A hot dog from a Japanese 7/11 for reference.
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slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents12·1 day agoIf you get the torrent from a site using HTTPS and get the data only from encrypted peers is it even possible to tell what people are downloading?
slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s a big mistake you made in another language?16·5 days agoI was a new JET Programme participant located in rural Japan. The CIR variety, so I knew a good bit of Japanese and was there to teach and write about US culture, history, food, etc.
The local dialect was pretty difficult to understand however, and I was constantly asking what words meant. One day my coworker used an expression beginning with “o”, which is a common honorific prefix, and wanting to basically say “o - what?” I clearly proclaimed “onani?” in the middle of the board of education office. More than one person stifled a laugh and my coworker almost did a spit take.
It wasn’t until much later that I learned “onani” is masturbation in Japanese, based on the English term onanism, which I also didn’t know at the time. So I basically failed hard in both languages that day.
slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL a french man ate bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, beds, and a Cessna 150 aircraft. It took him roughly 2 years, from 1978 to 1980, to eat the planeEnglish36·8 days agoFlashbacks to reading the Guinness Book of World Records in elementary school.
Now I want a “what if?” on this. I would love to see all the g-forces and wind resistance and other details of how to survive with a big ramp.