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COMMENT 28d ago

All I can think of is Horne's "no more words in the name related to hair" but only if Watson forgot that the word needed to be spelled correctly.

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COMMENT 28d ago

Katamari Damacy is timeless and a game I think anyone would enjoy, whether they’re a hardcore gamer or just play casually.

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COMMENT 28d ago

Treating their worst employee the same as their best employee, in the name of fairness. It's really demotivating to a hard-working, trustworthy employee to be subjected to rules that were designed with the laziest dumbfuck in the office in mind. It's why lots of employers don't want to allow anyone to work from home, because they know some people would abuse the privilege.

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COMMENT 28d ago

Colonel Jessep’s monologue at the end of A Few Good Men is both morally repugnant and an accurate representation of how some in the military/law enforcement/intelligence/etc. feel that they should be immune from consequences or oversight:

You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know, that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth, because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like “honor,” “code,” “loyalty.” We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it.

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COMMENT 28d ago

Yeah, it’s like bird watching. I observe but don’t interact so as not to interfere with the behavior or natural environment of these fine specimens. (Present comment excluded, obviously.)

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COMMENT 28d ago

World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros. 3. I can go years without playing it, but it’s imprinted somewhere deep in my brain. Once I start playing, it’s like my hands just know what to do.

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COMMENT 28d ago

Nina Simone wrote that song in response, in part, to the murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers in Mississippi. Emmett Till’s murderers never faced real justice and Evers’ murderer was only convicted in the 1990s though his identity was known since the 60s… because it was Mississippi.

It wasn’t the only state, but Mississippi was certainly one place that bore Strange Fruit.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Not really. I get one every year. My arm feels a little sore after but I've never felt sick from it. I got chills/body aches after my 2nd COVID vaccination (still totally worth it), but never had anything similar from the flu shot.

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COMMENT 29d ago

I've definitely seen people complain about Legolas running on falling rocks or something in The Hobbit movies. (IDK, I didn't see the last one.) I recall him walking on top of a layer of fresh snow in the first book though, so elves not giving a shit about physics is canon.

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COMMENT 29d ago

People in Alabama still get hookworm sometimes. Hookworm! Hookworm is something you only expect to see in some of the very poorest parts of the world that can't afford proper sewage systems, because it's generally caused by exposure to human feces.

If a state can't ensure homes have a functioning sewage system...

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COMMENT 29d ago

You could basically do the Monty Python "what have the Romans ever done for us" bit, but with things GWB fucked up:

"All right, but apart from the 9/11 response, the two wars, the mass surveillance, the financial crisis, the Hurricane Katrina response, his Supreme Court appointments, the anthropogenic climate change denial and No Child Left Behind, what has George W. Bush ever done to us?"

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COMMENT 29d ago

Excuse me, he started two goddamn money pit forever wars, thank you very much.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, the Channel Islands, the redwood forests... Oh yeah, it's hideous there.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Denial

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COMMENT 29d ago

Pride & Prejudice (2015)- Other than "The Militia Marches In" all the tracks are pretty much bangers.

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COMMENT 29d ago

I thought the upper back pain I got in my 20s was bad. Then in my 30s, I finally experienced lower back pain. Holy shit. You can't even walk.

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COMMENT 29d ago

No one to watch your pets when you go on vacation.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Clue

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COMMENT 29d ago

Li Shang from Mulan. Did you see him during the "Make a Man Out of You" musical number?

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COMMENT 29d ago

By most objective measures, it's Mississippi. Highest poverty rate, lowest life expectancy, poor infrastructure, some of the worst education, poor health care access and quality...

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COMMENT 29d ago

Yeah, but their DPR is off the charts.

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COMMENT 29d ago

I’m told that one reason for this is that the spelling of words in English became standardized while the Great Vowel Shift was still going on. So words are spelled based on an archaic pronunciation.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Technically, there is a rule for what order adjectives go in when more than one adjective modifies a noun. The order is: quantity, opinion, size, age, color, shape, origin, material and purpose.

So you might have a “tiny red wooden barn” but you wouldn’t have a “wooden red tiny barn.”

It’s something native speakers are never really taught, but intuitively know. If someone says the adjectives out of order, a native speaker will probably think “that sounds weird” but might not even be able to say exactly why.

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COMMENT 29d ago

Ending a sentence with a preposition is fine according to basically all modern grammar guides.

The Oxford comma is a matter of preference. I would say using an Oxford comma is more common than not using one, at least in American English, but either way is correct.