More power to 'em!
You don’t do it justice. It’s a scene from the British comedy Chef, with Lenny Henry (as a prima donna chef at a very fancy restaurant) tearing into a customer who has the unmitigated gall to ask for salt for his perfectly prepared entree. “I hate you with a passion you can only dream of!”
I looked for a youtube version of that video as well, but no joy. Apologies for posting a bare link with no synopsis, but I’ve become a bit spoiled by the new software and the way it embeds youtube videos.
My father told the story that he got “the lecture” at a Hawaiian luau when he asked for a wedge of lemon to squeeze over his poi.
More schadenfreude:
“1619.” Heh. Ironic schadenfreude.
Thank you. You’ve given me permission to be a bit sassy on a shitty night.
Here’s the deal. You say I’m an idiot. However, you were unable to understand a video I understood. You were also unable to provide a counterargument to what I just said. So if you couldn’t rebut an idiot, what does that make you?
Of course, it being me, I can’t leave it like that. I don’t actually think you’re an idiot. I think you’re stubborn, and responded the way a lot of stubborn people do. You completely missed my point (and Ms. Watson’s point). But you don’t want to admit that.
All I ever argued was that Snopes was wrong to mark it as definitively false based on the sources they gave, because they did not actually rule out the possibility that it happened. That Snopes should have, based on their own internal rules, labeled it as “unproven” “unverified” or even possibly “likely false.” That citing the wife or a reporter who didn’t see what happened before he passed out is not how you prove something false.
I’m skeptical it happened. I always was–I posted it first to ask if there was any evidence it happened. That you seem to think I think it did happen is why I think you missed the point.
On the podcast All The President’s Lawyers (highly recommended for anyone who wants to follow Trump’s legal troubles, by the way) they’ve talked about it a few times and said that Dominion could well be considered a limited-purpose public figure when it comes to elections, given that the public has an inherent interest in election administration. They also had an interview with one of Dominion’s lawyers (it’s the end-of-2020 episode) who obviously wouldn’t talk in detail about their strategy, but did say they were prepared to meet the actual malice standard for public figures.
Sorry, TLDR.
I try to Big Tedious a read every once in a while, but my eyes glaze over and I lose interest by the 2nd or 3rd line. I can’t even goof on him without falling asleep.
One of the drawbacks of being a mod is not being able to put people on ignore.
You do know you’d be happier (and we would be too) if you could.
OR you can always do what I’d bet a lot of us do: type up a lengthy rebuttal that we’re convinced will put That Other Guy in his place, and rally The Right-Minded behind us. And then… don’t hit the Reply button.
T — I like you as a poster, but as Sam Peckinpah said about Pauline Kael: In this case [you’re] cracking walnuts with [your] ass.
The reporter was an eye witness. There is no valid conflicting evidence. The very notion of tasing yourself in the testicles screams “urban legend in the making.” Your objections are on a level with those of Flat Earthers or Biblical Literalists.
Ha!!!
There is far more evidence for the Loch Ness Monster or for alien lizard people being in charge of the government than there is for the ball-tasing story. I feel quite confident in saying it did not occur.
I’m sure next insurrection, someone will be sure to tase themselves in the balls.
That’s not the threshold for Snopes calling it false nor should it be. It would be really fucking stupid to only call something “false” if it was literally impossible for it to be true. If every reasonable indication is that it’s false, then it’s false. You really are being an idiot about this; you have totally unfounded rumors on one side contradicted with a reporter’s eyewitness testimony and you aren’t happy with a “false” rating? Holy shit you need some perspective here.
Right. “But it could happen!” has never been a standard for judging the truth of a incident.
Apparently some of the rioters did have tasers, and a DC policeman was tasered and had a (non-fatal) heart attack. I’m not sure when these reports came out relative to the tweets on the ball-tasing story, but it is easy to see how they could be conflated and morph into a joke.
Indeed, urban legends often come from a bit of truth retold and reshaped until it turns into something that never happened but is compelling enough for people to spread around.
I put poi in my mouth one time. Pretty sure lemon juice wouldn’t have helped.
Yeah, I was wondering how lemon would make library paste taste any better myself.
I tried it in 1987 during a visit to Hawaii and I, too, was unimpressed.