DakRalter
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Most popular baby names for boys and girls in 2025 revealed 12 hours ago:
I really don’t understand why Olivia is so popular. It’s been topping the charts for years and yet I’ve never met a single Olivia in my life. None of my nieces or nephews have had an Olivia in their class.
Also, I’m surprised the Deform lot haven’t ranted about the boys chart yet.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 day ago:
The media won’t stop reporting on this guy every time he so much as farts. Radio 5 is his propaganda machine.
But maybe the tide is turning. In any case, he’s definitely getting tetchy. Hold his feet to the fire, he will melt like the greasy little frog he is.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 day ago:
Same, but it was Teletext, not Ceefax. My dad got me and my sister tickets to Barbados for £400 return. So first they shipped us off, then when we came back, they shipped the older two off. But they got to extend theirs to four weeks and they got to boat over to Trinidad and Tobago. Still bitter about it.
I got my message on Backchat once and that’s how I found out my friend in Year 12 also read it haha. She recognised me even with a pseudonym.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 2 days ago:
Five Mil Froggie is gonna claim they’re bullying him by not ganging up on him.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 2 days ago:
Finally, Earth will become great again, and hand dryers will be properly located.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 2 days ago:
Wow, so they actually did it. Bully for them.
Binface vs Frogface.
Worst case of Binface losing still means Five Mil Frogface having his finances investigated.
Who knows, if they find enough dirt, it might even turn into a criminal investigation, given the laundering accusations.
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Always the ones you most expect 😅
- Comment on Halifax brand scrapped after 173 years due to Lloyds takeover 1 week ago:
o7
- Comment on Another UK heatwave could be on the way 1 week ago:
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 week ago:
Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 week ago:
Can we bill the MPs to pay for their lunchtime drinks fully out of their own pockets, then, instead of having it subsidised by us?
- Comment on UK workers all face the same problems. Why not join together? 1 week ago:
You would not believe how hard it can be to get retail staff to join a union.
With women, I got a few to consider it, one was up for it until she realised she had to pay a tenner a month. My male colleagues, not one wanted to know. I don’t know why they are so against it. And mind, this was in a job where the store manager was a bully (physically assaulted me, a short weedy woman, twice. One of my biggest life regrets is not reporting it while we had the cctv footage) and we had multiple staff just walk out rather than deal with his verbal and emotional abuse (head office protected him because he brought in the profits).
I just don’t get why most people are so against joining a union.
- Comment on Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape 2 weeks ago:
Waiting for the flag shaggers to camp outside his home to “protect women and girls”. Any day now.
- Comment on Rare red weather warning and red heat health alert for region 2 weeks ago:
I was up till half 4 and it was just thunderstorms for over an hour, still going when I fell asleep. I don’t think I’ve seen so much lightning.
- Comment on How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet 2 weeks ago:
Yes, we got dial up in the mid 90s and using your real name online was a big no-no.
I filled out their consultation form and made a point that parents needs to be equipped to keep their kids safe and talk to them about online dangers. Parental controls are the way to go. Schools also teach about cyber bullying and online dangers.
It’s one thing to show your ID to a sales assistant. It’s another to hand over a copy that you have no control of once it’s online.
- Comment on Elon Musk: Zack Polanski is ‘a scumbag and traitor’ 3 weeks ago:
CRI MOAR, ELON.
- Comment on [PDF] The Rape Gang Inquiry 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws 3 weeks ago:
I think they mean Fashy McFashface.
- Comment on NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation 3 weeks ago:
It’s crazy how some people think medicine is just “take this pill” and nothing more. I had a severe blood test phobia, so bad that I even delayed getting cancer symptoms checked for a year because I was so scared of the needles.
When I eventually got it checked and my gp said I’d need a blood test, I went into a panic attack. He prescribed me three lorazepam. One for the morning of the test, one for just before the test and one “just in case”.
I didn’t take them because I know I have an addictive personality.
Another GP told me to self refer to the local talk therapy. After three sessions I went from crying at photos of blood tests to being able to get a two practice tests done with my therapist and then the actual test. Without getting dizzy or throwing up like I did as a child.
Medicine is and should always be about what’s best for the patient, not “here just take a pill.” Is anyone really going to say that I should have gone down the lorazepam route? Also the amount of times I’ve had SSRIs pushed on me when I didn’t need them. Once when I was 13 because I had autism related mutism. Instead of pushing my mum to get me assessed, I wasn’t even told that I could be autistic (aspergers back then), which is a big contributing factor to me being the basket case I am today.
This is not me deriding modern medicine, just pushing back against the argument that pills should always be the answer. Long term solutions are better than relying on quick fixes.
- Comment on Do not use our tragedy to fuel violence, family of Belfast attack victim say 4 weeks ago:
Something five mil frogface doesn’t have for victims or their families.
- Comment on Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack 4 weeks ago:
Well it’s like how the “protect our women and girls” mob end up being wife beaters and child molesters.
- Comment on How the Far-Right Is Using the Racist Myth of 'Two-Tier Policing' to Exploit Henry Nowak’s Murder 4 weeks ago:
How is the investigation into Five Mil Farridge’s finances coming along?
- Comment on Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the ‘Pure Cold Rage’ Used to Trigger a Racist Pogrom in Belfast 4 weeks ago:
It’s easy and free to change your name by deed poll, so it’s weird that Waxy Lemon is so keen to use a stage name. If he’s so ashamed of his real name, he could easily change it but chooses not to.
- Comment on Far right accused of seeking to foment UK-wide unrest over Belfast knife attack 4 weeks ago:
Oh, you know Five Mil Farridge is just rubbing his hands with glee.
- Comment on Keir Starmer rejects US State Department comments on UK 'two-tier' policing 4 weeks ago:
Their boos mean nothing. We know what makes them cheer.
[Insert meme here]
- Comment on The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems 5 weeks ago:
Except very few people gave the EU much thought UNTIL the referendum made it a big deal.
- Comment on The American Dream (terms and conditions apply) 5 weeks ago:
Looked it up and yes, dreamstime is now hosting AI. It’s crazy, why would you pay for an AI image when you can generate them elsewhere for free? Also afaik you can’t copyright an AI image anyway.
- Comment on The American Dream (terms and conditions apply) 5 weeks ago:
It looks like a dreamstime stock image, at least there’s a watermark. Or does dreamstime now expect people to pop for slop stock too now?
- Comment on UK experiences ‘tropical night’ after hottest ever May day 1 month ago:
I’ve tried that, it doesn’t work. I must have a secret furnace in my room somewhere. Once it gets to about 9 or 10 am it’s better with the window closed and the door open, since the hallway always feels a lot cooler. Eventually there’ll be a breeze that will run from the north side of the house to my room and that will cool things down. In the meantime, a spray bottle and fan are my best friends for the next few days.
- Comment on UK experiences ‘tropical night’ after hottest ever May day 1 month ago:
I didn’t even get the usual evening breeze last two nights to cool my room down. I had to keep a wet sheet over my legs and I still felt hot. I’ve got foil on my windows and one of those car windscreen mylar things but since it’s supposed to be flush with the windows and I have those annoying upvc monstrosities I wonder if it’s not just trapping heat instead. For some reason the hot air really wants to stay in my room. Even with the door open and a through current to the front of the house which is north facing. There’s a big difference in heat the moment you step through my doorway 😭😭
