• arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    5 days ago

    This was the best thing I’d seen all day, until I saw this:

    …and this is just true love:

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          71·
          6 days ago

          This dude’s never heard of Symbian or Blackberry I guess. Or Sony Ericsson and Nokia N*** phones.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            5 days ago

            My first smartphone was a Nokia running Symbian with a fold out QWERTY keyboard.

            I actually loved It, except for the ridiculous paucity of compatible apps…

            • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              Palm and Windows CE was it?

              I actually had a palm pilot, then a Sony Clio for reading RSS feeds on the subway commute in the very early 2000s.

              • realitista@lemm.ee
                1·
                5 days ago

                The original (best) Trēos were on PalmOS, but they did make some windows ones later.

                The Sony Clié was a sexy beast.

                • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  2·
                  5 days ago

                  Yea, that Clie (thanks for reminding me of the spelling btw) was great. It had a decent lithium battery (palms had alkaline batteries ant the time) and fit in my pocket as well as the early iPhones.

                  I ended up using the dock from the old Palm Pilot with a usb cord grafted on the end to download images from those ‘one time use’ digital cameras from Ritz.

          • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
            22·
            6 days ago

            Yeah, I was thinking about Symbian too. The basic functionality of an Android phone today, Symbian already had with the limitations of its time. In 2003, you could use your Symbian to share internet to a PC, navigate maps, edit documents, take pictures, edit pictures, browse the web, etc. There was a good amount of third party apps too, including browsers like Opera and games like Chessmaster. And this was a shitty OS for this, Maemo was way better, but it came later.

            • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              6 days ago

              I used a Symbian phone to find a cafe in Providence once while working there in winter 2005/6 or so. And got charged like $2 from Cingular for loading one yelp page listing. I was so cold, and had to shit so bad I didn’t care.

              • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
                6·
                5 days ago

                I remember. Mobile internet was ridiculously expensive. Browsers used to have an option to not download images and videos, that used to help a lot. Then Opera Mini came and these problems were gone for good.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Fair enough, the first blackberry with a camera was 2006 (the Blackberry Pearl). So mid-00s smartphone.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      23·
      6 days ago

      I’ve never seen this specific photo, but it absolutely was popular ~2010.

      Tubas and trombones were popular choices among band students

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      3·
      5 days ago

      In Japan, it’s rather old and I haven’t seen anyone doing it lately (though I admittedly barely touch any SNS, though watching my wife browse insta, I’ve never seen it).

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      Darkness took me and I strayed away through thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every meme was as long as a life age of the earth…

    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      I need a dramatic close up on a bystander who gasps in surprise before announcing “She’s not even blowing into it!” followed by the close up of the shooter saying “That’s right, I have gone BEYOND the need to blow into my instrument of destruction!”

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    12·
    6 days ago
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      • Engywook@lemm.ee
        345·
        6 days ago

        I’m italian and in Italy that’s not considered a slur. It’s more telling someone they’re funny or amusing.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          113·
          6 days ago

          Not the sentiment, the word used for Japanese people. Saying “if Japanese people didn’t exist, they should be invented” would be totally acceptable.

          It can be hard to avoid slurs in other languages though, especially when English has so many. My husband’s not a native English speaker and it comes up maybe every other month that he’ll say something and I’ll have to tell him to avoid that word or only use it in one specific usage. I’ve only been corrected/gaped at for inadvertently using slurs twice in over five years living in Germany, for comparison.

        • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 days ago

          In english there’s a similar sounding word that means a joke or something done in jest, Jape with a long a

        • Klear@sh.itjust.works
          113·
          6 days ago

          “Japs” was used by Americans during WW2 so it has pretty negative connotations there.

            • Klear@sh.itjust.works
              8·
              6 days ago

              Worth pointing out that for the rest of the world this is often hard to navigate. Americans have a reputation for excessive self-censorship based on pearl-clutching, with “the F word” or “p*rn” or censoring nipples.

              So sometimes actual strongly hateful or dehumanising language gets dismissed as another example of oversensitity.

              • daggermoon@lemmy.world
                4·
                6 days ago

                Just to clarify, I didn’t think OP was being insensitive. My question was genuine, and I didn’t think they knew. And yes, there is a lot of unnecessary censorship in the US. You can’t say fuck on TV or the radio. I was listening to a station from New Zealand and that made me realize we’re the only Country that does that. Censoring nipples is fucking stupid too. I really don’t censor myself. I’m told I’m a very outspoken person. The only words I won’t say are slurs because I believe they are actually harmful and disrespectful.

              • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                31·
                5 days ago

                Americans have a reputation for excessive self-censorship based on pearl-clutching

                And then they’ll upvote “jokes” like “fr*nch “people” 🤮” without batting an eye…