DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on SBA #246 Sins and Virtues 1 hour ago:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/night-s-master-tanith-lee/4d3f6fd45f5e56bb
Night’s Master by Tanith Lee.
A Demon Prince spends his days in his lavish Underearth palace, and his nights tormenting and/or seducing humans.
- Comment on What a way to go 1 hour ago:
Vamperella has entered the chat…
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 1 day ago:
Context matters here.
A teenager with profound mental disabilities or one who expects to be get a job in the future?
Also, long term thumb sucking can impact dental development. I knew a kid who had to have braces for years because they kept sucking their thumb until age 10.
- Comment on Like there was any doubt 3 days ago:
Joker Fish are Batman canon.
If an actor can’t do Joker Fish, they aren’t right for the role.
- Comment on The teacher challenged his students to remove a mandarin from a glass full of water without spilling a single drop 4 days ago:
A connoisseur, it seems, has entered the chat…
- Comment on The teacher challenged his students to remove a mandarin from a glass full of water without spilling a single drop 5 days ago:
There are clubs in Los Angeles where children’s dirty bathwater cocktails sell for $50.00 a glass.
- Comment on Shut Up Boomer 1 week ago:
WTF are you talking about?
Boomers were born between 1945 and 1965.
They had the eight hour day handed to them.
Please stop using ‘boomer’ for anything that happened before 1970.
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
How I want to see British people
- Comment on Football. 1 week ago:
TIL.
To me, the obvious answer is that humans were omnivores from the start. We have the forward facing eyes of predators, and teeth that can handle tearing and grinding.
- Comment on dying 1 week ago:
[off topic]
David Page, ‘Body Trauma’
Describes how people react to various injuries. Invaluable for anyone creating a game or writing a story.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 2 weeks ago:
Back in the 1960s there was talk about reducing the work week to 25 hours.
That was before Nixon got elected.
- Comment on I wonder sometimes if a depressed man that masturbates is actually a tear jerker. 2 weeks ago:
Them ain’t tears, boy!
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 2 weeks ago:
Back in 1960, the minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average US home was $11,000.00.
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, ‘middle class’ was defined as one job paying for a house, a car, and enough money to send the kids to college. In those days $1 million was considered a vast fortune. After five GOP Presidential terms, middle class was two incomes to support a family of four, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
- Comment on Me_IRL 2 weeks ago:
They reprinted a bunch of EC war comics from the 1950s.
One issue was a special about the Civil War. One story was a biography of Lincoln; another explained the North’s strategy; another was about how Stonewall Jackson died.
A comic book for 10 year olds in the 1950s had more solid information that most High School classes today.
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 2 weeks ago:
I’m old enough to remember the moment when enough of the Greatest Generation had died so the GOP could start in on how FDR had been a failure.
When the Greatest* were alive they’d talk your ear off about how FDR had saved the country and what a great leader he was.
But the New Deal was way too Socialist to be allowed today.
*Please don’t yammer about they weren’t ‘great’ because of the racism and sexism and imperialism. “Greatest Generation” is the commonly accepted term.
- Comment on Forty hours, one life... 2 weeks ago:
Also, not all jobs are sitting at a desk looking at a screen.
I got lucky and found a job I actually enjoyed doing. Yes, I’d take the occasional mental health day, but most Mondays I went to work feeling pretty okay.
- Comment on The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about the UK, but I was taught that US slave owners would do collective punishments if any slave kids were caught swimming.
Swimming is a super power if you’re running from dogs, because dogs lose he scent when you cross a river.
Also, a lot of US public swimming pools were destroyed by the local governments when racial segregation was banned.
- Comment on Why are there so many shit posts about beans? 3 weeks ago:
Children should know their cultural history!
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 3 weeks ago:
You offend me with your rank amateurism
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 3 weeks ago:
The barefoot hillbillie with a beard and a jug was a standard trope in cartoons.
Bugs Bunny ran into them all the time.
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 3 weeks ago:
Absinthe used to be called ‘the green fairy’ because it was supposed to take you to Neverland.
‘Green Fairy’ would be a great name for a soda, imho
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a lot older than you are, and I’ve never met anyone who told me they were happy in high school.
Here’s something that might help. When I was almost thirty I was on workers’ comp after a job related injury. I’d never liked any job I’d ever had, and thought it was because I was some kind of misfit.
Someone pointed me at a book called ‘Discover What You Are Best At’ by Linda Gale.
It’s a series of self tests you can knock off in an afternoon. The rest of the book lists all the jobs that your skills are goodfor.
For example, a hair stylist, a paramedic, and a product demonstrator all need good dexterity and good people skills. Three completely different jobs with the same skill set.
Also, they list jobs with different levels of training. You can become an Emergency Medical Technician in a few months, a nurse in a couple of years, and a doctor in eight years.
Having a job where you fit in amkes a lot of life’s other problems a lot more manageable.
Good luck.
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 3 weeks ago:
How old are you?
Can you afford to move out?
Generally speaking, you can’t make other people change, you can only change how to treat with them.
- Comment on Oh no 3 weeks ago:
One word, as per my device’s autocorrect.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 3 weeks ago:
Just for clarity’s sake.
The question was ‘What can you buy with a billion that you couldn’t get with $50 million?’
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 3 weeks ago:
This is what’s really crazy.
A long time ago, I was having a conversation with a workmate. Guy earned as much as me. I asked him what he’d buy with $1 billion that he couldn’t buy with $50 million.
He couldn’t name one actual experience/object that he’d need the extra money for.
Still insisted that he wanted the billion.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 3 weeks ago:
My way of dealing with comments is to take them at face value, unless it’s completely off the rails.
If people want to act shocked at the idea that homophobia actually exists, I can’t stop them.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny because I thought the first movie and the book jibed up pretty well. I mean, the part where the cop says ‘that’s a dame with hair on her chest’ came from the book.
I am a long time Hammett fan, and finally got around to seeing ‘Satan Met A Lady.’ It’s very, very loosely based on ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and Bette Davis has a ball playing the femme fatale. It’s wild to see what they kept and what they threw out. For instance, Joel Cairo is replaced by a six foot tall Englishman.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 3 weeks ago:
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton [back when they were married]
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 3 weeks ago:
Prisoners can write letters. I don’t know if you can make a legal phone call from one jail to another, but cell phones get smuggled in all the time.
