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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Morning dudes

I’m very happy to see a casualUK replacement for the suddenly redditless. I literally signed up to Lemmy about 10 minutes ago so I’m still feeling this thing out!

I’m looking forward to arguing about crisps with you all 🙃

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Welcome, glad you're here 🙂

(Salt and vinegar are the best crisps)

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

Alternate opinion: salt and vinegar are rank.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hard agree, they're terrible 🤮

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I concur, but what type of salt and vinegar?

  • Discos: Not as good as they were when I were a lad.
  • Walkers: Consistently ok.
  • Kettle: Good if you are feeling a bit posh, but the balsamic vinegar can be overwhelming.
  • McCoy's Ridge Cut: Excellent.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The co-op own brand version of kettle are the best flavoured salt and vinegar crisps I have had in a long time as I have found most other brands taste more watered down these days. Don't know if that is changes or my taste buds getting old but they hit the spot!

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

McCoy's are great. I'd usually go for a supermarket brand "finest" standard / kettle crisp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

McCoys salt and vinegar for sure.

But I do enjoy a Walkers Prawn Cocktail too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can confirm when you leave the UK, prawn cocktail are the ones you miss the most.

Plus, you can't explain to people because the name itself makes them sound fuckin disgusting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fond memories of salt and vinegar Discos giving my mouth chemical burns as a child 😂😭

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Cheese and Onion gang, rise up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aldi's beef mega hoops taste like beef Monster Munch and have better texture.

Because you asked.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hi. I had first in-person meet up with my new friend I made on an app yesterday. I just moved to this country so I was (am?) in need of new friends. Making friends as an adult is freaking hard but it's really rewarding once you actually connect with someone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! I've been in a similar situation before and it really is difficult, well done for putting in the effort because a lot of people just give up and complain about it instead.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I must have clicked on RIF about twenty times yesterday as I kept forgetting it's gone forever - everyone I have spoken to IRL seems to use the official Reddit app (which was even more of a shock), so I think this Reddit play is going to work exactly as intended

(P.s. fuck Spez)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The trick is to put your Lemmy app of choice (or the mobile site) in the same space you had RIF. Make that muscle memory work for you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can’t imagine using the official Reddit app shudders

I’m still not sure I’ve got my head around the whole fediverse thing. I’ve ended up with a login on both desist.uk and Lemmy.world but I guess it could be worse 😅

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Off for burgers at lunchtime with #1 child, can't wait. Have to take a month's worth of garden waste to the tip this morning as they're striking and not collecting. Going to have to try to get a full wheelie bin in the car...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love a good burger, but the wife isn't so keen. Burgers are now a treat for me.. Honest Burger is my go-to chain for 'It's pretty good'.

I put the green (it's green for garden waste here) bin out on Friday and they emptied it, which I consider a win given all the local politics about strikes and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your other post suggests you're in or around Bristol. We're going to Milk Bun in Clifton, I hear it's great.

Edit: burgers are brilliant

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you rank your children?

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

One's a lot more interesting than the other. But mainly ordered in age rather than rank.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently I was at the dump an the guy in front of my had two full wheelie bins in his car. I thought he was the smartest person ever until I saw him try to 1) maneuver a full bin out of the car and 2) upend the bin into the skip.

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

Emptied half manually, then picked up and tipped in the rest. Was an absolute bastard, especially with an unknown pain in my hand from falling off my skateboard last weekend. I couldn't empty the rest by hand - the stuff at the bottom has been there for a month and started to compost.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I ate too much pizza yesterday and stayed up until 2am gaming.

I am going to spend today designing watch faces for my new eInk watch. This will be a challenge as I'm a terrible artist and an even worse C++ programmer.

Luckily ChatGPT is slightly better than me 😀

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just chiming in to note another Reddit migrator. If you are on iOS, the Memmy and mlem apps are very good and improving rapidly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Try the wefwef app. It installs differently to normal apps as it’s web based but it’s the closest to Apollo. It’s actually pretty incredible and I’m also trying Mlem and Memmy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hi, I'm new here. Another reddit refugee. I used to use sync and now am waiting for sync for lemmy. Long live sync!

I'm having a mostly quiet Sunday. My sister and her sons are visiting from the states. It's been pretty full on with them here. They're visiting Osborne house today (her older son is a big fan of Queen Victoria - go figure) and I've ducked out and am playing zelda and listening to music.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good morning. I was demolishing a floor yesterday and my muscles are expressing their unhappiness in no uncertain terms. I should have stretched properly but the beer after hard work was just too tempting.

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

Similar, I was cutting hedges yesterday and this morning it feels like I've been bench pressing a bus. Need to go out for a run though. At least it's sunny out!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Morning. I have one heck of a migraine today. Like a hangover, only I didn't drink anything last night.

This feels like a good time to remind people that Lemmy does have a dark mode. You can enable it by clicking on your name in the top-right, then Settings, then scrolling down to theme and choosing "darkly" or something like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dark (or preferably amoled) mode is the way God intended apps to be viewed.

I hope your migraine passes soon mate

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmm, interesting more comments on this thread than the other place
I've got a dodgy calf muscle, but hoping a walk will be good for it and loosen it up. It better not go the other way and cripple me.
Tis windy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm, interesting more comments on this thread than the other place

We did start earlier than them 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Cwtching on the sofa watching postman pat with my little boy…. Considering getting a second coffee but the kitchen seems far away.

Not a bad casual Sunday morning so far

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sitting here in my daughter's room, while she had an absolute banger of a meltdown. But upside is I'm taking the time to research what it would take to self-host my own Lemmy instance. I like the idea of my own personal instance that I can then federate through, rather than my account being tied to someone else's instance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Morning all! Still getting to grips with Lemmy and the various communities around the fediverse, but enjoying it all so far!

Not sure what's on the docket for the day, most likely a snall bit of tidying up around the flat, but do know I've got a sausage cassarole to prep for tea so that should be a good treat to look forward to!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Morning! Early start today, off to south London to see a potential new buddy for our 3yr old Siamese boy. His Savannah brother from another mother has been missing for a few weeks and it's not looking hopeful that he'll be coming back.

I'm completely heartbroken 💔 but Frank's so unhappy, missing his friend in fuckery.

We're going to see a nearly 2yr old Abyssinian, looking for a new home as his staff are having to relocate to Singapore and can't take him with them - even if they could, he'd be going from central London (albeit with a park over the road) to a high rise flat in Singapore.

They're looking for a rural space for him, which we can definitely provide.

I just hope we're doing the right thing.

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

It took me way too long to work out you're talking about cats, and not an actual Siamese boy...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Testing the braincells this morning!!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hi folks, great to see you all here!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Morning all

Completely stuck on the game Dude Where Is My Beer. It'll be today's challenge!

Also a Reddit exodus-er from the first blackout. Shame to see the third party app I use finally die.

[–] input 6 points 1 year ago

Good morning, bit hungover poor grandma next door crappy daughter just left her kids in the playground and shouted at her mum to look after them for a couple of hours, waking the whole street up...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Morning! Still getting to grips with the shift to Lemmy from Reddit but a week in I'm feeling much more at home. It took a while to find an app that felt like a good fit, but WefWef seems to be fitting the bill very nicely.

This morning is recovery after pizza and 80s movie night with friends.

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

Hope you've recovered from those 80s movie

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oooh it's nice to see this place getting some users finally. I've been here since the black outs.

In the time in between I've been learning to rubiks cube with my Reddit time and have now managed a solve in under 5 minutes.

Just rolled out of bed with achey legs because I went to the gym for an hour yesterday and then a run of a single mile. Turns out that's enough for my aging body to seize up.

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

Had a busy day yesterday and my knees aren't thanking me for going for a run. Think I'll make use of the balcony I jet washed yesterday to get my moneys worth.

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

Had some friends round last night. Watched the boxing and got drunk. Went to bed about 2am. Cat woke me up about 7 demanding food! Meows louder than an air raid siren. Climbed back in to bed now and browsing Lemmy. Been a busy week so just catching up with the latest posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So glad to see one of my fav communities moving over to lemmy

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

We've had quite a few busy weekends recently which I felt bad about so yesterday I done a day of things the kids wanted to do, then swimming with them later this morning. They're having a great time, while I'm completely shattered!

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