Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
“It happened by accident” not “It happened on accident”.
Peanut butter and jelly is a pastry. It’s a dessert, not a lunch.
I like soggy fries. I want to eat mashed potatoes with my bare hands in public.
I also like soggy cereal most of the time. You can suck the cereal milk out of it. If you want crunchy cereal, stop putting it in liquid.
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Browsing a thread like this is far preferable to doomscrolling through the actual news feed on the frontpage of Lemmy/Reddit.
I like to eat my breakfast and have my morning coffee while I scroll the internet a bit, and it always leaves me feeling worse off. But if I scroll through a bunch of weird user-written opinions that nobody is really taking seriously… far better time, left feeling much better off.
The $2 coin in Canada should’ve been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that’s a bit confusing.)
In German I deliberately write the word “Standard” (same meaning as the English “standard”) with “t” at the end: “Standart”. Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as “standartmäßig” or “Standartabweichung” (“according to standard”, “standard deviation”).
The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), “Standard” developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound “standhard” just as in “stand + hard”, meaning “standing firm” or “steadfast” (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the old Old French “estendre”: such as in “extend”.However, while the particle “hard” became “hart” in modern German, officially, “Standard” still has to be written with the “d”. Thus, writing “Standart” with “t” is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.
In English I don’t care, because “hard” is still written with “d”, therefore “standard” is absolutely fine for me here.
Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare “Standart” a common orthographic mistake.
But I will keep writing “Standart”, until “Standart” becomes the new ‘Standart’. ;)
Basic gardening should be considered a life skill. If for nothing more than the joy of using your own herbs and greens every day
Constellations don’t look anything like the things people say they look like with some rare exceptions.
Orion? Looks like a guy ok.
The Lizard? Little known one but actually looks like a lizard so ok.
Dippers? Look like big ladles ok.
Oh wait that’s supposed to be a BEAR? With a long tail for no reason? Fuck off Greeks.
THIS ONE IS A CRAB no it isn’t stfu
No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.
Regular lotion on feet, hands, elbows, knees, etc. is worth it.
I know you’re right with this, my hands and feet are so dry, but I really hate the feeling of lotion. I don’t have feet anymore, my husband calls them chitinous hooves. My hands are sandpaper.
Look into foot peels. They usually contain salicylic acid. I didn’t believe that alone would do anything but I’m now a convert. The aftermath is gross for a few days, but for a brief moment in time you’ll have baby smooth feet. A few tips:
- Obviously patch test to check you don’t get a negative reaction
- Soak your feet in warm water for about 10 mins before
- Keep the foot peel socks on longer than it says on the packaging (if it says 60 mins, keep them on 90 min)
- Put socks over the foot peel socks so the liquid reaches all the nooks and crannies.
- Get comfortable and watch a movie or something while you wait
- In the days following, soak your feet once a day for 5-10 mins. This speeds up the peeling time.
- Wear socks and when you take them off, turn them inside out above a trash can.
- Resist the urge to peel the skin off. This is the hardest step
- Final step is to enjoy your smooth feet and look into repeating in a few months, especially if you have some very stubborn areas.
Look into foot peels.
Do you have a brand that you like?
I’ve only ever used this brand:
Not sure you can find it outside of France though. I’ve heard good things about BabyFoot but can’t vouch for it I’m afraid.
Why is that suggesting don’t throw in the toilet but toss into the ocean and kill a turtle?
It says “product contains plastic”. The pictogram is telling you not to flush it (or otherwise improperly dispose of it) so it doesn’t go out to sea and kill a turtle.
Should have put a /s, I thought it was funny is all. Like they don’t want it to be flushed but fuck it toss it in the ocean, just turtles in there.
I use a battery powered pumice stone basically to keep my calloused heels presentable and to keep the thickness under control to prevent cracking but I’m scared of fully removing the hardened build up since I’m in workboots all day at work. Seems like a blister risk but I could be wrong.
I tried one once and it helped a lot with the underside. I’m probably due for another bout tbh, and I think I have another package even. Thanks for the tips!
I bet it would feel great on your chitinous hooves! And I hate the feeling as well. The lotion was prescribed as part of my recovery from second degree burns. I found a way to tolerate it. Mostly including wiping my hands off between the fingers. So gross.
And how many of too many pancakes? And does the quality of pancake play a part in the equation?
Too many pancakes is a lot of pancakes, let me assure you. Even mediocre pancakes can get absolutely demolished!
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I think the Commodore Amiga’s potential as a gaming platform was never truly taken advantage despite the massive hardware advance from the C64, and that save for a handful of exceptions, its game library is mostly poorly designed shovelware that people only go back to for nostalgia.
“Fuck lawns” energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)
Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they’re still around to appreciate it. Once they’re dead, they won’t give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.
If it doesn’t function as a downspout, then it’s a grotesque, not a gargoyle.
I like to use tabs when I program. I like that I can be editing the same file in a network drive with my tiny screen and have my editor there show a tab as two spaces and my big screen where it shows as four. I like that when I’m screen sharing I can zoom in and bump my font size, then set the tabs to render as smaller so I don’t need to run reindent on the whole file. I like that when I’m using a boring IDE with no customization it just inserts an indentation.
I also hate auto-closing parentheses and brackets.
