Fleppensteijn
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl
Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 days ago:
I’ve wondered the same as OP and never saw one in real life.
Probably it’s a regional thing, like how in some countries (as I recently discovered) they don’t know what a cheese slicer is and just butcher cheese with a knife.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I suppose those boutique shops are more for rich people but there’s shops with cheap stuff too, often kind of hidden and unwelcoming. I used to live across from one for a while before I even realized it was a shop, and it was still open. Just saw the guy closing up but never saw a customer. I had a look out of curiosity and it was just some old guy selling bottles of washing liquid and everything was covered in a layer of dust like it hadn’t been touched in years. He looked happy to see a customer so I felt sorry for him to just walk out again.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll grab some beers from the minimarkt at most. Everything else comes from the supermarket. And I often pass those tiny stores that never seem to have any customers – e.g. a shop just for socks? – and I always wonder how they can exist. There must be some kind of tax breaks or tax evasion going on.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s something you don’t hear outside of work. I felt like it implies more of: when work is over, enjoy what’s left of the day.
- Comment on How can I improve this? It's my current living and bedroom. 5 months ago:
I’d blind the window. Too much screen glare.
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 6 months ago:
Try Phuket or Mallorca.
- Comment on Tea ☕ is leaf juice. While, coffee ☕ is bean juice. 7 months ago:
Coffee beans are called that because they look like beans, not because they are beans. Coffee is a fruit juice
- Comment on New Survey that will determine your age. You are really old if you score a perfect 11 out of 11 8 months ago:
Just got some from a vending machine in Spain. Also in France some time ago. Pretty sure they’re all over. Only difference is that Germany really has them everywhere.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 8 months ago:
I prefer one L in traveling. There’s an unstressed shwa sound and it makes no sense to double the consonant after. It almost implies the stress falls on the vell part.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 8 months ago:
They were. I remember going to a shop with my father to spend his checks before the banks phased them out. Even I had a checkbook that came with my children’s bank account.
I think the passing out happened in the 90s but apparently banks still accepted checks until 2021.
- Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 9 months ago:
I’m not in the Netherlands. Where I live, potatoes were 1.20 eur per kilo last year so I don’t buy it. Normal price should be 40 cents.
- Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 9 months ago:
I go almost every day. It’s a good reason to get out and go for a walk.
What I buy mostly depends on prices/discounts. And only what I can carry in my backpack. Potatoes when affordable, otherwise rice; frozen veggies, ham/cheese, bubbly water, beer.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I’ve never understood why Americans want to come over and tell us it’s “racist” to dress up as a character that happens to look too much like an African in their eyes
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 9 months ago:
20 odd years ago, getting tired of job interviews and the one time I looked scruffy and unshaven was when they hired me
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 9 months ago:
I don’t know how common it is, but when I grew up, being smart was basically an insult. Not being posh, but any sign of smartness. I was already a quiet kid, which made me a target (because quiet are smart? My grades surely disagreed), using “difficult” vocabulary is definitely something you had to avoid; kids better not find out you have “smart” interests like computers or reading or something or you’d be ridiculed.
Maybe people carry their hate with them in adulthood but just don’t show it so much (until it’s time to vote 🙂)
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
It’s mostly how I made it through school/university. I just don’t remember things for very long and found it’s just easier to study 1-2 hours before a test so it’s still fresh in your mind.
For bigger tests, maybe create a summary of things that may be asked and go over that just before the test.
I almost never did homework.
My grades were never great but enough to pass.
- Comment on New side hustle just dropped 10 months ago:
Where are you from, is this a joke or something? We have white eggs in Europe and Asia
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 10 months ago:
Traffic speed? If you know where all the speed cameras are, you could dodge them and hope there are no other police checking you.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I got exactly one day off for the funeral after a parent’s cancer but it’s not really comparable. Becoming a parent doesn’t exactly happen against your will. I may as well take a dog and claim I need time off to walk it.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
They already are. Months of parental leave, come back, make another child, get another couple of months off. If the money is it there to allow this, why can’t we get some kind of sabbatical
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 1 year ago:
I’ve never heard about Peter judging or the gates etc. in all my religious upbringing and didn’t realize this was an actual belief.
I just knew this pearly gates thing as a movie cliché, from Tom and Jerry to modern shows copying that idea.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 1 year ago:
Why Brits and Americans? Every major city has expats.
You go abroad for a job, usually temporarily -> expat
You give up your citizenship to move to another country -> immigrant
- Comment on The g spot is in the ear canal 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t take it that far, just as far as my finger can go
- Comment on The g spot is in the ear canal 1 year ago:
I switched to just using toilet paper. Not sure how much safer it is.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 year ago:
It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.
It’s nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 1 year ago:
Sure, I was always interested to see where everyone was traveling. That’s what I had Facebook for until it turned to shit.
I don’t have to hear anything about babies though.
- Comment on Why did my bus driver want me to not pay the fare and instead just "TAKE A SEAT!!!" 1 year ago:
Because they don’t have change?
Happened to me before. The ATM only gives out 20s but the driver only wants small coins, only cash is accepted.
It happened in several countries and it’s still a mystery to me how you’re supposed to get small change when you’re fresh off the airplane or something (or why they don’t just take card).
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 1 year ago:
You’re out of touch. Employers don’t want overqualified people. They are the ones that decide for you that you can’t possibly be motivated for such a job. You’ll only leave when you find something better they think, which is definitely true when you claim to just “bridge the gap”.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 1 year ago:
Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 1 year ago:
I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn’t even taste good.