MrsDoyle
@MrsDoyle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting? 2 months ago:
Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning
Was this the article? theguardian.com/…/rioter-southport-jailed-far-rig…
I looked at the photos and thought, what a bunch of losers. Read the article and sure enough, losers.
- Comment on How Do You Explain to a Fully Grown Adult That Constantly Mocking Others' Appearance (Even on TV) is Toxic Behavior? 2 months ago:
Thanks for posting this, it’s truly helpful. I’m trying similar methods with a few friends who have lots of wonderful qualities but also some weird bigotries. The hardest thing is controlling my anger - their views have real, damaging consequences for people who have done them no harm, whom they have never even met. But you’re right, an angry reproach feels like an attack and can have the opposite effect.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the UK I’m paying about £1.41 to £1.45 per litre. I’m no good at maths sorry, you’ll have to do the calculations.
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
Same in France, though they’ve loosened up a bit. Used to be saints names only.
- Comment on When you pair your Bluetooth earbuds and one hasn't charged 3 months ago:
This happens with my hearing aids. They cost a small fortune, but the audiologist won’t do anything about it because it’s intermittent - I can never show it happening. “The charging case must be dirty” etc. The manufacturer, Phonak, says any fault reporting must be done through the retailer. It seems to happen mainly when I’ve got something on where I really really need to be able to hear properly, or when I want to use Bluetooth to listen to music.
AAAARRRRRRGHHHHHHH is putting it mildly. My fury knows no bounds.
- Comment on Is there anyway to have your subscribed communities on the side so I do not have to type them in the search bar? 3 months ago:
I just discovered Alexandrite today! It’s very easy on the eye.
- Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc? 3 months ago:
Also usw for “und so weiter” - etcetera.
- Comment on Double chocolate 5 months ago:
I my (extensive) cookie experience, double chocolate usually means the same amount of chips, but the dough part is also chocolate flavoured. Hard to tell in this instance, but the “double” cookies may be a shade darker.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 5 months ago:
I know a young man who headed back to India for an arranged marriage. I expressed my extreme surprise that he would agree to marry someone he’d never met, and he said he trusted his parents to choose someone compatible. “After all, they know me better than anyone else.” I remain baffled, honestly. He seems an otherwise savvy, modern person. But there you go, happy to commit to a stranger.
I dread to think what kind of bloke my parents would have picked for me…
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 6 months ago:
Ha ha yes, he was experimenting. I did wonder how he got on. Bright blue sheets I fear.
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 6 months ago:
The kind that clip under the rim and turn the water blue. Some kinds you put in the cistern. i5.walmartimages.com/…/4e1b697a-ca2d-4243-96fd-b7…
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 6 months ago:
Well that unlocked a memory. I was on a road trip around California and stopped off in a small town to do my laundry. An elderly gent was already in the laundromat and the washing machine window showed bright, bright blue. He said he recalled that his late wife used to use blueing tablets to get the sheets etc white. “I couldn’t find any at the store, but these toilet cleaning tablets are blue, so figured I’d try them.”
This is what my late mother used: retonthenet.co.uk/vintage-washing-laundry-reckitt…
- Comment on Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. 6 months ago:
Far-away family are the only reason I use FB too. My sister and some of my nieces use it to a disturbing degree, “checking in” when they’re in restaurants etc, posting “memories”, pictures of their kids. My sister has a special pose for her FB selfies - head tilt, fake smile. I hate it all with a burning fire, even when I’m clicking the heart button on a puppy photo.
AI just seems like another step closer to the abyss, the death of true creativity.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 7 months ago:
Not really. It’s like a rock, but you can easily break it up with a hammer.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 7 months ago:
Charcoal?
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 7 months ago:
Lol! It was quite a nostalgia trip for me to write about coal, and it never occurred to me that many people of course would never have experienced it. I’m 71 years old and grew up in New Zealand.
Our coal was pretty good quality, it came in large shiny chunks - some of them were too big for the firebox, so you had to break them up with a hammer. There was a lower grade of coal that was cheaper, but it didn’t burn as hot.
Filthy, awful fuel. Looking back I’m amazed we didn’t all get lung cancer or something, the amount of soot we breathed in.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 7 months ago:
Growing up we had a coal fire in the sitting room and a coal range in the kitchen. The range was a wet-back, so it heated water as well. Lovely and cosy in the winter but sweltering in the summer. We had a special coal shed. The coalman would carry big sacks of coal in on his shoulder and empty them into the bin. Coal on one side, firewood and kindling on the other. Mum had the knack of setting the flues just so at night to bank the fire, so that in the morning it just needed a couple of sticks of kindling on the embers to get it going again.
The range was a bastard to cook on. The spot directly over the firebox was hottest. If you needed it even hotter you could lift a cover off - it had a second ring outside that for bigger pans. Moving along from the hot spot towards the chimney were cooler sections. For the lowest heat you moved the pan to the back. There was so much shuffling around! And don’t get me started on the oven. And the constant film of soot, the gusts of ash when you shovelled in coal from the scuttle. Gross. I love my induction hob and electric oven.
- Comment on Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies? 7 months ago:
Absolutely. My sister had brain cancer. The symptom that sent her to a doctor was “absence seizures”, where she would sit quietly, apparently awake, but unable to respond to anyone speaking to her. She said it was a very strange feeling, being aware but not really “there”. She died six months after diagnosis.
- Comment on What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group? 7 months ago:
Ooooh ok, in that context I can see what the issue is. That is such a heads-up for me in terms of making assumptions based on my own privilege, and I apologise for doing that here. I’m very lucky to be able to discuss politics without fear. I wish you all the best.
- Comment on What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group? 7 months ago:
Such a weird concept - you don’t trust someone who has a wide variety of friends? I have several very different hobbies/activities, so naturally there’s little overlap in my friend groups. Most of my friends are like this - for example one belongs to three choirs and I don’t know any of those friends. Or her kayaking friends, or her work friends. I’m giggling thinking how baffled she’d be if I started questioning her “loyalty”. Even my very closest friends have other friend groups I’m not part of. So what?
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 7 months ago:
youtu.be/limwsUnH4iQ?feature=shared
Regular teabags are sometimes made using non-biodegradable plastic - be sure to buy those made with this starch based plastic. When I first saw biodegradable teabags I was surprised, I thought teabags were made of paper. Not so, it turns out.
- Comment on Don't even ask. 10 months ago:
I actually knew someone who died of that parrot disease. Psittacosis? He caught it off a budgie.
Here it is: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosis
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 11 months ago:
Oh this gave me a nice nostalgia hit! Back in the late 60s I think it was, there was a similar scheme where you sent a dollar to the address at the top of a list of ten names, added your name to the bottom of the list and sent the list to ten other people. There were various other chain letter things going around, threatening a curse if you didn’t pass them on, but this was a specific cash one. I had quite an argument with the idiot who sent it to me - he said the chain wouldn’t work if I broke it. You were supposed to end up with hundreds of dollars.
- Comment on Not my account, just posting this on behalf of UK people I used to follow when I did have a twitter account. Elon deleted the UK. 1 year ago:
England, Scotland and Wales are all there though. Northern Ireland… I don’t think they have a national flag they all agree on.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Good bot.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
