overview for neidu

Where to now? by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Of course. It is/was my favorite purely based on the design of the front page.

Why does bi-weekly mean "every two weeks?" This has always bothered me because intuitively it should mean "twice a week." by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago

I'm wondering the same thing about Bible. Does it mean twice per Ble or every other Ble?

196 by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

Not only deer, but all antlery animals (moose, reindeer, elk, etc). It's completely normal and pain free, but it looks like something out of a horror movie.

For some reason, this does not happen to animals with horns, such as cows.

124

what is a skill you wish you had, and why? (feddit.nl)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

99 comments fedilink

Ok, I might as well go first: I wish I could draw. Not at the level where I could make photorealistic portraits, but I've always been envious of those who are able to scetch something together in a few minutes that perfectly captures what they want to convey. Sometimes words aren't enough to express what I want to say, and for those situations I would love to have a simple drawing do the talking for me.

Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares' by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

I'm having a hard time imagining that creating shareholder value was ever a motivation for those working on the floor.

How do you deal with a close friend circle becoming toxic ? by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago

Sounds like your circle is growing apart. It happens. In this particular case, some personalities have grown enough to not be compatible with some of the others.

I'm not good at situations like these, so I don't really have a solution for you, other than accepting the fact that your circle of six will soon no longer be six. Stick to the ones who are still reasonable, and with time the toxic ones will either remain so among themselves or will push away the part of the group that is more in line with how you're perceiving the social dynamic.

Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago

Middle top row looks like George Bluth Sr.

Assuming the earth is flat, how many people are part of the conspiracy by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

Anyone who lives near the sea an can see ships disappear behind the horizon.

A tech picture so real, the computer has TWO power supplies! by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

After working in IT since 1999, I can count on my dads lefthand fingers the times I've had to solder a graphics card.

PS: My dad lost his left arm in 1996

Connection [beetlemoses] by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

As made famous by that Windows screensaver

Norwegian union join Sweden and Denmark in strike against Tesla by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

How bad did Musk fuck this up? Enough for us noggies to join the side of swedes AND danes..I hope to see the finns join in too.

Tesla strike in Sweden now involves Denmark, may spread to Norway and Finland — “Just like companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” says chair of Danish union by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

How bad did Tesla fuck this up? Enough for us noggies to join the side of swedes AND danes. I hope to see the finns join in too.

Henry Kissinger Dead at 100 by neidu in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Rest in piss, ghoul

35

How racist/controversial would this skit from the 90's be today? (feddit.nl)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

27 comments fedilink

To summarize, this scandinavian comedy trio from the 90's made a parody of Miami Vice. This being 90's scandinavia, you can probably guess that the actors/comedians didn't exactly have the melanin-credentials of parodying the black guy from Miami Vice, so one of them instead wore blackface (well, brownface would perhaps be a better description, due to the color tone).

As far as I can recall, the skit didn't really make race much of a punchline, except from when they're fixing their hair before the final showdown (which one of course have to do, this being a Miami Vice parody), and the white guy asks the black guy to borrow some hair gel but gets the response: (roughly translated) "I'm black, I don't use hairgel. I use chocolate pudding."

So yeah, asking because I'm a middle aged extremely white guy, and I found this skut funny as shit when I was a kid, and I stumbled across it recently, and I got curious.

EDIT: Found it. Turns out it's from 1989. https://youtu.be/GDpLUXtA-4M
I can't be arsed translating, because in retrospect it's not really that good, but you can see the blackface and its origin in the beginning.