When I was a kid, there was a period during which I was convinced my dad was planning to kill me (or have me killed). I’d have regular nightmares about it.

I have one [non-dream] memory in particular where we were walking through Belfast on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it was pretty much empty except for us. We were walking along a path holding hands (I was like 6 or 7), and an alleyway opened to the right of me, and I thought “this is it…” and was expecting a masked gunman to come out, and for my dad to let go of my hand and step aside, his job now complete. Genuinely thought that was about to happen and almost had a panic attack. No idea why I thought that, or why I eventually stopped thinking it.

I was later diagnosed with all sorts of neuro/psych shenanigans, so I guess it was probably that. I still have intrusive thoughts, but I’ve had therapy so I’m a bit better able to manage them. CBT might do you some good if you have access to a shrink. You can even do most of it on your own, or with a bit of guidance from someone else who’s already done it.

What ever happened to ‘crazy?’

- Chris Rock

I don’t know who this is for. The show was 8 seasons and even then it felt rushed at the end, and each episode of it was close to a standard movie runtime. Then we have the spin-off shows. What exactly can get done, storywise, in even a 2 & ½ hour fillum? You’d spend the entire runtime just explaining who the fuck everyone is. And even if watching the OG show is a prerequisite, it’s still not long enough to get through more than 2 or 3 monologues.

How a PTSD-tormented vet hasn’t plugged this cunt yet is beyond me. He’s said at least a dozen things in the last 10 years that would justify it. I mean he let the fact that there were Russian bounties on US service members go completely unanswered. Nevermind the repugnant things he says about them, he lets them be the target of headhunting sociopaths because he’s too much of a fucking pussy to say a single word against Putin.

Signing up for military service under Trump is insane in the membrane.

How are the grooves made? 🤔 Like, is the wood a solid piece or does it start out as a sort of pulpy slurry?

FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒

Welp, looks like I’ll need to get myself a PS5 then.

Said no cunt ever

It’s hilarious* that no amount of child rape will move the police to do anything, but the second an errant dime jumps to the other side of the ledger, it’s mass arrests of princes and politicians.

* Horrifying

Charlie Kirk’s killer turns himself in. This cunt literally says “we got him”.

There’s some evidence/theories that the Northern Bank robbery was done to give ex-IRA members retirement funds 👀

‘Steam Store Front’ should be shortened to ‘Stormfront’. At least then no one would be shocked when they discover it’s teeming with illiterate bigots.

All I can suggest is that you report and block as much as you can. If there’s a game, like Relooted, that’s a bug light for scumbags, go to its forums when you have 10 minutes free and just report the shitstains you come across. Steam does take action sometimes.

My parents paid about that much for a SNES copy of Earthworm Jim back in the mid-90s. It was disgusting then and it’s disgusting now, despite the fact that, adjusted for inflation, that would be £140 today. I mean I don’t feel like we’re getting a 50% discount when a game costs 70 fuckin’ quid nowadays.

There’s really no reason to spend that anyway, not on PC at least. IsThereAnyDeal.com and the slightly questionable loaded.com (formerly cdkeys.com) give decent discounts even on day one (and Steam itself will eventually have it on sale, of course). Loaded isn’t like G2A, which is a credit card thief’s wonderland. It’s more like when your uncle Jim crosses the border with 40 cartons of cigarettes secreted in the wheel wells of his truck because they cost 400% less over there. I can live with that level of mischief when it comes to AAA games that take the absolute piss with their prices and their hostage DLCs. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar have not caused me a millisecond of lost sleep when I get their games for £3 six months after release from a code that was originally bundled with a new GPU. With how extremely easy it is to pirate games (something I haven’t done in nearly 20 years), I don’t feel like those larger AAA companies are meeting us half way, to say the fucking least.

If saving 5 bucks on your grocery bill is the thing that keeps your head above water… you’re probably already deep enough to meet the ghost of that OceanGate CEO.

They could cover ‘Killing in the Name’ and not change a single lyric. They just need an aura of “and that’s fine, actually” which will be provided by their TRUMP 2024 flags.

A genuinely, thoroughly reprehensible piece of human effluent. If she has kids they almost certainly hate her. Her lonely aged years will probably be the only consequence she faces for her despicable behaviour, but I guess it’s better than nothing.

Many newer fabrics don’t require ironing, or not as much of it at least. Newer washing machines and driers, as well as newer fabric softeners and detergents, seem to play a role in the non-wrinkliness of clothing, too.

I rarely own anything that would require regular ironing these days. I tend to avoid buying clothing that looks like it would be a pain in the ass to keep wrinkle-free. I guess in our parents’ era there were no such choices available.

Plastic in clothing might have circumvented the need for ironing, but of course it has brought its own issues. Plastic might be an apocalyptic death substance, or it might actually be fine to have 5% of our bodyweight to be nylon. Not sure which yet.

Why always Ivermectin? 😭 Is someone in the Trump admin on the board of directors for the manufacturer?

There are tens of thousands of not millions of medications - both for humans and animals - but they always zero in on this fucking dewormer.

Jesus Christ the racism on Steam is out of control 😔

Is our collective memory of this trope (man ties woman to train tracks) all based on one instance of it in one silent movie, or was it really as widespread a cliché as it seems to us nowadays? 🤔

“If for some reason you need to murder a woman, lure her to Texas first.” - Collin County