Ah!!! Makes perfect sense. Thank you!

I don’t get this (as I do use British English). Could you explain?

Myself and a friend decided to share a cigarette in the toilets one day. This was fairly common practice way back then. You’d get someone to look out and they would cough if a teacher was coming. It wasn’t flawless but it has a high success rate.

So we’re utterly destroying one cigarette between the two of us as quickly as we can and there’s a cough followed by loud banging on the door. We’re rumbled.

“OPEN UP. I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE”

So we open the door, sheepishly.

“WHAT WERE YOU BOYS DOING IN THERE?”

Now we’re both confused and look at each other. I timidly reply:

“Smoking, sir”

“WELL I HOPE THAT’S ALL YOU WERE DOING”

and the man stormed off. We couldn’t believe our luck. Smoking apparently A-OK once you’re not being gay.

This is one where the passing of time will really be the only thing that helps. A breakup like that is essentially a grieving process in my experience. When I was younger and still dating I found that trying to lose myself in something (anything) helped after a painful one like this. Movies, games, walks, time with friends, reading - whatever switches your brain off from the grief for a while.

For what it’s worth, it sounds like you absolutely made the right call. Being with someone that’s not emotionally there for you (and in particular, anyone who is belittling) is very, very wearing and detrimental to both your mental health and self confidence. It can be a tough call, but breaking up is the right one.

When you’ve had a chance to gather yourself you will hopefully meet someone more suitable who will be emotionally available, empathetic and fight for your relationship.

Delighted to hear this. I subbed for actually uplifting news and the schadenfreude political posts were becoming tiresome.

That’s really cool. Hadn’t ever seen it before.

48 or 128? (rubber keys?)

Pretty sexy looking but obviously limited. What did you use it for?

One of the things I remember shocking me in first year computer science was the number of people with zero home computer experience. Like they were raw dogging their college course basically.

Obviously this was a long time ago when computers were very expensive compared to today (and people here were poorer).

What a blessing. Absolutely top tier machine.

You know, you could up your viewership by at least 33% by posting a link ;)

That’s a bummer. I find a lot of toxicity in YouTube comments that are just wildly disconnected from my experience with actual humans in the real world.

I think that’s one of the things I really like about Lemmy in that folks will generally respectfully disagree or be kind to each other. Generally.

Not too shabby!

Oh that’s a beauty. I unfortunately took mine apart after many years and while trying to understand electronics a bit at a young age.

I very clearly remember there being a massive chip inside. Could be the largest one I’ve ever seen tbh unless my memory is playing tricks on me. It was a very long time ago.

Edit: definitely will look at the Donkey Kong one later. Presume you’ve seen the king of Kong?

Oh that’s cool! Had a look at the galaxian one and I got a big blast of nostalgia as I had astro wars that you highlighted!

That’s very kind of you too! I’m sure my mum would be OK with it after an initial once over. These kind of things have historical importance I feel.

So she got back to me and thinks she still has them. Unfortunately they are buried in an absolutely massive pile of unorganised boxes in my sister’s house box room. I think it would be a full day of effort to go through them tbh and it’s going to be a long time before I have that kind of time available. Life is hectic.

I’ll keep it in mind though. Thanks again. I do appreciate the kindness.

Didn’t realise this was a feature. Just enabled it.

You are at +1 now.

Edit: +4 after reading the comments. I’m a prolific upvoter.

Damn I thought I was doing well with my 21 year old zanussi.

That is a laudable goal. Hard thing to pass on but so valuable. Very best of luck with it.

Thank you!