Yeah, I didn’t realize that when I first heard it. I guess that’s why it’s a punishment. If they just hung a tiny parakeet off his neck, it wouldn’t be much of a punishment.

Yeah, I didn’t really like the genre for a long time either, until I was in a place where I kinda needed it.

I see it as an example of cozy slice-of-life. Kind of like Azumanga Daioh but in a deli with a bear and a plant.

Original Illustration to Samuel Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, 1798 (not colorized).

The cat knew he was in trouble and was like: OK, this ONE TIME I will come running to you.

That’s what I was gonna say. It doesn’t even have to be a religious thing. To a lot of people church/mosque/temple is a cultural thing.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

History’s like that too. People took their best guesses, but nobody knew for sure.

Either that, or driving cars to the junkyard to be crushed.

The engineers design the gravel to turn into a powerful sedative/hypnotic but only if you run a truck into it at high speed.

“You don’t think it’s weird when YOU do it!”

Where Juan?

We look for Juan.

That’s only if you haven’t blessed the rains down in Africa.

Since there’s no “Lord StarTron” in Star Trek, I’m guessing this is just a 0 mask. Why put it there?

• Your average normie’s gonna look at that and say: “Star Trek BS, I don’t wanna think that much,” and forget all about it.
• Your average Trekkie’s gonna mention it to every other Trekkie they know, and thus expand the reach of the flyer. Everyone has at least one Trekkie friend.
• The intended recipient’s gonna look up “Lord StarTron”, see nothing, and then out of desperation just add the birthday to the mask and try that number (which is the right answer)

Gandalf messed up big time, going to the hobbits. He shoulda gone to the gnomes.

I read that when a cat squints at you, it actually means they trust you, i.e. they don’t have to stay alert around you.

Maybe it’s bc I’ve been doing a lot of proofreading recently, but the first thing I noticed was reference to “the Battle of Dover Straight” instead of Strait.

The cops raid the place with a similar device and find absolutely nothing.

Check out youth hostels / Hostelling International. Basically they’re inexpensive dorm-like hotels mostly targetted at younger backpackers. The ones in LA and Boston are in great locations. About 12% of Americans are of German descent (cite) so ask around, you or a family friend probably have a distant relative who immigrated here at some point.

So: get a cheap plane ticket. Fly into a city with a youth hostel. Wander around for a while. Catch a Greyhound Bus to visit your distant relative in Iowa. Hang out with them for a while. Catch another Greyhound to another city with a youth hostel. Fly back. You will meet a lot of people in the hostels. You’ll meet a lot of people on the Greyhound. Look up stuff ahead of time, not just tourist stuff but concerts or clubs or sports events wherever you go to. Sure it costs money but it’s a hell of a lot more fun than a resort or a cruise or whatever. Wait, isn’t “wanderjahr” a German word? Anyway after you spend a month or two here you’ll know whether you still like us or not.

• https://www.hiusa.org/
• https://hihostels.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostelling_International
• https://www.greyhound.com/

A lot of people are saying ADHD, but I think in some cases it could also be anxiety or depression.

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