Comments on: Hatred, Compulsion, and Insanity http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Helen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-120146 Helen Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:12:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-120146 But definitely the best sit-down one, all the same, Jonathon. But definitely the best sit-down one, all the same, Jonathon.

]]> By: Jonathan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-119847 Jonathan Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:50:02 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-119847 <i>An identical effect, from both the forests’ and the catalog companies’ perspective, would obtain if they simply cut down the trees and shipped them directly to the landfill, leaving me the fuck out of it. I have, in fact, suggested this cunning scheme to several of the mail-order catalog companies. In response they sent more catalogs.</i> Wow! You had me and my S.O. in full righteous laughter! If we didn't live in an awful Patriarchy, you'd be the one of the best stand-up comedians in the country. An identical effect, from both the forests’ and the catalog companies’ perspective, would obtain if they simply cut down the trees and shipped them directly to the landfill, leaving me the fuck out of it. I have, in fact, suggested this cunning scheme to several of the mail-order catalog companies. In response they sent more catalogs.

Wow! You had me and my S.O. in full righteous laughter! If we didn’t live in an awful Patriarchy, you’d be the one of the best stand-up comedians in the country.

]]> By: Patagonia to Women Rock Climbers: ‘A Delicate Pointelle Weave Offers a Touch of Femininity’ at I Blame The Patriarchy http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-26135 Patagonia to Women Rock Climbers: ‘A Delicate Pointelle Weave Offers a Touch of Femininity’ at I Blame The Patriarchy Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:59:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-26135 [...] Each new weekday that dawns on the Twisty Bungalow brings with it a fresh bombardment of mail order catalogs. I did not ask to be inundated with mail order catalogs, but you know how it is. Some achieve garbage, others have garbage thrust upon them. [...] […] Each new weekday that dawns on the Twisty Bungalow brings with it a fresh bombardment of mail order catalogs. I did not ask to be inundated with mail order catalogs, but you know how it is. Some achieve garbage, others have garbage thrust upon them. […]

]]> By: AndiF http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2697 AndiF Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2697 As a little sidenote to a consulting job I was doing for mega-publisher RR Donnelly, I got a tour of their catalog process. Among the very unhappy things I learned was that in order to have sufficient numbers for bulk mailing to a specific zipcode, they borrowed addresses from their vast database to pad things out, thus solving the mystery of why I sometimes get strange catalogs* or two or three copies of the same catalog. * OTOH, this does mean that every now and again, we get to play that very fun game "what's the most idiotic item in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog?" As a little sidenote to a consulting job I was doing for mega-publisher RR Donnelly, I got a tour of their catalog process. Among the very unhappy things I learned was that in order to have sufficient numbers for bulk mailing to a specific zipcode, they borrowed addresses from their vast database to pad things out, thus solving the mystery of why I sometimes get strange catalogs* or two or three copies of the same catalog.

* OTOH, this does mean that every now and again, we get to play that very fun game “what’s the most idiotic item in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog?”

]]> By: Mistress http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2698 Mistress Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2698 Watch Penn & Teller's RECYCLING episode of Bullshit. It's on season 2. They say it better, but it costs more & is worse for the environment to recycle paper & plastic. And there are more trees now than there ever were before because the paper companies grow them to make paper. So, yeah. It still sucks to get bags full of garbage in the mail, though. Watch Penn & Teller’s RECYCLING episode of Bullshit. It’s on season 2. They say it better, but it costs more & is worse for the environment to recycle paper & plastic. And there are more trees now than there ever were before because the paper companies grow them to make paper. So, yeah.

It still sucks to get bags full of garbage in the mail, though.

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2699 Chris Clarke Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2699 <em>They say it better, but it costs more & is worse for the environment to recycle paper & plastic. And there are more trees now than there ever were before because the paper companies grow them to make paper. So, yeah.</em> Penn and Teller are the kind of skeptics that uncritically swallow corporate bullshit when it matches their rich-guy libertarian ideologies. There are not "more trees now than there ever were before" in most of the places where there were ever trees. Period. That's Limbaughese crap. They say it better, but it costs more & is worse for the environment to recycle paper & plastic. And there are more trees now than there ever were before because the paper companies grow them to make paper. So, yeah.

Penn and Teller are the kind of skeptics that uncritically swallow corporate bullshit when it matches their rich-guy libertarian ideologies.

There are not “more trees now than there ever were before” in most of the places where there were ever trees. Period. That’s Limbaughese crap.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2700 Twisty Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2700 Penn & Teller creep me out. Even if they didn't creep me out, it is my policy never to take environmental advice from guys who live in Vegas, one of the most environmentally hostile (and stupidest) cities on the planet. Penn & Teller creep me out.

Even if they didn’t creep me out, it is my policy never to take environmental advice from guys who live in Vegas, one of the most environmentally hostile (and stupidest) cities on the planet.

]]> By: Finn http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2701 Finn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2701 >Penn & Teller creep me out.< I take it you didn't like The Aristocrats? >Penn & Teller creep me out.<

I take it you didn’t like The Aristocrats?

]]> By: CafeSiren http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2702 CafeSiren Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2702 BEsides magazines, I am also powerless to stop the floods of advertising circulars from local merchants. Mostly grocery stores, but, since I live in Southern California, I occasionally get glossy 5x7 cards offering to burn my face with acid or inject paralytic toxins into the area around my eyes. I, of course, am expected to pay for the privilege. I can't just throw them in the recycling without looking, because occasionally something like a power bill is hidden between the grocery ads and the offers to steam-clean my non-existent carpet, but I often wonder if anyone actually sits down and reads the Albertson's ad from front to back. And how this can possibly make financial sense to the companies doing it. BEsides magazines, I am also powerless to stop the floods of advertising circulars from local merchants. Mostly grocery stores, but, since I live in Southern California, I occasionally get glossy 5×7 cards offering to burn my face with acid or inject paralytic toxins into the area around my eyes. I, of course, am expected to pay for the privilege.

I can’t just throw them in the recycling without looking, because occasionally something like a power bill is hidden between the grocery ads and the offers to steam-clean my non-existent carpet, but I often wonder if anyone actually sits down and reads the Albertson’s ad from front to back. And how this can possibly make financial sense to the companies doing it.

]]> By: norbizness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2703 norbizness Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/15/hatred-compulsion-and-insanity/#comment-2703 Remember the <i>Seinfeld</i> episode where Kramer tried to return the catalogs to the Pottery Barn store? Yeah, I thought it was ruined by the horsefaced, unfunny, eponymous jerkoff as well. God I hate Jerry Seinfeld. Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer tried to return the catalogs to the Pottery Barn store? Yeah, I thought it was ruined by the horsefaced, unfunny, eponymous jerkoff as well. God I hate Jerry Seinfeld.

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