Hilarious quote of the day

[conuly]

Language is NOT always evolving and changing -- because if so the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Locke, David Hume, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, etc., would make no sense at all now.

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Oh, The Places You'll Go: Toilet Signs Try To Help

When a Court Ruled Whether the X-Men Are Human

The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete

Why your mental map of the world is (probably) wrong

Wombats are the only animals whose poop is a cube. Here’s how they do it.

All the Ways You Can Board a Plane, Ranked by Stupidity

The Last Place on Earth Where Everyone Still Loves Kmart

'Frog ladders' help critters escape death-trap drains

Killer Tulips Hiding in Plain Sight

The Land That Failed to Fail

'My Family Has Been Broken': Pakistanis Fear For Uighur Wives Held In China

As the fire neared, this 93-year-old knew she had to get out. Then her garbageman showed up.

This family fled the Camp Fire. Then they learned their garage became a makeshift hospital.

Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead. The Official Response: Challenge the Tests

The Watcher A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it. (The comments are chock full of people swearing that it's the homeowner's fault for "getting spooked" and "letting their imaginations run away with them". Yeah, sure thing, buddy.)

Ukraine transgender rally disrupted by far-right militants

How a Grieving Father Is Uncovering Mexico’s Mass Graves

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us

Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened

Jonestown: Rebuilding my life after surviving the massacre

Comments

[lizvogel]

What boggles me about the fax article isn't that bail is posted by fax, but that the $2000 payment went through fine and the jail hung on to the bail-ee for the want of the other $1.

(Okay, it doesn't boggle me, because I know how bureaucracies work. But seriously, they kept somebody in jail overnight for a buck, and people are focusing on the fax failure instead of that?)

[wpadmirer]

Oh that $1 thing doesn't surprise me at all. Bureaucracies run on that bullshit. That's why I quit working for the state in the mid 80s.

[conuly]

Oh, I know. I saw that and my eyebrows hit the ceiling.