Toilet policing is a bizarre British cultural ritual I honestly doubt I’ll ever understand, but it’s the sort of quirk that’s probably to be expected from that sort of backwards little shithole country.

You’re absolutely right, somebody totally could do that (instances that don’t respect post/reply deletion requests are already a known issue), and there’s very little you could do about that sort of thing once it’s already happened.

Yeah

I am an anarchist. Make your inferences as to how that answers your questions from there.

I thought that was mastodon. Do they have a lemmy instance as well?

The ringed planet is escape, the crescent is tab, the five-pointed stars are ctrl, the eye is super, and the sparkles are backspace.

Flightless birds, no less. Can’t even claim they had air supremacy.

Bro really got the whole squad laughing with that one:

😐😐😐😐

Hey, that kid’s probably grown up now. Fuck, makes me feel old.

Alright, here’s some basic advice for when you want to have a conversation.

If someone asks you a question that can be suitably answered with one or two words, it can be helpful to append a question of one’s own to the response. Even returning the same question is often sufficient.

Consider:

X: Hey, how’s it going?
Y: Good.

vs

X: Hey, how’s it going?
Y: Not bad, yourself?

Where the former leaves person X having to either carry the conversation onwards by formulating another question on the spot or just disengage, the latter keeps the conversation going by giving them a question from which they can either springboard into a more detailed response or pivot to another topic.

Yeah, in this sort of context it’d just come across as trying to shut down the conversation even harder than it already does.

Yes, you’re right, but I think that was the point of that comment: to demonstrate to OP how single-word answers to questions aren’t helpful when trying to engage in conversation, by mirroring their own behavior back at them.

And yet I own more vibrators than I do smartphones

Not a helpful answer, but I can’t see someone use the word “stoic” without thinking about this greentext

It’s that Tommy Wiseaeu rizz

My opinion is fuck no.

Oi oi matey, u got a loicence for that telly streamin’ service?

My neighbour’s askin’ why I’m limping down the way
And who that fella was who came by yesterday
I quickly turn my face before I start to blush
'Coz frankly there is nothing I can say

Points 2 and 3 are all well and good right up until that person is in a position of power over you.