and my nana, who was also from lancashire

old ladies with a front room that noone's allowed to ever use or sit in and it has to remain perfectly untouched in case the queen comes round for tea

every time there's a "this young lad has decided to dedicate his entire life to living as if he was in the 1940s/1980s/1990s and has redecorated his mum's house to match"

of course, it's so simple

my pal @therasteri.bsky.social recently did a definitive ranking of all the multi storey car parks in aberdeen

yeah same, I'm in the weird position that Aberdeen is one of the few places in the UK where house prices have massively fallen over the last decade and my house isn't worth as much as I bought it for - but I'd have lost far more if I'd been spending that money on rent, so it evens out really

absolutely yeah, I used to hang out in the wargames club at school - I never actually made or played warhammer etc myself but it was just a nice space where we could all be nerdy together

as someone who loved dinosaurs as a kid and got bullied I can tell you it's gonna happen whether or not you try to make your kid suppress their interests, all thatll happen is that they'll reach adulthood unable to articulate why they feel bad about themselves and have difficulty enjoying anything

Octoposty

The Spy Who Loved Posting

I was aware of them back when you could register an account on the bitcointalk forum and post "bitcoin is crashing!" and the value would immediately plummet

just go from the very start with Jamie Delano's run from #1, should be trades of them

I read scans first time round which was cool cos you'd get the letters pages with folk complaining about/complimenting how anti-Thatcher the first few issues were lol

aye it was so sad, he'd completely bought into the vision these guys had boasted about and it fucked him

so he took the job and turned down an amazing fully funded PhD doing mars exogeology, he never passed his probation, got turfed out, PhD opportunity gone. What a waste.

back in the early 2010s before the music stopped my pal started at baker hughes, they flew him out to dubai and a load of their boys boasted to him he could be retired by 40 and driving sports cars like them if he got his head down and sold all his leave back to the company like they did

"never trust SharePoint" is one of the most important corporate maxims you could possibly take to heart

the matrix told us that in the future we'd be using minidiscs instead of floppy discs, I don't think I ever saw a data MD if such a thing even existed

Class 55s are quite simply How A Locomotive Should Look, imo

the prophecy will be fulfilled