Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Consistently wrong since 2002

Please don’t feed the bears.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

It’s a doggy dog world.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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  7. 7.

    Gatchaman

    @Gypsy Howell:

    Interview question: As an online marketing coordinator, can you tell me one way that you enhanced your brand’s online presence?

  8. 8.

    A Humble Lurker

    You know, you can be fired for tweeting SO MUCH LESS than that. Unless this thing was hacked, you have to TRY to be that friggin’ stupid.

  10. 10.

    jl

    The link seems safe for work, unless you click where it says ‘click if you dare’ (paraphrase). Which I will do later, merely out of curiosity, mind you, to see whether my salacious guess is correct.

    Cole seems expert at a certain kind of web surfing. I never find stuff like this.

  11. 11.

    Thoughtcrime

    Please remember that although we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we’ll never run out of T-W-A-Tea.

  14. 14.

    Hunter Gathers

    Where did this idiot get their degree? The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good?

  19. 19.

    ruemara

    Well. I’ll make a note of this in my list of things to not do on twitters while at work.

  22. 22.

    Gatchaman

    @A Humble Lurker:

    Oh no you don’t. I do a lot of consulting for marketing teams, and generally the people handling the social media functions are either interns or right out of college. I am not saying they are dumb – there is just very little recognition of what is private, public, or generally unacceptable.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    The notes at the bottom of the Buzzfeed article explain a lot:

    • The photo was actually tweeted at the airline earlier today.
    • The photo was also trending on Reddit’s very NSFW shock imageboard Spacedicks last week.
    • The graphic picture is originally from a German-language amateur porn and shock site.

  26. 26.

    jl

    @Baud:

    ” German-language amateur porn and shock site. ”

    Really? OTHO, maybe I won’t click later. I guess that stuff is big reading among the social media director set.

  30. 30.

    Citizen_X

    @Gatchaman:

    there is just very little recognition of what is private, public, or generally unacceptable.

    (Having seen the image) are there people that are really that unaware?

  34. 34.

    JGabriel

    @ericblair:

    Somebody hacked their account?

    US Airways is still investigating, but so far it appears to be an inside job rather than external hackers.

  37. 37.

    chopper

    @Gatchaman:

    Mr. McGuire: I just want to say two words to you. Just two words.
    Benjamin: Yes, sir.
    Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
    Benjamin: Yes, I am.
    Mr. McGuire: Vagina planes.
    Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?

  38. 38.

    Thoughtcrime

    @jl:

    Let’s just say it’s a way of showing the passenger where they could stick their delayed plane.

  44. 44.

    Mandalay

    O/T a bit, but any lawyers here?….Assuming that this wasn’t a hacker (i.e. an employee did it), could US Airways do anything beyond firing the jackass? Has any crime potentially been committed?

  45. 45.

    kindness

    @SatanicPanic: Customer service at US Airways was talking to an unhappy camper. The US Airways rep helped them and then linked a pic with the tweet which is now viral. Let us just say that if you can park an airliner in there I want no part of it no matter how drunk I might get.

  47. 47.

    JPL

    @Mandalay: If stupidity were a crime, they would have to build new prisons.
    All I can think of is that US Airways doesn’t have porn sites blocked and the person clicked the wrong box.

    I’m not a lawyer though..

  48. 48.

    KG

    @Mandalay: crime? not likely, unless the person in the picture was underage. probably some unlawful things done – technical copyright violation; violation of the twitter terms of service which would technically be a breach of contract. that’s off the top of my head.

  52. 52.

    Hawes

    @Mandalay: “Police are investigating yet another brutal assault on Goodtaste and Civility. Both are in critical condition having been repeatedly beaten senseless by modern culture, Fox News and, now, US Airways. Authorities are hesitant to label it a hate crime, but they have not ruled anything out.”

  56. 56.

    Mandalay

    @JPL:

    If stupidity were a crime, they would have to build new prisons.

    Sure, but what if the employee who did it was malicious rather than careless?

    If a disgruntled employee deliberately crashed the US Airways web site, or deleted important data, then they would probably end up in court. But if a disgruntled employee willfully posts that image there’s nothing US Airways can do beyond firing the poster?

  57. 57.

    Baud

    @Mandalay:

    If a disgruntled employee deliberately crashed the US Airways web site, or deleted important data, then they would probably end up in court.

    Those would involve destruction of property. Nothing like that here.

  58. 58.

    r€nato

    I’m thinking what happened was the social media person was, stupidly, browsing inappropriate sites with work computer (or working from home and logged in with personal computer). Copied and pasted inappropriate link to someone, then went back to “work” and fumbled the copy part, pasted the old URL from clipboard, and went to lunch. Took 22 minutes until it was taken down…

  59. 59.

    satby

    So a part of my misspent youth was as a photo inspector at a processing plant, the one in the Midwest that did K-mart’s and other retail stores before they all had mini-processors installed. Middle America had a real fondness for parking all sorts of stuff in their privates and photographically recording the creativity. I’ve seen worse.

  60. 60.

    Jim C.

    To lazy to read all of the comments to see if this one has been done or not yet:

    “So that’s where the missing Malaysian 777 is! Let’s get a CNN crew on location right away.”

  63. 63.

    eemom

    An airplane penetrating a v*gina? That IS what we are talking about here, right?

    Not gonna click, but this ain’t exactly rocket science.

  66. 66.

    jl

    @Baud:

    ” You know what surprises me? That this didn’t happen to the RNC.”

    GOP is just started a new chapter of ts outreach to women with news that 100 and 50 years ago, they were pioneers in getting women elected to office. So, give them a few weeks. OK? Impatience is rampant among the BJ commentariate.

    Blackburn: GOP ‘Led The Fight For Women’s Equality’

    “It is Republicans that have led the fight for women’s equality. Go back through history, and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress, four out of five governors.”

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/blackburn-gop-supports-equality

    Edit: to be fair, I think 4 of 5 governors is now, but still, she is arguing against any further efforts at equal pay, along with trolling using incorrect analysis of WH salaries (which the GOP BSers would whine about if used against them… well in fact they have whined about the sloppy analysis they use for the WH when it is turned against their position.)

    Edit2: Oh, I apologize for using ‘political blackface’ against reactionaries… I am truly sorry.

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    Maybe that “I’m landing in Africa, I hope I don’t get AIDS” lady landed a job at US Airways?

  69. 69.

    Baud

    @jl:

    And Lincoln was a Republican and the Democrats enforced Jim Crow. A shout out to history only works if your current actions are consistent with that history.

  73. 73.

    r€nato

    @Baud: ” You know what surprises me? That this didn’t happen to the RNC.”

    The RNC puts the government in your vagina, not airplanes.

  76. 76.

    JPL

    @Mandalay: This statement was on USA Today…

    “Our investigation has determined that the image was initially posted to our Twitter feed by another user. We captured the tweet to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer,” Miller said.

  81. 81.

    mike with a mic

    @mike with a mic:

    Not off hand but…

    The RNC (or similar) put out a tweet to fax them your name if you want to Repeal Obamacare, and they bragged they had a webcamera pointed at it so people could see all the names of people who hated Obamacare. It worked out about as well as you could expect. But Weedlord Boner Hitler wanted to repeal Obamacare.

  82. 82.

    mike with a mic

    @mike with a mic:

    Not off hand but…

    The RNC (or similar) put out a tweet to fax them your name if you want to Repeal Obamacare, and they bragged they had a webcamera pointed at it so people could see all the names of people who hated Obamacare. It worked out about as well as you could expect. But Weedlord Boner Hitler wanted to repeal Obamacare.

  85. 85.

    Roger Moore

    @Citizen_X:

    (Having seen the image) are there people that are really that unaware?

    My guess is that somebody was trying to message for work with one program and personally with another and accidentally pasted a personal link into a work tweet. It’s the kind of mistake you make when you’re multi-tasking.

  86. 86.

    kc

    The best part was the text in the tweet. Something like, “You can address your concerns here” – to a complaining customer.

  87. 87.

    Mandalay

    @JPL: Ah. Well that explanation is certainly the best (least harmful?) outcome from the perspective of US Airways, and is certainly plausible.

    Whether it is actually the truth is another matter of course.

  88. 88.

    Schlemizel

    gawddam, I have had a really shitty day & a lot of physical issue today, I was wondering how much longer I could go on. I have now laughed so hard I cried for a good 10 minutes and feel like a human again. John, you and US Scareways may have saved a life tonight. Thank you all to hell.

  89. 89.

    mike with a mic

    @Baud:

    That wasn’t the worst thing that came out of the machine, by far. I just remember that because of the glee from a trouble causing online forum I post on off and on, I know the guy who sent that one.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    @JPL:
    OF COURSE I CLICKED! Even knowing what was going to be there. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t resist. The comments are comedy gold

  94. 94.

    Baud

    BTW, the Buzzfeed headline:

    US Airways Just Tweeted Out One Of The Most Graphic Things You’ve Ever Seen A Brand Tweet

    Um….anyone know what the others were?

  98. 98.

    The Other Bob

    @Jim C.:

    To lazy to read all of the comments to see if this one has been done or not yet:

    “So that’s where the missing Malaysian 777 is! Let’s get a CNN crew on location right away.”

    I came here to post this very thing, but was thinking of making a comment about it being lost in shallower waters.

  100. 100.

    Baud

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, Oh big ol’ jet airliner
    Don’t carry me too far away
    Oh, Oh big ol’ jet airliner
    Cause it’s here that I’ve got to stay

  101. 101.

    JGabriel

    @satby:

    Middle America had a real fondness for parking all sorts of stuff in their privates and photographically recording the creativity. I’ve seen worse.

    Republicanz Iz Weird.

  102. 102.

    max

    @Cermet: I did and you can’t; evil against woman and frankly, sick porn.

    OK, that’s a bit much. Goatsex.se kids, goatsex.se.

    @SatanicPanic: Uh, for those of us who can’t click on the link, can we get a description of what happened?

    Model airplane is used as dildo with wings in poorly lit picture.

    @Violet: It’s Aer Lingus.

    WIN!

    max
    [‘Two girls, one model airplane.’]

  104. 104.

    JGabriel

    @WaterGirl:

    I didn’t click the link, but my best guess is that someone tried to land that plane in the wrong runway.

    And they’re never gonna find your luggage.

  105. 105.

    some guy

    another day, another chemical weapons attack by our al Qaeda allies in Syria. go Team Jihad, those civilians you just gassed probably had it coming, what with being secular and all. and if not secular, they were most likely infidels. score another successful chemical weapons attack by our allies!

  106. 106.

    eemom

    @EriktheRed:

    a rocket would have likely gone in easier.
    (or at least deeper)

    thx….couldn’t think how to do it, but knew there was more mileage, haw haw, to be gotten with “rocket.”

  111. 111.

    Liberty60

    @mike with a mic:

    The RNC (or similar) put out a tweet to fax them your name if you want to Repeal Obamacare

    Seriously? They asked ppl to FAX them?

    Why not reply to a direct mail 3×5 card? I thought it was just their POLICIES that were from the wrong century, not their technology!

  114. 114.

    Pogonip

    @The Dangerman: If I hadn’t already awarded today’s Internets to Mustang Bobby, you’d be the winner. We’ll send yours tomorrow.

    Would you like them shipped by air?

  116. 116.

    Eric U.

    the tweet is hyper-realism, although I have the feeling of being violated more often when I’m flying delta

  117. 117.

    NotMax

    There used to be an ad campaign for some brand of maxi-pad which stressed “It has wings.”

  118. 118.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I debated about whether or not to add a smiley face. Decided you guys would know I was joking.

    ::pouting:: (but only a little)

  119. 119.

    mike with a mic

    @Liberty60:

    It was either a fax machine or a printer they set up just to print out everything that came in. They got trolled to hell and back and everything that came through was pretty crazy.

    http://gawker.com/5916751/gop-trolled-by-weedlord-bonerhitler-in-online-healthcare-petition-stunt

    Printer on second look, it was a while ago. There was another fiasco with a fax though. I’ve lost track of the amount of stupid, but they keep trying shit like this and they never seem to grasp that the internet is wretched hive scum and villainy.

  120. 120.

    Eric k

    @r€nato: @r€nato:

    It said that was tweeted at them earlier, my guess is another of their many unhappy customers (Most airlines suck, but as the national carriers go US Air is in a class of their own for suckitude) tweeted that at them and the PR person meant to send it to their boss or coworkers with a note about what customers are sending them and accidentally sent it to their entire twitter feed

  124. 124.

    WaterGirl

    Here’s what I can’t figure out. Why would anyone show their face in that photo?

  125. 125.

    Violet

    @WaterGirl: It’s pr0n. Faces aren’t usually hidden in pr0n. Although there’s probably a fetish subgenre where faces are hidden.

  126. 126.

    Roger Moore

    @WaterGirl:

    Why would anyone show their face in that photo?

    Maybe it was intended for a loved one with a strange fetish. Or maybe they get paid more if their face is showing. Or maybe they’re an exhibitionist and get pleasure from knowing people are watching. People are weird.

  133. 133.

    Cassidy

    I’ve never flown skies that friendly. I thought Singapore Airlines with complimentary liquor in coach was the best, but the bar has been raised.

  135. 135.

    OldDave

    NHL Goalie Roberto Luongo wins the Twiterverse Intertubes with this:

    The key to a great business is all about product placement…… Am I right @USAirways ?

  136. 136.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Yeah, that part was fun. (And I wasn’t really pouting.)

    @ Everyone else who answered about showing her face in the photo:

    r€nato said:
    The lady in question had her legs up in the air and was showing everything. EVERYTHING.

    Seriously, that can’t have been her best side, so to speak. I can only imagine how low your opinion of yourself has to be before you think making that photo public is a fine idea. No friends? No family? No job? Never mind, I’m probably overthinking it.

  137. 137.

    Waynski

    Give me a ticket for an air-o-plane
    Ain’t got time to take a fast train
    Lonely days are gone, I’m a goin’ home
    My baby, she sent me a twitter

  138. 138.

    Roger Moore

    @WaterGirl:

    before you think making that photo public is a fine idea.

    Are you sure making the photo public was her idea? There’s a lot of stuff out on the internet that was originally intended for private use but that was published without consent.

    No friends? No family? No job?

    Maybe that is your job, and your friends and family know about it. It does actually happen.

  139. 139.

    bago

    Hahaha. One of the guys at wonkette changed his online nym to Weedlord BonerHitler after that.

  140. 140.

    Violet

    That plane’s in the Danger Zone.

    Headin’ into twilight
    Spreadin’ out her wings tonight
    She got you jumpin’ off the deck
    And shovin’ into overdrive

    Highway to the Danger Zone
    I’ll take you
    Right into the Danger Zone

  141. 141.

    WaterGirl

    @Roger Moore: Okay, I’ll give you that.

    Somewhere out there is a Polaroid of me in my 20s wearing only a pair of hiking boots. (Getting ready for a trip with my partner, trying on my boots, lots of laughter, you had to be there.)

    Hopefully that will never be my 15 minutes of fame.

    Edit: Note to self… always stay on good terms with ex-lovers.

  142. 142.

    Violet

    @WaterGirl:

    Note to self… always stay on good terms with ex-lovers.

    Yeah, no kidding. I’ve read about situations where some ex-boyfriend puts naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend up on the internet. That sort of thing is horrible. Once the picture is taken it’s out of your control. You just have to hope the other person/people who have access to it are kind and decent people, not the kind who would do something like that.

  147. 147.

    PaulW

    @JGabriel:

    OT, but kind of worth pointing out. From Think Progress: Wisconsin Republican Committee Votes To Uphold ‘Wisconsin’s Right… To Secede’
    That’s the GOP for you: So patriotic, they can’t wait to leave, and so cheap, they won’t even pay for a flight out.

    Considering Wisconsin was a state that FOUGHT for Union back in the War Against Southern Stupidity, this is telling everyone just how deep and how perverse that Southern Strategy has overtaken the entire Republican Party. Thanks a bunch, Richard Nixon, the gift that keeps on giving…

  148. 148.

    worn

    @satby: Oh Lord, the memory you just dislodged…

    One of my college buddies was assigned a random roommate at the start of our sophomore year at Clemson. I forget what the guy’s name was but he hailed from somewhere just inland from Myrtle Beach (Conway, I think) and as such very much lacked a certain refinement of character. His job all through high school had been working at the local Fotomat. And as a result, he had several shoeboxes full of the most poorly lit & posed, yet exceptionally graphic, sex acts you’ve ever seen. He just loved to fish out those boxes and pass them around later in evenings after many beers had been consumed. It was my understanding that for every naughty picture he processed a double was made for his stash.

    So yeah, I can second that folks in the heartland do greatly enjoy explorations in topology. At least back in the 80’s.

  151. 151.

    satby

    @Roger Moore: yes. And there is a subset that gets off on knowing strangers will see their homemade porn.
    What used to be a bit odd was that there’d be family pictures (birthdays, Christmas, vacation, etc) on the same roll. So common that it stopped being creepy (as long as it was consenting adults. The other stuff went straight to the cops.)

  153. 153.

    BruinKid

    Why, oh why, did @midnight have to go on break this week along with Jon and Stephen?? This is comedy gold! That and the Deadspin link have soooooo many good puns as a result of this.

  154. 154.

    WaterGirl

    @BruinKid: Warning: before you click, the link above at 153 contains the uncensored photo.

    Pretty tacky of you, BruinKid, to post that without warning.

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