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No more dingy laundry! You are watching a 1950's advert from the UK for Persil laundry detergent in your hed gif today. More info, as per the usual, right here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/no-more-dingy-laundry?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

I prefer to wash my clothes in coriander.

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LOL, that was apparently a reason the product wasn't selling in France. So then they changed the name to Le Persil.

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

And that helped? LOL.

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

I think it did, actually

IINM Le Persil is still selling

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

I was once on a Navy ship (I was civil service) and we were pulling into a port in Spain. The tv was picking up local stations. There was a commercial for a laundry detergent called COLON. My boss looked at me and said "That oughta clean the shit out of your clothes!"

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That is *such* an Armed Forces joke

That's the kind my uncles & granpas used to tell after the moms/aunties/grammas sent the kids out of the room so we wouldn't hear it

But we were kids. And most of us were musicians. So we heard everything, lol

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

But is it as good as 1945 Rinso?

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Whoa, Rinso Blue! I 'member.

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

I use Persil. It is good stuff.

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Charming! But girl needs to get outta that bubble and pay attention!

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

But does it handle this ring around the collar?

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You try scrubbing, you try soaking....

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

What about dinghy laundry? Can I still wash my sails?

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

Dirty Laundry?

"We've got the bubble-headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

Are your whites white and your brights bright?

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And my colored things are brighter!

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Love the animation, it reminded me of yesterday's gif.

Thanks Martini!

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I also noticed the similarities in animation styles. I usually like to mix it up, but I sort of whiffed this week and didn't notice until after I already put them out for Rebecca. Heh. But the two animations were made 50 years apart from each other, so from an art historical perspective that's interesting. What's old is new!

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

Yay! (Exited frog waving arms.) I can see TABZ again -

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

The way that one little girl walked by, I was thinking of that Truman Capote short story, "Children on Thier Birthdays" I think.

Love this, Martini!

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Apr 19Liked by Martini Glambassador

Trippy!

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So Madison Cawthorn is in a wheelchair because of a traffic accident but doesn't think he needs to drive safely?!? And this idiot was in congress. Oh what a world.

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Even out of Congress Madison Cawthorn is a pain in the butt.

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𝘖𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘏𝘖𝘔𝘈 𝘊𝘐𝘛𝘠 -- 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘞𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯.

Because of course. So, after they're tried and convicted, will they claim their rights were violated because the government they hate provided them with attorneys, therefore BIAS?!?

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> NO OF COURSE YOU SHOULDN’T WASH STEAK BEFORE COOKING, WHAT ARE YOU, A RACCOON? NO LINK!

Not that straightforward:

Ragusea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Nd_vh3yk8

Kenji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGP36xcUnOs

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😊

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App Store fees are taxes that pay for the operating system and the tools, not rent. Tools used to cost hundreds of dollars, making it hard to break in to the industry, people would stay on old OSes rather than pay $100/year to upgrade, meaning you couldn’t rely on your customers running something that supported your latest features, and they’d blame you for it.

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So relative in south-central France has taken up taking long hikes village to village to village, and sent some wonderful photos of wildlife she encountered last week. These consisted of photos of two hogs in a pen, though at first it looked like one hog next to some sheepskin seat covers someone had thrown in their next to it. But in fact, the sheepskin seat covers turned out to be a second hog, of a variety known as a "cochon lainé," or "Woolly Pig." You can see some examples by Googling "Manganlica" or "Mangalitsa" pigs, a Hungarian breed known for its sheep-like wool and for its tasty meat.

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Damn, that was one fluffy waffle. I had some extra apple cider sourdough starter, and mixed it in with the standard Betty Crocker waffle recipe. Extra floof, and a bit of tang. Not bad -- definitely giving it more stars than Texas.

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Your name checks out. Cheers!

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Pokemon Go made the grave mistake of trying to update the available avatar options.... by deleting female models entirely, and going to a unisex body with sliders. This does not work. The addition of sliders to allow for fatter body types is awesome, but my Trainer lost her hourglass figure and now walks like a guy. I'm very upset about this.

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"...See, I just need to get more melanin in my skin. And I just need to learn Ebonics..."

Loomer's racist remark belies the fact that Florida's 11th Congressional district is 77% white, non-hispanic, and the greatest percentage of votes for her came from The Villages, which is 97% white.

Obviously, the racism plays with many of these whites, but to say that she would win over more minority votes if she "spoke Ebonics" is just stupid ( BTW, who even talks about "Ebonics" anymore? It was "current" among American bigots in the 90s ( altho' it was coined by an academic back in the early 70s _)

I just hope this hateful prunt gets the shaming she deserves ( not that she would recognize shame ).

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"BTW, who even talks about "Ebonics" anymore?"

The residents of The Village.

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You're probably right - most of my neighbors are living in a past fantasy world

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What struck me about it was her comment about how hard she had worked.

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What did Laura the Loon get when she ran for mayor? 0.2% of the vote? Being Black will not get you a 49.9% boost, Laura!

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Laura does not actually wish to be Black. I would give odds that if you told her she could be mayor after the next election, if she would only become a Black woman and stay that way for the rest of her life, she would either just flat refuse or would come up with some weasel way to explain why she couldn't do it.

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Apr 19Liked by Rebecca Schoenkopf

I hope I catch some eyes here even though Wonkette has published more content today.

We need to boost our very own Crip Dyke’s writing on this subject. If you have maybe noticed, Substack is pushing a pretty Bad Take on the report.

Maybe restack something to counteract the bullshit ? I don’t know if it will be effective, but it certainly can’t hurt.

https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/the-cass-review-hey-what-does-uk?r=1xzsys&utm_medium=ios

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Are you kidding? You wash and dry every piece of dead animal flesh before you cook it. You don't know what's on that thing

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“Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn was tailgating the shit out of a lady and then rear-ended a cop.”

Context: Madison rear-ended the male cop in bed later for ‘stress relief.’

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oopsies!

𝐴 𝐽𝑒𝑡𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛'𝑠 𝐿𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛'𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑦.

𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝐵𝐶 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝐽𝑒𝑡𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 1554 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 2937 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑦.

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They misspelled Reagan....

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