tetris11

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Up and down. Something shameful that I'd done in the past is coming back to bite me, and I'm keeping my head down, guard up, and not looking anyone in the eye. In the long scheme of things, it's not that bad, but still, everyone knows.

On the otherhand I rekindled my love of javascript, and started working on a game that I seem to be quite passionate about. Potential future revenue stream depending on popularity (I just need one obsessive whale to make a one-off payment of £100,000 and I'll be set for life).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

drunken shenanigans

Is your old friendship group as shameless as mine is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Speak not to me in the low-tongue, Arcanian!

 

Investigating this further, I looked at events that were occurring in 1899 in Portugal and noted the following births:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_in_Portugal

  • 6 February - Jaime Gonçalves, footballer (deceased)
  • 25 February - António Pinho, footballer (deceased)
  • 21 April - José Ramos, footballer (deceased)
  • 30 April - Fernando António, footballer (deceased)
  • 10 May - Artur Paredes, guitar player (died 1980)
  • 21 August - António Leite, fencer (died 1958)
  • 26 August - Francisco Vieira, footballer (deceased)
  • 24 October - João Francisco Maia, footballer (deceased)
  • 8 November - Manuel António Vassalo e Silva, Governor-General of Portuguese India (died 1985)
  • 19 December - Fernando Santos Costa, army officer (died 1982)
  • 30 December - José Pimenta, footballer (deceased)
  • Armando Machado, fadista, guitarist, "viola" player (died 1974)
  • Jesus Muñoz Crespo, footballer (died 1979)
  • Sarmento Rodrigues, naval officer, colonist, professor (died 1979)

Coincidence? I think not. I reckon Queen Victoria new exactly how shot our chances would be in any subsequent World Cups against Portugal, and sought to minimize the damage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

The Mysterons were very scary to 7 year old me!

They scared the shit out of me as 12 year old. I remember sometimes opening my eyes at night and peering around into the fuzzy blackness, in fear of seeing those two circles creeping towards me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I had a friend who was obsessed with these guys. I was more of a Scarlet man myself. We fought for supremacy on the playground, and to this day I refuse to tell his parents where he's buried.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (9 children)

The solution is so easy, we just need a quickly digestible post that can be posted to Reddit and be immediately grokked. I propose the following: (hem, hem)

  • You there, Canadian! Go to lemmy.ca!
  • You there, Britannian! Go to feddit.uk!
  • You there, Germanian! Go to feddit.org or discuss.tchncs.de!
  • You there, Denmarkian! Go to feddit.dk!
  • You there, Franconian! Go to jlai.lu!
  • You there, Swedonian! Go to feddit.nu!
  • You there, Australian! Go to aussie.zone!
  • You there, Mid-Westian! Go to midwest.social!
  • and so forth...

I really think it will drive up the numbers without any confusion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Eh why not, might mellow them out a little

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Woah, star62 was my password too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

God that sounds amazing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

A cheap, sweet, high in protein, low in calories snack that costs about 1.50

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He gets more flack than he deserves. He tried to change school dinners yes, but the government at the same time were severely cutting back the budget for school dinners in general. Once the quality fell through, they used Jamie as a scapegoat for the whole thing

 
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Combined Cadet Force

I still have a hard time explaining this to people who don't know what it is.

Essentially, kids are "voluntarily" put into this thing after school where they dress up in uniforms and berets and forced to do marching drills.

You then pick whether you want to do Army/Navy/RAF, and you get to do some shooting drills. Guns are brought into the school (without ammo) and kids are shown how to shoot.

Every year each group goes on a summer camp type excursion where they get to fire real weapons or fly gliders or something.

And that's it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lyhccGJHUk

Sing along if you know the lyrics:

Rats, rats, we are the rats,
Celebrating yet another birthday bash!
𝓶𝓲𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓵, it's your birthday today,
Cake and ice cream is on it's way!
And 𝓶𝓲𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓵, has been such a good boy this year,
Open up your gifts while we all cheer!

 

Take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkwind#Discography

Every year from 1970 onwards is either an album release, or a live concert, or staggered album release, all with at maximum a 1-year hiatus.

In 2003 to 2004 something drastic of cosmic and celestial import must have happened.

 

Learning to drive late in life. I'm good with awareness, changing gears, interactions, roundabouts, spatial awareness, yadda yadda - a lifetime of cyclist awareness.

I just can't brake softly to save my life. It feels like I put the pedal half down, and nothing happens to the speed and then I do an inch more and suddenly the whole car locks up.

Is this normal? I just have to get used to finding a gentle breaking point somehow?

 
 
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I'm on 2 teaspoons a day.

Any studies out there about the negative effects of it?

Is Marmite poisoning a thing?

 
 
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