HonoraryMancunian

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I am doing anything I want in there and it will be glorious in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The stairs are part of an art installation at the Kongresshaus in Biel, Switzerland. "Beautiful steps number two" was created in 2009 for an exhibition. The artists told the website Snopes the stairs and doors are not functional, and the steps are not meant to support real people.

Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Heat death would be my assumption, so between about 10^100 and 10^106 years

I bet God agrees. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is it now

TIL that the term "marijuana" has a racist history, and meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just lol @ the notion that smoking weed magically makes white women attracted to you, I can't believe people fell for that bullshit

What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

fishes

Fun fact! Fishes means multiple types of different species of fish

What is your favorite dinosaur? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

T.rex is the goat and I'm convinced more people haven't said it only because it's too 'obvious'

Have you got any weird questions FROM the opposite gender? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bro's tacitly admitted he's mediocre at best in bed

What is your favourite poem, and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Teeny tiny axolotl

There is really not a lotl

Of you. Not a jot or tittle

So I'll call you axolitl

— anon

UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

And never close a cubicle door

You don't have to use gyroelongation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I assume it's because the GR has a ratio of the longer side to both sides summed. Although I can't explain it further than that lol

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Google what r u doing (lemmy.world)
 
Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Damn that's egregious

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Did you know a characteristic of killer whales is that they work together? (lemmy.world)
 

The orcas' trait is they orchestrate

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the above poster has ever typed ConocoPhillips (hey it's on my autocorrect too)

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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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Just wait until the next invention (lemmy.world)
 
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You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it? (lemmy.world)
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Me, checking later than I should with my siblings (lemmy.world)
 
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For real tho (lemmy.world)
 
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What are some productive things to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep for a few hours? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm looking for suggestions that zombie-me could follow through with. The problem is I can barely bring myself to get out of bed, let alone do a useful task. It just wastes typically 2–5 hours of my life as I wait for tiredness to finally (re)take hold.

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Wood you believe it (lemmy.world)
 
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UBI works too (lemmy.world)
 
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TIL postboxes extend an extra foot or two into the ground (lemmy.world)
 
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