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Dr. David Baker

8 months

I wrote a massive history of sex from the very start to modern day. It's out in the US and UK as of February 7th (just in time for Valentine's Day). Foreword by @SimonWhistler :

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4 months

@ycsm1n "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" "Things were meh."

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@PicturesFoIder 1) Eat your wife's cooking like an adult. But, conversely, 2) Stop partner shaming on the internet, and sort out your issues in private like an adult.

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@stats_feed It's a movie about a men's prison in the late 1940s, for fuck's sake.

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@annamv10 I do research in this area and recently published a book. If you don't mind me asking, how long were you and your ex-husband together? What line of work are you in? It may be cold comfort, but you're not alone. Approximately 28.5% of adults in the developed world today are what

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@annamv10 Sounds like you did most things right, in terms of the current social paradigm (i.e. modern norms we are advised/expected to follow). Financial analyst - high income, high prestige - I am assuming at least 4 years post-secondary, then a lot of long hours and ladder-climbing.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE The evolutionary purpose of the female transferring her eggs to the male to incubate is the female can expend more of her energy producing more eggs in the first place. :) Quite a clever quirk of nature.

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@stats_feed I really wish you'd sub-tweet the criteria for stuff like this. In a lot of these high scoring countries you can be fined or jailed merely for speech.

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@Yoda4ever Wow. In addition to the kindness, that's a smart dog...

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@_B___S I work from home, so the dog is constantly in my company. But, as a result, when I go out somewhere or leave him with the neighbours to travel, the separation anxiety is brutal on both sides.

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@nside_pro_footb @josemorgado Well that was foolish.

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@hughlaurie Well, they'd listen to you. You *are* a doctor after all.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Probably would have been faster to pitch a tent.

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@creepydotorg Poor woman. Whole life ahead of her.

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@MauLer93 Politics aside, that show was terribly written. Write well, and you can insert whatever politics you like. Or, here's a radical thought, deal with deeper more everlasting themes that transcend petty tribalism and speak to a more important aspect of people's humanity

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Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

1 year

Coming October 2023. For preorder:

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3 months

@JoshSchoen @PaulSkallas I lived there for 2 years. I concluded *some* of them cravenly use "forgive my Dutch bluntness" to evade consequences for rudeness. I also noticed the same people were often thin-skinned. Could dish it, but couldn't take it. Very easily offended.

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@TheLaurenChen @Modster99 With respect, @pearlythingz was dragged first by these trad and conservative women. Some of them nastily casting aspersions on her looks, including a colleague of yours at The Blaze. Not the most graceful response from these "pinnacles of femininity."

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2 months

@TRHLofficial Any academic worth their salt doesn't often refer to their overpriced wall decoration as a form of argument. Plenty of people without degrees know A LOT, plenty of people with them can barely tie their shoes. "Muh dugreh" is often a red flag that they're a hack idiot.

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@creepydotorg In all seriousness, I doubt anything will be more severe than people falling to their deaths on 9/11. That'll stick with me. That and watching live as the second plane hit.

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@Elizabe79298820 No. I think the Olympics have long since ceased to have a national unifying effect, it is no longer a world spectacle everyone tunes in for, and I think people's tax money would be much better spent on other things. I also think the Olympic committee has been corrupt for decades

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Somebody help me find this lady, I want to propose.

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@w33dl0rd @ycsm1n Dickens writing about inequality? You don't say.

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2 months

@Aella_Girl Sounds vaguely pathological... you're literally selecting for unempathetic men, with possible psychopathy. And worse, even lacking the intelligence to even FEIGN concern and reassurance even if they don't really care. You're not just filtering for jerks, but for stupid jerks.

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@frozenaesthetic Aside from some historical inaccuracy in the precise cut (which was probably deliberate) they did a f*cking good job!

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@AMAZlNGNATURE The croc. More reluctant to attack, depending on the size of the room. And if you throw your body weight on top of its jaw, it cannot open it, giving you at least a glimmer of survival, unlike the other ones. If the scenario allows, I'd also train with croc wranglers beforehand

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@CaitPsych Researched it for a book. It's a manifestation of the "pedestal effect". Essentially, you find an attractive sexual partner, you feel (or simulate feeling) below them in sexual value, you idolize a part of them that is not conventionally sexual, a bit mundane, or even sometimes

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@historyinmemes Evolution doesn't work like that. That's like saying archaebacteria are "the most advanced life forms on the planet" because they evolved over 3.8 billion years.

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@Yoda4ever Our closest cousins. And it shows.

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@datepsych This is misleading. People like that generally say apps work for the top 15-20% of men online. Not 1%. And there is no contradiction with 50% of couples meeting online (probably lower, statistics vary) because fewer people today are *in* relationships. Especially men. And the

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@pearlythingz Interesting point. Body counts of 10+ are roughly 7x more likely to divorce than virgins (NSFG, 2002-2013) but apparently 56% of men who get busted for cheating once, don't do it again (Knopp, 2017). So if your man cheats, you've got better than a 50/50 shot you can work it out.

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3 months

@Yoda4ever It's looking for bugs, a form of grooming many primates use to facilitate social bonding. It's the equivalent of two humans having a chat.

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@TheGlobal_Index Common sense.

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6 months

@stats_feed Inexpensive.

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@KillaMinga Enormous overreaction. Unless it was said in a way clearly demonstrating sexual interest. In which case the problem isn't the word itself.

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@davidcanzuk

5 months

@MAstronomers "Why did I wake up in a field at 2 am? I don't recognize that mountain range. I should lay off the meth."

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@davidcanzuk

2 months

1) Physical Resemblance. It means virtually nothing. Almost every person accused of being the Zodiac vaguely resembled the police sketches. It was the 1960s. A f*ck-ton of men had that flat-top haircut back then and plenty of people wear glasses. The number of available frame

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@davidcanzuk

2 months

@NoContextHumans Despicable. At least she's provided receipts and a warning for any guy who considers dating her in future.

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@davidcanzuk

5 months

@welliver_titus Welp, there's a good few future hours of my time well spent.

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@davidcanzuk

2 years

@Texadian339 @SimonWhistler Adam Selzer, H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil, (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019), pg. 157. First paragraph of Chapter 8.

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@davidcanzuk

2 years

Copies of the UK version just arrived! A breezy 200 pages on the History of the Universe + what happens to Humanity and the Cosmos in the Deep Future. Refreshingly optimistic, which we could all use. Working link: …

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Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

10 months

Having finished with my last plain notebook, I've started writing research notes in the limited release Casual Criminalist notebook Simon gave to me last year - and signed with a nice note. Figured I'd fill it up. Does it count as a collector's item if it's from YouTube? 🤣🤣🤣

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Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

3 months

I have just submitted my longest ever script for The Casual Criminalist.

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Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

1 month

My over 4 hour Casual Criminalist just dropped on Spotify. Record breaker. Should be up on Youtube soon. It's a fairly lighthearted but legendary heist, for those who wanted a break from serial killers.

The Great Train Robbery

The Casual Criminalist · Episode

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@davidcanzuk

1 year

Been a while since they uploaded a Casual Criminalist. I wonder if this means they've been busy editing one of my giant episodes...

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@davidcanzuk

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@NoContextHumans The French for 9 sounds nothing like nuts.

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@davidcanzuk

1 year

To fans of Decoding the Unknown, It's been over a year and I am finally commencing work on Drunken Ghost Hunters 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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5 months

@AMAZlNGNATURE Astounding to see they're making live action versions of those Japanese films.

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@davidcanzuk

2 months

@actualAlexJames I'll keep saying it till I'm blue in the face: these uni-party c*nts have more in common with each other than they do with the people they supposedly represent. We're just peasants to these f*cks. Term limits. We need 'em. Purge career politicians from the halls of power.

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@davidcanzuk

6 months

As promised, here's a Youtube Playlist for all the scripts I've written for "The Casual Criminalist". My chosen style is highly detailed and rather dark. There's enough content here to ruin several night's sleep. Including the infamous Pedro episode.

Casual Criminalist David Baker Scripts

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Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

2 months

@clairlemon You've heard the lady, fellas. No fun. No fun allowed. You're not on this Earth to have fun. You're here to work. And to impress her with your curriculum vitae. If you sit down for an hour or two of Grand Theft Auto V, you're a giant piece of sh*t who deserves to die alone.

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@davidcanzuk

1 year

I had a nightmare last night that I was tasked with writing the Simon Whistler "finale" episode. It was about 16 hours long and contained an incoherent blizzard of random facts from stuff about serial killers to bitcoin to battleships to radioactive minerals. It was horrible.

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@AlixG_2 I've written and researched enough true crime to be in favour of this. There's currently a movement here in North Queensland to institute Castle Law.

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@MatthewSMarcum At this point, I'll wager on some sort of "suspicious death" or a straight-up assassination.

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2 months

This guy, J. Foy, went viral accusing his grandfather Richard Hoffman of being the Zodiac: He's not. I'm a true crime writer and I wrote one of the longest and most detailed videos on the Zodiac on the internet. See below.🧵 @MailOnline @SimonWhistler

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3 months

@PostingOften In a giant pile of other identical paperclips in a paperclip factory on the other side of the world.

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@konstructivizm No offense, but it took a supercomputer to come up with THAT?

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Had one fly into my house once. Flew into a window in the kitchen and was stunned. Had to pick it up carefully with a towel. Very fragile little bird. He hung around my front yard after that.

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@davidcanzuk

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@Madam_Scientist @PicturesFoIder The premise of the entire scene collapses once you remember that holding a door to a coffee place guarantees they are going to reach the counter ahead of you. She didn't even need to go into the "you just wanna bang me" argument (which he didn't).

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@pearlythingz It's actually closer to approx 4% of women *in the developed West*, aged 18-35, who have engaged in online sex work like subscription sites (e.g. OF), camming, indie clipsites, conventional studio porn, etc. That is still a staggering number that has spiked dramatically since

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@stats_feed Psh! It's 2024! What does $1,000,000 get you these days, anyway? A few bags of groceries, a week's rent, and a plain black coffee from Starbucks?

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@davidcanzuk

1 year

Boy, am I having fun with this Zodiac shit. God bless Simon for giving me an expanded word count.

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1 year

Those of you who know my body of work will not underrate the gravity of what I am about to say: The current CC episode I am working on is the most staggeringly horrific I will probably ever write.

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@Aella_Girl If I pick "a" do I have the option of continuing to date her, marrying her, and having a family with her, so long as we keep the whole thing secret? 🤣🤣🤣

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3 months

There was a reddit thread about people's fav Whistlerverse videos recently. I was elated and genuinely moved to see how many of my Casual Criminalist videos were mentioned. Also, a nod to Drunken Ghost Hunters as delightfully "unhinged." Feels good to produce work people like.

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@Aella_Girl Could be the bonobo explanation you cite above. Could equally be a more recently evolved trait (c.2 million years ago or less) to facilitate pair-bonding with frequent sex to trigger all those pair-bonding brain chemicals that seem to be so pronounced in humans.

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4 months

So the audio version of my latest Cas Crim on Bill Cosby (allegedly) is out on Spotify. YT version likely out soon. 3 hours and 49 min. And good god damn did it turn out well. Fantastic commentary from Simon.

Bill Cosby - Allegedly

The Casual Criminalist · Episode

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@davidcanzuk

6 months

There! Just finished another massive script for Cas Crim. 34,500 words. Every time I finish the main script and type the words "Dismembered Appendices", the music for that section immediately starts playing in my head. The old school music for DMAs, mind you, not the new stuff.

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1 year

Why can't Youtube just have a two-tier ad system where advertisers tick a box to put ads on G-rated stuff, and advertisers can also tick a box to put ads on videos with mature subjects that are within YT terms of service, from WWII to True Crime?

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@davidcanzuk

10 months

My newest installment for The Casual Criminalist. The long awaited episode on the Zode Chode. I tried to be as thorough as possible with the different theories...

The Zodiac: Cracking the Code of a Serial Killer

Unravel the mysterious events of a fateful night in Vallejo. Join us as we delve into the chilling story of David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen's date, explor...

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Next up on The Casual Criminalist: Cannibalism. Such a joy to write.🤢

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@JackNapierKnows Restart at age 10, no question. Never mind all the opportunities having all my current knowledge would bestow, but who the hell picks being 35 years closer to death?

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@AlixG_2 What do you mean by wrong? Did she use raspberry instead of blackberry jam? Lol no. Appreciate the gesture. Did she put raw sewage and rat droppings on my toast instead? I'd have questions.

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9 months

Current script finished at 35.1k words. 600 shy of my longest on Jeffrey Dahmer.

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@TheCinesthetic It wasn't Eva Green. But sure. Let's go with that. (It was actually Morticia from the Addams Family - don't read too deeply into that)

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@buitengebieden

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Who's in the mood for another round of Drunken Ghost Hunters?

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Wrecked after finishing a long script. And I think I'm done with necrophiles and cannibals for a little bit.

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@_B___S Dog no want doing tricks. Dog want to give cameraman KISHES.

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@LordHansCapon You won't kill it with an arrow. Boar is hunted with spears.

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@davidcanzuk

9 days

When I write a Cas Crim script, I don't always decide on chapter titles right away. Sometimes I write something like "Subtitle, Yo!" or "Fuckadoodledoo" as a placeholder. What I wouldn't give to hear Simon read those out as chapter headings. 🤣🤣🤣

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@davidcanzuk

10 months

Two of my long ones posted within 24 hours? Wtf is going on? Anyway. Here's 3.5 hours on Aileen Wuornos. Enjoy.

Aileen Wuornos

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If you haven't seen it already, check out Drunken Ghost Hunters 2: Electric Boogaloo. Essentially me and a few friends get sh*tfaced in the Hunter Valley and made a script out of it. Debunking the paranormal plays a VERY minor role. Lol.

Drunken Ghost Hunters 2 - Electric Boogaloo

👟 Check out Vessi styles at https://www.vessi.com/UNKNOWN Use code UNKNOWN for 15% off your order. Free shipping for CA, US, AU, JP, TW, KR, SGP.Simon's Soc...

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10 months

Just submitted my latest Casual Criminalist script. I can't/won't spoil who it is, but sufficed to say it's going to knock your socks off.

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@Aella_Girl One of the longest reigning monarchs in British history? Literally has an era named after her? Yeah, pretty sure I do.

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9 months

Just got called up for jury duty. The true crime writer in me hopes, if I'm selected, that it's a good one.

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1 year

The next 7 days I am working on a crime drama TV pilot. I am writing an episode with a storyboard for a season. You have no idea how violent and disgusting it is. Or how depraved its villain. Or how traumatized its protagonists. I'm in heaven.

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Commencing quit nicotine attempt #2 . Fingers crossed.

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In case you thought my prediction on July 5th was a fluke, here's my article published Jan 3 2020 (written Dec 2019) where I predict much of the events of the 2020s so far. Unfortunately, it has aged extremely well.

History repeats itself. That’s bad news for the 2020s

The 2020s promise to be a decade of mounting strain. But will these years be a story of spiralling decline or triumph over adversity?

theconversation.com

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@Yoda4ever I got a bunch of 'em living at the end of my street. They ARE quite curious about people.

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2 years

I'm thinking of writing a book on house-cleaning. I'll call it: "Enough to Not Get Evicted: A Minimalist Approach to Housekeeping for the Modern Bachelor"

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I'm quite chuffed with the quality of the most recent episode of Casual Criminalist. A lot of fun to write and to listen to Simon's commentary:

Bonnie and Clyde: Lovers, Outlaws, Morons

👟 Grab your pair now at https://vessi.com/tcc for 15% off your first order!Simon's Social Media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistlerInstagram: https:/...

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@Rach4Patriarchy Also, the rural divorce rate is roughly half the urban one. And urban service industry workers have a divorce rate 4-5x higher than that of farm workers.

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So. An explainer. A few months ago, a marketing research firm made international headlines saying 70% of women in relationships had a clear Plan B back-up man in mind and 50% of married women had a Plan B back-up man in mind. Also, according to this study, 15% of women had

Dr. David Baker

@davidcanzuk

5 months

Okay, help me out. Recently came across a study that shook me. If you are in a relationship, do you have someone in mind as a back-up candidate if things don't work out? If you're single, then in your past relationships, did you ever have such a back-up candidate in mind?

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@LordHansCapon "KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE III: THE REVENGE OF ARSE N' BALLS"

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@_B___S Elephants apparently think we're cute. Same reaction in the brain seeing us as we do a puppy.

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Nothing like fact-checking to make sure you've got the stages of corpse putrefaction right. What the fuck is my job.

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@Aella_Girl Something tells me wanking with hot sauce transgresses the bounds of "guess and test" into "f*ck around and find out".

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8 months

I know I regularly write 20k or 30k scripts on serial killers, but I am NOT enjoying research into Harvey Weinstein rn.

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@TheGlobal_Index The next 10 years.

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