TIN

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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago

Well that was fascinating, thank you

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Not, unfortunately

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks, I'm just starting out so playing with different ways of efficient manufacture, good to learn from the experts!

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

Those are the ones! It's quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Amazing, thank you for that. There's so much that's fascinating in linguistics!

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Do you bring all raw materials to the smeltery, or do you have a smeltery per material type?

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago

It's one of the many ways I know that as a species we're fucked

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 39 points 6 days ago (5 children)

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn't sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Michael, but he prefers Mikey

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

I actually bought it yesterday, for much the same reason!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TIN@feddit.uk to c/bready@lemmy.world
 

Okay so I totally failed to put the dough in the fridge overnight, these might not quite be as intended but they're okay!

 

How low on avocado do you need to be to not be allowed to say that it's guac? 3.5% will certainly do it.

 

I was driving round the M25 and there was an accident in front of me, I could still get round so I slowed down, put hazards on but drove past and carried on my way.

What's the actual protocol in those situations? I could see all the airbags were deployed, there's nothing I could do for the people inside and for sure getting out on a motorway is a bad idea.

But I feel like I should have done something different. Can anyone with knowledge enlighten me?

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My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on!

Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide.

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I'm sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

 

Don't tell me that's going to parse in a CLI

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TIN@feddit.uk to c/bread@lemmy.ca
 

Fed yesterday, 2 hours at room temp and then in the fridge. She's actually got a bit bigger than I would like already so maybe straight in the fridge next time?

 

So, hear me out.

I'm a 47 year old guy and I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoy video games. I always have, from playing Head over Heels on a Speccy +2 to ESO and Valorant on my self built PC.

Due to various life circumstances, I'm also on the dating scene and to most women I meet, around my age, video games are anathema. When I say that I like them it's usually meet with an "oh dear" or a "my son would probably love to talk to you about them, I find them really boring"

I have two boys, both teenagers, both play all the time and sometimes we all play together (although they are better as they have more time to apply to games). Their friends are amazed that I will talk about games with them, that I know someone about games and that I play games. None of their parents want to talk with them about what is effectively their main hobby that they do all the time (big sad).

So the question, there must be some sort of cut off age at which video games are no longer an acceptable pastime. Is it absolute age based (nothing after 35) or is it something to do with the progression of games into popular culture and people born after, say, 1986 will not see it as unacceptable?

I don't have an answer, I just think it's an interesting question. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think!

Edit to add: I'm not planning on stopping through peer pressure, just wondering about the phenomenon!

 
 

Not sure how much the seller understands about the process!

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