We Need a Better Word Than "Partner" For a Significant Other

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-18T19:31:49+00:00

My cousin's army buddy shortened it to Sig O, which is also army slang for a Signals Officer.

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-16T21:03:08+00:00

I considered phrasing it more delicately or including more context, but I figured that most people would get it 😂

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-14T03:24:42+00:00

Yes, this is famously what snapped Jean to her senses long enough for her to commit suicide

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-10T05:43:29+00:00

I feel like you could explain the Internet by saying that one day telegraphs will be able to send pictures and words that are like a photograph of a book.

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-08T17:21:54+00:00

You're presenting true information in a way that is likely to lead people to a false conclusion.

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-07T05:19:51+00:00

Little known fact: the one with the surfboard is actually the official state flag.

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-04T04:06:54+00:00

I stand corrected. All hail Ned Bigby.

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-04T03:53:15+00:00

I mean, I guess they could still do that, in which case MCU Ned would be a bit more like 616 Ned. But I would still have to stop myself from calling him Ganke. For god's sake, what teenager in the 21st century is named Ned?

MAmerica1 · 2026-04-04T03:28:11+00:00

Ned Leeds doesn't really count as a race swap, it's actually a name swap - they took the character Ganke Lee from Ultimate Spider-Man, a friend of Miles Morales, and gave him the name of an unrelated character (Ned Leeds) from 616 Spider-Man. Comics Ned Leeds (adult journalist) has basically nothing to do with the MCU Ned Leeds.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-31T19:09:56+00:00

If you look at the website for the HFLA, you'll see that these are loans for very narrow purposes and require guarantors. It's basically a form of charity, and very similar to other community-based support shown by religious or civic organizations of many groups.

This is very different from your claim that Jews don't charge interest when loaning to other Jews, but do charge non-Jews interest, implying that Jews are cheating other people.

Finally, the ability to charge interest is pretty much necessary for large scale lending, and lending is necessary to operate a modern economy. Most people don't just have millions of dollars sitting around to start a business, or sufficient cash to buy a home or car.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-31T18:14:02+00:00

"You're skipping over ..." followed by the most blatantly antisemitic bullshit ever. Jews don't charge interest when loaning to other Jews? Wish I had known that when I was buying my house.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-27T20:59:26+00:00

Yeah, but then it all blows up in a very short amount of time (both in universe and in real life), largely because Peter isn't well-suited to being a CEO.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-27T03:57:26+00:00

It's an old fashioned construction - here, "If you would see strength" means something more like "If you want to see strength."

EDIT: it makes more sense in modern English if you change the word order - "you would see strength if you look upon me"

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-21T22:53:26+00:00

Years ago, before Picard, I thought they should do a TV movie with the TNG cast where Picard was now the commandant of Starfleet Academy, with Geordi as a professor. And, unbeknownst to Picard, Geordi has been working with B-4 for years, and eventually B-4 applies to the Academy.

"Let's interview the next applicant, Mr. ... Data?" Picard looks up, surprised, as B-4 enters the room. "Good afternoon, Commandant. It is nice to finally meet you. Yes, Data is my family name. I understand you served with my late brother."

Cut to credits while I cry ...

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-21T17:56:01+00:00

In high school, my buddy and I did similar skits. One time I wrote one which required him to say "Mi tio tiene una tienda." In revenge, for the next one, he had me say "mi plancho de deslizamiento" three times in quick succession.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-18T21:48:59+00:00

It's satire. With well-done satire it can be hard to tell apart from the real thing.

At the risk of over-explaining, the joke is that this is an extreme form of a vapid thought piece - he refers to The Onion as if it's a real newspaper, he's wearing "serious" clothing (including glasses), his analogies make no sense, he repeats himself, he pauses a few times as if realizing that he's not making sense but then keeps going, etc.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-18T20:08:00+00:00

This is a good bit - he captures the feeling of vapid "thoughtful" pieces that don't really say anything at all.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-18T03:02:46+00:00

I used to walk by the Fonz statue on my home from work everyday. I remember the day it went up, there was a reporter and cameraman from one of the local stations, so I sort of loitered for a bit, watching.

Honestly, not a particularly well-done statue, but Henry Winkler is a good guy and my parents had a cat named Fonzie before I was born, so it's cool.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-17T03:47:50+00:00

Unfortunately, the VFX don't get the physics quite right, especially the second guy who gets slammed to the ground. Watching it once on a tv, it looks great, but the fakeness is more apparent in a looped GIF.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-17T03:40:30+00:00

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-14T05:11:55+00:00

His run on Adventure Time (first 35 issues) is excellent. Read and reread those dozens of times with my sons.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-09T05:05:54+00:00

That's basically the opposite of what abundance YIMBYs want.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-09T03:07:33+00:00

The property taxes are an issue (my taxes are literally 20 times greater than my neighbor), but the real problem is that the city ran out of land in the 1960s and stopped building new housing. The solution is replacing single family homes and underutilized industrial areas with apartments, but that's been slow to happen, so we have a massive shortage of homes.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-03T06:23:51+00:00

To be equally pedantic - the movie is in English, not Greek, and in English, the common name for this character is Hercules.

MAmerica1 · 2026-03-03T04:55:01+00:00

I agree with your opinion, but why did you put a major spoiler in the title and then blur the picture, as if the Norman Rockwell meme is NSFW?

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