FrChazzz

@FrChazzz@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Now here’s a person who’s heard “fellowship” used as a verb!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Parmesan-y”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm good, thanks!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On my timeline, this is appearing right above the story about the Israeli soldier destroying the Jesus statue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I concede and withdraw my prior point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at this guy, calling bullshit on Fleetwood Mac

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨877-CASH-NOW⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that it generated the name “Juano.” That seems like a special kind of racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hay there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they let their cat walk on the keyboard when it was set for Wingdings, iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I can tell. I did get much better battery results from doing RockBox after a factory reset. (Initially switched it over after having loaded my music onto the device; battery was no good and there were some weird quirks with the file system so I decided to fully reset the device, installed RB, then loaded my music. Noticeable difference!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the itch to have a separate music player from my phone. Became very interested in the Innioasis Y1. It looks like a late model iPod nano (before they went touchscreen; it has the wheel). Bought it and then put the RockBox firmware on it (no simple task if you use Linux, let me tell you). I love it. It’s made me more intentional with my music. Plus I’m acquiring CDs and burning them to my laptop to transfer over to the Y1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to live on a boarding school campus as an administrator. My kids and I were hanging on a culvert at a pond on the campus, I leaned over to look at something and my black iPhone 7 slid right out of my breast pocket and into the water. I knew that I had like fifteen minutes before it died. So I ran home, grabbed a wetsuit jacket (it was like February in Florida, cold enough to need this) and put on my board shorts and ran back to the water with a net. I waded in, felt my body sink down to my knees in muck. It was so gross that I wasn’t about to let my head get underwater. But I felt with my feet and used the net to pull stuff up from around where I saw the phone fall (while my wife pinged it with the Find My app). She watched the dot disappear and that’s when we knew the phone had died. Never found it.

  I took like three showers after that, just to be sure. And I do not go near ponds with my phone anywhere except in my hip pockets (or in a sling bag)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fur sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of one of my favorite ways to eat vanilla ice cream: with olive oil and a bit of sea salt. I get a lot of grief for this, but I learned about it ages ago in an old Cracked (.com) article and it is really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fur sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Roman children yearned for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fur sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always smother those IKEA meatballs in lingonberry jam. Delicious.

  Also, I’ve heard of Lakota dishes that involve bison steaks drizzled with a blueberry reduction or compote. I’ve always wanted to try that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No fear!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a “game” he and his friends “played” when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost.

  Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol For a moment there I was thinking “I thought we were the Sailfish…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is your brain on drugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my best friends smoked some shortly after my experience. They were transported to Jurassic Park and were screaming for the Baby Jesus to run from a triceratops. “Run baby Jesus, RUN!” stands as one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard someone yell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is your brain on drugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Salvia is maybe the most dangerous drug for someone like me. I don’t like feeling altered, never really enjoyed my experiences with marijuana because I wanted it to be over after awhile. But salvia? Intense hallucination but it only lasts like 15 minutes? Sign me up.

  Back when it was legal I smoked some. Once it hit, the world kinda wobbled like the glass on the building in the Matrix after the helicopter crashes. I was in an easy chair. All the shadows in the room were orange and yellow static and then my TV, which was off, expanded to indefinite size, turning the wall to my left into a black void. My chair lifted up, turned, and I flew into that black void, which was outer space. I had a BLAST. I was yelling and hooting as I blasted through the cosmos. Then I backed out, my chair settled back into my living room. I felt thirsty and so wanted to get a drink from the jug of Kool-aid I’d made that was in the fridge. I stood up and was like 12-feet tall or something. I remember feeling like I was reaching down into what felt like a doll house fridge to retrieve the jug. As I drank, I returned to normal size. The trip was over, no side effects.

  I never did it again. I figured I’d had a good experience and didn’t want to risk it. I had friends who did it and they felt like their skin was an itchy suit and they tried to unzip themselves to get out of it. Nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You Were Supposed to Feel Lost": Metal Gear Solid 2 and the Shock of Playing as Raiden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never forget this rug-pull. Especially after spending HOURS playing the MGS2 demo once it came out. I hated the change at the time, but have come to appreciate it as time has passed. If for no other reason than it’s “Terence and Philip: Not Without My Anus” levels of trolling on Kojima’s part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raised evangelical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the guy that owned his own bowling balls (yes, plural) and shoes. In my twenties. Mostly because it was near impossible to find a ball that had the right weight and hole size.

  But I have a story: I went to an Evangelical university in the early 2000s. Start of sophomore year they held a bowling tournament at the local alley. So me and two friends signed up. But we first went to the thrift store and bought cheap polyester suits and enormous aviator sunglasses, aiming for something out of the “Sabotage” music video. Our other friend decided to dress up like he was our “muscle” by wearing an outfit like you’d see in the background of the “Beat It” music video. We walked into the alley (which had not been updated since probably 1981, other than the scoring screens) and decided to take on personas like we owned the place, talking trash and generally acting like we existed in a different plane from everyone else. I kept an unlit cigarette in my mouth the whole time. I was the first of our team to bowl and, quite magically, I got a strike right out the gate.

  All these church youth-group types were our competition. They had no idea how to deal with us. We won our match and then went to the bar, ordering Miller High Life and pretending we were regulars. Then the guy who held the event came up to us. Apparently drinking alcohol at a university sponsored event is a VERY serious no-no. Even though the official stance was that students of legal age were allowed to drink (at extremely moderate levels), alcohol was not allowed on campus nor, apparently, at events. Oops. Perhaps because we were having a good time they let it slide (I was also an RA at the time, which probably helped). Either way, we finished 3rd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your type?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the 'hood. Many years back, coming home from work, I drove through the Popeyes for dinner. At the speaker to order and tell them I want “two breasts and a thigh.”

  “I bet you do, honey!” says the female voice through the speaker. Absolute gold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flippin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. But also a degree of expedience played a role too. Rome had twisted Judea (and, eventually, Galilee) to such a degree that the temple leadership was willing to let Rome crucify a guy like Jesus because it kept Rome from taking more. People like Pilate were looking for excuses to bring the hammer down on the citizens of Judea. Passover was often a flashpoint for insurrection (a bunch of oppressed people huddled together, all brought together by the unifying story of that time their God raised up a dude to lead them against their first oppressor–the festival was primed for any number of would-be “messiahs” to rise up and eventually try something against Rome, which led to intense crack-downs and, at times, mass crucifixions). So Rome backed the cultural and religious authorities into a corner, turning them into the sort of people who’d gladly hold sham trials to get rid of a guy who might bring more trouble down on their heads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flippin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also lots of “well, you’re animal isn’t really pure enough. But you’re in luck because we happen to have a few High Priest Certified^tm^ animals right over here. We’ll just take yours on trade and you can pay the difference!” (then resell the perfectly good sacrificial animal to the next poor pilgrim who comes along)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flippin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few things that winds up being included in all four gospels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure it'll be fine!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you do this at your highschool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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