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Re: American Carnage - 31 Killed Between Mass Shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio
CelestialBadger wrote: »Voter preference is also a bit misleading. If you tell a Trump voter "President Trump wants to institute a gun registry and licensing system. Do you agree?" they would say "Yes!" but if you said "AOC wants to institute a gun registry and licensing system. Do you agree?" they would say "No! Burn the witch! Our freedoms!"
To be fair to those voters, who is in charge of implementing an idea is extremely important.
I think if you told liberals "President Trump wants to institute a gun registry and licensing system. Do you agree?" they would say "Finally!" and then maybe follow it up with "But I don't really trust him so I'd need to hear the details before giving it my full support."
Re: What's squishy, stretchy and transforms almost anything? ITS [Love]
Hell my wife had to send me an email with a chatlog with two friends of ours talking about how she had a crush on me before I’d consider it was a possibility
Moriveth
+5
Re: The Revenge of Interesting Facts: Spend Your Lunch Break on Wikipedia
A very cursory Internet search - the basis of all good scholarship - tells me that "trousers" originated in early 17th century, and "pantaloons" originated in late 16th century (and was shortened to "pants" in the 19th). So, it seems more like the colonies broke away, and then the Brits were like "OK, now that those jerks are gone, let's use a new word for long-outerwear-leg-garment".Straightzi wrote: »Captain Inertia wrote: »Maybe it's a linguistic thing, like how in UK English "pants" refers to what US English speakers call "underwear".Pinfeldorf wrote: »Wow I can't believe they said the face is in the palm. That's clearly the back of the hand, article author. Or are hands also backwards in NZ?
Maybe in NZ English, "palm" refers to what other Englishes call "back of the hand".
What are underpants then
Same thing. Pants is short for underpants.
Wait no
This gets recursive and I do not care for it
it's not our fault that the US threw out a perfectly serviceable word like trousers.
Also I looked up "pantaloons" while I was at it, and boy did I not expect this:
How much of modern European and European-influenced culture can be traced back to commedia dell'arte?Because of his skinny legs, Pantalone is often portrayed wearing trousers rather than knee-breeches (which Jaques refers to as "his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide/For his shrunk shank"). He therefore became the origin of the name of a type of trouser called "pantaloons", which was later shortened to "pants"
Delduwath
+9
Re: i can't believe it was ciclope under the dean malenko mask in the wrestlethread
Update: Lawler got Mandible Clawed by The Fiend.
Sprout
+11
Re: The Revenge of Interesting Facts: Spend Your Lunch Break on Wikipedia
In US English underpants go under your pants
In UK English underpants are pants that go under
In UK English underpants are pants that go under
Re: The Revenge of Interesting Facts: Spend Your Lunch Break on Wikipedia
Captain Inertia wrote: »Maybe it's a linguistic thing, like how in UK English "pants" refers to what US English speakers call "underwear".Pinfeldorf wrote: »Wow I can't believe they said the face is in the palm. That's clearly the back of the hand, article author. Or are hands also backwards in NZ?
Maybe in NZ English, "palm" refers to what other Englishes call "back of the hand".
What are underpants then
Shoes.
tynic
+6
Re: The Revenge of Interesting Facts: Spend Your Lunch Break on Wikipedia
Straightzi wrote: »
Did you know that an early name for a condom
Was a Malthus Sheath?
This reads like something out of the Achewood arc when Little Nephew got taken back to Wales.
https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04282009
Delzhand
+5
Re: only one [movies] thread has an ultra hot bigfoot dad
Undead Scottsman wrote: »The one part of Deep Blue Sea was pretty great.
You mean all of it?
Re: American Carnage - 31 Killed Between Mass Shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio
I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the fact that a searchable registry isn't currently an option in the States because the ATF is specifically forbidden in law from running any kind of non-physical database lest Foulest Tyranny. I still can't figure out whether that or the "thou shalt not research the health effects of firearms" law is the more insane one.
US Firearms policy is fucking wacko. All the advocacy organizations are run by a group disingenuous shills for the firearms corporations that scream as loud as possible against any sort of restriction against firearms purchases as a kind of imposition upon essential freedom itself. They scaremonger their civilian membership into the notion that the Big Bad Government is coming to get their guns and also maybe steal their internal organs while they're at it (and they're going to make your children be gay and become art history major or what the fuck ever). They lobby Republicans hard to shut down any and all reasonable methods to catalog, track, and research the effects of having engines of murder available to the general population, and while they're at it they scream at Democrats for being "unAmerican" for wanting to maybe possibly at some point think about doing something about all this gun violence that plagues our country?
It's all aided by a massive right-wing media landscape that deals in lies and conspiracy theories to whip up support for paranoia and arms stockpiling among idiot white Americans who claim to not be racist, but in fact would be happy to live in a white ethnostate given half the chance ("Life is just less complicated when your neighbors are also white!"). This is why, for the longest time, the NRA was a big sponsor of AM talk radio and the once nascent right wing vlog-o-sphere that now froths its way across YouTube, coasting on a tide of algorithmic assistance and sponsored ad buys from firearms manufacturers (before they basically ran out of money).
America has a lot of good ideas and practices when it comes to certain political ideas, but guns isn't one of them.
Hacksaw
+5
