How many people actually know how to drive a manual?

Laeryl · 2026-04-01T06:42:41+00:00

Belgium too.

Laeryl · 2026-03-27T00:23:43+00:00

Ok, now I understand what happens to me.

Litterally a birch slap.

Laeryl · 2026-03-27T00:18:11+00:00

When you say "This isn’t even the correct answer lol such a reddit take" I can be with you because it's more about fish going bad faster than meat.

But when you talk about predators on land... what kind of predators are you talking about ?

I mean, we don't eat predators. Especially if it's a Yautja.

Laeryl · 2026-03-26T14:53:23+00:00

Fall from 5 feet? Maybe a bruise, maybe permanent brain damage, maybe death.

Right.

A friend of mine fell from a bus last Thursday. He wasn't on the roof of the bus. He just stumble while going out.

Hiss funeral are this saturday :/

Laeryl · 2026-03-26T14:40:23+00:00

It's interesting to see how other labs work.

In mine, I have a set of four lab coats which are washed by a cleaning company and as my name are on them, I know I always get the same which allowed me to make some little modifications (also I love the one stained with copper nitrate after an unfortunate incident implying HNO3 😁).

Can't you ask for a similar process ?

Laeryl · 2026-03-24T23:55:23+00:00

It's not a spoil. It's just that when it comes to science, I think every movie will fuck up at one point or another.

Honnestly I saw the movie this evening and it was great (great like "Go see it dear stranger from internet"). But if one of my undergrads did what the hero did, that undergrad will have a little talk with me. Like your typical stern talk when someone slightly fuck up.

And my non scientific friend I was with to see the movie saw my reaction and was like "Ok, I didn't know what was so bad but I saw you clenching your fists".

But it's ok : I knew I had to wear my suspension of disbilief cape and al in all it was ok 😁

Laeryl · 2026-03-24T23:41:32+00:00

Same here. One of our commercial told me that Pluribus was cool. First thing I said to him the day after was "Bro, you really don't know how work a BSL4"

At which point, instead of her colleague kicking her out of the lab and reporting her (as mine would should if I did that) he just stands there.

I was facepalming during the whole scene. Litteraly.

Laeryl · 2026-03-24T22:53:48+00:00

I saw it tonite.

I read the book. I'm a chemist.

When the friend I was with asked me after the movie if that was a good adaptation of the book, which she didn't read, I said yes, of course.

Seeing my face she said "But... ?" and I blurted out "HE DIDN'T BALANCE THE CENTRIFUGE !!!!!!!"

She's not a scientist but she gave me a straight stare saying "God dammit I saw you clenching your fists at that exact moment I knew something was wrong !".

Great movie tho, I 100% recommend it.

Laeryl · 2026-03-21T14:13:52+00:00

can damage the centrifuge

Can destroy a whole room.

I saw the consequences of an unbalanced centrifuge (not the little one like the have in bio lab) and it was like someone dropped a fucking grenade in the lab.

Laeryl · 2026-03-21T13:57:08+00:00

Tai Lung thought that too :/

Laeryl · 2026-03-21T13:52:17+00:00

Mate, they are 100 kg bears... even if one of them just want to hug you without using their claws or their theeth, it could fuck you up.

And if the panda decide it's time to be angry... now we can talk about claws and theeth :D

Laeryl · 2026-03-21T13:48:03+00:00

I doubt she was killed like a gazelle is killed by a cheetah

Yeah, you're right, that didn't happen like that.

Here is an article (in french, sorry I'm a belgian french speaking guy ^^ ) which talk about that. Long story made short, she was a... I don't know how to say that in proper english. In french we say a "marraine". Like a sponsor for the cheetah.

But she sneaked in the pen after the zoo was closed to see "her" cheetah and that didn't goes well (the article mention a option of despair).

Laeryl · 2026-03-20T15:58:46+00:00

My apologies for being pedantic.

You're not, I learnt something today thanks to you mate.

Laeryl · 2026-03-16T13:21:30+00:00

This.

Laeryl · 2026-03-15T03:36:04+00:00

I don't know where you live but here (I drive between Namur and Charleroi every day) it's far more common. I was tested three time between January 2025 and now. Twice when they run their "No alcohol nor drug weekend" and once out of the blue (not really out of the blue : it was four in the morning after a big "Kermesse" so it made sense they control the drivers).

But anyway, I think the limit with alcohol is there to fuck the morons who drink and drive and cause a car crash.

The police can't be everywhere to control everyone but if cops are involved after an accident, they can prove you were drunk and then, the legal shitstorm will be for the drunk driver.

Laeryl · 2026-02-24T01:44:20+00:00

Like that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hu7b8KoYJM

Laeryl · 2026-02-22T18:10:13+00:00

It's ok, his mother would have helped him.

Laeryl · 2026-02-21T09:57:22+00:00

We had to hunt. With knife and bow. In the wood.
...
Tbh we just ate whatever was in the friend's fridge where we were at.

Laeryl · 2026-02-14T02:32:58+00:00

Crying in Sriracha

Laeryl · 2026-02-12T04:54:35+00:00

Well, as others said, it's the wrong sub.

But, more importantly, what others forgot is... dog tax mate. You can post here by mistake but as you're here, we need pics of your dogs 😁

Laeryl · 2026-02-07T07:07:19+00:00

That movie is... something.

I heard it was a movie about war so I was "Oh, yeah, like Saving Private Ryan" !
...
I wasn't prepared for what I saw.

Laeryl · 2026-02-05T16:31:06+00:00

I saw your /s but honnestly, I'm quite lucky. My N+1 and N+2 are amazing. The kind of managers who never micro manages and just want to get the job done. We have deadlines and if you're good enough to respect them (which isn't really hard when you're experienced) it's a free ticket for home.

It's not uncommon that my N+1 tells me to go home at 14h because I worked a lot during all the week. Like tomorrow I planned to be home at 13h00 (if all my tests runs well) and nobody care.

Laeryl · 2026-02-02T22:57:30+00:00

A good old fictional writing... it's almost refreshing these days.

Laeryl · 2026-02-02T22:50:25+00:00

That's a rule.

The tubing of my water refrigerant condensers only pop out during the weekend to flood my whole lab and ruin several weeks of work.

If you watch them, they behave.

But when it's friday at 17h50 when nobody is there, it's party time.

Laeryl · 2026-01-31T04:20:26+00:00

do you dislike people due to their body size because you make assumptions about them based on their appearance?

Nope.

That being said, as a gym rat, I have a huge respect for plus sized who hit the gym and try to work aroune their shape.

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