doc_dish

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[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Or one that's just emerged from its pupa(?)

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the lifecycle of glow worms

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am also in the large button, small flush gang. I assume it's that way so the flush you use most frequently is bigger, but it does seem counterintuitive.

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to have a cherry tree in my garden. I was sitting in the branches picking cherries, when I saw a blackbird (not an SR-71) sitting on the outer twigs eating cherries I couldn’t reach. He had a look in his eye that said “these are my cherries and there’s nothing you can do about it!”

Then a sparrowhawk took him out in front of me and ate him. That’ll teach him.

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

I went to a site recently where the padlock code was 58008.

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

You forgot Texas City

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. "china" = "china plate" = "mate")

[–] doc_dish@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

someone who lives with the queen

Surely that would be the Queen's lodger?