Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/23/help-this-half-onion-in-a-plas.html
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I would, but that would mean signing up for twitter.
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Can we humor him and isolate him, instead of aggravating him? Insert him in a ‘Truman Show’ reality bubble in which all his dreams come true as he sees them, but a team of actual bureaucrats runs the country.
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Following. This account makes me cry for some reason.
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That’s not an onion, that’s an alternative lemon.
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While I’d follow the Twitter account, a reality show about half an onion would lack… something…
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This is interesting. I would’ve called the container a,‘baggie’, like ‘a lid in a baggie.’
What does everyone else call a small plastic bag for storing things?
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I usually kleenex the word by calling it a ziploc.
To me a “baggie” is the kind that doesn’t have the “zip” thing on top and requires some other closure.
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Agreed.
I think they used to be called “flip top” and/or “sandwich bags.”
Makes a pretty good seal for sandwiches and home-portioned chips.
It’s not airtight, but that is a feature, not a bug IMO for the ideal use case of a bologna sandwich made in the morning, intended to be eaten that day for lunch.
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I am not sure this is not actually the reality.
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Onion bubs is best bubs.
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Of course, getting such numbers would not actually prove they had no significance.
It would merely prove that some large group of people find the idea of beating Trump’s follower count amusing
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I don’t need onions to cry.
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Sounds more like a Twitter promotion rather than it’s intended purpose.
Fuck Twitter.
“We need a leader NOT a creepy Tweeter!” was one of my favorite chants during the Women’s March on Sat.
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I’m willing to take my amusement where I can find it.
Also, I don’t think it’s meant to prove anything. It amuses me, and it bothers Trump (don’t try to tell me he doesn’t care). That’s what I’d call a win-win
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Hasn’t somebody made the “National News is Half @TheOnion anyway” joke yet?
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Well, that’s one layer of the joke. If you peel off one more layer, it shows that the same is true of Trump’s Twitter numbers…
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[quote=“doctorow, post:1, topic:93432”]…proving that such numbers are a plebiscite on precisely nothing.
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Something that obvious doesn’t really need proving. Exhibit 1, Kim Kardashian…
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My unused twitter account is now following an onion. That’s as good a use for it as any other.
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