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Same when the place where I used to work supported the i-Opener. “OK, can you tell me which website were you trying to reach?”
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Only a functional demon would have more than one spreadsheet of pee.
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I think I want to cut him a little slack on this one – maybe he just clicked an ad on his favorite website?
I started getting these ads after I clicked the Sexy Tree Painter link and I prefer them to the alternative “do this every day if you have chronic toenail fungus”.
That’s ironic.
“Brit Hume” is my safe word.
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I’m kinda torn about this as well.
If it were someone who was accepting of the LGBTQ community, then I would condemn jokes about this, no questions asked.
If it were someone who demonized the LGBTQ community while doing whateverthefuck in their private life, I would still condemn anti-gay jokes at his expense, but would welcome “he doesn’t know we all know he’s gay” jokes at his expense.
And if the lines get blurred somewhere, I would still laugh. I’d feel like an asshole, but I’d laugh just the same.
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Right. And then, do a quick check of what you shot, y’know, for a bit of quality control. Look at the entire image, see what’s there. It’s like confirming a link you’re sharing… is that the one you intend to send?!?
I think humour is really hard and big generalizations about jokes are never going to catch everything.
But going back to the tweet, it seems like a warning worth listening to. Odds are good somewhere out there in the world there is a great comedian who could make a hilarious joke about Brit Hume wearing vinyl lingerie that would have Erin laughing. Odds are also pretty good I’m not that person and I should think twice about making such a joke.
(Which I did when I instead made a joke about Brit Hume using the images for illustrations in their slashfic - there are lots of things to joke about).
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I know of several sites where that search term will still return useful results, but it’s probably not the same kind of vixen you and Hume are thinking of. 
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The generalizations aren’t meant to catch anything. They’re meant as a guideline one follows when executing human judgment. More of an explanation of a thought process than a flowchart for judging appropriateness.
That’s the problem with humor. There are great comedians who can make anything funny, and great jokes that are funny even when they’re not supposed to be. The problem is, nearly every drunk in the bar thinks he’s that comedian, and that his recycled sixth-grade yucks are those jokes.
See, that’s funny, because you’re placing Brit Hume in an entirely different cultural group than where he belongs, which is an example of absurd humor. It’s also humanizing to see him as a writer and illustrator of slashfics, and seeing that vile piece of shit as a human is about as absurd as it gets.
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That joke would have to be tight.
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“It was an act that could be performed in tenderness, as a seal of love, or in contempt, as a symbol of humiliation and conquest. It could be the act of a lover or the act of a soldier violating an enemy woman. He did it as an act of scorn. Not as love, but as defilement.”
I never SS the whole screen precisely because of this danger. I did, however, once join a conference call with some engineers from Lockheed Martin as well as the CEO of the company that had contracted me while I was in the bath tub. The damn shampoo bottle splashed very loudly and clearly into the tub and they all figured out I was naked in a tub. They never let me live it down.
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Let’s be fair. It could also be about the other HE.
Whatever floats your boat,Brit Hume.
And a lesson to all of us to sanitize our reading lists and tab bars.
hell, there’s an erotic piece in my reading list sidebar right now.
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There are strict rules for how the titles of journals should be abbreviated in the reference lists of academic literature. Often, “shorten each word to the first two syllables” is a part of these rules.
This was not a good thing for the Journal of Analytical Toxicology.
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Sometimes it’s both.
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Hah, well played, sir or madam!
