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22 hours ago, velo army said:
Not initially knowing that this was a fake school wedding really made its mark on how I read the rest
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Read this multiple times and was very confused. Gonna blame tiredness.
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On 29/03/2024 at 20:30, mathematics said:
A few weeks into my son’s life and the binmen decided not to empty the bin, which was full to the brim with shite [literally] . The lack of sleep and that incident had me looking for doors to kick down. I’d never been so angry at such a seemingly minor issue.
Reminds me of a time when my first kid was about 4 months and basically decided not to sleep during the day as well as still needing up to feed at nights so we were fucked and some utter bellend mobile tyre fitter parked his van across my driveway, with flashing lights on and outside shouting shortly after I'd just gotten the her to sleep and subsequently woke her. To say I had a go at him probably puts it mildly and I was no doubt overreacting, but f**k me man sleep deprivation and a crying child will change you.
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What oddball owns this alias then? Failing miserably at a wind up.
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19 hours ago, Venti said:
Like having 1 lightsaber hilt & everyone brings their own kyber crystal.
Ye know that's exactly what I was thinking.
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On 10/04/2024 at 08:19, The Moonster said:
Sorry to pull this up after months but is this not an entirely normal thing to do? The toothbrushes are designed in this way for this exact reason, no? It'd be utterly insane buying 5 separate toothbrushes that all had interchangeable heads.
Didn't expect that to start quite the debate on the topic, I just thought it was funny imagining them all lining up at the toilet waiting for the communal toothbrush. Can confirm it was 5 of them, maybe just a bit much, perhaps the mum and dad could have shared one and the kids another.
Not the greatest examples of tightfistedness so I'll retract it from being a "tremendous tale of tightfistedness" to "a tale of moderate thriftiness in the face of financial adversity" if that helps.
There were actually some much better examples from him, he was well known for it, but copious amounts of alcohol and not a lot of sleep over the last few years have probably blasted any such memories well an truly out of my brain.
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5 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Ismaning? I originally booked a hotel there but Garching looks much easier to get back to after the game, so I cancelled it.
The very one. I told him just to go with Garching, I think there may have even been spaces in the same hotel, so I don't really know why he did that.
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On 10/03/2024 at 14:19, Don Diego De la Vega said:
Booked to stay provisionally in Garching on the outskirts of Munich for the Germany game, seems to be decent transport links if not overly exciting,. anyone been there or staying there too?
Me and my brother also in Garching, on @welshbairn's recommendation actually. Looked nicer and better priced than the city centre options at the time. A mate of mine is in the next wee town over as well.
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9 hours ago, SH Panda said:
In real terms it's still a bit below 2022 highs so may have a bit to go. No doubt there will be at least a bit of a correction this year too.
There's a a good argument that these highs are bad for society overall. Pretty much every rich person, and certainly every politician and person of influence, will be invested in the stock market. Any spike like this only excarcebates inequality, and it's been rich man's heaven since 2010.
A counter analysis to Capital by Thomas Piketty pointed out that real nominal incomes of the wealthy hasn't changed much in previous decades, and the US has seen a surge in wages at lower levels for the last few years. However, most wealth appreciation comes through assets like equity and property, so salary disparity is becoming a less robust measure of inequality.
Most people will have some pensions in the stock market but there's a decent chance they are invested in wildly underperforming life strategy funds, or even worse in the moribund FTSE index.
My portfolio is 97% ETF weighted and most of that is in the US (frankly, I wish all of it was), on capital accumulation alone since November I've more than the annual median salary. And thats not through working or doing anything productive.
The game is rigged, and if you're not benefitting from it you're paying for it.
Tl;Dr check your pension allocation, and invest what savings you have in low cost tracker funds. Never too late to start.
For the last decade or so China has waged a bit of a war on its wealthy asset owning class (or at least stopped bailing them out, and severely restricting outward capital flows). The UK certainly has neither the balls nor means for this though so you should be fine.
I think you're fairly spot on there. Mine are a mix of index trackers and higher risk tech / north US funds. You really can't go too far wrong with them, as long as you're investing regularly. I don't agree entirely on life strategy funds, but that's because I have the LS 80% equity in Vanguard, while there's been dips in the last 2 years it's well up since I've been investing.
With the way tax in Scotland is going, paying particular attention to the amount and where you invest your pension in could be particularly beneficial long term.
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Ach I voted without reading the poll, a revolutionary war against the establishment I'd be there with bells on. Other than that, nah.
Although if it was more or less just like Kelly's heroes then yeah I'm probably back in.
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Everyone with an S&P 500 fund investment. Same actually applies to anyone heavily weighted in North America / US tech firms.
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23 hours ago, velo army said:
Coming through for this, but I haven't watched us win live in over a decade.
Apologies in advance.
Sincerely.
A. Jonah
Fucksakes
Was looking forward to this as well.
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Surprised at the lack of match thread for this guaranteed thriller of a cup tie. Hopefully the Jags can continue our play-off retribution against relegation zoned Livi this time.
With a break this weekend and hopefully no injuries I'd quite fancy us, so we'll probably lose.
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Hey wait a sec...
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On 26/01/2024 at 19:33, scottsdad said:
Before she trimmed the bush, or the other thing?
The other thing, although I've no idea if the curtains matched the drapes then or now.
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Don't really understand this suggestion of untrained / semi-trained boots on the ground approach being mentioned. Get a bunch of weans to pilot cheap drones with bombs, far better off that way.
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We can... Can't we?
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On 23/01/2024 at 11:17, Peil said:
Worked at the BBC a couple of times in late 90's and again in early 2000's
Met quite a few, Sean Connery was a very nice guy, Robert Plant likewise. In fact I don't think I can think of any who were actually arseholes.
Stupidest effort was one Friday night in Hubbard's. I was rather pished and started talking to some wee lassie at the Jukebox. Didn't get anywhere and didn't think much of it till the following Monday when i was dug up for trying to chat up Gail Porter.
I'd no idea who she was, even then, as I wasn't watching weans TV on a weekend morning.Also met Connery, in a bar after a round of golf in Spain, had a double take and then thought to myself if I didn't say it then I'd always regret it for the rest of my life and said "I take it that's shaken, not shtirred" he's slowly turned around with a half smile and said "f**k offfff"
Mates brother pumped Gail Porter (apparently) pre-bald as well.
One of my mates winched Michelle McManus on a night out and we never let him forget it.
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KLM actually cancelled our flight to Berlin, but this was on the 14th and we'd have missed the opener and we'd since booked other flights, so worked out rather well. Then EasyJet changed our flight times to something ridiculous on the 13th meaning we'd have missed our connecting flight to Munich. Keep an eye on your flights basically, as EasyJet didn't even tell us they changed.
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4 minutes ago, PrestersKTID said:
My first was born in November, wee boy. Massive shock to the system but we've been lucky that he's fairly chill... most of the time, has his moments though. Ridiculous how much development he's had in the last 11/12 weeks. Every day is something new.
Congrats, missus had a boy in March last year, been pee'd on so many times man, just catches you out and boom pished on, some range on it. Didn't really happen so much with our wee girl.
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5 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:
She was a colt, colt day last week.
The second pic just looks like a bunch of frozen boaby's man.
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2 hours ago, scottsdad said:
I shat in every boys school cubicle.
My aim is to hit every public building in Scotland as an adult. I have managed in castles, council offices, libraries, universities.
when they open new buildings, I try to get in esrly.
Read this as something you did while you were a professor and I can't stop laughing at the thought of it.
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In an update to creepy things that happen on baby monitor, the missus advised me that the monitor moved and moved back again. I didn't witness this and she was very tired and tripping balls. Though she did not appreciate me sharing my vivid dream / nightmare of a few nights previous, in fact this is recurring.
I've always had pretty wild dreams, but in this dream I see a creepy old hand (like a witches hand maybe) appear slowly towards the monitor and the monitor goes dark, then the child is gone. It's remarkably vivid, the thing that amazes me usually is the fine details that appear in the dream, it's exactly the way things should look.
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16 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
Appreciate everyone's kind words, just picked yours because you have pretty much nailed it in your second paragraph. To the point where I personally don't fully understand why it's even happening. But it is. Over the last few months we've had the chat where it was aired as a possibility a few times and it seems like today we both just accepted that we've both tried, but we can't keep on returning to the same talk over and over.
I think ours is a familiar tale really. It seems we have slowly but surely become just a couple of pals who raise kids together. She doesn't think it's enough. I don't think there's better life out there but she can't accept not trying. I could. I'd undo that conversation in a heartbeat if I could, but that wouldn't be fair.
Right now all I can think of is how to tell my kids, how to make sure they don't lose out on the life iv always said they would have, and much a chew it's all going to be.
Lord help me whenever I have to navigate trying to get my hole again aswell....
Sorry to hear about this mate, shite all round but you'll probably come out of it better in the long run, I hope/think anyway.
Went through separation and divorce about 10 years ago, (no kids in the equation) had been together a long time, but only married about a year and it just felt the old classic of ships passing in the night. When it all ended I was strangely relieved, but then I felt a lot of regret like I'd wasted the best years of my life and subsequently went a bit wild for a while trying to make up for it and during this time got involved in a long distance "whirlwind romance" absolutely head over heels for a younger, mysterious, highland lass and 8 years later we've got two kids and still going strong. Wrote this to give you a bit of positive for the long term, when the dust settles and you've figured out the other stuff.
Tough times but it will get better.
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19 hours ago, Iminavest said:
Heading up the A96 this morning and some cnut in a bwm decided to squeeze between me and another van at the end of a crawler lane. Then spent the next half an hour following the van so closely that they were having to tap the breaks every 30 seconds to avoid running up the back of it. Arsehole.
This sort of stuff really confuses me, imagine how annoying it would be as the driver doing that, constantly braking, I wonder what they thinking at the time. The thing is, most modern BMWs will have cruise control that can detect a car in front and just keep them at A) a safe distance and B) the speed limit.
Also if you are driving behind this, it can be quite easy to get drawn into reactionary braking if the vehicle in front is a van you can't see ahead of and instead end up having to leave a bigger than normal gap, then c***s decide it's fair play to undertake you. Classic Edinburgh to Glasgow and vice versa shenanigans.
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Partick Thistle 🔴🟡Vs Airdrieonians ♦️♦️
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Play off final for promotion to Premier should be one game at Hampden instead of two legs.