ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's coming sooner than 2050 2 days ago:
self-driving cars
Something I’ve never understood about self-driving cars is why would you want the expense of owning one if you’re not driving it? It’s like how rich people used to own expensive cars but employed a chauffeur and never drove themselves.
- Comment on I rebuilt a 1997 chat room. First thing someone typed was "lol". Some things never change. 3 days ago:
I used to hang out on Plastic circa 2000. In my memory it was basically Reddit with upvoting and whatnot, but maybe I’m misremembering it. It was somehow associated with suck.com which only still exists thanks to the wayback machine.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
I like spinach, I just hate how I buy a bag the size of a pillow and it cooks down to about a tablespoon.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
My parents loved Cracker Barrel mac & cheese but one time I substituted Annie’s because it was on sale and they literally spit it out. I personally couldn’t perceive any difference between the two.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
I’ve read that “chicken and broccoli” is a body-builder euphemism for gear (steroids and growth hormones etc.) but apparently that’s not true for everybody.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
My sister-in-law cooks like that. She’ll make one main course (and TBF it’s delicious) but absolutely nothing else – no side dishes, no salad, not even anything to drink.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
To what end?
Triggering the end times.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
boiling a big chunky slice (like from a cheese wheel)
I’ve never even imagined boiling cheese before.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
My parents were proto-hippies (went to college in the '50s) who listened to The Kingston Trio and baked their own bread and such. We almost never ate out or ate packaged food. One year I went to summer camp and for breakfast they made real stuff like eggs and pancakes and bacon but also had those little boxes of sugary cereals on the tables. I pigged out on the cereal while everybody else ate the real food, since their parents never ever made shit like that for them.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
It might mean you’re pregnant.
- Comment on Spotted 5 days ago:
I had a 30’ tall tree of heaven with about a 1’ diameter trunk fall over in a storm and land on my used school bus (aka a skoolie). The bus was completely undamaged, not even scratched anywhere. Those things grow really fast but they’re very light, basically balsa wood.
- Comment on Surpreisenheimer 1 week ago:
they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne
You may ask yourself Why the big bomb?
- Comment on Surpreisenheimer 1 week ago:
It was sorta a military base. They did have POWs there.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
The house I bought three years ago has those fake wood gray planks in the living room. I deliberately left the floor uncovered during renovation on the assumption that it would be destroyed and I’d have to replace it with something I actually like. Unfortunately, that shit is indestructible.
- Comment on My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top 1 week ago:
A few years ago my octogenarian mom became incapable of sealing ziplock bags. It drove me insane because I would repeatedly go to open something like chips or crackers that I had put in ziplocks only to find the seal partly open and the contents stale. I got in the habit of just going through everything in the pantry every couple of hours and resealing all the bags. I thought this was age-related until we hired a mid-20s home helper for her and the helper had the same problem. I don’t know what it is – ziplock bags aren’t that hard to use properly.
- Comment on Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid in the '70s there were cigarette vending machines everywhere. If you wanted to smoke, you could smoke.
- Comment on Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
I’m old enough to remember coming home from bars with my clothes reeking, even though I never smoked myself.
- Comment on Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
I’m a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.
- Comment on Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
That Dorothy Hamill cut was the shit.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 2 weeks ago:
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said “ELON”. I dunno, maybe ELON stands for something else. It was stuck on the back of a Chrysler, ironically enough.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 2 weeks ago:
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all “yeah yeah we know. Here’s a movie we made of it” and the alien is all “WTF? How do they know that?”
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
It’s hilarious that people blame boomers and nepotism for the problems of the world without seeing the contradiction.
- Comment on Have you noticed this where you work? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had many coworkers over the years who made their greatest contributions to the company by doing nothing. In programming, the amount of damage some people can do by actually doing stuff is almost inconceivable.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
Hot Dog Self-Harm Assistant
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 3 weeks ago:
No, it wasn’t WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don’t remember which one. They called themselves “the End” (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.
I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. “It’s been” had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 3 weeks ago:
obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence
And that’s exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 3 weeks ago:
sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 3 weeks ago:
A radio station where I grew up (Cleveland) switched formats to alternative/grunge/whatever in 1990 or 1991 and they kicked this off by playing that song over and over for three straight days. It was a surreal experience to hear it on the radio every time I went to drive anywhere. For me, this was the real moment the '90s began (the other contenders being the premiers on MTV of “Groove is in the Heart” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).
Apparently many stations all over the country switched formats the same way, by playing “End of the World as We Know It” over and over again.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 4 weeks ago:
Based on Hollywood’s current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 4 weeks ago:
Not quite the same timeframe, but that clip of the surviving members of The Doors listening to Skrillex is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen.