MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 3 days ago:
A friend going to work in Oslo was asked if she had sorted out clothing for winter. She said, “Well I have my winter coat,” indicating the one she was wearing . Her colleague-to-be fingered it and said, “No, that’s your autumn coat.” Her winter coat, it turned out, was a down-stuffed waterproof.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 3 days ago:
I’m in the UK and KFC has gone downhill here too - something I’m very grateful for! A few years ago I got a real craving for a crispy, juicy piece of chicken with the colonel’s secret spices. I ended up with a grim, wizened leg that tasted of stale oil and despair. Never again. My own cooking is sooo much better, and cheaper too. Win win!
- Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? 4 days ago:
How do you say 1901 then? One thousand nine hundred and one? Nineteen hundred and one? Or nineteen oh one? Have you ever heard of the Eighteen Hundred and Twelve Overture?
I’m in the “twenty oh one” etc camp, it’s concise and consistent.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 6 days ago:
How else to explain this?
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 1 week ago:
Horses self-replicate, which bicycles can’t do. Except maybe in the Netherlands, I think they do breed over there.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 1 week ago:
Don’t get my town’s Facebook group involved in this question. Most people: Eeewwww! Dog owners: I pick up after my dog, horse riders should also use poo bags! Gardeners: Where is it? I’ll bring my wheelbarrow.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Seeing it in a real theatre while stoned makes a huuuuuge difference. “It’s full of stars!!”
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Brian Cox shows ball and feathers falling together in vacuum: youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god! I’m sitting here touching myself like a fucking madwoman. Thank you so much! Brilliant, brilliant comment. I had no idea, how have I lived without this knowledge? Ok I’m touching myself again, this is hilarious.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 weeks ago:
According to Wikipedia, “the world population … was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 years more to reach 8 billion.”
There are PLENTY of people in the world. Some of them need to get off my lawn. Grrr.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 4 weeks ago:
He did have a banana thrown at him in Barnsley one time, as well as a milkshake. And another time it was a coffee cup. N Going around with such a punchable face comes with risks.
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 5 weeks ago:
- Ardbeg
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll add in her something I learned recently - whisky can become “corked”, ie if the stopper is made of cork, it can go bad and ruin the drink’s flavour. I thought this was just a wine thing, but apparently it can happen with whisky too.
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 1 month ago:
One thing that helped my posture was raising my monitor - a hardback copy of Infinite Jest did the trick. But follow all the good advice here too - core strength, stretching, massage. It is really, really worth the effort.
- Comment on How do people make and save kaomoji art? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
I’m from New Zealand originally. Small town in a small country. The time zone joke back then was, “If it’s 5pm in Sydney, it’s 1956 in Auckland.”
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
You dialled by putting a finger in each number hole one at a time, dragging each one to the stop. When I was a kid our town’s phone numbers had just four digits, didn’t take long to dial.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
You could opt out of being in the phone book. I had to do this because a crazy woman who had had a teacher by the same name as me, in the same suburb as me, kept ringing me. First call she said, “Guess who this is?” Dunno. By the tenth call that first day she was yelling down the phone that I was a liar, asking me “Why are you being like this?!?” Because I was never your teacher! No caller id back then, so I had to keep right on answering. One time I picked up and shouted “FUCK OFF!” and yeah it was a work colleague, that was awkward.
- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 1 month ago:
Same here, my body goes to the local ned school. They’ll return to he ashes if you want, but I don’t care. I cleared it with my sister before signing the forms because she does care about cremains etc. Apparently the university has a memorial garden where they spread the ashes.
- Comment on Why isn't everything mouldy? 2 months ago:
Aaaand then there’s slime moulds. Some of which can run a maze…
- Comment on ELI5: how do mobile devices know your movements? 3 months ago:
I was out walking with a friend the other day and he tripped and fell. His watch told him, “It seems you’ve fallen sharply.” He had to tap the screen to stop it calling the emergency services. The other friend walking with us said his wife’s watch tells her to stand up if she’s been sitting too long. “And she does it!” I’m officially a curmudgeon, grumbling about tech taking over.
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 5 months ago:
Do viruses and bacteria count? Antibac resistance is building. I imagine a virus that fritzed our brains would give animals some advantage.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 6 months ago:
Genius!
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
Some uk supermarkets have started dropping the use by date in favour of codes like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012 The article says it’s to reduce waste and that staff will have special training to know when to bin stuff. I imagine the training is in how to read the codes.
- Comment on What's inside the London Tower Bridge? 7 months ago:
Both sides have elevators. One side also has the bridge lift, the mechanism that raises the central bridge to let ships through.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
Back in my childhood (60+ years ago) we had recipes that called for a “breakfast cup’ of this and a “teacup” of that. And yes, we did have actual breakfast cups and teacups, which had significantly different volumes. What kind of cup do they use in the US I wonder?
- Comment on Wednesday Whinge - 23rd August 2023 1 year ago:
What the doctor said that convinced me to take it seriously: you can recover really well from a heart attack and carry on with your life. If a stroke doesn’t kill you, the resulting brain damage will leave you with life-altering conditions, such paralysis of half your body, loss of speech (aphasia), trouble swallowing, memory issues, double vision… it’s quite a list. Losing my independence would be unbearable, so I take my meds and keep my cankles covered. :-)
- Comment on Wednesday Whinge - 23rd August 2023 1 year ago:
Ugh high BP is the worst. I’m on two different BP meds, one of which has given me hideous cankles. I console myself that it’s better than having a stroke, but it sucks that I felt better before.
