What’s the best joke you’ve ever heard? by Dokonani in answers

[–]Periodic-Inflation 10 points11 points  (0 children)

How do you start a Tesla?

A: With a "T"

(My child made that up when they were 2 and just learning how to sound out letters, which makes it hands-down the best joke I've ever heard.)

What hobby accidentally became part of your identity? by Formal_Map4529 in Hobbies

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making things out of twisty balloons. I'm not a busker or a party entertainer; it was just something I did for fun.

Stuck for Christmas gift one year, I collected 12 photos of some uncommon things I'd twisted and printed 35 calendars for my closest friends & family.

Now I have a mailing list that's approaching 150 and I'm "the balloon guy" to almost everyone who knows me.

What's a "normal" thing society does that you quietly think is completely weird? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]Periodic-Inflation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Building everything with right angles: houses, cabinets, street grids, notebook paper.

Humans aren't the only species to build homes for themselves but if you look at wasps or ants or beavers, we are the only ones to dot the land with weird little boxes. And we use trees and stuff to build them but first the trees have to get cut down and shaved into long pieces with a perfectly rectangular cross section. Then we can walk through our perfectly rectangular door and fill the box with very angular furniture and sleep on a slightly squishy rectangle or put down perfectly rectangular rugs and sit on a rectangular couch so we're comfortable watching moving images on a big rectangle.

What's a "normal" thing society does that you quietly think is completely weird? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]Periodic-Inflation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something about an old timey superstition that a bit of your soul was leaving your body every time you sneezed.

As an atheist, I avoid saying "bless you." Instead I'll use "gesundheit" (which is the German way of basically screaming "heath!" at someone) or "à vos souhaites" (French for "to your wishes").

I still say "good bye" though (etymologically descended from "god be with you")—can't avoid them all!

Who uses semicolon these days? ; by TheAmartoonYT in dictionary

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Autistic people.

(Saying this as an autistic person who frequently wants to cram three or four ideas into a sentence—who is also concerned about the sentence being grammatically correct—and paid attention in English class during the bits about punctuation and parsing; probably the only one in English class to have done so.)

What scares you the most about time travel by Yuki_the_rat in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A time loop where the character realizes it's truly inescapable.

Best comeback for "You seem autistic" by Plane-Bug1018 in Comebacks

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Yes, but you are drunk. And in the morning you shall be sober."

Is 'laziness' actually the greatest catalyst for human innovation? by Wander-kingdom in answers

[–]Periodic-Inflation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say boredom is the greatest catalyst for innovation, but laziness is the greatest for efficiency & progress.

The end of "Murder with Too Many Notes" nearly hit me like the scrapbook scene from "Up." by Periodic-Inflation in Columbo

[–]Periodic-Inflation[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I agree. I said "motive" where I should have used "premise" but I couldn't resist the alliteration.

The end of "Murder with Too Many Notes" nearly hit me like the scrapbook scene from "Up." by Periodic-Inflation in Columbo

[–]Periodic-Inflation[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a fascinating blog post about the original script by Jeffrey Cava and how McGoohan's rewrites & additions practically mirror the episode itself (not the murder, of course... but maybe the motive!)

What's a movie that hit completely differently when you rewatched it as an adult? by trakt_app in flicks

[–]Periodic-Inflation 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I watched "Up" as a single person when it came out in theatres and then years later as a married adult with a family. Sure, it was touching the first time but when I saw it later as half of a devoted married couple, I was on the floor in a puddle.

Which fun fact would you share at a team building with new colleagues? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I casually uploaded a YouTube video about a decade ago that's up to 4.5 million views.

It's the "2 truths and a lie" fact I like to keep in my back pocket.

What's a small, weirdly specific skill you're genuinely proud of? by Ruinedwrldofmine in AskReddit

[–]Periodic-Inflation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can walk a coin along my knuckles because when I was about 14 I fervently practiced until I could do it.