"I broke up with her then dated a Filipino, a Korean, a Vietnamese and an Indonesian and they all felt the same way. Why is everyone so irrationally hateful of Japan??"
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A batman film? Being cheesy and hamfisted? Did you think the part where he goes to a monastery to learn the secrets of stealth from a Northern Irish ninja was a little unrealistic too? It's a comic book movie.
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"The Welsh invented using sheep intestine as a condom, but the English invented taking it out if the sheep first"
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It's the same "nothing" at the bottom of a pit or the center of a black hole. An immense, all-encompassing, eternal, *living* nothing that's beyond simple absence
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Eating chicken while you're getting your dick sucked is weird enough to be weird but in a crowded back seat with your protégé knocks it up to hilarious
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Also, not to marginalize that generosity buts it's very easy to be generous when doing so ultimately doesn't cost you anything.
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This is like saying "they tell you battleships float but battleships are made of metal, which is denser than water 🤔"
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My fourth night of hungry man dinners and I begin to wonder; are these *for* hungry men or...*of* them?
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This is one of the weaker jokes in the special, overall its pretty good. And technically impressive from a timecoding/cueing perspective
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Tell them their decision was arrogant, and shortsighted and wrong! The people don't wish to have forty online account to play their games! Those in other countries may never be able to return!
The Anjin believes your decision unwise
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Besides which, House remained active so being in cryostasis would've kind of defeated the point.
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"Such a normal picture of me" and she has enough bangles and bracelets to fill a bronze age chieftain's burial mound
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Your hypothesis that you can't be both neurotypical and not like raw tomatoes is so funny
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It's popular and it's on Fox. It's not like Groening could be like "say no to nestle, Fox".
I mean I'm sure nobody objected on principle, the show was irreverent, it took jabs but it wasnt like deeply anti-corporate
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No I just don't like the taste and texture of raw tomatoes.
"If you don't like raw chicken but you like cooked chicken it's just because you've had poor quality chicken"
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You're using modern ideas of religion as a monolithic doctrine when in reality it was much more fluid and open to interpretation. A pious person in 200AD would have their own contemporary biases and traditions that didnt perfectly line up with someone from 200BC
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Something to the effect of
"We won't even be able to get it this year"
"What year IS it?"
"*chuckles* Right?"
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Is it still propaganda if it makes a decent point and doesn't actually have to embellish or exaggerate?
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Are you talking about the Rebellion against the foreign country that had been occupying them for 250 years of years, during which time said foreign country waged a brutal war of conquest and engineered a famine that killed and displaced millions?
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If someone asks this question right away, the answer won't tell you much about how terrible or not the answerer is. It does tell you a lot about how insufferable the asker is, though
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You can bust your friends' balls on certain occassions and also be sincere and affectionate on others
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Yes an innocent hobby and a pote tially life threatening condition that negatively affects almost all areas of life are definitely the same.
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Edmund Kemper said basically said as much, he also pointed out he would've never been caught if he hadn't turned himself in
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Vegas is a metonym for the American spirit the way Washington DC is for its government.
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There's an anecdote about her and some other female celebrity getting into a lighthearted argument and Jodie whipping out "nobody ever shot the president for you"
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Tortillas and putting stuff in them is one of the oldest continually practiced food traditions in the world (as is doing the same thing with flatbreads all over the world). Sushi was invented in the edo period
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I mean there is a program for vets to go over and basically be mercenaries for the national parks. If you're not a vet I'm sure you could just buy a gun and pop over there and ask them if they want a hand
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Yes, it's either "do absolutely nothing" or "do ALL that", with no middle ground whatsoever.
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"One part white rum, one aprt coconut liquer and one foamed egg white. I call it "whites only"
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"Goebells was an effective propaganda minister"
"Are you saying a Literal Nazi (TM) was ever skilled at anything? DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS YOU AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID?"
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At least it was a cow just doing what it does, rather than a person deliberately ruining your stuff
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The kids probably grew up severely stunted and unable to speak anything, as is the case for more well-documented modern cases of children who, usually through abhorrent neglect, don't attain language before an as-yet-unknown cutoff
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You could get away with this if you said LA or Miami or Milan, somewhere famous for having a lot of good looking people. Britain is the opposite of that
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I think its the fact that Guinnness is nitrogenated so it has more, lighter bubbles per mass and monster is carbonated and also loaded with sugar.
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Are you implying that men engaging in illicit sexual activity while married may not be the most honest and transparent people on earth?
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Most people who use terms like "high trust society" would agree that 1914 Ireland was one
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"You ate the last ripe peach? But the kids love peaches"
"Honey it's the last peach in the kitchen not in the universe I can go get more peaches"
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All those English actors over a certain age are theater veterans, most have done a lot of Shakespeare so they're entrenched in that world of literature, I can't imagine reading those scripts with that background.
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I figured the "...and that's why you think this is an attempted dunk rather than just illustrative" was implied but I guess I have to explicitly say it.
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Samurai socks because there's a shitload of obligation. Cowboy has all the upsides of Samurai without needing to swear fealty to a daimyo or kill yourself if you accidentally eat before your senpai
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Almost like he's kind of a shitty person and the comic is about him growing up whereas the movie was about, uh, video games or some shit
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You weren't really the Chosen One in Morrowind either. You tick the boxes of a prophecy but until you actually succeed, you're just a qualified candidate. The soil of Resdayn is fertilized by the corpses of Nerevarines that failed.
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Speculating but because jurisdictions get muddy, lots of red tape, dump sites with the same MO can be located in disparate places. Quicker and easier to just write it off, after all, who's going to come looking for them? Serial killers are aware of this too
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I had a slight chuckle when he thought "once she sees you'll do anything she says she's bound to respect you". Otherwise it's not particularly amusing.
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You're not supposed to be able to tell if it's medium or not from looking at the outside
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It's not a great quest, its still "crawl through dunge-er SPACE OUTPOST, shoot all the generic enemies and get loot at the end" it just has some clever/funny little window dressing
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That's what they've always been. The ones that gained fame and notoriety were exceptions that preyed on young college girls and suburban grandmas
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Because the beneficiary did nothing to earn it? You can say it isn't wrong but it is unfair.
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Yeah I did, offered to buy him a sandwich from 7-11, he proceeds to get the sandwich, full up a cup of coffee, get a bag of chips and tried to get me to buy him a pack of Newport 100s
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You mean he heard about a role and used his connections to get an edge? Whoa that's so fucking crazy
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"Scales quadratically"
"Delete you with a thought"
Haha those are some big words mister smart man unfortunately I just punched your entire galaxy out of existence
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People think "life is like a box of chocolates" is from the Shahnameh but it's really from the 1994 film Forrest Gump based upon the book of the same name.
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I don't think the film is trying to characterize his gigchadness as a bad thing necessarily, only to contrast it to everyone else. Everyone else has a giant ego but they have to keep a careful lid on it in a zhukov doesn't
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The -th and -st suffixes in early modern English are for present tense. Real EME would probably be more like "the depths of hell from whence ye came". Or maybe "wither"
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"Its ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction" is overly wordy and redundant, that's the most glaring issue. Why are we using hand joints to measure ground depth when everyone everywhere uses leg joints? Ankle-deep would work much better
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Its written fro the first person POV so we can assume that Bella has low self-esteem and she's more attractive than she thinks.
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You act like dirty smelly rude Frenchman hasn't been a mainstream stereotype since the Bourbon dynasty
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Notice he said "studied at" rather than "have a degree from" . Probably audited like two classes and fell asleep. "Really enjoyed it" I'm sure
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People don't really understand the culture of ancient greeks or prechristian germanics either but I never see this complaint leveled at elves or dryads.
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My laptop with the big Boeing sticker on it and a file that says "VERY SENSITIVE EXPERIMENTAL STEALTH BOMBER BLUEPRINTS" but it's a rambling txt document about how Taiwan is the real China
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Greece was a slave society, Persia had comparatively few. The Spartans, so lionized for Thermoplyae, was a state dependent upon its slaves, which made up around ~90% of the population
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The rage and sadness is understandable but you also realize, hearing and watching him, he could definitely murder that guy and feel nothing after
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The "joke" if you want to call it that, is that Zhukov can act with unabashed authenticity, whereas everyone else has to tiptoe so as to not "upstage" anyone else. Zhukov's bombacity is a contrast to everyone else's timidty
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He definitely kissed more guys than anyone I would consider "super straight", but he was a happily married to a woman and faithful as far as anyone knows for decades
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It's not any more poison that syrup of ipecac. He shouldn't have stolen from the other kid. Maybe this will teach him a valuable lesson (doubt)
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