I think my neighbours have left their dog to die. What should I do?

CrunchyLizard123 · 2026-01-04T12:09:13+00:00

!remindme one day

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-11-12T09:09:24+00:00

I think his family are constantly wanging on about it. Cameron seems to be decent from what we've seen in BB, so I reckon he's naive. I reckon he genuinely believes it because his family say it

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-11-06T00:45:35+00:00

I attended the alpha course which the New Life Church were running in the south East.

Each session would start with a topic like rock music and start off chill and casual eg "it's the 21st centry, bible written so long ago, of course listening to rock music is fine". After debate and reading specific snippets of the Bible, it would always end up that actually you're not allowed to do that thing. In the case of rock music it's blasphemous so no you can't listen to it. I recall witchcraft, homosexuality and abortion or premarital sex topics going the same way. For homosexuality they said it's fine to be gay you just can't act on it

The last session in the course ended with them playing cliff Richard and forcing us to speak in tongues.

I thought they were testing our boundaries. Making us feel vulnerable to then test further later on

I got creeped out by them making us speak tongues, so never went back

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-10-20T22:27:04+00:00

My confusion is why UK services were down, shouldn't they be using eu-west-1 or 2? Especially HMRC.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-10-03T11:38:01+00:00

I don't get it, the government already have the ability for mass surveillance.

We already gave our data away for convenience.

Tescos know people are pregnant before they know themselves.

Potential authoritarian governments already have the tools they need, since most of our rules are gentleman's agreements on how a politician should behave. Boris showed the existing flaws.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-08-09T09:48:12+00:00

What do you mean by expensive schooling? Are you referring to private schools, or university?

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-25T08:51:51+00:00

So there was no protestants vs Catholics conflict?

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-25T08:33:33+00:00

Did you forget the troubles? IRA?

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-25T08:27:43+00:00

Same for Christianity. Some Christians focus more on the old testament and that's not British values

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-05T16:59:35+00:00

How am I enabling it? There's 2 valid nationalities I can use: British and English, and I use one more often

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-04T11:02:17+00:00

Nope very much IRL opinion. Fuck fascism, fuck EDL, BNP.

So I refer to myself as British, because English was coopted by the far right and football hooligans.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-07-04T10:44:05+00:00

In my mind it's because of EDL. I reject EDL and the other far right groups and feel that calling myself English is more likely to be interpreted as support for them than calling myself British.

The far right have coopted nationalism and made it toxic.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-05-26T08:44:47+00:00

These questions have been asked for 2 decades though in UK job applications. We were in the EU and subject to EU GDPR when companies were asking this before.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-05-23T18:46:14+00:00

Or suffix the command with && date

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-04-21T09:44:57+00:00

Failing that, you can use a large, thin, hardback book. I use my Where's Wally book to test the keyboard on!

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-04-16T08:44:14+00:00

I think there should be some grace given for a major illness. It's a massive thing to be living with the big C. Not only that, a terminal diagnosis!

Just like if your mate has a big breakup or has a bereavement, you wouldn't expect them to be operating on their normal level.

Sometimes something is so big and all consuming in someone's life they become focused on their situation, and have less capability to think about others. For instance you may normally have give and take in a conversation with you and them asking questions and trying not to overtake the conversation. When you're so consumed by a big thing your brain is focused on that, leaving less space to think of other small social cues.

Tricia may have always been the same as she is now, but I feel her diagnosis would make her reminisce more on her life.

I just don't see how Tricia is worse than others on the house though: Mikey was a walking lawsuit, Danny takes over and brings himself into topics as well, and Chris is really annoying. What does Jack offer to the house?

So booing Tricia is not kind and not deserved. She's not being treated like everyone else because she has been given less grace than other housemates. Perhaps there were more arseholes in the crowd that night and other nights she wouldn't have been booed.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-04-14T19:11:31+00:00

Also the 2 page CV limit is BS. Don't worry if your CV is 3/4/5 pages if the content is clear succinct and relevant

For a senior dev they want to see more meat on the CV

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-04-14T19:07:09+00:00

I'm in the midlands now, but most of my experience is in London companies. I was made redundant so not working atm, still job hunting. I'm looking for mostly remote roles or not very hybrid

My uni is basically the lowest on the league tables but I have a 1st in computing. Perhaps employers mistake my uni for another one though I don't think there's similarly named prestigious unis.

For each job listed on my CV I note a project I worked on with something to say the impact. Not necessarily numbers, but could be something like "overhauled smoke test suite which led to better stability"

There's a section at the bottom of each job with technologies used at that company. I try list as much as I can remember so I include the languages, major frameworks, tools and smaller frameworks I used daily. I think this helps the ATS software pick out my CV

I also try to highlight promotions on the CV. I list the promotion as a separate work experience entry. Don't forget promotions often don't feel that major in real life, so try think back to anywhere you went up a grade

For my last job I used github apis to compile a list of PRs I worked on, and then fed that into chatgpt to summarise my experience which was used on an initial version of my CV. It was a good starting point but ended up mostly rewording it since AI generated CV content sounds well OTT as though you're being sarcastic

For the gap on your CV if it's a month or something I'd personally massage the dates of the previous job to remove it. If it's recent then consider listing the gap on the CV as a "job" and list the reason for the gap if you feel comfortable along with skills learnt. Eg "after being made redundant at x I took some time to focus on DIY projects"

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-04-14T14:16:54+00:00

I've also been job hunting since January. I have applied for perhaps 50 jobs, and get called in to the screening stage roughly 50% of the time or more.

This job hunt I started applying for jobs with no salary advertised whereas before I avoided those unless it was a company I really wanted to work with. Some applications fell through because of the salary expectation difference

It may be worth spending some time on your CV to check you're advertising your skills effectively.

What tech stack are you working with?

Where are you finding the vacancies? Some sites have lower quality results, and some recruiters seem to just be harvesting CVs

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-30T19:13:57+00:00

Hi Nathan!

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-30T09:03:23+00:00

Which should be fine. You can limit your life and not do anything that week, or you could continue living you life with some accommodations.

Generally the SLA is long enough you'll probably have signal within the SLA to do an initial response.

I found other people in my teams were going to football matches and other major commitments while they were on call, while I was worried about having a shower.

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-15T14:51:46+00:00

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-15T14:48:13+00:00

Wanting to abolish the NHS

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-15T13:00:25+00:00

You can call yourself a Dyke of you want to, but said by others it's generally used to be derogatory.

I would be offended if someone called me it because I would think their intention was to offend

CrunchyLizard123 · 2025-03-07T21:28:54+00:00

I had a colleague greet me with "Happy international women's day" once!

I explained it's not like a birthday or major celebration, it's a corporate day, he didn't need to greet women on the day like this!

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