the "America is broken and we're hurting" love-in thread

kip only

pump each other up

let each other know we'll be here through the thick and thin

quote Spinal Tap

sing New Radicals

live it up at the joketell California

just ...live.

hey. Karl. you're good people.

let's have a virtual drink.

clink

*clink*

drinking Victory Golden Monkey like it's apple juice....zooming w/ friends

trying to think of happy things

It feels like a lot of effort to just haul my sad ass down to the basement fridge for a beer, but I will toast when I get that motivation up.

cheers jon. *fist bump*

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America might be wrecked but I have to believe that most of the good people on that landmass will remain so, whatever happens. And that ain't nothin'.

here's a dope song to vibe to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMnSWhzR44

https://youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s

*tips a glasssss

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wxiMrvDbq3s

Damn phones. Just trying to share Woody and his fascist-killing machine singing a true American anthem.

oh i clicked on it. and good share.

Clinking my DDH Pixel Density glass in all y’alls direction right now.

Donated to the Get Mitch or Die Trying fund. Trying to feel positive momentum. And, in the spirit of kip, I won’t even bash the stupid name.

xp Andy the Grasshopper, i ordered that EXACT image as a poster, in late january 2019. i fully intended to hang it in my workspace. by the time it arrived, i was at a new job which was already inappropriate for hanging that kind of poster. on top of that, the soft cube lining i could have hung it on was too small (not tall enough) - which part do you cut off, the crucial claw hanging onto the rope, or the "hang in there!" at the bottom? i considered folding it mad magazine style, horizontally, across the middle, just before covid hit and we all started working from home

i am not drinking but i am eating a brownie (A brownie, not THE brownie) and I am here to say i love youse

I'm so glad that this place and you people exist. I might otherwise have pitched all hope in the trash and set it aflame some time ago.

Heh, I found that image at an online poster store!.. I was looking for the raccoon one, but everyone loves kittens.

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I used to sell that kitten poster in the mid 90s in a hellish job I had back then.
Working for a rip off poster guy.

So it's been around a while.

Obviously still has a message that works though.

So some memes predate the massive influx of social media.

That poster is the proto-meme, the image from which all subsequent memes sprang.

the original "hang in there, baby" kitten poster (a different kitten and photo) was published in 1971 after the uncaptioned pic had gained popularity in a 1970 book and ads for Cat Fancy. the concept of memes was named in Dawkins' The Selfish Gene in 1976.

is "Keep on Truckin'" proto meme?
"Ass, Gas, or Cash - No One Rides For Free" seems proto Facebook

I remember seeing this one cartoon on adults' desks was a bird that says "It's hard to soar with the eagles when you work with the turkeys"

feel like 70s early 80s iron on t shirts were all proto meme esp Facebook ones

Keep On Truckin is absolutely a meme, especially if we're not misusing "meme" to mean a photo with all caps Impact text added

together more or less in life

George Orwell wrote a long essay about the humorous postcards sold to English tourists at seaside resorts. They also fit the current mold of internet memes. It seems like the current use of 'meme' in daily life has narrowed quite a lot since Dawkins floated the idea, to where now it only applies to trivialities, the ephemeral dust and lint of Facebook chatter, not durable mental constructs.

Did you read that essay in the 70s, when you were supposed to take your learnings about the world from observing people in their day-to-day life?

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sending good vibes to y'all's on this lovely autumnal morning

Andy! Are you the Andy from the ILX of the early 00s who was also [trying to be as vague as possible to preserve yr anonymity here] guitarist in an awesome garage band who toured the UK in 2001? If so, good to see your name dude!

Stevie! Yes, I'm back from the wilderness... good to see so many familiar names still here. Fifteen years (at least) since my last login, and I found I have still have an active account; amazing.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

Yeah, I like it here.. it's like the internet trapped in fossilized amber.

finding social media uncorrupted by commercialism is like stumbling onto a Model-T Ford in factory new condition

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Speaking of frozen in amber, does anyone know why Mrs. Dash dropped the "Mrs."?
I'm not buying the old "new look, same great taste"... there has to be a seedy, nefarious story behind it.

They focus-grouped it and found the "Mrs." was deemed too stodgy by the under-35 participants they wanted to attract, but "Ms." was too radical for the over-50 segment that were the most loyal customers. Then, in a stoke of pure marketing genius someone said, "why not just 'Dash'?" The clouds parted, a beam of light fell through and lit up the speaker with brilliant light. The other marketers in the room swooned and "Dash" was born.

It's definitely the zestiest of the non-binary seasoning blends.

just matter of time before Old Bay becomes “BAE”

Big Boy restaurants now known as Adult Male of Consenting Age's

Old Bay isn't likely to change. It's named after a Chesapeake ferry line of the early 1900s, and its assumed antiquity is part of the appeal.

I've no issues with Mrs. Dash -> Dash. As someone distant from brand marketing, it's a bit strange that no seasoning product labeled "Sprinkle", as with Japanese furikake, has ever taken off and gotten the "Kleenex/Xerox/Band-aid" acclaim as a generic name. Bragg (the hydrolyzed soy protein co) has a "Sprinkle" product, but I assume that as it never took off that its either poorly marketed or fairly bad.

why was it mrs. dash in the first place? or was there a person mascot back then?

Apparently it's not as old as you'd think.. early 1980's. "Before settling on the name "Mrs. Dash," the company considered the name "Mrs. Pinch."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Dash

Mrs. Dash is a brand name of seasoning that was introduced in 1983 and was marketed by B&G Foods. The product line was originally developed by Carol Bernick, now Executive Chairwoman of the company. In the 1980s, while a marketing executive at the firm, she was frustrated with the products available to flavor the meals she prepared at home for her family. She invented a salt-free blend of her own to fill the need for a convenient way to flavor the food without using salt. The original formula, which was first marketed in 1981, was developed with a variety of spice suppliers. Before settling on the name "Mrs. Dash," the company considered the names "Mrs. Pinch," "Mrs. Marketing Executive," "Frustrated Carol's Family Flavoring Mix," and "Bernick Family Proprietary Salt Substitute Powder."

Apple Cabin used to have some good deals on "Frustrated Carol's Family Flavoring Mix"

GO ON AND HAVE IT

I routinely overuse Trader Joe's 21 Seasoning Salute.. but in conjunction with salt, not as a substitute.

why use 21 different spices when you can just use allspice

Was that the stuff in Dune?

I wonder if there's a parallel universe where somebody is buying a bottle of Mrs. Pinch at this very moment.

who is the president there?

and is prince still alive?

Prince never died, here.

also Ted Nugent was never born.

"Cat Scratch Fever" was written by Willie Nelson here.

So no Amboy Dukes? Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about this world.

this world...is multiple choice.

no salt, just spice
all strictly roots