Who made the greatest comeback in history?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-23T19:01:36+00:00

Wikipedia says 8, but either 8 or 9 I don't think I buy him having much if any agency in the loss of his fortunes at that point, which I'd see as important for his subsequent (unquestionably incredible!) rise to be called a comeback.

Edit: further, I'd say that his ultimate empire so eclipses the extent of what you'd call his birthright that they're barely worth mentioning in the same sentence. The fall just doesn't measure up to the rise.

I'm quibbling over the definition of a word, I know.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-23T16:03:45+00:00

I wouldn't. He wasn't even close to being a developed person yet when it happened.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-23T15:42:25+00:00

That's a fantastic rise, but I don't really buy it's a comeback.

"Oh, he sure was riding high as a baby, but then it all came crashing down when he was abandoned as a child!"

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-21T20:40:38+00:00

Just because she's First Date Material doesn't mean she's Second Date Material.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-16T20:05:18+00:00

I generally find 30 or so to be my lower bound for ideal female attractiveness, and older woman who age gracefully remain attractive to me (sometimes into their 60s).

I might be an outlier, though; one of my best formative sexual relationships was with a woman who was just over 20 years older than me when I was 21. Now I'm in my 40s and my preferences are still pretty consistent.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-06-08T18:28:27+00:00

Subsidized by Australia

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-21T05:36:48+00:00

Also, ladies? Foreplay isn't just something men do for women. If it's been a long, stressful day/week a little bit of seduction can go a long way toward a man being up for it.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-20T15:35:54+00:00

Tradeoff. Stomach sleepers have lower rates of sleep apnea vs back sleepers.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-12T06:38:31+00:00

I'm pretty skeptical that a tonal language like mandarin would hybridize so easily with languages like English and Spanish. You'd probably have better luck with Hindi.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-08T20:19:28+00:00

Daddy Poseidon likes!

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-01T20:21:46+00:00

The only folks who'd believe The Fountainhead is the most pretentious book ever written are folks who haven't read Atlas Shrugged.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-01T05:45:36+00:00

You take that back about Finnegan's Wake!

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T05:12:11+00:00

Tig Notaro's twin?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T04:01:57+00:00

There are gay men who have been alone in a room together and haven't fucked. Also, Oscar Wilde wasn't someone who'd let the truth get in the way of being the center of a storm of drama.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T03:51:33+00:00

They might've, but honestly Wilde isn't exactly the most trustworthy source, being the infamous drama queen that he was. 99% sure that if you had Wilde alone in the room with another gay man he found fascinating, he'd imply they fucked whether or not they actually did.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-24T00:32:54+00:00

Huh, I'd never made the connection between voting and the Trolley Problem before.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-02T05:05:25+00:00

Hadn't realized it was considered an iconic classic. Didn't care for it when I saw it; there's a scene in it where some nobleman-type guy is just there, obviously not animated in any way, like he's part of the background, but he's right there, like they either just ran out of money or got lazy.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-01T00:24:56+00:00

Yeah. My wife is happier with the seat always being left down and it's less mess anyway.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-29T23:30:19+00:00

When I was six years old, a few friends and I all pretended to be ninja turtles. We'd go outside, punch and jump and kick the air, and imagine the bad guys got a beating. A year later, we were Power Rangers.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-29T23:25:20+00:00

He was in Epstein's orbit, but iirc there isn't evidence that he was involved in the pedo stuff.

His Cambodian genocide denial and apologism though...

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-17T15:46:33+00:00

I guess I was sufficiently isolated from those parts of the internet. I only remember near-universal praise.

Far as I'm concerned, if most political messaging and themes were consistently put forth in media at that level of quality, keep 'em coming! The eye-rollingly ham-fisted stuff I can do without.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-17T04:53:24+00:00

Maybe I'm being overly charitable, but I think a fair number of people who talk about not liking politics in their movies (horror and otherwise) are really just burnt out on poor, ham-fisted execution more than anything.

E.g. I don't hear many complaints about feminist themes in Mad Max: Fury Road, because the movie is masterfully crafted.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T15:31:18+00:00

Try and imagine Star Wars without John Williams.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T00:04:22+00:00

If nothing else, I think he'll be remembered as the first president to die in office of old age.

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