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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    06/15/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    Look, people. I live in Ca. Na. Da. And I know three people who've slept with Colin Farrell. He doesn't need bodyguards to protect him from threats, he needs them to protect him from women!
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    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    We might not ever see Susan Boyle sing again. She'll be a fluky talent like James Carr, squalling and carrying on minute, catatonic the next. Susan Boyle's Career 2009-2009.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    Also, Craig Ferguson's story is great - really brave of him to come out with that information publicly
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    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    Oh Susan Boyle, we're sort of exhausted of you, too.
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    Image of ilikenoise ilikenoise
    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    If Caroline Flack really slept with all the men the News of the World claims she did, then not only I am very jealous, but I think she may be the greatest living Englishwoman. I mean Steve Jones? Max Beesley? Colin Murray's accent alone is worth sleeping with. And how many girls (and boys) would give their right kidney for a night with Noel Fielding?


    She can keep Alex Zane though.

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    06/14/09

    @ilikenoise: God, yes, Noel Fielding. And Russell Brand! Good lord, I have never been so jealous.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    So is there any historical precedent for the sex-photo-leak-debacles that have been occurring during the age of the internet?

    Like maybe a scandal in the late 1700s involving a French royal and a lady of the theatre and some very telling etchings that were circulated?

    Just wondering is this is a contemporary phenomena.
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    06/14/09

    @pony_express: Absolutely.


    Off the top of my head, there's the old "Duchess of Argyll"/headless man blow job scandal.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of Kitten_Witawip Kitten_Witawip
    06/14/09

    @pony_express: and @bowleserised:


    "Marie Antoinette's situation became more precarious when, on 6 August 1775, her sister-in-law, the comtesse d'Artois, gave birth to a son, the duc d'Angoulême -- the presumptive heir to the French throne when his father, the comte d'Artois, became king Charles X of France in 1824. This resulted in release of a plethora of graphic satirical pamphlets (the libelles), which mainly centered around the king's impotence and the queen's searching for sexual relief elsewhere, with men and women alike. Among her rumored lovers were her close friend, the princesse de Lamballe, and her handsome brother-in-law, the comte d'Artois, with whom the queen had a good rapport.[26]"


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    06/14/09

    @Kitten_Witawip: I also just read a contemporary account of certain eighteenth century duchesses paying good money for a good seeing-to by a man.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/14/09

    @bowleserised: Heh. She fell down an elevator shaft and became a nympho, huh? A good shaft can do that, I guess.
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    Image of Scullery_Maid Scullery_Maid
    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    I think Seacrest and Cowell are stained from raspberry margarita mix. And what's up with Seacrest's fly? It's like someone's waving a white flag from within.
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    06/14/09

    @Scullery_Maid: He got a fly dance.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/14/09

    In reply to The Exceeding Exhaustion Of Susan Boyle
    Excuse me, Foster, a muggle is a marijuana cigarette, and I will go to my grave declaring it!
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