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Sitting on the verandah with a beer, watching the rain come down, listening to that sound.
My dog likes children’s shows with bright colours. Teletubbies, In the Night Garden, Bluey. My cat likes those bird YouTube videos like “four hours of birds feeding in the back yard”.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?
19·14 days ago“You don’t know who you are!? Do you have dementia? Is your carer here?
Hey Dave, this lady doesn’t know who she is! Can you get her a cup of tea while I call the police, somebody must be missing her”
I actually had to do this twice to two different customers over a number of years. Both times they backpedaled quickly and stopped being dickheads.
i hope you’re not planning on studying or writing english at uni because you really need to work on writing proper sentences and using punctuation
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what are you reading nowadays that's not crap?
6·19 days agoNew Scientist magazine, the paper version so that I can put it down, think about it, and come back a week later. I’m not a scientist, and not highly educated, but I’m curious about the world, and many of their articles are easy to read at my level.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?
2·19 days agoRi ra rutsch, wir fahren mit der Kutsch
If you hunt e.g. birds with the same clothes they have better colour vision than we do so it would not work.
Ah, thanks for explaining.
And why wear full camo except for orange hat? Since deer can’t see colour, wouldn’t orange camo be safer?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What if programmers rewrote the English language?
2·1 month agoWhy don’t you come to Australia, but when you do, go to the bottlo and get a slab to bring to the barbie where we’ll have snags with dead horse.
Many languages already have shortened or abbreviated words; but their use isn’t always practical and doesn’t always lend clarity to meaning.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious PracticeEnglish
222·1 month agoThis is stupid.
Robots don’t have free will or reasoning ability, so joining a religion seems like a good match.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think about Harlan Ellison's book - I have no Mouth, But I must scream?
21·1 month agoI thought it was stupid and boring. The basic premise doesn’t make sense and it belaboured the point it was trying to make. For the reputation that the story has gathered, it was a disappointment.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would you put in a time capsule?
3·1 month ago- Buy newspapers every day for a week so that future readers can see the evolution of news stories and the advertisements.
- Magazines in several interest areas - automobiles, women’s fashion, current events, National Geographic
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?
2·1 month agothank you, you’re very kind. Treatments for all types of cancers are improving all the time.
- Have you been tending to your hounds? You smell like a wet dog!
- Is that fur growing out of your ears?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?
25·2 months agoIn Australia.
I went to the doctor complaining of weird headaches and vertigo, so she sent me for X-ray and MRI. They discovered holes in my bones that proved I have blood cancer (myeloma). Further blood tests proved that I was not long for this world and organs were failing, got pushed to the top of the list and sent to hospital the same day that the blood tests came back. At this point, treatment hadn’t cost me anything.
In hospital for four weeks with IV medications and chemotherapy, sent home with chemotherapy and a whole bunch of other tablets. Spent a year not responding to chemotherapy, told to get my affairs in order. At this point, treatment hadn’t cost me anything.
A specialist recommended a stem cell (“ bone marrow”) transplant, and then because it worked so well, another one six weeks later. In hospital for two weeks each time, with IV medications and chemotherapy. At this point, treatment hadn’t cost me anything.
I then spent 18 months taking chemotherapy tablets daily; these cost the government $28,000 a month; I paid $6.50 a month. Another twelve months on weekly immunoglobulins, which cost me nothing.
Six years after diagnosis, I’m now in remission (although “myeloma always comes back”). I’ve been two years with “no evidence of disease”.
I’m grateful and lucky that I live in Australia and have the public health care system. I would not have been able to pay for any of this in a country with healthcare-for-profit.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite childhood cartoon that everyone else seems to have forgotten about?
2·2 months ago- Underdog
- Batfink and Karate



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