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541.
by mbg721 4y ago
The percentage of California which is Disneyland is not large, by area or population.
542.
by mbg721 4y ago
I had a friend in school who had a t-shirt that said "Singapore - It's a Fine City" on the front, and on the back was a list of fines for various offenses.
543.
by mbg721 4y ago
Treehouse of Horror episodes are agreed not to contribute to canon.
544.
by mbg721 4y ago
Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away,
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by mbg721 4y ago
"True Communism" has always been the promise of heaven-on-earth without a God. It never happens, of course--any power vacuum is immediately filled by greedy people with no scruples. At least in a society with a God, there's
546.
by mbg721 4y ago
From a rational economic standpoint, they should, but that isn't the fight that the anti-Harbaglarbers wanted; there's an assumption that there's culture in common between SF and KY that gets lost somewhere overseas to the ch
547.
by mbg721 4y ago
The mental health world is measuring different things from the business world. I mean, Hitler was Chancellor of an advanced European nation, that must make him fine, right?
548.
by mbg721 4y ago
What do you tell your Kentucky-based employees at that point? "Look, 30 cents a week is our business model. You don't see Harbaglarb in Racetothebottomland complaining,"??
549.
by mbg721 4y ago
So...that is the result of very specific laws with a clear intent. The proposal is that all laws should either act like this or not be laws.
550.
by mbg721 4y ago
"Batshit" is the measure of insanity. "Bullshit" is a measure of inaccuracy, "chickenshit" is a measure of obscurity, and "holy sheep shit" occurs, as far as I know, only in the film "Repo Man&q
551.
by mbg721 4y ago
I wonder sometimes how many adults experience slight auditory hallucinations, especially at night, and don't bother recording them. I live in a pretty busy area with lots of trains and emergency vehicles outside, and when I'm clo
552.
by mbg721 4y ago
'Recession' is much better defined than 'depression'; I don't think people use dictionary-definitions to define their economic state just because the TV told them to.
553.
by mbg721 4y ago
Teens do exhibit lots of mental disorder symptoms at various times--their brains are still developing rapidly, and on top of that they're thrust into one unfamiliar environment after another. The "normal, well-adjusted" stat
554.
by mbg721 4y ago
Even if this were true, which states are putting sauerkraut on their bratwurst for sport??
555.
by mbg721 4y ago
Public transit isn't slow, dirty, or dangerous in Tokyo. The problem is, you have to be culturally Tokyo to make that happen.
556.
by mbg721 4y ago
The law, in its majestic equality, also forbids rich and poor alike to aggressively demand cash, discard needles at random, and threaten violence at everyone who passes by.
557.
by mbg721 4y ago
There's a specific method for amending it that requires a very high level of agreement among both houses of Congress and the various state legislatures. In theory Congress or the executive branch could just ignore that and go do whate
558.
by mbg721 4y ago
Indeed, that's what bubble-baths are for. How else are you going to do that rubber-duck debugging?
559.
by mbg721 4y ago
I mean, you could replace it with the caption "War. War never changes,"
560.
by mbg721 4y ago
Learned more household maintenance stuff. No matter what work throws at you, you still need to be able to handle cooking/cleaning/repairs/keeping water out of things water shouldn't be in.
561.
by mbg721 4y ago
It does a little every year that those outdoor Chagall murals in Chicago fade.
562.
by mbg721 4y ago
Uh huh. "Kiev Mule" is way less edgy than referring to China as "West Taiwan".
563.
by mbg721 4y ago
A lot of the German-language families and culture in America pre-WWI didn't go back. "Freedom Fries" was more of a temper-tantrum to make a point.
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by mbg721 4y ago
One problem is that finance and big business siphon off bright graduates in search of benjamins, and all you have left is academics looking for grants.
565.
by mbg721 4y ago
Fine, but getting back to the analogy, you have to specify how your bandwidth is limited from the outset, you can't just offer it as unlimited and then say, "Nooooooo, you obese whale, not like that!" once it disadvantages yo
566.
by mbg721 4y ago
This behavior leads me to disregard any advertising of "all you can eat" as a lie, and the speaker of that lie as a dishonest business. American Airlines dealt with this.
567.
by mbg721 4y ago
Then if you're hiring entry-level employees, you need to be prepared to accept a naive and unrealistic plan. If they have a plan that sounds like an experienced person's plan, maybe they did their homework and got lucky, maybe th
568.
by mbg721 4y ago
How should they know where they want to go if they're entry-level? They haven't seen what the future paths are really like. This leads to a mentality of "the only safe entry-level candidate is one with five years' expe
569.
by mbg721 4y ago
I think the reason you don't see British restaurants that much in the US isn't that it's bad food, it's that a lot of traditional British dishes have sufficiently close equivalents in "down-home cookin'" A
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by mbg721 4y ago
I recall Fox in the 90s having the NHL embed something in the puck so that it would have a blue glow around it in their broadcasts.

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