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The blacked out Epstein docs are readable online
well, I didn’t want to bring the SDMB into legal problems, or anybody else… but MODs OK’d it If you go on reddit, it’s quite abuzz with the epstein-files and there are now quite a lot of sources where you can download 900 or so pages un-blacked-out. It seems the administration used a wrong function to black out and did NOT “flatten the image” afterwards, so it turned out that you ...
Dungeon Crawler Carl? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope
I’ve never read Dungeon Crawler Carl specifically though, it sounded too grimdark for my taste (the Royal Road stub even has the “Grimdark” label). I can see that; the premise of the series itself is pretty danged dark, and it’s really violent. OTOH, at least IMO, while the two main protagonists are certainly flawed, they do try to make good choices and help others; it’s not as ...
FDR, polio and sexual function - Straight Dope
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor had six kids, born from 1906-1916. He was stricken with polio (or some other paralyzing illness; there’s still some debate, acc. to his Wikipedia article) in 1921. FDR is generally acknowledged as having had a longterm romance with Eleanor’s onetime social secretary Lucy Mercer (later Lucy Rutherfurd, after she married), beginning sometime in 1914 ...
Why is Navy rank insignia only on one sleeve? - Straight Dope
This is a question that has plagued me for years. All the services have enlisted rank insignia on both sleeves, except the float boys who wear it only on the left sleeve. The navy, being as deeply rooted in tradition as any of them, and having reasons for everything involving their uniforms (Only the navy could have a legitimate excuse for wearing bellbottoms) would, I’m sure, have some sort ...
How to dispose of a porn stash? - Straight Dope
A recent thread talked about people having a “porn buddy”, who disclose to one another the locations and extent of their porn collections (printed or electronic) and make a pact to go over and silently remove evidence of their buddy’s stash if that buddy suddenly dies or becomes incapacitated (before their wife, parents or whoever can find it and have an :eek: 😕 :o type of reaction ...
What did old-time sailors do for sex? - Straight Dope
[QUOTE=Simplicio] In any case, the quote from the British Admiral I posted was just the first thing that came up on google, my answer was general. I’m fairly certain sodomy was punishable by death basically during the entire period in question. For Colombus, for example, the wikipedia article on the Inquisition mentions it was a capital crime both under the civil courts and under the Spanish ...
What are the "traditional" lyrics to "Here Comes the Bride"?
When I was growing up, I learned “the” lyrics to Here Comes the Bride at summer camp: “Here Comes the Bride All fat and wide; Where is the groom? He’s in the dressing room. Why is he there? He lost his underwear. Da da da DAAAA da da da, da da dah.” (Nobody ever accused summer camp kids of being sensitive to the feelings of people with weight problems – or of knowing how hard it is ...
That Latin on Gus's Sign in Lonesome Dove? - Straight Dope
Googled “lonesome dove” “latin”. Got this: What does the phrase uva uvam vivendo varia fit mean? The Latin phrase that appears on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign in “Lonesome Dove” is a garbled corruption, and there’s no direct translation. It derives from the scholia to Juvenal 2.81 which cites the proverb “uva uvam videndo varia fit” This means something like “a grape ...
What does “we’re going to run the country” mean? Fucking media do your ...
Seriously US media WTF!??! You have a fucking job. Do it. Ask Trump and every single Trump admin official about this. It’s fucking important . How many American troops are we deploying to Venezuela to “run” it? What’s their mission? Where are they being deployed? If the answer is “none” what mechanism is the US “running” Venezuela. If they don’t know ask them to explain why ...
What Is Society Coming To? - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope
You know, I’d like to believe that people can get beyond racial bullshit as much as the next guy, but this video proves otherwise. Anyway, its kind of ambiguous whom started what, but apparently the entertainment value of an older (and possibly racist) white dude beating the shit out of a younger (and possibly racist and/or wannabe) black dude has inspired a lot of racist bullshit in this ...
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