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Yes, that's what I was going to say when I read @Ancaster's post. Berry and Barry (ask a Jeopardy fan...or don't), merry and marry, all the same sound. I can't remember where the Harvard Dialect survey showed them sounding different. Here's the map: http://dialect.redlog.net/index.html I also saw an article that said 57% of Americans pronounce them the same. I don't know what the other 43% are doing with those vowels. One of my friends who does pronounce them differently said the words slowly to me and I didn't hear a difference.

I feel sick and I don't want to live in this country anymore. Has anyone here retired from the US to another country? Feel free to message me.

1776 is still depressingly true: Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor and that is why they will follow us to the right, ever to the right

It was.

Yes! That show had one of the worst final episodes I've endured.

I don't need to justify my liking or disliking a celebrity, or anyone else, here.

I did use to like him. I enjoyedChuck until the horrible ending, and I was happy when Levi showed up on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. My opinion of him has changed.

The Privacy Badger extension on my browser blocks Twitter posts and unfortunately the images don't have alt image tags. It's like an exciting little mystery every day here. 8-)

It's the people who don't move their cars off the streets during a parking ban in the winter, when they have driveways. The streets are barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other as it is. I wish the town would tow them away.

I don't know where to put this. Rock paper scissors says here, so... Last night I was watching a YT video about the Mandela Effect and bailed during the first segment. It was about Mickey Mouse and the Mandela effect concerns whether or not he wore suspenders. The images all show him without them and it's probably those two weird button/dots/whatever on his shorts that lead people to the suspenders idea. So far, so good. But the next bit was about how some people insist Mickey had a tail, which the narrator tells us he did not. Except at least half of the images show him with a tail. If that isn't a tail, I dread to think what that long string coming out the back of his shorts is. WTF, Narrator Dude?

ED=Emergency Department "The average patient volume for the three sites was higher on supermoon days than on non-supermoon days. However, the difference was not statistically different (p=0.06). Our datamis consistent with the overall finding from the literature that despite somemED perception, the literature does not appear to support a relationship ofmthe lunar cycle to increased ED volume" https://www.mathewsopenaccess.com/scholarly-articles/perigee-full-moons-supermoons-and-its-effect-on-emergency-department-behavioral-health-volume-and-total-volume.pdf

I could never get into Seinfeld because if I wanted to hear asshole NYC people, I can just open a window.

Roger was my favorite character; he was refreshingly unself-righteous compared to the others

ITA. More a history than anything else and with scant coverage of the scandals. It didn't have anything new or insightful. They didn't finish until after the latest accusations; they had time to go back and put in more about the history of that than organizational history. I watched the Montreal match live on ppv and it was bizarre. As a fan your first assumption is always that if it's on TV, it's a work, but when Bret started breaking monitors, and not by being suplexed onto a table, it became clear something else had happened. I can see both sides but I agree Vince made the right call.

@Kel Varnsen, what do you think of the documentary? I watched last week and was interested by how many of the wrestlers interviewed were from the time I was watching (late 90s, Attitude era). And a few who weren't, like Mick Foley and Kevin Nash. Cena was the only more recent one, I think. I would've appreciated them talking more about the many wrestlers who have died young as a result of painkillers.