One thing I can tell you with confidence about the Netherlands is that people there almost invariably overestimate their proficiency in English, so adverts and public announcements and the like in English often have embarrassing mistakes, so I’d put money down that they’re not going to hire a native speaker or perhaps even a chartered translator to check the translations.

This man’s colleague when he’s just wasted three hours doing work he didn’t have to: “but I sent you an email three hours ago about it?”

Many of us aren’t American. The assumption that we are remains an annoyance on this website.

DAVx5 came bundled with e/OS when I changed over but I’ve had no luck getting it going and I struggle to follow the guide. Would you happen to know of like an idiot’s guide to getting started with it? Or could someone perhaps briefly summarise how to get going with it?

I don’t know much about coding, but I know Cuneiform isn’t an alphabet.

You could use pad.riseup.net as a perfunctory solution. It’s just a text file that anyone with the link can edit, but Riseup is privacy-focussed.

Isn’t it supposed to be like those riddles where the answer is that the doctor’s a woman?

I use the Firefox extension Untrap on my PC, and every time I go on Youtube it says the extension’s slowing the browser down. I use Invidious on an old tablet when I go to bed, and I just have to refresh now and again to get it working, but there are far fewer instances on the list, I’ve noticed.

God, finally someone else is saying it. I feel like a stick in the mud whenever this comes up.

you dogged a bullet

😳

Can you give an example? Because I’ve just looked at Luxembourg, Nepal, and Aruba, and they’re all littered with named buildings and landmarks. Pyongyang even has a fair bit filled in.

Skoda

They’re Czech. The name even has a little thing on the S, officially.

If we ditched the daft names?

“Dad’s awfully noisy in the toilet these days!” “It’s his new bidet! He says it cleans his arse to the bone!” “To the bone, you say?”

To the bone, you say!

To the bone, you say?

And you’ll have fewer apps installed on your phone, which is something I’ve come to value lately.

I think you can find a middle ground between “I assume they’d come and politely discuss it” and “I think constantly whether my every single minor action can offend someone”.

You still occasionally see people talk about their weight in stone, but many just use kilos now, anecdotally.

In my experience, if you’re looking to lose a bit of flab for the summer, you’d say you want to lose six pound to half a stone (which is 7lb) or whatever, but if you go the gym regularly and keep an extremely keen eye on your weight, or if you like to think you do, you use kilos. As a rule, you’d use imperial for eyeballing or for measuring things with a bit of play, but you’d use metric if you need precision.

Peppers are fruits! In botanical terms anyway.