🤣🤣 no, the average home doesn't use half a million gallons of water a year. No one could afford their water bill if that was the case

Want the true answer? FOLLW THE MONEY TRAIL.

Liverpool has a famously large Irish population, and is one of the most followed foreign teams in Ireland.

Even worse, mormon republicans.

It's not even capitalism. It's badly implemented capitalism. It's perfectly possible to have a fundamentally capitalistic society with solid social services, just not the way the States are currently doing it.

It is piped. At every house there is a shutoff box with a sediment filter. You're supposed to clean the filter annually, they announce when you can begin using it for the year and when they shut it off for winter so you can close the valve and not pop sprinkler heads while they pressurize the system in the spring. Another way they cut back usage is pressurizing the system later and later in the year.

I've seen people water on the wrong days all the time. I've also seen people use hoses from their houses to water on their off days. Which is kind of counterproductive as that water is the metered treated water, and the whole purpose of the irrigation system is to not use that for watering your lawn.

Oh and I forgot to mention that the golf courses aren't even profitable. They're subsidised by taxes to stay afloat because of corrupt city councils and idiots like those quoted in the article.

Lay out a pint of Guinness and run a match to the headstone and you'll be surprised.

That headline reads like it was AI generated lmao

Wolf in sheep's clothing, eh?

I worked sound and lights for a small black box stage in the nineties, and learned to dread dance performances.

Now, I should probably admit right off the bat that I’m not that into dance. It’s a little like a foreign language to me. I can sense that they are trying to communicate, but I don’t know what any particular sequence of contortions means. Nor do I have a good working vocabulary to discuss ballet technical details with directors or dancers, and this clearly opens up for misunderstanding.

The same applies to most ballet dancers’ understanding of technical matters.

Obviously, dance can be a proper challenge for lights (and occasionally for sound) and I would always do my very best to make any performance as good as possible. I was pretty good, too. I would ask questions until I felt confident that I knew what they expected from me.

Every single act that performed there received a detailed description of all the equipment I had available, and I always had their tech riders, that should describe all their needs. I’d communicate clearly if they asked for impossible things, and they would reply saying something like ‘we’ll make it work’ or ‘we’ll bring our own soap bubble machine’ or something. On paper, we had usually already worked out all issues in advance. On paper, this should all be fine.

Then they arrive.

Let me make one thing very clear: If something technical goes wrong during a performance, it is OK to blame the technicians, at least temporarily. Missed cues, blown light bulbs, faulty cables, overloaded dimmer circuits, these are all my fault, and all potentially apocalyptic for the dancers.

But if I find out that a critical dimmer circuit fuse was tripped during the climax of act two because the director of the dance troupe not only disregarded my advice (don’t plug anything here, this dimmer is at capacity) but that they actively removed duct tape I (so preemptively) put across the AC socket and plugged some device in anyway because they ‘needed’ something, I’m no longer accepting any of that blame. ‘I told you explicitly not to do that’ won’t turn back time and fix the show, but it should halt accusations of incompetence (or even sabotage) flung in my direction. It usually did, too, if I said it to a band or a theatre troupe, but dancers? Not a chance.

One director came storming up to me after a performance to yell at me for ruining their precious art before the audience had even left. I interrupted her and calmly but unambiguously pointed out how the catastrophic technical event she was going ballistic about was her own fault, and that what happened was exactly what I said would happen if she disregarded my instructions (and my damn duct tape). She continued yelling, and when she claimed that the disaster, which took out the power to a slide projector and a couple of non-essential ambient lights, had caused the whole performance to become utterly confusing to the audience, I snapped. ‘Lady, your piece needs more than some random words projected on a wall to make sense’.

The following day I was approached by one of the dancers. She asked me to apologize to the director, but first she said that it had been such a thrill to see someone stand up to her. I said that I can only apologize for interrupting her, because nothing I said was untrue, but she said please just lie, we have a five hour drive ahead. What to do? I landed on a compromise: ‘If you are prepared to relay an apology that you know is dodgy at best, why don’t you just make up the entire thing yourself? Tell her I apologized and have a nice trip.’

Years later, I found out I had a reputation for making [x] cry.

I just wrote all this to support my basic assumption: Dance Directors are absolutely capable of flinging poop in critics’ faces. This news story surprised me nothing. None percent.

This comedy video will help. It's about 20 minutes long, by Boy Boy, featuring I Did A Thing and some dudes from The Chaser I guess.

How Much Money Can We Launder In A Day?

Basically, a dude was a whistleblower pointing out how casinos and slot machines are incredibly easily used for money laundering. In response, the casinos tried to utterly ruin his life, both via the legal system and by firebombing his house.

>It's 100% illegal to buy sex in Sweden

Unless you're a woman buying tantric massage, which is penetrative massage with climax. Google "tantric massage in Stockholm" and you will find plenty of establishments or people offering sex to women in exchange for money.

The anti sex buying laws of Scandinavian countries, is a sexist law targeting men, not women. As there's not been one women fined for purchasing sex, even though they buy the service.

Source: Had to quit working as a "shaman" due to carpal tunnel syndrome.

Gave me a chuckle, to be fair.

You can't handle the truth!

>The legislators are governing as if God himself is going to save us from the tipping point then they distract us with culture wars over church/state.

Honestly, a lot of extreme religious conservatives literally do think like that. They legitimately believe that the rapture is just around the corner, so there's no point in planning too far into the future. No need to make laws regarding renewable energy, climate change, or any other looming issues because Jesus is going to come back and take them up to heaven within in the next few years. It's pretty crazy.

Shoulda tried washing his mouth out with Irish Spring.

Talk about nominative determinism

I don’t understand anything about this headline and I’m at peace with that

You'll never get me lucky charms

Aah geez now would ya shtop

Ah it's kinda normal when you brain gets damaged it will revert to the things that make sense to you and usually that's an earlier language or even one you've been exposed to.

Happens all the time with dementia patients. They'll speak English for 80 years but when they were 5 they might have spoken French. They will latch on to when they were 5 as their brain deteriorates. I assume it's cause these kinds of things occupy less space than the decades of English memories.

Not sure why it happened in this case but it's not unheard of for other ailments.

"Ye feckin eejit!"

Fuck golf. Fuck golfers. Fuck golf courses. Stop destroying the environment so you and your boys can day drink, drive go-carts, and knock tiny balls into tiny holes.

I didn't know America had a 51st state?

Orem