Bruncvik
@Bruncvik@lemmy.world
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 weeks ago:
I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.
In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 3 weeks ago:
Dude. I still use 8 of them. And you’ll only take those eight from my cold, dead fingers. Which, apparently, won’t be long…
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 3 weeks ago:
We have separate bathrooms, but I still have PTSD from the time I changed the skirting boards in hers.
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, Anazon once shipped me a lightbulb for my oven in and envelope. It came nice and flat, in many, many pieces.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 weeks ago:
I’m in Ireland, shopping mainly in the UK Amazon. I buy there mainly mid-range supplies, and I have a few physical stores in continental Europe where I get the more expensive stuff. But flying with anything liquid or large paper pads is almost as risky as having them shipped from Amazon, with the added bonus of my wife complaining that I take up too much weight in the suitcase with my “useless toys”.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
For me, local is improving, but slowly. Living in Ireland, the local market is, well, insular. Until recently, local shops faced very little competition, so their prices were exorbitant and customer service non-existent. This attitude is slowly changing, and my shopping habits are shifting to local, so hopefully in time I’ll stop buying from Amazon, Ali Express, and the likes.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
I agree with the quality aspect. We got some solar lights for the garden that are brighter and last longer than those you buy in local stores for a much higher price. That said, I prefer to buy such no-brand items from Ali Express, which charges a third or half the price Amazon does for the same item.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! That’s actually what I’d be looking for. I’ll check whether they deliver hassle-free to Ireland. Relatively few speciality stores do.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
My wife uses Temu for disposable party items, but that’s it. I’m of an age where I unironically ask for socka for Christmas, so I’m already beyond Temu’s target audience.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
If I ever find a bag with with an ICQ logo, I’d pay in gold.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going into such depth (unless it’s technology I don’t understand), but I usually shop on Amazon after I figured out what exactly I wanted, and what price below other stores I was willing to pay. I found that only two categories I still overwhelmingly purchase from Amazon are books and branded art supplies.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 weeks ago:
I looked them up now, and they look very good, but for my purposes I’d like a bag that costs less than the contents.
It turns out that I was looking at the wrong type of bags. What I really needed (and got) was a thin, lightweight laptop bag, which holds my notebook (of paper variety), a few pens, and some odds and ends. For anything that’s capable of carrying significant bulk and weight, I prefer a backpack.
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- Comment on Most often are you doing the first or the second? 4 weeks ago:
This shouldn’t be a binary question, but a spectrum. And based on the answer you could guess the person’s age pretty accurately.
- Comment on Why do some Men think all dish washing should be done by their GF or wife? Their help is really appreciated 4 weeks ago:
Why do women have smaller feet? So that they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.
But seriously: whoever is free, does the dishes. And we have the microwave rule: when the microwave is running, don’t stand around waiting, do something useful. Obviously, this is applicable not only to the microwave. So, cleaning the kitchen is an ongoing process, but thanks to that we never get to a stage where doing the dishes or cleaning the counter feels like a chore.
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 1 month ago:
That’s what I’m doing. Of course, it’s easier with an apple when I clean it anyway, rather than a banana where all I have is hands and teeth.
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 1 month ago:
I usually shop at Aldi, and their brand comes in plastic bags, with no stickers on the fruit. Still not ideal, but at least it’s easily separable.
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 1 month ago:
Ireland
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 1 month ago:
My rubbish company told me not to throw them into the compost bin; that it’s better to put your peel onto regular rubbish if you can’t get them off.
- Comment on As you age your fantasies change 1 month ago:
Funny enough, in some countries the Christmas presents are delivered by baby Jesus, and not Santa Claus.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
This is also the reason why Metamucil doesn’t sell in Europe. Seriously: just looking at the left picture gives me constipation.
(I understand that the pic is a joke, but anyone who has a coffee and a fag after breakfast can attest to their wonderful laxative powers.)
- Comment on thats all 2 months ago:
At first I thought I was on c/running and was about to agree.
- Comment on Gee I always thought that they were 2 months ago:
One more week till Halloween. The next day the Christmas season starts, and I’ll gave the three TSO Christmas albums on loop.
- Comment on Back in my day... 2 months ago:
I used to live in the US back then, and it was cheaper to leave voice messages than text. So, I did. One time I called my sister in Europe, and since she didn’t answer, I left a voice message. She called me back later, pissed off, because she had to call her provider to set up her voice mailbox, because “normal people just text when there’s no answer.” These days, she sends me long voice messages on Whatsapp, which I ignore for weeks at a time. Oh, how the tables have turned…
- Comment on Fuck 2 months ago:
Looks like they used CSS on that tree, instead of tables…
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 3 months ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 3 months ago:
Pringlius. Actually, the Aldi knockoff brand that tastes so much better.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
Ireland is a special case here. Not that the population wouldn’t be willing to vote in some extremists, but they may actually be unable. Ireland’s voting system, the single transferable vote, almost guarantees a regression to centrist parties. It would take a change in our Constitution to move allow extremist parties to gain any political power, and given our history and existing political culture, the easiest way to achieve that would indeed be a direct military intervention.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
But of course it’s happening here, but at least where I’m sitting, there is an overwhelming rejection of this “bullshittery”. Here in Ireland we have small fringe nationalistic parties, which so far only faced outright ridicule, even though recently I heard about outright hostility (a group of such nutcases was beaten up and stripped to their underwear). We are facing political and financial pressures from the US, and so far we dispatched with them fairly easily. And even though our government’s incompetence invites the more radical groups, I’m fully convinced that it won’t happen here, unless we’re directly invaded.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
The US used to export its culture, and people were eating it up. But I actually see an uptick in appreciation of local culture in Europe. As you said, there is lots of external financing to push American culture across the world, but I think that this is just a reaction to people not consuming as much of it as before. I see that here in Ireland as well. So far, we’ve rejected most of it (especially the American religious nutcases who tried to influence our abortion referendum), but it’s a constant struggle.
