MrsDoyle

@MrsDoyle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an excellent idea! I’ll mention it to her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend has a notebook next to her computer with all her passwords in it. Initially I was horrified - what if you’re burgled? - but actually it’s genius. Much more secure than letting a browser remember them, and she doesn’t even need to memorise a Bitwarden password.

• ⁨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 ⁨Is there anyway to have your subscribed communities on the side so I do not have to type them in the search bar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also usw for “und so weiter” - etcetera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still use my iPod Classic. I can plug it into my car for when I’m out of FM range, and I have a Bluetooth adapter for it that plugs into the headphone socket & lets me listen via my hearing aids. It’s better than a phone for me, because the mobile signal is weak where I live, and most of my garden is out of WiFi range. It fits all my music and still has room for podcasts.

  iTunes sucks though, ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost all the ads I’ve seen on Prime video are for other Prime movies. They never appear during a natural break in whatever I’m watching, just burst right in in the middle of a scene. They elicit zero positive emotions, and I am about to cancel my subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨The flowerbeds in front of my house could use some work.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  English lavender is a bit sturdier than French lavender, I’ve found. It does better at surviving a harsh winter. Mine did so well my neighbours complained about it encroaching on their footpath and I had to hack it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. … But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t met the man from Strabane, have you? youtu.be/XhGbpatmplQ?feature=shared

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that reminded me of one time I was in hospital really sick & an Indian doctor was examining me. She said, “Do you have any wessicles?” Ummm what is that? “Wessicles… I can’t remember the English word…” She tried describing wessicles and it hit me - blisters. “Yes, yes! Blisters!” She had actually been saying vesicles, which to be fair I would have to have looked up if I came across it in a book. We had a good laugh, she diagnosed me correctly, I got the right meds, and I recovered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I brew this brick of tea?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  White tea is supposed to help control diabetes. Source: a tea shop in Darjeeling, India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mongolian. Like the barbecue.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I met a couple in Vanuatu - one of the world’s most language dense nations - whose mother tongues were mutually unintelligible, so they communicated using the country’s official language, Bislama. A lot of bilingual people don’t speak English. Plenty of Eastern Europeans don’t speak English (unpopular during communist rule) but speak say German or Russian as well as Serbocroatian or whatever.

• ⁨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