Frostbeard

joined 11 months ago
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

My mother worked in Germany in the late 60s (We are Norwegian) and her boss' (and life long friend of the family) husband was 16 when he was literally drafted from HJ to the SS in early 45. He was a good jugend and it was an "honor" and such BS. But having spent all his childhood in nazi Germany he knew nothing else. He was captured by the Russians in Czechoslovakia and spent 5 years as a POW and the only reason he made it as far as becoming a POW was his age and because the SS NCOs made sure he didn't get the SS serial number tattoo since he was so young.

God knows how he manages to survive, but I never knew him to not eat every morsel of food on his plate, and he never talked about his experience.

I shed no tears for Nazis, but I do shed tears for the duped and the "innocents" of any conflict.

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

Make sure she has no illnesses she can transfer to Nini before you let them permanently together

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just to clarify, I am at the point where I have hand painted for years :) The next step is continue to improve brush control, and perhaps airbrush

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Think it's the trap that if you continue with the hobby, all the starter gear is useless and all the money could have been spent on better equipment.

I paint miniatures. Not as often it as much as I would like to because of dividing my time between work, two year old and chores, but I have had the hobby for the last six years. I have yet to purchase an airbrush, and I can get a perfectly decent starter set for lets say 20 USD. But I can also get a better set with high end compressor, better paint gun.for 60 USD. I know that if I keep getting better at using the airbrush I will eventually get the high end stuff, why not "save" money and get it right away.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Eisenhower, the last good republican

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am all for developing languages so that you get new words. And am I really dying on this hill. Hell no😊

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hnggnmgg. "sound of blood vessels popping"

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The messyness must go tbh.We can't have this bastardization we live with now😊🤪

Oh my.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word

Edit: Omg Decathlon. A hybrid word in the Olympics...an event with Greek roots. #Sad

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊

It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

What the fuck does the world bank need to advertise for?

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Abolishing the word "automobile" since it mixes Greek and latin.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hypothesis < Theory < Law/Axiom

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