“If I told you once, Chris, I told you a thousand times: slaves go in the other direction.”

Wow, imagine if Quentin Tarantino mixed up “film” and “firm”: “hello HR? Yes, the entire company.”

get their plates and a photo

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs. Doubtful that the truck had a valid registration/license plate with a traceable address.

I used to disc golf with a dude who had multiple DUIs and finally went to jail for it for 18 months. The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

Cop tried bumping the truck on a fucking two-lane road with a car coming the opposite way. Holy Cheez-its.

My small (~100 employee) company that had nothing to with hardware got bought by a somewhat larger (~1500) mostly-Finnish company that was sort of a competitor with the much larger Cisco. Cisco bought that company and six months later laid off all of us except the C-suite types. I occasionally still talk to my manager who is still with Cisco and he says everyone he interacts with there is so far removed from any consideration of products or profits or that sort of thing that it never even comes up in casual conversation. I asked him what he actually does now and he said “I have no idea”.

My favorite memory of that six months was the mandatory security training, which consisted of a series of badly-animated shorts featuring talking bears and a narrator who was clearly ready to kill himself over having to say “personally-identifiable information” over and over and over again.

TBF we (the US) were technically neutral prior to December 1941 but we traded like crazy with the British and engaged in all sorts of neutrality violations like repairing British warships in US ports. Hell, Lend-Lease was us just straight up giving war materiel to Britain and the USSR. We were even fighting a de facto war with Germany in the Atlantic.

How do we know that car isn’t being removed by the TSA?

How does he smell?

It’s Iran’s terrority, and Iran is defending it after being attacked…

Reminds me of an old cartoon. Teacher is separating two boys who were fighting and says “Billy, who started the fight?” Billy answers “Tommy started it! He hit me back!”

The current trend is to imprison corrupt dictators

The current trend is to let them keep golfing and selling their merch.

He’d flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia before seeing any jail time in the US – not that I expect any of those outcomes. Just as a point of interest: Idi Amin lived the remainder of his syphilis-ridden life in Saudi Arabia after he was deposed in Uganda.

You show me a dictatorship and I’ll show you a boat filled with penis-shaped potatoes.

Speaking as a bald man, I would like to have his hair. For bonus points, it would be kinda fun to watch it being taken from him.

But can we trust him?

A pocket square without a tie? At least he buttoned his jacket while standing.

My main beef with “folks” is when politicians use it instead of “people” to give off a fake down-homey vibe.

My most-hated blather expression is “going forward”, as in “we’re going to do a better job going forward”. Just completely unnecessary when used with verbs in future tense – which is the only time it’s ever used. I hate it almost as much as “folks”.

do they offer coffee in the fellowship room

What kept me going to Sunday School as a kid was the donuts. Also my parents making me go.

“I have a tendency to be too honourable.”

Lol I used to say something like that in response to the dreaded “what is your biggest weakness?” interview question. “Sometimes I care too much.”

I think it’s particularly hilarious that for all the talk of tradition, the house of “Windsor” was a name chosen during WWI, barely more than a century ago. The original name was “Saxe-Coburg and Gotha”, but somewhat awkwardly German bombers built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik and popularly known as “Gothas” happened to be dropping explosives on London.