[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 3 months ago

I agree with the other three, but this is wrong about “narcissists”. “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” is a diagnosis, but calling someone a “narcissist” isn’t. That’s just a description of someone’s personality. It’s much older than the diagnosis, going back to the Greek myth of Narcissus. The diagnosis doesn’t get to co-opt the much older usage.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago

Lazenby Bond was not a bachelor by the end of the movie but I still love this.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 6 months ago

There was a show at the NYC Fringe Festival, “I can haz cheeseburger, the musical”, that focused on the walrus’s quest to find his bucket. It wasn’t good exactly, but it was very of its moment.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 6 months ago

See, I thought it was mildly infuriating because the images aren’t “many types of airplanes”, they’re only a few types of airplanes repeated at different sizes or different angles.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 7 months ago

If I love “unreliable shifting cities” narratives, like Dark City, Fallen London and the City of Saints and Madmen books, what similar kinds of settings might I like?

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I buy nearly everything generic but generic Band-Aids have terrible adhesive so I always buy name brand.

Edit: Oh, and frozen pizza. I’ve had too many generics with crusts that might as well have been made of cardboard.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 238 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

UwU I look just like Buddy Holly

O_o and you’re Mary Tyler Moore…

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 8 months ago

“A Clockwork Orange”, famously, was set in a post-Cold War setting where the West and Russia had grown close, and the who,s thing was written in a dialect that was part English and part Russian. But I agree with the other poster that in general it’s too much work.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 8 months ago

Derry Girls is the first one that comes to mind. It gets heavy once or twice but is generally pretty cozy.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 9 months ago

I used to see Everett True every day on Reddit’s vintage comics subreddit. Fun to see him again!

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The fun of Lemmy’s “all” is that you see posts from all around the world. Today my feed is suddenly full of memes in German about an old white guy with an eyepatch. Who is he, and why is he suddenly a meme?

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 10 months ago

Proud to live in the absolute lowest car-owning city. And I’m honestly surprised that it’s almost half! So few people who I know own cars. But there are big outer areas that are basically suburbs and I assume the ownership is higher there.

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“Good doctors” list? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Is there some federated way to re-create the childfree-friendly doctor list that the subreddit had, on here? Not that I need it anymore myself—I was snipped ages ago—but that was a resource that helped a lot of people.

[-] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago

I was in line to buy tickets to a concert. The tickets didn’t cost much, but I was poor, so as I was in line I was wavering back and forth between the cheapest tickets and the second cheapest. When I got to the front I was on the side of the cheapest.

Another person who bought the cheapest was an incredibly cute girl who I met there and ended up dating for several months, and that relationship, after it ended, gave me the confidence to make a move on another girl who I had long been attracted to, and our relationship made me choose the particular job that I chose because it let me move near where she lived.

So if I had been a couple of spaces further back in line, I probably wouldn’t have lived in that state for two years. True story.

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Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

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A lot of movies, especially horror movies (I’m watching one now) depict blind people as not having pupils. But my understanding, based on blind people I’ve met, is that the problem is usually in the lens or the retina, and that they have pupils the same as everyone else. Are there actually blind people out there whose eyes are 100% white, or is that purely a Hollywood invention?

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