That’s exactly where his name comes from :)
That’s exactly where his name comes from :)
Right he’s looking like an old wise Chinese kung fu master ^^
He’s been adopted by my best friends who also have a an older bengal female. I will visit them in a couple of weeks, can’t wait!
we named our first electric car “White Fire” as an hommage to the launch roller coaster “Blue Fire” in the theme park Europa Park (Germany) near where we live.
In January we gave back the white car to the leasing company and got a gray one, which is now named “Greyfire”.
Nice that’s also exactly how I browse Lemmy, so much variety compared to only focusing on communities you subscribed to.
I watched a video (Invidious) yesterday detailing the type of coins they used before 1971 in the UK and its empire, and it was actually insane.
1 Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pennies, with coins for 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 6 pennies, 1, 2, 2.5, 5 Shillings and banknotes for the Pounds, and each of these coins had 5 or more different names
How the eff do you gain 400 lbs?! That’s roughly 180kg!
the customary unit for body weight in the UK is, however, the stone https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+stone+(unit)
Salt is pretty good, but yeah, mayo it is
hey don’t belittle technological advancements in germany, people here at are the forefront of innovation: https://simple-fax.de/fax-ki
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Haha don’t get me started with US coins, I also have a fun story there: we arrived fresh off JFK Airport in NYC and headed to our rental apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. It was pretty far from the a subway station so we got a connecting bus to get us closer.
The next day, we thought of taking the same bus line to head to Manhattan, except our party of four ended up being expected to pay 4x $2.75 in a machine inside the bus… in coins. That’s 44 quarters. Yup, don’t have that on day 2 of my stay. So we walked 6 blocks.
I visited the UK back in 2022 and I was pretty baffled at how you can universally “tap to pay”. We visited a pub on the coast of Dorset where they wouldn’t even accept cash as a mean of payment. All in all it was nice, because it meant not having to deal with a foreign currency at all, we spent 10 days just using electronic payment, so as a tourist I think it was a good experience.
In Germany, where I live, you’re basically getting nowhere without cash, it’s still very difficult to eat out or buy small food items like bread or a sandwich. There’s also a culture of paying cash for many things, including pricier items like a second hand car! Shop cashiers usually don’t even blink if you try to pay with a 100€ bill (except if you’re coming super early and they don’t have change available yet). It’s not unusual for me to end up drawing a quarter to half my monthly salary in cash.
I first disliked it when I moved from France, but now I think it’s actually good for the society. You always have some change to tip a waiter or give to a beggar, a coin for the cart at the supermarket, get something from a vending machine… Also I live in a very quiet area so getting mugged is very unlikely, making it not so scary to carry cash around.
Thank you 🥰 I’ll do anything for her that’s for sure! The photo was taken yesterday, on her 16th birthday
Yeah we call her our little suricate! She got an ear infection a few years ago and after the surgery her ear structure collapsed. She however still hears well and I help her every week with the cleaning (her favorite moment)
I love when there are solutions for every weird use case ^^
It would be a blow to render this typing method slightly slower, definitely a deal breaker 😏
I found those:
Underscore . . _ _ . _
Addition . _ . _ .
Subtraction _ . . . . _
Multiplication _ . . _
Division _ _ _ . . .
Equal _ . . . _
Right Parenthesis _ . _ _ . _
Left Parenthesis _ . _ _ .
But this isn’t enough for programming, square and curly brackets, carets, ampersand, pipe, tilda… I think it’s gonna be pretty challenging
Tattoo in the ear or chip under the skin that can be read by any veterinarian.
That’s where i’d head, if a cat that would linger several days in an area, with signs of sickness, dehydration or malnourishment. But this one was super fluffy and clean, it didn’t cross my mind a single second it would be stray.
But like i say, different countries, different rules. In Australia it would be caught immediately because of local laws.
I’m not argumenting with that, just saying it’s normal here. Taking this cat in would be blatant theft
Meow traveller! My tummy has been empty lately and I require the finest crunchy snacks of the land. Come back with trout or salmon flavored Dreamies and I shall reward you handsomely! Nya~~