spittingimage
@spittingimage@lemmy.world
- Comment on Where do people dance? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re an angel, on the head of a pin.
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
Really? I can’t see yours.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
The average human skull has a volume of about twice the average bottle of wine. Thanks to your sacrifice, some artsy goth is getting wasted.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
Should they bury you as well, or do you plan to be a year-round Hallowe’en decoration?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
When my mother went, the hospital staff asked us if she was a donor.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
Start eating paprika. Like, lots of paprika.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
Strip me for parts and give the rest to science. I’m not real sentimental about my body once I’m done with it.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
You say paranoid delusion, I say let me see those notes you’re writing-!
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
I’m told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
A boxing coach once told me it’s harder to fight lefties because they go against what you’ve trained for.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What do you create? 4 weeks ago:
That sounds interesting. What’s the process for making it? What colour does it come out?
- Comment on What do you create? 4 weeks ago:
Free RPG content, which I’d be happy to share with you:
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 4 weeks ago:
She takes my hoodies, my snacks, my cash, the blankets… why wouldn’t she take my name?
~(She didn’t take my name.)~
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 5 weeks ago:
My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it’s because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.
It’s important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don’t use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you’ll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 month ago:
I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 month ago:
Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 month ago:
Okay, now explain to me which is the best Star Trek captain and why anyone who disagrees needs to die by cheesegrater in a three-day ordeal.
🙂
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 month ago:
Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 1 month ago:
It costs about $10,000 US to get a kilo of payload as far as Low Earth Orbit. I’m not sure this is going to scale up.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 1 month ago:
I have several first cousins I’d like to have removed. But I’ve always known their kids as my second cousins.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
Here’s an interesting related factoid - your eyes are constantly making tiny micromovements called saccades. During these movements, you don’t received any visual information. Your actual view of the world comes in stuttering fits and starts. You don’t notice this because your brain literally invents what you think you’re seeing during saccades. It’s good enough not to get you weeded out of the gene pool.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 2 months ago:
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but your response doesn’t contribute much to answering the question.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t be weird, but talk to your neighbour first.
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 2 months ago:
Oh god, Net Send.
At one point it was my job to track down and upgrade old PCs that had been moved by users. To my delight, I found that Net Send was enabled on all the org’s devices. I had the bright idea to use it to pop up a message on the affected PCs asking them to call me and provide a location. I copied a script from an old website and modified it to work with a list of hostnames. It, uh, worked - but while I was testing my script I ran it without commenting out the line that sent the message to all devices on the subdomain.
I turned my phone off for the rest of the day.
- Comment on Have you shared your own posts from platforms like this (or Mastodon) with others you know offline (besides your partner)? 2 months ago:
No, but it wouldn’t bother me if people I know IRL see them and recognise me. It’s happened a couple of times before (on Reddit).
- Comment on how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do? 3 months ago:
I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn’t believe nurses do.
Nursing education never ends. All the nurses I know are a bit loopy from the constant need to retrain and recertify.
