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2024-08-23 12:50:27

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I relate to this soooo much. I was *extremely* lucky with my current gig; the interviewer was more ASD than me, and basically said, "You've aced the aptitude test and coding test, of course. Are you sure you won't get bored, as this role can be very repetitive? No? OK, start next Tuesday. That ok with you?" 🙂

2024-08-08 19:57:56

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Heh! I know for sure that I would struggle in a corporate working environment, or even freelancing these days, because I seem to have become so intolerant of idiots and jobsworths.

2024-08-08 19:47:12

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"Your request gave me/us a timeline. Your later modification of that request means a new time-line applies. If you screwed up on the original request, in no way is that my problem. Have you tried ChatGPT?"
Sorry, I know that's prob not helpful to you...

2024-08-07 16:08:05

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...which is probably why 'Labour' is trying to become New Tory, to replace them. We need some solid Socialist MPs back in the House to move the 'balance' back to the centre.

2024-07-31 17:23:27

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Would make a lush wallpaper image!

2024-07-18 16:18:44

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"I Stand With MixedCase" 😂

2024-07-09 22:33:21

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No idea what's going on, but I'll submit "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" as a contender?

2024-07-09 13:32:41

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This is not always a positive thing, IMO.
I remember day #1 in my A-level Chemistry class, and the tutor said "You know all that stuff you learned in Chemistry for the last 2 years for your O-levels? Forget all that, because things don't really work like that!"
Disheartened, I was. Ditched Chem shortly after that to focus on Maths and Physics. I've often thought that perhaps a more nuanced introduction might have kept me at it...

2024-07-07 19:26:40

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I would not go down the road of "too bad...before it killed him".
But as pointed out earlier, there have been politicians who have 'tried' to live on a weekly welfare benefit. I have never yet seen one make it to the end of week #1 .

2024-07-07 14:59:49

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I think a few years back there was a government minister (UK) who tried living on unemployment benefit (or whatever it's called this year) as a publicity stunt and had to give up after two days? Similar level of stupid arrogance.

2024-07-06 15:03:59

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Most of my adultness, I would be up around 06:30 because kids or work. These days, and I truly have no idea whether it's just my advancing age, or conceivably a post-COVID viral fatigue thing, but I am ALWAYS tired. Crash around 22:00 on a work night, up around 08:00, and napping during the work day when there's little to do. On the weekend, I normally still crash about 22:00, sleep a straight 12 hrs, and then read, doze, read, nap, until I absolutely have to get up about 14:00!

2024-07-03 13:41:38

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That's a pretty garden you have there.

2024-07-02 15:48:23

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"The first rule of FC is that *you do not talk about FC*" 😂
(You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down!)

2024-06-30 15:19:03

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If that's from Carly Simon, I always thought they were 'clouds' in her coffee :)
Mind you, we all want clowns in our coffee sometimes!

2024-06-30 14:35:53

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Reverse here (UK). Yesterday in a T-shirt, driving around with roof down on the MX5 (Miata in US). Today it's a sweater, plus a gilet!

2024-06-29 17:28:49

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Do you know this one?
https://youtu.be/a5hFMy4pTrs

2024-06-29 17:18:22

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"Because I said so". (Every conversation with a bright 3yr-old ever!)

2024-06-29 17:12:22

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Here. It's lush in Brisol right now!

2024-06-27 15:39:13

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My ex once explained to me that when she said "I don't have anything to wear" it clearly didn't mean that she hadn't anything to wear. Apparently it actually means "I don't have anything to wear for the person I want to be today".
Valuable lesson learned right there.

2024-06-26 15:53:03

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Sadly that's paywalled. Might anyone have a gift link please? Thx.

2024-06-21 12:33:24

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Far simpler than that, I suspect. In a good universal healthcare system, fully funded by the state (i.e. tax-payer), they can't make any money out of it - it's a cost-centre, not a profit-centre.

2024-06-20 18:22:46

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God, you're young! Try this as a start?
https://youtu.be/GLahNomX3xg

2024-06-19 14:23:19

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Couple of decades ago there was a gay bar in town here, and they labelled the toilets "Kings" and "Queens". You'd have thought that confusion would result, especially among newbies. In fact, *everyone* ignored the labels and used whichever toilet had the shorter queue!

2024-06-17 18:38:39

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Thanks. That made me find this...
"They called it Paradise, I don't know why. You call some place paradise, you kiss it good-bye"
https://genius.com/Eagles-the-last-resort-lyrics

2024-03-17 15:25:32

Well I joined mastodonapp.uk back in Nov 2022, but never bothered putting up an intro post, so I'll try and see if I can work that out now!
Oldish bloke, just got to retirement age, but not yet minded to retire as I love what I do. Old-school programmer, cutting code for over 45 years in many many languages - for the past 12yrs writing in Perl to maintain an ancient legacy codebase.
Politically v left of centre, and v intolerant of racists, Nazis, and homophobic half-wits.
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