hollyhoppet

hollyhoppet wrote

Reply to Cox–Zucker machine by twovests

The name sounds similar to the obscenity "cocksucker". This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

Reply to Help, I'm mad online, at work by flabberghaster

first off, you are a human person and it is completely reasonable for you to feel this way, especially given how things are going out there.

it's already been four hours since you posted this but for the next time perhaps it might be healthy to step away from any tech for about ten minutes. go on a walk if you can maybe. give yourself some time and separation to cool down.

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by twovests in what was up with slip n slide. it's a plastic tarp you place over hard rocky dirt and slide down. these inevitably got bloody. why did we play with these as kids by twovests

i never had many problems with slip and slides, even when they were on top of yard rocks, and neither did any of my friends so it's kind of making me wonder...

so you're like ten or so years younger than me. what if between the time of my childhood and the time of your childhood they started cheaping out on manufacturing slip and slides in a way that made them worse and riskier to play with

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