IT’S NOT BLAKE IT’S FUCKING BECKY.

Actually, I’ve taught both authors at university level.

Not favorite enough to remember that not a single line from “The Tyger” is similar to Yeats’ “The Second Coming”. The meter, subject matter, and imagery are all completely different:

No, I’m saying The Tygre and The Second Coming are two different poems. I may, perhaps, be missing something in this conversation thread.

Yes, The Tyger is by William Blake, but it wasn’t quoted or referenced by others. The Second Coming, quoted by @Cunctator at the beginning of this thread, is by William Butler Yeats.

So true. If you wear hat, scarf, gloves and boots you can go out and about naked (in my experience). Of course, dudes need a mitten for their doodle.

No, I’m pretty sure they only got married as a series of escalating dares.

A Minnesotan will never pass up a chance to talk down to people about snow.

Yeah, I’d have to go way back in my memory for that one, but I can see that. Not that it really matters, but it seemed back then that it was ‘everything OJ, all the time’ and that brought about the massive rise in cable news. The stuff I’m talking about that I think happened with 9/11 was that something is ‘BREAKING…

I don’t know if I imagined this or not, but it seemed like 9/11 kicked all of this into high gear. I remember going home that night and seeing all these screaming ‘BREAKING NEWS’ headlines on all the networks. Ever since then, cable news seems to have some time sensitive ticker/ banner up constantly to catch eyeballs.

“Politics-As-Sports” is one of the worst developments of the modern era and this kind of crap feeds right into it.

That’s not the first time I heard that. I saw him on Question Time last year and he looked rested, tanned and sounded my confident. I would have gladly played hide the sausage with him.

And sing that song from Grease 2. We’ll Do It For Our Country! The Red White and the Blue! It applies to both countries so it works.

This is hilarious to me. Ed was so rounded on for being a nerd, for his voice, for being dull, for eating a sandwich wrong... anything. During the 2015 General Election, the British teenage girl contingent had enough and, the “Milibaes” were born.

Oh poor Ed, he should’ve become our PM in 2015, but he was always just a bit dorky to convince voters. Him being a half-joking half-for-real sex symbol was a big thing here in 2015, though, I think Buzzfeed and the like did a bunch of articles on it.

A friend of mine was marching and when she went into a 7-11, ran into Bella and Gigi. She actually helped Bella decide what type of Slurpee to select, and my friend is now worried Bella won’t eat for the next week having used up her caloric allotment by drinking said slurpee.

I feel like she’s too dumb for Ryan Reynolds. If he makes a joke, she probably smiles and laughs and goes along with it just to go along with it.

This is some petty shit and I am living for it.

Or maybe she really believes the right-wing crazy talk (she’s from Slovenia and most of what she knows of US politics is filtered through her husband!), and she’s ALSO being treated badly. He doesn’t have to literally be holding her prisoner in order for her to do the talk show circuits and spout conspiracy theory.