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Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

a wise man once said:

Smythe posted:

nah, the gesture prevails. just as roll down windows and the save to disk icon. begone nooby

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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
minidv was a cursed era of filmmaking

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



floppy disk icons are gonna live forever like all the weird naming conventions we inherited for car components from the 1800's and early 1900's

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

This is a lockdown.

Nitrousoxide posted:

floppy disk icons are gonna live forever like all the weird naming conventions we inherited for car components from the 1800's and early 1900's

The dashboard is a piece of wood that intercepts clods of horseshit flung from the hooves of the animals pulling your carriage.

e: Great minds think alike.

The trunk was once a trunk like you’d find in great grandma’s attic, bolted onto the back of the carriage. I don’t know where British English gets “boot”.

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 19:40 on Apr 18, 2024

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




maybe they put boots in there

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.
The English call it a “boot” for the same reason they call a windshield a “windscreen,” despite not being a screen: they’re dumb inbreds.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

nah it's gotta be something like "it's where ya put the LOOT, innit love? so we call it a BOOT"

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
they call it the boot because it's the back of hte car it's the cars booty

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

spacemang_spliff posted:

they call it the boot because it's the back of hte car it's the cars booty

that's another word for pirate treasure

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
There’s got to be a more hosed up name than “glovebox”.

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think the "holding the phone flat in front of your face while on speaker mode" is a casualty of:

- being a loving tool

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Platystemon posted:

There’s got to be a more hosed up name than “glovebox”.

glove compartment is american
glove locker suposedly is also said somewhere

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

im american and i say glovebox

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
i've only ever heard glovebox, never glove compartment, but i've only lived in the west, southwest, mid-atlantic, appalachians, and midwest

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

it's four parking spots and each one is literally where each victim was shot and killed (the massacre was in that parking lot)

quote:

In 1999, at the urging of relatives of the four students killed in 1970, the university constructed an individual memorial for each student in the parking lot between Taylor and Prentice halls. Each of the four memorials is located on the exact spot where the student fell, mortally wounded. They are surrounded by a raised rectangle of granite[119] featuring six lightposts approximately four feet high, with each student's name engraved on a triangular marble plaque in one corner.[120]

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
hitler's worst crime is that all the parking spots above where he died are usable, promoting car culture.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


cat botherer posted:

The English call it a “boot” for the same reason they call a windshield a “windscreen,” despite not being a screen: they’re dumb inbreds.

What do you think a screen is? :crossarms:

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



I didn't think I wanted to be buried but this "grave covered by bollards in a parking lot" idea is intriguing.

To be clear I'm not willing to be shot in a parking lot to make it happen.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Tiggum posted:

What do you think a screen is? :crossarms:

Something you touch to make apps happen

And YET when I touch the so called wind"""screen""" on a car, nothing happens??

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

If I have to go to the local shopping center I usually park in the "Special Senior Citizen Parking" spots. Old people should be getting exercise anyway.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Man does a public service and eats a probe?

loving pathetic

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
He has the underlying condition of being PFC.

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Tin bollards and my cars coming
We’re parking but there’s no room
Tin bollards and my cars coming
Four spots in Ohio

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


fermun posted:

i've only ever heard glovebox, never glove compartment, but i've only lived in the west, southwest, mid-atlantic, appalachians, and midwest

https://youtu.be/1XmbvfxMiUE?si=vp4AFS4Z3lGOpu9H

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Thoughts?

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




is death cab from ny or nj? glove compartment was all i knew growing up

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate



Recalled

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

BrotherJayne posted:

Man does a public service and eats a probe?

loving pathetic

given the time i probed him i suspect he slept through it lol. best way to be probed.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021


not the r word i would have used

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


Real hurthling! posted:

is death cab from ny or nj? glove compartment was all i knew growing up

neither, washington state

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



lobster shirt posted:

not the r word i would have used

Revolution?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Bench scientists are sticklers about calling it a “glove compartment” because “glovebox” is the thing that protects you from the work/the work from you/gives out high fives.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




https://youtu.be/DJA7jDF7bLE?si=8n94crbULYB3Vj7C

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




drat channel 5 guy is more carbrained than i thought he would be.

sat on my keys!
Oct 2, 2014

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/19/justice-dept-citing-streetsblog-reporting-threatens-to-sue-nypd-over-cops-sidewalk-parking

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

lol

"Parking around precincts and NYPD facilities is a persistent challenge due to our thriving, complex city and the limited space we all must share. But the NYPD strives each day to achieve a balance as we continue to work toward solutions."

The police is striving each day to achieve a balance between breaking the law and not.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Innocent truck brutalized by DFOs

https://twitter.com/JoePostingg/status/1781334170444197906

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005


Is she talking about the bollards that stop you from hitting the drive up equipment?

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




50/50 on the messaging being bait (but she definitely did drive into a bollard)

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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

*tugs collar*

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