Take a drink everytime the Apple TV guy says the Jays "control their own destiny" *dies of alcohol poisoning*

My daughter's school had student council elections today, with two candidates, 1 boy and 1 girl. The girl had a good speech with lots of good ideas, but the boy only had a few dumb ideas. The boy won because he said "6 7" at the end. Did she learn any lessons from this? "Yeah, people are STUPID"

Post a concert photo you took

What weird thing is wrong with me now? For a few months, I haven't been able to taste anything (though I can still smell just fine) Sometimes this happens, but only for a few days, not months. Is it because I had to drink some radioactive goop when I had thyroid cancer, years ago? The doctor: 🤷

Is it that time again already?

I broke the screen on my laptop, so now I'm trying to migrate everything to a different laptop, which is a bit difficult since I can't see most of the broken screen. 1/10 would not recommend

Cool. Cool cool cool

My daughter got this shirt for her birthday and it's the most hilarious thing she's ever seen. I don't get it but I appreciate the absurdity

Cats or Phantom of the Opera soundtracks

I've never seen this before! I don't know about the fashion stuff but the rest of it is amazing. I've actually never seen any Gene Kelly movies except Singing in the Rain

I have three pillows, one that is too hard, one that is too soft, and one in between that is NOT just right. They need to be arranged in a certain order for me to be able to sleep, but which order? It's a new adventure every night. Sometimes I'll wake up again and have to change them around

I got a free trial of the premium version of Academia dot ee dee you, but...it's pretty much exactly the same? What would I even be paying for?

My daughter's class went to see a local production of Newsies today, and everyone went crazy over the "barbershop haircut that costs a quarter" line, which is apparently a meme for kids that age

Today's movie I've never seen before is: Marathon Man Pretty good, very 70s. I was vaguely aware there was something involving teeth but I was not prepared for that part

A Chuckie III dime, neat

An opinion that I didn't know was controversial, but apparently is at least in some corners of the Internet, is that you don't need macrons to read Latin, and you shouldn't become dependent on them (they will take hold of you and you will regret their absence)

Finally watching Napoleon (2023) It's going on the list of Movies That Don't Understand the Size of the Pyramids. The pyramid seems to be the right size in the background, but oops actually it's tiny and in the immediate foreground (and he blows off the top of it?!)

I want to block the word Kirk but I can't, just in case anyone makes any funny memes about Jim or Sam Kirk. This is my burden

Helping my son with his world history homework and I've already complained about errors in the text book numerous times. Meh, it's good enough for high school I guess

Canadian legal drama "This Is Wonderland" (technically it has 3 seasons but there are only 39 episodes)

Orelvis Martinez implies the existence of Xorelvis, Norelvis, Xnorelvis, Andelvis, Nandelvis, and Notelvis Martinez

Everything was fine and it was a false alarm, but at the end of the day five or six fire trucks sped past here toward the school, and thanks to the date and, uh...things in general...I did have a brief moment of worry

My daughter had to pick a book to read at school and she (apparently randomly) picked The Hobbit! I've never been more excited! When I was her age I had read that and Fellowship. My teacher also read Fellowship to the class, and sang all of Tom Bombadil's songs. Her teacher could never be that cool

Hmm, an interesting freelance translation offer... "Should you be available and interested in participating in this project, please inform us at your earliest convenience via TELEGRAM" bah, obvious scam is obvious

Good thing I saved this image

The kids are in their "steak for every meal" era. I guess they didn't know we're in a cost of living crisis, but ok

I could put up with all the dumb stuff about Duolingo, the hearts, the AI, whatever...it was still fun and I felt like I was learning a lot. I had a 2200 day streak! But now it switched to energy that runs out during a lesson and it's completely unusable

nice #learnedleague

Strange New Worlds...we know it's there, you've got to do it. Show us the bowling alley

Might fuck around and learn to play the drums

My wife asked if Muslim pirates really used to enslave Europeans and I'm like errr...yes, but *extra large grimace face emoji* if you're reading about it on these here internets there's no way that person is making a legitimate good faith argument!!

Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."

There were three great history teachers in high school: Miss Meckbach, Mr. Young, and Mr. Ruypers (the one who dressed up as Voltaire as I mentioned earlier). Meckbach and Ruypers were more modern stuff, but Mr. Young's class was the first time I ever studied the crusades

What if, instead of staring blankly at the page for weeks at a time and then suddenly being able to write a ton all at once, I was just able to write consistently every day? Crazy I know

One of my high school history teachers dressed up as Voltaire on the first day of school every year, acted surprised about modern technology, etc. In one of his classes, all the students had to do the same, pretend to be a historical figure and give a presentation about them

This week's Strange New Worlds once again borders on being way too goofy. It's tonally all over the place but it was laugh-out-loud funny a few times

Turns out it's very hard to take a photo or video inside a giant waterfall

Pilgrimage to the grave of noted Canadian heroine and chocolate/ice cream store namesake Laura Secord

An old Commodore PET that was discarded from the school board when they upgraded to something newer (about 1988 probably?) I learned to code games in BASIC and saved them on the cassette drive

A few years ago my fasting blood glucose was something like 22 mmol/L. I know different places measure that differently, but in Canada, it should be at most 6, so that was like 3-4 times too high. My blood was molasses! So I tried to eat right and be more active, and I lost weight and felt better.

I think I've watched most of the things that Monty Python members have been in, except, somehow, today's Movie I've Never Seen Before: A Fish Called Wanda

I was watching Star Trek Generations and my wife wondered how Worf knew how swim. "Well the Klingon planet probably has water." "Hmm, yeah." "Also he was raised by humans." "Oh?" "Yeah one time he headbutted a kid to death playing soccer." "???"

I've unlocked the "crazy person writing conspiracy theories on my Academia page" achievement

All my life I thought I only knew one Bonnie Raitt song (obviously, Something To Talk About). But in fact it turns out I know THREE Bonnie Raitt songs (also Have A Heart and Love Sneakin Up On You)

There are a lot of original series Star Trek episodes I've never seen. I know all the plots, I've read all about them, but I've never actually watched them all

I ordered a book and accidentally set the shipping address to a place I haven't lived in 15 years

My usual beer of choice is Leffe, a Belgian abbey beer that I found when we lived in France. It has "subtle notes of cloves", but did it always have that flavour? It was first made in 1240, apparently. At that time, the only place you could get cloves was the Moluccas in Indonesia.

It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion

Give us a 52-star American flag you COWARDS