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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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  • Computers were still exciting. And hadn't been enshitified.

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  • £20.

    I was in Chess Club at school (I know, I know, quite the jock!). We played chess. Then we got bored of chess and played backgammon. And backgammon without a bet is dull, so we started gambling. Then gambling became the point of playing. Then we moved on to poker.

    I remember one poker hand. The deck was made up of about five different packs of cards. Jokers, black twos, one-eyed jacks, bedside queens, and suicide kings were all wild. I ended up with a hand of five aces. Two were real aces, three were wild cards. I had to raise. I mean, how can you not raise with five aces? What is the point of playing poker if you don’t raise with five aces?

    Sadly, two other people also had five aces and one of them had three real aces and only two wild cards so they won the hand.

    I lost £20 on that single hand and hated every single moment of playing it because somehow I knew, deep down, that I was going to lose. This was in the mid-1980s, and that was a lot of money for me back then and there were other, far better things I could have dropped it on - LPs were about £5 back then, video games £10 (or £2 for a budget game).

    But, it was a great early lesson on the ‘gotta keep going’ mindset of the gambler combined with the certainty that I was going to lose my money. I’m glad it happened, despite the short term remorse I felt immediately afterwards.

  • How do you do a fried egg sandwich?

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  • Sausage, fried egg, and Reggae Reggae Sauce sarnie. The name of it is also the recipe.

  • Polo is hockey on horseback. What other sports would be better with the addition of horses?

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  • Ski jump, obv.

  • Have you ever had a time a food so good it "converted" you?

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  • I ran away from home to live in the woods when I was five. My mum packed me sandwiches. I didn't get very far because I wasn't allowed to cross the road on my own.

  • What’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?

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  • Came here looking for this. Insane that someone thought of it, someone agreed with it, and someone approved it.

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  • Woof.

  • Crrreeeak

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  • Nah. I have a layer of abstraction. He will assess any aunauthorised house sounds. Harshly.

  • What are some actors that can only play themselves?

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  • First one who came to my mind. Not sure Luke Wilson is very much better.

  • What do you do simply for the love of it and not for validation?

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  • Any other Windows or Mac users here?

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  • Commodore Basic represent!

  • What was your experience with organized crime like?

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  • I went on a ‘Business Enterprise’ programme back in the UK in the very early ‘90s. Basically it was how to run a business 101. Six sessions on different things: accounting, HR, etc. etc.

    One of the other guys on the course turned out to be the son of the biggest coke dealer in the city.

    He was a nice kid. By the end of the course a bunch of us had bonded and someone invited us all to a house party.

    The son of the coke dealer turned up with a briefcase literally full of cocaine. That was a fucking awesome party, let me tell you.

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  • Oh, and if you like the CDK choreograhy, but this 'yeah, it's good but they cheat with all those cuts', here's the live version. Which is maybe even more impresssive.

  • What's one of your favorite music videos of all time?

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  • Those with a smart watch, which one and how do you use it daily?

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  • Apple Watch 2. I use it for regulating my emotions. Any time my rage needs managing I ask it a simple question like "Battery?" and its complete inability to hear, understand, and respond in less than five attempts really gets the rage pumping.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • Oh, mate, why would you cite Pukka pies as an example of good British food. They're the Kraft dinner macaroni cheese of British pies.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • WTF is 'bark' candy?

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • Shepherd's pie is lamb, Cottage pie is beef.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • I lived in the US for a while and never once had proper fish and chips. Even the 'English themed pubs' didn't do it right.

    But there's some amazing American food and if you're just looking for British fish and chips while abroad you might as well go on a package holiday.