Also archers being told to “fire”

as firing didn’t exist until gunpowder, the instruction wouldn’t make sense. Like telling a soldier now to “activate the positronic tacyons!” instead of “fire”

Some have been useful things about being more incisive, direct, clear, plainspoken.

Others have just been that people are competitive and look for any advantage to get “ahead” and curry favor with the boss, even when there’s no competition, no prize, no winner, no advantage. They just feel that by “beating” someone they “win” somehow - or might in the future.

In the latter case i console myself that a complement from one of my coworkers means almost nothing in the grand scheme of things and the promotions at my job hardly make a difference in pay but mean starting an hour earlier.

pizza express

not sweating intensifies

this is rastamouse erasure

https://youtu.be/7mrdmpDfDC0

ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice

I speak a little French, not fluent, but love Jacques Brel.

Haven’t seen The League of Gentlemen mentioned (not to be confused with the movie with extraordinary in the title)

I’m in my 40s now but boy oh boy when I was in my 20s->early 30s sunrise meant it was time to think about where I was going for the after-party

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This is amazing, where’s it from?

Portland OR was named after Portland ME because a guy won a coin toss and named it after his home town. The other guy wanted to name it “Boston.”

Before that it was known as “The Clearing”.

I’m nearly 43, so at the prime age of struggling to keep friendships alive. Here’s what I do - I appreciate I am not exactly a typical person - but also I don’t have kids which makes me slightly different anyway.

I do comedy a lot. Helps with making friends.

I also run in a run club

I take classes - comedy/clown (i trained at a clown school instead of going to university), acting, swordfighting, tap dancing, music. Music is usually 1:1 but then I go to comedy and music jams and meet people.

But one can extrapolate to - pottery, painting, robot building, hackathons, book clubs, political groups, conservation, hiking…

Usually I wait til week 2 or 3 and suggest grabbing a bite or a drink before or after class. Do it enough and you just end up with friends who invite you to birthday parties and shit and now you have friends.

And then my wife’s friends all have partners and we’ve formed a HABS (husbands and boyfriends) movie club. We are currently watching a Sylvester Stallone movie once a week.

it’s OK it’s gonna be put down

Teachers are having trouble with boys as young as 8 not listening to them because the manosphere tells them they shouldn’t respect women.

Pretty much everyone went to school with some Young Conservative type who was weirdly into politics at a young age.

attracted to Masculine and Feminine

me, a bisexual: and vice versa.

Chicago Sunroof

Georgia Power put out an ad recently claiming data centers help the economy.

Motherfucker read the room. Everyone’s aware the “economy” has no bearing on the actual lived experience of the economy.

I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.

you forgot about the parallel imaginary number line (√-1), i think that is where the president lives.

you won’t believe this but I bet the guy on the right could write a Python script to solve it in 4-6 business weeks