Yeah, the husband of one of my SO’s cousins on her mother’s side used to threaten their teenage son with signing him up for German citizenship (he would have been eligible, long story) if he didn’t behave. Worked, too.
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My BFF has an Austrian grandmother (I guess technically her father, too, since he was born in Austria, but they moved here when he was a toddler, I think, so he grew up in the states)… You don’t call her German!
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I brought my copy home from work when we went home in 2020. It sat there accusing the real world and hasn’t been opened since.
Pale horse, pale rider was a better predictor
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I just filled up at the Costco station for $1/gallon cheaper gas than at any of the usual gas stations I passed to get there.
Plus, I get yearly cash back in two different ways, which has always added up to more than the annual membership fee by quite a margin.
You don’t have to buy the mega-sized stuff to benefit.
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By definition!
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But my gold might go bad on me.
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[Mount Etna Spews Volcanic Vortex Rings Into Italy’s Sky - The New York Times (nytimes.com)]
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He should have run in the opposite direction and jumped on the Orient Point Ferry. Noob.
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Chris Lowe has always been pretty coy about his sexuality, but who cares. It doesn’t make PSB any less of a gay icon.
Funny aside. I first saw PSB in 2009. I noticed that tons of people were using some social networking app I had never seen before with this loud yellow/orange color scheme. A few weeks later I saw an ad for Grindr on the Apple App Store and that’s when I realized what everybody was using.
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A broken elevator at a Denver housing development is being operated by a man standing on the roof.
I just read through the article and it’s actually worse… the technician is on top of the elevator, and asking riders which floor they want to go to… 
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I ordered chili fries in a ‘British’ pub in Japan last week. The two bar staff found it highly amusing when the gaijin then proceeded to eat this using chopsticks - I’m with Wondermark on this one!
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Meet Cnemaspis vangoghi:
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Hmm, One box is behaving weirdly for tumblr. That’s a bunch of memes compared to old photos.
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So it might make sense to explain a bit about why a link is worth clicking, or otherwise helpfully comment for us on it, instead of just dumping it by itself?
Hmm, maybe this mishap could be seen as an opportunity!
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French woman found dead in Italian church was searching for ghosts in possible Tik Tok stunt, police say
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/world/aosta-italy-french-woman-dead-scli-intl/index.html?
Police believe the victim could have been attempting to carry out a TikTok stunt, adding that her death could be related to a ghost hunting competition being played in France on the social media platform. The other working theories are that it was a “consented murder” or sacrifice, or an attempt to carry out a social media prank in the deconsecrated church. Police are still searching for a young man who was seen with her. There are also two other missing persons cases in the area which police say could be related.
According to the spokeswoman, the victim and a male friend had been seen in the area dressed “like vampires.” A witness interviewed by police say the young woman was pale and “emaciated” and the man had dark hair and olive skin. The witness told police investigators that she looked like a “walking corpse.”
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WTF?
An example described in the article is in the UK, and no one seems to have been (physically) hurt. Of course in the US, this is a great way to get shot.
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