starlinguk
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- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 17 hours ago:
I hate it when they constantly repeat it. It’s a stupid management/politician thing and it isn’t natural. But why should I mind “Hello Mrs X” or “Hello Starling”?
- Comment on live by the inaturalist, die by the inaturalist 2 days ago:
Merlin, actually.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 5 days ago:
It’s a fungus in The Girl with all the Gifts.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 5 days ago:
Is that the, er, documentary where a guy crawls out of the grave, waves his arms around blindly, finds his glasses in his pocket, puts them on and says “aaah!”
Probably not, actually.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Keep doing what you’re doing, sister.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 6 days ago:
Does the flu cause heart attacks? Covid is a systemic disease, flu is a respiratory disease.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 6 days ago:
And a German is being airlifted to Düsseldorf, a Dutch person to somewhere in the Netherlands and a Brit to Britain.
This entire thing would not have been a problem whatsoever if the ship had been quarantined and stayed quarantined. Something similar happened in 2018 and thanks to the measures taken only 30 people got infected.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 6 days ago:
One of the women who got infected (she knew, her husband had already died and she was very ill) got onto a plane to Johannesburg and died in Johannesburg.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 6 days ago:
Covid plays the long game, though. People who only had a rough time of it can die as a result of it years later.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 6 days ago:
I sat next to an army medic of the German-French brigade at a concert yesterday. When I scooted closer to her because other people wanted to sit down I said “Don’t worry, I don’t have the hanta virus” and she said “How do you know? You could catch it on the Schwäbische Alb, it’s not a tropical virus.”
So I’m not particularly worried, especially because journalists are notoriously bad at interpreting WHO communications.
- Comment on What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time? 1 week ago:
Yup, the rules have just been changed in the UK and people are getting stuck abroad because they forgot their UK passport for the way back.
- Comment on Child’s school updated the uniform policy 1 week ago:
Jeggings are meant to look like jeans. The girls wear leggings.
- Comment on Child’s school updated the uniform policy 1 week ago:
At sink estate schools the kids are the drug dealers.
- Comment on Child’s school updated the uniform policy 1 week ago:
She’ll soon find out that, surprisingly, blue shows dirt more than white. It’s why my kid’s school changed from blue shirts burgundy sweatshirts.
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 1 week ago:
Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, Tim Traveller, Robwords.
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty much in a progressive bubble on YouTube, but I had a look at the “hyped” list yesterday and it’s all right wing extremist bullshit.
- Comment on Why do people have an issue with people in their mid-20s dating much older people? 1 week ago:
CATS, CATS ARE NICE.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“Anyway”
- Comment on Stray Kids 2 weeks ago:
The music is terrible and they all look and sound identical. Their popularity is completely baffling.
- Comment on Stray Kids 2 weeks ago:
My God, they’re clones.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
Xi is no better than Trump.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
Eh, ymmv. Did you they defunded BioNTech? The developers of what is now the Pfizer Covid vaccine? Covid vaccine research is desperately needed (see vaccine injury) but there is no funding.
Many EU countries are defunding science. Being a researcher is an absolute nightmare. Brussels is receiving tons more applications for funding because researchers aren’t getting money from their own government anymore. University departments are being shut down.
People who have been doing scientific and medical research for decades are finding themselves on the streets.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 2 weeks ago:
My parents moved 10,000 km away as soon as I moved out! They’ve moved back to Europe now, but they’re still 600 km away. I never cared.
I’d already been doing “adulting” before I went to university, because I was raised that way. Please teach your kids to become independent, parentals.
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 2 weeks ago:
Tom Scott’s stuff needs less of him sitting at a desk. He seems to think he’s a news anchor.
- Comment on What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad? 3 weeks ago:
Even my doctor (in Germany) doesn’t speak English. And I’m in a very popular tourist area (the Black Forest). Also, nobody in Europe accepts cash dollars.
- Comment on You know how some medications numbs your emotions... so what happens if you're on those medications and you receive news of a close family member dying, do you like... not have any emotions over it? 3 weeks ago:
Let’s just say that when my kid badly hurt himself and I felt nothing I stopped taking Prozac.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 3 weeks ago:
Or they’re 13 years old.
- Comment on In the US or in Europe can I choose the way I want to go out? like maybe like a viking by setting a boat on fire while my body is on it? Or be shot out of a cannon HST style? or whatever? 3 weeks ago:
I’m in Germany and my cousin has his dad’s ashes at home and refuses to have them buried. We’ve given up trying to persuade him.
- Comment on I am against rape or rapists or any such type of action or person. But my mom who has a daughter. Keeps questioning why these women wait so long before coming out with it? 3 weeks ago:
Two kids raped an eleven year old in the Netherlands, posted it online and they each got 5 days in prison.
What’s the point? In this case there was irrefutable proof and they still got away with it.
- Comment on Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions? 4 weeks ago:
Women were the “scientists” when men (and some women too!) were running after mammoths. Physical strength was irrelevant. If you wanted to figure out if you could eat that plant or how to prevent infection in that leg you weren’t going to ask a dude.