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Two R sounds in a row can be difficult for some people to say quickly so they skip it.

Another example: I have heard “fusstrating” instead of “frustrating.”

You’re right! I forgot who I was talking about.

My favorite Batman villain in his rogues gallery has always been The Abnormal Drug Trafficker

What’s funny is, the phrase “Molyneux’s failed legacy” is accurate without this specific game being named “Legacy.”

You’re not a coward, that comment is horrible advice.

It’s good for “oh I oughtta…!” online, but in real life there are significantly more professional/adult ways of solving the problem than asking semi-rhetorical questions that barely make sense in the hopes of guiding someone toward the desired outcome. Please don’t actually do that.

Asking “what does the employee handbook say about X??” isn’t a “gotcha.” You can literally go look, then tell us.

It’s ok to ask not to be recorded in a small meeting. You don’t need to bring up your unfamiliarity with the employee handbook.

Unsurprisingly, they are also the exact same people who pretend windmills cause cancer!

I agree with you on the power strip under the toilet. That’s insanity.

Frigidaire makes refrigerators now that look vintage but are brand new. I didn’t find this exact model on the website, but I could see it being a modern “vintage” one.

Seriously, leave animals alone.

The amount of ink being released at the beginning would have made anyone intelligent let go of the octopus.

I actually saw rabbit on the back-end too!

I blame all of the old “is it a rabbit, or a duck?” illusion drawings. Is the lady pretty, or ugly?

Anyone know what this one means?

Amazingly, looking at the Disqus and other threads (there’s a colorized one on Facebook from February), no one seems to know wtf it means.

Someone mentions that a “Flanagan” is traditionally a character that messes things up, so maybe that’s it?

Thank you! I was wondering about the context

The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Twice as many leased electric vehicles are coming to market.

Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.

This reminds me of Coyote Linux, a firewall distribution that I also used to run on a 386 from a floppy disk!

I mean, for good reason.

If I had to deal with shushtain I’d quit too.

You’re welcome! I think this kind of pattern-matching is especially interesting.

For an older example of a similar pattern, both the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins come to mind. The Penguins were terrible in the late 90s and early 2000s, to the point where they owed their best-ever player Mario Lemieux so much money that he literally just took over the team instead.

The Penguins selected Evgeni Malkin as the #2 pick in 2004; right behind Alex Ovechkin, who was the #1 pick for the Washington Capitals. In 2005, the Penguins selected Sidney Crosby as the #1 pick.

Malkin and Crosby won three Stanley Cups together but it took a few years to jell as a team.

Similarly, it took several years to get a team around Alex Ovechkin that could win a cup.

It’s actually been really interesting to see the previously-mentioned Oilers see success, with their three top-three picks!

It’s probably a lot of things, but in short: their best players are maturing, therefore so is the team.

They got good draft picks and they actually committed to their strategy long-term. The Edmonton Oilers have had success doing the same thing; keeping the same players together helps build rapport, and a lot of them are extremely young when they get drafted.

Because Buffalo is a small-market team that doesn’t often win (therefore they don’t have much money), they tend to be in the middle or toward the bottom of the standings every season. Since they’re always toward the bottom, they have a higher chance of “winning” the draft lottery… but they didn’t get the #1 draft pick between 1987 and 2017.

When they did finally get a high draft pick, #1 pick Rasmus Dahlen in 2018, they improved immediately. He’s a defenseman, though, so they didn’t improve much and were last place again in 2020-2021. They won another #1 draft pick and chose another defenseman, Owen Power. Which makes sense, given Buffalo’s preference for being a defensive team.

Dahlen and Power were both 18 when they were drafted, so I imagine it takes some time to grow into roles on the team.

Fast forward to 2026: Power and Dahlen are still on the team, and Dahlen is the captain. So they actually built a long-term team around two really good players.

This happened recently with the Edmonton Oilers too, where they were terrible for years, finally got several high draft picks, and actually kept and built the players they drafted. The Oilers drafted Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (#1 in 2011), Leon Draisaitl (#3 in 2014), and Connor McDavid (#1 in 2015). They’ve kept all three players and went to the Stanley Cup finals the past two years.

Reviews too! Steam has a frequently used and frequently useful user-submitted reviewing feature.

Reviews are a “community” feature, and it’s remarkably hard to build a review feature people want to use that is actually valuable.

I always like to see what seems like the most “interesting” team to watch.

The Buffalo Sabres haven’t been in the playoffs since 2011. They have the all-time record “drought” for the playoffs, missing 14 in a row.

They’re in a three-way tie right now for second-best record in the league. Interesting!

They also haven’t ever won a Stanley Cup. They and the Vancouver Canucks are the oldest active franchises that have never won a cup.

Buffalo has been to the Stanley Cup finals three times, in 1974-1975, 1979-1980, and 1998-1999. So even that’s been a really long time.

As an aside, Buffalo is an interesting sports town because they also have an extraordinary American football team that went to the championship game four times in a row and lost (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994). No other team has even played four in a row, let alone lost all four.

Yep, that’s the saying! And fruitcakes do indeed have nuts in them.

Legitimately was going to say the same thing. Who would ever download this garbage?

The narcissism is embarrassing.