Pondis

joined 4 days ago
[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The biggest problems are with 50 year old men in a bit of a mid life crisis buying a big, expensive bike, and then getting on a road with no speed limit. They lose control and kill themselves, and if they are unlucky, take someone else with them.

I dont count the racers, its like punching yourself in the balls and wondering why you are walking funny.

[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fairly low to be fair, its too wet and miserable to ride a bike 11 months of the year.

[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Isle of Man. We have farmers that run the government. They are terrible at it, and its stupid, but we dont have power to rename a sea, so they mostly just argue amongst themselves and the rest of us get on with it. Postage takes longer and is more expensive. We cant get a lot of the services the UK gets. We still dont have 5g. That being said its one of the safest places to live in the British isles. So I dont know, swings and roundabouts.

[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I do like weird salty liquorice from the continent! I used to be able to get it in fancy little tins that I could never throw away until my wife made me get rid of them.

 

I wanted sweets from the old days of big glass jars in the corner shop, so I bought aniseed balls and cola cubes online, because they are no where in my sleepy town.

I only briefly glanced at the weights and assumed they were about right, and in my giddy, pre sugared state I glossed over the price.

Imagine my surprise when I got a kilo of each.

I have eaten so many aniseed balls everything tastes like medicine, which I also quite like.