In the spirit of heeding your username, I shall engage.

In markdown, if you use a single asterisk it doesn’t mean much unless it’s part of a list. However, if you use two, it will italicize the text between them. Britain, for example, would bring Brtan because the T and A (yes, I’m aware of the abbreviation) would be between them.

I was making a joke about the two main meanings of cool.

MRI machines are really cool, like they’re neat. I’m sure they can heat up, but their design is still pretty awesome.

In the movie, the main character, his love interest and an unassociated but still primary character declare that ATM is not okay.

Later in the movie, the tertiary character I mentioned is not present and the other two are flirting heavily. The female love interest says “in the heat of the moment, sometimes ATM is okay.” (I might be paraphrasing, it’s been a lot of years since I saw movie, but the sentiment is correct.) The other character then shows up and shames her.

Consent is hugely important. Even stuff like CNC very heavily depends on consent - and should. However, in the movie, I don’t think it’s a concept being challenged.

However, in case anything I’ve said implies otherwise … No means no and begging until you get a yes is not a yes.

The good news is, there’s no way for these machines to not be incredibly cool.

Pretty sure the photographer took the photo in situ.

I once dated a girl who was with a bank that paid you back any fees incurred at any ATM.

I don’t really remember the details, but I think that bank was super local or had restricted membership or something like that. Still an impressive offer, though.

Clerks 2 represented that as acceptable behavior.

You’re right! They misspelled Br*ta*n!

edit: Should have considered that we’re rendering markdown before I used asterisks so wantonly.

So does the water go the opposite way in Australia or not?!

Exactly my style.

Okay, what doesn’t itch and doesn’t make me sweat.

My condolences!

I have no issue with this except the grease splatter. Your work area would be tacky and dusty all the time!

Surely you mean “take me meow.”

I entered the thread hoping this would be the first comment; thank you for fulfilling my wishes.

I base my sense of fashion on what doesn’t itch.

Muddy bacon?

Thank you!

With your newfound expertise, could you summarize it for me?

edit: I get that a handheld gaming (I think?) system used to be Windows only but will soon officially support at least one much used Linux distro. Is there more to it than that?

If not, that’s still pretty cool. The words I didn’t know just made me uncertain.

I know this is an old trope, but I always liked one bash.org quote that uses it well:

Person 1: Did you know if you play the Windows install disk backwards, it plays Satanic messages?
Person 2: That’s nothing; if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.