Fellow Dvorak. It’s great for typos on touchscreens. Too many times I’ve mistyped whole and all.

I had that problem at first, but it wasn’t too hard to adapt.

I guess I’m just a jammy dodger, I’ve never seen one!

As a Dvorak user, shift+ins, ctrl+del and ctrl+ins are my friends.

I’ve started taking photos of wherever I’ve put something important away for “safety”, because I always end up forgetting otherwise. I have a special folder in my gallery for this.

For some reason I read is as gambling too and didn’t notice till I read your comment. Weird.

I’ve been using em dashes for years. I learnt the alt code for them, because using hyphens for dashes looks awful (before that I’d do the double hyphen for an em dash). Also, like me, I notice you put spaces around the em dashes, which is apparently incorrect, but also according to me is the right way to do it.

We don’t have that brand here, so whenever people would quote that slogan online, I thought it seemed kind of sinister, like a quote from a horror film/game. I was so disappointed to find out it’s just a snack brand :(

I’ve never got one of those! And I’m just using my browser’s built in ad blocker. Are they still doing it?

Here in the UK, I used to read about Americans having free local calls in the computing mags. We had to pay local rate for our dial up. We had to wait till weekends and evenings to get off peak call rates. Freeserve was the first ISP here that gave no subscription charges for dial up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeserve

They later brought in something called Freeserve Hometime, which iirc was freephone dial up during off peak. I renamed the icon to Freeserve Downtime, because we used to get connection issues. No one in my family thought it was funny.

“Sorry, got d/c’d” “Gotta go, my mum wants to use the phone”

Good times. I miss old school Internet.

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Nah, the correct answer is “You don’t LOOK autistic.”

I’m having the exact same issue. Never taught me any life skills. My mum was told by the GP to get me tested for aspergers (as it was then) when I was 15, and she sat on that for over 10 years. Meanwhile I grew up hating myself for not being able to do things that my peers could. Things got worse when I had to get a job and I didn’t have the social knowledge to pass interviews. My self esteem got worse, my anxiety ruled my life. I would keep attracting men who treated me like dirt and I couldn’t let go because I was so desperate for someone to love and accept me.

She passed away three months ago and now my dad wants to kick me out and I have no freaking idea how to survive in the adult world. I don’t know how to go about renting or setting up utilities, I struggle with navigation so my fear of getting lost stops me going places. I’m going to have to leave London because I can’t afford a place here. All I get is, when are you moving out? Dad wants to sell the house. It’s not fair to deprive your sisters of their share of the house. No offers of help. No acknowledgement that decades of my mum wrapping me in cotton wool and controlling me has left me dysfunctional.

Gute Nacht!

口寂しい

As low as that, eh? I got my first mobile (Nokia 3310) in 2003, and I felt like I was the last of my peers to get one (my classmates had mobiles around 1999, I remember Snake being big during my GCSE years). I expect at that time they were just more common among millennials than the older generations? I’m sure I was the only one in my year group from Year 11 to the end of Year 13 to not have a mobile.

You’re right. First I was autistic, THEN I got a telescope. Evostar 90mm refractor, thank you for asking.

For those who haven’t already watched this, they managed to get Amazon driver wee to be an Amazon bestseller. There are chapter markers if you just want that part:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GdHYM7QT9kw

(Been boycotting Amazon since winter 2020 and I don’t miss it one bit.)

We barely had mobile phones 20 years ago? You sure about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4KK-gh0FM

And the trainer.

The dress was always blue and black to me (blue and copper tinged black really), but this one keeps switching from grey and mint to pink and white and then back again.