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  • YOU ARE IRELAND’S ONLY FEMALE.

    Now kiss me.

    (Cuz I know I’ll get downvoted to hell if I don’t clarify, Kiss Me Kate is a Cole Potter Porter musical. You’re not sheltered if you didn’t know that; I’m just super fucking old. Srsly, I found two gray hairs the other day in my ear, and one on it.)

    Edit: typo





  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlLemmy today
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    1 month ago

    I won five grand from an online casino in 2001, and they not only paid me my winnings, they also included an extra $262 in comps for having bet aggregately over a quarter of a million dollars. That money went a long way for my early-20s ass. Paid off a credit card and bought a new mattress for me and my new wife.

    When Full Tilt Poker got shut down by the DOJ, though, I was sort of okay with it. There were waaaaay too many action flops for those hands to have been truly randomized.



  • The United States is the only country I know of in which that insult is considered misogynistic, and even then only when it is directed toward a woman. OP is not a woman, and, even though I reside in the United States, I do not consider myself an American. Regarding its offensiveness to women, yes, some women do consider it offensive. If any of them are reading this, then they can go ahead and be offended if they wish, that is their right. But the C-word is not misogynistic. Misogyny involves tools of gendered oppression, the way the N-word has long been a tool of racist oppression. The C-word has never had that sort of power.

    If I had called him a “pussy”, then that is something different because it implies cowardice, as though people who own one are cowards. If I had accused him of having a small penis, then that would have been body-shaming and uncool. But cunt? Dick? Asshole? They are just words indicating someone is a jerk, which OP most certainly is.

    I have done a lot…like, a lot of work on the vocabulary I employ. I have nothing but feminist men, women, and enbies in my circle, and we all hold each other accountable for the language we use. We shun ableist terms (“lame”, “crazy”), sex-shaming (“slut”), poverty-shaming (“white-trash”, “ghetto”), and a whole host of other very common terms in modern parlance. And, while a couple women I’ve known have had a distaste for the word “cunt”, they just didn’t like the way it sounded.

    All this being said, thank you for what you do by trying to hold me accountable for the language I use.









  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYupp
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    5 months ago

    Boomer humor at its most basic. “Them young 'uns think they’re so smart, but they just got schooled…that’s why you gotta respect yer elders!” Right, because unplugging a single node is going to save the network servers. I’ve literally only seen this clip of the show, but that blatant pandering to boomers told me all I needed to know. Also, fuck 12.