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- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 9 hours ago:
My family gets upset when I reference Hitler and his buddies as the creative source material for our current sequel/reboot. The fact that our president had previously bragged about studying books by and about Hitler isn’t a problem, but it’s only a problem that I bring it up.
- Comment on There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!? 12 hours ago:
That’s entirely too many nudes. You need better acquaintances.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 13 hours ago:
Different parts of the family tree, but pre-Soviet Ukraine and Poland.
The Ukrainian family was erased over a period spanning from pre-WWI to pre-WWII. Around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, a large portion was killed for having too close of ties with the Romanov family, and for taking advantage of the commoners. They incorrectly assumed that their social status would keep them safe. By the time that bolshevism fell out of style, anyone who remained was killed off for their radical support for empowering the commoners. Over just a couple of decades, a relatively vast family name was completely wiped out from a vast number of cities and villages. The only thing they all seemed to have in common with each other and those miles alongside them was their religion.
The Polish family either snuck out of Poland around the time that Nazism was becoming more popular, or died. One family member survived after their parents left them with some Catholic friends, and another two family members shockingly survived the concentration camps. My memories of one of them was how hard they’d cry when they’d see any portion of their numeric tattoo.
Now the living parts of the Ukrainian family live throughout the Americas, and believe that fascist leaders have redeeming qualities. Meanwhile, the Polish family is mostly in Israel and is mostly super-cool with Palestinian genocide. Imagine struggling so hard to survive, just for your offspring to perpetuate or promote the same shit that you escaped from.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 14 hours ago:
Well, that’s good news. I actively stopped paying attention to new Scooby news after how hurt he expressed feeling. I wish Warner would stop making it so morally difficult to enjoy their IPs and support their creators.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 20 hours ago:
I’m acquiring a little gold. Not a lot, but enough.
What’s enough? When my family was escaping persecution, they managed to travel under the cover of night and stayed in people’s barns and homes during the day. They planned and managed these arrangements via transactions using gold coins, links or pieces of jewelry, or other relatively universal valuables. They also got away a couple of times using the same goods to bribe authorities.
A small number of generations of my family dealt with being told that their money or credit was devalued due to their religion, profession, or relationship to public figures. In those instances, the family members who fled survived, and most of the ones who didn’t flee died.
I don’t know that I have much faith in my ability to flee anything, so I’m not investing that much time or money into acquiring gold things. Found some old watches from my grandparents/great-grandparents that claim to have gold in them. Have a couple of my own little things and jewelry I’ve given my wife. All just things when the time to survive arrives. Which it might not ever.
I hope this somewhat answered your question.
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 20 hours ago:
You mean my gluteal bisector?
- Comment on It didn't rise... 21 hours ago:
Amazing reference. Get yourself a cookie.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 21 hours ago:
He mentioned in an interview that he found out that he was no longer the voice of Shaggy when he saw Will Forte credited with the role. Lillard apparently wasn’t even invited to audition.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 day ago:
And maybe don’t take this -ax through the Swamp of Sadness, yeah?
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 3 days ago:
FASTERISCK!
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 3 days ago:
Are you suggesting that the president is still discretely and greedily gobbling dick?
- Comment on Hershey highway 5 days ago:
Honor the red, white, and splooge.
- Comment on Hershey highway 5 days ago:
Fill my eyes with that tunnel vision.
No disguise…
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 6 days ago:
I love your detailed response and admire your passion. For the record, I was being sarcastic since trepanning as a treatment was not intended for direct interaction with the brain. I threw the “deep tissue” in there because Mr. Gage did in fact get a hole in his skull. Unintentionally and originating from the wrong side.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 6 days ago:
We are all the ham on this glorious day
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 1 week ago:
Studying the effects of deep tissue trepanning?
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 1 week ago:
Yes and no. The rod was actually a metal straw and the powder charge was actually a car traveling down I-80. Pretty common mistake.
The only reason this is documented so inaccurately is because everyone was too busy looking at the Kim Kardashian pic that broke the Internet and couldn’t open their camera app quickly enough to get it for the vine.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 1 week ago:
They’re marshmallow fluff. Matt is the sliced ham and Trey is the ketchup.
Just like Mom used to make.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 1 week ago:
I’ll have what I’m having!
- Comment on 每次拉屎都尿尿但不是每次尿尿都拉屎。 1 week ago:
I guess I gotta put this on a shirt before my next visit with my Brahmin in-laws
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
RIP door
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Even better if you can use it to power a humanoid robot for a real world plant golem.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
They did fix that pretty quickly, but what a classic mad scientist blunder that would turn a well meaning researcher into a villain in any action hero film.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 weeks ago:
Why are you arguing with me? I just explained it. Tide goes in because tide goes out.
Fuck it! We’ll do it live!
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
Why do people keep telling me this?
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 weeks ago:
Yes I can. Tide goes in because tide goes out.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna blow out like my pants after gas station sushi
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 weeks ago:
But if we get rid of OSHA, what’s Mike Rowe going to hold for laughter and applause for after he says “ocean?”
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I had to do some actual research to get that one. Worth it. I chuckled quietly through my nose.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 2 weeks ago:
Ho-la friend-o! <3