don't know me or don't care to find out the entirety of the story or being told "I knew this was coming!" from people who made no such effort to reach out and say that they knew "this was coming." The loudest carnival barker to that effect's only text message to me about the 2017 event is about how much he enjoyed it and that it's the highlight of his year.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:52 am**

Just caught up. That sounds like a blast to deal with.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:52 pm**

On all fronts

One of those situations where you know what you would do differently knowing what you know on Aug. 29 vs. May 5.

But on May 5, we did what best we could with the information we had at the time. I've yet to see a constructive idea as to what could have been done better and I cannot come up with one myself.

ETA: I understand this is very obtuse to anyone who can't access my Facebook page. Sorry for brontoing, but being obtuse is necessary in this case.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:04 pm**

Curiosity is almost enough to make me reinstall FB on my phone. Does this have to do with tFS? If so sorry, as you always seem to really that time of the year.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:15 pm**

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:18 pm**

I'm not following really.

Some speaker said some bad shit and it fell on you somehow?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:39 pm**

BSF21 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:18 pm I'm not following really.

Some speaker did some bad shit and it fell on you somehow?

FIFY, I think.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 5:14 pm**

In Toronto, the end of summer is marked by the Canadian National Exhibition - two and a half weeks of state fair meets big rides meets concerts etc. down at the waterfront. The last weekend of the "Ex" features a pretty cool air show.

This has been going on since before I was born.

The new thing among the more entitled members of our city (especially hipsters and gentrifiers downtown) is to bitch and complain about it. Used to be, folks would mildly complain about the noise. And in reality, most of the planes are quiet. Maybe 30 minutes of the air force jets swooping in.

Couple years ago, people started complaining because their dogs were upset. Then two years ago, The Star (our biggest paper - predictably full of simplistic liberal guilt on every issue) printed an article about how refugees who have come to the city freak out over the noise of jets. Brings flashbacks and all.

That is very sad. But as long as they can plan ahead and prepare for it as well as they can, they could/should be fine. And if they're not, well, the enjoyment that say 500,000-1,000,000 Torontonians get over the course of the long weekend should take precedence. BESIDES, the loud fighter jets open and close the show only.

but no. My feed has many whiny downtowners saying things like this...

(Trenton is a military base about 120 miles from here)

Seriously. F**k the airshow. Our dog is shaking in fear, car alarms are going off and refugee kids from war zones are reliving their trauma. Hold it out in Trenton. Ridiculous.

Dude, this shit went on before you moved here.

The Swamp

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