Even with my terrible level in Latin, I'm glad to say I got that reference!
My wife! She just feels so safe and relaxed. don't think I've ever seen her last more than thirty minutes. Maybe a full episode of a really engrossing TV show, but that's about it.
Hmm, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to ICE agents trying to antagonise a whole fucking base worth of Marines...
It's got electrolytes!
Didn't Texas have massive electrical power grid issues last... winter was it? How do you have a third world power grid and that many data centers?
I've no difficulty understanding lads being thirsty and attracted by a lovely lady who appears to be into gaming and hey, you can even interact and try to get her attention!
Now, explain to me lads getting super invested in some lads running around a field chasing a ball. Like, literally having their lives revolve around it, their identity entirely centered on it. Now that's a complete mystery to me.
Ireland is the only place where pubs are actual genuine places to meet and chat with strangers. And even then it can be difficult. Came back to France after 13 years and I was just flabbergasted at the difference. Everyone is out with their little group and no one seems to talk with anyone outside that little sphere. Only spot where it's socially acceptable to engage strangers is the counter itself and that's about it; and if you do it feels like you're a freak, honestly. I tried a few times to just meet people that way, and gave up.
Only way that worked for me was joining a hobby or sport or some other group like that. Volleyball got me a job within like two weeks of joining! Couchsurfing got me great friends, girlfriends and eventually my wife.
It's when you need to show your diplomat skills and realise that's the bodyguard and it ain't gonna happen tonight. Girls do it (going out as a pair) to feel safe, so trying to separate them is just gonna send their alarm bells ringing and make you sound like a creep no matter what you try.
Now stretch it over twenty minutes, with constant repetition of the few known facts, ad "breaks" with a short reminded of what happened beforehand...
It's been a few years and I still wanna throw my phone off the window watching it : The Gift Shop
Well yeah, it's a slice of life, not the Hero's Journey.
A compounding factor is that (actual) Italian men are used to hard to get women, and their efforts are therefore scaled for such challenge.
Never have I seen men try so fucking hard to chat up anything within sight than Italians.
I still vividly remember seeing a bunch of them moving through the nightclub crowd, chatting up women one after the other, failing, immediately moving on to the next one, etc.
(One could argue it's the other way around : Italian women have developed a resilience up to the challenge of the insatiable appetites and relentless advances of Italian men)
I read these tweets but heard them as the poster adressing his Seneschal instead of grok.
"Abelard, what is the meaning of this?"
"Abelard, why is that Aeldari angry?"