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One of the notable trends globally right now is that the right-wing parties are much better at having simple, easily understood messages.

Yes, utter disregard for facts makes for easy stories. Especially easy for dimwits to swallow.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:07 PM on June 10, 2024

an aphrodisiac made from donkeys are among the more unusual items detected

there are a lot of diseases, viruses, and parasites that are common in Britain/Europe/Asia/North America that are not present at all in Australia, and Australia would very much like to keep it that way.

Even donkey cock? Where's that frontier spirit?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:03 PM on June 10, 2024

The problem is with the pipes, not the water itself.

Fucking Bowser.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 11:05 AM on June 8, 2024

Wait 'til your eyes suck.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:57 PM on June 5, 2024

Canadian competitor Delaney Irving, despite finishing unconscious and only learning of her victory in the medical enclosure

God Keep Our Land Glorious and Free
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:52 PM on June 5, 2024

Either way, brace for screeds.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:59 PM on May 30, 2024

I'm so looking forward to KEXP's morning show tomorrow.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:38 PM on May 30, 2024

This is the weakest of the four cases. And this grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:39 PM on May 30, 2024

ahem ahem LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP ahem ahem
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:39 PM on May 30, 2024

"You can't even say law and order."
-convicted felon Donald J Trump during presidential debates

"Aw shut up, man."
-President Joe Biden
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:41 PM on May 30, 2024

Yeah, but that'd require finding a Republican with good character.

Snark aside, it is good to see cracks forming in the foundation.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:22 AM on May 31, 2024

[IT IS INTENDED TO BE AN NBC TELEVISION SHOW FOR CHILDREN.]
posted by Smart Dalek

Almost eponysterical!
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:11 PM on May 30, 2024

Working in IT for decades, hoo boy have I been in too many of these spaces setting up behind-the-scenes gear. And as a young altar boy I had to go into a convent and help move furniture. It was all liminal space. The horror was real.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:58 PM on May 30, 2024

my company's IT department doesn't appear to consider Interpol and the FBI to be trustworthy

I mean, they're not completely wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:15 PM on May 30, 2024

Now do national mail-in federal ballots!
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:14 PM on May 30, 2024

Justice Department inquiry please. Fuckers.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:13 PM on May 30, 2024

Oh boy, I sure hope Lucy won't yank the football away this time, but I have a feeling I won't be kicking any field goals.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:54 AM on May 30, 2024

Already seeing a lot of commentary online about how this will just encourage TFG's followers to start using the N-word in public

Let them keep pulling their "polite" masks off. Let people see them for what they really are.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:34 AM on May 30, 2024

Botox for the scrotum to help it hang lower

Wait, what, why?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:03 PM on May 29, 2024

That "America is going downhill" question needs a lot of qualifiers. I don't think it's going down hill because gay people can marry. I think its going down hill because Donald Trump and his Nazi friends aren't locked up in Guantanamo.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 11:22 AM on May 29, 2024

I met him once in a bar in Vegas. This was way before all the MAGA shit lit off (by which I mean before a black guy became president). 2002 or so. No entourage, no big party, he was just a guy at a bar. We chatted, he was nice and normal except for the weird hat. What the fuck happened to that nice guy? What the fuck happened to so many normal people that Trump is a thing???
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:38 PM on May 27, 2024

The Jaunt still haunts me almost 40 years later. No spoilers for people who haven’t read it yet please.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 3:43 PM on May 24, 2024

"former athletes being eligible to receive damages for payments wrongly withheld"

Oh wow, how broadly can this be interpreted? For example can the 1996 National Champions sue for back payment? Or career-limiting injured players claw back funds?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:30 AM on May 24, 2024

"Former Florida quarterback signee Jaden Rashada is suing Gators coach Billy Napier,

This gets doubly interesting considering that Rashada just transferred to UF arch rival Georgia. The shenanigans and legal machinations around southern football were already Machiavellian, this should quickly commute to crazytown.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:44 PM on May 24, 2024

Where’s the Memphis Mafia when you need ‘em?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:41 PM on May 24, 2024

Daammmmn, give this a read.

“That devil in sheepskin called the Constitution of the United States,” the man wrote, is “the great chain that binds the north and south together, a union to rob and plunder the sons of Africa, a union cemented with human blood, and blackened with the guilt of 68 years.”"
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:55 AM on May 24, 2024

I held it together not laughing until 7th line. Jesus god, "The scary ham and cat-shit room" made me look a fool at work.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:35 AM on May 24, 2024

Ctrl-f Violent Femmes...oh you just go to hell, Apple.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:32 AM on May 24, 2024

Wow, that’s a long way! Channeling Alex Horne, that’s approximately 3 million turtle lengths, or 17 million mice.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:08 PM on May 22, 2024

How much did the CEOs of these insurance companies make last year? Yes, the climate is severely worsening. How much of raised prices is just corporate greed?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:48 PM on May 22, 2024

Come on, bring back a special Mock the Week series.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:00 AM on May 22, 2024

Having Smeagol solve the the riddles in this version really subverts typical casting.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:09 AM on May 21, 2024

Neopopulism == Paleoracism
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:22 AM on May 20, 2024

What constraint said above. The regime of the Ayatollah Ali will still be in power.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:48 PM on May 19, 2024

He played despicable men when that was not really a thing. He held up a mirror showing men their worst sides. Good on him.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:03 AM on May 18, 2024

It's a major prize!
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:05 PM on May 17, 2024

As an old, this is what every club looks like to me now.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:19 AM on May 17, 2024

They're adorable.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:20 AM on May 17, 2024

You go to hell. All muppets are beautiful. All of them.

I’m just realizing that I am emotionally attached to both muppets and dolls of nonconventional attractiveness.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 3:45 PM on May 16, 2024

I cannot move that way. I think most people can’t.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:01 PM on May 15, 2024

It’ll be months, years even, between hearing The Word. And then it happens. Buried deep in a Metafilter post, someone types Manwich and I am transported into a visceral childhood longing. Mmmmmmmmmmm. Manwich Night on the green tupperware plates. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

God save me some addictions can’t be tamed.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:59 PM on May 15, 2024

I’ll show you horror.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:26 PM on May 15, 2024

Regarding “tack o,” don’t be offended. I’m sure they’re just comparing Midwestern accents to the British.

They’d have been closer to the target asking how I pronounce “hockey” and “mom” though.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:35 PM on May 15, 2024

The problem being that potential Trump voters aren't reading any of this information.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:54 AM on May 15, 2024

Perhaps they can stop admitting blacks in the Southern states next. You know, due to conservative backlash.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:03 PM on May 13, 2024

its founder dying after accidentally setting himself on fire while murdering a guy and trying to pass it off as an accident”

I'm-a gonna need a link. Preferably without going through YouTube comments (/shudder).
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:50 AM on May 13, 2024

Christ, what does he ask for on Father's Day?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:20 AM on May 13, 2024

Moby Dick, the Whale.

Chef’s kiss. Mwah.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:25 PM on May 12, 2024

Bravo on the post title. Take a bow, you've won the day. Bravo.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:28 PM on May 10, 2024

The case for the Blessed Karl—called so because he has already passed two of the three steps to sainthood

I'm not sure if I hate this kind of rich devout Catholic or monarchists more.


"This emperor comes along with three lousy miracles. I understand that two of them was card tricks."

-Father Guido Sarducci
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:41 AM on May 10, 2024