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TacoCommand t1_jcx1kpw wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office | Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London by kwentongskyblue
As someone with Canadian clients, please never actually say this out loud.
Canadians are their own special group.
They're America's hat.
TacoCommand t1_jchqc03 wrote
Reply to comment by JoakimSpinglefarb in Microsoft Cuts Team Focused on AI Ethics, Report Says by PmButtPics4ADrawing
System shock game?
TacoCommand t1_jbmafwj wrote
Reply to comment by howzit- in Art swindlers selling fake Goya get paid in photocopied bills by ModmanX
I'd watch it!
TacoCommand t1_jazxsal wrote
Reply to comment by Zaphod_Beeblebrox_V in OJ Simpson remarks on Alex Murdaugh trial: 'I don’t know why they think I’m an expert on it' by nimobo
The hypocrisy bothers me.
TacoCommand t1_jazxpdr wrote
Reply to comment by Andagaintothegym in Daily briefing: Ancient Europeans escaped the ice age by moving to Spain by Sawe651
Splitter!
TacoCommand t1_jazx83o wrote
Reply to comment by jljonsn in Pa. lawmaker accused of sexual harassment says he won’t resign, will seek treatment for ‘illness’ by Responsible_Meet_528
Surprisingly no, for once.
But unlike the GOP, I expect Democrats to kick this sex pest out fairly quickly.
TacoCommand t1_jazx295 wrote
Reply to comment by According-Classic658 in Pa. lawmaker accused of sexual harassment says he won’t resign, will seek treatment for ‘illness’ by Responsible_Meet_528
Yeah, I'm all for tossing people out of Congress regardless of party.
My family: but [Democrat] did a thing too!
Me: cool toss them in a jail cell alongside Gaetz and Jordan.
Family: wait, what?
Me: You heard me.
TacoCommand t1_ja6xnsr wrote
Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Oh interesting! This would explain "uberwald" in Terry Pratchett as a shoutout to Transylvania but also "super weird".
TacoCommand t1_j9ef7g0 wrote
Reply to TIL about Doggerland, a region of northwest Europe that was home to Mesolithic people before rising sea levels inundated the area and created a Europe better resembling today's Europe. by blonderengel
Adding s comment from a similar thread: thus is the origin of the "drowned land" myth in Welsh stories.
TacoCommand t1_j8ylbb3 wrote
Reply to TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD by MyDadsGlassesCase
Is this where the Welsh legends of "the drowned land" derive?
I remember this being a big thing in Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series.
TacoCommand t1_j8xaebu wrote
Reply to TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight. by theAusterityClinic
Huh. That's a cool TIL. I honestly assumed gross tonnage meant the amount of water displaced.
TacoCommand t1_j6l8ljx wrote
Reply to comment by Gayfetus in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
"So what's keeping you from leaving without 23 inches of fun?"
TacoCommand t1_j6a2mpq wrote
TacoCommand t1_j59ooou wrote
Reply to comment by Berrysbottle in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino
Thanks for your thorough contribution.
/s
TacoCommand t1_j59m5jq wrote
Reply to TIL: Jesse Livermoore pioneered day trading. His shorts for the 1906 SF earthquake and the 1929 crash are considered legendary. He grew up poor, but at 14 worked as a board boy at a stock firm and started gambling. He would consistently become rich or bankrupt, and he died with millions in debt. by Flares117
I'd love an actual source on it but the myth if the US President begging him to stop trading as a matter of national security is pretty amusing.
TacoCommand t1_j4finbz wrote
Reply to Betsy Heard, the Mixed Race Woman Who Dominated the West African Slave Trade in the 18th Century by Vailhem
An interesting post but it feels like a weird racist post as well.
looks skeptical
TacoCommand t1_j1pjnej wrote
Reply to comment by Extension_Ok in It's Christmas Eve and I'm an ordained pastor. Ask me anything! by revanon
Froody.
TacoCommand t1_j1pge45 wrote
Reply to comment by revanon in It's Christmas Eve and I'm an ordained pastor. Ask me anything! by revanon
As someone who walked away from seminary and active duty because of the 2003 invasion, I deeply appreciate hearing a thoughtful pastoral/clerical response.
TacoCommand t1_j1pg5vu wrote
Reply to comment by Extension_Ok in It's Christmas Eve and I'm an ordained pastor. Ask me anything! by revanon
Jehovah Witness?
TacoCommand t1_j1pg50v wrote
Reply to comment by revanon in It's Christmas Eve and I'm an ordained pastor. Ask me anything! by revanon
Having grown up both High and Low Church, I appreciate the honesty from a pastor.
I'm assuming by your mention of the Armenian tradition that you aren't a Calvinist
TacoCommand t1_iz0y6jb wrote
Reply to comment by shashinqua in Cruise ship passenger rescued from ocean isn't sure how he went overboard, he tells ABC by PichuLovy
They sure can!
doffs fake mustache
TacoCommand t1_iyprf0n wrote
Reply to comment by Aeseld in The TikTok Trend That Triggered a Diabetes Drug Shortage by SimpleDumbIdiot
Rad, thanks for the recommendation!
TacoCommand t1_iyprby5 wrote
Reply to comment by Dorkus_Mallorkus in Cruise ship passenger rescued from ocean isn't sure how he went overboard, he tells ABC by PichuLovy
Oh jeez. That's dumb. It just encourages cocktails. And I get it, cocktails are the real money makers. But that just seems like an overall dangerous policy.
15 beers? Wade Bogg used to pound 50 beers and eat a roast chicken!
RIP Wade Boggs. (Note: Wade Biggs is still very much alive, jabronis).
TacoCommand t1_jcxarpc wrote
Reply to comment by Zrkkr in British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office | Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London by kwentongskyblue
They're like our weird 1980s Russian mullet