• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    2 days ago

    Good morning. How are you?

    Fine, and you?

    Technically that was two lies because I did not care how they were doing.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
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    I definitely did not accidentally break my ArchLinux (BTW) install for some time because I failed to read the wiki entry for grub when switching from systemd-boot.

    Totally didn’t happen.

  • Darohan@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    “I crashed my car while I was learning, too, it all turned out alright” to a kid who had just had a collision outside my house with a parked car (not mine). He seemed to be taking it pretty hard. I was in a collision while I was learning to drive, but the lie was that I was at fault, when in fact I had been rear-ended by a distracted driver. Also, my car was written off, so “turned out alright” is subjective. I’m an open car-hater, and frequent attendee of the fuckcars communities here on Lemmy, but I’m not so proud as to not put that on-hold for a teen going through Baby’s First Car Accident.

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      2 days ago

      I totaled a car pretty early into my driving. I turned out alright. So I hereby allow you to use my story as your own.

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    2 days ago

    “Good morning”

    The morning had, in fact, not been properly evaluated and I could at the time not fully judge whether it was “good” or not. It was definitely cold though, but I did not want to say “cold morning” as that is not one of the expected greetings.

    The morning turned out “good” after a full evaluation, so I fortunately did not have to go back and apologize for any misinformation.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    My sister asked me if I thought her infant/my niece was cute. I said yeah.

    All babies are fugly and gross annoying blobs.

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      I’m so glad that I, as a man, don’t get handed over random babies from friends.

      “Do you want to hold him?”

      Oh god no, take that thing away! It’s gonna puke, I’m sure!

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      This always cracks me up in the OR - in C sections, the mom is usually awake, so the staff in the room need to watch what they say. Baby comes out like a fucking chest-burster from Alien, covered in blood, that vernix gunk that looks like rancid cheese, and sometimes literal shit. Nasty goo aside, babies pretty much universally look like a hairless pug when the first come out.

      Invariably, 2 or 3 nurses start doing the whole “Oooh she’s so cuuuute!” thing. I still can’t tell if they legit think it’s cute, or if they’re just really good at putting a show on for mom… cuz they look like something from a bad scifi-horror movie.

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    Today my friend’s gf challenged me to an arm wrestling match to prove to her friend that she was as strong as a man now. She’s started doing karate a few months ago and she never stops talking about it. She’s super proud of the results she achieved. Anyway, they asked me because I happened to be closest guy in the friend group to her. I thought it was a joke and so I put out my arm while barely applying any pressure, but she was taking it seriously. She was clenching her teeth and holding her breath, and her face started turning red. I felt nothing… but I felt really bad for her and didn’t want to humiliate her in front of her friend so I pretended to struggle and lost.