Robert Raffety

@bishforcats @BalterBobb14932 @ThatEricAlper Fractions are for wrenches.

@rob_raffety @BalterBobb14932 @ThatEricAlper yeah, 3/8" pistol doesn't exactly roll off the tongue

@bishforcats @ThatEricAlper Nobody in America knew what a kilo was in the ‘80s :D

@rob_raffety @ThatEricAlper I recall that it was always "keys" of cocaine, on Miami vice

@NomadicChair420 @LibertyCappy Sinister.

@LibertyCappy advice that actually works gaslighting though my personal advice is to tell her to calm down as her hormones are flaring, in a loud and stern voice preferably in public surrounded by our friends and family.

Any advice that actually works?

@simpsonryan32 @kangminlee Yeah, seems weird. Could be that the style is similar to enough to Turkish that they get lumped together. I didn’t know until I looked up Oriental rugs just before I hit “Post”

@rob_raffety @kangminlee I was thinking that it originally referred to the Near East as you say but calling rugs from Morocco Oriental has to just be marketing.

As an Asian, I believe we should revive the usage of the term "Oriental" to distinguish East Asians from South Asians, Arabs, and other races in Asia Everyone knows we're extremely different, yet we're lumped together simply because we share the same continent

@JohnB843618 @ThatEricAlper I don’t know what a lid is either, but I bet it’s some even fraction of an ounce. Let’s call it 1/8th and get you a quarter, shall we?

@rob_raffety @ThatEricAlper And you sell that weed in lids? WTF is a lid? And yes, I'll take two. 🙃😊

@AntiWokeMemes I object to the framing of this question. You’ve posted it along with a picture of a woman who could be forgiven for believing that she is from genetically superior stock. It would have been incredibly easy to find a photo of a less attractive person of color. Do better.

Can black people be racist? A. YES B. NO

@learning_yohei Oh, yeah, good idea. I’d bring Daryl Dixon.

あなたは無人島で1人で１年間暮らさなければならないです😱 何か一つだけ持っていけるとしたら、何を持って行きますか？🤔

@EmilySm43 If that’s true, how would any of us know?

Be brutally honest 🤔

@LevisRock_82 @DrClownPhD I came here to post that. Take this upvote, instead.

I don’t think this is how we’re supposed to do pole dancing…

@StonkKerman @Kyle_C137 That argument is probably wrong but it would still be satisfying to hear it.

@Kyle_C137 There's an accelerationist argument for the blue button.

I got two more choices. Which one?

@FutureDad2024 @kangminlee I don’t usually care who hates me… is there a point to the fight?

@rob_raffety @kangminlee It's your need to avoid fights with those who hate you that makes you lose.

@BalterBobb14932 @ThatEricAlper Good catch… and we can’t make up our minds on that either. 5.56 or .223? 7.62 or .308? They’re practically the same. We’ve got 9mm and .380, 10mm and 44. Not the same but comparable. Revolvers are pretty consistently imperial units. Outside of that; chaos.

@rob_raffety @ThatEricAlper Don’t forget you guys also love the metric system for your guns

@old_doozer @ThatEricAlper Yeah, the Brits definitely win this one.

@ThatEricAlper Brits, I am 5ft 4 inches, weigh 10 stone 7lbs, I'll put 50 litres of fuel in the car that does 55 miles to the (imperial, not US) gallon. I need a bit of wood 1.8metres x 46 x 25mm. A litre of orange juice, a pint of beer & a gill of whiskey

@AgingAnarchist I would never do that, that’s nuts. It should be done in the other order. McDonald’s first, then sushi. What kind of barbarian do you think I am?

アメリカ人は寿司を食べたあとマクドナルドに行く。やっぱり日本食じゃ何か物足りないんですね。

People in the United States LOVE Japan. Tween boys have a reverent awe of anything that vaguely evokes Samurai or Ninja. Anime is loved by nerds. Sushi was popularized by Yuppies but now it’s a treat for everyone. Hippies see Zen when anyone is quietly awesome at something. This list could be a lot longer. Nobody looks down on Japan where I am from.

🇯🇵 Something I'm noticing more and more on X. When we were young, we were told that the Western world looked down on us. But almost all of the anti-Japanese posts come here from developing countries. I have to say that being on X has made me much more pro-Western.

@fuyuto64 It’s never too late.

「銃を扱う事の本質は精神修行であり、日本の弓道や禅に近い」という考えをもとに返信くれた人と意見交換したんだけど “道”を 「道具や技、作法を固定化し究める事を目的に」したもの と定義するなら、日本が“銃道”を作れなかったのは少し悔しいものを感じる。

@the_crowtaro @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool Sometimes my brain is like…

@rob_raffety @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool The mental gymnastics here sheesh

*Every anonymous poll shows blue winning* "Those anonymous respondents are virtue signaling."

@jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool I buy it but I wonder if some vote blue so that they don’t have to lie when people ask how they voted. There is no downside to voting blue in a hypothetical poll, but lying takes some mental effort. That would still be plain old virtue signaling.

@theramblingfool They might be virtue signaling to themselves.