Obi
@Obi@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on It's a classic 3 days ago:
Not gonna lie if OP is legit this feels like being one handshake away from legend, like if you met Peter Jackson’s assistant or so.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 2 weeks ago:
That’s a nice obscure reference there, lots of interesting trivia around that film and as a french living in NL, sounds like I should watch this. Looks pretty janky though haha.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 2 weeks ago:
Yeah these days the standard on the toilets have gone way up (and stayed free, looking at you Belgium/NL), TBH for me even the unmanned ones are okay in case of emergency, it’s more that these stops lack a simple row of vending machines imo so I only use them if I really just need a quick bio break, they could be so much better as a more nature/calm alternative to the ones with shops.
The big stations along “autoroute du soleil” have been huge for a while though, at least since my childhood over 30 years ago. Beaune, Montélimar, etc.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 2 weeks ago:
In France there’s some really nice gas stations on some of the popular highways. In the summer there’s so many tourists going on vacation through these that some of them even set up temporary art exhibitions or special activities like bouldering, bow&arrows, etc. I remember doing my first “dive” in a special water cube on the parking lot of Montélimar’s station when I was a kid, good times. Of course none of that is even remotely similar to putting a beaver themed slop-shop and calling it a day, the shops mostly just sell local products and the usual essentials.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 2 weeks ago:
I lost 35kg within 8 months by going hardcore on controlling my diet. I did have to eat more once I started exercising, which I needed to because all the muscle was melting away right along the fat. It definitely works, but I did “fall off the wagon” once I stopped counting the calories. Now I’m trying to find that long term balance of sport and diet I can maintain in the long run.
- Comment on This is a baby cow 4 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 4 weeks ago:
SSD prices really pisses me off. I use those for work as an independent and regularly need new ones, and the ones I usually get have gone up like crazy!
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 4 weeks ago:
I just meant, they are exactly as mean online as they are in real life, it’s not that they’re particularly mean just direct and no filter so less of a difference.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 4 weeks ago:
Only the Dutch.
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 4 weeks ago:
I like to imagine that Americans from the random states in the middle with perfectly rectangular shapes do the same thing, but since it’s just rectangles, no one realises it.
- Comment on Ruining my life 5 weeks ago:
You should do that both in times of peace, and in times of war.
- Comment on meal 5 weeks ago:
In the end there’s just a massive mountain of empty wrappers on the couch, they stay there until the next morning.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 weeks ago:
As the other person already said, not totally relevant to the discussion at hand, but I do find that bit of trivia fascinating. The processing power version makes so much more sense logically, but it was put to the wayside by production executives because they thought the average movie-goer wouldn’t get it, since computing was still somewhat niche at the time.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 month ago:
My best guess is they mean that leftists tend to prefer abandoning mainstream social media platforms than fighting against the right on them. Hence Facebook, twitter etc turning full right wing while we find refuge in places like here.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 1 month ago:
That reflection does not look like 123kg to me, how??
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 month ago:
World of Warcraft. I’m honestly at my happiest when all I have to worry about are dailies and raids. Unfortunately, that’s not compatible with family life, my work, etc etc.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 month ago:
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
TIL about the Volkswagen sausage.
- Comment on Where would you put yourself today? 1 month ago:
I experienced -35 in Québec and it was crazy, could feel the inside of my nostrils/sinuses freezing up with every breath.
- Comment on Teach me 1 month ago:
I’m willing to do both, just not consistently…
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
Instead of cutting it off at a right angle you cut it at an angle. Personally I’m French and yeah I know of the technique but I’m not the biggest fan necessarily. Works best if you’re making 2 sandwiches out of 1 baguette and fill it up first before doing the middle cut.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
-20°c outside but in a hot tub 👌
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Saw there were only two comments, thought maybe I had a chance to get that joke/reference in before it’s too late, but of course you’re already here.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
In our house the rule is spiders can stay if they’re out the way (up high, etc). When they get too close for comfort for my wife’s tolerance limits, I pick them up and put them outside. Spiders are friends.
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 months ago:
Yeah, if it warms enough that the gulf stream goes poof, Europe will get much colder winters.
- Comment on Anon does some trolling 2 months ago:
Is this real? Looks legit but also it’s unbelievable, but unbelievable has become day to day so now I’m just lost TBH.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 months ago:
Wasn’t even in Belgium but in France near the border and there was one of these shops setup in a kinda temporary thing on the highway. Still felt a bit peckish after the tiny triangle sandwich so ordered a small fry, was greeted with not much less than pictured here haha. Had to share them to get through it.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 months ago:
I’m genuinely curious about this, I’m assuming the top part contains a 40"-ish oled TV and they’re doing some kind of graphical activity with this (design, photo/video editing, etc). Did they fit PC parts somehow within the bottom part? Seems a bit thin for that. But TBH something in this kind of format in a solid stage style case could be very useful in my field for on-site monitoring/testing.
- Comment on I love science 2 months ago:
I said I love science, not that I know it or can practice it, they’re different things.
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 2 months ago:
2 dead and a historic church gone up in flames in Amsterdam…