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@rfkenmore Chukkas are great but, that said, ankle boots with laces don’t feel like a James Bond thing to wear at all. Nonchalance in all things is his whole deal.

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@parsons_tor Heat (1995)

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@Nuskylicious 2 and 3

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@populusaigeiros Saw one listed for 175k in Minnesota, insanely low for the area it was in, until you realize that in Minnesota most of those (custom) windows will need replacing every 30 years, and 50 years had already gone by…

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@AdsoOfBelk On the other hand, it’s wild that they were already wearing hoodies back then

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@saturnalreturn Not really though. Sometimes it’s sex, drinking in a gemütlichkeit setting, heavy rain, canoeing 20 miles only to fish at dusk, getting an old motorcycle to fire up, spoiling a dog, heavy snow, your daughter showing you how loose a tooth of hers is, a good fire, et cetera

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@uberstuber Or you can just eyeball it every damn time because you’re a self-possessed animal, wild and free, and not a laboratory beagle being raised for post procedure vivisection and comparison.

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@_theorycel This was an iron rule of Hayes Code era movies, too: no matter how much wild success at crime you depict, there must be a bad outcome for every outlaw involved by the denouement so the audience knows the final message is that crime is bad lol

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@brutenorse You did have something like this in Wisconsin for a period of time with Norwegian men marrying Irish Catholics and immediately folding on their kids being raised Lutheran, but with diminishing returns on the Scandiness of the household each successive generation, of course.

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@DrGregLittle2 Every mystery object is to organize hand-spun yarn. Every. Single. One.

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@KarlDonitzGroyp Karl Ove Knausgaard brings it up iirc

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@gmoult There’s also this thing where the Chicago River’s portage to the Des Plains River provided the easiest access from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River, making it the equivalent to the Northwest Passage in terms of value to the fur trade, that’s literally why Chicago is there

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@byronicgirl Name a despot who wasn’t a writer, intellectual, or artist of real or at least self imagined potential.

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@manfreakbeast There’s no quieter place than within a copse of cedar and pine with four feet of snow on the ground and one yet clinging to the branches. A silence you’re embarrassed to break by even breathing.

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@mootsheep More insane we didn’t remain there without the theatrical impetus of a “Cold War.”

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@user_________01 Any brass hardware you’ll ever need without casting it yourself from spent shell casings?

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@BigBBaptist Not even a Cub state everywhere. Super One and Coburns up north. Western WI is getting taken over by Festival Foods too, haven’t seen a Pick N Save outside greater Milwaukee. This map should look like the Holy Roman Empire if it were honest.

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@alex_wennerberg Good thing you didn’t then read it in the context of the rest of The Pale King and thus be forced to recognize it for its intended absurdity and irony lol

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@nishanciefendi That’s all you’re doing reading influential yet poorly aged comparative studies or doorstop amalgams on occult or mystic topics. The goal isn’t to get at definitive information when you’re in that deep, it’s to understand why the very next generation on the topic was like *that.*

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@herekdeckman Good jokes rely on setting up broadly inclusive expectations before subverting them in a novel way, that’s structurally inescapable.