Is there someone I could dial up to find out?
Did someone say “dial”?
Would you prefer I gave them “a ring”?
Doesn’t that involve a bell of some sort?
Asking for a friend?
Whose number is 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999?
If you guys were all students in a history class, would you enjoy an exercise based on the Kurasawa film Rashomon?
If you tried dialing that in the UK, wouldn’t you find yourself connected to the emergency services before you finished?
Don’t I think it’s a perfect framework for studying history?
Isn’t it though? Can’t I pivot to a discussion on sources, bias, and how to work through that in one’s framing of a historical narrative?
Sergio only went and won, didn’t he?
Did the Mariners really blow a 6 run lead in the 9th?
Is anyone even going to show up to the opening home game?
Are we talking about Sergio Argones?
Not Leone?
Should we go down this list?
Well isn’t that just perfect?
What is worse than waking up Tuesday thinking it is Sunday?
Thinking it is still Monday?
But, isn’t thinking it is Monday already provide some level of mental-psyche cushioning?
Don’t we expect Mondays in a corporate setting to suck?
When you think about it, what did he ever really contribute?
Heart, class, comedy, insight, human warmth, encouragement, education, a binding sense of community…
What kind of fucking arsehole values those stupid, shitty things!!!?
Not me, I for one welcome a decade without the warm embrace of the bbs superhero that was @othermichael, so won’t you quit your whining and suck it up?
Pulling out one of the spokes from your wheel because it squeaks in a way that annoys you compromises the strength of the wheel
Oiling the squeak fixes it.