He should have added a few decades to his stated age. Then he’d have picked up those looking for a lottery ticket

Not shown: she perseveres and ends up becoming a celebrated breakdancer

Get rid of the easel. Real men don’t paint pretty pictures.

Morbidly A Beast sounds like the name of the world’s heaviest metal band

Much as in the Everett True universe, men in chequered coats are not to be trusted

It’s made with reversed-chirality molecules, which do not react in the digestive tract

All of a sudden, I feel an urge to play with shader programming again

They had the brand name “Glizz” right there for the taking…

If it doesn’t block the stairway, it works. It’s essentially a fixed bench that looks quirky.

Maybe they should of asked someone

In a parallel universe, the word for paywall is “billgate”

That’s not really socialism, given that it is not universally distributed but depends on one’s social connections. A socialist system would have impersonal mechanisms for catching those who fall through the cracks due to not knowing enough people to ask for and repay favours. (And those people do exist: “everyone knows a guy with a truck” except perhaps for a socially isolated shut-in or someone who does not speak the language, or someone who does not fit in with the community in their truck catchment radius.)

At some point the meaning of the baseball cap worn backwards flipped from “streetwise hepcat who can probably breakdance and/or scratch and is handy with a spraycan” to “basic macho dude”

the top part has big milady-fedora energy

Corn Man / Corn Maiden ship

There are a lot of people in third-world shantytowns who’d be appalled at the sort of things the most frugal of us fritter our money away on while they struggle to get drinkable water

Unless they pay a king’s ransom to get fresh fish air-freighted in (which maybe would make sense if you’re the private chef of a potentate who’s very particular about fish but insists on living in Nebraska or the Swiss Alps or somewhere, but wouldn’t make economic sense otherwise), that’s how it always is anywhere far from fishing ports and fish markets.

Having said that, frozen fish isn’t terrible, just mediocre if you’re used to freshly caught fish. Though if you’re having sushi or sashimi, it’ll have been frozen if the place complies with health regulations: for fish, “sushi-grade” just means that it has spent enough time frozen to kill any potential parasites that would otherwise be killed by cooking.

That’s probably the best one of these

Didn’t even know he was in Angine de Poitrine

Oxygen is slowly killing you. It’s just better than the alternative.