ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 1 day ago:
Absolutely, as someone who’s interacted with a fair few squaddies, the portrayal of the soldiers is very accurate.
It’s also got some fantastic dark humour and one liners in it;
“They’re not going to fucking fit!”
And
“Leave me spoon, I can’t -”
“No being a hero, you bloody hypocrite!”
And
“I hope I give you the shits!”
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 1 day ago:
If you want a good British horror film:
Dog Soldiers.
A cult classic, it’s got Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth from Game of Thrones) and Stewart Pertwee (Alfred in Gotham).
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 day ago:
I see the spirit of La Resistancé lives on.
- Comment on Hammond! 3 days ago:
Tonight on Bottom Gear:
I hallucinate events that never happened,
James generates a new glue-based cheese recipe,
And Richard becomes a hamster.
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 3 days ago:
When was it broadcasted? A date is needed to register a complaint.
- Comment on Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper: ‘Making decisions based on what the US do or say doesn’t feel like sensible foreign policy’ 6 days ago:
Fucking hell, they’re just realising this now?
I fucking hate my country sometimes…
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I dunno Violet, something tells me you’d crawl across the desert of Oman just to drink from the straight of Hormuz.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I would think, given the region’s attitude to LGBTQA+, they’d be incredibly difficult to find.
However, once you have found them and they are in a space they feel safe to be their full self, you’d have the best Iftar of your life!
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
But who the fuck is actually introducing these bills? Which entity/organisation/individual/company are they getting the ideas from?
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to be pedantic but strictly speaking “shareholder profit” isn’t the issue with capitalism because that would include worker-owned cooperatives which are not causing the same problems.
The issue is the legal obligation of a private or public company to make an increase in returns for shareholders year on year.
This is why decisions like downgrading quality, design by committee to appeal to focus groups, everything becoming a subscription service, and firing staff to reduce wage overheads in the last financial quarter exist.
Because it’s easier for the company directors / C-level executives to make these decisions which make line go up, rather than try to justify to shareholders why a steady or small dip in returns is necessary for longer term investment and growth.
This is compounded by the shortsightedness of companies only planning quarter to quarter then governments + central banks basing all economic decisions on GDP figures.
Because the easiest thing to make national line go up is to give tax cuts to the owning elites for them to shuffle even more money around in the stock and commodity markets, they buy up all the assets of the working class, the middle class, and the governments selling them off.
But funnily enough, centralising all the apparent wealth in the hands of a few silver-spooned arseholes is not a basis for a functioning society.
- Comment on U WOT M8?? 2 weeks ago:
The screen reads “Bluetooth Init…” which is short for “Bluetooth Initialising” i.e. starting up, turning on, setting up.
“Innit” is a common UK slang term usually associated with chav/roadmen which means “isn’t it”. This is used at the end of a sentence or as an affirmation.
Example A
Brit 1: Lovely weather today, innit?
Brit 2: Yeah mate!
Example B
Brit 1: Lovely weather today.
Brit 2: Innit tho. (Meaning: “Yes, it is.”)
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 weeks ago:
Do I believe in ghosts in the literal sense of an actual spirit hanging around in the physical world haunting places and people? No.
Do I think it’s fascinating to see how the idea of “ghosts” are used in a cultural sense usually representing an individual or group’s desires, thoughts, feelings, etc. after they’ve passed on and usually storytelling around respecting their wishes or finishing what they started so they can finally be “at peace”? Yes.
I also find it fascinating in a tragic way how people who’ve gone through extreme grief and loss can cling to the idea of ghosts, particularly of loved ones. Perhaps the pyschie doesn’t want to let go of that person so much that it can manifest as audio-visual hallucinations that feel incredibly real to the individual.
After all, we all perceive the world through our brain: it is the filter for everything.
I’ve experienced some strange stuff personally, but I don’t think I’ve seen an actual ghost. I remember having a dream about a close relative the night they died suddenly and we all found out in the morning. But that could be my memory post-rationalising something.
I’ve seen a milk bottle fly out from the back of the fridge but I swear I remember that the fridge wasn’t rocking unstably and that the milk was definitely at the back of the fridge. But I could have seen incorrectly because who pays attention to the precise location of a milk bottle when opening the fridge.
And I’ve encountered machines that appeared to be haunted. An ex-gf’s iPod classic she kept because it is a time capsule of her music would randomly turn itself on, play 10 seconds of a random song, then turn itself off again.
I can feel how a ghost story would fit all of these and feel like it would make emotional sense to me. Like there’s some deep part of our evolutionary psychology that supports feeling this way. Why?
Now in that sense I believe people genuinely experienced “ghosts” that aren’t actually there but are a part of their perceived reality and I find that fascinating.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
What a terrible day to be able to read…
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
I searched that wiki page for “horse” and found nothing, please can someone explain what that reference is because from the sounds of it I really don’t want to search it…
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 5 weeks ago:
It’s how I talk to everyone when I’m not masking or following social scripts. It’s the most fun I get out of social interactions.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already adopted the transparent frame: nothing to hide, only my undivided attention if they’d like to geek out about their special interests or just want someone to listen.
- Comment on Lab anxiety 1 month ago:
Cons: cause a global pandemic.
Pros: free dinner.
I see no problem with this.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
Those all sound delicious, I’ll have to give them a try 😋
Yeah I do and they are sold under that name here in the UK because English will just adopt words from other language or slang terms if they’re used enough. Also in English words for farm animals are Germanic in origin and words for the meat of those same animals are Norman (northern France) in origin because after the Norman Conquest in 1066, the nobility were all Norman French and were the ones to refer to cuts of meat whereas the peasantry didn’t eat the meat of the farm animals.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
So here in the UK they sell these fresh in Lidl: a cheap supermarket but it has an amazing bakery where they make these and other items.
I often go to Lidl at lunchtime to buy two of these and something simple to fill them with into sandwiches, usually cheese and ham, (insert bland UK food joke here).
My question for you, in the spirit of international culinary collaboration, what Brazilian fillings would you stuff one of these with to make a great sandwich?
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
I believe those are called Petit Pain.
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 1 month ago:
Dozens!
- Comment on Stove seamine 2 months ago:
(heavy westcountry breathing)
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 months ago:
Best one is to respond to something they say with “Oh that’s quite interesting” in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.
Works particularly well on Americans because in American English “quite” is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.
- Comment on The Wagon 2 months ago:
Are you ok mate? Do you need a cup of tea and a lie down?
- Comment on The Wagon 2 months ago:
The only guys who’d get mad at this either have some unresolved homophobia or are generally avoidant of touch.
- Comment on Ben swag... 2 months ago:
This meme is old enough to start puberty…
Ow my bones!
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 2 months ago:
Oh yeah that’s a common question about ethnicity usually an optional question filled out in case there’s some legal process in the future trying to determine if there’s underlying discrimination from poor treatment/service to a specific group when a legal complaint has been lodged.
I’m talking about the weird obsession some Americans have with determining what % of their genes originated from other countries.
The closest it’s gotten for me is usually a conversation about family history which most of the time is usually “A country on my father’s side and B country on my mother’s side”. But they’ve never broken it down into percentages before like it’s some sort of eugenic recipe.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 2 months ago:
Timon and Pumba must volunteer for every UK mental health phoneline.
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 2 months ago:
I honestly don’t know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn’t American boast about their mixed “genealogy”?
