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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling

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This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.

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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I think the core of the problem is that back in the bad old days, things needed to be tuned up a bit before they would work right and there was a marked lack of standardization. Now, not only do our devices work right out of the box, bit they also have little quality of life stuff as well. I haven’t bought a battery-powered device in years that wasn’t partially charged when I got it, and most devices come preinstalled with all the basic utility apps.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I believe that the consensus on this is that the originator of this post has taken up smoking. Ash is sticky.

Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals?

I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous night....

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

The rituals started in the 1950s. At that time, in order to go on a date with someone, your parents had to chaperone you. It was the wisdom at the time. Prom and homecoming were the only exceptions, so it became a really big thing. Then those people grew up, impressed upon the next generation how homecoming and prom were the best times in high school, started making nostalgia movies about homecoming and prom. That created pressure to live up to this, girls started getting overly fancy dresses, guys started doing elaborate prom-posals, the wedding dress industry jumped in to fill the gap, and now it’s a whole capitalism-fest like Christmas and Valentine’s Day

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling , (edited )

The main thing is that prom didn’t start to become big until the 1950s. This was a high water mark for conservatism in the U.S., and in order to go on any date at least one parent, usually the girl’s dad, had to be present I have been corrected that this is reductive. Chaperoning was still commonish in this time period, depending on your area, but the 50s dating scene was beginning to look somewhat similar to what we have today with a guy picking up a girl in his car to go somewhere. Dancing would have been an uncommon activity because of how “adult” it was seen to be, so for horny teens Homecoming and Prom were a big deal. The biggest thing you notice looking at the dances of this time period is that the dresses are relatively simple, because it really wasn’t that big of a deal back then. It was literally just a school dance, organized and overseen by the teachers and school staff.

Then, those kids grew up, had kids of their own, started making movies, and on doing so impressed on the following generation that homecoming and prom were the most fun nights in all of high school. This created pressure to make your proms and homecomings be as cool as the ones your parents told you about. This led to a lot more effort being put in. Dresses got way more expensive, tuxes became pretty much mandatory, guys began doing elaborate prom-posals.

This created a big economic opening in the market. Somebody needs to make colorful dresses for the girls and tuxes for the guys. The wedding industry immediately took over this area, and homecoming and prom became rush time for that industry. Somebody needs to play music. Back in the 50s they would hire bands, but by the 70s and 80 we started getting disc jockeys and now the party dj industry is fully enmeshed in high school dances. Then there’s the decorations, which became themeing, which feeds into the party industry.

Now you have the cultural snowball rolling downhill, building up speed, slowly getting bigger. It is encouraged by a growing industry that advertises to teens how cool their prom will be if they just wear this dress, and then social media happened. Now teens are advertising prom to each other, and feeling they need to be better than that TikTok they saw earlier, so the social pressure to have the coolest prom ever is more ubiquitous that it has ever been.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

We really are in our “let them eat cake” era

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Thanks. Gonna edit my comment since another commenter said he was going to save my comment to copy-paste later if it becomes relevant. I dont want to spread misinformation.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

But where is Boo?

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

It’s always Christmas in your heart

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

No

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Me too, buddy. Me too.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I love chocolate pancakes! Here’s the recipe I use:

1 18.25 ounce package chocolate pancake mix.

3/4 cup vegetable oil.

4 large eggs.

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.

3/4 cups butter or margarine.

1&2/3 cups granulated sugar.

2 cups all purpose flour.

Don’t forget garnishes such as:

Fish shaped crackers.

Fish shaped candies.

Fish shaped solid waste,

Fish shaped dirt.

Fish shaped ethyl benzene.

Pull and peel licorice…

Fish shaped volatile organic compounds

and sediment shaped sediment.

Candy coated peanut butter pieces, Shaped like fish.

1 cup lemon juice.

Alpha resins.

Unsaturated polyester resin.

Fiberglass surface resins.

And volatile malted milk impoundments.

9 large egg yolks.

12 medium geosynthetic membranes.

1 cup granulated sugar.

An entry called ‘how to kill someone with your bare hands’.

2 cups rhubarb, sliced.

2/3 cups granulated rhubarb.

1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb.

1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb.

3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.

1 large rhubarb.

1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb.

2 tablespoons rhubarb juice.

Adjustable aluminum head positioner.

Slaughter electric needle injector.

Cordless electric needle injector.

Injector needle driver.

Injector needle gun.

Cranial caps.

And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Nah, I get my recipes from GLaDOS, she would never lie to me about cake-related subjects

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Ayyy

Is everything the worst?

I’m 43, almost 44, years old and went through a bought of alcoholism during the early part of the pandemic. I went through treatment and have been fine since. However, I can’t help but feel that all the news in the last few months is just the worst. Between the AI bullshit, the wars, the effects of capitalism, and the...

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I disagree. Back in maybe the 60s the public broadcast networks were not fully beholden to investors, did not have competition from the internet, and didn’t have to do 24 hours of news. As a result, they had time to do responsible reporting. The current power structure encourages news media to do whatever it takes to grab your attention and hold it, and the best way to do that is fear.

I have not fully cut out the news from my life. There are some channels on YouTube that do good reporting like Sir Swag and of course Phillip DeFranco.

Another thing to point out is that, assuming you are American, we are in an election year. News companies really ramp up the fear mongering on election years.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I don’t think the amount of information is the problem, just the way it is presented to us.

IMHO, my mental health improved significantly after substituting Lemmy for Reddit and Mastodon for facebook/insta/etc. Or maybe I’ve just gotten better at being unattached to digital life and social pressure

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Thats a reference to a relatively famous linguistics study lol. A bunch of children were given questions such as “This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. He did the same thing yesterday. Yesterday he _____.” or presenting them with a wug and then asking what the plural of wug is. The children had very consistent answers to these nonsense grammar questions, showing that grammar rules are mainly learned through experience instead of being memorized for each word.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Glang was common, but so was glinged.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Who is that

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Thank u very hepful

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Where else would you post this?

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Never underestimate the ability of a small change to completely break a system

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Welcome!

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/1359311c-b830-447d-931a-82a3bda63567.webp

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

He’s so well hidden.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Also, the energy to make that flower is an enormous strain on the plant. Usually, growing that flower causes most or all of the carnivorous leaves to die, and therefore often growing that flower spells the death of the plant.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

The specific nutrients it gets from the bugs are nitrogen and phosphorus, which plants normally absorb through their roots. It evolved carnivory to compensate for the poor soil in its native habitat instead of developing its roots like other plants in the area, so it can’t pick up the nutritional slack with its atrophied roots.

In addition, every time a leaf closes and tries to digest what it caught, it uses a lot of energy. Flowering always is a big strain on a small plant, no matter what species, so when this strain is introduced the number of carnivorous leaves becomes a difficult risk/reward calculation, and plants are not known for cleverness.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I have noticed this in the suburbs specifically. Just over the span of my short life I’ve seen pretty much all the bugs in any area I’ve lived in disappear, along with the bats that eat them.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Not terribly? My hometown only expanded by one housing development, but most of those houses have not sold. But we had to close our windows at night because the mosquito sprayer trucks would spray so much fog that it impacted my mom’s breathing. When I was a kid we had fireflies and bats in the backyard.

As for my current town, I am not surprised at the lack of bugs since it’s all corn and nothing but corn; no real rivers, no big ponds, no forests near town, nothing that could shelter bugs outside the houses.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Finally, someone with a brain leaves a comment.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

For me, the world bible is a separate document filled with hyperlinks that is specifically for keeping stuff straight in my head. I’ve got it pretty much down to a science now, mainly for when I run DnD. It’s hard to describe my process for it, because what I try to do is pin one whole train of thought to each page like an entomologist organizing their bug collection. It’s most like the wiki method, but in a way that keeps my ADHD brain from getting distracted.

What I struggle with is getting organized before my rough draft. Ive tried free writing, but I tend to lose direction halfway through. I need some sort of organization to stay on task.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

I can’t tell if this is a shitpost or not

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Assuming it is a paper notebook, the determining factor is how soaked the pages are. If it is too wet, they may start to meld together making the notebook unusable.

The best thing to do is to actually heat up the book. I’ve cooked mine in the oven at very low heat, which allows it to dry out fast. My dad does a variant of the rice method for wet books where he fills a bag with rice and then places it in the sun. However, if the notebook is too wet and the pages are sticking together, doing either of these will instead turn your notebook into a solid block of wood. Instead, your best course of action is to try and fan out the pages by individually peeling them apart, then putting the splayed-open notebook somewhere moderately warm where it can slowly dry out under your careful observation.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Age wasn’t mentioned

Edit: I can’t read

Trying to find a song about being wedgied

When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

The 00’s. Specifically between 02 and 08. Probably between 05 and 08. Looking back on it, this was also the period of time that my dad had introduced me to MCR and and other emo stuff he was into

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

No.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling OP ,

Nah, this was a song that was 100% made for children. I am sure I would not like it as an adult.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

If you dunk your phone in water the post will teleport away

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Technically the concept of a planet is a social construct. Scientists have been scurrying around redefining the definition of a planet to exclude asteroids ever since they discovered them. Why can’t they just say that the Earth is a wet asteroid and be done with it?

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Remember to close the door 🚪

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

In a few years I am going to be a teacher

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8fnbhC7olnxP0sPD4IMY…

This is the series in question. I think it’s obvious why little kids like it

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Yes

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Yes, because everybody knows the earth is in the sun’s p orbital

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/d4b1a6a2-9b8c-4c54-a4b7-c7f7ba75fc29.jpeg

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I stand corrected. I should have checked; I mean, I’m not a quantum astrophysicist.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Lol. For all I know I could be a quantum aristocrat, but whenever I open my bank account its wave function collapses to about $300

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Totally agree but thats not a hamster

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Yeah, now that I’ve gotten a full night of sleep I see it’s definitely a hamster. The tiny ears, the front-facing eyes, the distinctive splayed hind legs. Idk why I thought it was a guinea pig.

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