also, somebody who is au fait with transphobia

There are no hipsters in Moe or Traralgon.

Which one?

So the non-Germanic languages are the ones doing kennings here? Interesting.

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

By some accounts, the effect is not spread out over everything that is counted as “intelligence”, but has a disproportionate effect on faculties such as impulse control. Which could explain a lot (“we voted for X and things still suck? We’re voting for Y next!”)

To me, as a non-American, The Far Side comes across as culturally far more American (in the tradition of the comics pages of US newspapers) than European (bandes dessinées or Métal Hurlant-style sci-fi). There is of course interplay between these traditions (and, indeed, the Japanese manga and ukiyo-e traditions), though I’m not convinced there’s an outsized influence from European comics culture. As for Gary Larson’s Swedish heritage, I’m not sure that enters the picture; I’d classify the (Japanese-American) Adrian Tomine as closer to the European tradition than Larson.

the lawyer replies “fuck the kids!”, to which the priest protests “there’s no time for that”

I imagine that, should the SHTF, they won’t get a chance to line up a shot, any more than the Cubans in Caracas did.

If they don’t want America to get less WASPy, they’re going to have to completely overhaul the social contract to persuade enough people to emigrate from social-democratic Norway or wherever. Failing that, they could get Japan to sell them some elderly-care robots or something.

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.

I can visualise the flecks of saliva on his lips as he imagines the end of NATO and the subsumption of Europe into a Moscow-based authoritarian oligarchy run by his paymasters, and the dachas and yachts he could stand to buy when it happens.

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!

Would the cuttings from haircuts be long enough to make yarn from?

He was just helping that rentboy pray the gay away

And this somehow arrives at a highly refined piece of code rather than the software equivalent of Habsburg Jaw?

Surely they can digitally edit the swastika in?

also the Euro and, if you’re in, you’re also in Schengen. No more precious hour-long security queues at any railway station having cross-Channel services because the English are special.

Hot take: They/them should be a drop-in replacement for other pronouns, and should be the default unless you need to know otherwise (and you generally don’t need to know how your tax attorney or taxi driver, Sam from Accounting or a bystander interviewed on the TV news sexually identifies).