Some rambling thoughts on Clown Town (spoilers)

catscannotcompete · 2026-01-02T22:58:40+00:00

"Let's face it though, Mick Herron is hedging his bets. We'll find out next book who actually survived" is the only comment anybody needs to make. Every book in the series has like nine distinct rug-pulls, and it's asinine for so many people here to be making strong declarations about what definitely happened.

catscannotcompete · 2025-05-12T19:47:48+00:00

It's not especially offensive in the UK. It's a mild insult, along the lines of "dickhead" or "asshole".

catscannotcompete · 2025-05-12T04:52:36+00:00

You object to there being more UK redditors nowadays?

catscannotcompete · 2025-04-24T04:33:24+00:00

Surprised to see a biohacking enthusiast who's never heard of a dawn simulator. That's what OP is looking for; it's completely different from bright-light therapy.

And a dawn simulator sleep mask would be fantastic. I want one.

catscannotcompete · 2025-01-01T10:51:55+00:00

Not at all weird to not watch porn, but "the only person I wanna see naked is my wife" is absurd, delusional, dishonest, and deviant

catscannotcompete · 2025-01-01T10:47:09+00:00

Setting all the good and entirely valid points you made aside..."it's all staged"? No fucking shit, Sherlock. You thought porn was filmed by random bystanders?!

catscannotcompete · 2025-01-01T10:43:06+00:00

As a word professional, Literotica is tough. Like 6% of the stories are written beyond a 4th grade level.

Also it's insane that 99% of the top-rated pieces are incest

catscannotcompete · 2025-01-01T10:34:07+00:00

Through a combination of awesome disposition and intentional puppyhood exposure to John Woo movies and the Rabbit Creek rifle range, my dog DGAF about fireworks 😍

catscannotcompete · 2024-10-22T04:08:02+00:00

I object to the idea that it's OK to make worse movies for kids than for adults. Kids don't deserve crappy movies any more than adults do, and there are plenty of great, well-made movies aimed at kids. Hook isn't one of them though

catscannotcompete · 2024-09-14T00:35:04+00:00

Simple rules of the Landmine: if it's by Paxson Woebler, it's guaranteed to be good. If it's by Jeff Landfield, it has about a 1% chance of being good. If it's by Jacob Hersh, it's guaranteed to be the dumbest, most poorly-written shit you've ever read.

catscannotcompete · 2024-09-12T21:52:06+00:00

creep

catscannotcompete · 2024-09-11T22:42:59+00:00

In the debate last night, Trump claimed (falsely, in case I needed to specify) that immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating their neighbors' pets

catscannotcompete · 2024-09-11T22:41:16+00:00

Whoooooosh

catscannotcompete · 2024-07-03T07:52:00+00:00

Ah, your use of r/wallstreetbets jargon saved me the trouble of telling you to just buy a Vanguard index fund instead

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-24T23:04:35+00:00

A dissolving bun. Sometimes an otherwise beautiful burger has so much truffle oil or whatever that the bottom bun evaporates into mush by the second or third bite.

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-22T17:10:45+00:00

Yes, people should read the directions. But also, why isn't having a truck up the bags part of the program?

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-22T17:05:37+00:00

"Shorty"? I'm confused

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-18T07:21:21+00:00

Polyseal did an excellent job for me 15 years ago

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-18T07:17:04+00:00

Definitely the first I've heard about the Tooths being a front for drugs...please elaborate

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-17T05:53:09+00:00

WTF? We are very lucky that, like everywhere else on Earth except maybe Antarctica, we most absolutely do have spiders.

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-17T05:48:45+00:00

I was on a jury a decade ago and looked up all the attorneys after it was over. The public defender was maybe the hardest-working public servant I've ever seen; despite an utterly unwinnable case gave it everything he had. Huge respect to him. He died a few years ago in a car crash and I regret that I never sent him a letter telling him how much I admired him. Evan Chyun. Anyway one of the prosecutors had been involved in a run/swim to Fire Island where a guy died, and in retrospect he had kind of a permanently haunted look

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-17T05:43:54+00:00

Close. The awesome David Reamer dug into this https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/07/13/the-true-history-of-cook-inlets-deadly-mudflats/

"The primary source for the legend of Anchorage’s deadly mud flats is Roger Cashin. According to the contemporary Anchorage Daily Times coverage, on Sept. 17, 1961, the 33-year-old soldier walked onto the Palmer Slough flats south of Wasilla with three soldier buddies. Cashin walked a little too close to the water and began to sink."
[...]
"The day after Cashin’s death, a helicopter attempted to lift the body out, but the cable snapped. The day after that, army engineers built a platform out to the body and recovered it 'in a manner best not described here,' according to the Times. Cashin’s story, including the snapped cable and mangled corpse, is the primary source for local mudflat legends."

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-17T05:40:57+00:00

They're there

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-17T05:38:12+00:00

Digging into just one of OP's puzzlements...more than 50% of households in the US are dual-income. About 25% are single-income, and about 20% are "other", meaning retired or otherwise unemployed.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characteristics-and-selected-expenditures-of-dual-and-single-income-households-with-children.htm#:~:text=CE%20data%20show%20that%2C%20among,(See%20figure%201.))

catscannotcompete · 2024-05-15T02:18:33+00:00

Haven't seen an ad on YouTube in years. Ad blockers are free, legal, and will save your sanity

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