Horizontal band member here. If I have to take a photo of a wardrobe, my whole self, a jumping giraffe or the Empire States Building, you can be sure as heck I’ll hold the phone vertically. The only reason for me to take a horizontal photo of my fridge is when it fell on my foot.

Same thing goes vice versa: vertically filming a scenery, a dish, my mom’s panties or a seesaw is plain dumb, unless there’s something else that justifies the awful framing.

BUT when you make a video for the purpose of uploading it to sites like YouTube… You can’t convince me vertical would make more sense. I understand that it’s the same problem if it’s a vertically aligned app (I could go on a 3 day rant about Instagram not allowing horizontal - or any - full screen on desktop), but decent portals do it properly. If you have a phone and you want to watch vertical stuff, problem solved. If you have a phone and want to watch horizontal stuff, just rotate your damn screen, it’s a no-brainer. But when you have a monitor, you can’t (always) just turn it 90 degrees and watch vertical stuff full screen.

Because of lazy uploaders AND lazy management/devs, there are countless of cases where a full screen video has actual content on less than 10% of the screen, because a horizontal video was uploaded to a vertical site, then you open it on a horizontal monitor and it plays like

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Nah mate, last time I tried that it was quite a job moving it to the oven from the toilet bowl.

This is why I eat it with the wrapper still on.

As lazy as it sounds, once your thing allows other things to fit in a van, having stuff delivered to your home has a smaller footprint than everyone collecting them in their own cars.

Unless, of course, you can take it home on your bike, or something.

How about naming the town after a city in Austria, but still the Roman way? Not just once, not just twice, but

(EDIT: I’m having déja vu after the last time had I brought up the several dozen Springfields)

I’d like to see that osmosis happen between the last two frames.

Those cartons are not meteor strike proof. I have bought cracked eggs in cartons several times before. That’s when I started inspecting the contents before buying them.

They can crack before/while they get in the carton. Those cartons are handled by various people, transported under varying conditions. Even if they get to the shelf unscathed, any other customer might accidentally knock them off and just put them back like nothing happened.

Also, if you (as a man) think that showing you two men kissing might turn you gay then I’ve got news for you.

A true, confidently heterosexual man won’t suddenly get turned on by men, even if you show them the entire 1973 Construction Worker Calendar. Same goes for women vice versa, but it’s usually the men that are the loudest about this.

However, if you think your sexuality has always been rock solid (😏) then why do you assume the opposite of everyone else?

Haha, yeah, she’s not a 1:1 doppelgänger. Just one from the top of my head that looks somewhat similar, if you squint and ignore the humongous mammaries on the posted image.

And I still have tinnitus from that cover.

Easy, just bend the battery.

Not quite. Unless she’s a “new” face from the past 7-8 years. The closest I can think of is Gabriella Tóth, but she’s like an unschooled butt licker of the previous government (Fidesz/Orbán), and has a quite scandalous background with a rather bad reputation.

But, to be fair, considering Fidesz’s smear campaigns and troll farms, she might even be the face for it.

There’s precious life on the planet. It’s beautiful. It would be a shame if such a rare thing disappeared.

Just send humanity, they (we) earned it a long time ago.

Whatever is happening has nothing to do with either of the four seasons. There should be a name for this fifth thing. Like Inferno or something. Incinerator.

The amount of childhood trauma inflicted upon gen-x by “children’s media”

I would love to link the English version of the article, but it doesn’t exist. I guess page auto-translation might work, but: back when I was a kid, the quite popular Duck Tales got interrupted due to the death of the prime minister of the time. One minute you were watching uncle Scrooge, the other it was a bunch of people carrying a coffin.

I don’t think I have ever visited the page myself, I have even forgot the creator’s name, but I immediately went ‘aaah, is it that creator?’ - and found nothing lewd and concluded it must not be them, then. So I was actually right.

I wouldn’t have understood that even 2 months ago. This is one of the reasons I started playing statele.

I had to re-read it 3 times to realize that BUM wasn’t meant to be an acronym (which is also a new method) or nether regions of the body, but >>!BAM!<< in their own language. We also say ‘bumm’, but with a long ‘m’.

Dammit.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!! They FUCKING RUINED IT with their (self-)censorship!

UNGLAUBLICH

Is there a story to why there is a 12th Gandalf? : )