DakRalter

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Most on the main road in my area is one person. How many times have I missed the bus and had to wait 20 mins for the next one, because I can't cross the road to the stop, because 4 people need to get by in their cars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

Did he do a naughty in his nappy again and they're telling him accidents happen, it's okay?

That photo is weird and creepy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought Luke and Nellith were meant to team up to fight Vader? And that the original was meant to span over about 8 episodes (ROTJ was meant to be just about the rescue of Han) but then Lucas went through the divorce and just wanted to wrap the series up, so he retconned Leia to be the sister.

I wish we could have had the "Luke searches for and trains his sister" arc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Depends, I guess. It does nothing for period pains with me, but when I burst my ear drum last month, it took the pain from excruciating to manageable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

School counsellor?

That's ridiculous, honestly. Students should have the same confidentiality rights as an adult getting counselling, ie they only disclose anything if they fear for your or someone else's safety.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Brexit was supposed to make farm workers' wages higher. The EU workers left, and crops rotted on the fields, because Brits didn't want those jobs, no matter what wages the farmers were offering. So they had to tell the EU workers they were welcome again and introduce special visas to lure them back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

UK here. I'm part time, I earned about £1k last month, and my National Insurance was £3.93, my income tax just under £10. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can tolerate Mariah, the one I can't stand is the band aid one, patronising crap. Every damn year I gotta put up with those muppets telling me how nothing ever grows in Africa. Dammit, now I have it in my head!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Iowa? I hardly know 'er!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I got my ears vacuumed the other day at the ENT clinic. Unfortunately I'm one of those people that gets a lot of wax build up. Copying the grown ups using cotton buds to clear the wax just meant I was constantly getting ear infections as a kid. As an adult, I'd get wax build up, I'd try olive oil as my GPs would always recommend, only that would make it clog up more and muffle my hearing. Then the only way to get that big plug of soggy wax out was either to fish it out with a bit of screwed up tissue or a cotton bud, or to blast it with the power shower to dislodge it.

I finally perforated my ear drum in September from an infection that went to the middle ear. Anyway, I got my ears vacuum cleaned on Thursday and was told by the ENT doctor to use a pharmaceutical grade olive oil spray (not drops) every day forever to stop the wax clogging. So let's hope that works.

I think I was given peroxide based ear drops once when I was 12 or so, but it made my jaw swell so much I couldn't even eat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have chronic ear problems, and I'll usually get someone telling me I should try ear candling. Luckily they stop when I tell them to look up the videos of people using the candle with a jar and getting the same "wax" extracted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've had a black screen of death on Mint. All I was trying to do was crop a video on kdenlive. It black screened on me and somehow even messed up the boot menu so that my Mint was showing up as just Ubuntu. I went straight back to Shotcut after that. I really wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, but so far, Linux, or at least Mint, really hates me. Up till recently, I was still using Mint for my music storage, but it has trouble even moving files onto my phone now. I've pretty much given up.

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