I hate to defend Trump on anything, but that’s a reasonable use of “ironic” in that he’s talking about an outcome which (to his point of view) is counter to expectations.

Scumbag. Can’t wait to see him try this in an actual courtroom. [Oops. sorry. Didn’t notice this was tucked away in the other roundup.]

No, the “smoky eye” is not “her lazy eye look”, and you are being insulting to both of them by saying that it was. Wolf said she had “the perfect smoky eye”; she was praising her make-up. The reason the joked worked (for the people who understood it) was the mechanism: the feed of praise, sharply pivoting into a moral…

Thanks! It still seems strange that there isn’t a panel. It doesn’t have to be all of Congress producing pardoning decisions instead (and tbf I think the size of Congress would be an illusory multiplication, since it’s effectively just two parties in there). What’s strange to me is that you have a Supreme Court,…

Can anyone give me a decent argument in favour of the right of US presidents to unilaterally pardon whomever they wish? It’s a kind of bittersweet cute with the turkeys. It’s nice when ordinary members of the public get pardons for low-level drug offences that disproportionately ruin their lives. But couldn’t a panel…

Completely the other way around for me. That was the one ray of light in her dark story, that she has successfully compartmentalised the YouTube bullshit away from her own identity and reality. For a nine-year-old, that’s about the best perspective you can hope for. Once she’s a teenager, I expect she’ll understand…

I also don’t understand the stance that says: “Oh, so you tried to kill me? Well then, I will sue you”

You pretty much have to. It’s in joint first place with “what people do” in the chart of Things For Which You Can Fault People.

The demands for parity are an infuriating waste of time.

This video would be pretty much perfect evidence if not for the moron shouting, “Stop resisting!” — a gift for the police’s lawyers in the courtroom.

???

A year later and I have been invited to ‘brieing parties’

This reminds me of videos of people throwing themselves to the ground in front of slow-moving cars at crossings for the insurance. Which is to say, I think that’s exactly what he’s doing. He’s trying to get an assault charge by harassing people he thinks are not white, who he also thinks won’t actually seriously wound…

In that case, except for the indigenous tribes, the USA has no food.

And yet you’re the person who wants to characterise this as a hearing loss problem. There is no way half of the readers of this site have hearing loss so severe that it cuts right down into the frequencies of the body of speech in the 100Hz-3000Hz range. Those people hearing “Laurel” would already know they had a…

It’s almost like I heard all these sources with the same ears

It seems to be an equipment thing rather than a hearing thing. It’s “Laurel” on my phone’s speaker (shit), and “Yanny” (well, “Yammy”, in truth) on my laptop speaker (so-so) and my studio monitors and monitoring headphones (excellent).

No, as a foreigner, I don’t know exactly what has to happen to change your system. I never said that you’d have to have the populous vote for it in a general election or that it would be an election promise; that was something you introduced in your arguments. I expected it would be handled by the representatives,…

Can’t win, don’t try. Exactly what I was talking about.