Fleppensteijn
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl
Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days 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] 6 days 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 2 months 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!!!" 2 months 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? 3 months 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. 3 months ago:
Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 4 months 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.
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 4 months ago:
I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven’t listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.
- Comment on Is it actually very common for people to have violent sadistic fantasies, possibly involving actual people in their lives? 4 months ago:
It’s normal to get such weird brainfarts, like the call of the void or imagining murder or other bad things, just like when a song suddenly gets stuck in your head. A healthy person thinks “wtf brain?” but when you start to think “that’s a great idea I want to act on”, maybe that’s not completely normal.
- Comment on What are some things you can do to maintain your teeth when you don't have health insurance amd can't afford dental care? 4 months ago:
My yearly dental works always cost a fortune, but my teeth are great now, since:
- I got an electric brush and floss sticks;
- I now drink coffee without sugar (you’ll get used to it pretty quickly);
- I almost completely stopped drinking sugary drinks (mostly bubbly water now, boycotting evil companies and being poor help).
- Comment on What's your favorite breakfast coffee? To me, Folgers in my cup is the best part of waking up. 4 months ago:
A Dutch joke?
(keurig = neat, decent, proper)
- Comment on Moms, I you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why? 4 months ago:
Well Americans are kind of known for not keeping to themselves and being chatty with strangers, when abroad at least. Even personal questions etc. So it’s strange to draw the line at helping others.
- Comment on Moms, I you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why? 4 months ago:
What a strange and sexist question. I’ve been asked by random mothers to carry their buggy with kid up the stairs, off the train etc. before. If I would speak the local language where I live, I probably would’ve offered. Judging by the comments here, I’m glad I didn’t make that mistake.
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 5 months ago:
Never. Had to Google what it even is. I had something similar once as a child.
- Comment on I genuinely feel like I wouldn't live that differently even if I suddenly became ultra-wealthy. Am I kidding myself? 5 months ago:
If you’re not a wage slave and have a bigger home, think of all the hobbies and interests you can pursue, new things to learn, time to meet people and space to host them, charity work… And you have the energy for things that a job would drain from you otherwise. I think life would be drastically different.
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 5 months ago:
Where would you come across a bull though? I’ve never seen one in a field with cows.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
The languages I’m most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don’t think that’s really the case.
Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
What’s strange is that many other languages don’t allow words starting with pt- or ps- neither but have no trouble pronouncing Greek loan words that do.
- Comment on Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider? 7 months ago:
I don’t include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn’t really matter.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 7 months ago:
Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.
Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 7 months ago:
Out of the ones I’ve tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 7 months ago:
I must be out of touch.
I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 7 months ago:
Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn’t seem like they’re really pushing their paid service.
Maybe they’re only targeting people who, for some reason, don’t block ads, and that’s why I’m unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.
Now people will start to google what’s up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 7 months ago:
I accidentally watched a YouTube video on a browser without blocking. It started with an ad. I thought I’d just endure it this time. Then another ad. OK, just this time then. Suddenly, another ad in the middle of the video. I gave up. Who’d have the patience to sit through this?
Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand.
- Comment on The world has become Applefied. 8 months ago:
I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo