Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2)

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Every building is going to be unattended sometime. Even prisons are unmanned after construction but before move-in.

Then again in US English we talk about “health care” and the “health care industry”, etc. Whose services you seek only when you are unhealthy. They care for your unhealth situation intending to make it go away. They ought to be the “sick care industry”. :crazy_face: :wink:

The word “care” in this context is also very ironic, and the fact that the word is coupled with “industry” underscores the irony. In no universe has any industry that has ever existed or will ever exist in the future embodied the comcept of “care” in its business model. Self-promotion, self-preservation, shameless profiteering – yes, industry does all those things as a matter of course. “Care” it does not do, and if it ever did, the person responsible would be sacked by the board of directors for just cause.

The “HMO” acronym – “Health Maintenance Organization” – is a bit closer to the mark. None of these health “care” organizations give a damn about your or your health, but for a suitable fee, they will help you recover, maintain, and even possibly improve your health. Any “care” that happens will be from one of those rare individuals who happen to be empathetic, which individual will probably soon be fired for not being “efficient” enough.

OMG what?

Try not to confuse it with the Krackenhaus in your time of need.

They both have opioids for sale. Which might be all you need. :wink:

Whatever you do, don’t get either of those confused with the Krakenhaus. Once you open the door and let the giant sea monster out we’re all screwed.
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My brother studied German in high school, but he has no facility with foreign languages. *** The only thing he could say in German was “Ich bin krank.”

*** After ten years in Costa Rica, he struggles to speak even the simplest phrases in Spanish.

Excuse me. Pinky Tuscadero.

I’ve heard Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, where the Seattle Kraken play, referred to as “the krakhouse” or “the krak den”. Perhaps das Krakenhaus would be more dignified.

We call that Climate Pledge Arena.

ETA: Posted this before seeing Smapti’s post, Washingtonians can be predictable I guess.

When you have a sports team named after a crappy flavored rum, it’s hardly surprising y’all name other things like arenas silly too. :wink:

“Kraken” was the second choice. They couldn’t use “Seattle Sockeyes” because it was already claimed by an author of romance novels.

Seriously, Kraken is a good name for a hockey team in a maritime-centric city. Fierce, scary, unstoppable. And not subject to fussing by offended ethnic groups.

Besides, the fans can buy mini-krakens at the groc store to throw on the ice Detroit style. :grin:

I still like my shirt of a proposed name for the team: The Seattle Bitch-Pigeons.

Oh come on - Smoothie King Centre is a wonderful name. Oh and Minute Maid Park - GREAT stuff, sheeple!
Jeesh.

If I was King they’d all be named “[Teamname] Stadium” or “[City or countyname] Stadium”.

The arena name is pretty damn awful.

It’s an amazing venue but I never liked that name.

Oh sure, that’s how it always starts, but then eventually every stadium would be called “King LSLGuy [location] Stadium”. You know it’s true.

A mere token of my overweening boundless benevolence. Now get back in your salt mine, peon! :wink:

I’d ask my liege to provide exceptions for Arrowhead and Kaufman (nee Royals) stadiums in Kansas City. There is an unfortunate racist slant to the Arrowhead name (and the Chiefs now play on “GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium”), but any attempt to rename either to a corporate sponsor would be as successful as renaming the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Melon Husk is offering people in battleground states money to sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendment. Including a million-dollar giveaway every day from now until the election.