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[Raw Shark]

I mean, he kind of targeted me a little more than most. But I didn't want to literlly break his balls.

[Raw Shark]

(For the record, he never wanted kids anyway and I've really apologized and we're pretty okay).

[EnterpriseSovereign]

Was it an actual fight or the result of a sliding tackle that connected studded boot to groin?

[Raw Shark]

Was it an actual fight or the result of a sliding tackle that connected studded boot to groin?

The latter. It was a comedy/tragedy of errors that ended with us in a three guy pile-up. I still felt bad.

[EnterpriseSovereign]

Was it an actual fight or the result of a sliding tackle that connected studded boot to groin?

The latter. It was a comedy/tragedy of errors that ended with us in a three guy pile-up. I still felt bad.

What happened to the third guy?

[Raw Shark]

What happened to the third guy?

He was fine. Got a yellow card is all. The rest of us chaps got smashed balls or long-lasting guilt. It wasn't really anybody's fault (or, it was everybody's fault), we just kind of coordinated a strike and a block poorly.

[aerius]

TIL a Canadian private equity firm owns an online porn empire. Pornhub, xTube, Brazzers, Redtube and a bunch of other porn studios and online porn sites are all owned by a company called, get this, Ethical Capital Partners.

[bobalot]

TIL a Canadian private equity firm owns an online porn empire. Pornhub, xTube, Brazzers, Redtube and a bunch of other porn studios and online porn sites are all owned by a company called, get this, Ethical Capital Partners.

A private equity firm calling themselves that is like Henry Kissinger bragging about being Nobel Peace Prize recipient... wait a sec.

[The Grim Squeaker]

TIL that in clinical genomics and ClinVar, Likely pathogenic and Likely Benign variants can safely be assumed to be pathogenic and Benign mutations/variants, respectively. (It's a 1-5~ scale)

[LadyTevar]

Today i learned not all the car's Warning Icons are listed in my owner's manual. The one for "Your Hybrid Engine has an ISSUE" had to be looked up via Google.

See HoS for the whole story. I ranted there how Life Fucked Me again.

[Eternal_Freedom]

TIL that at least one, probably more, of the old (Sean Connery) Bond films had their screenplays written by one Roald Dahl. Definitely not what I expected while skipping through the opening credits of "You Only Live Twice."

[EnterpriseSovereign]

TIL about the Spotify Ad bullshit- no matter how many times that I click on the option saying "I'm seeing this ad too often" or "not relevant to me", I'm still getting the same fucking ad over and over, the one for the "The Caravan, Camping & Motorhome Show". It's clear to me those buttons do nothing.

[muse]

TIL there are naked pictures of Angela Merkel in the Epstein files.
The late Silvio Berlusconi wasn't lying when he said she was "unfuckable".

[Raw Shark]

I've (mostly) just stopping giving any fucks. I'm gonna die in a shoot-out or a fistfight, I hope for a righteous cause.

My family has a grave plot for me (morbid), and I don't plan to use it except to display a stone for many generations that says, "Died on his 100th birthday, shot in the back climbing out of a bedroom window naked."

[Raw Shark]

TIL there are naked pictures of Angela Merkel in the Epstein files.
The late Silvio Berlusconi wasn't lying when he said she was "unfuckable".

I dunno, I'd give her a chance. I'm impressed by strong will. How bad could it be? (Consensual) Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad it's at least okay.

[EnterpriseSovereign]

TIL there are naked pictures of Angela Merkel in the Epstein files.
The late Silvio Berlusconi wasn't lying when he said she was "unfuckable".

I dunno, I'd give her a chance. I'm impressed by strong will. How bad could it be? (Consensual) Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad it's at least okay.

Like battle to a Klingon- even when it is bad, it is good. Like chocolate

[Raw Shark]

Or prune juice.

"This... is a warrior's beverage." --Lt Cmdr Worf

[EnterpriseSovereign]

TIL what "Pig butchering" is.

[muse]

TIL my education was paid for with proceeds from crime. My master's degree sponsor was doing extracurricular work for an unlawful organization then laundering the money through various educational programs, one of which helped pay for my degree.

[aerius]

TIL the only human crazier than Florida Man is Florida Woman.
I kinda wonder if she has a spouse, and whether that person knows how batshit crazy she is.

[Solauren]

TIL my education was paid for with proceeds from crime. My master's degree sponsor was doing extracurricular work for an unlawful organization then laundering the money through various educational programs, one of which helped pay for my degree.

Some good came from that crime then.

If you feel bad about it, then help someone else pay for their education.

[muse]

TIL how the Houthis got their name.
https://x.com/donaldgorbachev/status/20 ... 5247774854

The five-second epistemology of "who dis"

True story, or true enough to be told the way all good CIA stories are told, which is mostly.

Sana’a, mid-2000s. A junior CIA analyst is sitting in a room on the second floor of a building that is technically not a CIA building, across a desk from a local contact who technically does not know the analyst is CIA. The contact is a young man with a phone and a cousin in Saada. The analyst is drinking tea he does not like because the tea is the price of admission. The analyst is holding a yellow legal pad. The contact is trying to tell the analyst about a movement in the northern highlands that has been gathering strength since the first Saada war and is now organized enough to have a name. The analyst wants the name. The analyst wants the name because the cable back to Langley has a blank field labeled group designation and the field needs filling.

The contact says: Ansarallah.

The analyst does not look up from the legal pad. The analyst says: Who’s that?

The contact, whose English is functional but not native, whose ear for American English is formed by watching dubbed reruns of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on a satellite feed his uncle runs out of a shop in Sadah, hears the question and thinks the analyst is asking him to repeat the name. He repeats the name. He says it slightly slower, slightly louder, the way you say a name to a foreigner who has not heard it before. He says:

Who dis.

The analyst writes it down. Who dis. Spells it H-O-U-T-H-I because that is what who dis sounds like when an American is writing Arabic phonetically with a Bic pen on a yellow legal pad in a room with a ceiling fan. The analyst thinks huh, that’s a funny name, must be tribal. The analyst circles it twice. The analyst writes tribal movement, northern highlands, Zaidi, anti-government next to the circle. The cable goes out that night. The cable hits the Langley desk the next morning. The desk officer who reads the cable has never been to Yemen. The desk officer files Houthi in the database. The database becomes the State Department brief. The State Department brief becomes the Reuters style guide. The Reuters style guide becomes every wire story every reporter has ever written about the group for the next twenty years.