Fleppensteyn @ Fleppensteijn @feddit.nl

Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn

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They were. I remember going to a shop with my father to spend his checks before the banks phased them out. Even I had a checkbook that came with my children's bank account.

I think the phasing out happened in the 90s but apparently banks still accepted checks until 2021.

Yeah it's mostly Indian recruiters. Just hear them out when they contact you. They actually need people. When I apply for vacancies, I got nothing. Never heard about payback schemes or anything.

I'm normally not very lucky. Maybe it helps to look like you're not that interested?

In-person interviews are not a thing anymore since the pandemic, from what I've seen. LinkedIn is the place to go. Recruiters will schedule a call and they'll usually remind you an email is on the way.

I don't want to work. I want to take a year off. Yet, I got a job interview and I'm not even looking.

or for the selfish reason that it would make your socioeconomic situation more difficult?

No. My kid will grow up in a bad place and I won't have time to spend with it. I don't have a pet for the same reasons.

Population growth is not my main concern. If I have to live in a filthy city, work full-time and barely have money to support myself, I don't see why I should consider having a child.

People that don't want children usually think of the potential wellbeing of a future human. People that do want children, usually do so for selfish reasons. It makes sense people who think of environment or other people are more lefties.

Probably because being efficient and effective are not profitable. One requirement for my studies was being present. All those boring hours spent looking out of the window can be counted to study hours. That won't work when you can work in your own pace at home.

I tried Heliboard but went back to SwiftKey. It's the best keyboard I've found. It's from Microsoft but I have internet access disabled in Tracker Control and it works fine with multiple languages, swipe and emoji.

Morning:

Make a coffee, grab a yogurt, back to bed to eat and drink. Get up, get dressed. Turn on laptop. Lie down in bed with laptop. Coffee and a cigaret on the balcony.

Evening:

Brush my teeth. Undress. Lie down. Watch a show/movie. (Try to) sleep.

I'm not in the Netherlands. Where I live, potatoes were 1.20 eur per kilo last year so I don't buy it. Normal price should be 40 cents.

I go almost every day. It's a good reason to get out and go for a walk.

What I buy mostly depends on prices/discounts. And only what I can carry in my backpack. Potatoes when affordable, otherwise rice; frozen veggies, ham/cheese, bubbly water, beer.

I've never understood why Americans want to come over and tell us it's "racist" to dress up as a character that happens to look too much like an African in their eyes

When a lake or river has this color, we call it blue

I did round up a few times. It seems strange to base the tip off a percentage.

20 odd years ago, getting tired of job interviews and the one time I looked scruffy and unshaven was when they hired me

English speakers always seem to like mierenneuken: nitpicking, or literally, ant-fucking.

Or maybe fokker, meaning breeder (and a famous last name; and speaking of names, we have first names such as Fokko and Fokje).

I don't know how common it is, but when I grew up, being smart was basically an insult. Not being posh, but any sign of smartness. I was already a quiet kid, which made me a target (because quiet people are smart? My grades surely disagreed), using "difficult" vocabulary is definitely something you had to avoid; kids better not find out you have "smart" interests like computers or reading or something or you'd be ridiculed.

Maybe people carry their hate with them in adulthood but just don't show it so much (until it's time to vote 🙂)

That sounds too demanding

Chairs and tables. Why do I have to squeeze my thighs between the chair and the dinner table and then bend down awkwardly when I eat to not splatter all over? Why are chairs so high and tables so low? Just put the table higher so the food is closer to my mouth and why do we even need chairs anyway?

Milk cartons suck now. In the 90s, we could fold and push to open. Why do we need scissors to open them now? Oh and half of them now have a plastic lid in the middle so you can't even pour out the last drops anymore.

I agree. It's a loan word from Dutch and after 200 years, it's about time you give it back.