Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

xp to gyac

awww lol

my dad singing along with things he couldn't (like OPERA ffs) was also a feature of my childhood. also he could clap his hands with punishing volume when he wanted...a trait I inherited to my partner's dismay

My dad told us at Christmas he has some previously unknown (by us) interest in opera, am hoping he might go with the husband to one next time he’s over, mainly cos I have no interest & it would be nice for them!

My dad is a complete troll, when we had a landline I would ring home & he’d answer & pretend not to be able to hear/understand me - always thought it was the funniest thing ever lol

Kate i appreciate your resolve to call people in instead of calling them out. It's extremely difficult to balance the resolve you've demonstrated to aid in the recovery of others with the need to protect your own emotional equilibrium and avoid taking on an undue burden of responsibility. Please give yourself permission to snap. Just in general, and especially when someone resists your aid. What you're doing is good and positive, imo it's what this moment calls for broadly speaking. So it's on us collectively to help each other achieve that balance, it can't be all on you.

One's perception of the tilt of a slash character depends on where one imagines the fixed axis or pivot point, which could be at the top, making it similar to a pendulum, or in the middle, making it similar to a propeller, or at the bottom.

Because printed alphabetical and numerical characters in English usually align to a notional horizontal line at their 'base', my imaginary pivot point is at the bottom. And because English reads left to right, a slash where the top is further right than the bottom appears titled forward and when the top is further left than the bottom it appears titled backwards, against the right-to-left motion of the reader's eye.

I had fun writing that.

That is, to me, the normal interpretation and I tend to agree. But I realize there are other points of view out there and I feel we may as well hear them out, sweet child of mine.

That long post from Kate above is great, and there are lots of things that make total sense and are eye opening. Kinda like downloading a new device driver!

I had second thoughts about posting that, so I guess it qualifies for posting here...

awww, that's a really cool compliment! i'm not really sure i understand it, but that's kind of what makes it so cool, hearing from someone who likes my posts but looks at them from a perspective i never imagined. :heart:

reverse solidus is when i put the poop back into my butt

One's perception of the tilt of a slash character depends on where one imagines the fixed axis or pivot point, which could be at the top, making it similar to a pendulum, or in the middle, making it similar to a propeller, or at the bottom.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

nonsense, slash characters are all queer, it's kind of baked into the medium

reverse solidus is when i put the poop back into my butt

― ꙮ (map)

i thought that was called "solidus snake"

Banging post aimless, you would have changed my vote if you posted that earlier tbh

(a pedant writes: light years is a measure of distance, not of time)

I don't pretend to have a firm grasp on general or special relativity, but isn't it both?

if that’s true about it being a measure of time then what makes it different from a regular year

525,600 light years

Isn't it the measure of the movement of light through spacetime?

how do you measure
a light year in the life

it’s just the distance it travels in a year

Exactly, through the three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time.

Or the who knows how many spatial dimensions.

how about love

you don’t need to overcomplicate it by bringing in relativity. just remember light moves at a fixed pace, so the distance it travels in a fixed amount of time (365.25 days, for example) is also a fixed amount

why light moves at a fixed pace? why that pace appears not to change even if we move toward or away from the light? ok now you need to drag in e&m and relativity

Also why nothing moves faster than light

i prefer cups of coffee but yknow, just me

measure in love

It's the strongest force

coffee also

light in a metallic waveguide travels faster than light in free space. but if you modulate it to send information, the modulated light travels more slowly than in free space, making this fact and post useless.

ikr fascinating stuff, and yet also it also takes electrons in your car battery three hours to reach your headlights.

better maybe to think about this stuff like turning on a mile long hose, if there's already water in the hose then it comes out instantly the other end (ok not really it propagates at speed of sound iirc) but that doesn't mean the water from the faucet is traveling at the speed of sound down the hose

dont make me tap the sine

good god do I wish we could store light like water in a hose

it sounds like you might be interested in buying a dreamcatcher i can direct you to my etsy

what if i told you that we COULD store light like water in a hose

introducing hose of light

light hose aka the LÖSE, rhymes with nose

the most forgotten discontinued ikea shelf

löst but not fargotten

my new light hose, Pocahontas and me

Lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.

You never know, though, Guns 'n' Roses might release their best record yet!

Don't stop believing.

I like gross things made delicious, like:

Grappa: a vomit belch
Natto: a booger when you’re sick
Papaya: tasty poo
Oyster: a huge load from a dead guy

The Alpinist: a huge load from a dead guy

bands and chicken plates

remove one piece of chicken from an almost perfect chicken plate ...

stunned that imago has yet to shit on everyone polling their top 50 albums

(not that he would dare to do so with fgti)

(and tbf it is a bit much)

lol, i did consider, then reject, some sort of parody

oh wait fuck what's happened overnight

Parody time

leave the d'oh to rise

maybe once we get to 50 lists we can have a poll for which list is best