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[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I'm all for eating the rich but this fucker looks rancid.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

As good a time as any to post this classic Peter serafinowicz clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDmSnD2pzc&t=43

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Denmark is switching to the EU standard plug too, like Germany and Sweden, I think it's mandatory in new housing.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I think they mention the contents at some point, but I don't remember.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

Those pills have pretty much the same colour as the food cubes in Farscape...

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

I had a friend about 25 years ago who was very much into Quake Arena. His gaming setup ran on BSD. Now that I've been gaming on Linux for several years, I've really come to appreciate how much work it must have been to get that setup running smoothly in the late 90s. He died a couple of years ago. I sometimes wish I could call him up and get some advice.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

for some countries, they do Christmas Day on the 24th. Poland for instance tends to have the big family get together dinner on the 24th.

It's the same in Denmark, I wonder if it's a Northern European thing? I think Poland is mostly Catholic whereas Denmark is Lutheran protestant, so it's not just denomination.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Some of these, especially Valentine's day, could also be labeled "commercial" but I guess that's the nature of capitalism to commercialize any kind of festivities.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Totally. I always think of this when people say Muslims overreact about drawings of their prophet or people burning their holy book. There were protests in the streets and famous Catholics like Pesci and Madonna attacked O'Connor in the press. Madonna, it seemed, was even more frustrated because this thing completely removed the attention from her new album that came out around the same time.

Edit: Madonna playing the prude was a nice touch.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

very much like they picked up schoolgirls from school for Russell brand to be brought back to his flat.

Is this what happened with Russell Brand? I just heard he was a sexual predator, not that it was schoolgirls. It's insane that the BBC didn't get any wiser after Saville. It should be easy: don't hire known pervs and definitely don't let them use your stuff to abuse children.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

He said he wanted to give her a good smacking or something. And he hasn't apologized yet as far as I know.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Around this time Nirvana drew a lot of attention for mocking Top of the Pops by miming hilariously badly to Smells like teen spirit on air. It was a more innocent time. Ripping up a pic of the pope was wild.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I know what the word means, but I'm unsure how to use it in a sentence. In my native language, Danish,"backorder" translates to "Restordre" and when something is unavailable, we say it's"i Restordre",which translates directly into English as "in backorder", but I'm not sure that's correct English. Do English people say that or just "backordered" or something else?

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