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- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 3 days ago:
You could set your story in a historical setting in which the countess and the gardener are truly forbidden from passion, or a fantasy world where the ogopogos and sasquatches are sexy rivals.
The amount of pirates on the covers of romance novels is the direct result of this.
Or just have a lukewarm type of forbidden-ness, like “his family’s greeting-card store is in competition with my family’s greeting-card store” or “we’re coworkers.”
And the hallmark channel answer. I had a coworker who would watch those every single day. I vomit at the visuals (how do they get them so consistent and apparent? You can tell just from the opening shots and title!) of a hallmark to this day.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 3 days ago:
I mean, that was bad, but I hated the movie more for turning it into feel-good drivel about the boss actually being kind and caring about her employee(s). The book ending, where the character realized her own self worth and started making her own decisions, was so much better than the american bullshit about putting up with a boss’ bullshit because they’re actually such good people and will throw a few dollars off the balcony for you to catch.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 days ago:
Aye, get your used hotdogs for free straight from the source!
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 days ago:
A match afterwards might help… better obscure your face, license plate, and use cash.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 days ago:
They’re already putting in ads on the dash screen in Jeeps… I’d imagine electric cars (well, teslas, anyway) are going to start getting grumpy that radio stations and spotify get so much ‘free’ ear time, and start putting in their own ads in the speakers that will play when they feel like it.
- Comment on So close! 1 week ago:
If you’re throwing out the pasta water, you’re wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you’ll put on said pasta.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 2 weeks ago:
seagull is so much better though, because you can charge the client for the proctology AND the gynecology!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That just sounds like one step up from what most consider vanilla sex. “Oh baby, I love it, harder, harder!” is about as much of a lie as “I have never consumed one unit of marijuana, sir.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Remember that these things are basically ad-hoc devices that snake oil salesmen have convinced government agencies to buy into. The fact that your muscles near the buttocks move is enough for them to get the next level of the MLM, the interviewers, to be convinced that it can detect it.
- Comment on What causes this 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy it, but not nearly as much as helluva boss. It was too much like children’s programming, where the solution/chekhov’s gun/learning-through-song experience didn’t feel like it naturally flowed. ::: spoiler spoiler Examples: Ep.1 of helluva, where moxie debates shooting a family, then the show ends with him shooting the chica after being surprised, chased, captured, and had torture intimated, didn’t feel overly contrived. Ep. whatever of hazbin, where maggie has a sing-dance-fight with the angel weapon wrapped feet and suddenly becomes all able to fight, it just felt cheesy. :::
- Comment on Anon measures up 2 weeks ago:
Why would you think they were ever on?
- Comment on Anon measures up 2 weeks ago:
you are a slut
but will you treat me like one?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The interviewers know this, and will fail you after reminding you multiple times that the only answers you can give is yes or no. The mental breakdown has to stay inside your head to be effective. ;)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for
The only real measure that they can read is your breathing rate. Everything else is so variable naturally that it’s just noise.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s a pad that you sit on that will register the flexing of muscles in the area.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because they get people to admit to things they wouldn’t otherwise. A polygraph test starts with the interviewer “just talking” (and those are massive, giant quotation marks there) to you for about a half hour. They slip in little statements about other, experienced officers who are currently employed despite past wrongdoings, “because they admitted” to the bad shit. Meanwhile, when you admit to bad shit, guess who’s not getting hired?
The interviewer will give you a giant list to go through, asking if you’ve done any of the hundreds of bad things, and ask you to explain any “yes” answers you give to the question of committing a crime.
So now you’re primed to confess to things, and the interviewer and agency gets to comb through those confessions to see if they don’t want to hire you. They also get to reject you if they don’t like you and blame it on you failing the ‘lie detector’ test, or the interviewer can simply say you’re lying.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go read the book called, and I may be remembering this incorrectly, ‘Beat the polygraph.’ It goes into the history, the failures, and the ‘science’ of polygraphs. It’s enough to get you pretty deep in the subject without reading actual research papers.
- Comment on What causes this 2 weeks ago:
This actually happened to me with Jade from Beyond Good & Evil
Mine was loona from helluva boss. I wondered what the fuck this wolf thing that kept cropping up in random places was, then found the show and thought it was brilliant.
- Comment on What causes this 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s an entire generation of us that thinks tubgirl, goatse (I remember reading the guy’s story, or at least someone pretending to be that guy and writing the story), beheadings, and hatchet vs. genitals are completely normal experiences. Who didn’t watch all those, right?
- Comment on On trees... 2 weeks ago:
Something, something, biology.
- Comment on I am indeed old 3 weeks ago:
And here I was, thinking my lemmy feed was the sign of me being hip and youthful…
spoiler
Ah well, I guess it’s off to pixelfed for me.
- Comment on Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do 3 weeks ago:
Who is still using a 7+1 gun these days? Are we in the fucking pacific islands shooting colt .45s at the japanese? Get yourself an extended 300+1 drum mag that slots into your automatic glock you’ve taken from the secret service or something.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 3 weeks ago:
Tell me about it. Every time I get near the planes we use for skydiving, I can smell the damn difference.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 3 weeks ago:
maximal
Dinobot
I hate you in so many ways right now.
- Comment on this lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure boi’s never waking up next to an ugly chick again.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I’m assuming it was real.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 3 weeks ago:
55-55, 5…5
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 4 weeks ago:
Chaotic evil includes eating the heels of the bread first, because you don’t want that sweet extra protection layer from fungi.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 4 weeks ago:
This is the way. I rarely eat bread that isn’t at least warmed, so the only issue with the frozen bread is the effort it sometimes takes to separate slices.
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 4 weeks ago:
Right? I love it when the internationale comes up after some chvrches, then is followed by some screamo. Drives anyone in the car with me insane, but I get pumped.