topherclay

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[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Well it's at a thrift shop so it's courteous to have the pieces in a bag because it implies that the complete puzzle is present when you decide to buy it or not.

If it's a used puzzle and the pieces are free range then it has the chance to be really disappointing when you can only learn it wasn't a complete board after you are 99.995% finished with it.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you can bounce yourself while a second person also bounces you at the exact same and so you are double bounced.

Alternatively, you can roll up like an egg while two other people try to bounce you and crack the egg. If two bounces manage to launch you a the same time then that also gets called a double bounce.

Both approaches to being double bounced are absolutely terrifying because you're feeling twice the force that you expected. So if you're an emotionally dead adult nostalgically looking back to the last time you felt something then the terror of being double bounced is a good candidate.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Ten days since the last post we are all very scared for our vehicle poster.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As someone who hasn't watched the show since it aired but who has seen it referenced continually on the internet, I definitely expected pocket sand.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah probably when he wrote the script and imagined himself in the role he was probably just thinking of the logistics of getting the thirsty character some drink instead of thinking how hot it would accidentally end up being.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it's like saying "there's no guard rails now" because you are not in safe and regulated society where all the wild animals you see are on your coins, but you are now outside of that safe comfortable world and the wild animals are actually wild animals.

It reminds me of the saying "when you hear hooves, expect horses, not zebras" because you'd really be somewhere exotic if the sounds turned out to be a zebra. Well you'd really be somewhere outside of your regular comfort zone if the buffalos were sitting in the grass instead of sitting on your nickle.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh nice, Michael Ian Black. I was a big fan of him since Stella and I followed him on Instagram in like 2015 or so. He went live on Instagram one day when I happened to be scrolling, and when I clicked on it there were only like a hundred people watching. He was just sitting on his couch filming himself drinking wine.

He was super drunk and he was trying to talk about something political like the presidential election or something and then all the comments told him he was too drunk to be doing a live video and when he saw the comments he realized he was indeed way too drunk and he just stopped the video.

I was so stoked that I got to see it.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The answer is probably "whatever running water I am trying to scare my children from crossing, that's the level of water needed to keep the vampires on the other side."

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Me talking to the autistic kid in the back of the daycare stacking blocks and enjoying it a lot: "Enjoy your block."

The autistic kid:

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can tell it's the first trip, not just because there's only one load of soil on the pile so far, but mostly because he is still enjoying the task.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

You can't act like a precise robot that is always right and also beep your red sirens when other people are seeing humor that you don't see. If you're being a robot then chances are you are wrong about the jokes.

In this case the juxtaposition of the natural in-person way of speaking and the unnatural asynchronous text chat if twitter is the source of the humor. When you say that the two scenarios are not similar, that is part of the engine that drives the joke and makes it funny. It's as if you see shutting everyone down for misunderstanding that it was not a sports bar but in fact a metal pipe that the two men walked into when the one man ducked.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what are those three things behind the dude? windows? hanging picture frames? I don't understand what the two angled lines are on the tops of them if they are either of those things.

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