No idea what the "normal effects" were. Never did it, myself. The ones who did, though? Rapidly stupid AF. 🥲

WTF?!

Does that just add brain cell death to the normal effects?

I don't do illegal drugs anymore. Now I just do the legal drugs. Tonight I'm on NyQuil and Sudafed. Let me tell you something, folks. Forget about cocaine and heroin. All you need is NyQuil and Sudafed. I'm telling you right now, I took the NyQuil five years ago; I just came out of the coma tonight before the fucking show! Claus von Bülow was standing over my bed going, "Denis, get up! There's something the matter with Sunny! Hurry up!" I love NyQuil. Man, I love it! I love it. I love it. I love it. It's the best thing shit ever invented. Isn't it, huh? I love the name alone. NyQuil - Capitol N, small Y, big fucking Q! I love that fucking Q, don't you!? What a great advertising idea! Put a huge fucking Q on the box. They'll get high and stare at it. "The Q is talking to me! The Q is talking to me!"

I love NyQuil, man. Because NyQuil has never changed, man. It's never changed. All the other medicines are doing that inner-child thing. "We know that there's a small child inside of you, so now we have grape and cherry and orange flavor." Not NyQuil! They still have the original green death fucking flavor! You know why!? Because it doesn't matter what it tastes like! It's so strong you go, "(wheeze) Hey, this stuff really tastes like—" Bang! Yer in the coma already! "What happened?" "He said 'tastes like' and he went right into the coma. It was unbelievable!" We have reached the point where the over the counter drugs are actually stronger than anything you can buy on the street. It says on the back of the NyQuil box, on the back of the box it says, "May cause drowsiness." It should say, "Don't make any fucking plans! Kiss your family and friends goodbye. Say hello to Claus!" NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil, we love you! You giant fucking Q!

NyQuil is the secret for all you twelve step recovery program people. Yes, all you AA people, NyQuil is the key! It's the thirteenth fucking step! You can drink it! It's over the counter! Drink as much as you want. "Are you drunk?" "No! I have a cold. Same cold I've had for two years. I just can't seem to shake it. I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green. Merry fucking Christmas!"

TBF, back in the 90s, Detroit teens were soaking the tips of cigarettes with Sharpies, so... yeah, that tracks. I've no idea if that ever stopped being a thing since. 😬

Fair. ☝🏼

They don't mark themselves as bots, which is kinda part of the problem

FWIW, db0 allows bot acct blocking as a default, IIRC. I'm not sure if that's typical of most instances, though. 🖖🏼

I wonder if this is a term in areas where tigers roam vs. bears... ☝🏼🤓

I much prefer this take over the man-spreading I assumed it was. 😅

Is it just me or have the memes on the threadiverse been fuckin great lately?

Aside from the weird bots cross posting garbage from reddit, I blocked those

They gay bears tigers

They're 100% furry though

Here's a 5090 video card and a desktop pc... How are you going to use that hammer to install it?

nailed it

I wish I was getting hammered and nailed

Im very tired and the first few words almost exploded my last 3 brain cells…

*all you have is a hammer

He was, very. He always believed in her genius and coaxed her to turn the short ghost story into a novel. That's why his early death hung over her so much.

I think that was just poor grammar, seems like "her husband" and John Polidori are two separate characters in the statement not that John Polidori was an elaboration of what her husband's name was. But that's how I read it initially too.

Also kind of ridiculous, because looking deeper into it, Lord Byron wrote "Fragment of a Novel" which seems to be credited as the first vampire themed English literature, though he never finished it.

So literally the competition produced the Vampire and Frankenstein theme in English horror. It's more interesting to me that a bunch of writers played a little game and basically invented so much.

one more cross post and you'll have it!

I see the comma now, but Percy Bysshe Shelley was an incredible writer who is studied and lauded, rightly, on his own merit. Anyone reading this thinking Mary's husband is insignificant compared to Frankenstein needs to read Ozymandias or The Masque of Anarchy right now and witness this beautiful, humanistic and liberatory spirit.

Percy Shelley at least gets due credit as a poet among poetry lovers, and a break on the prose competition because it's not his genre. And Byron has his own fame/notoriety. But John Polidori is like Ron Goldman, a footnote in his own murder.

I agree it is ambiguous, however usually you don't separate parentheticals by commas inside a comma-separated list, so the "more likely" reading is the one without the parenthetical.

An unambiguous version that doesn't diminish the joke would be "Lord Byron, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, and her husband". But alas it's difficult for writers to find ambiguities in texts that they write (that's what editors are for).

Well, it's an unclear structure. Putting a comma before and after someone's name is correct if including the name would not change the meaning of the sentence, as in this case. In the case of OP's sentence, it could have implied that Polidori was Mary Shelley's husband as his name, while important to the meaning of the sentence, was included in a list of other people, including Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley's husband, and Lord Byron.