Fleppensteyn

I did round up a few times. It seems strange to base the tip off a percentage.

English speakers always seem to like mierenneuken: nitpicking, or literally, ant-fucking.

Or maybe fokker, meaning breeder (and a famous last name; and speaking of names, we have first names such as Fokko and Fokje).

I don’t know how common it is, but when I grew up, being smart was basically an insult. Not being posh, but any sign of smartness. I was already a quiet kid, which made me a target (because quiet people are smart? My grades surely disagreed), using “difficult” vocabulary is definitely something you had to avoid; kids better not find out you have “smart” interests like computers or reading or something or you’d be ridiculed.

Maybe people carry their hate with them in adulthood but just don’t show it so much (until it’s time to vote 🙂)

That sounds too demanding

Chairs and tables. Why do I have to squeeze my thighs between the chair and the dinner table and then bend down awkwardly when I eat to not splatter all over? Why are chairs so high and tables so low? Just put the table higher so the food is closer to my mouth and why do we even need chairs anyway?

Milk cartons suck now. In the 90s, we could fold and push to open. Why do we need scissors to open them now? Oh and half of them now have a plastic lid in the middle so you can’t even pour out the last drops anymore.

I agree. It’s a loan word from Dutch and after 200 years, it’s about time you give it back.

Speaking of dandruff, it took me way too long to find out I don’t really have dandruff, just a dry scalp. That’s why the “dandruff”, like all my other health issues, just disappear in warmer climates.

I disagree. The alternative to news is no news. If you don’t have anything interesting to share, just don’t post it.

If you want to share news articles, just use a link to the internet archive, if available, or copy-paste the text if it’s behind a paywall.

Information should be open to all on a platform like Lemmy imo. If you’re willing to pay for news, you won’t need this platform for that.

Please ban paywalls.

I don’t know but imagine what crazy processes would lead to creating that magic man floating around in nothingness, without a world to evolve on.

Alles goed :) ja, ik kom uit Nederland

It’s funny I understand all that when written but couldn’t understand a word when Scandinavians speak

It’s mostly how I made it through school/university. I just don’t remember things for very long and found it’s just easier to study 1-2 hours before a test so it’s still fresh in your mind.

For bigger tests, maybe create a summary of things that may be asked and go over that just before the test.

I almost never did homework.

My grades were never great but enough to pass.

Traffic speed? If you know where all the speed cameras are, you could dodge them and hope there are no other police checking you.

I keep recommending Tribler and I don’t know why it’s not more popular. Anything wrong with it?

Cigarettes when I got some long pain and it actually started to hurt when I breathed in the smoke. Stopped alcohol completely at the same time.

I kept it up for almost a month.

As a poor European:

Coders saying “but me a cup of coffee” for $8.

I buy a pack of coffee of 250g for ≈ $3. An average cup, according to Google, is 7.5g.

That’s $0.40 for a cup.

(Or about 9 beers)

I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven’t listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.