I have a soft spot for Mr Topsy Turvy and to this day I still say “read it all about”. Absolute favourite would be either Mr Tickle or Mr Grumpy.

who had hoped anger toward Elon Musk would have faded by now

Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done. He has irreversibly associated Nazism with Tesla at the same time that cheaper and better electric vehicles are coming out of China. The only way is down and that’s not going to change until he is no longer part of Tesla and a lot of time has passed.

America borrowed a washing machine from America to troll America? I don’t get it.

I was kinda hoping the US would collapse into civil war before they helped start WW3.

Bugger.

Not to mention those fancy jet fighters that burn up on the runway and can’t fly in thunderstorms. Playing the long, long waiting game on those.

You don’t drive a car without willingness to kill

It has been a while since I’ve come across a statement that leaves me wondering how anyone came to such a disconnect with reality. Watching these mental gymnastics is making me sea sick.

I drive a car with a willingness to get from where I am to where I’m going, quickly. A comparison to a gun is just retarded: guns are killing machines because that is their sole purpose. The purpose of cars is fast transport of people and cargo.

Now, “murder” needs to show intent, and it sounds like you’re concluding anyone who is killed by a car is murdered because drivers must intend on killing someone simply because they got behind the wheel. I’m going to go ahead and assume you either a) don’t have any friends or family who drive, or, more likely, b) don’t have any friends and don’t talk to your family.

You mean beyond the ice wall that marks the edge of the disc? We’re not allowed to know /s

But I bet Putin said “thank you” when he received said plans…

Well being the cause of most of the problems certainly makes the solution easier to find.

Britan: the tan you get by standing the the English rain.

Street Fighter. It’s fantastically bad.

Huh?? If a streaming site (or any product for that matter) is free, the user is the product - be it their time, personal info, whatever. It is known and accepted that a “free” service will have a catch that allows the provider to make money.

If a user PAYS for a service it is expected that the payment is enough remuneration for there to be no strings attached. Of course companies will look for shitty ways to do shitty things to make more money, and those companies ought to be punished, generally by a reduction in customers, for their shitty behaviour.

Not sarcastic, but rereading it now I can see why you’d say that. I’m grateful for preferential voting because there were a lot of seats that had Liberal first preference majorities that swung on preference counts. I wasn’t actually aware that preferential voting came along 17 years after federation and that it was the states that gradually brought in compulsory voting… and now in wondering why, and what happened to cause us to shift away from the British model we were no doubt following beforehand. Thanks for the new rabbit hole!

This must what winning looks like.

Significantly partially. In January Dutton started to style himself after Trump, even going so far as getting tips from the GOP, after Trump’s win. However by mid-March Dutton was trying to backpedal rapidly but it was too late. Clearly not all his staff got the memo (esp Jacinta Price… oh dear) and everything he did or said could be met with a variation of “hold on, last week you were saying x”.

Also I’d like to once again say thanks to the founders that gave us compulsory, preferential voting.

It’s insane to me that the greatest threat to women is dating men

Yet men are the leading cause of death for women. You’re correct, it is absolutely insane, but until those types of men can sort out their fragile masculinity problems here we are unfortunately.

Fair enough. I find Friends to be incredibly unfunny and can’t stand sitting through a single episode. Frasier, on the other hand, I find to be pretty entertaining (until Niles and Daphne get together, then the wheels start falling off).

There’s a boardgame I would like to get the occasionally shows up on marketplace. Once I get it, it’s account deletion time.

Referring to your girlfriend that way is not very nice.

With America’s amazing track record of spending big on repairs and maintenance to infrastructure, I can see absolutely nothing going wrong with this at all.