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Bridgemakes, to random
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I really hope that when labour gets into power they follow through with the abolition of the leasehold system. Seeing that money leave my bank account each month and getting nothing from it but the right to live in my own home, that I own, is so depressing.

I mean I've been trying to get them to fix the drainage outside for more than a year. If I could just get the right to fix that myself instead of paying the council to not fix it that would be great.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I still find your system over there kinda incomprehensible TBH

Bridgemakes,
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@mikey the tldr of it is that the last vestige of feudalism has been made worse by capitalism

Bridgemakes, to random
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Just stumbled on a video of someone trying to understand the Brummie accent and I'm curious my foreign friends, what are your thoughts on my native tongue?

https://youtube.com/shorts/JS3KYbJ6o4s?si=FhCCTOaZzkFjRcuT

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I refuse to believe the person in that video is actually trying to be understood.

Bridgemakes,
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@mikey that is my accent when I'm not trying to be understood by Americans

Bridgemakes, to random
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There are a couple of old Anglo-Saxon words that I've become obsessed with and think we need to bring back into modern English.

Earthfast: literally bound to the earth. It can refer literally to a rock half buried and stuck in place but also can mean a person who is settled. It's like being in your comfort zone and having a place you belong.

Wondersmith: a blacksmith makes iron things, a silversmith makes silver things. A wondersmith makes wonderful things.
A maker basically

Bridgemakes, to random
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Funk it!

I'm the only one in the office and by the rules of Star fleet the highest ranking officer on the bridge is acting captain.

As captain I'm ordering myself to abandon ship. Aka, finish early.

Bridgemakes, to random
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Wait hang on...

I get that were getting a new prime minister but on the 4th of July? Don't they just quit that day? Why are we getting a notice this time?

And what's this stuff about voting? Is this a, what do you call it? A demi-crassy?

Bridgemakes,
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@mikey 4th of July? You say that like it's a special day of some kind.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes We'll have to set off the real loud firecrackers this year, so you can hear them from across the pond.

Bridgemakes, to random
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Ok I'll say it.

We need more pictures in books aimed at grown ups.

Not like that you filthy animals

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Look. you are the one that said it...

Bridgemakes, to random
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It's about a month until my niece's birthday and I've decided to give her a book. Of course, me being me, I can't just buy a book so I have 1 month to write a series of short stories, illustrate them, bind it and gild it.

I know it's alot for a child who can't read yet but I want to encourage reading and for her to think it's magic. Besides what is stress anyway.

Bridgemakes,
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Update: I just finished the first short story for the book.

Why don't more stories end with the king and the princess going to the pub?

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I don't think that was appropriate for the ruling class. But then what would I, an American, know about kings, princesses, and queens?

Bridgemakes, to random
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Ok FoD, I know you are all waiting for the data science of the Hood to do the calculations. So here it is.

They say that the nx-01 can go to Neptune and back in 6 minutes which means that it can travel at 83.33 times light speed. They also say that Qo'nos is 80 hours away. That puts Qo'nos about 18.25 light years away from earth.

Now there is a star out at 18.214 light years out with at least 1 planet. Gliese 251 in the Gemini constellation.

Could planet Gliese 25b be Qo'nos?

Bridgemakes, to random
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3 none p1 mentions on

I guess what my question presupposes is maybe I can now be classified as a running bit?

Bridgemakes, to random
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Listening to co-workers complaining about how their garden is too big and that it takes too long to do the gardening.

Other co-workers talking about multiple foreign holidays they take.

Meanwhile I'm trying to decide if I can afford a large pizza tonight.

Btw, some of these co-workers are the ones who told me they take the good food from the donation box and replace it with smaller cheaper stuff.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Are we allowed to fire your coworkers? I'm not sure how international law works.

Bridgemakes,
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@mikey I think you have to petition the Hague

Bridgemakes, to random
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Just watched Wayne's World and my Q I forgot how good that movie is. It's also connected to so many childhood memories of making skate videos with my friends.

I just wish I didn't have work in the morning so I could watch Wayne's World 2.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I can't count the number of times I quote that movie, and nobody around me has any idea what I'm talking about.

Much like my MST3K quotes.

Bridgemakes,
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@mikey look, I keep telling you. It's not that we don't get the reference, you just can't say Schwing whenever hot people walk passed.

Bridgemakes, to FiberArts
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It's only taken 5 months but I finally finished my first sewing project in this year's theme.

My fist attempt to fit distressed sci-fi into work wear is what I call Skywalker chic. It's made from a viscose cotton blend (and a black linen waist band) and so is breathable and the pleats allow a more comfortable air barrier while also evoking jedi robes.

Design for the sands of Tatooine and the poorly climate controlled office.

A side view of the blouse without the blaser, it is sleeveless and has a black waistband.
A more frontal view of the blouse without the blaser, it is sleeveless and has a black waistband.

Bridgemakes, to Bloomscrolling
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When enjoying a movie marathon it is important to take breaks and go for a walk in the fresh air. And while you are out there takes some pictures for

The blossom from the trees may have passed but the daisies and buttercups are colouring every grass verge

Daisies
Buttercups
Unknown blue wildflowers

Bridgemakes, to random
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Don't Panic!

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Where did I put my towel..

Bridgemakes, to random
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Well if this isn't the most depressingly dystopian this I've read in a long time.

Tldr: to fill gaps in your skill base don't hire new people get the people that work there already to do it. There's talk of "up skilling" and training but not of extra compensation for extra work or paying people in line with their new skills. There is however talk of "AI" for some reason.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/05/01/quiet-hiring-is-silently-revolutionising-the-workplace

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