Random Thoughts Thread

[Montmorency]

If you're going for chain fast food, please don't forget that there are usually coupons floating around that will let you double your money (or save half).

[ReluctantSamurai]

New Yorkers are just....well....squirrelly:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ghborhood-fear

At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodent’s reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.

Anti-squirrel weaponry?

“I came out of the house with a shovel after the first few days but now I think ‘I have the vaccine, I’m wearing heavy gloves, bring it on,’” she said.

Pretty sure you are at risk for rabies there, sweetheart, not COVID-19

[Montmorency]

I just realized --- all those old-timey allusions from the Bible, poetry, literature, or the Classics, that people tended to pepper into their speech and writing up to the early 20th century are pretty much the equivalent of contemporary Internet memes.

You know the sort I mean, 'And here am I as Laocoön before the very Hesperides on the night the poet saw Jericho' or some such

Those allusions, often recurring as stock phrases, had a specific evocative content that is categorically similar to memes.

[Dink1955]

Today's random thought... I hope $GME goes to the moon!

Anyone else on this ride?

[Xantan]

I never thought the madness of GME would hit this place but there we go!

GME to the moon!

[Montmorency]

I am aware of at least 5 shows about rural South Asian people trying things launching within the past year.

[Merchant20]

Hello, is this argument sound and valid?

Sharks have fins.
Sharks are fish.
Therefore, all fish must have fins.