Yep! And that’s part of the culture I grew up in and came to age in. Media that demonized and mocked gay men (and really all gay people), even otherwise progressive and lighthearted media.

It was damaging to me as a child. More so than a lot of people could ever realize.

Also disheartening is that a lot of my super religious family will use the term cocksucker as a derogatory statement right in front of me, knowing I’m gay. These are the same exact people who literally freak out and act like you’ve shot their mother in front of them if you say the word “fuck” or “god damn”.

Anecdotally speaking, this has been my experience as well. I would even go so far as to say the kids I know who smoked the most (or had that reputation) are the ones with the most/worst psychiatric issues as adults.

I have nothing against cannabis use and I do not judge people who use it, but I think parents who are too accepting / forgiving of their teenagers’ use are doing them a disservice. Additionally, when I was a teen, kids were smoking actual, real weed. These days, kids are vaping and using what are essentially poorly tested/understood pharmaceuticals. I won’t claim to be an expert in the topic, but I certainly think there’s ample reason to be concerned about the effects of these things.

Moats, and with climate change being what it is? American alligators are about to be as common as chickens before too long.

Latin Americans are Americans, last I checked.

I know more low-information, backwoods, ignorant, redneck losers than I can possibly count, and I literally do not know anybody thinks Mexico is the only country that exists. It’s just that they don’t care to differentiate or acknowledge the difference when they refer to anybody and everybody with a “latino” appearance as “Mexicans”.

The tariffs are basically the “consumption tax” that was popular in “libertarian” circles decades (or longer) ago. I remember a buddy of mine going down that path circa 2004 “income tax doesn’t work, we should have a consumption tax aka universal sales tax instead”.

On the other hand, this strikes me as yet another scheme to try and cover up the prior scheme. Basically, he thinks/realizes that he might have to pay back the money from the prior/current scheme, so he’s hatched a new one to try and collect enough money to at least break even.

We’ll see how it goes.

We lost a neighbor to suicide last year. The impact on the neighborhood has been substantial. So many lives touched in so many tangential ways.

I’m going to butcher it, but it’s something like: The more you learn the more you realize how little you know.

The one that still gets me, and mostly because in this day and age of 2026 it still doesn’t get as much homophobic backlash as I feel it clearly deserves is the pejorative: cocksucker.

In my anecdotal experience, 99.55% of the time, it’s leveraged against men and used as a homophobic slur.

But even so, is sucking cock really that terrible of a thing to do? The vast majority of people with a cock enjoy the service. We literally celebrate the people who do it well for us personally, in most cases.

Why is it used as a slur?

Anyway, I’m off to suck some cock, see ya’ll later.

I hate how inaccurate and illogical the title of this post is. But glad to see that at least some of the comments are filling in the gaps.

Reading cured my gout and foot fungus.

Gotta geek out a tiny bit.

Assuming my uncited research from a decade+ ago is correct …

Citronella was actually extracted from the “Lemon Eucalyptus / Lemon-scented Gum” tree, formerly known as Eucalyptus citriodora but more accurately known as Corymbia citriodora.

The “Citronella Scented Geraniums” never worked much at all to repel mosquitoes. It was essentially the placebo effect. I’ve done really lame and totally non-scientific experiments myself. The geraniums simply do not work to any significant benefit. People will literally argue with you day and night about this, but it’s just not true.

That being said, grow scented geraniums to your heart’s content. Burn citronella candles as if your life depended on it. They smell really good and olfactory cues like this will burn memories into your brain that you’ll treasure when you’re older and fading.

Newts are underrated. Fight me, but I know you won’t because I know you know I’m right.

They’re the geckos of the amphibian world. Infinitely more adorable than they have any right to be.

There’s so, so, so, so, so much I could say about this topic.

Number 1: Why are any of you cunts even coming to the USA anymore? Sincerest apologies for victim blaming, and obviously my stupid ass has not read the article (gonna do that later).

Number 2: US healthcare costs are a scam.

Number 3: Healthcare insurance is a gamified scam.

I’m not sure I get the sentiment, but I’m here for the cashew memes so I upvote and interact regardless.

I thought that was a picture of ICE making their children something for dinner.

Glad to see I’m in good company here with all the Pinky and the Brain references.

When I was growing up, there was one specific commercial – I think it was for Animaniacs – that’s burned into my memory. It was the one where Pinky says something like “Gee Brain, where are we going to find rubber pants our size?”

It’s slightly dangerous in that respect, let’s be honest. Still good to keep in mind, though.

It’s astronomically less dangerous than when DHS, ICE, and whatever they eventually morph into have moved on from “illegal immigrants” and started rounding up the minority group that YOU belong to. Oh, you don’t belong to a minority group, yet? Give it time.

I’ve always interpreted this as more of a metaphorical question.

However, this general response is where I usually take things if pushed for an answer. Meaning, egg laying species existed for hundreds of millions of years before chickens and chickens evolved from egg laying species, so the egg came first.

A lot of people try to interpret this on the micro scale view: The idea that there was one specific event (place, time, individual) where a non-chicken laid the first egg that hatched out to became the first chicken.

The reality of the situation is counterintuitive, though. Life, nature, and even taxonomy are so much more complex that this situation. It can be hard to conceptualize, but there literally never was a case where a non-chicken laid an egg, and the resulting offspring was the first chicken ever.

The species concept really only applies on a population level (barring exceptions like cases where there’s literally only 1 known living individual remaining of a soon to be extinct species). And furthermore, taxonomy is an artificial, human concept – nature does not abide – and a bit of an art at that. Even if we could somehow scale back in time and view every individual in the chicken lineage as far back as we desire and in much detail as we desired, there would be no consensus on where in that mess chickens emerged from non-chickens.

So, this is one of those cases where I would actually advise – don’t think too hard about it or take it too seriously and accept the question for its metaphorical nature.

Andrew, Formerly Known as Prince, is that you?

But I’m in so deep

You know I’m such a MAGA fool

He’s got me wrapped around his finger

Do you have to let him finger?

Yes, you have to, yes you have to, yes you have to let him finger.

I’ll see myself out. And report myself, too.