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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Disclosure: I’m in the UK where the worker protections are half-decent.

    was it ever not OK?

    It was not OK to not take a jobby on work time when you had the opportunity!

    I’ve worked shifts where my relief staffer has been in twenty minutes early (long commute, unpredictable traffic) so I’ve handed the shift over, and ensured that the remainder of my time was spent losing half a kilo of weight in five minutes. Conversely, it feels far more productive to leave the house half-needing to give birth to a brown otter, and nip to the bog once your feet are clear of your workload that you’ve taken on from the previous shift to go and perform the bowel movement while being paid for it.

    Shitting in my own khazi on my days off feels like voluntary work now.

    Sensibly though, any manager who controls bog time is just a bit of a fanny. Unless someone is obviously taking the piss like spending four hours of a ten hour shift, then people will perform better once they’ve laid a cable whenever they’ve needed to.



  • Purely a subjective opinion (and I apologise if the artist shows up in this thread) but is it me or does it look like the person who made the background took a step back after it was done, marvelled at how pretty it was, and enjoyed the moment before thinking “…fuck I forgot about O’Brien”?

    It’s a great bit of artwork but poor Miles looks like an afterthought!





  • Good old pagers. I absolutely don’t miss mine, but they were a welcome relief to get the odd message when you were working in dangerous or “clean” environments where phones (or any other electronic or transmitting device) were prohibited.

    I think my last one fell out of my belt and into a toilet mid-piss, so that was that.


  • I’ve got one and it’s cool… but that’s about it.

    It’s starting to chug now with modern apps (or legacy apps with new updates), the touchscreen is becoming increasingly unresponsive, that battery health is starting to go off a cliff… but all those factors can be levelled at any two or three year old phone.

    The hinge is the problem. My understanding is that Samsung has made a better design for the SGF 5 and 6, but i’m already on my second phone after the hinge caused the phone screen to bleed out from the centre, and I’m getting the crackle of doom from the hinge starting to sound already.

    If you’re desperate for a flip phone, then I’d advise you stay clear of the SGF3 and consider the Oppo Find N2 or the Nubia Flip.





  • I nipped in the Admiralty on Trafalgar Sq last Saturday lunchtime for a swift one, expecting to get royally horsed for being in a) London, b) in a tourist hotspot, and c) generally daring to have a pint outside of my own home.

    £6.50. I wasn’t even mad. I thought it was even cheap given the above factors, even if it was Amstel.

    In my local though, £4.10 for a pint of best or something similar.

    Offtopic: I ordered two large blonde lattes at the local Starbucks, and it was £10.10. it’s literally cheaper to go on the piss than drink average-but-decent coffee now.