Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

While I always tell people I don't have a Facebook account, actually I do. (Oops! Secret's out!) My mother is very active on it, and before I had an account she would print out and snailmail me funny/interesting things. I figured if she did that much for me, I could at least make an account to make it easier for her. (Sorry, no, not sharing the account name. It's only purpose is for her and a few other family members who live near her.)

I had thought that jokes about Facebook were exaggeration, but they're really not. My aunt sends me chain letters on a regular basis. Those "Share these with nine people or SOMETHING BAD will happen!" types of things. I sat there staring at the first one she sent -- I couldn't believe those even existed anymore!

While hitting the reddit random button (shows you random subreddits) to find something new to read, I came across /r/TheFacebookDelusion/. Holy cow is this stuff funny in a scary sort of way!

For example:
( Jesus wrote the US Constitution. (Cut for wide image.) )

aberdeen pointed out that there has been an update in the Great Homophobic Pasta War of 2013: Gay-Friendly Bertolli Makes The Most Of Barilla's Homophobic PR Mess.


(I think the dog might be the only smart one of that group. Why would pasta want to go into sauce, get cooked, be eaten?)

In much, much, much less amusing news, a Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member (Melissa Gorga) has written a book. Love Italian Style: The Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriage. I'm not going to link to it on Amazon, I do not want to encourage anyone to buy it. (Though, on second thought, the comments are worth reading, so here's a link).

I've never watched any Real Housewives show, and quotes from this book do not change my opinion of the show or the type of people who are in it.

This woman tells men to rape their wives. Her exact words: “Men, I know you think your woman isn’t the type who wants to be taken. But trust me, she is. Every girl wants to get her hair pulled once in a while. If your wife says ‘no,’ turn her around, and rip her clothes off. She wants to be dominated.”

Just reading that disgusts me. The idea that some man might believe that and take it to heart...

This is turning into a political blog. Blame the Republicans.

I thought this story had to be made up. I thought there was no way this real.

GOP attacks Maine Democrat for ‘World of Warcraft’ character.

Look at these attack ads the Republicans put out. They look like they were made in MS Paint! One, two.

NBC News writes: "Colleen Lachowicz is a Democratic candidate running for State Senate in Maine. She's also a level 85 orc in the massively popular online game "World of Warcraft." And for that, the Republican party says she is unfit for office."

Insanity. Can we vote these people off the planet yet?

Gah, biggest let down ever. I saw a fellow with an interesting RSP and his 'current' setting stated he was looking for death knights for a plot and so I went all EEE! It could be interesting!

I spent the whole day trying to RP with him, but again and again he logged on and then idled out. Eventually, later than I usually start RPing, I caught him!

Starting random RP with someone is often hard, but in this case I had a good opening. He was a death knight, walking around in "street clothing" (no armor), and no rune blade! So Haken stomped up, frowned, and demanded to know where his blade was. (For non-WoW folks, a DK's blade is basically their soul.)

The guy frowned back at him, but told him he could earn the right to know the secret of not being bound to a runeblade. (Yes, at this point I could have run away, but a wacky RP idea can work well in the hands of a good RPer, so I'm willing to give odd ideas a chance.)

Turns out he wanted Haken to earn the right by fighting him, but that he has been a former Scourge Lord and Haken was one step above canon fodder... On top of that, my time was going short, so I asked if we could keep the fight brief.

Oddly, the guy was still in just cloth clothing. Then he posted. Somehow he made "magic snow" fall all around him, which formed into his armor and an axe as big as him. o.O

The fight went downhill from there. His fighting was straight out of a DBZ ep. At one point, the two were three paces apart. The guy comes running at Haken, and in the space of those three paces, makes a ghoul arm pop out of the ground. He stepped into the hand and launched himself at Haken, intending to knee him in the face.

Um, hello? A ghoul arm is basically just the bones. A man in, um, magic armor, carrying a massive axe, stepping into a ghoul's hand will break the bones. It is not a springboard that would permit him to launch himself into the air high enough to knee someone's face!

But whatever, fight done in two post rounds. And so, by losing the fight, Haken earned the right to hear about the secret. (Buh?)

This is where things got good (bad). There had been a living blood elf woman who had been tagging along. He waved her over and pulled up her sleeves, showing Haken the runes along her arms. Haken was all WTF MAN, putting your soul into a living person instead of a blade is S-T-U-P-I-D. The guy went on to explain that his soul was scattered all across "the Azeroth" in various objects. Harry Potter/Horcruxes, anyone?

Then it got even better (worse). All this time, he's rubbing the woman, standing right up behind her, rubbing her all over, as he explains to Haken how the he can use the runes to command and control her. (She attempted to pull away at one point, but he wouldn't let her go.) I could too easily guess where he was going with that, but he laid it out further anyway: He told Haken that Haken could get his emotions back (ummmm, he has emotions now...) if he found a living elf to "coexist" with.

Luckily I had IC reason to leave at that point (hello batshit insane knight), and I was OOCly out of time.

Edit: Also! Sorry for slow reply on comments! I suck at keeping up with them over the weekend, I always fall behind on Saturday and Sunday, then catch up on Monday.

This bullying story is making me so sad and so upset. Five different people of varying political parties have come forward with stories of how Romney bullied gay kids in school. All say he was the ringleader. One described in more detail the bullying I posted about yesterday, the look of terror in the kid's eyes after they chased him down and held him down and cut off his hair.

"But he was just a kid, everyone does stupid stuff in high school!" Yes, that's true. I did some very bad things as a kid too. But know the difference between Romney and myself? I have changed. I'm not doing the same thing now. My thoughts and my actions reflect that. What's your stance on gay rights now, Mitt? Oh, right, you're still a bully, you just have more power to hurt people now.

I hope this doesn't go away. I hope people don't forget about this. This is unacceptable in anyone, let alone someone trying to become president.

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So, WoW. In MoP, achievements are going to change. Not only are they going to be account-wide, the progress will be, too:

If Alt A does X number of quests and Alt B does Y number of quests, and X + Y = Loremaster, ding! You're a Loremaster.

It seems safe to assume this will apply to other achievements? Between all of my alts, I have about 78,000 HKs. So if I get 22K more on some alt, I'll get the 100K HK achievement and the 'of the Horde' title.

I PvPed on Clove yesterday (my only non-85). In three hours, I made about 150 HKs. Blah.

I'm semi-pondering working on this. 'of the Horde' is a rare title, I've only seen it once or twice the whole time I've been playing. (Though people might mistake it for some rep-related title...) Problem is, 22K is a darned lot of HKs.

If I really hated myself, I could combine this with WSG rep (I have the other two done) and get the Conqueror title. Problem is, I hate WSG more than anything else in the whole game. I think I'd rather get geared up and raid over spamming WSG. :/

Option #3 is to wait for MoP and level my last alt (#11) through BGs. I did that with Kianlar and ended up at then-cap 80 with 50K+ HKs.

I often call people insane, but in this case I mean it literally.

I had no idea who he was, until he threatened the president a week or two ago. I knew he played music, but nothing at all more than that.

This morning he did an interview on the CBS Morning News, and it was scary. Here, in my house, I was scared of the man. I have no idea how the people there in the room with him didn't flee.

In the middle of the interview, unrelated to anything, he started ranting at the off camera CBS producer. You could see how startled the interviewer was. It went on for minutes, full of F-words (beeped, but it was clear). About how this producer (Molly) was keeping freedom/him down, and things that made even less sense. He was vicious and rabid.

After the interview, he called the station. He told them he was rushed to the hospital right after to "have a kidney stone removed", that's why he verbally attacked her. (Um, kidney stones don't work that way, personal experience here. They don't cause insanity nor are they "removed".)

The Secret Service went to see him, after the initial threats against the president. He said the interview with them was "adorable". The interviewer, again startled, asked him if that's the word he really meant. He said yes. He said it was "cute" that they were doing their job. He said his hearing wasn't as good as it used to be, but he's certain they whispered that they were on his side.

The hair on the back of my neck stood up. Isn't it a good feeling that this man is so rabidly pro-guns?

Edit: It was so bad that ABC did a news story on the CBS news story. The "adorable" quote is in there, as well as insanity I didn't write about (how Mitt Romney is on his side, no matter what he says in public).

I started reading this web comic a while back. The first few pages were interesting, then it turned bad. Really bad. I started following it for the "quality" of the dialog. This week's page takes the cake for a whole different reason.

WARNING: VERY VERY NOT WORK SAFE. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IF YOU ARE AT WORK. VERY GRAPHIC NWS IMAGES. We joke about bad armor a lot, how on female models it leaves the most important areas unprotected. This armor takes the cake! (Again, very very NWS.)

How exactly does that-- er those, stay on? Suction cups?

Also, I want to know what happened to the storyline in the first couple pages. Bait and switch! I though I was getting some kind of a Norse/werewolf comic, but instead it turned into a bad porn movie.

And now I shall go to bed, like a responsible adult. How could I be exhausted the entire day, then when bedtime comes it's suddenly 'AWAKE AWAKE I WANT TO STAY UP!'?

Amazon is was selling this calendar:



Think it's just some (un)funny joke? The author, a "Christian cartoonist", wrote on his Facebook page:

The “truth” is that AIDS is an “elective” disease. It STOPS the day guys quit sticking it to each other. And for the tragedy of women and children infected— THAT stops the day their gay husbands and fathers stop cheating on them.
Anyone need MORE education, science or funding to understand THAT?

The author also complains about being "bullied" by the gay community on his Facebook page: "Like most bullies bluffs, the facts outweigh the fists: with almost 100 hissy- fits being thrown today only a couple of my calendars are in actual circulation. All the hysteria is coming from those nice folks who haven't bothered to actually purchase and read my collection."

At least only a couple have been sold? c.c

This post on an Asperger comm boggles me. I actually stopped chewing dinner to just sit and peer at the screen. At first I thought I was misunderstanding things. The first line is:

I have just learned that my toddler nephew is on the spectrum! I can't tell you how excited this makes me.

That read like she was happy the nephew had it. That had to be wrong, that couldn't be right. So I kept reading:

Oh, and they have another baby on the way. Yes, my fingers are crossed for another Aspie!

I'm sorry, but what? Am I so behind the times that I'm in a totally different age? This is a disease, yes? Not some kind of lifestyle choice or... or... arg. Someone help my brain! None of the comments on that post are calling the person out on saying that!

Oh my friendsfriends list, what interesting things you always give me to read.

Anyway. In WoW, I tried PvPing for the first time in forever. Years, it's been (or at least feels like). But hey, paladin, high end of the bracket, it'd have to go well, right? Well, yes! I was level 38, and only person to give me any challenge at all (or successfully kill me) was a 38 rogue. Alas I'm not all that good at PvP, but the paladin skillset (and plate mail!) was enough to keep me upright most of the time. He killed me only once. Still, it was actually really enjoyable, even if the XP didn't make it worth doing.

Other stuff happened today, but that Asperger post drove everything else out of my head, grr.

I visited the Bad Baby Names site (a collection of quotes from a board about naming your new baby) thinking it would be funny, but instead it's just so so painful and cringe-worthy. I worry about people with this little sense having babies.

Have three examples:

What is a nature realated name for a boy? I am pregnant with a boy and I already have four girls. My girls are Summer Skies, Autumn Night, April Shower, and Spring Flower. Please help I am due in November.


I am not pregnant yet but thinking about names...I just thought of the name Lourdes Solange. This baby will be 75% latina and 15% european :)


Which name do you think?
Brecklyn Kate
OR
Ridgely Mae
I'm torn between the 2.