The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.

Article 1, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises […]

Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

… and other fairy tales

That would be my reaction too. Who says “unsubscribe to” instead of “unsubscribe from”?

I have a sex joke, but I don’t get it

Purple? Did you misspell lavender?

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

The story I heard, and I don’t know if this is true or not, is that 100 isn’t just a human’s blood temperature, but specifically Mrs. Fahrenheit’s blood temperature.

Has Musk ever denied hiding the body of a murdered prostitute in the spacesuit that’s in the car he shot into space?

I assume that anything in slang or music that I don’t understand is either about sex or drugs.

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

They’re probably European prices, either in euros or even in pre-euro funny money.

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

Ask them for their social security number, mother’s maiden name, favorite pet, favorite teacher, high school mascot. It should start to dawn on them