Daniel Kennedy
@fliglman.bsky.social
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they understood the assignment (make new crisps)
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they didn't have to go so hard, and crispy
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I had to go to my bank recently and they had 10 copies of some magazine, and I was like, oh the bank has its own magazine, but it was just some normal magazine where they'd paid for the the fake-cover-ad thing
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yes yes, this mf said "how could he is"
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it's terrible how could he is at coining funny little bits of language
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had happens too, but without the cascading effect
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should be the standard smalltalk icebreaker if you ask me
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Birdstalkers, avian voyeurs, Birdverts
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From experience I'm guessing they don't accept "Yes, a fun Michael Douglas performance" as a response
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paradoxically this results in the ideas becoming, if anything, lightly bunked
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people are always debunking received wisdom that I've literally never heard about until it was debunked
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I was hoping at least some of them would become apocryphal
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Boss: It says here you ordered a bed with the company credit card and had it installed in your office?
ME: (pleasantly) Yes, for my important work problems.
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It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking
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Cethan never jokes about his contrarian tastes: you can be confident that when he say something offensively wrong, he means it
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sometimes I miss living at that latitude: yesterday I saw 2 hornets head-butting a bridge
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now if only the search function in my google drive understood this as you do
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my brain remembers all my old jokes verbatim
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I've never seen a sexy ad for cheese
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haha (I had to google how to spell portugeez, because I never remember how to spell portugiese)
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man, this whole article. The pandas are probably laughing at us
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Actually reading through the whole list I know plenty of people with these jobs
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All of these jobs have been destroyed by AI. Where will it end?
waltydunlop.bsky.social
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.