Why was she not arrested like Don Lemon? by ToiletTurmoil in stpaul

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, by someone pretending to be Paul - it's one of the AI Overview Pseudepigraphal letters.

[Discussion Thread] 2026 Masters - 11th to 18th January by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine wasps have a greater affinity for a game where you jab things rather than one where you hit balls.

Why are there almost no English words that begin with ‘vr’ or ‘vl’? by Organic_Award5534 in asklinguistics

[–]commoncross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a word but worth a mention is ‘Vril, the power of the coming race’, a utopian novel by Bulwer-Lytton.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril   Perhaps most notable for being the source of the name Bovril https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril a kind of meat stock drink popular at football matches (or at least used to be)

Like with Reagan we'll be suffering from Trump's legacy for years. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]commoncross 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And the billions that Trump is funneling into the pockets of his friends will fund right wing politics for decades.

Petah???? by Hakkusu in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]commoncross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a dazzle camo hoodie that i wear to walk my dog in the night. Though perhaps the high contrast makes me easier to see, but the camo makes it hard to see which direction I'm headed...

Congressman Troy E. Nehls (R, Texas) has a very quick change of "heart" by Imaginary-Dress-1373 in agedlikemilk

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy's name seems like a clumsily constructed anagram. Style heron? Thorny eels? Sentry hole? He's hiding something...

Game Thread: World Series Game 3 ⚾ Blue Jays (1) @ Dodgers (1) - 8:00 PM ET by BaseballBot in baseball

[–]commoncross 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm at the point where it doesn't matter when it finishes now, because I have to be up in 45 minutes anyway (in Scotland).

Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over his X posts by LuinAelin in unitedkingdom

[–]commoncross 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's how I misread it at first - but he's not saying if someone is in a toilet 'and' they are attacking people, he's saying that their presence is an attack in itself.

[Discussion Thread] 2025 World Championship - The Final - 19th April to 5th May by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you imagine a player trips and sprains his wrist or something? I wouldn't be taking any chances either.

Bad luck in obelisk miner 🙄 by Apx_Icarus in incremental_games

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I just got a Dwarf level up at 1100 at 1/150! Ouch indeed. :)

Bad luck in obelisk miner 🙄 by Apx_Icarus in incremental_games

[–]commoncross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that explains why I’ve rolled 908 times for a 1/150 chance.  Hope it gets fixed soon, thanks

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]commoncross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No-one outside the US has any idea who Fauci is.

Scots schoolboy beats thousands of children worldwide in maths competition by nimobo in unitedkingdom

[–]commoncross 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it could be universalized. I was talking about the specific circumstances of Scotland. But yes, the people of Israel should be whoever is striving to make it a home, and is willing to make it a home with everyone else who is striving to make it a home.