Huh, well, that's an odd route you've forced my brain to take this morning. I'm now having to wonder... dogs and cats drink by lapping up liquids as adults. They don't really have lips like humans do. How do they suckle as infants?
What are they going to do, run out and attack a street pole? [Suburbia]
What are they going to do, run out and get kicked by a cow, then said cow has some lovely pooping moments on their stunned form? [Ruralia]
What are they going to do, run out and jump on a taxi, or their neighbor walking home? [Urbania]
I doubt that most people would run out and start the revolution. Most people won't have plans or be researching targets, which would lower their threshold for starting a revolution, because it's easier to do something if you know how you're going to do it. Anyone who has plans or targets isn't going to be fooled by you saying a revolution has started. Most people are juuuust comfortable enough to not want to go out to the street and start randomly fighting.
Eh, I have similar feelings, but there is a reason for the wedding price increase. As a florist once told me, there's a reasonable amount of 'oops' that can happen with a regular customer, and they're often accommodating. Only 11 roses came to the door on valentine's day, but they ordered 12? An apology and a discount is often more than enough to make the customer happy. If a bride doesn't get a perfect flower arrangement, it's already too late.
Extend that to the other sorts of merchants you'll be dealing with at a wedding, and look at the cost increase as buying super, ahead-of-time insurance to ensure that everything is perfect. For something like the cake or photos, that means you have to dedicate more time or resources than usual to make sure absolutely nothing goes wrong (enough to notice). Two photographers instead of the single photographer for a corporate shindig, three cakes baked just in case one of them turns out slightly flat, that sort of thing.
On the older, non-silicone CPR models, the foam has the exact same texture as these nerf balls. How do I know? Because one of the idiots in the CPR class decided he was a real man and real men go after foam CPR model tits.
Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that's unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?
For memory - Because they're the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?
Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?
Size - Because even the lions aren't willing to tell them they crossed the line.
Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice's half ounce balls.
Or maybe it's something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes...
Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?
I remember when Amazon first started there were good deals on good quality items
I remember when the primary use of amazon was buying secondhand items. The deals on used discs for PS2 or gamecube were amazing. It was ebay without bidding.
It's amusing how things you never expect to be seen by others suddenly go intercontinental because your company likes them. I have a friend who retired from her corporate job about 15 years ago. She had an excel document (that I guess became some sort of super document, I dunno, I'm not into that sort of stuff), and it worked so well for her work that it became the company standard for a gigantic multinational corporation (they're one of the ones you always hear involved in US wars), and whatever she did couldn't be changed once she left.
That means she occasionally still gets contacted about her mildly suggestive name for the file. It references testicles and corporate greed in one go round.
I was hoping it would say someone finally told Trump, "Bitch, get back in your place because no one is putting up with your shit." Imagine my disappointment at the reasonable attempt to lower tensions and appease.
Vance. I think he and his puppet masters would love the excuse to join with putin's past allies. Russia gets the land, united states of stupid gets half the resources contracts to aid in building the 'infrastructure' and such to process the resources.
It may be, but it can also come from having (for me) childhood experiences with parents who would absolutely lose their cool if appointments and other such scheduled activities were missed. I have this feeling and behavior pattern for things like work, hangouts with friends, and even casual events like a festival or faire, all in addition to the typical items like doctor's appointments.
I know I'm probably getting the political landscape of vermont and new hampshire mixed up, but isn't vermont pretty red? Similar to the way new york is pretty red once you get out of the big city? That's probably going to be a nightmare if anything happened.
Just look at how many people are defending or downplaying the elon salute. I'm shocked, after only seeing a few 'conservative' types a month for the entire lemmy life I've had.
Aye, and that plays into the part I forgot to mention: the optics. Imagine a typical confrontation between two people, a various amount of other folks nearby. Maybe it's at a bar, maybe it's at a park, maybe it's in the street with large riots going on around you. Who do you view as the aggressor immediately, on the one hand, a fellow, hands balled, in a pugilistic stance or wildly swinging, or the other one who has his hands up in front of him, palms facing outwards? Little things like that matter if it ever goes to court, and are super important if the police show up initially.
I mean, punching is good and all, but for most people I recommend a good strike with the heel of your hand. Like so. The reason? Not many people train enough (like, come one, who actually trains to punch regularly?) to prevent the wrist rolling during the strike of a punch, and it both weakens the strike and can injure your wrist. It's also a naturally tough area (there are only two places on the body with 'thick' skin: the palms and the soles) and the impact is transferred onto larger bones covered in that thick skin, rather than onto the knuckles (i.e., vulnerable joints) covered by thin skin that just loves to split open.
Go try it now against a door frame. See how hard you can hit with each.
I have to boggle at that. Probably 2/5 of the people older than 60 that I know have fox news (with a brief surge of newsmax or whatever back in 2021) on constantly. I know I've lived in some bloody regions, but it can't be such small number. My mind just boggles that I am somehow stuck so squarely in the midst of such fools when only 1% of americans have them on.
Aye, that's why I was so confused about people not knowing what they were. Those damn commercials are still stuck in my head (along with most others when I get reminded of them. I hate advertising.).
Huh, well, that's an odd route you've forced my brain to take this morning. I'm now having to wonder... dogs and cats drink by lapping up liquids as adults. They don't really have lips like humans do. How do they suckle as infants?