casualfribsday

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[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Short answer: yes—Wikipedia: Artistic Roller Skating. I’m guessing your country’s governing body (e.g. USA Rollersports) could direct you to some if you were interested.

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You can, but you may have to bounce around servers a bit to find one that works. I’ve had good luck with servers in Norway (not 100%, but better than other countries).

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

As a dog owner in a city full of smokers, I can verify that this is true.

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know about ”most people in the workforce.” I’m in my mid-30s, and not only do I remember it once or twice from my childhood, I also encountered it once in 2013 (at a brewpub somewhere in New York). You’re right, though, that it becomes less of a thing with each passing year.

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Except when you’re walking on a road, you should walk on the opposite side of vehicle traffic.

I take back my post, THIS is my hill to die on. Please note that it applies to any mixed use path where one type of traffic is markedly slower, so pedestrians on the road, obviously, but also walkers on bike paths.

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I frequent a bakery that sells the Swedish treat called a semla. No one who works there speaks Swedish, so when I ask for ”two semlor” (pl.), they repeat it right back to me ”two semlas”. Sigh. They have a very finite number of foreign language menu items—they can learn the plurals. (Don’t get me wrong, if ”semlas” is the price of semlor I don’t have to make, I am willing to pay it, but boy does it annoy me.)

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

And that is exactly how I ended up never watching Game of Thrones.

[–] casualfribsday@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I’m neither a writer nor a scientist, but there’s a copy of this on my bookshelf and I wish I could lend it to you: Deadly Doses: The Writer’s Guide to Poisons