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There’s a very easy solution to this.
this is what he sounds like
Ya’ll I have to point out
The chart? Covers from 1998 to 2022... It’s 2023. That’s 25 years. Of course he’s trying to dump the reputation.
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Most popular swear words by state in the US
Finally some useful research being done
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— ode to the 9,000 year old woman
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The fact that the Boston transit system has been a garbage fire for so long that our mascot is a sad little man who is literally stranded on the train until the end of time due to a fare increase. Charlie's desiccated corpse has been riding this train since the 1940s and everyone just sort of rolls with it it this point
Back in the 40s the T installed a fare to get off the train as well as to get on, because the system has always been that broken. So a song was written about the mythical man of Charlie on the M.T.A., who doesn't have the extra fare and becomes stuck there. Forever. Riding around in a never-ending circular nightmare because the city is corrupt and everyone else in Boston is a cheapskate who won't lend him a goddamn nickel. Adding insult to injury his wife throws him food every day but not money, probably because she's better off single.
The T responded by saying "to hell with it, he's our mascot now."
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When I asked Ms. Dyer if she could tell me which industry served as Glitterex’s biggest market, her answer was instant: “No, I absolutely know that I can’t.”
I was taken aback. “But you know what it is?”
“Oh, God, yes,” she said, and laughed. “And you would never guess it. Let’s just leave it at that.” I asked if she could tell me why she couldn’t tell me. “Because they don’t want anyone to know that it’s glitter.”
“If I looked at it, I wouldn’t know it was glitter?”
“No, not really.”
“Would I be able to see the glitter?”
“Oh, you’d be able to see something. But it’s — yeah, I can’t.”
I asked if she would tell me off the record. She would not. I asked if she would tell me off the record after this piece was published. She would not. I told her I couldn’t die without knowing. She guided me to the automotive grade pigments.
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He also did not want me to visit his glitter factory. The jovial Mr. Shetty told me over the phone that people have no idea of the scientific knowledge required to produce glitter, that Glitterex’s glitter-making technology is some of the most advanced in the world, that people don’t believe how complicated it is, that he would not allow me to see glitter being made, that he would not allow me to hear glitter being made, that I could not even be in the same wing of the building as the room in which glitter was being made under any circumstance, that even Glitterex’s clients are not permitted to see their glitter being made, that he would not reveal the identities of Glitterex’s clients (which include some of the largest multinational corporations in the world; eventually, one did consent to be named: thank you, Revlon, Inc.), and that, fine, I was welcome to come down to Glitterex headquarters to learn more about what I could not learn about in person.
oystersaintforme
now THIS is journalism
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“Most of the glitter that adorns America’s name brand products is made in one of two places: The first is in New Jersey, but the second, however, is also in New Jersey.” that is without a doubt the funniest sentence i have ever read
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This is the best article I’ve ever read
btw the glitter mystery has been solved
tl:dr for the video: it’s for shiny boat paint. Boat manufacturers want it kept quiet so people don’t make a stink about unnecessary use of microplastics in marine equipment.
Oh. Well it sure would be a shame if we yelled that from the mountaintops.
Oh. Well it sure would
be a shame if we yelled that
from the mountaintops.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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I got THE worst possible Tumblr ad
I'm gonna put it under the cut for the daring. I will say, Tumblr sure is a lot more lenient with advertisers violating their community guidelines.
Huh.
I guarantee it's worse than you could Imagine
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underrated form of humor: just making shit up in past tense
My personal favourite:
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I'm imagining if tolkien lived now and publishers were asking him if he had enough followers on twitter and if he could film videos to market his found family elfcore magic cottagevibes worldbuilding fantasy book on tiktok. i think he would run them over with his car actually