PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 1 day ago:
I agree - there’s some large accesibility-like issues with communication, which causes issues for people where it isn’t their first language, the neurodiverse, or in safety critical applications. The /s is a fine early example of that.
That said, if everyone stuck to basic facts and focussed on clarity rather than content, the world would be a mega boring place.
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 1 day ago:
What they mean does not matter.
Nearly every internet comment section for the last thirty years summed up in one line.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 3 days ago:
Hi American friend!
I absolutely get it - “too good to be true” is definitely a thing in the English speaking world.
I absolutely get the apprehension - if I was jumping on to a Bee Bus or the Edinburgh Trams with a ticket that some rando was trying to offload, then my Spidey senses would be tingling too.
In this instance though, we’re probably looking at a value of US$10ish, so in my own perfectly subjective opinion, I’d be happy to give it a bash. If it doesnt work, the the ticket gets yeeted and the contactless card gets used instead.
I absolutely understand settling in to the “normal” of buying your own ticket though and I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Nah that’s fair enough, I get it. It’s a reasonably common thing in the UK - either the person who takes it is a local rogue who’ll flog the travelcard for a quid, or it’ll be used by someone away out on the piss for the night.
I just found it odd is all. Like, if you take it and it works, happy days - you’ve saved yourself a bit of cash. If the ticket gate spits it back at you, then oh well, back to plan A.
It’s cool to hear your take on it though, thank you.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Hey thanks for your insight.
Maybe in the UK we’re super used to fast fashion shite like Primark or Asda George. I mean, the designs are cool but the quality rivals that of the Looney Tunes ACME products.
Maybe you’re right though, maybe I’m looking at them through rose tinted specs. I rather like the Old Navy stuff or American Eagle. The material just seems to last a tad longer than the supermarket pish in the UK.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 4 days ago:
quality burn
Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Cheers for the added advice.
It was a bit over 18 months ago I was last in a CBS, but as as already been pointed out, the US is a huge place so there’s bound to be regional differences. Glad contactless payments (or is it tap-to-pay in the US?) has become the norm.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Irn-Bru too, funnily enough.
The FDA aren’t a fan of how it (or was) made.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 4 days ago:
Hello fellow Brit.
Everything is bigger. That’s an obvious statement, but the knock on effect is that nobody seems to have a sense of “nearby”. I frequently went out running on the pavement around two or three blocks, and people either looked at me as if I was possessed, or honked their horns like a “run Forrest run!” type thing because there was literally nobody else out putting miles on tarmac.
Retail parks are a cracking example. I was out with a friend who knew the area well, and we wanted to go from one store at one end of the retail park to the other. I was happy to walk to three or four hundred metres, but they were positively horrified at the thought of not taking the car to another parking spot there.
Speaking of driving - know your rules. Four way interactions are a cool inventions.
Roundaboutstraffic circles are fucking wild going in from the right.See those 300, 200, 100yd marker boards on A roads and motorways allowing you to figure out what lane you need to be in to take your slip road? Purely optional in the US. Be ready for people in lane three (or four, or five, or six) to see their exit and cut straight across. Blind spot checking is for nerds communists.
Things have changed lately, but go out with two or three changes of clothes, and that’s it. The clothes in the US are generally much cooler and much cheaper, it’s a good excuse to get new gear. Depending on where you’re going though, it’s hard work getting particular stuff - asking for Under Armour’s heatgear stuff if you go running in winter will get you some real fuckin’ weird looks in Florida, where even the vests are sometimes hotter than a duffle coat.
The border: know your shit - where you’re going, how much you got, who you’re with. The border force agents (whatever their unit is called) are super cool, but they ask super intrusive questions. That Marks and Spencer ham baguette you got in Gatwick/Edinburgh/Manchester? Eat it quick, because it isn’t going through customs.
Not sure how long you’re going for, but get a Post Office multi-currency card, or a credit card that specialises in the US Dollar or low international currency fees. While you’re at it, feel free to wow them with contactless payments. Last time I went to CVS, I had tapped the card before the cashier had finished his spiel about swiping the card, and refused to believe I’d actually paid for a few seconds. It’s like a magic trick with none of the effort.
Tylenol: get shitloads. It’s basically paracetemol wrapped in bubblegum. Outstanding for hangovers.
Enjoy it! The Americans are friendly enough even if the majority of them make some pretty wack political choices, but that’s another discussion. They’re generally sound as fuck, and find the British accent something of a novelty, so feel free to use it as a get out of jail card if you make a social faux pas.
Have fun, let us know how you get on!
- Comment on The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim 6 days ago:
Is that a picture of a tweet of a printout of a MS Notepad file that was probably cut and pasted from a forwarded email, newsgroup post, or web page?
my head hurts
- Comment on Donald Trump's sentencing was postponed to after the election to avoid any assistance of election interference. Can he be sentenced while he is President Elect? 1 week ago:
$ undelete spankmonkey $ chmod 0 dtrump $ 10 PRINT “DONGS” $ 20 GOTO 10
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
also branding
particularly the style that gives up on capitalisation and punctuation
this is not primary school
- Comment on Mom of the year 3 weeks ago:
Is this the same as plugging an extension cable into itself to get free and unlimited electricity?
- Comment on perfect 4 weeks ago:
One, two, three, four
Let me hear you scream if you want some more
Like ah, push it, push it
Watch me work it
Underrated banger.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 4 weeks ago:
Banging idea, love this.
Only changes I would make is changing out the SOS for a five-second long-press, and changing reset to a ten-tap - to make sure people aren’t just fucking about turning it on and off.
- Comment on The 10 worst movies of the 2010s, ranked 5 weeks ago:
yes mate, these bigger boys told me to ask it and then they ran away
- Comment on The 10 worst movies of the 2010s, ranked 5 weeks ago:
Did the Cats “Butthole Cut” ever get released?
(my post history has hit a new low)
- Comment on my onlyfans is now live 1 month ago:
I should check usernames.more
- Comment on my onlyfans is now live 1 month ago:
Man I haven’t been keeping up with the remakes. Is that Adam Jensen or Albert Wesker?
- Comment on Anon has to make a tough financial decision 1 month ago:
a real 4chanerd would assume that this heartwarming story is somewhat less-than-genuine and non-heterosexual.
- Comment on Spoon LPT 1 month ago:
Speaking of AI - you know the faux-text that image generators make? This passage ends up looking like that the more I try to make sense of it.
The brain is wild.
- Comment on Department of Transportation 1 month ago:
Goatse.
Every time.
- Comment on There can be only one winner 1 month ago:
Peak science right here. Someone’s getting their doctorate off the back of this study.
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 1 month ago:
I don’t get it. I mean I get it because it’s Ninty, but I don’t get why now?
Has there been something in a major new feature update that has finally tipped the scales into clearly taking the piss, or have the legal team at Big N finally seen their erections subside after the game’s launch and only now can move enough to do something about it?
- Comment on Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste? 2 months ago:
Newport city centre then wheeeyyyyyy
I suspect it’ll probably end up in the same places most other large hazardous industrial sites will be - rural, coastal just off an arterial road route somewhere. See also: Torness, Easington, Milford Haven etc.
That said, Tom Scott did a video (because of course he did) on plans for nuclear testing on UK soil - have a look if you’re interested - and it seems the answer to that was underneath a chunky section of Yorkshire moorland.
- Comment on Pocklington: Farmer dies after being run over by his Range Rover 2 months ago:
That’s a shame for the family, especially the wife that may well have seen him dead earlier in the evening but thought it was something normal that he was doing.
That said, it’s remarkable that the only person that got hurt by his ability to control vehicle was himself, looking at the list of blunders he had made with other vehicles.
- Comment on please be nice to retail workers 3 months ago:
I’m all for bringing back National Service.
And by that, I mean that everyone should be required to work two weeks in a customer service environment - in a supermarket, in an inbound call centre, or in a coffee shop.
The basic level of communication skill and empathy I’ve learned there has set me up reasonably well in life - and it’s remarkable how far you get with another human on the other end of a phone or teller screen by just “playing the game”, “appreciating that there’s tickboxes needing to be checked” and “not being a cunt”.
I’m not saying the solution is perfect but fuck me, it would solve a lot of entitlement problems.
- Comment on Wreckfest 2 announced with trailer abundant in fender-bending and newly rageful drivers 3 months ago:
Wreckfest is an absolute banger - the only game (in my subjective opinion) that comes close to Destruction Derby 2 in terms of pure satisfaction when cleaning someone out.
Looking forward to W2.
- Comment on Arrest warrant issued for Katie Price after she failed to attend bankruptcy court hearing 3 months ago:
Perhaps - I wonder if it’s that or the opposite, where her endless string of poor decisions end up being the story rather than about her.
I suppose “subjectively attractive person gets through life without many major dramas” doesn’t make for good headlines.
- Comment on Arrest warrant issued for Katie Price after she failed to attend bankruptcy court hearing 3 months ago:
(I posted this initially in another community, not realising it was just a bot posting)
Why is Katie Price still a thing?
As far as I can remember, she got famous for nothing other than having large breasts.
Beyond that, the last 20 years seem to have been constant attempts to stay relevant with perfumes, books, reality TVs show apprarances, and an inability to understand how basic road safety works.
Why is she still popular, I wonder?