Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:54 pm
Covid has meant I am working from home all week, which has driven home two points.
One, how dull and lonely it is compared to being in the office.
Two, how utterly immobile I am working at home with nothing but a screen to stare at. At work, I get a lot of movement in, along the corridor to the scannner/printer, other people's rooms to discuss something, up and down stairs, even just around my room to get something physical from a file. I am currently stiff as a board from sitting in the box room, sorry, home office, all day.
I started working fully remote last October (I've actually never been in the office of my employer) and I don't mind it. I've been getting back into running, and being able to trot off for 10km at lunchtime while the day is pleasant and sunny instead of at the crack of dawn radically improves my day.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:32 pm
by Sandstorm
sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:42 pm
Set alarms on your phone. Every 45 - 50 minutes then do 5 minutes of stretching by the desk or go for a wander round the house.
End up at the fridge, eat a snack and put on weight.
sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:42 pm
Set alarms on your phone. Every 45 - 50 minutes then do 5 minutes of stretching by the desk or go for a wander round the house.
End up at the fridge, eat a snack and put on weight.
Has Crazy Frog as alarm and forgot how to change it..
Suicide in 2 days..
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:36 pm
by BnM
Thought you lot would like this
choo chooooo!
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:49 am
by mat the expat
BnM wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:36 pm
Thought you lot would like this
choo chooooo!
Saw this on Reddit - the whistle!!
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:44 am
by SaintK
Now that must have been a very heavy weekend of drinking!!!
A man has astonished police by calling 999 to report himself for drink-driving.
North Yorkshire Police said the call came in just before noon on Monday from a man who said he was "drink-driving and doesn't know what he is doing".
The driver, who is in his 50s, told the call handler he was in Knaresborough and had had "a heavy weekend".
Officers said he was three times over the drink-drive limit when he was located 15 minutes later.
He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and remained in custody, a force spokesperson added.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:09 am
by Glaston
The state of the BBC
Their fact checking dept LOL.
Some time ago, a preview of this book appeared in various places around the internet; reddit, Twitter, and a few others. I encountered it, and knew at once that this is a book I would need to own and read. And I was right.
The excerpt reads as follows:
My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer’s tent twenty miles away, yet somehow, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because “it’s your job” and your wife should “get up.” What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this—despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife’s one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:41 pm
by TB63
What Trump rally was that?..
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:24 pm
by Uncle fester
Any suggestions on a decent dash cam for car?
Bewildering array online.
Some time ago, a preview of this book appeared in various places around the internet; reddit, Twitter, and a few others. I encountered it, and knew at once that this is a book I would need to own and read. And I was right.
The excerpt reads as follows:
My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer’s tent twenty miles away, yet somehow, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because “it’s your job” and your wife should “get up.” What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this—despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife’s one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:04 pm
by Uncle fester
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:08 pm
This thing looks prehistoric.
Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:38 pm
by TB63
Why not...
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:03 pm
by vball
Such a great film with so many references to other films.
"get the bags .." .....
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:10 pm
by Sandstorm
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:12 am
Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.
I love Greece and the Greeks.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:25 pm
by Oxbow
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:57 am
by Enzedder
Martin, andJeff Crowe, through their paternal grandmother, are a direct descendant of Simon Fraser, the last man to be beheaded in Britain.
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:12 am
Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.
Biffer wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:12 am
Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.
I love Greece and the Greeks.
They are just going back to their roots Same sex relations were nothing strange in ancient Greece.
You might laugh but there's a serious discussion to be had as to whether pandas are worth saving if they won't save themselves.
They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant with limited nutritional value and they don't do Nookie
That's it in a nutshell !
Any animal that has to be shown how to reproduce is just not worth saving, I don't care how fucking cute they are, they're fucked !!!
Choosing species we're going to pour millions into saving on the basis we perceive them as, "cute", is absurd.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:46 am
by Tichtheid
Fucks sakes lads, Giant Pandas have existed for an estimated 3 millions years, they are know as a "living fossil". There is one major threat to their existence and that is humans, whether by habitat destruction or poaching.
Their reproduction is just fine if left alone in the wild, they've been at it a lot longer than we have.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:10 am
by Gumboot
Tichtheid wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:46 am
Fucks sakes lads, Giant Pandas have existed for an estimated 3 millions years, they are know as a "living fossil". There is one major threat to their existence and that is humans, whether by habitat destruction or poaching.
Their reproduction is just fine if left alone in the wild, they've been at it a lot longer than we have.
Exactly, they've been around long enough without man-made rope ladders "proving" they're shit at evolution.
Humans are really fucking stupid at times.
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:13 am
by Biffer
Uncle fester wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:10 pm
They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant
Same sex relations were nothing strange in ancient Greece.
You know..... like a gay man who only has sex with women.