drop your childhood stories:
>be me, age 12
>hate showering more than anything
>it feels gross and i hate getting wet
>my mom starts telling me that if i don’t shower every day then i can’t eat dinner
>i want my dindin so i come up with a genius plan
>let the shower run for 10-15 minutes while i sit in the bathroom
>quickly wet my hair with sink
>mom buys it, i get dindin
>after a month she gets suspicious
>realize i have to step up my game
>now i run the shower and rub my arms/neck with hand soap
>also run my hair under the shower so it’s dripping wet and not just moist
>she asks why i haven’t asked her to buy shampoo yet
>come up with final version of my genius plan
>i’ll stand next to the shower, let the water run, rub soap on my whole body and also use shampoo on my hair so it smells like shampoo
>then i’ll rinse off in the sink
>all while the shower runs

i did this for four years until i realized i was just showering on hard mode

  • can
    46·
    10 months ago

    lemmy.ml instance has a slur filter enabled. You cannot post slurs in any context and users from there will see it filtered everywhere. It’s pretty broad too. Can’t say shorthand for a female dog

    That’s gotta be a bitch sometimes.

    Its completely removed so they have to guess from context.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      12·
      10 months ago

      Word filters are fun but if everyone has a different filter that seems like it would get ridiculous real fast

      • can
        7·
        10 months ago

        There may be others that follow it. It’s built into lemmy and was compulsory at one point iirc.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          10 months ago

          Maybe idk. It reminds me of the whole recent defederation drama partly caused by a false assumption that pronoun tags would be visible to everyone. If you don’t know what other people are seeing, that’s a big source of misunderstandings.

          • can
            2·
            10 months ago

            I was already under assumption pronoun tags were visible to everyone. Actually always assumed they were part of a users display name.

              • can
                1·
                10 months ago

                Come to find I don’t see any either I don’t think.

              • can
                1·
                10 months ago

                The ones like hexbear users have?

                • can
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Do you see a display name when a lemmy user has one set? I don’t so you can’t use me as an example.

                  Have you ever seen a user with an emoji in their name?

              • can
                2·
                10 months ago

                Nothing? Is this a new feature? My instance is still on 0.18.5.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      111·
      10 months ago

      I guess I can see their reasoning and it’s good that we have different instances where you can choose what rules you want applying to your lemmy experience… buuuut who the fuck would choose to live in children’s land where your precious little eyes can’t be trusted to see the bad words?

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      8·
      10 months ago

      Automotive subreddits used to run afoul of automatic moderation all the time because of this nonsense.