toynbee
@toynbee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 1 day ago:
Pierce from Community had some guidance on this.
- Comment on new setup yall 2 days ago:
I once bought a crossover cable. It was thick and yellow.
Now every time I see a yellow Ethernet cable I think it must be a crossover cable and think of how generally useless mine was.
Hopefully your yellow cable is more productive than mine was.
- Comment on Thagomizer 3 days ago:
That was clear!
- Comment on Thagomizer 3 days ago:
This comment is great just for “anthagomize,” a word autocorrect really didn’t want to grant me.
- Comment on Time to send a message 6 days ago:
You are.
So am I.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 6 days ago:
Wherefore?
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 6 days ago:
I’ve been doing this on a daily basis since I broke my ankle. It’s surprisingly challenging.
I was hoping to cover the fact of this up with a factual, innuaden-lavey way to make this funny by the time I was done typing it, but no, today you just learned something about my routine.
- Comment on Anon remembers a family guy cutaway 1 week ago:
But it was? Or rather, apparently, his ghost writer.
- Comment on Bad impression 1 week ago:
Whence?
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 week ago:
Hmm, guess they’ll just have to get into R&B instead.
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 week ago:
I once recommended the YouTuber “Sam O’Nella” to a friend via text; after a brief pause he responded “are you trying to say you have salmonella?” I’ve never felt so ill respected in by life.
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 week ago:
You silly person - that’s clearly egg, not salmon.
- Comment on Call me... 1 week ago:
Would moisturizing be an acceptable alternative?
- Comment on Death to the spiders 1 week ago:
My recliner is immediately next to a disused fireplace that is closed but not sealed to an extent sufficient to keep out smaller critters like spiders. (The house is very much a WIP)
Since the fireplace is not used and probably never will be again, I use the raised stone mantel in front of it to hold stuff I want accessible but not always in my hands, like beverages.
The last two times I saw spiders were when I started to drink something, only to notice after the first few sips that there was an arachnid floundering on the surface of the liquid. Fortunately both times in question I was using a straw or the critter would have gone straight down the hatch. (I try not to think about whether this might have happened previously.)
Anyway, I support being kind to creatures, carrying bugs outside, whatever; but in both of those cases it was all I could do not to hurl the cup across the room. Instead I would run to the kitchen, pour the drink down the sink, drop the cup after it and absolutely chug mouthwash.
Now I look critically into any beverage with an open top before even thinking about drinking it.
- Comment on Warning: C-word 1 week ago:
I dislike the floating mouths.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
More than I can say of my own fingers, to be fair.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
I was just following instructions …
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Sounds like you’re an AI.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
Proudly so!
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I can read a binary clock more quickly than I can an analog one.
But to actually answer, I usually try to get within 2 minutes, since the time may change while I’m trying to remember which hand is which.
- Comment on I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors 2 weeks ago:
Did you know that there are only two major canning companies in the US and the one that canned your Monster is likely to just be whichever had a facility closer to you? Did you know there are rivalries? Apparently Rexam is considered the cheaper and lower quality one. (And sadly the one nearest me when I learned all of this!)
This tool looks like it could be moderately entertaining for a few minutes, though it seems at the moment it only supports Pepsi products and I don’t have any sodas nearby anyway.
Note: I learned all of the above fun facts from an askreddit comment; not only that, but it was well over a decade ago. At the time I drank a lot of Monster and what the post said seemed to match up with what was on the can from which I was drinking at the time. However, I can’t guarantee it was 100% accurate then and certainly not now, many years later.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 2 weeks ago:
The doctor we saw was very progressive, according to her staff. (Apparently she thinks birthing should be done in whatever way makes the mom most comfortable, from traditional to water birth to once even on the floor.)
Before we even started the process, either that doctor or one of the nurses - I forget which - said “if it is a boy, do you want him to be circumcised?” We answered in the negative and the question was not subsequently asked again. That was just shy of six years ago.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 2 weeks ago:
Good on you for sticking to your principles!
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 2 weeks ago:
I recently learned that, while a sibling is uncircumcised, the hospital still charged for a circumcision. Our mom apparently called to dispute the charge and, though this was well before I was born so I can’t vouch for its veracity, eventually convinced the hospital to yield by saying “no, you didn’t circumcise him and I’ve got the foreskin here to prove it!”
- Comment on human geography 2 weeks ago:
My mom, who grew up as the seventh generation of her family in Maryland, said “the devil is beating his wife.”
- Comment on Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all 2 weeks ago:
What’s this now?
- Comment on Vanilla comes from beans 2 weeks ago:
That’s true! However, that’s probably harder to fit in a Viral Song.
- Comment on Vanilla comes from beans 2 weeks ago:
Did you know that cashews come a fruit?
- Comment on Is this one book or two? 2 weeks ago:
Correct.
- Comment on Is this one book or two? 2 weeks ago:
Nice - when I finish the next eleven books, I’ll be sure to look into it.
I think those two are somewhere in this stack but it’s hard to compare them from the spines. Also, here’s a picture of my late mom.
