Get a grip, pug. Just accept it and move on…

Blahaj has Blahaj rules - don’t like them, then don’t comment and/or visit.

Every instance has rules - you’ll never agree with all of them; but isn’t that the entire point of federation, i.e. decentralisation?

Angry? Not sure where you get that from but it ain’t no thing…

To finish quoting the op: “Someone at the Board on Geographic Names bent over faster than a dippy bird.”

I see that as a real concern that a previously well respected institution just blindly accepted a change that runs contrary to accepted local, national and international norms - thus surrendering any impartiality and no longer reporting the facts as they are on the ground.

Presumably you read this part differently to me.

I’m not gonna lose any sleep over that…

Seriously? You think people are complaining about the means used as opposed to the action sanctioned… interesting. I’ve yet to hear anyone complain about the method - they all seem pissed about the change itself; not how it was achieved. Maybe you’re in different comms to the ones I’ve been browsing…

“… to restore an Alaska Native name…”

That’s taking the name back to Koyukon. It’s not remotely equivalent to making a name up; like they’ve tried with the Gulf of Mexico. Poor equivalence to conflate the two.

Well, if it’s just as likely as any other meat I’ll begin eating blue pork and see how that works out - plus, if your beef has o157 I suggest you send your food safety agency to the butcher / (s)laughter house and see where they went wrong. Also, fast-food beef is likely to be minced - in which case you’d need to cook that fucker through and through to make it anywhere near safe. (Yeah, yeah. I hear you, steak tartare people)

Unlikely with beef.

The rise of battery leaf blowers gives me hope that humanity can be saved. I hope you have many happy years with it. It’s an incredibly satisfying pastime.

Uh, that’s essentially what my first comment is saying… that’s why I assumed the poster was from over in the US - the rest of the world ain’t really like that. The vast majority of gun owners across the world are normal people; who just happen to own guns, amongst other possessions.

I use guns. I use a lot of other tools, too. My chainsaw doesn’t define my personality, so why would a gun?

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess you live in the US - well, I sure hope you do.

In the US I believe that guns are like pick-up trucks: far more people own them to plug gaps in their personality than the number of people who own them because they need their utility.

My personal view - and a generally held one - is that guns are a tool and to fetishise a tool is… weird; and suggests to me a troubled mind.

I’ve always wondered where the word “onanist” came (lol) from… I’m guessing from this fairy tale accurate historical account of genuine events.

I know, they are so easy to understand.

Your writing style is giving me real 9gag vibes…

That’s something I’ve always wondered myself - I’m not sure why the spelling mutated, but then I’m not a native speaker.

The Spanish name Enrique can be diminutised to “Kike” (key-kay) but PlayStation network banned accounts with that name as the word in English is slur against Jews.

One of my favourite football chants:

“You cannot spell Scunthorpe without cunt, You cannot spell Scunthorpe without cunt, You cannot spell Scunthorpe, You cannot spell Scunthorpe, You cannot spell Scunthorpe without cunt”

Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

Your last point all depends whether we take the spirit of the law or the letter of the law… but perhaps there could be a non-Dutch higher court to decide any contentious points?

Good for you. I wish more people would talk to people they don’t immediately share values with.

Hello. Can I please make my internet experience both echoier and chamberier than it already is because it makes me sad when I encounter someone online who has different thoughts to me.

Imagine being so fragile that you can’t even accept that some people live a different way to you and wanting them shut down as a result.