wjrii
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- Comment on Mechanics don't want you to know about this simple trick that will save you hundreds on oil changes 5 days ago:
If I’m ever in dairy bottling plant circa early November, and I’m being chased by villains who’ve drained the oil from my car, I will now be confident that replacing it with egg nog will facilitate my escape before killing the engine.
And I have Australian Beavis and Butthead to thank for it.
- Comment on Pfft 5 days ago:
Authors: “There was supposed to be a deeper meaning?”
English Teachers: “You are already dead"
Salman Rushdie: “I know that was figurative, but it still hurts!”
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 1 week ago:
Yes. So genuinely folksy. I have an entirely Southeastern Conference education. Now, I definitely knew some kids who never shed their accents after law school, and frankly I had at least one professor whose public persona, including his teaching, was not a world apart from Senator Leghorn here, but all of them could code-switch and tone it down considerably. It’s basically mandatory to succeed as a lawyer. The fact that he talks like he does says as much about the voting population of Louisiana as it does about Kennedy.
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 1 week ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving! 1 week ago:
You can tell where they went in with the fork, but yeah. Well done.
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 1 week ago:
Kennedy would be a lot of fun if he weren’t 95% MAGA and 5% “oil industry wherever it is slightly different than MAGA.”
- Comment on I have always found this to be true 1 week ago:
I assume these were found in a flea market because Jessica, Caroline, and Alex’s meemaw died before Christmas.
- Comment on Annnnd They're Dead 1 week ago:
Weird Aunt it is, then.
- Comment on Be Brave 1 week ago:
Poop where you need to poop,
And let the turds fall out.
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
With where you want to stay,
And let the poo fall out.
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
- Comment on Web crawler 1 week ago:
What kind of plug is that? Type I should have slanted blades on the bottom, right?
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 2 weeks ago:
The last grandchild (i.e. no “greats”) of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, died in 2025. For comparison, Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president in the 1860s.
- Comment on I love English food 2 weeks ago:
I just watched a slightly boomerbait youtube video where a bunch of English high school kids try American barbecue and sides, and apart from the sweet tea, the only thing most of them disliked was the cornbread, though to be fair half of them decided that because it looked like cake it was supposed to taste like cake.
Silly Brits. The stuff that tastes like cake is the stuff that looks like bread.
- Comment on I've bought seven of them 2 weeks ago:
She needs to up her game: do it indoors on mats that her fellow competitors will need to use for pushups.
- Comment on I've bought seven of them 2 weeks ago:
Wow, Gen X and the early Millennials are really aging!
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Star Gates McFadden to Write Dr. Crusher Comic Book Series 2 weeks ago:
This is obviously lower stakes, but by and large Stewart as an influence on the writing did no favors for Picard, and I will stand by the argument that what little we’ve heard of Mark Hamill’s ideas for Luke are wholesome but also basic AF.
Do comics do ghost writers?
Would that create an entirely new and disgusting set of problems for a comic about Bev Crusher? 🤣
- Comment on Your move 2 weeks ago:
Probably not, but it’s admittedly odd to verify that a home furnishing is obviously also a lump of seasoning.
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- Comment on First world problems 2 weeks ago:
That ain’t no wagon.
signed, Subaru crew.
- Comment on The Black Cockerel 2 weeks ago:
How do they know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff?
They found her head and shoulders on the beach.
Dark shit for an elementary school, but we were brutal.
- Comment on After decades, the wound still hurts 2 weeks ago:
They walked the dying part of it back in the final script, but see also the sucking chest wound they gave Duke in the original GI Joe movie.
- Comment on I have an opportunity to study abroad in Budapest, Hungary for a semester. Should I take it? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of a mouthful to say you’re from “Texasbutdonaldtrumpcanfuckhimself”, but generally worthwhile, LOL. At least they’ll get to learn that brisket with a salt and pepper rub and sauce on the side is the proper way to do barbecue.
- Comment on I have an opportunity to study abroad in Budapest, Hungary for a semester. Should I take it? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s not a strain on your or your family’s resources, then 100% go. Your degree will still be from your American school, and you’ll get credits. The experience will make up for any issues you have with education (unlikely anyway, especially with the way Abbott and company are ruining the public universities in Texas), both for your resume and your actual development as a person. Travel broadens your horizons and exposes you to different ways of living, even if only slightly. Hell, the “slightly” is in some ways one of the most important parts, because it really reiterates that people are people and they’re just trying to live.
I did a three week summer program in Brussels twenty years ago, and even that was an incredible learning experience. There’s something about having to get into a routine in another culture that makes it so much more impactful than tourism.
- Comment on As per my last email 3 weeks ago:
Mine was made for a chemical analyzer for medical and drug testing (it has a METH key, among others!), and firmware-wise the customization was sort of a hack. Keeping numlock on was necessary to make it work how they intended.
- Comment on As per my last email 3 weeks ago:
- You win, I think. That definitely seems to be an accepted spelling.
- Pretty sure this particular keyboard is gonna be only caps. One of my keyboards even does this with numlock. It is on by defualt, has no numlock key, and if I plug in a second or use software to turn it off, the keyboard turns it back on like a useless machine.
- Comment on As per my last email 3 weeks ago:
cuckoo
- Comment on You shall not drink! 3 weeks ago:
My dad kept a P-38 on his keys for most of his life. I believe it cut significantly more skin and pants pockets than it ever did can lids.
- Comment on Sacre blu 3 weeks ago:
If you’re my mom or grandma, you use the crisco tub in the fridge full of used bacon grease, cooking oil, butter, margarine, and yes, even some crisco, and you make it with that.
I didn’t know what I was fed for my entire childhood was nominally a “white” gravy until well into adulthood.
It was pretty good though, NGL.
- Comment on Sacre blu 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on People used to do this 3 weeks ago:
Do what? Write with cheap but decent fountain pens?
- Comment on tough choice. toaster strudel or Twinkie 3 weeks ago:
A twinkie is cream-filled sponge cake sold everywhere, but most often by boomer and Gen X kids, or as roadtrip garbage.
Toaster Strudel is another processed American special, but it’s better. A frozen flaky pocket pastry with a jam of some sort inside, suitable to be “cooked” in a toaster. Unlike “pop tarts” which are more biscuit-like and shelf-stable, you really need the toaster for a toaster strudel, but your efforts will be (modestly) rewarded.
