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A basket case of a currency which has circulated at various times in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - an impoverished nation which was once the breadbasket of Africa.
At one point, the country's currency plunged to a record low Z$28,4 quadrillion to the U.S. dollar, triggering massive price increases with hyperinflation estimated at over a quintillion percent, although no one really knows.
At one point, the country's currency plunged to a record low Z$28,4 quadrillion to the U.S. dollar, triggering massive price increases with hyperinflation estimated at over a quintillion percent, although no one really knows.
A sign in a South African restroom at the height of the 2008-09 economic collapse:
Toilet paper only To be used in this toilet
No cardboard
No cloth
No Zim dollars
No newspaper
Toilet paper only To be used in this toilet
No cardboard
No cloth
No Zim dollars
No newspaper
by bitchuck August 21, 2025
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The idea is to annoy providers just enough that they suddenly beg the tenant to leave or even seek to evict instead of holding them hostage to a fixed-term which is no longer useful to a client who needs to be able to leave without penalty after having taken a lucrative job in another city.
The idea is to annoy providers just enough that they suddenly beg the tenant to leave or even seek to evict instead of holding them hostage to a fixed-term which is no longer useful to a client who needs to be able to leave without penalty after having taken a lucrative job in another city.
Likely apocryphal, the DHCP lease breaking party is a fusion of three intertwined concepts:
- A "lease breaking party" in residential tenancy is a party or gathering that disturbs other neighbouring tenants enough to induce a landlord to break the lease
- A "LAN party" is a wild gathering of video game geeks which degenerates into a "rainbow party" like orgy of video game players competing to see how far down the joystick each can leave their respective lip prints; these events are associated with widespreaad abuse of LAN party drugs and overclocking on highly-customised water-cooled gaming PC's.
- A "DHCP lease" is a feature of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol which attempts to hold an Internet Protocol address for a predefined "lease" time so that it may be assigned to the same device when it reconnects.
These wild LAN parties often end badly, with clients going from multi homed to homeless or being bumped off the network entirely. A particularly wild DHCP lease breaking party with extensive LAN party drug use is highly disruptive to tenants of neighbouring IP addresses. An orgy of video games, online porn and bacchanalia tends to degenerate into sloppy seconds bandwidth and conditions prone to spread computer virii, but the situation with most low-rent ISP's is so dismal that client PC's have few other viable options.
- A "lease breaking party" in residential tenancy is a party or gathering that disturbs other neighbouring tenants enough to induce a landlord to break the lease
- A "LAN party" is a wild gathering of video game geeks which degenerates into a "rainbow party" like orgy of video game players competing to see how far down the joystick each can leave their respective lip prints; these events are associated with widespreaad abuse of LAN party drugs and overclocking on highly-customised water-cooled gaming PC's.
- A "DHCP lease" is a feature of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol which attempts to hold an Internet Protocol address for a predefined "lease" time so that it may be assigned to the same device when it reconnects.
These wild LAN parties often end badly, with clients going from multi homed to homeless or being bumped off the network entirely. A particularly wild DHCP lease breaking party with extensive LAN party drug use is highly disruptive to tenants of neighbouring IP addresses. An orgy of video games, online porn and bacchanalia tends to degenerate into sloppy seconds bandwidth and conditions prone to spread computer virii, but the situation with most low-rent ISP's is so dismal that client PC's have few other viable options.
by bitchuck August 19, 2025
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Unlike England and Wales, where "public school" infers some sort of posh, stuffy fee-paying academy in the tradition of Hogwart's, the rest of the world uses "public school" to be a local, mainstream, taxpayer-funded class setting of widely-variable quality of instruction.
Nonetheless, it's disheartening to see standards slip to the point where the schools publish statements like (from the code of conduct of Lakeside Public School, Durham Region, Ontario) "Lakeside Pubic School committed to maintaining a positive school environment. All students are expected to uphold the values and expectations of our school’s code of conduct." or (from the Thames Valley District School Board) "Orchard Park Pubic School Updates - Kindergarten Registration for 2025-2026 - To be eligible for registration, kindergarten students must be 4 years old by December 31, 2025 (born in 2021)..."
IF this is what our schools are teaching? We're doomed. Doomed.
Nonetheless, it's disheartening to see standards slip to the point where the schools publish statements like (from the code of conduct of Lakeside Public School, Durham Region, Ontario) "Lakeside Pubic School committed to maintaining a positive school environment. All students are expected to uphold the values and expectations of our school’s code of conduct." or (from the Thames Valley District School Board) "Orchard Park Pubic School Updates - Kindergarten Registration for 2025-2026 - To be eligible for registration, kindergarten students must be 4 years old by December 31, 2025 (born in 2021)..."
IF this is what our schools are teaching? We're doomed. Doomed.
by bitchuck August 19, 2025
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The image conjured by this lyric is a 1960's hippie bus, painted in a vast array of psychedelic hues by peaceniks in the Vietnam War era.
The image conjured by this lyric is a 1960's hippie bus, painted in a vast array of psychedelic hues by peaceniks in the Vietnam War era.
I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip
Reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip
I'm thinkin' of you, you're out there
Say your prayers!
Reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip
I'm thinkin' of you, you're out there
Say your prayers!
by bitchuck August 13, 2025
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Peter Puffer picked a peck of pickled peckers.
A peck of pickled peckers Peter Puffer picked.
If Peter Puffer picked a peck of pickled peckers,
Where's the peck of pickled peckers Peter Puffer picked?
.
Peter Puffer picked a peck of pickled peckers.
A peck of pickled peckers Peter Puffer picked.
If Peter Puffer picked a peck of pickled peckers,
Where's the peck of pickled peckers Peter Puffer picked?
.
As a homosexual nursery rhyme, this verse is a tongue twister as twisting one's tongue around an erect, throbbing pecker while reciting "Peter Puffer" flawlessly takes a certain amount of skill and practice.
A similar tongue twister is to quickly ask « à qui sont ces six saucissons-ci », while repeatedly twisting your tongue around the other lads' sausages. The chaps being swallowed respond to « combien coûte ces six saucissons-ci » with a countersign « ces saucissons-ci coûte six sous », asking the equivalent of six cents for this fine mouthful of fresh sausage.
A similar tongue twister is to quickly ask « à qui sont ces six saucissons-ci », while repeatedly twisting your tongue around the other lads' sausages. The chaps being swallowed respond to « combien coûte ces six saucissons-ci » with a countersign « ces saucissons-ci coûte six sous », asking the equivalent of six cents for this fine mouthful of fresh sausage.
by bitchuck July 2, 2025
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The expression that some character must have been "hit by a Martian slut ray" is usually pejorative, and infers the sudden transition is somehow an unforgivable hole in the plot for which the author(s) must be slut-shamed at once.
The expression that some character must have been "hit by a Martian slut ray" is usually pejorative, and infers the sudden transition is somehow an unforgivable hole in the plot for which the author(s) must be slut-shamed at once.
From an actual post on SuperStories.Net: "Eugene took aim and pulled the trigger. A beam of light shot out of the Slut Ray and hit the jogger in the back. She slowed to a stop as a warmth spread from the spot the beam hit her. Her mind became clouded as her body changed. Her sports bra stretched around her expanding breasts. Her ass swelled and stretched her spandex running shorts..."
by bitchuck June 30, 2025
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The atmosphere, or whatever little of it exists in safe space, tends to be a cross between 10 Forward of Star Trek and the Cantina from Star Wars. On a busy night, expect to encounter at least five or six genders and a wide array of alien lifeforms.
The atmosphere, or whatever little of it exists in safe space, tends to be a cross between 10 Forward of Star Trek and the Cantina from Star Wars. On a busy night, expect to encounter at least five or six genders and a wide array of alien lifeforms.
The few available expanses of safe space in this galaxy are getting crowded as interplanetary travellers are being increasingly marginalised as "illegal aliens". If it isn't Martians feeling alienated by the Mercury Theatre of the Air and their War of the Worlds, it's Mercury or Saturn experiencing depression as Trump proclaims "we don't need their cars". And then there are the attempts to police the gender of life forms on other planets, based largely on asinine self-help books where authors from ersatz second-rate colleges philosophise with daft theories that men are from Mars or women from Venus.
Eventually it gets wearisome, leading oppressed and marginalised planets to take refuge in whatever safe space the universe offers. In an ideal series of worlds, this would not be necessary, but the situation is light-years away from full respect for diversity, equity and inclusion for interplanetary voyagers, leaving the safe space an unfortunate necessity.
Eventually it gets wearisome, leading oppressed and marginalised planets to take refuge in whatever safe space the universe offers. In an ideal series of worlds, this would not be necessary, but the situation is light-years away from full respect for diversity, equity and inclusion for interplanetary voyagers, leaving the safe space an unfortunate necessity.
by bitchuck June 24, 2025
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