Got_Bent
@Got_Bent@lemmy.world
- Comment on Smoking PSA 3 months ago:
And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs
- Comment on Smoking PSA 3 months ago:
They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.
I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.
Sorry to have failed your class professor.
We couldn’t all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.
- Comment on Smoking PSA 3 months ago:
I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.
First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.
As to the album cover, it somehow didn’t register with my that it was a baby smoking.
Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.
Motley Crue’s Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don’t think that influenced my mental image.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 months ago:
Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.
- Comment on after 40 all meals are horror 3 months ago:
It’s been years since I’ve eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That’s truly one of the seven deadly sins.
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 3 months ago:
I believe that’s the European Union free trade zone for bidets and electric kettles. Metric cash only, please.
- Comment on I hate people like this 3 months ago:
I don’t know. Some people who experience abuse and escape it become far worse abusers when they’re in position to do so.
- Comment on Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the classic RPG Wizardry, has passed away 3 months ago:
Wizardry was great. I’ll never understand how I lived in one of those ultra religious eighties homes that wouldn’t let me play D&D but wizardry, Ultima, and bards tale were just fine.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 3 months ago:
I’d wager that his lease has a mandatory arbitration clause that requires him to pay to front then try to get it back via arbitors chosen by the landlord.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 3 months ago:
Not in computers. I’m an accountant. I don’t have enough money to throw the double middle fingers. Can somebody please, for the love of all that’s holy, show me the way out or, you know, come sneak onto my property when I’m not looking and delete me?
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 3 months ago:
There were a bunch of geese around my grandparents’ house when I was a kid. God those things would torment me. They had free range of the property and I turned to completely avoid the area they hung out because they were hyper aggressive and would chase after me every time I got anywhere near them. I was six years old, so it felt like they were as tall as me and they were definitely faster.
It wasn’t so bad once I got a little older, a little taller, and relied more on my bicycle than my feet for movement.
Nonetheless, those things gave me childhood trauma to the extent that I still can’t stand geese some forty five years later.
- Comment on "Proving them wrong": After raising minimum wage, California has more fast-food jobs than ever 3 months ago:
For all of his many, many, egregiously unforgivable faults, Henry Ford had it right in paying his workers above average wages. He seems like the only capitalist in history to understand the concept.
- Comment on Facebook 3 months ago:
I remember when Facebook was solely for college students. Now it seems to have a three denture minimum.
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 3 months ago:
I tried via search and failed to prove it, but I’m nearly certain this was an old Facebook satire page.
- Comment on Use Zotero 3 months ago:
I hope that wasn’t a stupid question. I’ve been out of that game since before most people on the Internet were born, so I didn’t want to make assumptions based on “that’s how we used to do it.”
- Comment on Use Zotero 3 months ago:
I’m so old that the last time I wrote a research paper, it was on a word processor with no Internet connection or spell check.
Given such constraints, I can’t fathom the concept of waiting until the end to add all the references. If I didn’t do it as I went, I’d have surely died.
- Comment on Malk? 3 months ago:
No good story ever began with a glass of milk.
Anthony Burgess: Hold my milk plus.
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 3 months ago:
I used power delete suite last year. Just checked and most of my profile is back. Assholes.
- Comment on The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell 3 months ago:
No idea where OP lives, so this is local to me in Texas.
Some liquor stores sell cigarettes, some don’t.
Those that do generally have a very limited selection (Maybe two options) and charge about 50% more than one would pay at a convenience store.
Fortunately for the smoker in Texas, the best prices are usually found in gas station convenience stores that are open 24/7, so OP’s issue is strange and foreign to me.
- Comment on The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell 3 months ago:
Lunch?
Time?
The words you speak are strange and foreign to me.
- Comment on How come in court counsel can object to what one says or shows and the judge will say sustained and the jury disregard. How in the hell does a jury just auto take it out of their memory? 4 months ago:
I’ve been on a jury once. In that particular case, there were a couple jurors who took it upon themselves to police anybody bringing up anything that we were instructed to disregard. You may not think twelve people is a lot, but I’m my experience, it was twelve wildly different personalities which was frustrating, but ultimately beneficial in coming to a unanimous decision.
- Comment on Get High Like Planes 4 months ago:
I’ve seen those things once in my life while on a boat in the Philippines. Really quite something to experience in person.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 4 months ago:
She died first
- Comment on Harris says she supports eliminating federal taxes on tips 4 months ago:
I’m impressed that she addressed the very first thing I thought of:
If elected president, Harris would work with Congress to craft a proposal that mandated an income limit and applied strict requirements to prevent hedge fund managers and lawyers from structuring their compensation to take advantage of the policy.
- Comment on Have you ever realized just how broken you are? 4 months ago:
I spent several months last year actively looking for a therapist. I’m not talking a single casual Google search and done. I’m talking months of calling, emailing, physically driving to. The only therapists I could find who were taking on new patients and would accept my insurance were magic Jesus Crystal types whose “therapy” was little more than thinly veiled proselytizing.
Given how it seems people need to go through several therapists to find the right one, I gave up after failing to secure the first.
I almost fell for that whole better help scam but fortunately it was exposed for the personal data mining nonsense that it is before I signed up.
- Comment on Have you ever realized just how broken you are? 4 months ago:
I learned of my father’s death weeks after the fact. My involuntary reaction was an emotionless, “huh.” I think I was forty eight years old at the time.
I hadn’t spoken to him for over thirty years, and had suffered decades of nightmares that he’d found me.
After learning he had passed, the nightmares finally ended, but the lifelong fight or flight tendency to keep to myself and never rock any boat remains.
My sister has said that she’s jealous of my daughter because we have a pretty close father/daughter bond - something my sister never knew and never will.
In my fifties now, I generally avoid human interaction as much as is physically possible. While I could cite other reasons as to why I’m this way, I can confidently point a rigididly extended index finger at dear old dad as the foundation of it all.
My parenting duties complete, I mostly just exist waiting for the sweet sweet embrace of death when I’ll no longer have to go make money for the man or pretend that I enjoy the saccharin sweet small talk of co-workers who don’t give two shits about me or anybody else, but professional decorum for the win, right?
I don’t even look forward to weekends because those are just two day stints of solitude doing chores so I’m ready to go make more money for the man on Monday.
- Comment on Someone has been pedaling Viagra at the bingo hall 4 months ago:
Can’t really get a solid grasp of the place via search. Can you explain?
- Comment on Someone has been pedaling Viagra at the bingo hall 4 months ago:
There was a gay bar not to far from me that used to do drag queen bingo brunch, so this doesn’t seem too far off a stretch, though I’d suspect our delightful Texas State government would find reason to criminalize it were somebody to try doing it here.
I never got around to going to the drag queen bingo brunch, so I don’t know if it was for cash. Knowing how Texas works, it was probably for low value prizes.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 4 months ago:
No. No it does not.
- Comment on Kids 4 months ago:
We don’t do that.
My kid is twenty three years old. I raised her alone. Crazy, I know, but she and I are pretty close.
To this day, I get dozens of adulating text messages on mother’s Day for “playing both roles.”
On Father’s Day, total utter crickets except from my daughter herself.
Fathers are here to donate sperm and fund other lives. That’s it.