Nah was just a shitpost tbh, I wouldn’t read much into it.

I don’t know why but I feel like anything in water would spoil faster…but I have no evidence or even a theory as to why this might be. Perhaps you, keeper of the water carrots, could enlighten me as to why they keep longer?

Better is subjective. If one measured the merits of the language on its rich cultural history, then British (as usual) wins. However, if it’s measured by accessibility for simpletons then the US (as usual) wins.

What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.

Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans

Thanks, that’s very kind!

Whatever you say kiddo

Yeah the US differs by a couple of weeks iirc

Okay, well I’m not trying to change your opinion as it’s completely valid…as is mine.

Have a good day.

Seems like we agree then.

I don’t use the dryer

Honestly most the advice I’m seeing is basically an answer to “how to avoid clothes looking absurdly crinkled” but nothing gets clothes as crinkle-free as an iron. Most people are just content with some crinkles.

Not even iron-free shirts are free from my iron.

I don’t use the dryer except for towels, and I’m generally pretty good about taking them out when they’re done washing- can definitely tell when they’ve sat there a while!

I iron my tshirts and shorts otherwise they look crinkley

Que no los dos?

20yrs ago I had to help my comp sci housemate build a website for his module. I was not a CS student.

Some things never change.

Ad hominem attacks always reveal the character.

Alt: a single pane comic in which a person says to another person: "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.

The other person says: “and quartz, of course”

The first person replies: “of course.”

The caption to the comic reads “even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”

As a total stranger who who doesn’t know you a dot, I can totally unemotional and impartially say that you received justice.

Speed kills, literally. And as an inexperienced driver, you shouldn’t be speeding a dot. Let alone anyone else.

If a kid had run out from behind a parked car, tree or whatever then you have a much better chance of not killing them if you’re going the speed limit.

The fact that you were even caught, while armed with all the knowledge you have about increased deaths and thus increased demerits, tells me you should have made better choices.

I have been caught speeding 3 times in my 20 years of driving and I deserved every single one of them, and more.

That you were able to further reduce your punishment is further evidence of the system working.

Frankly I think your posts reveal an attitude of a victim rather than a perpetrator, which is a shame because you should probably have taken away something about the need to not speed in order to not kill people.

Everyone thinks they’re a great driver, and no one thinks it’s going to be them who has the accident that kills someone. But that’s the thing about accidents, they’re unpredictable and undesired.

All that said and done- if you were speeding by less than 10% I think it’s harsh and I’m glad you got to reduce the punishment! Over here we have 20mph zones to protect kids and 7kmh over is inexcusable in my book.

I’ve been going to the gym 4 times a week for 2yrs and I’ve been asked exactly one time to spot someone. Not to contradict you because it definitely happens, but some gyms don’t have that culture, like mine.

I don’t mean this in a bad or critical way: I genuinely do not understand this thought. As humans we are born shit at EVERYTHING. Literally. We can’t even fucking walk.

In the developed world we spend the first 16-18yrs learning. And then some of us spend some more time learning.

I learned a new sport when I joined uni. Then I learned to programme. Then I learned a martial art.

I have spent my entire life being shit at things. Because I’ve also spent my entire life learning.

If you refuse to be shit at something, then you also refuse to learn, and to me that makes no sense - I think I’ll only stop learning when I die.

This is just my unfiltered thoughts - I am not trying to be critical, I am just trying to explain how I cannot comprehend this kind of thinking because it is the literal antithesis of me.