That’s when you just drink
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There are entire memes, like chants/tapped rhythms/dirty jokes, which pass from generation to generation entirely in a school, passed down from year to year until eventually a child learns some singsong or piece of scatological nonsense their dad or mum knew but never mentioned outside of school.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough
12·8 hours agoSomeone should make hardware in that form factor that is essentially a Raspberry Pi-style machine one can run one’s own system on.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Don’t Worry, Our New Stadium Will Have an Endless, Gigantic Parking Lot (McSweeney’s)English
5·1 day agoPublic transport with American characteristics
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy
16·1 day agoUnfortunately, the EU has committed to waving through oversized Yank-tanks, out of fear that if they don’t, Trump will throw them to the Russians
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Don’t Worry, Our New Stadium Will Have an Endless, Gigantic Parking Lot (McSweeney’s)English
10·1 day agoWith stadium car parks getting so large, perhaps they should build light rail networks spanning them, providing fast, frequent services to shuttle visitors between the stadium and the section where their car is.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•If you are embarrassed just make it sound classy
5·2 days agoGiven that the word “punk” comes from hobo slang for stale bread, French punk rock should be called “crouton”
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone
12·2 days agoDoes the iOS one get this sweeping access to everything as well (which would require Apple to specifically give it entitlements)?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity.
2·4 days ago“A new life awaits you in New Taipei”
H&M once had organic-cotton underwear they described with the brand “conscious”. Presumably they were referring to the customer’s ecological consciousness in buying them, and were oblivious to the philosophical horror they had unleashed.
Aren’t they more queer than autistic (though probably falling in the overlap)?
That’s right bros. Also, every time you have sex with a woman, you absorb some of her oestrogen and become feminised. (She also absorbs some of your testosterone, which makes you extra gay for having sex with her.)
The implication of this is that the hygienically challenged chunguses who have been chronically devoid of validating girlfriends are not the pathetic losers they were mocked for in school, but secretly true princes among men, the custodians of manly virtues. It’s a new heroic pseudohistorical mythology, like Jakob’s Grafted Devil for incels or something.
I can never remember whether Ronnie Wood was one of the Rolling Stones or a member of the gang who did the Great Train Robbery.
No-one outkinks Sexual Santa
It needs an unearthed version without the shutter-opening pin, for things like low-power electronic devices with figure-8 mains sockets, phone chargers and such.
Of course, some BS1363-stan will inevitably show up to argue that as this is a crucial safety feature, unearthed connections should be illegal, much like the Australians who argue that bike helmets should be mandatory in Amsterdam.
And Europe doesn’t have old houses with the same difficulty in wiring?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
Music@lemmy.world•The Dresden Dolls - Girl AnachronismEnglish
61·11 days agoAh, Amanda Palmer, Gaiman’s Ghislaine.
Good to see they’re back in stock
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How did Russian Roulette come to be? I find it hard to believe someone came up with it one day saying see how lucky I am today? I include suicidal people in this too.
91·12 days agoThe name may come from stereotypes of life being grim and/or cheap in Russia









America’s least woke president