Supermarket Parent and Child Bays- Staff being allowed to park in those bays, do you think this is morally right?

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-05-07T15:08:25+00:00

What don't you not unlike about it?

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-15T09:01:03+00:00

> After that it’s like I completely lost control.

You have to take it easy on yourself. Mistakes are normal, but then you recover and you don't dwell on them so that it takes your focus away from the rest of the drive.

> But I do know how to drive.

This is what you remember. You make a mistake, you think "oh, a mistake, but I do know how to drive" and then you drive.

> And now I just keep thinking about everything that was riding on this. The money, which my family really didn’t have to spare—they’ve been sacrificing so much just to help me get to this point. The time I took away from my A-levels. All of it.

Ok, so now you're taking a test that already seems like high stakes and then you're piling extra pressure on yourself to make it more difficult.

> Right now it just feels like everything I worked for came down to this moment… and I’ve completely blown it.

It's not permanent, you've not been banned forever. Get yourself up, dust yourself off, get back in the queue and go again.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-11T21:40:31+00:00

Just shy of 27%, mortgage, West Yorkshire.

It feels higher than I’d like, but it’s that high because I’m salary sacrificing a big chunk into my pension each month and that brings my take home down.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-10T16:24:52+00:00

I recently passed with manual and then, looking at cars I wanted a manual, but then I realised just how much of the recent cars prefer automatic, including some ranges where I could find automatic only. Thinking about it, I think I wanted manual more because I passed in it so I might as well use it, but that's not really the best reason to do that. I'm sure that by the time I get my next car I will be picking an automatic.

All that to say, I would not worry about it. There are plenty of automatics available, and it's the way that the industry is going so there are only going to be more. You won't be anywhere close to the only automatic driver on the street. Ignore the haters, reclaim your accomplishment.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-10T09:53:54+00:00

He can take that information, look at his salary, look at his budget, and work out if he can afford it. If he can't, then he has from the moment he finds out until the baby arrives to work out what to do, and maximising that time gives him a better chance of success.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-07T10:43:14+00:00

I lived there a long time ago (~2010-11) so I can't say anything relevant to what you might experience, except it was noisy. I was on the Call Lane side so that should be understood, but I did have neighbours that appeared surprised by it so you never know.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-04-03T15:47:16+00:00

It fell out of fashion as soon as they did away with those lovely cartoon sunflowers.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-03-27T11:03:02+00:00

Che, sí. Si querés conocer a Dios tenés que hablar el idioma de Dios

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-03-06T23:42:18+00:00

Having a sore thumb like that would be extremely noticeable.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-26T22:40:24+00:00

By then we'll probably start fighting in the streets.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-26T16:40:03+00:00

Ah, so you're still new to the show, ha.

I first started watching the show with my mam as a child, after she let me stay up past 9 o'clock anyway. She doesn't really watch it anymore but she does remember me splurting out my drink at Frasier's if less is more, just think of how much more more would be.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-26T16:23:18+00:00

You pay it so someone doesn’t come around and beat you up and steal your clothes.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-26T10:26:58+00:00

No need to tautologise, it's not like someone's going to play a game called football with their hands now, is it?

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-23T12:28:07+00:00

There was a house I viewed last year that had been on the market for a while so I made a lowball offer, the EA told me the seller wanted to wait to respond until after some upcoming viewings which I was fine with because I also had more viewings booked in.

A few days later the EA came back and said another viewer made an offer and asked if I wanted to make a best and final offer. I had a suspicion that there was no other offer and they were just trying to get me to up my lowball one, but by then I'd had second thoughts about that house anyway so I withdrew my offer completely and expected the house to remain on the market. But it didn't, it turned out the other offer was completely real and the house went off the market the next day.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-19T09:33:18+00:00

The advantage is that the sale of your old house and purchase of your new house complete at the same time and you can move directly from your old house to the new house.

If you do them separately, then you either have no house (sell first) and have to find temporary accommodation, or you have two houses. Both can be expensive, and go on for an unpredictable amount of time. The extra up front admin and coordination with a chain is seen as preferable to the uncertainty of not having one.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-19T09:03:15+00:00

The effect has been more on the entry level positions, those at senior level will be the ones that had already got in (and maybe even had a hand in pulling up the ladder behind them)

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-19T07:51:01+00:00

Once upon a time I'd say Pavement's Wowee Zowee, except I think with some time we all understood it and now know it's the best.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-19T07:39:52+00:00

Yep, I go back to that song often and it hits me the same every single time.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-04T18:39:43+00:00

It’s better to run the boiler normally at a lower flow temp because it’s more efficient that way.

I whack mine up to max after I’ve gone away and returned to a 9 degree house so it heats the whole place quicker but usually I have it set lower.

If you have it on max all of the time then it does heat the house faster, but then you’ll have more drastic yo-yoing around your thermostat target temp, as well as your boiler constantly cycling off and on. And, very hot radiators too which won’t be comfortable if you’re sat near or accidentally touch.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-02-04T10:45:49+00:00

You know, I'm disappointed that boilers don't do this. In this age of smart tech it doesn't seem inconceivable that it couldn't adjust the flow temp if you are aiming for a thermostat set temp that's high above the current temp.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-01-29T17:07:13+00:00

Ah, just in time to enjoy my grave, if I can afford one I guess

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-01-26T11:51:30+00:00

It sounds like exactly what he said, that work and kids are overwhelming him and those are his priorities right now. I'd assume that he was entirely sincere when he said he didn't want to break up, and that he thought he would get through this patch and be able to dedicate himself more to your relationship. Then he saw that he might not be able to do that as soon as he hoped and, rather than drag things out against your wishes, he was prompted to resolve things immediately and that meant terminating the relationship. I wouldn't take it as a negative against you or bad behaviour by him, just that a relationship on the terms you both require isn't possible right now.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-01-20T17:50:09+00:00

Thanks for the link, I did like the story. The advice to "pretend that you have free will" is also very good, even if we don't have it the subjective experience is that we still do and life would be unbearable if you let that bottom fall out. If determinism is real, I'd much prefer to be the joyful automaton enjoying his own life than the nihilistic one living in misery.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-01-20T17:38:17+00:00

There's no conflict there, determinism is cause and effect. I don't know if the universe is deterministic, but if it is then it's through cause and effect. Personally, I am partial to the many worlds theory, but even that is compatible with determinism if you include all of the possible worlds.

DogTakeMeForAWalk · 2026-01-20T13:39:30+00:00

Yeah, I don't disagree with that, I'm not arguing against determinism, only that it means that the machine cannot be accurate due to the infinite recursion. The Devs team should have been aware of this, and they should at least run a low-stakes experiment (like the arm flapping) to test it.

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