themaninblack
@themaninblack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Thursday 15 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
What’s up with cashiers in coffee shops not listening when they ask for my order?
I wait for them to ask, I announce it loudly and clearly. They interrupt. I confirm. I go on to item two. They confirm. I confirm.
Then, they apologise and try to guess item one again. They get it wrong. I correct them. They’ve got it.
Oh yeah, what was item two? Yes, that’s right.
Also, what’s the deal with not waiting even for a split second between me saying “flat white” and “with two sugars”?
I understand that coffee shops are loud and hectic, and I might have to repeat myself once in a while, but damn Melbourne, every time?
- Comment on Is this even a question? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC 3 weeks ago:
A physical test, too
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say let’s start reaction to reaction videos, but Bo Burnham already covered that ground
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎉 Thursday 1 January 2026 4 weeks ago:
Happy new year all! Wishing the best for all of you.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
The propagation of these ideas will lead to the maiming and death of children
- Comment on Fare thee well 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Thursday 11 December 2025 1 month ago:
Sorry mate, that genuinely sucks
“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number…” -Rudyard Kipling
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛳️ Tuesday 9 December 2025 1 month ago:
Bucolic as fuck
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛳️ Tuesday 9 December 2025 1 month ago:
- Comment on Antisocial behaviour on public transit in Melbourne 2 months ago:
Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting reply.
The public health angle is interesting. I know noise pollution has a measurable negative effect on quality of life.
I bet making the signs bigger would actually have some effect in that it would socialise the message to control volume to the public in general.
I suppose I don’t mind quiet conversations taking place but when I can hear it from five rows down it grinds my gears.
Been better lately about getting up and moving when someone comes in and sits down making noise but I sometimes need to go two three cars to get away from that.
Anyway cheers
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- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months ago:
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months ago:
I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐓 Monday 17 November 2025 2 months ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐓 Monday 17 November 2025 2 months ago:
Near Yarra Junction today
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s some Pope shit to do
- Comment on Aeroplane 2 months ago:
You know what? You’re absolutely right.
People: please leave flying 737s to trained experts with the know-how, FAA licensure, and medical clearance. They know better than you even if you think you can do it from a meme.
It’s very important that you not touch ANY of the buttons and dials on a 737. People could get hurt or even die if you do.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Thursday 6 November 2025 2 months ago:
Lilydale to Wooli today:
- Comment on Oppa oppa 3 months ago:
Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression
- Comment on Oppa oppa 3 months ago:
Same sentiment, though.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
- Comment on Oppa oppa 3 months ago:
- Comment on Girls 3 months ago:
TLC: Taylor, L’Hospital, and a constant
- Comment on Well then 4 months ago:
These comments are almost there.
You’ll end up working with passive aggressive geeks that are somehow defensive of their shitty code.
They’ll be great at understanding the domain though
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
Man, games used to be fun and include just simple joys written by a small cadre of competent developers. I think Mario 64 was written by devs that had never written a game before? Maybe that was Goldeneye
- Comment on "Read lit" Me: 4 months ago:
I mean even his pupil was like nah
