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Sep 12, 2006

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jobson groeth posted:

Not going to lie. Ahmadinejad has strong game.

He is an exceptional practitioner of The Online.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Bertrand Hustle posted:

I want Jon to be king, am a mild-to-moderate socialist, never go to Applebee's, and am reasonably sure I don't smell like weed.

Well poo poo, you got him.

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Sep 12, 2006

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El Gallinero Gros posted:

(what a loving thrill that would have been)

Can you even imagine?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Farecoal posted:

I interpreted it as "plastic straws are only a very small component of plastic waste and focusing on them is a well-intentioned but misguided effort", but I forgot about the chud view :butt:

Didn’t people only get all upset about straws after a grade schooler counted them on one beach and extrapolated ~~somehow~~ to a global quantity?

Given the poo poo state of recycling these days, straws are the last thing you should be worrying about reusing.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Picnic Princess posted:

Straw bans are being called ableist because some people are unable to drink without them.

Yeah, it’s a big thing in the occupational therapy community. Reusable straws are OK, but often hard to wash if you have motor control issues.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Memento posted:

edit: found a better one. Shitpostradamus had me laughing out loud in real life.

https://twitter.com/hugwins/status/1070973031919566848

That whole thread is good to great.

I’ll admit that I don’t get the apple/Luke/pants one!

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Sep 12, 2006

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Posting a photo of a patient’s tattoo (or other identifying mark) seems like it should be a good way to lose one’s medical credentials, unless they consented in a lovely just-so conclusion.

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Sep 12, 2006

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A picture of an identical tattoo doesn’t seem better, but I guess it is.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Gum posted:

it doesnt tell you anything other than the fact that they treated a member of the indiana aryan brotherhood

Yeah, I guess that’s true. I’ve been moved.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Katt posted:

I said "Almost all" specifically to leave room for niche vegetarians. No doctor is going to tell anyone to go vegetarian unless they have some very specific medical condition. They're going to tell them to cut down on the meat and most people probably should.

I’ve met many vegetarians who profess it being due to health reasons, but who have no specific medical requirement to eliminate meat. They just feel like it’s healthier for them, and they didn’t feel they needed a doctor’s instruction to eat in a healthier way (or go to the gym, for that matter). I didn’t think this was an unusual case — people often choose their diet due to perceived health impact without the input of a medical professional — but maybe all my vegetarian contacts are weird. It could be!

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Sep 12, 2006

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What say you to that, Zipperelli.?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Atticus_1354 posted:

Hey man he learned an entire language to play that role. He also did all the language subs for the international releases

They had him translate the subtitles? That’s sort of odd.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Milo and POTUS posted:

You know why they do that right? If the cat gets out of its own accord, it's (probably) fine. If it feels so bad it just sits there, it's something to be concerned about

Some of our cats would scramble to get out on routine checkups, and others would happily-enough sit there. Our vets never commented that their behaviour was diagnostic of anything.

Where did you learn that?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Bertrand Hustle posted:

It's more that if the cat reacts in a way that is unusual for that cat, it's cause for concern.

Oh, that is definitely the case! That’s not what I interpreted the other post as saying, though.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Flint_Paper posted:

You don't really need more than five minutes. Those idiots have no staying power.

The idiot dog?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Lucky for Sandor, he’s just as white as the other boys!

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Sep 12, 2006

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gently caress

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Sep 12, 2006

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The very first comment links to the Wikipedia page of the pun.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Rolo posted:

They’re not from earth. He may lay eggs and poo poo baby food out of his eyes.

So you’re saying we’re a go for yogurt?

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Sep 12, 2006

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yeah but TC-39 are assholes

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Sep 12, 2006

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I think it’s fine to use “cure cancer” as a shorthand for “solve hard and important problem” without a robust rubric for comparing the topic at hand to actual oncology. Given that the media will lead with the story of “cute puppy, but robot!” and not “this is a step to better understanding of non-verbal mechanical expressions which are necessary for employing robots to assist with home care”, it’s easy to feel like it’s the scientific equivalent of someone spending a life-changing amount of money on a baseball card at auction. Decrying people for having their understanding of the (non-)portability of capabilities across scientific disciplines lag their exposure to photogenic results doesn’t seem appropriate or helpful. (The people in question probably could have made some contributions to cancer research instead if they’d chosen that path, if not necessarily groundbreaking ones, but I’m not sure there’s a useful moral framework under which they should be compelled to do so.)

That said, it’s an excusable tweet, but far from a good one.

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Sep 12, 2006

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hey, @deadsquid is my buddy! he’s famous!

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Sep 12, 2006

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Inceltown posted:

Women can be gay too :ssh:

and they can be directors of non-porn movies!

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Sep 12, 2006

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Memento posted:

drat she's incredibly on point.

Would be nicer to punch up at him instead of down at the young girl, though.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Skwirl posted:

I don't know anything about either of them, happy to believe they're both terrible, but I just realized the Lt Governor of Florida thought nothing of driving to Colorado for a vacation, having a vacation, then driving back to Florida during a pandemic. That's like most of a month at bare minimum when there's a major crisis happening in your state.

Biplane posted:

It's because he is rich and white and doesn't give a single gently caress about anything other than his paycheck.

It is possibly also because he hasn’t been the Lt Governor of Florida since 2011.

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Sep 12, 2006

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I only know 5 people who’ve worked in ERs, and all of them on Canada, but they all said that there was a bottle of vodka kept for cases where someone presented with DT. One was in pediatrics, no less!

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Sep 12, 2006

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Mauser posted:

Does German really uppercase words like insane people do in English?

Where do you think insane people learned it?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Memento posted:

Yeah I was a couple of those

:hfive:

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Sep 12, 2006

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Thank you, that was lovely.

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Sep 12, 2006

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That toilet is for emergency use only.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Tiggum posted:

Both of those things were circulated widely on Twitter. It's entirely possible for people who've never even heard of Something Awful to know about groverhaus.

I believe she said later that she used to read SA in high school and college, so our brush with fame is intact.

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Sep 12, 2006

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D-Pad posted:

The concept of a central vac system is blowing my mind. How many people stuck their dick in one I wonder?

Depends a lot on the size of the house, but it’s common to have two sockets per floor plus a kick plate on the kitchen floor that you can sweep into, and if you lay on your side it might be possible. So let’s be optimists and say “7”.

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Sep 12, 2006

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syense posted:

If you have a central vac system you can also get like neat cabinet floorboard inset dust pans. Sweep the dirt in front of the slot, push a button, and sloooop, away the dirt goes.

That’s the only thing that’s tempting about activating the roughed-in system in my house. Magic kitchen dirt slurping.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Moon Slayer posted:

Are ... are the women going to be bait for the unicorns, or...?

You really are the most adorable mod. *pinches cheeks*

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Sep 12, 2006

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Captain Monkey posted:

How old is that article, because that man does not look 28.

If Peter Stella’s tweet can be trusted, 1994

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Sep 12, 2006

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The Washington Americans, same logo

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Sep 12, 2006

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Is it just me, or were names not named at all?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Ugly In The Morning posted:

Their thing about censoring vowels out is irritating as hell. Do they think no one is going to be able to tell you were talking about Taco Bell if you write it as t*co b*ll? Why do they write Brown and Harvard in their bio as Br*wn and H*rv*rd? It’s baffling and is annoying me way more than it should.

I think it’s generally used to avoid people searching for the name and brigading any criticism. I’m not sure that ExxonMobile Chemical really has a team of strident defenders along those lines, but hey it’s 2020.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Huego posted:

Yep, wearing wigs is one of the ways black women try to cope with the incessant racism against their natural hair. Mocking minorities for something they do to survive in our racist culture certainly says a lot about you.

It was just a timely pun, I think, and not really mocking anyone.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Inceltown posted:

Yeah, you're almost at the end going "there is no room for a twist left in this clip" and then BAM

The last syllable and bam, payoff.

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