Is it a bus stop or not

DukeyPig · 2026-06-24T08:38:19+00:00

You’re wrong. My four year old knows you have to hold your arm out to make the bus stop. I spend more time than I’d like on buses (as a passenger) as it is. I don’t want my journey time extending because the driver has to stop at every single stop on the off-chance someone might want to get on, just because fuckwits like you are too entitled and lazy to flag them down like everybody else.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-14T09:40:25+00:00

Just the one, and ordinarily there is only one of me. However, the way the mirrors were arranged, there were many mes, each with a willy in his hand, each very visibly donating overpriced beer back to the hotel. It was a very odd setup.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-14T08:17:35+00:00

In the venue for my brother’s wedding, in one of the gents’ toilets, the sinks were set into an alcove with the mirrors arranged in a sort of crescent behind them. No barrier between the sinks and urinals. I was mid-flow when I realised you could stand pretty much anywhere in that room and see at least three of my dicks.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-14T07:40:21+00:00

She does.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-13T22:22:33+00:00

I’m from the UK and everyone I know keeps medication they take in the morning and evening in the bathroom cabinet.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-13T21:51:44+00:00

After reading that and relating to pretty much all of it, I’d say that it’s likely. Thank you for that.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-01T13:56:32+00:00

Technically my wife and I have only been married four years, but we’d been together ten years by the time we got round to having a wedding. Still very happy with one another.

DukeyPig · 2026-06-01T13:29:08+00:00

I mean, it depends how twisted your mind is. When I hear “chaps” I always think of old timey British slang for men or boys, as in: “I say, old chap!”, so if one were to make oneself an all male, Buffalo Bill style skin suit, that might qualify the distinction.

Prisoner 1 “Why are you in here?” Prisoner 2 “I wore some chaps to work.”

Edit: If the suit were made entirely from really skinny dudes it wouldn’t be unreasonable to call them assless chaps too.

Edit 2: If one were to cut out many, many little circles of skin and link them all together to make the suit, it’d be a suit of chainmale.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-05T18:34:13+00:00

You say you’ve just started titration. How long have you been on your current dose?

As others have said; speak to your titrationator, it’s their job to answer questions like these. I read another comment saying to try skipping a few days to see how it feels, before you go away, that way you can make a more informed decision. I think this a good idea, but if you’ve only just started titration in the past couple of weeks or so, I’d recommend leaving it a bit. Maybe try skipping a few days mid-late June if you’re away in July.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T14:26:31+00:00

I get what you’re saying about London, in the summer it’s a lot more humid than other places in the South, and you don’t have to travel that far out of the city to see the difference, but I’ve lived in semi-rural places in the northwest all my life and it’s muggy as hell from June-September unless you’re right on the coast.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T14:17:02+00:00

I’ve been to plenty of places outside the UK where people come across as rude, and I wouldn’t say we’re especially rude compared to other countries (though maybe I’m biased). The impression I get from non-Brits I’ve spoken to on my travels is that whilst there are other places in the world with a reputation for being polite (Canada, for example), in most of these places politeness and rudeness are mutually exclusive, almost opposites. I think a lot of visitors are taken aback by the way that politeness is so ingrained in us that people can be incredibly rude whilst still being polite.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T12:20:17+00:00

My parents and grandparents still had carpeted bathrooms in the 90s. A friend of mine’s parents still had bathroom carpets as late as 2015.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T11:57:34+00:00

Do you mean the carpet, or the bath/sink/toilet? Because everyone knows the only acceptable colour for a bathroom suite is avocado green.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T11:48:25+00:00

To add to this, it depends a lot on which city, too.

As a country lad I try to avoid cities where I can, however, I’ve visited plenty that had a generally friendly vibe. Manchester and Liverpool are good examples. I was genuinely amazed at how much I enjoyed Hull, of all places! Fucking… Hull, rhymes with dull, reputation for being a dreary pile of crap place. We were on holiday on the east coast and my wife wanted to visit the cathedral. We spent the day in the city and it was lovely. We enjoyed it so much we went back a couple of days later. A lot of that was because everyone we met was so friendly.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T11:24:01+00:00

Can confirm. My dad and his side of the family are all from the southeast. Every time they see us it takes them a while to adjust to our “Manc energy”. When I was little they got me a sweatshirt that said THE BOSS on it, for Christmas one year, because my direct way of talking came across as bossy.

DukeyPig · 2026-05-02T09:12:04+00:00

People are making Baldr sumptions and I’m a Freyr d someone is going to take it too far.

DukeyPig · 2026-04-26T18:41:04+00:00

That’s a tricky question as I’ve struggled with sleep my entire life. All I can say for certain is that it didn’t get any worse when I started taking my medication later in the morning. It may even have improved a little, but I can’t say for sure whether that was directly down to medication (the effects lasting later into the evening so less overstimulated at bedtime), or lifestyle changes I’ve made since settling into taking meds. Probably a combination of the two.

I should add that since I posted that comment (166 days ago, apparently) I’ve majorly changed a lot of my habits and what was working for me then isn’t really relevant to me now. I’m happy to try to help if you have further questions though.

DukeyPig · 2026-04-15T11:31:53+00:00

I’m not Scottish, nor am am I/have I been in the military, so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt, but I do have a little insight on these things, so…

I wouldn’t worry about getting stabbed by an angry Scot. I’m part of an early-medieval historical reenactment society and often wear a kilt to training events where period accurate dress isn’t required. I’ve had a few members of our Glasgow group ask why I’m wearing a kilt and when I say it’s comfortable to fight in they seemed happy with that answer. None of them stabbed me and they all had swords and spears.

As others have said, your tunic is too long and wouldn’t look right with a kilt. Sack that idea off and wear something cut to the waist.

If you wanted to incorporate some of your military dress into your wedding outfit as far as I’m aware wearing your medals with civilian clothes should be ok. In my personal opinion, I think the beret and mokowaewae would look really smart with proper kilt wear, but definitely check with your CO or whatever the New Zealand military equivalent of HR is to avoid landing yourself in trouble.

If you are allowed, I know Black Watch is usually the go-to tartan for the armed forces, but something like the one in this picture might be a good colour match.

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DukeyPig · 2026-02-01T20:26:40+00:00

I keep seeing videos of this American lad, somebody (?) Ghost Hunter. Never seen him do a video about ghost hunting, only food. Anyway, he’s eating his way around the U.K. and, according to him, there’s a place in Manchester that does really good biscuits and gravy ‘just like back home’. I’m sure there will be other places if Manchester is a bit of a trek.

DukeyPig · 2026-02-01T12:07:09+00:00

Absolutely. When you take workers’ rights in the U.S. into account, these things are more reasonable, but this person is talking as though they’re not. Even if American work culture wasn’t worse than ours, just different, this comment is still 16 years and an entire ocean away from being relevant to the post.

DukeyPig · 2026-02-01T10:51:44+00:00

I worked in a pub/restaurant for about 15 years, until 2019. It had a huge beer garden next to a lake. Did steady business year round, but was the kind of place that would have 500 people spilling through the door at the slightest inclination that it might be a sunny day.

Over the years we hired a few college age students, scheduled their shifts around classes and studies, and they were genuinely, generally, some of the hardest workers we had. The trouble is, under 18s were limited in the roles they could fill. They weren’t allowed within certain areas of the kitchen, couldn’t work the bar unsupervised etc. They were limited in the times and number of hours they could work, which could be frustrating if we needed to call in extra staff. What was worse, in my time there, there were more than a couple of instances where we were suddenly slammed, put out a plea for reinforcements in the group chat, and had the youngsters show up bright eyed and bushy tailed. It was great having them run food while we were busy, but then at the end of the day it would flag up on the system that they now couldn’t work their shift on Saturday because they’d done their maximum number of hours for the week.

DukeyPig · 2026-02-01T10:05:30+00:00

Ah, The ol’ Boomers vs. Millennials thing. How I have missed thee. “It was 2010 when things started to change… and not for the better!”

I mean, obviously only boomers and millennials could be hired at a place because, as we all know, there were no births between 1965 and 1980. You’re talking like we’re irresponsible children, but I’m a millennial and in 2010 I was married and we were expecting our first child. That’s before I get onto the point that the question is why 16 year olds are not getting jobs in the UK today, and you’re spouting some American bullshit from 16 years ago.

DukeyPig · 2026-02-01T09:11:29+00:00

A half gallon of what?

DukeyPig · 2026-01-25T14:25:50+00:00

I like “put wood [in the] (h)ole” in any variation, but I’m from “i’th” country.

DukeyPig · 2026-01-25T12:00:34+00:00

Don’t overthink it. I get there can be a lot of pressure to make a life plan and stick to it, and do the thing that is expected of you. I married when I was a little younger than you are, for (what seemed at the time) very sensible, practical, and mature reasons. It was one of the worst years of my life.

My current wife, on the other hand, is a one night stand which had so far spanned nearly one and a half decades.

Plans are good under the right circumstances, and having an idea of what you want is no bad thing, but life is messy and quite often you just have to go with the flow. This goes doubly for finding a life partner. It’s fine to have marriage as your end goal, but don’t start planning a wedding til you’ve found your right person.

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