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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoHomebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with?English
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    5 days ago

    Nah, not boiled, we just experimented the good old fashioned daddy don’t give a shit redneck way, with a 5 gallon water jug, plain old bread yeast, sugar, and whatever random fruits or berries he came across on the cheap.

    He started with elderberries, then went on to try strawberries, blueberries, watermelon and bananas.

    Surprisingly, even though he did things totally redneck style without all the proper equipment, I think around 3/4 of his batches came out alright. Not the finest of wines, but we got drunk on the cheap LOL! 🥂

    Random idea we never tried: Technically tomatoes are considered a fruit, what would tomato wine taste like?.. 🤔

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: It is illegal to curse at a cop in Ohio.English
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    16 days ago

    I told Marine Patrol to fuck off in Mississippi. He threatened to arrest me. His passenger told him he was the one in the wrong, because he had no business laying on his horn like he did as he passed me on my bicycle.

    There was no sense in him laying on the horn. He could have easily caused me to get startled and wreck my bike. He would have definitely been in the wrong if he had startled me that much to cause an accident.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexableEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I had already spent years doing occasional side work with around a dozen if not more folks originally from India. Most, except the oldest of the elders spoke good if not excellent English. But there’s pretty much always gonna be at least a subtle accent, if not a heavy accent with secondary languages.

    I thought I understood the fella clearly, but it was both a combination of his accent plus the strange sentence structure context that threw me totally off.

    He said he was ‘updating his tiles’, but I misunderstood his vowels, so I heard ‘updating his towels’

    And why the hell would he use the word updating, he was literally having all the carpet removed in 44+ rooms and having tiles installed, not ‘updated’.

    So even the context clues didn’t add up, I never guessed he was talking about the tile work he had been planning for months.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexableEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Honestly I haven’t studied foreign languages all that much, but I’ve heard the accents that come from a variety of regions and countries.

    The last time I got confused about anything spoken in English by an Indian man, I mistook ‘tiles’ as ‘towels’.

    I totally lost out on a tile installation job offer over that, because of a misunderstanding over what’s basically the pronunciation of a particular vowel.

    Like, in the back of my head, I’m wondering why this hotel owner is telling me he’s updating his towels, when really he said tiles. He was offering me a job…

    I didn’t find out until he got others to do all the work ☹️

    Vowels can be extremely important in communication…