morphballganon
@morphballganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Precisely, thus they are the more similar to toddlers. Make sense?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
There are such places.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Great attitude you got there
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Not Italy perhaps, but there are such places.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
We do. That’s exactly what the “toddler”-insulter is lambasting.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
I don’t know about Slovakian, but such places exist, yes.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Oh, pardon me, I forgot you’re allowed to find someone seeking a path forward in life as dreadfully inconvenient, because where you were born grants you superiority, m’lord
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Not new. Aircraft carriers exist.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
The phrase is typically used to refer to babysitting, i.e., I’ll make sure the kids don’t leave or kill themselves. So the “down” serves a purpose in the present use, regardless of its applicability to historic situations.
“Holding the fort” just meant not letting enemies in
“Holding down the fort” also includes preventing things from getting out of hand
But I like the bouncy castle imagery as it’s less mundane
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Why wouldn’t we give our family members a tip on how they can also get out, on a platform where they would see it?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
… just as much as bouncy castles?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Do toddlers where you are keep a hand free to multi-task, be available to lend a hand where needed, or use a napkin?
Or is dedicating both hands to stuffing your face the more toddler-like method? Maybe think before you fling shit.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
If you ask an American they will assume you MEAN their job, whether it’s their “main life thing” or not, because that’s how people talk here
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Oh we non-idiot Americans find the doofuses who do that annoying too
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Your assumption that bouncy castles are more likely than aircraft is amusing
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Oh yeah that’s definitely representative of the majority of us, got us figured out you have
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
If it means we can get citizenship somewhere else and get out… you’re offended by us figuring out our options? Oh how inconsiderate of us
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
The simplest explanation is that the oligarchs have assured him he’ll continue getting his salary if he continues being ineffective.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 weeks ago:
They are correctly listing the month first.
You say the day first, the person listening has exactly 0 idea what the hell you’re talking about until you get to the month.
You say the month first, and they understand, and can form an understanding of your whole message faster than if you made them wait by saying the day first.
“When are you getting married?”
“Twenty-second of February”
/^ until February was said, the listener could glean nothing of value at all from the speaker.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 3 weeks ago:
Zelda: The Wind Waker.
There’s a part where you heal a sick person, toward the middle.
Also, a kid with a snot drip hanging from his nose, in the beginning.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
Using headphones is more polite since you’re not forcing it upon others.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Simpler meals. Skimp on cleaning when necessary.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 1 month ago:
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 months ago:
Anyone who’s seen Casino Royale (2006) knows the codename theory is horseshit. Bond was Bond before he was a 00. Later, when he resigns from MI6, he’s still Bond. It’s his name.
Same with anyone who’s seen GoldenEye. If Bond was a codename, Trevelyan would be too, and he’d have mentioned that he no longer went by that MI6-given moniker.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 months ago:
“People who are more emotive with their gestures than me must be fake”
“People who are less emotive with their gestures than me are robotic lol”
Most people hold both of those views but have wildly different levels of emotiveness… The result? Posts like this
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 2 months ago:
Let’s get the other branches onboard too.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
They got tired of harassing people on Bluesky and changed things up a bit
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 months ago:
Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 3 months ago:
Hmm how do time zones work at the south pole? Can you run in a small circle and hit most if not all of them?
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 3 months ago:
The one with Hawaii could just pretend they’ve already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other