ValiantDust

@ValiantDust@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, sleep well now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you telling me your fairytale wedding does not include doves hacking out the eyes of your stepsister or your stepmother dancing to her death in shoes of red hot iron? Boooring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he would have believed he could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the bill’s language and topic caused confusion; a member proposed that it be referred to the Finance Committee, but the Speaker accepted another member’s recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could “find a deserved grave”.

  An assemblyman handed him the bill, offering to introduce him to the genius who wrote it. He declined, saying that he already met as many crazy people as he cared to.

  I hope medicine in 1897 was up to the treatment of these burns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though, there are way more cows than crocodiles, snakes, sharks or deadly spiders in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to what the other comments have already said: Don’t bring an unleashed dog on a cow pasture. You’d think that’s common sense, but apparently it’s a bit of a meme in Austria and Switzerland that every few months some German get’s trampled by cows because their totally friendly dog ran towards the cows and they felt threatened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pathetic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard someone say “I really put my foot in my mouth”? That’s what they are trying to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pathetic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m almost of average height for a woman in my country. Even if I thought height mattered, I would have very little reason to feel insecure about it. But since men are on average taller, I still count myself as being part of the short people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pathetic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. But there’s no stepladder that will help you mimic my power of sitting comfortably in trains, planes and busses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An honorable warrior⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant xkcd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess would be motion sickness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Abbreviate keeping the first and some random later consonants (and sometimes consonants that aren’t in the word at all) without using punctuation: Dr, Mr, Ms, Mrs

  I think it’s usually the first letter(s) and the last letter(s). In older English handwritings I’ve come across M.ʳ etc. So I think that’s were those came from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Smoking around kids is terrible, without question and the good driver argument is of course bullshit. But she is on to something with the seat belt. Many woman have trouble even with average sized boobs. For some the seat belt slips up and crosses the throat which is not only very uncomfortable but I imagine not exactly safe. But those boobs are for looking at not for taking into account while designing safety features, amirite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find this type of pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a moment I forgot about the omnipresence of AI generated pictures and wondered what the hell the thing in the second picture is supposed to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart from water and salt, are there any inorganic foods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In recent years, activated charcoal.

  (Because many people apparently don’t know this: Don’t eat activated charcoal if you take any medication, it can render your medication ineffective)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I ask this girl out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and that you have another dispensery you can go to for a while if she says no

  This is an important point. When asking someone out, they should have the ability to escape the situation, if they want to. Both in the actual moment of being asked out and in the greater scheme of things. She can’t really escape, if she has to serve you as a customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨walkie talkie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What I took away from this is that we urgently need to find the person in question and let them name everything. Alternatively the person who came up with the names in the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does someone with no experience learn to make food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When starting to cook on my own, I always found it very stressful, because I felt you had to do so many things in parallel and then you look away for too long at the wrong time and something burned.

  What helped me is reading the whole recipe very carefully and then prepare everything before actually starting to cook. Many recipes tell you something like “while x simmers, cut y / prepare z”. That’s fine, when you have developed a feeling for how long things take, but as a beginner, it’s better to do everything sequentially. It takes longer that way, but it makes it much less stressful and overwhelming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If that is the case, then they are more the exception than the rule. (Do you by chance have any source on that? Because I’m pretty sure here in Germany that’s not the case) Also, at least Switzerland produces less beef than it consumes, so that’s not exactly sustainable. I don’t know about the other two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, hardly any cows just eat grass these days. That’s not how you get a lot of meat as fast and as cheap as possible. Also, since cows need a lot of grass, I a lot less area would remain for other crops even if they did (since grass needs way more area for the same amount of calories than stuff like soybeans). So it’s actually a good thing, they aren’t just eating grass.