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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

And the Darwin Award goes to...

If your username would predict the way you die, how will it happen? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

Wrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition

TIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ... in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this as well. I'm much more of a Brian Blessed than a Stephen Fry, unfortunately for my pain threshold...

TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is a big part of why I love them so much. Hardly a week goes by that I don't think of the "boots theory of socio-economic unfairness" from Men at Arms!

TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bill Phillips seems like a pretty cool guy, certainly fits the mad scientist archetype!

I actually haven't read Making Money but I will now :)

TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 74 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

I learned this term from Terry Pratchett a few years ago as the disc in discworld rotates and the four cardinal directions are rimward, hubward, turnwise and widdershins. Instead of north south east west.

Edit: though I never knew it was a real word!