35?

A drunk businesswoman who glassed a pub drinker after he wrongly guessed her age has been spared jail after a female judge said 'one person's banter may be insulting to others'.

Mother-of-one Joanne Dodd, 39, flew into a rage and attacked Carl Cooper after he suggested she was 43 in the beer garden of the Unicorn pub in Manchester city centre on September 9 last year.

Mr Cooper fled to the potty in a bid to get away from the heated situation, but when he came out Dodd ran towards him and twice shoved her wine glass in his face.

He was left with a four inch laceration to his face, narrowly missing his eye, and an injury to his thumb.

When quizzed Dodd, who runs a firm which organises children's sleepover parties, said she was suffering from 'low self esteem' at the time and said the banter was 'disobliging' towards her.

43?

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!fellas !burgers

https://old.reddit.com/r/boysarequirky/comments/18s1c0r/these_ryan_gosling_memes_need_to_stop/?sort=controversial

I was trying to find that 'you are not Ryan gosling' meme where it's trump saying 'wow I'm just hearing this for the first time', and while searching for it I stumbled on the most humorless subreddit I've ever seen, /r/boysarequirky.

Some of the comments about this innocuous Ryan Gosling meme:

It's lovely how these men cry about men's mental health getting ignored while downplaying and dismissing women's mental health in the very same sentence. “Oh everybody cares about women when they're sad” horseshit. I got no support from people around me when I was at my lowest. It's just hilarious how out of touch men are. They don't know anything about women and yet their arrogance leads them to believe they do.

Sounds like you're just unlovable lol, skill issue

I actually feel like it's the opposite…men are coddled and women's feelings are dismissed…we just cultivate deeper friendships with one another once in a while where we listen to each other cry

One of my exes cut off her best friend of 15 years over something so petty I literally can't even remember what it was, ten years later.

One time when I was a kid on summer break, I didn't speak for almost an entire month and nobobdy noticed.

Fr tho, I'm more worried about their Patrick Bateman love.

Lol they're onto you, sigma males

Why do the guys making these sort of memes always seem to assume women are incapable of enjoying a bit of alone time? It's so bizarre to me. Plenty of women are introverted and/or enjoy having time to themselves. Not speaking to anyone for an hour doesn't sound lonely. it sounds ideal, honestly.

It's a meme you dip. Im starting to think women can have autism too.

That sub is full of funny threads like this. if anyone likes seeing femcels getting mad at scenarios they made up in their head, and trying to comprehend humor this sub is for you.

BTW if someone has that trump gosling meme pls post it I'll send coins.

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autodrama: returning jobs to dramautists. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

I'm so sick and tired of fake fans flowing into this account for politics and not the cats, of them raiding this account, raiding our discord server with gore images, I'm just tired of it all, we will never do another manul world cup, neither me or my partner have been able to… pic.twitter.com/dugd6VrfM4

— DailyMantle (@DailyMantle3) April 22, 2024

Context

Every year Europoors vote for the best Manul (otherwise known as Pallas' cat) in-between collecting benefits, being harrassed by migrants and sitting on a bidet. I even have a post about last years' contest. This year was particularly spicy in the semi-final round between Mania and Polly:

Mania is the Manul, Polly is (I think) a zigger or a As you can see this caused some fervour among our cabbage-eating friends:

At this point Biden takes over the voting and STOPS THE COUNT, disqualifying Mania

This is some SERIOUS FRICKING BUSINESS to Polish Groomercord servers who immediately begin plotting terror attacks on Russian soil to avenge their fluffy Siberian Cat

I can't be fricked to translate these

Poliggers immediately mobilize, sending legions of plumbers into Manul Man's house, doxxing them and kicking off the Third Manul-Polish War

Pierogi and fluff are everywhere, casualties abound. Here are some pictures of the Manuls in the running:

Update

If you give a shit, Dunzi just won, I think he's a of some description, he is beautiful though:

The account is still dunking on seething poliggers

Many angry replies to this, feel free to get in quick and say Danzig is German etc.

“Have you seen how they treat women & gays in the Middle East?!”

Have you seen how they treat them in Florida & Texas?? What in the upside down are y’all talking about

— FREE PALESTINE, NO MASTERS (@BreeNewsome) April 21, 2024

@The_Homocracy you showed up in my Twitter feed and I was like remember me when you're famous

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What two drama racial enemies would @Aevann step on? I'm thinking !chuds and !cuteandvalid would win. Discuss.

s - 5 votes

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Got some groceries and for some reason I had to enter my date of birth even though there was no alcohol (???) and I came out in just a towel. This fricker asked what happened and I said, "I've been kind of sick" and he said "s*x? "Sick." "S*x?" "no, ill."

Then after I put in my date of birth he said, "did you get jiggy?" And I said no, I'm just hanging out at home. "s*x?" (Still thinking he just doesn't understand cos he's from some brown country): "No." He goes, "come on, just ten minutes." Then I said, "thank you, bye" and shut the door while he said, "no?'

What the frick... One time an Uber driver in the U.S. called me an attractive young lady when I came out drunk and giggly but I didn't even answer this guy in a good mood, I was late to the door cos I was throwing up. What the frick???

Edit: I think it might have been that when I got my ID it was a U.S. passport and he's seen too many movies where a delivery guy knocks on an American woman's door, if you catch my drift.

deep breath

Spoilers for a 20 year old TV series & TW for special interest 'tism...

The creator/showrunner/lead writer of Gilmore Girls was Amy Sherman-Palladino (ASP), and she's the main person responsible for the unique cozy vibe and fast-paced, reference-heavy dialogue of the original series. She's also something of a crazy control freak who had a very particular predefined arc in mind for the show, one that would highlight the parallels between Rory and her mother and grandmother, Emily (the 3rd Gilmore Girl). For years fans heard about the mysterious "final 4 words" that she already knew would end the series. She's like the opposite of the GoT showrunners who had no idea how the frick they were going to wrap up the ending.

ASP may be a stubborn b-word but she's a good writer with strong hat game

Except... ASP was forced out after the penultimate sixth season of the original run in a contract dispute with the network, the details of which have always been hazy. Toward the end of the sixth season, ASP added a bunch of zany plots (e.g. Lorelai throwing herself at Rory's deadbeat dad, Christopher) that almost seemed like a vindictive attempt to sabotage the show on her way out the door. The new show runners dumped into the thick of it for the seventh season did their best to tie up all the bizarre loose ends, and in doing so they moved away from the predestined fatalism of ASP's original arc - the theme of which could be loosely summed up as "no matter how you try to run away from it, you always grow up to be your mother."

Spoiled douchbag boyfriend, meet spoiled douchebag dad

For example, ASP always had in mind that Rory's rich, spoiled boyfriend, Logan, would be "her Christopher," a dissolute playboy who toys with her heart, knocks her up, and ultimately abandons her - but during the final season without ASP, the writers moved away from that storyline: Logan becomes estranged from his wealthy family, he has to stand on his own two feet, he exhibits personal growth. By the end of the series, he's ready to commit; he doesn't abandon Rory, he wants to marry her, but she decides she's not ready to settle down so young. The original series ends with Rory Gilmore, a promising young journ*list heading off to Iowa to cover the long-shot presidential campaign of a promising young Senator named Barack Obama.

The seventh season is divisive among fans for a few reasons (the hasty resolution of many of ASP's S6 landmine plots, the dialogue feels kind of off, some new characters are sloppily introduced late in the game) but I think most people enjoyed seeing Logan grow up a bit and the way his relationship with Rory matured. Most people liked the ending, and thought it was fitting to have Rory choose herself and her career over a man. There's a little bit of added millennial nostalgia/wish-fulfillment and serendipity to see Rory climbing onto the Obama campaign bus when we know he's going to win that race. As viewers, we figure Rory is off to a great start with a bright future ahead of her covering a landmark campaign up close.

Go get 'em, Ace!

Then, eight years later, Netflix gave ASP an assload of money to make A Year in the Life and she used it to take a giant shit all over Season Seven. She basically returned to Stars Hollow with the intent to settle old scores and give Gilmore Girls the ending that she knew it had to have: even if it didn't make a darn lick of sense almost a decade later. She has claimed that she has never watched S7, that she doesn't even really consider it canon. She said she had an assistant watch it and take notes for her. In AYITL, she kept one baby born in S7, and threw out almost everything else, determined to tell her version of what season 7 should have been.

Netflix: Buying your childhood to wear as a four-piece skinsuit

Lorelai and Luke (her main love interest/will-they-won't-they) act like newlyweds wrestling with the decision about whether to have kids, even though they've been married for the better part of a decade and Lorelai is pushing 50. Rory is broke, directionless and struggling like a new college grad, not like a woman in her 30s with access to a multimillion dollar trust fund. Logan is instantly back to being a useless frickboi: engaged to a beautiful woman we never see, but carrying on an affair with Rory.

The only good storyline in AYITL centers on Emily coming to terms with the loss of her husband, Richard (Rory's grandfather) and that story was forced on ASP by the real-life death of the actor Edward Herrmann. She had to actually write a new, age-appropriate story for Emily instead of dusting off whatever she wanted to do for S7, and it's so much better for it.

Poor Ed's brain cancer is the real MVP of AYITL

There's a bunch of other minor shit that sucks in AYITL: fat-shaming that feels very early-2000s and out of step with modern culture, lazily retconning certain characters to be gay for added diversity, an unfunny retread of the "Ann? Her?" gag from Arrested Development. But the main reason A Year In The Life is terrible is that ASP was too stubborn to incorporate any of the stories that other writers had given to her characters, so instead of a thoughtful extrapolation of how these characters might have lived and grown or changed over almost ten years, she did S7: ASP's Version. It's 2016, not 2007, but no one has changed at all or learned anything in the meantime.

A Year in the Life ends with the famous "final four words" that ASP had always preordained, even if they no longer make any goddarn sense from a narrative perspective:

"Mom?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm pregnant."

Barely 32 years old and having a bastard with this dude!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, as a reward for your patience, enjoy this spot-on Mad TV parody:

Well have you considered: how else will the state university's head football coach be the highest paid state employee?

DAE le handegg bad?!

The way they bucket this, science/math majors learn the most followed by humanities/social science majors, followed by engineering majors. But then health, communications, education/social work, and business students learn basically nothing.

PRIORS CONFIRMED

This is healthcare hero and TikTok nurse erasure!

The average student spends 3 hours on studies? And that INCLUDES classes?

At UChicago, you were supposed to take 3-4 classes a quarter and a typical class was supposed to take 10 hours of work per week so you'd have 30-40 hours of work in total. A hard class could be 20 hrs/wk.

More colleges should be like UChicago.

I worked very hard for my degree in PoliSci TYVM! Do you want fries with that?

One of my favorite Professors mentioned once, "D's get degrees, but they don't get you jobs."

I have people at the school I went to who achieved a Bachelor's Degree in 2.5 Years, another became a Producer/Writer at CNN in D.C. + Successful Side-Business, a bunch became Anchors at Regional News Outlets.

And then there's some people who have gone absolutely nowhere in their lives.

I don't know if it has always been like this, but that is insane variance from people coming out of the same program at a smaller University.

>One of my favorite Professors mentioned once, "D's get degrees, but they don't get you jobs."

Lol, lmao even 🤣👍

I swear the UGLIEST sat next to me today. I was sitting on a bench reading Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley, Oxford University Press (I thought it would be more of a chronological summary of various philosophers and schools of thought with something tying them together, basically the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy with a throughline, but the first few chapters spend too much time navel gazing on the origins and allegedly subjective meanings of analytic/continential philosophy when I think it would better to assume every reader more or less understands what these terms mean and spend less time on introspection. Later the author starts saying that the analytic/continential split goes back to Bentham and Coleridge, which I think widens both definitions to the point of uselessness, and makes the title of the book pretty misleading given the author's using a totally atypical definition. I overestimated the average quality of Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series, since even just reading the Wikipedia page of the author he doesn't seem like someone whose opinions I'd ordinarily pay attention to) (I'm the type of guy who reads books on philosophy in my spare time because I'm an intelligient, conscientious, neurotic, gay, adult middle class male who lives in an urban area) on my Amazon® Kindle® Paperwhite™ when this ugly fricking r-slur hobbled over next to me. I already happened to be sitting on the far end of the bench and they kind of paced around a bit before sitting down, then sat there for half a minute before pacing around a bit more and walking off. They were pale and had bad skin and were 5'8 and were wearing cheap, bright, childish closing and smelled bad and were probably around 20 and I had been awake for 24+ hours at this point but they seemed so much viscerally exhausted than me and I think they were genuinely mentally disabled. Probably that rare mid level neurodivergent where the best accidental shitposters reside. But this person is pretty much identical to me and you because if we lost the genetic/environmental lottery like this person did we'd all be the exact same as them so you're not allowed to make fun of or commit hate crimes against them

So this foid rent a bf from another city and paid his trip and stay in hotel without getting sexy times and we should support her and normalise it ! It's time for foids to chase men !

!incels

!commies

Horror is probably my favorite genre of literature. I'd say more than half of the books I read and have read are horror. After seeing a few reviews and recommendations on the <font color="#00f">House of Leaves</font> I was very intrigued.

<font color="blue">House of Leaves</font> is a very challenging read. The story follows the main character Johnny Truant who finds an incomplete manuscript written by a recently deceased man named Zampano. The manuscript is a documentary of a photojourn*list by the name of Will Navidson and his wife Karen who have purchased a house which they soon find is larger on the inside than the outside.

<font color="blue">House of Leaves</font> has footnotes. It has footnotes of footnotes and appendixes of footnotes and footnotes with appendixes. It has footnotes from both Zampano and Johnny Truant.

Its writing style is difficult to follow, often makes you turn the book upside down or on its side, and is overall kind of fricking boring. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool book. The concept is incredible and such a unique experience. Unfortunately, so often throughout this book, I found myself wishing it would stay on track and continue the main story of the Navidson Record (the storyline I found most interesting)

More than half of this book is about Johnny Truant slowly losing his mind as he compiles Zampanos manuscript, Truant's heavy drug abuse and s*x addiction, and chapters long mind numbingly boring descriptions of the meaning and origin of words by Zampano.

With that said, would I recommend a new reader altogether skip Johnny Truants storyline? I can't say that I would. It does round out the novel and serve a deeper meaning. Understanding Truants state of mind while he is compiling <font color="blue">House of Leaves</font> is essential to understanding the house in itself.

Overall I'd give the book an 8/10. I finished in a week and even with its boring parts I could not put it down. I would recommend anyone who enjoys literature read this book. This book is more of an experience than a story. Its ability to drag you in and immerse you is truly unmatched.

Sony patented ‘Auto-Play’ game mode

The mode could allow players to skip over selected gameplay segments pic.twitter.com/rf264MyLLP

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 22, 2024

is the walking simulator really breaking up your cutscene movies? sony has a fix!

Whoever named this is a jester.

I wasn't even thinking about this. I was making some joke to one of my guys about this very openly gay and very short guy in the HR department that the dood is very obviously a FtM. I asked him if he transitioned from a girl would he need a phalloplasty or a vaginoplasty because I had no clue whether plasty means addition or subtraction.

The guy I was talking to didn't know either. So we searched and obviously(in hindsight) plasty means plus.

It hit me then why rhinoplasty is called that. Fricking crazy bro.

White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me
While I was trying to get coffeee pic.twitter.com/qebME0V4Wl

— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024

https://twitter.com/CHBAF/status/1782538050641318301

I dindu nuffin

>be boomer

>go to game by yourself

>yell shit

>winning

Don't think I've ever seen that in any sports ball game.

Soys discuss

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https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1cagye0/fan_who_was_chirping_that_caused_boone_to_be/?sort=controversial

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