ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon hears a noise 1 week ago:
My boy cat died five years ago. I still sometimes wake up in the morning to find myself petting a lump of blanket that is the same size as he was. My girl cat died last summer and when I plop down in my recliner I still leave room on the footrest for her to jump up. I can’t bring myself to get another cat yet, although I hope for the sake of other cats that I can eventually do it.
- Comment on Howling retriever 1 week ago:
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 weeks ago:
remote controlled blimp
I always wanted to get one of these and program it to follow me around the disc golf course with my bag slung underneath it.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the whole problem with airships is that they’re just big inflatable sails, and to be barely economical they have just enough propulsive power to move about in normal weather conditions. Once they hit bad weather they’re fucked, which is why nearly every airship built before WWII ended up crashing in a storm. They’re only marginally viable today because of weather prediction that grounds them before they hit the shit. Adding sails isn’t going to help anything.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
I would want “lump of star shit” in my obit.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
It’s a lot harder to murder somebody when you actually have to stab them or beat their head in with something.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Life expectancy from birth is easily the most misleading statistic in the history of the social sciences because it is a measure of central tendency (aka an average, specifically, a median) of a property (age at death) that not only has no central tendency but actually has the opposite of a central tendency, with values concentrated at the low end (infant and child mortality) and the high end (old age deaths). In almost all societies ever measured, the life expectancy from birth age is usually the age at which a person is least likely to die.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Imagine being proudly offed by Pluto and then they make it not a planet any more.
- Comment on My knee gave out at work today and all I could think of was this 2 weeks ago:
I once tore my hamstring playing Ultimate on a wet field. I thought I heard a sound like a giant rubber band snapping when it happened but I figured I was just imagining it. But then everybody came running over to me saying “what was that sound?”
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
Aloe.
- Comment on Pro tip: it's much easier to lose 100k than it is to earn it 3 weeks ago:
Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 weeks ago:
I assume you meant “coitus”. Definitely pre-coitus - he had never had sex and I’m willing to bet he still hasn’t ever, 37 years later.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 weeks ago:
My college was desperate for students and couldn’t afford to kick anybody out. There were people around that did worse shit than this guy and stayed.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 weeks ago:
I tried to befriend a friendless dude in college. Found out he was friendless because he went around asking women what their “cunt diameter” was. Even women professors!
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
Our ancestors’ brains went from chimpanzee-sized to modern-sized (actually slightly bigger than today) between two million and one million years ago, and more importantly the language-governing areas increased in size during that stretch. So human beings a million years ago were very much like us today, just without the advanced technology.
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
My favorite was “a sucking chest wound is Nature’s Way of telling you you’ve been in a firefight”.
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
Galluspetat
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
I always liked how archaeologists would dig up ancients statues of big-breasted and big-butted women and call them evidence of a “cult of fertility”. I guess that sounds better than “porn”.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 month ago:
Fun fact: through the 1800s coal-powered steamships mostly replaced sailing vessels for the transportation of people and time-sensitive cargo around the world. But steamships were highly inefficient and required frequent re-coaling, and locally available coal was dirtier and contained less thermal energy than the good stuff that Britain (who was doing by far most of the shipping) got from Wales and other places on their island. Because steamships could not efficiently and cheaply haul the coal that they needed around the world to restock the coaling stations, this was done instead by an enormous fleet of sailing colliers. So the “steam revolution” of the 1800s was actually a steam/wind-power hybrid. It wasn’t until the advent of triple- and quadruple-expansion steam engines, turbines, and greatly improved boilers in the early 1900s that steam-powered vessels could efficiently and economically haul their own fuel. And even with that, wind-powered cargo vessels remained economically viable and operating in significant numbers right up until the start of WWII (that’s II, not I).
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
Heh, according to the guy who sold me the house, he had to put the grey vinyl flooring in because of water damage from a portable AC unit.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
grey vinyl flooring
I hate that shit even more than I hated the fake wood paneling and shag carpet of the '70s. I bought a house last year that had the grey vinyl flooring in the living room and I’ve tried my hardest to fuck it up during the renovation so I have to replace it, but unfortunately it holds up to extreme abuse pretty well.
- Comment on Anon's dad left for cigarettes 1 month ago:
According to google, a sandwich in 1949 (when the original song was written) cost 4 cents. Three days trapped on a subway and you’ve already made a colossal financial mistake.
- Comment on Anon's dad left for cigarettes 1 month ago:
Reminds me of the Kingston Trio song M.T.A. about a dude stuck on the Boston subway forever because they raised the fare from 5 to 10 cents and he couldn’t afford to get off. His wife handed him a sandwich every day through the window so he wouldn’t starve to death. As a kid I was like “bitch, why not put a fucking dime in the sandwich?”
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 1 month ago:
I drive a 2001 which is in that dead zone after cassettes but before aux plugs. I still had to be burning CDs a few years ago but eventually stumbled across an adapter that tricks the car stereo into thinking my phone is a 6-CD changer in the trunk.
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 1 month ago:
My best friend in high school in the '80s had something on his home stereo I’ve never seen before or since: an 8-track tape recorder. We would make 8-track mix tapes and take them to parties … which we promptly got kicked out of because they were tapes of stuff like Yes, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, and didn’t nobody want to listen to that kind of shit back then.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 1 month ago:
Should’ve put “John” above the “Holmes” logo and made fun of your boss’ small-dick energy when he complained.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 1 month ago:
It’s the first time
The last time
We ever met^met^met^met^met^met^met - Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 1 month ago:
people mistakenly associate Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering with Gabriel despite being voiced by Phil Collins
Just saw an interview with Peter Gabriel where he said people come up to him almost daily and tell him how they much they loved Trick of the Tail. He just had this defeated look on his face when he said he had to keep telling them that was Phil and not him.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 1 month ago:
Elon Musk’s vertical is horizontal.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 1 month ago:
I heard the older folks say that I would wake up and be old one day and it would feel like barely any time has passed.
I’m almost 60 and I feel more like I should be 100 or so. I’ve had many different careers and technology has changed so much that I feel I’ve lived through multiple lifetimes. I think people who do basically the same thing every day (and night) over and over again, with the same people, tend to perceive life as flying by because there’s no real difference between one day and the next.