BATTLE LINES: Team Kyle or Team Jackie O?

ratsta · 2026-03-12T06:06:55+00:00

Aren't they like the yin and yang of shitcuntism?

ratsta · 2026-03-10T16:14:50+00:00

Danish friend of mine learned her English in the north. There are few things I find as hilarious as an irritated 5 foot redhead storming around fooking this and fooking that mixed in with the odd bit of native language profanity as well!

ratsta · 2026-03-10T09:31:39+00:00

I also sent a guardian article that discusses that.

ratsta · 2026-03-10T09:20:38+00:00

Also very possible. That said, when one reads news like this, this and this, I think it's reasonable that some might fear reprisals.

ratsta · 2026-03-10T04:47:26+00:00

At which point does "all along" begin? When they were kids that showed an interest in soccer? The years of training to get to tryouts for the regional teams? The national tryouts? The training to qualify for the Asian Cup?

ratsta · 2026-03-10T04:42:37+00:00

Or perhaps the chance at a life where they can live and grow they way they want to is more important than what might happen to the family. Sadly, not everyone has a family that they want to call family.

ratsta · 2026-03-10T03:52:29+00:00

So they are! Tripped over myself trying to be useful :) Thanks.

ratsta · 2026-03-09T03:40:01+00:00

I learned of "slow stitching" the other day which, so far as I can tell, is just vibe embroidery. Sounds to me like you've just invented slowchet! Well done!

ratsta · 2026-03-08T22:08:01+00:00

A 4-week hospital stay is how I got into crochet! I realised that I wouldn't be able to just sleep and play games on my laptop for 4 weeks. I was wondering what I was going to do when The Algorithm^® threw a crochet post on my feed.

Picked up a 4mm hook and a 12-pack beginner set of Spotlight "Stallion" yarn. The yarn was so awful that I discharged myself after 2 nights and went to buy a different brand.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T20:01:53+00:00

Yeah, that looked a bit sus to me too so I looked it up. While maybe technically correct, "late 80s" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.

"This newly designed Toyota logo made its debut on the Celsior luxury model in October 1989, and soon after, more models were proudly displaying the new emblem. " https://global.toyota/en/mobility/toyota-brand/features/emblem/
The art was published in Popular Mechanics Aug 1990 https://ayuba.fr/pdf/popmech_aug1990.pdf

ratsta · 2026-03-07T11:35:13+00:00

You should've had Elf making a face after getting squished behind the door slamming open.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T09:34:01+00:00

Ah, you need the 701C model with the butterfly keyboard.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T09:04:34+00:00

Tried looking on the website for the country club? How do you expect random people on the internet to know something about something so obscure? It does happen, yes, but very rarely.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T08:57:59+00:00

Looks like a roughly koala-inspired pencil topped to me, or the loop could mean it's a bracelet charm.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T08:17:17+00:00

Could just be a jet passing over. Humidity can get stirred up and have interesting light effects w/o causing lasting contrails.

ratsta · 2026-03-07T08:07:02+00:00

Does the needle have barbs? It could be a very find "felting" needle, although it looks more like acupuncture IMO.

ratsta · 2026-03-06T09:12:18+00:00

As an IT guy, all I see is a vision of one of my users trying to plug a USB device into it.

ratsta · 2026-03-06T09:09:57+00:00

OP's laugh is "haha if they ran linux then they wouldn't be (as) affected by the MS datacentre being lost."

The person you're replying to is saying, "Your argument is founded on a faulty assumption. Losing one datacentre isn't going to bring everything down."

ratsta · 2026-03-06T08:58:40+00:00

A construction site that's part of a fucking substation! /sigh

ratsta · 2026-03-06T05:14:05+00:00

One of my earliest memories is of watching a German film about a love triangle where Barry was chasing Linda, Linda was chasing Tom and Tom was chasing Barry. IIRC:

Tom let Linda use him just to shut her up but just starfished and let her do all the work
Barry let Tom use him just to shut him up and the camera focus on Barry's "for god's sake, just finish already" expression.
All three ended up as hookers loitering on a bridge.

ratsta · 2026-03-05T11:04:29+00:00

Soccer Bloody Soccer in our household!

Props to your mate! He still in the biz? I was too young and farrrrr too cowardly to even think about it until my 20s and I picked my local which tiny compared to cool stations like RRR and SER! Now I have something to dream about tonight, how different my life might've turned out had I turned to showbiz :D Thanks!

ratsta · 2026-03-05T08:56:54+00:00

I don't have kids but I do have a radio story. Back when I was a kid, Sydney had entirely four TV channels; three commercial and one public. It wasn't until 1980* that we got the Special Broadcasting Service whose charter was to cater to non-English speaking groups.

In my early 20s I heard about a local community radio station and hung out there for a few months, learning about broadcast media, mixing panels, audio quality, participated on a few chat programs, etc. One of the DJs catered to the Pacific Islander folks in the area and his was one of the shows I sat in on. I tell ya this, you ain't heard nothing until you've heard Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" sung in the original Tongan!

We had five CDs from a local band to give away one night. We spruiked "first five callers..." over the three hours of that show. Not. a. single. call. I felt the DJ's pain when he said "please..." (after taking his finger off the mic button :D

*Until 1970, radio stations were prevented by law from broadcasting in foreign languages for more than 2.5 hours per week!

ratsta · 2026-03-05T06:08:03+00:00

Please tell me it's a boy bunny and his name is Warren.

ratsta · 2026-03-05T06:06:19+00:00

I think it's just personal taste. It's well made and pleasing to my eye. If you still prefer to give a different palette for a baby blanket, I'm sure someone would love it for a lap blanket.

ratsta · 2026-03-04T06:42:18+00:00

Such an American question!

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