BullishUtensil

joined 2 years ago
[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hmmm...

Enter Sandman, and The Unforgiven (Metallica)

The Phantom of the Opera in Tarja's and Marko's version (Nightwish). Also Storytime in Anette's version.

The Keeper of the Seven Keys, and Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)

Chop Suey (System of a Down)

Dance With the Dragon (Dark Sarah)

Ace of spades (Motörhead)

.... A bunch of stuff from Guns'n'Roses, Black Sabbath, and Poison (maybe my definition of metal is wider than yours...)

Other days I'd have listed something by Evanescence, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Nanowar, Dragonforce, ...

Yeah, I tend to be biased towards power metal, symphonic metal, and various '80s groups that are somewhere on the border between "hard rock" and "metal". I know that's not everyone's cup of tea.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The common mistake of mistaking a "children's show" based on something Astrid Lindgren wrote, for something that's emotionally light weight.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yep, that's pretty close to what I've assumed is going on, and I'm doing what I can to accommodate.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's soo my wife.

Friends coming over for dinner, and we want another two seats available at the table? I'd better make her clear off that table because otherwise there'll be another round of "NOOOO, you moved stuff, now I'll never be able to find anything again". "Sweetie, it's all on the side table. I moved the stuff pile by pile, didn't mix the piles" "It's forever gone!"

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Democrats first moves, yes.

That the Republicans already made a bunch of moves...

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BullishUtensil@lemmy.world to c/english@lemmy.ca
 

Sitting at a lunch restaurant where one can order either from self service kiosks, or from a person behind the counter. The counter has a handwritten sign "cash only at register".

Now, which meaning do you think that they intended? That if I want to pay in cash, I have to go to the counter? That if I walk up to the counter, I have to pay in cash?

(Yes, I could have asked, but by the time I spotted the sign, there wasn't anyone by the counter, and I had already successfully used the self service kiosk).

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't call it "measured in inches" as much as they are "named" with a partly numerical name, which may or may not be an adequate correspondence with a different country's length scale.

It's similar with bicycles: many tires are named in inches. Two tires with the same number of "inches" may however not have the same diameter, so to translate size-names into measurements is fraught with pitfalls.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most of my family has this problem, but at least diabetes appears not to be the cause.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It varies so much from day to day, if I even notice that I skipped a meal (not breakfast, mkay? I literally can't skip breakfast). Sometimes I'm in the zone and don't notice that lunch time was like 4 hours ago. Other days I can get really irritated that I haven't had lunch yet and it's another hour until I'm supposed to take that lunch break.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Make everyone a criminal, selectively arrest your enemies. Very simple.

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

And as long as you keep track of which of your 5 different cups is the one that's 16 times larger than the tablespoon measuring scoop. :)

 

...and asks the bartender for the WiFi password.

The bartender replies, "you need to buy a beer first."

So the guy buys a beer, and asks again, "what's the WiFi password?"

The bartender replies, "you need to buy a beer first, all lowercase, no spaces or punctuation"

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