FrChazzz

@FrChazzz@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure it'll be fine!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was always told it had to do with how long it took to get things approved. I remember when it was a big deal that the space shuttles were upgraded to 486s… in 2002.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you do this at your highschool?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes. I see now I could have chosen better grammar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you do this at your highschool?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I once knew a guy who, as a kid in the 70s, would take high-test fishing line and stretch it between two trashcans (this was back when they were made of metal). They’d do this just before the street lights came on and they needed to get home. So the dads would be coming home from work in the low light and then suddenly WHAM! they’d have two trashcans smash into the rear of the car. They’d yell and curse in the street, looking for whoever did it.

  Then one day a cop comes by and it happens to him. He goes to every house and informs all the families that this is dangerous, that if someone on a motorcycle came through, they could be killed.

  What my friend and his buddies heard was “use something more visible than fishing line.” So they started using yellow twine. He said this turned out to be funnier because you’d hear the brakes squeal before you’d hear the trashcans hit the sides of the car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you do this at your highschool?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In college we once found a filthy, road-blackened parking cone, and stuck it in the middle of the main road right as the bars were closing. Eventually this enormous pick-up truck full of loud drunk people comes flying down the road and plows into the cone at full speed. We hear someone scream “OH MY GOD!” and maybe something about “was that a person?” And then they floored it, dragging the cone with them. We never found it again.

  But in our quest to find the cone we acquired about seven normal looking ones and then randomly made a lane change in the road for no reason. That was pretty funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odo should have had a battle form ala Hulk, or He-Man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When he gives you that stare, the one where he crosses his arms and turns his body slightly to the side, eyes glaring deep into the depths of your being, it is then you’ve seen Odo’s battle form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblocker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the AdBlockers are being pushed by those doctors who don’t want us to know that one trick they hate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*wet snapping sound*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who had testicular torsion when he was 14, this image… hoo boy. I need a drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or white cotton shirt and trousers that make you look somewhere between wannabe boyband member and British pink-skinned colonist on a gap year

  This made me lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The jank is always part of the charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be the most scholarly shitpost I’ve ever read. Bravo to everyone involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not fooling anyone, y’know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe, maybe not⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was nearing the end of grad school, they asked us to submit any degrees we’d earned to be listed next to our names in the graduation ceremony program. I “left high school early” so I have a GED (and am proud of it). So I listed my degrees as GED, BA.

  A few days later the person putting together the programs finds me in the refectory, pulls me aside and quietly asks me “um, GED? Is… is that high school?”

  “Sort of,” I reply.

  “Uh, yeah… we don’t usually put those in there…”

  Still have a GED sharing wall space with my Master’s either way. Win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the old saying goes: " 'twas a brave man who first ate an oyster." (Pretty sure this is an Oscar Wilde quote)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it some hot sauce for the +

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still hoping this look comes back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I legit thought this was an American Apparel catalog pic from like 2004

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right. She looks hardly old enough to have sacked Rome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every single time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unbelievable sights Indescribable feeling Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every single time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once went to a pharmacy because apparently one of my kids had pinworms. Which means we all had to take the medicine. Anyway, my wife and I figure that we should all take it the next day (can’t remember the precise reasons, but it had to do with the fact that you have to take a second dose like two weeks later). This determination is made at night, so I have to drive up to the store to pick it up. I have four kids, so we needed to get two boxes of the stuff.

  I don’t think much about it until I approach the register area and I swear that management decided to schedule the best looking people to work that particular night shift. Everyone was hot. And here I am, like 10 o’clock at night, holding two boxes of butt worm medicine, suggesting that there’s so pressing a need for this product that I had to get it right away…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Mar-Kwane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it “Mar Kwahn” (rhymes with swan) or “Mar Kwane” (rhymes with main)?

  Alternatively we could go with the infix and call him “Kway Kway” which seems to fit with his, hm, diminutive stature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the first C prompt I ever encountered was amber. Will always have a soft spot for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha precisely the movie I’ve used to describe my feelings about the current illegal war going on right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to hate Prometheus but caught a second viewing years later and came around a bit. The running only straight thing is… yeah. But I’ll defend the inclusion of stupid scientists as a key part of the story because the movie goes out of its way to show that these are people only interested in getting paid, which suggests they might not be the best scientists. Yeah, it’s a “trillion dollar mission,” but I’d assume that in the future that trillion dollars isn’t as much as it might be for us. So these are, perhaps, the cheapest scientists that Wayland can buy, the sort of guys who’d give up years of their lives and careers to fuck off on a starship based solely on the premise of “we might find the aliens that made us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Folding clothes. After realizing that I’ve spent years grabbing clothes out of the hamper and no one seemed to notice, I decided to buy a fancy wood hamper that looks like a dresser and put my clothes in it right after they come out the dryer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Green Zone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird. Two out of three of those things have happened in my house today (might watch a South Park episode just to round it out)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go ahead, take one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Girl I crushed on many years back actually did this. She would take lemon slices and peel the skin off and eat them like they were oranges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, hello “Let’s Get High And Go To The Pet Store” person. I’ve not encountered your ilk in nearly 26 years, when I worked at a pet store. I recall your kind, coming into the store reeking like a skunk. “Bro, can we see the snakes?” you’d ask. I’d indulge. Until the Burmese python incident. One hand streaming blood, the other being constricted. My manager having to pry the snake’s hook like teeth off my thumb. You and your friends now intently watching the rhythms of the saltwater fish…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was fully prepared to dislike this show (Disco was on shaky ground with me, but I was more or less on board, then they went to the 32nd Century; I was not a fan of that jump at the time and worried that SNW was going to be the only outlier in regards to Disco spin-offs that would be any good), and I felt affirmed in that feeling during the first few minutes of the first episode. But once the tone changed a bit I was happy to watch the second episode. Then we met Tamira and I just kind of fell in love with the show. Then they managed to take something sacred (the Sisko), pair it with my least favorite character (the SAM), and somehow making it a truly great episode AND making me come around on said character (thus proving that Tawny Newsome is an absolute treasure to this franchise–give me a LD/STSA crossover now!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Data’s face here is like “Commander, you have targeted the warp nacelles on the Reliant and are preparing to fire.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She’s the first school chancellor we’ve really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me–with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What bugged me about Discovery was their need, especially in the later seasons, to have like an affirmation circle in the middle of a mission–frequently when there was a ticking clock of some kind. My wife and I would be yelling at the screen “this is what the debrief is for!”. SNW does this sort of thing really well. As has Starfleet Academy. I’m really digging it.