Flying the Stars and Stripes upside down is a distress call. And at least in my neck of the woods, authorities will respond to it; on occasion the students at high schools tasked with hoisting the flag in the morning will sometimes attach it upside down, and police or fire show up to ask what’s wrong.

The closest it came to being used as a slur in the US is to accuse someone of clumsiness. We never called people suffering from nervous system diseases “spastics.” Don’t put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.

“Spastic” and even “spaz” is used in the US but isn’t considered an ablest slur here. My understanding is the British used it as a slur for cerebral palsy or parkinson’s disease patients, where in the US it simply means an uncoordinated jerky motion and/or clumsiness. Let’s not mince words, the United States of America is perfectly capable of generating slurs; but this one isn’t ours.

And the act of traveling on said highway was…surfing. For some reason. The 90’s were stupid, and I’m from there.

Syke. Or psych. Early 90’s kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener’s mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with “NOT!” though distinct.

“Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You’re not touching my ride.”

The more I type about it, the less “psych” looks like a valid English word.

Limey detected. That’s a Bri’ish thing.

It wasn’t a TV show, it was a commercial. For acrylic nails.

So I was like 5, this would have been in 1991 or so, there was a commercial on daytime television among the blue star ointment and dirt devil vacuums for some brand of acrylic nails that were easy to put on and take off, and they contrasted this against the “other brand” that showed a woman peeling it off and it had this stringy yellow goo underneath. I didn’t understand what fake nails were, so I thought it was just a woman casually tearing her fingernail off.

To this day I compulsively trim my nails very short, I cannot stand the thought of bending my fingernails back.

Why do I remember that specific visual from that episode and basically nothing else? The…mall was in the pinball machine?

There was the episode with Gilbert Gottfried who was a radio announcer, there was an episode about a ghost monster thing in the pool that the kid turned orange with chemicals…some 30 year old neurons are firing over here folks, and they ain’t firing that bright.

Violence. You want a revolution, you’re gonna have to kill some people.

I do love how they did Bohemian Rhapsody, and got around having muppets sing “mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he’s dead” by having Animal repeatedly yell “MAMA!”

Yes.

I got real into Zero Punctuation about a decade ago, so I’d watch a load of 5 minute youtube videos back to back.

It would serve me the same goddamn ad for a Mission Impossible movie between every one. The ad had this hateful nasally music that went “ready or not, here I come.”

I have not paid for a movie ticket, a streaming service, or a new DVD or Blu-Ray since then. Brain surgery with a backhoe, cut your pineal gland off at the waist. Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.

How many months do you leave them in the water? 50? 60? Or do you ever take them back out?

I recommend Paul Fellows, who has a large catalog of brief astronomy lectures under his “Once Around” series.

It is my understanding that iOS does not support Syncthing.

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I always heard that quote attributed to Joseph Stalin, re the T-34 vs the German Panzer. I’m not one of the two worst men in history, so a pissing match between the worst man in history and the second worst man in history does not impress me, a better human than both. My name isn’t in a single social studies textbook printed anywhere on earth. Get on my level, noobs.

They get shot just for going to school. Or being brown.

that’s men’s room egg salad.

KFC was good. it’s now slop.