I'm finding this really charming. A truck driver and his wife (from a town that I used to live in, btw) won $8.3 million in the Lotto. He was facing bankruptcy with his credit card bills, and now he gets to call his lawyer and stop those proceedings, and they get to move out of the trailer park and take "a modest vacation trip to Minnesota." "See the Little House on the Prairie," Janet said, jumping up and down. "That's what we're going to do."
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Dec 15, 2011 9:27:12 am PST #11689 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sue - Dec 15, 2011 9:30:42 am PST #11690 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Once you get past $75,000/year, money can't make you happy: [link]
I would like the ability to test that theory.
Jesse - Dec 15, 2011 9:32:31 am PST #11691 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What the fucking fuck, ita?!?!?!?
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 15, 2011 9:34:52 am PST #11692 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think I'd need a little bit more than that to run into significant diminishing returns on enjoying world travel, but an extra 30 grand/year would eliminate pretty much any unhappiness in my life with a monetary cause.
Scrappy - Dec 15, 2011 9:39:51 am PST #11693 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Not enough ew in the world for that video.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 15, 2011 9:41:52 am PST #11694 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I am seriously skeeved out right now.
JenP - Dec 15, 2011 9:48:56 am PST #11695 of 30001
Jesus. I didn't watch the video, but WHAT the hell?? That's beyond gross and seems like it ought to be against some law or other.
In completely other news:
It's a very big amount of adorability to wrap your head around. I wouldn't be mad at him if he didn't get the scale of it.
Gosling is really just... I love his interpretation of the two kids in his class when he has to share the shorter bar, "You're old, you're not good, I've seen you in movies, and it's just weird. Why are you here?"
Laura - Dec 15, 2011 9:48:58 am PST #11696 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I know lots of parents and can't even imagine any of them finding that funny. Yeah, seriously ick.
smonster - Dec 15, 2011 9:53:28 am PST #11697 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I love his interpretation of the two kids in his class when he has to share the shorter bar, "You're old, you're not good, I've seen you in movies, and it's just weird. Why are you here?"
Totally. I watched that video twice this morning.
le nubian - Dec 15, 2011 10:15:46 am PST #11698 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I recall hearing about a month after Obama's election in 2008 that he was going to close Guantanomo (sp?) Bay. I was so thrilled to hear this that I just about cried real tears - which for my ass would be a big thing.
Then when it did not close and with all of the subsequent actions that support the unitary executive and indefinite detention, I'm just kind of numb.
In policy and perspective, Obama is what we once thought of as a moderate Republican. Which 1) shows how extreme the GOP party has become; and 2) is still a bit too right for me.
I will not sit out the election because while I am quite a bit left of Obama, a Gingrich (or Romney) White House would be disastrous. Their tax policies alone would fuck us up.