whyNotSquirrel

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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

servarr* and jellyfin are managing my movies and tv-shows

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 50 points 22 hours ago (10 children)

this guy had a cat AND colours. Must have been rich or something

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How do you turn a joke into a joke?

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago

Public transport? Nahhhhh

Taxi gangs! Yaaaay

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

made me think of this reddit story

Swarming kids are no goddamn joke, man. So - true story. And yes it's relevant.

In the U.S. Marines, doing a mock war in the Norwegian city of Trondheim with the Dutch, Germans and other allies, training in urban combat. My infantry unit was positioned in a large soccer field next to an elementary school. Keep in mind there was no actual combat, even simulated; it was mostly just practicing maneuvers and tactics. But we still looked out of place with weapons and gear, etc. It's fucking February. In Norway. Cold as balls. Snow up to our knees. Norway obviously has no snow days, so the kids were all in school.

Anyway, so Norway has this most delicious and amazing delicacy, I have no idea what it's called, but it's basically a bacon-wrapped hot dog; we just assumed it was called Candy of the Lord. As Americans we were naturally and instantly addicted. You find them at gas stations, and there just happened to be one on the other side of the school where we were camped. A few of my fellow Marines and I requested permission to go to the gas station and we set out on our way.

We made it to right about where the main entrance of the school was, and the doors opened; school was out. There were only a few kids, probably 6 or 7 years old. Lots of talking and laughing. Gawking at us as we walked by, with our guns and huge ridiculous snow suits. One precocious little bugger made shooting noises at us. We made shooting noises back.

And then someone in my group. I don't know who. God help me I don't know who...

Someone threw a snowball and hit a little girl in the leg.

And those little Norwegian children unleashed hell.

There was a shrill cry in unintelligible Norseman and the doors to the school burst open. School children flooded out like a never-ending flood of something that never ends. Screeching, smiling, sprinting - how the fuck were they sprinting?? - little bastards were slinging snowballs faster than the laws of physics should allow. It was like that movie Elf. If you can imagine riding in a fast car in a snowstorm and sticking your head out the window. Now imagine the snowflakes that are hitting your face are the size of snowballs. We couldn't fucking see. We couldn't run. We could barely breathe. Holy fuck....

We tried to return fire and threw one, maybe two half-packed, shitty snowballs that fell apart in the air, arms flailing like drunk octopi. I am from Texas. We were a unit stationed in North Carolina. We were so outmatched and out of our element, it only made them laugh harder. We were cutoff from our main forces. We tried to perform a flanking maneuver but fuck me they were fast. I think some of them were throwing rocks!

My comrades. I could see them speed waddling in their huge suits back to camp like a fucked up pair of white Teletubbies, under withering fire. Fuck tactics, fuck me, fuck the Candy of the Lord, this was survival! I was the slow one in the group. My snowboots were too big but they were the smallest size they had at Issue goddammit!! My Marines left me behind.

I tried pulling my hood over my head and keeping my head down. No longer content to pelt my defenseless body with ballistic snow, the enemy swarmed me and dragged me down, cackling like a pack of hyenas descending on a wildebeest. I tried to sling them off by spinning. I came out of one of my boots and fell. I began to scream and plead for them to stop but they neither understood nor gave a single Nordic fuck. They literally pinned me down with about five kids on each limb. It was then that I actually thought - oh shit. I'm really in trouble. My snow-mittens were ripped off and flung into trees. They started shoving snow down my suit. Have you ever had anyone drop an ice cube down your shirt?

Well now imagine someone shoveling handfuls of ice cubes down your shirt. It literally shocked the breath out of my body. Thisishowidie.jpg.gif

They left me laying like a Family Guy accident victim. Moaning and screaming in the cold. Rifle packed with snow and dirt. Boot buried some-fucking-where. They ran away laughing, jabbering in their crazy language. I lay there trying to figure out just what in the great American fuck had happened.

TL;DR - Norwegians discover way to defeat American Marines using bacon and small children.

LPT -don't ever, ever get in a snowball fight with Norwegian school kids.

TIL - there are more names for shoving snow down peoples' clothes than should be reasonably expected.

EDIT - Wow. Thanks for the GOLD and thanks for all the kind words! You guys rock. Glad I could make you laugh with my inadequacies. hahahaha. Worst snowfighters ever.

EDIT EDIT Candy of the Lord= baconpølse, and yes - it was filled with cheese! Very important detail that I left out. Sorry.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't remember which one it was so I'll fail 😅

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

revive? As a concept I guess, because I never saw it alive as a product before

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 118 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I need someone here now, or else I’m going to have to shoot this kid,” said Israel D. Hernandez

Is it really not the onion? Really?

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Premium lite" wow...

connected to a server outside of your house

 

Just a vent out because of the current events, I just wish they could stay asleep for some days, just a break. please

it's all fucked up

 

Is the battery usage report useful for some of you or is it as useless as mine:

 

quick question for the community:

As a non English native I wonder if there is a keyboard on Android with a build-in dictionary (definitions of words) to check if the word I'm using is the good one without having to stop writing and checking on my browser

I would prefer this rather than a translator as it's seams to be a better way to improve my learning than just translating words from my native language

 

Does someone have a solarized thème on Sync for Lemmy to share?

If somebody did it already that would spare me the time to figure out theming here

Thanks :)

 

I wonder if there is a way to mark a post as read so it doesn't appear anymore in the main thread just like when you upvote/downvote it? (with the hide read posts option enabled)

Sometimes I just don't want to vote because I don't have much opinion on the quality of the post or if it's the same post just another @instance

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