big-ass bowl of spaghetti or big ass-bowl of spaghetti

Also a decent option!

My take is that they should lose access to their assets, get a nominal wage plus housing/their needs tended to, and after they retire be given a pension and never allowed to take up other employment, including accepting fees for public speaking etc.

Being offered a sinecure position after they stop working as a politician is, I think, a major form of bribery.

If none of them are in any way productive you’ll almost certainly get bored sooner or later. People like doing things that matter. Work doesn’t have to mean a job!

I love being constantly reminded that I am ancient it’s my favourite thing

rude!

what are they calling you

Who’da thunk

Famously, holocaust survivors have always been mistreated in Israel because they’re seen as “weak” for not being able to fight back.

Rooting, shitting… And farting! This grunter has a third neuron!

oh no it’s the grunter

One of the victims was an off-duty New York Police Department officer, while the other three were civilians.

Drives me up the wall. The pigs ARE civilians.

No worries, I had to look it up myself. I was only tangentially aware of it but the timeframe made me wonder how gross it was (turns out, SUPER.)

ha ha ha ha

Actually semi related reminds me of one of the funnier Discworld moments imo…

‘No sense in bein’ bashful about goin’ bald, said Ridcully evenly. ‘Anyway, you know what they say about bald men, Dean.’

‘Yes, they say, “Look at him, he’s got no hair,”’ said the Lecturer of Recent Runes.

big shoes!!!

There is a spectre haunting Europe…

Apparently even at the time the kon-tiki expedition was largely regarded as racist pseudoscience. Heyerdahl made a simple raft when Austronesian people have sophisticated outrigger canoes and refused to accept the common knowledge of the day because he said they were “too primitive” to sail into the wind.

Edit: he also hypothesised colonisation by a white, blonde, blue-eyed people rather than. Y’know. Polynesians. Because he believed only white people could be capable of such a feat.

Just like Behind the Bastards where Robert Evans just cannot stop talking shit about the USSR. Critical support is all well and good but he’s never encountered a state department talking point he didn’t love. I’m sure he does the same shit re China.

I cannot see those two emojis as democrat and Republican because their faces are too British coded