The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.

Also, there are “cowboys” everywhere in the world.

You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.

I wonder if they even bothered attempting the test it in the first place.

Don’t know that one.

What if the patient is a health care CEO who is known for denying health care to others?

Aka cleavage.

I wonder if Putin’s piss tapes are also mixed into this or if it’s the same thing.

The petty theft of the FIFA medals is also a pretty clear sign of dementia. It’s classic dementia behavior and it would be overanalyzing to call it anything else.

I wonder if there are more assholes than normal people, so that it only seems that assholes are more successful in dating because there are simply more of them.

The meme is referencing Plato, so I’d say it was originally his idea.

Who?

And forgive my European ignorance, but don’t they have alternates in such cases?

Otherwise it would be really easy to replace the entire government using only a Smith and Wesson or a combine harvester or similar or all together.

We did that in Denmark this year, cutting a holiday.

It turns out the whole thing was a calculator mistake, and also, the same faulty calculator was wrong about needing it in the first place.

Yeah the picture doesn’t really present the issue. The 60% livestock isn’t comparable to wild life. It’s much worse than that.

I could also say that 100% of bricks are man made and there are no wild bricks.

Similarly, live stock is a product, that shouldn’t and wouldn’t exist in the first place. It does not represent animals in a way that is comparable to wild life that have full lives.

The 60% livestock does not live long happy lives. It’s constantly being replaced by new livestock.

So sure at any given moment there might be 60% mass of animals classified as livestock, but if we were to count the actual number of animals over a year, it would be closer to 100%.

You wouldn’t download your mom.

All car manufacturers world wide are subsidized.

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent-totals

Of course China can make cheaper cars, because most car manufacturers get their parts produced in China anyway.

It really depends on the reference. 0 today is not the same as 0 was when I grew up. By the standards then, it was probably a 4, but by today’s standards it would be in the negatives, -2or so.

“Allowed until someone is sued for doing it and insurance can’t keep paying out” more likely.

A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn’t bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven’t bothered learning the law. If they can’t be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.

The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don’t think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.

Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can’t.

It’s a response to Neil Young’s songs which criticized the racist south.

Basically, it’s what-about-ism in song form, mocking the liberals for being upset with Nixon.

Jazz.

I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.