As a Jew, wouldn’t he be having some Chinese?

It really bugs me whenever I see a US film that has been dubbed into Canadian or Australian English and the characters say things like “you’ll be back on your metres in no time”

To the DNC, better her than AOC

Not even about boys’ schools in general, but about the English schooling system, and the way it conditioned a culture of violence and domination.

Or between human nature and the conditioned behaviour of English public schoolboys

Did the building owners and/or some community group commission a sculptor to create it, possibly paid for by public subscription, or did it just appear one day, and end up not being removed, like what would later be called “street art”?

If the police confiscated loud cars/motorbikes, the offenders would have to make do wearing sandwich boards reading “MY DICK IS BIGGER THAN YOURS!!!”

Peans is a dessert.

This one looks like an uglier version of Optimus. Not sure if it can be any worse to use, though.

His whole deal, and the entirety of his appeal to his supporters, is being the asshole they wish they could get away with being, so saying something gracious would just be having lost it.

“Here’s a link to a ChatGPT-generated article on why horses are actually reptiles”

OTOH, if this is the case, the alternative is denial.

Everyone has had situations in which they’ve avoided spending time with someone because it would have been a downer, due to that person being difficult, annoying or otherwise unpleasant. That is a thing that happens, and pretending it doesn’t won’t make it go away. The good news is that if you know that something you do gets people down and makes them less likely to make time for you, you can change it, or compensate for it in another way. If you remain in denial, that path is closed to you.

If all your friends are permabusy, there’s always the possibility that it is something to do with you. Perhaps your personality is obnoxious, or your hygiene isn’t up to scratch, or you have an annoying laugh, or something else that hasn’t occurred to you but nobody is going to be the jerk to tell you to your face how exactly you suck as a person.

Today’s answer to Scream Dracula Scream

The chorus of the punk rock anthem soundtracking today’s most fiery protests

Ayn Rand phrased it slightly more tersely

On the other hand, a few well-connected people would miss out on sizeable profits, so who’s to say which option is better?

Given that Scandinavia is lower than elsewhere in Europe, I’m wondering if that’s an artefact of them looking at absolute numbers rather than opposite-/same-sex friendship ratios, and Scandinavians being the stereotypical depressive introverts

Is that a chindōgu invention for automatically lighting safety matches?

H&M once had organic-cotton underwear they described with the brand “conscious”. Presumably they were referring to the customer’s ecological consciousness in buying them, and were oblivious to the philosophical horror they had unleashed.