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Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? by MrsDoyle in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

I'm in the UK and KFC has gone downhill here too - something I'm very grateful for! A few years ago I got a real craving for a crispy, juicy piece of chicken with the colonel's secret spices. I ended up with a grim, wizened leg that tasted of stale oil and despair. Never again. My own cooking is sooo much better, and cheaper too. Win win!

At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? by MrsDoyle in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

How do you say 1901 then? One thousand nine hundred and one? Nineteen hundred and one? Or nineteen oh one? Have you ever heard of the Eighteen Hundred and Twelve Overture?

I'm in the "twenty oh one" etc camp, it's concise and consistent.

Who was the biggest Karen you have encountered in Public? by MrsDoyle in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Scotland too: "hen" to women, "pal" to everyone.

Anon takes the horsepill by MrsDoyle in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

How else to explain this?

Anon takes the horsepill by MrsDoyle in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Horses self-replicate, which bicycles can't do. Except maybe in the Netherlands, I think they do breed over there.

Anon takes the horsepill by MrsDoyle in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Don't get my town's Facebook group involved in this question. Most people: Eeewwww! Dog owners: I pick up after my dog, horse riders should also use poo bags! Gardeners: Where is it? I'll bring my wheelbarrow.

Has anyone here emigrated from the US to the UK with school-aged kids? What were the biggest adjustments they had to make and what were their biggest challenges? by MrsDoyle in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

TERFs are absolutely a tiny but vocal minority. Most people couldn't give a toss.

Other than English and Spanish, what would be a very useful language to learn? by MrsDoyle in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Ah. Maybe work up a few phrases explaining your situation ahead of the trip?

[Meme] Which movie was this for you? by MrsDoyle in c/movies@lemm.ee

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Seeing it in a real theatre while stoned makes a huuuuuge difference. "It's full of stars!!"

Russia lost 10,000 troops in a single week: Kyiv by MrsDoyle in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 weeks ago

The Russian government cracks down really hard on anyone daring to protest against the war. You can be jailed for even calling it a war - it's a "special military operation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2022%E2%80%93present)

What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life? by MrsDoyle in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 year ago

My father, a union organiser: "You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back."

Stood me in good stead down the years.

Leaving pointless answers/reviews on websites by MrsDoyle in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 year ago

Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, "will this fit my XYZ?" and he answers, "I don't know, but it works ok on my ABC". It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.

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Sock blankets (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works to c/knitting@lemmy.world

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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!

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!

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My first post (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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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.