Captain Gatso and the Hypertension Cowboy

Riley’s summary of Edward Gorey’s entire body of illustration is based on a single poster (gashlycrumb tinies) that was super popular in 90s college dorms. It was a parody of saccharine children’s ABC books. The US PBS series Mystery! has been using Gorey’s opening animation for decades. Tim Burton completely ripped off Gorey’s aesthetic for his shitty movies. He’s a noteworthy queer ancestor

I can't tell if my nonce detector is working, this huge traffic jam of busses keeps going beep beep beep

Alice's assumption that Americans live 10 blocks from their child's school is symptomatic of something I see a lot in Europeans. They simply don't appreciate how large the US is or how much sprawl there is here. In US suburbs, it's not uncommon for even elementary schools to be 3 or 4 miles from you, as the crow flies. And getting there by any other means than car entails walking 5 or 6 miles, mostly along what amounts to a highway, frequently without sidewalks or signal lights that are even long enough to cross the road during.

The first episode I listened to had the cold open into Warrior’s Heart, so I’m always hyped to revisit a Clogheads banger

definitely caught milo saying "variable mate rortgages"

I was at the Pizza Express in Woking from home

“‘Pouring one out’, the concrete forum”

If these kids today would just walk to school uphill (both ways) in the snow, they’d develop some grit and also get home faster than taking Zümbus

Woke me up, before you go go, don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo

The article has a metric ton of projection. This columnist has been burned personally by HR and by the Wales institutions... And probably is as asinine and stupid. Probably he made sexist comments and HR did the only thing it does, that's punishing the workers that move out of line. In this case the code of conduct ones. And the Wales institutions... I don't know, probably an eco tax or something sensible that people hate just because. Columnists and any media Commentators deserve all the scorn, all the time, from everywhere. Thanks for the article.

So when Hussein talks about Captain Gatso and the woman inside him, l don't think trans; l think, "Captain Gatso is an Evangelion? That explains so much"

Jimmy Savilles uncomfortably large collection of hitler youth knives

My parents immigrated to the US from the Netherlands. I was born later and don't know much about the country. Today one of the questions in my life, has been answered, but new ones have appeared. I love pea soup. Why? I now know it apparently is a Dutch thing, but how the hell did the Dutch develop a liking for it. Is it a gene? repressed memory? A new life search begins.

Colonel Kurtz Francisco. It was right there.

Kurt Francisco is a name you'd give to a dashing bit character in Toast of London. Do it. Do it in Matt Berry voice. It's so good.

I went into the bus story expecting it to be pretty sparse on funny elements. But a company which presumably talks about streamlining and optimising, flying in school bus drivers is phenomenal

Buses needing drivers? What is this, the past? We already have self driving buses in the form of Columbian children driving 17 buses via remote link while also driving a Colombian bus.

Spokane WA mentioned ‼️

Personally I would have gone with The Expaedables

I can't find the articles for the uber busses online. Anyone got a link?

Anyone know the episode where TF talked about Zum before?

Do these Uber for buses AKA a bus have surge pricing meeting at pickup and drop off your kid has to pay an exorbitant fee just to get to school and go to home

Believe it or not, the existing contractors that do a lot of school bus contracts already had freelance traveling bus drivers. Before my sibling decided to take up a job where they didn't have to deal with a bunch of kids with nothing more than "behave or I'll tell you to behave again" to try and get them to behave, their (union) bus driver contractor had been offering them and other drivers in the district they were in jobs throughout the mountain west for one school year because the schools were desperate for drivers there.

Hypertense cowboy meets the Railroad Ronin. West vs east.

The Fast and the Furious: Wokyo Drift

The Züne business model seems like something out of that one episode of the Clerks Anime > Who is driving? Oh my god! Nonce is driving! How can that be?

Jimmy Savile leading nonce commando raids is too perfect, especially considering he was given the green beret

Woking From Home sitcom is basically Terry & June but Terry has discovered the Internet in his retirement and they have two boomerang adult kids with degrees at home

hoco mentioned :0

Kurtz Francisco

Some more school bus mayhem that is right up y'all's alley. Kentucky's biggest school district, which serves almost 100,000 students, also had a "driver shortage" problem - in reality a "we don't pay school bus drivers enough" problem - so they turned to a tech startup called AlphaRoute, which promised to fix everything with a hyper-efficient AI-generated overhaul of bus *routes.* The surprising result: buses hours late to and from school, buses taking various insane detours, children missing until well into the night without food or access to toilets, some of them returned having soiled themselves, parents terrified because they had no idea where their kids were, schools closed for weeks. You might think that a company promising to fix your driver shortage by using AI to monkey with bus routes would be enough to trigger skepticism by the school board, and if not that the fact that the company caused similar mayhem in Ohio. But you'd be wrong!

"The Hypertension Kid" is a song lyric by Clive James, sung by Pete Atkin > https://archive.clivejames.com/poetry/c8.htm

From the moment I understood the wokeness of my flesh and blood employees, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of chatGPT.

Ahh, love to turn on the podcast about hellish tech startups and learn some hot, fresh local news about the county where I grew up and went to school. (Much of Howard County is quite rich; Milo is generally correct to position its parents as the Predator in AVP.)

Would The Very Dirty Dozen be more or less offensive than John Taliban.

7 and a half hours?

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