Crazy Actor Calls A Guy An Asshole
By VirusWithShoes
Published: February 03, 2010
Published: February 03, 2010
Mel Gibson -- a crazy actor -- has a new animated feature coming out called “Hedge Of Blandness” in which he plays a drunken squirrel hired by the CIA to find a break-dancing panda who has a briefcase filled with bamboo and plutonium. To save you watching it -- the government did it, along with Big Business. Because Mel has a movie out, he has to appear on television and talk to people. He didn’t like this guy.
Buster Keaton once called a receptionist a “pig”.
Sigh. If my people really had the power everyone purports we do, we could have shut this regressed numbskull down a long time ago. Alas, the fucker earns, so he goes on.
On a personal level, it’s sad, because I really love him in this one particular movie, “The Year of Living Dangerously,” and knowing he is such an insane fuckwad has ruined it for me. He is besting Bardot in the Luscious-Gone-Creepy category, which is part of the BL Awards (I don’t really care about the Oscars, so I made my own awards ceremony, AND IT’S NAKED!).
If he wasn’t such a crazy backwards jerk, this would be HILARIOUS!!! I mean think about if some even psuedo level headed actor had done this it would comedy GOLD!!!
Virus- are you allowed to bash the man that single handly saved your country from the British? You better be careful, he won your FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!
“Let’s move on, dude.” Yeah, that’s contrition, all right. ASSHOLE.
He’s turning into a bizarro caricature of his former hotness and for me that is sickening. I won’t be going to his movie and dammit, why did Jodie Foster have to go and make a movie starring this butt plug and make this all confusingly disloyal, and such?
Pot, meet kettle.
Does “I’ve moved on” mean “I’ve got even more serious alcohol-related liver and brain damage.”?
Mel got therapy for the wrong issue. It was never the booze. The problem is his percolating rage that’s always right there.
Eh, I don’t see the big deal here. This guy is bringing up something that happened years ago for the sake of trying to inject controversy into what was clearly supposed to be a puff piece on Gibson’s new movie. Unnecessary, really, and Gibson let him know. Good for him.
In the grand scheme of life, who cares? Considering the film brought in $17 million last weekend and was #2 behind Avatar, Gibson still has a fan base. Sure, he may have alcohol issues and some deep-seeded bigotry, but Gibson apologized for his actions and has taken steps to fix his problems. We have TV stars accused of physical abuse with top-rated shows and convicted rapists releasing acclaimed films, but people get upset at this guy for being cranky?!?
@Perv: I’m going to have to disagree with your comments, above. I think it’s over for Mel. Among the middle-aged white Midwestern women I know who used to be all damp panties over Mel, there now exists a sort of Mel-aise. Add to Mel’s anti-Semitism his new GF, the new baby, and his “dude” speak from the video (coupled with his insincerity, to-wit: “I’ve done all the necessary mea culpas”) and I think you have one gigantic has-been. Seriously.
@Mama: From a career standpoint, I agree that a guy in his mid 50s who has been absent from the cineplex as an actor for the better part of a decade will not regain his stature completely as a movie star. But I think he could continue his very successful career as a director and have a modestly successful acting career, too. Not at Lethal Weapon levels, mind you, but he could settle into a nice Kurt Russell-esque space. If he picks the right projects, and his current film seems to play to his strengths, he’ll remain a star, though not necessarily a force.
Bullshit, Perv. If he stood up and said, “I am sorry, my Jewish friends and fans. I was drunk, did not know what the hell I was saying, I must tell you that I am not an anti-Semite and I apologize deeply,” then maybe–MAYBE–he could get some cred back. He never did that and he is still being a deep-rooted asshole and he still blames Jews for the death of Christ and if you do not understand why this is still an issue with people, I am not sure what to say to you.
You think Jews don’t remember shit that happened a few years ago like it was yesterday? Please, that’s all we do is remember shit that happened thousands of years ago. And by the way, you are the beneficiary of that, so check yourself, honey.
Mel Gibson: still an asshole.
@Bookish: I’m not defending Mel Gibson’s behavior. I’m just saying that people are still going to see his movies. There are lots of jerks in Hollywood with personal demons, political agendas, substance abuse problems, bigotry, and rap sheets. I happen to think this guy is not the worst of the bunch, but I can understand why a lot of people take issue with his anti-Semetic remarks. I can also understand why some people have dismissed the incident and would line up to see Lethal Weapon: The AARP Years.
Testify, Bookish. Mel Gibson is dead to me.
@Perv: Yeah, in the “grand scheme of life,” as you put it, you don’t care. Sorry, but I do. It is not crankiness–that’s what your newborn daughter does. There is something else going on with this guy and it is a lot more sinister than “cranky.”
You’re not hearing me. Forget it.
Perv: This is a guy who has obvious deep-seated hatred for Jews, who has set up his own church to preach his own brand of crazy, who then turned around and not only committed adultery but produced an out-of-wedlock child, furthering his hypocrisy, and is the son of a Holocaust denier. He is a drunken, short, shrivel-headed crank, and his mea culpas don’t mean shit. He knows it, we all know it. I’m neither Jewish or Christian and I’m offended by his nasty bullshittery, just because I’m a human being.
Gibson belongs to a class of people with whom I will not associate. I’m not Jewish, but I went to Auschwitz in 2003. I have no room in my life for anti-Semites.
I do not care in the least that he called this guy an “asshole,” because it’s dickish. If you interview people for a living, you have to expect to be called names on occasion. However, the fact that it was in response to the interviewer giving him a hard time about his anti-Semitic comments is telling. I don’t really feel like giving Mel any of my money. He hasn’t made my personal banned list, but he’s so close that it would have to be another Braveheart to get any of my scratch.
A note on my personal banned list: There is currently only one actor on that list and it kills me, because he’s a great. Sorry, Sean. Whether you like the way this country is being run or not, you don’t get a pass from me for pumping flesh with the leadership of a country that mass-murders its people while we’re on the brink of war because you don’t like the answers you’ve been getting. I will watch his movies, but I’ll pay for whatever else is showing at the theater.
Incidentally, fuck Rahm Emanuel.
@Gerbils: Agreed, he hates Jews. And if you’re that offended by his personal behavior, you should never watch one of his films again. (One could argue that you should never watch “Bird on a Wire” regardless of your personal feelings toward Mel Gibson, but that’s a whole other argument.) You should also boycott any film or TV show produced through Icon Productions, which he helped establish.
Be careful, though, this is a slippery slope. Should you not also boycott the movie companies that continue to hire Mel Gibson? What about the shows and networks that book him as a guest on their talk shows? One could also argue that Charlie Sheen’s recent behavior takes him off the watchable list, too. Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal, so you better avoid KMart and Macy’s and any other store that uses her as a brand. And lots of other stars have done things and said things that are offensive and morally wrong. Better not support them, either. And don’t even get me started on professional athletes.
The problem with stars and celebrities is that they are human, and none of them are perfect. Mel Gibson has more than his share of flaws, but he is an excellent director and has been featured in a number of very good films. Personally repulsive to you and many other people? No doubt. Amazingly talented? Also no doubt. I contend that as the years go by and our 24/7 star worship culture continues to thrive, you’ll find out a lot more of the creative folks whose talents you enjoy are, in real life, bastards.
I dunno, Perv. I think each person gets to decide for him or herself how much and what kind of bad behavior is intolerable. I don’t think you get to tell anyone where she needs to draw the line. All of us are aware that it’s all connected in one way or another. The Seinfeld episode where Elaine refuses to eat Domino’s Pizza resonated with me because I always took the same stance. So where do I draw the line? Not having forced-birth/anti-choice friends? Insisting everyone around me agree with me? The whole point is I can’t speak for anyone else, but I get to decide when I’ve had enough and I’ve definitely had enough of Mel Gibson and I don’t have to explain it – or how far I’m going to take it – to anyone. I know your comment, above, was for argument’s sake, but let me tell you that becoming a Jew has opened up my eyes to more bullshit out there than I ever imagined. Anti-Semitism is like child molestation in my mind. Not tolerable under any circumstances.
Chillbear: Sean is a dick. Agreed. But Rahm is a badass.
Of course they messed up. But they didn’t defame an entire people/religion/culture when they messed up.
You’ve got another thing coming if you think you shouldn’t have to explain yourself after declaring hatred like that.
He’s a fuckin joke. Let’s move on (I thought we had, but guess not).
Perv: I do not watch Mel Gibson’s movies, and will not help line his greedy, stench-filled pockets. I will not watch Charlie Sheen or help fill his drug-lined, wife-abusing pockets. I do not support athletes whose abuses have come to light and furthermore do not understand the hero-worship that our society has taken to when it comes to athletes.
As for the goddess Martha, hers was a crime whereby no one was beaten, or drugged, or in any way physically hurt. Her accounting was questionable, but did she beat anyone to a pulp inside a car? No. Did she hold a knife to anyone’s throat and threaten to kill them? No. Did she beat her wife, or rape a woman in a hotel room? No. Did she hideously and violently abuse dogs in a heinous manner for years, including running a dog-fighting ring from his kitchen during college, a well-known fact here in Virginia? No. Did she bilk hundreds of people and charitable institutes of their life savings and run them to ruin and suicide? No. Apples and oranges, Perverseus. Apples and oranges.
Bottom line: Mel Gibson is still an asshole.
Arrgh. Roman Polanski is also on my list.
BJ: Rahm has not done enough about his “fucking retarded” comment for me to move him from the arrogant asshole to the lovable badass category. I am not unaware that people use “retarded” synonymously with stupid, because I hear it every day, but this is the Chief of Staff of the United States. Perhaps he should comport himself in a manner consistent with the office that he holds. I have a family member who is affected by this type of hate speech. So I reiterate: fuck Rahm.
Perv: I don’t know how you keep managing to do this. I was okey with the first part of your original comment. Gibson was out trying to promote a movie and a relatively obscure interviewer decided to try to make a name for himself by ambushing him. That’s bullshit.
I think you and I may have different Grand Schemes, or probably not, but I’m going to make an argument out of it anyway. For instance, Michael Vick is a really good Quarterback, but in the grand scheme of things, torturing animals trumps football-throwing skills. Football is the little scheme for me. Unusually cruel personal crimes is the big scheme. If Michael Vick could throw a football that would feed millions of Haitians, I might say that we need to keep him around, but the truth of the matter is that he is entirely replaceable and what he does doesn’t matter that much. The game will go on.
I enjoyed Apocalypto (kind of), but if it wasn’t in the theater the night that I went, I would have seen some sort of Martin Lawrence atrocity. Gibson and Polanski are great directors, but we will not lose our culture if they stop making movies.
As far as your slippery slope argument goes, I don’t think it applies to individuals. The decision isn’t whether or not society should stop watching Gibson’s films and that opens us up to all sorts of other considerations. Mama Penguino said that she was not going to watch his films. Here is the great part about that decision. She makes the rules and can end her ban at any time she wishes. She is voting with her dollars. I do this occasionally myself.
@MamaP: I took a stand with Dominos a long time ago. Their pizza sucks. I’m no activist, but I refuse to eat garbage pizza.
I can’t help but love when Mel makes that wide-eyed-crazy-face look. It’s not as good as when Fred Flintstone yells, “Willllmaaaaa!” but pretty close.
@Chill: I do not have a problem with Martin Lawrence. Unless he’s planning Big Momma’s House 3. That would be low, even by his standards.
I have had my own personal ax to grind with certain celebrities and establishments in the past (I didn’t eat at Cracker Barrel for more than 15 years, for example, because of issues of anti-gay hiring practices and racism toward black customers). I, like you and Mama P, vote with my wallet. My slippery slope argument was simply to show how easy it is to basically blacklist just about the entire entertainment industry. As you say, our culture will survive the loss of movie stars, TV personalities, professional athletes, and other celebrities that think and act reprehensibly.
@Gerbils: I was just pointing out misdeeds by various celebrities. I do not equate insider trading with dog abuse. That said, Martha Stewart is a convicted felon who lied to law enforcement and got caught cheating the system. And I’m not convinced she wouldn’t pull a knife on someone given the chance — you can see it in her crazy eyes.
Chill: Ok. I hear you on Rahm’s use of the word “retarded.” I don’t agree with you, but I see where you’re coming from. But, here’s a question: how about “Fucktard.” Is that ok?
Mel Gibson is definitely on my list of “middle-aged icons gone crazy.” He just didn’t melt down while driving 90 mph while drunk spouting hate, he also recently dumped his wife of nearly 30 years and a bajillion kids, too. Seems like a lot of these former Hollywood Hero types completely have a meltdown in later years. And because they have promoted themselves for so long (Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, etc.) as being as heroic as their screen selves, their personal shenanigans definitely impact my view of them onscreen and it is a major turn-off.
I hear you, Mama P, regarding anti-Semitism. I married a Jewish man and my daughter is half-Jewish, and it has opened my eyes to a whole other layer of bigotry that scares me. For me to imagine what would have happened to my family during the Holocaust, or for to fantasize about begging my husband to deny his religion if terrorists ever hijacked a plane asking for Jews, this puts fear in my own backyard. It is real and exists, as the recent attack at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. illustrates. It is a whole new awareness of the world that I never thought about as my WASPy little self.
Is it ok if I continue not giving a fuck what Mel Gibson says or does?
I actually think his dad was a whole lot worse of a human. Being a denier, and all.
If Mel had half a brain that wasn’t soaked in alcohol and self-worship, then maybe he’d remember what those lovely convent ladies taught us Caths… Um, our dear Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of God, yada yada, was a… wait for it… wait for it…. A JEW! OMG AND SO WAS HIS MOM AND STEPDAD AND LIKE ALL THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WHO LOVED HIM!
So all I gotta say is fuck Mr. Gibson. I only take comfort that he’s gonna have some splainin’ to do when he finally goes to meet the maker.
My apologies for dropping the F bomb but he really pisses me off.
It’s not hard to not watch Mel Gibson or Charlie Sheen. In fact, being able to never watch them in any way, shape or form is for me a quality of life issue.
Also, Perv? The whole, “I’m going to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian” is getting old.
SFBirdie: I love it when you drop the F-bomb!
He said himself when he was arrested: “I’m f**ked!” Mel’s career, as he knew it, is over. Fin. Done. Put a fork in it. He will never enjoy the success he once had and for all of his bigotry and festering hatred, I see it as karmic return. He learned NOTHING from the incident. Not a damned thing, and the above clip underscores that fact.
@Forward: Get used to it and get over it. Mel Gibson calling an opportunistic nobody an “asshole” is not news, which is what prompted this entire discussion in the first place.
By the way, your negativity has been old for quite some time.
Here are my pronouncements, so declared because I’m in that kind of mood.
1. I loved the movie, Bird on a Wire, and thought Mel’s bum was cute, but as I said, he’s dead to me now.
2. I’ve never enjoyed Martha Stewart because her interests in no way mirror my own. (Incidentally, when my mom died, she left my sister and me with about 4,654,209 baskets. WTF? Baskets?)
3. The Penguino household often enjoys a 24-hour media blackout most days other than my Sunday Kansas City paper and the 15-30 minutes I spend looting untraceable cell phones and collecting corrupt politicians in Cuba while my daughter takes a bath. A life without television is a very blissful, ad-free life.
4. Little Penguino owns a small DVD player and after watching Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire last night, I had very inappropriate thoughts about a Harry Potter/Penguina/Cedric Diggory sandwich that I considered writing up for Wordsmoker but then worried it might catch the eye of some To Catch a Predator-type person who would mistake it for real. As a woman in my 40s, I don’t normally fantasize about teen boys. Just cute yet manly Daniel Craig types. wink, wink
5. I’m dying to know if SlickaNicka has given birth to the next baby Wordsmoker yet???
Perv: Well, okay, maybe she would, but it would be done in the greatest of taste and only with her signature knives. Not a drop of blood would hit her perfectly buffed shoes, and she would graciously offer clean-up hints afterward.
Penguina – number 1 is a win-win situation. You love to see him go AND you love to watch him leave.
Mama P: Sorry you have such a low opinion of Ms. Stewart, but she makes some mighty fine towels and bath rugs.
@Gerbs: Not a low opinion, just utter indifference to her schtick. I use the same bath towel I bought 15 years ago – it’s a Royal Velvet “Big & Soft” and it’s never lost its absorbancy. Why buy new?
@Mama P: I will never understand baskets, especially the decorative ones that have no real purpose. I do make an exception, though, to the ones the Easter bunny used to drop off, because those were filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and other sugar high-inducing treats.
Also, I would never judge someone, no matter what their age, for having inappropriate thoughts about Cedric. He’s smokin.
@Gerbs is right though, her towels are fantastic.
@BJ: Well, as long as YOU love it.
Okay. As long as we are talking about baskets and towels, I want to say I have finally found a commercial on television which I can watch over and over and which is a complete delight. It is the NBC curling commercial for the Vancouver games. I can’t get enough of it! I don’t know if it is the announcer’s voice screaming, “It’s a double take-out! It’s a double take-out!” as the US team knocks out two stones or the crestfallen look of the LOSING Canadian (“curler?” “stoner?”) as the announcer screams, “Not in my house! Not tonight!” although the footage was from Italy, but you know what he meant.
Mama P: Would it sway you any if I told you that I made her vanilla cheesecake with chocolate ganache recipe and it was out of this world delicious? Like, the best cheesecake I’ve ever had? It really was, and if a baking/cooking derelict like me can make something not only edible but fabulous, that says a lot for her recipes.
@Mama P: I have a decorative basket filled with pine cones from North Carolina. That and an Easter basket for my beautiful wife (and soon, one for my lovely daughter) is pretty much it in the decorative basket column. How exactly does one decorate with such an excessive amount of baskets?
@Perv: Decorative baskets? What the hell is wrong with you?
@Chillbear: Back off and let Basket Boy talk. j/k @Perv: I have one of my mom’s lovely baskets that was also filled with pine cones by our side door. It stays there 365 and is now full of dried leaves and other weird stuff. As a joke, my uncle’s partner hung a decorative wreath (non-denominational) on our front door a couple of years ago. My indifference to decor – inside and out – is legendary in our family. (The wallpaper in our bedroom was put there by my aunt when she lived in the house in the 1970s.)
@Gerbs: Does it have more than 3-4 ingredients? Do I need a spring-form pan to make it? Yes to either of these questions automatically rules out the recipe using my personal cost/benefit analysis. I’m free to do some taste-testing at your house, though.
@Chill: As you can clearly see, the decorative basket filled with pine cones complements a decorative pine cone “tree” on the top of the hutch. With the natural pine tones of the wood, it creates a warm, inviting environment.
I now officially am ashamed of myself for discussing decorating tips in a public forum.
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@Chill: Apparently I can’t load an image from my work computer to this site, but I tell you, it looks lovely.
Y’all just put the lotion in the basket, m’kay?
@Perv: Did you use the “img” button at the top of the comment box? I admit I’m curious to see your pine cones w/basket to compare to my own.
@Mama P: I did, but it wants a URL, so the image needs to be posted somewhere on the Interweb in order for me to access it and post it. Unless someone knows a workaround…?
All right, let’s see if this works:
OK, so why is the geigh the only one who noticed that BookishLookish has her own awards show, and. it’s. nude. That totally makes me regret my fatty, sugary breakfast this morning.
@Perv: Try LOLCats, the LOL Builder – that way you can add a catchy slogan.
Voila!
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@Perv: Shaking my head in shame.
@Hydro: The only awards show that matters is The Smokies. It’s on every Sunday night. You people have been watching haven’t you?
@Mama: God, I hope this worked. I don’t know what’s more pathetic — actually posting a picture of my pine cones or failing to do so multiple times.
In case this doesn’t work, and I’m reasonably sure it won’t:
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@Hyrdoceph: The BL Awards. It’s nude, it’s lewd and it’s guuuuuud.
Pine cones are for covering in peanut butter, rolling in birdseed and throwing outside. Keep nature outside, OK? How else are we going to let those dirty, plotting animals know who is on top?
@Perv: “The problem with stars and celebrities is that they are human, and none of them are perfect.” Yeah, just like that German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl! Evil but so, so talented!
It is not enough just to *not* do something, like not buy a movie ticket. You have to beat on these assholes whenever you get a chance, and that is what that interviewer did, and I’m glad he did. That you think it was “uncool” of him to do that is going to force me to call you “Leni” from now on till you man the fuck up.
And dust that hutch, will you? Some of us are tall and can see that shit!
@Perv So what other stuff can you make with pinecones?
@Bookish: The dust is part of its charm. It’s the closest thing we get to snow down here.
@Bell: I once had a reindeer Christmas ornament out of a pine cone. I, of course, did not create said ornament. My arts and crafts skills are tested to their limits just by stacking the damned things in a basket.
Mama P: Sadly, yes to both. This Thanksgiving, I made an amaretto cheesecake with caramel topping – I bake so rarely, that when I do, it has to be something extra-yummy. It makes people think I actually know how to bake, when in reality, it takes me all year to gear up to making the dish in question, and then I have to rest up for the next 11 or so months. If you come visit me, however, I will gladly bake you any kind of cheesecake you desire.
Perv: Your basket/pinecone art would show better if the woods were a different tone, or the basket was painted a contrasting color. I can’t tell if that wall paint color is pink or flesh-toned, but a nice sage green would highlight the cones and the hutch. After, of course, it was dusted and stained a more modern, darker color.
@BL: My pine cones are outside, where they belong.
@Perv: That’s not a basket!!! Your pine cones are in a mini-hutch atop a big hutch.
@Bookish: Little Penguino is sitting here with me and asked “What does L-E-N-I spell?” and I said, “the name, Leni” and she said, “Leni, Tuck and Ming Ming, too, we’re wonder pets and we’ll help you!” I said, “let’s tell Bookish that – she’ll laugh her pants off!”
@Bookish: Keep nature outside, OK? How else are we going to let those dirty, plotting animals know who is on top?
I knew i loved you. I don’t like going into that big room with the blue ceiling much, either.
So we’ll sit inside and hurl abuse at these overpaid jackasses. I don’t understand why it’s wrong to call out these celebutards, talented or not, for their freakish, offensive, or just plain bigoted ideas. Just because they’re famous doesn’t get them a pass. That the only people grilled by our gelded media are movie stars is just pathetic, but will be saved for another forum.
Frankly, the only power we have is a mighty one: the power of the marketplace. I haven’t had any use for Gibson’s work since he insisted the gay elements of the story “The Man Without a Face” be removed before he’d act in it, and i haven’t paid my (OK, my husband’s) hard-earned money to see anything he’s done, including and especially his torture-porn The Last Temptation of Christ.
So Bookish and i will stay in here and have our naked hate parade while y’all exchange tips on baskets. And sidebar: my mother is fully into that crap. She looks around the Hydroceph house and sees that it’s basket free. Rather than think, “Ah, the gays don’t like country cutesy,” she sees an opportunity. I’ve failed somewhere, that’s all i can think.
@Perv: Mom?
Put the lotion in the basket.
Oh, Perv. Not liking Charlie Sheen is not “negativity”. It’s just good taste.
@Mama: But it has a handle. Doesn’t that count? I mean it’s not like all wicker and shit, but it’s at least basket-like.
@Gerbils: Modern color? It’s pine — I thought that was timeless. I’d rather be considered an old fuddy duddy than try to stain another piece of furniture. Come to think of it, I’d still be considered an old fuddy duddy, regardless of the color of my hutch. Plus, my pine cones are not worth that kind of effort.
@River: What about my mother?
@Perv: Oh. My mistake. I kept thinking, “Perv is sounding kind of like an old lady,” then those pine cones…
Dammit! Someone help me with the uploading the photos, por favor?!?
Perv: I failed you during the Dorchester Lane days. Whatever happened to that shining young upstart who was going to turn the local access cable channel world on its head? Pine cones?
@Chill and River: I’m the father of a 10-week-old daughter. It won’t be too much longer before I start debating the merits of Grover vs. Cookie Monster and having serious discussions about My Little Fucking Pony. Might as well just turn in my man card now and start debating color schemes and home decor.
By the way, here is a picture of my daughter. We have not yet determined her feelings toward pine cones.
Oh my god. she’s cute. Is this what we’re doing now? Posting pictures of our adorable children?
Seriously cute.
@River: Thanks. And yes. I’m in a warm and fuzzy kind of mood. I tend to get this way after I read her a story and put her to bed for the night.
@TRC: Here I am with my husband and new baby. We’re pretty cute, too, don’t you think? Also, true story, my husband is sick tonight and I feel like raining machine gun fire on the entire world.
Confidential to Paisley: the picture has to be one with a URL, so you may need to upload and save it on a shared site.
@Perv: What an adorable baby girl! Congrats. It’s ok to get warm and fuzzy sometimes.
@Mama: Nicely done! I must say, you look far better than my wife and I did after our daughter was born!
You are definitely cute. What tiny little incredibleness that baby is.
Ok. I’ll play. Here’s an old one:
and here’s a newer one:
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I don’t get it. It’s a flickr. Oh well.
PERV! Those are the Duggars, for crying out loud!!! My daughter is Chinese and my husband is a big hunk of gorgeousness with tousled blond hair, blue eyes, and a sexy beard. I can’t believe you’d think I’d heat up the sheets with a guy whose hair is like one of those old-timey plastic wigs!
This is my doppleganger hair. I’m in my 40s – I’d rather die than wear little girl bangs and hair clippies.
@Mama: Hey, I don’t judge. By the way, I had to Google what a “Duggar” is; apparently I am not in the know.
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@Perv: I believe Mrs. Duggar is holding number 19, who was a preemie. I was never quite so in love with my DNA that I thought anyone else ought to share it.
Oh, yeah. Charley is hot and the kid is beyond cute. I’m going to have to go now because you dads do something pretty crazy to me and I need to fan myself. Night, guys.
@Mama: You devious…
Perv: Your daughter is awfully advanced, being able to hold her head up like that and smile! At 10 weeks? Very nice. She is terribly cute, as well! My, you have a long road ahead of you, buddy. Looooonnnnngggg road. Saddle up and holster your guns.
TRC: One day, your child will realize you put a picture of her sitting on the toilet on the internet, and you will pay. Oh, you better get ready for a long road, too, buddy. Of course, my son is probably very happy that I don’t know how use my scanner or upload pictures even if I did, otherwise, his naked ass would be up here, too. I figure I’ll save those for when girls start coming over here and I need to embarrass him.
@River: Nice. I like to read in the bathroom, too, but I’m not that cute when I do.
@Gerbils: Thanks, the guns are ready for the first boy who tries to date her.
I am a Catholic. I have been one most of my life. I say most because there have been times when I questioned my faith and I don’t believe that I was able to make such a decision as a child. I saw this post and my first thought was, “How can a Catholic be anti-Semitic?” The answer is that you can and you can’t. The bible tells us that we are to love one another as we love ourselves. That makes his anti-Semitic thoughts and remarks sinful and until he offers a true, heartfelt confession of them and ceases the behavior, they will remain a stain on his soul that I believe he will have to answer for after his death. I do not get to judge whether his confession, if he ever made one is a true confession, but I can say that I cannot support his past behavior and it appears that he has not had a change of heart. So you can be anti-Semitic, but it is wrong and shouldn’t. If you do, you will have to pay for it. I don’t think he ever will and that is terrible because I think this movie looks pretty good but I won’t go see it.
I also did a little research and learned that MG’s father runs a kooky conspiracy theory website and the reason he moved the family to Australia was to keep his kids out of the draft for Vietnam. He thinks the church has been infiltrated by communists and that the World Trade Center was detonated by remote control. I guess the apple didn’t fall far. They also don’t believe that people who follow the church are Catholic anymore because of the changes made by the purported infiltrators.
Sorry for the lesson but this guy irritates me.
Now, since this post has devolved into baskets, pine cones, decorating and baby pictures, etc. We used to have baskets in the house. Now we only have the baskets that come out at Easter and one that holds all the copies of Architectural Record. Pine cones? Only on the Christmas wreaths.
@Hydroceph: Most of our baskets came from my wife’s mother for the same reason. Fortunately someone who just loved “country cutesy” bought them all at a yard sale.
@Perv: Embrace your inner interior decorator. And take a lot of pictures of that kid. They grow up faster than you would like. And don’t feel bad, I didn’t recognize the Duggars and I looked them up a few weeks ago when the Clown vagina reference was made.
@BookishLookish: Embrace nature, it’s wonderful. Start small. I have never been to it but I hear there is a pretty good park in the middle of NYC, world famous even. (Also, I rethought my answer to you on the Walmart post. I guess I am one of THOSE but she keeps me around because, “You don’t take any of my crap.”)
@BJonston: My parents will pay whatever ransom you want, but keep Mr. Mackey away from me.
@MamaP: If you want to get Mr. P. going, ask him to explain Hofstadter sequences. Just don’t fall asleep while he does. Next time you can have him explain why the concept of zero is so important to mathematics. I am not kidding here.
@Chillbear: I still like Franka Potente. I can’t explain why, I just do m’kay.
@Why: The conversation didn’t devolve. It evolved.
@TRC: did you get my PM?
@Why: Good one. He used to carry Gödel, Escher, Bach around like it was his bible.
@Mama: Yes. Thanks. Unfortunately I “do not have sufficient permissions to access” that page.
@TRC: I don’t have permission to access those either. I think it is because my family is Irish and not Scottish.
Gotcha. So you got the notification, but not the actual message. Send an e-mail to the wordsmoker address at the top left corner and ask Virus to set you up. If you want to, that is.
Whoa! Looks like cheezburger.com decided a picture of a toddler on a toilet was inappropriate? Meh. Gerbils was right, anyway. Rightfully, the picture has disappeared into the infinity of teh internetz.
@TRC: I’m not surprised. I had a similar picture of my daughter and when I went to get prints made at Walgreen’s, I actually showed it to the clerk and asked permission to print it. I did not want to be the mom who got hauled away to jail for pornographic images of a minor even though nothing below the waist really showed. It’s a different world now.
@Mama: I guess, really, there’s a fetishist out there for pretty much everything. Gross.
@TRC: Is your son in school yet? Wait until you start hearing about the weird old men in econoline vans who stalk the schools to see if any kids want rides home. There’s one in our area and for the life of me, I can’t figure out how he keeps getting away.
http://cjonline.com/news/state/2010-02-05/rcpd_man_tries_to_pick_up_kids
@Mama: Daughter. And she’s in a preschool, of sorts. She just turned 2.
I’m seriously (seriously) considering home-schooling.
You have to teach them about the scumbags and what to do if they encounter one. No matter where you live there is at least one near you.
@MamaP: I read the news article and the problem is that he probably did not commit a crime in that instance. There is no doubt in my mind he intends on committing one but unless he is a registered sex offender or on probation his talking to kids is probably not a crime. We get these calls periodically and it is very frustrating. Quite often the children are afraid to tell their parents so we rarely get a timely report and then locating the guy is an entirely different matter. They listed a “possible tag” which means there was something wrong such as it is registered to a different type of vehicle or is not a valid number. If it was valid they would probably have given a name to the media.
@TRC: My wife home schooled ours for one year. I know a lot of home schooled kids and they always seem to be behind the others in social skills. I think it is okay if you join a group that meets so that the kids can interact with one another without you around but they have to learn to interact with others and meet people.
Since we’re sharing pictures of our babies…..
My adopted son:
It didn’t work =(
Ok.
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Ack! Didn’t check back in time to respond. I’m only half-way through, Mama P, so the next little Slicka isn’t due til the end of June. We found out she’s a girl, so we will have two little sisters.
So many adorables posted! Peverseus, she is so dainty and feminine! And that blonde moppet on top is soooooo cute.
To post a pic, it has to be the web somewhere first?
@Slicka: Yes. And apparently, at least for me, a flickr account doesn’t work. There’s a link underneath some of these pics to the website I used – where it says “moar funny pictures.”