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It's more like saying "attacked by a cat" instead of "attacked by a tiger." Means the same thing, entirely different context. Most regular people think of "cat" as "housecat" and not as the overall family. Calling it grass instead of sugarcane is a deliberate choice to muddy the context

Theater kids

It's so funny to say that all you eat meats and ferments, and therefore you're just gonna eat yogurt for the Super Bowl. Like, this is the one day to meat it up dude.

I found The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner to be one of the most moving things I've ever seen on film.

Don't get too excited, it's really only sorta based on Vineland. More of a general homage to Pynchon. I'm still thinking about it though, which I take as a good thing.

The monkey's paw curls a finger

Combating vile racism with vile sexism is not the way forward

It's the same with music. Look up any sort of user playlist named something like "1950s Diner Music" and it's stuff like Runaround Sue (1961) and Bobby Vinton's Blue Velvet (1963)

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?

Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

You're describing the average Pacific Northwesterner.

To be fair, you have to drink those adjunct lagers very cold or else you, uh, start tasting the adjuncts

In a medical crisis, having a bunch of people crowding around unable to help is not helpful. Leaving to go get help/first aid kit is often the best way to help, especially if other people have already responded.

However, it's unlikely that RFK was actually doing anything useful or helpful.

We don't have to settle now for someone that throws trans kids under the bus. If that's playing the game then it's time to rethink the game.

I was a communications minor at App State! Fun bit of synchronicity, I saw Ric Flair (dressed in a 3 piece bright red suit) walking around the Comms department one day (he was there visiting his daughter who was a student at the time).

My dad (not a Trumper but very much and evangelical) loves the story of David because of "how human" he is. And like, buddy, that's not a level of human I want to be

Yeah, really sucks for the troops that signed up to kill and maim kids in the middle east to have to stand around DC intimidating tourists instead. Stop wringing your hands about decorum and oaths. This is fascism and everyone participating is complicit.

Mustard sauce is a Sourh Carolina thing. NC does vinegar based sauce.

You can find better versions of everything in these photos literally anywhere else in NC. Except Cheerwine. Cheerwine is perfect which is how you know it doesn't come from Charlotte.

I grew up in NC and now I live in the Portland area. The Canes are following me around.

Paul himself likely didn't even write the letter to the Ephesians, where this phrase comes from.

My closest IKEA is in the same shooping center as a Best Buy, so that's cool.

oh no I'm becoming a Jazz Guy

This is the most German sentence I've ever read

A black and white photo of a smiling JFK posing with a cigar in one hand and a pen in the other over an open book while a smiling Alfredo di Lelio manhandles an overflowing plate of fettuccine alfredo next to him.

Less an endorsement of JFK and more an endorsement of weird historical photo ops (I flip between this one and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing in a sarcophagus)

Love the story off that song. The band found out Bon Scott was in a pipe band when he was younger, so they wrote a song with a bagpipe part and bought a set. Turns out he played drums in that band, not the pipes, but he was able to learn enough to play the part for the song.

No way the Starship HLS or Orion is ready by then (or ever). Also no way this administration allows DEI In Space

I've been spending the past year doing some intensive processing of my evangelical upbringing and religious trauma, and this is a very helpful comic to keep handy. Thank you.

I bet a good north shore beef could fix her