idiomaddict @ idiomaddict @lemmy.world

Posts

4

Comments

1,394

Joined

2 yr. ago

Pro tip: you’re better off not dating someone who gets rid of their fridge every winter unless you live at mcmurdo. I could see very thoroughly cleaning and unplugging a freezer if you have a lot of space outside (protected from any wildlife) and can rely on it being well under freezing for months, but it’s probably either too cold to work as a fridge or temps will spike to dangerously warm during the day.

What for? There’s no reason to try and force anyone to do anything. It’s all completely pointless because whatever you get out of them will be gone the next day. Plus, how do they collect the people every day? Unless you surprise them every morning somehow, I think most people would just say no, even upon pain of death (potentially suicide) after the first few torture sessions, especially if you know that people have died and they still come back the next day.

You can make plans for the beginning of the day, but you can’t intentionally wake up earlier than you did the first time, so raids or similar tactics are unlikely to work unless you’re targeting someone who originally slept until noon.

I don’t disagree with any of that, except that it’s way easier to break a hip (especially if you’re a woman who’s given birth in the previous few years) than most people realize. We’re generally really good at walking when we’re younger, so it’s not as common to fall (especially not without catching yourself and minimizing the damage), but a fall onto ice or stone at the wrong angle could damage a lot of 30 and 40 year olds’ pelvises.

I was very stupid and playing Pokémon go while drunk on a wet, mossy cobblestone road at 29, and I fell and broke my arm and eye socket. I lift weights and am generally strong and healthy, but it was just a bad angle. It took drunkenness, distraction, and a slippery and uneven surface to get me to fall without catching myself, but once I did, it’s not hard to do damage.

Edit: I will grant you: drunk Pokémon players do not show the level of judgment that I want from elected officials, but walking to work on an icy sidewalk if it’s your only transportation option is not an error of judgment and it’s more dangerous than people realize.

I was thinking physical evidence, like accelerants, etc. If they did it in view of cameras, that’s obviously much easier to catch, lol.

That’s honestly really impressive. The majority of the evidence has been incinerated by thousand-degree fires and covered in sea water and firefighting foam by the time investigators get to it.

This has all been standard in every heterosexual relationship I’ve ever had, with the exception of lifting dudes up onto tables. They’re heavy and lifting them safely would ruin the fun a bit.

I think I might just be sexually aggressive (with consenting partners), because I’m definitely not a top, lol

What does 22/7 get you under “A?”

Okay, so my first thought was “Skat,” which is the name of a pretty popular old man card game (not in a bad way, I enjoy playing it very much, but I encounter it in similar situations to euchre or pinochle).

Maybe it’s just a false cognate, which would be a great setup for a joke, if there was an audience that knew about both Skat and the scat stereotype. Unfortunately, I think I’ll be sitting on this one for a while.

GodDAMN. I was feeling a little iffy about teasing Austrians, but shots fired.

I’m living in Germany again now and I’ve brought this up occasionally with people when we’ve reached the comfortable talking about kinks stage, but it’s a surprise to everyone so far. Germans do definitely like anal more than Americans IME, but not because of the poop, lol. Maybe it’s the Austrians 🤷

YGS

yokel game store

This is journalistic misconduct (on the part of the Washington post), imo.

Given UHG’s size and broad reach – “more than 5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product flows through the company’s systems every day”

That’s impossible. It would only be possible if there were only 20 business days a year and UHG was the only company. This article sources it (thankfully) to the Washington post, who source it from here, where it’s much more reasonable:

It is this analyst’s opinion that the concentration of ownership of health care payment infrastructure in the hands of a single company poses a significant threat to the financial viability of the US health care system and requires a policy response. It does not make national security sense for more than 5 percent of US GDP to flow through a single company’s pipes. No provider of administrative services to health plans or care systems should be permitted to control a third of total US health care payments. Assuring the stability and safety of this payment infrastructure is a legitimate and substantial policy challenge.

UGH is a $1,5T company and the US GDP is around $30T. 5% is reasonable to say, but saying 5% every day is wrong.

You’ve probably tried this, but did those engineers have any insight as to how you can communicate with other engineers? Were things easy with them from the start or did you need to “prove yourself”?

My boss and I had lived for a few years in Italy and Germany, respectively, but were both in the US again at this time and had a jokey rivalry about which of us had integrated better. She was looking for jazz music for our restaurant and said “god, I love scat. Don’t you?” and my dumb ass responded before I could think about it for a second “I’m not that German.” (For anyone confused, I don’t know why, but some Americans think Germans are into scat. I have not experienced this in any way, and have no idea if it’s at all based in reality, I was just making a joke I shouldn’t have)

She didn’t know what scatophilia was, did NOT enjoy hearing about it, but wouldn’t let it go until I explained my joke.

When I was young enough to not realize this wasn’t a question for my dad (5-7ish), I asked him what “dropping the soap” meant in a prison context. He explained that mens and womens prisons don’t mix, and gave a kid friendlyish answer. I then probed further, because I was aware of gay people saying it wasn’t a choice, and didn’t get how it could sometimes be a choice.

My dad, completely unaware of how to handle this situation said “when you’re desperate, sometimes a hole’s a hole.” It took about five years for me to understand that answer.

Just because it’s edible doesn’t mean you can eat it. My dad’s raisin rolls are definitely edible, but alas they are also 5k miles away from me.

Edit, sorry for the pedantry, I just couldn’t help myself

Hmm. I don’t know if it’s soapy, but I don’t really like oregano. I guess I’ll have to pay attention to why next time I try it

We went by the four Fs: 1)French, 2)feel (above the waist), 3)finger (anything below the waist), 4)fuck. Fellatio would fit right in, but we didn’t really use it and counted that as base 3.5.

Which is why I didn’t initially realize I lost my virginity to a girl, because we just went to 3.5. I was talking to someone about it and they literally looked at me and were like “so gold star lesbians are just all virgins?” and I realized I was being an idiot.

My high school boyfriend was a grower (and he wasn’t done actually growing taller when we dated, so it’s probably different now), but when he was totally soft, this is basically what his dick and balls looked like. I used to wonder how he aimed to pee, but I couldn’t figure out a way to ask it without crushing him, so I never did.

It tastes like soap and I feel neutral towards it. Mangoes also taste slightly soapy to me, especially if they’re not totally ripe yet.

And you’re doing great