whoa buddy no spoilers
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Okay, mh, but I'm just saying. #12 will BLOW your MIND.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
What *is* the little tab on the back of a dress shirt all about?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
Oh, it's just to hang up in a locker or whatever, but clickbait lifehack slideshow shitposts invariably present that as like mindblowing information.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
took me until my early 30s to realize worsening reflux and chronic dehydration were not just happy coincidences
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
That does not sounds like a pleasant realisation, are you OK?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
My favourite of all these life hacks is with those paper sauce containers you sometimes get at cafes and burger standshttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heinz-tomato-ketchup-life-hack-get-out-of-bottle_uk_578df1fbe4b0885619b11d4a
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:23 (six years ago) link
oops, didn't check the link. that's not right: http://lifehacker.com/5931053/fan-your-ketchup-cups-for-maximum-condiment-volume-and-dunkage
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Previously my workaround had always been to forgo the cups altogether, opting instead to pump ketchup directly on my tray's paper lining.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:35 (six years ago) link
Oh, but that was from all the way back in 2012. Looks like lifehacks are all grown up now.
http://lifehacker.com/the-beginners-guide-to-using-a-strap-on-1797402479
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to distribute ketchup
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
Did you know that your ketchup gauge has a little arrow on it indicating which side you should refill?
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 09:46 (six years ago) link
my friends would tell me as a kid that the way to get the yogurt off the lid for more convenient eating was to tap the lid before opening, back when occasionally we would get yogurts with school lunch. it never seemed to do anything
now decades later I have started eating yogurts almost daily and remembered this one cool lifehack and finally determined that all it does is make yogurt spatter out at you when you open the lid, which I then realised was probably the point
well done, barely-remembered schoolfriends: I was apparently pwn-resistant as a kid (whether because I opened them side on and the spray went elsewhere or I was just too oblivious to care about getting yogurt on my shirt), but you got me a couple of times 30 years later when trying to look semi-presentable for work, in the world's slowest practical joke ever
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
yoghurt that sprays upwards would worry me
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to spray yoghurt
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
spray yoghurt now there's a marketing idea
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link
remember when - was it Tango? - made those spray drinks for a while? that was a pointless acceleration of our imminent species death
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:34 (six years ago) link
And yet no-one has done this yet,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5kI3zJFmA
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
speaking as somebody who loves cheese and peas I've never even tried to improvise that shit
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link
Only disgusting savages don't love cheese and peas.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
peas are bad and if u like them u are bad
cheesy beans on the other hand are unimpeachable
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:46 (six years ago) link
cheesy beans are mint, no question
you are v wrong about peas tho, not that I'm advocating cheesing them up
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
wtf, i thought we were friends :(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
i can tolerate peas as an additive to like a curry or whatever but standalone peas, whether mushy or otherwise, are not good
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
sorry lbi, you and i are done
mushy peas are occasionally done badly but done right they are the best vegetable
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
that is pure madness
have we done a 'best vegetable' thread? we need to put this issue to bed once and for all
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
I can only imagine the transatlantic shock and outrage if "mushy peas" was even included as a category
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
brb gonna start a nominations thread
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
Hot Peas and Vinegar is one of the human race's greatest achievement. bizarro get out, just get out now, I don't want to look at you.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:58 (six years ago) link
Cheesy peas for posh folk
― calzino, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
believe me i don't wanna be here either, u people are monsters
WHAT IS THE BEST VEGETABLE: nomination thread
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
Barron Trump was named after one of his dad's pseudonyms. Just heard that 10 minutes ago.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
I mean, presumably. It could just as easily be a tribute to Trump's love of Red Baron (sp) frozen pizza.
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
I'd joke about that being the official pizza of the Trump tower cafeteria, but tbh it's probably some cheaper generic frozen pizza that's rebranded as Trump Pizza and marked up 400%
― mh, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
Shouldn't there also be a worst vvegetable poll?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Just learned today that all North American horses are immigrants (their prehistoric forebears on the continent having been driven to extinction).
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
i knew that, i win!
this is a spectacularly foolish one: i hadn't realized that the "dye in the pool that activates if you urinate" thing was an urban legend until this week. i am 33. in fairness i had assumed that it was either: a) something that was done in the past but not anymore, or b) something that was done in other countries (like maybe the US where it features as a plot line in movies and tv sometimes) but not in the UK.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
3D chess is a real thing not related to Star Trek. 5 boards deep and invented in 1907.I haven't worked out how the boards are positioned. Would think one needed to see everything at play clearly. Or is the thing that anybody advanced enough to play it can keep everything in their head at all times anyway.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 3 August 2017 06:53 (six years ago) link
I don’t really think I had this misconception although I hadn’t thought too hard about it, but it’s come up in conversation: americans conflate the wall separating east/west Germany with the Berlin Wall. Then someone points out Berlin was fully in East Germany, and that the wall went around the entire western half of the city. Then there’s kind of a “hmm, yeah, that makes sense” moment
― mh, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
huh....there ya go!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
I remember at perhaps nine years old asking my parents, "why don't people just go _around_ the wall?
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 August 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
Well shit, I'd never actually looked at a map of East/West Germany. I guess I thought East Germany was a lot smaller.
― how's life, Friday, 4 August 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Like the sliver of Germany that was East of Berlin, ya know?
― how's life, Friday, 4 August 2017 08:25 (six years ago) link
Berlin being an island city meant that people who wanted to avoid conscription would move there which fed into the artistic and squatting scenes.I think otherwise everybody of age in Germany needed to spend a year or 2 in the armed forces.
― Stevolende, Friday, 4 August 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
Just learned today that all North American horses are immigrants (their prehistoric forebears on the continent having been driven to extinction).― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:14 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:14 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yep, and native American horse culture has only existed since the 18th century.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 4 August 2017 09:06 (six years ago) link
I thought there were supposed to be dwarf versions of the horse in some parts of the Americas but nothing large enough to prompt the development of the wheel. Though that would be odd if you have the llama etc further south which i would have thought might be a draught animal of a sort, though limited in size much more than a shire horse.
Also interesting to think about non-Western history as a continual flux thing instead of the static continuum that it seems to default to in the Western mind. So the introduction of an element as pervasive as the horse must have really changed things. Like how a tribe would be able to provide for itself and its mobility etc and therefore what areas it would live in. Isn't there an extent to which tribes with horses drove previously predominant tribes back out of what had been their traditional areas?
― Stevolende, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
Yep, Western viewpoints tend to imagine other cultures as having been static and unchanged for as long as they existed, when in fact all cultures are constantly changing and developing. THere's quite a lot about that in Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' which everyone seems to be reading at the moment
More here: http://www.equitours.com/views-from-the-saddle/article/the-horse-and-native-american-culture/
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
Co-sign, I don't know if I asked my parents and I was considerably older than 9! When you look a map and see just far east Berlin is then it's no surprise the Red Army got there first.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
was really haunted by the ending of Ivan's Childhood, where it cuts to real Red Army Berlin footage and you see Goebbels + family + kids corpses etc.
the Yuval Noah Harari book looks interesting actually, might check it out.
― calzino, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:38 (six years ago) link