Fleppensteijn

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I suppose those boutique shops are more for rich people but there’s shops with cheap stuff too, often kind of hidden and unwelcoming. I used to live across from one for a while before I even realized it was a shop, and it was still open. Just saw the guy closing up but never saw a customer. I had a look out of curiosity and it was just some old guy selling bottles of washing liquid and everything was covered in a layer of dust like it hadn’t been touched in years. He looked happy to see a customer so I felt sorry for him to just walk out again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know any other search that lets you block urls from results. Blocking stuff like social media and Amazon cleans up the results very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll grab some beers from the minimarkt at most. Everything else comes from the supermarket. And I often pass those tiny stores that never seem to have any customers – e.g. a shop just for socks? – and I always wonder how they can exist. There must be some kind of tax breaks or tax evasion going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably doesn’t count as a shower thought. Also, the list is probably all wrong, e.g. Khmer and Tamil are abugidas, not alphabets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s something you don’t hear outside of work. I felt like it implies more of: when work is over, enjoy what’s left of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I improve this? It's my current living and bedroom.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d blind the window. Too much screen glare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’re Not Allowed to Have the Best Sunscreens in the World⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t paywalled for me but it’s a 3 year old article complaining “we” can’t have good sunscreen where “we” are Americans only so I stopped reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Phuket or Mallorca.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea ☕ is leaf juice. While, coffee ☕ is bean juice.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee beans are called that because they look like beans, not because they are beans. Coffee is a fruit juice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Survey that will determine your age. You are really old if you score a perfect 11 out of 11⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just got some from a vending machine in Spain. Also in France some time ago. Pretty sure they’re all over. Only difference is that Germany really has them everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer one L in traveling. There’s an unstressed shwa sound and it makes no sense to double the consonant after. It almost implies the stress falls on the vell part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were. I remember going to a shop with my father to spend his checks before the banks phased them out. Even I had a checkbook that came with my children’s bank account.

  I think the passing out happened in the 90s but apparently banks still accepted checks until 2021.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  20 odd years ago, getting tired of job interviews and the one time I looked scruffy and unshaven was when they hired me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how common it is, but when I grew up, being smart was basically an insult. Not being posh, but any sign of smartness. I was already a quiet kid, which made me a target (because quiet are smart? My grades surely disagreed), using “difficult” vocabulary is definitely something you had to avoid; kids better not find out you have “smart” interests like computers or reading or something or you’d be ridiculed.

  Maybe people carry their hate with them in adulthood but just don’t show it so much (until it’s time to vote 🙂)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly how I made it through school/university. I just don’t remember things for very long and found it’s just easier to study 1-2 hours before a test so it’s still fresh in your mind.

  For bigger tests, maybe create a summary of things that may be asked and go over that just before the test.

  I almost never did homework.

  My grades were never great but enough to pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you like/dislike about lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.

  It’s nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did my bus driver want me to not pay the fare and instead just "TAKE A SEAT!!!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they don’t have change?

  Happened to me before. The ATM only gives out 20s but the driver only wants small coins, only cash is accepted.

  It happened in several countries and it’s still a mystery to me how you’re supposed to get small change when you’re fresh off the airplane or something (or why they don’t just take card).