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Some cheeses are luminescent. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Are you aware that the word "than" is part of the English language?

Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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

I once heard about a tribe in South America. Say a man had four wives. If he was asked how many wives he had, and in that moment he only could see two of them, he had to answer "I have two wifes". I wonder if in this culture sarcasm would be a thing.

For those who's country's national language is **NOT** English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Fluenty enough to know it isn't who's but whose. But not enough to properly understand a movie or a tv show. So the worst of both worlds.

What was the most under rated British TV show ever for you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Father Ted

Name the best US to EU switch you have made so far in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I guess you have to change somerhing in the program options in order to make the Search tab visible

Name the best US to EU switch you have made so far in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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

Use qbittorrent. It has torrent search and download integrated.

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"No money, no operation" (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by pocopene@lemmy.world to c/AskUSA@discuss.online

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I was reading Michael Caine autobiography, "The elephant to Hollywood". At a certain point he's in living in LA, and his wife becomes suddenly ill. She had a burst appendix, one of these "you have surgery on a couple hours or you die" situations. The thing is once they get to the hospital and she's properly diagnosed, Caine is asked $5000 beforehand for her operation, and he's literally told; "No money, no operation". Eventually he realizes that he belongs to the actors Gild, so the operation is covered, and everything was alright. But I wondered, does (did) the US health system really work like this? Will a perfectly curable person be left to die just because a forward payment can't be done? For context, this happened in LA probably in the 60s or 70s.

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[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I can imagine OP's reaction when they see a pregnant woman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwBjuthGgE

-These women totally turn me on.

-Waitresses?

-No, damn it, the pregnant ones! When I see one, I think they've been fucked. This one, for example; she's sprawled out, they've fucked her, they've cum inside her, they've left the lump inside her... How else the hell (could she have gotten pregnant)?