blackluster117 ( @blackluster117@possumpat.io ) 92•11 months agoMy condolences to his family, that must have been a horrifying experience and I’m sorry for their loss. Human moment out of the way, I almost thought this was an Onion article. That headline is hysterical.
𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚 ( @erre@programming.dev ) 48•11 months agoIf we don’t truly die until we’re forgotten by the living, he’s gonna live a long time as the ancestor that passed away at the hands of cheese wheels.
LucyLastic ( @LucyLastic@beehaw.org ) 18•11 months agoThat’s a very philosophically positive way of thinking about it!
teft ( @teft@startrek.website ) 17•11 months agoHe’s going to haunt those hallowed cheese halls. Some one bust out the Luigi board.
blur457 ( @blur457@lemmy.zip ) English10•11 months agoLuigi board
Is that the Italian version of a Ouija Board?
teft ( @teft@startrek.website ) 7•11 months ago;)
WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months agoHe’ll be reposted for all of eternity
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoYeah, I sort of feel like something like this would be a horrifying death process followed by an afterlife of “yeah, ok, that was a pretty funny way to go out.”
You can only hope that the end arrives quickly with something like this.
zaplachi ( @zaplachi@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months agoDoes anyone know if there is a nottheonion community on lemmy?
15liam20 ( @15liam20@feddit.uk ) 1•11 months agohttps://lemmy.world/c/nottheonion
I didn’t find a Not the Cheese and Onion community though
ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 70•11 months ago“Parmesan, sir? Just say when…” -The Olive Garden Waiter
Me:
sincle354 ( @sincle354@beehaw.org ) 18•11 months agoBest wishes to his family. At home, drawers and other furniture tragically crushes babies once every two weeks in the U.S. If you have small children, as part of your baby/childproofing, buy and use anti-tip or furniture straps to prevent this kind of thing happening.
As for occupational hazards, this is a stark reminder of the risk behind storing large amounts of anything, including grain silo entrapment, flammable material storage, and even the Beirut explosion. I can legitimately say that manufacturing flour is perhaps the most dangerous food to produce at mass scale. As for weight, ss soon as over 100lbs/50kg goes over your head, make sure you have sufficient structural stability in your shelf.
Granite ( @Granite@kbin.social ) 17•11 months agoNot the Dragonborn…
morphballganon ( @morphballganon@mtgzone.com ) English3•11 months agoLet me guess. Someone stole your thousands of cheese wheels?
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
This incident has Sheogorath written all over it, though.
Granite ( @Granite@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoAnd the CHEESE
Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English14•11 months agoI imagine this is to Italians as dying gloriously in battle is for vikings. He went to the great kitchen in the sky.
jcarax ( @jcarax@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months agoWisconsin stands in solidarity.
BurritoBooster ( @BurritoBooster@feddit.de ) 10•11 months agoLet the cheesy puns begin!
gac11 ( @gac11@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months agoI was going to go with a simple, tasteful remark such as “Mamma Mia!”
Michael ( @michael@lemmy.perthchat.org ) 3•11 months agoSay cheese… and uhh… that’s all I got.
NotSpez ( @NotSpez@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months agoThat was wheelie cheesy but someone had to do it!
itsgallus ( @itsgallus@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoRest in… cheese
sh00g ( @sh00g@kbin.social ) 8•11 months agoThis is how I want to go out. A burial fit for a king indeed.
Coskii ( @Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•11 months agoConsidering the size of those wheels, I feel like it’d only take two or three. They are massive and that is terrifying.
KrakBamKrak ( @KrakBamKrak@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months agoIf it were American “cheese” he’d be preserved for a millenia!
bedrooms ( @bedrooms@kbin.social ) 5•11 months agoItalian equivalent of failed Russian window
vacuumflower ( @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•11 months ago???
Living in Russia, sincerely don’t get the joke.
Asphyxiating because of the poisonous gasses from a pickled cabbage tank, or drowning in vodka, or something like that I can understand. But what’s with the windows?
Limeade ( @Limeade@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months agoRussia has a reputation for suspicious deaths by defenestration.
vacuumflower ( @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•11 months agoAh. No such meme inside Russia.
I mean, there are from time to time suspicious deaths of such people, and the timing is sometimes interesting, but these are all kinds of deaths, - heart attacks, car crashes, aneurisms , whatever.
🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months agoThink he’ll smell like pizza when they cremate him?
Damage ( @Damage@slrpnk.net ) 8•11 months agoSo all cheeses are the same to you, huh? Racist.
🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) English6•11 months agoIt’s ok, some of my best friends are cheeses.
kemsat ( @kemsat@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ) 2•11 months agoGood night, sweet King.
MorrisonMotel6 ( @MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months agoThis how the cheese wants to broken
Froyn ( @Froyn@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoThat definitely ranks higher than being killed by 30,000 lbs of bananas. I wonder if we’ll get a song from this tragedy as well.
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoThere’s a song about being crushed by bananas? 😳
Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoEnjoy: https://youtu.be/OGldNpngDws
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoThank you! That was a new one for me 😅
Froyn ( @Froyn@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoThere’s a true story behind the song:
https://news.wgcu.org/2022-03-17/song-of-the-day-for-march-18-30-000-pounds-of-bananas-by-harry-chapinThen the song itself:
Harry Chapin - Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGldNpngDws keeb420 ( @keeb420@kbin.social ) 5•11 months agoThe tally man had a lot of bananas to tally that day.
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoThe tallying of the banana tallyman takes quite the toll! He just wants to go home, really 🍌
ForestOrca ( @ForestOrca@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoFun Fact: You can drop that link above into the search bar on this (https://inv.citw.lgbt/feed/popular), or any INVIDIOUS instance, and get to hear that song without being tracked.
Lyrics for the Literate
"It was just after dark when the truck started down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas.He was a young driver,
just out on his second job.
And he was carrying the next day’s pasty fruits
for everyone in that coal-scarred city
where children play without despair
in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
about thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it again, John) .He passed a sign that he should have seen,
saying “shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend.”
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
who was waiting at the journey’s end.
He started down the two mile drop,
the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot.
Just a few more miles to go,
then he’d go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away.
and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said “Christ!”
It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,
riding on his fear-hunched back
was every one of those yellow green
I’m telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas.He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.
And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour.
And he said “God, make it a dream!”
as he rode his last ride down.
And he said “God, make it a dream!”
as he rode his last ride down.
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
it was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
And he slid for four hundred yards
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.You know the man who told me about it on the bus,
as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head,
and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
“Boy that sure must’ve been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
of Bananas. not no driver now. Just bananas!” "/Lyrics from The Harry Chapin Archive at Harrychapin.com\
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months agoThank you for the context! 👍👍
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
Mayor McCheese, bring down that wall!