“For example, if a white guy uses a word like canard or vicissitude, and subsequently draws dirty looks and/or furrowed brows from other males, he needs to quickly be able to find common ground by talking about the local sporting team and/or degrading women.”
—on martha’s vineyard
January 2011
“At some point, most white people consider starting or actually start a blog.”
—same guy-he can write!
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The twenty five hour journey from Boston provided more than enough time for me to doubt my choice to come to Korea, and the closer I got the more dubious it seemed. Now, standing on a frenetic street corner in Seoul, struggling to get my bearings among the onslaught of foreign sights, sounds and smells, I must concede I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into.
“Please, your come inside me.” says Jean.
No idea at all.
” —engrish, heartless and funny
“After this, you will be in the capable hands of your carefully-trained waiter. If you wish, he will prepare a Caesar Salad for you at the tableside, finally serving the crisp, tasty greens with a chilled fork to make the experience perfect**.”
—disney world 1979. creepy.
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“One of the key ways that we’ll measure success of Windows Phone is did we ship a phone people love,” he said, pointing to its customer satisfaction data that said that 93 percent of early customers are “satisfied” or “very satisfied,” adding, “That’s a really great number.”
Translation: Not selling well at all.
” —gruber
“One thing that may concern users is that there will be notifications that a message has been sponsored and users will not be able to opt out of it. The messages will be clearly labelled and won’t display for non-friends, but some may still feel it’s an invasion of privacy to sell their messages as advertisements.”
—may?
“Tea Party GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann thinks founding fathers ended slavery”
—could we just shoot me now.
“We Now Trust CEOs More Than “Folks Like Me,” but the U.S. Is Low on Trust”
—first part: insanity (stupidity?), second: only makes sense
“… she watched television— it was CNN in fact — and the fact that she was able to do that for about an hour, in terms of attention span, they were pretty excited about that,”
—cnn? my god, gifford’s doing better than i am!
“Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs.”
—matt again. ooh he can write.
“What we had instead was a nation of reality shoppers, all shutting the blinds on the loathsome old common landscape to tinker with their own self-tailored and in some cases highly paranoid recipes for salvation and/or revolution.”
—matt tabbai, on the great derangement
“Without Mr. Taibbi, the world would never have known to compare Goldman Sachs to a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
—new york observer
“I can’t say I was surprised by a single Wikileak … they all seemed so deja vu and utterly timeless, as if they could have been intercepted letters, hand-written by Napoleon-in-exile to his cohorts on the mainland.”
—great line, sylvia paull
“Michael Dell has cautioned about the importance of the founder not creating a religion around himself or herself …”
—hello? this is a danger with michael *dell* ?
“If and when he returns to an active role, Apple would benefit from Jobs giving more of the limelight to the best talents.”
—oh, right. like he gives a fuck what you think, newsweek.
“Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm is named for him …”
—i thought it was because it ranks your *page* … didn’t you?
“I’m probably not the best person in the world to shepherd it to a five- or ten-billion-dollar company, which I think is probably its destiny.”
—steve again, 1985.
“I would have been there a period of time, and maybe I would have gone off and done something else to contribute, but connected with Apple, and then maybe come back and stay for a lengthy time period and then go off and do something else. But it’s just not going to work out that way.”
—teh steve, 1985. never say never.
“You must pay for everything in this world one way or another,” says Mattie. “There is nothing free except the grace of God.”
—true grit
