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  • Was talking to this gay woman at a bar and noticed that she would make contradictory claims like saying she was Palestinian and that she was African. She spoke with an SA accent and said she was from SA but subsequently contradicted herself. She was nice but a bit aloof when I asked her any questions about herself. I called her on these contradictions and said that what she was saying didn't add up.

    Turns out that she was Namibian and that her father was Palestinian. She identified as Palestinian. She said she was aloof about it because most people can't point to Namibia on a map and that she was tired of her country being a point of prejudice in addition to her sexuality and skin colour so she just said she was from SA to avoid all that.

    So a minor lie but one that thought me a lot about what it must be like for some people in everyday conversations.

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  • Christ, imagine propagating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in 2024. Its got to be one of the most debunked documents in history:

    The spurious character of the Protocols was first revealed in 1921 by Philip Graves of The Times (London), who demonstrated their obvious resemblance to a satire on Napoleon III by the French lawyer Maurice Joly, published in 1864 and entitled Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (“Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu”). Subsequent investigation, particularly by the Russian historian Vladimir Burtsev, revealed that the Protocols were forgeries compounded by officials of the Russian secret police out of the satire of Joly, a fantastic novel (Biarritz) by Hermann Goedsche (1868), and other sources.

    From Britannica

    They were literally debunked over 100 years ago.

  • Thanks for the context. Soooo.... What's with he dick jokes? I mean I'm fan of dix as much as the next dick lover but setting up an emails service that's ball-to-ball dicks is a bit much.

  • Not that it would justify it at all, but was he Australian? I like to imagine this bewildered a-hole getting increasingly pissed at what he perceives as a transgression of social boundaries by every Australian he meets on his holiday.

  • Omg, when I saw that thing as the group was going through the cave I knew they were fucked.

    Image from Bezerk manga for those who don't know. These kinds of malformed beings are essentially lower demons from the Bezerk's Boschean version of hell. Great manga but deeply fucked up.

  • People speaking on their phone using a loudspeaker.

    People who don't understand basic elevator etiquette and attempt to walk in before people get off.

    People who play Karaoke loud enough for anyone outside of their home to hear.

    People who drive two motorbikes / bicycles beside each other and talk, thereby blocking traffic.

    People who cut in line.

    People who don't clean up after their pets.

    People who get angry at the animals and not the owners for the above.

    People who display a total ignorance of the most basic facts regarding other countries.

    Dysfunctionally incompetent and/or lazy staff (beyond what is acceptable for low income workers).

    Bureaucrats who clearly prioritise covering their ass over performing the most basic functions of their job.

    People who are rude/dismissive to others who are smaller/weaker/meeker than them.

    Racist taxi drivers.

    Asshole bus drivers.

    People who don't apologise when they are wrong and know it.

    I can think of more but I'll stop there.