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*phacism

I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes? But there are many kinds of desert, and not all of them are dry.

No, being dry is really what makes a desert. Deserts can be hot, cold, even seasonally wet, but overall they must have low yearly precipitation.

In fact, those spreading across Britain are clustered in the wettest places.

Obviously, no.

Yet they harbour fewer species than some dry deserts do, and are just as hostile to humans.

Few species and hostile, sure, but these are not defining attributes of desert.

Another useful term is terrestrial dead zones.

Well, it is closer to accuracy.

This twat is using desert figuratively in an article on ecology while chastising readers for thinking that deserts are dry.

Idiot

Or, you're holding a nozzle that sprays liquid. Just douse the speaker in gasoline.

Picture matches the tone of the hiring perfectly. Let him keep the job. I want to see how this plays out.

You've got to be kidding! Every morning, as soon as the sun even gets close to coming over the horizon, it seems every dinosaur in the neighborhood starts tweeting, or screeching, or cawing. Don't believe for a second that I haven't thought about this and been grateful that none of the toothed ones made it. I wouldn't be able to take the din.

No case, no problems so far. I've had numerous phones over the last 20 years, never had a case, and never had an issue. Don't drop your phones.

I did buy a case for my son's first phones, but I wouldn't suggest he need one now. He is certainly old enough to take care with it.

In other words, ACAB

That was a better joke 30 years ago. 40 years ago, it was hilarious.

Makes you think. Just what should we do with Mar-a-lago when this is all over?

You must have had access to the best drugs in the 80s because they were not what you describe at all.

Ah, trying hard to not be eaten, I see

You mean the price tag?

What a strange goal. Do they really not expect to be eaten?

*imply

And the other half will just die, I guess?

That would be "must've", not "must of".

A trained armed *imbecilic terrorist group

I used to experience a lot of negative emotions when I thought about the second ammendment

Would the "celebrity" have a security detail?

Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn't scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.