I’m relieved to hear he didn’t have any. I can’t imagine it being very healthy for them.

The people of ancient Egypt undoubtedly had a vernacular culture as rife with jokes, in-jokes and miscellaneous stupid shit as any online forum. Most of it presumably didn’t make it into stone or papyrus, and even if it did, with its context being long gone, we wouldn’t get it.

Apparently archaeologists discovered a transcription of an ancient Sumerian joke, which requires a lot of explanation to even imagine that it could have been funny. A hypothetical ancient Egyptian meme would probably be a bunch of hieroglyphs, a scholarly annotation explaining that they don’t make sense, and some hypotheses on what’s actually happening, possibly with wild speculations tenuously linking it to the handful of surviving texts and inscriptions we have to go on.

Those streets with slow children playing should be relatively safe if there’s not much chance of them suddenly running out in front of a car

Also US military slang for something going catastrophically wrong, from “fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in”

Is this vibe-coded?

That’s an Apple Newton; false alarm

JTHM was great; it actually mercilessly mocked the darklings who were its nominal following, unlike a lot of more pandering goth comics that mixed the gentlest digs at pretentiousness/formulaic music/ridiculous dance moves/wretched poetry with stock tropes (vampires, New Orleans, beauty-in-darkness). Vasquez was the kind of cranky bastard who could really write.

Donnie Darko was, IMHO, hugely overrated. It felt like a student filmmaker trying to do a David Lynch impression, overseasoning it with Hot Topic angst, missing, and somehow getting lucky. Given how his subsequent film, Southland Tales, fell flat, that’s probably not inaccurate.

What if you had a whole village of Gropecunte Lane?

Guinea Cucumbers

Needs more McCarthyism. They should have some dark insinuations of “Marxist ideology” behind complaints about Mars bars shrinking and some references to bread queues and gulags in the USSR, to remind people how insignificant their problems are.

Where’s Jefferson Davis? Surely in his worldview, he’d count as more of a real president than Obama.

He should have added a few decades to his stated age. Then he’d have picked up those looking for a lottery ticket

Get rid of the easel. Real men don’t paint pretty pictures.

Compared to anywhere in south-east Asia, or even Japan, this is exceedingly tidy

Morbidly A Beast sounds like the name of the world’s heaviest metal band

It’s made with reversed-chirality molecules, which do not react in the digestive tract

All of a sudden, I feel an urge to play with shader programming again

Ultron? I think I had one of their XVGA Multiscan monitors in the 90s.

They had the brand name “Glizz” right there for the taking…

If it doesn’t block the stairway, it works. It’s essentially a fixed bench that looks quirky.