If you tickle a baby's feet before they are one year old they will stutter. Told to me by my son's girlfriend when I was holding my grandson for the first time. It wasn't a fun fact, it was a rule that I was to obey. So for the record, he should be stuttering by now because I couldn't resist, and they couldn't watch me all the time. :)
I really don't want to push things too far with them, but so far I haven't really been able to hold my grandkids except for very brief periods and even then there are rules. No kissing them on the hands or face, the aforementioned no tickling their feet. They don't really seem to be up to letting me watch the grandkids at any point, even though I raised my son and his siblings just fine.
The discipline seems to be completely missing, and I had a talk with my son and he attributed it to wanting to stop generational trauma. What the fuck does that even mean? I took it as though he is trying to say he had a bad childhood. But I had a great childhood, and I would say he did too as far as things like not having any abuse in the house, etc. So how far back does one need to go to round up some trauma. Maybe they are talking about his gf's family? I guess I will have to sit down with him again and see what exactly he means by that.
It doesn't surprise me that you're getting limited access to your grandkids if you are not respecting their boundaries, that is, their rules. That they are kooky is beside the point.
I only tickled one grandkids feet for about a second and no one was looking. Other than that I have been very respectful of their batshit decisions (my personal opinion). But thanks for chiming in.
OK, sorry, I misread "I couldn't resist, and they couldn't watch me all the time" as meaning you were tickling their feet in front of them and they couldn't bear to watch.
Damn english. Yeah I can see how that was a way to read it. I meant that they stepped out of the room one time, and I tickled the little guys feet. Who wouldn't want to tickle a baby's cute little feet. They never saw me, and I never told them I did it. Now if I was an asshole, I would be telling them what I did, now that he is older and doesn't stutter, trying to use it to prove them wrong. But I would never bring it up, and only brought it up here because I can remain mostly anonymous so they will never find out.
The thread is about the most nonsense thing you have ever been told. I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship. They are entitled to make rules for their kids, but doesn't mean I don't respect them in other ways, and doesn't mean I have to think they aren't nonsense. Anything else you want to enlighten me about mr freud?
I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship
I only know what you've told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don't let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be "respectful of their batshit decisions".
If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly...
This month: His buddy who's a "mechanic" touched our car and did a bunch of "extra work" on it for a "great price". Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got "it must be the drive shaft" and "don't go down rabbit holes on the internet"
That there was some guy who heard a voice and then financed and built a 150 meter boat by himself, got a breeding pair of every single land species on Earth onto said boat, and kept them from starving, killing each other, or otherwise becoming unable to reproduce until after the entire surface area of the planet was no longer covered in water.
It's a story about how he spent his entire wealth doing something everyone else said was not only impossible but incredibly stupid, just because of a vision from god, but in the end all those haters drowned.
That's why evangelical Christians love that story.
And then there was this dude that was swallowed by a whale and he just chilled in the stomach and lit a little bit of a fire and roasted some marshmallows and then he was puked up or something later.
My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn't possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.
It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don't have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there's no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.
In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don't understand how you can cook coleslaw... no, wait, you don't even cook coleslaw!
I don't know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don't know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.
There are more varieties though. Cabbage soup comes to mind, for example, and some stuff that I don't know an English word for.
Some of that can taste great as well, but if you don't care for the taste of cooked cabbage, it's probably not for you.
Boiling cabbage is just ruining the product. The only good way to prepare cabbage is to marinate it with vinegar, shredded carrots and beets, optionally adding some coriander.
What's the defining good quality of cabbage when it comes to the texture? Because the watery taste is nothing particular to write home about. It's rather the fact that it's crunchy! And it stays crunchy when marinated! Unlike the spongy mess of boiled cabbage.
It also takes on the flavor from carrots and beets, turning the whole thing into delicious sour-sweet crunchy cocktail.
Ah, yes, the internet. Now we're having an argument about cabbage. But, alright, I'll bite. Just for the fun of it.
You are revealing yourself with that comment. You don't seem to be a real cabbage-enjoyer, if you simply describe it's flavor as watery and nothing particular and simply tolerate it for its texture. Or maybe you should find a different source of cabbage.
Idk if it’s nonsense but when Ozzy died a coworkers told me that Ozzy was an American war hero who fought in the first gulf war and help liberate the people of Iraq, and then showed me a very bad AI photo of Ozzy sitting in a tank and flying a fighter jet.
No it was 2 separate photos of Ozzy in a tank and in a jet, I’ve tried to find it but it was on facebook and I don’t have facebook anymore and I don’t wanna give zuck my info just to look up AI photos.
I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.
My cousin told me that wind power turbines are actually amusement park attractions: The blades are hollow and you can take a ride inside while they rotate.
Later, I calculated that you'd experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.
“Think about it. They drained a lot of oil in the Middle East, so there must be cool underground lakes of oil you can paddle around in down there.” -Gas station geologist
I understand that oil isn't just sitting around in big empty voids in the rock, and that those voids are full of gravel and such, and that we're also injecting water and such into the wells to maintain pressure, etc.
But I'd be willing to bet (a small amount, maybe like $50 tops) that out of the thousands of oil wells we've drilled over the years, that through some quirk of geology, some void has opened up somewhere down there with just enough liquid oil and open space that you could probably get a kayak on it and paddle around in a small circle.
I'm thinking probably more like the size of a smallish above ground swimming pool, not a decent sized lake that would actually be worth paddling around on.
Of course there's also the issue of the pressure at that depth, and the fact that any atmosphere down there is probably gonna be natural gas and not breathable air, so you'd probably have to do it in a hard diving suit
I'm with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.
By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there's essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you'll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.
Being forced to vote for someone that doesn't represent you is democracy.
Im not sure why the blue conservatives are so worried about a one party government. Just work within the republican primary system and earn your incremental change!
What's wrong, you dont trust how republicans run their primaries?
Honestly, she might have the same thing I do. I don't know if it's got a name or anything, but absolutely all red wine tastes like balsamic vinegar to me, almost indistinguishably so, even when I'm sharing it with someone who's talking about how this one is "fruity" or whatever.
I went through a short phase of thinking I was being pranked. So I'm with your sister on this one, minus the sangria bit lol.
The universe was created and is controlled by a super being and when we die this being allows us to a magical place. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous, but you asked the question.
When I was 6 by my older brother "The currents in currant buns are flies". Didn't believe him until I took a bite and felt the texture of the currant. Couldn't eat them again until I was a teenager.
I was experiencing auditory hallucinations when trying to sleep, tried to tell my mom about it. She told me the house was haunted and I was hearing the ghosts.
5G causes Corona virus is a favourite. Most of the biblical claims but those are too obvious.
Excluding religion and conspiracy theories, expensive speaker cables produce sound quality that is superior to cheap cables. Turning a phone off in an aircraft improves safety. My daughter's teacher confidently informed me that bicycles are more dangerous than cars. That was probably the most depressing and stupid.
As it happens, China does have dual dating since 1912 (with some fluctuation), using the Gregorian calendar for most things except traditional holidays, which are celebrated according to the Chinese calendar.
The Gregorian calendar is generally one of the safer things to bet on, in this day. What could be that person's thinking with the languages, however, that I don't know.
The small little nub at the end of a peanut is tastier than the peanut itself. I believed it and kept eating it while giving the rest to them. I got scammed.
TBF it's kinda true for pistachios. The seed itself, excellent. But the thin brown skin that's left in the shell? Outstanding. It seems to absorb all the salty flavor that's bestowed upon the pistachios.
Yeah not only are they not the tastiest, they're the most disgusting. I eat a f****** ton of peanuts, and the bottom of the jar is always filled with the little nubs. Of course I eat them, but nothing gives you a sense of how horrible they taste than getting an entire mouthful at once.
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FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 266d
If you tickle a baby's feet before they are one year old they will stutter. Told to me by my son's girlfriend when I was holding my grandson for the first time. It wasn't a fun fact, it was a rule that I was to obey. So for the record, he should be stuttering by now because I couldn't resist, and they couldn't watch me all the time. :)
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 266d
This sounds like one of the many hispanic old wives tales I have heard through my wife's family. Tickling was one of them,
Babies aren't supposed to see their reflection because it will make them vain
Put a red bracelet on the baby to repel evil spirits
Don't let strangers touch the baby because it will transfer jealousy to the baby
There's so many more, and WAY more not baby based myths that I have learned that could fill this thread.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 266d
My wife has a few of these. Absolutely absurd beliefs that have no leg to stand on
KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 266d
Makes me want to ask what other kooky wrongness they hold in their head, either in childrearing beliefs or general day to day knowledge.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 266d
I really don't want to push things too far with them, but so far I haven't really been able to hold my grandkids except for very brief periods and even then there are rules. No kissing them on the hands or face, the aforementioned no tickling their feet. They don't really seem to be up to letting me watch the grandkids at any point, even though I raised my son and his siblings just fine.
The discipline seems to be completely missing, and I had a talk with my son and he attributed it to wanting to stop generational trauma. What the fuck does that even mean? I took it as though he is trying to say he had a bad childhood. But I had a great childhood, and I would say he did too as far as things like not having any abuse in the house, etc. So how far back does one need to go to round up some trauma. Maybe they are talking about his gf's family? I guess I will have to sit down with him again and see what exactly he means by that.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 265d
It doesn't surprise me that you're getting limited access to your grandkids if you are not respecting their boundaries, that is, their rules. That they are kooky is beside the point.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 265d
I only tickled one grandkids feet for about a second and no one was looking. Other than that I have been very respectful of their batshit decisions (my personal opinion). But thanks for chiming in.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 265d
OK, sorry, I misread "I couldn't resist, and they couldn't watch me all the time" as meaning you were tickling their feet in front of them and they couldn't bear to watch.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 264d
Damn english. Yeah I can see how that was a way to read it. I meant that they stepped out of the room one time, and I tickled the little guys feet. Who wouldn't want to tickle a baby's cute little feet. They never saw me, and I never told them I did it. Now if I was an asshole, I would be telling them what I did, now that he is older and doesn't stutter, trying to use it to prove them wrong. But I would never bring it up, and only brought it up here because I can remain mostly anonymous so they will never find out.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 265d
Oh yes, I hear how much respect you have for them in your posts.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 265d
The thread is about the most nonsense thing you have ever been told. I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship. They are entitled to make rules for their kids, but doesn't mean I don't respect them in other ways, and doesn't mean I have to think they aren't nonsense. Anything else you want to enlighten me about mr freud?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 265d
I only know what you've told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don't let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be "respectful of their batshit decisions".
If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly...
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 265d
Spare the rod spoil the child
TechnoCat@piefed.social · 32 pts · 266d
I don't know about "ever", but someone recently told me bald eagles are the fastest flyers on Earth; even faster than any military jet.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 265d
Their baldness makes them extra aerodynamic.
TechnoCat@piefed.social · 6 pts · 265d
Maybe we should try balding our military jets. Good call.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 265d
That's why the military had never allowed long hair or beards.
daannii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 266d
😅
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 266d
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
No but Ive seen them in the wild. Sure they are big ass majestic predators. But they ain't that graceful or fast.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 266d
A lot of things from a particular family member
This month: His buddy who's a "mechanic" touched our car and did a bunch of "extra work" on it for a "great price". Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got "it must be the drive shaft" and "don't go down rabbit holes on the internet"
It was missing transmission fluid
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 266d
All that icky transmission fluid was limiting the performance of the transmission (I'm sure). /s
feinstruktur@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 265d
Foreigners are to blame for everything and kicking them out of your country is key to solving everything.
Maven@piefed.zip · 29 pts · 266d
An old professor once taught the class that the prostate was a myth.
mech@feddit.org · 11 pts · 266d
He did extensive research but couldn't find it.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 265d
Lots of autopsies on female cadavers.
daannii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 266d
Was it a woman? Maybe it was a joke like how people say the clitoris is a myth.
Maven@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 266d
No it was a guy and it was a genuine believe that you could get in trouble for refuting.
daannii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 265d
Wow
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 264d
Old anarchist still on duty
human@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 266d
That there was some guy who heard a voice and then financed and built a 150 meter boat by himself, got a breeding pair of every single land species on Earth onto said boat, and kept them from starving, killing each other, or otherwise becoming unable to reproduce until after the entire surface area of the planet was no longer covered in water.
dx1@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 266d
You could argue it was an allegory, but then what the fuck would that even be an allegory for. The work of a zoologist?
mech@feddit.org · 9 pts · 266d
It's a story about how he spent his entire wealth doing something everyone else said was not only impossible but incredibly stupid, just because of a vision from god, but in the end all those haters drowned.
That's why evangelical Christians love that story.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 264d
And then there was this dude that was swallowed by a whale and he just chilled in the stomach and lit a little bit of a fire and roasted some marshmallows and then he was puked up or something later.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 265d
There's even a museum dedicated to this, including a "replica" of the boat!
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 266d
My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn't possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.
It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don't have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there's no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.
In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don't understand how you can cook coleslaw... no, wait, you don't even cook coleslaw!
I don't know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don't know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.
daannii@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 266d
Perception researcher here. So you probably are aware that if you have a stuffy nose, your food taste different.
Well. Technically what you experience when eating is a combination of smell and taste sensations.
Molecules from food in your mouth travel up your throat into nasal cavities. And of course. Can come in through the nose.
This combination perception is called "flavor". That's the technical term. Although this word often means "taste" in layman.
Anyway. My point is. That smell heavily influences flavor.
Which is what a lot of people think of as "taste" but taste is exclusively tongue receptors.
So your argument is sound. The experience of the smell is a strong indicator of the flavor.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 265d
Also a good evolutionary tool for helping you avoid food poisoning!
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 266d
I've never considered cooking coleslaw . . . the things I've been missing in my life.
daannii@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 266d
Cooked cabbage can smell quite strange. And bad. Only way I think cabbage is good cooked is briefly stir fried with bacon. That's it.
Anything else or longer and it starts to smell super bad.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 266d
Sauerkraut is nice though. But that's adding extra steps and I wouldn't still call it cabbage when the cooking starts.
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 265d
That's the only "cooked cabbage" I've heard of; can't say I care for it, but my partner likes it.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 265d
There are more varieties though. Cabbage soup comes to mind, for example, and some stuff that I don't know an English word for.
Some of that can taste great as well, but if you don't care for the taste of cooked cabbage, it's probably not for you.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
Boiling cabbage is just ruining the product. The only good way to prepare cabbage is to marinate it with vinegar, shredded carrots and beets, optionally adding some coriander.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 265d
I refuse to subscribe to your narrow minded views.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
What's the defining good quality of cabbage when it comes to the texture? Because the watery taste is nothing particular to write home about. It's rather the fact that it's crunchy! And it stays crunchy when marinated! Unlike the spongy mess of boiled cabbage.
It also takes on the flavor from carrots and beets, turning the whole thing into delicious sour-sweet crunchy cocktail.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 264d
Ah, yes, the internet. Now we're having an argument about cabbage. But, alright, I'll bite. Just for the fun of it.
You are revealing yourself with that comment. You don't seem to be a real cabbage-enjoyer, if you simply describe it's flavor as watery and nothing particular and simply tolerate it for its texture. Or maybe you should find a different source of cabbage.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef and spices for several hours.
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
Yeah my grandma used to make boiled chicken and cabbage. I just really hated the smell. Idk if I could like a strew. But maybe.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 265d
I once ate some canned olives that smelled like something gasoline-adjacent. Those were the most outstandingly tasty olives I've ever had, by far.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 266d
My only guess how that's possible would be to put a frozen cabbage into a very bad blender, overheating its motor.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 266d
Idk if it’s nonsense but when Ozzy died a coworkers told me that Ozzy was an American war hero who fought in the first gulf war and help liberate the people of Iraq, and then showed me a very bad AI photo of Ozzy sitting in a tank and flying a fighter jet.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 265d
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it this way, but was he sitting in a tank that was itself flying in the jet? Because that would be even more awesome.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 265d
No it was 2 separate photos of Ozzy in a tank and in a jet, I’ve tried to find it but it was on facebook and I don’t have facebook anymore and I don’t wanna give zuck my info just to look up AI photos.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 264d
KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 266d
"Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls."
"People used to live to be 900 years old."
Objection@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 266d
They also used to be able to fly, according to my dad, who was not happy with me when I laughed it off because I thought he was joking.
KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 265d
I think I laughed too, but it was the Sunday school teacher that shared that with me. I think that may have been the moment where little me learned that not all adults can be relied on for facts.
dx1@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 266d
The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.
comfy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 266d
I believed the first one when I was, idk, 6 years old. No idea if I assumed it myself or was told it from someone.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 264d
Sorry about that.
The internet didn't exist yet and I hadn't seen a tiger in a while.
The "no mane" part started to confuse me as different species.
mech@feddit.org · 19 pts · 266d
My cousin told me that wind power turbines are actually amusement park attractions: The blades are hollow and you can take a ride inside while they rotate.
Later, I calculated that you'd experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 265d
Sounds like a fun ride to me! /s
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 266d
“Think about it. They drained a lot of oil in the Middle East, so there must be cool underground lakes of oil you can paddle around in down there.” -Gas station geologist
Fondots@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 266d
I understand that oil isn't just sitting around in big empty voids in the rock, and that those voids are full of gravel and such, and that we're also injecting water and such into the wells to maintain pressure, etc.
But I'd be willing to bet (a small amount, maybe like $50 tops) that out of the thousands of oil wells we've drilled over the years, that through some quirk of geology, some void has opened up somewhere down there with just enough liquid oil and open space that you could probably get a kayak on it and paddle around in a small circle.
I'm thinking probably more like the size of a smallish above ground swimming pool, not a decent sized lake that would actually be worth paddling around on.
Of course there's also the issue of the pressure at that depth, and the fact that any atmosphere down there is probably gonna be natural gas and not breathable air, so you'd probably have to do it in a hard diving suit
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 265d
I'm with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.
By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there's essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you'll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
In the olden days oil reserves were discovered because oil was straight up seeping out of the ground.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 264d
I've heard that too! I also remember cartoons where a character would hit the ground with a pick axe and oil would come gushing out.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 264d
‘There Will Be Blood’ depicts those early days quite graphically.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 264d
True! I didn't even think about that. Great movie.
Devmapall@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 265d
All I can think of is the dude inside the oil tanker in water world
What a horrible existence
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 265d
Anarchy capitalism is the solution to every nations problems.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 265d
If only landlords were required to protect their claims themselves.
mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 265d
Nations will have no problems if there are no nations.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 265d
Being forced to vote for someone that doesn't represent you is democracy.
Im not sure why the blue conservatives are so worried about a one party government. Just work within the republican primary system and earn your incremental change!
What's wrong, you dont trust how republicans run their primaries?
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locuester@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 263d
Video on why there is no perfect voting system.
Why Democracy is Mathematically Impossible
basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 266d
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 265d
A large part of wine tasting is bullshit, but different styles are definitely different.
basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 265d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 265d
Maybe she lost her taste buds during covid
basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 265d
Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 265d
Honestly, she might have the same thing I do. I don't know if it's got a name or anything, but absolutely all red wine tastes like balsamic vinegar to me, almost indistinguishably so, even when I'm sharing it with someone who's talking about how this one is "fruity" or whatever.
I went through a short phase of thinking I was being pranked. So I'm with your sister on this one, minus the sangria bit lol.
basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 264d
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 266d
The universe was created and is controlled by a super being and when we die this being allows us to a magical place. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous, but you asked the question.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 266d
When I was 6 by my older brother "The currents in currant buns are flies". Didn't believe him until I took a bite and felt the texture of the currant. Couldn't eat them again until I was a teenager.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev · 3 pts · 266d
Fly's graveyard?
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 265d
do you one better
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
I sympathize with your brother's sentiment, because I hate the texture of dried fruit, especially currants/raisins.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 265d
I was experiencing auditory hallucinations when trying to sleep, tried to tell my mom about it. She told me the house was haunted and I was hearing the ghosts.
My father built that house when I was a baby.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 265d
5G causes Corona virus is a favourite. Most of the biblical claims but those are too obvious. Excluding religion and conspiracy theories, expensive speaker cables produce sound quality that is superior to cheap cables. Turning a phone off in an aircraft improves safety. My daughter's teacher confidently informed me that bicycles are more dangerous than cars. That was probably the most depressing and stupid.
HexagonSun@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 265d
“There are more connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe”
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 265d
Far out man
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 266d
Essentially that (they just assumed was a fact) all other countries worldwide follow the American calendar, years, language, everything.
Specifically they were arguing China was in the same exact "year" as the United States.
Or maybe people I watched "speak in tongues." Complete morons.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
As it happens, China does have dual dating since 1912 (with some fluctuation), using the Gregorian calendar for most things except traditional holidays, which are celebrated according to the Chinese calendar.
The Gregorian calendar is generally one of the safer things to bet on, in this day. What could be that person's thinking with the languages, however, that I don't know.
kreynen@kbin.melroy.org · 9 pts · 266d
@zachimusprime44@lemmy.world invisible bird people can intervene in your life if you ask to speak to their supervisor
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 265d
Took me a while to figure out what you were referencing. Time for more coffee before its to late
pocker_machine@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 266d
The small little nub at the end of a peanut is tastier than the peanut itself. I believed it and kept eating it while giving the rest to them. I got scammed.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
TBF it's kinda true for pistachios. The seed itself, excellent. But the thin brown skin that's left in the shell? Outstanding. It seems to absorb all the salty flavor that's bestowed upon the pistachios.
Stache_@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 266d
Reminds me of the Even Steven’s Family Vacation movie haha
Krudler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 264d
Yeah not only are they not the tastiest, they're the most disgusting. I eat a f****** ton of peanuts, and the bottom of the jar is always filled with the little nubs. Of course I eat them, but nothing gives you a sense of how horrible they taste than getting an entire mouthful at once.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 7 pts · 265d
People only started getting cancer since we started eating grain. Because of bread, so many people have cancer now.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 265d
Trump got elected president of the United States.
Twice.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 265d
I thought it was 3 times. Isnt that a conspiracy MAGA believed? That trump was in charge when Biden was president?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 266d
C++ is the next version of C+
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
Lol they haven't moved on to C+++ yet and probably have no idea what a super pointer is.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 264d
"Yes, I'm sure I typed my password correctly."
Working in IT, I can't tell you how many times I've heard that and how many times it's been wrong.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 264d
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 264d
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 264d
That technology is progress.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 264d
Krudler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 264d
cerafredo@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 234d