May your upvotes be many, your memes evergreen, your code inspired and your bugs few, easy to find and to fix. May your managers be sane, rational, realistic and fair. And may your preferred team win when you really want them to. Unless they're playing mine, of course, in which case you're on your own, buddy.

And now you made me snort in public!

Yours is my favourite of all the answers I got.

Oh now, that... That is a whole load of very kinky stuff indeed.

I don't think he puts the fake tan all over. Occasionally, he doesn't even get to the hair line.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/trump-real-photo-orange-tan-skin.html

I think I'm frustrating you by being too flippant, and I didn't mean to, so sorry about that.

Yes, but is there anything in what I said that you actually disagree with?

See, I think we agree, it's just that I'm being more light hearted about it than you are. Good cop, bad cop, that sort of thing. You're all "you're nasty homophobe!" and I'm all "heyy, man, you should appreciate the blow jobs, not hate on them! But blow jobs are not for dictators."

Worryingly possible. But also he's very stupid.

Sucking cock is a fantastic thing to do for your fellow human, and a true friend loves and appreciates you for it.

But sucking the cocks of dictators, that's something sensible people everywhere disapprove of. Pretty much every dictator has awful anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and inhumane anti-LGBT+ policies.

Fair enough.

That's really not how your previous post reads to me, apart from the thing in brackets.

Light drinkers live longer because there are very large numbers indeed of people who don't drink at all because they're too ill to drink - they're on medication, they have serious illnesses or their drinking was so out of control in the past that it was ruining their life and that they know that they can't trust themselves to have even one.

These people are much more likely to die young than people who don't drink much for other reasons. Once you remove the too-ill to drink at all, you find that any amount of alcohol slightly worsens your health outcomes.

In British English, Trump means (1) the sound an elephant makes or (2) a fart, particularly a noisy one. If you trump your own horn it means you're boastful and think of yourself higher than other people do.

President Trump = President Fart.
Still funny after all these years, despite the looming fascism.

I don't understand why this is a shitpost? I mean, other than it's shit, and here it is being posted. Shouldn't a shitpost have some sort of intelligence or self-awareness or humor or something? I don't get it.

You want the Republican party to compete with the Democrats by attempting to make things fairer, less corrupt and more honourable than the Democrats?! It's like expecting Biden to be the youthful candidate, Trump to be the honest and rational candidate and Bernie to be the corporate shill all in one.

Yep, same position from me. I was wrong. Kamala is looking great. I'm still really fearful and there's an awful lot of misogyny and racism to overcome yet, but she needs Democrats to turn up and vote and independents to switch to her in swing states and that's how she's can get it. The racists and misogynists weren't ever going to vote Democratic anyway, Trump is their guy through and through.

Yeah, in a way, Kamala coming out winning already and fighting has saved all the arguments and Dem on Dem fighting that would have come had Biden stepped down earlier in time for the primaries. It has focussed minds and they've been united pretty much instantly.

"it worked on me too" - OP is slightly ambiguous about how the story ends.

Just if get a betterment. No it.

Religion is thriving in the USA in a way that it simply isn't in the UK and similar countries where religious education in schools has been compulsory for centuries.

In handing Bible teaching from parents to schools, where it will be taught by poorly paid and demotivated teachers, Oklahoma will make the primary source of information about religion people who have no particular drive for the children to become "believers".

I'm not sure what they think this will achieve, but I'm pretty sure it won't achieve more churchgoers.

Maybe they've figured out how little conservatism agrees with what Jesus actually says and want to wean the country off Christianity before people figure it out. This is a strange and slow way of going about that and a very ineffective way of manufacturing more Republican voters, I think.

Then again, this is the party that gave the worst advice about covid, resulting in a much higher death rate for Republicans than Democrats, so they have form for stupidly shooting themselves in the foot.