Prepuce of Doom

I agree with you, of course. I was referring to the longest of long games (i.e., any species that doesn't figure out how to sustainably leave it's home planet is inevitably doomed to extinction) and nothing in the short term of Musk's lifespan or that of his assorted defective progeny. Headier and more complex shit than I think is appropriate for the "Elon is the late-stage capitalism/tech-bro equivalent of Forrest Gump" thread, even if that description is far kinder and more charitable than he deserves.

My grandparents retired to a home in the mountains and were on a well and septic system. In my youth, I once had three of their four toilets out of commission at the same time. Eventually had to start keeping a supply of spare wire coat hangers in my preferred shittorium.

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I'm surprised that there aren't more novelty/message t-shirts that say "Born to Shit."

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Yeah, that's the drawback with yellow - it can get weird if left outside for too long. I used to live near a sweet Volvo T-5R that was basically the color of banana cream pie due to UV damage. Funny but sad... Mrs. Doom had a 2002 2.5TS (non-turbo'ed version of the bugeye WRX wagons above) and even with a lousy automatic and far less power than a WRX, it was still a hoot to toss around. So much lighter than a contemporary car...

Someone who doesn't know any better might reasonably find themselves counting the fingers. Anyone care to admit they did that?

Ruin Earth to accelerate the need to do all his Mars shit. And I think that's honestly what bothers me the most about Musk. On an objective, abstract level, I would agree that the most pressing existential issue for humanity is to figure out how to sustainably live in places besides Earth. But he's such a goddamn shithead that it's impossible to embrace or endorse him and his shenanigans, even if I agree with what in some ways is his most basic and agreeable premise.

Speaking only for myself, I often forget what's happening when I'm at the luggage store.

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That sucks.

He's been out of the bathtub for at least 20 minutes. He's been playing basketball in his room for at least 15 minutes. I just walked past his room and he's still completely naked.

After I win the lottery and have grown tired of all the obvious ways to spend money, I will enlarge, print, and laminate this cartoon and affix a print to the front door of all my local grocery stores.

I've been curious about this general topic for a while but have been reluctant to bring it up out of a sense that the more it's discussed among the group, the more "homogenaity of process" might eventually emerge, and I didn't want to suggest that anyone had been doing anything "wrong" or "meaningfully different from the group" or whatever, mainly because I don't think there's any one superior approach, but also because I didn't want anyone to feel retroactively guilty about following a different practice. Hopefully nobody would, but as we all know by now, Rep is Serious Business. But I think that the group of us that continues to regularly play some or all of these types of daily games has gotten to the point where we're probably all pretty much set in our ways, and so there's hopefully little risk of me upsetting the apple cart. Which all brings me to my broader inquiry - what are the "guidelines" that you all tend to follow when determining what, if any, rep reaction? Mine feel pretty simple, but given that I'm the only non-rageface reaction to @Craftywidget's score above, I figured that this was a reasonable enough time to broach the topic with the rest of the group. I will always default to the most positive/favorable possible reaction when there's any possibility of ambiguity or "mixed results" across games. I give a Homer Drool for a 1 or a 2 at Wordle or a 6 or less at Quordle. I give the Devil Horns (I'm not a UT alum, so to avoid the appearance of any cultural appropriation, I prefer to Hail Satan instead) for a Wordle 3 or a Quordle 7/8. I don't feel like a Wordle 4 deserves positive recognition but I acknowledge that this is a pretty harsh criterion, so I make up for it by being a bit more liberal with my Quordle standards. I only award a Rage Face for a failure at either Wordle or Quordle and if there isn't a separate basis for a Drool or a Hail Satan. Absent unusually/obviously frustrating hieroglyphics, I don't Rage Face for any completed puzzles, only failures. Connections has never factored into my criteria because of course it shouldn't, and I also ignore the geography games and whatever other games people share here because I don't know what's good, average, or bad.

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This is a fair point, and one that I did not contemplate in my post.

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Unless you're just a completely damaged misanthrope, it's impossible to be in a bad mood after driving a classic a few miles. The enjoyment it brings to random people is infectious. Not that I don't also enjoy talking to the kinds of people who want to bench race and tell stories of the glory days to strangers in a parking lot, etc., but I especially relish the interactions with obviously non-car people who nevertheless want to strike up a conversation, tell me about who/what/when my car reminds them of, etc. My Skylark convertible was my mom's summer car for 20+ years (and the "weekend family outing" car for the summers of my childhood) and now both of my parents are gone, so there's always a sentimental undercurrent for me any time I'm driving it, so that may well color my perspective in this regard...

Hurricane Every Day But Thursday, Because That's Your Turn In The Barrel

Wilma was 2005. I lived in Miami at the time and was without power for almost 3 weeks.

I enjoyed dropping stink bombs down the stairwells of my high school during finals week.