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EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2025-12-29 05:22pm Was it an actual fight or the result of a sliding tackle that connected studded boot to groin?

Raw Shark wrote: 2026-01-02 11:27pm

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2025-12-29 05:22pm Was it an actual fight or the result of a sliding tackle that connected studded boot to groin?

The latter. It was a comedy/tragedy of errors that ended with us in a three guy pile-up. I still felt bad.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-01-04 09:21am What happened to the third guy?

aerius wrote: 2026-01-09 11:10pm TIL a Canadian private equity firm owns an online porn empire. Pornhub, xTube, Brazzers, Redtube and a bunch of other porn studios and online porn sites are all owned by a company called, get this, Ethical Capital Partners.

muse wrote: 2026-02-08 05:28pm TIL there are naked pictures of Angela Merkel in the Epstein files.
The late Silvio Berlusconi wasn't lying when he said she was "unfuckable".

Raw Shark wrote: 2026-02-09 12:29am

muse wrote: 2026-02-08 05:28pm TIL there are naked pictures of Angela Merkel in the Epstein files.
The late Silvio Berlusconi wasn't lying when he said she was "unfuckable".

I dunno, I'd give her a chance. I'm impressed by strong will. How bad could it be? (Consensual) Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad it's at least okay.

muse wrote: 2026-04-11 07:36pm TIL my education was paid for with proceeds from crime. My master's degree sponsor was doing extracurricular work for an unlawful organization then laundering the money through various educational programs, one of which helped pay for my degree.

The five-second epistemology of "who dis"

True story, or true enough to be told the way all good CIA stories are told, which is mostly.

Sana’a, mid-2000s. A junior CIA analyst is sitting in a room on the second floor of a building that is technically not a CIA building, across a desk from a local contact who technically does not know the analyst is CIA. The contact is a young man with a phone and a cousin in Saada. The analyst is drinking tea he does not like because the tea is the price of admission. The analyst is holding a yellow legal pad. The contact is trying to tell the analyst about a movement in the northern highlands that has been gathering strength since the first Saada war and is now organized enough to have a name. The analyst wants the name. The analyst wants the name because the cable back to Langley has a blank field labeled group designation and the field needs filling.

The contact says: Ansarallah.

The analyst does not look up from the legal pad. The analyst says: Who’s that?

The contact, whose English is functional but not native, whose ear for American English is formed by watching dubbed reruns of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on a satellite feed his uncle runs out of a shop in Sadah, hears the question and thinks the analyst is asking him to repeat the name. He repeats the name. He says it slightly slower, slightly louder, the way you say a name to a foreigner who has not heard it before. He says:

Who dis.

The analyst writes it down. Who dis. Spells it H-O-U-T-H-I because that is what who dis sounds like when an American is writing Arabic phonetically with a Bic pen on a yellow legal pad in a room with a ceiling fan. The analyst thinks huh, that’s a funny name, must be tribal. The analyst circles it twice. The analyst writes tribal movement, northern highlands, Zaidi, anti-government next to the circle. The cable goes out that night. The cable hits the Langley desk the next morning. The desk officer who reads the cable has never been to Yemen. The desk officer files Houthi in the database. The database becomes the State Department brief. The State Department brief becomes the Reuters style guide. The Reuters style guide becomes every wire story every reporter has ever written about the group for the next twenty years.

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-04-25 12:01pm It's also bollocks. The Houthis are named after the actual tribe.