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TIL my city has a sex doll brothel. Do I even want to know how they hired their sex doll sanitation workers? :wtf:

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muse wrote: 2023-11-25 02:36pm TIL my city has a sex doll brothel. Do I even want to know how they hired their sex doll sanitation workers? :wtf:
Worker, actually. It's just Andrew McCarthy and a squeegee, and he talks to them while he works.

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TIL that tradesmen will blame each other if at all possible.
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TIL of all days through TikTok that George W. Bush was born in Connecticut. Sonuva bitch ain't even from Texas.
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Edit: Oopse
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
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TIL it wasn't her baby after all, but her colleague's. And according to her the loose clothing she was wearing in her pictures which would have concealed any baby bump is just how they dress in Bangladesh.
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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2023-12-03 01:24pm TIL it wasn't her baby after all, but her colleague's. And according to her the loose clothing she was wearing in her pictures which would have concealed any baby bump is just how they dress in Bangladesh.
Ah.. is that it. Okay then. Not sure what to believe but ok.
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TIL (from a colleague who has recently returned from a holiday in Poland) that Auschwitz...has a gift shop.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-03 05:16pm
EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2023-12-03 01:24pm TIL it wasn't her baby after all, but her colleague's. And according to her the loose clothing she was wearing in her pictures which would have concealed any baby bump is just how they dress in Bangladesh.
Ah.. is that it. Okay then. Not sure what to believe but ok.
Her exact words:
Hi! How are you? Have you been stalking me? Not in the right direction though! I don't have any baby!😂
That's how we dress up. We call it modesty 😅😅
She is still in the UK, she'd only been here a couple of months when we met on Tinder. For any Coronation Street fans reading this, she had a voice like Alina :lol:
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TIL that one of my colleagues, a Welshman living in Wales, is a full-on Fox-koolaid-drinking, "he did nothing wrong" Trumper. I...I have no idea how to process the sheer weirdness of this.
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TIL that I need to buy more thermal underwear if I continue to work for the bookmobile.
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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2023-12-04 02:03pm
Hi! How are you? Have you been stalking me? Not in the right direction though! I don't have any baby!😂
That's how we dress up. We call it modesty 😅😅
She could be bullshitting you, but the Bangladesh thing makes it feel more legit IMHO. Dressing "modestly" is self-defense in some areas there, I know a girl with a seriously metal-looking scar from some religious incel throwing acid in her face when she was a teenager.

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Yesterday, I went to a stoner party.
TIL it's theoretically possible to be high from the moment I wake up in the morning to when I fall asleep at night.
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TIL Making two bundt cakes in one night is not something I should be doing anymore.

Also, Hot toddies should have more than 1/2 cup water in them.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-10 07:01pm Also, Hot toddies should have more than 1/2 cup water in them.
Depends on the size of your hot toddie and (if applicable) how sick you are, doesn't it? I know alcohol dampens the immune system, but the ones I made when the Fall Plague was circulating back in college definitely made me feel better short-term.

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Raw Shark wrote: 2023-12-10 10:57pm
LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-10 07:01pm Also, Hot toddies should have more than 1/2 cup water in them.
Depends on the size of your hot toddie and (if applicable) how sick you are, doesn't it? I know alcohol dampens the immune system, but the ones I made when the Fall Plague was circulating back in college definitely made me feel better short-term.
I definitely felt better short-term, nice little buzz off it, but it really didn't help long-term.
Spent most of the night tossing and turning again, in between croup-coughing fits. All I need is a blood-stained hankie and I could be a Tragic Victorian Heroine.

But... I'm going in. I will be masking up.
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Today I learned that Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by Coconut Crabs after her plane disappeared.

Ironically, I learned about it in a thread discussion about Cocunuts, and how humans evolved from animals that already knew what was safe to eat (vs those stupid 'shout out to the first humans that ate....' threads/topics/memes).

As if those things weren't creepy enough....
I've been asked why I still follow a few of the people I know on Facebook with 'interesting political habits and view points'.

It's so when they comment on or approve of something, I know what pages to block/what not to vote for.
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TIL what Hanlon's razor is.
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Solauren wrote: 2023-12-13 06:32pm Today I learned that Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by Coconut Crabs after her plane disappeared.
Ironically, I learned about it in a thread discussion about Cocunuts, and how humans evolved from animals that already knew what was safe to eat (vs those stupid 'shout out to the first humans that ate....' threads/topics/memes).
As if those things weren't creepy enough....
Bullshit. Emilia Earheart either got abducted by aliens and transplanted to the Delta Quadrant (Star Trek: Voyager) or crashed near Chicago (Fallout:Tactics). Neither of which mentions coconut crabs :P
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Batman wrote: 2023-12-16 07:52pm
Solauren wrote: 2023-12-13 06:32pm Today I learned that Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by Coconut Crabs after her plane disappeared.
Ironically, I learned about it in a thread discussion about Cocunuts, and how humans evolved from animals that already knew what was safe to eat (vs those stupid 'shout out to the first humans that ate....' threads/topics/memes).
As if those things weren't creepy enough....
Bullshit. Emilia Earheart either got abducted by aliens and transplanted to the Delta Quadrant (Star Trek: Voyager) or crashed near Chicago (Fallout:Tactics). Neither of which mentions coconut crabs :P
I personally like the theory she landed somewhere, and she and her navigator ran off together, but, let's face facts, Coconut Crabs eating her dead body post crash is much more likely. The others are along the same lines of possible as a billionaire dressing up as a Bat and using high tech gadgets to fight crime.
I've been asked why I still follow a few of the people I know on Facebook with 'interesting political habits and view points'.

It's so when they comment on or approve of something, I know what pages to block/what not to vote for.
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Batman wrote: 2023-12-16 07:52pm
Solauren wrote: 2023-12-13 06:32pm Today I learned that Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by Coconut Crabs after her plane disappeared.
Ironically, I learned about it in a thread discussion about Cocunuts, and how humans evolved from animals that already knew what was safe to eat (vs those stupid 'shout out to the first humans that ate....' threads/topics/memes).
As if those things weren't creepy enough....
Bullshit. Emilia Earheart either got abducted by aliens and transplanted to the Delta Quadrant (Star Trek: Voyager) or crashed near Chicago (Fallout:Tactics). Neither of which mentions coconut crabs :P
Season 2, episode 1 to be precise :mrgreen:

The one where Torres does not know shit when she sees it :lol:
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TIL the actual pronunciation of "indictment", and its origin.
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TIL someone made a jiggle physics mod for Minecraft.

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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-01-02 10:06pm TIL the actual pronunciation of "indictment", and its origin.
Actual origins or what ever folk origin they're pushing for an agenda?
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OG Lara Croft didn't look THAT bad. But then my baseline is the 8 bit era...
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'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
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