I am not in a good place right now.

I believe I found a real gem. A few pics, all the same person...

WARNING: NSFW/NSFL

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explaterate (eks-SPLAY-tuhr-ayt) - v., to talk continuously without stop, blab, gab.


An Americanism -- one of the many colorful word coinages made in the middle half of the 19th century, which was a golden age of vibrant journalistic writing as newspapers, especially those in or near frontier states, competed for readers with their energetic writing. This one caught on, but unlike many that did as well, this one didn't survive the century, though I occasionally hear it used by some of my Mid-Western relatives, who seem to have a suspicious familiarity with the works of Mark Twain -- who got his start as a colorful journalist. The word was coined in Boston in 1831, and like many slang words the origin is obscure, but is possibly a mash-up of "explain" and "elaborate," though there's also the theory that it's a frequentive form of "explate," an old variation of "explain" that was still lingering at the time -- possibly moping around in bars in the South Bay, waiting to return to popularity that never came, to mangle a metaphor.

But I'll stop here before I explaterate any further.

---L.

...Makes me want to punch her through the intertubes.

Umm, so 4o5pastmidnight, is it ok to post youtube videos? I guess it could be considered hotlinking. And I guess if I don't see this posted I'll know the answer!

There's not much more to say about this girl except: everything. is. off. Like, I can't form sentences right now to adequately describe my annoyance with her. It's not just her hair or her makeup or her voice, either... it's her plethora of bad advice she so easily hands out. DX



Edit: Upon finally finishing the video, I realized her music started out with the Misfits and ended with Miley Cyrus. I am now even more annoyed and confused than before.

How did I never notice this before?!?!

verbigeration n

[vuhr-bij-uh-RAY-shun]

Obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases

From Latin verbigerare (to talk, chat), from verbum (word) + gerere (to carry on)

Due to his extensive scientific vocabulary and mumbling speaking manner, it took quite a bit of time for his friends and acquaintance to realize that Professor Jones' conversation was highly prone to verbigeration.

Sometimes I find it hard to believe that there are still people out there who don't seem to understand the first thing about things like gay rights issues. I think about how there's been 40 years of activism on this front, and while progress has been made, we're still running up against ignorant douchebags who believe stupid shit like gay men are child molesters and lesbians just need a good dicking.

It makes me wonder what else we can do at this point. If we've been educating in every way possible for all this time, and we're still at this place, is there even anything more that can be done?

I wonder if what we're actually running up against isn't ignorance anymore--the kind that can be corrected with gentle application of truthful information and appeals to sensibility--but people who simply aren't going to listen to facts no matter how or how often they're presented with them. Like creationists who are convinced that dinosaur bones and carbon dating are mere tricks of the devil or ways God tests our faith, I get the feeling that there's just no getting through to some people.

It's kinda like the healthcare thing, IMHO. At this point, why are we still trying to win GOP support at all? Do we think there's just some magical way we can present this stuff to them that will make them smack their heads like an old V8 commercial and come around to understanding that a healthy population is a productive and civilized one and thus it's in the government's interests to ensure that?

At what point do we throw in the towel and either just do it anyway, if we have the votes, or rest on what we've accomplished so far and wait for the dinosaurs to die out?

Undoubtedly, attempts at education have helped a great deal in many cases, but statistically speaking, they're really only working on young people--those who are predisposed to learning new things in the first place. I honestly don't think there's anything we can do at this point to change the minds of older generations. A few people may have a chance on a personal level of converting homophobic Uncle Stan, but as a movement, I just can't see us making any progress with the rest of the Uncle Stans.

With all the information that's out there now, if a given person is still homophobic, more information isn't going to change their mind. So why are we bothering? Why are we spending resources on those efforts when we could be spending them on fights we can win in the short term, rather than ones we won't win until Uncle Stan and his 30 million fellow senior phobes die out?

celerity [suh-ler-i-tee]

noun
swiftness; speed.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/celerity


Given how frail and ancient the woman looked, Jeremy was extremely surprised at the celerity of the old bat's movements as she bowled him over to claim the last open seat on the bus.

I've never had a close relationship with my grandma and today I almost cried when I saw her in her bed at the hospital. Her right kidney collapsed this morning and she has chronic liver failure. She grabbed my hand and looked at me with pussy yellow eyes and said "Thank goodness you're here, these fucking nurses have been poking me with those goddamn needles about 40 forty fucking times!" I laughed and said "That sucks, I'll yell at them if they do it again." She wouldn't let go of my hand and she was shaking like a chihuahua left out in the cold. The doctors say she's doing really bad at times and earlier I gave the okay for them to drain the fluids out of her stomach because the fluids are pushing her lungs up and she's not receiving enough oxygen. They said she was going to go through anesthesia and that there's a possibility that her heart might fail. She's in intensive care right now and I'm going to go see her tomorrow in the morning. All I can do is wait and hope for the best, but realistically I'm scared for her. This is the first time that I'm scared of death. Fuck.

John = Gryffindor. George = Ravenclaw. Ringo = Hufflepuff. Paul = Slytherin. Discuss.

and oh god why did it take me so long to watch The Red Shoes?


This movie is so gorgeous. Oh, Technicolour, I love you.

Also, Hans Christian Andersen, why must all of your stories be so depressing?

Evening, word-nerds! Without preamble (damnit, that was preamble!) today's word is:


Matutinal [ma'choo-tin'al]
adjective

Definition
Of or pertaining to the morning, occurring or performed in the morning, early. Also rarely, rising early.

Etymology
From Latin matutinalis, from mane, morning.

First seen
1656 Blount Glossogr.,
Matutinal, belonging to the morning, or morning prayer.
Last seen
1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 192
The matutinal use of saline aperients.

Usage
Definitely not being a morning person, I never enjoyed matutinal activities until I had at least has my coffee!

Why?

Some random "law is slavery" douchenozzle decided to start responding to some comments I made in a chain on someone else's journal more than a year ago. Uh. OK.

The good part, though, is that it led me back to something I posted in that debate that I think is a succinct explanation of why (h/t to Scott Kurtz) science is the foot that kicks magic square in the nuts:

Also, you seem to have a key misunderstanding about the scientific method--and indeed empiricism itself. You seem to want to say that if a given study of human behavior doesn't produce the exact same results for everyone in that study, that the study's results are useless. That's not at all how science works. Exceptions to a general rule don't disprove the generality of a rule. If a given vaccine works on 80 out of 100 subjects, the fact that it didn't work on the other 20 doesn't mean that it didn't work on those 80. It just likely means there's a variable present in the other 20 that wasn't in the others (say, a gene that makes them resistant to the strain in the vaccine.) (Properly conducted) science DOES account for variables and for imperfect results. And that's why it's inherently more valuable as a tool for setting policy in the here and now than superstition is. Science accepts its own fallibility and that it can always be improved upon. Superstition does not.