Every time I read it, I just see it like the momentary pauses that President Obama made in his speeches. Makes it a little more interesting.

I always think of the song from Portlandia whenever someone brings up the 90s: https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew

Although, from what I’ve heard, tech bros migrated from the Bay Area to Portland and have radically changed its culture for the worse.

The person doing the spraying knows it’s just a water pistol. The person being sprayed has just been exposed to an unknown liquid by an unknown person. Considering this is also how acid attacks work, it’s not really that cool of a thing to do to people.

They have distinct blinking patterns as well. IIRC observing the pattern is one of the ways used to classify them.

TIL that’s also the guy on the “hot fries” bag in the grocery store.