that’ll show 'em

there used to be a coffee shop in London that had a large glass cabinet display of urethral vibrators, this was circa 2008 I think.

The lemon drizzle cake was very nice

I think it was originally that FEEL when vs my FACE when

yeah typo

I was in Florida this lasr weekend and saw a CRAZY amount - like a dozen a day

Atlanta GA here. Sometimes there’s good finds but the hit rate of men’s clothing is proportional to the wider Western culture imo.

programmers perform labor tho, and rely on physical supply chains (computers, data centers, networks, keyboards, chairs, screens) to do their labor.

programmers also cannot operate without collaboration and cannot bring their labor to market for a return without payment processing, publishers, distribution networks and marketing.

paracelcus my beloved!

I believe a forest nymph is a slyph but happy to be corrected

yes

SA is “sexual(ly) assault(ed)” The rest is googlable.

that’s a myth, if the average is 250 it’s because some lasted thousands of years and some lasted 2.

3.for friends. you never read Narnia?

I ID with it. Women’s thrifting is 90% of the store. Men’s thrifting is the 4 things that will fit me that someone’s uncle died in.

you also end up with AI buying AI from AI as there are no humans to generate or recieve the AI output.

“this could be us but you playing” was a meme around 2012-2014, probably influenced by the 2012 song This Could Be Us by Manio.

It uses slang from the time where a player (/playa) was a man who led women on, often multiple simultaneously, with no desire to committ to a long term relationship.

The caption was usually (ironically) applied to some kind of awkward couple as if it was the height of romance, with the caption implying itd be the perfect relationship for the author and their interlocutor, if only the other party would take the relationship seriously.

The image in this thread depicts a couple of “common” fetishes: puppy play and smoking (having smoke blown in one’s face, or being used as an ashtray, or both).

my ma has a story about her eating coal from the coal bunker in her Sunday best when she was a kid.

zed-sayers usually pronounce zebra with a short, closed ‘e’ like in “bed.”

I think you’re confusing Harlot with Harlequin.

Harlot entered English through Chaucer in the 1300s and meant “vagabond” pretty much as far back as we can trace it, where it gets lost in Middle English / Old French.

The clown character of Arrleccino, ellided to Harlequin in English, was popularized by 1500s comedian Zan Ganassa.

Harlequin and other Commedia dell’Arte characters evolved over the next 300 years to eventually become pantomime, which wasn’t really codified as a discipline until the 1700s by which point the conventions of Commedia weren’t as prescriptive.

Around this time (1780s-1820s) the rise of performers like Joseph Grimaldi, who would participate in Harlequinades during Pantomimes would popularize what we would call “clowns” in modern parlance today.

source: I trained as a clown under the Gaulier style, with some experience as a Pierrot clown before that and as a Bouffon clown later.

he wrote and directed the musical Hairspray and the movie Pink Flamingos. Both of which are worth it if you don’t have a predisposition to hating campy, lgbtq+ or musicals.