toynbee
@toynbee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 18 hours ago:
I don’t think so - the bee population is declining, remember?
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 20 hours ago:
- Comment on Fictional 1 day ago:
There’s a Family Guy episode referencing that.
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 2 days ago:
What did he do to the Oval Office? I’m not sure I could picture it before but I certainly haven’t seen it recently.
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 2 days ago:
I don’t think less of anyone for including an apostrophe in a possessive “its,” but I appreciate when someone doesn’t.
- Comment on LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIT 2 days ago:
It’s the same way about my kid’s name.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 days ago:
I love hearing my six year old’s thought processes for the same reason.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 days ago:
A good way to break the unending question sequence is to ask them what they think about whatever they asked.
“Why is your hair long?” “Well, why do you think someone might have long hair?”
- Comment on Carrot 6 days ago:
Taking the approach to carrots might explain your username.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 6 days ago:
Anybody ever think about how donuts are just very oddly shaped humans?
- Comment on You never missed anything important 1 week ago:
My grandfather owned a business, which meant he made and received a lot of phonecalls. I have no memory of him, as he died two months after I was born (on Halloween, in fact.)
However, my mother told me that he was also a diabetic and, for it, took medication that was a diuretic. That meant, in her words, that every morning he would take his medicine then “go pee for an hour and a half.” (I’m very ignorant of medicine so I can only parrot what she told me.)
The combination of these facts apparently resulted in him doing a lot of business (of both kinds) over the phone from atop the commode. He had a phone jack installed next to the toilet and got a phone specifically keep there.
The phone was the same model as the one pictured in this post.
Bonus fun fact: it was long ago that the jack looked like this.
The only reason I know the story outlined above is that I, as a kid, did not know what that jack was and asked my mother about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 week ago:
Cognitive capacity aside, have the latter group of people never seen the moon during the day?
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 week ago:
I grew up in a small town and only encountered Jehovah’s Witnesses once in my childhood. That time, they gave their introductory spiel and my response was literally “uhhhhh … ?”
I was a kid and had just gotten in trouble, including some yelling, from my mom who was - at the time - the only other person home. I don’t even remember why. However, in normal circumstances I would have called to her for rescue; this time I wasn’t sure whether I should since she was mad at me. Still, she heard the interaction and came to the door, saving me by saying “we’re not interested, thanks” and closing the door in their faces. Afterwards, she explained in mom terms that she’d always have my back, even if she was mad.
- Comment on If it works it works 1 week ago:
Tell you what, let’s just do it next week when you’ve had the opportunity to rest.
- Comment on If it works it works 1 week ago:
This is why you’re employee of the month.
- Comment on If it works it works 1 week ago:
Would noon work better for you?
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 1 week ago:
Perhaps they’re like frogs, which sometimes use their eyeballs to swallow and, uh … The eyeballs got lost along the way?
- Comment on membrainz 1 week ago:
I learned about these from MiB.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 week ago:
Oh, those weren’t my hands.
(Also, I haven’t thought about CUPS in forever and this made me laugh. Thank you!)
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 week ago:
I wanna CUP.
- Comment on …and I’m a bad boy for breaking a fart 1 week ago:
There’s a bathroom on the right.
- Comment on funny little guys 1 week ago:
It kind of sounds way more like Supernatural than I realized, TBH.
- Comment on funny little guys 1 week ago:
Amazing. I thought it was a whole show about a bumbling guy and a genie. I can’t even remember anyone in my house ever watching X-Files. Thanks!
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 1 week ago:
Sounds useful for when the triffids come.
No one ever laughs when I make this reference.
- Comment on funny little guys 1 week ago:
When I was a kid, I saw a short clip of a show about which I knew - and know - basically nothing. In it, the (presumed) protagonist is interacting with an insouciant genie styling itself as a goth woman. He wishes for the return of his (violently, I think?) dead friend, which is granted, but his friend is just angrily glaring at him. He then wishes for his friend to be able to speak, to communicate. The genie warns him that he doesn’t want that, but he insists. The wish granted, the friend simply starts screaming.
I’ve wondered for years what that show was, as it seemed interesting; but also, the response in this screenshot reminds me of that scenario.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
I don’t know, I thought it was pretty fun.
- Comment on It's not? 1 week ago:
Maybe they were talking about consent.
- Comment on ugly little cutie 2 weeks ago:
I used to have a shirt that says “my mommy says I’m special,” obviously sarcastically (I’m not special, at least not in a positive way).
The first time I wore it, my mom saw me and said “awwww. I do think you’re special!”
- Comment on I'm funny and it was worth it 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of that post about the woman going to the air defense museum for dates.
… What are flipper babies?
