His dad sends him to the shop to ask for red and white striped paint, which doesn't really exist as the paint would mostly mix together in the tin and make some badly mixed pink paint. The employee in the shop sees this is a gag and asks a follow up question: would he like the paint to be striped vertically or horizontally? So they are on the way back and only *then the realisation dawns on them that this is a massive wind up, which sparks a rage large enough to break the door.

Maybe whelmed is just the regular state of being: when expectations are lived up to, but not exceeded?

Wumpa fruit

I aim to whelm.

I found out the other day this is being referred to as Mar-a-Lago face. Search it up if you like; I don't want to link to any news rags (Independent, Huffpo, etc), who are the only ones writing about it.

I made an account a long while ago when it was the only instance with any content but I'm just a lurker looking for memes and tech news. Feeling like I should change instance these days...

Have you tried any of the news sources that aim to aggregate and debias news stories?

Two that I use are:

Ground.news

ImproveTheNews

They provide summaries, and also a breakdown of different sources reporting the stories. I find them pretty interesting and useful.

I need to add extra emphasis and repeat this. Yes it is.

I use Ubuntu for work and have no issues with it to be honest. I install everything via apt, I think a few things are via snap but nothing that I've installed directly. It's stable and I can get on with stuff. I definitely am not a fan of the move towards snap and the app store: if I was to choose I'd go vanilla Debian.

Yeah normally in these older photos no one looks attractive but even with all the things you mentioned against her she's looking pretty good.

Turns out when he proposed his theory of everyone being attracted their mum he actually meant his mum.

Never meant to fail your test and cry.

Yeah looks like most shared basements in my city. Every apartment has a private lock up like you can see on the right hand side in the image with the number 6 on it.

Where I live people have mixed langauge conversations fairly regularly by mixing their native language with whatever they're trying to learn - usually German or English, so that reaction is probably automatic.

I think it's simply that OP follows him, he tweets a lot, and OP is a Lemmy power user so posts his tweets here frequently. Any time I see his tweets it's always been posted by OP; I've seen some users suspect OP of being a bot but given the amount of regular comments they also post I feel like it might just be someone who has a pretty regular routine of posting stuff they've found during the day.

All just speculation from me though...

In case anyone else was curious and CBA to look it up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

Probably because they're all bumping into each other. If you don't have many you can put them in a cocktail shaker or a plastic water bottle and shake them it works pretty well, but anything plastic will absorb the garlic smell of course!

There was a now passed MC who was a prominent figure in 00s jungle called MC Skibadee.

Dillinja feat MC Skibadee - Twist em out

I always come back to this track, it's got permanent residence in my brain since I first heard it in the early 00s.

If you haven't tried already, I've fooled people a few times by making vegan mayo with silken tofu.

Rough guide off the top of my head:

• 1 block/ 300g silken tofu (silken is important to not get other tofu types)
• 100 ml olive oil
• salt to taste
• dash of paprika
• dash of mustard powder
• 10ml/1 quarter of a lemon of lemon juice

1. Blend everything with a stick blender or other blender type
2. Add additional seasoning if required
3. Add more oil if too watery
4. Add a dash of water if too thick

IMO this actually comes out pretty nice and people have only noticed its vegan/tofu after I've told them. I've also used it to make garlic sauce for kebabs etc, you can just use this as a base.

Maybe it helps!

Edit: formatting

Now that I think of it maybe get 500g of tofu or add less olive oil at first but I hope you enjoy it, and would love to see the results!