Hey, remember that time ICE was under attack with artillery or other explosives? No doubt led by Field Marshall Walz. Buy War Bonds!

I don’t know why Iran would be more credible. Counting Israel, the three regimes are all infamous and world-class liars. If we can’t trust the word on any of them in isolation, trusting one over another would be madness.

I looked this up, and honestly pretty tame.

one of the stories:

Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.

Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.

The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.

EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter

Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben (“The Story of the Inky Boys”): Nikolas (or “Agrippa” in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.

Based.

For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks. Like kidnapping babies and replacing them with mimics. The creature we’d recognize as the Headless Horseman is Irish folklore, as well as the whole concept of Halloween. Bram Stoker, an Irishman need not have borrowed from Eastern European traditions, because the Irish had a bloodsucking undead monster too.

Every time I see a white dude pilot on my flight I get a little nervous. I hope he’s qualified and not just here because his uncle owns the airline.

The Earth’s population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. I’m pretty sure we’re not quite endangered yet. I’ll also point out that poor countries that tend to spawn brown players are well above replacement levels if you count those as people.

You know that when a pig catches charges, they must have done something indefensible. That’s because you know that the other pigs, prosecutors, and judges are doing everything they can to defend it.

AI slop.

The lid is wildly bigger than the seat, and not aligned in any way either. It’s also interesting that the seat is hinged in the back, and fused with porcelain in the front.

Air defense weapons are “provocative”? That’s like a rapist saying it’s provocative for women to buy pepper spray.

it’s pretty trivial to avoid a nation’s air defenses. Effortless in fact.

Pirated games have almost always been a superior experience. Games companies hate their customers almost as much as they hate their employees.

I’ll just point out that monotheism creates some interesting and silly problems too. The Pegans can just assign fertility to a female god for example. Without that option, monotheists have to shoehorn the concept of fertility and birth into the patriarch god.

This is the genesis of the idea of men’s spunk being referred to as a “seed”. It was “common sense” in Western civilization from Roman times to the 18th Century that sperm contained fully-formed little people. Women were just the dirt where you planted those little guys. The inventor of the microscope studied sperm first. And he fully expected to find homoculi in his spunk.

Meanwhile the “primitive” people’s of the world would have found this to be insane. Babies come from women, stupid.

Their is an old joke from Ireland, during The Troubles.

A man drives up to a checkpoint and the guard in the balaclava and holding an FAL asks: are you a Catholic or a Protestant? (this would reveal your allegiance to the Republicans or the Loyalists).

The man answers: I’m and atheist.

The rifleman responds: Yes, yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

This is funny to the heretic because we’re still culturally attached to our sect. I read the book; I sat in the pews; I sang the songs. I’m a Protestant atheist and that Catholic shit will always be foreign and weird.

Went camping at Olympic once. I was not ready for banana slugs.

The pawn business is so exploitative, but they’re heroes compared to payday lenders.

The only problem is that someone will win. A better idea would be a race to the Titanic wreck.

This would almost be funny if the sign wasn’t intended as double-entendre in the fist place.

Perfection. Best part is that it fits the meter so well, the song plays in your head.