We covered some of these guys back in my Medieval history class back in college. My professor affectionately referred to them as the “porno popes”

No, the Islamic Republic of Iran specifically petitioned FIFA to ensure this flag would not be permitted in the stadiums as this flag represents the regime that the Islamic Republic deposed. Iran has faced multiple rounds of serious protests even before the US initiated war and the son of the Shah is a popular figure that some protesters rally around as an alternative the existing government. Essentially the Iranian leadership sees this as a threat to their governance.

FIFA’s solution is a blanket ban on all “political” flags, which I find kind of silly because all national flags are political symbols. There have definitely been petitions against LGBTQ+ flags in parallel to this situation though.

It’s the flag of Pahlavist Iran, essentially the Shah’s flag. FIFA only allows flags of member nations, and a ban of this flag in particular was held up in court.

That is fun, I’ve wondered why that is. I also think sometimes when it’s super bright out it makes me sneeze.

No I swear Lois the pink kryptonite made me do it

Ugh, now I gotta go watch commando for the millionth time.

Hey Sully, remember when I told you I was gonna kill you last? I lied.

Idc if there’s no munition in there, I’m not risking having a backblast rip off my nutsack

GODDAMN WOKE PHOTOSYNTHESIS

I remember my friend using it here in NJ directed at a kid in our class who was from Pakistan which I found pretty odd as my buddy’s family is from Egypt. I’d expect a little solidarity but I guess middle school is not a great time. It’s definitely not very common here though.

It sounds like you’re not from the UK; there’s a lot of violent hate towards South Asians there. People have had their houses burned down while they’re called this very slur just this past week.

It’s Paki, a racial slur for South Asian people common in the UK.

Nah, it’s a regional racial slur common in the UK, Paki. I’d compare it to how people outside of the UK don’t realize it, but spaz is a heavy ableist slur over there too.

I’d generalize it to South Asian brown people in general as racists aren’t exactly geography experts

Well that’s just a forgone conclusion as it’s a day that ends in Y

I’d be offended by this if I could read

Ugh I don’t miss having to parse someone else’s regex at my old job.

Rapid response, because everything has to be military coded with these fucking dorks

Yeah, for the most part. He definitely was present and engaged with us despite having a good deal of the boomer parent tropes like “ask your mom” or running off to the basement to scream at a sporting event and drink beer away from the family. Like, I remember he went to all the parent teacher conferences, not just my mom, or he would take off to go on some of the field trips.

Ah the gulf of sarcasm

Also a millennial. My parents were largely like this. My dad was just around less because he was commuting to and from manhattan. He was up at 5am every day. My mom did random jobs here and there but my dad made the bulk of our household income.