a bad day for bad people is a good day for the rest of us https://t.co/wkcrofjfRa
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) March 10, 2023
You ask me, I suspect someone showed Sugar Daddy Ahmanson the since-deleted tweet where Dreher delights at ‘watching fat Magyar men gnaw pork knuckles‘, and there was a mutual decision to yank the chain before Rod started exalting manly Magyar men slobbering sausages. Because if there was ever a man denouncing Teh Gheys in an attempt to deny his own secret yearnings… “How Rod Dreher’s Blog Got a Little “Too Weird” for The American Conservative”:
… Over the last 12 years, Dreher, whose blog at The American Conservative will post for the last time Friday, has built a cult following with some of the most bizarre diatribes in opinion journalism. He has warned that so-called sissy hypnosis porn is “profoundly evil;” detailed the “formal” Catholic exorcism of a friend’s suicidal wife; and recalled—in unsettling detail—the time he witnessed a Black classmate’s uncircumcised penis.
But one particular reader, upon reading the last of said posts, determined the blog had simply gotten too weird, according to two sources familiar with the publication. That disgruntled reader was Howard Ahmanson Jr., the heir to a California banking fortune and the sole benefactor of Dreher’s six-figure salary at TAC, which is published by American Ideas Institute, a nonprofit. This unique funding arrangement—a single donor choosing to cover one writer’s entire salary—was paired with an even more unusual editorial arrangement: Dreher was allowed to publish directly on TAC’s site without any revisions or legal oversight, according to the two sources…
Ahmanson had apparently long admired the work of Dreher, who has authored numerous conservative books and previously wrote for the Beliefnet blog and The Dallas Morning News. But according to the two sources, Ahmanson began to sour on his beneficiary in 2021, when Dreher, in a blog post debating circumcision, wrote the following: “All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous. Nobody told us that wieners could look like that.” Incredibly, that was the “first red flag” for Ahmanson, one source told me, adding that the rift had been building for about a year.
Some of Dreher’s commentary on the gay and transgender communities also proved off-putting to Ahmanson, such as his lurid musings on anal sex, rectal bleeding, and the “partially rotted off” nose of a gay man who contracted monkeypox. “At some point, he basically decided, ‘This is too weird,’” the source, paraphrasing Ahmanson, explained to me. “‘I don’t want to read this or pay for this anymore.’”
And, of course, it didn’t help that the blogger, who resides in Hungary, almost caused a small geopolitical crisis last month, when he mistakenly published remarks made by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán during a session with other friendly pundits that Dreher thought at the time was on the record. Dreher, whose stay in the country is being partially funded by a think tank with close ties to the Hungarian government, revealed Orbán’s assertions that NATO is “in a war with Russia” and that he wishes to leave the European Union, comments that ran counter to the regime’s official policies and were not meant for publication. When Dreher realized his mistake, he changed the post’s wording to suggest that Orbán had maintained his public position.
Stateside, the blog’s lack of editorial oversight has caused TAC legal headaches too. Last year, the publication settled a defamation suit out of court, per the two sources, that stemmed from a post that Dreher had written accusing a Kentucky high school student of promoting “LGBT consciousness,” bullying classmates, and “disrespecting teachers.”
As for Dreher’s future, he has said he plans to move his blog to a Substack while continuing at TAC as an editor at large and will “probably” contribute a column––this time, per the two sources, under an editor’s supervision. “I want to thank Howard and Roberta Ahmanson for their generous financial support of me at TAC for my run here,” he wrote in a Friday farewell he published after being notified of this story. Remarking that he wrote “important things” and “stupid things” during his time at TAC, Dreher closed with a nod to a post he said fit the latter category: “All you Mongoloids were the Primitive Root Wiener in my Lucky Dog, and I love you very much.”…
There’s a bunch of far-right Interlectual Dork Web opinioneers (Jordan Peterson, Bari Weis, Bret Stephens, Matt Taibbi… ) already making bank on Substack, so Dreher will no doubt do just fine there. No True Defender of Properly Conservative Values is ever allowed to fail, after all…
rip to the most divorced column in history let’s play the greatest hits https://t.co/rjDLzTdXua pic.twitter.com/EYXGWhYOzv
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 10, 2023
*cardinal leans over and whispers in pope’s ear* Qui scripsit de “primitive root wiener* https://t.co/Hx89OkzTmG
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) March 11, 2023
"Let me in, I am normal and can be trusted to write about penises"
— Ⓐchard of St. Victor, C.R.S.A. (@OfVick) March 10, 2023
Rod Dreher's sugar daddy pulling out the same day that the Silicon Valley Bank failed seems apropos.
— David Austin Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) March 11, 2023
Rod Dreher is a complete lunatic but some banking billionaire was like, yep, I want to read more of that — and boom he had a platform
— Brian Gaar (@briangaar) March 10, 2023
BUT SRSLY…
*googles* Howard Ah-manson Jr (I am not sure if the name is not a cosmic joke by god, links their $30 million dollar house they are selling)
Oh I see Howard is funding the Claremont Institute and the old job of Christopher Rufo (the Discovery Insitute)https://t.co/Mwsvc7Fncw
— Matthew (@Roland00Address) March 10, 2023
Illuminating thread:
Reminds me of the one conversation I had with Ron Unz, a publisher of the American Conservative (and before that, infamous for successfully passing the bilingual instruction ban in Prop. 227), back when I was at Reason magazine. I'll just leave it at that. https://t.co/dyDYDXcREk
— RiShawn Biddle (@dropoutnation) March 10, 2023
Suzanne
Dreher really seems to be going off the deep end. Getting divorced, losing his patronage gig for writing about other dude’s junk, and almost causing a geopolitical crisis. That would be a bad year for anyone not in on the grift.
Suzanne
….do we know this to be true? Is there transparency there? I am kind of skeptical.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
….what the fuck is a “Mongoloid”? I’ve seen that elsewhere. Sounds like something from the early 20th century heyday of “scientific racism”
Also, sounds like a bad idea to except a writer from all editorial and legal oversight. Who could have predicted?
Frankensteinbeck
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That is exactly what it is.
Anotherlurker
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It is a very racist, antiquated psychological term for, I believe, Down syndrome.
Anoniminous
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
It’s an obsolete bullshit term for people of the Asian “race” – another obsolete bullshit term. Now used for people with Down’s Syndrome for reasons passing understanding
Omnes Omnibus
@Anoniminous:
Also an outdated term for people with Downs Syndrome.
ETA: Written before you added that. The reason was the “vaguely Asian” facial features of people with Downs.
M. Bouffant
That house is an attempt to bring a Thomas Kinkade painting to life.
Hoppie
I am so glad I ignore anti-social media.
Even at [x-age] years old, I fuxxin have a life! Jebus!
Anne Laurie
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I suspect Dreher was trying to be hip & sarcastic by referencing Devo’s first single, Mongoloid.
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
It was safe to be sarcastic on the radio, 40-something years ago. Dreher could’ve updated his priors, but… well, Dreher.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Anotherlurker:
@Anoniminous:
@Omnes Omnibus:
Christ, that’s horrible
@Frankensteinbeck:
Thought so. Can picture those who use it are loser 4channers who think they’re apart of the “Master Race” and look down on all of us dumb NPC libturd normie wokeists
I have to thank Kay for linking to that NYT poll finding that nearly 60% of Americans think positively of the word “woke”. Counter to their own self-images, their the ones who live in a bubble
NotMax
The dictum is “Write what you know.” Prick writes about pricks. What did anyone expect?
//
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Entire term was Mongoloid Idiot.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Anne Laurie:
Wow, you definitely couldn’t do that today!
From the lyrics-genius website:
Interesting idea, but I kinda question how true this really was 40+ years ago. I suppose before automation really took off?
Draco7
@NotMax: Four years of unchecked anxiety, but you shouldn’t use that language – even in reference to TFG.
eversor
I don’t think Rod has the clout of Tiabbi or Weis or Sullivan to pull off a substack.
TAC was always bankrolled by like three people. With Rod now being outed (pun intended) as having a private sugar dady who kept him there making it four for TAC. When TAC turned into “pay to post” it dried up with about maybe six die hards posting on The Blog Of Rod and NOTHING else there. It’s a clearing house for students for Christian Colleges and lunatics promoting THEOCRACY NOW with a side dose of “also slavery and genocide were good, because they got the Jesus, and the Jesus is all that matters”. That’s not a joke. It was only active due to the flame wars and trolling of conservatives there. There are multiple articles there advocating the great good of stealing native children and mass murdering because hey! some of them got Jesus out of it.
Rod was always very pro cancel on his comments which took out half the fun. So the comments were mostly full of spoof accounts which agreeded with him long enough to get into the auto approve area (I did this) and then went on a rampage against Nazis and Christian Nationalists and he had to nuke them from orbit. He was very, very, very, upset about this. Yet too stupid to figure out an IP ban, though those can be end run as well.
Absent the rampant trolling and shit talk (and ain’t nobody paying 5 bucks over and over and to loose their “freedom of speech” for that) Rod has nothing. I assume he saw this coming hence the move to Hungary but he’s not making friends there and just causing them headaches. He’s caused two international incidents already. As someone who’s half Hungarian and a first born American he’s also blindingly blind to the culture and ways there. Which, while comedic, is not going to keep him in oysters and wine in fucking Budapest that long. Eventually they will get sick of him pursuing his own agenda. And then he will realise that my people are back stabbing assholes and not really welcoming of immigrants and out he will go! Usefull idiots are just that. Idiots, that are only usefull so long as they have a use. The moment they become a problem they go. As they are just an idiot causing problems.
I don’t think we’ve yet seen the tragic end of poor closet Rod but we are rapidly getting there. He doesn’t have a home to come home to. And even the Hungarian state run conservative press has called him an outright liar and a nutter a few times so he doesn’t have much time left there. They’ll throw him out and he will be back stuck in some airport like he was months ago but this time with no place to go! I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, but you made this bed Rod you lay in it!
Shalimar
There was no reason I should ever have to know that Rod Dreher is circumcised. He has a serious over-sharing problem.
Mai Naem mobile
Do that many people really spend money subscribing to substackers? The people i know don’t even want to spend $$ on the paid version of Spotify. Good luck trying to get them to subscribe to their local paper.. And they all seem to discuss how to save money on the various streaming services.
HumboldtBlue
I haven’t checked, but there are rumors Roy Edroso hasn’t been seen since Friday night. Word of sightings have ranged from seeing a man laughing uproariously in an alley to a bedraggled soul shuffling down the boulevard, wondering where the Muse now hides.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Hey, if you’re into watches and laughing at idiots, check out the r/watchescirclejerk subreddit. You can laugh at rich, out of touch, crazy idiots
The r/rolex people are featured alot. The most infamous member of r/rolex, u/sporturawus, is legendary. Dude used to be on the WatchUSeek forums until he was banned from there.
Here’s a sampling of his cringe:
Speaking from experience, Sporty?
Sporty sells more Rollies than Federer
Sporty: Rolex sex is the best sex
Sporty talking about how great it is for grown men following him around trying to get a glimpse at his $30,000 GMT Pepsi while floating in a pool at a luxury resort hotel
mdblanche
If Substack doesn’t work out Dreher can always try his hand at fiction.
Roger MacGuffin
@Anne Laurie:
Your description of Bari Weiss as being far-right is totally inaccurate and frankly very sloppy. She’s a centrist and has been a consistent critic of Donald Trump. Before you characterize someone’s political ideology, you should read a representative sample of their writing. I agree with Weiss on some issues and disagree with her on other issues. She’s absolutely not a right winger.
Good riddance to Dreher.
Chetan Murthy
@Roger MacGuffin: wuuuut? Of course Bari (“I believe in free speech, that’s why I hounded my teachers at Columbia for exercising free speech!”) Weiss is a RWNJ. She’s batshit. And I’ve read a good bit of her bilge over at LG&M, where we make a point of pointing and jeering every time she regurgitates something.
eversor
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
This shit always confuses me. As someone with a Rolex the GMT does not cost 30k. It’s 10k, still stupid but oh well. Now you can diamond the fuck out of it and drive it up in price but I have never seen someone who does this. Or I guess if you get it in gold? Again I never seen one of these. It’s like they pick the highest price something sells for and then claim that’s what they paid.
I have a Rolex Submariner which is a gift when I got out of the Navy. This is a 10k watch. Now one can drive it up to 40k if you make it out of solid gold but I have never in my life seen one that is that not made of steel.
Those buying or gifting them in gold are not buying the sport models because that’s idiotic.
And sadly and scarily Rolex is not an expensive watch in the real scheme of things. You want expensive you want a Patek. Which can run you millions.
I don’t even wear my Rolex. It’s in a drawer. I wear a GSHOCK. Nobody cares about your damn watch.
Citizen Alan
@eversor: I don’t even have a watch. I hated having a tan line there, and when I got to the point of carrying a smartphone with me everywhere, I stopped wearing a watch all together. I would never by an expensive watch just as a status symbol and am baffled by those who do. Of course, I’m pretty sure that the last thing I owned that was purchased solely for status purposes was a Members Only jacket in 1986.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@eversor:
Sporty is the type who apparently doesn’t mind spending thousands more over MSRP to buy from grey market dealers just because he wants what he wants when he wants it. His whole mindset is essentially the obviously superior Rolex watches will end up the hands of those who truly deserve them i.e. the rich who are willing to pay inflated grey market prices or who already spend tens of thousands on jewelry a year at ADs, which makes ADs more willing to sell them coveted models, thanks to the artifical scarcity caused by Rolex. Everybody else is shit out of luck and stuck on “waitlists”
He’s the type of douchebag who makes owning Rolexes his entire personality
Splitting Image
@Roger MacGuffin:
The entire purpose of centrism is to launder right-wing ideas into popular discourse. If a Nazi is in the process of murdering a Jewish person or a trans person, there is no middle ground to be had. If a self-described centrist insists on everybody withholding judgment on the Nazi until they consider the Nazi’s point of view, then said centrist is a Nazi.
This was Weiss’ entire job at the New York Times. And she took her job seriously.
Cameron
When I first saw ‘primitive root weiner ‘ I was confused. The name of a new fast food chain in the Upper Peninsula? A sweaty fantasy inadvertently revealed? Suggestion for a Hungarian rock band?
Chetan Murthy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Wearing Rolexes is lekking behaviour ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek_mating ). Used to be, mobile phones were, too ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225693742_Mobile_phones_as_lekking_devices_among_human_males ).
eclare
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
WordPress does that a little after 2 am quite a bit. If you wait it out and don’t hit post comment again, your comment will eventually show up.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@eversor:
Oh yeah, it’s crazy how expensive watches can be, especially luxury brands like Patek. I think I’m becoming a real watch nerd, but man, I couldn’t ever see myself wearing watch worthy tens of thousands or more, even if I could afford it. I’d be afraid I’d be mugged. And what’s the point of letting a cool watch sit in a safe deposit box at a bank?
Chris T.
WTF is this “so-called sissy hypnosis porn” in the first place? (I saw there was a link but I really don’t want to click it…)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Citizen Alan:
Watches are cool and a fashion statement for men, especially automatics. Also, imo, it’s easier to flick your wrist and read a watch then try to get your smartphone out of your pocket
Still, whenever I see a few massive watch collections on Reddit, I wonder what the servicing costs must be
Chetan Murthy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): What’s the point of a cheap Rolex ? [asking in a sociological vein]
Danielx
@Citizen Alan:
Of course, I’m pretty sure that the last thing I owned that was purchased solely for status purposes was a Members Only jacket in 1986.
Are you still in therapy?
Chetan Murthy
@Citizen Alan: I’m having great difficulty remembering the last thing I bought for its signaling value. Though obviously at some point I did, b/c otherwise I wouldn’t have this humungous dead-tree library.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chetan Murthy:
You may have something there.
Sportywalrus once gave this gem on Rollies and luxury watches:
Pretty sure I recall a WatchuSeek post of his that was linked to on r/WCJ too where he bragged about giving his son one of his Rolexes for prom and it helped him get laid 😬
There’s nothing wrong with being a watch enthusiast and appreciating beautiful pieces of human engineering but holy shit, don’t make it your entire identity
Chris T.
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Horology fandom is a thing like any other thing.
Chetan Murthy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That’s lekking behaviour right there. In the late 90s, when cellphones were becoming common but not-so-common-yet, and they were expensive, men would buy fake cellphones that made noises and such. Men would *ostentatiously* take their (fake or not) cellphones out of their pockets when they sat down at a restaurant table.
It’s signaling.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chetan Murthy:
To say you have a Rawlex, of course! Also, to get 5 spots ahead of all the other chumps on the waitlist for the model you really want by buying a watch you don’t want to “build a relationship” with the AD
Amir Khalid
I’ve started wearing a wristwatch again because it is indeed more convenient than digging the smartphone out of my pocket when I need to know the time. I paid the equivalent of US$35 for my Casio. It’s presentable enough if I ever need a dress watch. It’s no sports watch but I’ll never need one of those again. I don’t collect watches, I don’t share that mentality or understand it.
eclare
@Chetan Murthy:
I don’t buy them for signaling value, but it can be hard to find a nice, well-made leather women’s purse without some annoying brand splashed all over it. My latest is a Coach, but in the past they have lasted around ten years.
Just to give a female perspective.
Citizen Alan
@Danielx: No, but I probably should be.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chetan Murthy:
Yup, I think it’s pretty weird and sad though. It’s just a watch for god’s sake! Most people don’t care
@Chris T.:
Oh absolutely
Chetan Murthy
@eclare: Ah, yes. Sorry, I was responding to Goku and eversor (and the guy they’re citing); I should have said “why does a man buy a Rolex?”
eversor
To multiple people in defense of “watch game” it’s really the only “jewelry” item men can flaunt and not get mocked for. I know, gender roles. The Rolex Sub and Date do have a history that’s kinda fun. As does the Omega Speed Master (The Astronaut watch) so I get it. I really truly get it. They were military issue, and are now given as gifts after serving a long time at something. That’s how I got mine. It was a nice “thank you for your service” and a family gift. It’s touching, and I enjoy it. But I wear a GSHOCK.
There’s also something nice about an auotmatic watch that is hard to put into words. It doesn’t need batteries. It doesn’t need to charge. It’s mechanical (comes with it’s own problems) and it’s just classy. I wear jeans and a polo to a high end job with a GSHOCK watch along with boots. I have my ID and security badges on a lanyard that just says NAVY even though I’m out. But for formal events it’s just nice to have it there, when you put on the suit or the tux. I hate these events with a passion. There is though an expecation of how you look and act and while I may hate it this is the game.
FWIW my SO hates her fancy jewelry and dress/gown/I dunno I’m not a woman. It’s always a huge pain in the ass to keep things about we both would never wear for like 6 events a year we don’t want to be at but have to be at. Then pretend to be friends with people who are not our friends. Then go home and get out of all it change into under wear and laugh with the cat and order ramen. I know why I have to do this, I run a department, but nobody has ever explained to me why doing all this is part of running things! We are both much more at ease wandering around Arlington VA in jeans and t-shirts going to gaming clubs, cooking events, hiking, than we are formal.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Amir Khalid:
Casio’s are great for everyday wear. I own two, an analog quartz dive style I paid $20 for 6 years ago and a digital World Time one I’ve had for over 10 years without a battery change. I left it in a dresser drawer for 4 years after the resin band finally broke and it was only a few minutes off. It’s still in decent condition aside from crystal scuff; disappointingly, the “World Time” and “Illuminator” lettering on the bezel wore off awhile back.
It’s a neat little watch. Multiple time zones, stopwatch/timer and DST modes. Alarms can be set on it too
Here’s an example of the digital Casio I own
eversor
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
You’ll laugh but having worked in food service this is a thing.
Anne Laurie
I have. *I* am a centrist (center-leftist); Bari Weis is an apologist for the most prosperous members of the ‘Best (right wing) People’, masked with a thin veneer of ‘Of course the liberals cannot support, yet many people are saying… ‘
Her Musk-y tongue-bath here, for one instance.
ETA: To expand… From everything I’ve read by or about her, Weis’s only real political commitment is to Bari Weis. If her sugar daddies were to decide that ‘socialism’ was the way, she’d be denouncing Bernie Sanders as a squish by the end of the business week. If Peter Thiel were somehow to achieve his wildest dreams, she’d be touting eugenics and seasteading even faster. But that doesn’t make her a ‘centrist’, just a careerist.
HumboldtBlue
I did not expect to run into Chicago tonight, and certainly not in this thread.
AlaskaReader
@Hoppie: …uh, …
ColoradoGuy
Billionaire’s son, who’s never worked a day in his life, funds a deranged closet case.
What could go wrong?
AlaskaReader
@Roger MacGuffin: …Bari Weiss a centrist?
Only in her own mind.
AlaskaReader
Still is, …only difference is now everyone does it everywhere all the time.
Chetan Murthy
@AlaskaReader: I’m not sufficiently socially-connected to know, so can I ask? My impression was that these days people do it b/c they’re constantly fiddling and staying connected with people who aren’t physically present around them, not b/c they’re trying to display their phone to others around them. “Lekking” is when males will engage in display to females with the intent of convincing them to mate. So these men with these fake cellphones were attempting to display their “greater fitness” (heh) by faking it. Just as a “Chinese knockoff Rolex” does.[1]
Is that something that males still do with phones?
[1] The possession of an expensive toy like a cellphone or Rolex is proof of high status. Just as for certain species of birds, elaborate feather growths (peacocks, but also other birds) are proofs of high status. And in the case of human males, if you can fake that proof, well, lots are gonna do it.
AlaskaReader
@Chetan Murthy:
I think with the phones, it’s not just men, it’s pervasive and I still see it as form of signaling, consistent with our perceived societal status determined by consumption.
Me, I won’t buy a new phone until my old one is no longer supported,
…the disconnect is the assumption one can ‘purchase’ status.
Repatriated
@HumboldtBlue:
It’s either 3:35 or 3:34AM.
AlaskaReader
@Chetan Murthy: …I fail to see the feathers as a good comparison, they’re only attained by a long and indeterminate genetic process, the birds can’t really choose to alter their ‘status’.
AlaskaReader
@Repatriated: 3:54
Repatriated
@AlaskaReader: Twenty-five, or -six, to four. From the context of the song’s lyrics, it’s set very early in the morning.
Mo Salad
@Anotherlurker:
It’s still a great DEVO jam…
https://youtu.be/0b-nFSUXcuM
HumboldtBlue
We arguin’ over time stamps.
There was always a storyteller and some horse.
Montanareddog
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka), @eversor, @Chetan Murthy:
Cheap Chic at Aspen
James Fallows’ paean to the Timex Indiglo T20041, the ultimate cheap, readable watch with a classic design, signalling good taste without vulgar flaunting of value. (Full disclosure – I, too, own more than a couple of these, as a means to flaunting my miserliness and inverted snobbery).
HumboldtBlue
@Anne Laurie:
This is why we read this blog.
AlaskaReader
@Repatriated:Well, yes , I got that, …6 to 4 is 3:54, not 3:34 as you crafted your link.
AlaskaReader
@HumboldtBlue: As Wiki says:
Timestamps do not have to be based on some absolute notion of time
Matt McIrvin
I have an old Seiko of a model that was probably intended to resemble a Rolex but is also clearly not one.
My problem is that I never get around to getting the batteries replaced when they run down. I hope they haven’t leaked and destroyed the thing. Oh well. Have started to not wear it and to just use computer clocks and such, but the minor, cheap shininess of it is nice.
lowtechcyclist
@AlaskaReader:
If anybody does it as signaling anymore, it’s a really stupid fail at signaling, because once everybody does it all the time, including my 15 year old son, what does it signal? About as much as wearing a shirt does.
lowtechcyclist
@AlaskaReader:
Twenty-five or (twenty-) six to four, IOW 3:35 or 3:34 am.
He’s up in the middle of the night, trying to come up with some song lyrics.
So saith Robert Lamm of Chicago.
frosty
We’ll that’s fifteen minutes wasted that I’ll never get back. Entertaining in a “Ewww I have to wash that off” kind of way.
Pete Mack
What a house! Such gracious simplicity! So lovely a silhouette! Such a cohesive display of roofs!
lowtechcyclist
@Pete Mack:
It looks like the builders had one idea and used it over and over and over again. Every part of it that you can see in that photo looks like every other part you can see in that photo. Truly bizarre
ETA: It reminds me of Al Yankovic’s “(This Song’s Just) Six Words Long.”
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Who watches the watch, man?
:)
frosty
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Wow, he’s gone around the bend! Dude, it’s a feckin watch!
evodevo
@Chetan Murthy:
Is this MacGuffin a Hitchcockian MacGuffin? Or just a new troll…
billcinsd
@Anne Laurie: I first heard Mongoloid (and DEVO) on Dr. Demento. I am very happy and I bring home the bacon
FredW
Back in the “blogosphere” days I used to make a point of trying to read conservative viewpoints from time to time (one was some guy name Cole — whatever happened to him?). Dreher was one that I read. I found it interesting to read about a Russian Orthodox community is a small Louisiana town. We even had a couple pleasant email exchanges about monastic breweries. Then he got weird — or more likely he was weird all along and his filter was removed. The occasional interesting tidbit was not worth the other 99% that was crazy stuff.
It is interesting that all of the “conservatives” I read in those days are no longer conservative or have become batshit insane.
Paul in KY
@Citizen Alan: I had a beautiful Bulova Accutron. Gold case, etc. I have an unusual electric field and it would mess with the watch.
AlaskaReader
@lowtechcyclist: I’ll disagree, adopting all the same signaling habits is a case of saturation, not that the behavior has suddenly become something other than what it is.
If it wasn’t signaling, there’d be no lines to be the first to buy the latest model.
J R in WV
My only watch is a pocket watch from LL Bean I got many years ago when I still walked into remote woods, and needed to know when to turn around to get out before pitch dark happened. I still have it, it still works. Have never needed a watch on my wrist.
At work when I still worked and had lots of meetings my computer would let me know 10 minutes before a local meet was to start. I sometimes showed up an hour early or late for meetings being held in other time zones…
HOLY COW — I just discovered my pocket watch [ which La Bean no longer sells !! ] may be worth 4 figures !!!! Thanx Google!
FredW
@J R in WV: Being a gadget guy, every time Apple or Garmin or somebody comes out with a new watch I think “that is cool, I should get one.”
Then I remember I haven’t worn a watch on my wrist in decades. In pre smart phone days I did have a watch that clipped to a belt loop for times when I needed to know the time (like traveling).
That said, I do have a bunch of wrist watches — my Dad loved them and was always giving me one as a present (birthday, Xmas) until I finally had the courage to tell him to stop. I think he never understood why I didn’t love them like he did.
caphilldcne
@lowtechcyclist: I love 25 or 6 to 4 and until this comment had never much understood the title – I thought maybe it was a reference to the beat of the song which makes no sense in retrospect. So thank you for this little tidbit.
Hcat
The fact that you spelled it “weiner” instead of “wiener” should that you are a victim of the almost universal American dyslexia that comes from no phonics.