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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It looks like a copy of Snake Tales. The art on this one is a bit rougher than what I recall from Snake Tales, but the style is the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"Correlation is not causation" is the phrase I use in that situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is the only correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos! I haven't laughed so hard in ages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

New:Subscribed until I catch up, then New:All to look for new communities to subscribe to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The primary form of text communication in Australia is sms. I do a bit of regional travel in Australia and after adopting "chat features" (RCS) in the Google sms app I started having critical messages failing to go through (without notifying me) because of poor (data) reception and it wasn't falling back to sms.

I love the features RCS brings to messaging and would love to use it, but it's just not reliable without an uninterrupted data connection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What my mother called "allergy testing."

Basically, myself and my siblings were placed on a diet that consisted of rice cakes (the puffed-rice-compressed-discs-of-bland type) and margarine for a few days to "detox." Then we were introduced to foods to see if we had an "allergic reaction." Two things stand out in my memories.

  1. I specifically recall the sensation of waking in the middle of the night to vomit my "dinner" all over myself: an entire plate of overcooked, boiled, green (string) beans. This meant, to my deluded mother, that I was allergic to string beans. I'm not. Unfortunately, though, I couldn't stand the taste of string beans for about 30 years after that.

  2. Going to birthday parties as an eight year old and bringing your own rice cakes (the puffed-rice-compressed-discs-of-bland type) and margarine and not being able to partake of the cakes and candy and soda and other sugary deliciousness was both soul cruising and humiliating.

Edit: punctuating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My mother currently has dirt floors.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It depends.

  • If you are dining, then place it on the far side of your plate.
  • If you are sitting at a table, but not dining, then place it approximately halfway between the dining position and the table edge.
  • If you are standing by the table, then I'd go with about 4"-6" from the table edge.
  • If you are standing by the table in a high traffic area, then I'd go with 6"-8".
  • If you notice someone nearby who is particularly animated when speaking, then I'd aim for the centre of the table.

This answer assumes the table in question is a dining table. Coffee tables are a whole different kettle of fish; and don't even get me started on side tables, bureaus and credenzas!

Edit: formatting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I went under for an appendectomy in 2004. I can remember the feeling of the anaesthetic moving up my arm (they put it in through a wrist cannula). It was weird. It felt like nothing. My hand just disappeared from my senses. I felt it moving up my arm and into my shoulder and into my neck and

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This isn't an article. It's an ad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unsolicited medical advice drives me nuts.

Gee. Thanks "doctor" for your advice. Obviously I'm going to listen to you after you watched a three minute YouTube video and not the doctor with six years of medical training and education!

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