Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
There used to be a joke in Russia called “China’s final warning” because of the hundreds of times China used to threaten a “final warning” to whoever it perceived (correctly or otherwise) as encroaching on its politics or territories, and then promptly did absolutely nothing.
The joke is in danger of defecting and getting a new name.
If dealing with a small bunch of nutters was so easy, the Troubles wouldn’t have been quite so troubling, now, would they?
This would just be the same thing but with a different bunch of nutters.
I have to wonder if the potential for accidentally falling out of a window goes any way into affecting the way he approaches certain debts.
Within reason.
You could try your luck and see how much you can get away with before someone notices, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Nah, they’ll just make life more difficult for any employees who take bathroom breaks, if not find some “clearly unrelated” excuse to outright fire them.
“But I did nothing wrong” – the boy who dared challenge Putin’s ideology.
Look, kid, if you speak out against things Poots says are OK, you’re going to prison, simple as.
Gotta be a mindless yes-man automaton, or suffer the consequences. Get any idea of independent thought out of your head and consider yourself lucky you weren’t standing near any windows.
If that’s what I think it is, we use “skid marks” as a euphemism in English too.
There will be those - I suspect - who believe they are above speaking Russian, because they were “raised speaking the language of the greatest country on Earth”, and they will believe that the Russians will just accept that for the same reasons, because, obviously Russians know that Americans are better than them.
This mindset is very familiar to me. I’m British.
That won’t provide a future workforce for the rich and/or powerful in an nationalist society though.
Can’t be a shepherd if you don’t have sheep.
Where’s “here”? I’m in the UK and only discovered that there had been a specific saying, in (Soviet) Russia, about (contemporaneous) China, very recently. Maybe it was a joke I wasn’t privy to or heard but was too young to appreciate at the time.
(As to how I discovered it recently: I had been looking for a name or “law” for the concept of constantly making vague or empty threats - it’s kind of like crying wolf, but not - and somehow ended up the Wikipedia article on “China’s final warning”.)