Me: I'd like to buy a house.
Bank: What you'd like is irrelevant. Only the will of the Omniscient Number can decide your fate.
Me: D-does the number will it?
Bank: It might, but we'd need to invoke it.
Me:
Bank: Invoking the Number will likely cause it to change its mind.
Flying Spaghetti Monster: *passing spaghetti and marinara* Take and eat -- for it is my body and my blood.
Me: Nice.
Spaghetti Monster: *passing breadsticks and meatballs* and this is my --
Me:
So I learned something interesting today.
We as a species have managed to figure out how to harness lightning as energy, make rocks do math for us, get people to the moon and back, and how to split individual atoms.
And yet we cannot seem to figure out how bicycles work.
Things midwesterners say:
Ope! - (Hello.)
Ope! - (Sorry, I didn't see you there.)
Ope! - (Oh no, I spilled my drink.)
Ope! - (Oh dear, I tripped and ate shit on the pavement.)
*at an autism convention*
Speaker: By a show of hands, be honest, who here has the "autism arms?"
Me: *desperately trying to raise my tiny T-Rex hands*
CDC: Here, take this covid vaccine to prevent you and your loved ones from dying.
Conservatives: AGH!! NO, IT'S GOT A MICROCHIP IN IT!!
Elon Musk: I'm going to literally implant a microchip in your skull.
Conservatives: TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY RIGHT NOW!!