Maybe like 99% persuasion or something since he hid the fact that the ring was drawing him in for so long

Now I'm genuinely curious what's painful for cars. Being welded to something would be painful, I guess. Broken windows, sure. What about a popped tire? Or are those like shoes? What about having a spoiler attached, does that count as body modification, like a piercing? Does leaking oil feel like a loose bowel? I feel like there needs to be some more lore.

No

That's actually hilarious, I didn't think of that, I just imagined polyps.
Edit: I just got a stream of probably singular downvotes on each and every one of my comments on this post. Someone's mad that they're wrong. And I find that absolutely hilarious.

I have read that entry, yes. Took me a while to find though because before that there were many entries from other dictionaries that say octopi is simply incorrect, so I wonder if it actually took you some digging to find the entry or if it's just a region locked difference in search results. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the latter.
Merriam-Webster basically says that so many people have been using it erroneously in the past that it became normalised. It also says that the word "had a stay" in New Latin – which was a kind of revival of Latin by medieval scholars which included mixing in words that weren't originally Latin. Neologisms, if you will. In fact, latin-dictionary.net says that the correct translation of octopus is "polypus".
In conclusion, it's still not correct but it's so normalised people will look at you weird if you use anything else.

Totally fine with that. Vote with your wallet (on an individual-company level, not by bribing politicians of course). But the number of people who stopped buying merch or watching is pretty small compared to the scale of the crying that was done online and in the news. Which just makes me think there's a lot of hypocrisy and slacktivism going on among Kaepernick's critics.

And it hasn't, I just like to use people's rhetorical strategies against them

Here's my problem with that (and I'm sure guest_ will be able to address it better than me because I'm not as eloquent): The NFL decided not to fire him. It was a decision made by the company, yada yada. But many Republicans were calling for him to be fired. Isn't meddling in private companies' affairs kind of against what Republicans are supposed to support?

*octopuses or octopodes
"Octopi" is incorrect because the word octopus comes from Greek, not Latin.
Sorry for being a pedant. But so many pedants tried to correct me when I said octopuses that I just get this urge to out-pedant everyone when I see someone use this word now.

@famousone He used the spotlight to peacefully protest. And he was almost fired because he "disrespected" a piece of cloth and a jingle.
@pokethebear Lots of republicans including the main Republican news outlets (Fox, Breitbart...) literally called for him to be fired. How am I dehumanizing anyone by stating a fact? Mocking, sure. Because it's hypocritical of the people who claim to defend free speech to then turn around and demand someone to be fired for peaceful protest. But I'm not trying to dehumanize anyone. (Not every Republican is a republicunt, in other words. Just like not every feminist is a feminazi etc.)
Besides, why are you so triggered by mockery. It's very Sarkeesian of you.

"I read a lot" "Who's Mao"
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Yea. I'm sure you read quality literature.

Left leaning people didn't care about that situation all that much apart from defending his right to free speech and peaceful protest, it was the republicunts who started calling for him to be fired (y'know, the people who reeeeeee about "muh freeze peach" constantly, oh the irony) and making this a big deal.

I'm willing to bet he actually is that dumb

Necrobump a bit but I find it funny that there's just downvotes and no replies to the only comment in this thread providing actual sources. Kinda shows the mentality of the brexiters.

I'm actually not American so I only have a faint idea about what gravy is supposed to look like but it always has this exact colour in the ads

Ah ok. It's on my (very long) list of movies and shows I want to watch, I'll get to it eventually!

Are you okay
Are you angry or am I not getting the joke