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Cost of living is a big thing. Last I heard it can be anywhere from 1/5th to 1/3rd more expensive there and that won't include medical health insurance either. It really depends where you sit and how much these things affect you. Our lowest off are much better here and our higher earners are much better there.

Yep, now and again. My friends mainly live away and honestly, I want the alone time. The whole "going to the movies alone" thing is stupid anyway because you aren't meant to talk to anybody.

Thank you I tend to use in more formal situations in writing, works emails and stuff. It's either Cheers or cheers, thanks.

Yeah, push this along in stages.

tbh, same thing. But I go to uni to give myself a head start. I had the grades back in the day, but went into social sciences because a careers advisor suggested it. I was skilled in maths, physics and computers...no reason I should have gone into that. Dropped out, ended up working security for a few years, went travelling with my now wife, started HND in Tech Support at 25 and now I do that fairly well. Starting that at 18 pushing into more difficult stuff like security or cloud infrastructure (which is my aim atm) would be a big boost. There's kids just starting a rung or 2 below me starting at decent companies. It's be a few years before they are where I am but they'll get where I am a lot younger. Plus, I lived at home the entire time until I moved in with my girlfriend. I'd love to go live in student halls and do all that. Move away from my home city and experience that. I know there'd have been more money in software development back then, but my attention to detail can be a bit shit and while I've been OK for it this entire time. I can imagine how shockingly full of errors my coding would be.

Worked at a petrol station, leccy goes off at like 9:30, I'm on my own and I have to close up by 12. Call the manager, no I can't go home. The whole street (turned out to be the whole town) was down and there's nothing in the place but my emergency lighting. Waited 30 minutes, call my manager, no still can't go home. Sweep, tidy. A few people come by and kinda give me a hopeful look but my shrug from inside is enough for them to understand what they already knew and leave. One woman stands there with the pump in her car waving at me. By this point, it's night and it's dark as fuck. I keep shrugging, pointing up at light. Not getting the hint. She comes in asking what the hell the problem is. I tell her, while the place is in darkness aside from 1 emergency light humming exit in a weak green glow, that there's no power. SO!? She exclaims. Anyway, she argue's like I'm personally choosing to not give her electricity. I try to explain the pumps need eletrcity to pump the fuel. I'm in my last week or two of employement as I've handed my notice in and I really regret not calling her a fucking idiot. The best I got was suggest we knife the line and get the fuel that way, to which she looked at me like "yeah, do that". She started arguing that she's no petrol to get anywhere. I appologise multiple times, explain again there's nothing I can do while the powers out. She threatens to stay there and go nowhere. Fine, I'm watching breaking bad on my phone anyway. So away she sits in her car for like half an hour, giving me the death stare the entire time. Comes back in and not *as* angrily asks when the powers back up, to which I say I've no idea that's up to the electric company. She stomps off, tried to slam the anti slam door and leaves in her car. There was another petrol station 5 minute's drive away, which to be fair didn't have power either but she could have tried there, from the exchange I doubt she knew.

60% English by DNA. That "English" DNA will be a mix of Roman, Saxon, Viking, all sorts. DNA means nothing in that context. Hell, you could be part Vietnamese from some trader who sailed over at some point and had sex with you great great teat....etc etc grandmother. These days, your family name is simply something that goes back 3-5 generations and the rest is losely connected history. Unless you're royalty it kinda just a light fact, not a part of your identity in any shape. Until I made my account private, I used to get messages from Americans saying we're in the same clan (I'm Scottish) and the only clans people ever talk about are online ones, and even then that term has died out now. The best you'll get from people here with the name Rowe is a police smile, and an eyeroll behind your back.

Sucker punch. Yeah the stories a bit all over the place and nothing to shout about. But the girls are good looking, wear cool outfits in their fantasies and there's some cool spectacle action scene's.

Almost nobody ever talks about it. Diana was very well liked at the time and I think people didn't like the situation but generally, people are ok with Camilla and Charles. At the end of the day, they are just people with normal emotions and needs with the same complexities to that as we all do. Just with an the money and responsibilities tied to that money. There are some that love royalty, some that despise it but generally people are fairly mid on the whole thing

I think my BIL sells insurance. He managed a restaurant for several years and after having a daughter needed to move out of the crazy shift patterns.

I don't watch him much. But I wonder if he's like Stacey Solomon, she totally plays up the blonde bimbo stereotype. I find her quite witty and smart.

Yes, pretty much. They'll be hosting these in countries that either don't give a shit or have laws protecting them. They might have several servers, in several locations. But generally yeah you're hooking into a server somewhere that supplies you a feed. Someone will charge you to access it. There's also just the websites that send it out for free and have some advertising on them (ad blocker helps a ton as these ads can be SUPER intrusive and dodgy) or just the plain old downloading the torrent from some people where the torrent is listed on a website.

It's ridiculous and I'm avoiding it tbh. My kids been off collecting cards for a while. we had 5 books from years and/competitions from English, Scottish and Euros. He opens them, sometimes gets excited, files them away and then ignores them. Then he stops filing them away, leaving them around the house. He's been told if this happens again, that we'll stop buying them. Truth be told I want to avoid buying them at all.

Being OK with being bored was half the battle, just not doing anything was OK. Kids used their imaginations more, adults just thought about stuff. Read a book, game, watch a movie, binge a TV show, go for a walk,

Ok, so?

World cup, while the quality overall is better in the Euros as there's more spots for the teams where they're better. I just enjoy the whole Aura of the WC. Depends where it's held Qatar wasn't great, while people complained about them I lived the Vuvzela's int eh South African ones. I'm very spectacle of the upcoming US one, they've force teams into a format where the group stages are mostly decided before we go, so that's lost a ton of luster. The final's could be exciting but then it's good to have a couple underdogs make it through due to lower quality groups (that can still be exciting to watch if they're matched well). The prices they're charging for tickets is going to lock out a TON of foreign people who have to pay to travel on top, which is a crying shame. There will be less hardcore fans more rich people just willing to go for fun and while that's OK, it's no great. And the Americans aren't exactly known for their crowd, dunno about the Canadians but I am very looking forward to the games with lots of Mexicans, I might even watch some games with Mexican commentary. GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. And there's these stupid ~~advert~~ hydration breaks for 3 minutes each half. As if VAR wasn't already ruining the flow of play, we have this too. I am hoping for a pretty cool opening and closing ceremony. What I'm hoping for though is America remembers to make it about 2 things, the countries and the world. That World Cup draw was a shambles, why did they have an American Football Player and a Basketball player (as legendary as they were) doing the draw? And they were interviewing non-football players and asking them football questions, some questions were embarrassing too, weren't they briefed and given questions? I dunno, they could really hit it home or royally fuck it up.

No, you weren't wrong. Staying wouldn't have been wrong either. It's up to you.

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While I appreciate the sentiment, going to to ogle men seems iffy. If their marriage is showing signs of tearing, are you pulling at one side? Would the sentiment be appreciated the other way around?

I remembering it being pretty crap in the 00s. I lived it as a kid, then you into my teens and thought "what was the hype?"

That's us though isn't it. We could send over troops to Ukraine tomorrow, push back the Russains in some amazing feat of military might, SAS sneaks into the Kremlin and takes out Putin...And a video of a fat guy outrunning some amateur runners in a minor compeition somewhere will go viral and that'd be our brag for the month. We cheer for the underdogs because it's not seen as overdoing it or being to up ourselves about things. We'd rather shout about a banging beans on toast because being overly pompous about our fleet of Michelin starred restaurants isn't becoming of us.

As American as Apple Pie.

I visited Melbourne during a record breaking heatwave in the mid00s. It was HOT but much more managable than the heat here. You go inside and it's jsut cooler. I know their homes are built to do that but I've been sin similar homes in other places and the humidity carries the heat inside to a degree. However, it got to a point where my eyeballs would sting from the head and dry out really quickly, there's a tipping point with humidity and 50 is a bit over it.

Buy one of the many flavoured waters out there with no sugar. MacB's is nice and cheap though I've been finding it stronger than I like it recently. Volvic is my go to

It's only crossing the boundary if you properly went to meet them when they didn't want you to. If course people can hang out outside it with I quit a job 3 years ago and I'm going to bon Jovi with one of the guys I worked with the, I be text him just a few minutes ago. I am regularly went out drinking with a few people from a couple jobs in my 20s on the side of my normal friends.

I opened in my town, saw it on facebook and heard a few people walk about it. Haven't heard a peep about it since.

0 shits given unless it was a ground floor window that pointed right at a bench or something.

I think a lot of people already take the day off after at Patrick's

Customer service holiday. Anyone who works in customer service who don't get back holidays. Except banks, banks stay open. Yes the pubs are shut. But fuck the bankers, we're all going to do our banking that day.

You don't need to have heard about it through it for it to be the reason it reaches your ears. Someone else could have and told you or the knowledge these things get onto social media gives bands more reasons to stop shows for it.

People took less notice of it, no social media to find out about it etc.

I remember as a teen in the 00s of women just crossing the street when they saw me coming. I'm a 6ft and I think that's the most menacing thing about me, really sucks to be seen that way. On several occasions I'd look behind me and they'd crossed back over.

https://www.rattonpantry.co.uk/blogs/ratton-pantry-journal/did-bonne-maman-really-shelter-people-during-the-holocaust?srsltid=AfmBOorFa2nIqCuqxvAQQAGAu3tjJ7x67PSXKpKcEuT40x5vNrjxB07T

He basically ran an anti masturbation religious cult but the lengths he went to probably broke a lot of human rights that wartime soldiers wouldn't break. The cereal was designed as an anti masturbation food and is amongst the most sane thing he did of the story.

Hey, what's your name? No your surname.

Oh yeah and much more. Circumcision was to help stop that, as was the cereal. The lengths he went to were cult like and barbaric.

Ooohhhh you are missing sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

It can be ok until you get a to a point where you need to scale, but at that point you can't do it homemade, but it can be extremely lucrative. Bonne Mammon I believe started this way, but it's long gong from homemade, though better than the average jams for sure. Kellogs was homemade and if you want to waste an afternoon with one of the weirdest, craziest most batshit mental stories you'll here look it up. You can make up a reason why this was made and you still won't compete with how bonkers the story is.

For my daughter. Cucumber, tomatoes, some form of meat (chicken bits or bits of ham) i preferrable, humous, crackers or breadsticks.

some of these things can be done after you move. Dentist optician etc. First, you have to actually get the move, so you do that first. Where you're moving and how you're getting you and your shit there. That's task numero uno. So start looking for places you want and when you find start viewing etc. Try to arrange a bunch of moves during a single day and you can travel in, look at them, go home and decide. Apply, if not successful, try above again. Rinse and repeat until done. Once you have a place, paid deposit signed blah. You'll know have a move in date. IF YOU ARE DOING THE BELOW BEFORE DOING THE ABOVE Next, inform your current landlord when you'll be moving out. This doesn't *have* to be on the same day. It can be weeks, months later. Whatever is more convenient for you. Hell if it made sense to you in some way you can move out early. But inform the landlord, discuss what they need and what suits you. It may mean an overlap of rent, try to avoid it if you can but that's number 2. After that, how are you moving your shit. Furniture? Can you drive it? In one go in a car? Do you have a car? Does a mate have a van? do you need to hire a van? blah blah. That's task 3. At this point. The main 3 tasks are done. Other things can wait. So no pressure. So, how do you do thge other thinks. Bank. DVLA, doctors, dentists, opticians etc etc etc. Here's the trick to all of them. Call and ask, that's what we all do. You are a grown up now and capable of living on your own. A grown up doesn't mean we know everything so don't feel stressed you don't know how to do those things. You simply find a doctor nearby that suits you, call them and say "Hi, I'm new to the area and looking to join, what do I need to do?" And they'll tell you. You can do this with the DVLA, opticians, etc. Alternatively, they might have the info on the website. But you can do all this later, you don't need to do it now. And you may even need to go in for things so doing it before you move might be impractical. So right now. It's the first 3 things above. What you *can* do is organise what you *would* need to do in advance if you want. ONCE YOU HAVE DONE THE FIRST 3 THINGS, you can start calling places and organising what you would need to do once moved. So you can have a plan of action. But honestly, it's such an easy but incredibly useful thing...call and ask.

Do you own homework

If you're renting, call the landlord and have them do the entire place.

Your dogs paws are tougher than your hand. Let your dog tell you that, if it hurts it's paws, it's going to act like it hurts to touch the ground.

My friends live across from a family blogger. Paint themselves as the best family ever, everybody is so nice, children are perfectly behaved and just like some sort of modern ideal of a 1950s white picket fence family. Except you'll hear the mother screaming HURRY UP YOU'LL BE LATE FOR SCHOOL and all the normal family shit. It's all for show.

It's shared, so politely let your neighbours know in advance.

Necause they don't want the touristy crap, they want the real deal. I also live in Edinburgh, and while the best sights to see are often in the tourist spots up the mile. Sure you want to head to the Mile for the Castle, the museums, Whiskey Experience is fun, down to the palace and off for other nearby things. But a lot of the shit overpriced eateries are on the Mile as while we know not to eat there, the tourists don't and they can charge high prices for cheaper food. The want to try genuine local food that people eat and not be charged extortionately for it.

There's been hundreds of these throughout history, the chance of this being the last one and we have seen the peak is next to 0.

Nothing is as bad as online makes it seem.

How much it's worth depends entirely on your budget.

I should stop fighting crime at night.