EpeeGnome

joined 6 months ago
[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 4 points 21 hours ago

There's absolutely no reason to put Kevlar in football pads. Against blunt impacts, it's no more protective than any other cloth, and a whole lot more expensive. They're just using the term to be dramatic.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

No, most cheese is just clumped milk solids. Also, American cheese isn't dried cheese sauce, it's cooled off cheese sauce.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 13 points 2 weeks ago

My high school only had one pay phone. It had a bad connection in the hand set, so sound cut in and out constantly. People rarely ever bothered making calls on it. The coin return also had some sort of obstruction inside it. If you inserted a quarter and then hit the coin return lever, you'd hear it fall, but it didn't actually come out. When enough quarters built up though, they would all flood out into return tray at once. Naturally, it got used as a slot machine. Drop in a quarter, pull the tiny lever, and see if you hit the jackpot.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's a reference to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the joke being a misunderstanding of this use of the word Trans to be short for transexual, when in this context it's actually meant to modify Siberian, as the band's name is a reference to the Trans-Siberian railway.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was a quote from Fight Club. But yes, Gen X's contribution to 80s culture should not be forgotten.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look, I'm not saying that Vance has been poisoning Trump to take over, I'm just saying we all know he's capable of it. Of course we should wait till the investigation into Vance reports their findings before jumping to conclusions, but come on, everyone knows it's entirely plausible.

 

I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.

Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.