In the Arabian Nights, the genie tended to grant people's wishes as they were intended, and without any trickery.

The trickery of the djinn is something that has been retconned into the system.

If they didn't like you, they would just kill you right away.

And also technically Aladdin got a second genie originally with just a small ring that granted him unlimited wishes in the form of servitude.

I will say that there's nothing lawyers love more than suing the city of Seattle.

They have so much money available for victims of malpractice.

Dick Dangerously

And even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

Supercalifragilisticexpalidocius!

What if that guy offended the gods by jerking it, and so the gods cursed him and said if you ever jerk it again, the entire city will be destroyed, and everyone will know it was you?

Pride and Punisher

I was thinking I would just contact my local homeless shelter and kill it and have it butchered and turned into food for them.

Your local billionaire can't eat elephant steaks, but hey, looks like the homeless population's gonna be set for a week.

Apparently, Microsoft is allowing you to use your Google Gmail account to sign in to Edge instead of a Microsoft account, and they are "considering" removing the forced Microsoft account requirement when signing into Windows 11 to set up the computer to begin with.

Big fucking whoop, but still.

I don't know if I would go that far.

You're giving cops way too much fucking credit.

My house got robbed, there was a glaringly obvious fingerprint on the window they smashed open and crawled in through. When I pointed it out to the cops and they were like, well, that probably won't help us with anything. Hope you find your stuff.

And then they left.

Could you imagine how much it would suck if VLC got bought out by corporate privateers?

Like the guy's been putting a lot of work in for a long time, so I couldn't exactly blame him for it, but we would need a fork immediately because otherwise that would just be too sad for words.

Recycling is a common crime disposal/last attempt to cash in on stolen materials thing, so do not attempt to recycle any of this, at least not inside of its original casings or shells.

The e-waste people on average they are going to have a much higher IQ than a police officer, so the last thing you need is to have one of them call in and say, yeah, we got a bunch of cameras and solar panels, doss this look like anything you guys might know about?

And also stop censoring your fucking words, you fucking fucker.

Everyone on this site is an adult.

There's literally no reason or justification whatsoever to be a jerk about things.

Macgruber. I've tried two different times to watch it once while sober and once while high, and it just, I fucking hate it. I don't know what it is. Everything about it is terrible. I cannot complete the movie.

That and the Broadway edition of Cats. 15 or 20 seconds in and for some reason watching the actors dance around in cat costumes trigger some sort of primordial anger, rage, terror, something in me.

I was screaming at my family to stop it, I had to physically leave the room.

I feel like this is the kind of thing that only happens when you take these items out of your own shopping cart, put them on a shelf and then take a picture of them and post to the internet like "Ha ha guys, isn't this so bizarre?"

I would say the first season is the worst, and then after that it finds its footing and it doesn't rely on cringe comedy but actually humorous situations.

There is still a little bit of cringe after that, but the majority of it is in the first season.

Something about the way of writing made me, honestly, for a moment, think that your dad was gonna show up and beat you with a set of jumper cables.

It would work so much better as a cartoon than any kind of live action, no matter how many special effects they threw at it.

Plus there is already a manga that they could draw inspiration for the characters from it.

An additional beneficial side effect of watching the first, I don't know, two minutes of cats if you can make it that far is it will confirm for you forever whether or not you are a furry.

I am solidly in the not a fucking furry crowd.