It's okay, he got lots of new Facebook friends!

I was tickled by the idea of Republicans fleeing Communism in America by moving to Hong Kong, myself.

I know I'd be absolutely heartbroken at having some screaming bigot refuse to speak to me ever again. I sure hope more Republicans don't start doing that!

Yeah. Unfortunately, bigots hate each other as much as everyone else does, which is why they're always looking for decent people to hang around.

My eye is inexorably drawn to the ads on the side:

Do you want something unPC on your PC? Try - Intercourse and Conception

Oh my god, it's a Republican porn site, isn't it?

I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them.

Gosh, how awful for them. I know I'd be absolutely heartbroken at having some screaming bigot refuse to speak to me ever again. I sure hope more Republicans don't start doing that!

I must admit, my first thought at his vow to un-friend people on Facebook was "why does he have Democrat friends on Facebook in the first place?", closely followed by "wait, these guys have Democrat wives/girlfriends?".

And yes, I definitely feel for anybody working check-out when he goes shopping. Though on the upside, he'll now be boycotting all stores that accept EBT, so they won't have to deal with that anymore. :-)

It's the "check-out clerk" I feel sorry for. That's got to get old really fast, and most workplaces don't let you maim customers.

The seatbelt bit actually descends into self-parody, though.

In a field rich with competitors, does this blog post win the Tiny Tears award for most egregiously babyish response to the election result?

The Libertarian Party: For Republicans who lose their primaries.

Incredible article on Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate. Not as important as Romney/Obama, but a nice expose on how terrible Johnson was as a "third party" choice.

It reminds me more of the Pink Panther theme. You know "Mehem, mehem, mehem mehem mehem, mehem meheeeeeeem..."

I don't know, I quite like MEHEM. I think that's the sound of someone clearing their throat apathetically.

They should have called it the Mass Effect "Yay! Happy Ending!" Mod so the acronym would be MEYHEM.

That was my reaction too! Although it actually went Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahacoughcough because I'm not feeling well.

So I saw this and this was my reaction:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
(and basically I went on like this, laughing like a sailor for nearly for 30 mins). Shame I uninstalled ME3 a while ago.

Oh, the analysis completely works on that basis - they're declaring Voldemort a good guy for exactly the same reasons as they regard Hitler as a good guy.

That's actually hilarious, I think, since Rowling rather lazily did a copy-and-paste of "Nazi" into "Death Eater."

For some reason, my image of neo-Nazis is less self-righteously whiny than that person. It's "nice" to know that the widespread butthurt of the modern Internet reactionary has afflicted them as well.

I like how they scaremonger about the MOOOOOOOSLIM Ottoman Empire. You know, as opposed to the Scientologist Ottoman Empire nobody talks about.

It does have a curiously effective page layout.

This election day, the Romney Mega Prayer asks you to believe in a transactional God.

Fans of Buffy, British pop-punk, and celebrities being endearingly geeky may be interested to learn that Kate Nash played a Hallowe'en concert consisting entirely of songs from Once more with feeling, and most of it is on Youtube.

Dipping back into the Disney/LucasFilm deal for a minute, I quite liked the "Irregular Webcomic" people's response to the news (find via the TV Tropes page, as I have not yet been able to track down the original quote:

The good news is: We should be finished with Episode VI around then, and will be able to move smoothly on to parodying Episode VII. If the new movie sucks, we will redeem it. On the other hand, if the new movie is awesome, it will be awesome. You can't lose.

I can't argue with that.

@Kyra: exactly! :-) And, reading Arthur's comment, it suddenly clicked for me why it might be bugging me so much: the thought of someone posting an LBD-style video of me without me giving them the go-ahead first makes me really uncomfortable, and I'd be pretty upset if it happened. (Even though, as Arthur says, the knowledge I was being filmed would prevent me from doing anything embarrassing.)

I knew I was having a disproportionately annoyed response to the framing/consent thing, so it's nice to understand where that's coming from. I hope that with that understanding will come some sort of Zen acceptance, because I don't particularly enjoy feeling annoyed & unable to let the annoyance go! ;-)