ICTChris

A few months ago, this advert got a lot of attention. It’s for staff at a car wash in Texas. An assistant general manager of a car wash paid about the same as an NHS consultant. I mean, I’m sure those salaries might not be typical for working in a car wash in the US but damn.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about the rise of the UK as an offshoring location for American businesses. Basically, incomes have stagnated so much that American firms are looking to utilise what for the UK are high end jobs but come at half the salary of the US. Illustration here I have actually looked into this, if I moved to the USA and did the exact same job I do here I’d be earning around double my salary. The wage and wealth gap between the UK and the US is a big black pill. It also wouldn’t all be taken up with paying for health insurance, as the US has much lower taxes. If the UK was a US state then we would be the poorest, ranking alongside Mississippi.

What do people make of Hoka as a brand? I've heard they are the comfiest trainer, so I have just bought a pair.

My friend found out their wife was having an affair with a work colleague because messages popped up on Christmas Eve when they were watching a movie on wife's iPad. The wife had been doing a new job and hadn't been coping and had been drinking really heavily - she'd fall asleep drunk almost every night, which she did that night as well. They were at her families for Christmas and the wife begged my friend to just put up with it for a day before they sorted it out but basically they split up immediately afterwards. I think that the wife had been looking for a way out of the relationship but couldn't bring herself to just say she needed to leave so she would do things to drive away my friend - drinking heavily, being very difficult and finally, having the affair. I don't think she meant to get caught though.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mans-only-god-can-judge-me-tattoo-proved-wrong-by-county-court-judge-20160816112398

Nice of the owner to give his dog a turn of his necklace. Every part of the story just gets better. Quote from the owner also, the owner

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-xl-bully-owner-prosecuted-32495262 Everyone in this story looks exactly how you think they would.

I think there are reasons why they couldn't give any details on his children and relationships beyond the interview with Jade. If you read back through this thread or reports of his trial you'll see what I mean.

One thing the documentary didn’t really explain, presumably because they couldn’t find out, is where he came from, what his background is. The charity worker they interviewed said that he came to Inverness in his late teens, early 20s because he’d wanted to live in the Highlands. When I was a kid the story everyone had about him was that he came from a rich family, that he lived with them in a big house in Crown etc. - that can’t be the case because he only came to Inverness when he was an adult. The victim interviewed in the documentary said he sent her to live in a caravan on a piece of land he owned. He sold his house at Buncrew for £250k, how did he buy these places in the first place? I mean, where is he from, I don’t think he was Scottish. Did this guy just rock up, play guitar badly and sell seashell earrings until he had enough money to buy land and a house? Odd.

Jordan Transgenderson is the best one. Genuinely the whole thing reads like a parody. You could imagine Stewart Lee reciting them as part of his act.

Scumling Lolbion.

NASUWT say the Scottish government have missed their own deadline in providing guidelines for physically restraining pupils. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd15p1rgxepo Sounds like a bad story all round tbh. Are we going to start training teachers in jiu jitsu, just in case the pupils attack them?

A bit more straightforward to tax someone’s bank account than their good looks.

The UK actually has a relatively high rate of inheritance tax compared to other countries https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/TaxFoundation_FF458.pdf

I am biased as I am distantly related to him but Allan Wells has to be up there - a Scotsman being the best sprinter in the world? Has to rank highly. Andy Murray probably shades it with his achievements, over a prolonged period as well. There's a very cool documentary about Wells Olympic preparation When you consider the facilities and money in sport now, watching him train in public parks is crazy.

Oh to be a fly on the wall during Tam Cowan's diversity training.

Someone once threatened to sue me for a post I made on a forum, it was the ICT forum. Moderators removed the post, which suggested that the poster had poisoned the Clyde team in their pre-matchmeal before a game in Inverness.

Not a poll but a focus group quote

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68604787

Big news in the biohacking podcast world this week, as the undisputed star of that space Andrew Huberman is subject of a front cover magazine piece in NY magazine, making allegations about his behaviour towards a number of women. You can read the piece here. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html Essentially it accuses Huberman of infidelity and of troubling behaviour. I find some of the things really weird and uneasy - he apparently yelled at his partner for days about her life choices, specifically having a second child. He appears to have infected her with an STI. Reading the article, he comes across as neurotic and obsessive, as well as controlling and abusive, specifically this part That part of the article genuinely reminded me of Justin Lee Collins, if anyone remembers him - obsessiveness about a partners past relationships, controlling behaviour. A lot of people are defending Huberman by saying "well the guy is 50 and has six girlfriends, what he's saying must work", which overlooks the aspect of his behaviour being controlling. Prior to this article, I'd read a lot of criticism of Huberman and the way he presents information in his content. He mixes things that have good evidential basis, like exercise more, get better sleep, don't drink too much alcohol, with things that don't have a good evidential basis, like cold plunge baths for fat loss, psychedelics for mental illness etc. Discussion of this here He's generally accused of presenting studies that are not solid evidence for human effects as being solid evidence. He also shills supplements (the ubiqutous Athletic Greens). In one strange moment, he discussed giving his dog synthetic testosterone (Huberman himself takes exogenous testosterone as well as consuming Human Growth Hormone) which he claims improved his dogs mood and anxiety and described his dog looking at him with "gratitude" for doing so. Must be a clever dog! Do P&Bers enjoy Huberman's content? Have P&Bers ever formulated their own protocols for better living?

Basically, Joey Barton now sits at home on Twitter, poasting about anything that happens in a bid to hoof up engagement. No job in football, no job in punditry, he has to keep doing this to keep some sort of podcast gig a possibility.

Saw some QAnon accounts claiming that this is all being prompted by the forthcoming return of Trump.

I doubt many structures would do well being hit by a container ship.