I like big butts and I cannot lie

All that saying means is that some people are willing to change their moral compass according to situational convenience

One of the versions I have heard about this analogy comes from corn silk. The corn fed to pigs is usually of the lowest quality, and if you use the silk from cheap ears of corn, you won’t be able to make a useful purse out of it

Welcome to Muphry’s Law!

Don’t look for snake tits

Not use it, as much as I don’t use all my other numbers

Se ve que tiene setecientas primaveras

Agreed. People don’t take into account the fact that historians have existed for a long time and probably would have noticed a person as revolutionary as the one mentioned in the gospels - miracles or not. The Romans were excellent record keepers, and that is how we know for a fact - for example - that Herod’s timeline does not jibe with the virgin birth myth, nor did the Roman survey methodology jibe with the Bethleham journey myth, to cite two examples among so many others

Silly me - wondering if there was a contemporary, unbiased historian who maybe could have heard of him

Source?

By truth do you mean that Santa doesn’t exist, that the whole Christmas celebration is an adaptation of Roman pagan traditions, or that Jesus never existed?

An effective vaccine reduces numbers across the board. As mentioned in the article you cited, “Vaccine effectiveness is a measure of how well vaccination protects people against health outcomes such as infection, symptomatic illness, hospitalization, and death.”

That is, fewer people get sick, and fewer sick people develop symptoms, and fewer symptomatic people are hospitalized, and fewer hospitalized people die.

It seems that @HMH would like all those numbers reduced to zero, which is obviously impossible

It sounds OK if you say it in French

For a minute there I thought you were a foie gras goose

Sure, if people suddenly switched languages and then laughed in my face, I would feel bad.

But if it’s like the other comments in this post, and it’s a couple having a quick word about a private matter, I wouldn’t mind. It’s not like I should be a part of that conversation

It’s rude for spouses to have a private conversation? Would whispering be better? Would it be better if they hid in a cupboard where no one could see them?

Right. Speaking about people in the third person is rude

Every economist has a model.

And every economist who has implemented his model in a given country, will be able to explain - in great detail - why it didn’t work

“Playbook”

We were both supposed to be taking Halidol but hadn’t for a few days.

We decided to change out our meds for some really potent weed with some PCP, LSD and meth mixed in.

Don’t see how that’s relevant to the story, though