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Lords:
* Elena is on the Topic Lords discord
* Tyriq is FourbitFriday everywhere
* https://www.ckgame.net/
Topics:
* What's the youngest age at which you can become the kind of old person you want to be
* Reborrowings: https://starkeycomics.com/2020/06/06/reborrowings/
* https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/624028907162566657/724080214128197672/etymologies-_1.png
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0"
* I made pork katsu for dinner and Winston pronounced it "pork costume" and I'm pretty sure that's it, that's peak dad experience and it's all downhill from here
* Stephen asks "Textual dialects. Range of timbre and tools available in punctuation, capitalization, emphasis and emojis. Apparently periods come off as assertive/rude to younger folks."
* The tone deafness test
* https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td
Microtopics:
* Whether complice is the opposite of accomplice.
* Intending to clean the fridge.
* A short but sweet plug that you manage to drag out of your guest.
* Thinking an early access game is dead when the developer is right there in your kitchen streaming making breakfast.
* Feeling too young to just go around handing out Werther's Originals.
* Whether at some age all your teeth fall out or whether they just decided once, in the 1950s maybe, that it's time to pull everyone's teeth.
* Whether the lady with twenty cats accrued the cats over the course of your life or just adopted twenty cats at once.
* Learning to regrow your teeth so you can change your teeth style every few months, like you can your hair.
* Transhuman augmentation of the teeth.
* Being sure that a pop culture concept doesn't exist in Japan because you didn't see it in that one Yakuza game you played.
* Sharpening your teeth to look like a cat.
* The world record for most permanent transformations to look like an animal.
* Whether dead people can still be the fastest person in the world.
* The world record for most permanent transformations to look like something other than an animal.
* How Stalking Cat decided to become a cat.
* Wanting to be more like a tiger and having your ears transplanted to the top of your head.
* Getting a job as a programmer to fund your body modification plans so you can be the old person you dream about being.
* Running plastic tubes from the fake ears on top of your head down to the place your ears used to be.
* The major themes of Stalking Cat's LiveJournal.
* Seeing someone's LiveJournal post saying just "I start shooting today" and wondering if you should be worried.
* Getting back to being old.
* Cultivating the witchy vibe when you're not really a witch.
* Not having any enormous flowing skirts any more because you moved across the country and they all caught the wind and flew out of the back of the car.
* Making a skirt out of chainmail and refusing to twirl it because a four year old lives in your house.
* Asking the manufacturer of your favorite towel whether they make bathrobes and they send back a one word email saying "no."
* Wanting to look like a dapper old man but hating fashion norms.
* Appropriating the parts of fashion that you like while subverting the idea that you're participating in the fashion hierarchy.
* Wanting to eventually look like a dapper old man and starting by buying one dapper sock.
* Codpieces.
* Wearing full plate armor to church or to court.
* Stalking Cat's profile page on wikifur.com
* The Romans enslaving so many Slavs that Slav becomes their word for it.
* All the different times that nature has evolved a tree.
* Palm trees not really being trees and just being weird grass.
* A plant deciding to get tall where the sun is and reinventing wood.
* Languages borrowing words from other languages and then giving them back after completely changing the meaning.
* Whether Italy has any Pizza Huts.
* Trying to cover a song by a singer with a weird accent and discovering that you need that weird accent for the song to work and deciding if you're willing to adopt the weird accent for your cover.
* English poetry that is too old.
* A two year old pronouncing pork katsu as "pork costume."
* Dressing your two year old in pork for Halloween like the tiny ham he is.
* Really giving somebody the pork costume.
* Realizing your best work is behind you when you haven't done anything notable.
* An entirely sideways mouth that has fallen off your face.
* Chekov's Book.
* A throne but you can poop in it.
* Hiding a piece of matzo somewhere in your house on Passover and eventually your house fills up with matzo.
* Yelling at your coworker for only using the "slight smile" emoji because they weren't happy enough.
* Image searching for the Unicode character "slight smile" and seeing a field of smiley faces that are just the classic yellow smiley, but then there's one that's this smirking douchebag.
* How autocorrect ought to be able to code switch based on who you're talking to and what you're talking about.
* Walking around the house and discovering that you can't use the word "okay" in the kitchen.
* Putting the sparkles on top of the brain.
* Trying to talk about bringing your head below something and autocorrect is like "did you mean: fucking"
* Youtube's automatic captioning now censoring swear words.
* Censoring swear words by replacing the word "shit" with a picture of shit.
* Whether the eggplant emoji would ejaculate from the stem end or the bulb end.
* Squeezing mayonnaise out of the stem end of an eggplant emoji squeeze bottle.
* The tone deaf and the tone hearing.
* Being surprised to meet people who can't sing at all, even though you just met someone like that a couple days ago.
* Hearing a pitch and having no idea whether it's higher or lower than what you're singing.
* Not letting anyone into your painting club who can't distinguish red and green.
* Greyie Pie.
* Applying a deuteranopic filter to a My Little Pony episode and instantly being incredibly depressed.
* Not knowing the right answer but the person in your head heckling you does.
