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About me (#3) I am a manly man* who sets traps to kill wild animals† that threatened the safety of my home‡. *soft idiot †tiny fruit flies ‡were getting all up in my business after I returned from a work trip to discover I left some food scraps out

Not feeling confident about flying to NA any time soon

Good god this man index-finger types with a force of impact I would reserve only for people who have slighted me in some way, it's like he hates his keyboard for sleeping with his wife.

I'm going to become a morning person and arrive at the office at dawn, *just* so I can book and sit in the favourite desks of all the old twats who refuse to engage with the desk booking system. I have a favourite desk too, but at least I play the game, if I didn't book it first I don't sit there.

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Gutting. The project director you really like, who is always glowing about your performance to your face, was just dismissive about your efforts behind your back.

Call me unadventurous if you wish, but I've never had boba tea - or any drink with tapioca in it - and I never really intend to try. I'm quite happy drinking beverages that contain no goop balls, thank you.

Once *again* I have been healthy through the week and got a cold just in time to ruin my 48 hours off, bet you anything I'm feeling right as rain when my alarm goes off at 7am Monday.

Oh, the boys are back in town are they? Name three.

Well that didn't take long. I'm starting to feel like certain ideologies never admitted defeat but instead just quietly and patiently took 80 years to move from the loser of WWII to the winner.

What are the odds that Musk's new obsession with the British government is 100% motivated by the fact that cybertrucks aren't road legal over here? Saw one was in the news today, bet he makes a stink about it.

The person covering my work during my holiday really half-arsed it. They had all the quiet period over xmas and new year (that only ~20% of our staff work) to get to grips with the guidance material I left for them and squandered that chance to learn processes in a low pressure environment.

About me (#2) A good measure of my potential to be stubborn is the fact that it took until 2024 for me to accept the modern spelling of Sulfur. I thought it was a contested thing like Aluminium, but it turns out it's been pretty much internationally settled since 1992.

2025 - year of the good pupper First up, a very curious January.

The cutting of When Love Is Gone from the DVD release of The Muppets Christmas Carol was a real crime. I'm led to believe it's returning on some of the streamed versions, so that's something.

I think I'd be radicalised too if my parents called me "The Grinch" instead of a normal name.

i'm reading all your "name a non lotr character that could resist the one ring" quote tweets and shaking my head at all of them. none of them could resist the one ring. its the one ring.

A colleague previously incapable of communicating clearly and politely by email has suddenly started writing extremely clear and polite emails, almost to excess. It looks like somebody is finally making use of the AI assistant we have installed in-house, a version of Copilot.

Catching up on the Game Awards reveals, what's the deal with the gritty pacman reboot?

Let my advent candle burn down too low: totally understandable, easy to do. Accidentally opened an extra day on my advent calendar: totally deranged, what is wrong with you.

Balatro music going round and round my head like a damn virus

in england we use cricket for our sexual euphemisms instead of baseball, so here’s a quick conversion guide first base - extra cover second base - fine leg third base - silly mid-on home run - deep point we also have “backward deep point” (anal) and “third man” (threesome)

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Slap the training wheels back on, become a British Dependency. I promise we're cooler now.

Picture 10, everyone. You can thank me later. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

These stories of emboldened misogynist boys in the US who are going up to girls and saying "your body, my choice" with a jubilant smirk remind me of that one scene in Face/Off, in that I hope they encounter a girl whose dad gave her a switchblade and taught her how to find the femoral artery.

This is going to suck

not envious of any of dracula’s abilities except being able to explode into a thousand bats to get out of anything i don’t want to be part of