ALiteralCabbage

joined 9 months ago
[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure Hertfordshire (where Hitchin is) is East of England

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 10 points 8 months ago

Except it causes anxiety and depression so nobody is going to give a shit.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Me too! But only on one arm.

Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They do in Scarborough, I'd wager it's similar in Hull also.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Also that he thinks that it's anyone's fault but his for chucking it away. I know he says that an ex did it, but he left it in a drawer and forgot about it. If it was thrown by a partner surely they'd be liable (by his logic)?

the law states that property deposited at landfill sites belonged to the local authority, and that its environmental permits forbade it from disrupting the area in pursuit of the hard drive.

Also, this. He's just going to make noise and waste a lot of money here I fear.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

As originally conceived, the engineer's iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.

Think it's intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.

But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won't de-glove you if they get caught these days.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago (8 children)

They might not be American - I don't think anywhere else does the iron ring thing....

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

I got offered low level management or redundancy.

Took the "promotion", with a slight pay hike, and now I'm spending the extra money on counselling for stress and anxiety.

All while watching the industry I work in spiral downwards after an artificial COVID years high.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

I'm lacto-ovo veggie and the number of people who can't fathom that I don't eat meat (in the UK where it's really quite common) is mind boggling.

"What, not even fish?" 🙄 No, mate, if it has a face I won't eat it, but thanks.

People also tie flavours to specific foods. I have a friend who has a north African partner and they tell me often they'd go veggie if it weren't for their partners chicken "which is so much better than ours". No shit, he uses a fuck ton of spice and lemons. If you threw that on some veggies it would be a pretty close flavour experience. I get missing a texture (slow cooked beef? I miss that) but the flavour thing just doesn't add up to me.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

To get nice new/modern trains would involve widening our tracks and updating the infrastructure. Where I live in the (flat) country who gives a shit - it's all just ~~land banking~~ farms anyway, but near towns and cities it's going to involve a huge amount of, at best disruption and and worst the massive displacement of the population who have homes that back onto rail lines.

Also we'd need all new bridges, tunnels, etc.

And we're currently broke as fuck because all the rail operators have been siphoning profit to ~~foreign governments~~ shareholders since we privatised the fuck out of the country.

There's not much that will kill you in the UK but there's a lot that will make you want to die.

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