Open Thread
pharyngula | October 2, 2010The thread of bloat has swollen to horrendous dimensions while I'm distracted! Must quickly throw in a new sponge to soak up the torrent.
Here, just to keep you occupied…this is some sketch comedy produced by a couple of students here at UMM. It's a weird premise — it's about a couple of students in the 1990s who find a magical closet to transport them to 2010 — but you'll actually be able to see what living in Morris is like. Sorta.
Somebody should have mentioned to them, though, that nothing in Morris has changed much since 1890.
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pharyngula | September 29, 2010The permanent thread could use a little amusement, and this video offers it. Ask a scientist whether they believe in god, and what you get is an I-can't-believe-you-asked-me-that look; ask them about their work, and they get all enthusiastic and passionate. That's fairly universal among any group of scientists.
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pharyngula | September 26, 2010The elongating thread has had a shortage of nuns. Let us correct that.
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pharyngula | September 24, 2010The perpetual thread filled up fast when I wasn't looking…and just to keep the mood of the Friday Cephalopod, here's Vampyroteuthis in action.
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pharyngula | September 22, 2010The content of the preternaturally miscellaneous thread is random, so I think I can open them with random weirdness. So this is what they're wearing in London now?
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pharyngula | September 20, 2010We shall prolong the great swirling time-suck of comments with a cute and adorable parable.
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pharyngula | September 18, 2010The pope has crawled out of his cave in the Vatican and is offending his way across the UK, so how can I not extend the thread of a thousand voices with this lovely and entirely not-safe-for-work masterpiece by Tim Minchin?
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pharyngula | September 15, 2010That thread. That incessantly babbling thread. Here you go, more space.
Nice pea video, too. Although it is curiously arousing in spite of the plummy British narration.
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pharyngula | September 13, 2010Yet another edition of The Thread has lept the limited bounds of its previous domain to acquire a new instantiation. And we must philosophize once again over a very serious subject:
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pharyngula | September 12, 2010After brutally splicing the insane Oprah thread to the perennially random thread, it is now my intent to infuse it more deeply with the crazy: Catholics and Oprah.
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaaaa!
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Don't cry, Sven.
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pharyngula | September 9, 2010I just felt like the long thread needs some Delgados.
As you were.
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pharyngula | September 7, 2010You know, I'm supposed to watch my diet now. I took my son to lunch the other day and he ordered and ate an entire chicken-fried steak sandwich with a giant platter of french fries right in front of me, which was incredibly cruel…but I was strong, and didn't even steal a single fry from his plate. Then I thought that the person in the everlasting gob-unstopping thread was being similarly cruel when she posted this bacon porn video:
But she wasn't! I found myself completely uninterested in ever eating bacon again after watching that! Some of you may not want to watch it, then — it's a bit…
pharyngula | September 4, 2010We're going from the unending promenade to something a little wilder.
(Ophelia found this one)
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pharyngula | September 2, 2010Let's do commercials for the 100th entry in the thread of agony!
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pharyngula | August 31, 2010Yeesh, you've dragged me onto the internet to update the nagging thread again, despite the work piled up around me and the ickiness I'm feeling from all these new meds I'm soaking in.
Now back to recuperating and writing.
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pharyngula | August 29, 2010Huh? What? I stir from my haze (the drugs have really been diddling my brain this weekend) to see that someone in the thread of doom wants me to do something with porcupines? Why? Nasty, wicked, vicious beasts, they are. Will harpoon you with their quills and yank your liver out, they will. See:
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pharyngula | August 27, 2010Time to reset the perpetual conversation, and I was also sent this lovely message for Hitchens…so let's all say something nice about the man
I wish I could be half as aggressive, assertive, obnoxious, and eloquent as he is.
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pharyngula | August 26, 2010I'm home convalescing, but the unstoppable thread waits for no one. So here's a reset and a little thank you:
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