starlinguk
@starlinguk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 17 hours ago:
I love me an old Embraer with propellers. More legroom and more overhead luggage space.
- Comment on My girlfriend is keeping me a secret from her family. Am I stupid for feeling upset about this? 1 day ago:
And yet, she is obviously afraid.
- Comment on My girlfriend is keeping me a secret from her family. Am I stupid for feeling upset about this? 1 day ago:
She could also be murdered.
- Comment on My girlfriend is keeping me a secret from her family. Am I stupid for feeling upset about this? 1 day ago:
Muslim extremists murder or maim girls who have “shamed the family” in the west too.
- Comment on I feel like a lot of us suddenly understand what it felt like not to expect the Spanish Inquisition. 1 day ago:
Fun fact: the Spanish Inquisition always made an appointment. Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition…
- Comment on Are some people too stupid to feel depressed? 2 days ago:
I know two very happy people who are very aware of the state of the world and also actively involved in decreasing world suck, but they’re managing to separate their own own life and the state of the world pretty well.
- Comment on Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere? 5 days ago:
Doesn’t say no obnoxious questions.
- Comment on Does a one cat get lonely without other cats, or is the company of humans good enough? 6 days ago:
Cats get very lonely and I feel so sorry for the ones that just get left alone with an automatic feeder for days when the human bean buggers off somewhere.
- Comment on Does a one cat get lonely without other cats, or is the company of humans good enough? 6 days ago:
My cat got got lonely without his humans. He’d yell when he thought we weren’t there. We got him because he terrorised the pets in his old home, so he obviously didn’t like other cats (or dogs).
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 1 week ago:
90 percent of women who have an endometrial ablation end up with a hysterectomy. You were very lucky. Don’t recommend them, plz.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 1 week ago:
You can be attracted to someone who isn’t “attractive”. Many people are.
- 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) 1 week ago:
Chavs don’t wear flannel. They wear polyester tracksuits.
- Comment on they come 1 week ago:
I lived in the NW of England until recently. Pesticides have killed the bugs and it very rarely gets hot. Last year it rained throughout the summer and didn’t really get any warmer than 15C.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
Rape women.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 1 week ago:
They’ll have a single disabled seat per 300 seats or something. And there are many people who are not officially disabled who wouldn’t be able to stand that long.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 2 weeks ago:
Guhl doesn’t change its shampoos.
But toothbrushes? I’m guessing they’re just buying the cheapest ones they can find in China and stick their brand on them.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 2 weeks ago:
Margaret, Marge, Greta, Peggy, etc. ad infinitum.
- Comment on European-Americans need better leadership role models to show them that education and hard work — not violence, promiscuity, and criminality — are the right ways to get ahead. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t give a fuck if you’re promiscuous. I do give a fuck if you sexually assault people.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 2 weeks ago:
My family shares 5 names among everybody. 2 for the women, 3 for the men.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 2 weeks ago:
Same, but also add my aunt and great aunt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I never minded manual until I got the crappy little Swift I’m driving now. It only seems to respond to swearwords.
- Comment on We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout 2 weeks ago:
Something stocks will go up if he starts WW3, I suppose. Arms. Fwiw. 🙄.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone has ancestors from Africa. And that’s about all you can tell from dna.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, but there isn’t a single word in that text that an English undergrad should have to look up (although I did look up the dinosaur purely to see what it looked like).
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 3 weeks ago:
Tl;dr the weather sucked. Everything was muddy and covered in soot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nope. I’ve snored all my life, even when I was bean pole skinny.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In the UK, the Royal Estate provides the government with a huge income (even though 25 percent goes to the king so he can repair his fancy castles).
- Comment on I wonder if antivax kids are OK getting a cootie shot? 3 weeks ago:
Most vaccines are developed by university researchers and research institute researchers, not big pharma.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 3 weeks ago:
The EU has been advertising to find people like you.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 3 weeks ago:
This usually happens, yes.
After millions people have died.
Not worth it. Trump and ktber right wing extremists should have been stopped years ago.