I was so genuinely surprised by it, it sounded like it should have been an absolute disaster

What on earth is the standard of behaviour in US courts? If I said anything half as inflammatory as this in a UK court or tribunal I think the judge would personally beat me to death with my own bundle

Well, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time and hoped not to hear again, but if you asked me for the most likely reason he might make a reappearance...

(which is not to say I will ever be confident enough to play other people, I am absolutely not)

Oh no I was thinking about playing this but if it has Mahjong it's far too dangerous for me. I ignored it in like six Yakuza games out of sheer terror, then took my ritalin at exactly the wrong time before booting the game up and now I'm addicted to it whenever it appears

Genuinely my first thought on waking up was to dig out my copy and see if a signature had appeared. Still haven't checked because I like it being a possibility

Yeah that tracks. I was mostly sincere in this belief and then a couple of weeks ago I had this fucking dream three nights in a row and now I think I fully believe it and that Grant Morrison was giving me wizard training in the dream world. I genuinely can't think of a more reasonable explanation.

I fully believe Grant Morrison is also a wizard and when they refer to having chaos magic duels with Alan Moore they are being 100% literal

This has been my pinned post on the bad tweet site for some years now and it brings me joy every time

I enjoy quoting Adam Smith at landlord defenders and watching them tie themselves up in absolute knots about how either (a) Adam Smith was a radical Marxist or (b) landlords were obviously unacceptable in the 1700s but, inexplicably, are fine now because it's a necessity (genuinely saw this one)

The empty quarter of the screen was annoying me so here we are

It's by far my biggest issue and I don't understand why it doesn't draw more attention other than in the abstract. I fundamentally cannot respect a belief system where Jonas Salk is in hell and Dick Cheney is in heaven! It is unserious!

(And probably most people don't *really* believe it but, without showing my Flying Spaghetti Monster hat too obnoxiously, I suspect a majority of religious people do not actually believe what they say they do or think about their claimed beliefs in any detail, which is an entirely separate issue)

Oh yeah I agree, just something that comes to mind with people who haven't made it clear that they reject that (reprehensible) part

"all atheists have committed the ultimate blasphemy and deserve to be tortured in hell. Oh yeah my wife's one of those. Love her haha, what can you do eh". Sir I don't think you actually believe in your beliefs, one of these must surely have to go

I don't really have any faith so the whole concept is strange to me, but I struggle to understand how you can belong to a religion that holds non-believers are damned to eternal punishment and just... not have an issue that this applies to your partner? Feels like you must not really believe it tbh

My dog says the word "orb" with impressive range and variations. Nobody quite believes this until they hear him and say "oh yeah he says orb doesn't he"

This isn't mocking, nobody deserves cancer and it's not funny or anything, but surely there are better ways to deal with the resulting anxieties!