Fleppensteijn

@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Survey that will determine your age. You are really old if you score a perfect 11 out of 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩: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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!!!"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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).