Dude I make cultural references all the time. I don’t really give a shit if the recipient gets it 100% of the time. A 20% hit rate is enough for me, because it’s amusing when a stranger picks up on my reference to The Office or Arrested Development or I Think You Should Leave or whatever. And if my reference misses, whatever. I’m just having fun with my interactions with others. If they have fun, too, great. If not, too bad, I was still entertained myself.

Maybe the real toast was the strokes we had along the way.

The current difference in apparent gravity between the equator and the poles is about 0.3%.

I think the centrifugal effect squares with angular velocity (plus the bulge of the earth would make the distance from the center of gravity ever so slightly larger), so maybe doubling the rotation speed would bring it up to 1.2%.

So maybe a measureable effect but probably not enough to actually overcome the biological limits on size/mass/weight.

From The Onion: Introduction Of Giancarlo Esposito Suggests Main Character Now Totally Fucked

Jenny thinks it’s fun to pass the ball to Lebron and watch him dunk - the few minutes you’re not on the bench that is 😂

What are you talking about? Assists are absolutely a great feeling when playing basketball. And, for that matter, so are wide-open shots you score in plays made possible by teammates’ contribution: good passing, pick setting, etc.

And I’ve never played at a level where alley oops are possible, but I kinda wish that I could’ve.

The text gave me those vibes at first, but a closer look makes clear it’s actually a font that is intentionally misaligned. The As, Ns, and Es look exactly the same as each other, in a way that doesn’t happen with hand lettering or even AI generated text. The bad spacing around each character is consistent, too. It just looks like a poorly designed font.

Didn’t Mitsubishi make kamikaze fighters before pivoting to automobiles and air conditioning units and excavators?

I don’t have an issue with the product. It could be funny in the right context.

I have a problem with the manner it’s marketed. The ad doesn’t say good things about its own product, but instead tries to attack competing products as girly.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in my local birthing center’s new parent training, and I’ve been involved in numerous home diaper changes, and I have over 300 confirmed formula bottles. I am trained in gorilla binkies and I’m the top “got your nose” player in the entire US playground system. You are nothing to me but just another babysitter. I will put your baby the fuck to naptime with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of nannies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your diaper genie. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can change your diaper in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in one-armed baby wipe retrieval, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the American Association of Pediatrics and I will use it to its full extent to wipe the miserable shit off your baby’s butthole, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

The different style guides are designed for their particular environments. Most American newspapers and magazines follow AP, but most book publishers follow Chicago. Academics in the humanities tend to follow MLA, while academics in the social sciences tend to use APA. Hell, IEEE has a style guide for electrical engineers.

So do whatever you prefer. I tend to use Chicago because that’s what I know best, but I have worked professionally in writing and editing publications that followed the Chicago rules.

The two dominant style guides in the U.S. (Chicago Manual of Style and the A.P. Stylebook) prescribe no spaces around em dashes. When I do professional writing I default to Chicago, so I learned to eventually omit spaces around em dashes. That’s still my main way of distinguishing myself, for now.

Where does scrub daddy factor into this?

Any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.

It’s already a modification to the word to describe something smaller (a cake baked in a cup), so going back the other way seems like a redundancy.

Like a giant pygmy hippo.

With your knife/sword example, maybe the best analogy is describing the shortest longsword.

One day blinding stew

Conductor threw up on my kid

It’s True Wagner. He does flyers like this and they are pretty funny.

Obvious Plant puts products on shelves, and True Wagner puts flyers up.

He’s the same guy who did “one day blinding stew” and “conductor of this train threw up on my kid,” both instant classics.

What in the name of DadGPT is this

This was a particularly bad case of some bagel being cut in half.