manny_stillwagon

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago

I mean, by the original meaning of "first world country" we were by definition.

The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term "third world country" was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say "we're not part of this shit-flinging fight". Which then people started viewing as "too poor to be worth dragging into either major power's sphere of influence" and then just "poor".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

You're a short motherfucker and nobody likes you!

flute noises BITCH!

Everybody says, "Look how fucking short that guys is."

And that stops you from forming meaningful relationships.

When you were born everybody thought that you were just a head

But then the doctor said, "WAIT!

This stupid, motherfucking, tiny, short-ass baby Got a tiny, little, itty-bitty body

And I hate it!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The first season of Andor is some of the best TV I have ever watched. Its incredibly well done.

The second season is still good, just not great. Apparently there were originally supposed to be 5 seasons, and it kind of shows that they compacted it all into two. The highs of season 2 are on par with season 1, but its just not as consistently excellent.

The ending isn't a grand finale, but it can't be. The grand finale is Rogue One. I didn't have a problem with it because I always had RO in mind as the last, extra long episode.

1000% still worth a watch. Easily the best Star Wars content to have come out in the Disney era by a mile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If all music streaming services were owned by HBO then yeah, I would argue that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My partner and I stumbled across first edition Ticknor & Fields printings (1867) of Henry Longfellow's translations of Inferno and Purgatorio at a used bookstore a couple years back. Got them for a song since they were missing the Paradiso to complete the set.

The owner said that they had been sitting in his storage for 15 years as part of an estate donation he got and he finally had the chance to go through it. When he found them he tore apart the rest of the boxes looking for the Paradiso but it just wasn't there.

Now its our white whale. Every used bookstore we go in we scour the classics/oldest/rare book section looking to complete the set.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Who art a douchebag

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Of course he has a gun. This is Texas, everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

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

Cast Vicious Mockery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In the book it is explained that since (in universe) her vision is based on movement, she roars to scare prey into fleeing so that she can see them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Its a stillsuit, why would you get OUT to pee?!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This guy can't lizardpost.

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