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  • Her name is Jeanie though, which I’d pronounce differently to Jenny… unless it’s one of those awful new age spellings of a classic name.

    Fwiw Jennifer is a fine name and people can figure out the best way to shorten it for their circumstances. Maybe living in a rural community with a lot of donkeys would affect it.










  • steeznson@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldnever lost
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    3 months ago

    I live in a student neighbourhood and when we moved here I thought, “Well my partner and I are still in our 30s and don’t have a family; we’ll be up drinking at the same times the students are.”

    I was so wrong. GenZ are strange - they don’t go out like we used to, and instead have early morning alarms for the gym. It’s a coinflip whether the alarm will wake them up though, sometimes their 6AM alarm is going for several hours and others you hear them get up.

    Could be worse I guess but now I feel bad having my lame middle aged friends back to the flat after the pubs close.


  • There is a weird inverse relationship between how long audiences will wait to give a show a chance, and how long execs (specifically Netflix) will give the show.

    I think there must be more to the Netflix example. Maybe they are monitoring other data points like web searches or show mentions on fora to quantify buzz and work out if the show has hit potential with target markets. Either that or they get some new opportunity for creative accounting with each show.









  • I’ve got a degerative disease called Anklyosing Spondylitis, bit of a tongue twister but also my pelvis is splintering due to arthritus associated with the condition so very painful. I find dicofenac works pretty well for flare ups but sometimes I’ll switch over to booze if I’m going out since that works better. NB: I don’t mix booze with the NSAID if I can avoid it, might just intersect at the tail end.

    Opiates work better for the pain too but that’s a whole other can of worms I try to avoid opening.