u/huescaragon

Context: recently banned, setting up a new account on my old phone (not the one I was banned on), location off, using mobile hotspot not wifi. Downloaded from apkmirror not Google play. I've tried burner numbers from various EU countries that don't require face verification bc that seems to have worked for others. I'm not using a VPN. But when I enter the burner number (even though it's a brand new number) I'm getting error messages saying like "too many verification requests, please try again later". Anyone know how to get past this? Do you just have to wait a couple of days or what?

I live in an HMO and unlike every other HMO I've ever lived in, the landlord is not allowing me to get another key cut. This is apparently due to a horror story the company director was told about a previous prospective tenant being robbed by a prior tenant who still had a spare key to her room, so it's meant to be a security thing.

This policy obviously makes no sense because if I wanted to do that I'd just lie and say I'd lost my key in order to get another one. The actual reason I want to get a spare key cut is the same reason everyone gets one, because at some point I'm going to lose mine and get locked out.

The contract says permission to get spare keys cut cannot be unreasonably withheld, which is what I feel they are doing. If they still won't change their mind, do I have any chance of changing the policy if I go to the housing ombudsman or report them to the council or something?

My DOB on this google account is already set to a date in 1999 so I don't know what's going on. Anyone experienced this or know how to fix?

What's the best, least clunky way of telling someone (e.g. yourself) to slow down in the sense of calming your thoughts and thinking more slowly and clearly? "Cálmate"? "Ralentiza"? I have doubts about cálmate because it looks like calm down, which might imply they're angry - I'm looking for something that sounds supportive. Thanks!

I've been trying to complain to the BBB about my account being arbitrarily banned but every time I do it says "BBB is not currently accepting complaints from your area". This seems to happen regardless of what zip code I put in, first I tried a version of my UK postcode and then various US zip codes from across the country and it's the same every time. Does anyone know anything about how to bypass this?

Account was banned for absolutely no good reason today. I think I got flagged as a bot for sending the same opening message too many times. The only messages I've sent that could theoretically have been reported were silly light hearted jokes waaaaaay too tame to warrant a ban (yeah I know that sounds like bs but trust me lol). I doubt that was it anyway. Immediately appealed in a panic, the ban was quickly upheld. Send a kind apologetic email like 11 hours ago and haven't heard back since.

If my goal is to get my account back as quickly as possible, how long should I wait before re-contacting them but taking the legal approach? Or should I just submit a BBB complaint straight away? (I'm not American but apparently people have had success with that regardless). I don't wanna blow it but I'm pretty sure a date was on the cards and I wanna message her before she forgets about me lol

Just wondering if this could explain why I got banned because I truly have no idea

Mostly asking because I really am at a loss about what else it could be. Sometimes I screenshot my messages with someone if it led to a date for example because it helps me to have an example of a successful conversation to look back on when talking to matches. Just wondering if there's any chance hinge detected that and thought it was suspicious?

In English to make an assumption or deduction about what happened or didn't happen in the past, you say that it "must/must not have happened". However, in French it seems like it's not so simple. For example:

• Elle n'a pas dû oublier le rendez-vous - she must not have forgotten the appointment
• Il ne doit pas nous avoir vus - he must not have seen us

In the first example, devoir is in the passé-composé, but in the second one you apparently don't say "il n'a pas dû nous avoir vus". Is there a reason for this? Or does it actually mean the same thing either way?

Just curious if anyone has any experience with this one. Their customer service seems to be practically non existent and it feels a bit sketchy

Yo soy inglés, y supongo que los españoles por lo general querrían que México gane el partido contra nosotros lol. Pero, aparte de España, ¿hay países particulares que tienden a recibir más apoyo en España? ¿Portugal, países latinoamericanos etc? Por ejemplo, en Inglaterra diría que soleríamos estar con Escocia, Gales, probablamente Irlanda, y a lo mejor Australia y Nueva Zelanda. Más allá de eso, casi no hay tendencias, salvo que si hay no favorito, se está con él.

When should you mention a part of the body with the possessive adjective mi/tu/su etc vs the more common way of using the indirect object pronoun? Here's an example I just saw:

> Le colocaron las manos sobre el pecho y taparon su cara con un trapo negro

Is there any reason the way of describing parts of the body alternates here?

It's well known that wages are lower in the north of England than the south, but the cost of living is also lower, so do we have any solid data as to which is really materially poorer in terms of purchasing power? There are isolated stats on this (Cornwall is the poorest area in England, London has the highest rate of child poverty etc) but right across the board, is there an answer to this question?

These all roughly mean even though/even if in English, but what are the differences in how you use them?

Being vegan is like having children that you love with all your heart but you're surrounded by people who eat kids and they'd hate you if you talked about your kids all the time so you just don't talk about them. You know that no one would like you if you talked about it and you also know that it's the most important thing in the world, but you can't talk about it. You'd be an outcast if you did. So you just have to restrain yourself, every day, constantly. You have to trick yourself into forgetting how much it bothers you, because if you don't you'll go insane. Sometimes it slips out because it's a hard thing to keep bottled up. Most of us are happy enough because we've learnt to forget for long enough to enjoy life for a while, before we remember again.

God bless every preachy, insufferable vegan. This fight is the most important in the world by a million miles and it's not remotely close. It's a thankless task so I just want to say thank you for everything you do.

I can't figure out why "de las" is in this sentence instead of it just being "hay tiendas llamadas...". Can anyone explain?

I'm trying to understand the meaning of "por" when used with position words like abajo, debajo de etc. I think I might have figured out how it works: por abajo/por debajo de implies that the movement is taking place below, whereas "abajo" alone is used when the direction/destination is downwards/below:

Pasamos por debajo del puente. Los oímos pasar por abajo. Cuando llegues abajo, avísame ¡Ven abajo! (technically correct) ¡Baja! (more natural version of "¡Ven abajo!")

I guess the only thing left that I'm not sure of is whether you'd use "debajo de" when talking about movement to a location that is under something; let's say you're holding an umbrella and it's just started raining, and you want your friend who's standing nearby to come under the umbrella so they don't get wet - could you say something like "¡Ven debajo del paraguas, rápido!" Or maybe you want to get out of the rain - would you say something like "Voy a correr debajo de ese techo de ahí"? The area under the roof/umbrella is the DESTINATION, so you wouldn't use "por debajo de" right?