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- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Well, I hope this thread has also put you off being a pedestrian.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
I noticed! That’s why my reply became a semi-crazed random stream of consciousness.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 days ago:
On the reality show The Amazing Race, it’s never the rock climbing or skiing or skydiving that holds back the teams. It’s driving the manual rental car from the airport.
I drive manual in the UK but have never tried a left-hand-drive manual car, I’d probably keep hitting the door with my left hand.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 days ago:
Only part of it.
There was a successful ad campaign based on how many people in the UK find it repulsive.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 days ago:
You can buy marmite in many stores in my area (LA).
Customs maybe be unhappy at bringing in food.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 days ago:
Don’t try to bring food. I’ve seen people stopped for smuggling meat. You’re probably okay with packaged sweets or chocolate, but you should declare it.
Don’t be fooled into thinking you can get tea if you see it offered. It may be some strange flavour, or very weak, or iced, or all three. And it will be hard to explain that you want milk and sugar with it.
Biscuits are good enough, but chocolate is rough.
And, of course, a “biscuit” will mean a type of savory scone.
If your shop, at most stores they will pack shopping bags for you and are a little shocked and overly grateful if you do it yourself.
Be prepared to tip in many circumstances (but not, oddly enough, for having your groceries packed).
Be prepared to be asked about football, the Beatles, the Queen, maybe even the King.
Don’t be offended is someone attempts to do a British accent at you, it’s meant as a friendly greeting.
If driving:
Four-way stops are like roundabouts without the roundabout. But with stop signs.
Pedestrians are not expected to look out for traffic, but are not allowed to just cross anywhere. So it balances out.
Someone has stolen the clutch pedals from all the cars.
- Comment on Don't ask if its level 1 week ago:
How did they get it to be so perfectly vertical?
- Comment on She must be unhinged 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure that you’re remembering this right?
I find it hard to believe that the newspaper didn’t come up with a headline based on calling her “Cinders”.
- Comment on He’s going to erase half of the tristate area 2 weeks ago:
Making it the one-and-a-half state area?
- Comment on Click here? 3 weeks ago:
A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Someone once told me “meat is murder, but fish is justifiable homicide”. I hope that helps.
- Comment on The internet, every October 4 weeks ago:
Back at school in the UK, in the 70s, I read a book about traditions from around the world. It included a description of trick-or-treating as part of the “what people do in other countries” theme. We would put candles in turnips in that era.
In the 90s I had some kids at the door in costume but who got confused and said “penny for the guy”. Or maybe it was the other way around (they had a guy but said trick or treat).
- Comment on This is not fine 4 weeks ago:
That’s that song about the “Space Monkey Mafia” isn’t it.
NASA’s biggest cover-up.
- Comment on The internet, every October 4 weeks ago:
But in the US it’s a major event that’s ALL of October now. It’s a whole other level. Walk into CVS or Walgreens (equivalent of Boots) and there’s a wall of Halloween merch right inside the entrance.
Or maybe the UK is the same now? After all, it has Black Friday sales.
- Comment on I'll get to the real projects!...eventually 5 weeks ago:
I just realized how easy it is to receive satellite transmissions after reading how I could get the ISS repeater using a handheld radio. I’m going to look into using the RTL-SDR to decode signals.
- Comment on Imma writer... 🧐 5 weeks ago:
Fanfic is exactly what it was, or at least, how it started.
businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-started-…
Maybe you mean that it got worse when it was changed to be original characters!
- Comment on I like this fox news a lot better than the tv one 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mike 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see it on the store any more, but this is originally by Jim
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 1 month ago:
It can lie about it’s own emissions levels!
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
Teletype with an acoustic coupler. You place the handset into the rubber cups that block out the sound, so that the modem noises were clear through the phone line.
The perforations in modern toilet paper are an homage to the holes in the punched tape used to feed the teletype pre-recorded instructions.
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 1 month ago:
All things must pass.
- Comment on Platypuses 1 month ago:
Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.
- Comment on Falling Down (10/10) Movie CLIP - Fore! (1993) HD 1 month ago:
Just think of it as the middle movie of the strange trilogy that includes “London Bridge” and “My Fair Lady”.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
I DON’T THINK THAT THERE IS caps unlock… oh wow i did it, i did it. free T LAST … OH NO.
- Comment on beamns 2 months ago:
Peans. Not quite peas, not quite beans. But something special in betweens.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
HOW DO I TURN OFF CAPS? I THOUGH IT WAS CAPS LOCK BUT IT’S NOT. I EVEN PRESSED IT TWICE JUST TO BE SURE I’D DONE IT.
- Comment on Anon watches the Teletubbies 2 months ago:
That’s a still from this video, maybe
- Comment on Mand got big hands! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Planet Of The Apes [spoilers] 2 months ago:
This reminds me of an early viral email joke:
Please distribute this to everyone you know on earth. When John Glenn returns from space, everybody needs to dress in ape suits. We have just 4 days in which to bury the Statue of Liberty up to her head. EVERYBODY HURRY!
- Comment on 7-11 2 months ago:
Probably in Las Vegas. Even the airport has slot machines there.