I’m personally non-practicing but FWIW us OG Protestants (i.e Lutherans) are absolutely not down with this shit. F’ing prosperity gospel pyramid scheme BS. I’m utterly bewildered but this sort of spectacle. What are people getting out of this Vegas show of ‘piety’?

Sorry Padre. But if the flight is 12h or more these beans are gonna air out early so that you don’t get them late.

I read this thrice before I realized it was a :q joke. I might be in too deep.

That’s exactly as far therein as I made it before my hindbrain (therein) pulled the eject handle.

I’ve started reading The Wee Free Men aloud to my young ones and while I’ve got absolutely no talents when it comes to accents - I’ve been giving it my damnedest to land a Scottish one for the Pictsies. The bit where they beat up on Ratbag has been recounted many, many times.

It’s a bush league debate tactic deployed by the smuggest prick in the room who then scans around wondering why everyone isn’t as impressed with him as he is with himself.

Having never had occasion to actually attempt to spell that particular word out - I have to confess, that prior to just now, I probably would have gone with ‘woah’.

Simple city boy I am.

My sister introduced these to me literally this afternoon. Never heard of this brand until today. Quality chip!

It was never great, but has been sliding downhill for decades now and has reached the ‘used dishwater might actually be preferable’ stage. There are millions still in denial about this.

For sure lane assist. I’ve had a few rentals where I feel like I’m losing my mind with all the weird bumps on the wheel until I figure out what’s going on and disable it.

I also happen to often be on single lane, curvy roads where this sort of thing is really over-active.

When I was a kid my Mom picked up a stack of free comics (somehow, this was a unique event) and gave them to me. It was very random. Included things like Strawberry Shortcake and Smurfs. But also this one, which just went so so hard.

Ah 2038. When all Teslas turn into DeLoreans.

Same! A well meaning librarian put Colour of Magic in my hands when I was 15 and it didn’t take. Foolish kid!

So here I am in my 40s enjoying the hell out of them. Just wrapped up Snuff last night.

I happen to be around 6’5” 230lbs. One time two kids walked past me on the sidewalk and one of them said some shit that I didn’t even catch. What I did hear was his friend saying ‘Dude! Big Guy! WTF got into your head?!’

Largeness has its advantages. Plane travel not being one of them.

I wish I could offer you work, but as someone who discovered you via your LotR pieces and very recently spent (the entirety of) a 6h flight learning about pikemen vs. Roman legions I can only thank you for you public presence. Thanks!

And yet somehow dull! Narrow the uprights until 4th and whatever becomes appealing again.

And bring back asymmetrical hashes while you’re at it.