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Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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Dudley New-Right's list of the 200 funniest tweets of 2025 had me laughing out loud repeatedly. Some personal favourites:

Mariè: Money does not matter to women. I would sooner date a high T gym owner making $300k a year than a loser tech founder making $1.5m a year.
Lukas (computer) (3/AC): Breast size does not matter to men. I would sooner date a sweet beautiful genius-woman with DD sized breasts than an evil bitch with GGs.

The funny thing about the gender pay gap is that you can only arrive at it by doing girl math

I love the "white people aren't indigenous to anywhere" narrative like we came from fucking space or something

The boomer mind can't comprehend inflation.
It's their version of per capita.

23andMe is actually just one racist guy who can tell your ethnicity by the taste of your spit

[in response to a poll showing African-Americans wouldn't vote for Pete Buttigieg] Gotta start saying "well, a black guy wouldn't vote for him, if ya know what I mean," as a way to insinuate that someone is a homosexual

before i begin my presentation, i would like to acknowledge that we are gathered here on future chinese land

Christiane F: There is no male Bonnie Blue for the same reason that there is no male Mother Theresa.
Bizlet: Almost every gay man is a male Bonnie Blue.

Zohran not benching 135 isn't a huge deal. I actually served with a few Marines who couldn't do that and we never gave them a hard time. We didn't want them worrying during pregnancy and we knew they'd get strong again after coming back from maternity leave.

the feminine urge to reply to a statistical generalization with an anecdotal counter example

Going to a gay baker to ask for a Charlie Kirk memorial cake.

No babe i follow her because it's Christlike to befriend prostitutes. Her too. Yeah and her

i spent my peak neuroplasticity on 4chan and now i can sense minorities through walls

There won't be a second date, but at least she knows the latest crime statistics

[accompanied by a photo of two female British police officers at a man's door, one wearing a hijab] "Anon, we've been told you rolled your eyes when your girlfriend suggested watching Adolescence"

No babe i follow her because it's Christlike to befriend prostitutes. Her too. Yeah and her

I see you too are a devotee of William Gladstone.

Video game thread

I haven't played anything in weeks. Been too busy with a responsible adult mode/productivity streak. Haven't been getting enough R&R and became a bit worn down. Please tempt me into some fun gaming.

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