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

Isn't that just poached eggs?

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Now there's an idea.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I know!! Sometimes it's even painted on the road in huge numerals. I explained everything to her.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 90 points 2 months ago

Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.

And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 months ago

I discovered when I joined a volunteer litter-picking group in my town that some people really hate trees. And I must emphasise HATE. They hate the shade they cast in summer, the way the leaves block the all-important View. They hate the fallen leaves in autumn. They hate the bare branches in winter. They hate the risk of branches falling in storms. They hate the racket the birds make. I was astonished - it never occurred to me that people would feel so strongly.

Turns out I'm a bloody tree-hugging extremist.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 60 points 5 months ago

My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 60 points 8 months 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)

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 49 points 11 months ago

Couple of HR people had sex on a desk, not realising they could be seen from the upmarket hotel across the street. Oops!

There were quite a few other incidents - it was quite a lively workplace - but this was the funniest.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

Some uk supermarkets have started dropping the use by date in favour of codes like this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012 The article says it’s to reduce waste and that staff will have special training to know when to bin stuff. I imagine the training is in how to read the codes.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years ago

Consider this: a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It really helps me understand just how obscenely wealthy these people are, how much money they are hoarding. They're leeches.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 years 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.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 82 points 2 years 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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