Morning dudes
I’m very happy to see a casualUK replacement for the suddenly redditless. I literally signed up to Lemmy about 10 minutes ago so I’m still feeling this thing out!
I’m looking forward to arguing about crisps with you all 🙃
Welcome, glad you're here 🙂
(Salt and vinegar are the best crisps)
Alternate opinion: salt and vinegar are rank.
I concur, but what type of salt and vinegar?
The co-op own brand version of kettle are the best flavoured salt and vinegar crisps I have had in a long time as I have found most other brands taste more watered down these days. Don't know if that is changes or my taste buds getting old but they hit the spot!
McCoy's are great. I'd usually go for a supermarket brand "finest" standard / kettle crisp.
McCoys salt and vinegar for sure.
But I do enjoy a Walkers Prawn Cocktail too
I can confirm when you leave the UK, prawn cocktail are the ones you miss the most.
Plus, you can't explain to people because the name itself makes them sound fuckin disgusting
Fond memories of salt and vinegar Discos giving my mouth chemical burns as a child 😂😭
Hi. I had first in-person meet up with my new friend I made on an app yesterday. I just moved to this country so I was (am?) in need of new friends. Making friends as an adult is freaking hard but it's really rewarding once you actually connect with someone.
That's awesome! I've been in a similar situation before and it really is difficult, well done for putting in the effort because a lot of people just give up and complain about it instead.
I must have clicked on RIF about twenty times yesterday as I kept forgetting it's gone forever - everyone I have spoken to IRL seems to use the official Reddit app (which was even more of a shock), so I think this Reddit play is going to work exactly as intended
(P.s. fuck Spez)
The trick is to put your Lemmy app of choice (or the mobile site) in the same space you had RIF. Make that muscle memory work for you!
I can’t imagine using the official Reddit app shudders
I’m still not sure I’ve got my head around the whole fediverse thing. I’ve ended up with a login on both desist.uk and Lemmy.world but I guess it could be worse 😅
Off for burgers at lunchtime with #1 child, can't wait. Have to take a month's worth of garden waste to the tip this morning as they're striking and not collecting. Going to have to try to get a full wheelie bin in the car...
I love a good burger, but the wife isn't so keen. Burgers are now a treat for me.. Honest Burger is my go-to chain for 'It's pretty good'.
I put the green (it's green for garden waste here) bin out on Friday and they emptied it, which I consider a win given all the local politics about strikes and stuff.
Your other post suggests you're in or around Bristol. We're going to Milk Bun in Clifton, I hear it's great.
Edit: burgers are brilliant
Do you rank your children?
One's a lot more interesting than the other. But mainly ordered in age rather than rank.
Recently I was at the dump an the guy in front of my had two full wheelie bins in his car. I thought he was the smartest person ever until I saw him try to 1) maneuver a full bin out of the car and 2) upend the bin into the skip.
Emptied half manually, then picked up and tipped in the rest. Was an absolute bastard, especially with an unknown pain in my hand from falling off my skateboard last weekend. I couldn't empty the rest by hand - the stuff at the bottom has been there for a month and started to compost.
Had my first ever Wendy's (Camden) recently. Burger was fucking lovely. Chips...indifferent.
Just chiming in to note another Reddit migrator. If you are on iOS, the Memmy and mlem apps are very good and improving rapidly.
Try the wefwef app. It installs differently to normal apps as it’s web based but it’s the closest to Apollo. It’s actually pretty incredible and I’m also trying Mlem and Memmy.
I ate too much pizza yesterday and stayed up until 2am gaming.
I am going to spend today designing watch faces for my new eInk watch. This will be a challenge as I'm a terrible artist and an even worse C++ programmer.
Luckily ChatGPT is slightly better than me 😀
Good morning. I was demolishing a floor yesterday and my muscles are expressing their unhappiness in no uncertain terms. I should have stretched properly but the beer after hard work was just too tempting.
Similar, I was cutting hedges yesterday and this morning it feels like I've been bench pressing a bus. Need to go out for a run though. At least it's sunny out!
Hmm, interesting more comments on this thread than the other place
I've got a dodgy calf muscle, but hoping a walk will be good for it and loosen it up. It better not go the other way and cripple me.
Tis windy!
Hmm, interesting more comments on this thread than the other place
We did start earlier than them 🙂
Morning. I have one heck of a migraine today. Like a hangover, only I didn't drink anything last night.
This feels like a good time to remind people that Lemmy does have a dark mode. You can enable it by clicking on your name in the top-right, then Settings, then scrolling down to theme and choosing "darkly" or something like it.
Dark (or preferably amoled) mode is the way God intended apps to be viewed.
I hope your migraine passes soon mate
Cheers. Normally I prefer light mode because I find it easier to read, and keeps me awake more during the afternoon slump. But it's very nice to have the option.
Hi, I'm new here. Another reddit refugee. I used to use sync and now am waiting for sync for lemmy. Long live sync!
I'm having a mostly quiet Sunday. My sister and her sons are visiting from the states. It's been pretty full on with them here. They're visiting Osborne house today (her older son is a big fan of Queen Victoria - go figure) and I've ducked out and am playing zelda and listening to music.
Morning all! Still getting to grips with Lemmy and the various communities around the fediverse, but enjoying it all so far!
Not sure what's on the docket for the day, most likely a snall bit of tidying up around the flat, but do know I've got a sausage cassarole to prep for tea so that should be a good treat to look forward to!
Morning! Early start today, off to south London to see a potential new buddy for our 3yr old Siamese boy. His Savannah brother from another mother has been missing for a few weeks and it's not looking hopeful that he'll be coming back.
I'm completely heartbroken 💔 but Frank's so unhappy, missing his friend in fuckery.
We're going to see a nearly 2yr old Abyssinian, looking for a new home as his staff are having to relocate to Singapore and can't take him with them - even if they could, he'd be going from central London (albeit with a park over the road) to a high rise flat in Singapore.
They're looking for a rural space for him, which we can definitely provide.
I just hope we're doing the right thing.
It took me way too long to work out you're talking about cats, and not an actual Siamese boy...
Testing the braincells this morning!!
Cwtching on the sofa watching postman pat with my little boy…. Considering getting a second coffee but the kitchen seems far away.
Not a bad casual Sunday morning so far
I'm sitting here in my daughter's room, while she had an absolute banger of a meltdown. But upside is I'm taking the time to research what it would take to self-host my own Lemmy instance. I like the idea of my own personal instance that I can then federate through, rather than my account being tied to someone else's instance.
Hi folks, great to see you all here!
Good morning, bit hungover poor grandma next door crappy daughter just left her kids in the playground and shouted at her mum to look after them for a couple of hours, waking the whole street up...
Morning all
Completely stuck on the game Dude Where Is My Beer. It'll be today's challenge!
Also a Reddit exodus-er from the first blackout. Shame to see the third party app I use finally die.
Morning! Still getting to grips with the shift to Lemmy from Reddit but a week in I'm feeling much more at home. It took a while to find an app that felt like a good fit, but WefWef seems to be fitting the bill very nicely.
This morning is recovery after pizza and 80s movie night with friends.
Hope you've recovered from those 80s movie
Oooh it's nice to see this place getting some users finally. I've been here since the black outs.
In the time in between I've been learning to rubiks cube with my Reddit time and have now managed a solve in under 5 minutes.
Just rolled out of bed with achey legs because I went to the gym for an hour yesterday and then a run of a single mile. Turns out that's enough for my aging body to seize up.
Had a busy day yesterday and my knees aren't thanking me for going for a run. Think I'll make use of the balcony I jet washed yesterday to get my moneys worth.
Had some friends round last night. Watched the boxing and got drunk. Went to bed about 2am. Cat woke me up about 7 demanding food! Meows louder than an air raid siren. Climbed back in to bed now and browsing Lemmy. Been a busy week so just catching up with the latest posts.
We've had quite a few busy weekends recently which I felt bad about so yesterday I done a day of things the kids wanted to do, then swimming with them later this morning. They're having a great time, while I'm completely shattered!
Recovering after spending the day at St Pauls Carnival (Bristol) yesterday. I was out most of the day and into the evening. By the end there were rivers of piss running down the roads. It was a good day but I don't envy those tasked with the clean-up.
I had my ear plugs in and it was still super loud when near the sound systems. Some were great, some had so much bass it drowned out everything else. I don't understand how people can stand right next to the speakers (well.. I assume drugs).
Not sure what to do today, although I think dinner is going to involve jacket spuds.
A friendly place to chat.
No politics please. Don't be a dick.