@xenon said in True story:

Hahah.

Whenever I see the sign “silence is violence”, the 10 year old in me can’t help but think of farts.

Am I supposed to be staggered by how deep that thought is? Because if so I’m a reactionary.

@Aqua-Letifer said in DWW:

I'm a bigger Faulkner fan anyway.

+1

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@brenda said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@Axtremus said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

What with the hipsters and pu-erh tea? Maybe I missed a marketing campaign somewhere. As Chinese teas go, pu-erh seems to have been elevated beyond reason by tea enthusiasts in the USA.

I think because it's so different. Hipsters like arbitrarily old processes (hence the chemex nonsense, vinyl, tea crap, etc., etc.) I like it because 10g of good pu-erh tea can make like 10-15 cups. Rebrewing is clearly superior.

Chemex is hipster?

Hubby and I are hipsters. Who knew? Not us. 😆

It totally is! Welcome to the club! Can I interest you in an arm sleeve tattoo and some fair trade beach towels?

No, thanks, but hubby would like to order the kit for growing a full head of hair, with the beard option, please. He already has the flannel shirts.

I was always told that if I wasn't in bed by 10pm.....

To just come home.....

You're welcome. Use it in good health. And hey, if I can call you Ax, you can call me Cats. Just don't call me late for dinner.

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That article contains several factual errors and omissions. The guy was released after the first rape because the evidence at the time suggested he didn’t do it.

@jon-nyc said in Delisted:

Writer

C'mon.

"Writer" of "pieces" on websites.

There we go.

@taiwan_girl said in This is awesome:

@Aqua-Letifer It is too bad that most (or many) of the Amish stop school at Grade Level 8. I believe that they won a US Supreme Court law that allows them to stop at that point.

Yeah, I think it depends on the community how they decide to do it. Considering what high-school experiences can be in many parts of the country, though, I'm not universally convinced that the Amish have the wrong idea.

@George-K The made me remember reading about another zombie fungus. But this one is with ants.

The fungus causes the ants to do a "death grip" on a leaf. But the interesting part is that it had to occur in a very very very specific spot for the fungus to live on

-QUOTE-
"Most had: a) found their way to the north side of the plant, b) chomped on a leaf about 25 centimeters above the ground, c) selected a leaf in an environment with 94 to 95 percent humidity and d) ended up in a location with temperatures between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius. The researchers called this specificity "remarkable."
-UNQUOTE-

Crazy how the fungus could do that to an ant.

Zombie Fungus on Ant

@Rainman Too funny!!

There was a blonde stewardess who experienced the same thing. She ran into another room and got a pistol, ran back to the bedroom and put the gun to her head. Her husband told the woman in bed with him "see, I told you she was nuts". His blonde wife said "Shut up! You're next!!"

Wow I bet!! I always think of the opening scene of Triple X, when I hear their name:

@Copper said in NYT guild demands paid ‘sensitivity readers’ for all articles:

They both look like green circles.

For TNCR to eliminate inequity and discrimination so that we can do our best posting and opinionating, we must have a strong presence of green circles containing X's or H's. We are fortunate to have both. 😑

Zoom is also easier to get on-boarded with, which has been a big part of its success.

So for lightweight orgs - zoom probably the way to go.

Looks like every country would increase in size (or stay the same) except Russia and Canada.

"Quit dreaming of a better yesterday,"

Nice

@Doctor-Phibes said in Beethoven was an above-average composer:

As Ax would say, if the author doesn't like Beethoven, he can always write his own symphonies.

Oh sorry, he's a musicologist. Of course he can't.

Maybe he enjoys the music of Florence Beatrice Price.

If she ain't getting paid off by the ChiComs, there ain't a cow in Texas....

With as much as they hauled Lewis around the country and as ripe as that body had to be getting, I couldn't help but think of a movie scene (if you are offended by the N word, please do not click...