We were in the mood for a chill day, so it was nice to just chill in a park and walk through some random old neighborhoods until we stumbled across a restaurant. There’s nothing chill about Milan, though, at least not where a clueless tourist would find it.
As a European from elsewhere in Europe, I’m never going back to Milan. Maybe it’s fine if you’re into fashion, but if you’re not there’s not much to look at except a cathedral which resembles every other cathedral, and it’s impossible to get a photo of it without also having a friendship bracelet scammer in the frame, actively harassing you.
All tourist locations in Italy and France have people trying to scam you (and some non-scammers just trying to sell you cheap toys), but Milan is the only place I’ve been to where they’re straight up harassing you non-stop. Go to Pisa instead, it’s super relaxing there and you can marvel at their past mistakes in structural engineering. A far better deal.
Geocities were gone before Gen Z was born. They were born after 2000 and grew up with tablets and apps. A Gen Z family member of mine learned about file folders from me after the age of 18.
There’s a bunch of trades which happen instantly when you IPO. I don’t know exactly how it works, but I think that when my company went public the pool offered in the IPO included stock from priority shareholders. So I’m guessing he effectively sold them to reddit at slightly below initial offer value for them to release to the public as part of the IPO. This way he doesn’t tank the stock by selling off 500k shares on the stock exchange.
It’s also a volume thing. By the time I reach a reddit comment thread what I wanted to say has already been said, and if I say it again my comment will drown in a sea of heavily upvoted comments. On lemmy you can be several days late to the party and still get both upvotes and responses.
Yeah, some nouns are already taken, that’s fair. Like “shafted”.
Almost forgot “jalla” or “jallamekk”, originally adopted by Norwegian military from a middle eastern word for “fast”, meaning a quick and dirty, but not particularly high quality, solution.
According to John Oliver you can use any noun, like for example “gazeboed”.
A classic! I don’t know how I forgot to mention that one, I even coincidentally explained it to someone earlier today!
I’ve found that the meaning depends on regional differences in both English and Norwegian, and as a result I never use “next Sunday”. I say “Sunday in a week and a half” or the date instead.
Waste of materials. Norwegians build air castles.
Some Norwegian politicians have completely ruined this expression, and now use it to mean “a really big favor”.
It’s almost as annoying as when Americans say they “could care less” when they mean the opposite.
In Norwegian we say “helt sylta” (“completely pickled”) when we have a very stuffy nose. I tried using that idiom when calling out of work in the US once, and was informed that I had just told them I was too drunk to go to work!
In Norwegian we say either “you shit on your leg”, “you shit on the shovel” or “you shit on the drawbar (of a horse-drawn carriage)” for the same thing.
And if you’re “out bicycling” you’re making a mistake, like if you’re doing a crossword and you realize that some of the previous words definitely weren’t right, or you’re doing math and you realize that you definitely made a calculation error earlier because nothing makes sense.
If someone says you’re “all out on the field” (“helt på jordet”) it means they think what you just said was completely wrong.
The Norwegian equivalent of “a hard act to follow” is “like (ski) jumping after Wirkola”, a ski jumper who was definitely way better than both you and everyone else.
And if there are owls in the moss (“ugler i mosen”) something is pretty fishy.
Yeah, that’s what I was implying, just didn’t want to write a whole novel about it.
Using a file system is much less bad than dynamically allocating memory, at least as long as you keep a predefined set of files.
Hey now, they came veery close to repealing it, McCain just decided to postpone dying for a few days to be the deciding vote against the repeal.
They had no replacement, of course, because undoing whatever Obama did was the goal, not helping people.
I didn’t have this on my 2024 bingo card. Just take the money and move on, Neumann!
I noticed I had dropped a piece of paper, and one of the wheels was on top of it. I tried to do a little hop to quickly pull the paper out, and somehow I landed on the hand pulling the paper.
So technically I more hopped onto more than ran over the hand, but I took some narrative liberties for comedic effect.
We may have just gotten lucky. I also had a great time in Venice once by wandering off randomly and ending up somewhere I can only assume tourists don’t normally go. We bought some fruit off a boat which was both delicious and very affordable, so I assume the target demographic was not tourists. I’m pretty sure that’s not the universal experience of Venice either.