It’s not really current in Ireland, but my understanding of the phrase has always been that it’s at least functionally ironic - there is no need to tell me about it, as I am already well aware - roughly equivalent to “You don’t say” but not as sardonic. I’ve never thought of it as actually encouraging further explanation.
I officially ask you to pronounce ‘business’ as ‘beezness’ from this point forward. k thx bye.
I would encourage everyone to check this out:
Fairly interesting article about former Baylor football coach and rape cover-upper Art Briles, who’s been reduced to coaching high school ball in Texas, and how problematic that is:
Probably wouldn’t have posted this if not for the money quote, which is just a perfect encapsulation of America in general:
Some people don’t seem to care. “I don’t know what the big deal is, he’s just a coach,” a woman named Kerstin told me at the Franklin County Genealogical Society. “If it brings good people to our town and increases our property value, I’m good with that.” Inside the Facebook group, for every negative comment about Briles, there are two positive ones. JV cheerleaders told me they think he left Baylor because “something unfair happened, but I dunno what.”
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Mark Zuckerberg is an almost comically enormous piece of shit. Today he gave a speech about preserving free speech (i.e. his ability to make money running propaganda/lies targeted at stupid white people). At the conclusion of the speech, he refuses to take questions because of course.
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Requesting community’s vote at A Call to Ban NotBruceZ for Consistently Endorsing Violence - #213 by smrk4
I’d like to know if people of this forum are cool with a poster advocating trolling chief’s planet when a black person kills a white cop or advocating the use of the language of ethnic cleansing to talk about Republicans
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Hate to think what NotBruceZ would advocate as retributive punishment for Garrison when the revolution comes.
Man I remembered that Yglesias was pro-Iraq war, but I didn’t remember it was this bad.
https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1184892472893329408
He was, what, 21? I guess is a partial defence. But fuck that. I was 22.
Meh. I was pro-Iraq war at 21.
College is where we develop as people. We come across both good and bad ideas. As I age, I get rid of bad ideas and maintain good ideas.
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I agree but that line about “if they all want to kill us, we’ll kill them all” is pretty fucking awful.
Wow podcasting is serious business.
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You can learn, but being pro-Iraq war at 21 was bad. 21 is like college graduation age. Cut-off for just a dumb kid is like 18 or 19 and that’s why:
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I’m terrible because I can’t stop laughing at this and it’s probably not even that funny
This just isn’t true. The brain isn’t finished developing until ~25 and that REALLY shows ime.
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Brain still developing at 50 imo.
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“tragedy is if I’ll cut my finger, that’s tragedy…Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.”
- Mel Brooks
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