I brewed alchemical potions for my action figures - Batman needed to stfu and drink his protein shake!

So far, we seem to be doing exactly what Democratic Romania does best: jumping in right after America… (Edit: fuck Putin, too, just to be clear).

Yes… I tried to grit my way through it, but reality is undeniable: this is shit.

“Because it really gets you, y’know?”

“But we’ll do it anyway!”

I just can’t get these people… Do they seriously believe the nonsense they’re spouting, or do they believe that we believe it?

I say double them digits, babe!

Man, Rotten’ll have a renaissance if they plan on keeping the propellers like that…

Oh, sod off, Liz…

I’ve seen this somewhere before… Maybe Rick & Morty, not sure, something very fleshy, compound eyes, and squiggly tentacles where the mouth would be… Or maybe Samurai Jack?

It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))

It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display books they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.

I manually remove the auto upvote:D

I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.

…why?

Well, now they’re just subverting expectations left and right, aren’t they!

There genuinely is no drama quite like workplace drama.

Used to work with a really diligent and thorough dude doing Data Analysis around overall Ops performance metrics, we got along really well in terms of work ethics, so we became work buddies pretty fast. Trouble was, the higher-ups set up the original databases in Google Spreadsheets and the people who worked on those docs before us botched them beyond belief. We kept trying to convince Management to let us redo all databases in SQL, link them with our tools to make things dynamic, and pull them through Power BI to get some nice visuals going, but they realised their asses would be on the line if the data started showing accurate values (plus they were too cheap to actually pay for viable software), so they kept stonewalling.

One day my guy gets fed up with our manager and decides to go nuclear. Thing is, the dude had a very, very nasty case of IBS (no wonder, honestly…). So he started taking advantage of it. He’d come in, tell me to keep an eye on him, and if I saw him getting red and sweaty I should use the facilities within the next 30 minutes then stay away from them. I can tell you that I made the mistake of not heeding his words only once. The dude literally bio-bombed every washroom in that building (small office, start-up type deal), and it would linger for hours due to poor ventilation. He did this without a predictable pattern, so that nobody would figure out who was to blame. This happened for several months. I cannot begin to tell you how much respect I had for the guy.

Well, to be fair, the whole thing has become a sick joke, although nobody’s laughing anymore…

The freest speech of all!