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Londoner’s 26-item supermarket receipt goes viral for perfect alphabetical order (www.standard.co.uk)
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Graeme Bowman went viral after posting a framed picture of the receipt on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mr Bowman thought about making a curated shopping list more than a decade ago after he found a “vaguely amusing” receipt which read “hair gel, hair gel, newspaper”.

Proper mad lad there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Speaking of, it's a shame we don't have an r/madlads community here. The one on sh.itjust.works seems to be about corn? It's also dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see - start it.

The one on sh.itjust.works seems to be about corn?

Urm, nope, can't explain that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The idea of being a mod fills me with anxiety tbh. I also don't have enough material to fuel it. I'm extremely bad at posting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been a mod of casualuk and got one report over the last few months because somebody posted a legitimate link to Chinese social media which two people mistook for spam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That was me, I hit the nuke button cos the weird emojis freaked me out. Glad the cooler heads prevailed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea of being a mod fills me with anxiety tbh.

There's nothing much to it and Admins get reports too so we can keep an eye on things.

I also don’t have enough material to fuel it.

Just checked out r/madlads and there looks to be plenty of it out there.

I’m extremely bad at posting.

Practice makes perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's nothing much to it and Admins get reports too so we can keep an eye on things.

Responsibility like that makes me uncomfortable and I'm trying to keep my Lemmy experience a positive distraction rather than a burden. It's why I also mostly stay out of news and politics subs.

Just checked out r/madlads and there looks to be plenty of it out there.

Well sure, but I don't necessarily want to be just stealing people's content from Reddit.

Practice makes perfect.

Look I am trying. I've made some posts lately!

...At least I try my best to comment a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

No worries, do what you are comfortable with.

I may start a mad lads community one of these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

r/foundpaper could also work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t understand why “hair gel, hair gel, newspaper” is funny 🙁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you this didn’t help me at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same reason that badge badger snake is funny

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's just something that sparked a train of thought. Probably because it didn't say "2x hair gel" and made a list instead. One which he realized he could curate into something interesting.