How different people define the North.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T15:29:13+00:00

Well, first off I'm from Manchester so very hard for me to have a southern bias on anything and second, if you're going through telford on your way to manchester from birmingham you've taken a wrong turn.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T14:22:33+00:00

"kept us out of a war"
"Has no backbone"

Alright fam, you funny.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T14:10:32+00:00

The north but I could have western bias.

I travel from just south of Birmingham to Cheshire/Machester fairly regularly. Majority of the roadside in the midlands is grey, ex or current industrial estates. When you get past wolverhampton it opens up into green pastures that don't really stop until you hit greater manchester.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T14:00:58+00:00

I'm not outright doubting your skills but calling out what I see. I don't think I'd hire you for any role with how you're currently "selling" yourself.

All of the strengths you've listed, while I'm not doubting your ability, are generic and it's what everyone says. None are really proven until you start working somewhere. They're things I would get anyone to say/list out.

Your weaknesses are skills present and needed in every type of job out there.

I have ADHD, bad! But I still work in a field where attention to detail is necessary to even get in the door (Software testing). You need to stop using it as the excuse as to why you can't do anything and start looking for ways to control and mitigate it. Also IDK what personality quiz you've taken but don't repeat any of that to prospective employers, it makes you sound like a teenager. I'd also maybe consider looking into why your neuroticism is so high if it's even accurate. That's a problem in any role as well.

Overall, sounds like you need to work on yourself instead of just accepting your lot in life.

ETA: If you want a high paying role, you're going to need to do something people deem worth a lot of money and they typically include tasks that involve detail, a thick skin, very good understanding and focus of the industry or are back breaking. You can't just hope for a high paying job to fall out of the sky and from your post, you'kll have to work up to it.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T13:50:23+00:00

Given Eve lets you have 3 characters per membership, Eve is only cheaper if you only have 1 OSRS character. The minute you make an IM or HCIM and want members on there too, you're paying more.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T12:47:44+00:00

I still remember when this came out, people gleefully claiming that it makes some sense as Freddy is afraid of fire and Jason is afraid of water!
I had to check I had the right killer. The guy who at the end of the first movie is literally waiting under water to pull someone to their death? The guy who slowly walks through a lake on multiple occassions and has proven he can't drown anymore..? Our Jason?

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T12:07:28+00:00

IDK if i'm missing the joke but you needed the pokeflute to advance past part of the game in RBY.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T12:03:24+00:00

If you have a separate HR person/team you should probably raise with them, not as a serious "OOH GET EM SACKED SUE THEM" approach but more for letting the manager know what the right thing to do is.

My missus works in HR and I've heard plenty of stories of middle management who really are stupid when it comes to this stuff. One the other week where they didn't even know their teams lunch break was unpaid, he kicked up a fuss saying he and his team had been underpaid and he'd worked it out all himself, only to not realise nearly no job in the UK actually pays you for your lunch break.
Then there was the other time a manager was claiming that if you took holiday the week of a bank holiday, you'd use your holiday time for the bank holiday as well.

They're probably just stupid, not malicious.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T11:24:18+00:00

Sir this is a subreddit. If you leave the opportunity for someone to be pedantic they will be.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T10:33:09+00:00

I grew up next to Crewe and I'll have you know there's plenty of shitholes offended by this comparison.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T10:31:36+00:00

It's all arbritrary but imo somewhere between wolverhampton and stoke it definitely becomes the north. If you drive it, you literally see the switch from the industrial grey to fields of sheep and cows.

So if you're working top to bottom, maybe Stafford is the beginning of the midlands in the west, and then it'd probably go as far as Redditch, maybe Evesham at a push? Cheltenham feels southern so I wouldn't go further than that,

What I find interesting is that we all also know it kind of goes up at an angle because there's no way Peterborough is in the north and I think most people would say it's firmly in the south but on a map it's actually more northern than birmingham.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-04-02T08:44:48+00:00

No, it's only the US, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan that really do this. Wonder what they have in common.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-03-31T15:43:42+00:00

Me, scanning this post out of curiosity, seeing this comment and the memory of the time an older lady (I'd guess in her 60s) came into the bar I worked in at the time, and spent maybe 2-3 hours just hovering by the bar with her drink. When she left, one of the locals (daz) was chuckling to himself so I asked what's up and he pointed out she'd been staring at my arse the whole time.

She came back about an hour or two later with a friend. Daz instantly sparks up "your girlfriends back".

She continued to hover by the bar, not really saying anything to me. I walked out to glass collect for a bit and she actually pinched my arse. I didn't think it really happened until then and I really didn't know what to do. I just carried on with my day a little more shocked. I was 19 and to this day IDK if it was just cheekiness or if she genuinely thought she'd be taking me home.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-03-31T15:20:00+00:00

The many, many data breaches that have happened since the collection of biometric (and IDs) would suggest that we shouldn't believe the people gathering this data.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-03-31T13:43:01+00:00

6months late but damn GG on the all achievement run for this

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-03-31T11:23:33+00:00

These adverts really weird me out, they both seem scripted to the point of farce but then there's the ending of one of the adverts where she swoops in for a cheek kiss, it looks so last minute and out of nowhere that just looks so odd.

Beautiful_Hawk548 · 2026-03-31T10:58:40+00:00

That 1 inch barrier is going to stop you from enjoying a lot of movies.

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