glorkon
@glorkon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 3 days ago:
In Germany, we have the word “schönsaufen”, which means something along the line of “drinking until something or someone ugly looks pretty” and I think that’s beautiful.
- Comment on Buttcoin 1 week ago:
I gamble too, but I do it with knockout options. I sometimes buy a factor 20 option, set it to 5% trailing stop loss and watch what happens.
In many cases, the option starts losing value and is automatically sold once it’s lost 5%, which isn’t too bad if you’ve invested, say, 1000 €. You lose ~50 €.
In other cases it goes up. And up. My current high score is making 450 € with one such investment.
It’s fun, and not too risky. Meanwhile, my retirement vehicles go brrr.
- Comment on Buttcoin 1 week ago:
I started investing during the corona dip. Best financial decision of my entire life. These days, it’s an extra 20% effortless household income and the entire portfolio value is up almost 40%.
But even then, I felt I was just too late to the party for going into crypto. Thank goodness.
- Comment on Imagine the farts 1 week ago:
So here’s a quick recipe for a spicy egg salad. It’s a kind of love it or hate it thing.
20 cooked and roughly chopped eggs 1 jar of Hellmann’s Light mayonnaise 1 jar of white asparagus, chopped 1 jar of mushrooms 50g Stokes Curry Ketchup 3-4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce Habanero Tabasco to taste
Has the same musical effect on your digestion.
- Comment on Huh? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. When I go to a bar or restaurant, I prefer a place that doesn’t look like a co-working space. Also, when I see anyone using a laptop in there, I’m out.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 weeks ago:
John Ecticut?
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- Comment on Be careful when choosing your profession 4 weeks ago:
When I was a little kid, one of those flying cunts stung my brother. So I declared war on them.
Over the years of my childhood, I caught dozens with my net. I held the landing net in front of a cross spider’s web, so that the wasps, triumphantly but mistakenly believing they had gained their freedom, had to fly straight into the web.
And then I watched those little assholes get destroyed. I’m pretty sure that to this day, I’m worshipped as a god by the local cross spider population.
- Comment on Contain them 5 weeks ago:
*its
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Still sounds really great.
I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
The onions still do the heavy lifting, I guess, and “a few bottles of malt vinegar” sounds a little excessive.
I personally prefer pure caramelized onions without any other ingredients except a bit of salt, to be honest. Won’t keep as long in the fridge but is the most versatile.
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 month ago:
Even then, a BMW would tailgate and flash its headlights at you on a German autobahn.
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 month ago:
The sticker should also say something like “But don’t worry, we’re going to be evaporated in a huge explosion anyway, due to the gigantic release of energy when you crash into my car in a few nanoseconds.”
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Onion chutney. And it IS divine. Add it to burgers or steak and you will regret having wasted so many years without it.
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 month ago:
Clever, I like it. I wonder how many people read it and have no clue what it means.
- Comment on A drop of whiskey vs bacteria 1 month ago:
Interesting. I never knew what they actually used. I had never encountered that smell in West Berlin at the time. And certainly not since the wall came down. Thanks for solving this mystery. 🙂
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 month ago:
Alright, you hypocrites who downvote me without having the balls to respond:
Where do you draw the line? Just tell me, I wanna know.
I’m fucking German, should I joke about buying Anne Frank a drum set? Where’s off limits? Instead of cowardly downvoting, have the fucking balls to engage in a discussion. Pathetic.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 month ago:
- It’s a rather lame joke. The premise has been used a thousand times already.
- It’s at the expense of someone’s disability. Ask yourself how often Peter Dinklage has seen this joke in his life.
You can joke about everything, but at least make a fucking effort.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 month ago:
You can make jokes about everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and sensitive the subject, you better make sure it’s a fucking good joke.
People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same lame punch line - the one along the line of this post.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 month ago:
Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it.
Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that’s still okay with way too many people…
- Comment on A drop of whiskey vs bacteria 1 month ago:
Fun fact: Former socialist countries like East Germany used to use some kind of phenolic smelling cleaning fluid. I smelled that shit every time I crossed the border to East Berlin at Friedrichstraße. A decade later, I had my first Islay malt which had a really similar smell… it was really weird.
To this day, I cannot drink a Laphroaig without being reminded of those times.
- Comment on Corn or something idk 1 month ago:
Of course Christians are absolutely fine with people being gay.
After all, they’re the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.
- Comment on Chilis 🌶 1 month ago:
Well, I think you’ll find that it really does matter if you use dried jalapeños or dried Carolina reapers.
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 month ago:
Ooh, shots fired.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 month ago:
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 month ago:
Yeah. I have it on CD. They had it on vinyl, too, but I refused to buy the record because it was scratched.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 month ago:
Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackeluber und der bitte schön ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. “Nein”, sprecht der Herren, “Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen”.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
It’s purely emotional, irrational thinking, solely serves the purpose of giving a weak mind an easy way to feel better about bad things that happen.
My mind doesn’t work that way, I can’t auto suggest myself out of logic - and to me, that kind of thinking is what is fundamentally wrong about this world. It makes people susceptible to all kinds of intellectual dishonesty.
If you can lie yourself into believing obvious bullshit just because it’s comfortable, you will also be easily influenced by liars, charlatans and demagogues.
I highly doubt that people like Trump would be possible In a purely atheist society with people who are used to scientific scepticism.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
Yeah. “This violent tornado missed my home so close! Oh thank you, god!”
Noone ever asks why their god created the tornado in the first place. Not even the neighbor whose house has been obliterated. He’s probably thanking god for being alive. It’s bizarre.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 2 months ago:
Takes about ten minutes. And there’s the dishwasher as well.
Also, I don’t have to throw away all the packaging in which the food is delivered.
