I love watching Youtube videos of native Italians eating at Olive Garden. It’s not just that they hate the food because of course they do, it’s that they get so incredibly angry at the very concept of someone daring to call that food “Italian”.
I saw a duck at a park once with an arrow (like, a hunting arrow rather than a toy) stuck in it. I tried to catch it to see if I could remove it; probably best that I couldn’t since those barbed arrows do more damage coming out than going in. The duck really didn’t seem bothered by it, but it was probably just trying to put on a good face.
Their original stadium (Foxboro) cost an incredibly-low $7 million to build circa 1970. Rather than building a bowl-like structure fully above ground like conventional stadiums, they instead dug a stadium-shaped hole in the ground and filled it with seats - a really practical way to do something like this, as long as you don’t mind the flooding.
A weird thing I’ve noticed about “correlation does not equal causation” is that some people actually end up thinking it means “correlation does equal not causation” - i.e. if A and B are correlated then A does not cause B (and B does not cause A). A more accurate expression would be “correlation does not necessarily equal causation”.
Fun school bus fact: school buses have a prybar as standard equipment, and if you call it a crowbar you lose a point on your CDL examination. Why that matters is a mystery to me.
I had this same username on Reddit for awhile and I got hit up by guys a few times. Like, dudes - it’s a fucking Kids in the Hall sketch. I am not an actual chicken lady.
I’m a school bus driver and some modern buses have the switches for operating the doors and the 8-ways (the amber and red flashers at the top corners) on the steering wheel and they drive me up the fucking wall. The problem is that you often have to stop for kids after making a sharp turn one way or the other, so the wheel is not in its normal position and you have no idea where the switches are and have to look down to see them. If they’re on the left fixed panel (their “normal” location) you can reach for them without having to look.
One thing I always liked about Blackberries aside from the physical keyboard was the scroll wheel. People joke about them but they worked really well and smoothly (before the actual ball got replaced with a bullshit push sensor round about 2009 or so) and you could dial in on a specific pixel easily - something you just can’t do with a touchscreen - which made the tiny screens a lot more practical than they otherwise would have been.
Long before the '70s. The British arms manufacturing companies Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in the late 1920s to become Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. Employees of the former Armstrong Whitworth were not happy about the merger and joked about being like choirboys - because they were being buggered by Vickers (i.e. “buggered by vicars”).
Ah god this gets weirder the more you look at it - also typical for AI. Like the flanges on the left sides of all the wheels, and that bizarre whatever-the-hell-it-is in the middle of the front.
I went to Olive Garden restaurant once with a friend of mine, and during dinner he made the claim that Olive Garden consumes 20% of the world’s black olive supply. I couldn’t convince him of how ludicrous this was even despite pointing out the measly two slices of black olive in our shared salad bowl.
Why is this so hard (lemmy.world)
Fellow landchads of Lemmy. Don't you hate when this happens? (lemmy.world)
They shipped him in from Italy (startrek.website)
The sword in the dome (lemmy.world)
Funds (lemmy.zip)
Archaeopteryx 🐦
A dangerous mistake to make (startrek.website)
" Pass the beernuts.” (lemmy.world)
Plummeting interest rate (startrek.website)
“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.” (lemmy.ca)
Merry ChristmaX (lemmy.world)
Frequently (lemmy.world)
What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
She was right in 1992, the Catholic Church is still filled with pedophiles. (lemmy.world)
The barbieheimer debate rages (lemmy.world)
Stalin the Tankie Engine (lemmy.world)
I had Midjourney make Stalin the Tankie Engine.
Time is cruel (startrek.website)
Black olive birthday (lemmy.world)
Success is built through GAMBA (sh.itjust.works)