December 2018: Minister Andrew Broad is forced to resign from parliament, after it is revealed the married MP solicited a woman on a “sugar daddies” service.
While the affair itself was not grounds for dismissal, his fate was sealed by the leaked sexts, which were decried country-wide as having done irreparable damage to the nation’s favourite word
kim kitsuragi would take bowling SO fucking seriously. that man would act like he doesnt give a shit about the game at first but every time he throws the ball he does the thing where he holds it up to his face before going into a deep lunge as he rolls it, he stays in the lunge until the ball hits the pins. if he gets a strike he will get the most smug look on his face. harry gets a gutterball and kim tells him “better luck next time, detective. we can put up the bumpers if you want.”
Penelope’s challenge at the end of The Odyssey to string the bow and shoot it through 12 axe heads is iconic for a few reasons. Mostly the potential clue that she knew Odysseus was there all along, and was providing him a weapon.
But the best part is that the 12 axe heads is CLEARLY the hard part of the challenge. Like, it’s a ridiculous trick shot. But no. None of them could even string the bow in the first place. Like they didn’t even get that far.
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
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