Impudent Warwick

@Yeegrek @redsteeze For the same reason Arizona hates Utah.

@redsteeze I get the entire northeast hating the Quebec team because they deal with Quebecers, and Florida hating the Leafs because they deal with "Elbows Up" Boomer Canadians, but why does Georgia hate Winnipeg?

I'm fine with the racist south hating the Avalanche.

@FactPush @Geiger_Capital It’s not 13 percent. It’s a small fraction of 13 percent that offend repeatedly and don’t stay locked up because it “looks bad.”

@Geiger_Capital You can't have a High Trust society when 13% of the population is focused on the worst of human behavior.

Landing back in NYC after spending time in Singapore, Tokyo, Salzburg, etc is radicalizing… You realize it’s all a choice. Weak policies and demographics.

@VisionaryVoid @Jringo1508 Minor correction - Wojtek the bear carried shells for a Polish unit fighting with the Allies in Italy.

The British Soldiers Who Raised a Lion in Their Barracks During World War II. Somewhere in North Africa in the early 1940s, a British unit found an orphaned lion cub. The reasonable thing to do, report it, hand it to local authorities, move on, was apparently not discussed for long. They kept it. The cub was fed on scraps, carried on shoulders, allowed to sleep in the barracks, and treated with the casual affection of men who had seen enough of the war to appreciate something uncomplicated. The soldiers named it, fed it, and watched it grow. It grew considerably. By the time the lion was no longer cub-sized, the regiment had formed the kind of bond with it that defies practical explanation, the animal had been present for drills, meals, and the long stretches of waiting that make up most of a soldier's time in a theatre of war. It had become, by every measure that matters, one of them. It was eventually sent to a zoo, which was the only responsible outcome once a lion reaches full size in a military barracks. Whether the soldiers who raised it considered this a satisfying ending is not recorded. The story sits alongside a handful of others from the same war, a Great Dane officially enlisted in the Royal Navy, a bear that carried artillery shells in Poland, a dog that survived a torpedoed ship and three years of captivity. The Second World War produced an unusual number of animals that soldiers simply refused to leave behind. Some things don't need a military justification. The men needed a lion. The lion needed the men. The paperwork caught up later.

@BatesLine @PatriarchTree My composition teacher required 20 pages without the use of any conjugation of the verb “to be.”

@PatriarchTree Sophomore English at our high school was a 25-page research paper on some classic American novel, with the regular note cards for bibliography and the big note cards for quotes.

When I was in college, you couldn’t pass freshman English without doing this. The research (in dusty library tomes), the 5x7 note cards, the outline, the drafting and, dear God, the double-spaced TYPING! Am I the only living soul who remembers using Witeout for corrections?

@PatriarchTree Yep, whiteout, erasable paper (but not quite entirely erasable), and in high school, a word processor that displayed a single scrolling line of text on an LCD and printed it on the paper when you hit enter. Then WordPerfect, MS Works, and finally Word.

@exjon @BrianFaughnan Get one? Just try to leave Hong Kong without at least one. You can hardly walk a block there without having your inseam measured a dozen times. For different reasons on different blocks, though.

@BrianFaughnan These days, you'd have to fly to Hong Kong to get a properly tailored lavender window-pane three-piece.

Forget the mic. I NEED that suit.

@RobProvince We all know what you really want. youtu.be/a5hXHYAWtDI?si…

Looked for a boombox where you put can put an iPhone in it instead of a cassette tape. Shocked to find out such a thing doesn’t exist. Plenty of speakers you can attach to your iPhone. But no big 80’s boomboxes. Seems like money left on the table here.

@WallStreetApes Has there ever been a worthwhile video recorded by a woman sitting in her car? And why are their eyebrows always halfway up their forehead?

This American works full time in the operating room at a hospital and just got off a 12 hour shift It’s after midnight and she must now go drive DoorDash after being on her feet for 12 hours because the cost of living is so high in America “I work in the operating room and I just worked a 12-hour shift in the operating room and I cannot afford my rent. I can't afford my rent. I can't afford gas. I can't afford groceries. I can't afford any of my endless other bills that I am responsible for because I am an adult. After working a 12-hour shift in the operating room. So you know what I have to do? I have to DoorDash, and it's 12: 30 at night after I've been on my feet in the operating room for 12 hours all f*cking day. I'm now out DoorDash driving” I’ll never shop sharing these stories because we must ALL advocate for a drastically lower cost of living We cannot accept this is the way things are. We cannot accept this is the direction we’re going and things will just keep getting more expensive

@RobProvince “How did your operation go?” “I think the surgeons had lunch while they did it… right before I went under, I could smell Pad Thai.”

So she’s either a janitor in the operating room or she’s spending an ungodly amount of money because any RN is making over $90,000/year as an OR nurse.

@MikeBales McDonald’s. A swimming pool. Cable TV. Foreign cars. Central AC. Granted, we got a few of those eventually.

Enjoying my hamburger on an actual bun rather than settling for Wonder Bread.

@XianJaneway @LqLana @Penwah2021 “Healthcare” in Canada: “We see you’ve been diagnosed with depression. We’ll be happy to help you kill yourself.”

@LqLana @Penwah2021 Every other developed nation on the planet: "We make sure everyone has healthcare." The US: "We developed the orphan-crushing machine for people who couldn't pay."

My son just aged out of my health insurance. Two choices for him. Pay over $1,400 a month for COBRA or Pay over $400 a month on the Health Marketplace, which is actually the least expensive plan there. Apparently, I'm going to be paying for his cell phone forever to help him out. The system is not set up to help young adults succeed. Housing unaffordable. School is unaffordable and Healthcare unaffordable and you have the guy in the White House more concerned about gold for his ballroom and blue paint for the reflecting pool. #DemsUnited

@Oilfield_Rando Sometimes it’s a man’s job just being a man. Stay safe.

>get a weekend off >get home at midnight >climb in bed with preggerwife >both people lined out to cover for you call out in the AM >crew can’t work without one of you there >don’t trust them to show up rest of weekend >weekend work absolutely must get done >hold possum for a few mins >hold kitty for a few mins >hold doggos for a few mins >hold wife for a few mins >go back to work for another week

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Nobody Remembered Him in School. The Navy Called Him “Average.” Then He Said 4 Words That Saved 80 Men. Selma, Alabama. 1902. Howard Gilmore is born. “Quiet kid,” a classmate said later. “Type you’d forget was in the room.” 1920. Age 18. He joins the Navy. No family name. No favors. Just test scores. Naval Academy, 1926. Graduates 34th of 436. “Solid,” instructors wrote. “Not flashy. Won’t stand out.” They were wrong. 1930. He volunteers for submarines. Everyone else avoids them. “Steel coffins,” sailors called them. 1 in 5 didn’t come home in WWII. Some said 1 in 4. Gilmore: “Sign me up.” Life keeps hitting him. Panama. Shore leave. Thugs. Knife. Throat slit. Left in an alley. “Should’ve died,” a corpsman said. He didn’t. Went back to sea. First wife: dies of illness. Second wife, Hilda: falls down stairs. Coma. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. She’s still unconscious. December 8. New orders. “Commander, USS Growler. Report to new construction.” He kisses Hilda goodbye. Doesn’t know if she’ll wake up. Goes to war anyway. Then he becomes a nightmare for Japan. July 1942. Kiska, Alaska. Three Japanese destroyers. He sinks one, wrecks two, dodges torpedoes. Navy Cross. Next patrol. East China Sea. Four merchant ships. 15,000 tons. Gone. Gold Star. By 1943: “Most aggressive sub driver in the Pacific,” Admiral Lockwood said. “Crazy enough to win.” February 7, 1943. 1:00 AM. Solomon Islands. Growler surfaces to charge batteries. Lookout: “Gunboat! Closing fast!” Japanese. Coming to ram. Gilmore doesn’t turn. Doesn’t dive. “Ramming speed,” he orders. 11 knots. Steel on steel. Growler tears the gunboat open. But the dying ship fires. Machine guns. Bridge gets hosed. Two lookouts dead. Exec wounded. Gilmore: chest, abdomen. Multiple hits. Blood. He’s still standing. Still thinking. To get below: climb down the hatch. Seconds. Maybe 10. Maybe 20. Every second: Growler is a target. 80 men inside. Damaged. If another ship shows up, they all die. He looks at Lieutenant Commander Schade. At the hatch. At the sea. “Take her down.” Schade freezes. “Sir—” Gilmore, bleeding out: “Take. Her. Down.” Schade dives through the hatch. Slams it. Growler sinks. Howard Gilmore doesn’t. February 17. Brisbane. Growler limps home. Bow crushed. 80 men alive. Commander’s bunk: empty. May 7, 1943. Story declassified. Front page, USA. July 13. New Orleans. Hilda Gilmore — awake now from her coma — receives his Medal of Honor. Two kids at her side. First submariner in WWII to get it. Only 6 more would. USS Howard W. Gilmore launches months later. Hilda christens it. Today at Annapolis they still teach it. “Take her down.” Four words. He could’ve said “Help me.” Could’ve said “Wait.” Could’ve said “I’m the captain.” He did the math. 80 > 1. “No hesitation,” Schade wrote later. “He knew. And he chose us.” The “unremarkable” kid from Selma. The “average” officer. Throat cut. Wife in coma. War on his shoulders. And when it mattered, he made himself zero. So 80 others could be one. “Take her down.” Then the Pacific. Then legend.

@Quartz87 @reporterchris “Could you talk about how tough it is to play with your backs against the wall and what it means to have a tight-knit team at this time of year?” “Well, basically what you just said”

@reporterchris This is stupid. The media is stupid. Asks the same questions from four different reporters every single time just to report the same cookie cutter response.

The NHL has imposed significant punishments on the Vegas Golden Knights for "flagrant violations" of the league's playoff media regulations: Vegas forfeits its 2026 second-round draft pick and head coach John Tortorella is fined $100,000. The club had been warned previously

@NBCNews Nobody has a problem with “Asians.” Chinese agents, on the other hand…

The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…

@FarrLawrence @IMAO_ I guess Greedo lived too long ago and too far away to have heard of the gun-under-the-table trope.

I never got the controversy over whether or not Han shot first. If Roy Rogers were sitting at a table, and known nefarious character pointed a weapon at him, and said, that he was a prisoner and was being taken to an even worse baddie. Roy would have shot the guy (granted in the hand) but he'd have shot the guy. Han, not being a heroic-type guy in the first place would not even have hesitated. It was dumb of Greedo to not see that coming. I was in 7th grade and I fully expected Han to have some sort of blaster under the table.

I forgot how the special editions were the warning signs the prequels were not going to be good. I still don't understand the thinking of Greedo shooting first and especially the addition of the Jabba the Hutt scene to the first Star Wars, which made no sense against Jabba the Hutt's later characterization. It's like George Lucas just thought it was nifty to finally finish that scene but didn't care that it no longer made any sense in the scope of the trilogy.

@awstar11 @AP Old and busted: The 2nd Amendment only applies to muskets, which were contemporary 18th century weapons New hotness: Our modern common sense firearms restrictions must apply to muskets

We must address the horrible threat of musket violence The @ap continues to beclown itself

@bonchieredstate I want him to be a CGI composite of all the previous Bonds because it’s going to suck anyway.

Gotta be Elliot Page, right?

@ingelramdecoucy @AP Wait, the left is always telling us that the 2A only applies to muskets, but now they want to restrict them too? Why, it’s as if the original argument was disingenuous.

@AP Are you aware of how long it takes to load a musket?

A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.

@camkasky “announced”