ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pressing question 10 hours ago:
It was for the best. Neither man nor beast should ever see the things poor gerbil saw…
- Comment on Pressing question 15 hours ago:
This reminds me of one of the OG memes.
“In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil,” Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.
Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew “Kiki” Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in,” he explained. “As usual, Kiki shouted out ‘Armageddon,’ my cue that he’d had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn’t come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.” At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. “The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Mr. Tomaszewski’s hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil’s fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball.”
Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract
- Comment on SBA #231 Sins and Virtues 1 day ago:
Valid points, and I agree that the “packaging” of vices into this format of “7 deadly sins” is traceable to early Christian origins.
You’ve also conceded that this format is clearly rooted on the earlier Hellenistic vice/virtue framework, so I’ll call the 7 deadly sins a “dark age one pager”, meant for monks and other people of simpler minds.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 2 days ago:
They can be. The cabin crew will communicate to the flight crew when the interior is ready, they won’t takeoff without it, and someone refusing to sit down or buckle up definitely counts as not ready.
If a passenger gets up and causes a disturbance later, that would also get communicated to the flight crew and, shot of the plane having started its takeoff roll, there’s a good chance everyone is going back to the gate to remove this person.
- Comment on The kids are alright 4 weeks ago:
Ah yeah makes sense. Nothing against the Score, but Queen lends itself more to the proposed activity.
- Comment on The kids are alright 4 weeks ago:
Could I swap in Queen’s “Don’t stop me now?” I feel it would help more with the gobbling.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
No, I’m pretty sure it’s not the size. If I take my car and drive from Lisbon all the way to Moscow, that’s about the same as going from NYC to LA in terms of distance.
I’ll grant that it might be related to “free land” though, as I think it’s mostly a matter of organization. But first there’s this “single use” zoning mentality in the US, which forces people to travel for everything by design - in Europe ground floors were traditionally businesses, and upper floors housing - mix is the norm, cars didn’t exist back in the day and people still had to get to things. Then there’s the way cities grow - most places in Europe you can’t just build swaths of single-family houses in the periphery of existing cities, either because it’s already reserved land (parks/ecological reserve/farming/other uses) and because the access would be awful (already crowded highways) - so instead usually it’s the existing town centers that already have good mass-transit connections (train, subway, …) that see an increase in density: old single-family houses give way to apartment buildings or mixed use buildings (commerce, offices). So it kinda grows in “nodes”, not as an ever expanding ring of single-family houses.
But this is simply a mater of policy - build a train line that connects a few several small towns in the outskirts, connect that up to some mass transit inside the city proper (subway ideally, if it exists) and boom, the density in those small towns that now have a good connection will skyrocket.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
European here. That concept is really alien to me: if I drive 1h in some direction (assuming I’m not just stuck in traffic) I’m somewhere else, some other city, region, maybe even a different country.
Maybe the gaps between the towns/cities have closed, and it’s just buildings everywhere now, but they were separate at some point and that still shows in how streets, schools, etc are organized - like smaller hubs that expanded until they fused, but not like some tree where every year there’s more and more rings around the central core…
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
“1h from the nearest city”
“suburban area”
What? How? I has questions…
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 5 weeks ago:
They might not have gotten a girl, but at least they got a wookie at #9.
- Comment on help 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say cheap, that puzzle box is at least 1€.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
👏
- Comment on Ladybugs 1 month ago:
Its time for the autopsy report to shine some light on that taint.
- Comment on They were right all along... 1 month ago:
Oh well never met one, and from the little I know they can vary somewhere between late middle age pilgrims up to the run of the mill religious person with a weird hat.
- Comment on This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing with the NES. Watch Mario jump to sounds of Commander Keen! 1 month ago:
The guy playing this is triggering me, is it their first time playing Mario?
- Comment on Don't covet thy neighbors corn 1 month ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- Comment on They were right all along... 1 month ago:
In what way? I assume they must have been familiar with how it worked, or was it like performing a magic trick?
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 2 months ago:
I don’t know what bumping uglies means, and I’m scared to ask…
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 months ago:
Perhaps, that’s a good point. It is a green text though, and my bet is that the pic is unrelated.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 months ago:
There’s all kinds of people out there, that’s for sure. Some women (and men) do like the bulky, rough on the edges but overall caring type, but some don’t appreciate that virility and attention from a partner and prefer a more candid approach, others are almost self-destructive and inevitably go for guys that I wouldn’t give the time of day, to each their own.
My point is mostly that there’re a lot of reasons people don’t click, there’s nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 months ago:
This sounds pretty typical to me.
They like how each other looks, and start talking a bit. She realizes just how many red flags anon is raising, and starts to backpedal.
Fuck women impossible to understand amirite.
- Comment on Angles don't seem to work for me? 2 months ago:
I think that the #1 advice I’ve seen is to use a reference image, and that even professionals sometimes struggle with perspective - we’re so good at recognising faces that even the sliiiightest little bit off will get instantly noticed.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Your first comment sounds like you’re mocking people: it reads as if you’re parroting a valve fanboy who thinks Gabe is awesome simply because they’ve been brainwashed to think that and not because of valid reasons.
- Comment on Two anus facts in a row. 2 months ago:
The answer is always “more lube”.
- Comment on Two anus facts in a row. 2 months ago:
Do your kids ever fight about who’s getting more food?
Not any more!
Here kids, meet Buddy! A huge help on the farm and in the kitchen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m scared to ask, but uh, “issues from overuse”?
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 2 months ago:
That’s one of the main reasons their efficiency is lower.
A split unit, especially with an inverter motor, can be 50% more efficient, much less noisy and cool more evenly.
That said, portable units do work. For people who are unable to get a proper split unit, then don’t rule out a portable unit.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 2 months ago:
That’s a distinction without a difference.
If you’re looking to refute a point, then commit to it and argue properly. If you’re trying to make a different point, then state it and provide your reasoning.
You did neither.
- Comment on You think your kool not realizing that you are so dumb you can't even spell 2 months ago:
This thread is effecting me.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 months ago:
I understood absolutely zero of the German, but for other non native English speakers who didn’t pick up on the issue here:
The usual phrase here would be “stop listening to idiots”. The sentence that was used, “stop to listen to idiots” means the contrary, that you’ll stop what you’re doing so that you can listen to what the idiot has to say.
Which is a valid option, but an ill advised one.