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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

There is no war in Dubai Sing Se

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 30 points 2 months ago

As someone who grew up in Dubai you have no idea how much schadenfreude I am feeling right now!

[-] Beep@lemmus.org 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In case someone does not know what does the word mean.

Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

The Dutch word for it is "leedvermaak", incidentally.

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 10 points 2 months ago

Leedvermaak: the experience of joy or satisfaction at someone else's pain or displeasure, but whilst standing on/near a dike/dam/floodgate.

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Precies. Ik vind het heerlijke.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

God I love Dutch.

You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there...

nope...

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.

I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.

When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."

She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."

"Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."

"Touché!"

"Jazeker!"

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Oh, I've never seen a picture of Violet08

[-] Beep@lemmus.org 17 points 2 months ago

That's not a picture.

This is a GIF.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[-] Whimsical418@aussie.zone 31 points 2 months ago

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF...) is a bitmap image format...

Hmmm... I guess its an image, but not a picture 🤔

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pronounced "if" the g is silent.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Real gifs move in silence like lasagna.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

It's an image, with extra steps.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

This is several pictures. I saw them all. A guy came up to me, big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes, and says "Sir, I've never seen all the pictures in the GIF. I'm glad you saw them for me." I'm a super picture-seer, the likes of which have never been seen before. I refer to every frame of the GIF as a picture because I'm also a four-dimensional time god.

[-] sidebro@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Townlately@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

Dude, he already said he is green.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe me, maybe me and the Iyatolah.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

I don't think you will. It's possible she's not even a woman. Or it's very possible that she looks nowhere near how she proclaims to look. Either way it's a fun account to watch.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Personally I choose to believe violet08 is a robotic cat, and simply pretending to be a woman in hornyposting mode because they enjoy trolling.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

nah i say violet08 is a hyperintelligent octopus at an aquarium sneaking out of her tank to hornypost at us when the aquarium wardens aren't looking

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I should have added a /s - that's the joke. She had mentioned living in the Gulf at some point, and is influential here, ergo she's an "influencer in Dubai" maybe, from our perspective.

[-] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 months ago

You do realise a number of these Arab family monarchial figures are criminally indicted in the Epstein case

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, and they, not the enslaved migrant workers, should be subject to the drone boomers.

And by boomers I mean the flying things that go ka-boom on impact.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] jackal@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago
[-] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
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