fakeman_pretendname
@fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 4 days ago:
Good.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 weeks ago:
What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?
Is anyone posh using British Lemmy who can help advise?
- Comment on Man arrested over theft of 22 tonnes of cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy 3 weeks ago:
I think so - he definitely played for Leeds. He must be in his 50s now, so maybe he’s took up journalism? :)
- Comment on CODA 5 weeks ago:
Or Hocus Pocus, by Focus (youtube link)
✅️ Menacing scream at audience
✅️ As loud as possible
✅️ Crazy eyes
✅️ Flute - Comment on Please stop 1 month ago:
Hahaha. Oops. That one was automatic/accidental, but I’m not going to change it :)
As mentioned above/below, perhaps it should have been wikipædia :)
- Comment on Please stop 1 month ago:
Twitter is actually 1982’s classic erotic Atari 2600 game "Beat 'em and eat 'em.
There’s Vladimir Putin at the top of the building, firing his pixellated ejaculate over the side and the player controls both Elon Musk and Donald Trump, running left and right with their mouths open to collect it.
- Comment on What do allergies feel like for you? 1 month ago:
I suddenly picked up “allergies*” in my late 30s - couldn’t work out what they were, other than antihistamines (cetirizine or loratidine) made them “not as bad”, and I also needed to avoid certain things in particular (breathing in dust, aerosols, perfumes, other chemical fumes, car fumes, cigarette fumes, wood dust and drinking alcohol).
Turned out to be Nasal Polyps. I was due for surgery to remove them in 2020, but then Covid happened and I’ve been on a waiting list since. Surgery may completely remove the problem, or at least lessen it - but they could grow back within five years.
Basically every day is like I’ve got cold or sometimes flu. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in phlegm. If I take antihistamines, it’s pretty mild or controllable, as long as I can reasonably avoid those triggers. Sometimes I have to drink lemsip in the morning (powdered hot drink of paracetamol, lemon flavour & decongestant). It’s there every day, permanently, but how severe it is varies between “slightly inconvenient” and “too unwell to work”.
Antihistamines are essential for me to function at all, and make a huge difference - though I feel they’ve become less effective in the last year or so. Thankfully they’re very cheap over the counter (~£1.30 for 30 days’ worth). I also use a saltwater nasal spray sometimes, and I sometimes eat a lot of menthol sweets. I have to be careful with decongestants to avoid “rebound congestion” where your nose adjusts to life with decongestants, then becomes twice as blocked up if you stop.
If I drink alcohol or breathe perfume etc, my sinuses block up within half an hour, I can get an asthmatic response, and I get crippling arthritic pain in my hands and joints. Sometimes perfume and other sprays can cause severe, possibly dangerous breathing problems. I have an asthma inhaler for these emergencies, and always have to carry it with me, in case someone sprays perfume in an enclosed space (which might cause me to die).
If I keep reasonable control over these things, I can live pretty “normally”. If I actually get a cold, it’s like I’ve got a “double cold”, and it can make me too ill to go to work.
When it’s bad, it’s a pretty miserable existence to be honest, but in the larger scale of things it’s not a serious or life-threatening illness, so you feel guilty for complaining.
When it’s not so bad, I can normally ignore it for most of the day. It’s worst in the morning/night when I’m horizontal.
Your case outlined in the original post sounds particularly upsetting and you have my sympathies.
*technically it’s an intolerance or hypersensitivity, and not truly and allergy, though it behaves in much the same way, and symptoms can be controlled in much the same way.
- Comment on Police investigating suspected gunshot fired at taxi containing Ian Hislop 1 month ago:
Perhaps a warning rather then a genuine murder attempt?
Though the list of suspects must be “Any politician, celebrity or person who has been in the news and done something wrong, stupid or hypocritical since the 1980s”.
- Comment on Billionaire Guy Hands’ property firm takes housing reforms to European court 2 months ago:
I think it meant to say “Scrounger Guy Hands realises legislation loophole, which allowed him to steal billions of pounds of unearned money off the British Government and the British people, will be closed, leaving his company with a tiny fraction less of immoral profit, whilst still making billions in profit”
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 2 months ago:
A “consent and pay”, or “paywall” (or even “register-wall”) website is totally fine and should be free to exist - but it shouldn’t be indexed by search engines as a response to a question, and shouldn’t be linkable on any form of social media.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 2 months ago:
Is it a weird guilt thing?
I hated that song when the programme was new, but now I feel guilty about it, because someone was trying their best, and they wrote, re-wrote, edited and worked on that song and for every instrument and vocal, someone practised and practised and performed, and even if it wasn’t quite to my taste, it doesn’t mean it was bad, and I picture them still crying themselves to sleep at night, twenty years later, going “everyone hates the song I did for Star Trek Enterprise and now I hate myself”, so I make sure to watch the full intro so I don’t hurt their feelings.
That’s what everyone else does too, right?
- Comment on Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online 3 months ago:
This is good, but they could really do with running these for older people too.
Here’s one I heard this week for example:
“My friend down at the bowls club said on Facebook that they’re not even real immigrants, but they’re special forces soldiers from the secret UN Army and they’re bringing them over here to take over the British and they’ve all got really good shoes and mobile phones you see, that’s how you can tell and they’re all of fighting age aren’t they?”
- Comment on UK riots: five essential reads on what triggered a week of violence. 3 months ago:
- Rupert Murdoch
- The Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph
- Nigel Farage
- Elon Musk
- Putin’s Internet disinformation army
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 3 months ago:
“Phwoar! Most of the people in this hospital are wearing nurse’s uniforms! Kinky!”
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
I thought the pull-string light switch inside the bathroom was the standard in the UK?
I’ve only seen switches outside bathrooms in the last 5 years, in recent “having the bathroom re-done” cases.
It might be an age of house or regional thing though.
- Comment on Over half of UK adults will have dental disease by 2050, according to our research. 3 months ago:
The Tooth Fairy is trying to save up for retirement.
- Comment on Any recommendations for digitizing DV tapes? 3 months ago:
Unless there’s something very unique about the camera, the USB is only going to transfer still images off the memory card (and possibly supply a low-res webcam function) - you won’t be able to transfer video through it.
There should be a mini-firewire/mini-DV/iLink port hidden under a flap - that will connect to a firewire port on a desktop, or an older laptop.
If you don’t have access to a firewire port, your existing S-Video/AV cable is still your best option.
Unless anything magical has happened recently, a firewire to USB will not help you for video capture.
- Comment on The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. 4 months ago:
I did say “controversially” and “potentially” :)
I think it was the WHO who mentioned it last year, but it keeps cropping up each year from various university studies - of course I’ll have only ever read the news reports of those studies.
I absolutely agree though, I’d be highly suspicious of sugar company (or high-fructose-syrup) lobbying.
Personally my preference is for “things to just be less sweet” (like why does some bread or soup have sugar in now?!?), though I suspect it’s a bit of a minority opinion :)
- Comment on The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. 4 months ago:
I’d be interested to know how much of that is from reduced sales, how much is from products reducing the overall sweetness, and how much is the products being full of (controversially potentially worse) artificial sweeteners and other crap to replace the sugar.
- Comment on In celebration of Independence Day 4 months ago:
I was under the impression it was partially due to him feeling the ‘U’ made the words feel “too French”, and he supposedly really hated the French (apparently he was a bit of a fan of the ol’ racism), but mainly he wanted something new and uniquely American - and English spelling was a even more regional, wild and inconsistent back then, so he hoped to simplify it, bring it some consistency, ideally whilst also telling the French to piss off.
- Comment on Vesuvius 4 months ago:
Walwe
- Comment on TikTok and Instagram face 40 new rules to protect children - but not for a year 6 months ago:
This is very badly implemented. I might be misunderstanding, but it looks like they’re not protecting children by removing far-right material or other assorted bullshit, they’re “protecting children” by collecting more personal data on all users (or viewers).
“We want you to protect children by forcing all users (and unregistered viewers) to give you their passports and bank details, and we want you to use their telephone and laptop cameras to record their faces. Store all the data wherever you like, and feel free to sell it on/use it however you like, we totally believe you won’t do anything shady or abusive for profit”
- Comment on Disability benefit claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunak 6 months ago:
It seems like it would be quick and convenient to use - quick as a flash, perhaps? Also, it’s quite funny they’d not thought of this universal voucher system, it sounds like a winner! I wonder if the universal voucher could have alternate names too, rhyming with “flash” or “funny”?
- Comment on Disability benefit claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunak 6 months ago:
They said it - “fair and compassionate”. I can only assume they use a different dictionary to me.
Alongside the paper, Mr Stride also addressed the Commons, saying: “This government’s priority is to make sure that our welfare system is fair and compassionate. Fair on the taxpayer, by ensuring that people of working age who can work, do work, and fair on those who are in most need of the state’s help.”
- Comment on Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state? 6 months ago:
Obviously not in all cases, but sometimes they push you away to try and make it less upsetting for you seeing them in a degenerated state, which is embarrassing for them, and painful for friends and family, then they can pretend things are fine when they occasionally see you.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 6 months ago:
Okay, so you’re going to ban targeted marketing and online advertising, right?
No?
Ah, so the plan is to introduce comprehensive support and counselling for stress and mental health issues in young people, meaning they won’t have to turn to these things to cope with their depressing, stressful lives?
No?
Ah, got you - you’re going to improve the individual lives and prospects of all citizens, creating a utopian nation, so they can each look forward to a healthy prosperous future and genuinely have nothing to worry about?
No?
- Comment on 'They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families as millions struggle to feed their children, researcher says 6 months ago:
That’s pretty grim - but on the plus side, it’s got rid of the image of Maggie Thatcher weeing on the rest of us.
- Comment on Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher 6 months ago:
I know it’s a stupid, petty thing to get hung up on, but I’m weirdly offended by the word “Center” being used instead of “Centre”, in a British article/newspaper for a British Institute at a British University.
It’s the end of civilisation, I tell you.
- Comment on 'They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families as millions struggle to feed their children, researcher says 6 months ago:
I guess we’re still waiting for it to “trickle down” to us?
- Comment on Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system 7 months ago:
“Enough of this wishy washy woke looney liberal mental health support nonsense. In the good old days we simply self-medicated with smoking, alcoholism, affairs and domestic violence. It never did us any harm, until we died in our 50s, to the great relief of our long-suffering, abused families”
Good ol’ Tory ‘common sense’ :P
