He looks like he gets a lot of vitamin D. Personally I supplement in winter.
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This brought to mind the movie Predator. The character Billy has a line about a “broke-dick dog.” According to the internet
Broke-dick is military slang for someone who is always or frequently unable to do their job because they are injured, frequently with the implication that the person is either exaggerating or completely lying about their injury. Short of an outright traitor, it’s one of the worst things you can be in the military. “Broke-dicks” are usually subject to hazing, insults and other “corrective training”.
That’s my plan too, but I forget a lot.
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I’ve seen Predator no less than 40 times and I didn’t remember that lol
For real, I could get on board with cell phone bans in schools but not because of radiation ffs
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Oh, man. One of the most memorable lines in the movie, imo. Said to Dutch about a way out after they take out the guerrilla camp.
But how will your kid call you when their school is being shot up?
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Proves that Vit D deficiency leads to memory lapses. That’s just science.
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Phones are largely banned at schools for younger children here. Parents at my oldest one’s school have an agreement not to buy phones before they’re 12. Of course, sometimes some parents cave before that…
It seems the military are either inept or waiting for more civil unrest. If they decide they’re going to wait until they cheat in the midterms then it will be too late.
Unreliable ally, dodgy tourist visas. European countries inc UK and Germany issuing ‘dont travel’ advice
A string of high-profile arrests and detentions of travellers is likely to cause a major downturn in tourism to the US, with latest figures already showing a serious drop-off, tourist experts said.
Several western travellers have recently been rejected at the US border on increasingly flimsy grounds under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, some of them shackled and held in detention centers in poor conditions for weeks.
Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry.
She was planning to stay with a host family where she would carry out domestic chores in exchange for accommodation and was told she should have applied for a working visa, instead of a tourist visa.
She had previously been staying with a host family in Portland, Oregon, under a similar arrangement after spending some time sightseeing in New York City, where she first arrived from the UK at the start of the year.
Canadian authorities told her to go back to the US and fill in new paperwork before returning to cross into Canada.
However, when she tried to re-enter the US she was handcuffed and put in a cell before being taken to Tacoma Northwest detention facility in Washington state.
“She’s been there for over 10 days now,” Paul Burke said. “We haven’t got any clear timeline for her release. I really can’t understand why someone, a tourist, would be incarcerated and locked up.”
“It’s like we’re living in a nightmare we can’t wake up from,” he added. “It’s like we’re having an out-of-body experience. We’re watching ourselves go through the motions of life, but we’re not really doing it, we’re not really there.”
the military isn’t gonna do shit other than invade canada/greenland/panama/etc
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The vast majority of tourism to the US has to be to blue states, so they’re loving this.
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Not completely. Florida gets a ton. Also the tourists visiting Florida and Texas have to be the most likely to be targeted.
Even before the most recent spate of detentions, forecast visits to the country this year had been revised downward from a projected 5% rise to a 9% decrease by Tourism Economics, an industry monitoring group, which cited “polarising Trump Administration policies and rhetoric”, particularly around tariffs.
It predicted that the drop-off would lead to a $64bn shortfall in the US tourist trade.
“There’s been a dramatic shift in our outlook,” said Adam Sacks, the president of Tourism Economics, told the Washington Post. “You’re looking at a much weaker economic engine than what otherwise would’ve been, not just because of tariffs, but the rhetoric and condescending tone around it.”
The decline has been most pronounced from neighbouring Canada, which Trump has menaced with crippling tariffs and repeatedly threatened to annex outright. The number of Canadians returning by road from the US fell by 23% in February, year on year, while air traffic fell 13% on a year earlier, according to Canadian government statistics.
Hopefully any Canadians still daft enough to visit leave with a baker’s dozen of (Turkish) eggs each
TLDR: Mutations to UUUUmans
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Why would Canadians leave with eggs? First they can’t import them into Canada as it’s illegal I presume. Secondly Canada doesn’t have an egg shortage.
These stories are horrible, but I hate, hate, hate that it’s only a bunch of white kids getting extensive coverage.
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