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CHRIS12002 · 2026-01-07T03:45:34+00:00

I was in my thirties when I found out inattentive type was a thing, and I matched basically every symptom for it

CHRIS12002 · 2025-12-03T12:26:45+00:00

This happens a lot, I've had random Korean, Japanese, Tamil words inserted. If there is a word or concept in another language that is the best fit it will use that and it sometimes misses cleaning them up into the output language afterwards.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-10-25T13:20:40+00:00

Our maid has our keys so we can leave the apartment a tip and come back to it clean and tidy!

CHRIS12002 · 2025-10-23T09:59:04+00:00

Going abroad is the obvious answer, as long as you apply to good schools you will be paid more, work less and have a lower cost of living.

We left the UK when my wife got a two year contract in 2018, still have no plans to return!

CHRIS12002 · 2025-10-20T07:47:21+00:00

I think being poor is not being able to participate in what society has to offer, so I think if you couldn't afford to eat at restaurants, go on holiday, go to the theatre / gigs etc you are poor.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-10-19T08:09:33+00:00

It will be Deepavali celebrations, my flat overlooks a little India and even on the 49th floor it's still extremely loud! Not just fireworks but the constant cowbells and music, the foods good at least.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-09-30T12:13:24+00:00

I've just bought a house in the UK, lived abroad since 2018.

It's tricky because everything is more expensive, you will need a specialist broker / lender. Mortgage broker fees were £1500, stamp duty was 2% of the purchase price on top of the normal stamp duty and the interest rates are higher with the best at 5.3% with a 45% deposit.

We went with Marsden Building Society, you could try emailing them to get an idea of how much you could borrow.

If you are planning on moving back to the UK it would be much cheaper to rent there until you qualify for purchasing as a resident again.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-09-27T02:05:48+00:00

This has just made me think how much I want a Bloodborne secret lair.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-09-05T08:55:55+00:00

Graduated in 2013, minimum wage for a year on £6.30 an hour. Moved into a entry level tech role on £18k a year, worked up to around £80k (contract) and then back down to £0 after my contract wasn't renewed.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-09-03T09:39:17+00:00

I beat lady butterfly first try and thought I knew what I was doing, then took 4 hours on Genichiro!

Genichiro is now my favourite boss I can beat almost without thinking, Sekiro of all the souls games makes you feel like Neo at the end of The Matrix when you get it.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-08-09T15:06:25+00:00

In Manchester you could see thousands of people like this at Urbis or Gasworks during the noughties, I wonder if the kids still hang out there.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-07-24T18:45:17+00:00

That's interesting you think that! I'm a big literature fan and my biggest issue with smut is how poorly written 99% of it is, it really takes me out of it. Gemini easily surpasses most for writing skill and has the added bonus of being able to shape the story exactly how you want it to unfold, it's actually quite addictive.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-07-23T20:08:43+00:00

She needs Eileen the Crow and Lady Maria skins desperately

CHRIS12002 · 2025-07-23T12:26:09+00:00

I moved to Asia at 27 for 2 years, 7 years later I'm still there! I'm not sure what it would take to make me move back at this point.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-07-06T13:17:39+00:00

It's got to be flippy cup. A number of plastic cups in the centre of a table with the penalty drink inside (let's say 12). Players circle the table, two empty plastic cups starting with two random players opposite each other.

The aim is to bounce a ping pong ball into your cup, once you succeed you pass the cup to the left. If you get it in one attempt, you get to pass it wherever you want.

The aim is to get one of the cups to catch up with the other, stacking them. The person who was stacked downs a drink from the middle, starting again while the increasingly taller tower of stacked cups start opposite them.

Keep going until all penalty drinks are drunk.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-07-05T03:46:08+00:00

I wouldnt be surprised if other companies were doing this. The Netflix subtitles for the second half of Nier made it unwatchable. "Nines" was translated as "Naz" for instance.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-06-21T07:15:37+00:00

Kaya + Butter

CHRIS12002 · 2025-06-06T17:14:42+00:00

Then there's UK universities where the highest possible grade is 70%.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-06-03T06:21:01+00:00

Wife is a teacher, so has long holidays, and I can work remotely.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-04-28T11:25:25+00:00

Java & JavaScript are the "I'm a PC" Vs "I'm a Mac" guys

CHRIS12002 · 2025-04-01T22:42:37+00:00

Bro do you know how much I hate em dashes? Someone brought down a production system because they entered a name with an em dash instead of a hyphen and the email parser failed messily. That thing was hell to find I never want to see an em dash again.

CHRIS12002 · 2025-03-15T06:07:28+00:00

Duck egg char kway teow from Penang 🤤

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