My first thought was also M&M-Peep chili; glad I’m not the only one about to go to the bathroom, forever.

I use an app that’s set up to show previews of posts; I saw the stick as I was dragging my finger to scroll.

I also may or may not be under the influence. :)

My heart legitimately sped up when I finally scrolled far enough to see what makes this stick so exciting. That is a quality playing stick.

Unfortunately, when “politics” equals “whether certain people deserve basic human rights,” it’s not a minor issue. I don’t keep company with people who think I’m subhuman.

I feel the same. I like not having commercials in my music and being able to listen to a wide variety.

Oooo, like that game where you make a sentence using the suggested words to me and I don’t know what to do with it too much scrutiny on the way to the point of the same thing as a young man and I don’t want anyone else starting with the same person as a young person who cares about it but they don’t have to be a human anymore just an idea of the time and then have enough of a relationship with him and Burns ensues after themselves.

Jareth is not allowed to be completely gay. He can be 99% gay, but I require that 1% to remain ungay so I can have a chance with this fictional character.

Also Sarah, after she’s grown up about 15 years. She’s also not allowed to be 100% straight for the same reason.

This is a totally normal way to think, right? 🙃

My cat. Everything else in my room brings me either misery or a feeling of meh. Cat brings joy, which is difficult for me to obtain.

Given the fact that your question has caused The Evil Song to get stuck in my head, Sorcerer, I feel you are obligated to erase “It’s a Small World” from my mind and from existence.

Please and thank you.

This guy read Foucault’s discussion about the panopticon and took it as instructions. Ugh.

Agreed. The life of a phone includes multiple cables (unless someone here knows some trick I don’t), so including OEM hardware that’s tested and recommended for the device is great and I wish it were still standard. Phone manufacturers not including parts that they still sell separately seems to have little to do with environmentalism/conservation and much to do with profits.

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite examples of this, especially because the “story within the story” is the main story, which is unusual.

The correct answer is people are fat cats. That commenter was so close.

I’ve unlearned much of it, but it remains an ongoing process; it’s similar to how recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, many of my (I’m guessing our, but don’t want to assume) compatriots don’t feel the need to unlearn it or don’t see it as an issue to begin with.

Assuming everywhere else is better

Nowhere did I say that I assumed everywhere else was better. I can see how you inferred that, but that wasn’t my implication; I suppose my sarcasm didn’t come through well enough. Rather, I am just so used to that type of gun rhetoric here and not used to that from what I hear about NZ that it was a surprise.

Power tripping assholes exist everywhere there’s power to be had.

Fully agreed with you.

I’m in the US and did a double take when I saw that it was NZ; it’s the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood that led me to automatically assume, based on the headline, that it was a story from here.

It could easily be one of dozens of similar stories here. People here can get rabidly protective of their firearms. Threats/offensive comments like the one the employee in this situation made are common enough that I think this would only be considered a fluff piece in the states, if it made the news at all.

Is he secretly an American? Because that sounds far more like something I’d hear here. Atrocious.

I love this question! This made me really happy. My favorite has always been (and remains) the brontosaurus. (Probably can blame “The Land Before Time” for its influence.)

I remember in the early/mid-90s being corrected that brontosaurus wasn’t a dinosaur species, but was actually the same as apatosaurus. Being a stubborn child, I refused to accept this and always considered the brontosaurus, not the apatosaurus, my favorite. I felt so vindicated when the study came out in 2015 that brontosaurus and apatosaurus weren’t the same.

Perhaps that’s why I still stubbornly refuse to let go of Pluto: the minute hope that my favorite planet will be recognized again someday. Alas.

I’ve only ever known people to use Bing for porn (or because their workplace forces it on them). There are people who actually choose it?

…I know I’m not totally face blind, but I would not be able to tell those women apart in a lineup.

Do we have to wish them good luck?