• RedditRefugee69@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    How the fuck are you going to define someone by a pension? Seems like a lot of assumptions and prejudice goin in that definition. Is Pension like a town or something too?

    • ZyQo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Same in Sweden/norway. Pensionär/pensjonist are synonyms for retiree.

    • cfi@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      My understanding is that it’s a British term for retiree. Basically just means elderly

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        11 months ago

        This is correct.
        Still completely irrelevant to the story though (but that’s to be expected in tabloid territory).

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          11 months ago

          I know some safety nets are better than none (and that this is a meme thread I’m dragging down), but don’t fool yourself - millions of older people in the UK go hungry and cold because they can’t afford the basics.

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    11 months ago

    This should be told to all seagulls… Is he also a Florida man?

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      11 months ago

      It is my understanding that it is common in NZ/AUS to leave the “that” out which is implied.

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          11 months ago

          To expand further the implication is that the whole proposition is simple and ‘Simple As’ is the end of the conversation, much like ‘End of’ which likewise suggests that no further analysis is needed.

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        11 months ago

        Having known a few Aussies, I have never heard them leave out “that”. It fits in though with some of the other oddities in dialect they have.

  • Godric@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    I thought Lemmy was left leaning, but the Grammar Nazis, Meme Division are apparently alive and well.

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      11 months ago

      Should have. Not of. Which language is your mother tounge? I see this more often. Is american school that bad?

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        11 months ago

        I may get down voted for this but… seems like nobody spells “tongue” right.

  • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    People really argue about which birds are the best birds, but everyone can agree that seagulls are the worst.

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      Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs described them best. Rats with fucking wings.

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        Turkeys are stupid and angry. I think the only bird less intelligent than a turkey would be a guinea fowl, but they have the edge of just being suicidally dumb. I’ve had a Guinea run away from my car and then back in front of it in confusion, but never have I had one openly charge my vehicle. I’ve had a turkey do that, though.

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          Plus, it’s kinda our fault that they’re everywhere, since city pigeons are actually dometic animals that have gone feral

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        Everything we complain about regarding pigeons are traits humans intentionally bred into them across millenia.

        Pigeons did not invade cities. We abandoned them there, after they helped us coordinate building and connecting them. And we inexplicably treat them like the invaders after abandoning them the second they were no longer deemed useful.

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      11 months ago

      They may be the worst, but someone who kills out of annoyance needs to be on a watchlist.

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      Wait. Are seagulls worse than black swans? Are they worse than Australian Magpies? I mean these surely got to be the top three worst birds, personally I’d prefer a seagull to a swan, but I’ve met enough magpie haters so I wouldn’t be so sure everyone agrees