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Today it’s the toothpaste, tomorrow it’s your neighbours penis
LinkedIn: I don’t have “boyfriends”, I have unpaid live-in interns
Lemmy: I have between 0 and 4 boyfriends on any given day, depending on their gender identity and whether you consider a ThinkPad running Arch a “boy”
In Australia there’s a tree called Gympie-Gympie.
“Gympie” is a powerful swear-word in the local aboriginal language (like “Fucking cunt!”) and in that language, repeating a word twice is like amplifying it 10x. They named this tree the most aggressive swear they could come up with.
The tree is covered in tiny hypodermic needle-like hairs. Brushing against it leaves you coated in these hairs which inflict a pain that has been described as like being burned with fire, except with fire, your nerve endings are eventually destroyed. Not so with the Gympie-Gympie.
Pain from an encounter has been known to last for months or years. There is a story of a soldier on patrol who used it’s leaves as toilet paper. He committed suicide after a few weeks. There’s a report of a horse which brushed one of these trees, and it went mad and ran nonstop until it found a cliff and ran right over the edge to its death.
Gympie-Gympie leaves would make the most cursed glitter imaginable
What’s even weirder is it used to be a spoon
Well yeah, it affects me, in my air conditioned, water-from-the-tap, temperate climate, stable government home much less than it affects Burmese, Bangladeshi, Congolese, Moldovan and Bolivian sub-working class women and children.
2·1 day agoPeople who play garbage truck simulator
Why not both?
16·2 days agoThis, and the fusion thing that turns mercury into gold, are borderline witchcraft.
EUV is etching runes onto stones and trapping lightning and demons inside
Demon I think comes from the Latin meaning “Show” and “money” also comes from “demonstra” to "show or represent value,from in terms of the hellish entity comes from “Demonic spirits” as in "the ones who show themselves, as opposed to the spirits that don’t show themselves. “Monster” comes from monstra, which is from demonstra, a monster is a specific spirit that shows itself.
3·2 days agoMan that thing fucked me up when I was a kid. Hated every second of seen it.
I think it is based on Bill Keller, the psychic parasitic twin of young girl Edie Keller in PK Dicks’ novel Dr Bloodmoney
What if abbreviations are my trigger?
1·2 days agoI can’t remember the last time I owned a computer with a cd drive
1·3 days agoI’m surprised Lenovo haven’t been more competitive this year, they have always been my go to for monitors
2·3 days agoBougainvillea are fucking savage, and they grow really fast
I would qualify this further to say that cops are motivated to make as many arrests and lay as many charges that have a potential to get a conviction as possible. They don’t really care if half or more of the charges get downgraded or tossed out, but they will charge a person with ABCDWXYZ during an arrest, because that looks good to them. If the DA only gets B and X to stick, that’s fine, they got their arrest. It’s the scattergun approach to charging people and arresting them.
There’s a fair chance that wherever you go, whatever you do, there is something about you, your conduct during questioning, or your property that a cop can cite, charge or arrest you for. This is by design. This an age-old tactic by dictatorships and opressive regimes that work in their favour. It’s illegal for you to be you, and you aren’t locked up only by the grace of the oppressor. The result they want is that you behave, comply, and be quiet, or they will find something about you to bust you for.
Saddam is hiding in the first comment.
Just use Gflghtdhh instead.