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I wouldn't say all of the generational stuff is bullshit. I think there are cultural differences between generations due to people of similar ages having similar experiences. The Greatest Generation, for example, all lived through the Great Depression and they were all of prime fightin' age when WWI...

Right. Except I don't pronounce the t in Latin. I think I do. And maybe I do when speaking slowly. But at normal conversational speed, there's not really any t. If I say Latin "normally" and then say it intentionally without any t, they sound the same. The only thing different between me a...

Oh damn, apparently the process is called t-glottalization . It's been around in some UK dialects for at least a century, and is more recent in the US. No one knows why except that it probably makes words easier to pronounce. But the more I read about, the more I realize that I don't actually pronou...

Kyle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:31 am Tay-luhr.

TAY-ler

PASS me a roll, Jon. [I know "Hand me a roll" is a better line, but In my memory, I feel like the original line is actually "Pass me a roll, Jon", which always seemed wrong to me. Everytime I read it, I thought it was a bad choice, because pass can still mean throw, as in footbal...

With my kids, especially Aidan, it's any word with "eng" in the middle of it. Length, strength, penguin... it's most noticable with penguin. I pronounce these with a classic short e sound, as in pen or step. My kids shift that over towards a long a: strangth, langth, and painguin. It's a b...

Split from World Central Kitchen thread. Our right to protest has been slowly undermined for decades. Protesters are always labeled as troublemakers, rioters, looters, criminals. Sen. Tom Cotton recently called for people facing protesters to "take the law into their own hands". If they'r...

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:45 pm
Mike wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:59 pm Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the money to hire a personal chef.
Hahahahaha!

It seemed like a very large thought bubble for a Garfield comic.

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the money to hire a personal chef.

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If it's something that "all the kids" are doing now, then it probably started as a black thing 25 years ago where it was mocked for sounding "uneducated" until the day it suddenly seems mainstream. Or potentially it started with teen girls and was mocked as sounding shallow and v...

I saw a Tik Tok that asked "What are the only 3 words in the English language that start with 'dw'?" This was once a line on The West Wing, but I never saw that. And apparently, it comes with a couple caveats: first, 'dweeb' doesn't count. Stupid, but okay. And second, we're only counting ...

Akiva wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:32 am I thought you only went to the dentist for a second date.

Bravo!

Good on you, man! I'm proud of you for holding fast.

You did better than I did. I had an extra helping of scalloped potatoes last night, and that led to several handfuls of that spicy Chex mix my mother-in-law made, and I broke even this morning. Not the worst, but disappointing for me.

Ever the romantic.

We're stalling and distracting. And so are other nations. And I don't know exactly why the U.S. is doing this, but I know why Israel is. They are waiting for disease and famine to do their work in Gaza. The number of dead in Gaza seems frozen around 30,000 or 32,000 for a while now but I'm seeing re...

If I were to play, after each mission, I'd require the whole team to develop entries for the setup tables to replace the ones just used.

Seriously... your team is four goblins with fat asses out to commit the heist of their lives. The system ensures fast action, lots of chaos, and a guaranteed ending before too long. Complete rules below. https://i.ibb.co/bJqx477/F-4-l-L5-Xc-AE-nx-C.jpg https://i.ibb.co/dDVJn6f/F-4-l-Ln-Xo-AARItu.jpg

Day 2: Monday April 15 Much the same as day 1. Morning shake, lunch shake. Supper was a breakfast casserole with eggs and sausage and biscuits and just a little bit of sausage gravy. Mmmmm. I had a reasonable portion of that. I had a few Funyon-flavored Lays potato chips... also good. And my mother...

Five pounds on the first day. Or 4.8... close to that.

I will never sleep again.

Specifically, is being a billionaire and doing the work to maintain your billionaire status indefinitely mutually exclusive with being a good/moral/ethical person? I've heard people argue that being mega-wealthy and working to maintain/grow such wealth, by definition make someone a bad person. I kno...

Day 1: Sunday April 14 Had my shakes breakfast and lunch. Then we went to school to do some work, and Lisa wanted a pistachio white mocha latte from Scooters, but she didn't think that much sugar was good for her, so she got a small and I agreed to split it with her. Plus I stole two Starburst out ...

When I'm trying to eat healthier I find that eating protein and fiber helps keep me from feeling hungry. I still have to work to avoid binging or taking extras of the high-sugar, high-calorie, nutrient-deficient goodies, but the high protein diet helps me with resisting those things. So starting yes...

...draw some hands on this paper watch I made.

I'm interested to see how it goes. Keep posting. I'm on a drink-related journey of my own. We can compare notes.

Have I mentioned yet how much this reminds me of all of us playing "Guess the punchline" during Arsenio's monologue every night back in 1991 or whenever? That game had the added complication of having to formulate your answer in the long pause between the setup and punchline of each joke. ...

Props to Jim Davis though. If you are going for that particular joke, and have the constraints of the given panels... Then his word choice and delivery are better than mine.

Stopped again? Oh right, I don't have thumbs to wind it.

Saw Brian Posehn tonight. The man rocked. He's a favorite of mine, and I've been looking forward to this show for months. Afterward, my 30 year old coworker said, "Dude, if you went into comedy, you would BE Brian Posehn." I took it as intended, as a huge compliment. Fuck right! Whiskey an...

1. I CAN'T PUT MY ARM DOWN!

2. And there it is.

Yes. Which was the joke I originally posted (but in a very different form). Then I thought it was so stupid I came up with the one up above, and made myself less on the nose. And still not funny.

1. C'mon Echo Point! I said "MEOW!"
2. I am NO ONE'S minion!
3. PURRR!!

Yeah, before I read anyone else's, my guess was close to Eli's. Then I read them, and I knew Tahlvin had it. Mine was just trying to find some other way to account for the cell phone.

OJ Simpson.

He says he'll be out of the way again as soon as his pizza gets here.

It IS "Feed me." I know this one. I was obsessed with Garfield when I was 11-13. Then I found Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County and The Far Side.

Apparently 40 Democrats in the House of Representatives have sent a letter to Biden demanding the U.S. immediately stop all weapons transfers to Israel (including ones already authorized and paid for) until a full investigation into the airstrike on the World Central Kitchen workers has been complet...

Eli's is better. It addresses both sides of the setup.

Could t even bear the weight of a 62 year old man.

Dammit... that might be it. I thought of him reading War and Peace but got bogged down with overly complicated wording. Now I wish I'd stayed on it.

Yup. He talks to each one individually so they don't think he's playing favorites.

I'm resting my eyes until my breakfast arrives.

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:52 pm To be clear, the 70,000 number I saw was for Afghan and Pakistani civilians that died as a direct result of the war

Gotcha. I was looking solely at Afghan deaths.

FWIW, civilian deaths in Iraq were closer to 200,000. We are bad people.

Kyle, I agree with you, and at the same time I also don't agree with you. I've been back and forth over this and I can't reconcile it. To me, it's very clear that this is genocide. I have read the case that South Africa brought before the world Court, and they lay it out very plainly. The leaders of...

Aagh! Odie's too dumb to even understand the law of gravity!

Yes. The WCK attack was clearly intentional. This wasn't an accident. There's evidence that they have been targeting aid groups and targeting civilians who try to get aid for a while now. I know the media keeps reporting on food riots and chaos when people go to get aid. They imply that people are a...

I like Beyonce's Jolene. I love Texas Hold Em. I adore this version of Blackbird for so many reasons. Daughter is exquisite. I'm still taking in pieces of the album. On the other hand, Beyonce and Jay-Z are also billionaires, and thus inherently evil, but it doesn't alter the fact that Beyonce produ...

I didn't even say the word "veterinarian" yet.

Oh... SNAP!

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