heat pumps are wild, man. they're basically thermodynamic bait and switch

Had a good talk with my partner about how to survive the coming years and possibly decades with all the shit that's going on while preserving our values, and how to do so from a place of solidarity and loving one's neighbour.

I hope we all make it with our souls intact.

[casually referring to your dominatrix down at the pub] Sorry lads, got to get back to the ol' balls-in-chains

entomology, the study of ents

I don't need a therapist, I already know that every way in which I'm broken can be traced back to one of two reasons: capitalism, and my mother

Love the Norwegian public health system. Love paying 800 kroner for listening to some condescending asshole shrink talking down to me for 40 minutes when I haven't slept in five days and think about ending my life and all I wanted was a single dose of diazepam. This shit is so broken we might as well not have a public health system at all

Als am 9. April 1940 im Zuge von "Unternehmen Weserübung" der deutsche Kreuzer Blücher im Oslofjord von einer norwegischen Torpedobatterie versenkt wurde, hatte das Marineorchester Noten dabei, die vor kurzem aus den unteren Decks geborgen wurden. Man wollte das Königreich Norwegen mit "Grieg, nicht Krieg" überzeugen, sich der faschistischen Sache anzuschließen. Soweit die Theorie. So ganz dahinter stand man wohl nicht, wie der brutale Überfall zeigte, aber der lächerliche Slogan ist wirklich einen Absatz in den Geschichtsbüchern wert.

"Excuse me, I was just wondering - was that Turkish you were speaking?"

"Yeah! How did you recognise that?"

"I grew up in Germany."

It's funny how every Turk anywhere will understand how that is a sufficient explanation

@owl @Stoori @schratze What's your Dysona. What's the thing you really suck at

@owl @Stoori @schratze This reminds me of those weirdly militarist Star Wars novels on Mace Windu for some reason

@owl @Stoori @schratze depends on my armour, really

@schratze I suppose it qualifies as a classic at this point

One of these "got a Metallica song stuck in my head for no reason whatsoever" days

#WurlitzerSyndrome

We're fast approaching "sunrise seamlessly gliding over into sunset" season here

Nerd love, the gift that keeps on giving

"Can read IPA" is a weird thing to learn about someone after almost a year of being in a committed relationship with them

One thing we can learn from the Soviet Union is you can in fact get a whole lot of shit done with just a crew of perpetually shitfaced folks playing pranks on each other all day long and generally having an absolute blast

war booty (armoured butt)

meat & greed

Poll time?