Queensryche - Another Rainy Night (Without You), Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains, Clint Black - Never Liked The Rain, Gene Kelly - Singin’ In The Rain, B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.

Do you think forty an hour is a flex? That’s like walk in off the street temp work that methheads and homeless people do lol. Even within the narrow confines of your pathetic worldview you are a complete loser lol.

“Coming Home From Tarwin’s Gap” and “Dance With Jak O’ Shadows” both from The Wheel of Time.

https://primatology.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/

Sumatran Orangutans also use hand tools while Orangutans from Borneo do not.

I frequently rip down and throw out Trump signs. I don’t consider it a crime to remove symbols of hate from my community.

I don’t know if it’s a pick up line, but when I get a girls number I immediately send her a picture of a rooster and ask if she likes unsolicited cock pics.

https://www.spaghettimonster.org/2018/10/18/pastafarian-headgear-statement/

Old news.

My version is “I hope your day is as pleasant as you are.” Said mock sweetly to asshole customers.

It’s all just one long tube from mouth to butthole.

Wait wait wait…you mean to tell me they’re just NOW saying the clergy has to report abuse? I assumed it’s been something they’re ignoring or not enforcing, but it literally hasn’t been a rule…this whole time?

If you haven’t played Phoenix Point yet put that on deck.

The Bortus family arc kinda starts to feel like the entire point of the series in season 3, and I’m okay with that.

There’s an incorrectly spelled Krakow, Wisconsin as well.

My career hasn’t changed much since the 1700s, I’m a winemaker. Our company doesn’t have a vineyard we buy grapes from farmers, so our winery is in the city not some villa on the hill. At first glance our warehouse full of barrels is pretty similar to an old school winery. I could show my counterpart advances we have made in automation, like our bottling line or the giant industrial press, and I bet they’d get a kick out of moving stacks of barrels or fermentation tanks with a forklift. Using food grade plastic instead of wood makes cleaning easier, and our pump is electric not hand driven, but ultimately little has changed. Our wine lab is pretty high tech and probably the main exception, I dont think they tested for things like acidity and sulfur levels until the industrial revolution. I was literally just talking about this yesterday with my coworker. We had the bottling line out in the yard and we were sanitizing it by pumping boiling water through it with a diesel powered compressor. My contemporary may not understand sanitizing, or the equipment we used to do it, but he would easily understand the bottler and the importance of keeping it clean. I would love to share a few bottles of modern wine with a pre industrial master and vice versa.

Tolkien himself literally said the eagles are not a taxi service lol

Are you implying the eagles are Valar? What you say about the Valar intervening is true but the eagles are mortal beasts. The reason I’ve heard most often is that eagles are not stealthy enough, Sauron would see them coming and counter them with fell beasts, nazgul, archers, siege engines etc. This kind of assault is exactly what Sauron expects from someone who just claimed the ring for themselves and what he is prepared for. Gandalf stresses that the quest relies on secrecy and stealth. If the eagles going to war would wreck middle earth, wouldn’t it have happened during the battle of the five armies? Or at the battle of the black gate?

In Portland Oregon (most strip clubs per capita in the country) it is traditional to use $2 bills instead of singles. It is extremely common to see two dollar bills in Oregon, I would bet a majority of two’s in circulation stay in the PNW.

The highest praise I have ever received, but no lol.

Doesn’t literally EVERY elf live until the end of the world? Like their body may be slain but their spirit just returns to Aman to chill in the Halls of Mandos with all the other ‘dead’ elves until Iluvatar summons them to fight in the final battle. Even then you get Glorfindel just too Chadly to stay down, he walks right out of the halls with a blessing and sails back to middle earth to terrify nazgul. Not every elf was born in Cuivenen and exists for the entire duration of Ardas history, but every elf sticks around in some form or another until all creation is destroyed and remade. That’s why elves choosing to be mortal is such a big deal, they actually die. Their soul isn’t returned to their family members in Aman to catch up, they go wherever men go. Didnt Feanors mother’s (Idril?) soul get so damaged by (implied) rape that she was set apart in the halls? She died and still went to the halls but was basically catatonic forever. She still ‘lived’ in Aman until the Dagor Dagorlach, even though her injuries were so terrible she probably longed for death. That sounds more like eternal torture than eternal life, but either way its forever, she didn’t get oblivion or whatever happens to men.

I say “greetings earthling(s)” but I also like gumshoe! Also definitely adding “listen up assholes” to the rotation, my coworkers appreciate your suggestions!