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"When politics trumps science, you are on a very slippery slope"
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"When politics trumps science, you are on a very slippery slope"
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"I only have two questions, and they're rhetorical.
1) Why are there so many idiots?
2) Why am I accursed to meet every single waste of carbon on this dying planet?"
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"Leavened by the bitter, ultra-dark, chocolate taste of schadenfreude"
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"So many 'decent' Christians think Pilate is a role model."
Hallmark Christmas movies - The Canadian Acting Profession's demo reel.
01.11.2025 00:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Out of context comment
""Some of y'all can't shut the fuck up for 10 seconds before y'all say something pig fucking moron stupid, so none of y'all get to say anything" would appear to be the implication."
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"Go and read the comments for a while. Then see how overdue the asteroid with humanity's name on it feels."
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"One hopes for the seemingly never ending tribe of bastard offspring the lying, drunken, serially philandering embarrassment to all humanity has sired, it's heavy metal poisoning."
"But really, aren't the monsters just the people we met along the way?"
01.11.2025 00:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Out of context comment
"To call 1980s Scunthorpe 'one horse' is to give it a cosmopolitan edge it wholly lacked."
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"Almost everything worthwhile includes a Dremel and bits everywhere...
Which, coming from me, sounds needlessly ominous, not to say straight up dark..."
I need six little people to put in Joel Grey 'Cabaret' make up and Scout uniforms, a boom box, a CD single of Gay Bar by Electric Six, and a Pope costume for Halloween.
30.10.2025 10:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Out of context comment
"I've seen less passion evinced by opining on the profession of someone's mother, how that relates to sailors, and her familial closeness to the person's father."
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"I really should list schadenfreude among my hobbies"
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"There are times reductio ad absurdum works, and there are others, when it just makes the user look... let's say a bit Dunning Kruger when it comes to their assessment of their wit. I'm afraid, here, it's the latter."
Call me old fashioned - in that 'blue arsed barbarian whose visceral views have no place in a society that would call itself civilised' way that some mistake in me for raffish charm - but I'd like to see the Feds go after Musk like the ATF going into a cult compound in the 80s.
26.10.2025 00:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Nigel Farage continues to cheapen an already tawdry political process"
25.10.2025 16:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We don't use the word 'tawdry' enough.
25.10.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Reddit post. Direcartographies replying to "fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however 'moose' is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way." Their reply is "Oh baby. Keep talking dirty to me."
25.10.2025 16:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Out of context comment
"If you have any faith in the essential nobility of humans, never read the comments."
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"The bullshit of cosmic significance. There's a reason you came from where ever, and that reason is usually that it's shit."
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"If you have to tell me you're a patriot, you're almost certainly a con man"
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"I believe 'open-cast bile mine' is a better translation"
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"The disadvantage of filigree is that you have to floss it to get the clotted gore out"
"confusing, misleading, and on occasion, outright infuriating" - Humanity in a nutshell.
25.10.2025 13:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not even the low hanging fruit of the Postmaster General. It was like they ignored it all.
25.10.2025 13:28 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It might be a hangover from the early days of Facebook (post academic pilot, and before the end of the -wars and farmville games) where "like" could mean "I've seen your post", and was regarded by some as 'manners.' Confused the life out of me for a few years.
25.10.2025 13:25 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Domestic vignette
Me: "Well, it wouldn't get me off a dance floor. There again, that territory was hard won. Bee Gees 'New York Mining Disaster 1941' - 'Please motherfucker' and I'd find a groove. That space is MINE"
Reply, in a faintly resigned tone, "I know... I was there"
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"The man almost defies a decent pejorative."
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"The only thing I can think is he knows where more bodies are buried than The Green River Killer"