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- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 11 hours ago:
Same here in UK honestly - it’s that or the hazards, they both sebd the same message :)
Probably down to whichever is easiest. I’ve personally observed that drivers of big trucks tend to do the indicator thing, while most people in cars do the hazards. Not sure if there’s a specific trucker reason for that divide!
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 12 hours ago:
Weird. You’d think Canadians at least would have a way to say sorry ;P
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 13 hours ago:
Here in the UK, turning on your hazards for a couple of flashes means either “Thank you” or “sorry” to the car following, depending on context.
Someone let you merge in? "Thank you!*
You cut someone off? “Sorry!”
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 week ago:
Seriously though!
Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That’s why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.
Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.
I’ve never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 week ago:
Sure, there are always exceptions.
I’m not being self-deprecating for the sake of it - I’m speaking what I feel from personal experience. And on the basis of that experience I would rank the average state of British food well below the average state of food in a pretty wide spread of other places.
And that’s what I’m basing it on - averages, not exceptions.
- Comment on That's a tight sandwich 1 week ago:
Sandussy
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 week ago:
As a British person myself, I completely disagree that our food is anything you would call top tier.
We have some nice food (as you mentioned) but it’s the exception, rather than the rule.
As a child I was forced to eat a lot of Sunday roasts at the grandparents that were bland and anemic and mushy, with veg boiled within an inch of its life, and where the meat was the only good part. I don’t think my experience was atypical.
British food these days is getting better all the time, but mostly because modern British food is a cultural fusion of tastes and techniques from everywhere in the world, and thanks to the Internet people are actually learning how to cook. Good roasts these days have sweetly caramelised oven-roast veg with olive oil and herbs and seasonings, and are a million miles from the mush I was served as a child.
But has British food historically been good? No, it has not.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 1 week ago:
Doctor: “Let’s check your reactions”
Me: dodges the little hammer “How was that?”
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.
Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.
Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.
So it really is quite different.
If young people have a tendency to always say “gooning” for any kind of masturbation (which I think is probably true) then that’s likely because:
- It’s a generational neologism and people like owning and using words that belong to their age group
- It sounds less formal and more fun
- A lot of the masturbation that young people are doing probably is actually gooning anyway, because that’s just what happens when you have an unlimited and infinitely varied supply of free Internet porn
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
I made a helpful table
Activity Type Visual Stimulation Duration Gooning Mental Required (Typically porn) Long Masturbating Physical Optional Long OR Short - Comment on i am a simple person 4 weeks ago:
Minecraft is really out of place, yeah.
The rest are all multiplayer PVP/PVE shooters, MOBAs and the like, and then there’s Minecraft just chilling.
Been playing Minecraft since Beta, and the way I play it, it’s a super chill and creative game.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
Right, but the person I replied to said it was for stress relief [only] - as if to invalidate by omission OPs assertion that it’s for controlling fill level,when the truth is that the article supports both positions.
I pointed out what’s in the article. In terms of who is wrong, or right, or only partially right, people can draw their own conclusions.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
That very same article also does say however:
On top of that, the indentation allows the manufacturer to precisely control the volume that the jug can hold.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 month ago:
What actually happened was centralisation.
We moved from a web made up of lots of tiny websites hosted by individuals, to one of corporate-contolled mainstream social media.
And yes - those sites don’t want any objectionable content because that’s not good for revenue.
So it was censorship, but only made possible because we all collectively decided we would spend our entire Internet browsing time on the same five massive websites, and let them control what we see.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 month ago:
The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
I wish recipe writers could form a consensus on what the terms “minced” or “crushed” mean when it comes to garlic.
Sometimes “minced” means finely chopped, while other times it means as a paste.
Some recipes use “crushed” to mean the paste, while other times that means to squash a clove with the back of your knife so it cracks and the oil runs, but still leave whole.
You can normally work it out from context, but it drives me crazy!
- Comment on Diabolical 1 month ago:
Calling it a “car” as well I’m quite sure pisses him off. Beautiful.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 1 month ago:
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS
- Comment on No it won’t 1 month ago:
Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 1 month ago:
My bad sorry, I completely misread what your comment was replying to!
On the subject of Minecraft alternatives, I haven’t tried it myelf but Vintage Story seems pretty interesting. Started life many years ago as a Minecraft mod and is now it’s own thing.
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I understand you.
Java edition is also developed by Mojang/Microsoft and is basically identical to the bedrock edition in core features.
It was the original Minecraft edition, and if you remember playing Minecraft 10 to 15 years ago it would likely be the Java edition you were doing it on.
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 1 month ago:
Java edition, my friend.
I have been playing Minecraft with a small group of friends on a self-hosted private server on and off for the past 15 years. No ads, no coin shop, no annoyance.
As for the screaming YouTubers, obviously they exist, but there are also some nice chill peeps out there. EthosLab or Bdoubleo100 for example - especially their single player worlds where it’s just them working on projects and building.
- Comment on why 2 months ago:
And yet ‘ship’ is oddly masculine in French, despite even in genderless English being referred to by sailors throughout history as ‘she’
- Comment on Wasn't afraid of radiation until you mentioned it??? 2 months ago:
Could be!
- Comment on Wasn't afraid of radiation until you mentioned it??? 2 months ago:
Deciphered:
Fast drying, and writes on any smooth surface without running. Replace the cap tightly after use.
- Comment on Chimes 2 months ago:
Plap plap plap
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
That’s right. There’s an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.
You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! So I don’t imagine almost anyone took them up on the offer - meaning that really it was a carefully crafted almost-scam.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the deal and really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the “never obsolete” offer.
- Comment on Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box 2 months ago:
LatteGo, LatteGo, Can’t hold it back anymore~
- Comment on NeW zEaLaNd 🙄 2 months ago:
The Z80 part is right, but talking about a flag in the context of the Z80 instruction set it should be quite clear you mean a programming flag not a country flag