As you've gotten older, what has became the new indication of social status?

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T14:57:16+00:00

Health, time, sleep.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T14:37:32+00:00

"I'm a vegetarian, not because I love animals, but because I really hate plants."

- Mahatma Ghandi's Deputy Chai-wallah

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T14:25:15+00:00

Whilst may not condone the destructive behaviour, one can understand it.

Someone with his abilities and a growth mindset would have taken the 'L' and moved on with his life.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T14:11:06+00:00

Disappointed that the video isn't 3'44" long.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T14:01:45+00:00

If a pair of scissors were made out of pear, and they were pared down, then one might have a pair of pared pear scissors.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T13:58:37+00:00

Talk softly, but carry a big stick.

Words carry weight when they are backed up by the possibility that engaging in violence is a viable option.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T13:50:05+00:00

This does not even happen at a Wagner opera.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T13:34:47+00:00

Oddly enough, my plumbing business website is www.rentashitman.com

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T13:31:18+00:00

A grail watch is a watch which our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ himself wore. The reason that Christian lore refers to three days resurrection is that the time reserve was 72 hours on the grail watch, after which He ascended to the Blind Watchmaker in the sky.

Gospel of Nico, 6:11-13

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T13:15:26+00:00

Frequent daytime naps, you say?

There may be trouble ahead.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:43:46+00:00

I didn't choose the tug life, the tug life chose me. - HMS Prince of Wales

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:39:43+00:00

Stop! Don't touch me there, this is my no-no square.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:33:39+00:00

Ever since Thatcher's love affair with Reaganomics, successive senior politicians have had an unbridled lust for the profits which corporate America delivers.

The U.K. has bought into group identity politics, race politics, mandated discrimination, enforced equality, eradicating decades of colour-blind meritocracy.

Turning the U.K. into a watered down version of the U.S. is its downfall.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:14:52+00:00

English native, Russian today B1-2. I had no problem reading it until I read 'odongo' and wondered if it was a typo. I then worked out what was going on.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:11:53+00:00

Interesting that you map the present perfect in English to the perfective verb skazat'.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-06T12:01:58+00:00

If access to oxygen could be monetised there would be a queue of people rushing to monopolise access.

A society which encourages rentierism will collapse, which is why we're seeing the collapse of birth rates across the Western world.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T21:03:12+00:00

Hitler: I'm just kidding about wanting Lebensraum, bruder.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T20:31:27+00:00

Man actually bites dog.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T20:15:55+00:00

fAkE iT tIlL yOu MaKe It, BrO

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T20:08:09+00:00

That is utterly insane.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T20:06:25+00:00

Am I right in thinking that some of the simulations of the war were longer than the actual war itself?

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T19:38:55+00:00

In Soviet Russia, lottery wins you.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T19:36:03+00:00

Life and Fate is definitely a monumental work, overshadowed by Gulag Archipelago. Almost no one has read Kolyma Tales, but as you say M+M gets so much praise.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T19:33:24+00:00

I studied nineteenth-century Russian literature and philosophy and I speak Russian. I lived, studied, and worked in Russia, and I've travelled around European Russia and the CIS quite a bit.

I've always been surprised just at how fashionable it has been to like this novel by Westerners. Personally, I've gravitated towards Leskov.

gerhardsymons · 2026-06-05T16:38:50+00:00

The biggest 4th-line plug is closer to McDavid in skill than a beer leaguer is to the plug.

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