PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 days ago:
Mmmm, love a good gnocchi!
- Comment on it's true! 1 week ago:
You know it’s odd. We have no streams or ponds. I make certain we have no standing water around us by ensuring unused pots and other items are upturned, but we always have mosquitoes around. It’s forest around us which is very nice, but the mozzies get very thick. I am sure I miss some water, but not enough for the numbers I see. Don’t know how far they’ll travel, but there’s gotta be some junk somewhere on the neighbor’s property in the forest holding water.
- Comment on it's true! 1 week ago:
I love natural growth and we have plenty around (PNW), but that invasive Himalayan Blackberry is constantly creeping back out of the wild edges. We’ve done well enough pushing it back, but it is so pervasive and the animals help spread the seeds. That and the other noxious weeds (Scotch-broom, thistle, tansy, etc) have us quite busy doing our best to remove and keep out. It’s like spitting into the wind if the other land-owners around don’t do it as well. Oh well.
We also planted tons of native “deer-resistant” plants. They love it. I call it deer salad.
- Comment on This is Larry. 1 week ago:
OMG. We also have an orange cat named Larry. He’s young so he’s a precocious scamp. We should probably do a video call for these guys since they have so much in common. He shits too.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
Chrome gets bundled with all sorts of other Windows app installs as well. The tick box is pre-ticked by default to include it. I’ve had to uncheck the box numerous times over the years to prevent Chrome installs.
- Comment on Bro, do you even crow? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 month ago:
R’amen to that!
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
Good man. I’ve done the same for mine.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
I would not be able to help myself at some point by dropping snide retorts to any of their comments. Fair is fair and fuck them. No scenes, just brief kicks to the shins. Figurativly speaking of course.
- Comment on Some medical procedures can be fun 1 month ago:
“Doc, doc…your ring, it hurts!”
“Ring? Hell, I forgot to take off my watch!”
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 month ago:
It is nearly always in the large crowds somewhere at sportball events.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 1 month ago:
I think this is somewhat of a willfully ignorant thought in the age of data mining. This is Disney we’re talking about. I would presume their data management to be superior than most. And in the realm of using and/or selling data that would likely include facial recognition, I’d think they’d capitalize on that given the data is already in their pocket and given freely 50k times a day to enter their park. How am I to check that they deleted the photo they took of me? I cannot.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 1 month ago:
I’m not over estimating anything. They take the pic with a cellphone and it gets uploaded.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 2 months ago:
Cocaine makes me feel like a new man.
The trouble is that he wants a line too!
- Comment on Monkeys on the Interstate 2 months ago:
Reminds me of a joke (that is better spoken, but I’ll try anyways):
A state trooper arrives at the scene of a horrible accident on the interstate in the middle of the night. Nobody is around, but the carnage is everywhere both mechanical and biological. Without any witnesses, the trooper is mystified as to what exactly happened. As he’s inspecting the accident he sees a rustle in a nearby shrub. He steps closer to discover a monkey shivering and scared. He speaks to the monkey in a calm voice and coaxes it out to him. The trooper feels like the monkey understands his words, so he asks the monkey if he saw what happened. The monkey nods vigorously that he does.
“What were the passengers doing?” asks the trooper. The monkey mimes drinking and smoking motions. “They were drinking and smoking?” and the monkey nods with certainty that they were. “Anything else?” and the monkey makes hugging and kissing motions. “They were fooling around and having sex?” and the monkey again nods to affirm his question.
The trooper, wondering what the monkey had to do with all of this asks, “Monkey, what were you doing while all this happened?” and the monkey makes driving motions with his arms while craning his neck backwards to watch.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 2 months ago:
They do a face scan. Their tiny print terms say they only keep it temporarily, but I don’t believe that at all.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 2 months ago:
This guy slurps.
- Comment on Wavy 2 months ago:
Yah, this one hits hard.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 months ago:
You reminded me and (unintentionally) made me go read about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the story, there is a child-catcher working for the Baron and Baroness of Vulgaria where children are illegal.
Whilst watching the child-catcher scene, I saw a familiar face. It was the toymaker who was portrayed by Benny Hill. That made me check the IMDB page and it was indeed him. Also of note: the story was written by Ian Flemming (screenplay by Roald Dahl) and one of the children was the (then) future singer Phil Collins.
/tangent
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
No. 😬
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
Gnatt Man’s super power is FaceSwarm. There is no defense against it.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
That was the porn. You’re thinking of Iron Man: Irony Abounds.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 months ago:
Obligatory: That’s anti-Semitic!!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
Sharpie it up!!
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 2 months ago:
Thank you for the comprehensive reply! I am curious: do the ponds not produce mosquitoes as well?
I live on a hillside and creating water spots might get tricky on our rocky soil. It could be done I suppose, but it’ll have to be the next place to try.
The forest must help. We have some thick western red cedar groves and do have a lot of dragonflies at times, but no water other than birdbaths. I love seeing them scanning the hillside and the few flat spots we have. I’m always rooting for them. Funny about the frogs. I like em too, but we don’t see many. Lizards and snakes mostly.
Thanks for the Ted talk! 😂
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 2 months ago:
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 months ago:
He told me to get off his lawn and he’s keeping the ball.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 2 months ago:
I am not aware of bored panda or their reputation. But I have edited my comment to the preferred site. Thank you.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 2 months ago:
Okay, this got an actual laugh out of me. Imma hafta look up Max Garcia meow.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 2 months ago:
You can, but you should not.