well that’s a relief.

if you have a favorite language that isn’t on this, you’re a super nerd.

except, the ground is outside in the freezing london winter, during an age with draconian ‘move along’ laws that mean you’d be hassled by cops all night. ground would be more comfortable, that’s why the coffin costs 4 pennies.

ya’ll ever hear about “Mike the Headless Chicken”? survived 18 months after a botched beheading left him his brain stem.

harsh. why?

honestly, that’s still hella fucked.

that is probably because for some reason, in america, people think of DD as being enormous, when in reality american bra sizing just sucks and places seldom stock larger than that.

i mean, what did you want them to do? slice your head open and dig around manually until they find the Bad Thoughts?

extra funny when you consider that Balin and Dwalin are brothers.

i’m Penrose Cash, filling in for Houndstooth Shakur, and you’re listening to NPR.

i’ve read that lobsters are sorta immortal. the problem is they keep growing, and eventually they can’t get themselves out of their shells when they molt, and they also have trouble getting enough food and avoiding predators when they get too big. if they had society, i bet lobster kings would be enormous and ancient.

i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*

it’s fun, but alas, false.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

i can only speak for my experience. growing up autistic, i was targeted due to my different ways of thinking and acting for bullying, using the r-word to belittle and demean me, far too many times, for hearing it used to mean ‘bad’ to feel like anything but an attack on me or those like me. when someone uses the r-word casually, it hurts, and a fully automatic system, borne of hard experience, files that person away as a probable threat. i don’t understand why people want to use the word so badly, knowing it hurts people, and knowing it’s not necessary or even all that useful of a word.

same for the others honestly. ‘i was just following orders’ is just what one says when you get called out for doing heinous shit so you can pass the buck to someone else in your organization.

allow me to introduce you to misotheism. my favourite take is that of famed mathematician Paul Erdös, who referred to god as the ‘SF’, which stood for ‘supreme fascist’, who he said horded all the best mathematical proofs for himself.

i’m in my mid 30s, live in the US, and get one or two points. i am pretty sure i’ve never recorded music off the radio onto a tape. i am not sure if i’ve ever sent or received a fax. i did record songs off of the radio directly onto my first mp3 player though.

i’m actually curious what they think the third color is, cause, at least where i am, grocery stores almost always have green, red, yellow, and orange.

clown orgy