khannie
@khannie@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nicole got a new outfit! 1 hour ago:
I dunno. Apparently she’s the daughter of a wealthy man who just needs my help to get his fortune out of Poland.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 5 hours ago:
My own experience with this was posting a shower thoughts thread while quite inebriated, forgetting I’d done it then waking up with a fairly full inbox so nothing controversial or argumentative.
- Comment on Nicole got a new outfit! 6 hours ago:
Got my one today. Finally part of the gang.
Has anyone actually bothered engaging?
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 19 hours ago:
Yeah I could definitely identify each euro coin by feel.
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- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 2 days ago:
It sure is and welcome to Lemmy :)
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 week ago:
OH MY GOD! I had one of those! I haven’t seen a picture of one since.
The keyboard was so awful. I don’t remember getting it as a birthday or other gift so it must have been a hand me down from a family friend or something.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 1 week ago:
This fits your price requirement and is a nice chill game to just lose yourself in and perfect for the deck IMO.
A Short Hike. Currently €6.59 in Europe.
Hope things improve for you soon.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t emphasise how badly you need to travel. I’m old and very well travelled, much of it for work, like easily 20 countries all across the globe and it has been a huge eye opener to experience different cultures, foods, make friends with fellow travellers, locals and has broadened my horizons on so many fronts.
Yes it can be expensive but it is something you will never regret if you can scramble the money together for it. Embrace it. Deeply.
If you’re in North America you can experience lots of cultures and experiences like the national parks in the US very reasonably. I’m guessing you’re not in Europe because travel is cheap AF here.
I honestly think it will bring down many of the current barriers you express.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
When you say “until I close my eyes” does that mean I revert to being a male non-millionaire after?
If so, definitely rewriting my will to give everything to the old me when I revert. Yoink!
- Comment on EU renews Russia sanctions, calls for unity against Trump 5 weeks ago:
Trump’s position may have come as a surprise to Hungary, she added. Orban “did have to tone down his objections” to the renewal of sanctions against Russia, and is now forced to “carefully navigate his ties with Moscow and Washington.”
Oh how I laughed at the lapdog.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 month ago:
Haha. I’m not a huge brown sauce aficionado myself but HP is the gold standard in the UK and Chef is the big one in Ireland is my understanding. If there’s any British or Irish shops near you or even supermarket sections they’ll have it.
It’s like a more savoury ketchup I suppose. Bit more bite to it too. The thoughts of it in tea though. Jaysus. Just no.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 month ago:
If you don’t mind me asking, are you from a part of the world where brown sauce is a thing?
I’m laughing here.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 month ago:
Wildly late but your comment did cause me to rewatch Intermission. What a great flick. The opening scene had stuck with me from before because it’s so well done but the brown sauce bit was amazing and overall it’s such a fun watch.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 1 month ago:
That was such a good movie. I must give it a rewatch.
- Comment on Ukraine sees influx of Western war tourists 3 months ago:
I would love to go to Kyiv. Your chances of being involved in a serious incident after very very low and it’s going to be absolutely thronged with tourists after the war.
I hear the nightlife is great, food is great and the people lovely.
- Comment on do you combine stair climbing with running when working out? 3 months ago:
It’s true that it all comes down to the deficit but it’s easier to create a calorie deficit when you include exercise. When “making weight” in the run up to fights I used to meticulously calorie count and aimed for a 1000 calorie a day hole.
When you’re burning 3500 calories, eating 2500 doesn’t feel uncomfortable at all (except towards the end where your fat levels get very low and your body is just constantly telling you you’re hungry).
But yeah, it’s all just numbers in the end.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 3 months ago:
Ireland did it in 2005. I don’t remember the cost being an issue at the time. I mean obviously it cost some non trivial amount but I don’t recall any Hullabaloo about it. Wikipedia page doesn’t mention the cost.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 4 months ago:
True enough but I feel like English has more quirks than other languages though I acknowledge that may be bias.
I used to have near fluent Irish way back when and I don’t recall any shenanigans like this (again I acknowledge I may not have been presented with them). I feel like most other languages have a more clearly defined set of pronunciation rules too.
Irish looks horrific (Siobhán is shiv-awn for example) but very very closely follows pronunciation rules so that pronunciation would be no surprise to a native reading it for the first time. English sure as fuck does not follow rules like that.
Near. Neat. Book. Boot. Etc.
(Some small subset of Irish folks do say “boo-k” though)
- Comment on I hate that that happens 4 months ago:
Perhaps. Regardless it’s outlandish abuse of the tongue IMO and definitely would benefit from the comma because nobody’s going to just bang out 4 had’s in a row in speech without a pause without a justifiable slap across the chops and possibly a challenge to a duel.
“But your honour, he said ‘had’ four times in the trot without pause”
“Case dismissed”
- Comment on I hate that that happens 4 months ago:
You’re welcome. :) Took me a minute tbh. Not sure if the wine I’ve had helped or hindered. It’s 2:30am here.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 4 months ago:
It needs a comma.
All the good faith I had had, had had no effect.
Essentially “all the food faith I previously had, didn’t have any effect”.
Good God English is an awful language.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
There are about two people on here who wouldn’t say “fuck Henry Kissinger”.
What a massive load of shite. The fucking smell of boot polish off your breath is disgusting.
Jog on.
- Comment on North Korea claims more than a million people joined army this week 4 months ago:
Voluntold.
- Comment on US urges Israel to stop shooting at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon 4 months ago:
I think they can fire back if fired upon. The issue is probably one of escalation where they’re heavily outgunned.
There was an interview with the mother of one of the Irish contingent on the radio here the other day and she said they sat in their bunker for 26 hours straight.
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 5 months ago:
Well I am delighted. €13.1B + the 1.2 in interest represents what will be a bump of 16% of total tax revenue compared to 2023 (€88B total). There are lots of things that money can be used for.
- Comment on We Got You 5 months ago:
I heard about a guy once, who was a POW, and his friend wanted him to keep a watch for his son so he shoved it way up there.
The reference for the younger among us.
- Comment on Denmark is the 5th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total! 5 months ago:
Are you using a VPN maybe?
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 6 months ago:
Our company paid a prominent open source driver writer for prioritisation of some work more than once. All the code was GPL.
I know it’s only one data point but it’s one way.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 6 months ago:
Some days, I even think maybe I might be a good person too
You sound like a good person to me. That level of self reflection rarely / never leads to being a shithead in my experience.
Crazy story but a very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.