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  • My six year old daughter is getting the hanging of the spelling and whatnot, but earlier on in her Kindergarten year, words like “driver,” to her, started with a J. I had never thought about it, but it absolutely (at least in our NJ dialect) has a J sound, because, as you say, we all talk fucked up (paraphrasing).




  • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2935: Ocean Loop
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    4 months ago

    Cruise ship or bust.

    And it’s just a drawing but I’m trying to realize it in actual size. Cruise ships are huge, pushing 250 or so feet out of the water. That’s considered a high-rise in the construction world.

    Now I look at that loopdy-lopp and say hey, that boat could fit. I’m ignoring all the other physics and shit and just Matchbox car’g that boat through that loop. That makes that loop like, what, 1000 feet? And that is ignoring the structure beneath the surface, and also the other dimensions of this, and the sheer velocity and volume of water.

    So I’m gonna call this one a hard maybe. Perhaps if the world could set aside it’s differences, we could do a sort of space race, but instead a ship flip, or a boat float, or some other rhyme.





  • I will commiserate with you. I think the shape of that can is ultimately your issue. In fact, I know it is, I’ve seen that can and anytime I’ve seen it, the bag looks like yours. So you’re not alone.

    As an aside, if you intend on joining the military, especially if you enlist, nobody cares about your ASVAB score, and if you wield it like a weapon, others will use it against you. I knew ASVAB waivers who had quick wit. I served with dudes who paraded around their conventional intelligence and had a tough time making friends, and only when they dropped the whole smart guy act did they fit in better.

    Your post tickled my funny bone tonight. I wish you well and I hope you can “adapt and overcome” as it relates to this issue.








  • Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!

    I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.