a_shoeboy

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by a_shoeboy 5mo ago
Me too, but it's "Shock the Monkey" which doesn't make sense in this context.
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by a_shoeboy 5mo ago
I have had similar conversations with my wife a few times, but I'm the one with working color vision.
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by a_shoeboy 5mo ago
It is a simple mathematical fact that if you get married one year and have twins the next, your household will contain over a million people within 20 years.
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by a_shoeboy 7mo ago
Not exactly a surprising result. How exactly is "gambling is fun" supposed to reduce gambling?
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by a_shoeboy 9mo ago
You obviously don't have kids. You can't trust a child's judgement because they don't have the experience to exercise good judgement. Your job as a parent is to look out for them while helping them develop.
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by a_shoeboy 9mo ago
Glad it's not just me.
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by a_shoeboy 10mo ago
With the battle-axe, sir, with the battle-axe!
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
A high percentage of fatal poisonings in the US have been Southeast Asian immigrants because, in the button stage, the North American death cap looks nearly identical to the paddy straw mushroom they know from home.
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
It's 0.00019884 furlongs, if that helps.
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
I have plenty of unpleasant memories of being young. They don't involve RadioShack though.
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
They were always terrible, but I have fond pre-teen memories of saving up my allowance to buy components off the pegboard in the back and then failing to make anything that worked with them.
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
25 years ago, I had a Honduran roommate who barely spoke English. One day he came home with a thrift store VHS on how to make longbows and he watched that thing over and over like it would tell him the meaning of life. I hope he finally got
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
If you're going to cheat, way cheaper to put nitrous oxide in the tank and claim it's compressed air. 50% boost in oxygen content without having to engineer your engine to not burn when pure O2 hits it.
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by a_shoeboy 1y ago
I used to write my undergrad history essays in rhymed couplets because I figured the grad assistant doing the grading would be grateful for a break in the monotony and it was faster and easier than writing an actual good essay. Probably wou
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by a_shoeboy 2y ago
This is how it usually goes--it's vanishingly rare to retain a photographic memory into adulthood, but it's not that rare in kids. I had it too, but then I started sprouting hair in places that never ever got cold and the rest is
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by a_shoeboy 3y ago
$6K on mine, 17 years and counting. How many more of these anecdotes do we need before can call it data?
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by a_shoeboy 3y ago
I wish my lone internet-of-shit device worked well enough to participate in a botnet. My house came with an internet connected sprinkler system--if the power blips, the sprinkler system boots up before the WIFI router, can't connect an
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by a_shoeboy 3y ago
Worst case of this is online reviews at Home Depot. Every review is five stars even when the text is something like "it spontaneously combusted as soon as we brought it in the house and killed one of my children."
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by a_shoeboy 3y ago
Here's the Hunting of the Hare (starts on the page marked 113 and it's in Middle English, but there's a glossary after): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236869902_'The_Hunt...