The first few decades of my life I assumed that there’d been all sorts of important orthopaedic/podiatry research done into the difference between men and women’s feet, gaits etc that meant wearing sports shoes sold as “women’s” would in some way cause my feet long term harm. Nope, it was bullshit marketing all along.

When I first saw this on VHS it wasn’t at all clear what the bottom half was, it just looked like it went a bit wibbly. It’s only recently that I discovered they’re dozens of freaky legs.

“not all of them actually do sex work” is one of those fictions that everyone on all sides is happy to play along with.

Why does “Cross = 1, Skull = 3”? I did my best to google it but every result is comments from posts made within the last day.

What I did find was this quote in https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-image-kilmar-abrego-175852020.html :

“The four symbols – “Marijuana,” “Smiley,” “Cross” and “Skull” – have not been found in any law enforcement guidelines or manuals to stand in for MS-13 gang identification.”

hur, hur, you said VAG

OP missed a trick here by not simply responding to every question with “fuck off”.

Two failed bids is not even close to statistically significant when you consider the huge number of other factors at play in an election.

Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.

Glinner is the biggest argument I’ve seen against Death of the Author, because once you know you’re supposed to be laughing at the marginalised character and with the characters mistreating them, it’s impossible to find it funny.

There’s lots of examples of it too. The first time watching the theatre trip episode where a judge in drag opens the play, I’d read Roy’s discomfort with the show being “too gay” as a joke on Roy being out of his element; we were supposed to laugh at his discomfort. But on rewatching it’s hard to shake the idea that actually Roy’s defence of “I don’t want his sexuality rubbed in my face” is meant as something the audience is supposed to identify and agree with, and that far from being a knowing playful nudge at gay theatre the whole thing was a mean-spirited caricature of it. The meaning does get changed whether Roland Barthes likes it or not.

apologies for the pixels, I stole it from reddit

That anyone would have the fucking audacity to sell tickets to something billed as Fyre Festival 2, is now just standard 2025 worst timeline stuff.

The grifters have worn everyone down to where people just put up with appalling treatment and come back for more.

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this. Looks like my school and yours were the only two in the world where it occurred to anyone that you can just superglue the door shut to stop the little shits from thieving them.

umm guys this isn’t a news article, it’s a Black Mirror episode

There’s been a hell of a lot of “we’re not at the stage…” in the last four months, that we then very much found ourselves at the stage of.

There’s mischaracterisations, and then there’s just flat-out lies. You’re telling the latter.

(also, the sheer fucking irony of naming yourself “libertyforever” while cheerleading a system of life imprisonment without trial)

A lot of people think of “venomous” as being a one-dimensional property like strength or speed that you have to build your way up towards. But really it’s just how this substance your body produces that reacts with another substance in another creature who evolved on a whole other continent to you.

There doesn’t need to be a strong evolutionary imperative to be able to kill a herd of elephants, it’s enough for there to not be a strong disincentive not to produce enough venom to do it.

Won’t happen. There’s long been a gap between what registered party members want and what those in charge actually do.

We saw the same thing in the UK a few years ago when Jeremy Corbyn got a huge swell of support from the party proper, but all the other Labour MPs collectively rounded on him and conspired to kick him out of the party altogether because he was going to put a stop to their gravy train.

It’s also worth keeping in mind that if the USD/CNY exchange rate fell in line with the two countries’ PPP, China would be biggest economy in the world by a margin of nearly 30%.

You’re correct, but are getting downvoted by people who treat the whole topic like they’re supporting a sports team.