theturtlemoves [he/him]

While the Latin mass bollocks is gone, Catholics are still expected to know a few Latin words, and Luce = light is one of them. So any conspiracy theorist who stirs shit over this can be safely dismissed as an ignoramus.

Luce = light, Lucifer = light bearer (his job before he rebelled)

There are only so many Latin words; at some point they’ve to use some word that looks like some other word.

Should I just copy my wife?

Safest option. Also please call it football, not s*****.

Football is serious business. Wearing the wrong team jersey can get you anything from angry looks to shoves. Listen to your wife.

In general, most football fans are working class, but some are racist or otherwise bigoted. Liverpool and Arsenal have probably the best fanbases among the big clubs.

I believe the legal term is libel.

they look to avoid a repeat of the 2016 presidential election, in which Stein was accused of playing spoiler in key swing states.

Was she? Because this sounds a lot like they want to make readers think she did, but don’t have any evidence if she sues them.

Yes, but is it worth going to war over a drone dropping some leaflets? Returning an equivalent amount of waste paper was funny and appropriate, war is neither.

they should all be fired out of a cannon aimed at the sun.

Something something it takes less energy to launch trash out of the solar system than straight at the sun, I dunno, I’m not an astronomer.

where they will arrest him and force him to live a normal life for some months.

The Last Emperor 2: Electric Bazingoo

Would be funny if Ireland triggers NATO Article 5 in response.

The smaller the eye, the stronger the wind?

You’d have to make major adjustments to actually have one violently explode.

That, or buy a Samsung smartphone.

Or you could blow the door or window of the plane and crash it.

Would it be enough to actually compromise the hull? The hull would be built to withstand random birds colliding (and at the speed a plane flies, a bird would hit it with the force of a bullet or so), so I’m guessing it should be fairly strong. Also, a hole in the hull shouldn’t cause a crash - the ‘door fell off’ Boeing still managed to land safely. (Whoever is near the explosion is going to get badly injured / killed though.)

I mean, she’s not wrong.

Old buildings, particularly stone ones, can stand for centuries with good maintanence. I’ve seen so many cases of old (100yo) buildings standing in much better shape than newer (20-30yo) ones.

Yes, but those are devices specially shaped and reinforced to tip the train.

You only need to derail ONE of the bogies/wheel sets of only one of the wagons for the train to be “derailed”.

Yes, it looks like the train in the image jack-knifed, suggesting it probably isn’t articulated. So the affected coach can be pushed off by itself, rather than being stabilised by the weight of the rest of the train.

I’m guessing hydro-electric also requires a water supply.

Wording aside, how does a train get derailed by a car? A car would be - what - a tonne? A single coach of a train would be 10-20 tonnes.

If enough of them sell, the price will go down, so at least they’ll be selling at a ‘loss’ and people will be able to buy them at reasonable prices.

‘The Onion’ stands with Israel because it seems like you get in less trouble for that