MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 5 days ago:
Ugh, I have a friend whose humour often involves mean-spirited jibes and put-downs. I was in a low mood one day and told him I didn’t like the tone of his “jokes”, that they sometimes stung. He really dialled back after that.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 5 days ago:
The drink on the right is caffeinated, maybe that’s why they added sweetener? The label on the left doesn’t mention caffeine.
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 3 weeks ago:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The first revelation was that the romantic leads were pretty much BOTH prostitutes. And then that horrendous turn by Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man!
…m.wikipedia.org/…/Breakfast_at_Tiffany's_(film)
Also the musical Gigi. More prostitution, this time with a mother grooming her daughter to enter the profession, while her client Maurice Chevalier croons “Thank heavens for little girls.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_(1958_film)
I saw both these films as a child and had no clue.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on if you work night shifts, do you have a life? Are you healthy? 4 weeks ago:
Years ago I had a job where we had a “graveyard” shift. It was a solo gig, started at 11pm and finished at 7am when the morning shift took over. You’d work it for seven days and then have seven days off. We shared the shift, so that everyone did it a few times a year. You’d think with seven days off it would be popular, but no. No-one wanted it.
I hated it. The worst part was the isolation. There were duties to carry out, but it was mainly checking things. Alone. It was difficult to sleep when I got home and it messed with my head, I felt like a zombie. I’d meet up with friends in the evening and struggle to make conversation. It took up to five days to recover. Very, very unhealthy.
More recently I worked mostly 5pm to 2am, and that was much more manageable. We were a team, and we often met up during the day for sports or a movie. It was awkward socialising with other friends though; I’d be working when they weren’t.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
Someone told them they’d get brain cancer.
Seriously though, a lot of us olds have our phones Bluetoothed to our hearing aids. So at least with us you only get to hear one side of the conversation. “I’M ON THE BUS!”
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 weeks ago:
I accidentally triggered Gemini while taking a close-up photo of something in my hand. It threw up a nearly full-screen “how can I help?” message. I muttered “fuck off”, and the message now read, “I’m sorry you feel that way…” Oh my god no. NO. Gemini now disabled.
- Comment on FedEx has absolutely no clue what 'economy' means. 2 months ago:
In the olden days we would use a fax machine for that.
- Comment on This spoon. 2 months ago:
Phew.
- Comment on This spoon. 2 months ago:
This is correct. I’m old, and when I was a girl every home had soup spoons - along with teaspoons, dessert spoons and tablespoons. They appear to have died out, who knows why*. Some of my friends have heritage sets, I don’t. I eat my soup with a dessert spoon, like an ignorant youth.
- On reflection, maybe it’s a measuring thing? Baking recipes use teaspoons and tablespoons, but never soup spoons.
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 months ago:
A BMI calculator will just use height and weight - if you have a lot of muscle bulk you’ll get a higher BMI result even if you’re lean. Conversely, some people are “thin on the outside, fat on the inside”, ie they carry a lot of visceral fat around their organs. So while BMI can be useful, it’s not perfect.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 months ago:
I’ve organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won’t accept my body if I’ve died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they’re done with me I’ll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 months ago:
His lack of insight makes him a dipshit. Cishet, neurotypical, yet he was unable to see the situation from the woman’s point of view.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 months ago:
If you have your phone with you, try and get a photo of him. It sucks that you had to cut short your workout. It may be that what you experienced as “staring”, he thought of as “looking” - men can be oblivious to how they are perceived - but that’s no excuse.
I remember this one guy telling a bunch of us how he’d “helped” a woman late one night, by walking behind her on a deserted street, “to see that no harm came to her”. Boy did we lay into him. In the end he understood that a) he had actually stalked this poor woman and b) next time he should cross the road so she had one less thing to worry about. What a dipshit.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
The more you drill down into UK history the messier it becomes. Scotland’s history alone is crazy. My favourite yarn is the Darien scheme, which pretty much wrecked the country’s economy in the late 1690s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
Oh, and if you think corporations are out of control today, check out the East India Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company Their trading shenanigans brought on the Opium Wars and the American Revolution.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 3 months 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 months 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"? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
How else to explain this?
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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? 4 months ago:
- Ardbeg
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months ago:
