So, so many gaming YouTubers prey on culture war bullshit, and I absolutely hate those guys. However, I've become a big fan of MugThief, who doesn't seem like a culture war guy, and has pretty good takes I agree with. Watching his video on Mixtape right now, which he doesn't like, and he has a very measured take on why he doesn't like it, and why he thinks it's getting great reviews.
Is the joke that the hamsters are from Earth? The planet nearest to Mars is Earth, so they're from Earth, right?
Fir ne, it falls under the category of "Why would I ever want to do that?", even more so than sex itself.
I've seen this album floating around as a bad album cover/what the heck is this thing? curiosity, but it turns out it's actually super cool. And the cover is actually wonderful, in the context of the spokesperson for Florida orange juice in the 70s, Anita Bryant being an anti-LGBT crusader.
He's an extremely well respected, and easily recognizable public figure, but, as far as I can remember, he's never used that to endorse any product. And I think that's great. Good on him for never selling out.
The ones with William Shatner addressing himself as "Will Shat", which is something I am very surprised they can get away with. We all know what fiber does. You don't have to remind us with puns
I've recently been getting an ad on YouTube for Fiji water of all things, where two pairs of asshole young people race through the hallways of a hotel on baggage carts. First off, it's water, it's not supposed to be sexy or exciting, or fun, it's supposed to be the default drink. Second off, I hate commercials like this where wacky spontaneous people cause chaos in a public space. At the end of the commercial one of the pairs shoves the baggage cart down some stairs, without regard for potential damage to the cart or the floor the cart lands on. You just know there's going to be some group of TikTok streamers or something who will see that ad, and decide "Hey, we can do that", and victimize some poor hotel.
Admittedly, I don't have a good feel for how dumb the average teenager is today, but it should be obvious to even the most impressionable youth that Clavicular is lame as fuck, and an idiot. At least I hope so.
I don't have a problem understanding using they/them pronouns, for someone wanting to be gender neutral, and I can kind of get alternatives like Xe/Xer, but I have some friends who use whole other words as pronouns, like mew/mews, and I don't really understand that, but I would like to. I've heard them say that's something they do in queer spaces, where they are more free to be themselves, but I still don't really understand it. Can someone explain these things to me?
I am quite happy being ace. Life just feels easier with the whole sexual sphere of human interaction being removed.
I have an official diagnosis of autism, but I really struggle with applying it to myself. My symptoms really aren't all that sever, I don't have sensory issues or a whole lot of social difficulties, so I feel like in claiming myself as autistic, I'm taking away from "real" autistic people.
I really like the idea of being agender, being neither male nor female. But at the same time, I understand this is a society based around a binary understanding of gender. I currently identify and present as male, and, if I do change to being agender, plan on continuing to do as such, out of convenience. I would still use he/him pronouns and present as male. My question is that if I do so, would this hurt NB and agender people who are less comfortable taking a side? Because I don't want to weaken the cause of queer people for my own comfort.
For the first 32 years of my life, I assumed I was a straight man, because I knew I wasn't attracted to men like that. I didn't really feel any attraction to women either, other than the supposed crushes I told myself I had, but I assumed that I was going to meet the right woman at some point, and all this sex stuff would finally make sense. A gay friend introduced me to the concept of asexuality in my late 20s, but it took a few more years for me to apply it to myself. Ironically, in embracing my asexuality, I did meet the right woman, and everything does make sense, but not in a way I ever thought possible,
I've been listening to a lot of Alan Sherman lately, and it struck me how almost all of his music still works today, despite being humor from 60 years ago. Humor often ages worse than other forms of writing, because a lot depends on context. But I'm looking at something like Al N Yetta, Sherman's TV song. I may not know the specific shows he's referencing, but it still works
Which leads me to Weird Al. Weird Al's songs also have a timeless quality to them. Eat It and Fat are still going to be funny as long as kids are picky eaters, and fat people exist. Even something like Couch Potato, which is in the sane vein as Al N Yetta, being mostly just a list of TV shows, works pretty well without context. I'm trying to think of Al songs that haven't aged well, and all I can think of is Here's Johnny, and when that was written, it didn't seem like Johnny Carson would ever go away.
Back in first grade, I was desperate to be one of the cool kids. And TV taught me that the way you become cool is to make fun of people who are different than you. There was a kid in my class named John who was just kind of off. And I went out of my way to make sure people knew he was a dork, and we should mock him because he wasn't normal. Because, after all, if you aren't making fun of people, they'll make fun of you. This was back, 30 years ago, in the mid-90s, when Autism wasn't well understood, but, looking back at my interactions with him, he was clearly both Autistic and ADHD. The next year, in 2nd grade, I was bullied pretty heavily, and that cured me of my mean ways, but I still feel pretty bad about what I did. The great irony is, I was diagnosed as being autistic as an adult. John and I eventually became cool with each other, we were in similar groups in high school, and he came to my graduation open house, but I never got a chance to apologize to him, and I have no idea where he is now.