I canât believe you left out the best part of the article:
Or this odd detail:
He got away on a purple bicycle
(I keep getting logged out.)
What a dip.
Homer Simpson taught us 20 years ago that unlimited tar-tar sauce is the secret to keeping the peace. I think this holds true for any and all dips⌠let people shovel as much as that stuff into their mouth as they can handle and I guarantee there would be no more wars.
Did he look like MIchael Douglas?
Larry Luna was sitting in line when he became impatient and began honking, screaming, and yelling at the woman in front of him placing her order. Things escalated fast, witnesses say, when the woman stepped out of her car and Luna pointed a pistol at her.
Ordering fast food: serious business.
To make this one better, heâs a school teacher, and the superintendent is on the case:
âThese are just horrible distractions,â said Smith. He says Luna has been a Spanish teacher at the high school since 2006, and confirmed the woman involved was the mother of a Harrisburg student. âSince this is not a workplace misconduct, assuming that itâs true, we really have to sit and let this develop,â explained Smith.
Also, the guyâs name is Larry LUNA.
It definitely holds true for tahini sauce on falafels.
I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town.
Well Iâm sure youâre all feeling very smug and self-satisfied, but the outrage of a surcharge for dipping sauce is only the beginning of the slippery slope toward Islamocommunofacism. You call this man a criminal? I call him a freedom fighter.
HE GOT AWAY ON A PURPLE BICYCLE
I canât stop reading it
I canât stop staring at it
Itâs beautiful absurdist art
Sadly, the Wikipedia article on falafel (like the one on hummus) is under active arbitration remedies because it relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Although the article on tahini doesnât seem to be nearly so contentious. So maybe tahini for peace will work after all!
If Chik-fil-a starts charging me for honeyâŚoh thatâs going to be a dark dark day.
of course at the going price for honey I wouldnât be that upset by itâŚI mean thatâs why 90% of the time itâs behind the counter
Sure, thereâs laughs to be had at the crazy.
I just canât help but wonder if itâs the feeling of powerlessness as our government, investments, future all seem to be spiraling out of reach that is at the root of many of these seemingly random flip outs.
Maybe weâre all Falling Down?
I mean, all yâall, not me. Iâm a perfectly happy and functional member of society #NSAHappyFun
People have been losing their shit for stupid shit since the dawn of time, man. We now just have the internets to report it.
I suspect that attempting to alleviate anxiety over starkly limited agency is as old or older than humanity (see also: any ritual/religious/magical attempt to propitiate the spirits/ensure favorable weather/manage disease or fertility, or just about anything else you can think of, which definitely stretch back to the dawn of recorded history, and seem quite likely to have just been practiced by illiterate people before that point. Some evo-psych research team is probably demonstrating magical thinking in great apes as we speak).
That said, it isnât exactly a novel thesis that modernity is surprisingly bad in terms of anxiety and uncertainty with respect to agency (especially when you consider that itâs pretty much the best time in history in terms of having actual power over the world and your fate. Shove over Asclepius, and take 1x 250mg Azithromycin daily, one of these two things will make your throat feel betterâŚ) It wouldnât surprise me if a combination of powerlessness (combined with the substantial effectiveness of the modern nation state in curbing serious violence, relative to historical levels), makes for a lot of fodder for the âwacky hijinksâ file.
Manager of a Jasonâs Deli actually wanted to charge me for an extra pat of butter. And that was after my bill had been rung up and paid for by credit card. Never went back. He lost a customer over 3¢ of butter. Filled out a customer response card and dropped it in the box, but never heard anything back, so he, or someone at the store, was removing any unflattering responses.
You make some good points, fuzzyfungus. I would say a couple of things. The pace of change is, I would argue, near an historical high. We have a new task in just keeping up with this change.
And then, yes, in many ways we live lives that would be the envy of ye olde monarchs, but for every penicillin, thereâs antibiotic resistance. My local market has an astounding array of food, but itâs production may not be sustainable in a warming world. The internet makes these conversations possible, and also the global surveillance state. You get a free frogurt, but the frogurt contains sodium benzoate (thatâs bad).
So itâs not that we donât have agency or a lot of things we didnât used to, itâs that all those things now come with strings attached.
ha! just wait until you see itâs honey sauce and not just honey. Well, maybe itâs just Popeyeâs with the sauce version of honey
Oh, Iâd be the last to argue that modernity is psychologically healthy (and Iâve got the fancy shrink and wall of carefully selected prescription anxiolytics to prove it), I just find it ironic that the âfeelings of powerlessnessâ/âactual powerlessnessâ ratio of modernity is so high, even though the value of âactual powerlessnessâ in modern societies is so low. This affirms the theory that we are churning out really significant âfeelings of powerlessnessâ numbers, faster than we are lowering âactual powerlessnessâ; but itâs always struck me as sort of interesting.
People have long been sucking up to imaginary deities, and just plain drinking themselves shitfaced at every opportunity, but for most of that time theyâve also been subject to what we would think of as harrowing levels of powerlessness(rightsless subjects of god king/one bad harvest away from famine, infant mortality in the 30+ percent range, some trivial little infection could be the death of you, etc, etc, etc.)
