26 Replies to “Pickings”

  1. Yeah, but they’re like, vegan boogers, okay? And she, like, recycles them. So that’s like, okay.

      1. Because “it” is seen by some as exclusionary, and “zit” is too apt (think “head full of…”).

      2. Dude looks like a lady. Well, not really a “lady” … more of a confused something or other

  2. “[The] demand for gender-neutral pronouns remains, to say the least, a niche concern.”

    As it will always remain.

    Language works by widespread consensus of grammatical and semantic cues reinforced through common usage.* In other words, in terms of the English-speaking population on Earth, the particular demographic all fussed about “gender-neutral” pronouns isn’t even a niche; it’s too microscopic to show up on the radar.

    * That’s to say, you aren’t going to get bog-standard everyday English-speakers (not chattering intellectuals and politicos in the media and academe) to use your silly personal pronoun.

  3. Re: social justice howler monkeys. My definition of a spoiled brat: someone who is never more unhappy than when they’ve been given everything they asked for.

  4. That’s is the classmate we all had who spent grade one thru three with the inability to shake the “cooties” and had the under desk boogie collection.
    Time for their revenge apparently.

  5. That really is very unpleasant to look at. Maybe Kate can reduce the size of the picture or get something else for the very top of the page.

  6. I thought the f53g picture was disgusting this morning, it just as disgusting now.

  7. I figure its probably just the modern version of Deep Throat that we’re seeing.

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