Dicska
@Dicska@lemmy.world
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 days ago:
Oh yes you’re right - I’m not a native speaker and I think we phrase it slightly differently, and I took that literally. Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 days ago:
Oh, I was thinking they meant 65-75 people before the pendulum (the second counter on the grandfather clock?) swung back, so 65-75 people per second. I didn’t think so deeply about the maths behind it, just accepted it as a possible meaning. But I’ll do it now.
- Comment on No excuses 5 days ago:
Be kind, you never know what someone is going through.
It’s your car.
- Comment on The Usual Suspect 6 days ago:
Maybe if had said ‘shooting at a synagogue’
Police shooting civilians
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 2 weeks ago:
Hang them on the fence inside out and hose them down with a garden hose.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
The difference is not huge, but that is the definition of median.
Example: There are five kids in the class: Alicia (4’), Beth (4’), Charles (5’), Dan (7’) and Emma (3 miles). The average height of the class is 1060 feet. Are half of the kids taller/shorter than that? Nah. However, the median is Charles’ height, 5 feet. ~Half of the students are above that, and ~half of them are below. If it’s an even number of students, the median is between the two middle ones.
Also, I’m slightly worried about Emma.
- Comment on Bountiful harvest 2 weeks ago:
We can’t tell for sure without a banana.
- Comment on Kinky 2 weeks ago:
You might be bad with faces, but how about faeces?
- Comment on Kinky 2 weeks ago:
“I’m Brenda.”
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 weeks ago:
Let’s suppose that for some reason it’s completely normal, and it’s just simply speeding toward us.
OP says it’s billions of light years away. Doesn’t that mean that we still have a few billion years?
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 5 weeks ago:
Thanks! My lazy ass brain forgot that shows can also be found on imdb, not just single films. And here I was, thinking I found a glitch.
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 5 weeks ago:
In hindsight it looks pretty obvious - for some reason I didn’t even take a closer look at the imdb page of The Young and the Restless, and I had no idea it was a show. Thanks for the answer!
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for cracking the case - I never heard of that title before, and I automatically assumed that would be a standalone film. It makes perfect sense, knowing it’s actually a show. Thanks for the info!
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- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
*ZIP*
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We have a family album with a bunch of photos from my brother’s toddlerhood in ~'83, mostly black and white. Those cameras were still around for a while (not in South Africa, though). Maybe family heirloom, maybe it was just cheaper, or some hobby stuff.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
I’ll be the dancer. Just make sure I can hear your conversation.
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 month ago:
Lethal when breathed in.
- Comment on Any ideas as to why they choose a dinosaur symbol to tell you this? 1 month ago:
Boring answer: T-Rex has proportionally short arms. It can’t reach the Internet.
Actual answer: They didn’t have a choice in that. They programmed it at gunpoint, held by a T-Rex.
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 month ago:
The Icelandic alphabet still has those.
- Comment on GET STICKY WITH IT 1 month ago:
I can’t wait for my country to introduce the Euro so that I can finally ascertain how much a golf ball weighs (almost).
- Comment on Dirt Man 2 months ago:
This joke would be rather hard to translate to my language because we use the same word for dirt (as in, ‘soil’ - in fact, in certain cases for actual soil, as well) as for Earth. Or ground.
We only have a separate word for the unclean meaning of dirt, or a compound word containing dirt to denote soil.
I can easily imagine this as an actual attempt from a beginner English speaker from home.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 2 months ago:
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 2 months ago:
I push my fingers into my eyes.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 2 months ago:
My friend’s mom occasionally gives full names, like forename+surname and uses them as such
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Laden retriever…?
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
While I never heard that saying before, I can totally get behind it. I truly appreciate it, thanks.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
Oh no (yes?), I totally get what you’re saying, and I’m able to process these situations (I think I’ve seen enough during that 15-20 years of playing with/against kids), that part doesn’t bother me; what I was really curious about is how you, personally, would interpret that brief response, without any prior context.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t have a problem dealing with the nastier version, I was just wondering how you would interpret the exchange, provided it was the first and only 4 characters you see from a random person.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 months ago:
While I was thinking of something similar, it’s important that in this particular case we’re talking about a conversation with a stranger, and not about breaking news. Now, I get that it all depends - what I’m curious about is your assumption of the situation’s vibe.
