Solice Kirsk posted:

Am I missing the irony somewhere?

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Maybe because the ballgun was the poo poo position because you had to curl up in a cramped spot, like how his body was found.

Handsome Ralph posted:

89-year-old man found in suitcase identified as WWII veteran

china bot posted:

when he died they washed him out with a hose

quote:

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

quote:

A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret; hunched upside-down in his little sphere, he looked like the fetus in the womb. The fighters which attacked him were armed with cannon firing explosive shells. The hose was a steam hose.

Say Nothing posted:

rodbeard posted:

Is Winnipeg the Florida of Canada? All I know of it I learned from songs about Winnipeg being terrible.

rodbeard posted:

Is Winnipeg the Florida of Canada? All I know of it I learned from songs about Winnipeg being terrible.

Bogan King posted:

Only Winnipeg songs I can think of come from Venetian Snares but with titles such as Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole and Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die your theory holds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrD-OYuEkyY

rodbeard posted:

Is Winnipeg the Florida of Canada? All I know of it I learned from songs about Winnipeg being terrible.

beato posted:

https://i.imgur.com/RwEhdIY.mp4

genetic_knockout posted:

I hereby nominate Hamilton, Ontario as the Florida of Canada. It is a disgusting shithole filled with stupid, sketchy degenerates.

Semi-relevent content:

"Grenade brought to downtown Hamilton police station for disposal"

RandomFerret posted:

Go back to Toronto

Powaqoatse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ojvk-4IcOE

It's funnier with sound

davidspackage posted:

Unsurprisingly, most of the comments are humorless wieners complaining about feminism.

cnut posted:

Come on, people, it's just that simple!

Sakurazuka posted:

I refuse to believe that's not satire.

Powaqoatse posted:

It's funnier with sound

Khazar-khum posted:

Bill Gates' mother helped him out, too.

the article posted:

What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.

In 2014, three truck drivers sued Oakhurst Dairy, seeking more than four years’ worth of overtime pay that they had been denied. Maine law requires workers to be paid 1.5 times their normal rate for each hour worked after 40 hours, but it carves out some exemptions.

the article posted:

Note the lack of Oxford comma — also known as the serial comma — in the following state law, which says overtime rules do not apply to:

The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of:

(1) Agricultural produce;

(2) Meat and fish products; and

(3) Perishable foods.

Does the law intend to exempt the distribution of the three categories that follow, or does it mean to exempt packing for the shipping or distribution of them?

Delivery drivers distribute perishable foods, but they don’t pack the boxes themselves. Whether the drivers were subject to a law that had denied them thousands of dollars a year depended entirely on how the sentence was read.

If there were a comma after “shipment,” it might have been clear that the law exempted the distribution of perishable foods. But the appeals court on Monday sided with the drivers, saying the absence of a comma produced enough uncertainty to rule in their favor. It reversed a lower court decision.

In other words: Oxford comma defenders won this round.

Automated Posting posted:

Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

Tiggum posted:

Except the sentence would still be awkward and difficult to parse even with the extra comma?

Automated Posting posted:

Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

Automated Posting posted:

Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

Ape Agitator posted:

Suck it Oxford Comma-deniers! Your reign of ambiguity is over. In victory, I offer sandwiches: ham, tuna salad, banana and peanut butter and jelly. Which sandwich has peanut butter in it?

Ape Agitator posted:

Suck it Oxford Comma-deniers! Your reign of ambiguity is over. In victory, I offer sandwiches: ham, tuna salad, banana and peanut butter and jelly. Which sandwich has peanut butter in it?