America! Fuck yeah!

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

In Ottoman Turkey, burglars would set a tortoise with a lighted candle on its back loose in a house they were planning to rob, to check if there was anyone home.

The bottom one looks more like F2MJ

If you’re willing to sacrifice cows and chickens to keep your cat fed, a few thousand humans is a quantitative change.

A contraction is a separate word, with its own accepted usages in the community. For example, “gonna” comes from “going to”, but is not the same, as “I’m gonna the shop, do you want anything?” sounds wrong

He should be awarded a prize for services to womens’ horticulture, given the number of women at MIT who filled their offices with houseplants just to keep him away.

TIL there was a Kirby vacuum cleaner company

You know the saying “behind every sign there’s a story”? It may apply to laws as well.

Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.

The Lucrezia Borgia clause

How about “jackanapes”?

“Hey baby, are you the British economy? Because I’d like to give you a weak pound”

also, somebody who is au fait with transphobia

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

The kind of moron who, when asked if they’d like their pizza cut into 4 or 6 slices, says “4. I could never eat six!”

Given that these cameras protect the weak from the strong, they are “woke” and have no place in Trump America.

You’re right. There’s no way two people could have appeared in the same photograph years before they met. What dumbasses all the normies upvoting that post must be!