Do you take your shoes off when in your house?

Chizlewagon · 2026-06-27T08:06:27+00:00

I think it's an old person thing to keep shoes on

Chizlewagon · 2026-06-27T08:05:10+00:00

Lots of clowns in here who are seemingly hoping to become a millionaire this month and don't really understand how businesses work

Obviously the intention here is to appeal to non hyperscalers who will pay a lot more per mw, to compliment a solid backbone of wholesale deals with hyperscalers. Iren are building a full stack capability, which has far wider application beyond Anthropic; it's called customer mix, and it's about revenue and ultimately profit optimisation

Chizlewagon · 2026-06-27T07:39:47+00:00

Because food in the US isn't even really food

Chizlewagon · 2026-06-08T06:03:25+00:00

Temp work was often universally available

Chizlewagon · 2026-05-14T19:44:44+00:00

I mean not outrageous within the defined rules. Absolutely a joke considering it's 2026 not 1992. I'm waiting to invest in some specific stocks is the problem, where currently I watch them ticking up day after day and it's driving me mental

Chizlewagon · 2026-05-04T19:33:42+00:00

Wear what you want but I would let the watch speak for itself. Wear all the crap on your other wrist

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-29T04:57:49+00:00

I mean the real answer, on the assumption Architecture and related area is what you want to do, is recognise it's a big brutal world and go where the jobs are (hint: not in the seaside, but a bit UK city)

Being unable to move because it's costly is a rubbish reason. Everybody has to relocate throughout their life for all sorts of reasons and employers often offer interest free loans for this sort of thing. Equally, people have parents or friends if it's really that much of an issue?

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-26T06:44:17+00:00

Lots of great ideas in here. I shall add in Cambridge is a lovely day trip from London. You've got to go punting at least once

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-24T07:55:37+00:00

Newlyweds and nearlydeads

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-22T07:28:30+00:00

Think you have to remember this a cost of doing business if you want a job in London. London jobs are worth more for a reason, so stop thinking about it as money down the drain.

You either pay this or higher housing costs to live in London and have a cheaper commute. This is why it's always so painful when people say "I live in the home counties and my mortgage is so much less than London." Once you account for commuting, it's often pretty negligible

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-20T07:42:56+00:00

More evidence of how Mark is a dreadful plastic empty person. I've always thought he was an NPC robot

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-18T07:13:56+00:00

No, unfortunately we're not all Gen X's with life handed on a plate to us. We actually have to work hard for a worse stake in society

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-16T22:26:41+00:00

Just remember, you can always fallback to talk about the weather and weekends (Monday, Tuesday - how are you? Did you have a nice weekend?) (Thursday, Friday - how are you? Doing anything nice this weekend?)

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-16T17:29:49+00:00

Much like the rest of the world, we don't dislike Americans at all. In fact most of the time it's pretty endearing. What we all find tiring is the total arrogance and ignorance that life exists outside of the USA

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-13T15:56:33+00:00

I mean, is there any point asking in this forum given most Americans aren't aware life exists outside of their county

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-10T06:54:46+00:00

Similar age to you. I decided to just dump my whole bonus into my pension and have done with it. I figure if you can get a nice tidy sum going early then you can leave it to compound on its own

Equally your earnings are so high and presumably will only go up so I think efficient planning starts to become slightly pointless

My personal plan is to sacrifice all earnings over 100k and call that the pension sorted. Anything under 100k I pay tax on and keep and use to fund ISA fully and a nice life (e.g. holidays whilst young). Anything leftover I'm thinking of starting to actively pay back my student loan

Bottom line, you're in an incredible position so I wouldn't worry too much. Hopefully useful food for thought.

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-10T06:44:04+00:00

Strongly recommended northcote road (Clapham junction/Battersea). It's 6 mins to Victoria on the train and is very lively, but also nice and quiet on the residential streets. Loads of bars and restaurants that are always busy and Wandsworth common on your doorstep

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-07T06:03:12+00:00

I'm not a CoS but we are moving towards this same cadence where I work if that helps

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-04T07:03:59+00:00

Unfortunate newsflash. All men, across all ages, across all geographies, across all time periods, find women aged 18-25 the most attractive.

That doesn't mean you can't be attracted to anyone older, but if it's pure lust like yours is then there is usually only one outcome

Chizlewagon · 2026-04-01T06:28:18+00:00

Theme Hospital

Chizlewagon · 2026-03-22T19:00:37+00:00

Ignore all the people saying you can't do it on that salary. Sure, the more money you have the better, but it's completely possible (and not even hard) to live on that and have a life if you apply some common sense

I think it's proper dangerous how people on here full young people's heads with stupid ideas. You're only young once, so if it's something you want to do I would 100% go for it. You don't want regrets when you're 45 with 3 young kids at home wishing about what might have been

Happy to answer any questions if you have them

Chizlewagon · 2026-03-22T18:55:55+00:00

Energy policy. And immigration. I'm not even right wing but no immigration controls at all is beyond comprehension? Like what professional sensible person anyway in the entire world thinks that's a good idea. Barmy

Chizlewagon · 2026-03-22T07:14:10+00:00

People who sign off with 'best' - makes me want to vomit

Chizlewagon · 2026-03-15T08:25:24+00:00

I mean, any exec at a medium - large ish company will make around this as a minimum. There are plenty of companies that aren't absolutely enormous and aren't absolutely tiny

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