Zombie

joined 4 months ago
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Lemmy comments like to rhyme.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"At least he is more civilised"

To me, that makes him scarier. He can keep a mask on while stabbing you in the back. Trump, at least, is pretty open with who and what he is.

Hindenburg and others thought Hitler wasn't scary at first. They thought they could control him. Look how that turned out. Civilised doesn't mean moral. It doesn't mean he'll do right for the county and people. It just means he knows his airs and graces when they're needed.

As Backlog said, there's no such thing as a good Nazi.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Paywalled and the archive link doesn't seem to load. Does anyone have a copy of the article?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

"Only a fool breaks the 2 second rule."

I was taught to repeat that phrase, at a normal steady pace, when I saw the back of their car go past something, to use as a marker (a signpost, the end of one of the lines on the road, whatever).

If you finish the phrase after the front of your car has gone past the same marker, then you don't have a big enough braking distance and need to ease off a bit.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which Google Translate thinks means Red Stubble haha

It means Red Point

https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/guides/the-gaelic-origins-of-place-names-in-britain/

Gaelic defines colours differently from English. The term "red" here means the orange-brown hue of the rock, which is most obvious in the foreground of your picture.

Great pic!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Buachaille Etive Mòr translates as "great/big herdsman of Etive" for anyone curious, with Etive being the name of the river/glen.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely an advert.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's why I bought a tarp. I know it's gonna take me a couple years to get round to fixing the roof but I don't want the rafters etc to rot in the meantime so I'ma chuck a big ol' tarp on top and call it good until I can get my mind to hyperfixate on fixing it.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I thought it was something to do with Kim Dotcom's Mega at first. Such a dumb headline.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.

 

A circus poster with a clown who looks vaguely like Rishi Sunak

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