MadBob

joined 1 year ago
[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 2 minutes ago

Well it's the first of October now but in September I was off sick with exhaustion, so I got a blood test done after a couple of years of putting it off, just to be sure of course. I rearranged my bedroom too for a change. I spoke to my supervisor at work saying I need more rest, so making sure I get breaks every day and not too many workdays in a row.

My tip for anyone who's suddenly struck with enough motivation to pull yourself out the hole: I find using a tasks app helps an awful lot with not only remembering to everything and when to do it but with feeling a bit of satisfaction when I mark it as done. Which reminds me, I need to tick off that I've taken my soup out the freezer this morning.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 20 minutes ago

Alternative caption: Google Translate is not a serious translator.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 39 minutes ago

Know the feeling!

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 11 hours ago

Peach Plum Pear by Joanna Newsom.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago

I use the Firefox extension Untrap on my PC, and every time I go on Youtube it says the extension's slowing the browser down. I use Invidious on an old tablet when I go to bed, and I just have to refresh now and again to get it working, but there are far fewer instances on the list, I've noticed.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Chuck a bit of garlic powder in.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

That's a real twat of a hole.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A plant-based schnitzel with oxheart cabbage cooked in stock with a bit of garlic bechamel.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

Can't you stick some material over the lights to dim them? Or is that illegal?

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

I can't be arsed signing up to an image generator thing but imagine I've posted a fake photo of Lemmy from Motorhead offering a plate of stollen.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Non-Americans:

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago

Wikipedia says people have been doing that since at least 2000 years before Christ!

 

They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by MadBob@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 
  • Is it possible to use a hosting service I'm already paying for (strato.nl) and a domain I've already bought to host a Mastodon/Pixelfed instance? All the websites that encourage me to selfhost advertise a new hosting service to me with the price in dollars.
  • Furthermore, is it possible to start an account on this instance that can be followed via either Mastodon or Pixelfed and vice versa, or are they just unrelated? I can see accounts from pixey.org on my Mastodon Android app and I know you can post to Lemmy via Mastodon but I'm unsure on how it goes the other way.

Sorry if I've made your eyes roll but we all shat green once.

Edit: very happy with the responses, thanks all.

 

Just wondering because I hear a lot of non-native speakers say things like "bend" instead of "band" and I find it a bit puzzling since native speakers don't say it that way (except in New Zealand and maybe London I suppose? Not sure) and many languages have the usual A-sound that I and many others use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel) so it's not like it's difficult to pronounce. I've also seen it mentioned on onzetaal.nl that a particular word with an A is pronounced with an E "like in English" ("Bovendien spreek je app in het Nederlands nog enigszins op z’n Engels uit: als ‘ep’.": https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/appen-whatsappen-vervoeging). Actually I find myself quite often not understanding Dutch people speaking English if they do it.

The other explanations would be that people can't get their mouths around the short A in standard American and learnèd English Englishes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel) or that people have just sort of collectively, subconsciously decided to start saying it that way, or something else I haven't thought of. Maybe because the name of the letter A in English is more or less the same as the letter E in others?

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