[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Or one that's just emerged from its pupa(?)

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

I am also in the large button, small flush gang. I assume it's that way so the flush you use most frequently is bigger, but it does seem counterintuitive.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

I used to have a cherry tree in my garden. I was sitting in the branches picking cherries, when I saw a blackbird (not an SR-71) sitting on the outer twigs eating cherries I couldn’t reach. He had a look in his eye that said “these are my cherries and there’s nothing you can do about it!”

Then a sparrowhawk took him out in front of me and ate him. That’ll teach him.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

You forgot Texas City

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

someone who lives with the queen

Surely that would be the Queen's lodger?

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

This is similar to an old joke about former British Prime Minister John Major. His father had been a circus performer, so it was aid that "he'd run away from the circus to become an accountant".

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

NT (3.x & 4.0) and 2000 were also available as Workstation editions. They were concurrent with Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME (which did get missed on the above)

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In the UK, The Scout Association went fully co-ed in 2007 and Girl Guiding remains a girls-only organisation. Both are doing just fine.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My wife was a "Bikeability" (UK) teacher and this is how they teach people to cycle. Unfortunately there are too many entitled arseholes that can't bear to not be doing the speed limit 100% of the time. And I say this as a car driver.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I hear you’re a racist now ~~Father~~ Elon.

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