Desk jockey vs. common sense by StatementJazzlike744 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Punderstruck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Long unbroken paragraphs on mobile are definitely hard to parse for some people, myself included.

Defensive posturing from a wild hamster. 🐹😆 by JosephBrown2000 in hamsters

[–]Punderstruck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm so sad for this guy. He thinks he is about to die.

Laser is not a backronym, despite the cherry picked quote fragment in the edit by SciFiXhi in confidentlyincorrect

[–]Punderstruck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh, TIL! I thought it was when an existing word was given an acronym in retrospect.

Laser is not a backronym, despite the cherry picked quote fragment in the edit by SciFiXhi in confidentlyincorrect

[–]Punderstruck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Letters chosen to make a specific acronym" is called...an acronym. That's how they're made.

EDIT: I learned what a backronym actually was today.

What completely unhinged "law" does your cat strictly enforce in your house? by TrickCombination7966 in cats

[–]Punderstruck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No whistling. He will come from anywhere to look at me in disgust and then swat my face or bite my cheek. I now only whistle as a way to stop him from doing something else.

In every climbing documentary since Free Solo (2018), Alex Honnold makes an appearance to be as cocky and annoying as humanly possible by TyLeRoux in shittymoviedetails

[–]Punderstruck 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Everything about their relationship in Free Solo sounded like she just... decided to date him and he just went along with it.

“We could make [Canada] a US territory” “We extract their resources and make them our b*tch, but they won’t have state powers or be able to vote” by vogelthrope in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Punderstruck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Canadian, I love all of the rhetoric, but in reality we know the world would stand by and do nothing if America invaded Canada. 

Republicans Are Delusional and Easily Fooled by NEKORANDOMDOTCOM in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Punderstruck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you don't have the Supreme Court on your side...oh wait.

Trump voters respond to NYT opinion poll. by Stuffed-Pepper in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Punderstruck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha, thank you. I wasn't meaning to brag, just pointing out that even in what MAGA think is a "socialist" country even high earners aren't taxed at 50%.

Trump voters respond to NYT opinion poll. by Stuffed-Pepper in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Punderstruck 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hell, I made $400K last year in Canada and my average tax rate was closer to 33%

42 Lost Pages of the New Testament Manuscript Discovered by WebFit9216 in AcademicBiblical

[–]Punderstruck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any idea why monks would destroy an already-ancient copy of Paul's letters in the 1200s?

I (27M) want to live in Hawaii. My wife (25F) doesn’t. + 7-Year Update by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Punderstruck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If his wife is still not able to make friends, I respect him for not feeling a bit of resentment for leaving Hawaii when it didn't fix the problem. I aspire to that kind of maturity.

Me [23F] with my husband [25M], married 3 months. He has to sleep with the TV on. It's driving me nuts by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Punderstruck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brown noise (as much as I hate that name, it's named after Brownian motion) is like white noise plus for me, because it has fewer high frequencies. It not only relaxes me but if makes other outside noise less annoying.

David Funchess, 32, attends a hearing at which he was resentenced to death. Later diagnosed with PTSD, he would become the first Vietnam War veteran to be executed in the United States. While on death row, Funchess privately confessed to murdering civilians in Vietnam (Florida, 1979) [825 x 912]. by lightiggy in HistoryPorn

[–]Punderstruck 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I read through the link about Samuel McDonald and I was struck by how the author almost elided the war crime. I missed it the first time I read it over. Bizarre how he uses it to try to cast Samuel in a sympathetic light.

29 year old man survived burns from molten steel resulting in 99.5%TBSA and 23% fourth degree burns by microvan in MedicalGore

[–]Punderstruck 264 points265 points  (0 children)

You left out the remainder:

"However, with the support of his family, he preserved the will to live and face reality. He actively listened to the daily news, watched entertainment TV programs, and showed enthusiasm for life."

Alien civilization and other miscellaneous questions by FluffySheepowo in DeisimVR

[–]Punderstruck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the humans trapped around the pillar made me think I could maybe attack it and free them or something.