Things Related and Not

[piratescarfy]

there was a disastrous performance of Macbeth at the Old Vic by Peter O’Toole and apparently there was this one part in the play one night where a Servant comes in and should say “Your wife, my lord, is dead” but what ACTUALLY happened was

Servant: …My wife, my lord, is dead.

Macbeth: Well, what about my wife?

Servant: Oh yeah. She’s dead too.

Macbeth: 

Servant: There’s a lot of it about.

[perspectivelute]

Honestly, this could have been amazing. That exchange is the intro to the 'tomorrow and tomorrow' soliloquy, which is pretty much explicitly saying "life's no better than morons and bad actors". I'm imagining O'Toole doing doing it with a few very pointed glances at the hapless servant:

Life's but a walking shadow, a POOR PLAYER, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an IDIOT, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[perspectivelute]

Had a vacation

Slept this sleep. Slept it all day long.

Can confirm. OP is correct.

The other sleeps I had slept before - even the sleeps I had slept all day long - were not the sleep that needed to be slept.

Now I have slept the needed sleep, and everything is different.

[markadoo]

this is what intersectionalism looked like back in 1979 before they invented the idea of having ideas

[perspectivelute]

If you ever get annoyed by Venn diagrams, take a moment to contemplate the alternatives

[mephostophilis]

are non brits aware of count binface.

[cipheramnesia]

Setting unrealistic beauty expextations for men, or bins or whatever.

[talvin-muircastle]

A cunning stunt by a stunning Count.

[aishoka-j]

"A cunning stunt by a stunning Count."

You have echoed the thoughts and voices of the vast majority of us here in the UK.

[talvin-muircastle]

Of course, he is not really a Count.

But Charles has an opportunity to do something absolutely hilarious in the Honours List.

[perspectivelute]

Giving him a peerage would make him no longer eligible for election to the house of commons.

That would be a shame right now. But some day in the future, when the bit is starting to wear thin, it would be the perfect way to move us to the next season, with binface in the house of lords.

[perspectivelute]

Though: the British aristocracy doesn't have Count as a title. That means Charles couldn't make this happen without some elaborate chicanery.

Which monarchy does still create counts? BELGIUM. And Nigel Farage must be one of the least popular men in Brussels. So the King of Belgium has the chance to do something even funnier.

[mephostophilis]

are non brits aware of count binface.

[cipheramnesia]

Setting unrealistic beauty expextations for men, or bins or whatever.

[talvin-muircastle]

A cunning stunt by a stunning Count.

[aishoka-j]

"A cunning stunt by a stunning Count."

You have echoed the thoughts and voices of the vast majority of us here in the UK.

[talvin-muircastle]

Of course, he is not really a Count.

But Charles has an opportunity to do something absolutely hilarious in the Honours List.

[perspectivelute]

Giving him a peerage would make him no longer eligible for election to the house of commons.

That would be a shame right now. But some day in the future, when the bit is starting to wear thin, it would be the perfect way to move us to the next season, with binface in the house of lords.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[perspectivelute]

Support your therapist! Always maintain a supply of dubious life choices to analyse!

[mamoru]

Your Body Position Impacts How Quickly Pills Kick In, New Study Shows

Laying on your left-hand side may make for slower pill absorption.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

[archouai]

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

[perspectivelute]

The right reacts; the left liberates!

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[perspectivelute]

Looks like this is indeed genuine

[argumate]

on the one hand I don't think humans will ever make it past Mars, we're unlikely to ever see Jupiter or Saturn with our own eyes, but on the other hand Red Bull are definitely going to send a snowboarder to Titan or try and land a jet ski on Europa so what do I know.

[perspectivelute]

The cliché is, technology races ahead once someone figures out how to use it for sex or porn. Yet in this degraded age, we may be forced to make do with extreme sports

[smute]

höchst erheiternde liste

[perspectivelute]

I know people who've tried almost all of these as desperate attempts to get out of Berlin unemployment, albeit sometimes skipping the Ausbildung element. It'd be a clean sweep if you were willing to accept OSINT bros in place of detectives and fire-spinners in place of stuntmen.

I can't say many of them have ended up with a steady income, but at least you can have some fun as an underemployed clown.

[discoursedrome]

I never really thought about it, but "max -> maxxing" is just the same principle as "run -> running" with the x treated as one consonant rather than two, right? We could lean into that and do like relaxxed, fixxed, boxxer, taxxing...

[perspectivelute]

Isn't this part of English's quixotic attempt to indicate vowel differences by anything -- absolutely anything -- except the vowel itself? the 'nn' in 'running' is a way to say "I wouldn't shove a silent e on the end of that syllable, even if I had the chance". That is, it's a short 'run' rather than a long 'rune' sit -> sitting cite -> citing following this logic: max -> maxxing *maxe -> maxing where 'maxe' should sound pretty close to 'makes'.

[shabbytigers]

*maxe is worrying

the only actually extant words in -ing with the double x (not necessarily standard, maybe not even dominant, but common enough to co-claim correctness alongside the single x variants) are maxxing and doxxing

*doxe (d’oaks) is also worrying. concerning, even

[discoursedrome]

I never really thought about it, but "max -> maxxing" is just the same principle as "run -> running" with the x treated as one consonant rather than two, right? We could lean into that and do like relaxxed, fixxed, boxxer, taxxing...

[perspectivelute]

Isn't this part of English's quixotic attempt to indicate vowel differences by anything -- absolutely anything -- except the vowel itself? the 'nn' in 'running' is a way to say "I wouldn't shove a silent e on the end of that syllable, even if I had the chance". That is, it's a short 'run' rather than a long 'rune' sit -> sitting cite -> citing following this logic: max -> maxxing *maxe -> maxing where 'maxe' should sound pretty close to 'makes'.

[discoursedrome]

I am informed that the Office Québécois de la Langue Française has endorsed "contenu dégénératif" as its official translation for "AI slop", which definitely says something about the comparative approaches of the two languages

[perspectivelute]

Love this! there's so much untapped snark potential in "degenerative AI" and the like

[liquidstar]

"only 90s kids remember-" wrong, if you're poor and/or rural enough, old tech and fashion doesn't just disappear when it stops being trendy. We had dial-up until 2012

[perspectivelute]

The past is still here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

[kosmogrl]

[epicsause-official]

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

[epicsause-official]

wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them

see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L

ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.

colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.

and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[flowerbleedme]

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on