Gaston Lagaffe! Woof, what a shot of nostalgia. Don’t think I’ve seen one of those strips since high school

I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE

Some English brats got there 40 years earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Everyone’s ragging on the Christmas retail ambience songs, but at least you can mitigate the risks of hearing those ones by staying the fuck out of shopping malls. My top three:

• Cotton Eye Joe
• Whatever that song is that’s basically just “tonight’s gonna be a good night” over and over
• Danza Kuduro

The Big Lebowski

The strobe light problem might also be caused by putting a LED that’s not dimmer-compatible on a dimmer switch

Hang on, am I reading that correctly? You had nightmares for 7 years?

I think it was rated PG-13, not R

In fact it was rated PG. The resulting backlash, along with a similar situation with Gremlins, directly resulted in the MPAA creating the PG-13 rating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom#PG_rating

Wicked Game in my ass

urine is sterile

Not by the time it exits your body, no. Urine is sterile when it leaves the bladder, but it picks up bacteria on its way through the urethra

It’s also kind of a fringe theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_poisoning

The attribution of the poisoning to the CIA in Albarelli’s book has been roundly criticized. Historian Steven Kaplan, author of an earlier book about the events, said that this would be “clinically incoherent: LSD takes effects in just a few hours, whereas the inhabitants showed symptoms only after 36 hours or more. Furthermore, LSD does not cause the digestive ailments or the vegetative effects described by the townspeople.”

To be clear: I have no reason to believe that the CIA circa 1951 wouldn’t or couldn’t pull this kind of stunt, just that the evidence that they in fact did is pretty shaky.

Help me out here, I’m having trouble picturing this. Like… a pair of complete, full-size gazelles? Just fastened to the woman’s torso? If not, which parts?

Genuinely curious what he had in mind. A GNOME desktop? A terminal shell?

Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones

Alpha Centauri baby! Still one of my favourite games, I wonder if it still works

Reminds me of this dialogue from Ghost World

Enid : You know, we need to find a place where you can go to meet women who share your interests.
Seymour : Well maybe I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.

Yeah, that’s fair. Still curved though. In my defense I had it right in my brain, the idea got garbled on its way to the keyboard

Aaaaactchhhually a frozen lake would follow the local curvature of the earth, even assuming ideal conditions and crystal formation and so on