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
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
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
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
cannot
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 8 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
https://am14.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2019/08/Twitter-Recoils-at-WH-Photo-Op-of-Trump-Posing-with-El-Paso-Orphan.jpg
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
Wow, this inspired poll idea is just what ILM needed!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 10 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
lol speaking of petri dishes going sour
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
jesus u rly are just the american _____ arent u
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
he's coming to your boardwith his righteous swordhe's the american ____________________
― sarahell, Sunday, 11 August 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
It's like ten spoons when all you need is a trife.
― Tim, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
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?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
It's a state owned Italian train company, of course. We were stupid enough to privatise ours.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
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!)
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
Finland is not part of Eastern Europe
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
See parenthesis.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
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.,,
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
what if you asked her in russian
― rob, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Before long, it shall again become a part of Sweden, god willing. The days of Finnish sovereignty are numbered, of this I promise you.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
finn de siècle
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
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.).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
it's all basque to me
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
On a completely unrelated note, the z isn't silent. It would have made for a solid pun otherwise.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Byantium?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
lol, it didn't cross my mind. That particular post was in reference to something else entirely.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
well youre focusing on what matters anyway
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
What becomes of the broken-tarted
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Finland is not scandinavian
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
nabisco otm
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
My 11-yo niece told me how bad diet soda is for me, and I replied "OK, coffee and alcohol it is."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
...coffee is quite good for you?
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
idk i don't read the coffee thread
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
Not sure if you've heard but ironic Gervaisian racism went out about 6 years, now it's just racism.
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
*ago
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
If you wanna argue with the people in your head, why not just do it in your head and save yourself the typing?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
what if there was autocorrect for cars
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Can we go back to talking about dick pics?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
i'm an acoleuthic
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
lol
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
the fuck are these OUR whatever polls
― lumen (esby), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Dick pic polls
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
always read it as "The Dave the Matthews Band"
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
really like those polls
― Dan S, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
poles?
― world's #1 piece of shit (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
― Dan S, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Holland is not part of Great Britain
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
hey if just *telling* them worked......
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
like fuckin a-hem tbh like
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link