Kellamity

1968? There were literally riots

The loss was perceived to be the result of Johnson and Daley influencing behind the scenes. Humphrey, who had not entered any of the thirteen state primary elections, won the Democratic nomination shortly after midnight, and many delegates shouted, "No! No!" when his victory was announced

law forbids Christians from following Christ's example

These people have really just reimagined everything about Jesus, and it's nuts

But the downside is that technically, regardless of what mechanism would trigger the dissolution of parliament, this has to be requested to and accepted by the King, who then sends out Writs of Electors

Of course in practice this is a rubber stamp tradition with no chance of not happening - if Charles went mad and tried to prevent this we would likely still have an election just with a side order of constitutional crisis and a wave of republicanism

But it's still dumb

It is how you use it, even if you don't mean to.

If you use 'gay' as an insult, that doesn't become OK if you only say it to straight people. It's still some massive drive by homophobia.

The reason to stop using this as an insult isn't to protect the people you're insulting, it's to protect a third group which has a dark history with the word

But language changes and evolves, and words get imbued with additional meanings over time through a bunch of complicated factors and contexts.

Just because 'idiot' and 'retard' were used similarly once, doesn't mean they're the same now

We don't need to fully understand the process in which the word has changed to know that lots of people find it particularly insulting, degrading and oppressive, and to decide to stop using it because of this

Interesting idea! What do you do if you're busy in the evening and miss a show - save it til next week or do you catch up?

Sometimes a lazy answer is worse than no answer

I'm the younger end of millennial - I did watch these as a kid but I was young enough that I don't remember much. Don't remember artax.

I wanna say there was a big big chill mammal thing but when I try to remember more I just picture Oppa from Avatar

Often in lower league football (soccer?), if there's huge game (cup match against bigger opponent, playoff etc), tickets are prioritised for those who have been to more regular games. Makes sense, the more committed fans get priority and avoids scalping.

This just seems like the same thing to me

Yup

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Everything_Great_Again

"what is a personal pronoun"

These 100 year old Kentuckians are far too woke

I agree with your broader point about linguistics, but Chesterton's fence has never sat right with me. Consider the inverse:

This annoying and unnecessary fence is an inconvenience, but since nobody can remember what it's for, we dare not remove it