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he should still renounce his title

I would be very interested in a social history of the UK in the 20th century as reflected through the prism of DC Thompson comics, could somebody please write this so I can buy it

he should stand for parliament just as tony snoot

xp obv

then he'd be followed by Snootites

i bet lord snooty was only too happy to line his pockets with taxpayers' cash under the guise of maintaining his castle though, while the real work was done for cheap by his alleged 'pals' in the ash can alley gang, who also supplemented their income by growing weed in his sprawling gardens

brb gonna lodge a freedom of information request

FOIty-touty

It isn't in the least weird that mint has come to represent freshness. Coldness, from brisk breezes, to new snowfalls, to mountain springs, is associated with freshness, and menthol from mint directly interacts with our primary cold detector, much as capsaicin from hot peppers is an agonist for our main heat detector.

sometimes free jazz is total bullshit

well sometimes any kind of music is bullshit

i believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality

Julian Casablancas is the Shelley of our age.

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i bet lord snooty was only too happy to line his pockets with taxpayers' cash under the guise of maintaining his castle though, while the real work was done for cheap by his alleged 'pals' in the ash can alley gang, who also supplemented their income by growing weed in his sprawling gardens

brb gonna lodge a freedom of information request

― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 March 2018 16:12 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FOIty-touty

― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Monday, 5 March 2018 16:15 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

LGBTQIAPK is too much.

It’s too much and everyone needs to get on board with “queer”

Nobody mention “QUILTBAG”

Wait LGBTQIAPK is a real thing? Damn. That's way too long. Queer is inclusive and much easier. When I was much younger and at least a little crazier my friends nicknamed me "Pan" after a particularly insane evening but it wasn't actually a thing then. OG Pan right here.

nah the apk is the wrapper for the app

xp ite become, if u will, a bit of a pans labyrinth out there

wait did dmac just ‘amazing’ his own comment itt?

controversial indeed

i dont discriminate

i have so many feelings about that K

I feel old now because I have to look up what some of these letters mean

we had four when I was a youth

now I have one answer and many more questions

whats the k

"kink"

not to kink shame but come on

I feel it's cool that there is a long acronym that defines a culture of respect and inclusion

on the other hand I'm on the verge of turning this from the controversial opinion thread into the conservative opinion thread

the sooner we acknowledge that WTF are the only three sex letters we need the better

LGBTQIAPK is too much.

― Screaming into the void has never been easier (Sanpaku), Monday, March 12, 2018 7:35 PM (two hours ago)

i googled this and got "about 8,790 results" so i'm guessing it's not that much of a thing yet

Apparently the K stands for 'kink' which doesn't really work in the way all the others letters do, surely? If the P is 'pansexual' then hmm, maybe, if 'polyamorous' then yeah, perhaps a few problems there. Does this actually now describe the majority of people? I'm still not sure if the Q is for 'queer' or 'questioning' to be honest.

the Q is for catch-all

We used to kick a boy in the nuts

Q stands for quality vs quantity

So it's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Irrationally Angry Pansexual Kink?

well wouldnt u be?

The oxford comma is a mess.

^^^

are you sure? i think it serves a valuable function, eliminates confusion, and more accurately mimics the pattern of speech

I don't know how many of my own stylistic fave opinions are controversial, but:

Oxford commas are optional to everyone and preferred personally

People are welcome to use one or two spaces after a period; people who rigorously enforce a only-one-space-after-a-period rule are savages

There is no difference functionally between a ; and a -- and a ... and a .. except levels of formality and familiarity. If I've drunk coffee and am pretending that I'm a paid writer then I'll ; if I have a number of clauses I might paste them together with a bunch of -- and if I'm writing a suggestion in an e-mail to a client that I'm hoping they'll accept I'll falsify some tentativeness with some ... and if it's a text to a friend and they're annoying me and I'm trying to let them know without telling them then it's ..

I adore mid-sentence ? or ! followed by a single space and no re-capitalization. What a wonderful device! how I adore it.

End punctuation belongs within the quotes

that’s 100% good imo.

Otm, and clearly written with love, too.

I usually feel a bit bad for people who litter their writing with double spaces, but it's a feeling bad of the empathic kind.

em-dash 4 life —

I blew everyone's mind in a meeting (with lots of lawyers and senior people) about 3 years ago when I brought up that you no longer have to use two spaces after end punctuation. No one believed me.

Oxford commas look unbelievably messy and juvenile to me. I understand the purpose, though.

I only learned about the end of two spaces on ilx in the past decade. If it hadn't been for this message board, I doubt I would have ever learned.

Yes, i too am a late-learner of one space convention. Sporadic compliance tbh.

Lol i spose one-space there.

As a website editor, I've spent too much of my time deleting double spaces and I wish people would bloody stop doing it (but only when I have to edit them).

I've had to do a bunch of stuff in LaTeX lately (and for the foreseeable future, really) and it bugs me that it adds the double space by default

One of the first things I do whenever I get a Word doc from anyone that's eventually going to be public facing is CTRL+H, Find " ", Replace With " ", Replace All.