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sheep-dodger posted:there's a whole cinematic universe of thin [colour] lines: I choose to believe that these things follow hanky code protocol. If you show the striped flag hanging out of your left pocket, that means you're a top/giver of whatever the color code means; your right pocket means bottom/receiver. So having, say, the red striped flag sticker on the right side of your bumper means you're totally into being carried out of burning buildings.
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Mar 31, 2020 20:51
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BrigadierSensible posted:Are there other nations versions of this sort of thing?  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ed-offence.html It's most common in the US but this particular bit of tastelessness has indeed spread to other lands.
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Apr 1, 2020 02:01
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WARNING: revealing the following spoilered image will bombard you with radiation of over 600 terahertz! That's thousands of times higher-frequency than 5G signals! Really, not joking, this actually will throw that radiation right at your face. Uncover with care:  As you've probably guessed, ~600 THz is ordinary blue light. Technical-sounding terms don't necessarily equal dangerous. Powered Descent has a new favorite as of 20:48 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Apr 3, 2020 20:46
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Inceltown posted:If you're not following poo poo closely you might not understand it but the BCG vaccine is looking like it is a vaccine against COVID. So according to your source, when you say "the BCG vaccine is looking like it is a vaccine against COVID", you mean that it might be partially effective, maybe, in a statistical sense, if you data-mine hard enough. Inceltown posted:It's looking way better than anything else right now though. Except for, you know, all the actual vaccine candidates being developed and tested in labs all over the world right now.
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Apr 4, 2020 08:41
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Inceltown posted:Yes, there are a poo poo tonne of vaccines being developed around the world right now and absolutely none of them are safe for mass deployment. Correct, that is indeed what "in development" means. But odds are good that at least one of them will prove out as safe and effective, and we'll all probably have an armload of it by the end of next year. These vaccines under development, designed for maximum effectiveness against this particular virus, are what is actually "literally the most promising lead we have right now", if I may use your term. The TB vaccine may indeed prove to give partial protection, and if so, we could see it given to frontline medical workers (or even general populations) for that reason. But at best it's a stopgap, not the way forward.
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Apr 4, 2020 18:34
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Data Graham posted:At the same time though, I think it's kinda a bad look for PopeHat to use twitter as a place to vent about his kids. Complaining about your kids/pets/things whose behavior is your responsibility seems like a bit of a self-own.  "My cat meows to be let out of the room, then immediately paws at the door to be let back in! This looping short circuit can only be broken by his mortal enemy, the vacuum cleaner." "It's really inappropriate of you to be ranting and complaining about your own cat in such a public forum. Perhaps you shouldn't have taken on the responsibility if you weren't ready for it."
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Apr 8, 2020 16:54
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Phy posted:One of Tyson's heroes is Carl Sagan... maybe he's been dead too long for me to remember what he was really like, but I can't picture Sagan looking at some rando's photo of the closest available astronomical object, and then turning his head to the side, sticking his tongue out and going "THHHPPBBBPPT" while doing a big broad thumbs-down If we're being charitable toward NDT, he might have thought he was saying something more like "Great photo! Looks to me like you used a such-and-such lens, because you'd be hard pressed to get a pic like that from a regular cellphone camera. Am I right?" and was just tone-deaf to his own dickishness. I was willing to cut Tyson a lot of slack as the various stories about him started coming out, precisely because of his association with Sagan (who was one of my childhood heroes). But he just can't seem to stop being a creepy jerk, over and over.
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Apr 9, 2020 00:39
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Should have split everyone at the Harry Potter party into choleric, sanguine, melancholic or phlegmatic, and only the Ravenclaws would get it.  (Knowing trivia means you go into the "smart" house, right? Right.)
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Apr 14, 2020 21:08
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Garrand posted:It doesn't seem like it's traveling anymore, I think it's been in gbs over a month Hello, it's called self-isolation, lots of threads have cancelled travel plans lately.
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Apr 23, 2020 07:39
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Henchman of Santa posted:Imagining this person getting extremely mad at Chicago sports radio  "...so when my unit arrived in Vietnam, we landed at Da Nang, and---" "Grandpa! You can't say things like that anymore!"
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Apr 25, 2020 00:54
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Was it this thread talking about someones mom who went all jesus crazy one day and threw out his magic cards and stuff? I'm completely blanking on where that conversation went. I'm sorry this probably makes me the idiot of social media It was in the AUG thread over the past couple days. Started about here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3854968&pagenumber=445&perpage=40#post504382988
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kdrudy posted:Something had to open up his eyes But he still had to make the effort himself, no one's going to drag him up.
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T-man posted:Im not drinking her iced tea anymore Or watching that old Twin Peaks show she was in.
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May 4, 2020 21:14
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Skwirl posted:Also, at least in English, none of the days of the week are named after planets. The Sun and the Mo[o]n used to be considered planets, since they too moved with respect to the "fixed" background stars. Ugly In The Morning posted:The gently caress planet do they think Wednesday is named for? The planet that the Romans (and we) named for e: Fixed the quote. Also fixed something I misremembered about ancient astronomy there. Powered Descent has a new favorite as of 03:44 on May 5, 2020 |
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May 5, 2020 03:40
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Absurd Alhazred posted:In Hebrew, both Biblical and Modern, the days are just just called "First Day, Second Day,..., Sixth Day, Sabbath". None of them are named after planets or gods. I'm just glad the planets don't really get re-named for stuff in contemporary religions anymore, or we'd have NASA sending orbiters to the moons of Jesus, and launching another Moses rover to look for signs of ancient life.
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May 5, 2020 05:07
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Push El Burrito posted:Which day is owned by Uranus? International Men's Day, but that's only a coincidence due to another holiday that falls on the same day.
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The best thing Joe could do at this point is to go into hiding and not say a drat word through November. Just stay a "generic Democrat" in most people's minds and let the election be 100% about Trump.
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May 22, 2020 19:30
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One incident could be an outlier. This can only be resolved through experiment: keep bringing in more babies until the dog has mauled a sufficient number of them to establish a good statistical baseline. Only THEN draw your conclusions and decide the dog's fate.
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May 22, 2020 20:23
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I stopped following BoingBoing ages ago when every other post was "information wants to be free, support the EFF!"; meanwhile they'd "disemvowel" any comments that politely questioned someone's view on a topic. (Disemvoweling was leaving the comments up, but they had a script mods could use that took all the vowels out of any critical comments, so you had to struggle to read them.) Hypocrites, all around. Brawnfire posted:Whaaaat Eh, it's no weirder than Forums Cancer.
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May 22, 2020 21:34
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FFT posted:He had a scoped pellet gun for dealing with birds in grocery stores and showed it to his guests. He was seen from the ground with it which prompted the call to the police. A guy I know once got a rather energetic visit from a SWAT team one evening when he and some friends were repairing a paintball gun and test-fired it in the driveway a few times, which was misinterpreted by the old lady across the street. Fortunately, the incident ended without anyone getting murdered by the boys in blue. (The fact that all of them were white was, I'm sure, a total coincidence.)
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May 28, 2020 21:04
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oldpainless posted:Nobody calls it “the Pearl complex” they just call it “the Pearl” Something something never let it fall into your clutches!
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Jun 4, 2020 22:52
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Splash Attack posted:i legitimately thought this guy was a parody because "why would i support a company that hates me?" is so close to getting as to why people are protesting.  For like the first half I was sure it was the OP himself doing a parody, then I started worrying that people would take it out of context so that it wasn't obvious he was joking, then I finally figured out I'd been had by Poe's law and this was a genuine video that the guy had found.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t get what’s wrong with that statement Three things jump out at me: 1. They're implying that the incident was Floyd's fault, by bringing up the possibly-counterfeit $20 bill along with Floyd's recent unemployment. As if he'd been driven to sufficient desperation to try to pass a fake bill, as opposed to having gotten the thing in change somewhere and just never looked closely at it, which is a lot more likely. 2. They completely sidestep the issues of systemic racism and brutality in the police force. (But how important could those be here?) 3. At a moment that calls for a response along the lines of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore", they came out with a "Here are some proposed alterations to tax policy and budgeting" statement. Tone-deaf to say the least.
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Jun 6, 2020 00:27
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Remember the cyclist who assaulted those kids on video for putting up posters along a bike trail? He's been identified and arrested. And surprise! It's NOT the guy that Twitter helpfully "identified" and demonized all over the Internet. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/police-arrest-cyclist-accosting-people-posting-signs-trnd/index.html CNN posted:In a statement released through his attorneys, Brennan apologized, saying he recognized his "outrageous behavior" was "unacceptable and wrong." 
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Jun 6, 2020 23:20
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OwlFancier posted:Then he should be doctor macro porn wolf account. Which only adds further confusion. I feel like rearranging the words would change the genre. Like doctor macro wolf porn wouldn't be quite the same thing as wolf macro doctor porn.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:33
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Manuel Calavera posted:He's not a real wolf but he is a real doctor, he is an actual doctor. He'll show you what he knows and you can tell him if you think he's getting better with the porn.
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Jun 9, 2020 01:13
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canepazzo posted:I think this tweet might possibly have me angrier than anything Trump tweeted recently. Jesus Christ. Got to love a headline that's effectively a quadruple-negative. People who are against not being against black people should not buy the tea. (I think.) Better summary: Racist chud praises brand for not supporting BLM, brand responds with "screw you, we totally do".
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Jun 9, 2020 18:15
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mind the walrus posted:I don't feel bad using this opportunity to IT Crowd had some great bits that have become justifiably famous, especially when it stuck to its roots as a workplace comedy. I'm thinking of things like the new emergency number, the goth living in the server room, or Jen being given The Internet. But those are interspersed among a whole lot of episodes where the entire joke is "ha-ha, [character] is acting feminine and/or gay!" Sometimes it's in the same episode: the one with Jen breaking the Internet has a particularly infamous B-plot.
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Jun 12, 2020 23:27
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and point out that I've never loving liked Black Books or the IT Crowd. They're the British Applebees of humor. Yeah sure they're not the worst and some of the staff is clearly elevating things, but the core is rotten and it's puzzling why so many people latch on like they're these venerable comedic/cultural landmarks.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Wait, what happened to Mrs. Butterworth? Is she Ms. Butterworth now or something? She has put away childish things and is now going by her adult name: 
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Jun 18, 2020 04:37
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Splicer posted:Pretty sure they mean no visible labia minora. There's a weird incel myth that visible labia minora is a sign of loving too much. Time to haul out an old classic: 
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Jun 18, 2020 20:22
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GreenMetalSun posted:There's a complicated list of 'rules' that make a female Disney character either 'A Disney Princess' or not. They're just gatekeeping because they don't want to admit Princess Leia to the club.
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Jun 23, 2020 02:40
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Hollandia posted:I mean you could focus on the valknot or you could just look at the pattern of swastikas around it. Unless I’m missing something. I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:
It's bad form to just say "source your quotes", so I'll expand on that a bit and say that this little analysis makes no sense whatsoever and I do hope you're quoting an idiot on social media here.
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Jul 2, 2020 16:46
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Why might a drop in proportion of new cases in states under one party’s leadership NOT NECESSARILY mean that there is a simultaneously *corresponding* rise in proportion elsewhere? It's looking at the daily case count. And graphing what percent of those cases were in red states vs. blue states, as determined by the party of the state's governor. Since all the states fall into one of those two categories, then  , a drop in one DOES necessarily mean a rise in the other.You're arguing that a graph that's barely more complex than Skittels Amount doesn't have enough shades of nuance to draw conclusions that it's not actually claiming to draw.
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goblin week posted:You're arguing with a gimmick account barely more complex than the guy who just posted the letter q over and over Lesson learned, disengaging.
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PetraCore posted:Yeah you can't uncarve a mountain Has someone contacted the manufacturer of Spackle for a feasibility study?
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Len posted:Well how are you going to be ready to defend your home during a break in if you don't have unsecured guns just everywhere? https://i.imgur.com/3uw7dna.mp4
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I wonder if he scheduled the wedding on WhenHub™.
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Antigravitas posted:Want some even worse Marx? Get Rid Of Your Gut And Podcasting is destined to be a classic of our time.
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