Kiernian

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's actually a phrase translated into every language that has a phrases page on omniglot, which cracks me up consistently.

Ah!

I will not buy this TOBACCONISTS!

IT is scratched!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a MOVIE?!?

Based on the In Living Color character?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Chips.

No coke, Pepsi.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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What is this, a bot post with an imperfect scraper behind it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What in the actual fuck are you on about?

They genuinely believe some random guy is god incarnate so they tormented him his entire life to try and get him to kill himself,

Nothing in wicca allows any of that, so far as I'm aware.

That's SO far off base with what I understand of the basic tenets of wicca that it'd be like an humanist atheist vegan suddenly signing on to work as a halal butcher and then deciding animals aren't enough, it's time to butcher people instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pronounced like "hope" without the "h", it is indeed a local (Midwestern U.S.) "expression.

It is, mostly, a "shorthand apology".

"Ope, just gonna squeeze right past you and grab the ranch" (dressing) or "Ope, grab the butter while you're up whydoncha?", or "Ope, I spose it's about that time."

In the context of that sticker, it's more like a "sorry, not sorry" but less intense and more polite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

would say that Morton is not at all deranged in creating this especially considering I've got a container of it sitting on my spice rack right now.

It has an additional use, too.

The non-"salt" ingredient here, potassium chloride, is the "harder to find" ingredient in a simple four ingredient rehydration solution.

The other ingredients are sodium chloride, sugar, and water.

So equal parts this and sugar in a glass of water and you've got yourself the world health organization's answer to dehydration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It is, to a degree.

She's no billy strings.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I legit wasn't sure if this was a real thing she did that started as a friendly joke or something.

Actually, I'm still not sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The BEHAVIOR of a very small subset of vegans unfortunately causes a small but ridiculously vocal subset of non-vegans to tar all vegans with the same brush.

Since volume equals truth for a not insignificant number of people in the Internet, far too many people don't stop to separate behavior choices from professed beliefs and that's how we get where we are now, I unfortunately.

The world would be a better place if people stopped automatically associating and assuming causation and instead treated bad behavior as just that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of the state of the place upon that inspection was DUE to:

The plant has been shut down since late July

Like, did they say "we're shutting down" and everyone just fucked off and left the place in a state?

Or was it just that bad ALL the time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you think a different word is needed?

Because the word has been largely washed of all negative connotations, at least across the minds of the majority of the populace in the U.S.

If you are trying to convey what the word settler means in a dictionary by using it in casual conversation, you are likely to find that it is not carrying the full weight of its intended meaning in the mind(s) of the listener(s).

This makes it a FUNCTIONALLY inadequate word despite being a technically correct one.

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