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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • Salted liquorice.

    I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.

    Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.

    I was wrong. So very wrong.

    This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It’s not salt either, it’s freaking ammonium chloride.

    To paraphrase the Wikipedia:

    The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.

    And Scandi’s put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.

    I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.





  • Season 2 was finished and leaked years before netflix picked it up. When it got bought by netflix, season 1 was condensed and rewitten into like 3 episodes and a lot of the lines in season 2 were redubbed.

    So much of what made the show good was in the original line delivery. Like Bee’s line at the beach, “This, is as far, as we, can go.” which was so perfectly done in the og, and then lost to the rehash along with so many other beautiful bits of voice acting.

    The rehash of season 1 literally butchered the story, changing and adding so many weird, clunky and just plain unnecessary details, which then made very little sense with the rest of the episodes that were the og season 2, which were mostly just redubbed in places with the existing animation kept.

    And the Netflix version also removed a really beautiful section of cryptic back story. That song made me cry the first time I watched it and the different animation style it had was really cool.

    Also what happened to Wallace? Justice for Wallace! Og fishbowl planet was the perfect first temp job.

    I am still sore about this. I love Bee and Puppycat so much and what happened to this show was terrible.



  • Bee And Puppycat.

    Try to find the original leaked episodes as they’re better than the Netflix rehash.

    Plot stuff does happen in the show but it’s slow and never really resolved unless you want to track down the comics (and even then…), but for the most part the whole vibe of the show is slow, relaxed and chill.

    Also the art/animation style is beautiful, and it’s funny and sad and really well written (if you ignore the rehash) with some interesting voice actors.



  • Aksamit@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    1 month ago

    A vacation and the sweet release of death? That sounds far too good to be true. Obviously we still go on the holiday! It’s not every day that a psychic predicts your demise, it would be foolish to pass up such an opportunity. What better way to enjoy your time off than with the knowledge that you’re never going to have to go back?

    If anything happens and we don’t die, I would want my friend to know I will be sorely disappointed. That two-bit clairvoyant will never hear the end of it if I have to live.




  • A particularly weird and disgusting one that I heard from far too many adults as a kid, was “pull your finger out of your arse”. This apparently means ‘get a move on’ and/or ‘stop being lazy’.

    As a kid with autism it really grossed me out to think all the adults who said this had decided I was slow/lazy because they thought I was regularly putting my fingers in my bum.

    Being an adult who has tried most sex stuff now (and also witnessed and spoken candidly with many others who have too), I can unequivocally state that anal play involving fingers, either with a partner or alone, does not correlate with difficulty completing tasks or laziness, either during the act or afterwards. And that the folk I’ve known who have admitted to trying this, are seemingly not any lazier or less efficient than the folk I’ve known who haven’t.

    I still don’t know why or how “pull your finger out if your arse” became a phrase meaning what it does, I’m going to hazard a guess it’s based on homophobic stereotypes, but even then why was it said to me as an afab child? Maybe it was supposed to be funny.



  • Aksamit@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    2 months ago

    Every single finger. I’d give my arms and legs too if it would help. Once the world was fixed I might want to take part in it again too, if nobody knew it was me. If it was public knowledge that I did it though, I’d probably keep being a hermit. I do not like attention or people knowing who I am.