DakRalter

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[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

I bought a few junk vinyls just because I really like the texture. I was touching one on the tube home and my friend told me later I was causing visible distress to the man opposite.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

That was a great read, thank you for sharing that. My apologies to the man who suffered acute psychological lacerations, I'm about to cause one more by shamelessly stealing that line for my own use (my ancestors were also colonised by the English, so it's okay. I think?).

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disney has asked a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the husband of a Long Island doctor. The lawsuit claims that Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant despite repeatedly informing the waiter of her severe allergy. Disney is calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed because her husband signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service years prior.

What the hell. I hope the judge tells Disney where to shove their arbitration clause.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't banggood legit? I know the name looks suspicious as heck (well, if I didn't know better, I'd think it was an NSFW site), but I remember Atomic Shrimp using it for legit purchases. I'd never use it though. I think it's in the same stable as Ali express and that sort of thing.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I've had a couple of customers outright wrap their hand around mine as I handed them their change. It's creepy and invasive. If it happened enough times, I'd just start putting everyone's change on the counter.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago

Offensive to lemons and fans of lemons.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago

Definitely more than five years. About ten years ago is when I saw it.

They will happily keep up unsafe products, why do they care about this?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 month ago

Yep, at least ten years ago I went to reorder some electric toothbrush heads, went to my past purchases to find the same ones, only to see the listing (with my review for the brush heads still there) had a completely different product.

December will be my 4 year Amazon-free anniversary. Screw that site.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 month ago

It's definitely Bill Gates with his 5g microchips!

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html

English used to be phonetic, it's just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in "knight" used to be pronounced.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

Even here, some like Oxfam will save the more valuable stuff to sell on ebay. I worked at two charity shops back in my twenties, so I got to the good stuff first haha. The Baldur's Gate was lucky because another customer was going to buy it for her son, but changed her mind when she saw the age rating, and I was like, bagsy this!

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I got my D&D Basic box set from a charity shop, £2.50. There's one going for over £150 on ebay right now. Got my Baldur's Gate box set from a charity shop too for £2.50. I also got Flash 4 (I think) for a couple of quid, it was selling second hand on amazon for about £200, but I was an anxious, clueless kid and was too scared to sell it.

Yesterday I got some squishmallows for my niece at £1 each. We still get good stuff here.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DakRalter@thelemmy.club to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world
 

Not his first attempt, but I want to do whatever I can to encourage him to stay on the wagon this time. I don't have any experience of this, so I'd appreciate any tips from those who have been there already.

Edit 02/10: he's still clean!

 

And there's still this much battery left. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I wasn't expecting it to still have any power left at all. I suppose with the sim out, all it was doing was powering the clock, but still! Unfortunately, I've had to retire it as my network won't connect on it anymore.

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