+1 for the Mongo reference. The Sheriff is a Ni!

I know folks who claim to watch Real Housewives (almost none of whom are actually housewives) ironically, but if you deign to speak aloud during an episode, you get shouted down. I want to think that anyone watching these morons is doing the same; however ...

If these jabronies have 700k+ followers, that’s not being…

This is legitimately the punchline to an episode of Family Ties. Anyone else remember Skippy search for his “real” parents and then realizing that his real parents were the ones who gave him a loving him and raised him to be a good kid? That wasn’t a story that adopted kids needed to hear, it was for all of their…

They sent him upstairs to his room with his basketball and he was never seen or heard from again.

I’ve been arguing something similar WRT the armed protests that took place in various state capitals just a week or two ago. They go marching in, strapped for action, but they cover their faces. Is it because it looks cool?

Holy hell, I LOVE the COVID Contrails tin foil hat theory. That is awesome.

I had a somewhat-related idea (maybe these are separate ideas) a while back. It requires all the reporters to cooperate, but it has a handful of ways it could be implemented.

1) Reporter asks question. If answered (even if answer is stupid), then next reporter asks new question. Continue until new question is not…

Fit? The MR2 not up to the task of a parts run?
(Now AA gets to wonder who’s stalking her. LOL) 

I’ll jump in for a quick conversation, if you don’t mind. (By all accounts, your responses thus far seem pretty even-keeled.)

The WHO recorded the first outbreak of the virus in Wuhan province in December 2019. (I’m happy to be corrected if I’ve got my admittedly very flexible dates wrong here.)

They officially…

I totally would. Even better, I’d get my friend with a flatbed to tow me around for a few minutes so I can make a loop.

Took a picture inside my car and made it my background. I think it turned out pretty well! (No, I haven't taken a call with the sunglasses on yet, I was just testing it out.)

Yes, the President* - who wasn’t in the building for any of the impeachment proceedings - couldn’t respond to a building health crisis because he had to be ...not in the building during impeachment proceedings. What the absolute shit.

Yeah, if my boss is working on my annual review, I certainly have to stop doing my…

And after getting called out on yet another tantrum, he actually (finally!) used the DPA as intended:

Oh, 100%. There’s almost no way to account for testing (being done, or access to supplies, or if the government is reporting it accurately). You gotta work with the numbers you have. Hopefully they all have the same bias. In reality? Some countries are absolutely under-reporting and that could have implications…

In a former life, I worked in a group of epidemiologists, statisticians, and actuaries. I’m not one (I’m a corporate finance guy and data nerd), but I speak their language well enough to get by. That said ...

It’s important to look at the absolute number of cases for reasons like ordering ventilators. You need to know…

The lighting, O Lord, the lighting. I mention this to coworkers and they look at me like I’m nuts. I had a call yesterday where one of the participants had their back to a big window. It was having a shadow on the call. Then today, someone actually said, “Let me move closer to the light,” which I thought was a fine…

I look forward to the livestream of your funeral, you glorious bastard.

Also how likely is if the “real world” we are seeing is really “real”. To me it looks almost to cyberpunk and gritty to me. I’m wondering if it’s somehow just another park, future world.

I would beat this like a rented mule and love very minute of it. I adore the looks and I want more of it. Someone gimme a burlap sack with a dollar sign on it so I can go buy one.

I think he’s just paraphrasing from Denis Leary’s “Asshole”.