As my wife notes: real flight attendants are not allowed to talk like this. They have to route everything through PR. So I can only imagine the sheer bliss that they must have felt by seeing somebody else talk like this – because I believe The Real Spark gave the interview that lives in all of their hearts.
Via @presjpolk.
If people are going to be this willfully reckless, then why do we even have spooky horror movies, people?
I mean, Jesus CHRIST. I don’t even BELIEVE in magic or curses and if I ever found this on a dig, I’d carefully cover it back up, then go somewhere else for a while. There’s skeptical, and then there’s just asking for it. Great googly moogly.
“Just fly the damn plane.”
I always take the position that wild animals need to maintain a solid respect and fear of the talking monkeys; but that’s a two-way street, friends. For all the jaguar knew, this guy was trying to get bit. Hell, now I’m wondering, too. There’s some really strange fetishes out there these days, is all I’m saying…
*Yeah, playing Skyrim again. It’s relaxing.
I almost don’t want to read the article, now. I am morally certain it won’t be as good as the article inside my head.
It shouldn’t be. I grant that. But, like @JoePCunningham, I concede that there is something here.
It’s like the Internet, in miniature.
I feel it in my water. THE GREEN KNIGHT is the kind of movie I like to see. I am down for this.
To which I’ll add: while I understand the strategy that the people running this bookstore are employing (an appeal for cultural sub-demographic solidarity), it is by no means any sort of universal appeal. I suspect that some customers they don’t actually want… which is, of course, their privilege. But it then becomes the privilege of others to think of the plight of this particular bookstore as not being a universal problem, either. That’s the natural by-product of making appeals that are not universal.
I mean, if my wife said that to me in the tone that I’m imagining Mila used there, then let me tell you something: I would go right up to her and say, Yes, dear. Also, I like being in a situation where I’m gonna go to space! is a more frivolous decision than it used to be. I feel that this is definite technological progress.
Via @BrianFaughnan.
