Making music for 20 years or so. Someone actually bought a copy of my album yesterday, which marked a 3rd ever sale. Not quitting my job, not buying a yacht, but I did allow myself a cup of tea and a smug nod at the wall. Felt good.
Peak British success achieved.
Well done, that man
I read all these posts about people trying to steal plane seats that you’ve paid for and I always assumed they were made up karma farming nonsense but no, it actually happened to me! Hands down, a woman genuinely tried to blag my window seat with the extra leg room this week.
It was a tiny island hopper plane, so the views are worth paying for, frankly, and I’d nabbed the best seat on the plane, the window seat at the front where you can also see the pilots operating the plane. I got on board and there was Bitcherella, all comfy in my seat and looking firmly out of the window.
“Excuse me,” I said very civilly. “I’m in that seat.”
She feigned deafness.
I said it again a bit louder. She ignored me. I said it very loudly. She continued to survey the runway through the window.
“EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!” I yelled in the voice I usually use when I find my cat Gordon eating the chicken I’m defrosting for dinner. “I’M IN THAT SEAT!!!!!!”
She turned and glared at me.
“Oh,” she said. “Isn’t this 2B?”
I smiled broadly.
“Nope,” I said helpfully.
“Oh,” she said again.
Then she just sat there blinking up at me, all comfy IN MY SEAT.
So I just stood there waiting expectantly until eventually she said: “Would you like to sit in the aisle seat?”
I smiled beatifically.
“No thank you,” I said with tremendous bonhomie.
Then the huffing and sniffing started. She hauled herself out of my chair limb by limb and stood grumpily by while I settled in. Then of course she had to sit next me for the entire flight. Her seat still had extra leg room but no view because my smiling head was blocking the window.
I had the loveliest flight. I admired the coast as we took off, and the little lighthouse that we flew over. I gazed at all the cargo ships in the Channel. I admired the Isle of Wight as we flew over it and the white cliffs as we headed into Southampton airport. She sat with her back to me glaring at the in flight magazine.
I didn’t need a magazine because I had AN ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT VIEW.
I was so polite. I even offered to help her with her bag when we got off. She didn’t smack me in the head with it but I could tell she wanted to.
Edit to pay cat tax! OK OK here is Gordon:
I was on the aisle seat scraping the bottom of my tiramisu-esque airline pudding with my headphones on and a woman’s hand reached out and signalled to offer me her pudding too, I accepted gratefully and found it so funny and sweet
Later when we were given our second meal she gave me her brownie straight away! I felt a little greedy and wondered if anyone else was more deserving of the extra puds but ultimately I snarfed it down and was very appreciative of the extra sweet treat
Thank you pudding lady!!
I'm 40 and I've never chopped an onion or crushed a garlic bulb before :p. The bowel cancer is probably already locked in but I'm really happy that I ordered all this meat, veg, fruits etc and have prepared my kitchen (utensils, herbs and spices etc) to cook the recipes I selected for this week.
I'm not a picky eater but I've always just been lazy when it comes to cooking and stocking my fridge/shelves properly.
You can discuss anything you want but here is the spot for Tactics, transfers, player wishlist etc.
Here are some important links for new members:
They said it'd be 30 days from my getting an urgent referral for suspected bone cancer to know what it was, and they were bang on time. A month of tests and waiting is very anxiety inducing, but in the end, I was told it's a lipoma and not cancer. The chap on the phone said he was glad to give me good news for the weekend! I'm going to collapse into a relieved puddle. Thank you, NHS!
EDIT: yes it was a typo 🤦♀️ I could delete but the time travel jokes are good actually keep them coming
I was rereading the letter and realised it said they closed at 5pm just as the automatic spiel began and a second later the clock ticked over to 17:00. Nice easy solve right in under the wire, so satisfying.
At some point between 9:30am Saturday morning and noon the following Tuesday (today), the NHS have:
Over a weekend. For free. I am genuinely gobsmacked.
That's it, that's the news, a British guy truly committed to people's financial education and wellbeing gets recognition for his work.
I'm a big fan of secondhand shopping to find products for low cost. I always found it frustrating that there's no single place to easily find nearby charity shops, thrift stores, car boot sales, antique fairs, table top sales, or vintage markets. Google Maps misses loads of them.
So I decided to build an app to solve that which would be really useful while travelling. You can even share your thrift haul.
It's called Ganddee (free on iOS & Android).
I’d love for you to try it out and hear feedback.
Any other neighbour I would have gladly corrected but these folk have been arseholes since they moved in.
half of them i dont even remember signing up for
streaming services, apps, cloud storage, random free trials that quietly turned into monthly payments, food delivery memberships etc
none of them seemed expensive individually but added together its honestly ridiculous
cancelled loads of them tonight and somehow feel both financially responsible and slightly betrayed by myself
Update*: Someone in the comments recommended Buytelly, and it’s been life-changing. Thank you so much!
Engine off, step out and stretch your legs on the verge. Everyone's having a nice chat, checking on the families with kids, making sure dogs have water etc, no one complaining because we know the emergency services are doing everything they can to save lives and they'll open up a lane as soon as they can.
Blessing Fasina, who moved to Bournemouth, Dorset, from Nigeria to study for his Masters degree in 2023, said he found it "challenging" to find facilities when he arrived and felt "anxious".
The 29-year-old used his background in web design and mobile app development to create Where to Wee, that launched in January to help tackle what he called "a serious problem in the UK".
Research by The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) found that there are 15,481 people for every public toilet in England.
Fasina said the app currently has about 1,500 active users and he hopes to help those with health conditions.
"People facing challenges include elderly people, pregnant women, people with irritable bowel syndrome, people with disabilities," he said.
He added that he had feedback from one woman with children who said, at times, she stayed at home for fear of not being able to find a toilet
Fasina recalled asking people in the town where the nearest toilets were, but said he was "surprised" that no-one seemed to know.
He said that "the idea started from my own frustration" and that "getting the data and getting the app together wasn't really easy".
"I looked at public data online - different council data mashed up with latitude and longitude, open source data and put it together," he said
Story is from the BBC
My wife forced me through the car wash the other day due to 4 years of grime building up on my car. After getting home I realised the car wash had removed one of my tyre valves. I was able to quickly print a replacement on the £350 3D printer saving me 10p or so. I call that a win. It will pay for itself in just a few short millennia if I keep this up.
Some muppet drove into the side of my car at a traffic lights. Whilst she was busy crying and playing the victim, I was getting witness details and securing my dashcam footage. Started the claim Thursday evening- witnesses contacted Friday evening, settled this morning. Car getting collected Monday for repair, kids car seats replaced free of charge, collecting my hire car this afternoon.
Really thought this would take ages as the other party disputed liability.
No impact on my NCB or premiums, so it’s cost nought but a bit of stress.
Bought a scratch card on a whim today and won £50 . I had 10 × £5 on the one card. Second best win ever
What the actual christ happened to that subreddit?
I make a post about how abstract it can be when collecting prescriptions from the pharmacy. Unfortunately, two of the key words I needed to use (one being GP, the other hospital) are blocked by their automod. So I subsituted GP with 'jeepy' and hospital with 'medical office'
This, in turn copped me a permanen back without warning. The exchange with them in PMs:
>Me: A permanent ban is a disproportionate response because I used a different phrase so your overly sensitive automod wouldn't assume I was on an embargoed topic
>Them: Thanks for admitting to subverting automod again.
>Me: I would also suggest you need to relax your automod because it takes even basic phrasesike doctor or hospital and blocks them even if they are mentioned tangentially
>Them: If you could write a bot code that could understand context then you’d be a very rich person. Our keywords are fine, we can deal with a few false positives to ensure we capture 95% of the crap. You could’ve done what nearly everybody else does and contact us to manually approve your post if it did get caught by the word filter. Instead you decided to break our rules. The ban stays.
Which makes no sense because PMing them isnt guaranteed to get a response. It took a week last time to get a ban for "metaposting" lifted because one of their mods was too lazy to read the post.
What is the point of having a subreddit if you cant post on it because it might be deemed subjectively facebook-y or something like that?
At least here I don't need to tolerate that waffle.
