You can tell them you’re not wasting any of it because eventually it will be used, none of it will get spoiled and people tend to actually need that bog roll within a week or two. Also, it’s a ONE time “double” buy, because from then on you buy everything once just the same; you just make sure you don’t end up spending even MORE when you run out of the 24 roll TP bag and have to quickly buy a less eco 6-pack.

Interesting, I know this one with beer.

Buying another box, bag, etc. of soap, toilet paper, tooth paste and whatever long lasting product before it runs out. It doesn’t expire (fast), therefore I always have a second, full bag as a buffer, and as soon as I have to open the second one, I put it on the shopping list so there is always a buffer bag and I don’t get annoyed if I still forget to buy one or it’s out of stock.

It’s been years since I had to use some weird substitute for toilet paper.

It’s interesting, in my language we seldom use it as ‘orange’, most of the time it’s orangeyellow.

To be fair, most of the time we use the ‘other’ red for stuff that is also expressed by a different word in other languages, such as Spanish: wine (vino rojo tinto / piros vörös bor), hair (pelo rojo rubio / piros vörös haj) and maybe paint/clothes or literature. Other times it’s just the ‘default’ red (piros).

I think they’re just joking that the French word for red differs from the Swedish word for red, therefore stating that Swedish and French have different words for red (because the French red and the Swedish red are not the same).

To be fair, I wanted to make the same stupid joke and I’m relieved that I don’t have to now.

Some bosses want to make sure you can hear the music at a decent volume at the back tables. Meanwhile the front tables:

I remember some old movie that was on TV ~30 years ago. A terrorist group broke into some computer room to destroy the data. They shot the monitors to smithereens and ran away.

(AFAIR they weren’t Macs)

Insomnium. Beautiful, melodic solos, decent riffs.

Well, on the other hand, medicine learned a lot… /s

It sounds fun at first but imagine the amount of heart attacks and other horrible Mengele level fuckups.

I may check some out, thanks for the examples!

I’ve been thinking about something similar (as someone who isn’t a fan of rap/hip-hop). No matter how much I don’t like it (the actual music behind it is too bland for me), it has the greatest potential to deliver deep lyrics with puns and other wordplay.

But then it got me thinking: What the HELL is holding us back from improving the other genres’ lyrics, or actually slapping some decent music on top of rap/hip-hop music, and not just some bland base or short and repetitive catchy tune?

I don’t use it actively (I’m not even logged in) but a good bunch of my friends keep sending me links. It would sound pretty mean if I just refused to open so many links to so many people on so many platforms (I consider TikTok even worse). I was talking about the phenomenon in general and brought up Instagram as an example.

Everything is doing it already. Good luck watching a “horizontal” video uploaded to Instagram from your desktop browser.

Like it was impossible for websites to display properly. Especially when you want to watch the horizontal video that was uploaded to a vertical based site on a horizontal monitor (I’m looking at you, Instagram). Then you’re left with ~9% of your monitor area and you can’t even read the fucking text on the video.

I understand that you need to adapt when most people watch videos on phones now, but forcing people to install an app just to get all your user data is a pretty scummy move. Also, I may want to use my PC instead for a multitude of reasons.

Got it, thanks.

True! I just remembered that there was a way to make the whole word silent but didn’t remember the T bit so I looked it up. This was the first example. Soften is much better!

Do you mean stuff like acquire? There are a good bunch of ‘cq’ words.

That’s interesting! How about Q?