That’s what they use paper towel roll tubes for? I… I have been using mine very incorrectly

Lmao. That’s exactly what working customer service is like. Except you are the trash can lol

My mom worked for DirecTV (through a 3rd party company called West at home), and she would get calls all the damn time from people complaining that they don’t have local news, and she would have to explain to them that the news channel coming out of Chicago, 800 miles away, was considered their local news (or New York, la, whatever). Craziest system I’d ever heard of. People were pissed when they realized that they just did not have an option for the news station in their own town

Sure thing! Just changed to f-slur

A buddy of mine’s grandad once got drunk with us when we were like 17ish, and told us that no matter we did, we should never join a fraternity in college.

Apparently, when he was in college, he got sucked into this cycle of hazing and sunk cost fallacy (not what he called it, but that’s what I think it was). It started off pretty basic, and ended up with him and a couple other pledges being dressed as girls and servicing all of the brothers for a weekend. Including, and this is a quote, “taking it up the ass. The other two guys got some butter shoved up their first, but I didn’t.” Said he bled for days and couldn’t tell anyone, because then they’d call him a f-slur and probably kick him out of school

I’m assuming it’s not quite so bad anymore, but lemme tell you, I never once considered joining a frat after that tearful old man relived his fucking horror story to us while drunk

God, I wish I was the type of person who could afford to leave my town, much less my country. :/

Seconding the other person. I am deeply curious about learning about Cuba, whether you currently live there or not. I understand if you don’t want to talk openly because of flame wars in comment sections, but I’d love to DM, or move the conversation to a different community if needed.

This is why I say a much more interesting question is what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

It entirely depends on your definition of a chicken egg. Is a chicken egg an egg that hatches a chicken, or an egg that is laid by a chicken? If it is an egg that hatches a chicken then the chicken egg came first, but if it is an egg that is laid by a chicken then the chicken came first

Love the kingly boxer shorts

It is always so weird to me to see an animorphs fan in the wild. I know we’re not super uncommon, but I was super active on Richard’s Animorphs Forum back in the day, and associate the two. I always have to remind myself animorphs fan≠equal RAFian, and calm myself down lol

Thank you! I’ll be going and checking it all out! :D

¿Por que no los dos?

Pointless AND useless!

Do you have a website where I can read all of these in order? Absolutely loving them

I personally prefer the peanut butter one. It’s my favorite of the sugary cereals, tied with the Reese’s cereal (but I don’t really care for the chocolate bits). Cheerios or grape nuts is my favorite of any cereal

You know how if you’re reading a headline from the onion and you mistake it for real you’ve “eaten the onion?”

Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon? Where a real headline reflecting actual reality is so ridiculous that you reject it out of hand as satire only to realize it was genuine? Regurgitating the onion? What’s the name for this?

I did Nazi that joke coming…

Grew up in Hampton Roads (Portsmouth, Newport News, VAB mainly, but lived all over). It’d be so cool to just walk down to the strip, step into the ocean, and slowly grow to the size that I could walk to Europe like I was walking across a small, shallow pond, then shrink back down to size, get my passport stamped, and have some German beer and sausages before coming home. Lol

Akshually, it’s a biblically accurate being but not quite a biblically accurate angel

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The art work is still cool as all fuck

Star Trek is huge 'round these parts. One of the larger servers is trek themed, and there’s a whole buncha trek coms on and off it

… I am stunned that on Lemmy of all places no one has yet said star trek!