I have a client John that sells benefit plans. One of the benefits is pet care. Insurance for your pet. I was like you might want to promote that benefit. He said to me, they are just animals. I then said clearly you don’t have a pet do you? I do and most people I know do and we’d give our right hand to ensure they live a long life and are with us. He seemed confused by this. I was confused he was confused.
I don’t even have a pet, and I need a tissue after seeing that.
7.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I know John talks a lot about his pets. I could talk about mine for hours and hours. This is just my experience, but you bring a pet into your home. Another living thing. A thing with a personality and they have a distant personality, it is a game changer.
8.
Comrade Mary
Damn straight she gets to sleep on the couch! I loved this.
9.
kindness
Awwwww! Happy.
10.
Tommy
@Comrade Mary: Let just be honest, sleeping in the bed with him and his girlfriend. The few times I have house sat for my brother, his dog always comes into bed. I asked my brother when you and your wife are in bed, does your …. and I didn’t even get it out, yes Murphy sleeps with us. He jokes it is why they have a king sized bed.
11.
Pogonip
Look at that tail go!
May they live happily ever after. And I hope he has some kids for that dog to play with.
12.
Pogonip
@Tommy: We had a betta who had a personality. He liked my son. When I walked up to the tank he didn’t pay much attention, unless it was feeding time, but if my son walked up to the tank George would always swim up to say Hi. Here’s a creature with a brain the size of a pollen grain, but he had likes and mehs.
@Tommy: Insurance helped me pay for King’s chemo. Because they paid “usual and customary” rates for procedures, I usually only recovered about 50% of what I paid for any given treatment, but it helped.
17.
muddy
My dogs are passed out in exhaustion. I had a friend over helping me clean, she brought her kids. These dogs don’t usually get kids. The kids don’t have their own dog, and were very taken with making the dogs go on and off the porch, and closing the gate behind them. Over and over and over the dogs loved it.
I was reminded why my son was little and his dog was so well trained because he ordered the dog around constantly. Nice to get someone below you on the totem pole. The dog never tired of it. Get up, get down, get up etc.
People post dog-reunion videos on Facebook, on blogs … and I watch them. I don’t mean I watch some of them — I mean I watch ALL of them. They’re a reminder of how happy my dog makes me, and how happy I make her. Then we have our own reunion, which, admittedly, doesn’t thrill her all that much because often as not she’s about six feet away and asleep.
It’s funny, I thought of you when they showed this on the local (Chicago) news the other night. Great story – I teared up.
25.
PurpleGirl
@Tommy: When I pet sat for my friends in Peekskill, I sometimes slept in their bed (a California King). Sharing it with Hugo the Doberman was one thing, but if any of Grayhounds decided to join us it was very much more crowded. Hugo at least would pull his legs up to his chest or sleep in a loaf position. The Grayhounds slept with their legs straight out.
I’m happy the Sgt. and the doggy are reunited. The doggy will have a much better retirement now. (And he deserves it.)
You know what I love about dogs? You get that same reaction from them whether you’ve been gone for one hour or one year.
27.
Long Tooth
Off topic…
WAY TO GO… the decent souls at Rutgers, who called out Rice for being the war criminal she is. That, in turn, led to the war criminal bowing out as the university’s commencement speaker. Net loss Rice– $35,000.
Dawwww. All these stories of veterans being reunited with their dogs just warm my cold little heart.
31.
Howard Beale IV
@Southern Beale: My cat doesn’t get as excited as a dog would, but he gets very happy when I come back form a long trip.
32.
MazeDancer
Humans – so not worthy of dogs. This said by someone with 3 cats and no pups. With wet things also flecking the eyes from watching that vid.
Yay, to that nice Vet getting his dog back!!!!
33.
Calming Influence
I’d just like to mention that the Mariners just added 8 runs in the 7th in Houston. Sweet.
34.
Yatsuno
@Calming Influence: The sad thing is they could do that and still be losing.
35.
mai naem
Nobody watching the WHCD? PBO is about to go on.
36.
Jay C
I saw this on the network news yesterday, and thought it was one of the nicest pieces I’ve seen in a long time: you just KNOW that this is a “war story” with a happy ending: seeing that tail wagging furiously, you know this is a tale that will end well. For once.
“@USATODAY: Obama: “Let’s face it FOX, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. It’ll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.””
45.
raven
“What if ACA gave MItch McConnell a pulse”?
46.
Anya
POTUS is really brutal this year. The hacks are afraid to lough.
47.
cckids
“Republicans are still refusing to extend unemployment benefits, and I understand their point. After all, if people want to get paid for not working, they should run for Congress like everyone else.”
48.
lamh36
President Obama has no more fuck to give!!!
“@TheObamaDiary: President Obama: “I’m feeling sorry for Boehner, House Republicans are giving him a harder time than me…. orange really is the new black.””
49.
Anya
OMH! Joke about wingers facination with Putin’s bare chest
I couldn’t believe half the jokes he told tonight. Just expect major right-wing poutrage.
53.
Tommy
@lamh36: Kind of happy you mentioned this. For most of my adult life I’ve never known a 5 day, 40 hour work week. Closer to seven days and like 60+. I am a white collar guy. The people I know are as well. We often have advance degrees. We’re interconnected and just work.
I say this cause as you noted those in Congress work less then anybody I know. I’ve been meaning to set up on my Outlook calendar when Congress is in session, cause it seems more times then not they are not at FUCKING WORK.
I am too lazy to Google it, but what are they making like $125,000/year and they go to work like 1 day out of ten?
54.
Baud
Joel McHale is angry.
55.
Anya
Joel Mchale is making them feel uncomfortable. I am not finding him funny though.
@Anya: this bit on Fox and Friends…killed the pic is what did it
AJ (@AlisaJass)
5/3/14, 9:31 PM
“I got grief for Between Two Ferns…to be fair, I’m not the 1st person to tv between 2 potted plants” – Obama #WHCD pic.twitter.com/RxjbqX7TLp
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58.
Anya
McHale is being mean to the republicans
59.
lamh36
Liberal Librarian @Lib_Librarian
We have reached the “I’m gonna mock all you fuckers” phase of the Obama presidency.
9:31 PM – 3 May 2014
@Tommy: I know the rules for the House changed when the Republicans took over, they shortened the number of days worked; in 2014 it will be 113. Total.
And they make $174,000.
BTW, 6 years straight and no comedian has been able to follow Obama and slay the crowd. A poor McHale, he said Letterman told him to not take the job…he should have listened to Letterman
68.
raven
Killin Wolf.
69.
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne and I are both still sick. Though with the amount coming out at both ends, I guess I should say we are ICK. Ugh.
Yeah. This wasn’t Obama’s best, but he’s always better than the comedian.
73.
Honus
One of the saddest things I ever read about the Vietnam war, I think it was in Dispatches, was about shooting the war dogs guys had worked with for years during the evacuation because they couldn’t take them out. Those dogs were shepherds which are some of the bravest and most loyal and protective dogs I’ve known.
74.
lamh36
@Baud: I think this was “I am no longer up for re-election” Obama and so it was more SHADE than funny haha, but still better than poor Joel McHale
75.
Anya
@Baud: McHail’s jokes will make POTUS seem like he’s Richard Pryor. Also, too, I think all the outrage will be directed at him. The audiance looks really angry at him.
76.
WaterGirl
Wow, this comedian is so bad that I finally turned it off.
I thought Obama was good and I liked the bite in his jokes, but I thought the Kathleen Sebelius thing at the end was kind of lame. I like the idea of what he tried to do, but I thought it fell flat.
The bit had a bunch of technical hiccups. Not his best, but not bad.
80.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I thought the technical difficulties during the Sebelius thing were part of the bit – technical problems like the ACA and only Kathleen could fix them.
@cckids: From time to time here I rant about my town, in a good way. We have a new $60M high school. My town of 8,700 has a fiber optics backbone. Every public building directly wired. Heck we have and are in the process of building more parks. The goal, openly said in a city council meeting, is that anybody ought to not have to walk more then 4 blocks in any direction and not encounter a park.
Now when I mention this I don’t explain how it happened. It happened cause we hired a city manager. See no elected official in my town figured they could run it well. Not even their full time job. So we hired somebody that had experience running a government/city/town. Funny thing, next you know the town is run well.
I say this cause I don’t even know if we need anybody in DC/Congress running things at this point.
That part was intentional, but the timing seemed off.
84.
Anya
@lamh36: I agree. POTUS was throwing some serious shade.
@WaterGirl: I thought he wanted to thank Sebelius one more time.
@Baud: We can always count of them to whine about how mean spirited and un-presidential he was, blah, blah, blah..
85.
SiubhanDuinne
Gotta admit I have never heard of Joe McHale. And from what I heard tonight, I’m not surprised. It wasn’t the funniest I have ever heard from the POTUS, but he was orders of magnitude funnier than the headliner.
86.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: the tech glitches were on purpose it was in reference to all the ACA website glitches coverage
87.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Your link didn’t work, but I googled. And now I have to disagree with what you said. Some of his stuff was a little sharp, but I didn’t think it reflected badly on him. I was kind of glad to see him skewer the idiots for all the idiotic stuff they do.
88.
Suzanne
@raven: THAT is TMI on a site featuring a not-insignificant amount of discussion on ass-shaving?
89.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: not the meaning of shade that you are referencing and that much of google referenced. sorry the link doesn’t work.
also to be honest of you didn’t already know what “throwing shade” means, no link or urban slang dictionary definition will help to explain.
but believe me when I tell POTUS was throwing epic shade Fox News & WHPC way. just with an an abundance of wit to conceal some of the bite
Sorry you are all sick. Congratulations, by the way, on passing your final test and being an architect. I was way late to the thread when it happened, so my good wishes are a bit belated.
91.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: The urban dictionary defined throwing shade as:
to talk trash about a friend or aquaintance, to publicly denounce or disrespect. When throwing shade it’s immediately obvious to on-lookers that the thrower, and not the throwee, is the bitcy, uncool one
To me, that does not describe the president tonight.
92.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: please don’t use urban dictionary as way to define urban terms…it’s like Wikipedia, anyone can edit that shhh anyway they like.
9x out of 10…urban dictionary is just bullshit.
But let’s just move on from the subject of “shade”
93.
Anya
@WaterGirl: Throwing shade is telling someone off in a subtle way.
My favorite thing about googling that phrase was the number of links I found where people were saying that other people were using “throwing shade” wrong!
95.
Calming Influence
@efgoldman: I’d just like to mention that the Mariners just added 8 runs in the 7th in Houston.
Not impressed. Beating Houston is like beating your seven-year-old at chess.
Yeah, 9-8. It turned into a bit of a silly slap-fest, or as the Seattle announcer called it, “…a softball score game.”
trollhattan
Awwwww.
Tinare
Nice!
Tinare
Nice!
jenn
Yay :*)
Tommy
I have a client John that sells benefit plans. One of the benefits is pet care. Insurance for your pet. I was like you might want to promote that benefit. He said to me, they are just animals. I then said clearly you don’t have a pet do you? I do and most people I know do and we’d give our right hand to ensure they live a long life and are with us. He seemed confused by this. I was confused he was confused.
rikyrah
I don’t even have a pet, and I need a tissue after seeing that.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I know John talks a lot about his pets. I could talk about mine for hours and hours. This is just my experience, but you bring a pet into your home. Another living thing. A thing with a personality and they have a distant personality, it is a game changer.
Comrade Mary
Damn straight she gets to sleep on the couch! I loved this.
kindness
Awwwww! Happy.
Tommy
@Comrade Mary: Let just be honest, sleeping in the bed with him and his girlfriend. The few times I have house sat for my brother, his dog always comes into bed. I asked my brother when you and your wife are in bed, does your …. and I didn’t even get it out, yes Murphy sleeps with us. He jokes it is why they have a king sized bed.
Pogonip
Look at that tail go!
May they live happily ever after. And I hope he has some kids for that dog to play with.
Pogonip
@Tommy: We had a betta who had a personality. He liked my son. When I walked up to the tank he didn’t pay much attention, unless it was feeding time, but if my son walked up to the tank George would always swim up to say Hi. Here’s a creature with a brain the size of a pollen grain, but he had likes and mehs.
Ash Can
What a great story!
S. cerevisiae
Makes me want to go give Bella (my GSD) a big hug. Such love.
JPL
NIce! Happy tails to you!
Kristine
@Tommy: Insurance helped me pay for King’s chemo. Because they paid “usual and customary” rates for procedures, I usually only recovered about 50% of what I paid for any given treatment, but it helped.
muddy
My dogs are passed out in exhaustion. I had a friend over helping me clean, she brought her kids. These dogs don’t usually get kids. The kids don’t have their own dog, and were very taken with making the dogs go on and off the porch, and closing the gate behind them. Over and over and over the dogs loved it.
I was reminded why my son was little and his dog was so well trained because he ordered the dog around constantly. Nice to get someone below you on the totem pole. The dog never tired of it. Get up, get down, get up etc.
Kristine
Great story!
SiubhanDuinne
Awww, that is just lovely.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
“Happy tails” love it!
Hungry Joe
People post dog-reunion videos on Facebook, on blogs … and I watch them. I don’t mean I watch some of them — I mean I watch ALL of them. They’re a reminder of how happy my dog makes me, and how happy I make her. Then we have our own reunion, which, admittedly, doesn’t thrill her all that much because often as not she’s about six feet away and asleep.
So: Reunion time. Excuse me for a minute.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Me too.
WereBear
Yup. Gets me every time.
They are living, breathing, thinking, beings. And they act like it.
crosspalms
It’s funny, I thought of you when they showed this on the local (Chicago) news the other night. Great story – I teared up.
PurpleGirl
@Tommy: When I pet sat for my friends in Peekskill, I sometimes slept in their bed (a California King). Sharing it with Hugo the Doberman was one thing, but if any of Grayhounds decided to join us it was very much more crowded. Hugo at least would pull his legs up to his chest or sleep in a loaf position. The Grayhounds slept with their legs straight out.
I’m happy the Sgt. and the doggy are reunited. The doggy will have a much better retirement now. (And he deserves it.)
Southern Beale
Wow.
You know what I love about dogs? You get that same reaction from them whether you’ve been gone for one hour or one year.
Long Tooth
Off topic…
WAY TO GO… the decent souls at Rutgers, who called out Rice for being the war criminal she is. That, in turn, led to the war criminal bowing out as the university’s commencement speaker. Net loss Rice– $35,000.
WereBear
Holy Pricepoint, Batman. No wonder these people fail upwards.
Howard Beale IV
Anybody watch the Munk Debate yesterday on the Surveillance State debate?
For: Handley/Dershowitz
Against, Greenwald/Ohanion
Suzanne
Dawwww. All these stories of veterans being reunited with their dogs just warm my cold little heart.
Howard Beale IV
@Southern Beale: My cat doesn’t get as excited as a dog would, but he gets very happy when I come back form a long trip.
MazeDancer
Humans – so not worthy of dogs. This said by someone with 3 cats and no pups. With wet things also flecking the eyes from watching that vid.
Yay, to that nice Vet getting his dog back!!!!
Calming Influence
I’d just like to mention that the Mariners just added 8 runs in the 7th in Houston. Sweet.
Yatsuno
@Calming Influence: The sad thing is they could do that and still be losing.
mai naem
Nobody watching the WHCD? PBO is about to go on.
Jay C
I saw this on the network news yesterday, and thought it was one of the nicest pieces I’ve seen in a long time: you just KNOW that this is a “war story” with a happy ending: seeing that tail wagging furiously, you know this is a tale that will end well. For once.
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem:
I don’t think I have access to it live. Plan to watch PBO once the links are up. Don’t really care about the rest of the coverage or speeches.
Calming Influence
@Yatsuno: Yup. I knew I shouldn’t have said anything. It’s now 9-8 in the 8th, and the Astros have apparently stopped fucking around.
We still have the Seahawks.
WaynersT
More interviews with the soldier and dog – pretty great
http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/local/kentwood/2014/05/01/kentwood-soldier-reunites/8556021/
cckids
@mai naem:
The intro with Biden & Julia Louis-Dreyfuss was great.
raven
Orange IS the new Black!
cckids
@raven: Loved that.
Baud
@raven:
He went after Bundy!
lamh36
Haha. POTUS reading Fox News for filth.
“@USATODAY: Obama: “Let’s face it FOX, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. It’ll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.””
raven
“What if ACA gave MItch McConnell a pulse”?
Anya
POTUS is really brutal this year. The hacks are afraid to lough.
cckids
“Republicans are still refusing to extend unemployment benefits, and I understand their point. After all, if people want to get paid for not working, they should run for Congress like everyone else.”
lamh36
President Obama has no more fuck to give!!!
“@TheObamaDiary: President Obama: “I’m feeling sorry for Boehner, House Republicans are giving him a harder time than me…. orange really is the new black.””
Anya
OMH! Joke about wingers facination with Putin’s bare chest
Baud
@Anya:
Can’t wait till his last one. No holding back.
raven
Assume that it was funny!
Anya
@Baud: Me too!
I couldn’t believe half the jokes he told tonight. Just expect major right-wing poutrage.
Tommy
@lamh36: Kind of happy you mentioned this. For most of my adult life I’ve never known a 5 day, 40 hour work week. Closer to seven days and like 60+. I am a white collar guy. The people I know are as well. We often have advance degrees. We’re interconnected and just work.
I say this cause as you noted those in Congress work less then anybody I know. I’ve been meaning to set up on my Outlook calendar when Congress is in session, cause it seems more times then not they are not at FUCKING WORK.
I am too lazy to Google it, but what are they making like $125,000/year and they go to work like 1 day out of ten?
Baud
Joel McHale is angry.
Anya
Joel Mchale is making them feel uncomfortable. I am not finding him funny though.
Southern Beale
Joe McHale is not very funny.
lamh36
@Anya: this bit on Fox and Friends…killed the pic is what did it
AJ (@AlisaJass)
5/3/14, 9:31 PM
“I got grief for Between Two Ferns…to be fair, I’m not the 1st person to tv between 2 potted plants” – Obama #WHCD pic.twitter.com/RxjbqX7TLp
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Anya
McHale is being mean to the republicans
lamh36
Baud
@Anya:
Yep.
cckids
@Tommy: I know the rules for the House changed when the Republicans took over, they shortened the number of days worked; in 2014 it will be 113. Total.
And they make $174,000.
Link.
lamh36
pic of Biden with an Adidas shoe…lol
Anya
@lamh36: I liked the one about Hannity admiring Putin’s bare chest.
lamh36
he opened with a ding at CNN and MSNBC and Bundy…
Baud
Ok, the print magazine joke was kind of funny.
Baud
@lamh36:
The Bundy joke was funny.
lamh36
BTW, 6 years straight and no comedian has been able to follow Obama and slay the crowd. A poor McHale, he said Letterman told him to not take the job…he should have listened to Letterman
raven
Killin Wolf.
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne and I are both still sick. Though with the amount coming out at both ends, I guess I should say we are ICK. Ugh.
raven
@Suzanne: TMI
raven
Duck idiot in the house!
Baud
@lamh36:
Yeah. This wasn’t Obama’s best, but he’s always better than the comedian.
Honus
One of the saddest things I ever read about the Vietnam war, I think it was in Dispatches, was about shooting the war dogs guys had worked with for years during the evacuation because they couldn’t take them out. Those dogs were shepherds which are some of the bravest and most loyal and protective dogs I’ve known.
lamh36
@Baud: I think this was “I am no longer up for re-election” Obama and so it was more SHADE than funny haha, but still better than poor Joel McHale
Anya
@Baud: McHail’s jokes will make POTUS seem like he’s Richard Pryor. Also, too, I think all the outrage will be directed at him. The audiance looks really angry at him.
WaterGirl
Wow, this comedian is so bad that I finally turned it off.
I thought Obama was good and I liked the bite in his jokes, but I thought the Kathleen Sebelius thing at the end was kind of lame. I like the idea of what he tried to do, but I thought it fell flat.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: …”more SHADE than funny haha”
I don’t know what that means.
Baud
@Anya:
The people who blame Obama for everything will blame him for this also.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
The bit had a bunch of technical hiccups. Not his best, but not bad.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I thought the technical difficulties during the Sebelius thing were part of the bit – technical problems like the ACA and only Kathleen could fix them.
lamh36
@WaterGirl:
“throwing Shade”
Tommy
@cckids: From time to time here I rant about my town, in a good way. We have a new $60M high school. My town of 8,700 has a fiber optics backbone. Every public building directly wired. Heck we have and are in the process of building more parks. The goal, openly said in a city council meeting, is that anybody ought to not have to walk more then 4 blocks in any direction and not encounter a park.
Now when I mention this I don’t explain how it happened. It happened cause we hired a city manager. See no elected official in my town figured they could run it well. Not even their full time job. So we hired somebody that had experience running a government/city/town. Funny thing, next you know the town is run well.
I say this cause I don’t even know if we need anybody in DC/Congress running things at this point.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
That part was intentional, but the timing seemed off.
Anya
@lamh36: I agree. POTUS was throwing some serious shade.
@WaterGirl: I thought he wanted to thank Sebelius one more time.
@Baud: We can always count of them to whine about how mean spirited and un-presidential he was, blah, blah, blah..
SiubhanDuinne
Gotta admit I have never heard of Joe McHale. And from what I heard tonight, I’m not surprised. It wasn’t the funniest I have ever heard from the POTUS, but he was orders of magnitude funnier than the headliner.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: the tech glitches were on purpose it was in reference to all the ACA website glitches coverage
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Your link didn’t work, but I googled. And now I have to disagree with what you said. Some of his stuff was a little sharp, but I didn’t think it reflected badly on him. I was kind of glad to see him skewer the idiots for all the idiotic stuff they do.
Suzanne
@raven: THAT is TMI on a site featuring a not-insignificant amount of discussion on ass-shaving?
lamh36
@WaterGirl: not the meaning of shade that you are referencing and that much of google referenced. sorry the link doesn’t work.
also to be honest of you didn’t already know what “throwing shade” means, no link or urban slang dictionary definition will help to explain.
but believe me when I tell POTUS was throwing epic shade Fox News & WHPC way. just with an an abundance of wit to conceal some of the bite
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: You make an excellent point.
Sorry you are all sick. Congratulations, by the way, on passing your final test and being an architect. I was way late to the thread when it happened, so my good wishes are a bit belated.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: The urban dictionary defined throwing shade as:
To me, that does not describe the president tonight.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: please don’t use urban dictionary as way to define urban terms…it’s like Wikipedia, anyone can edit that shhh anyway they like.
9x out of 10…urban dictionary is just bullshit.
But let’s just move on from the subject of “shade”
Anya
@WaterGirl: Throwing shade is telling someone off in a subtle way.
WaterGirl
@Anya: Thank you!
My favorite thing about googling that phrase was the number of links I found where people were saying that other people were using “throwing shade” wrong!
Calming Influence
@efgoldman: I’d just like to mention that the Mariners just added 8 runs in the 7th in Houston.
Not impressed. Beating Houston is like beating your seven-year-old at chess.
Mnemosyne
@Anya:
@lamh36:
Is it kind of like “kidding on the square,” where you put something in the form of a joke but really mean it?
ruviana
@muddy: Get up! Get down! My favorite thing!