Fun fact, the only reason North America can get away with our dinky plugs and sockets is because we only run 120V (typically). Anything here that’s 240V will have a much beefier plug and socket, more similar to the UK plugs. Heres a 240V/30A and a 240V/50A. These don’t bother with the coated pins because it would typically be plugged in once behind a big appliance and never touched again.
I’m always afraid to test ESC during a cutscene because I’ve been burned by games that auto skip cutscenes when you hit ESC. Who does that.
Halitosis was already the medical term for bad breath, with evidence of its use in England. All that word did was give an American businessman/marketer a polite euphemism to talk about something that was considered taboo at the time (body odors were associated with poor hygiene and lower status people). It does seem like they pushed hard with marketing to make it into a more widespread “problem” though.
My sister used to only eat a steak if it was charred black and covered in ground black pepper. Not sure if that’s “better” or worse than burnt bacon.
I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it’s both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just “standard” stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn’t a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country’s orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.
Have you seen Archer? It’s an animated comedy but it hits some of the same vibes, at least for the first 3-4 seasons. Things get… weird after that.
Same here. There’s just something about the gang that helps me see the good. They’re objectively terrible people but at the end of the day they always stick together.
I’m doing a Dexter rewatch over the holidays. Apparently there are a bunch of sequels/prequels now and I wanna refresh my memory before diving into those shows.;
Sorry, I need leatherbound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!
Voyager has that “found family” vibe that most of the shows don’t really.
Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it’s like watching a version of “How It’s Made” from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.
Also, can’t belive I forgot this, but “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”.
Yeah, i’ve heard them called “breakfast bars”. The condo I rented years ago had one of these cutouts.
I got my magnum condoms. I got my wad of hundreds. I’m ready to plow!
Fry: Mister Nimoy, I came as soon as I heard what happened centuries ago. I can’t believe your show was banned.
Leonard Nimoy: I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
Fry: You know. 1966? 79 episodes, about 30 good ones.
i just looked this up, lmao is this seriously a movie adaptation of rock 'em sock 'em robots??? has hollywood no shame?
lol yeah they said the robots will need to train for a while before they can do certain tasks, or do them well. “the next few years isn’t about owning a super useful robot, it’s about raising one.” our little robot children will eventually grow up and overthrow us, really warms the cockles.
at least you/arent/using\ linux
Which makes it extra amusing to me that they coat the pins or whatever with plastic so you cant accidentally touch live while inserting it.