Non native English speaker here. So I get that a screwdriver is vodka + orange juice. And I get he is drinking it out of Phillips skull. Still don’t get the punchline.
At least it's not Pumpkin Spiced
Submitted 1 year ago by negativenull@lemm.ee to risa@startrek.website
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Pancito@lemmy.world 1 year ago
negativenull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is a Phillip’s Head Screwdriver:
Pancito@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks, never heard that name before. In my mother tongue it goes by the imple name of ‘Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher’ and that is no joke.
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I recently learned of the existence of Frearson; like the Philips but without the slightly rounded inside corners.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 year ago
epic
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
A “Phillips Head” screwdriver 🪛 is the kind with a + shaped head
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
By the look of it, black clay.
There is always a relevant Oglaf is a little-known relative of the Internet Rule “there is always a relevant XKCD”
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is, but Oglaf kinda brings it on itself by not having any author credit embedded in the comic images and not having an easily searchable archive on their site that I can find. Nothing was cut out from the original comic.
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
I swear every single day the best thing I see in my memmy feed is from risa.
All you prolific trek meme creators have made this place live up to its name.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s wrong with liking pumpkin spice? It’s cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, and it tastes good in coffee. (Although, probably wouldn’t taste good in a screwdriver.)
negativenull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with pumpkin spice. It’s been around for hundreds of years, and is delicious. This is referencing the cultural phenomenon that is Pumpkin Spice that is put in everything.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think “bacon flavored” is more appropriate in this scenario, because I really haven’t seen pumpkin spice flavor outside of coffee, candy and pastry, whereas a few years ago you can buy bacon flavored gum, ice cream, popcorn, candy, soda, vodka, perfume… etc that it became completely absurd.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What really annoys me is that the skull should be upside down.
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
I am so furious that I laughed so hard at this. God DAMN you!
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Worf is best dad, confirmed.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alexander doesn’t think so.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
What’s the deal with pumpkin spice? I’ve seen a few memes about it. But online all I can find is that it’s some kind of beverage.
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
An American thing. Apparently it is actually pumpkin seed flavoured. They rarely eat pumpkin, calling it “squash”, and renaming squash to something else (summer squash or something?) Anyhow, they can traditionally only get the flavouring at one time of the year, their relevant harvest festival, and so scarcity breeds obsession.
It is even more bizarre from the viewpoint of the southern hemisphere, where spring has sprung, and our delicious pumpkins are available year round anyhow.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Not pumpkin seed flavored, “pumpkin spice” are spices used in American pumpkin pies, namely cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. There is no pumpkin in pumpkin spice.
This is from someone who likes pumpkin spice and was also confused about it for a long time.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Like Margot said, it’s the spices used for pumpkin pie. There’s a relative flavor you see sometimes that’s full pumpkin pie flavor, which I prefer. It’s more well rounded. Pumpkin spice has, over the last decade probably, fully taken over fall drink flavors. It started with Starbucks lattes, spread to other cafés. Now it’s in everything. It has fully taken over the fall beer flavors I think, overtaking Oktoberfest styles.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 year ago
They rarely eat pumpkin, calling it “squash”, and renaming squash to something else (summer squash or something?)
Admittedly, I and probably 70% of other Americans were formerly unaware that pumpkins are a variety of squash, making this paragraph surprisingly difficult for me to even parse. So that was an interesting and kind of fun experience.
If it helps, I have come to realize after thinking about it that I see any roundish variety, regardless of smoothness or color, as a pumpkin, regardless of its actual name. If it's gourd-shaped (butternut/zucchini), it's a squash.
The flavor is seasonal and therefore novel, you're right about that. But tbf, indian food uses squash in general, which seems to extend to white/orange pumpkins, and we definitely have Indian-Americans. Ditto Hispanic. It is eaten more often, just not by white people.
For the useless naming difference, as always, any beef with America can more factually be blamed on the Europeans. Specifically, the French.
negativenull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Many years ago, Starbucks introduced the Pumpkin Spice Latte in the US. It became a weird cultural phenomenon. Every year there is a release day, when it’s made available for the season. It was a huge thing on social media. Other companies started adding Pumpkin Spice to their things (from cookies, breakfast cereals, beer, etc).
It’s become a joke at this point, though lots of things still have Pumpkin Spice versions.
Steve@startrek.website 1 year ago
Its also not a joke, plenty of new pumpkin spice items everywhere
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The next week.
Geordie: … Oh hey Worf, you having a Phillip’s head screw driver again?
Worf: … No this is Robert’s head