Second Thought of the Day
March 27, 2016
Some weaksauce low energy muppet just tried to shame me for being “easily amused”.
Is that supposed to be cutting?
The alternative is either that you are humorless or too dumb to get the joke, right?
DrugMonkey
biomedical research, just another job…
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DrugMonkey 
March 27, 2016 at 8:32 pm
“Differently humored” you monster.
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March 27, 2016 at 9:42 pm
Is it getting darker than usual in here? And in a week where FC led another letter to Ed.
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March 28, 2016 at 12:21 am
I delight in being easily amused and hanging out with others who are, too. Quick story: as a midshipman on summer cruise (training for a few weeks) where we got to spend 1 week with marines, 1 with surface navy, 1 with air, and 1 with submarines… I was finally sitting down in air conditioning in a padded chair with rollers and swiveled waiting for a briefing… dude from Hahvahd was like “I am sooo bored”…. I was just happy to be sitting in air conditioning!
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March 28, 2016 at 8:45 am
Those who can’t easily see humor in any situation are dicks and are no fun to be around. There is no benefit to being serious all of the time. Hell, I got into science because it’s fun to learn new things, not because I (as a young fledgling scientist) had an all-consuming passion to save the (planet / children /prairie dogs).
Smug self-righteousness is an abomination against science that should be scoured from this earth and sent back to the hell-fires whence it came!! Praise Alberts!
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March 28, 2016 at 10:05 am
As a humorless hairy-legged feminazi, I cannot relate to this post at all.
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March 28, 2016 at 12:44 pm
It’s just another facet of elitism, where anything common (easy, in this case) is devalued relative to more niche items or sensibilities.
Just another pointless attempt by individuals to feel unique and special without having to actually be any of those things.
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March 28, 2016 at 12:56 pm
“It’s just another facet of elitism, where anything common (easy, in this case) is devalued relative to more niche items or sensibilities.”
Yea, like saying that Justin Bieber isn’t as good of a singer as Javier Camarena. How many groupies does Javier have? Not as many as the Beebs, I bet!
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March 28, 2016 at 1:12 pm
On a possibly related note…Boaty McBoatface: in favor or oppose?
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March 28, 2016 at 1:26 pm
“Yea, like saying that Justin Bieber isn’t as good of a singer as Javier Camarena.”
-more like saying Elvis Presley is worse than Carl Perkins because more people listen to Elvis. It may be true (or as close to it as a subjective evaluation can be) but your reasoning is unsound.
@becca
I think it was a foreseeable and agreeable outcome.
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March 28, 2016 at 3:26 pm
“-more like saying Elvis Presley is worse than Carl Perkins because more people listen to Elvis. It may be true (or as close to it as a subjective evaluation can be) but your reasoning is unsound.”
because I was being facetious, perhaps?
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March 28, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Sorry, my sarcasm detector is wonky today.
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March 28, 2016 at 4:56 pm
No worries, mate. Happens to the best of us!
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March 28, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Which muppet?
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March 29, 2016 at 12:00 pm
The alternative is either that you are humorless or too dumb to get the joke, right?
You are totally misunderstanding this idiomatic expression. “You are easily amused” when intended as an insult means “your taste in amusements is simplistic, rather than sophisticated and refined”.
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March 30, 2016 at 11:20 am
That’s what people who claim to enjoy Woody Allen movies try to assert. So I’m sticking with “humorless”.
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March 30, 2016 at 1:43 pm
I think “easily amused” means: “Yes, I regularly read Drugmonkey’s blog.”
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March 30, 2016 at 2:53 pm
C’mon DM,
Be happy!. You sound like a good orchestra’s conductor!
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March 30, 2016 at 3:01 pm
@k elliott
I was hoping for something more like this:
This is sophisticated and refined, right? They have cellos!
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March 30, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Gah! Stupid HTML tags!
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March 30, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Oh yeeeeees!. That’s right except that the drum and paino are missing!!!. Hahahahahah
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March 31, 2016 at 8:52 am
@DM. What was wrong with “Take the Money and Run”?
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March 31, 2016 at 9:17 am
Being easily amused is a survival trait.
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March 31, 2016 at 11:48 am
@DM. What was wrong with “Take the Money and Run”?
huh?
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March 31, 2016 at 12:36 pm
It’s an old-school Woody Allen movie whose appeal lies in its highly unsophisticated, but funny comedy.
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March 31, 2016 at 1:11 pm
How can you have two thoughts in one day and none on other days? Isn’t this alarming??
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March 31, 2016 at 1:37 pm
Speaking as someone who routinely has zero (or even fewer) thoughts for days in a row, I can say with certainty that it is not alarming at all, and in fact I am in awe of anyone who so clearly demonstrates the ability to have >1 thought per day.
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