Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.
We stand by our reporting. That's why we're removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don't want you to read, making them free for everyone.
if you, like me, are hesitant to enjoy what kinda sounds like "relaxes food standards" on the surface, I'm happy to report that this isn't "everyone can do what they want with your food supply without oversight" but rather a case where in NYC you had to have a permit to sell food and a second, superfluous permit to sell frozen desserts. This action simply removes the need for the second permit, rolling it into the first permit in order to help small businesses. Yay!
one thing i am irrationally angry at is constellations. “this looks like a bear!” “this looks like a guy!”- no the fuck it doesn’t! i have been to kindergarten! i have mastered the art of connect-the-dots! this ain’t it!
i don’t know how many people you had to blackmail to get everyone to agree that this trapezoid looks like a goat, but you did not make it fucking true! you drew those lines in yourself and it still does not look like a goat! who the hell do you think you’re fooling?!?
I feel like these might make a lot more sense if we were all staring at the night sky for hours before bed every day of our lives, in a world where there was less light pollution. We would get bored without imaginations.
You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.
Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.
When I was 17 and in college, away from home, I needed stitches once. Here is the conversation I had at urgent care, bleeding from my face all the while:
reception: "ok now that we've got insurance all sorted out we just need the consent to treat form"
me: "ok" *getting ready to sign it*
r: "wait" *squinting at ID* "you're 17?"
me: "yes..."
r: "ok honey, we just need your parents to sign that form instead of you, ok?"
me: "...they're not here?"
r: "well can you call them and tell them to come?"
me: "no they are hours away in another state"
r: "so who did they sign your guardianship to if they're so far away?"
me: "??? I don't have a guardian I’m 17 1/2 and in college??"
r: "ok then your parents need to sign this form"
me: "they aren't here!!!"
this went back and forth for some time and finally they agreed they could accept an electronic signature and i had to call my mom and get her to do that and eventually I got the stitches I needed but
what if I hadn't been able to get in touch with my parents?? what if I had abusive or neglectful parents or they were from one of those sects that don't believe in hospitals?? I was there, 17.5 years old, bleeding from the face, insurance card and copay in hand, saying "please sew my face back together". and they legally could not do it because my parents hadn't said ok.
they didn’t even need me to sign a consent to treatment form. just my mother.
Grace is having a similar problem to Rocky, Rocky cannot seem to just give Grace his full attention sometimes which is fine mostly but.. well. Grace is a little greedy and a little bored, and one day he’s rummaging around in the storage area, opening boxes he’s never opened before and he finds..
A dog whistle!!
He almost goes to blow on it experimentally but then he pauses.
This is a brilliant scientific opportunity!!
Grace has about a million thoughts at once but it all boils down to this: Can Eridians be trained to react positively to certain sounds?
He knows it’s not exactly the mosttt ethical but. He’s so bored
Grace is immediately plotting, he hides the whistle in his pocket amongst other junk so that Rocky can’t make out what it is but then he realises he can’t just pull it out, it’s not like he can hide it anyway so instead he shows it to Rocky vaguely under the excuse it’s a human instrument yada yada
Rocky isn’t really interested after five ish minutes, and Grace is ecstatic!! He can begin his experiment!!
Rocky is on his side of the bedroom, working on something while Grace talks to him and Grace mentions something he knows will peak Rocky’s interest. The moment Rocky stops what he’s doing and faces Grace, Grace blows on the whistle very lightly and says “thanks, bud!”
Rocky shivers for a moment and Grace is confused, does the sound hurt Rocky?? Before he can ask Rocky says “how Grace make Eridian sound??”
Grace fumbles, and blurts out “human instrument, remember? Don’t worry about it.” Rocky somehow makes a gesture that gives Grace “furrowed eyebrows” feeling, but Rocky drops it and Grace figuratively breathes a sigh of relief.
And so he continues on with his experiment, after awhile it’s not just when Rocky turns his attention to Grace, he’ll do it after Rocky does something favourable at ALL (turning his attention to Grace, helping Grace with something, etc)
Grace choosing his method of reward to be praise because well, Rocky is a sucker for it even if he won’t admit it/take the compliment. And more importantly, whenever Grace praises him he’ll usually react in someway (happy trilling, jazz hands) and that’s EXACTLY what he wants!! The response shows whether or not the experiment worked after all.
Rocky is a bit suspicious of Grace, he has a feeling that maybe Grace has caught onto his own evil doings (see post above) but well. He’s not exactly complaining.
After about a week or two of this, Grace decides to finally end this and test it out!! He’s too excited to wait any longer.
Rocky was just sitting idly when Grace blew the whistle, and as Grace expected Rocky bounces for a moment, trilling like Grace just said something particularly nice before pausing and glaring at Grace.
“Grace tricked Rocky!!” He fumes, and Grace immediately bursts into laughter, dropping the whistle by his side and curling up in his bed from how hard he’s laughing.
“I knew- I knew it would work!!” Grace struggles to say in his fit of laughter
“Grace do this for revenge?? When did Grace figure it out?!” Rocky demands, stomping his foot in question.
remember how utterly inescapable how i met your mother used to be with the memes and references and barney and bro code and wait for it... and then the finale was so hated it vanished overnight
The finale so successfully erased the show from public consciousness, that when people tried to come up with a name for the "extremely popular show with finale so bad that people just immediately stop talking about it" phenomenon, people called it... the Game of Thrones Effect. HIMYM got memoryholed so hard that people forgot it even existed
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