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I'm a heterosexual woman who's opposed to heterosexuality
I’m a cis woman in kind of a classic millennial sex pickle: I’m really repelled by heterosexuality politically and personally, but I’m also really into dick. I’ve been thinking maybe I should look for bi dudes/ bicurious gay dudes, but I am not sure how best to do that. Rich, what would you think of a woman being on Grindr or Scruff? I do want to be respectful of gay men’s spaces and not horn in where I’m not welcome, but I really would love to find a vers guy with queer politics who would be up for casually dating a woman. What do you think? If you were me, where would you look?
Dear Radical,
I’m not sure I’d call this a “classic millennial sex pickle,” and I’d like to hear more about your particular flavor of self-flagellating dick politics, but I’ll answer the question you actually asked. A general rule of thumb that I wish more people followed is: If you enter a space as someone who is not a member of the demographic for which said space was established, you should behave yourself. Don’t try to make something that has been designed to be not about you about you. The world is not your bachelorette party. So if you must go the route of using digital spaces dominated by men seeking men, as a cis woman with (no offense?) ostensibly hetero desires, don’t bother people. Let them come to you. Also prepared to have your profile deleted. I actually have seen cis, hetero women on Grindr and the like before, and whenever I do, I think, “Well, she’s not gonna last.” And she doesn’t.
Some gay and even bi men might admonish you for even trying your hand at the gay grid (and may get pissed at me for not scolding you for wanting to do so), but we must acknowledge that it’s not just a space for queer men anymore. In recent years apps like Grindr and Scruff have become more trans-inclusive, including trans women. They offer “trans” as an option for one’s tribe, implicitly accepting that trans people will use the apps. And it seems to have worked, at least in New York, where the trans population on these apps has grown considerably more visible, as has the population of straight-identified men who are looking for trans women only and say so in their profiles. All kinds of spaces that were previously thought of as being only for men are now more queer-inclusive. I think that’s good? Guys are still getting plenty of dick (they will always find a way to do so), and other identities have more outlets as well.
That said, I don’t know how much luck you’d actually have on the likes of Grindr, though I do think it would be an interesting experiment if nothing else. If you’re in a major metropolitan area, you’re better off going to queer parties, even queer sex parties (if you think you’d be into that), where the identification boundaries tend to bleed into each other and a real anything-goes spirit pervades. There are dating apps/websites specifically catering to bi people (I’ve seen one that requires all of its users to identify somewhere on the bi spectrum in their profiles), but I have no experience with them and am reluctant to recommend them by name. Try Google. Probably the best way for an affair with a queer man to happen would be organically over time, through an extended friend group, for example, but that would require some patience and a lot of uncertainty, both of which the modern mindset disdains.
Something you should keep in mind is that pursuing guys who share your interest in dick will hardly weed out jerks. There are a lot of shitty men who identify as gay and bi, and their queerness doesn’t automatically absolve them of misogyny. In fact, the misogyny in some of these dudes is compounded by a perceived lack of use for women. At least straight guys will pretend to be civilized for the sake of getting laid. Ultimately, I feel like you’re going to end up with some big-dicked puppy dog of a straight guy who’s read some theory here and there, anyway? I mean, by all means have fun until you find him, but I’d put money on that being where this is going.
Dear Radical,
I’m not sure I’d call this a “classic millennial sex pickle,” and I’d like to hear more about your particular flavor of self-flagellating dick politics, but I’ll answer the question you actually asked. A general rule of thumb that I wish more people followed is: If you enter a space as someone who is not a member of the demographic for which said space was established, you should behave yourself. Don’t try to make something that has been designed to be not about you about you. The world is not your bachelorette party. So if you must go the route of using digital spaces dominated by men seeking men, as a cis woman with (no offense?) ostensibly hetero desires, don’t bother people. Let them come to you. Also prepared to have your profile deleted. I actually have seen cis, hetero women on Grindr and the like before, and whenever I do, I think, “Well, she’s not gonna last.” And she doesn’t.
Some gay and even bi men might admonish you for even trying your hand at the gay grid (and may get pissed at me for not scolding you for wanting to do so), but we must acknowledge that it’s not just a space for queer men anymore. In recent years apps like Grindr and Scruff have become more trans-inclusive, including trans women. They offer “trans” as an option for one’s tribe, implicitly accepting that trans people will use the apps. And it seems to have worked, at least in New York, where the trans population on these apps has grown considerably more visible, as has the population of straight-identified men who are looking for trans women only and say so in their profiles. All kinds of spaces that were previously thought of as being only for men are now more queer-inclusive. I think that’s good? Guys are still getting plenty of dick (they will always find a way to do so), and other identities have more outlets as well.
That said, I don’t know how much luck you’d actually have on the likes of Grindr, though I do think it would be an interesting experiment if nothing else. If you’re in a major metropolitan area, you’re better off going to queer parties, even queer sex parties (if you think you’d be into that), where the identification boundaries tend to bleed into each other and a real anything-goes spirit pervades. There are dating apps/websites specifically catering to bi people (I’ve seen one that requires all of its users to identify somewhere on the bi spectrum in their profiles), but I have no experience with them and am reluctant to recommend them by name. Try Google. Probably the best way for an affair with a queer man to happen would be organically over time, through an extended friend group, for example, but that would require some patience and a lot of uncertainty, both of which the modern mindset disdains.
Something you should keep in mind is that pursuing guys who share your interest in dick will hardly weed out jerks. There are a lot of shitty men who identify as gay and bi, and their queerness doesn’t automatically absolve them of misogyny. In fact, the misogyny in some of these dudes is compounded by a perceived lack of use for women. At least straight guys will pretend to be civilized for the sake of getting laid. Ultimately, I feel like you’re going to end up with some big-dicked puppy dog of a straight guy who’s read some theory here and there, anyway? I mean, by all means have fun until you find him, but I’d put money on that being where this is going.
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Any straight woman who goes on grindr for sex should just kill herself.
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There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia
“Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
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There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia - VICE
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There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia
“Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
I’ve written before about why some people react negatively toward veganism.
The vegans I interviewed shared a wide variety of reasons they believed people felt resentful toward vegans, including a lack of diversity within the vegan community, perceived preachiness, comparisons to the Holocaust or slavery, as well as defensiveness about being a meat eater and not wanting to change.
Though hating on vegans is almost a cliche, there’s not much actual data about it. But a new survey from Lifesum, a weight loss app, of UK and US-based vegans found that eight out of 10 respondents had experienced “vegaphobia” which it defined as a prejudice against vegans.
The survey found that 92 percent of respondents experienced vegaphobia from family and friends, 59 percent experienced it while dining out, 55 percent in the workplace, and 21 percent while grocery shopping. So far more than 1,000 people have responded but the survey is still ongoing, according to Lifesum.
Respondents also gave specifics on incidents of vegaphobia they’ve experienced. One person said “people have purposely put meat in products to see if I will eat it/try and trick me,” according to a news release from Lifesum. Another respondent said when they share posts about veganism family members and friends “will write comments just filled with insults or bragging about what animals they killed during their last hunting trip, just taunting me and being rude.” Another respondent said they usually don’t even mention the word “vegan” to avoid dealing with rudeness and defensiveness.
Some respondents seemed nonplussed about dealing with haters.
One said, “Veganism has been the best decision I've ever made. Veganism rocks!!” Another blunt user simply said, “Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
Toronto vegan Darren Chang, 28, told VICE he believes prejudice against vegans is a “very real thing in part because it challenges the belief of human superiority over non-humans, which is such a deep-seated ideology across almost all cultures.”
He believes there is an overlap in the domination of animals—i.e. how hunting is presented as masculine—and other forms of oppression, including racism.
“All these things combined, it makes sense that vegaphobia would be a thing, because people fear what they feel threatens their sense of identity and associated values and beliefs.”
But not all vegans are supportive of terms like “vegaphobia.”
“I've heard the term but don't care for it,” Mathusha, 26, a vegan who lives in Markham, Ontario, told VICE.
“Do we get harped on for being vegan? Yeah, often. Carnivores can be assholes, but so can vegans. This doesn't make us an ‘oppressed’ people. To imply we are is peak privilege at best.”
Mathusha previously told VICE she found it difficult to be a woman of colour and a vegan because she believes many vegan circles lack empathy for other cultures.
“White vegans and radical vegans are always downplaying actual oppression but you can count on them to cry about their hurt feelings which, essentially, is offensive in itself.”
Chang said vegans are diverse, and some and more privileged than others.
“Vegans as a whole are still very much minority populations in any society, and the marginalization of vegans could make them more vulnerable, but again, some vegans more vulnerable than others,” he said.
“Black vegans living in low-income communities with limited access to healthy food would be a lot more vulnerable to various types of violence and oppression vs. upper middle class white vegans who shop at Whole Foods.”
The vegans I interviewed shared a wide variety of reasons they believed people felt resentful toward vegans, including a lack of diversity within the vegan community, perceived preachiness, comparisons to the Holocaust or slavery, as well as defensiveness about being a meat eater and not wanting to change.
Though hating on vegans is almost a cliche, there’s not much actual data about it. But a new survey from Lifesum, a weight loss app, of UK and US-based vegans found that eight out of 10 respondents had experienced “vegaphobia” which it defined as a prejudice against vegans.
The survey found that 92 percent of respondents experienced vegaphobia from family and friends, 59 percent experienced it while dining out, 55 percent in the workplace, and 21 percent while grocery shopping. So far more than 1,000 people have responded but the survey is still ongoing, according to Lifesum.
Respondents also gave specifics on incidents of vegaphobia they’ve experienced. One person said “people have purposely put meat in products to see if I will eat it/try and trick me,” according to a news release from Lifesum. Another respondent said when they share posts about veganism family members and friends “will write comments just filled with insults or bragging about what animals they killed during their last hunting trip, just taunting me and being rude.” Another respondent said they usually don’t even mention the word “vegan” to avoid dealing with rudeness and defensiveness.
Some respondents seemed nonplussed about dealing with haters.
One said, “Veganism has been the best decision I've ever made. Veganism rocks!!” Another blunt user simply said, “Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
Toronto vegan Darren Chang, 28, told VICE he believes prejudice against vegans is a “very real thing in part because it challenges the belief of human superiority over non-humans, which is such a deep-seated ideology across almost all cultures.”
He believes there is an overlap in the domination of animals—i.e. how hunting is presented as masculine—and other forms of oppression, including racism.
“All these things combined, it makes sense that vegaphobia would be a thing, because people fear what they feel threatens their sense of identity and associated values and beliefs.”
But not all vegans are supportive of terms like “vegaphobia.”
“I've heard the term but don't care for it,” Mathusha, 26, a vegan who lives in Markham, Ontario, told VICE.
“Do we get harped on for being vegan? Yeah, often. Carnivores can be assholes, but so can vegans. This doesn't make us an ‘oppressed’ people. To imply we are is peak privilege at best.”
Mathusha previously told VICE she found it difficult to be a woman of colour and a vegan because she believes many vegan circles lack empathy for other cultures.
“White vegans and radical vegans are always downplaying actual oppression but you can count on them to cry about their hurt feelings which, essentially, is offensive in itself.”
Chang said vegans are diverse, and some and more privileged than others.
“Vegans as a whole are still very much minority populations in any society, and the marginalization of vegans could make them more vulnerable, but again, some vegans more vulnerable than others,” he said.
“Black vegans living in low-income communities with limited access to healthy food would be a lot more vulnerable to various types of violence and oppression vs. upper middle class white vegans who shop at Whole Foods.”
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There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia
“Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia - VICE
archived 28 Jan 2020 20:20:26 UTCarchive.md
There’s a Term For Hating On Vegans And It’s Vegaphobia
“Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
I’ve written before about why some people react negatively toward veganism.
The vegans I interviewed shared a wide variety of reasons they believed people felt resentful toward vegans, including a lack of diversity within the vegan community, perceived preachiness, comparisons to the Holocaust or slavery, as well as defensiveness about being a meat eater and not wanting to change.
Though hating on vegans is almost a cliche, there’s not much actual data about it. But a new survey from Lifesum, a weight loss app, of UK and US-based vegans found that eight out of 10 respondents had experienced “vegaphobia” which it defined as a prejudice against vegans.
The survey found that 92 percent of respondents experienced vegaphobia from family and friends, 59 percent experienced it while dining out, 55 percent in the workplace, and 21 percent while grocery shopping. So far more than 1,000 people have responded but the survey is still ongoing, according to Lifesum.
Respondents also gave specifics on incidents of vegaphobia they’ve experienced. One person said “people have purposely put meat in products to see if I will eat it/try and trick me,” according to a news release from Lifesum. Another respondent said when they share posts about veganism family members and friends “will write comments just filled with insults or bragging about what animals they killed during their last hunting trip, just taunting me and being rude.” Another respondent said they usually don’t even mention the word “vegan” to avoid dealing with rudeness and defensiveness.
Some respondents seemed nonplussed about dealing with haters.
One said, “Veganism has been the best decision I've ever made. Veganism rocks!!” Another blunt user simply said, “Being a vegan is dope and all the haters can suck my balls.”
Toronto vegan Darren Chang, 28, told VICE he believes prejudice against vegans is a “very real thing in part because it challenges the belief of human superiority over non-humans, which is such a deep-seated ideology across almost all cultures.”
He believes there is an overlap in the domination of animals—i.e. how hunting is presented as masculine—and other forms of oppression, including racism.
“All these things combined, it makes sense that vegaphobia would be a thing, because people fear what they feel threatens their sense of identity and associated values and beliefs.”
But not all vegans are supportive of terms like “vegaphobia.”
“I've heard the term but don't care for it,” Mathusha, 26, a vegan who lives in Markham, Ontario, told VICE.
“Do we get harped on for being vegan? Yeah, often. Carnivores can be assholes, but so can vegans. This doesn't make us an ‘oppressed’ people. To imply we are is peak privilege at best.”
Mathusha previously told VICE she found it difficult to be a woman of colour and a vegan because she believes many vegan circles lack empathy for other cultures.
“White vegans and radical vegans are always downplaying actual oppression but you can count on them to cry about their hurt feelings which, essentially, is offensive in itself.”
Chang said vegans are diverse, and some and more privileged than others.
“Vegans as a whole are still very much minority populations in any society, and the marginalization of vegans could make them more vulnerable, but again, some vegans more vulnerable than others,” he said.
“Black vegans living in low-income communities with limited access to healthy food would be a lot more vulnerable to various types of violence and oppression vs. upper middle class white vegans who shop at Whole Foods.”
This is how all vegans are
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Petrol stations accused of sexism because pumps are ‘designed for male hands’
Melanie Morgan has to get her boyfriend to fill up her car because the pump handles hurt her ‘small hands’.
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Petrol stations accused of sexism because pumps are ‘designed for male hands’
A petite mum-of-two who struggles to fill up her car because her hands are so small has accused petrol stations of ‘sexism’.
Melanie Morgan, 31, said it hurts to hold the petrol pump because they are designed ‘by men with men in mind’. Melanie, a private tutor, is so fed up of asking her partner to do the chore for her she is considering buying an electric car to avoid the hassle.
However, she admitted that she wasn’t sure if the discomfort was a widespread problem for women or just people with small hands.
Melanie, from south west London, said: ‘I have fairly small hands. I’m short, I’m 5ft 3, so I’m fairly small generally but I imagine there aren’t many men who have the same size hands as me.
‘When I was younger I remember thinking ‘ooh this is difficult’ but then it’s also something you’re new to doing.
‘But as an adult now who does it regularly it suddenly occurred to me one day that I don’t think most people find filling up the car painful, most people don’t have to think ‘this doesn’t work’ ‘I’d assume there’s some kind of reason that it needs to be the broadness it is around that point and you have to pull it in tight, of course, but I think it’s a classic overlooked issue.
‘No-one’s going to complain about it and those who tend to design things like that I assume are typically male engineers.’
She said her boyfriend ‘laughed it off’ when she first told him how much it hurts filling up their Ford Tourneo Independence.
However, he came round when she took photos showing how small her hands are in comparison to the petrol pumps. She added: ‘When I said [this] he was like ‘oh gosh you’re not joking, this is actually a problem’.
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Someone should put this woman behind a plow.Petrol stations accused of sexism because pumps are ‘designed for male hands’
Melanie Morgan has to get her boyfriend to fill up her car because the pump handles hurt her ‘small hands’.
Petrol stations accused of sexism because pumps are ‘designed for mal…
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Petrol stations accused of sexism because pumps are ‘designed for male hands’
A petite mum-of-two who struggles to fill up her car because her hands are so small has accused petrol stations of ‘sexism’.
Melanie Morgan, 31, said it hurts to hold the petrol pump because they are designed ‘by men with men in mind’. Melanie, a private tutor, is so fed up of asking her partner to do the chore for her she is considering buying an electric car to avoid the hassle.
However, she admitted that she wasn’t sure if the discomfort was a widespread problem for women or just people with small hands.
Melanie, from south west London, said: ‘I have fairly small hands. I’m short, I’m 5ft 3, so I’m fairly small generally but I imagine there aren’t many men who have the same size hands as me.
‘When I was younger I remember thinking ‘ooh this is difficult’ but then it’s also something you’re new to doing.
‘But as an adult now who does it regularly it suddenly occurred to me one day that I don’t think most people find filling up the car painful, most people don’t have to think ‘this doesn’t work’ ‘I’d assume there’s some kind of reason that it needs to be the broadness it is around that point and you have to pull it in tight, of course, but I think it’s a classic overlooked issue.
‘No-one’s going to complain about it and those who tend to design things like that I assume are typically male engineers.’
She said her boyfriend ‘laughed it off’ when she first told him how much it hurts filling up their Ford Tourneo Independence.
However, he came round when she took photos showing how small her hands are in comparison to the petrol pumps. She added: ‘When I said [this] he was like ‘oh gosh you’re not joking, this is actually a problem’.
"Awww, my small hands make it hard to hold up a petrol pump, everyone should have to fill their car less rapidly for my convenience!"
Rei is shit
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Wait, is this bitch holding the pump in the car the entire time its filling up? How can this be an issue worth complaining about otherwise?
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You have to do that with UK pumps, stops dickheads driving off with it still stuck in the car.
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Okay, I've seen some sick shit in my life, but that dude needs to be taken out back and beaten to death with a ham hock!! Good Christ, he's revolting.
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That's good old John Sakars https://kiwifarms.net/threads/john-sakars.20021/
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Rescued Owl Was "Too Fat to Fly"
Wildlife rescuers came across this dummy thicc owl who needed to be put on a strict diet because the clap of her asscheeks could alert predators. Thankfully it was a wild owl who just happened to have a good food supply and not an owl who got kept as an ill-advised pet and fed tater tots.
Rescued owl was 'too fat to fly', Suffolk sanctuary says
The owl probably overindulged during a mild spell that left it with lots of prey, bird experts say.
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Wildlife rescuers came across this dummy thicc owl who needed to be put on a strict diet because the clap of her asscheeks could alert predators. Thankfully it was a wild owl who just happened to have a good food supply and not an owl who got kept as an ill-advised pet and fed tater tots.
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Man in blackface robs Maryland bank
A man in Maryland disguised himself with blackface while robbing a bank, police said. The suspect walked into the PNC Bank in Perryville, a small town near the Delaware border, and robbed the bank …
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Fuck that put her in front of the plow pulling.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...g-trump-should-fire-the-person-who-hired-him/Neocon hawk John Bolton “liked” a tweet that called him an idiot and implored President Donald Trump to fire the moron who hired him.
The “like” may have been meant as a dig at Trump, who reportedly handpicked the notorious warmonger to serve as his National Security Advisor himself.
The tweet, by a user named Jeff Tiedrich, was in response to a Twitter rant by President Trump about how if he had listened to Bolton we would be “in World War Six” by now.
“For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model’ on T.V., and many more mistakes of judgement, gets fired because frankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now, and goes out and IMMEDIATELY writes a nasty & untrue book. All Classified National Security. Who would do this?” Trump had wrote in a series of tweets.
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Local Man Arrested After Blaring “Benny Hill” Song Near People Slipping On Ice
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7 days ago
A local Sioux Falls man was arrested earlier Thursday after police found him berating people with loud music and laughter after they slipped and fell on icy spots in a local Walmart parking lot.
“It was something that needed to happen to make light of all the gloomy weather we’ve had lately. I didn’t know that people would get all pissed off about falling to such a happy song. I read something online the other day about someone out here yelling cold weather puns, so I figured I would try my luck and get on the news, too,” said the man.
When police arrived at the scene, it looked as though the man had just finished up playing the song for a child who had recently slipped and fallen.
“We arrived on the scene to something very disturbing. After my partner and I slipped and fell on the ice, we heard that ‘Benny Hill’ song. You know, the dunn dun dunnndunn funny song that plays when people are in funny chases? Anyway, we got up and arrested the man after a small chase around the squad car with that song still playing,” said one Sioux Falls Police Department representative we spoke with.
Meteorologists warned of these slippery conditions, but like usual no one listened.
“We told you this was coming,” said one smug meteorologist we spoke with.
The police later released the man after questioning.
The Sioux Falls Headliner
Adam K. White
Local Man Arrested After Blaring “Benny Hill” Song Near People Slipping On Ice
7 days ago
A local Sioux Falls man was arrested earlier Thursday after police found him berating people with loud music and laughter after they slipped and fell on icy spots in a local Walmart parking lot.
“It was something that needed to happen to make light of all the gloomy weather we’ve had lately. I didn’t know that people would get all pissed off about falling to such a happy song. I read something online the other day about someone out here yelling cold weather puns, so I figured I would try my luck and get on the news, too,” said the man.
When police arrived at the scene, it looked as though the man had just finished up playing the song for a child who had recently slipped and fallen.
“We arrived on the scene to something very disturbing. After my partner and I slipped and fell on the ice, we heard that ‘Benny Hill’ song. You know, the dunn dun dunnndunn funny song that plays when people are in funny chases? Anyway, we got up and arrested the man after a small chase around the squad car with that song still playing,” said one Sioux Falls Police Department representative we spoke with.
Meteorologists warned of these slippery conditions, but like usual no one listened.
“We told you this was coming,” said one smug meteorologist we spoke with.
The police later released the man after questioning.
The Sioux Falls Headliner
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Noideawhattopick
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I swear the absolute state of journalists is unbelievable.
I know it's supposed to be a quote, but seriously?
I could believe this was not quoted but born in the authors head.
As for the guy: ass-move but funny. Good trolling.
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Sounds like the guy was just trying to have a little bit of fun. Some people need to lighten up a bit. Glad to see that at least he wasn't really penalized in any way.
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