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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
The words do not have to be perfect.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.
Republicans in disarray!
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
I was promised a recession.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
Republicans do not pay their debts.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.
Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.
cleek
a Turing statue passes the canine Turing test !
stuckinred
Up in Boone NC and Lil Bit just snatched a deviled egg off the counter. I little cocker and I whacked her on the ass as hard as I could and she didn’t flinch!
bkny
that was funny. doggie needs a clue…
jeff
Cute dog. Not too bright, though.
scav
Actually, think about it. That dog has got to be cluing after shape alone because there’s not much else left. No smell, no color, no movement/behavior — that’s rather interesting.
gnomedad
Just curious — how’d you ID the statue as Turing?
Jay C
The poor dog – he just wanted to play! I hope whoever was filming this at least tossed the stick for him once or twice….
freelancer
@gnomedad:
Here ya go.
Citizen_X
Danged computer nerrds don’t wanna play fetch.
And isn’t that a border collie? I thought they were supposed to be the smart dogs.
Mary
Yeah….my border collie would do the exact same thing. Sigh. Neurotic dogs are the worst.
SiubhanDuinne
I love the way the camera shakes ’cause the guy is laughing so hard.
ABL
@freelancer: my favorite bit: “He is sitting on a bench situated in a central position in the park. On Turing’s left is the University of Manchester and on his right is Manchester’s gay village.”
JGabriel
My favorite bit is when the dog tries to give him a stick. Po’ statue of dead Alan Turing lets the stick drop to the ground, and the pup picks it up and tries again.
Definitely a very friendly dog.
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MikeJ
If you haven’t seen a close up of the statue, it does look as if he’s holding a ball. Actually an apple, but I can see how a dog might get confused.
Brain Hertz
Our dog is rather like that, except with a tennis ball. She will bring any visitor a tennis ball and drop it at their feet. If they don’t pay attention, she’ll pick it up and drop it at their feet again.
Her best is trying to persuade a firework to play. I mean, a ground based firework emitting a big cloud of sparks continuously for 20 seconds or so. The dog’s reaction was to find a tennis ball and repeatedly drop it in front of the “visitor”. I have no idea what that’s about.
debg
This is just wonderful. Animals are great.
OT–check out Slate’s photoessay on feline military units. It’s fabulously silly.
colleeniem
@stuckinred: I was just near Boone for Merlefest! Great part of the country, says I. For the music and geography…maybe not so for the politics.
MAJeff
Is that the simple dog from Hyperbole and a Half?
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/04/wild-animal-simple-dog-goes-for-joy.html
Bill Murray
@MAJeff: Allie Brosh is so great. I hope she gets her book out in record time.
Ken
Seems to be a bit of philosophical difference there. Somewhat disappointed the dog didn’t ‘lift its leg’ on the statue.
Doc
That makes no sense – dogs have a good sense of smell. I can’t believe the dog thinks that statue is for reelz. But then again, there can be a range of IQ…
cleek
@colleeniem:
hey now. NC voted for Obama!
ABL
@MAJeff: Allie Brosh is hands down the funniest woman on the internets.
TaMara (BHF)
One of my dogs was obsessed with TV and would bark at dogs on TV, including Dino on the Flintstones. How she figured out that was a “dog” I’ll never know.