vashti

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[–] vashti@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Usenet was absolutely swarming with memes. They were text-based rather than image-based but they were definitely memes.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago

Some of them have a real thing for saying the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened and there's no evidence, too. I guess I just hallucinated those news reports at the time with screams and gunfire in the background.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Not anxious to see those brown things in the water remastered to 4k tbh. I somehow failed out of the game every time at that point even in SVGA.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I couldn't finish it. Really dreadful.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

The word you're probably thinking of is kichigai. But there are oceans of words that you can't use on TV in Japan as I understand it, and there have been since the 70s.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

m*nko begs to differ.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when "joey" became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

Wasn't this also the case in medieval England? The church rang the hours, but the time between them was calculated based on the length of the day?

The fixed-length hour is a surprisingly modern conceit, like universal timezones.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Baconreader was so good and so beautiful to look at. It still kind of works, mind, you just can't log in.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just got a warning for "threatening violence" for telling off a guy who said we should use mob beatings as criminal justice.

Admittedly, I said something like "I agree, we should all be able to beat and murder anyone we like for our own personal gratification", but it was on /r/uk and I thought we understood sarcasm.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

So like am I the only one[tm] who felt like time did pass, actually, while I was under? It was like being deeply asleep.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's so weird to me that you're all put under for wisdom teeth. I've had three out with local and nobody even suggested I might need a general.

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