Good morning, new users and veterans alike!
First time here after the Reddit exodus? Welcome! Come in and say hi.
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.
Hi folks, great to see you all here!
Helllooo from kbin.social I suspect today is going to be a casual combination of mowing the lawn and playing Zelda with the teenagers on the big telly. Worse ways to spend the weekend.
… and I really must write that job application :)
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.
Hi. Bracing ourselves for the onslaught of rain tomorrow.
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.
Nice! What movies?
A couple of obscure dark fantasy movies: Legend, which is an old Ridley Scott film with Tim Curry and Tom Cruise, and Ladyhawke, with Rutger Hauer and a very young Mathew Broderick. Cheesy but both surprisingly enjoyable!
Hope you’ve recovered from those 80s movie
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!!
We don’t usually even thinking about getting a new cat for several months after one dies. We recently had our youngest (3 years) get knocked over on the road and this is the first time that we’ve ever considered “replacing” a cat because our 5 year old missed her so much that she became Ill with the stress.
She’s ok now but she’s a lot more clingy than she used to be.
I hope you find your other cat. We know someone who lost theirs and found him after what must have been six months so there’s always a chance.
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.
So glad to see one of my fav communities moving over to lemmy
Welcome!
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
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 🙃
I’ve recently become addicted to aldis their chilli chicken crisps.
I’ve become partial to those Thai Sweet Chilli crips. nomnom
Aldi’s beef mega hoops taste like beef Monster Munch and have better texture.
Because you asked.
Guess I’m making a trip to Aldi’s then!
You make it sound like it isn’t already a weekly pilgrimage?!
Welcome, glad you’re here 🙂
(Salt and vinegar are the best crisps)
Alternate opinion: salt and vinegar are rank.
Hard agree, they’re terrible 🤮
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Only after a full family-size bag, where you’ve burned the taste buds off your tongue, can’t taste anything but salt, and have a case of the crisp-sweats. Up to then they’re just grand.
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Cheese and Onion gang, rise up!
I concur, but what type of salt and vinegar?
- Discos: Not as good as they were when I were a lad.
- Walkers: Consistently ok.
- Kettle: Good if you are feeling a bit posh, but the balsamic vinegar can be overwhelming.
- McCoy’s Ridge Cut: Excellent.
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!
Agree with co-op salt & vinegar being the best (I do like mccoys too) - don’t really like walkers any more, the crisis are too thin!
Fond memories of salt and vinegar Discos giving my mouth chemical burns as a child 😂😭
They aren’t Discos unless the corners of your mouth are burning.
M&S own brand salt and vinegar are the closest I have found to my all-time favourites which no longer exist…
(Tom’s foods vinegar & salt from my childhood)
McCoy’s are great. I’d usually go for a supermarket brand “finest” standard / kettle crisp.
Also agreeing that co-op are the best, but if you find the vinegar in Kettle overwhelming then maybe it’s not for you, they are very vinegary.
Crisps are not worth having unless they’re salt and vinegar.
Discos start hurting if you have too many. They give you tiny cuts and then load up the salt to aggravate them.
McCoys are my favourite.
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
Expat here, and I just got back. I brought back Quavers, Nik-Naks, Wheat Crunchies, Monster Munch, Space Raiders,… but I didn’t bring any sort of prawn cocktail.
Not even Skips. Am I even British anymore??
Is it controversial to say I’m a big fan of Walkers Baked Ready Salted? 😅
Backbone of the country
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)
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 😅
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!
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.
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.
Just back from Switzerland after my exams finally ended. Time to spin up P4G for the weekend!
