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Cake day: 2023年7月1日

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  • I knew a guy who had a homing beacon.

    He’d put away a quantity of alcohol that would be fatal to most elephants, the switch would flick, and he would just fuck off. No warning, no goodbyes, nothing.

    He’d either get a taxi, hitchhike, walk, or fuck knows what to get the 30 miles back home. Sometimes it was with his belongings. Sometimes we’d return them to him the following day.

    It was scarily impressive… once you knew he was safe!





  • I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

    One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

    It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.






  • My dentist has had the nerve to add a “lateness will be charged at £1 per minute late” to the end of the reminder SMS messages… which I can understand to a certain degree, but the dentist didn’t really like it when I suggested I get a discount of £1 per minute after the appointment time that the dentist called me through.

    I know it’s all bullshit but the double standard baffles me.




  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAGAB rule
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    A pal and I went to join a newly opened gym.

    I says to the dude on the desk: “How much is the membership a month?”

    The staff member says: “It’s £50 per month each, or £75 for a couple”

    I’m motioning my pal over, and I’m like “dude are we like boyfriends now?”

    “yeah”

    Turns back to the dude on the desk: “we’ll take the couple’s membership please”.

    Went cross code to save £12.50 a month each. Worth it.