Tar_Alcaran

For your crimes against Dutchness, I sentence you to having all the stroop in your stroopwafels replaced with Vegemite.

This is completely normal in the Netherlands. Behold: hagelslag, it comes in both chocolate and fruity variants.

Ok but my man, for Halo, there wasn’t even an attempt. You took a generic scifi script and poured some Halo sauce over it.

They read those on Facebook though, not from a bible

12.5% still beats most Christians though.

Sure, but you can also spend 15k on a ring. On the other hand, you can also spend 15k on a kitten.

Wow, either your pets have been extremely unlucky, or you live somewhere VERY expensive. Considering those are dollars, I can guess it’s a probably at least a bit of the second.

My Dutch vet has a “kitten package” which is 550 euros for spay/neuter, first year of (three rounds of?) vaccines and one seperate checkup. I probably spend something like 500 euros on food/grit per cat. Maybe a bit less, it’s cheaper if you have two. That doesn’t include complications of course, or food/toys.

On the other hand, my wedding ring doesn’t exist because neither of us like rings, so it’s never going to beat that.

You severely underestimate the cost of jewelry. And every cost also multiplies by 400% if you put the word “wedding” in front of it.

We didn’t do rings. I worked in a chemistry lab, husband has a skin issue and wearing a ring would probably mean nonstop doctor visits.

So we just didn’t have rings. It’s really very simple.

I wouldn’t let AI take care of a light switch.

Ugh, I hope not. We hardly need another one of those

Oh yeah, fewer people ringing my doorbell is always better.

What kind of religion puts you in a room, alone, as a teenager, with a 50-year-old man who is asking you about your sexual habits? What kind of religion has billions of dollars in real estate investments?

Turns out that’s pretty much all of them.

What kind of religion requires you to ring people’s doorbells and pester them about your religion?

Honestly, I weirdly respect this. The JWs/Mormons at least take their obligations from 1 peter 3:15 seriously. The vast majority of Christian denominations just kind of ignore that one.

Turns out you kinda have to ignore most of what God tells you to do, just so you don’t end up in jail. But I do respect that they’re actually more of the Bible seriously. The outcomes are worse, but they DO stand for what they believe.

I just wish they put all that dedication into something like doctors without borders or something.

Especially considering the rather… drastic measures they original owners took. Starting a lawsuit when someone tries to fork your open source software is an excellent sign that someone badly needs to create a fork of your “open source” software

What made me do it was the unending stream of contradictions in the bible internally, between the Bible and reality, and between the Bible and what people say is in the bible in order to fix the other two.

It’s the old “nobody could show me why I should believe any of it”, including me. And the more I looked for answers, the more problems and contradictions I found.

I have plenty of contact with my family, my parents are both great people and it helps a lot that they’re not so much religious as that they think “its important”. My more extended family has made a few tries, I occasionally get into discussions with a few aunts, uncles and cousins, but they’re not exactly good at it. It’s just looping around the same old terrible arguments that quickly end when I ask them to show that it was Jahweh who created the universe, and not Bob.

The church made the biggest effort to get me back, but they have a financial incentive, unlike everyone else. It was an incredible pain in the ass to get removed from church rolls before GDPR.

For larp, no. It’s a hobby pretty much defined by everyone reinventing the wheel constantly.

For reenactment/experimental archeology? There are definitely authoritative works, but those are mostly by professional, traditional historians. There are remarkably few books on how to, say, bend an early medieval hedge, or how thick your daub needs to be or how old Madder should be to get the best colours.

Porcupines are called “quill pigs” in Dutch. I heard “Those aren’t pigs!” more than once when I worked at the zoo.

They’re not wrong.

He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)

A relative of my husband always requests we turn off the router, because she’s allergic to 5g. She starts feeling nauseous and itchy when it’s turned on. We used to sigh and just do it.

However, I’ve found out she’s not actually allergic to 5g or wifi, it turns out she’s actually developed a reaction to the power light. Ever since I put a tiny bit of tape of the little green power light, she stopped complaining about the wifi entirely! My husband won’t let me tell her about this amazing medical breakthrough though, I wonder why.

I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30’s, who said that books didn’t have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. “It’s ok, if you’re a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!” was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.

I asked about a certain type of cake that was on sale and wasn’t in stock. I asked when it would be in stock. The manager launched into a big complaint, because they always sold out when it was on sale. See, he only ever ordered 10, because they never sold more than 10, and when it was on sale, they would sell out immediately.

He got very upset, calling me stupid when I said “If you only have 10, it would be pretty hard to sell more than 10”.