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it's like a dramatically more vile evolution of the simpsons meme



not babylon bee-related, but similar vibe

https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1772790729514819613

insert "always has been" meme image below

ok I just made it


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
I learned something new today. Anti-semites are some of the biggest weirdos out there.


https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1773042368733679896?s=20
Holy crap the replies to this gah

https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1772824069378908314

I would like to think that he might rethink what he's been doing with Babylon Bee based on how people are responding to this but probably not.

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You guys will be back. Twitter and I will still take you back.




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

it is still my favorite app to browse but man the way elon runs it just seems so mind blowingly stupid. Like your name literally became a verb everyone uses like google and you decided to throw it away!!! who the eff does that!!!!!

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 27, 2024, 11:26:19 AM »
key is to find the kids with the parents that are fun to be around, and essentially make your kids be friends with their kids.  basically instead of a kid play date (hated typing that) you organize an adult hang out, and the kids naturally get to play with each other.
^bingo. trouble is all my friends that meet that criteria either don't have kids, or their kids are nowhere close to mine's age, or they live like a thousand miles away. sure i (a middle aged man) could go actively seeking out new friends but what am i some kind of psychopath?

no you start with the kids and do trial play dates. I went through this in California - our first attempts at family friendships started with some awful people but ended with two families on our street that we just met in Mexico for vacation. They are all lifetime friends.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:06:27 AM »
I'd really like to hear Doug and Mary's side of the story.
this blog is beneath them

I feel like you have a lot of pet peeves with this particular family and should elaborate.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Israel - Hamas peace process
« on: March 26, 2024, 07:02:16 PM »


I've been told that everything is perfectly fine with the fundamentals of Gaza governance and it's just that pesky Hamas who keeps mucking it up for everyone.:

Who told you that

I believe it was KK when I brought up the notion of Gaza governance allowing Hamas to build a stronghold and grow.
Not sure the context of this but Israel might be a factor too!!!!

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:peek:

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Tuesday, 2nd April 2024 19:30
St James Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Mobile tickets

Can be opened on a phone and will be sent digitally, always in time for the event.

Section: L1G - MILBURN STAND LOWER

Row: newcastle section

Single Seat(s)
Hell yeah

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Israel - Hamas peace process
« on: March 26, 2024, 06:07:41 PM »


I've been told that everything is perfectly fine with the fundamentals of Gaza governance and it's just that pesky Hamas who keeps mucking it up for everyone.:

Who told you that

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Israel - Hamas peace process
« on: March 26, 2024, 02:46:19 PM »
I will vote for Biden but I really don't like what Israel is doing to Gaza (and our enabling of it)

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Not gE'ing here, the amount of Nazi blue checks that have crawled out of the woodwork on Twitter since Elon took over is really something. It feels like every post there gets a response either from a porn bot or a nazi. Really makes it hard to follow conversations.
Replies are unreadable with these clowns at the top every time

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LMAO I thought it was an unfunny lib who faked that

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:16:33 AM »
Rusty's focus on the gluten free part of this story is my favorite.

the focus is on accommodating his wife! (My GF wife would not let this fly and I seriously think it is more aggregious by the hosts and BAC)

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:50:55 AM »


Second, regarding them not making accommodations, it was honestly fine. My wife is very used to it. There are so few places that she feels safe to eat at, and of those Im not sure if any of them deliver, but ultimately we were not planning to stay for dinner in the first place, it was just supposed to be a chill hang that ran long bc the kids were having fun, and ordering pizza was very much a fitting choice.

How on earth do you not know if there are any celiac friendly places that deliver? I'm assuming this other family lives in your neighborhood or at least delivery range?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 24, 2024, 06:03:10 PM »
Do you think the host was tracking everyone’s pizza consumption? Or they should have weighted the split cost based on family members? I’m really not sure what alternative you’re expecting if the cost is going to be split (honestly I don’t like asking how much I owe  as the guest OR being asked as the host).
It's very stressful ordering food for a large group if you do it well! When I'm doing it I try to accommodate any dietary needs and be cognizant of different budgets while being as transparent as possible about how it's split up.

Good guests/parties seem understand this and I've never had anyone hesitate to pay me (except one guy who thought there were more people than were actually there and thought I was ripping him off one time).

 IMO the real foul was the host didn't try to find gluten free pizza for the wife and I'm kind of annoyed by you for being annoyed by the money and not failure to accommodate your wife

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 24, 2024, 04:30:41 PM »
Like, next time they might order a gf pizza especially for your wife and still divide it evenly. You can offer to pay the difference but most people that can afford to own a home would rather just keep it simple and divide evenly 9 times out of 10

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: March 24, 2024, 04:16:03 PM »
$25 per person or $25 per family?

Regardless you are going to drive yourself crazy over the next few years if you stress over the shared costs of pizza parties or shared dinners in general. Just assume it will balance out over time and move on.

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The most fun K-State basketball team in my life.

Look at my guy N'Guessan :love:

the game against Michigan State was the greatest sporting event I've attended in my life

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: yes pls, i'll have more of this
« on: March 23, 2024, 08:00:16 AM »

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: yes pls, i'll have more of this
« on: March 21, 2024, 03:14:45 PM »
https://youtu.be/lTwg4mFF32E?si=Vy-X4ZcdPssUuU7q
Seriously I watched the whole thing and it was a great use of 5 minutes

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports
« on: March 20, 2024, 10:28:48 AM »
Finally, we are in the home stretch for competitive little kid sports in my household. Going to California this weekend for a USA Water Polo event, Texas in April, then back to California in June and July.

Then maybe water polo in college? Depends on where she gets accepted but a couple schools have indicated spots on the varsity teams if admitted. Miserable stuff, just send your kids to KU or K-State and do not try to get recruited in an obscure sport or go to a school with competitive admissions.

Ha, I know at least 3-4 dudes from college that played football right out of high school, but ended up at KSU after a year. Just couldn't give up the dream which I totally get, but they were apparently pretty jealous of their HS buds partying and hanging out while they were back to being a nobody on a college team.

my daughter only considered schools that she would consider w/o polo. Although some she eliminated when she realized there wouldn't be a spot for her on the team and/or they brought on girls she hated. (I mean these girls are awful)

My son was in a fairly similar position, but in men's soccer. There are clearly more men's soccer programs than women's water polo programs, but it's still pretty tough. 

For context, despite being an incredibly deep area for soccer talent, Texas has only four D1 men's soccer schools, and three of them are places most kids I know don't want to go (Houston Christian, Incarnate Word, and UT Rio Grande Valley, with SMU being the "good one"). The D2 and D3 options in Texas and the surrounding states are slim as well. The Venn diagram of schools with the right academics, geography, and athletics that fit your kid can be very small. Coaches that my kid was contacting were more or less not getting back to him, and schools that reached out to him were schools that he had no interest in for one reason or another.

As of 6 months ago, I thought my kid was going to end up at a big public school, as he had pretty much given up on the recruiting process. But before a a national showcase that he attended last October he contacted one school that he was interested in attending, just to see. They had a coach come out to watch him, and he liked what he saw, and things went really fast from there.

My kid got admitted, started talking to one of the assistants regularly, went on a visit where he stayed with some of the players and went to a camp, and then got an offer.

He knows a fair number of guys that have gone on to play college soccer, some have hated it, and some have loved it. I'm clearly hoping he falls into the latter category.

contacting coaches is the worst. Like, you're a teenage girl emailing a middle aged guy who will either ignore you or tell you that you aren't good enough at the thing you love most. On top of other college rejections. She was in communication with coaches at her top choice academic school and they were very communicative and supportive but wouldn't commit to admission support and she ended up applying early and getting rejected, but one of her best friends in water polo got admitted. It really shitty! I will say though that one coach that reached out to her separately tried to recruit her but she wasn't interested and he offered to refer her to other coaches because he liked her and he was a nice guy! And he did! Still uncommitted and waiting on a few more admissions decisions.

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I would let conservatives keep guns in exchange for universal healthcare.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: March 20, 2024, 08:33:27 AM »
eh that seems pretty united

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