I Identify As the Straits of Hormuz Being Open feat. Séamus Malekafzali
Friend of the show and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali joins us to discuss Events in West Asia, specifically as regards Israel’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon, and Trump’s seeming gestures towards escalating a war with Iran that is already going very badly.
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Oh the heady days of 10 days ago. Back when we were young and naive.
There is an actual, not a joke magazine for concrete construction. The American Concrete Institute publishes the "Concrete International" magazine. For the American construction industry, the American Society of Civil Engineers has their own bi-monthly magazine (they had an article on one of the NEOM projects awhile ago), the American Institute of Steel Construction has a magazine called Modern Steel Construction, and there's a magazine called Structure Mag. The articles are mostly glorified advertisements for various firms.
The worst part about the Patel links for me is that he’s a fan of the same hockey team as me (the New York Islanders) and he’s wearing islanders gear in multiple photos / has been spotted hanging out with our players
Waiting for his hockey rpf ao3 handle to be leaked
Everyone had a swisher sweet phase
just wanted to let you guys know that in Spotify’s attempt to provide auto-subtitles to your show it failed in both of its attempts at transcribing your “Ozymandias” reference (the original being “look upon my works ye mighty and despair”) the first time when November said it Spotify’s first guess was “Upon my work to you might see” and then when Riley said it a few moments later it did “look upon my works he mighty and he mighty”
Ye mighty and he mighty! Is there anyone else mighty I should know about?
Cigarillos are awesome, I smoke them every day. Didn't even need to be Gujarati for that
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Cigarillos are awesome, I smoke them every day. Didn't even need to be Gujarati for that
invite seamus back to wtyp for another six hour ep on the neom collapse lol
I listened to every minute of the Titanic episode and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
I pity anyone that identifies as strait
there's a queer alt weekly in vancouver called the Georgia Straight and I've always found the pun and the mag lovely
I was looking for this 4chan greentext screenshot that has a like ape-ified picture of Joe Biden in the style of Putin edits going like > week 58 of 2 week special operation for control of Sonora Province > CEO of McDonalds is in charge of a private military contractor army > private jet ends up shot down over Chihuahua after a failed coup attempt because it's going to be REALLY real real soon
I have this one from early on in the war https://files.catbox.moe/qn17tq.jpg
Wait I'm just reading about this now, the E3 is the really big one??? Like the Ace Combat AWACS. I had it confused with the little naval E2s. That's a huge L holy shit. Extremely owned.
From what I understand is that the US was using it as a stop gap to fill in for the destroyed ground radar, and Iran bullseyed it because they still have radar targeting missiles
NGNM owes Seamus two episodes!
Faghorn Leghorn absolutely sent me.
I’m furious that I can never use it.
Riley said my username is that good
If you want to really flex on your pronunciation of yuan it's not super intuitive from the pinyin romanization but it's actually pronounced more like 'when' but with a consonant 'y' in front and as close to just one syllable as you can get. "Yhwen" sorta. Also had to really hold in a cackle on public transport at faghorn leghorn. (I can say it also 😌)
At an airport currency exchange, having stated that I needed Yuan for my holiday in China, a hwhite lady gave me Japanese Yen. When I pointed out that I had no use for Japanese currency in China, I was sharply corrected about what to her hwhite woman mind was the correct pronunciation (she also had strong opinions about how basically everything was pronounced in English) Edit: to be very clear, the hwhite woman was listening for the sound 'yoo-wan' or 'yoo-ahn' and was proudly ignorant and rude about refusing to recognise that that is not how it is said
hussein needs to talk to olga about heated rivalry stat
Milo would have had such an amazing character on deck for the revelation of Kazakh NEOM... The people yearn for a passenger seat driver to grab the wheel from Riley.
I keep hoping someone will make Milo mayor for the day of some random place he performs in. I’m thinking somewhere like Magnitogorsk or Geelong.
Things so crazy the free one has bonus vibes
Why do all these places sound like provinces in Rome Total War???
Nova’s so back.
And did we miss her!
In a vindication of TF’s “the Soviet Union, except shit and expensive” motto, the ruins of NEOM, Trojena, etc. will be nowhere near as cool as those Brutalist monuments to the revolution dotted all over the landscape of the former Warsaw Pact
we left Trojena to found a more equitable society on a sand dune
Can’t wait for China to take Taiwan so we get full Russification of the world superpowers
You do have to wonder whether they see these giant land empires eating shit horrifically in "fast special operations" and go "well fuck that" or they only see the chauvinist dimension of "well the old inferior empires are incompetent, we'll do it right" and then eat shit horrifically.
if the airship carriers have washing machine problems, do they need a spin-doctor then?
Your spirit animal is a dad. Mine is an unc. We are not the same
Posting screenshot of the stupid shit I say on discord.
Nova's Lindsey Graham comment may be the best trashfuture bit of the year
Losing the AWACS and getting your radar blinded whilst calling your allies cunts and then begging them to bail you out sounds like a brilliant way to make friends and influence people
This was basically my valedictorian speech.
you must be desperate when the best hope for ending a war is THE STATE OF PAKISTAN
Well if anyone knows America's bullshit and how to deal with it, it's them.
in 2 weeks max a democratic party-affiliated politician will adopt 'faghorn leghorn' as an insult in official party ads
can you really say there was *no* leadership crisis or was there just a brief leadership crisis that was resolved quickly and easily because one internal faction (the most evil one!) has become incredibly powerful and was just able to overrule everybody else? We know that the 'moderates' like Rouhani were pushing to delay the leadership election
So the Kazakhstan version of NEOM will presumably have its own ski slopes, too? A sort of... New Trojena... have they thought about partnering with a cosmetics company perhaps 🤔
Someone hacks me they're getting 100 pictures of my cat and a bunch of SNES ROM translation patches.
Kash Patel for Shwisher Sweets
Shame you missed today’s US press conference , truly deranged even by there standards
Hopefully these guys at least know what's going on.
That's a "nova's back" ass pod title
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