I named my fists fork and fork, because I'm a fan of Cockney rhyming slang.
01.12.2025 14:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@christopherharris.bsky.social
Former journo. Extraordinary house sitter. Lover of dogs. Durmer. ๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐พ
I named my fists fork and fork, because I'm a fan of Cockney rhyming slang.
01.12.2025 14:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If I got this essay and thought it was submitted in good faith I would invite the student in to talk, since the main problem is that it doesnโt meet the conventions or standards of a college paper, and see about getting her some writing help. But involvement of TP suggests it is NOT in good faithโฆ
01.12.2025 01:02 โ ๐ 86 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Also Charles Schulz and George Shultz.
30.11.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Pete Hegseth Chapter 10 More Lethality, Less Lawyers
A chapter in Hegsethโs book is literally titled โMore Lethality, Less Lawyers.โ
Itโs almost as if there were signs!
"You've got another think coming."
28.11.2025 16:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Don't give her any ideas, Coach.
28.11.2025 16:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@bcdreyer.social with the best think on this, though probably not the last thing.
28.11.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
27.11.2025 22:57 โ ๐ 5740 ๐ 2795 ๐ฌ 337 ๐ 303The ๐ has a high genius level today, a benefit to introverts stuck at large gatherings and dying for something to do in a corner.
27.11.2025 16:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I donโt think the FAMU Marching 100 have ever performed there, and thatโs a crying shame.
27.11.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I feel like Mrs. Parker, upon hearing a knock at her door. Just more fresh hell.
26.11.2025 23:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I learned last night that old friend and former colleague Bill Cotterell, the dean of Florida journalists and Capital Curmudgeon himself, passed on Monday.
Great obit here from two other former colleagues, Jim Rosica and Gerald Ensley, who himself passed in 2018.
Photo caption which reads: "Crews move tons of dirt that will create the foundation of RDU's new, longer runway. It's scheduled to open in 20229."
The typo in the photo caption suggests that the project will take 18,204 years.
26.11.2025 14:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Sol and Ferlin
For the past few weeks Iโve been sitting my dog nephew Sol, snoozing here alongside his floofy pal Ferlin. Heโs been chasing squirrels in his sleep the past half hour.
26.11.2025 02:35 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But do they know about Moon Pies?
26.11.2025 01:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Image showing Tanqueray gin, Campari, and Martini & Rossi sweet vermouth, the ingredients of a Negroni
You'll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits.
I have all the sympathy in the world for Ms. Ferreira, but zero sympathy for KL. When this fresh hell ends (and it will) she deserves not a moment of peace the rest of her life.
25.11.2025 23:45 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My dearly departed grandfather was of a mind that, if pie was available, especially a cobbler, it was the first course of the meal. This applied at breakfast as much as lunch or dinner. His logic? "If I get full, there's no room for pie, and that'd be a shame."
25.11.2025 23:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0tell me you don't understand risk pools without telling me you don't understand risk pools
25.11.2025 23:37 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But do you eat raspberries the Amelie way, which is the only way?
25.11.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's a good vehicle for ice cream, the way lobster is the best excuse for melted butter.
25.11.2025 23:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0He'll make one of them ambassador to Turkey.
25.11.2025 17:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I now want to call my friend's fat-tubed RAD a "hollowbody electric."
25.11.2025 14:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(honestly the first time I've heard "acoustic bike," and I like it)
25.11.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0absochotinlutely - interruptive gerund
25.11.2025 04:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0?
chotin โ verb
chotined โ past participle
chotining โ gerund
chotiner โ him
chotinee โ victim
Is the victim a chotinee?
25.11.2025 04:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0iโm not crying youโre crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
She's mad, Coach. Don't put on Bluesky that she's mad.
25.11.2025 02:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wondering what the past tense of the verb should be. Chotinered?
25.11.2025 02:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0