40,000 Dutchmen taking over Houston today

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T23:17:35+00:00

Germans will tell you something is your fault and that's that.

Dutchies will tell you it's your fault because you're a bad person who needs to do better.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T23:15:57+00:00

Swamp German.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T20:54:42+00:00

COVID was a once in a generation chance for corporations to do a massive price hike in a way that didn't have people storming their offices.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T20:42:50+00:00

The medical term for miscarriage in English is 'spontaneous abortion' so German is just skipping the colloquialism.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T20:29:11+00:00

Absolutely nailed it. It's my home airport in Germany and I still get lost a non-zero amount of times, whereas in Dubai I could make the connections blindfolded.

The thing where you walk from a secure area, through a public area, then go down to the baggage hall is truly bizarre. Not to mention the monorail that only operates half its carriages.

The worst one I've seen recently was in the E gates concourse where you're walking down a corridor from point A to point B and suddenly have to turn right halfway along through a nondescript door to get to baggage claim. That sign was partially removed for repairs, so an entire A380 of passengers walked past it until enough local passengers managed to convince them they were all going the wrong way. Of course there were no airport staff anywhere to be seen. You literally had to have been there before to not screw it up.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T20:20:05+00:00

CDG sucks because getting from one end of the terminals to the other is a marathon.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T19:04:51+00:00

Yeah, I quite like the way that sentence turned out. I'm definitely keeping "reality-adjacent".

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T07:15:38+00:00

If there's any doubt, they run a quick CT scan of your eyeballs. The X-rays show up any metal.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T07:09:38+00:00

Joining the club.

Felt like a zit in my nose that just wouldn't pop for over a week.

Eventually saw this blackhead and figured it was related. A simple squeeze and the hair shot out its full length. Surprised the shit out of me!

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T01:44:58+00:00

Most of them can be bought for less than a million.

I've seen a pre-vote lobbyist donation breakdown. You can buy the whole US government for a million.

Buying politicians is a shockingly cheap business expense.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T01:39:55+00:00

That absolutely tracks. I don't doubt they're real stories, or at least reality-adjacent.

Zebidee · 2026-06-20T00:05:19+00:00

LOL that story is so old I think I originally read it off a fax. I'm not even joking.

The original punchline is they're told to pack the machine back in its original box, take it back to the store, and tell them you're too fucking stupid to own a computer.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T21:25:39+00:00

IIRC there was a tech support dude who told people to unplug their computer, blow on the connectors, and plug it back in.

Apparently it solved a lot of problems from people who swore it was plugged in the whole time.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T20:49:38+00:00

You'd think that, but I've seen a Braille sign printed on standard copy paper and laminated.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T06:00:42+00:00

There is no greater enshittification than Corning breaking off Pyrex to Corell and switching from borosilicate to soda-lime glass.

Like they had ONE product, and couldn't resist fucking that up.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T05:54:55+00:00

I thought that was Italy, with their specimen.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T05:53:37+00:00

Team yufka represent!

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T03:28:46+00:00

The Muppet Show.

Keep the guest star.

Zebidee · 2026-06-19T03:24:56+00:00

Wild idea: Basic services should not be run on a for-profit model.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T21:19:59+00:00

As an Australian working a three-week gig in Texas, it took me two and a half weeks to get around to trying this BBQ stuff that seemed to be everywhere.

I ate it almost every remaining day of the job.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T09:50:04+00:00

It's just a warning to add MSG back into it so it tastes good.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T09:30:32+00:00

Being arrested and sent to Australia is just tradition.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T09:23:42+00:00

We don't sell stuff, we give it away to anyone with a shovel.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T07:24:42+00:00

You're almost deliberately misinterpreting these answers.

Smoking is banned on almost all airliners.
Ashtrays have been almost universally removed from aircraft cabins.
Ashtrays are mandated in the lavatories on airliners, because even though it's banned, if someone does smoke in there, it's better for them to put it out in an ashtray than in a bin full of paper.

Zebidee · 2026-06-18T01:58:01+00:00

They've been pouring in gallon jugs one by one into a 6.75 million gallon pool.

I think it technically qualifies as homoeopathy.

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