wizzardstaff posted:

It's very real and it's been operating that way for years. Can't find it right now but I remember an interview with the person who runs it; the thinking is basically "no one is going to read boring poo poo about smoke alarm expiration dates; we can't change the content but we can change the boring".

Moo the cow posted:

Do you think they got confused between lab-grown diamonds and moissanite/cubic zirconia?

I'm pretty sure that once you wipe the third-world child's blood off a natural diamond, it is identical to a lab-grown one

mind the walrus posted:

While I'm being petty-- and I'm gonna be petty af about Rowling she's trying to use autistic people as props in her TERF rants now-- it's also such a vanity problem to try and flesh out other Harry Potter story crap like the Fantastic Beast movies instead of just doing the obvious thing and sending more kids to Hogwarts. Like yeah you'd get flak for "not taking risks" from snobby critics, but they didn't like Harry Potter to begin with and weren't about to start, and there's a lot of freedom affording in world-building through the lens of a central location everyone loves. Look at how Star Trek and loads of garbage comics/anime do it. But nope, despite making a billion on the back of a really simple YA format you "have something to prove."

Beartaco posted:

Buzz...

letthereberock posted:

That crazy people could make this connection does not surprise me.

What I did learn: apparently British people call popsicles “lollys”.

Look we’re just starting now to wrap our minds around the whole fries/chips/crisps conundrum.

Yawgmoth posted:

What kind of popsicle doesn't have a stick?!

Brawnfire posted:

"Hi sorry yeah, but I was born a fuckin Nazi so I'm entitled to wear this swastika pendant openly at work BRENDA"

BrigadierSensible posted:

Nah, it'd be the opposite. Karen finds out that her great great great great grandmother married someone from Mexico, so the next time her Soy LatteChino is 30 seconds late she will claim racism as she demands to speak to the manager.

theironjef posted:

Victor wasn't a doctor! He was just some tragic science aficionado.

Unkempt posted:

"...a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation. We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes and were perplexed when the carriage slammed straight into a pedestrian and burst into flames for no apparent reason."

Pookah posted:

drat right, both immeasurablely better writers than terfkrowling. Check out the hounds of the morrigan by pat o'shea for really excellent ya fiction for irish kids.

I love Susan Cooper so much, I nicked a Dark is Rising compilation from the school library when I was finishing primary school. I was the only one who read it (I still have that copy)

Chubby Henparty posted:

They made one, it was awful, just Hollywood trying to snap up licenses during potterhobbitmania.

Good call on hounds of the morrigan, I remember reading that and I'm sure at least one more series steeped in celtic folklore with a returned merlin with a funny name (except it was post apocalyptic and the hero kid controls the weather?)

Kevin DuBrow posted:

Preaching to the choir here but it never raises eyebrows for those supposed feminists that they’ve essentialized being a “real” woman” to having ovaries, bearing children, and shaving your body hair. Nor do they seem to care about cis women being kicked out of bathrooms for having shaved heads or something.

oldpainless posted:

This is why we need to fast track the DNA gun lock technology as seen in the seminal 1995 sci fi classic Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone

Brawnfire posted:

That's a good point, though. I mostly think of the rocket experimentation which seems like an efficacious path of development, but the comsats are worrying.

Vib Rib posted:

That's immediately what I thought of. He came out with "you wouldn't know it" and he realized the only way to make sure that stays true is to never name a band.

christmas boots posted:

Yeah, the character wasn't good but he seemed to deliver it fine all things considered. What an oddly shaped man, though.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Bad Unflattering costume design. Those pants had a very high and wide waist, which visually shrank his torso while leaving it the same width. With his pants at a normal height, he looks fine. http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/2711873/lena-dunham-adam-driver-girls-set-02/

Doc Hawkins posted:

His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious. For the better convenience of beholding him, I lay on my side, so that my face was parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the description.

Waterbed Wendy posted:

Disagree, my favorite breakfast sandwich consists of eggs, hash browns, jelly, bacon, and cheese. The sweetness of the jelly really compliments the savory flavors. Just fantastic stuff.

OwlFancier posted:

I would generally suggest you probably don't know, for that reason.

Unless you're some kind of aristo freak who cares about that kind of thing you probably don't know poo poo about where or who you were descended from. For all I know my mam popped out of a hole in the ground somewhere in the town I live in.

The obsession with ancestry is, as far as I know, a bizzare american thing. Especially the obsession with claiming you're "half german/italian/norwegian" when your parents were american and so were their parents.

letthereberock posted:

My best guess is that he’s referring specifically to beef stew, which is associated with cowboys? I just picture the scenes in old westerns where a bunch of cowboys are huddled around the fire at the end of the day eating stew.

Of course it’s telling that the best example of manliness he can come up with is one strictly from the movies.

Taeke posted:

Wait, I've got LeGuin's books lying ready for when I get time to read again (soon), but I didn't want to watch the Ghibli movie for fear of spoilers.

Can I watch it anyway without spoiling the novels? Like it's just the same setting but an entirely disconnected story or something?

Soysaucebeast posted:

I haven't read the book or watched the Ghibli movie, but according to Daniel Green it basically has characters with the same names, and nothing else is similiar. Ursula was pissed about how bad of an "adaptation" it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6akqmZmzTk

Question Mark Mound posted:

In this house
We drink MANGOSTEEN
and have LOAD BEARING DRYWALL
our day of rest is PHOTOSHOP FRIDAY
before we ANIMATE BLUE BALLS
and tell you to GET OUT
we keep time with a ZYBOURNE CLOCK
IT IS A MYSTERY but
ALL YOUR BASE are belong to us
because in this DOOM HOUSE
we are GOONS

Biplane posted:

Unbelievably disgusting, even for british food.

seiferguy posted:

Idiots on Social Media: I did not do the sex crimes I promise

Skwirl posted:

It's twitter except you don't get banned for minor little things like slurs and death threats.

Sunswipe posted:

You have to remember that PJW is very, very stupid.

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1332062925868191744

This wet boy is absolutely convinced that eating bad microwave meals alone in his apartment is making us feel bad.

freemandela posted:

motherfucker poured precut bag cheese over microwaved fish and formerly frozen vegetable mix, gently caress yeah i'm triggered

like, eat things with flavor. i know he's british, but this is beyond the pale

Mega Comrade posted:

Read that as dematerialize lol
Made me think of shooting police with Sci fi guns

boar guy posted:

um

only female cows give milk, is the joke

christmas boots posted:

Nah, the next step is to veer off even farther into the past until we hit Stonepunk


e: I have been informed that this is essentially the Flintstones.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Please stop calling him Dick Dorkins

Vib Rib posted:

I mean it's definitely not as bad as "to any snowflakes who might've been offended by my hilarious comedy" like most apologies tend to be, but there's a real revelatory aspect to it, like he had no idea saying slurs was wrong until today.

Skwirl posted:

No idea, I got it from the PYF gif thread back when Lowtax made the "stupid newbie" AV into that toilet person, so the original GIF was probably taken from a longer animation.

my original text under it was "no, you're wrong" which kinda sorta fits.

Boywhiz88 posted:

I think we’ll see Queen Elizabeth pass out of “nowhere” this year. It’s just the funniest thing that can happen to England post-COVID and Brexit.

1stGear posted:

The actual funniest thing is for Scotland and Northern Ireland to pass independence referendums. I lust for Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson's dipshit political stunt to destroy the United Kingdom.

grittyreboot posted:

This whole thread is a laugh riot https://twitter.com/MarkFooterman/status/1349019631932088320?s=19

littlebluellama posted:

Also, by the logic of this meme, wouldn't that make millenials the new strong men? Or did the bad times inexplicably make snowflakes this time?

Pththya-lyi posted:

What's the chud equivalent of Amontillado?

sugar mouse posted:

OwlFancier posted:

I guess look to see if it's wearing a kippah, kirpan, or crucifix?

SerialKilldeer posted:

Chess chat reminds me, what was that parody post about someone barging into a chess tournament and claiming to have discovered a "secret" chess rule based on an old shopping list? I don't remember what it was a parody of, but it was amusing.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

3, if you count each nostril as one. Mouth to anus, and then the sinus cavity, everything else dead ends into an organ.