They’re in central Florida, too. Probably all over the state.

Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius because it’s more specific and I will die on this hill. 71F feels different than 72F and yet they’re both 22C (for example).

Metric is better than imperial, though. Obviously.

I am curious what a “partial penis amputation” involves.

That’s even worse than China’s 69 (six days, nine hours).

Browsing the internet while drinking alcohol.

Unfortunately, it works really well. Can’t keep up the alcohol thing forever.

Thanks!

The worst is how common it is for them to leave their children by a pool and just assume that whatever random adults are around will be watching their kids.

Edit: I didn’t say that’s what happened here. Clearly, it’s not. That doesn’t change that what I said above is super common.

Taco Bell black bean burrito

I have been bested.

This one seems a little too realistically delusional…

That’s not really commenting on my point, which is that these places also have gun cultures. The US is not unique in that.

This really does nail it. In the north, we do have the stereotype that black people like fried chicken. However, that is seen as neutral or positive. Fried chicken is delicious and black people tend to make great fried chicken. What’s not to like?

How convenient for them.

Thinking more on it, I suppose you’re right. A lot of the “politics” are specifically Church politics, but not all of them.

But there are faces!

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was simply a matter of someone knowing that oil burns and noticing how oily the fish is, then having the brilliant idea of trying to light a fish on fire (alcohol may have been involved).

That’s how I like to imagine it, anyway.

Shitty site doesn’t allow you to zoom in and get a look at the dogs.

This is not the no true Scotsman fallacy. This is people claiming a name while behaving in a way opposite, or at least unrelated, to what that name represents.

It would be like if I were to vocally claim to be a socialist while actively promoting capitalism in my actions and fighting against socialist causes.

Compared to the US, no other country on earth has a gun culture.

[citation needed]

Immediately, certain Middle Eastern countries where people celebrate by firing guns into the air come to mind.

I think this is about where it’s important to remind people that the 24-hour news cycle is a relatively recent phenomenon. Many of us grew up in an era where the news played for an hour a couple times per day. One can hardly understate the impact this had on “the news”.

To keep it short and on-topic: The news used to almost exclusively feature big news stories because there wasn’t time to cover everything. Local news would have smaller, local interest stories. Individual crimes mostly made the news when they were especially noteworthy. Now, news stations need to find anything to fill an entire day. This is how we went from journalists reporting on big stories to commentators “reporting” on every little thing ad nauseum. This has led gun crimes to receive a lot more national attention than they would have previously.