Turious

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[–] Turious@leaf.dance 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Big Money Salvia on Internet Comment Etiquette makes full on short films for his ad reads. They are pretty great.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 8 points 1 year ago

I recently learned this is called the Grocer's Apostrophe.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years ago, a buddy got me going to his gym so he could show me the ropes. He'd been lifting most of his life and I really trusted him. It was the sort of gym where people go to do serious work. A lifter's lifting gym. Everyone there looked so serious and were pressing so much weight. I have never been that sort.

But they were all incredibly kind to me. Helped me when they thought I needed it. Never in a demeaning way. Any bad vibes I got from them was pretty much on me.

Those were really cool times. The gym would shut down about two years later and I haven't really gone to a gym since.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5500 yen. Console only, no accessories. I was blown away, figured I misread the label and it was broken. Nope, works perfectly.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooh, I actually bought one of these recently. Beautiful machine.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's actually got a huge area of land called The Great Dismal Swamp. Lots of park land and wilderness in rural Virginia. Someone from the area may be able to weigh in on it. I passed through years ago and the name struck me as hilarious.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The clutch is a third pedal to the left of the brake which lets you disengage the engine and transmission so you can change the gear then let the pedal out, engaging the new gear.

With a clutch, the brake pedal is usually really narrow. So when you get into an automatic instincts will tell you to press the clutch and change gears but that pedal doesn't exist and the wide brake pedal is there instead. Instead of changing gears, you slam the brake.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

References to Gayle will always make me happy.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know there's a big joke about furries running the IT world but I know a huge number of them in aviation, too.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should apologize, actually. As a young, young kid, my parents didn't explain it to me for a long time. As a teenager, they explained it was in reference to a "pap smear" which is a gynecological thing. But it's weird, you asking made me search it up. I'm not finding anything specific to England.

I think you just accidentally changed a story I've been telling myself for my entire life.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In my part of Appalachia, all grandpas in the family are "pap" which was very funny when my grandma married a man from England. He refused to let us call him that. For reasons.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 5 points 1 year ago

Until you stop them, your words mean nothing. They've been doing this for years and you did literally nothing to stop it.

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