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MyBrainHurts

@ MyBrainHurts @lemmy.ca

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  • Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show

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  • I think one of the most impressive pieces of comedy was in a random Jackass sketch.

    Mall boxing, Knoxville squares off against a one time super heavyweight champion, Butterbean. Butterbean laughs, lets Knoxville take a free shot then proceeds to one punch Knoxville unconscious. Paramedics come and as they're attending to Knoxville he comes to, looks around and immediately asks "Is Butterbean okay?"

    I die every time. The wherewithal to come out from an almost certain concussion with such a ludicrous assertion/question, just goddamnit, it's perfect.

  • Every night...

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  • Every morning...

    The frustrating part is we worked this out years ago, after bedtime scritches, she wasn't allowed back on the bed until the alarm.

    Now she's old, sick and I'm worried any day might be her last. But she seems to know this and takes full advantage. I've woken up with her either purring into my face, sitting on my hip or screaming to announce it's morning.

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  • So damned much, there's so much to see and do!

    I will die before I've read half the books on my list, scritched even a fraction of the goodest dogs who need scritches and eaten at each of my city's amazing lil restaurants.

  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • You could post some numbers that back you that kinda crazy take...

  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • I think you meant to respond to someone else, none of that seemed like a response to what I wrote.

  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • Hell, the older I get the more I think the voting age should be raised. And after talking politics with some of the youngins (20s) on my various teams, I propose somewhere in the 30s.

    I'm joking but...

  • Canada should follow U.K.'s initiative to lower voting age to 16, says senator

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  • You know why seniors' issues tend to be addressed? Because they vote like their lives depend on it and put the rest of us to shame.

  • Why are Canada and Australia following the US to war?

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  • Me: I should read more alternative journalism.

    Me, after reading several paragraphs of impressively foolish and ignorant writing: Allrighty, mainstream journalism, I was wrong and I apologize.

  • Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein?

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  • Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein?

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  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • If I wanted to ensure the status quo and prevent real change, I cam think of no better sociological judo than getting the progressive Left hooked on identity politics.

  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • To the kids who make your clothes, you are excessively wealthy.

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  • We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.

  • trump to, well, everyone it seems:

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  • I don't know if I'd call it formal (to me, formal means using sir, more conditionals and more emphasis on manners) so much as I enjoy speaking grammatically, the same way I like to use idiosyncratic words, all fun stuff that makes language more interesting. Yes, plain English, unencumbered by whom or unnecessarily large words is more simple but it is also less joyful. (In my cynical way, I wonder if I'll see textbooks with "k" instead of okay in my lifetime.)

    Fully agree on literally (in part, Dave Cross broke me on that one years ago. "When you misuse that word, you are using it exactly incorrectly.") The other one that bugs me is nonplussed, which is becoming to mean its opposite to the point where if it's used it pretty much has no meaning because you have no way of knowing whether the speaker knows it actually means bewildered/startled or if they're using it incorrectly to mean the exact opposite.

  • trump to, well, everyone it seems:

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  • "Of which you thought." - I also enjoy not ending sentences with prepositions.

    Again, I just think it makes everyday language better. Similar to having art on one's walls, doesn't improve anything other than aesthetics but that's enough to make it worthwhile to some.

    I also would never use "k" instead of okay in a text but to each their own!

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  • To each their own!

    I personally think English sounds better when spoken well and enjoy doing so. "For Who the Bell Tolls" sounds silly and I think people missing whom tend to sound similarly silly.

  • trump to, well, everyone it seems:

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  • It's the same idea, we understand exactly what he's saying, 0 impairment of understanding etc.

    There's no reason for a lot of stuff; why do verbs like have and be require different conjugations when the subject is in the sentence? Why bother pluralizing words when we can usually figure it out from context etc.