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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I think that’s what their saying, since coke/cocaine and coke/coca cola are both named coke because of the same chemical.

    I dunno which came first tho, far as I can tell cocaine in both drug and drink form started getting called coke around 1900-1910. The coca-cola company didn’t like the nickname, they advertised you saying the name in full, they didn’t actually copyright “coke” for coca-cola it till the 1940’s.





  • ITT: a lot of people not admitting they are American. I would fucking love to see a Xitter style country tag on some of these accounts.

    I’m American, I’ve seen these people in every state I’ve been to, I’ve seen every person who walks by them avert their eyes, I’ve seen even the most liberal of cities make homelessness illegal.

    Punching down is what America does to the world and to our own. The world making fun of how our incredibly wealthy society has a problem with extreme poverty and drugs of oblivion isn’t punching down. They not making fun of the people, they are making fun of the society that has normalized abandoning them.

    This is forcing our eyes open and making us look at ourselves in the mirror, and a lot of people consider themselves the victims in that mirror when they are moving the machine forward with their action or inaction.

    America is the only place where we say “We” and we don’t mean the other 50% of the country. Those people are mutants. No, they’re also us.



  • The only true segregation is wealth based, the last civil war had astoundingly clearly delineated lines and you still had brother killing brother. Modern war isn’t like that. It’s city by city with things totally calm 30 miles over. Moving like a cloud of death from community to community. Old grudges, family issues, bad neighbors, bad bosses, anything will get you killed.

    Not a world i want to be in, no guarantee what this place looks like after, there isn’t a good guys win scenario, we’re in an oligarchy. Maybe it’s that shit Marx talked about, but i bet it’s Gilead.










  • Karl Pilkignton is an eccentric dude, but he’s not stupid. He was head of production at XFM when he met Ricky Gervais, the person he was on screen on Idiot was part of a character he developed while doing Ricky Gervais’ radio show.

    Yeah he’s that person, the character is based on him cause Ricky and Steve Merchant found his behavior hilarious. But he was already successful when he started it, and all the shit about him not waiting to come back was for more seasons was BS. He had revenue share from the beginning, that show was stupid business for them and Sky One.

    You can see his real acting right after Idiot ended on Derek. Then he came back to Sky One to do more “Karl” work on Moaning Life. Then he did a truly scripted version of his Karl character on Sick of It.

    Trust me, he’s is and was in on it.


  • Imma be honest… It’s hard to argue with this one.

    Americans (i would type it your way but my autocorrect) like to have their cake and eat it too. We typically say, “We don’t agree with this thing” when somewhere around 50% of the country or more agrees with that thing.

    There’s a really old episode of South Park called I’m a Little Bit Country about the Iraq war and the dichotomy of political groups. Conservatives and proggressives realize they are giving eachother cover.

    Even though America always seems to do the worst thing in the world at the time, there are so many people in the country who audibly and visually don’t like it, that they get to feel like it’s being done to THEM as well.

    We Americans are both the perpetrators and the victims! We are powerless, but our voices matter! It’s all a part of the golden handcuff package that keeps most people comfortable enough to do nothing.


  • Your overall vibe, I’ve seen it too but only when someone realized they’ve been throwing their time in the bottomless pit of a disordered mind. Like a fedora on the side of a trashcan, it’s a sign someone took control of their life back.

    Seems like you might be encountering it enough in response to your responses that it’s annoyed you. Otherwise I can’t imagine any other reaction than moving on with my life.