I came up a croppe once again. Just can’t face the fact of it finally being over!

Started China Mieville’s Perditot Street station instead, which seems to be pretty good so far. I’ll try again maybe next year!

I’ve finally worked myself up to read Shepherd’s Crown after numerous attempts but getting too emotional.

Just finished Wee Free Men this morning and I was already a bubbling wreck at the end. It’s gonna be a rough, emotional ride.

I’m the opposite. I manage a BAU team and our team are active on slack, and seem to be thriving. We have two webex meetings a week, keep in constant touch and we all love it.

Online communities are more than good enough at the best of times so I don’t see how they can’t work in the professional space.

Ok - but I don’t go to work for a sense of community? I go to work to earn money to survive. My tasks get done, profits are up overall so why do I need to feel engaged and how does being isolated have any negative effect on that?

I think the Tory government are a shower of self serving cunts. That’s business as usual though.

I’ve honestly no idea why they keep getting voted in again and again. Baffles me even more why folk are voting Tory here in Scotland. “Fuck you, I’ve got mine” seems to be a big factor.

It’s a waste of time. These types of people are as thick as mince, you’re not gonna change their mind because they have zero interest or incentive to do so. It’s a fucking cult of morons.

I recognise that! KFC in Tower Hill, London. One of the filthiest restaurants I’ve been in but holy fuck it’s still the best KFC I’ve had like 5 years later. Also - you Have to pay for the fucking toilet as well.

At first when they changed the layout I thought it was to try and mimic a mobile phone kind of layout, portrait instead of landscape sort of, to make it identical on pc and phone. Not that it made sense then, But they’re pushing everyone to their shite app so it makes even less sense now.

Tory cretins acting like the scum they are. Fuck yeah, I guess.

Icepoles here in Ayrshire, Scotland!

It’s affronting the way they can just spout this bullshit when it’s that shower of shite that’s the fucking cause.

Okay, but what if you don’t have cable because it’s a massive rip off full of ads despite costing a fortune, or buy physical media?

I Pirate because of all the hoops that I have to jump through in order to access media. And even then, if you choose to legally stream etc then the creators are still getting fucked over while execs make fucking BANK. So no thanks, fuck that.

Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.

I just can’t understand how parents can treat their kids that way. And worse, refuse to be in their grandkids lives!

My “mum” has always been a spiteful, hate filled birch. We haven’t had the best relationship and as a kid I used to get the utter shit beat out of me when I did anything wrong. So I’d act up all the time. Get told I was just like my “piece of shit” biological father, who tried to kill me and had never been part of my life.

Despite all this and despite a lifetime of being out down by her, I remained in contact. Big mistake. It all came to a head in January of this year. I’m 7 months no contact with her - I don’t have her bringing me down, deadnaming my kids and generally being a horrid bastard. So much better!

It actually had two halves with rods connecting the two, which prevented that!

Hardly being pedantic - you’re being correct and I appreciate you letting me know!

And I loved it - he told me to eat it with some whipped cream. Had that and a coffee and I was in heaven.

I first came across this in the Discworld. Not sure which book exactly (there’s a few characters that keep bees) but I think it’s one of the Tiffany Aching books maybe?

Was having a discussion with my wife and our mate just earlier - how their film group was mocking her for liking Fantastic Mr Fox and it was immature because cartoons are for kids.

I’m just so confused with regards to people like that. Imagine missing out on some amazing pieces of work just because they’re animated. Empty, sad people.

What the fuck. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic! The mods over there are a bunch of bawbags.