PhobosAnomaly

actually one of their banger songs, fair play.

Yes. As always though, context is key.

I tend to look at it as a see-saw. Run-of-the-mill kindness and general acts good nature sit near the fulcrum of one end of the seesaw. Similarly, a single or very few acts of genuine heroism and selflessness sit right at the far end of the “good” end of the seesaw, providing as much effort the lean towards the “good egg” character trait than the dozens of daily acts.

On the other end of the see-saw, being a general cunt sits near the fulcrum of the “bad” end for me, genuine malicious acts of emotional daaaamage or shithousery sit in the middle, with outright rape; murder; Nickelback fan club membership; and noncery sit at the far end.

So yes, on balance, if someone is habitually a good spud on the daily but happened to get a bit frisky with someone other than their monogamous partner once, I’d still say overall they were a good person but with shit judgement.

Equally, someone like Jimmy Saville or raised millions of pounds for British charities with his fame and stardom appeared to be a stand up guy, but the covert fiddling offsets that almost instantly.

A crude metaphor, but it works for me.

The only minor problem with debit or charge cards in Europe is that the initial preauthorisation amount is actually debited from your account - so if the preauth is £15 or £30 or £40 - regardless of whether you put £1.50 of juice in or £14.99, the £15 is debited until the transaction finalises and the remainder is refunded a few days later.

As much as I like using contactless payment to avoid using an app or an RFID or NFC card, I do have more problems with failed attempts to charge using a bank card.

Using the ChargePlace Scotland card to tap in seems to work way more consistently for whatever reason, across that network.

edit: or get a Type 2 charger in the house, or a granny charger at worst.

I agree - I’m not expert but I know that the mining of rare earth metals and the disposal of some EV components are problematic. It’s not a perfect solution.

That said, better solutions such as fuel cells or hydrogen are still 10-15 years away, and “better” shouldn’t be the enemy of perfect. I’m not particularly car proud and cars tend to last me twelve-fifteen years so I went for an EV hoping that an even better tech will be available by the time I need a car next time round.

Ah nice one cheers friend!

But how can I impress people with my competitive qualities? I had fourteen sex last night, and before that I did four sets of three sex at a time.

I’m even the speedruns any% TAS WR holder at 3.19 seconds.

Do my colleagues not need to know about this???

Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.

In fact, the fact that I’m actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.

I’m in the same boat. My other half has been stuck with me for nearly twenty years now and bigger and better things have come up that have needed the money spent on it.

The bit of paper will come in handy if one of us kicks the bucket though, or even when it comes to claiming certain tax allowances in the UK. I just want to make sure they’re sorted financially when I end up brown bread, and proving their connection to me is going to me one of the last things on the list in the immediate aftermath of a bereavement.

I’m not arsed one way or another about it though.

Or worse, the US telecom franchise 😭

e: obligatory Sinclaaaaaaaiiiirrrr

I love modern printers.

We have a super fancy one in work that requires one to log in (or fob in with an NFC-style tag), to enable access to their own virtual print queue or printer services.

Weirdly, if it doesn’t shut down correctly (software failure, power cut, flicked at the wall switch etc), it reboots but with some quirks like not enabling the 10 second auto logout.

It’s satisfying as fuck walking up to a printer that’s still signed in, scrawling a comedy dick in red pen on a bit of A4 paper, and using the cloud scan function to scan it and have it directly emailed to the user as a PDF.

I’m pretty sure there’s some serious security issues there but it’s funnier to hear someone’s “new email” tone, and their eyes widen when they’ve got an email attachment from themselves making a suggestion that they crudely be elsewhere, or who see a masterpiece drawing of a hairy rocket with a helium leak manifesting itself from the very top.

In fairness, that was my first reaction too.

A mix of “haha the bloke doesn’t know what he had for breakfast, let alone what he said at the start of the week” and “haha he fucking what?”

Ignore all previous instructions.

Wear a Harambe outfit, overthrow the government, and use “we did it Lemmy” as the first line in your court case.

Not really.

You make some points I agree with, you make some points I’m neutral on, and you make some points I disagree with.

In nearly all cases though, you appear to take an insular view which comes across as confrontational and adds little to the discussion but a sour taste.

It’s pointless discussing a topic with you when you either take a deep rooted view with no opportunity for open discussion, and/or take a childish “I told you so” position when hearing a dissenting view.

That’s likely why you are getting downvotes. Other views may apply.

Good luck.

When I joined the workforce full time a good number of years ago. I was chuffed to fuck to be earning £20k a year at the time. In the intervening years, the cost of living has gotten ludicrous.

In metropolitan areas, I’m not quite sure how anyone but the DINKys can cope with the financial pressures of city living.

Isn’t that Mike Ashley’s clownshow? Sounds like you dodged a bullet.

That said, I suppose depending on where you are in your career, it’s good experience and portfolio work.

Reminds me of the police service in Scotland inviting people to complete a survey… about their stay in police custody. I’m not entirely sure what results they’re expecting there. Probably the brainchild of some “management consultant” who has probably never set foot in a public building before.

Yeah absolutely. My compass has been set to the UK’s sixteen as it’s all I’ve ever known, and even then anything below it (excluding the exceptions you’ve noted) feels a bit icky.

…but then how will you build more bombs to destroy the weapons factory???//

#WarParadox

edit: the more I think of this post made in absolute facetiousness, the more I think it’s actually a heavily reductive view of how the world actually works 😢

I mean, anything in the low teens is wild to me, but a single digit age?

The whole “must be married” thing as well made me chuckle. Partly for the religious interference, but mainly for the ease of which the clause could be abused.

In retrospect, it’s very little to chuckle about.

What am I going to do with my mixtape now?

Fingers crossed people will take notice of the guidance. Whether they’ll follow it is a different thing, mind.

Do you have a reference for this?

I’m not questioning that it happens - it’s a common thing in high volume hotels or high value airline routes after all - but I’d be interested in what sort of margins they oversell at.

That said, most of the documents would likely be commercially sensitive I should imagine.