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most threads here could be titled "aaaaaah screw these people!"

aaaaaah screw these people!

― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili),

John Updike is dead!

Who are these writers that curse themselves for writing too easily? Damn their eyes.

“No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel” Clarice Lispector.

Oh yeah, Updike. I imagine Paul Theroux is another.

aaaaaah screw these people!

― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili),

John Updike is dead!

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:25 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but with updike you could really tell writing came easily

Trump calls the El Paso gunman a “coward” while speaking to local law enforcement. “He gave up, just gave up."

— Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) August 7, 2019

cannot

Re:writers and language, it makes me think of Nabokov's commentary on Lolita where he's like, "btw, I could have written this soooo much better in Russian," when most writers in English would kill to be able to write like Nabokov.

https://am14.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2019/08/Twitter-Recoils-at-WH-Photo-Op-of-Trump-Posing-with-El-Paso-Orphan.jpg

Wow, this inspired poll idea is just what ILM needed!

lol speaking of petri dishes going sour

jesus u rly are just the american _____ arent u

he's coming to your board
with his righteous sword
he's the american ____________________

It's like ten spoons when all you need is a trife.

One of the train operators in the UK is called Trenitalia and I'm having a hard time ignoring that name. But people would probably be Offended if I suggested it would be a great name for trans genitalia, wouldn't they?

It's a state owned Italian train company, of course. We were stupid enough to privatise ours.

hey at least we are subsidising cheap train tickets for Madeleina Kay's well publicised European adventures, although it would be ideal if she could fly (off a bridge for starters!)

UK based private train operators received £3.8bn in gov subsidies last year, wonder how much of that went straight into the pockets of shareholders.

Finland is not part of Eastern Europe

See parenthesis.

I mean, you're technically correct, but these categories are quite porous in my book. And geographically, it's mostly East of Kaliningrad, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, etc.

Sure, but so is Greece. It's Northern Europe / Scandinavia, and it was a part of Sweden for far longer than it was a part of Russia. I mean, I'd ask my Finnish friend if she feels more connected to Sweden or Russia, but it would feel kinda silly, since we speak Swedish with each other.,,

what if you asked her in russian

Before long, it shall again become a part of Sweden, god willing. The days of Finnish sovereignty are numbered, of this I promise you.

finn de siècle

Greece is also arguably part of Eastern Europe. See: Byzantium, Orthodox Christianity, etc.

Finland is undoubtedly not Eastern European if we go by the usual taxonomy. But these things are hardly set in stone (see also: is Mexico part of North or Central America? is the Czech Republic Central or Eastern European? etc.).

it's all basque to me

On a completely unrelated note, the z isn't silent. It would have made for a solid pun otherwise.

Byantium?

lol, it didn't cross my mind. That particular post was in reference to something else entirely.

well youre focusing on what matters anyway

What becomes of the broken-tarted

Finland is not scandinavian

nabisco otm

My 11-yo niece told me how bad diet soda is for me, and I replied "OK, coffee and alcohol it is."

...coffee is quite good for you?

idk i don't read the coffee thread

good morning!

Not sure if you've heard but ironic Gervaisian racism went out about 6 years, now it's just racism.

*ago

If you wanna argue with the people in your head, why not just do it in your head and save yourself the typing?

what if there was autocorrect for cars

Can we go back to talking about dick pics?

i'm an acoleuthic

lol

the fuck are these OUR whatever polls

Dick pic polls

always read it as "The Dave the Matthews Band"

really like those polls

poles?

lol