glorkon
@glorkon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Huh? 19 hours 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 1 day ago:
John Ecticut?
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 26 comments
- Comment on Be careful when choosing your profession 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
*its
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Even then, a BMW would tailgate and flash its headlights at you on a German autobahn.
- Comment on bumper sticker 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 🌶 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, shots fired.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on fawlty towers? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 1 month ago:
Cooking your own food is much more fun and a lot cheaper anyway.
Yesterday, me and my wife had a whole roast duck in a christmassy port wine sauce with cinnamon, cloves and anise. Served with potatoes and red cabbage. All the ingredients combined cost less that ordering two pizzas.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 1 month ago:
I don’t have to use anything cause I live in a civilized place where parents don’t mutilate their children.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 1 month ago:
I suspect circumcision is a devious, elaborate conspiracy by the lotion industry.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
You’re getting really hung up on this idea of “god” when that’s not what I’m really talking about lol
This whole thread was about the likelihood of God’s existence…
Maybe some people find the big bang theory far-fetched
Perhaps, but contrary to the god hypothesis there is a lot of science that makes the big bang theory very plausible.
just trying to keep your mind open
Forgive me, but I’m a person who follows science and the scientific method, so it seems ironic that YOU are trying to keep MY mind open. I will always change my mind according to new evidence, just as science does, being a self-correcting system.
There’s a HUGE difference between saying “this is real because we can’t prove it isn’t,” and “there’s a small possibility this is real, but we can’t prove it.”
True, but some things have an infinitesimal likelihood. And to me, the likelihood of God’s existence is, while not equal to zero, so extremely close to zero that it makes no practical difference.
Like, saying something DOESN’T exist simply because you HAVEN’T seen proof of it
I never said god doesn’t exist. I actually stated several times now that you cannot disprove the existence of anything.
you don’t believe in a god because you haven’t seen evidence of it. I’m just trying to point out the argumentum ad ignorantiam in that.
That’s not an argumentum ad ignorantiam. Wikipedia:
“The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.”
I never asserted that the proposition of god is false (as mentioned several times above). I refuse to make any definitive assertions concerning the existence of god (neither true nor false).
I only asserted that the probability of god’s existence is infinitesimally small.
