Specifically right now I hum it while I imagine that Commander Biden sneaks back into the White House and solves a lot of our problems.
You snooze, you lose. Well, I have snost and lost.
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Specifically right now I hum it while I imagine that Commander Biden sneaks back into the White House and solves a lot of our problems.
Speaking of terrifying friends, someone asked me for a good Mountain Goats song once, and I sent them a link for the music video for Cry For Judas, which I had been listening to in a minimized tab, and forgot how weird the visuals were.
Boston to NYC, and NYC to DC, are faster than driving if you're doing it during rush hour. But not always.
It is slower than driving the places I have used it (Philly-NYC and NC to DC or Philly). Acela is faster than driving, but costs more than a flight.
My contribution might be Dracula From Houston, by the Butthole Surfers, which doesn't actually have anything to do with Dracula.
We already solved this with pokemon, you get a "wah wah wah, it wasn't very effective," but it doesn't make them BETTER.
This is America! We should be capable of Herculean feats!
It should also be possible to get to our national parks by train, especially Yosemite (which has a big highway up from Sacramento) and Grand Canyon and Zion (big highways from Vegas). Subsidize them instead of soybeans or F-22s or something, because everyone should have access!
It is a travesty that there is not a rail line that mirrors I-95 and another one along I-5.
Yes, and the US could accomplish that. We could have adequate rail from Miami to Boston and out the Midwest, and all along the west coast and several lines across east to west. It can't be as dense as the UK, but it can be close to Europe for the majority of people.
Is this like Boston Pizza in Canada, where they just randomly picked a city?
Obviously Scalzi is correct that you cannot just take a train basically anywhere in the US outside the DC-Boston corridor (and even then it is slower than driving and costs as much as flying), but it doesn't have to be that way.
Counterpoint, we are much richer than Europe (and technology has some a long way) and if we had the will we could do it. As my example, I will cite China.
I don't think it worked well on her cousin, who had not previously heard of Thriller.
Apparently my daughter was bragging to her cousin that "My dad has _more than four_ different Halloween playlists!" Because I teach spin classes and do have a lot of Halloween playlists.
That's a fall song, not a Halloween song! Might as well play Wake Me Up When September Ends.
But really, given the speculation this weekend, Up The Wolves is the right choice.
Do you have friends who don't know even the top few Mountain Goats songs already?!? Sound like enemies to me.
They released some pics of his face and him sitting down, right? Pretty obviously had both feet amputated and sacrificed on a dark altar for a few more days alive.
Was that a fake Jerry telling us that Rudy Giuliani was going to be in a car crash?!?
Gruden was a football coach
Terry Pratchett should write a series of excellent novels about this topic, imo.
All these wild theories about Trump being dead and a coverup and everything, and we didn't stop to consider if we had all just been assuming Rudy died and no one noticed or cared.
Ah, he pulled a Belvedere. bsky.app/profile/kill...
It always gave the impression of being evil, but where else was I gonna listen to Napster copies of Lucky Boys Confusion that took 22 hours to download??
I do like that the evil demon force in KPop Demon Hunters is just the Winamp graphic visualizer.
Technically Trump is still alive, but once Glonzo bit him, and got his venom inside, it was only a matter of time. No one has ever survived a Glonzo bite!
He was only driving while intoxicated because he was helping a victim! She needed him to drink that bourbon and take some expired prescription drugs to help somehow.
Are those slurs in the UK?
Like, it's a mansion, you can have a whole regular house, and then all the weird shit hidden in the walls and etc.
I don't know what Montreal is, but I'm always gonna vote for Philly supremacy.
You only say that because we threatened to kill you a couple of dozen times.
Unfortunately yes, the Americas haven't had time to develop a culture like the British, who are surely only decades if not years away from developing an edible cuisine.
For a while I was playing video games on an easier difficulty setting, and thought I was bad at them. Then my buddy convinced me to get a new computer, and I found out I'd also been playing on "hard- hardware is putting just enough lag to fuck with you" mode.
Which is dumb, we love an oaf! Homer Simpson is our most popular role model!
Just know that if you are feeling safe in the knowledge that people from Philadelphia are actually mostly sane and kind (which is true), I'm actually from Delco, a place of origin that has its own DSM entry that just says "do not engage."
Always Sunny guy glaring, but yeah, it seems like it's broken.
Our current President is also a fat guy! I don't get why people pretend this isn't true.
I was right, but for the wrong reason (wanted a jersey with that name on it), but still.
Except that ruins the party day we've all been anticipating! When do we walk around with horns blaring and people playing music and dancing in the streets and handing beers to strangers?
I'm not gonna believe he was walking over to no tennis court anyway, unless someone reports there was like a juniors tournament going on for 12-15 year old girls.
You have to say "Jerry, no" three times before he realizes what's going on, or he can disappear in a puff of smoke and teleport to anyone nearby's "discover" feed.
If you can lure Jerry there and capture him, I hear he has to show you where he's hidden his pot o' gold.
I like that a bunch of Bluesky "I hate sportsball" people are now gonna learn about John Gruden's racist emails.
Trump is trying to pretend he didn't die by posting photos of him playing golf with a disgraced former football coach who got fired for being Papa John level racist, but they're from a week ago when Trump was still alive. Pretty straightforward, imo.
Sorry, she's an indoor cat.
Sorry, I meant angry. I get that British people don't know words good, I should have been more careful.
We also eat a dish we call "brain stew" but it's actually just powdered sugar, coconut, and cinnamon.
What are your favorite regional fall traditions? In the Philly area (I think it's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing) we tuck a little doll of Billie Joe Armstrong into bed and everyone has to whisper in the room he's in until 12:01 AM on October first when we run around and shout and set small fires.
I think it's ok to play the Cranberries song Zombie on Halloween playlists because being shell shocked by horrific acts of violence is also scary. (This goes up a couple of quotes, but didn't want to argue with strangers who might not realize my opinion is correct)
Just don't say Jalen Hurts is the 11th best NFL QB or we will flip our shit
If you are genuinely mad, you can make some jokes about my country, Philadelphia, as payback.
Had a Brit get mad in my replies so I want to explain that this is (extremely mild!) ribbing. Barely a joke against people from the UK. Some of my favorite people are British! Bono, Hugh Jackman, the band the Barenaked Ladies, etc.
You need to go to hospital for your thinkbox
Talk to a British
Except for down at Fraggle Rock, where they continued to let the music play, worries for another day.
It has nothing to do with the level of civilization or the quality of art and science. I call it that because in 513 CE a dragon swallowed the sun and the earth was only lit by the dim glow through its skin until 674 when it excreted it (some argue it was 675, it was near new years day).
CHA is being able to tell people that it's Frankenstein's monster and not have them think you're a total dweeb.
Shoot, I can't remember if I'm supposed to call you woke now, or fascist. Is sourdough liberal coded or leftist coded? I gotta go touch some grass.
Bad source of taste good though.
Can someone make me one of those "in this house we believe" with the science is real, black lives matter, etc., but the last line is "Donald Trump died of a massive stroke on Friday August 29th, 2025"?
No no, we always do the stats for one particular not well defined type of crime over two weeks, that's just basic statistics. You want as small and unrepresentative sample as possible, for science reasons.
You have to say "go to hospital" or they won't understand.
Love to lie in my 80s bedroom with a Gameboy (introduced in the summer of 1989) that apparently glows so you can play it in the dark.
It's great bait, I'm still tempted to reply that it is easy to buy or make a bunch of other kinds of bread, and I know we all know that and also agree sourdough sucks.
I don't think Trump is a close analog to the Nazis, but Trump does!
Tainted Cup
Americans say foy-er, the French have not earned out respect.
Hours devours! You devour them an hour before dinner. This is obvious to anyone.
I don't understand why, and I don't want to, but it is funny to me that JD Vance probably has or will have to decide if he's gonna tell Trump about the knock up episode 1 guy (assuming Donald is alive).
Does 2000 count, given that the result was overturned by an unelected body?
We should absolutely try to help folks who want to move away from the rural areas that keep voting to impoverish themselves to make sure a brown person doesn't get free school lunch, but at some point if we live in a democracy we have to let those rural areas touch that stove.
Forever, no one is taking any orders from JD Fucking Vance.
Getting into heaven by paying a guy who jam camels through the eyes of needles. Full proof, but it costs money.
The bridge guy?!?
And then add a little bit of cream of tartar to the dough and roll it in cinnamon sugar.
Donald Trump: America's most bloated corpse president of all time.
Took me a long pause to remember this is talking about the college kid and not Eli.
"Where is all her fur?!?"
How is being a lawyer physically demanding and dangerous?
I'm hearing reports from multiple doctors that Trump is in the condition they call "West Virginia." You know, "almost Heaven."
A picture of a bunch of dead people and also Jeffrey Epstein, who is holding Trump's hand on his deathbed.
This is true, but I think he only writes (or even dictates) some of them these days, so this isn't new evidence. My cousin's friend's dog's former roommate did see his shoes with a pile of ashes between them near where the mean wizard lives though. Or at least that's what I heard.
I don't remember what that one was supposed to mean, actually, but he said it and also won Super Bowl MVP, so I'm assuming it's pretty profound.
I'm just trying to be a coffee bean.
Mexican food sucks there, I hear.
It occurred to me today that he might ruin it by having them cover it up, so we just gradually become more and more certain over a version of days and weeks, and don't get the single moment of raucous celebration. He sucks so fucking much.
RFK Jr. convinced him to do trepanning. Gotta get those bad spirits out!
I have a Google sheet with the nearly 2k songs I use when teaching spin classes, and BPM is one of the primary stats. Weirdly it's one of the things that the Google AI summary is absolutely terrible at, despite the correct number almost always being the first result.
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JD Vance in the replies to joke posts trying to make corrections. JD Vance yelling at people because they lost the 2024 election by using woke phrasing. JD Vance getting absolutely roasted by a group of trans women for a typo.
Army had all their starters walking around DC on the lookout for guys with dangerous looking sandwiches.
Naw, it was already Ohio
I'm kinda curious if his hands have continuously had the IV (or whatever) bruises for a full year and it was only occasionally reported, or if the amount I saw then was increasing because he had them more often.
Vance doesn't care what human woman he is coupled with, as long as he's got a fully furnished lovenest.
Presumably to a beautiful farm, upstate.
If he were ill, why would he be going on a wonderful end of summer vacation without telling anyone?
This is more or less what I meant by rides around, I don't think he is playing 18 holes, he's obviously never walked the course, and I suspect his caddy is tossing his drives like 60 yards closer to the green.
