Freshparsnip
@Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
- Comment on If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin? 6 hours ago:
My understanding is that a cupcake is made of the same stuff as cake, while a muffin is more like bread
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 day ago:
There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 day ago:
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia
- Comment on Don't worry about it 2 days ago:
Alcohol can cause those things, depending on who is drinking it
- Comment on Front is back. 4 days ago:
Everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long- Weird Al Yankovic
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 6 days ago:
As a Canadian, I’m relieved the conservatives didn’t win the election but I would have rather preferred the NDP win. A lot of people like myself really wanted to vote NDP but voted liberal out of fear of vote-splitting leading to a conservative win. We’ve forsaken the left wing party to stave off the right wing party.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 6 days ago:
I hope so
- Comment on The inventor of shoes must of argued a lot with his customers about the importance of wearing socks with them. 1 week ago:
NO?
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 week ago:
That’s discrimination
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 1 week ago:
Luigi Mangione has been selectedcas the new pope
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 week ago:
Luigi Mangione has been selected as the new pope
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 week ago:
I was working on my mental health
- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 1 week ago:
This happens in the movie The Wedding Banquet
- Comment on Rewarding kids for pulling their teeth out may not be one of our better ideas 1 week ago:
I never forcibly pulled it, I just wiggled it a lot
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- Comment on Chat is this real 1 week ago:
Wikipedia says Fitzgerald
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s supposed to be ironic that the one time he took the risk was the time it crashed
- Comment on How much longer until we're just the States of America? 2 weeks ago:
The Untied States of America
- Comment on Math is amazing! 2 weeks ago:
NO?
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 weeks ago:
A few months ago it seemed like a sure thing conservatives would win
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 3 weeks ago:
He should be arrested
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 weeks ago:
2
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 weeks ago:
The opposite of parental controls would be blocking content made for kids
- Comment on What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand 3 weeks ago:
I can’t find it now
- Comment on What Could Go Wrong? App to help parents find childcare on demand 3 weeks ago:
Right underneath this, I saw a post about an Uber driver driving away with someone’s kid. I couldn’t figure out how to screenshot the two posts next to each other
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 3 weeks ago:
Not anyone, you have to be a male catholic
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 3 weeks ago:
Because most popes are cardinals first and becoming a cardinal takes time. Usually they have to get a college education, then be a preist for several years, then become a bishop, then become a cardinal. CGPGrey video about how to become pope recommended.
- Comment on In heat 3 weeks ago:
People Google questions like that? I would have looked up “Heat” in either Wikipedia or imdb and checked the cast list. Or gone to Jolie’s Wikipedia or imdb pages to see if Heat is listed
- Comment on Hear The Good News 4 weeks ago:
Ah tomorrow they’ll “lose” the body and he’ll turn up alive
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 4 weeks ago:
Umbridge wasn’t killed by the centaurs, she’s in book 7 and so survived the centaurs. She is last seen surrounded by dementors