EasilyDistracted

Nail clippers on an airplane are nothing compared to the terror of “razor sharp claws from a purring and kneeding beast at 2am”

Well then good thing we haven’t found anything good in vending machines to spend that money on, lol

No, no. Timothy Oliphant would make a *terrible* Elf Paladin. No prosthetic ears could ever sell that.

No, he likes chilled/fridge temp water/icewater.

Like fuck, I’d respect disliking carbonated water more (he said, having crushed a sixer of fizzy water in the past 4 hours)

Yes, that was the biggest Micah Cancelation shitstorm of Bsky history. (And it was somehow a full Main Character of the Day thing? At least when Swole got that it was for pointing out that a journalist was saying anti-vax shit)

Too soon?

Discworld
For your next book club

Gender is a performance and ours is pretty fucking boring with a handful of surprisingly invested fans.

The stamping on that hardware doesn’t look particularly clean. I’m less sure about the letters on the leather itself, photography of that can sometimes look worse than it is, but the kerning on everything looks sub par and the metal just doesn’t look.. clean?

She’s the one where specifically not trying to cozy up to her triggers that, right?

It’s a game that has given you so very much, that’s for certain.

That’d squick me personally but my brain is trying to do logarithmic equations trying to figure out how much worse it’d be for you lol.

But he can do that from Puerto Rico so like it’s a *working* holiday,

He has the magic power of convincing cops to start on their retirement paperwork, I think?

However many toys we’ve gotten these kittens and their group favorite toy for the past three days is a spike ball from a sweet gum tree that someone tracked in.

The same is apparently true for Cricket, is the gist of the joke.

I suppose England never getting possession of the Ashes and/or the football cup thing is just a “fair is fair, get good” deal.

A for effort, massive extra credit for awesomeness.

I once made a coworker’s day by explaining that his last name of “Haas” was absolutely another case of those “what did your family do for a living?” last names.

Turns out that after they settled in the US right after the prohibition started and did well for themselves.

It probably wouldn’t be, a cant has to be able to live in the margins of another language to do its job.
And to be fair to the Dutch, despite the “pirate dialect is just the English getting confused about Dutch” thing the Dutch history is significantly more full of a more noble job (smuggling).

His interaction with Vimes in Thud! always gave me the impression that Vimes is like a classic always renewed TV show for me.

But yeah, the Desth/Westherwax interaction at the end there (and the feeling that Terry was also saying goodbye) gets me Every Time.

*gasp* that’s the cost of a video game, Ben! Oh noz!

A lot of the folks who got into that went fascist too, sadly. =\

o7

So the pirate language developed a specialized language for… more general purpose thievery? Fascinating.

Someone needs to translate the Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads songs into Bargoens.

That and Apple offering a Linux partition as a default factory config were things of beauty.

Is “Autochotinered” too much of a mouthful?

I am gonna *have* to use New Dorp Beach for something in the near future.

Okay but “nair” is an awesome word and I enjoy seeing it in print.

Oh fuck yeah, I’ll take that over unseasoned mashed potatoes any day of the week. I’d say I’d take it over a rarebit most days of the week but apparently everyone *but* the Irish got assigned a cheesy toast variant? (This seems like anti-Irish racism, honestly)