Fun fact:

I went to a private school where some of the teachers were freemen of the city of London. Apparently, they could request that tower bridge be raised. None of them ever tried, but I believe it is some weird legacy law. They also had the right to drive their sheep across London Bridge, but that one has burnt down, burnt down, burnt down.

Had project manager at previous job the same. Worked about 3" from his screen. He was the proof that a good project manager is worth their weight in gold though. Guy was absolutely brilliant.

It’s a Parks & Rec reference:

https://youtu.be/DDgnb9iAWtY?si=FSFG23XI2QPeG8PN

Either Slackware or Red Hat Linux 5, can’t remember. I do remember that when I first installed RH5 I used “Hick” for my language.

A couple of weeks ago I moved Firefox to one side. Window disappeared, but Firefox was still running “somewhere” on my desktop, but was not actually be rendered to the screen. Killing the process and relaunching just resulted in it be rendered to this weird black hole. Log out of gnome and log back in? Same! Reboot? Same!

Ended up deleting it’s config folder and re-attaching to Firefox sync in order to have it working again. No idea what went wrong, nor will I ever most likely.

That didn’t end well last time though

No need for poisoning. Where he was -30°C is normal at this time of year. Not giving him a coat would have been enough to kill him

I’ve had beetles on the forehead while road cycling. Even at 40km/h that seriously hurts. Wouldn’t want it to happen at 100!

Shame, one of my favourite workplace proximity associates is called Kyle.

Easy workaround: live in the countryside with no neighbours.

Yeah, for a living room TV the only option is either “digital signage” or no network.

I’ll just stick to not connecting my TV to the network.

pandemic taught people how viruses spread

Didn’t every adult in the developed world not learn this as a child from their parents? Or failing that, at school? Are most people genuinely that stupid?

It boggles my mind that it took a world changing pandemic for people to learn basic hygiene! If people just washed their hands occasionally (start with after you go to the toilet) perhaps COVID would have never happened.

Instead of brake checking, flash the rear fog lights.

A red light coming on often makes them think you’re braking.

Don’t care if they do it themselves or contract it out. They just need to be make sure it is done.

Then please do not be an arsehole landlord.

It is not the tennant’s responsibility to pay the mortgage on your flat. Nor should they return it to you as new.

What you rent it for is the market rate, which hopefully will cover your mortgage+expenses. It may not, that is your problem, not the tennant’s.

When the tenndnt moves out there will be changes and even damage. Just like your primary property will have changes and damage.

When the tennant highlights an issue, fix it NOW. They are paying you a lot of money and deserve a lot of service.

Nothing wrong with being a landlord. There is a problem with being a tosser.

The landlord/tennant relationship seems to be different to every other business relationship. The landlord always seem to think they are doing the tennant a service by allowing them care for the house. The reality is that the tennant is exchanging large sums of money for a service.

• Deep cleaning ready for the next tennant is the landlord’s problem, not the tennant.
• All maintenance of the infrastructure of the house (walls, water, heating, etc) is the landlord’s problem. This includes modernisation. No rental property in 2023 should be without structured cabling and modern electrics for example.
• The tennant is not there to pay the mortgage. The landlord may lose money at times and that is just the cost of doing business.

The problem goes back further. You say “another group owned it first”, but Israel say they have had that land for millennia and it was given to them by God.

Palestine did not even exist until the British randomly carved it out on a map except for a brief period under the Romans around 0BC. The Romans called it Palestine in order to remove Israel’s identity.

How far back do we go?

That almost as bad as Top Gear logic!

So by purchasing clothes you are supporting slavery?

Well that depends on the baguette. A cheap baguette moulée I agree. A nice tradition will be take around 72 hours to mature to the point it can successfully be used for violence.

Wars have been fought for less.

In fact, it would not surprise me if an argument about bread was a factor in WW1.