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and of course Darth Maul means “in mall” because he was designed for merchandising

but American singers also tend to sound more British, because they often sing without rhoticity, i.e. without pronouncing R’s that follow vowels, and are not followed by another vowel, e.g. pronouncing “larger” like “laja”

more like, you need to hit a goal at the bottom of a funnel-shaped pit, but you’re in a car driving in circles on the walls of the funnel at 100mph, and anything going 150 mph shoots out of the top of the funnel. aim isn’t the problem, the shape of the funnel will take care of that. the issue is to get to the bottom you have to kick the ball backward hard enough to cancel out the speed of the car, i.e. 100mph, whereas to launch out of the pit, you only have to kick the ball forward at 50mph. if you kick backwards at 50mph, the ball will just keep circling the pit at 50mph; it might eventually reach the bottom but it will take a long time

I did a similar thing except instead of every time it was just once and instead of $20 it was $60 and instead of a savings account it was a bottle of champagne, and now I just get to think of the day when I’ll finally get to pop it

not sure which one you’re referring to. can’t be the second, they executed Alex Pretti on the spot for legally carrying a pistol. after disarming him. which is also a violation of the 5th: “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

not sure “reading inevitably turns you evil” is the message the library wants to tell kids

but not WHY. (Other than thinning out voters)

congratulations, you actually do understand why

elections in the US are run by the states, not the federal government. a handful of states (specifically California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) automatically register eligible voters and send a mail ballot to every registered voter

scrotifera literally means “nutsack havers”

edit: I suppose that’s just a paraphrase of the title, isn’t it

so that air can flow in and out of different sides of the same window, instead of having to have two windows, one with air flowing in and the other with air flowing out

if you examine something and it’s not the way you want it to be, congratulations, you have successfully identified a problem

It was hot when I first bit it, hot as a glede, and my mouth was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. Yet even as I write it is cooled, and it seemeth to shrink, though it loseth neither its beauty nor its shape… But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of ranching the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain.

they’re gonna have to hide his grave to keep people from forming a queue to piss on it

I’d probably start by asking why he’s kneeling straddling my chest like a sleep paralysis demon

so they didn’t show up to class for 11 weeks?

“this is our top priority”

“so what exactly are you going to do about it?”

“we don’t know”

I don’t know a specific word, but I always think of it as “closing the umbrella because you’re not getting wet”

the other reply didn’t exist yet when I started writing mine. sorry that I took longer because I tried to provide more detail about the thing you seemed interested in

there’s actually new research saying prototaxites may not have been fungi, but belonged to an entirely separate kingdom that’s now extinct. one of the defining characteristics of fungi are that their cell walls contain chitin, the same stuff that makes arthropod shells. prototaxites was found not to contain any chitin, while other ancient fungi of the same age as prototaxites already did, so it’s not a feature of fungi that was adapted later. prototaxites was also found to contain microscopic structures that don’t exist in any known fungus species

edit: damn, someone beat me to it while I was trying to find the details