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You know, my neck is thicker than my head from all the deadlifting, maybe my neck cramps and strangles itself while I'm sleeping?Now that would be an unusual suicide. Anyway, can't wait for the cake. Actually, I know that was a joke but when I was getting tested for sleep apnea, they measured my neck size and told me neck size and shape can be a huge contributing factor to things like sleep apnea.

Could be anything. A massive sneeze could have dislodged some old mucus and move it just into the right spot. Did you drink anything? My snoring increases tenfold if I drink alcohol.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/6-inspiring-women-in-2014/article/2557807#.VJ741yxhoZU.twitter Washington Examiner posted a list of 6 most inspiring women in 2014 and Christina H. Sommers has made the cut, with her speaking out pro-#GamerGate being mentioned as a positive. I don't know the Washington Examiner, so I don't know if it's any good, but it looks like #GamerGate's rep is improving somewhat lately. EDIT: Found this an interesting read: http://thewordonthe.net/12/2014/a-neutral-mansplains-gamergate-social-justice-and-radical-feminism/ The title, A Neutral Mansplains #GamerGate, Social Justice and Radical Feminism, is pretty misleading as halfway through he professes to be sympathetic to the #GamerGate side, but this guy is still very on point when it comes to examining how and why #GamerGate happened. It's also huge.

I watched this too. It was surprisingly not horrific. In fact, it kinda won me over around the end. I mean, even with all that origin stuff they messed up, they got the personalities of the turtles mostly right and that's really the core. I also watched The Boxtrolls which was some lovely claymation. Had a couple of great laughs, a decent story and a hilariously despicable villain.

People who are obese have a higher chance of snoring but it's by far not the only reason. I sound like a lawnmower because of my deviated septum.

First time checking Twitter in a while. TotalBiscuit gets harassed for out of context claim that, when out of context, looks to imply that games made in Twine take no talent. #GamerGate promptly mass retweets an old Leigh Alexander tweet where she actually said that Twine games take no talent, people defend her and continue to harass TB. WTF is going on with this world?

I think the obvious problem of the Hobbit movies isn't that they stretched one book to three movies, it's that they filmed two movies and stretched those two into three movies. The structure doesn't work. Every movie ends and starts at weird places, like it was just randomly cut. It's obvious that it was written and filmed to a movie of the journey (Misty Mountains, Mirkwood) and a movie of the mountain (Smaug and the Battle of the Five Armies). Still, while the other movies had lots of bloat, this one was missing things. Why did the first movie give us 10 minutes of Radagast healing a hedgehog but this movie only has 30 seconds of Beorn and Legolas steals his big moment?

The lovely Malukah covered one of my favourite songs. Life-affirming.

Interesting that if you make this argument for #GamerGate you're enabling a hate group and being a useful idiot.

I'm going to steal this from you for future use.

Gay, queer, bi, pan, genderfluid, whatever. I know people are a stickler for terminology but I honestly think the focus on labeling it is detrimental to everyone. Either way, having a single entirely ambiguous shot of teasing shippers and saying after your show is over and you have zero risk left that your character is queer is not a brave move. It wasn't a brave move when J.K. Rowling did it and it's not a brave move now. You can't hide it in ambiguity to the point that most people will never even pick up on it and then pretend you made a huge leap forward. The creators talked about how they finally decided that they wouldn't let the fear of "not getting away with it on a network cartoon" stop them anymore which is ironic because that's exactly what still happened, the cowards.

That's the one. Not an amazing horror movie (some of the leads' decisions had me frustrated at its obvious horror movie dumbness) but it was very good at maintaining suspense (and a handful of actually good jumpscares) and the director knew his way around non-gory horror imagery very well. That kid coming out of the box scared the bejeesus out of me. A lot of it got under my skin and I definitely recommend it, though if someone were to check out the trailer to see if they would like it they might as well skip the film since it spoils the entire thing. It was also neat to find a "found footage" film that was literally about a character finding and watching footage that he found. No first person nonsense.

Wow, is that how the internet took that ending? My interpretation was "Nickelodeon totally wussed out on making her gay, cowards" because that's what actually happened in the episode. I know the creators confirmed it and all, but friggin' show, don't tell. This was about as useless as Dumbledore being gay. Anyway, this season had practically no shipping and neither did season 3 so if that was your issue with the first two seasons, let it rest. The other problems, such as none of the characters being particularely interesting? Still there. Although the third and fourth seasons were a lot better than the other seasons.

Sinister, from 2012 (I think). This movie may not have been a Slenderman movie but it certainly captured everything that made that mythos and the ARGs based on it scary. I think I'm going to be seeing things in the shadows a lot tonight.

That would be God Bless America starring Bill's less known younger brother, Joel Murray. It was remarkably well-reviewed! I also recommend it, I thought it was pretty funny.

Colors and patterns referencing rape? This Wikipedia admin beats out every single entry of the Darwin Awards to instantly become by far the dumbest person alive.

Did you in complete honesty, seriously just compare dyeing a dog to giving it a bath? I hope you don't have a dog, because like I said before if you don't know how to take care of a dog (i.e. knowing what could bloody well kill the poor sod in more ways than one) then you should not be allowed to have one and you obviously don't know how. The fact that this woman's dog is still alive after all this time is pure luck. Unless you use food coloring, there is no safe way to dye a pet (don't let "special for dogs dye!" fool you, it's bull). Hairdye is specifically made for human beings and is still bad for our hair and our skin, guess what it can do when it's poured all over the body (with a high likelyhood of it getting into that dogs eyes, orifices etc. unlike when used on a human) of an animal that can have entirely different reactions to it? A human has an allergic reaction to hairdye, worst case scenario is we have a swollen or itchy head for a few days. Worst case scenario for a dog is that they are covered head-to-toe in blisters and possibly die from shock. Then there's the fact that it damages their fur, I don't give a crap if a human being damages their own hair as a choice but a dog doesn't get to make that choice and their fur is pretty essential to survival. And as I pointed out in my last post, what do dogs do to clean themselves? They will be ingesting either straight dye or dye residue and can get seriously sick and even die. But hey, "no biggie".

Or, you know, picking one option doesn't exclude the other and both things are awful? Unless you're comparing real animal abuse with virtual murder of video game characters, in case I would say the amount of wolves and boars I have murdered for their pelts and livers is beyond measure and is probably a good indication that video game killing has nothing to do with real life.

+1 for that Derek Smart post Also, I don't really want to get into this because **** it, I'm not touching that insane woman with a ten yard stick, but dyeing a dog is not a harmless type of abuse, it can have serious consequences to the quality of the animals fur and its ability to survive bad weather and let's not even get into the fact that dogs clean themselves in a way that makes it extremely likely they will ingest dye or residue of it and get sick or die. This cannot be excused by saying "it was just an ignorant attempt to be closer to the animal". Even if it were, an animal is not a fashion accessoire and this animal needs to be taken away from this women especially considering the amount of times it was dyed before being high enough for chances of nobody telling her this to be absolute zero. Even if it was just out of ignorance, this isn't just a "I didn't know the marker I used on your face was permanent" type ignorance, this is horrific "I didn't know shaking the baby could kill it" type ignorance. A pet is a living creature and it is your bloody responsibility to know how to take care of it and if you don't know then you don't deserve to have it.

I got it and I'm 26. Anyone who doesn't get it is probably lacking a few cornerstones of musical education.

Yeah, the Hobbit. Um. Even as someone who liked most of the first two films as an overblown adventure, this one wasn't much of a payoff. It was well-paced compared to the others and it had a couple of cool things but none of it was especially great. It wasn't bad either, just aggressively mediocre. And Alfrid, oh Alfrid. If he had been killed off it would have been very satisfying but as it stands he is now the Jar Jar of this movie. An assortment of thoughts from during the movie: - Wow, that dragon attack we waited a year for was certainly over before I blinked. - When did Galadriel become the girl from The Ring? - Wormsign? Why on earth have we got wormsign? - What is up with that blinded albino troll with only prosthetic limbs? - Legolas discovers the ultimate stairmaster. - How did a horizontally floating orc just do a vertical launch straight through ice? EDIT: Oh yeah, where did those Rams come from? They just appeared out of thin air!

Think of the children is ridiculous anyway. Yes, children need to be protected, but I grew up with a mother who protected me from literally anything and it stunted my development to the point I'm still recovering from it. I love her to death but that wasn't the greatest idea. I think Terry Pratchett is on point (though the point is exaggerated) in this exchange from Hogfather.

This is why I don't hang up. They're not allowed to hang up unless you start hurling abuse at them and I have a lot of nonsense I can keep rambling about for hours. Last one heard me ramble on about the Jurassic World trailer for twenty minutes before I decided enough was enough.

Hackers from North Korea? They've got two computers! That still use punch cards!

Hey, I just realized... I didn't vomit once today! Improvement! Still sweating profusely, though. Lost 9 pounds in two and a half days. Thank the flying spaghetti monster that I have a wonderful girlfriend to take care of me.