QOTD: Why gay people hate marriage
"One of the joys of being gay and having lots of gay friends was the knowledge that at least half our acquaintances would never encumber us with wedding lists at Peter Jones or the social obligation to spend the better part of a Saturday in enforced merriment in the company of a crew of people we didn’t know and would never meet again, and in a cause — a marriage — whose prospects we secretly knew to be patchy at best, but that we were obliged to celebrate as the beginning of perpetual bliss.
"After the mid-point of one’s life an understanding dawns that there are only a finite number of Saturdays left. Those tempted to invite an older person to their wedding should ponder the possibility that they are asking for the commitment of an appreciable portion of someone’s remaining leisure-time to compulsory jollity on another’s behalf. A marriage can be dissolved. A bachelorhood can be regained. A lost Saturday never can.
"At the core of the celebration of a marriage is a half-lie. This thing may or may not work out — but guests are obliged to pretend otherwise, and in a ceremony that goes on too long and is followed by hours hanging around for a ghastly reception to start, where one will have to explain again, to increasingly drunken acquaintances and for the umpteenth time, that the reason one declines to dance is that one really doesn’t want to dance."
--Matthew Parris, "Hurrah for the new gay 'weddings'. But please don't invite me along"
Labels: gay, marriage, qotd
QOTD: Superstitious?
"Are you superstitious?" my father asks me.
"Well, I am Catholic," I respond.
Labels: catholicism, qotd, superstition
QOTD: Degrees + Studying = Elitist
"It seems rather elitist to me for people who maybe have degrees in this field to feel that they, because they've studied it, somehow know better than the parents..."
Rep. John Duncan (R-TN), on the support of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association for comprehensive sexual education, rather than abstinence-only classes. I shit you fucking not.
Labels: daily show, education, john duncan, jon stewart, qotd, sex, tennessee
QOTD: God's Irony
"Fat girls have such wonderful tits. It's sad that such beauty was wasted on God's irony."
(I wrote this on my tablet Friday night and I don't remember who inspired it, although it may have just been me revisiting previous thoughts on the subject)
Labels: breasts, fatty, god, irony, qotd
QOTD: I don't ever seem to get tired of you
"That other girl, or other women, whatever. I mean, I was thinking, that they're just fantasies. You know? And they always seem really great because there's never any problems. And if there are, they're cute problems like, you know, we bought each other the same Christmas present or she wants to go see a movie that I've already seen, you know. And then I come home and you and I have real problems and you don't want to see the movie I want to see period. There's no lingerie and--"
"I have lingerie!"
"Yes you do you have great lingerie but you also have the cotton underwear that's been washed a thousand times and its hanging on the thing. and they have the it too but I don't have to see it because it's not in the fantasy, you understand? I'm tired of the fantasy, because it doesn't really exist. And there are never really any surprises and it never really..."
"Delivers?"
"Delivers. Right. I'm tired of it. And I'm tired of everything else for that matter...but I don't ever seem to get tired of you."
"Rob" and "Laura",
High FidelityLabels: high fidelity, john cusack, movie, qotd
QOTD: To each according to his needs.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)
All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one's need.
Acts of the Apostles 2:44-45
There was no needy person among them, for those who owned property or houses would sell them, bring the proceeds of the sale, and put them at the feet of the apostles, and they were distributed to each according to need.
Acts of the Apostles 4:34-35
Labels: acts of the apostles, christian socialism, christianity, communism, karl marx, marxism, politics, qotd, religion
QTOD: Black-owned Businesses and Chicken Thighs
"People aren't going to come to the store just because it's black-owned. They'll come because of the experience, the staff, the selection and quality. Otherwise they'll go to get a tiny yet cheaper selection of least common denominator "bestsellers" when they get their twenty-pack of chicken thighs at Costco."
Christopher Chambers, Author and Professor, Georgetown University,
"The Implications are more frightening than the reprecussions"[Editor's note: He misspelled repercussions, not I.]Labels: media, qotd, racism
QOTD: Tourists, prostitutes, politicians.
"``Would you patronize a streetwalker?'' No, I would treat her as an equal."
"``I didn't like to come to your town anymore. What makes New York so crummy these days?'' Uh, tourists."
"``Have you ever committed adultery in your mind?'' Um. Not in my mind."
"``Who do you think has the most charisma between Ford and Carter?`` Actually, anybody between Ford and Carter."
Dick Cavett, reading questions during the monologue on Saturday Night Live, 13 Nov 1976
Labels: adultery, dick cavett, politics, prostitution, qotd, saturday night live
QOTD: Good satire
"The problem with good satire is that it's likely to come true."
--DH
Labels: qotd, satire
QOTD: She went crazy.
"And, then she went crazy. And not, I'm going to drink a bottle of Jack and then gang bang the football team crazy. No. She went suicidal. She almost set our apartment on fire."
--"Girlface",
I hate Creed--Or how I know there are 52 Advil in my apartment on
everything2Labels: crazy, qotd
QOTD: Hangings
"I'd vote for giuliani before obama, because at least we'd have the option of hanging giuliani from a tree when he pulls off what he wants, where as with obama, we'll be hesitant..."
A comment to the Republican debate in New Hampshire (ABC)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8854768252124327801
Labels: giuliani, obama, qotd
QOTD: Bitch, you almost made me laugh.
"'Whats a Nubian?' Bitch, you almost made me laugh."
"What about you? You didn't tell me you were gonna scream 'Black Rage!'--I nearly pissed myself."
--Hooper X and Banky Edwards, Chasing Amy
Labels: chasing amy, kevin smith, nubian, qotd, racism
QOTD: Don't ask scary questions.
"If my answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions."
-- "Jules Winnfield",
Pulp FictionLabels: pulp fiction, qotd, truth, unpopular
QOTD: Vague pronouncements
"People whose only skill is making vague pronouncements should just be taken out and shot."
-- Matt Palmer,
Strategists and Tacticians Labels: management, qotd, strategy, tactician
QOTD: God hates bloggers and kittens.
"For each “meme” forwarded on the blogosphere, God kills a kitten. And I’d rather do that myself."
-- dr. Dave,
The One-time-only Internet Meme: BooksLabels: god, kittens, meme, qotd
QOTD: Amulet of Unaccountability
"Thank god Condoleeza Rice was wearing the Bush administration's No-Comment-I-Don't-Recall Amulet of Unaccountability."
--Jon Stewart, 20071030, on her testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Labels: condoleeze rice, daily show, jon stewart, politics, qotd
QOTD: The Noble Things of Life
"If you had any knowledge of the noble things of life, you would refrain from coveting others' possessions; but for me to die for Greece is better than to be the sole ruler over the people of my race."
--
King Leonidas of
Sparta to
King Xerxes I of
Persia, before the
Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC
(recorded by
Plutarch in
Sayings of Spartans [Greek: Apophthegmata Laconica])
Labels: nobility, qotd, sacrifice, spartans
QOTD: Assumptions About Human Nature
"There are far too many assumptions about what human nature ought to be and not enough research into what it is."
Henry Ford,
My Life and Work:
The Terror of the MachineLabels: henry ford, human nature, qotd
QOTD: Common Sense versus Truth
"If common sense involved facts or reason, it would be called the truth."
--The Don Lachlan
Labels: qotd, reason
QOTD: How do you spell Irony? I-R-A-Q
"If Turkey were to give itself the right to interfere in Iraq militarily, what is there to stop other neighbors from doing so?"
--Barhim Salih, Iraq's deputy prime minister
"[An invasion would be] violating the sovereignty of another country and is against international laws and treaties."
-- Jamal Abdullah, an Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government spokesman
"There's a better way to deal with the issue than having the Turks send massive troops into the country."
--George W. Bush, U.S. President and Hypocrite Extraordinaire
[All from the
Most Trusted Name In Sensationlism]
Labels: bush, iraq, qotd, turkey
