Look, you get born, you keep your head down, and then you die. If you’re lucky.

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Cake day: 2023年6月14日
  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?English
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    6 天前

    The claim was that carrots were good for eyesight in general but also for night sight in particular, suggesting the British pilots were scarfing down carrots by the bucketful and that was how their night patrols were able to intercept the German bombers so often.

    Somewhere, I also read that German high command wanted their own pilots to up their carrot consumption but didn’t think the German pilots would go for it just because of the night sight thing, so they made up a lie that the British pilots ate the carrots to improve their sexual prowess.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Craigslist at its bestEnglish
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    8 天前

    I had a Corolla. A mid ‘80s model. Lasted me for years until the radiator went.

    Took it to my local mechanic who said: “That fucker’s fucking fucked!”

    In the face of such deep technical knowledge (and the fact that the work would have cost more than the car was worth at that point), I reluctantly let it go to scrap.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uktoCasual UK@feddit.uk•Where Do the Children Play?English
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    12 天前

    I grew up in a small rural town in the 70s. Both my parents worked a six day week so after school and on Saturdays I was free. Me and friends would roam all over, farms, woods, beaches. Sometimes we’d hitchhike to other towns.

    These days my kids are growing up in a city. I know there’s no comparison to the freedom I experienced versus what my kids do, but I also doubt I’d have been allowed as much freedom if I’d grown up in a city.