Same - growing a beard helped massively too.

Once I started working, I used to grow a beard every winter - mainly because I got bored with shaving every day. I noticed that once I had my beard, I never got age-checked, when I shaved it off, I’d still be asked.

Mind you, I’ve had a beard for eleven years now - who knows how haggard I look underneath nowadays!

The official line is that North Korea is thriving - it’d be political suicide for Kim Jong Un to accept help.

The comparison with the US isn’t unwarranted. The respective propaganda machines are the reason both countries are the way they are.

When people are told daily how their country is the best in the world, the ruling class can get away with an awful lot.

It’s 2025, and many places in the US don’t even have clean tap water. People are being “disappeared” off the streets by government agencies. People are dying from easily-treatable diseases. The wealthy ruling class live lives of luxury, while poor people work multiple jobs and still exist below the poverty line.

So, with all that said, do you think Trump would accept a deal that would allow better living conditions for his people? I think we both know the answer.

Absolutely love liquorice - well at least the British version of it which is like 50% aniseed. Not so much a fan of the Nordic version which tastes saltier than salt.

Other often-contentious dislikes of mine:

• Butter (ish - I have a really low tolerance before it tastes like it’s gone rancid)
• Yogurt
• Fish (fish that doesn’t really taste of anything, e.g. cod, is ok)
• Vinegar

I know taste is subjective, but as far as I’m concerned, those are three gigantic nopes. 😝

I wonder how many people dislike the same groups of things?

Boost shows that it was edited :|

In any case, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that I made a mistake in my original reply! :)

You’re not wrong.

I wish I could see the edit timestamps on Lemmy, because I’m sure that comment was different.

The stupid thing is, I’d originally written the comment with quotes to point it out, then chopped it back because I realised that I was massively overexplaining it. Those quotes would have been handy now!

I’ll strike my comment out so it’s not misleading, but I’ll leave it up so this still makes sense.

Same here - my kids had these, but I’m of the generation raised on Roger Red Hat.

I think people are downvoting you because “effect” is in there twice.

The first one is right.

1. The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).

2. The mother understands English

3. The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.

In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).

The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they’re born too. Buy tons of children’s books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.

Nice try Gary Glitter.

(Context)

I see two possibilities:

• You get paid for posting this kind of nonsense - in which case then I get it, everyone has to make a living.

• Your brain is actually broken

A quick run through your recent posts have shown that you’re actually the author of some of the worst posts I’ve come across on here, so kudos. But I’m afraid it’s now a “no” from me, and I’ll be blocking you from now on.

20 - although that’s regardless of the season. I only ever wear pjs to bed if I’m ill.

Here’s that insane t-shirt in all its glory.

The one I encountered on Reddit (way back when) was more focused on occasions where slightly wonky translations led to funny results, rather than just making fun of bad translations, or the people who wrote them.

E.g.

• The now-famous “Do Not Want” meme
• The German translation section that included the Nazi flag instead of the current Germany one.
• The utter nonsense written on a t-shirt I bought last time I was in Japan “Nither down on some it own american films the innocent sucker dupe speak to me blow-in baited onself because this way. Chiken just pain sent I hope come together up on the naked out-colling Rizy up road a little fat-man. BEAT SOMEWHERE”

It’s like the posts showing unnecessary quotation marks on signs - it’s not about making fun of the people who wrote the sign, it’s funny because it now conveys something else.

E.g., a sign outside a farm offering Fresh brown “eggs” for sale.

I was about to suggest the same guy. His stuff is brilliant.

This is also an oversimplification.

Colonies were always rebelling. The main issue that led to decolonisation was that there was no longer the resources required to maintain these big empires.

Coal was more expensive, troops were more expensive, everything now cost too much to maintain.

It’s the end phase of every empire.

In the UK the two main categories for schools are private schools and state schools.

“Public schools” are, unintuitively, a subset of private schools, typically the very old very posh ones.

The term is archaic, but refers to the fact that they weren’t run by the state or by the church - i.e. they were run by the public. Of course, this refers to a board of governors made of the super-wealthy, not the average man on the street.

Eton and Harrow are particularly famed for churning out people who end up as Prime Ministers and other high-ranking officials. It’s not just the money, but the connections you build there as well. They’re also famed for churning out borderline psychopaths who literally think the rest of the world is there to cater to their comfortable lifestyles.

It took me a second because, confusingly, our “public schools” are what much of the world would simply call private schools. These are the super posh schools like Eton or Harrow.

That’s true, but in fairness all of humanity bears that legacy. The crusaders weren’t doing what they did just because of Christianity, it was because they were humans, doing what humans always do.

People in power have always used religion as a tool to further their own ends. It’s true throughout history, it’s still true today.

Or something went wrong and they somehow seduced an entire nursery.