Politics & News LC thread - Vivek and John Candy were right

https://x.com/phil_lewis_/status/1728231211380986245?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

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This is Harlan Crow’s brother

Their parents were terrible at naming children.

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I once sort of knew a guy whose parents named their 3 sons after great military leaders. His brothers were named Napoleon and Alexander. He got Rommel. :leolol:

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I have run in to a surprising number of Atillas in my life (3). I wonder it if was a similar thought process.

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Attila is a common name in Hungary

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I had no idea.

Not sure of the origin of these Atillas that I’ve encountered, but they certainly could have been Hungarian.

When I was in college, I had a girlfriend who was first generation German. I guestimated that her parents were born in the mid-to-late 1930s.

Her father’s first name was Adolf. :thinking:

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TIL that Hungary is called Hungary because it was settled by the Huns.

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All this time I thought it was a guy named Gary

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A Hun named Gary.

The fools really thought giving the whales a badass soundtrack to attack boats to would deter them?

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Not sure where to put this:

Yeah seems like that would seriously piss them off. Seriously pissing off every orca for potentially hundreds of miles when you’re in a boat (almost any size) seems like a pretty bad idea.

https://x.com/kthorjensen/status/1729179728756801814?s=20

holy shit theres an entire thread

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