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I feel like umbrellas exist to save your head and whatever you might be carrying. I used to hold my umbrella toward the center of my body, now I just tend to hold it centered over my backpack or messenger bag if I happen to be carrying one.

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An unfoldable umbrella with gutters!

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Bonus: heat from the lithium battery warm your hands on rainy days

 

I was more interested in the way it kinda weaponised the rain, attacking those around you.

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I was more interested in the way it kinda weaponised the rain, attacking those around you.

 

That's an interesting point, I wonder how well these work if you have a bunch of people in a crowd who all have them.

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the whole page is suspect to me.  i'm sure with the best intentions, but i'll wait for this one to hit the SkyMall catalog

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The Engrish is pretty charming and it's a great idea for a product, but if the battery only last half an hour than it's virtually useless. I couldn't even make a grocery store run without nearly completely draining it.

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I want to know what the greatest political and legal disses in history were.

 

Winston Churchill's got a few, but I think my personal favourite is Gough Whitlam's interjection into Sir Winton Turnbull's speech.

 

Turnbull represented a large rural electorate as a member of the Country party, and as part of that speech, declared "I am a Country member". Whitlam interjected "I remember". It brought the house down, apparently.

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I was going to say that a video about a mere umbrella doesn't warrant the accompaniment of such an epic BoC track, that should be reserved for videos of record breaking altitude dives.

Having now watched it, wow, totally deserving. Bravo.

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I want to know what the greatest political and legal disses in history were.

 

Demosthenes dissed Phillip of Macedon so hard that we now have the word phillippic to describe a damning political speech.

 

Cicero's Phillipicae against Mark Antony were pretty good too. It's a series of 14 speeches that has little gems like

 

Ought I not to complain of the ruin of the republic, lest I should appear ungrateful towards you? But in that complaint, mournful indeed and miserable, but still unavoidable for a man of that rank in which the senate and people of Rome have placed me, what did I say that was insulting? that was otherwise than moderate? that was otherwise than friendly? and what instance was it not of moderation to complain of the conduct of Marcus Antonius, and yet to abstain from any abusive expressions? especially when you had scattered abroad all relics of the republic; when everything was on sale at your house by the most infamous traffic; when you confessed that those laws which had never been promulgated, had been passed with reference to you, and by you; when you, being augur, had abolished the auspices, being consul, had taken away the power of interposing the veto; when you were escorted in the most shameful manner by armed guards; when, worn out with drunkenness and debauchery, you were every day performing all sorts of obscenities in that chaste house of yours.

 

"I mean, it's not like I ever said anything about you getting super wasted and banging anything that moves at your place in a public speech or anything. That would just be a shitty thing for me to do, as a friend."

 

Romans and Greeks had some really good political insults, basically.

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As dumb as I think it is, I sometimes wish the entire US had a single time zone like China does.  I'm tired of missing out on West coast Twitch streams because they start at 2 A.M. for me.

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Nothing like social and personal upheaval on a grand scale so you can enjoy your video games.

More like secretGGer, amirite?!?!?!??!?!

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Nothing like social and personal upheaval on a grand scale so you can enjoy your video games.

More like secretGGer, amirite?!?!?!??!?!

 

But ethics!... or something.

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Wait...SAM employed by energy firm...wants to disrupt daylight... dot dot dot...hull integrity...

 

 

We need an arrorw diagram here, BIGJKO where are you?

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So with all the terrible news going on in the world, here's a distraction: puppies!

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So with all the terrible news going on in the world, here's a distraction: puppies!

Dude clearly had it coming. He CHOSE to associate with those puppies and he knew what that meant. Puppygate. It's actually about puppy journalism.

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I just saw a youtube comment that read:

"was there still racism when the vid was made?"

The irony of that being posted on youtube of all places is just too good :D

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So I've been watching the Giant Bomb Extra Life livestream. It's been generally pretty great, but maaaan did I cringe hard when Jason Oestreicher's wife started talking about how much she loved Bridget from Guilty Gear because of "how so many people thought it was a girl" while sitting mere feet from acclaimed transgender game developer Samantha Kaplan. She started talking about Poison from Final Fight before Samantha basically had to say how uncomfortable it was making her. Eesh.

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