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- Comment on Netflix is garbage 23 hours ago:
People who live in Germany: don’t. You’ll get caught.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 23 hours ago:
Are you saying only boomers can be disabled?
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 23 hours ago:
There’s a swiss football team near us that has fans that all wear khaki trousers and black shirts and they march instead of singing and waving scarves. Creepy as hell.
- Comment on The gaming industry is truly messed up… 3 days ago:
I’d buy a house, swt up a retirement fund and pay a bunch of politicians to support green energy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Get a grip. She looks lovely. Now take the picture down or I’ll doxx you.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 4 days ago:
I should be visiting Basel Münster but I’m sitting on the platform above the Rhine instead because for some reason walking up the steps has made me very sick.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 4 days ago:
You’re not British, I take it.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 4 days ago:
Bingo. I used to work for Shell. This is exactly what they do. And whenever I tell people I get told I’m a conspiracy theorist.
- Comment on What's your excuse for the current state of affairs? 5 days ago:
Every time someone catches covid they lose 1 IQ point on average. Since (unless you’re vaccinated) you don’t really become immune anymore, you’re likely to lose several IQ points a year. QED.
(That said, things were already going downhill before The Great Lurgy).
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I used to think this and it took me far too long to realise that men aren’t icky, I’m just a raging lesbian.
- Comment on 🐟💥 1 week ago:
Probably. Orcas can behave in quote a human manner sometimes.
- Comment on How do I survive the US immigration? 1 week ago:
They have to legally do so.
- Comment on How do I survive the US immigration? 1 week ago:
Bring a dumb phone and maybe it’s a good idea to ask Meta, Google, etc. to delete your data.
- Comment on Finding humour in a dying world 1 week ago:
You kid, but it’s one of the reasons the procession caterpillar is out of hand.
- Comment on Eric Metaxas denounces air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires 2 weeks ago:
Fine. Go outside, have an asthma attack that kills you. Nobody cares.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve trained myself out of the stomach ache but damn, it used to hurt so much.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
No. No it’s not. I speak both fluent English and Dutch and German is an absolute bloody nightmare.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
And your mother tongue is…?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
PEM is the pits. Also, this exertion can be mental too, so you might have read a really difficult book or done a course and whammo, here we go.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My doc refuses to test for lyme “because you might have had it some other time.”
Wut?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Many people don’t notice they have Covid. Getting more and more brain fog is classic post covid syndrome.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Private planes are rented out to other people when the owner isn’t using it.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Used plastic can be used to make other things. Over here a lot of benches that have to sit outside all day are made of recycled plastic. I’ve also seen it used to make footpaths across swampy areas because it takes less maintenance than wood.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 3 weeks ago:
As do many military attacks (like the bombings of London, Coventry, Dresden, etc.)
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is waiting, only Luigi was doing.
- Comment on What should I do with boxes of old photos? 3 weeks ago:
Some people don’t have the space. My mother keeps giving me stuff but I live in an apartment without additional storage.
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 4 weeks ago:
It’s nothing to do with Western media, it’s bad elsewhere too (over 50C in India last year and the rising sea levels are obliterating islands, for example) but it affects Europe the most.
- Comment on Butter 4 weeks ago:
I bake a lot of biscuits because bought ones all contain palm oil nowadays. I just make a 3-2-1 dough and add cocoa, or I put jam on top.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Covid! An average loss of 1-1.5 IQ point every time you get it. Many people get it multiple times a year because you don’t really become immune anymore (up to 70 percent immunity for 9 months).
Which explains many people.