@0177da18 @3967703f I always figured that must be what war is really for- build up too much surplus population, pick a fight with someone, draft that surplus & get them killed off. Problem solved.

*bonus points if you can go in together on the war with another country with the same problem- a friendly country to get unfriendly with 

 @420f26f4 @a6e025da I knew someone who wasn’t anywhere near southern, but used “you all.” She would pronounce it very distinctly “You. All.”’I was never sure whether that to avoid being accused of cultural appropriation, or to avoid misleading people into thinking she was southern. 

 @134318c2 Person of the Bottleneck Era, comforting a friend who’s going through a bad breakup: “You’re better off without them, really. And don’t worry, there are a lot of fish in the sea.”

Friend, sniffing back tears: “No, there there aren’t. There aren’t aren’t very many at all.”