Ben Hur Horse Race

Im moreso talking about news headlines. Leaving the EU was an incredibly serious situation and the news media made a cutsie pun nickname for it and said it on TV with a straight face.

Just as a side point, saying “someone else also does it!” doesn’t further anyone’s understanding of anything in my opinion.

I live in Ireland- the UK press, and to an extent, possibly as an effect, the general public, use these infantilized, gross ass cutsie words to describe things. Footie (football). Chockie (chocolate). It makes me nauseated.

yeah i know it dawned on me quite quickly where it sounded like that was heading…

these “white magic” paperback books from Borders would have you anoint candles with oil to like, I dont fuckin know, endow them with your intention (Id wish the girl in algebra would notice me, so the book’d tell you to think about her while putting oil on a pink candle so when you burn it your “spell” would go into the air or some crap)

that particular book there though was page after page like that where it said shit like “for protection from your enemies wrap some wire around leaf and put it under your doormat”

i had this book when I was an edgy teenager in my middle class bedroom rubbing olive oil on taper candles from the grocery store and… wait this is sounding like something different entirely

yes, he’ll be tormented by the feds to the point he’ll take his own life.

it was ill-advised !!!

an ad hominem attack would be “nobody should listen to you because you’re a fucking idiot”, not “doing this thing idiots do might make you look similar to them”

i mean they exist… i almost stayed in one in berlin last summer

NormoFacebook@lemmy.world

because you carefully photoshopped the silhouette of a prone person into the bar graph

yeah yeah fair enough. i know you understand how ticketed events work, i wasnt trying to be a dick. it would be a great idea if they could carve out an area for shovellers though, onna them feel good stories (which are normally how communities came together to save someone’s life from the predatory healthcare industry in the states)

the tickets are already sold out for months in advance, there’s no room for extra spectators in those numbers I wouldnt think

People keep mentioning Drinkmate, and it sounds fine but I’ve never heard of it- in Europe you can get the Aarke which is essentially a (I believe) Danish clone, interchangeable bottles etc

mmmmmm cereal…

its a bad religion!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvD_ZiCz66I

ok dude

I think you might be round-about almost quoting Mark Twain?

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

yo motherfucker I’m gen X and I cannot believe you just called me old, I just spit out my spirit of elderflower, aghast at your writings!

defenstrating!

classic