UKMT November 2021 - Number 10 Says "arum arum aaaaaaaaag"

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DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

there's room in my heart for marmite, vegemite and bovril on toast but not necessarily at the same time

gotta have some diversity in the slop you spread on toast imo

# ¿ Nov 1, 2021 10:54

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:11

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

serious gaylord posted:

Even the Daily Mail is calling the tories the party of sleaze today.

Why did they do this? It makes no sense, even if there was a by election the tories would win it at a canter.

because all the entirely legal methods for them to doom the nation via grift are boring, already being done and require paperwork while at the same time the concept of getting a slap on the wrist from a committee of fellow scum is also too much for them to bear

besides, someone might point out on twitter that they are a loving thief, the horror, the horror, the horror

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 10:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/Herstorynothis1/status/1456894692138917888?s=19

I've fallen into a terf wormhole and found a woman who uses her scalesona to make terf points. I think the prehistoric carnivore is more of a threat in prison than someone transgender but what do I know?

I think dinosaur sex chromosomes are the same as for birds, so ZZ and ZW instead of XX and XY

can't expect a terf to know that though

DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Nov 8, 2021

# ¿ Nov 8, 2021 15:19

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Barry Foster posted:

lol I loving love how there's nothing he won't torch to not get a rap on the knuckles

Go Boris go

Now fire the nukes straight up in the air and let them fall like lawn darts across the nation, that'll keep the papers occupied for another four minutes or so!

"Uhm well the uhm the erm missiles... *harrumphs* Well... well they are flying. Hallelujah. Erm. Hallelujah."

*Messes up hair a bit more, pulls a face*

# ¿ Nov 10, 2021 14:40

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Noxville posted:

Does anyone here know much about legal stuff, or where I can ask? Having some pretty severe anxiety around contracting a builder and not sure I can think straight because of it.

Essentially, we're having our basement waterproofed so a couple of months ago my wife got in touch with a few places, had a few quotations and agreed work with someone about three weeks ago to start this coming Monday. He was over on Wednesday doing a final look around for stuff like where he could park his van etc. and we had a few questions for him, one of which was about payment - he wanted 75% up front and the rest on completion. That's the point where I start to panic having I guess finally considered the fact that we're going to be sending literally tens of thousands of a loan we've drawn down to a guy we've met about three times (basement conversions are expensive), and 75% seems like a very steep deposit.

Looking into his company now I find all kinds of dodgy stuff - the company claims to be established in 1985, but I can find no trace of it earlier than July this year, all 6 of the reviews on Yell were created over 2 days, his other company (a plumber) has pictures on it's Facebook ostensibly of it's work that a reverse GIS reveals to be jacked from another company a year ago. So no way do I want to go forward with this work, especially since he only takes BACS for money so I have absolutely no protection. But now I'm worried about pulling out at the last minute, whether this counts as breaking a contract and whether he could take us to a small claims court? We haven't had anything resembling a real contract (and again, heard nothing of payment terms until yesterday) but does just agreeing to the work count as a contract?

Kicking myself for not looking into it earlier, the anxiety feels like it's eating a hole in my stomache, it's causing tension with my wife since I think she thinks I'm blaming her for it and I have no idea what to do.

a verbal agreement like that is worth the paper it's written on- because there's gently caress all chance he wants to be within a loving mile of a court

claim financial problems are stopping you going ahead so he thinks you are no longer a good mark, bail the gently caress out and walk away

# ¿ Nov 11, 2021 16:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

I have done electrical labouring work on the side and under the table for the last decade or so now and it can be a good trade to get into but both the qualified sparks I worked with have branched off from normal domestic/commercial work and largely use the quals elsewhere and it's like this with a lot of people who qualify hence the continued shortage

The pay can be good- when people actually pay for the work on time which doesn't happen a lot more than I expected. You also have to factor in all the work done while not on the site- planning/organising/checking regs and going around finding the parts etc which can often take longer than the actual labour. You underestimate how long a job takes, you lose money. You break a part, you lose money. Things don't go to plan for any one of a thousand reasons and you can watch your earnings fade away in real-time.

Also having a really large sum of money invested in specialist tools that are always in easy to carry away formats leads to things like your van locks being permanently hosed over by every opportunistic thief around, or if you leave it in the wrong place at the wrong time a specialist will come along and cut the side of the van out/remove a door and take absolutely everything inside. You can insure it at great cost, or invest in a lot of security and have slightly less insurance cost, or you can invest hours of labour every year in removing them from your van every night.

Its also often quite dangerous, dirty and physically intensive work- if you are no good with narrow spaces or heights then there's a lot you won't be able to do. You also act as customer service and the customer is almost always some level of hassle all in themselves- anywhere from a bit too friendly and wanting to chat and have cups of tea constantly so no work gets done, all the way up to arseholes who try and get out of payment by sabotaging the work after we left and trying to claim shoddy labour. Or trying to change the plans around halfway through the job and have us redo the parts and labour for free by means of crying a lot. Or trying to knock money off after the work was done because they didn't think it would cost the amount agreed to beforehand.

I don't want to put folk off because I enjoyed a lot of the work and had some great experiences but I also avoided a lot of the stress above by being paid labour for someone else dealing with it. If it interests you, give it a shot just be aware there's a lot of poo poo to deal with and good reasons there's a shortage of good sparks

# ¿ Nov 18, 2021 08:51

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

BizarroAzrael posted:

anything I can do here? They won't reactivate it, so besides looking to change banks when I get home, is there anything I can do? Try to get compo or something?

write a posh sounding complaints letter detailing the facts and that you were left at a disadvantage in a foreign country without being properly informed and you feel let down etc and wait a week or so and they will more than likely offer you x amount of compensation, because if you accept that then it doesn't go to the ombudsman and automatically cost them an amount slightly higher than x

# ¿ Nov 19, 2021 17:19

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Necrothatcher posted:

I'm glad that Achewood wrapped up just as it started to go downhill.

aye, this

I was sad at the time when it dropped off but a few years of watching what happened to others proved it the right thing

# ¿ Nov 21, 2021 10:52

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

the idea of a massive coverup to hide an incoming asteroid while the planet is openly being destroyed anyway is pretty fun- why bother with a coverup when you can outright deny the problem exists and call it a hoax until the fireball is visible in the sky to anyone with eyes let alone a scope, and then just claim it would be too expensive to deal with and why won't anyone think of the corporate profits and besides it hasn't hit yet so we can do something later and work towards net zero asteroid with the help of a distributed nonfungible blockchain run on smart fridges

if there was a secret squirrel mission to blow something up it would just have been sent up as a classified payload which is something that happens regularly for spy sats/other secret squirrel stuff

# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 11:05

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

I did TNG and then DS9 all the way through with my younger lad over the last year or two or three-
There's some great episodes in TNG but goddamn it had a lot of filler and aye, it really went on the roddenberry utopian view

Going then to DS9 was a sharp contrast in tone and while I prefer it a lot in terms of story/quality, I did miss the childhood feel of TNG already expressed itt of a society that got past a lot of its bullshit

Gonna do voyager too but I'm cutting it down to about a dozen episodes just for the plot cause even childhood me knew most of that poo poo was terrible

If you like any trek and haven't bingewatched lower decks stop what you are doing, pirate that poo poo and go have yourself a drat good time imo

# ¿ Nov 25, 2021 19:51

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

kecske posted:

I have a 10 year old flat with more insulation than any other construction material but I have to run the heating overnight to prevent the mass of glass from generating 69420 litres of condensation because its basically airtight.

that's actually gonna make it worse, by heating the air a bunch you significantly increase the amount of moisture it can hold to begin with

you gotta get the moisture out of the air, ~~grab a dehumidifier asap~~ run your dehumidifier 24/7 and get another one too

DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Nov 27, 2021

# ¿ Nov 27, 2021 14:41

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Early web browser based internet, with the webrings and FTP servers etc from around 97 to 01 was pretty wild and fresh and I kinda preferred the time where the internet was mainly populated with bonafide geeks, and my activities were rightly mocked by society at large

Now it's en vogue to be a shut in constantly online and responding to messages and despite there being so many more people around it feels a lot more homogeneous and less diverse

# ¿ Nov 28, 2021 19:26

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:11

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Crankit posted:

I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now.

HMRC will do you a replacement NI card but it will take a week or two so request it now imo

p45 you would need to go to previous employer I think, HMRC don't reissue them, or your new employer can ask various questions about your pay instead

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 17:27

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