He Fondled It Suggestively
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Oh yes. The buttons:
Lifted from Ace, this is absolutely spot on.
Lithe and intriguing, surely?
More like linebacker and trudging, and don’t call me Shirley…
Here at the Amherst “demonstration” we find Ali Bubo and the Four Ton Thief.
Meanwhile on another campus…protester goes boiiing!
‘They did offer iced coffee on the menu, so they do partially cater to the gays. The staff member was nice. I’d hate to get her in trouble.
……Others added: ‘When my husband asked once in a hotel “what milk choices have you got l” he got replied “hot or cold”.’;”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13374655/oat-milk-coffee-bolton-whsmith.html
Heh. Also the words “left stunned.”
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The grace and deportment on display brought this to mind.
For all they bang on about the environment they don’t do much for it.
After an ungainly, galumphing, fashion.
Yes. Conservatives laugh. But they have been losing to these morons for decades. Funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.
Their fetish-airing is stunning and brave.
If you had asked people in 1999 what the world would be like in 2024, I think you’d have gotten quite a few 1984 and Brave New World answers, but I’m not sure anyone would have said Monty Python
Banana warfare:
Dude is right, but I doubt he’ll get any takers.
Tip jar hit. Don’t usually comment but I read this blog every week.
Bless you, sir. May you always have a pound coin for the supermarket trolley.
[ Adjusts lighting, adds tinsel to tip jar. ]
The fairer sex.
Never a bear around when you need one.
protester goes boiiing
I mean…the idea is sound. Riot police equipment and tactics are essentially unchanged from Republican Roman infantry because they work really well in close-order melee. The protestors know that at most they’re going to be facing tear gas canisters, so the shields only need to strong enough to bounce those, not bullets. Sadly, they broke formation and charged the enemy. I suppose between the black Emperors and the rampant colonialism in Hispania the classical studies profs forgot to teach them the battle of Teutoberg Forest.
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Thank you. The end-of-year summaries are a bit daunting to piece together – it’s a lot of work – but I’m generally quite happy with how they turn out. You put these things in a pile and an unhinged pattern does start to appear.
Bless you, sir. May you never struggle to be interesting.
Left in David’s dust: The Royal Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things.
Frankly, I would find such a task quite daunting. Does it require consumption of fortifying beverages?