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Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3237/
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MAH WAIFE
I have an announcement to make.
Shadow the hedgehog is a bitch!
He pissed on my fucking wife. It’s true, he took out his hedgehog dick and pissed on her. And then he said it was “this big” and I said “that’s disgusting!”
And for centuries after the bombs were dropped and all human life extinguished xkcdbot kept plugging along, posting the ancient texts. Its karma points have dropped a bit since human extinction, but it is undeterred.
Just say partner. It’s a better description of what a marriage should be AND it’s gender neutral
AND you get to say ‘howdy’ when you see them
Is there an American first person plural for “y’all”?..“We’s”?
We’s typically means ‘us’ or also just we
Always sounded weird and corporate to me. Easiest to just ask what your SO would prefer to be called and not worry about what people might think when you say it
Partner sounds corporate…?
If anything, it sounds more scientific
It seems to be, at least partially, a generational thing.
I grew up in rural, conservative-town USA and am old enough to remember when “partner” was code for same-sex spouse that I’m not legally allowed to marry.
Whereas if you were in a state where you were allowed to marry your same-sex spouse, then they’d be your husband/wife.
Hearing it now, regardless of orientation, just sounds deliberately vague to some of us oldheads.
A Singaporean woman was the first person I heard refer to their opposite-sex partner as “partner” back in probably 2010 and I adopted it. I had a pretty skewed idea of marriage as a kid and it instantly changed my thinking.
Your spouse SHOULD be your partner. You’re on a team facing this big stupid world together.
Wawaweewa!
I guess it’s this?
You’re probably right, but I can’t get this one out of my head.
It has been far too long since I’ve watched this beauty.
Rewatch time! You’re welcome.
This was my original introduction, which left me incredibly confused as I’d not seen 2001 at the time either. In retrospect, it’s hilarious.
HELLO DAVE?!
IS THAT DAVE?
Dave’s not here.
For me its the track from the " who’s next" album 1971
VERY NICE!
Thought he meant Adam Buxton
Huh. Never saw it.
Another win.
