[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How much d'you want to bet that Putin was waxing lyrical to him about Hannibal (the Carthaginian General and great military tactician), and the ignorant fuckwit assumed he meant Lecter?

Edit: typo.

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 19 points 1 month ago

I mean, I'm not saying I like it, but it probably looks much less garish IRL.
The estate agents have clearly taken the photos on an overcast day, then (with their usual cack-handed approach to photography) fucked with the sliders in Photoshop until the pictures look less dingy.

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 12 points 1 month ago

I can't find the original study, but according to this NPR article they were all scheduled for surgical abortions.

The abortion pill is a two pill process - the study was to find out if progesterone injections could reverse the effects of taking the first pill only.

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 10 points 2 months ago

Now I'm just imagining Pliny the Elder with access to TikTok:

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History - BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES:

The human bite is also looked upon as one of the most dangerous of all. The proper remedy for it is human ear-wax: a thing that we must not be surprised at, seeing that, if applied immediately, it is a cure for the stings of scorpions even, and serpents.

If a woman takes the first tooth that; a child has shed, provided it has not touched the ground, and has it set in a bracelet, and wears it constantly upon her arm, it will preserve her from all pains in the uterus and adjacent parts.

For the cure of cataract, it is reckoned a good plan to apply a wolf's excrements

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D28

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

OP is clearly a troll:

In fact, trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three . . . many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers.
They don't realize that many can be a number. As in: one, two,three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many-many-one, many-many-two, many-many-three, many many many, many-many-many-one, many-many-many-two, many-many-many-three, LOTS.
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 12 points 2 months ago

It depends - are you Inigo Montoya?

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 25 points 4 months ago

"...unfortunately, they can no longer move anything else."

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 11 points 4 months ago

It's not my fault! The bigger boys tricked me!

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago

Not sure I'd categorise us as a civilised country at the moment, but in the UK it's a full week before your employer can ask for a note: https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 18 points 4 months ago

I've been working in Primary School IT for the past 20 years - I can guarantee that IT (if they were asked at all) told the school how many PCs would fit, and were ignored because they 'need enough for a full class!'

It's infuriating.

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

'Hmmm - what can I bring in return? No cool shiny things around here- ooh! Gizzard stones! They're useful! Hope this one's big enough 'cause they're much bigger than I am!'

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Before he moved to the BBC, Graham Norton had a late 90s/early 2000s show on Channel 4, which (amongst other things) featured random shit off the internet.

I swear, half the weird internet stuff would be prefaced with 'So, Carrie Fisher sent me this email- '.

Edit: Youtube - Carrie Fisher & Graham Norton Search The Dark Web (NSFW)

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