ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Good one 2 days ago:
I thought Muscadine was the actor in Kung Fu.
- Comment on Good one 2 days ago:
Since horse racing is all about betting: Zinfanduel.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Does he really
He definitely doesn’t. I watched a video tour he gave of the history of SpaceX rockets, and he referred to the tubing and whatnot on the exterior of the rockets as “the fiddly bits”.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
How could you leave out Steven Cheung?
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
you are charged for every minute of play time
I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 2 weeks ago:
When I was in graduate school I got snared into evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy had like a couple of thousand publications, but they were all in journals that he had founded and was the editor of and nobody but himself and his friends ever got published in them. I pointed this out in a meeting and somehow this did not disqualify him from consideration.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 2 weeks ago:
Et al phone home!
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
At least your getting good gas mileage.
Lol I get about 16-18 mpg. 6-cylinder engines ain’t fuel efficient even when they’re jammed into a go-kart. For bonus points, the damned thing takes 93 octane.
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
I wish I could do that but I drive a roadster. Absolutely no fucking way to stretch out comfortably.
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
I would love for the Japanese capsule hotels to become a thing here in the US. I’ve always hated paying $150 or whatever for a full room (or suite) during a road trip late at night when all I do is crash out on the bed and then get up and drive first thing the next morning.
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
I stayed at one AirBnB where the owner had replaced all the kitchen counters with untreated butcher block. The instructions basically said “don’t use the kitchen”. For bonus points, my parents got the one bedroom and I had to sleep in the kids’ room … on the bottom bunk with the actual kid’s sheets because there weren’t any other sheets in the house. I just felt sorry for the kid.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 3 weeks ago:
I had a friend in the '90s who moved into a duplex and found that the previous tenant had cut into the separating wall and tied a splitter into the neighbor’s cable line. So he had free cable until the day the cable went out and he called the cable company to complain.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 4 weeks ago:
Monty Python used to be my favorite comedy group. Now it’s the Cleveland Browns.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 4 weeks ago:
My dad’s doctor told him he needed to eat more protein, and he was like “ChickenLady, what can I eat to get more protein? High-protein Boost?” No dad, fucking meat … you can eat more meat. The thing is he loved meat, but it never occurred to him that he got protein from meat. And he was a biology professor!
My favorite thing was my mother at one point thinking she needed to eliminate her intake of fats, carbohydrates and protein because they’re all bad for you. Fortunately she does like kale …
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 5 weeks ago:
Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater’s part since they couldn’t do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 5 weeks ago:
It’s more like chicken garlic.
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 5 weeks ago:
10 cloves garlic
Fuckin’ righteous
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 5 weeks ago:
Horseshoe crabs have nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is essentially a kind of eye, covered with photoreceptors. Not sure of the relevance of this horseshoe crab fact, it’s just fucking interesting.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 5 weeks ago:
Squirrels have eyes on the sides of their heads and they’re pretty fucking good and climbing and jumping. Next theory …
- Comment on Piano man 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. “Making love to his tonic and gin”, something absolutely nobody ever says (it’s “gin and tonic”). “Talking to Davy who’s still in the navy” is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it’s all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is (“man, what are you doin’ here?”).
Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 month ago:
When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes
I’m not sure, but I know halberds were involved.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 month ago:
They got rid of the exploding roads, though. Or so they say.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 month ago:
I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was “Operation Iraqi Liberation” until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 1 month ago:
I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT.
- Comment on where the cuties 2 months ago:
Or gravy!