this is special kinja

wait, how do you figure? I thought SoE has been slowly getting more prolific. did i miss something nefarious?

just sent this to my german-speaking friend and he’s saying the subtitles are not true translations of the german, but that they are part of the meta-on-meta-on-meta joke

otherwise known as the Josh Lyman!

christ you’re right

my god, that sounds awful. that’s making me rethink any and all public farts I’ve let slip on the sly.

kinda-sorta seems like a riff on Elegy for a Dead World

exactly!

my thought was that the woman was dared by her friends to say this (or she lost a bet)

Well, here’s the tricky part: if you do a subtle match/compliment, it looks great. If she’s, say, wearing a red dress and you go with a red vest and red pocket square and red tie...then, yeah, prom. You’re not going to piss anyone off if you’re not coordinated in any way, but small touch (a lapel flower, a patterned…

god you can hear the guy’s voice get that nervous quaver after Pop rejects the line of beard questions

bump

absolutely OK with this.

OMG GET THIS GUY TO RE-DUB PLANET EARTH

“what the fuck is that, kid” dying.

why not both? if that throw comes in anywhere else, it’s a 50/50 play at best. the runner didn’t even pretend to contest the call when he got up. it was perfect all around.

especially with a light/unlined tie.

sometimes with a loose/unlined tie I with the double four in hand.

i’d be down for our society to take a crack at absolutism

polite disagreement: sometimes a single tie is calling out to me from the closet, and I find something to work around. usually it’s the other way around though (the first step being: what is clean/ironed)