GeorgeGlass

At least it didn’t suggest “a pickup truck,” which would mean your phone thinks you use people. No, it sounds like your phone think’s you’re a nice guy and wants you to be happy.

or “friends with Phoebe, Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Joey and Monica” or it would mean your phone thinks you need to really over-specify 15 year ended sitcoms.

I turned out to be the weird one cause I didn’t know what that meant.

and I gave her best friend a hug. Cause apparently not everyone sleeps with their friends.

Happy Thanksgiving to you both!

Thanks! It was great. Hope you had a happy one, too.

I was beside myself as it all unfolded. And because I live in a more conservative region I know I’m going to go to work today and see people still unashamedly wearing their maga crap and I’m going to have to be polite and courteous to these people or I lose my job. The worst part is I’ve actually seen some people wearing QAnon shirts and the like. 

Fascists storm the capitol to try and keep their autocrat in charge and the next day are saying “no, it was the anti-fascists” Christ, the doublethink.

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."

So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.

Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.

Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.

(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

https://www.myidentifiers.com/

Don’t despair first and foremost. Rejection sucks but when all else fails you might have to end up doing it yourself.

Thanks for the support, all.

FS, all of the responses from agents go something like this: Dear George, Thank you for including me in your agent queries. Unfortunately this doesn't feel like the right project for me at this time. I'm so sorry, but this is a pass for me. I wish you all the best in your endeavor. Sincerely, Agent X

There is one bright spot: After posting this status update, I realized that I need to write something that is going to make me happy. So instead of going for another scifi epic, I’m going to try scifi comedy.

Awesome article! I’m actually sort of torn that they didn’t mention us, but then again… 

The world isn’t ready. The consensus would break and then we’d all wake up in the stone age. 

Congrats on your FBI watch list placement?

No, no, Cuties was on my Netflix watch list. My FBI watch list is Catch Me If You Can, Silence of the Lambs, and Point Break.

i watched life after beth once. i…. have no idea how to describe the sheer confusing, meldramatic gory NOTHING that happens

Happy Birthday!

Thanks, everyone! I had a good one. 

I think I like the cake pic because it reminds me of laser light shows from when I was a kid.

Ooh! Congratulations on moving one year closer to becoming a curmudgeon like me. BTW I think that neon cake looks hella cool (and much better than the one I made for someone when I was drawing). Here’s to another great year! 

I want your phone so badly right now…

If phones could talk… Well they can, evidently, but if they were sentient….

Sometimes I worry about what people would think if they ever saw my custom spell-check dictionary. Nothing good I’m afraid…

So we know @GeorgeGlass got replaced then. Okay

It’s the bloody mimics I don’t like. Took me ages to realise one had replaced the beer compartment in the fridge. Every time I’d put beer in there it’d disappear and hit me with some magic to give me a bad headache.

PornoWriDecade? :p

God, the Parental Advisory sections would go on for pages...

Hopefully, It might mean the plague of remakes nobody wanted comes to an end.

Chrome simply recognized that all mainstream entertainment is pretty much the same these days and gave up trying to keep track of the supposed differences. At this point I think a lot of straight-laced people would be delighted to revel in the sex lives of their favorite fictional characters. Expect a lot of new hits on your fanfics.

See, kids? Punctuation DOES matter!

Maybe their publisher charges them by the comma?

1. Get invited to parlay with the wasp queen only to find yourself trapped as a breeding partner
2. Somehow escape possibly involving a fellow prisoner spider, called Dave.
3. Buy poison for wasps' nest on front door frame
4. etc

The good news: The wasps are dead. The front door is clean.

The bad news: The laundry is untouched. And Dave didn’t make it.

What am I going to tell his wife? She was planning to eat him tonight. I can’t just show up at her web with an apology and a Big Mac.

Dave! He so wanted to be eaten by his wife. That poor guy. If a big bac is no good, take her Little Mac. Dude’s boxing career is over anyway.

I try to keep my perviness to a separate profile on my browser, always private mode with auto-clear on exit.  Mostly works.

It’s not a browser; it’s Google Keyboard. It knows everything. 

Figured that part, disclosing what *I* do to try to minimize… spills.  However, you don’t realize how much the search engines are listening until you ask how to unclog a bathtub trap.  Maybe try searching for dating sites?

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

We had almost 200 trick-or-treaters. I attribute this to (a) Halloween falling on a Saturday, (b) excellent weather, and (c) lots of my neighbors devising clever ways to hand out candy safely. (For my part, I built a cardboard candy-slide and dispensed the treats from my porch.)

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.

Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

“Japan’s Fisheries Agency has allocated the equivalent of about $463 million to supporting whaling for the 2019 fiscal year.”

So the government is paying whalers to harvest an animal with fragile populations that people aren’t eating in the first place?  Looks like this emoji’s time has come once again:

Shinzō Abe is Captain Ahab confirmed.

Breaks my heart more than a little bit. I have… conflicting feelings about hunting in general, and though whales are my favourite animals in the universe, I can be convinced hunting them isn’t a total outrage, provided it’s regulated, sustainable and obviously doesn’t touch the species with waning populations, but greedy people be dicks and almost always take shit too far. So no. Don’t touch my whales, dudes! 

I’ve had a cup of tea and a nice lie down since my rant, and now I’m feeling more calm. lol  Basically, whatever feels right for you is what you should go with.

The worst thing is a colon in the wrong place. Such as in your lunch.

I think the 2nd one is the best one.

What? Lots of writers use prompts.

Plenty of prompts, just point your browser to (...not saying...) 

My daft one just shakes his head and leaves the room.

The serious case of Star’s OOC, the fact that it was rushed, The sudden lack of creativity or really any other option regarding the solarian knights in general, this applies to mina too, Solarian swords contradicting its own lore. Her “Solution” of killing her friends. Moon’s the worst offending OOC,

The fact star effectively doomed everyone by her decision, there by making her the being with the highest body count in the universe and arguably the villain of the story and its presented as a good thing.

You know the basic stuff.

Some of that will actually be dealt with in my story.

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The fact star effectively doomed everyone by her decision, there by making her the being with the highest body count in the universe and arguably the villain of the story and its presented as a good thing.

...did they rip off God in the Bible for that character arc?

You know, it’s entirely possible that your phone holds the answer to world peace. Just sayin’…   

42 is always the answer. 

Nobody trick-or-treated to my house (I’m too far off the beaten path)

@Desiderius Price you can’t count this anomalous year though the pandemic.

@InvidiaRed It’s not like it was unexpected.  Eleven Halloweens at this house, and ZERO trick-or-treaters in that time.

@Strange_idea Certainly.

@WillowDarkling Foal me once, shame on you. Foal me twice…

@JayDee All I know is, dog welding is not something you should try in your garage on the weekend, I’ll tell you that.

Well, squirrel girls both knows she's never going to and is ditzy enough to be totally caught off guard if she does. 

They do both, but aqua man is an easily bored conqueror king first and a politician second, while t'challa's generally solving a trade dispute by hunting the most dangerous game. 

With manhunter it's an "I'm every bit as strong as Superman and know EXACTLY what you just thought. What are you going to do?" thing. And probably easy to shape-shift into. 

You KNOW Tony added some kind of massage device and it went wrong.

This is actually Canon, but beast boy can turn into other humans (but isn't allowed to by writers) and even species like krytponians. Since several species are female only,  that would mean he can change genders. And if not he can borrow it from an animal. 

Any character used to knock around with the Doom Patrol’s gonna be able to get freaky when the situation calls for it. They oughta bring back Danny the Street.

Genius!

It must be my age, but M*A*S*H: The Musical gave me the best laugh. Now you have me wondering which modern actors would be cast for the main roles… and who would play the helicopters?

Still, all of them are fun. Now I’m almost tempted to start the process to have some grandkids of my own.

I’m not sure they’re wrong.