Cuberoot

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[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 4 days ago

It's usually not classified this way, but I consider 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall a New Year's song. It combines two of the main NYE traditions -- alcohol and counting backwards.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago

Pronounce and pronunciation seem like they should have the same root, but one of them has an extra 'o' for some perfectly logical reason. I know the difference and don't consistently misspell it, but if I edit a sentence to switch from one to the other without noticing that it's a danger inflection ...

Also maintain vs. maintenance for the same reason.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 3 months ago

"Please don't be offended if I get an erection during this scene."

"Also, please don't be offended if I don't."

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or they did, and the lawyer says, "I won't risk my license putting my name on that horseshit. If this is really how you want to proceed, you'll have to do it yourself."

Which translates to, "I consulted with an attorney who suggested I send you this demand letter."

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A woman from Kalamazoo

Whose limericks stopped at line two

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

A shining wit?

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago

I've blocked a few repost bots, but I think only one human-controlled account.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago

One of the first big kids' books I read on my own. I should re-read the series as an adult since I might have been almost too young for it the first time.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've heard it speculated that certain religious dietary restriction such as Kosher and Halal prohibit many of the foods that would have been most difficult to render safe with the available technology. Without anything resembling modern germ theory, they couldn't articulate any scientific justification, so it was just "God says these lobsters aren't food." And yet, the people who believed that probably got less food poisoning than the people who didn't.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Live to be 80 and retire to an assisted living apartment. The slight differences in life expectancy really show up at the back end. My grandpa spent a year as the only man on his floor and got all the geriatric pussy he could handle. Plus, since he was nearly blind from macular degeneration, he imagined them all as beautiful.

Take care of your health, and good luck with the ladies!

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 5 months ago

You were right, even if it was for the wrong reason.

The Zillow listing said acres where they presumably meant square feet which are a lot smaller. This is a city lot, probably less than even a single acre.

 

I understand that the bite test was used by frontier merchants as a low-tech way to assay gold, which worked because elemental gold was softer than some of the less valuable alloys that might otherwise be mistaken for gold.

But Olympic gold medals contain less than 10% gold. They're exactly the type of forgery the bite test is intended to root out. I've even seen athletes breaking their teeth on silver or bronze medals which makes even less sense to me.

Is it all just a big fuck you to the IOC, mocking them for being too cheap to spring for real gold?

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