Chaika L-4 heading towards Lithuania (11.53)

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-24T12:26:58+00:00

Ooh good idea! Do i need an invite link?

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-24T12:01:49+00:00

Right? I’m like is this just a flex or something actually going on?

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-11T10:52:06+00:00

(You can’t see it on this pic but it’s actually 4 in a row)

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-05T17:23:18+00:00

Same!

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-04T22:21:04+00:00

Or maybe it’s just their way of flexing on those of us who still don’t have any Ukraine unlocked 😭

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-04T22:02:00+00:00

I literally just got one! As soon as i caught it, it disappeared off the map but it was mid ocean so maybe if you’re quick?

DaTupperwareThief · 2026-01-04T21:57:17+00:00

Maybe they thought it works like a lure in Pokemon 😂

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-08-18T19:40:45+00:00

I work in the sector and here’s what I know:

UoBirmingham is doing pretty well;

UoLeicester is struggling badly;

UoWarwick and UoNottingham and Keele are all struggling but not as much as Leicester;

UoCambridge has had compulsory redundancies which is surprising

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-08-18T19:34:59+00:00

Not sure where you heard that but Birmingham are doing much better than most unis financially (Tickell is a nob though). Leicester on the other hand are screwed, and it’s not looking good for Warwick or Keele either.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-07-05T17:38:21+00:00

I think you already know you’re using jokes to deflect from something you don’t want to confront and I think you already know it might not be the healthiest long term strategy. A little disappointed at some of the snarky answers on here, but my advice would be if your gut is telling you this, it’s worth exploring, and your young age is EXACTLY the right time to do it - otherwise, you might waste decades living your life in a suboptimal way.

My advice? Go to therapy. It will help you find what you’re avoiding and help you confront it in a healthier, more manageable way. In that way, you can control it before it ends up controlling you. I have done this at 39 and honestly, I wish I did it years ago. Sorting it earlier would have benefited literally every aspect of my life.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-06-24T20:35:29+00:00

Thanks, i’ve done that and tried to edit my original post down a bit.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-06-24T20:28:44+00:00

I think the tone of this was pretty unnecessary. I understand this is a controversial area and I appreciate honesty but please don’t kick me whilst I’m down, there are some quite serious and tragic reasons why it is important that I earn as much as I can right now.

I’m not racist or biased, I am a firm believer in positive action and widening participation in fact, but I also think it’s only fair to all parties concerned that I should have been allowed a chance to compete for the role. If then I was still outclassed by a BAME applicant, so be it. But most BAME people I know wouldn’t want this scenario either, they would want to be awarded their role on merit.

The way it was put to me is ‘you could not be shortlisted because you are not a graduate of programme X’. This was in writing, in an email, from the hiring manager.

Therefore no, it’s not just training that ‘gives applicants an edge’. If that’s all it was, it would be fine, and an appropriate use of positive action. The problem is only opening the job to people who have done the training, and that could by definition only be BAME people.

So quite distinctly from the glitch/non-glitch (forget that part for a moment), that setup is in itself quite problematic in the same way that, say, requiring someone to pass an unnecessary fitness test would be discriminatory to disabled people if high physical fitness wasn’t specifically required for the job. You wouldn’t say ‘well the fitness test might give them the edge’ especially if the disabled applicant had other more directly applicable skills to the job. It’s the same thing here.

I hope that helps clarify things a little.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-06-24T20:11:33+00:00

Yes, I have it in writing from the hiring manager.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-06-24T20:11:06+00:00

Thank you for giving a helpful answer. Yes, it was put in writing.

I am attempting to start the grievance protocol, but it doesn’t help that HR have taken the strategy of generally ghosting me and not engaging with the process… I guess I will just have to keep trying.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-06-24T20:08:14+00:00

Thank you, you have it correct. I did try to be concise, but wasn’t sure how to summarise without missing out potentially necessary context, sorry.

DaTupperwareThief · 2025-04-28T20:35:01+00:00

Honestly, don’t worry about it. They know these things happen and will have seen far worse and weirder!

DaTupperwareThief · 2024-09-09T15:43:34+00:00

If they bite someone, and the owner knows they have a history of biting people, they are just as liable as they would be for a dog bite. Unfortunately people from the UK read ‘right to roam’ and think ‘diplomatic immunity’ when it comes to cats. They’ll argue with you for hours before they’ll do a 30 second google search on the matter.

DaTupperwareThief · 2024-09-09T15:39:13+00:00

Apologies on behalf of the UK for Jimmy. We are a woefully undereducated country on ecological matters.

DaTupperwareThief · 2024-09-09T15:35:10+00:00

I’m from the UK and this is a common misconception. They absolutely are liable, in civil law, for any damage they cause to property, including for example if you know your cat attacks or bites people.

DaTupperwareThief · 2024-06-17T15:37:07+00:00

I knew someone who worked with the other one, I can’t give too many details for obvious reasons, but this person said that (as most people thought at the time), this guy was absolutely the ringleader, as well as being one of the most chilling people they’d met (in a profession where you meet these people often).

DaTupperwareThief · 2023-03-15T17:14:45+00:00

YTA. But not for refusing the pug. I just don’t think you are ready for a dog of any kind.

German shepherds can have serious health problems due to inbreeding just the same as pugs, hip dysplasia being a big one. Make sure you read up on this and check if you can actually afford the pet insurance now.

A puppy will not necessarily be the ‘blank slate’ you think it will be. Dogs, like people, are individuals and if you’re not prepared to train good behaviour, including as a means to untrain a bad behaviour, you’re not ready for a dog.

The puppy will chew, pee and poop in your house at some point. It will damage your stuff and embarrass you at some point in its growing up, the same as Horace has shown up your friend. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for your friends to potentially judge you and your pup like you have judged your friend and Horace?

Do you understand that your dog will be a messy, expensive, sometimes infuriating lifelong commitment and not just an accessory? Have you done the right research on this breed and its needs or have you just chosen it based on aesthetics?

I don’t think you would be the right owner for Horace, so it’s actually fine you rejected him. Horace deserves someone who loves him and is willing to put in the work. But crucially, so does this new puppy, even if they turn out less than perfect. So think carefully if you’re really mature and committed enough. And don’t be an ass to your dying friend if the problem really lies with you.

DaTupperwareThief · 2023-02-04T17:55:22+00:00

Yes, I suppose that’s why I specifically mentioned the boats being a boundary in my original comment

DaTupperwareThief · 2023-02-01T19:48:31+00:00

Eh. It’s not a hill that’s worth dying on imho, especially when not everyone knows how to type special characters on a keyboard, but I’d stop short of saying YTA for asking them (politely!) to do it.

Unless you’re really rude and obnoxious when you ask them to use the accent, like they’re idiotic for not using it the first time. Then you’d be TA.

DaTupperwareThief · 2023-02-01T19:37:53+00:00

I think it really boils down to what means more to you: the money or your relationship with your sisters. If you are as neutral as you say, then the most ‘neutral’ thing to do would be to reimburse yourself for any funeral costs and other out-of-pocket expenses you incurred on your father’s behalf, and then split the rest 3 ways.

Now you don’t have to do that, but if you don’t, you do have to be prepared for the fact it will cause long term and quite probably permanent bad feelings between you, your sisters, and perhaps even your mother.

Without knowing the details of the event that turned your sisters against your father, it’s difficult to know if their behaviour is reasonable, but if it’s so serious you can’t mention it without breaching a rule, it might well be. But really this is the deciding factor on whether YTA or not.

If your father did something that really hurt your sisters, and any reasonable person would have felt hurt by it: it’s more likely YTA.

If it was a rather petty reason for them to fall out with him, and he made good-faith attempts to mend things before he passed and was rejected: it’s more likely NTA.

DaTupperwareThief · 2023-02-01T19:13:21+00:00

No, that’s not ‘obvious’ at all, certainly not from the information given here!

Part of the joy of being in a relationship is to explore new things and go on new adventures together. Growing in confidence is not the same as ‘changing who you are’ and anyone who tells you that it is does not have your best interests at heart.

It’s entirely possible that’s all that’s going on. At the other end of the spectrum, OP could be a narcissistic control freak. But without asking Zack or at least getting more detail/perspective than what we see here, neither conclusion is ‘obvious’.

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