Got_Bent
@Got_Bent@lemmy.world
- Comment on Car 2 days ago:
Every once in a blue moon, I will slam my left foot into an empty space on the floor.
The brake is a right foot pedal, and I’m not sure what models others are speaking of when they say automatic brake pedals are wider. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that.
I think it’s been over twenty years since I’ve driven a manual transmission. I wonder if I could still do it. In my younger years when such cars were still common, it was second nature, but here 'murca, it’s tough to even find one if you want one anymore.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 days ago:
The subject in and of itself is just exhausting
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 days ago:
Why are there angry European posts and comments on this every freaking day as if each and every one of us who live under the American system of weights and measurements are personally responsible for implementing and keeping the system?
I’m comfortable in either format.
It doesn’t chafe my balls to talk in metric or to see signs or containers in metric. Why does every god damned European feel like they’re missing out on diaper powder every time an American talks about miles or fahrenheit?
Who hurt you? What damage does this really cause you?
Are there no other fucking issues that matter? We’re gonna blow this whole fucking planet up if Jim Bob in Missouri doesn’t start talking in liters God damnit!
- Comment on Prognosis: back pain and general grouchiness 5 days ago:
Time space had just warped my brain if I can remember her doing something before I was born.
- Comment on Prognosis: back pain and general grouchiness 5 days ago:
Raise your hand if you saw the original Hans shot first version of Star Wars in the theater.
Additionally, I remember my mother going to see Elvis live. The real one, not some seedy Vegas lounge impersonator.
- Comment on everything actually important is already metric 6 days ago:
Some of us are comfortable going both ways.
But don’t tell anybody because I live in Texas.
- Comment on Mammals 6 days ago:
Should I let it sink in just like the sea lions do with their nipples?
Also, the platypus doesn’t have nipples. It sweats milk.
- Comment on The year is 50424 6 days ago:
That’s enough time for us to evolve into carbon dioxide plastic eating beings, isn’t it?
- Comment on everything actually important is already metric 6 days ago:
Like many strains, weed is a hybrid situation
- Comment on The Monorail Song was better in the original Greek 1 week ago:
It’ll be voiced by the head of Hank Azaria in a jar
- Comment on The Monorail Song was better in the original Greek 1 week ago:
Teacher: Ok class, it’s time for a quiz
Students: D’ohh!
- Comment on The Monorail Song was better in the original Greek 1 week ago:
Now I kinda wonder how long Homer Simpson will be relevant. Will historians note him in a hundred years? Two hundred?
- Comment on viruses 1 week ago:
Schrodinger’s biology?
- Comment on Hero 1 week ago:
I was thinking of this video as soon as I saw the post. She’s really an interesting person.
- Comment on Protons 1 week ago:
As a long time teacher of ESL back in the day, I’d say that depends heavily on the native language.
European languages generally do well
Asian languages generally struggle
Middle Eastern languages, well, things don’t translate well on paper
Conversely, I found the middle Eastern students to have excellent speaking abilities.
The difference in how the mind processes speaking vs writing was truly fascinating to me.
- Comment on Every damn day 2 weeks ago:
So when we switched over to the unlimited PTO scam, there was an option to get paid out for the PTO you had accrued. Naturally I was like two hours short of the threshold, so at the end of the year, around December fifth or so, I was like, “later bitches! See ya in January!” and there was nothing they could do about it. It was beautiful.
- Comment on Every damn day 2 weeks ago:
While it’s not the area I ended up working in, I learned in accounting school that the employees who never take vacation are held as highly suspicious. People who are in a position to skim off the top tend to never take days off so nobody gets opportunity to see what they’re doing.
As to me personally, I remember one year taking all the PTO that was due to me and getting shit on in writing at evaluation time for doing so.
The following year I took zero PTO and got shit on in writing at evaluation time for doing so.
I went to management with copies of both evaluations and said, “since you’re gonna shit on me in writing at evaluation time regardless of what I do, you can expect me to take every minute of PTO going forward.”
They were at a loss for words and just found other reasons to shit on me in writing at evaluation time.
I spent five and a half years in that environment.
Never again. Not for any amount of money.
- Comment on Calc 🥰 2 weeks ago:
My daughter came home from middle school once.
She plopped down in a chair, let out a sigh, and said, “Math is the only thing in the world that makes sense.”
I’m surprised I still have a tongue after biting down so hard to suppress the laughter.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been getting back into reading, buying up used books for pennies. It’s been good for my head.
- Comment on meme 3 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever heard her early stuff and this is what it sounds like to me:
And we will never (deep breath) ever (deep breath) ever (another deep breath) ever (deep breath) get back (deep breath) together (deep breath)
As a person, she seems savvy and pretty cool. If hey music hasn’t progressed from the early stuff, I’ll still take a pass.
- Comment on if you had to choose one 3 weeks ago:
I think that might be an option with at least two of the three
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- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
Hey man, when the serial killing manifests itself just remember I’ll always make you a kick-ass bloody Mary and I’ll never ask you to play Scrabble.
- Comment on Which one? 4 weeks ago:
I have a rock just like the one pictured. Generally found in riverbeds or beaches that haven’t turned it all into sand yet.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 5 weeks ago:
I thought Ozzy was the best metal
- Comment on Anyone else? 5 weeks ago:
The entire reason I couldn’t get through the show the first time I tried to watch it was because I despised ALL the characters.
It was years before I was able to get through the first season and on to the rest of the show which was amazing.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 5 weeks ago:
Bartender, I’ll have a screwdriver.
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 5 weeks ago:
Considering that you’re probably making something like $1,500/mo in some place where rent is $3,000/mo I’d say take every discount you can get.
I briefly looked into doing a doctorate. The economics of it turned me away right quick.
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 1 month ago:
Username really checks out here
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 1 month ago:
Oh no. My car warranty is about to expire, isn’t it?
