just like airport smoking rooms, if you need your stinky vice do it the little shameful room

Got a light?

nightcrawler was a fun example of a creepy guy doing creepy stuff creepily while upbeat inspirational music plays. almost feels like a parody of both this type of movie guy as well as bootstraps type movies

The vodka looks to be Grey Goose 灰雁?

oh that makes sense, cool

龙舌兰 means tequila because it refers to the agave plant. 龙舌 - dragon tongue, 兰 - orchid (and a lot of other plants). in 兰姆 the "lan" is used phonetically, to make the first syllable, the "ru" of "rum". in 龙舌兰 the 兰 is used botanically

Kim's drink is a shot of gin, because the Korean family name Kim is written with chinese characters as 金 which in mandarin is pronounced Jin and is the phonetic character of the alcohol gin

The phone call to your ex-wife is apricot scented beer, I think

The borscht is too blurry for me to read well but I think it's aged vodka(?), tomato juice, carrot juice and black pepper

"I don't understand, I thought I'd be diagnosing all exotic diseases with strange symptoms except lupus after the revolution..."

"GET ON THE STAGE"

hell yeah i'm going to get drunk every day in a giant hotel casino that apparently stops by many famous places of great beauty that me or my slot machine buddies might only see through the porthole because we're busy drinking old people cocktails and eating shrimp and mac and cheese every day. life is good

if you take thebasic premise of Lord of the flies, but replace Big brother and surveillance with genetic caste society and consumerist hedonism, you get The Matrix

lord of the flies was about a one-party state with mass surveillance and omnipresent propaganda, where all books were burned, and it's theocratical and any women that can bear children are forced to do so. that's what happened in the book about boys on an island

CW: furry chud dumper

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Organ Donor nonprofit

Association of Organ Procurement Organizations

damn, what sort of cyberpunk dystopia has several independent organ donation groups instead of it just being handled by the healthcare system?

piss again

i am piss

tell a friend

guess whose piss guess whose piss guess whose piss nanana

close enough

I’ll never forget it, how he showed me around our first place like he was introducing me to myself: This is the wine you’ll drink, where you’ll keep your clothes, we vacation here, this is the other language we’ll speak, you’ll learn it, and I did. Adulthood seemed a series of exhausting obligations. But his logistics ran so smoothly that he simply tacked mine on. I moved into his flat, onto his level, drag and drop, cleaner thrice a week, bills automatic.

also comments are beautiful

As a single, older man, I found this essay both beautifully written and insightful. Thank-you!

and

This is an excellent essay, and it's shocking to see how hatefully it is derided and how many people are in denial of the reality the essay bravely takes on. In terms of mating,

unfortunately if you like obscure albums the algorithm will now feed you "obscure album - 1973" that's actually AI slop, and if you block it i guess your carefully curated algorithm will wither and die

Lockdown era sweaty wild mane and beard Jay x Hot Off The Presses Autumn 2024 Finally Gracefully Aging Greying Buzz Cut Jay please

the UK apparently is using the Malaysian/Hong Kong type of plugs which are annoying as shit. every time you go to HK (and Malaysia) you have to remember to bring the stupid converter because they insist on using stupid special sockets. the plugs are fucking huge and bulky and annoying.

can i get the double sized balls and but and half sized brain please

I've been to this park. Seen some things you wouldn't believe. Monkeys begging for a biscuit then taking the whole bag. Monkeys stealing popsicles from kids. A monkey getting a pepsi from a vending machine and opening the plastic bottle with its teeth. Swole bro monkeys showing off their pecs and asses to tourists. Herds of monkey kids running through the underbrush while park staff could only look on or sometimes try to scare them off with slingshots. Macaques don't care. They are the majority here. They rule the park.

I heard that when guiyang had a minor lockdown, the macaques that were used to stealing treats from visitors had to go hungry, and then went down from the mountain park into the city below to get their treats one way or the other