You've just nailed why he falls flat for me. I worked in pubs like that. My regulars were guys like that. I am so used to guys like that being all bark no trousers or a danger to themselves and each other and just an irritant to everyone else that I'm just like "try not to break my glassware thanks"
Imagine being so bad at your job that the guy who’s even worse at his job has to be the one that fires you.
god i really hope america and israel don't start ww3 before arsenal win the league and spurs get relegated at the same time
Aye. I feel like I barely have time for the shit i like, why in the buggery do I want to waste any effort at all on shit that I don't
I've taken to blocking any content creator who so much as vaguely annoys me/makes me cringe even once. I'd recommend it to anyone as it's a much better online experience
I am going to ask them to sign my jacket and then I am going to stitch over it because I am a Cool Guy.
iTunes library, yeah. In hindsight I appreciate how silly it was to use such a locked in system for this. But I also love my iPod so.
Yeah, gonna. Just need to figure out how to ensure i can still play my silly little games and listen to the library of music I've been building for 20+ years now.
Fucks sake as much as the plan was always to switch to Linux (or just not windows) eventually I thought I had more time.
The Conservatives are, after all, well placed to know a lot about this morass, since they introduced it. In 2012, the coalition government launched the Plan 2 system of student loans and raised university fees across Britain to £9,000 per annum. To put Plan 2 in simple terms, loan repayments were laid out via a seemingly innocuous series of calculations. The first to consider is the threshold at which repayments begin. If you left education with, say, £27,000 worth of debt, you would only start paying it back once you met a predetermined salary. On its face, this might not seem like a particularly onerous demand. “Low-earning” graduates would avoid being saddled with repayments before they were financially able to begin making them, while their “high earning” peers could start chipping away at their debt, and provide an income stream for the state.
As any of my fellow literature or history graduates will tell you, however, the devil is in the details. For one thing, the threshold at which someone becomes a high earner was never particularly high and, following years of inflation, is now preposterously low. Rachel Reeves’ announcement that the government are freezing the threshold at April 2026 levels (£29,385) for a further three years only makes this worse. The real living wage for London is currently calculated at £28,860, which means that any London-based graduate making just £40 more per month than the minimum needed to live there will automatically begin paying their debt. In real terms, this means practically any graduate in any form of full-time work will be paying as much as 9 per cent of their income to the state, and for a very, very long time. Worse still, the amount owed by those graduates below the threshold does not remain static – it accrues interest, year on year, whether you’re working for low wages, volunteering, taking a career break or on maternity leave, ensuring that if you do pass the threshold some time later, you will be returning to find your original £27,000 much enlarged.
If the state’s attitude to what constitutes “high earnings” makes you think it’s oblivious to the concept of inflation, let me put your mind at ease. When it comes to the calculation of student loan interest, they are very conscious of inflation indeed. Each year, the interest charged on student loans is calculated by two components. The first is the Retail Price Index (RPI), which generally records a higher number than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Governments prefer the latter, lower figure for many of their other calculations, just not when it comes to adding extra debt to every graduate in the country. To this is added a second component, a percentage tied to each graduate’s earnings, meaning that as your salary increases so too does the interest you’re paying on the loan you took out. If you think this seems like a predatory and punitive way to bilk students for as much money, and over as long a period of time, as possible, then you’re just about up to speed on this scandal, which amounts to a regressive stealth tax on every graduate in the UK. One which, it’s calculated, you would need to be earning £66,000 per year to pay off in anything like a timely fashion.
The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.
Cool my choices are Baldurs Gate 3, Disco Elysium, Divinity: Original Sin 2, The complete Sims 2, and Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Questions:
I appreciate no internet but can i access games already purchased on steam assuming that they do not require a connection?
Am i limited to just one platform or can i mix and match?
Just found out our horse is Australian so note that down
It's a lush day so I left the office early, drove over to Mr Pete's unit, left the car there for him and was able to do my silly little walk home by the sea, in the sun. I am so blessed I'm not even mad that I've got to log back on.
I know easy runs easy, hard runs hard is a good and sustainable way to build endurance, speed etc but damn losing 500m distance straight off the bat on the easy run that followed the hard one is annoying.
Between these and the fact All In tickets go on sale this month March is going to be expensive but idc.
Just got meet and greet tickets for Harley and Willow after EVE on Sunday aaaaaaah 🥹
I'll do any number of regular chores etc without too much complaint and rarely ask for help, but anything ad hoc? No thank you I couldn't possibly be of any use.
Mr Pet and Housemate are busy finishing up the office the three of us will share and I am doing my best impression of Somebody Who Does Not Know How Computers Work Or What A Desk Is
RIGHT wrestlenerds who's at #wrestlequeendom next weekend then? I've got a standing ticket and I'm going to cry in Willow's general direction. #wrestlesky
Be thankful, the weird stance is probably keeping the belt up in the absence of hips
Explosive temper without malice or cruelty innit.
Even knowing what's under there I've never found Wheeler Yuta more attractive than right now, with his little beanie on, really leaning into his depressed Captain Haddock vibes #aew #wrestlesky #deathriders #tintin
Keeping hold of this for everyone who tells me that people "expect too much" from their first home.
If somebody isn't able to buy until they're in their 30s at least no shit they might have higher expectations, doubly so if they're likely to end up stuck with what they buy.
Thank you, and I am sorry to hear that it wasn't right for you 💚
Anyway TL;DR I've been vegan most of my adult life now and it's cool and good and I feel better for it, i haven't died of any kind of deficiency and it doesn't cost the earth.
Going vegan when I did also helped me recalibrate my absolutely awful relationship with food and my body, breaking binge purge cycles because it wasn't as easy to do, and though when vegan convenience food boomed I fell back in a bit it's been easier to pull back out.
I don't know if I'd have prioritised exercise and movement the same way if I hadn't already gotten used to bucking the trend in terms of my diet. Before the rise of the gymfluencer and before all the kids got sober those of us early 20s students going to the gym were kind of an anomaly.
Going vegan when I did also made me examine other habits through a new lens. I don't know if I'd have both quit and stayed off the bag if I wasn't considering ethical concerns of my actions and consumption more.
Ten years vegan today and though I do not believe being vegan is any more or less healthy than any other diet (some exceptions) I do believe I personally am healthier for it.
Going vegan when I did forced me to think about food differently, eat less "junk" food, eat more veggies.
