spittingimage

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't recall anyone ever saying that, unless it was to make a joke.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The solution is that we behave civilly and respectfully to each other.

Is it an achievable solution? Because I have no idea how we could make that happen.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's fine to not have an opinion. It's even fine to have an opinion and keep it to yourself. No-one has the right to an argument with you, after all.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (16 children)

My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it's because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I've started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.

It's important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don't use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you'll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

That would have to be the manager who complained to my manager that I was too friendly and wasting his time by saying hello and asking how his day was going every time we talked on the phone. 😐

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I'm gonna be the cynic and say it - I think what we have here is a scammer hoping people will reach out with donations.

The account didn't exist before this post was made. OP has a 76 IQ but uses perfect sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs and five-syllable words like qualification. My spidey sense is tingling.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I have a similar story. One of the security guards was found to have a hard drive full of BDSM porn. When interrogated about it, she said "It's not pornography. Those are my holiday photos." And sure enough, she was the one holding the whip.

The compromise reached was that she wouldn't put her holiday photos on her office computer any more.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (4 children)

A lot of the time I'll read a thread, realise I have nothing useful to add, and move on.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God's sake - either answer it or mute it, don't just ignore it!

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Especially when I have socks on.

Living dangerously there, aincha?

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Last week I moved the cheesegrater so I could look behind it... for the cheesegrater.

 

I noticed that one of the monitors in the loom control room had "SKIN?" written on it in the dust that covered it. It seemed pretty mysterious and I was sure it was a detail that was going to be important, but it never came up as far as I noticed. Any theories as to what it's about?

 
 

I've been on a cosmic horror kick lately, and what I'd really like to read is stories or novels of the awful and unfathomable on a spaceship. Stories where we go to them, poke what shouldn't be poked, scan what shouldn't be scanned, and things proceed from there.

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