After growing my beard out for maybe 5-6 years, trimming it myself and generally keeping it looking “reasonable” I thought I’d treat myself and go get it trimmed by a “professional” first thing before a day full of webex meetings....
My worst nightmare. I haven't been to the barbers for just over 12 years now (thanks male pattern baldness), and I'm not sure I trust anyone with my beard except myself. If I mess it up at least I'm only mad at me.
Yours looks alright though tbh, I'd maybe just trim the bottom off that goatee bit but maybe wait till after the ZZ Top convention.
An adult should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, as long as it doesn't impact other people. Vaping doesn't emit any carcinogens or toxic substances, and 10 times less nicotine than smoking does. At the end of the day, vaping does far less harm than smoking, and it's easier to reduce the amount of nicotine consumed with vaping. Nicotine also has health benefits, such as slowing down the onset of Parkinson's.
If teenagers are vaping then that's an enforcement issue, but at the same time I would be less worried if I found a vape in my kid's bedroom than a packet of cigarettes. Teenagers will experiement with substances. Nicotne vapes are way down the list of ones I would be worried about.
Saying that vapes are dangerous is misinformation at best. Vaping got you off smoking cigarettes (congrats btw), which are far more dangerous. Yes, you may have consumed more nicotine, but you didn't consume any of the other thousands of toxic or even carcinogenic chemicals present in cigarette smoke.
The key finding of this study is that e-cigarettes emit significant amounts of nicotine but do not emit significant amounts of CO and VOCs. We also found that the level of secondhand exposure to nicotine depends on the e-cigarette brand. However, the emissions of nicotine from e-cigarettes were significantly lower than those of tobacco cigarettes.
There are numbers to back it up, in the study I linked. Is 10 times less not significant?
The primary harm from cigarettes doesn't come from the nicotine, it comes from all the other toxic chemicals released by combustion, which aren't present in the aerosol exhaled from a vape.
Nobody is claiming it to be 100% safe (what is?), but it's not even in the same ballpark of harm as smoking is.
I like to pronounce Jog with a soft J sound, like yog, which I think came from Anchorman. This has now evolved into things like yoghurt having a hard J at the beginning.
It's hard to describe how much pleasure I get from shouting "Yog down there and grab us a pack of Joghurts" at the kids in the supermarket. The eye roll almost makes the whole supermarket experience worth it.
Nearby Share is a very apt name - it basically describes exactly what the entire point of it is. You can use it to quickly (and easily) share stuff between Android phones, regardless of maker. And starting today, you can use it to share files between Windows PCs and Android devices.
I finally caved in to the hype and bought Dave the Diver. It's very enjoyable. There's nothing revolutionary about it so far but it's very well put together, and funny in a way that I haven't seen in a video game since the old point and click games.
Thursdays are usually pretty good for me because I don't allow any meetings. I can just get on with actual work instead of having to talk to people.
One fairly minor moan - I've got a load of annual leave I need to use up by the end of August so have booked every Friday off for the next six weeks. Sounds great in theory, but the amount of work hasn't been reduced, and I already had more than I could reasonably fit into a week. It does mean that today is technically Friday though, so I'll count it as a win. @sideone
Oof, sounds rough. Hope you recover soon. Also, brace yourself for "self-love" injury jokes from colleagues if you turn up with any sort of wrist brace/cast.
My better half is off to aldi first thing so I'll be clowning around with the kids for an hour or so. I've been really wanting to do a Big Cook this weekend. It's too warm for a roast so I think I'll make burritos instead. Still fairly involved but the oven will only be on about a quarter of the time so hopefully less swampy.
Other than that, just pottering around the house. My eldest is off on a residential trip with school in September and needs to learn how to put a duvet cover on so that's one of my regular jobs palmed off.
Well, it's Saturday so that means the kids are allowed nutoka (aldi nutella) on toast. The eldest is making it for them both and I'm half-heartedly trying to dissuade her from having it an inch thick.
I can't stop playing forza. I'm not usually a completionist in any sense of the word, but for some reason open world driving games really hook me in. Burnout Paradise was the last game I played to this extent.
I downloaded Hitman from game pass last night and managed to get an hour or so in. Haven't played a Hitman game in a long time so quite enjoyed it.
Otherwise it's been the usual rotation of Rimworld and Forza, but also very much looking forward to Cities Skylines 2. Not sure I've ever been this excited about roundabouts.
After a glorious birthday cream tea yesterday I've realised I've overestimated just how much clotted cream I would need and have a veritable dairy of leftovers. The scones are all gone and the rest of the strawberries won't be ripe til next week, so anyone got any recipes or ideas with what I can do with a large tub of Rodda's...
Maybe compared to a generation ago things are better, but over the past few years there has definitely been a ramp up in anti-trans rhetoric, both from the media and right wing politicians.
Bathroom bills, legislation against gender affirming care, even media and literature bans in the US. And in the UK the Tories are increasingly trying to single out trans people, (unsuccessfully) excluding them from bans on conversion therapy. Even the PM was recently recorded making anti-trans jokes.
Last year Yougov published data showing an overall decrease in support for trans people compared to 2018.
It is better than it was a long time ago, yes, but it's not better than it was more recently.
I think we are on the same page. I'm not trans myself, but I've definitely noticed increasing anti-trans sentiment amongst people I talk to. I agree that a lot of that is in reaction to increased media presence, but I also think that a lot of this is the typical pushing of the "us vs them" mentality that people in power find useful, it's just the people defined as "them" has shifted.
I'm still optimistic, but we need to be aware of these things, and push back against them when they crop up, otherwise that optimism will be in vain.
I'm a middle aged man with a family, two cats and a mortgage. I don't want to be having to fight for common decency to fellow humans, but increasingly feel like I'm being pushed to it. I'm tired, and I just want to potter about in my garden with a cup of tea.
I've been eating those lunchbox sized Peperami's for so long that, having gone back to the original Peperami i feel like I've just commited an act of public indecency.
The meat is just too big.
Barber just fucked up my beard
After growing my beard out for maybe 5-6 years, trimming it myself and generally keeping it looking “reasonable” I thought I’d treat myself and go get it trimmed by a “professional” first thing before a day full of webex meetings....
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The science is clear. So why can’t governments agree on vaping? (www.politico.eu)
whats your family's wee inside jokes or names for things that other folk (or better - your kids) find weird and annoying?
We’ve got a bunch and the ones that annoy the weans, like calling Jalapeños Jalpaneros in public, are our favourites.
Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows. (www.gsmarena.com)
Nearby Share is a very apt name - it basically describes exactly what the entire point of it is. You can use it to quickly (and easily) share stuff between Android phones, regardless of maker. And starting today, you can use it to share files between Windows PCs and Android devices.
What are you playing Wednesday
Don’t use the hump word or it’s an instaban! Just kidding, I’m no mod, I’m just some guy, you know....
Boris the pig tempted out of ditch with Turkish delight (www.bbc.co.uk)
Thursday complaints
It’s Thursday, one of the worst days of the week. Not yet the weekend, but we’re already tired....
OC Testing account switching
Q: What happens when I try to switch accounts in the middle of creating a post?...
Sunday Sunday Sunday!
Welcome to the weekend, part two....
Tonight we eat like kings! (feddit.uk)
Was feeling a bit flush in Asda
Saturday chat thread
It’s Saturday, the best day of the week for some of us. What’s happening, dudes?...
What are you playing?
Board, card, or video games - what's being played this week?
All this cream (SFW)
After a glorious birthday cream tea yesterday I've realised I've overestimated just how much clotted cream I would need and have a veritable dairy of leftovers. The scones are all gone and the rest of the strawberries won't be ripe til next week, so anyone got any recipes or ideas with what I can do with a large tub of Rodda's...
Celeste's Five-Year Journey to Becoming One of the Most Important Trans Games Ever (www.ign.com)
Why Celeste means more than ever to the transgender community in an increasingly hostile world.