[-] philthi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I get what you're saying, I'm struggling to understand why any pirate would ever want to fly a red flag.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Cone, surely? :)

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

What was the point of the red flags? Or... why would anyone choose to fly a red flag? I'm trying to understand why anyone would broadcast "if we come near you, you're fucked". It seems a bad hunting strategy.

Also, why didn't merchant ships fly red flags to be less bothered by pirates?

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

As a person who grew up in Ireland since I was 5: this is funny to me

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I get all of these but lust for blizzard, anybody care to explain it to me?

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

But the idea of an indicator is to indicate that you will soon turn the steering wheel, not that you've already started to turn it.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

It's hilarious to me, that "safety first" is written second

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I mean, he looks strong, but look how hard he's having to work to hold up his phone... I can do that with one hand while on the loo and barely even have to flex!

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 140 points 5 months ago

It took me a while but "cocktails" for anyone else out there like me

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submitted 5 months ago by philthi@lemmy.world to c/dadsonly@lemmy.world

Hello dads,

I'll be a dad myself shortly, and it's entirely planned, we discussed the idea and then worked towards making it happen. My wife is over the moon and loving the whole process and I'm struggling to see it as a positive change. All I'm seeing is more bills and tasks.

I want to be excited and enthusiastic during the pregnancy (and of course afterwards) but I'm struggling to see this as a positive change for our next - at least - 5 years.

It's causing some stress between my wife and I, when really I'd much prefer we were bonding now in preparation for the stress our relationship is going to need to endure after the baby arrives.

I guess this is partly just venting, I feel like anyone I know that I might say this to, would think I'm a bad person considering it was entirely planned and now I'm not feeling it after its too late to undo, but if anyone has some ideas on how I can focus more on the positives (I do see them... watching their personality growing, seeing the world from their fresh perspective, a sense of investment in the future, etc. I just struggle to focus on them) of this and less on the incoming bills and sleepless night and relationship stress, so my wife and I can bond, it'd mean a lot to me.

I'm also concerned that I'm seeing the baby as a problem instead of a... Source of joy? and that this might mean I don't really have a natural parental instinct, so I won't love it like I should, but instead see it as a series of chores and costs and problems.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

I know this is completely unrelated, but I think I'd actually find it impossible to get to 11:50 in the day with only 7 steps. That's a one way trip to the toilet...

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

"no, car go road" would be better in my opinion.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I suppose in reality it's the average of people who post pictures online and are willing to display it publicly, and probably weighted slightly by how many pictures of a person are uploaded (e.g. if someone has uploaded tens of thousands of pics of themselves - a celebrity or whatever - they will throw the average slightly towards their own face). Assuming the sample set is something like: all of social media photos of a person's face.

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