isn’t it bad to be thirsty and good to have a nice drink?

Plus, there are thousands of years of culture in offering a drink implying trust and friendship.

test the link before sending

there’s a scene from a Samuel Beckett play - one of my favorites but definitely for the hard-core Beckett fan - in which two administrators are examinaning testimonials from a man’s life while he stands on a window ledge working out whether he should jump to his death or not. In it they interview someone he knows and leads to one of the administrators yelling “WHERES THE VERB?!?!!” which in a better world I could post as a Relatable Meme

it usually indicates “golden” raisins in the uk

they already do this kinda. Look up how Guy Fieri’s tequila was stolen

I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should’ve been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

ran thru is young people slang for shaming a woman with what they consider an abnormally high number of previous partners. Such thinking is misogynist trash obviously.

I read a short story once that there’s only one person constantly reincarnated simultaneously, and everyone you (I) meet is actually me (you) and only realizes it after death before being born into the next person’s body,

pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.

have you tried Finnegan’s Wake instead?

yeah trying to explain tethering to a non technical person because it used to have a cable and now doesn’t

the term is Shibboleth

I think a lot about the guy who is scared aliens are trying to steal your thoughts with magnets and so they give him an MRI

It’s a reference to Shakespeare, when Hamlet finds the skull of the old court jester who looked after him as a child. “Alas! poor Yorrick! I knew him, Horatio. A man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times…”

In the book, it’s the name of a film made by the protagonist’s late Dad, one which combines a myriad of new and experimental film techniques and technical application of lenses with some incredibly beautiful people - and is so compelling that if you watch it you can’t stop watching it until you starve to death.

The book juxtaposes the obviously bad addiction of drugs and shows us the journey of an addict trying to gain a control of their life, with a bunch of “good” addictions amongst a group of adolescent boys trying to become tennis pros at an ivy-league-type college.

With a bunch of criticism of American life: Years no longer have numbers like 1997 or 2008, they are sponsored by brands so there’s Year of the Whopper, Year of Glad Flaccid Plastic Receptical Products, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment… Canada, Mexico and the USA have formed into one giant country after the mid-west became uninhabitable due to pollution…

honestly I love the book but you have to be a certain type of person to love it.

Infinite Jest has extensive footnotes, which are at the back of the book. Some of them are 12 pages long and contain multiple subplots and plot points and gives history and context to how and why the Infinite Jest of the book is so deadly.

infinite jest is half footnotes, which are at the back of the book, which is part of the “joke” of the book, being based around extreme academia.

huh I wonder if there’s a significant day coming up around which jokes tend to accumulate?

and there are people who send death threats to tv writers and video game developers, far from harmless

and yet I bet you suspend your disbelief when consuming media such as video games, film and TV.

Same instinct and process.

Surely that’s irrelevant compared to the public figure featured in the story who hates immigration and supports sending illegal immigrants home?

Whether or not I, just some guy who can infer from statistics that immigration is factually a net positive, does not detract from a powerful guy whose personal convictions outweigh reality behaving like a hypocrite.

Let’s not let the benefits of migration to every party get in the way of the guy who did the thing he said no one should do dodge the punishment he said everyone should get.