An Improper Solicitation
As the holiday of frights and horrors is nigh upon us, it seems an apt time to remind patrons that this rickety barge is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange button below with which to monetise any love. Debit and credit cards are accepted. For those wishing to express their love regularly, there’s a monthly subscription option top left. And if one-click haste is called for, my PalPay.Me page can be found here. Additionally, any Amazon UK shopping done via this link or the search widget top right, or for Amazon US via this link, or for Amazon Canada via this link, results in a small fee for your host at no extra cost to you.
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Pinged. 🙂
Bless you, madam. May your liquitabs always disintegrate properly, even on a cool wash, and never cling to the washer door as a rubbery, snot-like residue.
You’ll be happy to hear my wife is using your Amazon link for some early Christmas shopping.
God help me.
God help me.
Please thank your dear wife. And remind her to write a list. We don’t want her to forget anything, especially if it’s expensive.
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And – why oh WHY, did I click on that other link? AAAUGH! MY EYES! Yeah yeah I know, “No refunds…” 😉
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May your 2-litre bottles of carbonated water retain their pleasing gaseousness until the last drop.
why oh WHY, did I click on that other link?
You’d think you’d have learned by now.
Sorry – you’ve got me all fillosofickul:
“Man, unique among animals for his ability to learn from experience, is also remarkable for his stubborn refusal to do so.”
– or in the words of Calvin { – and Hobbes – }, “Careful – we don’t want to learn from this!”
Tip jar hit. Thanks for the laughs (and the game tips).
Tip jar hit.
May your 2-litre bottles of carbonated water never defy opening, prompting epithets and much exertion, and then vigorously expel their contents over every nearby surface, including the recently prepared sandwich you were planning to have for lunch.
Modern academia. Where, if you want to know your exam results, you will first be insulted in the name of feminism.
Via Julia.
Re: Julia’s link
So, to see one’s exam results, one is forced to complete a training session on . . .consent?
So, to see one’s exam results, one is forced to complete a training session on . . . consent?
Today’s word is irony.
Today’s other word is shameless.
I have pinged across a small token of appreciation. Thanks for the laughs. And for putting up with the occasional less-than-stellar pun/joke I may make…
I have pinged across a small token of appreciation.
May you never be watched with amusement while doing the ironing.
And for putting up with the occasional less-than-stellar pun/joke I may make…
But don’t think we’ve forgiven you for the organ joke of last month.
Curious David, why you don’t have an Amazon.ca link as well. I do a lot of buying there.
why you don’t have an Amazon.ca link as well?
I was trying to minimise the faff of having multiple accounts, but given the level of traffic from Canada, it may be worth considering. Will mull.
you don’t have an Amazon.ca link as well. I do a lot of buying there.
Ditto. Amazon Prime Canada was a no-brainer purchase for me, but Amazon also makes it very difficult to harmonize their different regions so I understand the extra effort involved to manage the different channels.
But don’t think we’ve forgiven you for the organ joke of last month.
I didn’t think you HAD forgiven me. This can of Oust is running perilously low…
Ditto. Amazon Prime Canada was a no-brainer purchase for me,
I’m working on setting up an Amazon.ca account as I type – or rather, The Other Half is doing it for me. Canadian readers, please have your debit cards and shopping lists on hot stand-by.
For Amazon.ca, please use this link.
For Amazon.ca, please use this link.
Putting it up on the sidebar with the Amazon.com link would help, David.
Putting it up on the sidebar with the Amazon.com link would help, David.
Done. It’s just below the UK widget and US link, top right. I’ve updated the main post accordingly.
Now shop ye, shop like the wind.
Thanks, David.
*kerching*
*kerching*
Bless you, madam. May you never find your tea towel damp and malodorous.
Yay, Amazom.ca at last. I shop a lot there, you’re about to become a rich man!
[ Flicks through catalogue of diamond shoes. ]
[ Flicks through catalogue of diamond shoes. ]
Whahhuh? Diamonds don’t have legs; ergo, no feet. Whaddo they need shoes for???
Although you are very nice to provide them – maybe Max Headroom’s would fit…
The Party of Science™ !
A tuppence. If my ship ever gets in I’ll ping you harder before Christmas. Not to be presumptuous…
A tuppence.
May your liking for indecently ripe cheeses never result in domestic friction, thanks to a discreet but effective fridge deodoriser.
For Amazon.ca, please use this link.
I’m trying to puzzle out how this works; Amazon’s annoying little regionalisms are irritating.
That link contains your affiliate tag but it looks like if I start searching around inside Amazon.ca, the link back to your affiliate account gets lost. Thus denying you your 10% of the retail value of a copy of Terraforming Mars.
@WTP
I responded to your last comment in the prior thread. Your comments are thought-provoking.
Just please don’t open a Patreon account, or you’ll be one of THEM
“I wanted to do something controversial”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37687/woman-who-had-belly-button-removed-says-she-joseph-curl
I’ve bunged a few quid in the jar.
May you never be watched with amusement while doing the ironing.
LOL
Tip jar hit.
I’ve bunged a few quid in the jar.
Tip jar hit.
Thanks, and thanks. May you always have lens wipes handy when you discover that your IMAX 3D glasses are smeared with what appears to be cheesy nacho residue.
“I wanted to do something controversial”
It almost works as a metaphor for an awful lot of woke politics.
“I wanted to do something controversial”
Not entirely unrelated, the woke world of Teen Vogue:
Via Damian.
And speaking of Teen Vogue, I’ll just leave this here.
I’m still processing the concept of a “woke” publication for self-styled “activists” who are in their twenties and saddled with debt from choosing worthless Clown Quarter degrees, but still act like teenage girls, and who simultaneously believe that Marxism was a benign historical phenomenon with no downside worth acknowledging, and that Kim Kardashian’s $7000 Gucci outfit is totes amazeballs.
We live in strange times.
who simultaneously believe that Marxism was a benign historical phenomenon with no downside worth acknowledging, and that Kim Kardashian’s $7000 Gucci outfit is totes amazeballs.
‘Luxury communism’.
In 1 year, Teen Vogue’s readership nearly halved. Less than 5% of their audience consists of actual teenagers.
Get woke, go broke.
Quids incoming.
Less than 5% of their audience consists of actual teenagers.
What kind of adult buys teen magazines?
Ping.
Ping.
Quids incoming.
Thanks, and thanks. May your pasta never be overcooked or inadequately drained.
“I wanted to do something controversial”
No, it marks you as being a placental mammal and not a platypus.
What kind of adult buys teen magazines?
Heh. Again, metaphor.
‘Luxury communism’.
As opposed to, you know, actual communism.
Have one yourself, barkeep. 🙂
Tattooist of note.
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