TheFlopster

I've never heard of a company giving you your birthday off either. But it's the only day every year that I feel special, so I always use vacation time to have that day off. And usually a couple of days surrounding it too.

It's, uh, boll. Boll weevil. So you learned two things!

While we're on animals, every time I hear the word mongoose I picture some kind of platypus-like creature. Like, a half goose, half weasel or something. And that's not what it is at all.

Personal opinion with absolutely no evidence to back it up: because people are more and more desperate, especially about money. There is nothing left to look forward to for the poor and lower class except the hope of a quick fix / windfall. Everything is expensive, they're barely making it paycheck to paycheck, these few dollars aren't going to make a difference either way, why not just go for big money?

They can't afford to have kids, they can't afford a house, they can't afford a nice meal in a restaurant every once in a while, and they have no safety net of savings or even parents with a house they can live in to get them through an emergency. The only way out is money and lots of it. It's this or the lottery.

I keep saying "they," but all it would take is a job loss for most of the US to be right there, including me.

I think it's like how baking soda is a "soda". It's a powder.

He is Grant Gustin. This was a behind the scenes shot. There's a character's name on that gravestone in the original picture.

I'm not sure if I'm getting whooshed.

I'm full of cheese at all times. What else is there to live for?

Short for "debutants". It's what they used to call unmarried women who were (I think) 16 or older. Because that's when they were supposed to be on the lookout for a suitable man to marry.

Chaos? A distraction from whatever else he's up to that night be worse? Idk.

Mine was 22.

I agree that the behavior will absolutely continue. But if the new leader doesn't have that special "something" that everyone rallies around, the cult divides.

Again, I still have no idea what people see in Trump or why anyone would choose to follow him. But there's obviously something about him that appeals to them. Visible anger and hate for everyone not in the cult? Promises to destroy them all? Idk.

I think you're absolutely right about the hate vs. fear. But when the charismatic (Trump? Ew, how?) cult leader dies, sometimes the cult doesn't have anyone else they all believe in, and it breaks apart. I'm hoping for that.

And The Handmaid's Tale was supposed to be fiction. But here we are.