Best posts made by GreenFlashlight

@arkandel I died laughing at how the show was able to literalize Loki's narcissism like that. It's one of the best, cleverest uses of an absurd premise I've ever seen, and something about it feels so very British I just can't even.

@coin said in Good TV:

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

But without Dracula, there would be no Twilight. Just saying.

Dracula's more TNG to The Vampyre's TOS. Also I don't get the point. Are you insinuating that the new Star Trek properties are to TOS what Twilight is to Dracula?

I'm saying that if a sequel's quality reflect on the original material, then that goes both ways. If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

That cone is a traitor. It promised me happiness and instead offered me only lies. I'm not mad at it, just disappointed.

Female athletes forced to pay for the privilege to wear something other than what a man tells them to.

Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for lying about COVID.

@derp Yeah, I'm honestly a little grumpy she's only being punished for twelve hours when people are going to die from what she says, but whatever.

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

Yeah, I'm honestly a little grumpy she's only being punished for twelve hours when people are going to die from what she says, but whatever.

Frankly and darkly, if you listen to her then maybe you deserve what you get.

I would feel that way too if COVID stopped only at people who choose not to get vaccinated, rather than moving on to people who can't do.

We're straying from the point of the thread, though.

Going to the bathroom to pee and stopping dead in your tracks because you just saw yourself in the mirror and Jesus Christ are those pimples or am I sprouting a pair of devil horns?

@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

What I don't know how to interpret is in terms of the political climates (in 2012), what it meant for the gender roles in those nations, what the root causes were or for that matter why the enormous disparities existed between countries basically neighboring each other. And certainly that gap between East and Western Europe... damn.

I don't know how anyone could interpret that from this image that seems to exist only to be shocking rather than informative.

That's not to dismiss the male suicide rates, because I hope it goes without saying they're horrible and we need to do more to help suicidal men. I just mean this infographic seems downright irresponsible unless it was clipped from some larger piece that provides more context and analysis.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, age 80. I don't believe the cause has been released yet, not that it really matters. Godspeed, Mr. Watts.

Here is a video about living with undiagnosed ADHD.

@mietze Knee injuries are the pits. I have permanent knee and back injuries, and before I got the knee injury, I'd have said a back injury would categorically have to be the more limiting one. Nope. So I have an idea what you're going through, and I hope you mend quickly.

Sitting here thinking about people who complain about the gay agenda when the rest of us have grown up under compulsory heterosexuality--the straight agenda--and wondering if this implies their fear of gay people doing to straight kids what straight people already do to gay kids is a sign that straight people are on some level aware of what they're doing.

I'm afraid of my own anger.

Once, in high school, I snapped on one of the boys who'd been bullying me. I was walking down the hall and he shoved me from behind, which is objectively one of the least offensive things he'd ever done to me, but the last thing I remember thinking is, "He's so much smaller than me but he thinks his dick makes him too strong for me to fight back against." Then there's a short gap in my memory and I have him in a headlock as I'm punching him in the crown over and over. My friends tell me I was shouting at him like it was a fight in a movie, telling him to heel like a dog, and maybe I did. I only remember coming to at the realization that if I didn't stop right then, a faculty member was going to spot us, so I threw him onto the floor and then I have another gap in my memory because I don't remember anything until I got home.

Losing control is scary. Losing time is scary. But what really scares me is even with all that, I still, twenty-some years later, yearn to feel the hateful satisfaction of throwing a soul-ugly man face first onto the floor and letting him be the one to have to make up a story about what happened to him. So I freeze in the moment, and then I willingly subject myself to shitty people online so I can post one of my occasional crowd-pleasing dissections of what an asshole they are.

I've been trying to think of a way to wrap this up, but the best I got is a pretty limp, "So I can relate to what you're feeling."

@silverfox Those are good things to focus on. Thank you for making your baby's life so good.

@cobalt "GF, why are you listening at one in the morning to a recording of a dog barking?"

"Because hers is a very big goodgirl who does her mama a protect, and us should all be prouds of hers."

"Oh god. Please just wear earphones."

I hate Papa John's business practices but love their pizza so much I suspect the conflict I feel is a sign of genuine addiction. I am glad Dominos exists, because it's a good substitute.

EDIT: "Eat at Dominos, it's a good methadone for Papa John's addiction." Dominos should fire me to write ads for them.

I gotta say, from all the admittedly incomplete information I have, what Macha is going through at work sounds less like bureaucratic incompetence than a campaign of punitive harassment.

@wizz So the top image is of a demon using an Oreo as a pillow?

Demons are weird.

Once, more than a year ago, I was in line at a drive-thru. When I got to the window, the teller told me the person in line ahead of me had paid for my order.

Now I do it all the time. I want other people to have that surprise.