MrsDoyle 4h ago • 100%
Genius.
MrsDoyle 8h ago • 100%
According to Wikipedia, "the world population ... was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 years more to reach 8 billion."
There are PLENTY of people in the world. Some of them need to get off my lawn. Grrr.
MrsDoyle 11h ago • 100%
He did have a banana thrown at him in Barnsley one time, as well as a milkshake. And another time it was a coffee cup. N Going around with such a punchable face comes with risks.
MrsDoyle 20h ago • 100%
I'm right with you on "magic clean hand socks". In the canteen at my last job the staff would make sandwiches wearing gloves and then take money from customers and ring it up on the till - still wearing the same gloves. Cash is the filthiest thing you could touch in this situation, but they'd go and make the next sandwich after handling it. Yuck.
MrsDoyle 1d ago • 100%
they can't move around
Ahem, athlete's foot is a fungus. And there's a nail fungus too. They're walking a mile in your shoes...
Oh, and ringworm? Fungus.
MrsDoyle 1d ago • 100%
Sadly they moved away, and let the flat to concrete-shod students.
MrsDoyle 1d ago • 100%
Cold baked beans straight from the tin, eaten with a spoon. I'm grinning thinking of my dinner guests' faces as they contemplate their tins.
MrsDoyle 1d ago • 100%
Lived downstairs from a couple who were in a chamber orchestra - he was cello, she was violin. They apologised, but I LOVED my morning recital, even if it was only part of the full score.
MrsDoyle 1d ago • 100%
I got a gift card to a steak restaurant as a thank you for a huge favour. It was the last place I'd go for a meal. I'd rather have had a book token - I could have bought half a dozen books, and instead it was a not very enjoyable meal for two.
MrsDoyle 5d ago • 100%
Card games. We used to have card nights every week back in the 70s. One of the most fun games was something called Racing Demon. Each player has a full pack and all play at the same time. We would have 15 people sitting on the floor in a circle, all screaming. It gets CRAZY. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerts There are hundreds of card games, with a huge range of skill required. There are a lot of trick-taking games similar to bridge where you play with a partner - euchre, whist, 500. All you need is a few packs of playing cards. (Everyone brought their own pack for Racing Demon, lol.)
MrsDoyle 5d ago • 100%
God, me too. I thought I was too dumb to "get it".
MrsDoyle 5d ago • 100%
My father had a terrific sense of humour and would deliberately mispronounce certain words to wind up his fancy-pants daughters. "Patio" became "pay-tio", that kind of thing. But one word in particular has entered the family lexicon: "gnome", pronounced "ganOmee". Not meaning a garden ornament, but a young man of dubious moral/intellectual qualities. Our boyfriends were almost always declared gnomes.
MrsDoyle 5d ago • 100%
Edit: Only took me three edits to get there!
Edit: Four, if you count that one.
MrsDoyle 6d ago • 100%
Imagine a cup of coffee being all you look forward to.
MrsDoyle 7d ago • 100%
Yes, I guess I mean weaning off excess salt. I feel now that too much salt deadens your taste buds so that moderately salted food seems bland.
MrsDoyle 1w ago • 100%
MSG got a bad rep it didn't deserve. Table salt on the other hand ... I've had to wean myself off NaCl because it's bad for blood pressure. MSG makes food delicious and causes no harm. Umami mmm.
MrsDoyle 2w ago • 100%
MrsDoyle 2w ago • 80%
Office I worked in had shower rooms. I did bike to work but never showered there because eeewwww.
MrsDoyle 2w ago • 100%
- Ardbeg
MrsDoyle 2w ago • 100%
I'll add in her something I learned recently - whisky can become "corked", ie if the stopper is made of cork, it can go bad and ruin the drink's flavour. I thought this was just a wine thing, but apparently it can happen with whisky too.
Thrilled to have found a Lemmy knitting group! I'm a sock obsessive, I just love knitting socks, so I've ended up with an staggering amount of "scrap" yarn. The solution - blankets. This is my second Cosiest Memories project and this time I have a Plan. The first one was truly random, with lots of placement errors. When it was finished I did a dark icord edge, and suddenly it was smart! ![](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/303d9a44-8046-4968-876c-0f0d4a087468.jpeg) So for the second one I'm adding an inner border of that same colour and (eventually) will finish with icord. I might even knit some more socks!
I'm a Reddit refugee and in all the years I was there I never made a single post. I'm very much enjoying the Fediverse, especially Lemmy, and thought I'd share my happy place with you all.