In secondary school, on a whim, I did one of those bizarre basketball hook shots from very far away.

Nothin but net.

No one saw.

I absolutely suck at basketball . Like, I had no business even being close.

Before it secedes and joins Canada

Binary choice, dude. And this time, again, the house and Senate and scotus will all be hostile, so there won’t be much done.

And I’d welcome 4 years of only mild improvement.

I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.

So I walk up and talk to a human.

I’m not sure the baha’i faith knew they were quoting Douglas Adams.

Funnier in Aus.

showerhead

Whyis itso hardto puta spacewhere itbelongs?

Fixed

Worked-around, you mean. And that hack seems temporary.

OH YEAH !

Lower numbers in Australia. People there must choke and spit it out; ideally before they get mortally stung by a fang brushing near their cheek.

Also, I’m never going there. Just sayin.

If they have a Hornet Cave, I’m also not going there, even if they find a way around Giant Stingy Nettle Corpse Plant Land-Jellyfish Forest.

Are there any more supporting data in your ass from where you pulled this one? :-D

No, no, it’s been the same old shit since like 1963, with only a few naming changes.

(wow. Apologies to the ghost of Dolores o’Riordan, if required. In my head, in my heart, she’s still fight-ing…)

Using ${var} as a noun breaks my brain every single time

This is true for all the current halfwittery: ‘ask’ and ‘spend’ as well. People who say “the ask” need to get back on the car lot and chase that set of steak knives.

Seriously – my wife takes 0% of my bullshit, and that’s such a great quality. Just sayin’.

I still have both kidneys

So, if a date says you’re “potentially a great match”, clarify “organ donor or personality match”, okay?

It’s not whether you trust one absolutely or not.

It’s always, as ever, relative. You pick between the options for the best bad option or you abdicate your vote and then must suffer (potentially) the worst of both worlds.

have […] went

… have gone, my dude.

My dad, when I was a kid, used to open the door quickly, look down at my visiting friend and say “Who the hell are you?”

Sad story time.

A friend of mine was visiting one of our mutual friends nearby in the big city while I was in the far, far outskirts. He was such a positive influence that I agreed to come visit at the same time and catch up, as he was always a great time. This excellent friend always brought a gallon of stories, his usual infectious manner, and this time he brought a surprise new girlfriend.

I did the “who the hell are you” and she got put off. It went reeeally poorly. They left for home the next day, ahead of schedule, back to America. He shut me out. Over the years he kinda shut everyone else there out, too, as far as I know, as he focused on the birth of two kids in succession and then his wife’s affliction with an aggressive debilitating disease; it may have been ALS. He shut a lot of ancillary things and people out, and I get that of course, but I am disappointed that my last interaction was a bombed joke.

It’s been 18 years. I finally booted him from my social media about 7-8 years ago.

I have some gov contracts and I can confirm this.

Also: the big complaint about working with gov is either apparently expensive stuff and/or apparently slow progress .

Reality? We as citizens require a crazy amount of justified checking and validation from every part of gov because it affects people’s lives that things take longer and cost more to do right … and many times that to back out a fuck-up and not kill anyone. (Oh Hi Elon)