TedZanzibar @ TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

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I read somewhere that that was the whole point. Their label or manager complained that all of their songs were dull and depressing and why can't they make something that's chart friendly, so that's what they did. If you listen to the lyrics while knowing the back story you can pretty much hear the sarcasm oozing from every syllable.

Not that I can find any reference to it now, of course, but that's what I read/heard and it makes the song 10 times better.

I hadn't even seen Alien when I first saw Spaceballs, but my god this scene had me in absolute stitches. It's the way he puts on the little hat while eyeballing everyone. It's making me chuckle just thinking about it.

Take a drink every time somebody says "teams".

You need to keep the floor clear and empty its bin, sure, but it's way less effort than actually vacuuming. We've only had it for a couple of weeks but have got into the habit of doing a quick run around picking up toys and other obstacles before we go to bed (though I did specifically buy a model that can avoid those things).

Anything that takes away shitty chores. People take washing machines for granted these days, but a decent dishwasher is a godsend. Modern ones don't need anything more than a basic scrape of the dishes as "prep" and loading it before bed to then wake up to a load of sparkling clean dishes is amazing.

In a similar vein we've just got a robot vacuum cleaner that we've set to run every night. The amount of dog fur in its bin every morning is eye opening, and other than for the stairs there's almost no need to do vacuuming ourselves now.

Also same. Sometimes it decides typos are things that I want in my custom dictionary and will start replacing real words with gibberish, and then I have the same dilemma as OP, trying out a ton of different keyboards before eventually reverting to a clean install of SwiftKey.

Weird typo corrections and MS ownership aside, I really like how SwiftKey works and struggle to use anything else.

Supposably

Likewise trackballs. Took me all of a day to get used to using a thumb ball (Logitech MX Ergo), my wrist pain cleared right up and I haven't looked back.

Yeah, they're not great for twitch gaming, but on the flip side it's highly amusing to watch people's brains crash when they try to push it around like a mouse.

I love it!

Pretty much all I remember of the Klingon Empire is Galron's crazy eyes.

Do audiobooks count? I'm on chapter 27 of The Stand with about 38 hours to go. It's been quite the experience in this post-Covid world.

The Trip. I thought it would be hard to find because there's another much more recent, much more popular, but entirely unrelated show with the same name, but it turns out some legend made a playlist of them!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzivW1Rnct6_lMstFHmw9XC8MG47-cFYG

Wait, reddit premium is a thing? 😂

Hats. It used to be that people wouldn't be seen dead outside without a hat but these days, unless you're a big fan of baseball hats, your options are sorely limited.

This is great. Reminds me of a late night show that used to be on in the UK featuring minimalist techno played against a backdrop of stock 60s and 70s space race footage. It was called The Trip for those that remember it.

The cost of a recharge should never be divisible by the number of gems you can buy in a pack. That way you always have some amount left over and will need to buy more in order to use them up completely and "get your money's worth".