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SkaraBrae

@ SkaraBrae @lemmy.world

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Every opinion I have is my own. Every opinion I have is subject to change without notice. If you think my opinion is incorrect, change it with facts (citations needed). Be kind. Be cool. Be yourself.

  • What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?

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  • District 9

  • Do you approve sex work? Why or why not?

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  • Do I "approve" of sex work? It's not my place to either approve or disapprove of what other people do with their time, their money or their bodies. The question is loaded to provide justification for your moral outrage.

  • What's something you used to dislike that you have come to enjoy?

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  • Brussels Sprouts.

    When I was a kid my mother used to boil them. I would gag from the taste. Mushy vomit-balls of awful.

    A few years ago I watched a Jamie Oliver video on how to cook them properly and now they're a staple with roasts and meat + 3 veg at our place. My wife, my oldest son and I fight over who gets the most.

  • What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

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  • "Correlation is not causation" is the phrase I use in that situation.

  • What are songs about the music industry that you like?

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  • Death on Two Legs - Queen

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    What should I do to recover from a twisted ankle?

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  • This is the only correct answer.

  • whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?

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  • I haven't laughed so hard in ages.

  • How do you like to sort your Lemmy feed?

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  • New:Subscribed until I catch up, then New:All to look for new communities to subscribe to.

  • What are your most prominent food memories from childhood?

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  • What my mother called "allergy testing."

    Basically, myself and my siblings were placed on a diet that consisted of rice cakes (the puffed-rice-compressed-discs-of-bland type) and margarine for a few days to "detox." Then we were introduced to foods to see if we had an "allergic reaction." Two things stand out in my memories.

    1. I specifically recall the sensation of waking in the middle of the night to vomit my "dinner" all over myself: an entire plate of overcooked, boiled, green (string) beans. This meant, to my deluded mother, that I was allergic to string beans. I'm not. Unfortunately, though, I couldn't stand the taste of string beans for about 30 years after that.
    2. Going to birthday parties as an eight year old and bringing your own rice cakes (the puffed-rice-compressed-discs-of-bland type) and margarine and not being able to partake of the cakes and candy and soda and other sugary deliciousness was both soul cruising and humiliating.

    Edit: punctuating

  • Who was the last person in your family who had dirt floors?

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  • My mother currently has dirt floors.

  • Shopping carts should have slots on the side for reusable bags. They always seem to sink to the bottom of the cart

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  • I don't own them, so I don't know about storage. The handles are on the same side as the rods so carrying them should be easy enough.

  • Shopping carts should have slots on the side for reusable bags. They always seem to sink to the bottom of the cart

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  • I see these a lot in my city.

  • I pronounce there and their differently

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  • How do you pronounce "they're"?

  • how close to the table edge is it socially acceptable to place a full glass of water?

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  • It depends.

    • If you are dining, then place it on the far side of your plate.
    • If you are sitting at a table, but not dining, then place it approximately halfway between the dining position and the table edge.
    • If you are standing by the table, then I'd go with about 4"-6" from the table edge.
    • If you are standing by the table in a high traffic area, then I'd go with 6"-8".
    • If you notice someone nearby who is particularly animated when speaking, then I'd aim for the centre of the table.

    This answer assumes the table in question is a dining table. Coffee tables are a whole different kettle of fish; and don't even get me started on side tables, bureaus and credenzas!

    Edit: formatting

  • Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?

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  • I went under for an appendectomy in 2004. I can remember the feeling of the anaesthetic moving up my arm (they put it in through a wrist cannula). It was weird. It felt like nothing. My hand just disappeared from my senses. I felt it moving up my arm and into my shoulder and into my neck and

  • What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

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  • Unsolicited medical advice drives me nuts.

    Gee. Thanks "doctor" for your advice. Obviously I'm going to listen to you after you watched a three minute YouTube video and not the doctor with six years of medical training and education!