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[AugustWest]

Teen Wolf Pug

[theinevitable]

I don't remember the last time an assignment surprised me in a "whoa, this is way easier than I expected" way. Been gathering sources all week for this "preliminary report" on the progress of my term paper, only to find out that what's due is... a list of 4 sources, and 1 page explaining their contents. NICE.

The weather in STL is so nice that it should be illegal. One final push and then a week of spring break, in beautiful Chicago, Illinois.

[littlefallsmets]

[theinevitable]

a story I enjoy is that now on the internet/fourchans, a male-to-female transexual is known as a "trap."
there is now a show on my radio station called "trap talk" which broadcasts audio clips from the video-blogs of self-identified "traps." I thought this was a joke, but apparently it actually happens every week for half an hour.

the story behind this is, you would post a naked picture of an attractive woman, and then when someone was like "OMG so hot, i jacked off" you reply "IT WAS A DUDE, THAT WAS A TRANNY, HAHA, UR A GAY."
And so people started responding to pictures of naked women with admiral ackbar advising all other posters that this woman was, in fact, a trap.

also: today I found out that one of my favorite anthro professors did his senior thesis on his small New England working-class town's minor league baseball team, which was an important part of his childhood before being moved to a more prosperous area.
I had this moment where like, I thought you lived in LA.

[miles]

So if you were rubbing one out to like a video of an attractive lady and then it became apparent that the lady is a man, would you stop? And if you didn't, would you be gay? These are important questions.

[littlefallsmets]

While, in theory, it would be a lesson in the ways that gender and sexuality are more fluid than we might think and that this truth should not challenge who you are and are not?

In practice, perception is reality. haha.

[wombat]

Teen Wolf Pug

Is AW pugging us because he doesn't like where this thread is going?

[miles]

I'm sure he was just doing research.

In Utah recently a Mormon state legislator was forced out of office because of a DUI. There was another man in his car but it was clear there was no hanky panky involved. Another local politician was expressing his disappointment and said something like the only worse thing he could have done to his political career would have been to be caught with a male prostitute. Emphasis on male. I imagine that this is probably true. Utah is so fucked up sometimes. I don't know, but I bet the legislator has a voting record against relaxing liquor laws.

[Choop]

can'd for "pugging"

[Choop]

I'm sure he was just doing research.

In Utah recently a Mormon state legislator was forced out of office because of a DUI. There was another man in his car but it was clear there was no hanky panky involved. Another local politician was expressing his disappointment and said something like the only worse thing he could have done to his political career would have been to be caught with a male prostitute. Emphasis on male. I imagine that this is probably true. Utah is so fucked up sometimes. I don't know, but I bet the legislator has a voting record against relaxing liquor laws.

Utah is always tame compared to California

[theinevitable]

went to a meeting about Gentrification in St Louis that was really stupid.

people wanting to say anything that hurts poor people is "gentrification" when that is a specific word that means a specific thing.
people acting like they were being attacked when they were not being attacked.
having to sit on the floor for over an hour while people yelled, and I could not see who was yelling, and it was obvious they just were using the same words to mean different things.
and at one point the moderator tried to be like, this is not a meeting about racism in st louis, it is a meeting about gentrification, can we stay on topic. but, no.

then I went to this place down the street that I am doing a research project on. My friend introduced me and was like, HEY, THIS IS DB, HE IS WRITING A PAPER ON YOU GUYS! Way to make that less awkward, dude.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Dude I went to A-CAP gentrification hearings. The economics of "no one else is renting this building and we want to 100% FILL it every year with kids who spend stupid money on local business never set in.

[theinevitable]

This was especially frustrating because this one guy just... could not stop saying things in ways that rubbed people completely the wrong way.
No one can argue with, you know, I am a nice dude and I like my neighbors and this is where I could afford to buy a house that is near my job, and like, I'm not being a dick here, I fixed up an old house and now it is worth more.
But then he has to be like, making these weird statements that it was easy to misunderstand as "everyone should live in the kind of neighborhood I want them to live in."

also people getting all defensive about the current state of north St Louis, which is like getting defensive about the state of your house right after half of it burned down. Or... some better metaphor.
It was like, no, I do not think people moving in and renovating houses that have been abandoned for 5 years is "gentrification." or if it is, it is not the kind that should make you get all mad.
Yes, maybe your neighborhood would benefit from there being a grocery store there. I don't know, people are on edge because of this current development crap that is going on there where this guy has basically acted like a 1930's radio drama capitalist, all buying up land with various companies to hide that it was really all him, all evicting people just to leave the house rotting for 10 years, all announcing that he is going to basically bulldoze a huge portion of the city and build all new stuff, and how DARE the citizens of that area be upset, it's HIS PROPERTY.

[AugustWest]

... finally get the raise I was promised back in October.  Hurrah!

[greenkoolayd]

90 types of bitches