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Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

RatHat posted:



Kindle sometimes scans books to make it digital. If a certain word is faded or obscured in some way, it can interpret things...creatively.

The Long Wank am I right

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Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's more that the political ideas of liberalism abandoned those people (and have recently had to be dragged kicking and screaming back to them) rather than vice versa.

Also the Southern Strategy and its many spin-offs in the West

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


Germanic countries' cuisine is irredeemably awful with the exceptions of Austria and Belgium.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008



I am very sorry.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Son of Rodney posted:

Post your culture ship name itt

I'm the very fast picket Just So Tired Of All These Star Wars

A Shameless Absence of Gravitas

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

pik_d posted:

Leeta (Chase Masterson), here's the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4H9nb03jI8

Is that her actual name because lol that's a name that's pre-made for porn

That reminds me I once had a girlfriend whose name was Krystle (and I don't even live in an English speaking country so this kind of spelling is doubly unusual here). At one point she tells me that an ex-bf of hers told her she had a "whore name". I scoffed and said "oh come on, that's not a whore name." She turned to me and asked "Yeah? so what does my name sound like then? You seemed to imply something there". "Uhh... a stripper?"

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

The Ape of Naples posted:

Isn't cut the default?

I'm getting the suspicion you're not really an ape from Naples

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

It's also a common mistake to think Trump won the working class. He barely did. He won the upper classes to a much more significant degree.

It's an irksome liberal habit to frame fascists' appeal as something for the working class because hurf durf we are smart enough to see through the smokescreens but the fact is that most fascist voters know precisely what they are voting for. The true elephant in the room is the craven media-industrial complex that enables the rise of fascists by letting them dictate the terms of the public conversation.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

I used to work for an international company in Brussels and the signs in the cafeteria were in French and English, however, most of the kitchen staff spoke only French, so they translated "crudités" into "CRUDITIES" which was pretty funny. I imagined the cook peppering my food with insults and profanities.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Captain Jesus posted:



"I bet you a dollar I won't move out of this chair until next morning"

Unfortunately, he appears to have moved between pictures.

Do any of these goons, or the puke guy(s), the forlorn goon looking at the lady in the basement, that neckbeard with the pipe, etc. in short, do any of those people still post here at all? I sometimes get the impression that people who were quite active here between 2000 and 2007 sort of disappeared. The most 'famous' goon.jpgs are all from that era, and technology back then didn't do them any favors either because while digital cameras were already a thing, most of them were poo poo and the average person was still very bad at making good photographs.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Yeah. I mean, I've been around here for 10+ years, too. I also did go to a few goon meets and I actually got to know a then-girlfriend through these here forums, but even around 2011 (when all of this transpired) we had the good sense not to share any embarrassing photos and most of the people I met were quite nice, if a bit off-centre. The most Extremely Online goons tended to be from before that era, with the attendant edgelordships and all that, but even then SA did play a role in making me reconsider a lot of my previously unreflexive centre-left political views, propelling me into hard-left territory.

Anyway, content:

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Who would've thunk a platinum blonde Mars Attacks-looking creep who seems to fantasize about wearing his mum's skin as a jacket and wears pedolenses would enjoy singing Nazi songs

It's always the once you least expect, isn't it

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Captain Splendid posted:

Even fancier than that, it's Latin :smugdog:

Not really. Latin for 'bean' is 'faba'. 'Fava' is Italian. Classical Latin didn't even have the v-sound. The words we pronounce like that anyway are just an alternate spelling of 'u' to make pronunciation easier for the semivocally challenged.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Riatsala posted:

Which is a shame because it's a great term to describe all the corporate Pride bullshit that gets trotted out every June for naive gays such as myself.

Ironically that is something chuds will never mock as "virtue signaling" because it's too overt. A lof of their ilk genuinely seem to believe that pro-LGBT+ activists, feminists, environmentalists, etc. don't genuinely support the causes they espouse because chud ideology itself is a barren wasteland where all kinds of bullshit has currency so long as you don't say too openly that what you really want is to see black people, women and minorities suffer. Conversely, it's why so many well-meaning progressives fall into the trap of wanting to debate alt-righters and nazis. That almost never works because they are either so smooth-brained / insane that they have no shared concept of reality, or it's just a way to keep the bullshit wheel of somewhat plausible deniability turning.

Like, for a few years I was the moderator of a fairly large online gender/feminism discussion group and some men were incapable of seeing my engagement as anything other than some ruse to get laid.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Knormal posted:

Well...?

People I dated with would sometimes join the discussion group, not the other way around since I'm not Hugo Schwyzer. So as per usual, the chuds had it rear end-backwards.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


:jackin:

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Mierenneuker posted:

Urbanus is a Flemish comedian. He also has a long-running series of comic books. I guess they based this version of Monopoly solely on his stand-up shows and they got someone's nephew to draw the artwork.

He also turned into an unfunny right-wing shithead about 15 years ago. Both evolutions happened in parallel, too.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

I read the Harry Potters at around age 24. The middle chunk of the series is particularly well-written, with long stretches of pure page-turnery, and her depiction of Voldemort as a pure sociopath is at times bone-chillingly accurate. However, the first two novels are bad and awkwardly written. She got very lucky they were ever published and she got enough time to find her creative footing. When she was done writing about Harry Potter though, she seemed to have come to a mental standstill so her mindset is basically one of a late W. Bush-era liberal. Unfortunately she's doubling down on that so now she's simply becoming part of the monster of regressive cultural attitudes.

This sort of stagnation doesn't happen only with YA, middlebrow or fantasy authors. There are similar examples from more high-brow strata like Jonathan Franzen or satirists like Douglas Coupland, who seem to be stuck in a never-ending Gen X loop and don't realise they are, in fact, The Man now.

ChubbyChecker posted:

david eddings and his wife went to jail for child abuse

I'm unfortunately not surprised

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Mauser posted:

Speaking of the Flemish, i thought Paris had a reasonable amount of outdoor piss smell, but Brussels was the absolute worst on a hot day.

Finally something Brussels can beat Paris at

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


This is like one of those trick pictures where you have to guess Russia or England. The walls say Russia but the relatively clean execution says England. Hmm.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

xtal posted:

Sports are homophobic

Simultaneously they are also very homo-erotic.

Like, whenever people question how weird it is that I am both a big Eurovision fan and a big fan of the FIFA/UEFA Championships, I tell them that both events are very similar to some extent: the outsized nationalism, the kitsch, the drama, the mass spectacle and yes, the homo-eroticism.

In terms of money wasting/peak performance however, F1 takes the cake. These are likely the most well-rounded athletes to exist even if their overall condition only accounts for like 1% of their success, all the rest is due to their teams and their cars, both of which are an absurd waste of money. It's also why I like F1 because if you're going to do something gaudy and wasteful, best to go balls to the wall with it.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Splicer posted:

I've seen this before and I still read it wrong. Am I broken

I also parsed it as 'Goth Clowns Only' if that's what you mean

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Data Graham posted:

For a movie that actually uses dilution and staying sharp as a plot point, may I recommend The Sting.

https://www.shmoop.com/the-sting/gin-symbol.html

Anyway as for whether shaking gets it colder faster, I'd say it probably does, but I did get into a conversation once with a bartender at a nerdy cocktail bar in Jackson WY who told me that once he was asked by a customer to make his martini as cold as it was humanly possible to make it. He said he stirred it for near on 30 minutes, but it was worth it because it got it down to sub-freezing temperatures and the customer tipped well for it. Course now I'm thinking about how much ice he must have gone through in that half hour lool

Maybe I'm dumb but wouldn't shaking/stirring it for 30 minutes actually warm it up on account of the kinetics?

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

RaspberryCommie posted:

Apparently the levels of angel are different in each of the Abrahamic faiths, but there's always nine of them.

According to wiki (I know) the nine choirs in descending order are: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels and Angels. And above all of those sits Metatron.

Can Metatron transform into a gun though

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


It's actually far from certain Odoacer was Gothic, it's more likely he was at least of mixed descent.

source: Pope Hilarius I was his contemporary

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Oh my god who would want rear end bees :stonk:

*in extreme Nicholas Cage voice*

Argh, no! Not the beans! Aaaagrhhr

RustyKnight posted:

never in my life I've seen political bumper sticker, is any european country into this or is it just american thing? I mostly saw christian fishes and "lubię zapierdalać" which translates to "I like to be fast as gently caress" stickers. I've seen political posters for nationalists on the rear windows though

As far as Belgium goes I've only seen them with Flemish nationalists, my grandfather used to have one saying "Fleming, and proud of it!", ironically on the trunk of his dirty poo poo-coloured old Lada car. Most other bumper stickers are apolitical and tend to either refer to kids or hobbies.

But yeah I don't know of any other Western nation that gets so insane with bumper stickers as the Americans do.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


jesus why does this one guy sound like a stereotypical 2005-era featureless potato looking dork

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Infinitum posted:

If you're from Sydney you know who this is, and you know where to find him



so that's where Jimmy Savile's been hiding

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

3D Megadoodoo posted:

-poo poo out your colon in the shower
-tell your dad to shut the gently caress up on live mic

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

- create a machine designed to accelerate children to 65mph into a wooden post

- advising substance abusers to use LSD
- having an abnormally long face
- redesigning your apartment into a DOOM level to attract :females:

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Solice Kirsk posted:

American style football is superior to cricket. I realize that's not usually a comparison that gets made, but it is a hill I'm willing to die on.

That might be true but that's like saying you'd rather eat Melania Trump's poo poo than Donald's - it's still poo poo.

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

thepopmonster posted:

Is that the scientific name? I mean, in a world where you can legit suffer from exploding head[1] syndrome, and it being 2020, it's hard to tell.

[1] No, not that head. The head that everyone[2] has[3].
[2] Homo Sapiens or close enough
[3] Is literally[4] permanently[4] attached[4] to them[5].
[4] The literal meaning should be used here rather than any metaphorical.
[5] Use past tense as appropriate for dead people.

Exploding rear end Syndrome would be an awesome user/band name though

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Amphigory posted:

That's even funnier than I remembered

"Zombie who moaned for piss"

I somehow now imagine a zombie John Lennon moaning "all we are saying is give piss a chance"

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Johnny Aztec posted:

I wonder how many people bought "Butt Out of Hell" expecting a metal album

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

seems like those could be catalysts to bad behaviour, though

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008


that was my first thought as well, haha

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Stretch Marx posted:

They can't tell each other! If the fresh water fish go into the sea, or vice versa, they'd die! They don't even know each other exist. Well, except for the salmon. But they have to deal with the bears.

Furthermore

Eels would like to have really looooooong word with you in their office

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

lollontee posted:

sorry, that was supposed to go into the finland thread


Isn't this from Mongolia, where neo-nazism is weirdly popular?

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Americans: yeah it's totally normal to teach a child how to use lethal weapons
Also Americans: lol let's saddle our kids with insurmountable college debt and make routine medical procedures hideously expensive while also have no social safety net to speak of

This either creates the class that will topple the US from inside, or will make it storm troopers, though given recent history, I'm quite sure that it's the latter

Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

mdemone posted:

Pater homo, quid quid

I like this one, but of course 'homo' just means 'man'. Latin had no word for homosexual, they saw sexual proclivities as either penetrating of being penetrated irrespective of gender, though, since women were usually the, uh, penetratees, for a man to enjoy being penetrated was considered slightly shameful - penetrating other dudes, less so.

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Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Outrail posted:

Explain the stigma on docking plz.

Does use of a strapon raise ones social standing?

I'll ask a friend of mine who is an expert on Roman history, though if you were a woman using a strap-on, you'd still be a woman, a social class seen as 'lesser'. Misogyny wasn't as ferocious in the Roman Empire as it was during the Greek city-state era, but it was still pretty awful.

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