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1. about 5 hours ago on Cathy Classics

   If you eat very little, your body will think there’s a famine, and will slow down your metabolism, and you’ll stop losing weight.

2. about 5 hours ago on Adult Children

   My mom once answered a phone survey. One of the questions they asked was “Do you often drink before noon?” She said “Yes”, even though she hardly ever drinks alcohol. (They didn’t ask what she drank).

3. about 6 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “Script, phone tree, algorithm, all the same result. If you have a problem that doesn’t fit in, good luck!”

   The AI at my ISP / phone company (Vodafone) starts by introducing itself (Hi, I’m Bob) and then says that if you want to talk to a human, just type “service person”, and a real human will chat with you and try to solve your problem. That’s the first thing I do when I use their AI. I don’t even try using the AI to solve anything. All it can do is tell you…

   1) Reboot your router.

   2) Reboot you smart TV.

   3) Reboot your computer.

   It can’t actually do anything for you, like the other day when I didn’t get all the channels I was supposed to get after I got a new fiber optic converter. The AI couldn’t have done what needed to be done, but the human I talked to fixed it in a couple of minutes.

4. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I don’t know how it is in other places, but her in Iceland, most places will tell you how many people are ahead of you (e.g. “You are number five in line”). I called the tax office once, because I was having trouble with my tax return, and I was told “You are number 73 in line”. I hung up.

5. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   A woman had had a dreamed since she was a young girl about her knight in shining armor coming on a white horse. When she finally met the man who would become her husband, he was driving a white Mustang.

6. 1 day ago on Over the Hedge

   “ The surgery Mimi underwent was mentioned – to remove vestigial internal testes. Lacking the enzyme that promotes testosterone, it mattered not at all what physical structures Mimi had. ”

   I didn’t look up the meaning of the medical term Mimi used, so I may have misunderstood that part. But what about this part…

   “Now we know that this surgery was not necessary, and I have to take this medication, which I potentially didn’t have to. And being essentially sterilized from such a young age is really damaging”

   This implies three things:

   1. If there had been no surgery, Mimi would not have had to take hormones (If this is incorrect, that’s on the video, not me.)

   2. Mimi has no functioning female reproductive organs.

   3. Had the surgery not been performed, Mimi would not be sterile. (You can’t be sterilized if you’re sterile from birth.)

   So, my assuming that Mimi would have developed as a boy without the surgery (albeit without external genitalia), was because that’s what the video clearly implied.

   “Not one argument you made was valid on its face”

   This is pretty much the response I expected. Even taking direct quotes from the video you yourself pointed me to isn’t good enough. I don’t think it would serve any useful purpose to continue this discussion.

7. 2 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I think that was supposed to be kilowatts.

8. 2 days ago on B.C.

   You know those signs that say “slow men working”? They should say “Slow men leaning on shovels”.

9. 2 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   A night watchman was just getting off work when he met the CEO of the company, who was coming to work at the same time. He went to the CEO and told him: “I had a dream last night that the plane you’re going to take for your business trip crashed. I don’t dream very often, but when I do, my dreams always come true. You should take the train instead”. Being a superstitious man himself, the CEO took the watchman’s advice and took the train. Sure enough, the plane he would have taken crashed, killing everyone on board. When he got back from his business trip, he met the night watchman again, and told him: “Thanks for the warning. You saved my life. You’re fired.”

   Why did he fire the night watchman? (This is the kind of riddle that is prefaced by “I’m only going to say this once”. No fair going back and reading it again).

10. 2 days ago on Over the Hedge

    “Twinkies are really bad for you. Look at the ingredients. Yuck!”

    Maybe if you eat too much of them, but you have to make sure you get your daily recommended allowance of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and Polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monostearate.