Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

there’dn’t’ve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZyZFa5qO0

So many idioms are based on normal aspects of life when the expression was coined, but are still in use after that thing is no longer normal.

What are some expressions that you grew up with that made sense at the time, but your kids and grandkids will not understand without it being explained to them? "Stay tuned" comes to mind.

TIL “lactose free” products—those ones with added lactase—are actually lactose free because the lactase did its thing before you drank it. I was unsure if that was the case or if the added lactase did the job when you consume it.

How many Spiel des Jahres games have you played?

Do you ever fill out a captcha, fail, and think "oh, I interpreted the instructions too much like a computer would?"

Do you ever fill out a captcha, fail, and think "oh, I interpreted the instructions too much like a computer would?"

Starting a list of weird rules that seem counterintuitive because after I learned that there's places in which it's illegal to record a conversation you are having without informing the other parties, now I'm learning that there's places where it's illegal to photograph public art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama

I have no interest in a "coffee replacement"

Get me an espresso replacement and we can talk.

People saying things like "we don't live in a state of anarchy, we live in a society" drive me up the wall. It's such a basic category error but also muddies the definition of both nouns

Flashback to wild times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44iM5G4318

I absolutely love listening to people speaking other languages. It's like people watching for the ears.

I appreciate the live strings and drum pad combo going on here https://youtu.be/M9Wrhsua4rc

[somber, oppressive music rises]

An actual subtitle from something I watched!

One day, the costs associated with media which really are costs of the physical delivery, and not the media itself, will be remembered as a minute blip in the history of mankind.

What's something you wish you had been taught before you became an adult?

Here's your biannual reminder that "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" does not, in fact, discuss the weather, so singing the opening line because it is snowing is nonsensical.

Drove past a pair of police cars parked facing traffic and an obnoxious distance from the curb.

I get that some rules are questionable (other equal-civilised places allow parking facing traffic) and that police are, arguably, above the law and unaccountable, but you'd think they could at least park against the curb and set a good example.

Shirts don't work either
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2591

Giving the grandparents of my children connected photo frames feels very much like the scene from Babe (1995) where the adult children get older generation a fax machine