For one, the shark is not at fault. The swimmer is. Which doesn’t really fit the overall message.

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A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.

Air guitars don’t look like air guitars on film. You have to use air ukuleles. Which has led to the myth that they aren’t really playing air instruments at all.

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The one thing that bothers me about the metric system is how much of it is never actually used. No one says “1 megameter”, for example. They say “1,000 kilometers”. When you think about it, most metric prefixes are never used with most metric units.

As an erudite and sophisticated connoisseur of legitimate cinema, I immediately recognized this as being from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.

Fair game.

Yuh

Goron eyes

I know what you meant, but I choose to ignore that:

“Old money” vs. “New money” is a particularly American concept, though.

Uh huh. So we’re in agreement. She won’t be allowed near the phone again.

I’d do something irresponsible and selfish with the money like adopt an entire orphanage. Just pissing the money away.

Please, the preferred terminology is “space opera”.

Your nervous system has finite bandwidth. The extra movement and sensation signals drown out the “need to pee” signal, making it seem less urgent. It’s also why we rub the area around minor injuries to relieve pain.

AFAIK California doesn’t require a license for ebikes.

It is a theory to explain how genie knows about things like automobiles and 20th century movie stars. It posits that these are only anachronisms if the story is set in the past, as commonly assumed. But setting it in the far distant future eliminates the problem. It also explains the apparent “magic” in the world as remnants of a fallen high-tech civilization.

Rajah the tiger? Genetic engineered. Magic carpet? Hover tech. Buried stop signs (video game only)? Ancient relic. It’s really quite surprising how well this theory fits.

Throw in the fan theory that Disney’s version takes place thousands of years in the future.

They also put children on the ship, so maybe the admiralty isn’t so smart.