Thank you, friend. It’s lovely to have such a positive reply.

I’d recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I’ve had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I’ll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.

Teaching my dog the “kiss” command has been one of the best things ever.

Even when he’s turbo excited to see me, a quick “sit” followed by a “kiss” gets him pointing his nose in the air so I can kiss it.

He’s a good boy.

I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.

After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I’m doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.

I’m doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I’ve got no plans to use it and there’s no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It’s wonderfully liberating.

That said, I appreciate I’m in a privileged position to be able to do what I’m doing.

“so is it clearer with lens one…”

“…or with lens two?”

Academic year is largely done, so I’m looking forward to three months of kicking the arse out of my gaming to-play list; getting out running more; and spending time with the family.

For the second three months, I’m looking forward to enjoying the study and achieving good grades, before it fades away into another nine month slog and the pass mark becomes the target and not the minimum 😂

Ah yes, a fellow person who hates disposable income too!

Congrats!

Awesome! What’s your favourite Pokémon and why is it Sandshrew?

I agree - I’m not expert but I know that the mining of rare earth metals and the disposal of some EV components are problematic. It’s not a perfect solution.

That said, better solutions such as fuel cells or hydrogen are still 10-15 years away, and “better” shouldn’t be the enemy of perfect. I’m not particularly car proud and cars tend to last me twelve-fifteen years so I went for an EV hoping that an even better tech will be available by the time I need a car next time round.

This pizza was sponsored by AmigaOS

stigma boi, stigma boi, stigma boooooi

The BBC seems to annoy the extremea of folk in the UK. The left claim it to be a Tory mouthpiece; the right claim it to push left agenda.

If you’ve got the opposing ends moaning like fuck then I figure they’re doing something right.

(edit: BBC, not NBC, no idea why my phone’s gone full American)

One of my verrrry minor bugbears is people who show up to 3k or 5k fun runs wearing gear promoting events well above the event’s level.

Like “okay dude, that’s a nice Antarctica Marathon t-shirt but it’s not going to make you look cooler in the Buttfucknowheresville Gala 5k”, or “settle down Mrs London Marathon windbreaker over your Kona Ironman tech tee, you’re going up against someone with a cotton T-shirt from Asda and thick shorts that are going to build up enough charge to power a small African country”.

Big respect to the effort they put in to earn the gear, but who are they honestly trying to impress?

A colleague of mine used to work quite high up in UK Government, achieved all she wanted to, and came to our team. Absolute golden woman, genuinely lovely. She was from Glasgow originally but spent most of her time in London, poor soul.

When she was in “professional mode” - she had a voice that I could fall in love with. A beautifully smooth tone and a lovely rhythm, confident but gentle, in a nice heart of England accent.

As soon as she came out of a meeting or put the phone down though, she threw the voice out of the window and it was “fuck off you pure cunt” or “get tae fuck you fuckin roaster” or “no mate you can pure fuck all of the way off” in the thickest, harshest of Glaswegian tones.

Absolute gem. No ego, you knew where you stood, and it was highly entertaining.

Not going to lie, I miss this prompt. It was a “right fuck yes, let’s get this 12 hours over and done with” glimpse of hope and prosperity.

Happy pride to anyone who feels involved in it.

For the modern effect, get a foldable or clamshell phone and flick it closed with some major sass.

It’s the best thing about having a foldable.

That is awesome! I love it when dogs “get it” when you’ve been trying to tell them what’s best for them. My dog loves to be lazy and sit in the sun in the garden, and it takes a lot to fire him up for a walk. When he does get back though, he is absolutely knackered and it’s lovely feeling him lie down on my feet to sleep.

Scott sounds like a cracking boi. Thank you for sharing.

I think that is the best thing - whether it’s a spouse, kids, or a pet - having someone genuinely excited to see you come home can make you forget most of life’s troubles for a short time.

In terms of dogs, it’s great. Our one has a special tail wag for when he’s happy to see us, it’s like a circular motion much like Tails from Sonic 2 does when he’s running at pace - different from his usual happy or excited wag, and unique to being happy to see someone.

Scott sounds awesome though. Care to share another cool memory with us?

Executive summary: don’t be a dickhead

In secondary school, we always had the rumour that if you blew into a woman’s vagina then it would kill her.

It was received with more hilarity than sensibility… though it did mean that future oral sex was delivered with a little less exhalation.

Then, it turns out you can kill a girl by blowing into her minge and middle age dudes creased with laughter again, as if the previous 20 years of maturity never happened.

The pedal on the right.