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Boner M
Sep 21, 2021

by Hand Knit

This guy was actually arrested for, essentially, Simony in 2016.

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Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Boner M posted:

This guy was actually arrested for, essentially, Simony in 2016.

I know this isn’t what this means but I’m going to believe it was a very aggressively forced game of Simon Says.

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Captain Monkey posted:

I know this isn’t what this means but I’m going to believe it was a very aggressively forced game of Simon Says.
It's the buying and selling of church offices

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


I like your family coat of arms Ellie Trashcakes, I wonder what Yahtzee Kidnapper's looks like.

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

It's a griffin holding an empty bottle of sunscreen

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1445854383988613127

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Something about the font or kerning a lot of these fake tweets never get right. You'd think they would just write an actual tweet and screencap the text.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS


Wise words.

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami



:yeah:

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

This is news to me.


https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/features/the-man-who-saved-pinball/

A guy saved Pimball from getting considered gambling.


(video is not related)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS22TReh-fQ

ZombieLenin
Sep 6, 2009

"Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin


[/quote]

Skulk Hogan posted:

The best chicken places look like this. :colbert:



I have a photo I took way back in the day before digital cameras were a thing that I should probably dig up of this…

So I was born, and spent roughly 35 years of my life, in San Diego.

My grandparents lived in National City (maybe you’d call it a suburb of San Diego at this point), and they had a gas station by their house I would drive by every time I went to go see them.

This gas station had a taco shop inside.

That taco shop’s name for roughly 5 years (it has since changed) was Analburtos. So they had this huge Analburtos sign right under the 76 (gas station chain) sign.

I am kind of reminded of this.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!




adtrw go like
https://i.imgur.com/D8lXe2x.gifv

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Domus
May 7, 2007

Kidney Buddies

Tei posted:

This is news to me.
A guy saved Pimball from getting considered gambling.


The thing is, before flippers it was basically pachinko. Also, while not gambling per se, it’s attached to a lot of mafia influences. To the point where, when I was a kid, my dad would point out the building of our city’s biggest coin op place, and tell me that was where the mafia lived.

I ended up working there for 7 years as a pinball tech. They were kinda mafia connected, but the mob’s not really that powerful these days.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Domus posted:

The thing is, before flippers it was basically pachinko. Also, while not gambling per se, it’s attached to a lot of mafia influences. To the point where, when I was a kid, my dad would point out the building of our city’s biggest coin op place, and tell me that was where the mafia lived.

I ended up working there for 7 years as a pinball tech. They were kinda mafia connected, but the mob’s not really that powerful these days.

Any business that's mostly or exclusively cash is going to attract people with money to launder. But for some reason the idea of mob run arcades amuses me. It makes me imagine a videogame themed crime syndicate.

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Any business that's mostly or exclusively cash is going to attract people with money to launder. But for some reason the idea of mob run arcades amuses me. It makes me imagine a videogame themed crime syndicate.

Ruled with an iron fist by Don Kikong

OnlyBans
Sep 21, 2021

by sebmojo
All crimes are the same so CIA backed crack is the same as italian backed Las Vegas is the same as yakuza backed arcades.

Well, not quite. The CIA backed crack is just a function of black on black crime. The others are legitimate examples of how organized crime is good.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
From the Josh Duggar court case

Boner M
Sep 21, 2021

by Hand Knit



"A detail from the lower portion of James Tilly Matthews' illustration of the Air Loom"


"The "Middle Man" operating the Air Loom"


"A victim of the Air Loom's influencing rays"


James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom

quote:

Matthews believed that a gang of criminals and spies skilled in pneumatic chemistry had taken up residence at London Wall in Moorfields (close to Bethlem) and were tormenting him by means of rays emitted by a machine called the "Air Loom" or gaseous charge generator. The torments induced by the rays included "Lobster-cracking", during which the circulation of the blood was prevented by a magnetic field; "Stomach-skinning" and "Apoplexy-working with the nutmeg grater" which involved the introduction of fluids into the skull. His persecutors bore such names as "the Middleman" (who operated the Air Loom), "the Glove Woman" and "Sir Archy" (who acted as "repeaters" or "active worriers" to enhance Matthews' torment or record the machine's activities) and their leader, a man called "Bill, or the King".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tilly_Matthews

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Boner M posted:




"A detail from the lower portion of James Tilly Matthews' illustration of the Air Loom"


"The "Middle Man" operating the Air Loom"


"A victim of the Air Loom's influencing rays"


James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tilly_Matthews

At least Binky Brown isn't shooting him with penis rays.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Sounds like ye olde Havana syndrome

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
My god. The communists have time travel technology. We need to quintuple our military budget

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1447525567549616134

We use to picture generals and conqueros in horses because, well.. horses where a important element of war. Horses are also very expensive to maintain, so owner of horse was similar to wealthy person.

I don't understand the reason to picture Merkel in a horse.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Tei posted:

https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1447525567549616134

We use to picture generals and conqueros in horses because, well.. horses where a important element of war. Horses are also very expensive to maintain, so owner of horse was similar to wealthy person.

I don't understand the reason to picture Merkel in a horse.

I assume from the pose that someone is taking the piss here?

If not, cargo cult mentality, or the sculptor wanted to make a horse and got paid a lot to do so

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Also I thought it was Trump at first for a second

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami

Tei posted:

https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1447525567549616134

We use to picture generals and conqueros in horses because, well.. horses where a important element of war. Horses are also very expensive to maintain, so owner of horse was similar to wealthy person.

I don't understand the reason to picture Merkel in a horse.

The explanation is in the video you posted though.

The artist also said that "Merkel uses neither reins nor saddle"

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.
Yeah her governing style can be described as doing nothing while observing where the horse is going.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



The Bloop posted:

Also I thought it was Trump at first for a second

Trump's boobs aren't quite that big

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
Well, they probably are; they're just indistinguishable from the rest of his rolls of fat.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

I am going to shove you both into an oven Gretel-style for discussing Donald Trump's boobs

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Pastry of the Year posted:

I am going to shove you both into an oven Gretel-style for discussing Donald Trump's boobs

_:trumpsmug:_
( . )( . )
:flaccid:

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Pastry of the Year posted:

I am going to shove you both into an oven Gretel-style for discussing Donald Trump's boobs
Why not Hansel? He's so hot right now

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!
(checks thread tittletitle)

Hybrid comet asteroid

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Why not Hansel? He's so hot right now

Probably because of the oven and all.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1447588065158082563

Legendary Ptarmigan
Sep 21, 2007

Need a light?
Angela Merkel is an elf?

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Legendary Ptarmigan posted:

Angela Merkel is an elf?

She's pretty hot but not sure she qualifies for "Everyone Likes to gently caress"

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Thread is turning weird.

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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1447796349559267328

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