Luigi works too.

I remember going on co-op in the mid-80s and making minimum wage ($3.35 an hour) and being able to save money over six months. Rented room was $100 a month and I was able to feed myself for around $30 a week and my landlords let me borrow their car (a VW bug with no starter and no reverse gear so you had to be real careful where you parked it) from time to time. It helped immensely that I was still on my parents’ health insurance and I never got sick. Not having a life also helped.

I don’t want to think about any part of his body whatsoever, but he does generally wear a shirt and jacket so we don’t see his arms or chest. It’s possible that the bruise on his hand did literally spread to the other hand via his arms and torso.

FWIW this principle is the primary reason most software built by InfoSys sucks balls. No racism/anti-Indian sentiment is required. The mere fact that so many developers can be cheaply assigned to a project virtually guarantees the low quality of the results, even if those developers are all competent to some degree.

Use it as a roux!

I know mashups are pretty tired but I always wanted to hear a mashup of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and Prodigy’s “Firestarter”.

By “recent”, you mean the last 50 years?

Any troubles in the Suez still?

Both jacket buttons? I’ve lost all respect for JFK.

We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.

I had a co-worker who was writing remote control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Not exactly “critical software” but he ended up firing a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above a 10-year-old kid’s head.

Lol I would give a kidney to have a high-walled cubicle like that again.

“I had to inaugurate the trans-Atlantic slave trade to get my holiday – and it turns out I was doing it in the wrong direction.”

it’s not sustainable for centuries

It’s sustainable until the Saudis learn about your cheap water and buy the whole system for pennies on the dollar so they can grow alfalfa for their racehorses. This is what’s happening to my (currently cheap) water authority.

When looking at statues of “fertility goddesses”, bring a teenage boy. That shit wasn’t evidence of a “cult of fertility”, it was porn.

We’re pro our own freedom of speech, not anybody else’s.

New York state requires seat belts on all the buses, but there’s no way for a driver to ensure all the kids are wearing them.

NY is also the only state that does not paint the “rub rails” on the outside black; the buses are entirely school bus yellow. I have no idea why this is the case.

An interesting aspect of school bus fatalities is that over the last few decades there have been a roughly equal number of deaths for drivers and for passengers. Since school buses typically have a lot more riders than the single driver, this means that driving a school bus is likely a lot riskier than riding in one.

One interesting feature of modern school buses is that the body is clipped to the chassis rails so that in a head-on collision the body will slide forward a couple of feet after the chassis stops. This greatly reduces the deceleration forces experienced by the riders. This video shows it in action.

Speaking as a school bus driver, I may or may not enjoy seeing snot-nosed little children being thrown about violently.

I’ve never heard song lyrics correctly. When this song first came out, I thought she was singing “stop it stop it stop it”.

Þufferin’ þuccotash!