• tourist@lemmy.world
    542·
    6 months ago

    It’s a public holiday today in South Africa. (Good Friday)

    So I came up with a cheeky dad joke

    “What holiday is it? Workers day? Freedom day?”

    “Good Friday”

    “Every Friday is a good Friday”

    I got two chuckles

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      That wild. I can’t even do 4 reps of 45kg barbell overhead press. Then again I am quite a small person. I only weigh 57kg.

      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        6 months ago

        Yeah thats the flip side. I am a very heavy dude and it ain’t all muscle that’s for sure but I’m slowly working towards my goals.

        • scorpious@lemmy.world
          6·
          6 months ago

          Awesome, congrats!

          Remember, form, form, FORM. Please make sure you research thoroughly and/or get a pro consult on proper form. Great tip I got once is to think of each movement as “practicing the move,” getting really good at doing each exercise while maintaining perfect form.

          Older you will thank younger you for every moment spent on alignment, balance, weight distribution, etc. and building a foundation that lasts you a lifetime!

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
    351·
    6 months ago

    I purchased a new (to me) car the other day. Despite my age, this is the first time I’ve done this all on my own and I’m geeked over my credit score. ☺️

  • Dandroid@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    6 months ago

    I fixed my refrigerator. 2 months ago I was changing the filter, and I was too lazy to turn off the water first, so the pressure was too high and it didn’t seat properly. When I turned it, I broke the filter receptacle. I called Samsung, and they said they’ll fix it, but they can’t tell me how much it will cost until they make the work order, and at that point I can’t cancel it if it’s too expensive. I asked if they could ballpark, like $100 or $1000. They said they couldn’t. So I told them to go fuck themselves. I ordered the part on Amazon for $60. I had to disassemble a decent amount of the refrigerator to get to the part. But I did it! I swapped out the part and everything works perfectly. All in all, it took about 2 hours. There were multiple videos on the internet on how to do it.

    Fuck Samsung.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 months ago

      I’m never buying a Samsung appliance again for other reasons but I’ll add this to the list. Great work, hope they go bankrupt since they certainly won’t quit being little shits.

      • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I don’t recommend LG either. Mine is on at least its third compressor and it’s less than 8 years old. And I know two other people who have had the same experience… and I only know like five people.

  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    6 months ago

    Restarted my show / podcast yesterday, 1 year after losing my co-host (and best friend) to cancer. Moving forward, without forgetting him.

    Some would see this as a big step. It’s one of the hundreds of things that I’ve been doing to move forward…

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    26·
    6 months ago

    This week has been rough for me. My nervous system is fucked up for various reasons.

    Normally I drink one cup of coffee per day. But I had an Uber passenger whom I took to his job at a convenience store. He said “Can I offer you some coffee?” so I came in and grabbed a cup (my second for the day).

    That was Monday evening.

    I was then awake until wednesday night. I could not catch a fucking wink of sleep for that whole time.

    What the fuck, brain??

    Well, Tuesday and Wednesday I obviously didn’t drive, because I’m not going to put my passengers in that situation, of having a sleep deprived Uber driver.

    Finally Wednesday I realized how I could knock myself out. I cooked a big thing of pasta and ate a ton of it, and sure enough having a big meal knocked me out.

    Fucked up, but I’m proud that (a) I didn’t risk my passengers’ safety by giving in to the temptation to drive (I really need the money so it was tempting), and (b) found a way to fall asleep finally.

    I know this story doesn’t make sense. I really wish the way my brain worked made sense. It would make life so much easier.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      6 months ago

      I struggle with insomnia due to bipolar. This sort of reaction seems familiar and atypical. If it happens again, maybe see someone. Good on you for staying safe.

  • mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 months ago

    I’ve got a 5(A) on my math(algebra+geometry) exam. Before that I’ve always had a 4(B). I’m very proud of myself :)

  • NONE@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 months ago

    I published the first chapter of a fanfiction and someone already liked it.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    24·
    6 months ago

    I helped a stranger at Costco load up a giant grill into his truck. I have no idea how he would have managed it on his own.

    • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
      6·
      6 months ago

      Funny thing I’ve been driving for 30+ years, and have never had a formal driving test:

      • Permit at 15: No tests, only restriction was to have a licensed passenger in-vehicle

      • License at 16: Had driver’s ed in school, state’s driving test waved, and license transferred to other states without any new driving test

      • Motorcycle license: Took a safety course while in the military, state added endorsement without any test, which also transferred out-of-state

      • Heavy vehicles: Trained on military 5-ton/deuce+0.5/Frontloaders/HMMWVs - all kinds of heavy equipment - no formal tests, only unit sign-off (even on civilian roads)

      • The kicker: I now live in a US state where a driver license is good with no re-testing till age 64

      Gonna suck when I actually do have to take a test. Hopefully there will be sane infra to go completely driverless by the time I get that old.

  • kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org
    22·
    6 months ago

    Managed to get myself referred to a psychiatrist/psychotherapists for my complex issues after having previously done counselling/CBT with very little help in effectiveness of my emotional wellbeing due to having a complex past. Honestly can’t really believe it’s taken for me to get health insurance to be able to get help for it after having tried to get help via state healthcare but they’re entirely useless and only offer counselling/cbt within short terms and discharge you if they can’t help you anymore ;-;

    It’s been such a slow process and it’s had a huge effect on my university education negatively, due to it but honestly I’ve haven’t felt more optimistic than ever tbh despite having days where it does get difficult.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 months ago

      That is fantastic news. Sounds like it’s been a long journey and now your persistence is about to pay off.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      6 months ago

      Speaking from decades of therapy, keep it up. You wouldn’t believe the changes that can occur over the long run.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago
    (disabled in a weird way from thoracic spinal damage) No matter how impossible it seems, every time I have something take me off my physical therapy routine of mostly riding a bike every day, I drag myself back out and force myself to hold a minimum fitness level at any cost.

    I got sick and a week and a half of inactivity has me at 3 days on the bike in the last 6, and I’m back to 16 miles, 2 days ago. I’m about to leave for 26.

    After over 10 years of spending almost all day, every day, in bed laying very reclined, riding a bike is my only real physical activity. This is a strange state to exist in long term. I atrophy extremely quickly, probably because I was in race shape when I was disabled. While I am no longer at that level, I never lost my legs, very low resting heart rate, or lung capacity.

    It hurts so bad each time I struggle back to ~30 miles daily. I can’t do anything else at the same time, and take Tylenol at max doses for little relief. I can’t even manage to read much or cook right now. However, I think I’m already over the hump for this one. I slept 4.5 hours last night compared to ~3.5 the nights before.

    Right now I’m procrastinating. It feels impossible, like there is no way I should be going out and riding a bike, but I’m going to put down this phone, kit up, and make myself coast down the hill; mentally picking one little target after another; lying to myself dozens of times about how far I must go before I can just turn around and go home.