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flatdawgs

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  1. You'll also be well rewarded by reading Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost.
  2. Look'ee there's my privateer She's small but she can sting Licensed to take prizes With a letter from the King I love the streets and taverns Of a pretty foreign town I tip my hat to the dark-eyed ladies As we sally up and down To lay with pretty women To drink Madeira wine To hear the rollers thunder On a shore that isn't mine (Yeah, I'm in, and I too know a few little island boltholes from Mindelo to Port Vila where the grog flows freely. Yarrrrr, fuck Russia.)
  3. Well, yeah. That stuff's sticky.
  4. Well, we sure as hell know Tesla's not capable of driving itself into the ground....
  5. And Angola was a Portuguese colony, not French....
  6. Why do all that turret-removing work, vatniks? I have it on good authority that the Ukrainians can just pop those right off for ya.
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    Euro 2024

    Gibraltar's coming home?
  8. He needs to be denaturalized and deported. Let Canada or South Africa commit him.
  9. I, for one, welcome the Gurhkas into our military.
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    Euro 2024

    Oblak-di, Oblak-da, life goes on, Ronaldololololol
  11. flatdawgs

    Euro 2024

    As someone partially through the interminable Portuguese residency process and knowing what wonderful people the Portuguese are, it's tough not to root for them in general (despite the antics of CR7). OTOH, NYE in Ljubljana was epic (tied with Mindelo in Cabo Verde) and Slovenians are great, so pretty much a win-win here.
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    Euro 2024

    Well, I spell it São Tomé e Príncipe. Interesting little place. I was also saying "Boo-urns," so take that with a grain of salt.
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    Rowing

    Congratulations, Horns! UT has built a hell of a program. I wish I knew what has happened to UW's women's program, but there you are. (On the men's side, UW's "Boys in the Boat" won their 20th national title. I'll take that and Texas beating Stanford any time.)
  14. Kim Jong-un in a little toy shop Sees a bag of balloons; it's all they've got Thinks a moment - "I've got it!" "Load these up with trash and shit!" Checks the wind, it's blowing right To take the rubbish out of sight Floating past the watchful eyes Two hundred sixty poop balloons go by Two hundred sixty poop balloons Floating past the DMZ Does North Korea really not Have Amazon delivery You'd think their waste Had value there More than here, where we have food (Except on Tuesdays, when it's bird) Two hundred sixty poop balloons go by ---- Two hundred sixty rancid spheres In every one a gift from Kim It seems that it was pretty shitty To drop those on our lovely city If I could know why they came here The next time I fill up on beer Fearless Leader, in due time I'll take a shart, and think of you
  15. RIP, Bill. I always enjoyed your weird yet educated take on everything under the sun, expounded upon seemingly at random, but always with kindness and humor. He loved our west coast and our conference as much as any of us did, and I loved him for it. Perhaps it is fitting that he passes at the very end of its existence. I cannot imagine him enjoying him watch his beloved Bruins and the rest of the west coast teams scattered to the winds. RIP, Bill. Truly an end of an era in so many ways.
  16. We Rule This Emirate
  17. Viipuri? Somewhere, Simo Häyhä is smiling.
  18. Took the hour drive up to the pass and it was amazing (also several hundred other people decided to go to the exact same spot, lol). The camera picks up a lot more of the reddish wavelengths than the eye does. Even after returning home and walking down to the waterfront in downtown Seattle, there was still quite a visible show directly overhead. Really amazing to see.
  19. C'mon, Snoop. Had to be the Smoka Bowl.
  20. It's Air Canada. They'd figure out how to mess up a connection on a non-stop.
  21. Yeah, that's somewhere up near Flavor Country.
  22. Definitely the blurst of times over at Tesla. Never fear, though - I'm sure they'll get even blurse.
  23. Amazon Primate. (And fuck all these fucking fucks. The Russian army's too good for them. Well, maybe not.)
  24. Marshawn would kick the shit outta that thing.
  25. Yeah, if you travel through a pre-clearance airport overseas (Dublin, Shannon, Bermuda, Nassau, Aruba, Abu Dhabi, and the major Canadian cities), you're released into the general horde when you arrive at your arrival airport in the States as if you were arriving from SFO or JFK. You've already cleared everything before you leave (this means that once you do that, of course, you're in a sterile part of the foreign airport and have to stay there until you depart, so keep that in mind). The fine folks that give you patdowns without warning want to ensure that it's only US Americans who do that prior to you joining the domestic air travel scene (the benefit if you're connecting in the US, of course, is that you've also cleared customs and immigration and can just go to your next flight). If you travel overseas at all, I'd highly recommend Global Entry as it speeds up customs and gets you TSA pre-check.
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