I prefer Melon Husk.

I wonder when the black-and-white striped shirt first came into existence in France. My guess would be the 1840s because of the spread of power loom technology.

My solution to burglars is being poor.

I can’t even remember the last time I saw a gas range or oven that didn’t have pizoelectric starters. My cousin has a stove from the 1930s, that was probably it.

Maybe he meant he could fix the oven. Which he could … by moving.

Tis a sin to spill thine seed on the ground

Can’t spank it with nail holes in your hands. Jesus’ real sacrifice.

He bought twitter because he was trying to do a pump and dump with the stock.

Maybe, but the fact of Saudi and Russian backing of his takeover and his turning twitting into (more of) a nazi propaganda shithole suggests that was the main purpose behind the acquisition - especially when the cost was an absolutely trivial fraction of his overall wealth.

Sears is the clearest example ever of how the leaders of large corporations are not in any way competent at running large corporations. They are only competent at climbing to the top of large corporations.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… These dragons

The only sense in which they’re dragons is “dragon deez nuts across our faces”.

I’m not saying he understands “grok”, but it would certainly be in character for him to be a Heinlein fan.

If you want trash, you want macOS.

Lol so true

I make my own pizza, and I always put stuff on the crust to make it interesting to eat in its own right. Usually I alternate little chunks of himalayan sea salt, roasted garlic, and black garlic every inch or so around the outside. Makes it into a sort of weird but tasty pretzel.

I have tried making stuffed crust pizza by folding the outside edge back over some cheese, but it always opens up while cooking in the oven. I don’t know what the secret is to that shit. Maybe I should use staples?

What do you mean? How else can you stop masturbation?

The last three Democratic presidents. Clinton inherited the massive debt run up by Reagan and Bush I, and in just six years not only eliminated the deficit but also started producing a fucking surplus. If that sort of financial responsibility had been continued instead of being thrown in the trash by Bush II and Dick “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter” Cheney, we would have eliminated the national debt years ago.

I think they just like to avoid multisyllabic words with their base.

Chock full o’Butts

Fun fact: during WWII, about 10% of the men drafted by the UK were sent down into the coal mines instead of going off to war. The career miners resented these men and would often haze them with amusing high-jinx like allowing the elevator cages to free-fall for a while during their initial descents. For bonus points, they were often ridiculed and abused in public for not going off to war.

Cops looking like fools (to be fair, that’s nearly every movie of this era)

My favorite scene from that era.

“What is it?”
“A little fly shit.”

“I hate Illinois nazis.” From a better time when we didn’t have a third of the country loving nazis.

I worked for a large chemical additives company in the late '90s and wrote an IE6 web application (using classic ASP and Visual Basic 5) that was a front end to the company’s near-useless COBOL mainframe app that contained all of their testing and production processes and dated to the 1970s. They’re still using my application today, which means they’re still using that fucking COBOL app and the mainframes as well.