That monologue (from one of the unambiguously "good" characters) about how it would be cruel to set the elves free, because of the joy they get from servitude? Even as a teenager, I recognised that as a messed-up sentiment, but my peers just said I was being too sensitive. Glad that you couldn't let something like that slide nowadays.
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A Strobe Tuner is fantastic if you play music. I've been using the open source one by Adam Foster for years, but heard the A4Labs version is good too.
My 25 minute commute by car would be 3 hours on public transport, across 4 buses. American cities were expressly designed around the automobile, and are nearly impossible to navigate otherwise.
Something that took me a while to realise is that you don't necessarily need to be eating rubbish food to gain weight, just too much. I think there's this stereotype of the guy chugging down sugary drinks all day with his greasy burgers in between handfuls of sweets, but that's not the case for most people.
What was a big help for me was getting a food scale, and working out what size portions I should be eating - particularly for carby things like rice and pasta I found I was way off on my estimates of what a decent serving should be.
If they hadn't tried to claim the history as their own I don't think it would have been nearly as controversial. Calling themselves "The Dons" and referencing 1889 as the founding date was just insulting.
There's plenty of it in the UK too.
I lost interest in ford when they killed the Fiesta/Focus.
I think the point I realised how out of step I am with most brexiters was when someone argued with me that now we're out of the EU "they can take all their bloody decimalised currency with them!"
I was completely flabbergasted that someone would still be mad about an objectively better system that's been the norm for over 50 years at this point.
That was the argument I heard a lot of from neolibs leading up to the referendum - "y'know, Norway and Switzerland aren't in the EU and they're doing fine".
I do wonder if Cameron had stuck it out if that's what we would have aimed for, rather than leaving it up to the "Brexit means Brexit" crew.
Mostly hate and misery, with a good dash of racism.
For a more serious answer, "tory" is the nickname for a member of the Conservative party, the UK's major centre-right party. Much like in the US, they've been shifting further right in the past few decades and focusing more on "culture war" BS.
The perspective of the left woman's feet is confusing to me - but the colouring and shading is great, really gives you a sense of them.
Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.