toynbee @ toynbee @lemmy.world

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When I think of him, I think of Fight Club, not The Hulk.

Whether that makes him more or less appealing is up to the reader. I'm not even sure which way Helena Bonham Carter would lean.

I used to live near a place called "Hot Diggity Dog." They made amazing hot dogs and introduced me to the Chicago style dog. As a bonus, they had pretty fantastic fries. Unfortunately, they had pretty incompetent management and eventually closed.

I only learned they were closed after moving away and, on a subsequent road trip, insisting on a deviation from the planned trip to go to this restaurant that no longer existed. That was a blow to both my ego and morale.

Since then, I have yet to find a reliable supplier of good hot dogs and now I live in a rural area where I plan to stay, so I probably never will. Gas station dogs are decent, but don't really compare - even the pretty great Wawa dogs. I'll never understand why quality hot dogs aren't something that are offered everywhere. Burger King had decent ones for a while but discontinued them. Even though they seem like they'd be perfect fast food fare, I've never heard of other big fast food restaurants offering them.

That's an entertaining theory.

I knew what they were because my dad had a horseshoe game set and I had seen something about hanging horseshoes so the luck didn't fall out, but I didn't know they were actually used with horses for an embarrassingly long time.

Happy to be of service! I provided some other information about this in an unrelated comment recently and it should apply to all clients. Hopefully it helps you.

But ... Lemmy can do gifs? Am I misunderstanding?

Was it that long ago? Wow.

I suspect that the original commenter might be referring to one that hasn't happened yet, at least not successfully.

Kinda reminiscent of that obituary joke.

It's not irrational at all. Falling from heights hurts. I'm afraid of being hurt (including from heights). It makes perfect sense.

Lemmy works on markdown, so if you want to do anything, just look up "how to do x in markdown." For example:
\ https://itsfoss.com/markdown-images/

If you want to learn more generally, there are many guides, e.g.:
\ https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/

And if you want to play around without other people seeing any mistakes you make, there are multiple web interfaces as well as local editors that will display your works in real time, such as:
\ https://markdownlivepreview.com/

Hope this helps!

edit: Also, markdown is fantastic, but its syntax can be confusing or hard to remember. I don't know about all clients, but mine - Connect - has buttons at the bottom of the text entry area to generate the syntax for images (and links). Yours might have something similar.

Many recruiters are reluctant to answer which company because, if you knew, you might circumvent them and apply directly.

How could you use such an offensive word in a casual post!

Quadruply so, I suppose.

I read this book when I was an innocent kid and therefore completely missed the genius of

"What's so bad about being drunk?"
\ "You ask a glass of water."

(It's been a long time, might be paraphrasing unintentionally)

I don't want to.

Lunchtime doubly so.

Also my five year old.

No love for pencils?

When I was but a little kid, I once told my mother what could charitably be called a joke:
\ "Okay, picture a cowboy riding a horse down the road. Suddenly he hears a bang behind him. Looking back, he sees his horse's feet. 'Shoot!' he says. 'Flat hoof.'"

I had forgotten about that until I saw this post.

Personally, I initially saw a version of it in Sluggy Freelance.

Indeed, it is always wise to be a hoopy frood.