Things that don't deserve their own thread

[TedMaul]

Good old Frank Ferdinand, never misses a gig.

The number of fucking autocorrects I needed to fix in that post, Lloyd Corner, Kate Tempest etc.

Also missed Biffy Clark

Busta Rhymes

[SaintK]

Glastonbury lineup for this summer announced. Still has massive pulling power for artists when you see the names further down the bill from the headliners. Not going to pretend I’m a fan of the 1975 or Olivia Rodrigo, but Neil Young headlining Saturday night is a bit of a coup. Loyle Carner, Charlie XCX and The Prodigy headlining second stage. Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Supergrass, Biffy Clark, Alanis Morrisette, Busta Rymes, Wet Leg, English Teacher, Fatboy Slim, Frank Ferdinand, Self Esteem, Father John Misty, Kneecap, Leftfield, The Libertines, Future Islands, Kae Tempest, and Rod Stewart in the legend slot on Sunday afternoon.

Could be a last chance for Rod Stewart who is 80 and Neil Young who is 79
Haven't missed a Neil Young gig on a UK tour in 30 years+
Glastonbury not for me but got my Hyde Park gig tickets

[Niegs]

This is kinda wild ... Canadian teen in Polish jail on espionage charges after being recruited as a spy while visiting Donetsk (and he only speaks English).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian ... -1.7474399

[Niegs]

I'm not sure if this channel is horrible or amazing, but a guy riffs on old films that maybe (or totally) haven't aged great while his buddy delightfully laughs along (or yells "Oh no!" before laughing about it).

[Sandstorm]

I'm not sure if this channel is horrible or amazing, but a guy riffs on old films that maybe (or totally) haven't aged great while his buddy delightfully laughs along (or yells "Oh no!" before laughing about it).

07:50 - 08:00 when he add-libs to the Friend's theme song is genius!

[S/Lt_Phillips]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7479547

This happened yesterday, the occupants of the cabin that crashed seem to have minor injuries only, which is good news. My daughter was on the lift a bit further up the mountain when it failed. The lift was obviously shut down and after 6 (!) hours, they were rescued by the ski patrol and abseiled down.

She was able to keep us up to date with progress, so it was a slightly stressful time here (much more so on the gondola, I'm sure) waiting to hear if she got down to the ground safely. She said the best thing about being back on the ground was she could finally have a pee.

She sent a few photos/video, including using helicopters to get ski patrol to some of the cabins. This is because - get this - the lift goes over a grizzly bear enclosure, and the bear, called Boo, is awake and was seen out sunbathing in the last few days.

[dpedin]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7479547

This happened yesterday, the occupants of the cabin that crashed seem to have minor injuries only, which is good news. My daughter was on the lift a bit further up the mountain when it failed. The lift was obviously shut down and after 6 (!) hours, they were rescued by the ski patrol and abseiled down.

She was able to keep us up to date with progress, so it was a slightly stressful time here (much more so on the gondola, I'm sure) waiting to hear if she got down to the ground safely. She said the best thing about being back on the ground was she could finally have a pee.

She sent a few photos/video, including using helicopters to get ski patrol to some of the cabins. This is because - get this - the lift goes over a grizzly bear enclosure, and the bear, called Boo, is awake and was seen out sunbathing in the last few days.

Shit scary stuff! Looks like the cabin didn't properly reconnect to the main cable once it was loaded up and ready to depart? Thankfully there didnt seem any problem with the main cable. Glad she is ok and it hasn't put her off skiing.

I've never been in a cable car/cabin/bubble get stuck but I was in a two man chairlift in Val d'Isere that got stuck in snowstorm whilst we were about 200 feet above the ground. I was sitting on the upwind side and ended up lookin like frosty the snowman by the time we got down about 30 mins later. Frozen solid and needed a few hot chocolates with a top up from the hip flask to warm up.

[tabascoboy]

[Guy Smiley]

https://wankernomics.com/

[Uncle fester]

https://wankernomics.com/

Lot of that where I'm working and the acronyms, oh God the acronyms.

[tabascoboy]

The quality reporting that we expect from our media providers

Map reveals the unexpected UK towns that buy the biggest dildos

[TB63]

[Niegs]

Educational video uploaded to pornhub makes creators more money than youtube.

[robmatic]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/19/euro ... index.html

Erdoğan taking some fairly significant steps to cement his hold on power today. Turkey's democracy is somewhat problematic anyway, but yesterday İmamoğlu's university diploma from 35 years ago was cancelled, rendering him ineligible to be a presidential candidate, and this morning he has been arrested on terrorism and organised crime charges.

Everyone knows that İmamoğlu would probably win a presidential election if he were a candidate. He's already won Istanbul twice, is very charismatic, and is a relentless campaigner.

We will see if any street protests kick off. They might not because people are pretty numb to the regime's shenanigans and protesting doesn't really achieve anything here apart from earning you a beating and criminal charges.

[Yeeb]

https://wankernomics.com/

Lot of that where I'm working and the acronyms, oh God the acronyms.

Touch base
KPIs for ROY on todays LSR seem BYB, can we get some STVRs into APO ASAP as we didn’t land the CPI for DRM approval
Lack of granularity in the seasonality
TPS
MAPE
WAPE
SLOB

[Yeeb]

The quality reporting that we expect from our media providers

Map reveals the unexpected UK towns that buy the biggest dildos

They have flagged Mrs Bimbomans town I see

[Niegs]

I could do with a new hobby... a mate of mine has horses....

[Enzedder]

Last night we had a 15 year old from Tauranga become the youngest person ever to run a mile under 4mins (3:58.35)



https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360620761 ... inute-mile

[Gumboot]

Strewth Ruthe!

[SaintK]

I hope nobody here is thinking of using Heathrow for the forseeable future!

“Today’s total closure of London-Heathrow will affect at least 1,351 flights to/from LHR,” the flight tracker said in a post on Bluesky, “That doesn’t include any flights that might be canceled or delayed due to aircraft being out of position.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt

[Slick]

I could do with a new hobby... a mate of mine has horses....

I've taken it up with my son. Been indoors so far because of winter but going to the clubs outdoor course at the weekend. Looks amazing, 22 ranges within woodland, shooting at targets and pretend animals!

[fishfoodie]

I hope nobody here is thinking of using Heathrow for the forseeable future!

“Today’s total closure of London-Heathrow will affect at least 1,351 flights to/from LHR,” the flight tracker said in a post on Bluesky, “That doesn’t include any flights that might be canceled or delayed due to aircraft being out of position.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt

Maybe they should focus on keeping the existing runways operational before they go adding anymore ?

This is an object lesson in why consolidating ever more flights into LH is just asking for trouble.

[Slick]

I hope nobody here is thinking of using Heathrow for the forseeable future!

“Today’s total closure of London-Heathrow will affect at least 1,351 flights to/from LHR,” the flight tracker said in a post on Bluesky, “That doesn’t include any flights that might be canceled or delayed due to aircraft being out of position.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt

Maybe they should focus on keeping the existing runways operational before they go adding anymore ?

This is an object lesson in why consolidating ever more flights into LH is just asking for trouble.

These were the days we utterly dreaded when I worked at Trailfinders

[Sandstorm]

I hope nobody here is thinking of using Heathrow for the forseeable future!

“Today’s total closure of London-Heathrow will affect at least 1,351 flights to/from LHR,” the flight tracker said in a post on Bluesky, “That doesn’t include any flights that might be canceled or delayed due to aircraft being out of position.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt

Maybe they should focus on keeping the existing runways operational before they go adding anymore ?

This is an object lesson in why consolidating ever more flights into LH is just asking for trouble.

You know this has nothing to do with any building work or expansion plans, right?

The runways are all still operational, there's just no power to the airport. It'll be fixed later today.

[fishfoodie]

I hope nobody here is thinking of using Heathrow for the forseeable future!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt

Maybe they should focus on keeping the existing runways operational before they go adding anymore ?

This is an object lesson in why consolidating ever more flights into LH is just asking for trouble.

You know this has nothing to do with any building work or expansion plans, right?

The runways are all still operational, there's just no power to the airport. It'll be fixed later today.

I'm not suggesting they are; just that maybe they should focus first on making their existing operation more robust, like laying on a 2nd power supply, so that even if one goes, at least they can keep a couple of terminals operational, rather than just having enough backup power to run ATC & little else.

This was a predictable incident, & shutting down operations for a day & causing massive worldwide disruption isn't a good look.

[mat the expat]

I could do with a new hobby... a mate of mine has horses....

I've taken it up with my son. Been indoors so far because of winter but going to the clubs outdoor course at the weekend. Looks amazing, 22 ranges within woodland, shooting at targets and pretend animals!

I just did 1200kms in 2 days to help setup a new club in Kyudo (Japanese archery)

I've shot trad longbow and compound since I was a kid but am concentrating on Kyudo now

Yabusame, Kyudo on Horseback is excellent - I'm just shit on horses

[Slick]

I could do with a new hobby... a mate of mine has horses....

I've taken it up with my son. Been indoors so far because of winter but going to the clubs outdoor course at the weekend. Looks amazing, 22 ranges within woodland, shooting at targets and pretend animals!

I just did 1200kms in 2 days to help setup a new club in Kyudo (Japanese archery)

I've shot trad longbow and compound since I was a kid but am concentrating on Kyudo now

Yabusame, Kyudo on Horseback is excellent - I'm just shit on horses

He loves his compound at the moment, cos it looks cool. But he’s absolutely loving it and became Scottish champion in his age group a few weeks ago - he’s 8.

I’m a bit worried that his early success will knock him when he’s not winning but I think getting outdoors will keep the interest going

[tabascoboy]

[TB63]

Saw this overhead earlier, Falcon 9 launch..

[Biffer]

This thread is a wee joy

https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.so ... 7rrdxfmk2h

[Slick]

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient.

Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same.

[PornDog]

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient.

Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same.

Thankfully no. I have the usual suspects that are always late payers, but haven't seen any significant increase. I'm probably not the best use case though, as for the most part I get payment (or partial) up front. I lose a few clients thanks to this policy, but I figure these are wasters anyway that I would spend a whole bunch of time chasing and often enough not get paid at all, so I've been much happier and sleep better since I brought it in a few years ago.

I generally deal with small businesses, so not huge amounts but had been wasting a lot of time with dickheads essentially looking to get work done for free. The amount of times I heard "you can trust me", "I'm as honest as they come" and so on. Each and every one of them that said things like that was a cunt!

Oweing me money though seems to be very bad for the health of people's grandparents. So many of my debtors have had them up and die on them right at the same time as they are late for payment. So you'd better pay me or else I'll kill your elderly family members!!

[Slick]

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient.

Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same.

Thankfully no. I have the usual suspects that are always late payers, but haven't seen any significant increase. I'm probably not the best use case though, as for the most part I get payment (or partial) up front. I lose a few clients thanks to this policy, but I figure these are wasters anyway that I would spend a whole bunch of time chasing and often enough not get paid at all, so I've been much happier and sleep better since I brought it in a few years ago.

I generally deal with small businesses, so not huge amounts but had been wasting a lot of time with dickheads essentially looking to get work done for free. The amount of times I heard "you can trust me", "I'm as honest as they come" and so on. Each and every one of them that said things like that was a cunt!

Oweing me money though seems to be very bad for the health of people's grandparents. So many of my debtors have had them up and die on them right at the same time as they are late for payment. So you'd better pay me or else I'll kill your elderly family members!!

Mine are a mix of multinationals, universities, SME's, all fucking late and all small amounts ( mostly under £1k).

[Tichtheid]

Possibly the best piece of business advice I ever got was to NEVER be late with any payment - your reputation is all you've got. I've seen it go the other way a good few times and guys I knew would end up losing tens of thousands of pounds worth of work because they couldn't get materials due to them stiffing suppliers in the past.

My thing that doesn't deserve its own thread - I started using a Fitbit this week, it's my push to regain the finely tuned athletic body of my youth, cough,
anyway, I chuckled last night when I got my notification that I'd done my ten thousand steps when I was on my way to the bar to buy a round

[PornDog]

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient.

Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same.

Thankfully no. I have the usual suspects that are always late payers, but haven't seen any significant increase. I'm probably not the best use case though, as for the most part I get payment (or partial) up front. I lose a few clients thanks to this policy, but I figure these are wasters anyway that I would spend a whole bunch of time chasing and often enough not get paid at all, so I've been much happier and sleep better since I brought it in a few years ago.

I generally deal with small businesses, so not huge amounts but had been wasting a lot of time with dickheads essentially looking to get work done for free. The amount of times I heard "you can trust me", "I'm as honest as they come" and so on. Each and every one of them that said things like that was a cunt!

Oweing me money though seems to be very bad for the health of people's grandparents. So many of my debtors have had them up and die on them right at the same time as they are late for payment. So you'd better pay me or else I'll kill your elderly family members!!

Mine are a mix of multinationals, universities, SME's, all fucking late and all small amounts ( mostly under £1k).

Yeah that fucking sucks - there's literally no excuse for that. It's not like they don't have the cashflow to cover your invoice.

Whats the law like in the UK on late payments? I did look at it briefly here when I was dealing with this shit before I brought in my new payments policy, so didn't go too deep into it, but if they go beyond 30 days you are legally allowed to charge them interest. It's a statutory right. Not sure how often it gets implemented by companies, but its existence probably helps to keep a leash on some of the late payers.

You might see if you have something similar in the UK and then send out a shot across the bow email to all of your clients, reminding them of that statute (if it exists) and explain why you might have to start enforcing it. Might wake a few people up to the situation their late payments put you in.

You have to do something if its causing you stress and lack of sleep though - life's too short to be dealing with small bullshit like that.

[Sandstorm]

Whats the law like in the UK on late payments? I did look at it briefly here when I was dealing with this shit before I brought in my new payments policy, so didn't go too deep into it, but if they go beyond 30 days you are legally allowed to charge them interest. It's a statutory right. Not sure how often it gets implemented by companies, but its existence probably helps to keep a leash on some of the late payers.

UK Government has zero qualms about charging you interest on late payments for council tax or business rates bills! Private sector have that option open to them too, but we haven't used it yet in our business (yet)

[Slick]

Whats the law like in the UK on late payments? I did look at it briefly here when I was dealing with this shit before I brought in my new payments policy, so didn't go too deep into it, but if they go beyond 30 days you are legally allowed to charge them interest. It's a statutory right. Not sure how often it gets implemented by companies, but its existence probably helps to keep a leash on some of the late payers.

UK Government has zero qualms about charging you interest on late payments for council tax or business rates bills! Private sector have that option open to them too, but we haven't used it yet in our business (yet)

Yeah, it's a tricky one as I also can't afford to lose the business so it's difficult to know how far to push it. Although I lost my shit with a well known company this morning who are 6 weeks late already and just told me they have fucked up the onboarding process and so have to start again which will take at least 2 weeks. I've been telling them for a month they have fucked up the onboarding process.

[Slick]

Has anyone ever used the Motorway app to sell a car? Not connected to above posts

I literally know nothing about buying and selling cars, I have always just seemed to inherit them and not particularly bothered as long as it gets me around. However, as detailed elsewhere, the current one is a pain in the hole and no one seems to be able to diagnose or fix the clutch issues - it also seems that it is very common with the car - Hyundai.

Anyway, going to sell it or trade it in and get a new/2nd hand one. Any advice greatly appreciated.

[mat the expat]

He loves his compound at the moment, cos it looks cool. But he’s absolutely loving it and became Scottish champion in his age group a few weeks ago - he’s 8.

I’m a bit worried that his early success will knock him when he’s not winning but I think getting outdoors will keep the interest going

Good to hear!

Yes, maintaining the rage is a thing - but at the very least, if he drops it later, most people return to it as adults

[Blackmac]

Has anyone ever used the Motorway app to sell a car? Not connected to above posts

I literally know nothing about buying and selling cars, I have always just seemed to inherit them and not particularly bothered as long as it gets me around. However, as detailed elsewhere, the current one is a pain in the hole and no one seems to be able to diagnose or fix the clutch issues - it also seems that it is very common with the car - Hyundai.

Anyway, going to sell it or trade it in and get a new/2nd hand one. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Yeah, I have heard good and bad but more generally good. The details of the vehicle basically go out to auction so you have more interest than the likes of We Buy any car. Your basic problem is you are relying on the buyer not noticing the clutch issue when you hand it over.

On that note I have also heard that the inspector for We Buy any car, who operates out of the car park at Dobbies Garden Centre, is an absolute clown and fails to notice many undisclosed defects.