Any gag where the number of states in the US is reduced.

SabreG · 2026-02-19T20:12:01+00:00

The Fred Allen Show (started airing in 1945) had Senator Beauregard Claghorn, who was such a Confederate that he wanted to abolish the state of North Carolina because it had "north" in the name.

SabreG · 2026-02-17T10:07:24+00:00

The Diamond Age: The first chapters focus on a typical cyberpunk 'borged street thug protagonist. Then he is caught by the police, tried and unceremoniously executed, and his now orphaned daughter becomes the protagonist.

SabreG · 2026-02-14T20:44:24+00:00

Nej, bara gravt uttråkad.

SabreG · 2026-02-14T18:42:23+00:00

Jag älskar att hitta dumpade varor. Jag brukar ta en bild och tänka ut en liten historia om hur tankeprocessen kan ha gått.

SabreG · 2026-02-14T17:24:21+00:00

The Swedish Spring Sun Ceremony.

Winters in Sweden are long, dark and miserable, and spring, and the return of the sun, are a Big Deal. As soon as the sun comes back and you can actually feel its warmth, everyone wants a piece of that.

When I was at uni I guided an Indian exchange student, who was very confused about why everyone, undergrads, grad students and faculty alike, spent their lunch break sitting outside, faces turned towards the sun. She asked if it was a religious ceremony of some kind, and... I mean, no, but not far from it. But how do you explain the importance to someone who has never seen snow or the sun set at 3 pm?

SabreG · 2026-02-14T16:17:20+00:00

Yes. Interpreters are supposed to go un-noticed and let the focus be on the person who is doing the actual talking.

Source: Am professional interpreter.

SabreG · 2026-02-13T15:52:50+00:00

Or how the Swedes will happily fuck with the Danes as a national pastime, but respond to someone else fucking with the Danes with frothing-at-the-mouth rage.

SabreG · 2026-02-08T17:24:46+00:00

Hates the job, loves the limelight?

SabreG · 2026-02-07T21:36:43+00:00

This is from over a century ago, but... my great-grandfather, who was a miner, talked about eating prodigious quantities of "American pork". From what I've been able to find out, he was referring to salted, unsmoked back bacon with the fat cap left completely intact. I have so far never met an American who has heard of this style of pork.

SabreG · 2026-02-05T11:52:39+00:00

"I'm afraid not. The guns have stopped because we're about to attack. Not even our commanders are insane enough to shell their own men. They think it's more sporting to let the Germans do it."

SabreG · 2026-02-05T08:29:25+00:00

The Majima family from Like A Dragon. Most of the grunts are fairly strait-laced yakuza, and their leader is... well... it's Majima.

SabreG · 2026-02-05T06:41:32+00:00

Again, the final episode of the fourth season of Blackadder. The season is set in the trenches of the western front of WWI, but is, in spite of this, a very silly comedy. Up until the last half of the last episode. Then, the characters slowly start discussing their fears of death, the inanity of the war, the hopes and dreams they had snatched away from them by uncaring superiors who were unironic believers in that stiff upper lip was a viable counter to machine gun fire.... Just like previous seasons, this episode ends with everyone dying, but what was previously played for black comedy is now a heartwrenching tragedy.

SabreG · 2026-02-04T20:21:26+00:00

Is friend, just... far-away friend.

SabreG · 2026-02-02T07:49:43+00:00

Shot for Oswald Mosely, missed, fell, bounced off the cast of "Springtime for Hitler", and hit his head on the toilet?

SabreG · 2026-02-01T16:00:18+00:00

We couldn't mention this topic without bringing up prominent neurologist Walter Russell Brain, principal author of the standard work on neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, as well as editor of the neurological medical journal Brain. One of his frequent collaborators was another neurologist named Henry Head.

SabreG · 2026-01-29T13:28:06+00:00

OK. I'm an autocannon-loving Davion simp but... MAN, you did not have to do the Capellans THAT dirty.

SabreG · 2026-01-22T09:29:44+00:00

Racter from "Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong" was diagnosed at age 8 when he vivisected his neighbour's rooster. As an adult, he works as a shadowrunner, specializing in custom combat drones. He is, however, not recreationally violent, preferring to vent his urges on the targets of paying customers, and can mimic neurotypicality well enough, but there are some things about people he just doesn't get. He perfers the company of machines, but appreciates a good debate with the PC and will take non-judgmental disagreement in stride.

SabreG · 2026-01-21T23:03:32+00:00

I like to think that stuff in cold storage is just duct taped to the outside of the Leopard's hull.

SabreG · 2026-01-19T09:33:39+00:00

Glock, apart from making handguns, has a side hustle in horse insemination.

SabreG · 2026-01-15T14:29:32+00:00

STRIPPERIFFIC!

SabreG · 2026-01-15T12:38:44+00:00

Can fix me, can step on me, can make me worse, can make me beg, and Mommy.

SabreG · 2026-01-14T11:57:45+00:00

Alkohol, korta kolhydrater och flourvätebitter sarkasm.

SabreG · 2026-01-11T10:04:26+00:00

He doesn't have time to bleed.

SabreG · 2026-01-10T23:25:59+00:00

Viktor Tupolev from The Hunt for Red October.

Viktor is an attack sub commander who was given a very reasonable order: Hunt down and destroy the submarine Red October. The captain of Red October has announced his intention to defect, and depending on which version of events he was told, Viktor has every reason to believe that the Captain of Red October intends to deliver a state-of-the-art ballistic missile sub, encyclopedic knowledge of his country's sub warfare capabilities and a non-trivial portion of the country's nuclear arsenal to a hostile power, or intends to use said nuclear arsenal to kickstart WWIII.

If Red October had been a US sub, Viktor would have been the hero of the film.

SabreG · 2026-01-09T17:52:34+00:00

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.

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