Chip Bok posted:

Brett Kananaugh responded with righteous indignation to accusations that he’s a drunken serial rapist . Which led to accusations that he lacks “judicial temperament.”

Hihohe posted:

wouldn't that compromise its seal and make whatevers inside not last as long. I guess you could put cellophane over the top.

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Obama in 2008 posted:

But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and heard the city’s mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom. “There is only one possibility,” he said. “For us to stand together united until this battle is won…The people of Berlin have spoken. We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the world: now do your duty…People of the world, look at Berlin!”

Fister Roboto posted:

I'm getting so loving sick of this presumption of innocence whining. If Brett was being presumed guilty he'd be in jail right now, or ideally in stocks in front of the Capitol.

These people are crying because he's being mildly inconvenienced as part of actual due process.

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Republicans posted:

If you pierce the top of the lid jars become way easier to open. My dad taught me that with saurkraut jars, which are a bitch and a half to open otherwise.

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londonarbuckle posted:

Is it me or is Carmen being depicted as the unreasonable one way more often lately? It's been longer than usual since I've last seen her wagging her finger at Winslow with her eyes closed.

Ted Rall posted:

What If White House Reporters Actually Held the President Accountable?

If White House reporters had any self-respect or were oppositional at all, they would fight back against Donald Trump's ruthless mistreatment at press conferences.

Tags: journalism; reporters; journalists; white house press corps; press conference; shtick; rude; Trump; interruptions; dignity; self-respect;

Sandpuppy posted:

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Xander77 posted:

1. You stick the edge of a butter knife under the edge of the lid, obviously.

Republicans posted:

If you pierce the top of the lid jars become way easier to open. My dad taught me that with saurkraut jars, which are a bitch and a half to open otherwise.

D.N. Nation posted:

Ooh, that's a good one. I bang the handle of a knife against the side of the top to deform it.

Also cutesy Nazis suck, of course

King Possum III posted:

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Trapezium Dave posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

I'm getting so loving sick of this presumption of innocence whining. If Brett was being presumed guilty he'd be in jail right now, or ideally in stocks in front of the Capitol.

These people are crying because he's being mildly inconvenienced as part of actual due process.

Fulchrum posted:

In the same way the english phrase "I am a New Yorker" means "I am a magazine"

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I mean, you could literally translate it as "I am a Berliner," but the way an actual German would say they were from Berlin would be "Ich bin Berliner." Adding the article changes the context in a way that wouldn't be obvious to a non-native speaker, but he did erroneously say he was a jam donut.

axolotl farmer posted:

New Ruben Bolling

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I mean, you could literally translate it as "I am a Berliner," but the way an actual German would say they were from Berlin would be "Ich bin Berliner." Adding the article changes the context in a way that wouldn't be obvious to a non-native speaker, but he did erroneously say he was a jam donut.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I try to imagine that nobody supporting Kavanaugh actually watched any of the hearings, because he is very clearly unfit to be a federal judge, let alone a supreme court justice before you even factor in all the rapes he did. Then I remember that millions of people watched Donald Trump conduct himself in public and still decided that making him president would be a good idea. I just have to resign myself to never understanding how the conservative psyche works.


I mean, you could literally translate it as "I am a Berliner," but the way an actual German would say they were from Berlin would be "Ich bin Berliner." Adding the article changes the context in a way that wouldn't be obvious to a non-native speaker, but he did erroneously say he was a jam donut.

Trapezium Dave posted:

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Jerry Cotton posted:

They now make jar lids that have an outer ring and it magically lets you open them without utensils.

e: Oh they've been around for years. Haven't seen them in shops around here before maybe 2016. https://www.crowncork.com/closures-capping/innovations-closures/orbit-closure

Glagha posted:

It'd be kind of like saying "I am a Danish" to a bunch of Danish people. Everyone knows what you meant, the phrasing is just a little off and could be interpreted like that.

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A German Grammar Lesson

Hoping to put the misinformation to rest, linguist Jürgen Eichhoff undertook a concise grammatical analysis of Kennedy's statement for the academic journal Monatshefte in 1993. "'Ich bin ein Berliner' is not only correct," Eichhoff concluded, "but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the president intended to say."

An actual Berliner would say, in proper German, "Ich bin Berliner." But that wouldn't have been the right phrase for Kennedy to use. The addition of the indefinite article "ein" is required, Eichhoff explains, to express a metaphorical identification between subject and predicate. Without this article, the speaker could be interpreted as saying that he is literally a citizen of Berlin, which was obviously not Kennedy's intention.

To give another example, the German sentences "Er ist Politiker" and "Er ist ein Politiker" both mean "He is a politician," but they're understood by German speakers as different statements with different meanings. The first means, more exactly, "He is (literally) a politician." The second means "He is (like) a politician." You would say of a Congressman, for example, "Er ist Politiker." But you would say of an organizationally astute coworker, "Er ist ein Politiker."

So, while the proper way for a Berlin resident to say "I am a Berliner" is "Ich bin Berliner," the proper way for a non-resident to say he's a Berliner in spirit is precisely what Kennedy said: "Ich bin ein Berliner." Though this expression can also be translated as "I am a jelly donut," no adult German speaker could possibly have misunderstood Kennedy's meaning, or regarded it as a mistake.

Cat Mattress posted:

It's not even a little off.

Grape posted:

Uh yeah kinda? Gorbachev basically decided to acknowledge the Warsaw Pact for what it was, an imperialist protectorate thingy, and stopped actually backing up the Soviet loyal Euro regimes with threat of violence. And boom they all started going down right quick.
Does Lickspillet imagine American commandos parachuted in and sniped the East Bloc politburos lol.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

"Heavenly Body"

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londonarbuckle posted:

Is it me or is Carmen being depicted as the unreasonable one way more often lately? It's been longer than usual since I've last seen her wagging her finger at Winslow with her eyes closed.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Samurai Sanders posted:

I won't say Trump invented the technique of telling transparent lies constantly

Zero_Grade posted:

Edit: ahaha, that Kelly is amazing. We all figured he'd do a Burt Reynolds obit, but I was not expecting that.
Jesus
I was wondering the same thing when I read those. Did he swap the speech bubbles on accident? The DASGDC is supposed to go the other way!

Also I thought us millenials ate nothing but avocados but somehow we're still killing them.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

"Heavenly Body"