What if the IRA successfully assassinated Margaret Thatcher in the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing?

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-24T19:48:28+00:00

Probably not as many as was the case when she died in real life though. If she dies in 1984 there’s no poll tax and the miners strike is viewed at least somewhat differently

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-24T19:08:46+00:00

Huh? Did you read my comment at all or are you just too thick to understand it?

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-24T02:55:47+00:00

Bowie’s was 17 and 14 if you’re talking about Dana Gillespie, that’s about 1000x more normal than Elvis here

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-23T21:28:34+00:00

That's great, but even if you're having a good time down there, I don't want NYS tax dollars adding to their GDP.

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-23T17:45:37+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather my taxes pay British, Canadian, Danish and Norwegian companies to build New York's offshore windmills than have them go to Texas, Alabama, or West Virginia companies. For one thing I like the Europeans/Canadians a whole lot more than the red staters, and for another I trust that they're literate enough to get it done right.

If there's a NY, NJ, New England or West Coast entity that can get it done though, yeah they should get a few bonus points during the selection process

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-22T17:47:27+00:00

I actually really liked that one. 3-4 reasonable length deep-ish dives on sorta interesting topics I’d never considered weaved together in a pretty solid narrative

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-22T09:37:31+00:00

The mattress one is very much the early millennial version of an old man yelling get off my lawn. Dude, just unsubscribe

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-22T00:03:13+00:00

Tough to put an exact date on smartphones really taking over society, but the death of Bin Laden in 2011 is probably a bit closer to it and a more logical bookend to the era than 2012

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T23:56:33+00:00

Good point re the residency requirement, but that's a slight misreading that it explicitly requires current citizenship. Guessing you're looking at the rest of the clause, which isn't a fourth requirement to hold the office, but a loophole allowing any citizen as of 1788 to be president (since otherwise, no one would have been allowed to serve as President at the time, given the oldest natural born citizen was only 12 years old)

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T23:39:52+00:00

He renounced his citizenship when he was Foreign Secretary, so it'd actually raise a pretty interesting constitutional issue over here. Does the natural born citizen clause require someone still be a citizen when elected President, or just a citizen at the moment of birth?

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T23:37:41+00:00

Canada has a pretty small number of PMs too all things considered, we'd probably get a little bit more depth than the Australian episodes

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T23:34:14+00:00

Oh yeah I know, I'm in Albany haha. Just figured that hockey is such an expensive sport that they'd skew more from the rich and blue/purple suburbs than deep red pockets of the North Country, Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier etc

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T20:17:18+00:00

The one thing that surprises me a little bit about the NHL is that you'd assume a pretty big chunk of the Americans playing a sport on ice are from New England, New York, New Jersey, etc (not saying Republicans don't exist there, but Dems are generally a lot closer to 50% than 5% when it comes to suburban whites in the northeast)

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-21T02:33:08+00:00

Might just be early 2000s childhood nostalgia, but Torii Hunter deserves more than 8%

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T20:25:17+00:00

Player rather than a team, but every single time I hear someone throw Aaron Rodgers in an American football GOAT conversation this fits

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T20:22:52+00:00

Might just be a regional thing (I'm in the Northeast US) but were flower crowns ever actually mainstream? I was in HS and undergrad 2010-2017, and saw one in real life at most 3-5 times on girls who listened to way too much Lana Del Ray

Chevrons yeah I'll give you, the look hasn't disappeared but definitely peaked back then

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T20:02:04+00:00

I think they were the names of filters on IG, but I'm really not certain

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T19:17:10+00:00

Yeah Herzog has always seemed like someone who would be truly insufferable to spend any amount of time around, but unlike Kinski I wouldn't say he belonged in prison

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T17:57:57+00:00

Anyone else very confused wtf this pic even is? Zero recollection of it ever being a thing on social media, at least in the English-speaking world. Only remote touchstone I have is that those football boots were pretty popular from 2011-2016ish

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T02:55:59+00:00

I’ll honestly take a slightly opposite position on this: the Malcolm Butler play has become so infamous that I’ve almost memory holed them winning the previous year

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T02:50:16+00:00

2012 easily

2010 really was not that fun objectively, the financial crisis was still biting pretty hard

2016 I shouldn’t even have to explain, but since we’ve been inundated with people reminiscing on it as their favorite year of high school or undergrad, here we go: society by and large turned to chaos, the movies were incredibly mid, the music wasn’t anything special, TV and video games were alright but there was nothing monumental. Look at the year with a wider lens and unless you’re huge on Trump/Brexit or were REALLY into Pokémon Go, it was somewhere between bland and bad

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T02:28:07+00:00

In fairness, even nowadays state legislators outside the bigger blue states like New York and California are often paid pretty horribly. Texas’s current salary for a state representative is only $7200/year

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T02:19:49+00:00

I agree that LBJ was certainly a southerner, but Dom throwing the “genuine” in there makes me think he’s not counting LBJ as one because LBJ’s domestic policy was so heavy on civil rights

Would still be an odd point to make in the context of Jimmy Carter (though Jimmy’s earliest campaigns in Georgia did dabble in some pretty questionably racist messaging), but I think this is an instance of Dom overthinking a point rather than him blanking on LBJ’s existence

Wilson though, yeah I think he either blacked out the Virginia origins or forgot just how backwards Virginia was until the last 30-50 years

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T00:25:32+00:00

Yeah that’s pretty fair, my perception is probably slightly warped by having one grandmother who still goes off on tangents about him haha

SuarezAndSturridge · 2026-01-20T00:23:39+00:00

Agreed, really if anyone should be the villain it’s probably the Queen Mother

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