I'm surrounded by geniuses.

[NightWatcher]

Two months ago they were epidemiologists, last week political scientists and military strategists, and now this week they're petroleum commodities analysts and economists. I shop at a very exclusive 7/11.

(Just keep our mouth shut, Self. Head down, grab your bottle of water, pay for gas and leave)

Can't wait until the giant asteroid heads this way and these yahoos become astronomers or a plague of locusts invades and they become whomever the fuck deals with whatever the fuck kind of insect a locust is.

Thanks. I feel better.

[orwell]

1. Don't Look Up...

...by the way, have you been DigiTiled?

Trust the plan...

[underpants]

2. That was excellent.

[orwell]

3. They have a series of them on YouTube...

...They are all amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia

They are out of Australia. They also do serious podcasts but their Honest Government Ads are fantastic!

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

4. Those who study locusts . . .

That would be entomologists.

Remember the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigators ? Gil Grissom was an entomologist.

[Jerry2144]

5. People who don't know the difference

Between entomology and etymology bug me in ways that words cannot describe.

[Solly Mack]

7. Ha!

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

8. Tee hee hee

I saw what you did there.

[yonder]

9. Good urn.

[3catwoman3]

11. "...bug me"...

Well played!

[ShazzieB]

17. Hee hee!

[meadowlander]

19. I'll give it a try

First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:

Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”)[1] (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)). Or, from a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped specter.

Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see sċearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.

[Jerry2144]

21. ...

[underpants]

22. Stealing this.

[L. Coyote]

6. In this context, wouldn't they be

metamorphologists

[lame54]

10. Have them check that bunion of your left foot

[bucolic_frolic]

12. That's the truth.

[PatrickforB]

13. LOL. Everybody is an expert, for sure.

And I just KNOW you'll be delighted to hear the following:

Chevron had profits in 2021 of $15.8 billion, and their CEO, Michael Wirth 'earned' $33 million.

Profits for oil companies in general soared to $174 billion in 2021, yet they have refused to increase production, instead choosing to buy back shares.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive

Yep. 'Murika ain't nebber goan go SOSH-A-LIST! Why this is a capitalist utopia! Profits over people every single time.

Every.

Single.

Time.

[dchill]

14. Excellent rant!

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Perhaps they stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

.

.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. What happened in Ukraine when Russia was shelling the nuclear plant.

.

.

[SergeStorms]

18. Follow the White Fuckwit.

Right into a federal prison, alongside his bosom buddy, The Big Orange Pig. 😉

If that day comes, I'm going to party like it's 1999 (because I was still young enough to party in 1999).

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Do they know all the answers about 9/11?

[Ptah]

23. Kick