we have to be able to forgive and start building bridges together
This is a nice-sounding sentiment, but in practice it just means not prosecuting Republican crimes during the brief periods when Democrats have a small bit of power. I’d be happy to forgive Republicans … after they’ve been frog-marched to prison. Letting them off the hook has always meant they just come back worse than ever.
I’ve long said that the more people you add to a software project, the longer it will take and the worse the final product will be. Your scenario describes one of the many reasons why this is the case.
Not many people know that “Baba Yaga” is the real name of the song, not “Teenage Wasteland”.
My first brand-new car was a '90 Nissan Sentra, back when Sentras were the absolute bottom of Nissan’s product line. It had AC but the car basically couldn’t accelerate with it on unless I was going downhill. Unfortunately I lived in Florida (no hills) so I drove around with no AC. In Florida. This was bad enough but also the windows were hand-cranked so I just left them down all the time. That car was a soggy mess and I kept getting shit stolen.
There’s a guy in my town who keeps a herd of goats and rents them out for brush clearance. I assume his neighbors hate it but there seems to be nothing they can do about it. I’ve been meaning to ask him if he sells goat meat.
I had an Indian friend who flew from Florida home to Bombay, via Heathrow and New Delhi. As he was waiting there for his luggage he glanced down at his shirt pocket and noticed part of a joint sticking out.
I have this thing called a utili-key, which is a 6-in-1 multitool that folds up into the shape of a key. I’ve flown with it numerous times, TSA never even had a clue it was on my keyring. I went to one fucking Philadelphia 76ers game and they confiscated it. Perfectly encapsulates TSA.
The n-word is an effective appetite suppressant.
Lol I doubt anybody reffing for FIFA needs “guidance” on that.
Bah, why even go to that much trouble when they can just ask AI what the results of an election would be?
At least they didn’t use “insurgent” in the headline, I suppose.
The Sopranos did this in one early episode. Dude shoots another dude in a car and is immediately like “FUCK!” and holding his ears. Rest of the series is dudes casually blazing away and “I’m all itchy!”
Department of Just Us
They put the “profa” in “prophylactic”.
I had the rim of my rear wheel crack last week, first time I’ve ever had a wheel problem in 20 years/100K miles of riding.
I have a 20-year-old Trek 4200 with about 70K miles on it. The thing is fucking immortal and it wasn’t even close to being a top-end bike in 2006 (I think it cost around $500 new). Drivetrain, tires and brakes are the only things I’ve ever replaced, obviously many times over.
I went to a Hooter’s once a couple of years after 9/11. I noticed that their hottest wing sauce was called “911” and as a joke I called the waitress over and showed her the menu and said I was pretty offended that Hooter’s would name a wing sauce after our “sacred tragedy”. She got all wide-eyed and insisted they were named after the emergency phone number, and then ran off and got her manager to come over. The dude apologized left and right and comped our whole table and gave me $200 in Hooter’s gift certificates. At that point I didn’t think I could safely admit it was a joke without getting my ass kicked, so we thanked him and left.
I still have the gift certificates somewhere. I didn’t not use them because I was ashamed of myself – Hooter’s food just sucks so bad I never happened to go back.
Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller’s Day Off.
Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I’m AI – oh the ironing.
“I’m Hatin’ It!”