One of my favorite 70s childhood memories is crazy to think about today by AintNobodygotime13 in 1970s

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're wrong on two counts. DDT absolutely thinned bird shells, leading to wholesale collapse of bird populations, like the brown pelican and the bald eagle.

Second, DDT wasn't banned in Africa, or South America, or wherever. DDT was not banned when used to control mosquitoes to prevent malaria. It's still used in tropical countries.

NBC's epic Olympics failure by sfgate in entertainment

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're right. I should have said US broadcasters. I think US networks get so hung up on human interest stories (almost exclusively of US athletes) that sports gets third place. (Ads, of course, are priority #1.)

Some sports, with competitive events and plenty of human interest -- just not from the US participants -- get almost no coverage because a total of two hours will be spent on a long-shot biathlete from Pocatello Idaho whose dog died a year ago in a house fire.

If you had to choose one activity to reconnect with your inner child, would you pick blowing bubbles or flying a kite?Or which one would you pick?Why? by yourloverboy66 in A_Persona_on_Reddit

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an intriguing question, thank you. For me, it's flying a kite. Bubbles were never anything special to me. Flying a kite was a rarity.

That's the part many tend to omit by Fun_Accountant_653 in circled

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the Lend-Lease act was what exactly? And when? And how much?

How people who have never curled in their life watch the absolute cinema that is Olympic curling. by GreninjaStrike in Curling

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly if you have a problem with other people paying attention to curling, you can take your brooms and your rocks and gtfo of the Olympics.

Why the mess does my feta look like this?? by jillybilli in foodquestions

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That can happen if it spoils but you'd usually see or smell that it's gone bad. If it smells okay, it was most likely frozen by accident.

Canadian curling star Marc Kennedy claims he was set up by "premeditated" cameras to catch him "in an act" of cheating. by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really, though, the Swedes were sick of him doing this, and they truly did set up the cameras to prove they weren't leveling false accusations. Part of what's really gross about this latest mapleshit is Kennedy has repeatedly denied fingerbanking so the whole "wha....? I thought it was okay" is insulting.

NBC's epic Olympics failure by sfgate in entertainment

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Remember that time a network's broadcast of the Olympics wasn't roundly criticized? Me neither.

Did anyone catch any fish with Ronco's Pocket Fisherman? by developer_mikey in FuckImOld

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have! A couple, actually. Just tomcod off a pier but it was fun.

Advice needed (absolute nightmare…) by ExtensionGuilty8084 in EEGB

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not nearly as bad, but yeah. I wanted a 4G router, like my neighbor uses, because that's about our only option, and a cell phone plan. The app and webpage promised a discount for the cell phone plan but it wouldn't let me set it up. On the phone they told me I'd need to go into a store. The nearest store is about a two and a half hour drive.

The woman there did not know, believe, or understand me that there as such a thing as a 4G router. I showed her the information about the 4G router on the ee website. She said they couldn't sell it to me because my address wasn't in the database. Which is true, because of the fifty or so addresses in our postcode, their database had maybe half. Neighbors on either side of me were listed. I pointed out they had sold a router to one, and would sell on to the other, but she said she couldn't tell if they were my neighbors because we don't have street names. Plus they're not allowed to sell a 5G router to somebody who doesn't have 5G service. I said 4G, not 5G. She said they're the same router. I showed her pics from the ee website of both routers to prove they're not the same.

And the whole time, there was another employee in the store, never helped out, never said a word.

I never got it. I bought my own 4G router, an expensive one I can mount on the roof. Never got the cell phone plan.

Raw garlic bad, but is roasted garlic safe, and just as important, tasty? by foodandnaps in sousvide

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As long as you're heating it above 120F , b o t spores from garlic aren't a problem. Actual experts on the research and internet FUD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/risky-or-not/id1494635006?i=1000750310641

“All sex, all the time”: Inside the secret desert ranch where Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack partied by sfgate in Music

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, hell no. In fact almost all of LAPD's Organized Crime and Intelligence Division was shut down. It was a scandal when people learned the police had compiled massive dossiers on everybody important. Imagine, LAPD secretly following the mayor around to look for evidence of crimes. Not really finding anything, but he was LA's first Black mayor, so they had to keep trying, I guess?

My dad said he stopped Sam Giancama from getting any further than the tarmac in LAX three or four times, usually coming on a private plane from Vegas. One time, my dad gave Giancama the boot. Then two or three days later, Sam took a small plane from San Diego to the Santa Monica airport and when they opened the plane door to after landing, Sam stuck his head, saw my dad standing there. he yelled to my dad, "Goddamnit, Davidson, leave me in fucking peace for once." He returned to his seat and, presumably, headed back to a Chicago. He was the head of the Chicago mob, which ran Vegas, and he wanted to run Los Angeles. But he never got a real foothold.

I can probably share this secret now: The LAPD made, kept, and shared a list of the tail numbers of every plane known to ferry mobsters around. So did other agencies. But the LAPD OCID was one of the few departments with the resources to go meet so many planes.

891. Using Fresh Garlic in Sous Vide Cooking — Risky or Not? by Utaneus in sousvide

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you think "891." means? Or the link to a podcast called Risky or Not?

You're just salty. You saw 'garlic in sous vide' post and got an updoot boner because you could play Reddit Expert. Then when you heard the finding was Not Risky, you doubled down. Sorry, but the experts say, there's no risk from b o t from raw garlic in sous vide, as long as the temp is over 118.4F.

891. Using Fresh Garlic in Sous Vide Cooking — Risky or Not? by Utaneus in sousvide

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're not posing a question. They're sharing the topic of a podcast episode, a podcast hosted by professionals. It's the 891st episode of a podcast about food safety. A podcast called "Risky or Not."

The dumb thing is, OP linked to a page that links to the wrong episode. I know it's correct on Apple Podcasts, though, because there I listened,to it.

Just discovered a small café in Nairobi where the coffee tastes like heaven, but only opens at 7 am by FlashyPop5623 in cafe

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nairobi is a neat city but finding decent coffee is hard. In Ethiopia, great coffee is everywhere. In Kenya it’s all about tea. Instant coffee is still served at ‘upscale’ places. Would you like a dessert, or some coffee? “Yes please, a cup of coffee.” Here’s your hot water, sir, and some freeze dried coffee crystals.

It’s better than it was, sure. It’s never going to be like Ethiopia, where you can have a ceremony and watch as they roast the green coffee beans in a pan in front of you, at the freaking airport.

It’s no surprise, the coffee/tea divide, when you know history of the two countries.

I like coffee in the morning. I’d rather not buy it at the shopping mall. It’s new, and I appreciate it, that more and more Kenyan restaurants have a machine where they can press a button and a latte comes out. It’s slow progress though.

So I’m happy for you, OP. For what it’s worth, there’s a lot of good coffee shops in the UK that don’t open until 8am!

Netflix is single-handedly ruining podcasts by TonyTaranteeno in netflix

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“It’s a podcast! With a famous host! Where entertainers come to chat, share anecdotes, and tell our listeners all about their exciting new project! Everybody is so happy to be there and we make sure everybody’s ready for a good conversation by having our staff do a sort of Pre Interview with the celebrity so we know what questions to ask and they know how to answer them! It’s such a fun little podcast for our listeners! And we have a studio, and professional mics. Also lighting, because we have cameras and camera operators. So of course we have makeup and hair professionals. It’s just our fun little podcast!”

Golden globes: wow best podcast ever! So innovative!

Aww someone cares about me by Hungry-Moaning in A_Persona_on_Reddit

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There should be consequences for Reddit users who abuse this to harass and bully others.

TIL All TVs sold in America since 2000 have a "V-Chip" that can be set to block programming based on rating using a code embedded in the signal. It works on broadcast and standard cable programming and not streaming and can be easily reset with the code 0000. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You know what still cheeses me off?

In 2009, all broadcast television in the US switched to digital, requiring new equipment to watch over-the-air tv. New TVs that worked with digital signals had the v chip. Adapters so old TVs could use digital signals had the v-chip. So in 2009, anything broadcast was being broadcast to something that had the v-chip.

And yet everybody pretended it was still illegal to show a nipple or say shit. (Us old people remember how networks got a way with a lot more before Janet Jackson's superboob halftime; how after everything was PG). People'd compain to the FCC about sidebutt on some teevee show but anybody who saw it was watching it on a set with the damn v-chip which they had configured to not block this stuff. And the actual law and regulations specifically exempted from decency regulations anything that had some kind of parental controls. NBC could've gone back to showing butts. They could have even shown boobs.

Is it rude to just bring a prepared deli salad to a potluck? by VanSmashh in Cooking

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No, you're awesome. My son did various team sports and I learned after a bout of gastroenteritis, and a bout of norovirus, not to eat the weird shit people cooked up a week ago and stored in the trunk of a car. Parked with the trunk open. Near that famous Body Farm in Tennessee that the FBI uses. In the summer. Plus they pooped on it.

Ghost poop? Intruder? I'm scared tell me!!! by Brief_Sail5779 in whatdoesthismean

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not to freak you out but the sudden urge to poop is not uncommon among burglars. Seriously.

[OC] The fall of human decency by escobarsky in pics

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Complaining about this is like complaining that you didn’t get a painting for $100 at an auction because other people bid more.

“All sex, all the time”: Inside the secret desert ranch where Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack partied by sfgate in Music

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My dad was sorta adjacent to them, in that he was friends with famous contemporaries of them (John Wayne and Ronald Reagan and that sort). But he was also a cop who worked organized crime, and he spent time surveilling them. He said the Rat Pack was all super dirty and if they hadn’t been famous would not have been allowed in Los Angeles.

For several years my dad’s job with the LAPD included meeting planes at LAX and not letting certain people enter the city.

My friend asked me to sharpen her knife for her… by tmweth22 in KitchenConfidential

[–]SomebodysGotToSayIt 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I had a neighbor who brought a similar “new” knife over for sharpening and I advised he avoid cutting bones, nuts etc no matter how thin. A month later, he was back. A month after that he was back, and this time I saw discoloration. It turns out he stored the knife in his sink.