ok him being an Aquarius is actually the thing that crosses the line for me https://t.co/7jJoy77zFx
— Rachel Sennott (@Rachel_Sennott) February 16, 2020
I found that because I loved this:
POV: ur my phone and I’m on a conference call with 11 people pic.twitter.com/zkFnPFUcfK
— Rachel Sennott (@Rachel_Sennott) February 16, 2020
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Guess he just lost the Gemini vote.
Loved the conference call thing. Man...I used to hate those stupid group phone meetings. As for Bloomberg, I see he's going for the much sought-after Aquarian vote. Well, he lost me, man. And when he loses me, he loses a key Aquarian. Man.
Seriously- he is phenomenally creepy.
Aquarians are social planners whether you like it or not.
I've always said JEM-i-Nye.
When did Richard become Rachel?
The Age of Aquarius was fifty years ago. Just sayin'.
I love a girl with big nostrils. it's tangible evidence that she will still sleep with you after seeing you pick your nose.
Clyde. An astrological age lasts approximately 2160 years. So we are still in the age of Aquarius. Just sayin' math is hard.
It's Gem-i-knee
That Mike Bloomberg! What a droll fellow!
Well....Lincoln, Reagan - and me!
Firefox keeps disappearing the links.
It's Gem-i-knee
Wikipedia disagrees. I guess we should just say Castor and Pollux.
Politically, I'm more aligned with MB than any other major candidate (except for the silly soda stuff). But I agree that there is something creepy about the guy. Perhaps it the age and being super rich that makes him seem a bit off kilter. He really needs to start doing interviews and getting on the debate stage if he wants to get the nomination and beat Trump.
Before his first billion, astrological signs were his best (only) pickup move. Most frequent response? "My eyes are up here, Mike."
The conf call thing was painful to watch. A highly exaggerated impression of something no one does. Acting.
I don't know that woman but my read of her facial expressions tells me she disagrees with whatever it is they are discussing and deciding.
As for Bloomberg and zodiac sign: that zodiac stuff is made up nonsense. I find his believing in it therefore to be disqualifying.
TIC or /sarc, if you prefer.
@Amexpat or anyone else.
Other than gun grabbing and nannyism what does Bloomberg stand for?
I don't look up pronunciation in the funk and wagnalls, I learned to pronounce Gem-i-knee from the space program.
Correct pronunciation --
Gemini
Amexpat: yeah I get the same vibe. I wonder if Mike is on the spectrum somewhere
In the era of the platform shoe, 5'4" Mike was the only Belly button Man anyone ran into at Studio 54.
So he's pandering to the all important astrology nut demographic...
Let the sunshine in, Howard.
>>I don't know that woman but my read of her facial expressions tells me...<<
My read of her face told me she was a man.
Orange Sunshine!
What do Trump, Pence, Barr, and Giuliani have in common?
As a lifelong Aquarian, I consider anyone who believes in or even refers to astrology on a positive way to be a total ignoramus. Those I've encountered in my life all had serious mental or psych issues.
Great response to Bloomberg's tweet.
https://twitter.com/bdu77y/status/1228960554590654464/photo/1
Aquarians are supposed to be compatible with Geminis. They are supposed to be incompatible with Scorpios. I'm a Scorpio. Not votin' for Bloomberg.
When people (always women) ask my my sign, I tell them "All Turns From Right Lane". That probably applies to a lot of people who live in Jersey.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Kamala Harris' sign is "Slippery When Wet".
Speaking as a Gemini, I am not surprised and he doesn't have my vote.
1/12 of all murderers, arsonists, and bird burglars are Aquariuses.
Me on a too-many-person conference call: Checks Althouse. Reads comments.
Conference calls are worthless if more than two people are speaking.😛
Star Wars and the Jedee knights?
Octopee, plural?
Alumnee?
BarrySanders20--
My last employer was big on the telecons, but they did allow me to work from home two days a week. During the warm weather, I'd take the laptop out on the deck and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine while people droned on.
One time the initiator of the call asked me what the noises were he was hearing (we were waiting for the rest of the participants to show up). I told him that it was the birds in my back yard.
Knowing that he was in a cube under fluorescent lights at the time brought me an extra little bit of sunshine that day.
Looked up Rachel Sennott, she's an actress and comedian. At 24 years old or so she has probably never experienced the 11+ person conference call, but she's done a great job portraying the experience.
Howard said...
Clyde. An astrological age lasts approximately 2160 years. So we are still in the age of Aquarius. Just sayin' math is hard."
Astrology is bullshit, Howard.
Just sayin'.
"Other than gun grabbing and nannyism what does Bloomberg stand for?"
I'd looking for a competent, pragmatic, moderate without any grand political agenda. MB fits that bill for me more than anyone else in the race. If Nikki Hayley were running, I'd support her over MB.
Yancey Ward: Another telecon anecdote. At another place that I worked, we had weekly telecons with two other engineering teams in different cities. Well, we were supposed to, anyway. The conference system never seemed to be able to enable the other two sites to hear the one where the speaker was at any given time. Calls would degenerate into extended sessions of "Can you hear me?", "Is anybody talking?", attempts to re-dial in, etc.
I dubbed the system the "Cone of Silence" after the running gag on the old "Get Smart" TV show.
This was particularly amusing to me because the company was in the digital networks business.
Not that funny, but at least it’s an attempt at actual humor not just political sneering passed off as comedy.
I think the bit where she speaks is overdone and overlong. Better more faces and a quick “oh yeah I agree”.
The phone call thing is a comedy bit.
Anyone remember Bob Newhart?
Anyone remember Bob Newhart?
"Moo goo goo goo!"
"Anyone remember Bob Newhart?"
I remember Bob Newhart.
Rachel Sennott is no Bob Newhart.
Bob Newhart is the best comedian ever. Either that or his writers were. Gags galore. Darrell and my other brother Darrell always got to me.
Bob Newhart is still walking around. The finale of his innkeeper show, where he wakes up with Suzanne Pleshette, is for the ages.
The phone call thing is a comedy bit.
Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols, and George Jessel used it, too.
I assume when Bob was doing his albums he was writing his own material, so he was funny.
Rachel may be funny, but old men are not her audience, which is fine.
I scrolled through her tweets, and she's a 24-year-old single comedienne who tells BJ jokes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And she's lamenting she's 24. God, I wish I was that young and dumb again.
Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday. I warned you about messing around with mathematics. I really don't want to worry your pretty little head about procession of the equinox.
Bill P
You can’t be that young but as for dumb, Bernie is recruiting.
Gags galore. Darrell and my other brother Darrell always got to me.
It was Darryl. And his other brother Darryl.
Thank you very much.
Mike Bloomberg is too old to pronounce Gemini as "Geminee." It was not conventional or used much publicly until the movie "First Man" from 2018 when "Geminee" referred to the Gemini 8 spacecraft.
So, he should always remember, "Aye, aye, Captain, we will ban the sale of large sodas (otherwise know as "pop") and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters, street carts and places-to-be-named-later, in order to combat America's rising obesity trend.
I'm sure they're both nice enough people, but why would anyone be stupid enough to put an unpleasant video of themselves easily accessible on the internet.
Some things, I just can't figure out.
To me, the Bloomberg video was harmless, a nothing-burger. If Bloomberg were more popular among the commentariat here, his Aquarian ramblings would be thought charming.
I don't believe in astrology.
But then, I'm a Libra, and Libras don't believe in astrology.
(I freely admit to stealing this joke a long time ago; so long ago that I don't remember who I stole it from.)
Blogger Howard said..."I don't look up pronunciation in the funk and wagnalls, I learned to pronounce Gem-i-knee from the space program."
That's interesting. I never noticed they got it wrong.
I simply assume any time I see Bloomie's face on the internet, he's paid somebody for his mug to be there. Well, Althouse?
And I ignore it, as I ain't buyin' what he be sellin' me.
I strongly recommend everyone on earth do likewise, for the good of the country, themselves, and probably the entire planet.
If you can be bought cheap by this guy, you will be, good and hard.
Astrology is the original human intellectual pursuit. And the Chinese beat the barbarians to that too. There is a reason all the religious priesthoods were once star gazers. The sun, moon and stars were a regular system of timing everything and was studied by wise men the first 99.99% of human civilization. But it is not a science.
I'm a Scorpio, but not a practicing Scorpio.
What do Trump, Pence, Barr, and Giuliani have in common?
None of them have been in my kitchen?
I'm so old and out of touch that I never knew there was more than one way to pronounce Gemini.
Same-symbol astrology (SSA)?
Amexpat said...
I'd looking for a competent, pragmatic, moderate without any grand political agenda. MB fits that bill for me more than anyone else in the race. If Nikki Hayley were running, I'd support her over MB.
So gun confiscation is pragmatic and moderate?
I blame public education...
Some psuedoscholars think that the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians worship the bull because Taurus was at the equinox, then Moses chose Aries the ram and the ram horn as their sacred symbol of the new age while Aries was in the equinox. Pisces was in The equinox in the age of Christ there for ipso facto the Christian fish symbol signifies pices and then of course it's party on Garth in the 1960's at the dawning of the of the age of Aquarius.
Who knows if any of that shit is true however it is some very interesting bro science to ponder after a couple bong loads.
Bob Newhart’s sister was a BVM nun who taught my wife at Immaculata girls HS in Chicago. He was very supportive financially when the school had a need.
Ha! I'm on a board that does all meetings through video calls. (I am part of the never-turning-on-video contingent.) There are lots of those aborted vocalization peeps.
Some bro scientists speculate that astrology was started by women because they started timing there periods with the phases of the Moon. This basically was the mechanism that helped humans discover Time and its cycles. Some Bros opine that this is why the preliterate ancients worshipped the goddess. One can imagine that is a useful tool for determining when you have to move to different areas or when you have to sow your seed. It kind of sort of makes sense deterministically however is completely unprovable.
>>Anyone remember Bob Newhart?
May have said this here before, but I went to the same Jesuit high school on the near West Side of Chicago that Newhart attended. Class of '42, I think (him, not me!). Undoubtedly the most famous graduate (again, him, not me!). He was a Northsider (ugh) in the original Newhart series. But the Suzanne Pleshette thing was certainly the best final shot of any TV series ever.
--gpm
There are a lot of things that are not competent, pragmatic, or moderate. A few come to mind:
Wanting to change policy that delivers strong growth, and low unemployment.
Wanting to replace policies that have increased wages, especially at the bottom.
Wanting to undo the best trade agreements negotiated in decades if not longer.
Wanting to replace the administration that has finally gotten Europe and many other nations stop treating the U.S. taxpayers like chumps.
Wanting to reverse policy that has the US leading the way in greenhouse gas reductions while nations who signed agreements to do so continue to increase them.
Wanting to rob Americans of their centuries coveted 2nd Amendment rights that save millions of innocent lives, and do more to make us all equal than any other law, or policy ever could.
Thinking you can do better than Trump at controlling our enimies without starting a war.
Telling grown adults in a free nation how big their soda can be.
Bloomberg is as crazy, tyrannical, and radical as the rest of them, but less introspective and more elitist.
Any one else running into the tweets showing for only a moment and then disappearing? If I refresh the page they flash back again... difficult to read that way.
My husband has actually put himself on mute during a conference call and called me to chat. As for astronomy, I have noticed it’s becoming a thing again judging by the display tables at Barnes and nobles. Bloomberg is obviously going fo the new, new age vote.
Precession, not procession, you dumb Jarhead! Just kidding; thanks Howard for your service (and all you other veterans too, whatever wacky things you may believe now), and for poking the hive here once in a while.
Benson Bobrick's The Fated Stars is amusing and enlightening on Astrology. It's true Astrology is no science, but as it required long, careful observation, record keeping, and sophisticated math, it was responsible for birthing Astronomy.
Something that surprised me in Lemonick's bio of William Herschel (besides the entirely avoidable mistake of placing one of Herschel's ancestors in the wrong war) was the fact(?)
that he--in partnership with his sister Caroline--put more stars in the catalog than any previous viewer had . . . in part because he mastered optics and designed and built his own apparatus.
I remember Major Major Major.
Narr
Like Gomer Pyle, I'm Taurus the Bull
Whenever anyone asked me my sign, I always replied "I'm a Feces". Some comedian said that many years ago and I stole it.
My wife is on conference calls daily and she often works from home. I'm around about half the time and this is just about exactly what she looks like on a call except she's quite a bit more assertive when she needs to be. She pushes her way in on things that matter. (Regulatory attorney for a public utility)
I bet she (and a whooooooole lotta other wimmins) would be good for the Aquaman candidate.
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