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The banality of evil
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 6 December 2021This Reddit post about Adolf Eichmann has some very deep insights about why people choose to believe in things like conspiracy theories:
Educate and horrify
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 29 November 2021A classic line from The Simpsons:
“There’s no need to murmur, ma’am. Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land we’re just as concerned about violence as you are. That’s why we’re always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify.”
Is this food?
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 25 November 2021No early worms here
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 17 November 2021Treat 'em right
Posted by Muneer on Tuesday, 16 November 2021God isn't a fan
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 15 November 2021Muslim meme
Posted by Muneer on Friday, 12 November 2021I don't see enough Muslim memes. This was a phrase I used to hear all the time as a kid:
Getting valued the right way
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 10 November 2021My pal Jen sent me the following story:
"A father said to his daughter “You graduated with honors, here is a car I acquired many years ago. It is several years old, but before I give it to you, take it to the used car lot downtown and tell them I want to sell it and see how much they offer you. The daughter went to the used car lot, returned to her father and said, “They offered me $1,000 because it looks very worn out.”
Kids unwinding
Posted by Muneer on Tuesday, 9 November 2021An innocent Turkish gas station
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 8 November 2021My favorite is accidental racism or things that aren't racist in their home cultures, but are racist in the US:
Sisters
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 3 November 2021Employee should be grateful that company pays her what she's owed
Posted by Muneer on Tuesday, 2 November 2021I'm getting heavy Karen vibes from the letter writer. And always remember that the company doesn't ultimately care about you:
Precipitation
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 25 October 2021Judge Lynn Toler from Divorce Court said the following to a guy who claimed he liked to make it rain at the strip club:
At $7.25 an hour, how much precipitation can you cause?
Urban kindness
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 21 October 2021A great power burdens me
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 21 October 2021Grandpas are the best
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 20 October 2021Boss dogs are hard to find
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 7 October 2021I've won
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 6 October 2021It's time
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 30 September 2021Where is your god now?
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 27 September 2021This is unsettling.
Great Lines: The Samantha Bee Edition
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 22 September 2021Homosexual mists
Posted by Muneer on Monday, 20 September 2021Drama King
Posted by Muneer on Saturday, 18 September 2021As the self-proclaimed Drama King, this meme is accurate:
Jon Bois' 2014 NFL draft writeups
Posted by Muneer on Friday, 17 September 2021Maybe they're just terrible people
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 16 September 2021I'm fascinated by trolls, mainly because a former friend became one. It's interesting to read about the darkness that resides within these people.
...the data exposed a quite different reality: internet tossers are just tossers, whether online or in real life.
In other words: the internet isn’t making people rotten, it’s just handing the rotten people a bigger microphone.
Don't play with his honour
Posted by Muneer on Thursday, 16 September 2021Get the details right
Posted by Muneer on Wednesday, 15 September 2021From Mastermind, a James Bond villain-level hacker had the following exchange at his trial:
Q. And, for example, you ordered the murder of a Filipino customs agent, correct?
A. That’s not correct.
Q. What is not correct about it?
A. The individual wasn’t a customs agent.
Keenly waiting for revenge
Posted by Muneer on Tuesday, 14 September 2021From the book Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's, this great story about outfielder Billy North:
Thrilling and hilarious
Posted by Muneer on Tuesday, 14 September 2021who's on judge mathis today? #194:
greg dusts off his perry mason costume to say, “aha! that means you believed him, which means he isn’t lying and you’re here on behalf of a thief!” what was that sound? oh yeah, that was my bottom jaw s h a t t e r i n g against the floor. what a thrilling and hilarious trap!!!!! i really do be forgetting sometimes that greg is a real live trained lawyer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!