Noel_Skum
@Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
I think he was Dutch - but they do tend to speak “better” English than the English.
The difference in UK/US (amongst other first language English nations) pronunciation is something I know effects hip-hop lyricism (i.e. rapping) as different pronunciations mean some words only rhyme in your own dialect.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
*kloostaphux
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Are you familiar with “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité?
Deep breath:
- Comment on is that real? 2 days ago:
That’s certainly one opinion - which you’re more than entitled to hold. Personally I don’t get the connotations that you do. I see it as a subversion of Musk’s overt sycophancy vis a vis Trump’s (completely unwarranted) strong man persona clothed in a parody of a TradCon nuclear family. It’s art - there’s often more than one interpretation. Sometimes deliberately so.
- Comment on Horse denier 3 days ago:
Ketamine hallucinations?
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
McDonald’s Unhappy Meal
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 4 days ago:
I’ve lived in London a couple of times and always assumed Aberdeen Angus Steakhouses were a money laundering operation or a front for other criminal enterprises. There seemed to be lots of places and very few customers.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
“poorly designed” is perhaps the weirdest complaint I’ve ever heard about London - those pesky Romans should’ve had a better vision for the city rather than the jumbled mess we have 2,000 years later.
- Comment on When someone brings your old comments 4 weeks ago:
Thought I was back on 9g*g for a hot minute…
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
No. I think .ml is becoming some kind of bogey man. At the end of the day I think any instance is gonna have its own slant and bias; which isn’t a problem for me, personally.
- Comment on Huawei tr-fold review 1 month ago:
I really miss the flashing LED from my BlackBerry Z30 - so long ago.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
Generally, yeah. Your initials and family name - of the account payer only. First line of your address. I think the Terminator film, amongst others, shows this being used to locate someone.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
If a shitpost ever does meet your values I’d suggest getting some new values. It’s meant to be of trollishy poor value. That’s the entire point of shitposting. Why complain about it in a place specifically brought into being for the sole purpose of shitposting? It’s almost like they don’t understand the point.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
It’s just sad. All this manufactured outrage at a deliberately spicy meme. Do people go to watch a horror movie and complain they got scared? No. You’d be an idiot for complaining.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
Thank you, please. I’m here all week…
- Comment on Hey nerd 1 month ago:
Hey, it’s the internet. Speak loudly and confidently - don’t waste your time researching “facts” to back-up your statement. /s
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
Imagine actually being offended by a clearly marked shitpost in a clearly marked shitposting community - the complete lack of critical thinking it entails blows my mind.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
You, uh, do know what shitposting is? This kinda ticks the boxes required to be one; so seems to be in its natural habitat.
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
I’d like to tell you - but you might find the truth hard to swallow.
- Comment on I don't know the difference between hay and straw 1 month ago:
A for horses, B for lamb, C for miles, D for Kate etc. etc. The cockney alphabet.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
Yeah - an application of heat to create a chemical change. You’re correct there. My answer was incomplete.
- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 1 month ago:
I think the machine in question is called a Crembobulator.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
Cooking (in the English I was taught) involves the application of heat - frying, baking, roasting, boiling etc are the names for specific ways to do this. A sandwich would be made or prepared.
- Comment on 28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 1 month ago:
I’m not a fan either. Rewatched Trainspotting a year or two ago - much better than I remembered. Enjoyed Shallow Grave and 28 Days at the time. The rest I ain’t seen. Tried to watch the Beach but bailed after 20 minutes. Absolute junk.
- Comment on 28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 1 month ago:
I personally don’t think Danny Boyle is struggling for attention; one of his films won eight Oscars. I think people in film world know who he is.
- Comment on 28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 1 month ago:
Because of the camera they used? Really?
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 months ago:
Unknown people can be called persons unknown…
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
Honestly, where I operate, almost nobody uses (outgoing) sms/mms - unless their phone has actual physical buttons on it. It’s all iMessage for those who can or something like Viber for those who can’t. I can’t see why anybody would take a step backwards to RCS when it offered nothing that we haven’t already been doing for years - and it’s apparently network dependant.
- Comment on Brazil's block on X comes into effect after judge's order. 2 months ago:
Perhaps if an app wants to do business in a country it should send an ambassador there to have a full time presence. Seems a reasonable compromise to me.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
He really is the DJ Khaled of technology… which is not a compliment. Can people not just tell “certain sections” of Texans that an uppity African American with a couple of baby mommas and lots of money is moving in to their neighbourhood? And bringing his “business interests” with him too.