A quick Google confirmed this, and also led me to learn that this most Italian crime imaginable is being combatted by the most macaronically named police operation in history.
I love this guy. He's this dutchman whose life's work is creating weird perverted bone monstrosities that roam the beach, powered by the wind. He's like the Jimmy Buffett of H. R. Gigers.
God using Drake to punish Plain White Ts for making Hey There Delilah is the type of event you cannot fully appreciate without a solid reading of the Old Testament prophets' view of the cycle of the mesapotamian empires.
The Plain White Ts reacting to Drake covering Hey There Delilah in a fake Jamaican accent genuinely looks like NASA watching The Challenger disaster I’m crying man
It's amazing how ancient, how ancestrally ingrained the impulse to look at a terrifying gigantic carnivorous predator and go "aww this big baby looks like a FRIEND" is.
Every single key to every single door in the Vatican being just carried around on a handful of keychains is one of the single most Italian things I have ever seen. It's the Italian version of Ireland's president being a literal leprechaun poet with a big friendly dog.
Like: not even freaking out at the prospect of going to a wedding without alcohol at all, but freaking out at the thought of going to a wedding without free unlimited alcohol. Can you hear yourself? Do you know what you sound like?
To serve 24 years and then finally get the call to do something really trying -to retroactively earn all those paychecks, as it were - and then run away….to a military sensibility, it’s just unconscionable.
Boy [clueless, likes collecting maps of public transport routes]: I just think they're neat!
Girl [has spent two months making a bespoke subway map hoodie]: yeah... I love them too.
See, this is why Slate is the best. Of all publications in the world, only Slate is the drunk aunt who will stand up in the middle of dinner and go "I'm tired of the hypocrisy, I'm tired of pretending we're not all thinking it: we need to kill Grandpa's dog, right now."
Asexuals using Grindr to make friends is like using a live raccoon as a paper weight. Can you do it? You can do whatever you want, dearest. Why are you trying to use this thing for that purpose, though.
(I will also add that a woman having a bag with supplies ready in case a partner turns abusive is 100% different from a guy trawling tinder for a backup woman in case his wife leaves him, let's be serious for one second please)
It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but legalization was a mistake and at the very least we need far-reaching federal regulation of sports betting.
It's like if the French police busted a gang of criminals blackmailing their victims with evidence of all their extramarital affairs, and called it "Operation Sacre Bleu"
"The thing you made and that I said I liked is bad, you should do it more like the internet nazi"
"Go fuck yourself"
"OH SO IT'S ILLEGAL TO POST ART CRITIQUES NOW"
What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)
The command is "Love your neighbor". The question the parable answered was not "are foreigners more or less deserving of love than my immediate neighbor". The question was "who is my neighbor", and the answer a negation of this sort of ranking of love's recipients.
If you think the parable of the Good Samaritan means that you, as a Christian American, should love the military-age males illegally crossing the Southern Border MORE than blue-collar Joe the Plumber who lives down the street from you...
You've totally missed the point.
Just looking at those messy jumbles of keys is giving me a panic attack. I'm going to have nightmares about trying to open a door in the Vatican and trying out 500 keys all in one single keychain and not finding the right one even after hours of trying.
To all the conservative lutherans rushing to say "just to be clear, this guy isn't one of ours! We're LCMS, we're the BASED Lutherans! He's not one of us!": thank you. You're doing the Lord's work today.
The farmers market by my house accepts food stamps. Which is one of those things people who don’t know any real poor people think is a great idea. That theory of mind that says poor people are me without money.
At the end of the dream St. Peter, keeper of the keys, shows up and chastises me. "You'll never find the right key. That's why you need me!!" I wake up, convert to Catholicism. Spend the rest of my life terrified at the sound of keys.
This is the delightful part of today's imbroglio: all the trads going "well at least this phony pope said one little based thing about all the f*gg*ts in the seminaries", my friend, who do you think he was talking about lmao. It's you.
Not Breaking News: Francis is a Boomer who sneers at "young-trads wearing grandmas nightie" and thinks all trads are gay, and thinks that's the scariest problem around.
FURTHERMORE: Slate is right! If presidents are not above the law, neither are their dogs! No one else's dog could get away with biting so many state officials and live. We, as a just and egalitarian democratic society, must execute Joe Biden's faithless, rascal dog.
@voiceofgeraldo
Back in the day you could just join the racism factory right out of racist high school, now they make you go to racist college for a useless racism degree.
As the oldest of three, I can tell that a lot of you only children would have benefitted immensely from the tyrannical yoke of an older sibling, to compel you into being normal.
"What if there was a Counter-Christmas that celebrated the Fall of Lucifer and his angels" is not a holiday I would celebrate, tbf, but that woman had the vibe of it nailed the fuck down.
It's so funny that in the division of labor in this ideal marriage, it's the uneducated half that has to homeschool the kids. That sounds perfect, this cannot go wrong.
Black Forest Ham is such a marketing triumph of a name. Imagine a ham sandwich. But this is no ordinary ham. No, traveller, this is ham from the BLACK FOREST, made from mysterious sylvan swine that are culled at midnight by rhinemaids with beaten bronze scythes. Taste, traveller.
The government should make everyone who says they couldn't beat a rat in a fight kill one. Just lock them in a room with a rat and tell them they can't come out until they killed it. This, I think, would instill confidence and vigor in them.
Forget the grizzly - a third of Brits don’t think they could take a rat? Less than half think they could take a goose? A third think they’re good for a medium size dog?
MAN. If you want fifty angry hornets in your replies just mildly suggest people have an unhealthy relationship to the drink and go do something else for three hours.
Hatred of the weak is always satanic, always the ugliest aspect of devilish pride. Hatred of the poor, hatred of the ashamed and the stammering. Hatred of the inept. Hatred of the humble. Hatred of the afraid, hatred of those who are socially graceless. Hatred of children.
The youngest generation ever to contract grandpa brain. No boomer who was at Woodstock himself has ever been so self-indulgently sentimental about it as the average American millennial is nostalgic for playing Mario Kart 64 and eating pizza hut.
Sitting here and thinking about empress Theodora making Justinian's life miserable, nagging him, "did you kill that awful whale yet???" and Justinian getting more and more mad that none of his Wile E. Coyote like schemes have succeeded in capturing the rascal whale Porphyrios.
the thing about taylor swift is that she so perfectly encapsulates through her lyrics, the interior lives of women. It's why we all can't stop listening. We're all saying, "wait you felt that way? we were all feeling this way?"
do men have someone like that?
Simone Biles flaunts her Birkins, Range Rover and Texas mansion - but the $25million Olympic gymnast has given no hand outs to her penniless birth mom who works as a cashier to make ends meet
When Celine Dion was complained about Trump playing "My Heart Will Go On" during rallies I thought the song was playing like jock jams at a ball game, in the background while nothing was going on. Not that he made his whole crowd watch a video of her singing on the main screen.
Rod is the quaintest, most archaic subspecies of homosexual: the kind who pretends to be straight by trying to talk like a rough and tumble low class sort, but his idea of what those are like: a 30s gangster or an old timey sailor wearing the classic white uniform and cap.
I'm not sure how much pasteurization costs per gallon, but I know it isn't free. What could the logic be behind selling a less processed product for TWELVE TIMES the cost of the regular pasteurized version other than full knowledge that your customers are stupid?
The NIV is great because it's surprisingly rare for Bibles to carry the smell of the time of their translation so strongly. You see it right off the bat in Gen 4 where the biblical "knew" becomes "Adam made love to his wife" and you know you got a bonafide 70s Bible in your hands
I'm sure friendships can be made there. The human spirit is indomitable. But you will have an easier time on that app finding someone who will let you put your entire leg up their ass than you will finding someone to watch whatever it is asexuals watch (Gilmore Girls?)
That perfect sweet spot where you're conservative enough to admire Chiang Kai-Shek but lib enough to worry about committing cultural appropriation. We in the biz call this the French Zone.
We must not allow Jamelle Bouie to develop strong opinions about male fashion, the poster's bloodbath between him and that assassin sartorialist would be too great.
Thomas, if this is how it’s going to be, I have a question for you.
In your first memoir, you describe assaulting a girlfriend. If, today, someone witnessed you speaking aggressively to a woman, and assaulted you, would you consider it justifiable given your own background.
My father was a conservative Trump fan and Bolsonaro voter and I cannot put into words how strongly I'd rather have him still be around than wander about the internet telling people some politician is my dad.
Making a priest pretend to read from a sixth century manuscript - holding it in front of her so she can read it - while reciting a passage in perfect modern English is, I will admit, a perfect and hilarious Anglican move.
“The whole purpose and central motivation of my life, as the Westminster Catechism says, is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
- Sydney McLaughlin
Just finished her book. What an amazing human! And she’s going to destroy the competition in Paris.😊
Baseball is a fascinating sport. Only in the wide open plains and prairies of the New World would it be possible for a turn based table top strategy game to be played with real people instead of game pieces, on a wide field instead of a board. The most decadent, pervertiest game.
Me (at the pub with the lads): you coulde not dragg me to the corownation of the false king even with ten wilde horses
[sees the Constable glaring at me out of the corner of my eye]
because I shalle go vouluntarilie, God save goode King Charlie
Im going to abjure and abhor the false King Charles Windsor except if he brings back the royal touch of healing in which case I support him unconditionally and will be going to Buckingham palace immediately to get my face stroked thaumaturgic style by his praeternatural majesty
A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of battery.
If Jesus got catapulted straight into a brick wall I would have a little trebuchet medallion with some little latin equivalent of "shoot me dear Lord straight up to heaven" on it, yes. Exactly.
If all you Catholics are so offended because I’m buzz killing your Good Friday, I have a crazy idea. Get off Twitter.
If Jesus was hung would you guys stare at his hanging body and reflect on why it was your fault? Would you wear little nooses around your neck?
If they used an
What if you took your drive to create bizarre biomechanical monstrosities, but instead of getting all psychosexual with it you made a fun little beast that walks around the beach all day. What a guy, what a legacy.
One feature Civilization 2 had that needs to come back is the board of advisors with live action actors playing out little arguments. Military guy freaking out, demanding you build more elephants while the weasely economist coos "We are rich sire! Rich, rich, rich!"
What is it about that fabrication that medieval peasants barely worked and did nothing for half the year that so gratifies, so pleases the most reprehensible dullards on this website.
"I'm too liminal to go to church" is the absolute dumbest excuse ever not to convert, just be honest and say you don't believe in it you absolute charlatan.
"She'll be riding six white horses when she comes" so I've narrowed down who "she" might be, and unfortunately it's either the Church or the Great Whore of Babylon.
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote an interesting essay called "Are Women Human?" where she points out that any time someone asks the dismissive question "why would a woman want to do/wear/study this or that?" the absurdity of the question is revealed when you ask: Well, why would a person?
Okay, this is the one person I would let David Bentley Hart step in and take his Bible away. I'm sorry, you don't get to read the Bible any more, you need to go back to being a medieval peasant who gets intimidated into behaving by the judicious use of Machiavellian priestcraft.
The
#1
darknet drug market – Incognito – took all of its users' money earlier this month.
Now the admin is demanding that every user pays a ransom of $200 to $20k by May. Otherwise he will snitch + post their personal info – including order details – online for police to see.
The funniest thing Tolkien could do is if in the end when Frodo and Bilbo and the elves all go to the Grey Havens to take the ship to heaven, they find out Gandalf isn't coming because he doesn't believe in magic any more and now only cares about nylons, lipstick and invitations
This may be an another situation where something innocent was entirely mistranslated and blown out of proportion. But man, I do not like the sound of "frociaggine", as an expert on the subject that doesn't just sound like a homophobic slur, it sounds like a REAL GOOD ONE too.
"Was Mary an emotionally withholding mother for making baby Jesus sleep in a manger?" is such a deliciously protestant take, I am rotating it in my mind like a 3d tetramino and glorying in it.
Do people really not understand that the evil God is supposed to be defeating is us. We're the evil. We're the bad guys. God has chosen to destroy evil by slowly, gradually saving us and drawing us towards Him, instead of blinking us out of existence, and you're complaining.