MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 3 days 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 3 days 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. 5 weeks ago:
In the olden days we would use a fax machine for that.
- Comment on This spoon. 1 month ago:
Phew.
- Comment on This spoon. 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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"? 2 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 2 months ago:
How else to explain this?
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 months ago:
- Ardbeg
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 3 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? 3 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? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Phonebooks 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 4 months ago:
Aaaand then there’s slime moulds. Some of which can run a maze…
