My father was a penis inspector, like his father before him. He had to work for years at a penis factory to get by, working long, hard hours. All while taking penis inspection classes at night. When he finally graduated, he said it was so satisfying to tell his boss he was quitting, and that from now on he would be inspecting his work. He went on to be the best penis inspector in our county, and oversaw Penis Inspection Day at 4 public schools and 7 private for over three decades.

The fact that they think they can automate this entire proud profession with one scanner in a public bathroom is an insulting joke. It’s a single camera! How will it check the underside of the shaft for melanoma? Can it check the foreskin for proper length and cleanliness?? How does it check erection durometer? Not to mention urethral diameter. For fuck’s sake.

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It sounds like your life will be immeasurably improved by cutting him off. But it’s such an intense, personal decision that I’m not sure any internet stranger could honestly say one way or the other.

Seems like smartphones are generally used more often than PCs among younger cohorts compared to older. In Britain at least.

Going from decline to fall. To be fair it took Rome 200 years or so I’m sure the US will limp on for a while yet. But it won’t ever be what it was again.

It’s actually not very fun watching a country fall to fascism.

It’s seriously upsetting to see how many in leadership want to save their bacon instead of doing what’s right.

I don’t understand who people they’re dunking on when they mock distinctive indigenous words.

Ballaarat means meeting place. Djilang / Geelong means tongue of land as in the edge of the bay. Wirribi / Werribee means spine, as in the river being the spine of the land. Garidwerd means mountain range created by Bunjil. Wahroonga means home.

Even Humpybong comes from ngumpin bong, meaning empty houses in Ninghi Ninghi referring to the failed colonial penal colony that the settlers abandoned.

All these words have true meanings that connect to the land and our history.

I once had someone throw a beer bottle at me from their car as I was walking the dog. They yelled ‘Dog Wanker!’ Where’s my news story?

I should get a new CRT.

It can handle way more than that can’t it? It’s analogue, I remember being able to set my crt to 120hz way back in the day.

Because there’s no monied interests to pump the hype ahead of the rug pull.

Hilariously fucking accurate take

Pictures you can hear

Haha yeah everyone knows the finance industry is a scam, teaching is where the real money is at.

Can you post the photo here?

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There could be a huge range of possible answers to this question. But we can look at the listings to get some clues.

IMMORTALS FENYX RISING Owner: UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT (France) Nice class: 9, 14, 16, 18, 25, 28, 41

Regional Trademark Registration Region of filing: European Union Status: Registered (June 25, 2021) Number: 018409702

And

IMMORTALS Owner: Relativity Media, LLC (USA) Nice class: 9, 16, 28, 41 Regional Trademark Registration Region of filing: European Union Status: Expired (November 12, 2020) Number: 009520024

Now there is some overlap between them. The Nice classes, which denote which product/service categories the words are trademarked within, however within a single Nice class there can be a variety of products.

Fenyx rising’s trademark is still active and we can see it was refiled in June 2021, with some previously expired trademarks of the same name having expired in November 2021, whereas Immortals expired in 2020. Without going into the details my best guess is that the initial filing was more limited and has now been expanded to cover more media.

But the big one here is the characteristic word. By adding Fenyx Rising, it could be argued that that, in addition to the material differences between the products, there is enough separation to ensure there is no risk of confusion from audiences. There are also multiple Immortals trademarks which could make that word in and of itself less defensible depending on the potential conflict.

Finally we can’t discount the possibility that the two parties came to a pre-arranged agreement to exist in the marketplace side by side. This often happens and unless one is a long-serving distinctive trademark then usually parties can find a way to agree.

This is so real.

She gave him the ol’ ‘very disappointed’ speech