I’m out for the day, tomorrow the whole team will be back with a day filled with exciting posts and delightful conversation.
Have a fantastic night, and lets get chatty in the comments.
I’m out for the day, tomorrow the whole team will be back with a day filled with exciting posts and delightful conversation.
Have a fantastic night, and lets get chatty in the comments.
104 replies on “Monday Open Thread Shindig”
Another (former) Jezzie here! I wasn’t as pissed off by the commenting change as I was by the articles today. Jeez, we get it, you don’t like us, we’re leaving, calm your tits.
Anyways, I can’t stop listening to this song:Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I
It’s so pretty, but also kind of depressing and I should probably stop listening because I’m already a little too depressed…
It warms the cockles of my heart to see so many Jez refugees here. Â It’s like taking the only great part of Jez (the commenters) and mixing them with articles that I don’t have to hate read. Â Lovely! Â Also, I hate reading science articles on Jez, but have read a couple of good ones on here.
The hate-reading got to the point where I liked hate-reading the articles more than actually-reading them. It was like crack. Especially anything involving the Fashion Week doll, which was the poppet equivalent of “making fetch happen”.
We have some great science writers here!
Welcome, new Jezfugees! Seriously, c’mon in and get you a drink. Or a snack. Or a pillow. Hop into discussions (or lurk).
In other news, I just realized what day it was. And that there is no way I will be able to make money to pay rent on time. The temp job I start Monday will pay in time for August’s rent, but… ::whimper::
I know it’s a stock photo, but this is how I envisage Jezebel today:
Grrrrr, work is bringing big buckets of suckitude and an overhanging sense of failure to my life lately. Deadlines looming, funding applications going unanswered, coworkers ignoring me, etc. And technically, I’m supposed to be on vacation the entire July.
Fuck that blows.
I hope this helps?
The curious lack of kittens is one of my life’s main shortcomings, really, so thank you!
SO MANY NEW PEOPLE it’s giving me feelings.
I know I already posted this downthread but STARS AND DAVIDS FOR EVERYONE
(and, um, what fresh shitshow happened Over There?)
http://jezebel.com/5921121/my-little-comments-friendship-is-magic
Coincidentally, they took away everyone’s stars.
wowwwwwww. way to alienate the loyal readers who brought you up into the big leagues, Jez.
ed: even Gizmodo managed to write a nicer, more explanatory “new system guyz” post than J did.
No fucking kidding. I mean, it’s true, for a long while when I was there, I felt “left out” for not having a star. Not only that, but I felt like people didn’t care as much whether I came or went on that site simply because I didn’t have a star.
But the idea of celebrating it as some sort of discussion-promoting meritocracy, the idea of saying “you’re just gonna have to deal! *trollface*”…they’d have to be fucking daft to think that’s true. I am absolutely certain that the commenting environment will become a place I wouldn’t want to touch with a sixty foot pole.
I finally left the site because I didn’t want to deal with the content anymore, but the only reason I stayed so long was the community. Which, apparently, they have no problem with destroying.
I want to make a burner account and send her evil messages. But I won’t because I’m 22 and really working on becoming a mature adult.
It just blows my mind how patronizing and *dismissive* that post is. A lot of Jez’s readership has been reading and commenting for years, and that post just reads like a chain grocery store’s form letter reaction to occasional patrons who complain that the chain as a whole no longer has self-checkout lanes. Even if they’d said “we didn’t choose this, Gawker did and they’re our hosts”, it would be less frustrating.
I like P-mag better anyway. Partly the more community-like environment and partly because y’all stick with original content. There are no Hugo Schwyzer reblogs here.
I love it! Also, how did you get the GIF in the post? Mine is just attached and you have to click to see it.
After you upload the image, there will be a little gray link to the right saying “Insert into editor”. Click that and the image will pop into the comment wherever the cursor is. :) Happy .gifing!
Hey, Jezzie here too! I made an account after they posted the rape video, but it seems to no longer exist, so I made another one. I’m porquemoi (formerly chloekinsicle) on Jez and I was chloekinsicle here too. Refugee party!
Welcome! And oh hell, I see the comments are already closed at Jez… I’m going to miss lurking in Groupthink. If little else.
Hello! There’s a whole bunch of us here now. And Ron Swanson dancing makes everything better!
Hey yaaaaaa *insert Outkast here*
I just wrote some haikus to describe my phd dissertation. I think this has been a productive use of my time while in class. Let me share:
Fragmented brook trout
Native cold-water species
Struggle to stay cool
Flood, forests, and genes
A negative synergy
Shifting trends and norms
Inappropriate
Ecological models
Won’t help, just damage
Haiku that I saw yesterday, by a kid:
Five syllables here
Seven syllables go here
Are you happy now?
That kid is brilliant.
Whoever s/he is, I want to distribute a serious high five.
haiku are hard ok.
or you can go the other way.
That is beautiful. Mine would go like this:
I’m still failing at
Framing all that damn research
Brain won’t do theory
(Is “theory” 2 or 3 syllables?)
The best part of poetry is that can be either depending on your own wishes!
Prepare for some Jezzie influx. They switch over to a lovely troll-friendly commenting system tomorrow, replete with burner accounts.
I for one, welcome our
new overlords former commenting community!I’m here.
And for that I will say hurray and swing my curls around in a wild yet harmless way.
Et moi!
I feel like we should be handing out blankets and hot drinks, yes?
I would love a cuppa right now. Seems like a fantastic idea!
I feel as if we should have a specific “Welcome former Jezebel commenter!” page for these occasions. Â We always pick up the neatest people when J-bel does something, though, so I’m excited to make some new friends this week.
I’m glad we threw a fresh coat of paint on P-mag.
I love the new coat by the way.
It looks great!
It really does look fabulous!
Hi, former Jezzie feeling like the new kid at school who doesn’t know where to sit at lunch. Hi?
We’re just one big lunch table. There’s a Diet Coke fountain over by Selena, a fully stocked coffee bar over by me, and every once in a while we all get up and switch seats just so no one gets bored. Jump in! We don’t bite OR take our commenters for granted!
Former Jezzie here too.
Welcome!
I hear there is shelter for us? May I sit here?
Absolutely!
Like we would trouble something mighty like a doodley ;)
You flatter! I am no more mighty them I am doodley.
All right, let’s just go with me not troubling new-comers. Or oldbees. I’m pretty harmless. I like to think.
Welcome all! Former Jezzie here, too, who has been hanging out here for a couple of months and never looked back.
Gas to get to Seattle: $100
Outfit to wear to Grandma’s funeral: $45
Seeing my ultra-conservative family lost and walking through the Seattle Pride Parade: priceless
mere words do nothing to describe the beauty of that day
I feel bad for laughing, but I totally did.
oh please don’t feel bad! I was stifling giggles all the way! I’m still laughing!
The whole rest of that side of my family home schools their kids (you know, the way God intended) and they have NEVER been introduced to anything LGBT – related. I can’t wait for those kids to discover what else they’ve been missing out on!
That sounds like one of the most satisfying fucking sights in the world.
It was beautiful, Sil. Wish you could have seen it.
*stretches arms* ahhhh this feels MUCH better!
I’m very happy to have logged in and landed on my feet! Open Thread during the week? YES PLEASE.
Welcome! We run an open thread every weeknight, and we’ve got groups and forums open 24 hours for your typing and chatting pleasure.
If you need anything, don’t hesitate to ask!
Yay, I can log in again! I was here a few months ago, one of the many disgruntled Jezzies, spent some time here, then all of a sudden I couldn’t log in for like 3 days straight so I just gave up. :( The new design looks GREAT!
Welcome back! I wondered what happened to you!
I wondered where you went, too! I’m glad you’re back! :)
I’m glad I’m back too! I had lots of sads when I couldn’t log in.
Hello I’m an exile from Jezebel too! Feeling a little homeless at the moment, any old Jezzies to show me the ropes around here?
This article is a great place to start
Thank you! Already feel like I’m settling in.
Thank you for the link!
Hi! Welcome to P-mag! Everyone here is really cool, if you need anything, just ask.
I’m converting to Judaism tomorrow. I really wanted it to be something special, but all the Rabbis involved in the process were either assholes or indifferent. The whole process just made me resentful and miserable.
My original sponsoring Rabbi was an awful, awful person. She did a lot of terrible crap, but one thing that sticks out was a story that she told me about how she refused to help a bisexual person convert because they wanted to continue dating men and women and wouldn’t promise to marry someone of the opposite sex. As she put it “gay people don’t have a choice, but if you do you should make the traditional one described in the Torah.”
After deciding that I really didn’t want to be around that person anymore I switched to another Rabbi who seems to have a “whatever I don’t care” approach. I talked to him for all of 20 minutes and he basically just said “Fine I’ll take you to the Beit Din,” while giving me no concept of what to expect.
It’s all so frustrating and upsetting.
Aww, that’s no good. I suppose you can take some comfort in the future community you’re entering? As in, they’ll spell it out for you and help you along the way. Good luck tomorrow!
Oof. Not Jewish, but when the priest at my church was a total jerkface, I quit attending services for a while (until he retired actually), so I can empathize a bit. I just can’t imagine someone not being excited to have someone join their faith. It’s a big deal. If it’s worth anything, I’m excited for you. I hope the day will be special despite the apathy of the Rabbi.
I’m really glad for you that despite your awful interactions with individuals in charge, you’re still committing yourself to the faith. That says a lot about your character and I think that community is seriously lucky to have you.
Gah that’s so frustrating. I guess by now there’s no chance of being able to find a better Rabbi, but if you wish to be a synagogue goer, I hope that you find one that is warm, progressive, and supportive to your liking.
Thanks guys.
I think I’m just going to look for a reformed synagogue to join. I converted with a conservative one because I was told that it’s a good idea to convert as far to the right as you can. Mostly because Israel enjoys telling converts that they aren’t “Jewish enough” to count as a Jew in their country. Not that I want to live there, but in case any of my kids ever did.
I’ve been to conservative shuls in other communities that were very open minded. I even went to one where on Passover the Rabbi discussed the Exodus and how Jews have a history of struggling to find a home, which he tied into why he believes they should empathize with undocumented immigrants and should support the DREAM Act. He then had a young man who would be granted citizenship if the dream act were passed come up and discuss his life story. It was amazing.
For whatever reason all the Conservative Rabbis I’ve encountered in my city seem to be more focused on whether I’m going to keep eating shrimp. I get that halacha (jewish law)Â is part of Conservative Judaism, but here it seems to be the main focus, which is disappointing.
Euch. So yesterday I got this bitchy email (cc to my boss no less), about how this report I had filled out was filled out wrong, and how all this info was covered in a conference call that I WAS NOT IN ON.
I decided to kill it with kindness and responded with something like, “Thanks for your suggestions on how to improve the report. I wasn’t in attendance on the confrence call in question, do you have any other suggestions for things I should be aware of going forward?”
The response I got indicated that the bitchyness was intended more for the other two people involved in the report. ‘Scuse me, why then was the email to me and only cc them then?
I hate office drama.
that’s completely lame. the message that sends to the other two is – “Oh look, Opifex got in trouble.” Not “Oh look, we’re all in trouble.”
Good on you for the classy lady response. Can’t say I’d have done the same.
Fer serious. 90% of what I do with this report is get information and turn it into report format. I asked what people wanted included, they told me, and I wrote it into the report. Then Mr. Rude comes back to me that that is the wrong info, when he knows full well that I just write the report, I don’t generate the info going in. And copies the boss man who doesn’t understand how this stupid report works. Thanks heaps buddy. Next time you want to tell the other folks about what is supposed to be going into the report, maybe you could, I don’t know, tell them.
WHAT?! Criticizing those directly responsible instead of the preparer of information? Surely you jest!
*right-click save*
He has the best face of all the faces.
he’s the faciest
oh that gif…
Hey all! New exile from Jezebel.. Finally made the switch because of the introduction of the new (awful) commenting system over there. Pleased to meet you!
Pleased to meet you too! Welcome welcome:)
Welcome! :)
Hello and hurray! Have a David.
And he’s got a star for you. :) Welcome!
Omg. This might be the best/most relevant .gif ever. I love it.
I really hope that’s his actual house, too. I hoooooooooooope.
I do think that’s the best gif in history.
Hey. I’m from Jez too. I’m really going to miss groupthink.
Welcome, welcome. I came here from Jezebel too, and I like it here loads better.
Welcome!
I was a Jezzie/Persephoneer, but now I think I may make the full switch…
Hurgh-urgh. I have a temperature and feel like my brain is in a fuzz-bubble. Ibuprofen hasn’t kicked in yet. Send clarity!
aaand my pulse is 100bpm. Yeah, I’m leaving work early.
Oh no! Hope your’re feeling better.
I slept for about two hours, feeling better now but the same happened yesterday. We shall see! Sleep is fabulous!
I surprised myself with writing a 600 words article in one go. All right, recipes where involved so a proper 300 words, but still.
I forgot my healthy salad + yoghurt lunch so now I’ve decided to get poffertjes for lunch (mini-mini pancakes).
If I start working now, I could be done at two. I’m not going to start working now, the Internet is here for me.
So, I have a Straight Talk phone. I just got a new phone because my old one was 2 years old and finally broke. I can’t get gmail to work on my new phone so I called customer service. They said since I can call/text/facebook my phone is working properly and that I should call google. Is that hilarious or what?
If I can’t get my gmail to work on my phone, I’m going to have to come up with a different option :| I hate phones.
Are you using a Gmail app on an Android phone? If so you could try uninstalling and re-installing the app.
Nope, not an android. I’m just using the regular browser. I called them back this morning and spent 30 minutes on the phone. The end solution? It might take an entire day for your browser to work properly so just keep checking it during the day and call us back this evening. So annoying.
Ugh. I swear they don’t know what they’re talking about half the time. I got told three different things by three different people the last time I had to call my phone company.
Selena you kept me laughing all day! Thanks. I am glad you kept the ship on track while wonderful editors got a holiday!
You guys, this weekend was AWESOME. Teddy Bear Glittercannon, AKA Mr. SaraB, throws THE BEST party around, and all of the editors, Mr. Editors, and Junior Editors-in-Training are just delightful people.
It was, in fact, a fantastic weekend. You’re awesome. They’re awesome. EVERYONE WAS AWESOME.