It’s shorthand for “we sold this particular home for 1.02m over (more than) the initial asking price!”

It’s advertising that it’s a hot market and this realtor will get you a ton of money, even more than you will initially ask for. Probably due to multiple bidders.

I’m not the person who commented earlier, but I think they were referring specifically to “mass shootings,” which are more associated (at least, the perspective is) with being somewhat random. I think most Americans are more afraid of being shot at random in a mass shooting by mistake, as it would be out of their control.

Separately, gun violence as a whole is a huge problem. It is typically more associated with gang and criminal activity (which are of course big problems), but many Americans feel if you avoid dangerous areas you should more or less avoid gun violence, as the mass shootings tend to (but don’t always) get an incredible amount of news coverage. Additionally, many of those mass shootings are gang shootings. It’s really the school shootings, mall shootings church shootings, etc that people are afraid of. And those are a real problem, though the numbers are smaller than the hype would make it seem.

That being said, other countries don’t seem to have the same issue, so it’s still wild to have to try downplaying the violence.

It’s a parody of “On Top of Old Smoky,” i think.

I think the implication is that the 3 who are eating didn’t know what they were eating, only that the food was prepared. The guy finds a creature (a frog, i guess?), thinking a frog got into his dish, but the cook reveals that the creature IS the dish, which the others find immediately concerning and disgusting.

I always interpreted the creature to be some unknown, unrecognizable thing from the swamp, which makes the idea of eating it even more repulsive.

I think what he’s saying is that they were born into slavery. Yes, they were later freed, but they were the youngest people in that situation, and thus survived until the 1970s with some actual living memory of slavery.

It’s really wild how recent that is though

Sorry about that! It looked a lot more noticeable in person, and I didn’t realize it might be difficult to pick out. I admittedly didn’t even notice the Jazz portion!

Thanks for the reply. That lines up more with what I thought I knew generally (not only about my partner). It seems like the artist tried to set themselves up for some sort of a joke, and I don’t think it landed

I’m a guy, so maybe it’s because I’m not a woman, but I definitely don’t understand the joke here. Does anyone actually expect the left side? I’ve quite literally never once heard anything to suggest that pms is some sort of a positive experience (definitely not a “sexy” one).

To this day, the boomers in my life tell me that “freight trains in the US are the envy of the world.” Ok, great, but it would be nice if it was usable in daily life

I think that’s exactly what that person is saying though. There is plenty of opportunity for good public infrastructure, but bad policy and auto lobbies have prevented them from happening. A good example is how most neighborhoods are not allowed to be located with businesses/shops/restaurants, and vice versa. This simple change would make so much more of the country more walkable

The point isn’t that it’s making fun of people for being poor, it’s making fun of the poor voting against their own interests and then insulting others along the way for some reason

Something about that depression that looks like a Titan’s footprint is really imposing.

To be fair, the original question did not clearly state it needed to be easy to explain to men. The only requirement was to be difficult to explain to women. So, technically, this answers the question as written.

I don’t think I was involved in any bickering. I meant to clarify my thoughts from earlier.

In the image itself, it directly calls it a “profit motive,” not just a general motive. I figured you may have missed that by mistake, wasn’t trying to be rude.

Then the rest the of the post implies that these other people are able to do stuff without a profit motive, though yes it doesn’t state they have other motives i suppose? But i think that’s the point

I do believe this was the message that was intended to be conveyed by the post itself

The golem refers to the non living creature on the left, not the green orc character. It looks like a soulless stare to me

Someone else pointed out that it’s odd to see rosey have feet, and her trademark wheels are shown underneath the seat instead, making it look really odd

None of the names are legible and the front two are both showing a one star general ranking.

One of the main drivers behind this story (i should say, i think one of the main drivers) is the more recent one where a man abandoned his girlfriend in the austrian alps at night and left her for dead, and it turned out he’d (allegedly) performed that same stunt before with a different ex girlfriend (who survived).

I’m sure your personal situation might be “he said she said,” but some of these people are comparably wild