I defy you to not at least contemplate trying #15

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{ 11 comments }

1 Mindy February 6, 2009 at 9:21 am: Hmm, I wonder if I could unsticky tape my hands without looking like an idiot if I tried #15 now at work.
2 Beppie February 6, 2009 at 9:31 am: And the 0b-fat-hate appears in at #2. Douchebag. (The journalist, not the person who originally wrote it.)
3 Paul Tomblin February 6, 2009 at 10:07 am: #14 will probably be next weeks episode of House.
4 Chally February 6, 2009 at 10:31 am: Tigtog! By bringing the idea of contemplating #15 to our attention, we immediately contemplate it! Now that’s what I’m going to be thinking about today. :P

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5 fuckpoliteness February 6, 2009 at 10:39 am: Yes, I admit, I held my hands out in front of me as if my thumbs were taped down, and made little ‘dinosaur’ movements with a look of intense concentration on my face (from imagining I was a dinosaur). In my glassed in office. Sheesh. Time for some coffe/fresh air.

fuckpoliteness’s last blog post..Ok, I’m going in…
6 oldfeminist February 6, 2009 at 12:13 pm: Beppie, maybe #2 isn’t fat-hate, it’s hating being fat in junior high. I hated being fat in junior high, too, and it really was a horror, and I think it’s the kind of horror that doesn’t subside easily.
7 Jet February 6, 2009 at 12:30 pm: *facepalm* I resisted trying to be a dinosaur on the first reading – just. But fp, you I had to imitate. Because I had to know what a ‘dinosaur’ movement might look like. In my doorless office.
8 Beppie February 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm: Oldfeminist– I wasn’t accusing the person who originally wrote #2 of fat-hate– I can imagine that it was terrible. I think the fat-hate is on the part of the journalist, who seems to be squicked out by this knowledge.
9 hendo February 6, 2009 at 1:47 pm: I’m a dinosaur! And I’m in an office! With my counterpart who I am trying to ‘capacity build’ to be a good public servant! Whee!

… Nope, I couldn’t resist either. And I think the person who wrote the article is a party pooper. I really like this meme and I liked some of the things on the list they chose. I think they accidentally wrote something quite hilarious.

And I couldn’t agree more with this post. A couple of weeks ago I listened to a maddening radio essay broadcasted on Radio National which tried to compare the wacky ways young’uns use the intarwebs for social communication. Apparently, meeting your friends on Facebook is the modern young person’s version of meeting for coffee! Crazy!

argh.
10 mimbles February 6, 2009 at 6:39 pm: Poor thing, doesn’t she realise that reading stuff other people post to Facebook (and elsewhere) is optional?

I’m with hendo, it’s quite an amusing list really.

(I’ve been tagged twice but haven’t got around to doing it yet…)

mimbles’s last blog post..Snippets revisited
11 oldfeminist February 7, 2009 at 12:00 pm: Ah, Beppie, I get you now! Sorry for the confusion.

It seems that the real dinosaurs, thumbed or not, are the journalists who don’t get what it’s like to consider “online” a real place. Someone on the radio the other day was explaining how, to “these young people today,” online communication is, um, normal.