I don’t live near casinos and the Connecticut gold coast for nothing!

Hey now - only the terrible people who are powerful and can do something for Evangelicals get forgiven. Impoverished slutwitches like me get shunned.

Pink Ears, my darling, you clearly have been at a better class of conference center than I have! 

That looks like the kind of crappy conference center where you’re stuck inside all day, bored to tears, can only intermittently heard the speaker, and the provided lunch is half a subway sandwich with extra sad lettuce and tomato, and your choice of mayo or mustard packet with off brand beverages too weird even for…

House arrest at their Bel Air palazzo must be pure hell (yet who amongst us wouldn’t gladly give it a try*?).

I mean...she COULD, but her 12 million followers and the fact that she is actually funny and entertaining say she doesn’t need to.

Also I’m a fan of famous people talking about the downsides of plastic surgery and the upsides of not giving a shit about being camera-ready. Are you not?  

“I don’t take the aesthetics so…

(of the Target Mossimos)

You are not wrong. Actually, agreeing to a plea deal during a pandemic is the first intelligent move these two have made in this entire debacle. Which tells me their lawyers got them to finally see the light. Not only is the public’s attention focused on more pressing matters, but it is highly unlikely either of them…

I guess one benefit of the coronavirus is that it’s going to be a lot harder for Laughlin to make the rounds of the daytime talk shows and shed a lot of crocodile tears in her bid for redemption.

I hope I’m wrong, but cynical me says the only reason the Target Mossimos finally accepted a plea deal is that they know given COVID19 they will likely get house arrest, probation and community service instead of jail time. I will be genuinely shocked if they actually spend any time in jail.

Pretty much the reason why Mandy Patinkin bounced early:

That’s a good analogy, but people who don’t understand why masks and distancing only work together probably won’t understand airbags either. There are actually people who think they don’t need to wear seatbelts because they have airbags, despite having it explained to them thousands of times that airbags only work as…

This is why humans have developed a very particular set of skills: critical thinking. You look at the evidence, the background, all sorts of factors, and you make a decision whether or not to trust the source. That’s why Nigerian bank scams are sent out as spam messages and calls: the overwhelming majority of people…

To further that great analogy very slightly, air bags are actually “Supplemental Restraint Systems” - you may have seen the acronym SRS on your dashboard, etc...

Telephoto lenses compress the photo, sure, but that doesn’t defeat the point about beaches being crowded. I come from a beach town. I got so sick of hearing people bitch about telephoto lenses making it look worse I left the local facebook group I was in. Drive down to the beach, it’s still packed.

The pants-wetting analogy is gold. Here’s another:

I can’t believe people are that dense. Wait, I do believe it. My favourite thing to read these days is, “END THE LOCKDOWN! The infection and death numbers are low!” Hey genius, you ever think that the reason they’re low is BECAUSE of the lockdown?

I agree, people see something that could be misinterpreted, and then jump to the conclusion that it must be some malicious action.

I understand the manipulations talked about in this thread, but as someone who hates going to the beach whenever it’s “crowded”, that aerial photo is definitely too crowded for me, lol.

I think the “others might not be cautious, so you should be” message is a good one. It’s true. People cannot be trusted to behave rationally and you have to factor that into your risk assessment of your own behavior. Even if everyone on that boardwalk is six feet apart, that’s still a lot of people. It’s a lot of…