PhobosAnomaly

You get fucking wankpuppets in every nation unfortunately.

I’m just fuming he’s stolen my title.

gobble up deez micronuts

It was mostly black, to be fair!

…I’ll get my coat

That’s dead interesting. I can’t profess to understand the hows and whys, but it’s amazing that these sorts of technologies were adopted so early.

Great stuff. I’d positively melt in 34degrees mind!

Disclaimer: I can write my entire knowledge of DIY and building on an ant’s dong in black marker

A pal of mine started a business building ecologically-sustainable holiday lodges. They were built out of timber and hay, with a limestone render.

They were beautiful and warm, but that was the result of years of battles with the planning dept who pushed back at almost every turn (despite absolute carbuncles going ahead no bother), and the architect who was more concerned with dropping prefabricated lodges in - defeating the selling point of being as green as possible.

I appreciate your input though, if there was ever such a thing as an across-the-water fist bump, this would be it!

Stone houses are awesome.

Not nearly the same historical context as the Dammuso are in, but stone buildings generally mirror that property before you factor in central heating and the like.

I live near a Scottish city which prides itself on the building of grand houses using a particular type of quarried stone, and it’s nice being eight degrees below the summer weather…

…but it isn’t much fun being eight degrees below the winter outdoor temperature either!!

On a similar tangent, I find hilarity in poorly drawn swastikas - or to use an entertaining but horrendously ablest term, a spastika.

I make no apology for equating the sort of dickhead that scrawls this shit everywhere in adult life with the sort of clueless fuckwit that tests sockets with a fork, and couldn’t pour water out of a boot even if the instructions were on the soles.

I don’t often like punching down on the lesser-intellectual folk (mainly because I’m dumb as rocks for 23 hours of the day myself) but this is one of the few times I enjoy the opportunity.

Where is the penis stealing?

I was told it comes with the territory of being a gnome.

The bigliest number. The greatest. The most number on earth.

Ooooh that’ll be a good PPE concept. Maybe make them contrasting colours. A deep red against a white background perhaps. Maybe put a Hindu peace sign in the middle to highlight their friendly intention.

Oftentimes, it was even more wild than that. One flight may have been ten or twelve quid; and the other flight might have been three or four quid. Granted this was ten or fifteen years ago; but some of the low-cost carrier flights were insanely low.

There’s still some crazy low prices to be had if you live near a hub for a low cost carrier, like Stansted or Glasgow Prestwick.

An old colleague of mine worked at a different office - he got fed up of the rat run and took a job within a stone’s throw of Stansted Airport - close enough that a hotel or carpark shuttle bus covered his route.

He couldn’t be arsed with London and Essex house prices so he bought his house near Shannon (yes, in the Republic of Ireland) and commuted by plane every day. The major problem with that was if he didn’t book a flight when they were released (where it was about fifteen or twenty quid return!), or if there was a short notice job came in that changed his hours, he was royally fucked and it cost him a fortune.

I should imagine his carbon footprint was somewhere between “Chinese concrete factory” and “literally burning petrol in the back garden for a laugh”.

A friend of a friend did something similar in east London - couldn’t be holed with the London house prices so got a place in some Paris suburb and commuted by train most mornings, only staying over if there was a staff night out or a late working task planned.

…and I sometimes complain about my ten mile commute.

Problem is, asking “don’t well all know” and “I have assumed” don’t meet the evidential threshold for prosecution - and “It just fits” isn’t a compelling legal argument.

I’m no fan of his, but due process should be applied to all - whether it’s a sitting or former president; someone swept up in an ICE raid; or someone contesting a traffic ticket.

Yeah but the weather’s nice isn’t it. Suns oot, taps aff, might as well go and join a radgey outside a golf course.

edit: this sounds like I’m being flippant, I’m not. Crack on boys and girls, go wild

I get it, it’s still jarring though. I get that and LGBTQI+ mag would want to promote his sexuality to prove visibility of senior civil servants or G-men or whatever the US calls them, but it just feels like a qualifier that shouldn’t be necessary.

Happy to learn otherwise though, I’m open to opinions.

It’s incredible really. I should ask him for lottery numbers or stock tips.

Depends how want to feel really! It’s rhyming slang for “dead”. Apologies if it wasn’t clear.

It’s the antithesis of “vote blue no matter who”.

“Vote red, if your kids are brown bread”.

I actually feel dirty just writing that.

I had a team leader ten years ago or more when I worked in a incident management room, where he would be the duty manager for the south of the UK.

You could tell something was going to happen or a griefy job was coming in, because he’d nip out for a fag for fifteen minutes just seconds before the first phone call would come in.

It was almost impressive, and once most of the policy or callout decisions had been made, he’d come back in with a cup of tea oblivious to the whole thing.

Absolute legend of a bloke really, I was just jealous that I didn’t have that sixth sense.

It could be a translation thing. In certain parts of France, “ados” is a bit of a catch-all term for anyone in teenager or young adults years. It’s not strictly defined, but would explain the presence of the word in an English translation.