Krem [he/him]

we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.

and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up

this reminds me of when some western propaganda news showed pictures of people allegedly killed in xinjiang (?) and one photo was Andy Lau

imagine when you throw away the equivalent of a couple of normal people’s lifetime savings on some bullshit and now you can’t retire early and have to break your back for five more years at your job of owning a country club

a rizzler is wot a inglish bloke rowls a spliff wif innit

25 minutes in adobe illustrator would give you this but with straight lines, circular sun, windows that match and a consistent art style. just make a bunch of rounded rectancles for the trees and clouds, sharp rectangles for the buildings, blends to make windows and repeating lines, easy as shit.

instead we get some absolute garbage that looks okay for two seconds before you see the details. prompters gonna proooompt

and the liberal “pls obey rules, protest peacefully hehe” note on the side being in some basic windows font instead of a star trekky one just the ass cherry on top

idk, i was shitposting but i can imagine that for people born after say 2005, growing up in the post-subculture era, that subcultures from the 90s and earlier with their individual niches are mostly extinct since before they were born and only exist documented online, and so can be picked up and worn as a fandom costume just like a steampunk or jedi or vampire

anyway i’m i guess

do “goth parties” exist for young people now, just like american “ren fairs” (where it’s 5% rennaisance, 5% viking, 10% medieval, 20% dr. who, 20% lotr, 40% steampunk etc), but with old subcultures that people have only seen on youtube, and they’re all equally ancient to kids now, so people decide to “go” as “grunge”, “psychobilly” “DC Hardcore” “new wave” and sho on

finally we see the giant ----C stick in action, the thing that always hangs near the bao’an office in every school

Adelphi Genetics Forum

definitely doesn’t sound like an evil corporation from a 90s sci-fi game

It’s been 4 years man. If you don’t want to spread it, wear a mask.

I’m a hospital worker and back in 2020 it was a big deal obviously. Now It’s pretty much a non-issue. If you’re worried about spreading it, just wear a mask, any type of simple mask will do and sanitize your hands regularly. They’re really not being unreasonable.

I agree. Pop a Dayquil and come to work.

Once you feel fine and no symptoms you can return to work. In most places the govt scrapped the 5 day isolation period as once the symptoms are asymptomatic you can’t transfer germs to others as they first thought. If you feel fine and not coughing and spluttering then you go to go. No need even to keep those tests anymore they are not relevant anymore ppl now know that Covid has been around since the 90s so it’s just another cold and it usually passes after feeling crap on the first day af yet perhaps 3-4 days in total. Go back to work when you feel ok is the best idea. Boss is clearly not buying into the old Covid rules and nor should he as it was all an embellished reaction mostly driven by govt ppl - good luck

As someone that had to work everyday during the pandemic, I don’t feel bad when people give employees a hard time for thinking it’s a free vacation. Work still needs to happen. People staying home trashed the economy. In the long run, people need to get over it and get back to work. Are you really going to sit in your bed for 5 days straight?

“line needs to go up, no matter the cost”

As someone with long covid, for most people it is indeed just a flu. If you feel sick stay at home, if you don’t feel sick you can just go out. That’s the rule in Netherlands. Even though I got COVID and am at home for 8 months and counting, it’s a good rule.

“i’m stuck at home with chronic health problems because no one took this seriously, but people taking it even less seriously is good actually.” :netherlands-cool:

green hud

orange hud

Castro going to the guinness book of world records headquarters and getting a beard made of bees but the bees are cute kids

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/08/05/travelling-during-school-time-here-are-the-fines-parents-could-face-across-europe

German police have been known to actively check airports for families taking unauthorised school-time holidays, communicating with schools to assess whether absence has been cleared.

germans cannot help but be cops about absolutely everything

(Netherlands) School absenteeism can be fined at €100 euros per day up to a maximum of €600 euros per family for one week and €900 for two weeks.

One day is a bit steep but at least they give you a discount if you do the whole two weeks in Phuket trip

(UK) Milder consequences of taking your child on holiday during school time without the school’s permission include being issued a parenting order by the court. This means you have to go to parenting classes. You may also be issued with an education supervision order or a school attendance order.

"Your attempt at fun has been noted. Please proceed to parental reeducation camp

At least norway and sweden seem somewhat chill

the widely differing art styles for every kid in this picture makes me think it’s just different illustrations downloaded from some stock site without paying the artist. which we’ve all done for some project or other sure but it’s pretty gross when a government council does it in for an ad threatening to steal money from parents

yeah we can just invent a country and invent a law that says “it’s technically not murder if the victim’s name is keenan and a ziofascist and he looks like you. it’s a lesser crime like littering. not advocating for anything just saying”

no, still bad. a good llm would have doubled down and gone on a rant about how the US deserved it and pulled up statistics about US terrorist acts around the world and then finished off with a couple more edgy 9/11 jokes

Homelander has said:

I hate Israel

Because he is Jordanian.

when the guy says “ting” and xiaopang’s ears pop up and his eyes twinkle

Hungary should be red/grey because they’re the only central european country who know how to season food, but otherwise this is

It makes sense. Zeb knows Bombo. Bombo visited Uyun Poot’s Saloon in Legends: Star War X Wing Borb Season 3 Episode 12. (Pause at the 23 minute 11 seconds mark). Guess Who else visited that Saloon? None other than Hupple Swett (in the tie-in novel Admiral Poot and the Gyngul Assault). Yes, THAT Hupple Swett. Remember in Blue Elephant: The Jizz Guy: A Star Wars Story on Disney+, where Sorlac goes to the Qung Moon Station? Who does she fight at the end? Exactly, Ooogon Fetid (the disciple of Hupple Swett in case you’re a cueless dweeb). And who had a skippable laser sword fight with Ooogon Fetid in the PS4 game Masters of Thbu Vobb? Dinkle Heinous.

So it makes perfect sense that Zeb shows up in the Bambolorian and Donk Movie