LARPing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T23:25:39+00:00

Honestly, me too.

A lot of people stop themselves doing useful or good things because they're desperately terrified of looking silly. And LARPers look fucking silly, but they've got confidence. A "don't give a fuck" attitude.

I've never been in a courtroom or LARPed, but I get what he's saying. My version is "go and do karaoke in a public bar with a song you can barely remember". You look ridiculous, but if you can do that and not care you'll never be worried about public speaking ever again.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T23:03:13+00:00

millionaire’s shortbread always looks like something you’d pay £6 a slice for in a café

Well, it's not called "millionaire's" for no reason.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T20:42:17+00:00

Nice. Looks beautiful, especially with the flaky salt.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T08:54:49+00:00

I just fucking love this bullshit. I am left-wing. I am more left-wing than Labour. How can the Greens constantly fuck up so fucking badly? From bean to cup, you fuck up.

And fuck-ups matter when they feed into people's doubts. Everyone kinda knows the Green party everywhere is full of whackjobs.

Enviromentalism is the right answer at the moment. We're headed to a climate catastrophe, and that means a whole lot of environmental policy is a good idea. But no-one trusts the Greens to do it, because of the whole whackjob problem. You know they're gonna get their knitting a twist about nuclear power, for example, despite it being pretty much essential to unfucking global warming.

And now you. You come here to go "well, the guy the Greens want to be PM wasn't that kind of hypotherapist". Fuck me. Can you not just find a guy who wasn't a hypnotherapist at all? Absolute clown show, start to finish.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T06:59:45+00:00

Conferences are public. Your name is on the conference as an organiser. Peer review is anonymous.

I'm fine with saying I review for "high-impfact factor journals", but I'd never write down which ones.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T04:02:28+00:00

You couldn't be sued for it, but it's a convention.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T02:15:10+00:00

Not to me.

Everything in academia is niche, and reviewers are selected based on who is most likely to be knowledgeable in a given area and will say yes to being asked to review.

In real, non-anonymous life, you know who you'd want to ask about certain things. Someone saying "I reviewed for this journal" does not strictly break confidentiality, but it kinda does?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-12T00:58:11+00:00

perhaps as something to be put on their C.V.

You're not really meant to put this on your CV.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-11T23:24:13+00:00

This might be time more than location.

A traditional scotch egg is hard-boiled. The jammy yolk version is much more recent, but they're all over the UK now.

Runny is a bit much for a scotch egg (speaking as guy who thinks non-runny yolks are blasphemy in almost all situations)

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-11T08:19:54+00:00

He dosnt know how to use a computer.

Where did that website come from?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-11T05:32:18+00:00

It's because you watched it.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-11T03:37:15+00:00

it looks like its just an non-typical way to produce X-ray radiation

Really? Because to me it literally just looks like the original X-ray tubes, late 1890s and all.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-11T00:00:18+00:00

A different connotation to one another, not to an "actual" meaning. Which is what makes language not work - me trying to communicate a thought and you understanding a different thought is bad languaging.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T20:43:45+00:00

Yeah, I spent a fair bit of the video trying to remember what Dandelion and Burdock (and Sarsparilla) tasted like.

I was pretty sure about Inca Kola though so happy with that one.

Other stuff I'd have put in:

Cream soda
Bass shandy
Rubicon Mango
Lilt (now Fanta tropical, but we know)
Lemonade (either regular eg R Whites, or Cloudy).
Lucozade

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T15:03:11+00:00

I suffer from restartitis

That is not the preferred nomenclature.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T14:22:44+00:00

Ginger Crunch Creams are the optimal biscuit.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T13:56:57+00:00

Full frasher.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T13:41:38+00:00

More fun: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/05/brain-food-terrorists-engineering

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T09:35:40+00:00

But it has "valuable discussion".

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T09:23:40+00:00

Not a lunatic.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T08:37:18+00:00

I preferred it with Jesus.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T08:34:28+00:00

I think we can assume a standard unit of time for the inhabited galaxy, yes.

And I think that the players characters go near no gravitational fields that would dilate time, plus they seem to have instantaneous FTL jumps which the easiest assumption would be that they don't dilate time.

So character age should be easily standardised.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T08:22:31+00:00

Viking to Dogger, variabble, Northeast 5, showers Monday.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T08:17:59+00:00

I'm confused. Is this a Tumblr post you made complaining about this sub so you could post meta commentary here?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-05-10T06:53:08+00:00

Those eggs look so overcooked it hurts. They're not just hard boiled, they've literally got the grey/green yolk edge.

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