Crimson847 wrote:In other words, transgender-friendly privacy laws don't molest people, people molest people.
(Presumably, the only way to stop a bad guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law is a good guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law, and thus transgender-friendly privacy law rights need to be enshrined in the Constitution as well)
Schweicker lost his arms in a duel with a German noble named Noah von Williamsburg. The two dueled over the right to court a female that the two were both infatuated with. In the duel, Schweicker's left arm was dismembered by von Williamsburg's sword but he continued to duel with his right arm. After a long and drawn out duel, von Williamsburg dismembered Schweicker's right arm as well. Schweicker finally admitted defeat before passing out from blood loss.
There was a particularly tough contest in progress, and one of the wrestlers, his arm broke—the difficulty of the embrace was so great that his arm broke under the pressure—and he submitted because of the appalling pain he was in. And the referee sort of disentangled them and said to the other guy, ‘You won,’ and the other guy was rather unresponsive, and the referee realized the other guy was dead. And this was an example to ‘Jumper’ Gee of the fact that if you didn’t give up you couldn’t lose, and I always thought this was a very dodgy conclusion, but it stuck in my mind for years, and so probably 15 years later when I was writing for The Holy Grail with Graham, I told him about that, and that’s where the Black Knight sketch came from.
Anglerphobe wrote:That reminds me of the faction of internet tough guys who maintain that stuff like bjj and wrestling wouldn't work "on the streets" because someone could claw at your eyes or squeeze your balls or whatever while you're choking them.
Pedgerow wrote:I actually learnt this a couple of weeks ago, but I've been too busy shoehorning it into other places to share my hot new secret until now:
If you want to make the ™ trademark sign, switch off Num Lock on your keyboard, then hold the Alt key (not Alt Gr), and type the numbers 0153 with your numpad.
There are loads more here if you're really interested, but I only ever wanted the TM one.
Crimson847 wrote:In other words, transgender-friendly privacy laws don't molest people, people molest people.
(Presumably, the only way to stop a bad guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law is a good guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law, and thus transgender-friendly privacy law rights need to be enshrined in the Constitution as well)
Aquila89 wrote:TIL that Dr. Seuss's first book, published in 1931, was called Boners. It was followed by More Boners, Still More Boners and Prize Boners for 1932. These were later collected in The Pocket Book of Boners.
(A "boner" in 1930s slang meant a silly mistake).
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