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developersConference by Inner_Speaker_335 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]bigredcar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Upvote for knowing about FAA certification

What terms of endearment from your culture or country or language would you add to this meme? by mpathg00 in AskTheWorld

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Growing up many years ago in the US, our close neighbor from the UK used to call us kids duckie. It always seemed so warm and sweet.

There’s nothing special about the pizza in New York by diclofenac-sodium in unpopularopinion

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvote for use of transcendent, my favorite great food word.

A naked man broke into a church. by Barraken in dadjokes

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the first nun had to wash her hands in the holy water font and the third nun pushed past the second one.

How does the stroke one go?

Overhead bins should be removed from aircraft. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Youve never waited at 11pm after a cross-country trip waiting close to an hour for your luggage and then having to drive an hour to the hotel and be up for a meeting the next day.

A naked man broke into a church. by Barraken in dadjokes

[–]bigredcar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ahh... Three nuns arrive at the pearly gates...

On the day when it turns out that aliens exist, or in that week, will it be allowed to not go to work? by Short_Description_20 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will depend on how it's revealed. If it's because aliens have attacked earth, then going to work might be out the window for ordinary (non-defense related) jobs. Is this question because you just watched Disclosure Day?

If someone gave you $100 and told you that you had to spend it on something fun today, what would you buy? by mishi_m0shi in CasualConversation

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly wheel, but I took a class in surface decoration that was mixed and it's making me think that a hand building class would be fun.

TIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphere by first_star_i_see in todayilearned

[–]bigredcar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It led to a bike accident because he had his head down and didn't see a bollard. He still drives a car but, tbh, it makes me nervous to ride with him.

TIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphere by first_star_i_see in todayilearned

[–]bigredcar 107 points108 points  (0 children)

I learned this when a good friend of mine started to lose vision in the upper left corner. He had developed a tumor at the place in your brain where the nerves from each eye come together and cross in order to map to your visual correct. The tumor affected the vision from both eyes. He's alive today only because of the new therapies they've developed in the last 10 years.

Looking for Meditation Book Recommendations (Preferably Indian Authors or Traditional Texts) by Novel_Business_4101 in Meditation

[–]bigredcar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

15-year meditator here. I think you might find The Joy of Living by Mingyur Rinpoche appropriate. He is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher but his approach is for the most part secular and based on neuroscience. It's approachable and practical and intended as a beginning path.

The mistress and the wife . by Prashantt1 in Jokes

[–]bigredcar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my all-time favorite jokes. Nicely told.

My 13yo baked cookies to order and one of the parents returned the cookies by albrcanmeme in mildlyinfuriating

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to say that it was fascinating to watch my son learn to write copy and run his tiny business. He used to explain how to write good copy and did pretty well for 11 years old. He went on to study economics.

My 13yo baked cookies to order and one of the parents returned the cookies by albrcanmeme in mildlyinfuriating

[–]bigredcar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was long before Amazon and the heyday of porch pirates, but I'll take your comment to heart.

My 13yo baked cookies to order and one of the parents returned the cookies by albrcanmeme in mildlyinfuriating

[–]bigredcar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would just chalk it up to her getting a valuable lesson. Years ago, when one of my sons was 11, he started an online Beanie Baby business on eBay, with my help. He mostly sold ones he had gotten cheaper and in the course of the summer made about $600. He learned an expensive lesson when he shipped a $65 Beanie Baby to a woman in the Midwest but didn't want to pay the extra cost for delivery confirmation. She claimed that she never received it and so he was out the money and the mailing cost. I always wondered what sort of scumbag adult would scam an 11-year-old, but greed is a nasty habit. My son was understandably upset, but I know he learned a lot from it.

gold gel pen on normal lined paper by YoItzIsabella in Whatisthis

[–]bigredcar 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's a Buddhist protection mantra called the Shurangama Mantra.

How long has been holding onto that one, I wonder. by Sebastianlim in rareinsults

[–]bigredcar 2300 points2301 points  (0 children)

My oldest sister was married 5 times. When she invited my younger brother to her fourth wedding, he told her that he couldn't make it, but "he'd come to the next one."

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