Nothing specific, just noting that the Brits have a long history of brutal imperialism. On the other hand, they’re the reason many countries have a holiday where they celebrate their independence.

“When in doubt, blame the Brits” is actually pretty solid general advice that I hadn’t considered before.

Ancient Lemmy lore. Back when it was only beans.

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How many muppets had to die for this novelty?

Sort of–but given that “fat chance” really only has one meaning today, I wouldn’t call it sarcasm really. For sarcasm, I think it would have to be able to be interpreted two different ways.

I tried Wyldheart. Not sure if the demo was released for Next Fest though. It has potential, it’ll be interesting to see how they build it out (it’s very much in alpha). They still need to develop its potential a lot to make it compete with what’s already out there.

We’re the shitpost. It’s us.

The phrase “fat chance” was likely originally used sarcastically. A quick search doesn’t show any consensus, though.

“Boomer” is still an acurate descriptor if you apply it to their tempers and emotional tolerance for minor inconveniences.

They did require admin logins, but they also implemented a bimonthly password change, so there were post-its on all the monitors.

Why call the weeyoo wagon? It’ll grow back.

You had me at “jazz”.

Money and fame do weird shit to your brain. A handful of people have managed to have money and not be a miserable jackass, but it seems to be the minority.

WATCH OUT FOR DIABETES BROTHER IT’LL UNCRANK YOUR HOG

Fuck you’re stupid. They calibrated the rover to transmit at the resonant frequency of cheese, and being made of cheese, the entire moon essentially acted as a reflector. Learn some space history.

I remember finding tone pads that you could use with phones that didn’t have tone dialing yet.

Unrelated, my back hurts.

🪕 Now all I do to fill my time 🪕
🪕 Is stay at home doing culinary crimes 🪕

It was an okay show at the time. Same with his comedy. Neither were the best, but both industries have come a long way in the last 30 years.

Full agree that he sucks as a person, though.

Where I used to live in the US, most credit unions had this as a free feature. Not a thing where I live now in Canada, though :/