• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    14 days ago

    I don’t get the joke. Is it the contrast between beauty and bombs? Or did your colleague say that like those were their last words?

    • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social
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      14 days ago

      If they are roughly the age that i am they may remember a time when you didn’t get checked for bombs at amusement parks

      I have to say it feels a bit dystopic. More so at how normal it is these days.

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        2 days ago

        Oh my god, thank you - apparently I’m aging myself. Yes - we didn’t used to need go through bomb checkpoints.

        Also for the record I feel bad about saying idiotic and NPC! That was unnecessarily unkind, even if I found her excruciatingly vapid