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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I laughed more at this episode than just about anything else this year. Watching half a dozen lads driven fully demented by a man and his ten hour quest to shoot a horse. Truly magical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There used to be a Twitter account called The Strange Log which regularly posted things like this. Looks like it’s inactive now, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think “considered” is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I’m pretty sure someone came up with it, maybe even Boris, and then he repeated it a bunch of times in front of semi-relevant people in a jokey-jokey way followed by an “…unless?”

I imagine nobody with any level of responsibility in actually producing such a raid considered anything apart from how to most politely say no to the prime minister.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Based on the article it's still going to be something you have to request, so you should still be able to have your current setup unless your company gets so many requests it decides to standardise on 4long instead of 5.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This is true. It's still an awful lot more flexibility though. And of course as none of this legislation is written yet, it could lean either way while enabling both.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm a big four day week stan and I never expected to see it pushed during this parliament. Obviously the end result is going to be heavily dependent on what they end up implementing, but this is potentially huge for many, many people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If you’re a gamer then I’d strongly recommend you get a playlist of bangers from your favourite games. They tend to be high energy, low on distracting lyrics, and if you’ve played the game any amount then they’ve might have gotten associated with a “locked in” brain state so you feel like whatever task you’re achieving is analogous to gaming.

My playlist has tracks from Streets of Rage 2, Golden Sun, Pokémon, Smash Bros and Super Hexagon amongst others.

 

It's been about eighteen months since I first spoke to a doctor about getting referred for an adult ADHD diagnosis. The doc said basically "I'll refer you but don't expect anything because you're holding down a job and a family so you must be doing alright". I had my screening interview back in June, and that was followed up by two web-based questionnaires, one for me, and one for an adult who was about when I was young. My mum filled this role. And it's off the back of this questionnaire that the NHS has discharged me, stating "ADHD is a life-long condition and we would expect differences to have been evident from an early age" and "[my] difficulties are not best explained by a diagnosis such as ADHD".

Unqualified as I am, I do still feel like based on my own research, ADHD is probably the best explanation for a bunch of stuff in my life. A guy I've spoken to a lot who has some experience says my lived experience sounds fairly textbook ADHD/autism as taking effect from my mid to late teens (when my mum wasn't about so much), but the NHS seem to have focused in on my early childhood in discharging me.

Has anyone here been discharged by the NHS before a diagnosis, and what did you do afterwards? Did you carry on and get diagnosed elsewhere? If that happens, do you have to cover the entire cost of prescriptions forever? Did you get diagnosed with something else? ngl this feels like a real blow and I don't really know what to do next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Too real. We’ve had a stomach bug tearing through our house and half a hour after chundering all over my floor I’m getting “dad, I’m hungry, what can I have to eat?”

Forgive me, child, for not immediately refilling your super soaker of a stomach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I ran one on the other place if you want some ideas on how to format it. There's also a lot of good books in the suggestions lists.

In the end I stopped because it felt like participation rates dwindled fast, but it did a good job at highlighting an interesting range of books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry to get you excited. If it’s any help, they do absolutely leave it open to return after the book time skip, they included a load of stuff that only makes sense in context of the last books.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I’d definitely give it a try! The concept is strong enough to be that I’d even consider a full reboot, although my dream is another soft reboot where the canon is left intact and we just follow a new set of main characters, and our old favourites might pop up occasionally. Having seen Amazon do great stuff with the tail end of The Expanse I think they have the chops to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can’t believe the only strategy they have left is to buy pensioner votes at all cost.

 

I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?

 

A by-election will be triggered in his Kingswood seat.

 

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