Martial law it is then. Welcome to China.

Indeed, “Asmara” doesn’t seem much of a stretch—first syllabe included. If people can manage “Astrid”, “Aspen”, or, well, “asshole”, it should be an easy hurdle to clear.

I thought an initial recount of events leading to the attack said that the car had been dented with bats before it was driven into the crowd, hence The Tao’s comment.

I was hoping your name was Nestor! I’ve always really liked that name. I know it’s Greek but I’ve only ever met two Nestors and they both came from Spanish-speaking countries.

Right. I have never not altered (or translated) my name to make it more pronounceable in whichever country I happened to be living. And it was no big deal to me. But I’m not attached to my name (it gets mispronounced in English, too, a lot — only because there is a more common variant: I don’t correct that, either);…

Chadwick needn’t move so far.

I got over this 35 years ago (I’m 40).

Voting for war is something people don’t want on their record for reelection so congress has basically gifted total military power to the president because they are afraid of committing to anything.

Hafa adai! My grandfather was 100% Chamorro as well, and I still have a shitton of relatives in Guam. He served on the USS San Francisco at Pearl Harbor. If anything happens to my family or this beautiful island, I will never forgive any American that voted for Trump. I’ve been explaining to dumbasses ALL GODDAMNED…

My entire extended family is on Guam. They’re holding up remarkably well given the threat of nuclear annihilation is literally around the corner.

He must have felt women less biologically suited to walking on sidewalks

Do they test the music before they head out every morning? I feel that’d be important.

F your ice cream truck service. I have 3 different trucks that pass my house- A CUL DE SAC every f-ing day... 3 of them. maybe more since I’m only home on weekdays at 4:30PM. You can’t possibly sell that much ice cream every day on one single street to pay for that. Though $3.00 for a chocolate eclair is outrageous.

The residents are trying to contest the sale, but they bought the street back in 2015. It’s unlikely it will be reversed. While I can sympathize with the problem of having your street bought up from in front of your house, there are neighborhoods all over the city that charge for parking permits, and I’m kind of…

I think the impact knocked a few vowels out of his name.

He should have Czekaj’d himself before he Wzekaj’d himself.

This is my favorite part tbh

The man claims he has been running track since high school, and that he was never cut.

Dude looks like a lovechild of Leo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson.

I work in West Virginia, although it’s way up in the northern panhandle, essentially a suburb of Pittsburgh, so it’s a little bit different from the West Virginia you profiled in your other post about the state.