[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

I think the joke is that if this bag falls apart, which was supposed to last a lifetime, that it must mean your life is near its end, as though the life of the bag and your own are intertwined.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 35 points 8 months ago

When Republicans send its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago

The “queue to connect to the server” is how I read their message.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Murgatroyd, which was the last name of one of the dancers on Dancing With The Stars. To me, it sounds very sci-fi, it makes me think of how Trillian combined her first and last name to make something sound more “space-like” in Hitchhikers Guide.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is a meme, coming from an old copy/paste bit. Know your meme has a good write up about it.

Albert Einstein Copypasta, also known as “Malice of Absence,” is a fictional account of a philosophical debate on the benevolence of God between a religious-skeptic professor and a student of faith, the latter of whom is revealed to be the world-renowned scientist Albert Einstein. Online, the last line in the story is often referenced in discussion threads and comments to mock hyperbolic statements or tall tales.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I had to look it up, too. From Wikipedia, it’s a white nationalism flag.

This white power cross is a popular symbol amongst Europe's hardcore Nazis. It is molded after the Celtic cross, seeking to make an heritage issue of it.

Edit: links are hard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_Nationalism_flag_(black).svg

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

If I’ve literally learned anything, it’s that if a bunch of us keep using it as a compliment to mean quirky, we can shift the meaning!

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

I was surprised to find out how many people call them coochie boards. I dated a woman who called it that, and the first time she said it, I barely sputtered out “a what board?”

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

Especially seeing them out of context. I once ran into a newscaster on public transit, and thought they looked somehow different from the rest of us, but couldn’t really place it. At some point later, I had vaguely recognized them as a newscaster on one of the local stations that I didn’t watch, so I still don’t really know who they were.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

She’s so precious! Sometimes you just want to sleep on a pile of trash…

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

I think about that same sentiment from this comic too often.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

From Snopes:
An alternative theory holds that the creature's altered appearance in taxidermy form was intentional and/or the result of the taxidermist's expectation that the animal would be viewed only from a particular angle:

When seen from the side the lion actually has quite a ferocious appearance. In this context, the lion’s bizarre tongue and fake teeth make some kind of sense. Even the close-set position of the eyes seems to have been done in order to make them appear furrowed and angry. Perhaps the taxidermist simply focused too much on side-view images when mounting the pelt, or the lion was (somehow) never intended to be seen from more than one angle.

Here’s a picture from the side.

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