fakeman_pretendname
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- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 1 day ago:
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 1 week ago:
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 1 week ago:
Yes, a good reasonable name like draft-final-final-final-final_v2_to_print_THIS_ONE_b
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’m not American, and I’ve likely only seen it on Lemmy, and likely in satirical forms.
Anyway, I’ve read the other linked info and a bit more, so at least feel I do know now :)
I’m also not a youth, but I’ll absolutely take that as a compliment, thank you very much :D
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
What what what?!? The “Tread harder, daddy” snake is based on a real thing?!?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 1 week ago:
The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I wasn’t clear about that - my replaced ones have never come off again - it’s the original ones on the shirt which tend to.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it totally makes sense for some uses.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That is significantly more complicated than how I was taught to see in a button. Is this just for big metal buttons on jeans or something? It seems massively over the top for normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.
Roughly what I was taught (for a 4 hole button):
- Shove threaded needle through material into hole in button
- Go across diagonally and go down through the opposite hole and through the material
- Under the material, go across sideways a bit and come up in a different hole
- Repeat 1-3 a bunch of times until it feels strong enough.
- Tie off the thread and cut off the excess.
- Comment on Anyone? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
- Comment on Anyone? 4 weeks ago:
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 5 weeks ago:
What? All of them? Even Man-At-Arms and Orko?
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 5 weeks ago:
We kind of go “brur”.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.
In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 1 month ago:
Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.
Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 1 month ago:
Wait… dbzer0 is “divide by zero”?
I’ve been reading it as “dibzer nought”
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 1 month ago:
“Hi, is that Guy Fawkes? I’ve got a little job for you”
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 1 month ago:
I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.
To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.
Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 1 month ago:
I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
- Comment on Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault 1 month ago:
This is Russell Brand we’re talking about.
I think you meant:
“He always seemed a bit rapey-wapey”
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 months ago:
About 20 years ago, there was an art/tech project for distributing Linux Source code by radio. Probably not very practical in reality, but a lovely concept.
- Comment on Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you 2 months ago:
“That’s a challenging wank”
Sean Lock on “8 out of 10 Cats” (skip to 3 minutes in)
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 2 months ago:
I know society expects me to dislike a macaroni cheese pizza, but that looks absolutely delicious.
- Comment on Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws. 2 months ago:
Nothing if the legislation was written properly.
Not good if the legislation was written badly.
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 3 months ago:
Please just give us physical mouse buttons as an option.
- Comment on Current chain of command 3 months ago:
Surely the child has a toy bear or glove puppet that outranks Trump in the chain of command?
- Comment on "Reach" news websites 3 months ago:
Other than the ads, there’s also the issue of them posting local articles for other towns on all of their linked websites, without necessarily specifying what town it relates to.
Especially “fun” if they have an article about a really interesting local project or a shock workplace closure etc, and get everyone excited/worried but the newspaper website doesn’t reveal it’s actually from an unrelated town 300 miles away.
- Comment on Twinkle Tush 3 months ago:
Looks like someone’s been reading the Thesaurarse / Thesaurass.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 4 months ago:
I suspect that whoever they sell it to is going to carry on doing exactly the same thing. I’m sure part of the appeal in the sale is all of those “captive audience” shops in train stations etc.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 4 months ago:
I don’t know about guest user stuff either actually - I might look into it at some point if I feel the need.
And yes, I’ve only ever used the “pin app” practically for letting young relatives play games and stuff on my phone, knowing they won’t be able to switch apps and send anyone a message - like the “Poo poo willy bum” incident last year :)