Perry Bible Fellowship — Matched

Matched
http://pb_fellowship.livejournal.com/88325.html

So, I saw this post this morning… and oh boy. A Reform Jewish prawn-looking/werewolf answering an ad for a lycanthrope with a lobster head (and now thinking about it, he does look more like a lobster).

Seriously, though, Perry Bible Fellowship pushes almost as many boundaries as The Onion, but I don't even know about this one.

OMGosh, The Dreaded Red Arrow

I grew up in Florida. In Florida there really wasn't a problem with turning right in red arrows directing right turns, so long as one was in the rightmost lane.

I move to Georgia, and I was a bit cautious at first, never turning, even if people would blow their horns at me or flash their headlights.

Then I'd started to buckle, starting to turn. I'd learnt tonight I've been contravening the law.

In Florida:

What does the red arrow mean?
A red RIGHT arrow means that you must come to a complete stop at the marked stop line or before moving into the crosswalk or intersection. After stopping, you may turn RIGHT on the red arrow at most intersections if the way is clear. Some intersections display a "NO TURN ON RED" sign, which you must obey.
A red LEFT turn arrow means that you must come to a complete stop at the marked stop line or before moving into the crosswalk or intersection, and shall remain stopped until a signal indication to proceed is shown. After stopping, the motorist facing a red LEFT turn arrow or red circular signal indication is permitted to enter the intersection to turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street with traffic moving to the left except when a " NO TURN ON RED" sign is displayed.

(FAQs) - Traffic Signals - Florida Department of Transportation

In Georgia:

GA § 40-6-21.  Meaning of traffic signals

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      (F) Traffic, except pedestrians, facing a steady RED ARROW signal may not enter the intersection to make the movement indicated by such arrow and, unless entering the intersection to make such other movement as is permitted by other indications shown at the same time, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line or, if there is no stop line, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if there is no crosswalk, before entering the intersection, and shall remain standing until an indication to make the movement indicated by such arrow is shown;

      (G) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian signal, pedestrians facing a steady RED ARROW signal shall not enter the roadway; and

      (H) Traffic, except pedestrians, facing a flashing RED ARROW signal, after stopping as provided in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, may make a right turn but shall stop and remain stopped for pedestrians and yield the right of way to other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at such intersection.

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O.C.G.A. § 40-6-21

Oh, boy…

Smart Stages: Really Smart?

	Kristopha Hohn (@seishin17)
10/12/14, 10:18 AM I can see how the smart stages chair might be a complicated toy around potty training time. pic.twitter.com/UbUkvsl0Xv

Commercial, US Version: http://youtu.be/udG7KTD0E4w

Commercial, UK Version: http://youtu.be/bpQbj4e7oIo

So, I'd seen this commercial for the Fisher Price Smart Stages Chair, and at first I'd thought it was a potty. Then they'd started speaking and I'd realized it was a learning and interaction chair.

I think it's just confusing to a child.

Betsy Randolph Shouldn't Have Access to A Time Machine Ever

Betsy Randolph remembers run-in with warehouse suspect
http://m.koco.com/news/betsy-randolph-remembers-runin-with-warehouse-suspect/28277510

So, she regrets she couldn't have done more and feels she could have averted a tragedy. She's expressed her innermost feelings on the public record, and those thoughts probably should have remained inside.

Those thoughts and feelings are those of a hurt and grieving woman, yes, but she's also a law enforcement official. One shouldn't have to think, as I am now, that should there be a time machine that one would have to hold her in custody because we'd worry she would alter the timeline to relieve the guilt she feels.

She would kill him because she knows what he has done now, but that's still not a responsible thing to say in her position.

IS/Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL?

We've been hearing about them almost incessantly for the better part of the year. They'd seemingly started calling themselves the Arabic equivalent of ISIS, and then later "decided" to call themselves instead Islamic State, reasons in the news being they're exerting independence and individuality apart from Syria, the Levant, and Iraq.

Some media outfits, like Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, and elements of the BBC, had followed suit and called them IS or "the Islamic State group", still acknowledging some still call them ISIS or ISIL. I've never quite understood concretely why some elect to call them one way or another.

American news outlets like CNN and Fox News still predominately call them ISIS, and I think it may be partly because the US government in general still calls them that as well.

Is it perhaps to deny them the "satisfaction" of hearing people address them with the name they wish people to call them? I wouldn't doubt that's a probability, but there hasn't seemed to be any discussion on that. It's also seemed there are some who had gotten so used to calling them ISIS, or ISIL, that they just continue calling them that since all of it is generally coterminous.

It reminds me of something else I'd brought up in the past about maps that showed Crimea as still part of Ukraine rather than, at the least, showing it as a disputed area that happened to have had a referendum deciding to cede themselves to Russia.

I believe they should do both, at the very least, much like Deutsche Welle has done ("the Islamic State, also called ISIS"). That seems to be the fairest thing in my view.