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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (7 children)

can always just pump up more oil out of the ground.

No, this is actually exactly the fucking problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Strictly speaking, the "half your age plus seven" rule says no to relationships for under-14s. If you're 14, half your age plus seven is, of course, 14. Any younger and you get a minimum that is older than you, and that person's own minimum will therefore exclude you. So in the vast majority of cases it actually kinda has your caveat covered already

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Volume is not mass, and neither of them is weight. A gram is strictly speaking a measure of mass, and we just consider it to be a unit of weight in casual terms because the only frame of reference the vast majority of us have has reasonably constant gravity so we conflate mass and weight. That you can sort of use grams to measure volume is literally only because the density of common stuff (especially water) is close enough for most purposes. It's kinda like measuring a distance in units of time so long as the method of travel is known. I can say "an hour's walk" and I'm not really measuring distance there but you know roughly how far I mean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. Spruce needles can do the same preservative job as hops do in beer while creating a different flavour, and some regional styles of beer (as in, an alcoholic drink made by fermenting barley or wheat) use spruce needles in this role. In other cases it is something more like this post though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If it tastes anything like pine needles smell, I'll probably enjoy it. I live in an area with plenty of conifers and already have plenty of those bottles. I'll try it out next week and let you know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Bastard son of Odin
Born to kick your ass

My father was both married and not a Norse god upon my birth. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even divinely fated to kick ass. I just don't know what to do with this song.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

KFC in the UK is responsible for the only time I got chips (fries) while drunk on a night out that were so bad that I binned them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I regret to inform you that there is also Heinz ketchup pasta sauce on our shelves

I hope that one day we can improve and earn your forgiveness

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

It should be noted that while baked beans are a thing in other countries, the scale is... not the same. Britain alone consumes more baked beans (as in specifically haricot beans baked in tomato sauce, not the entire concept of beans that have been baked) than the entire rest of the world combined. Not per capita, in absolute terms. And we can't even grow that kind of bean here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is not at all true for the UK. You generally need a job offer to get a visa to stay for longer than six months.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That jumps left one word rather than to the start of the line in everything I can think of

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I was an eldar player back when I played WH40k, but the tau railguns are such a great bit of visual design. Perhaps amplified by how terrifying they are to be on the receiving end of.

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