ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Currently happening 3 hours 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 7 hours 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 20 hours 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago:
Galluspetat
- Comment on same as it ever was 3 days 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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!" 3 weeks ago:
Elon Musk’s vertical is horizontal.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Anon thinks it's too late 3 weeks ago:
About the same for me. My solution was Accutane.
- Comment on placebo F 4 weeks ago:
I wish I could remember what product this was, but many years ago there was some bullshit new age supplement that had “Guaranteed Placebo Effect” on the packaging.
- Comment on Anon tries to take care of his little bro 4 weeks ago:
Probably for the best - since the accident was probably little bro’s fault.
- Comment on Don't fret, check your spam folder 4 weeks ago:
Back when I was working on my (never completed) dissertation, I would sometimes call up televangelists’ hotlines and talk about my research. It was pretty amusing how they would initially try to steer the conversation to the God stuff but then give up as I kept relentlessly returning to my subject. Eventually they were reduced to “uh huh … uh huh” but they couldn’t just hang up on me because they weren’t allowed to. I actually worked through some problems this way.
- Comment on You fuckin monsters 4 weeks ago:
Fun borzoi fact: borzois feature prominently in a chapter of War and Peace (Tolstoy’s epic novel which probably would have been better titled Whatever I Fucking Feel Like Writing About Next). The narrator describes one character’s prized borzoi and mentions that he paid a family of serfs for it. He doesn’t mean the character gave money to a serf family in exchange for the dog - he means that the price of the dog was a family of serfs. Imagine being that serf family and finding out why you have to move to a new estate.
- Comment on Anon questions physics 4 weeks ago:
Bigfoot gotta drink something.
- Comment on Badgers 4 weeks ago:
Mushroom mushroom.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Never mind the weather report.
- Comment on Those are so ugly. Who would even buy these... oh, right. 5 weeks ago:
If you’re in your house then why are you wearing shoes?
Plantar fasciitis - I can’t even make it across a room barefoot without severe pain, so I wear slippers with orthotic inserts at home. That being said, I would amputate my own feet before wearing crocs.
- Comment on The most accurate description ever 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mind the hairs growing inside my ears - it’s those sneaky fuckers growing on the backs of my ears that piss me off.
- Comment on The most accurate description ever 5 weeks ago:
Speaking as an old dude, it’s absolutely astonishing how fast eyebrow hairs grow. Like, a quarter of an inch a day and I’m not even joking.I trim mine every day and I still look like Thufir Hawat by dinnertime.