@DickinsonCol Alternative title: Dear prospective student's parents! Look at this selection of slightly upscale establishments in Carlisle that cater to students' parents
@yakabikaj Skimming to find the most important paragraphs so I can just read those, only to find that the preceding paragraphs were actually necessary to comprehend the most critical ones, almost as if the author had been thoughtful in constructing the text
@koutchoukalimar You're right that the US cops would just never say "we shut down this protest because somebody gave a speech in Arabic" but they would absolutely do that
@koutchoukalimar In practice the exact same thing could happen in the US, though, it would just be unspoken. Police base a lot of decisions on appearance and language is an important aspect of appearance
@FNbunchonumbers@ZullieTheWitch "When the world rots, we set it afire. For the sake of the next world.
It's the one thing we do right, unlike those fools on the outside."
(outside here referring to the 'real' world ruled by the first flame)
@zeibura 18th century boomers:
Glass tax.
Gin tax
Candle/beeswax tax
playing card tax
window tax
watch tax *and* clock tax
Brick tax
None of these taxes existed 100 years ago. The King paid ffor his own wars against france and we stayed home and died of the black death
@fireh9lly "That's okay, we'll just randomly insert 'ethnically ambiguous' into the prompt," has to be the funniest possible solution that could ever be proposed
@ZdenekHrib Is this a joke? This is utterly horrendous. Entirely open to wind and rain, yet also blocking sight-lines to the corresponding historical buildings. Worst of all possible worlds
Pražáci:"Sakra další metro jede za minutu a půl. Musím se prorvat do zavírajících dveří jinak nastane konec světa"
Krajské město:"Super. Bus jede už za půl hodiny. To je pohoda."
Vesnice:"Bus? Dneska? Jsou už 4 odpoledne, ale jeden odtud jede v 5:30 ráno"