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Hossenfeffer

@ Hossenfeffer @feddit.uk

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Look, you get born, you keep your head down, and then you die. If you're lucky.

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  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • In the UK you can see what year most cars were bought based on the license plate. I absolutely give Tesla owners the benefit of the doubt if it was bought before this year - although Musk showed something of his true personality in 2018.

    But the other day I saw a dude driving a Tesla Y with a '25 plate and I absolutely judged him for buying a car fronted by an actual nazi.

  • What was the worst hotel you ever stayed at?

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  • Must be a Bruges thing. I stayed in the Ibis last year and while it wasn't a complete horror story it was pretty awful with 1980s decor, stains on the walls, wires hanging out of the wall. I think they must be shuttering it or something because reception and breakfast were in the attached Novotel. I'd certainly never book an Ibis again.

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  • Brumblebury Zoibbbble checking in!

  • Do you find protest fun?

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  • Back in the day I participated in poll tax protests (fuck Thatcher) and later in some Reclaim the Streets protests.

    The poll tax ones were quite tense. What with that and the miners there was a lot of political anger at the time.

    The latter were much more fun and often had a chill family feel to them. Such a mix of people from families with small kids to crusties to clubbers with kick ass sound systems. Occasionally you’d see a couple of the “fuck a copper” brigade but they were mostly chill.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • Just remembered another thing he taught me which should help with standing starts.

    Doing a hill start, you pop it into first gear with the clutch down while still on the hand brake.

    Give it some revs (not a huge amount, and how much exactly will come with practice) and slowly start to come off the clutch. What you’re looking at is the front of the bonnet. As you get to the biting point the bonnet of the car will lift slightly. At that point you should be able to take it off the hand brake without rolling back.

    Same thing if you need to do a standing reverse start on a slope, only this time you’re looking for the bonnet to dip a little.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • A looooong time ago I learned to drive.

    Figuring out the clutch was just a single driving lesson. He took me to a road which was basically a long hill with no traffic around. He got me to head up the hill in first gear, then to slowly start depressing the clutch until we stopped moving. Then he got me to just play with lowering the clutch more (we slowly start to roll back), lifting the clutch (we start to crawl forward), adding some more throttle and then catching and holding it on the clutch again, rolling back slightly, crawling forward slowly, and again, and again - all while listening to the engine note so I could hear just before we stalled. We spent about half an hour on that hill and by the time we left it I had pretty much mastered holding the car on the clutch.

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  • Not trying to pick a fight here.

    I’m genuinely curious how TikTok has changed society. I don’t use it, but then nor does my teenage daughter. I get that it is/was popular, and changed the way people consume some kinds of content, but I don’t see that it changed society in any fundamental way.

  • Do you ever use words from different countries?

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  • Oui!

  • All right music fans, what's your favorite band/musician and how many times have you seen them live?

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  • Alabama 3. I saw them lots of times in little pub venues and playing non-main stages at festivals in the mid to late 90's.

    Blew my mind when I went to live in the US in 1999, put the TV on, and one of their tracks turned out to be the opening theme tune to this relatively new show called The Sopranos.

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  • Saw a thing about the world's most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.

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  • I was furious with my wife in a dream recently and it did take a couple of hours for me to be alright with her the next morning.

  • Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV

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  • "At least the fucking bullet wasn't venemous!"

  • 'Arrest me': California's governor unfazed by threats of arrest from Trump administration official

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  • I look forward to Trump having this guy arrested shortly followed by Arnie coming out of retirement, tooling up, and taking the fight to the orange man. "I told you I'd be back!"

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  • Commodore Pet 4016

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    Then a Commodore 64. Loved that machine.

  • Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On

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  • You, sir, are a gentleman, a scholar, and a poet.

  • How would you prove that you're from the future?

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  • I’d stand on street corners telling everyone who passed by that one day people would be putting pineapple on pizzas.

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  • Shoes on. I didn’t splash out on these handmade hobnail boots just to leave them at the door.

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  • Superhero content fans, what kind of media do you want to see in the future?

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  • Flip side of the question: I don't want to see multiverse/alternate universe/alternate timelines. At best they cheapen the stakes, at worst they remove them entirely. Oh noes, Wolverine has died but no matter we have a gazillion spare Wolverines, we'll just use one of them. Oh noes, Earth #2471893 might be destroyed but no matter there's an infinite number of other Earths. Etc.