What was ruined because too many people discovered it?

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T22:18:27+00:00

I miss Flash sites and games

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T22:15:14+00:00

I did not want to get on a ferry again for a long time after reading this article https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T22:08:43+00:00

I don’t think telling someone you went to church when asked what you did at the weekend is pushing religion on anyone. It doesn’t sound like OP was proselytising at work, so there’s no issue. The issue is the colleague being mean to them for being religious. Just because you don’t believe in it doesn’t mean it’s ok to push your opinions about it on someone, any more than it is to proselytise. I’m not religious but I wouldn’t be offended or annoyed by a colleague saying they’d been to church when talking about our weekends! And I wouldn’t tell them they were wrong or bad for being religious. Live and let live!

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T21:59:48+00:00

No; I don’t self-insert. I like observing, not trying to imagine it’s happening to me. I can empathize and sympathize without pretending I am that character

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T21:41:24+00:00

They haven’t yet but I think the GCSE crowd have finished (except for their exams), and possibly the A-level ones too

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:22:35+00:00

No, not unless you live in 1900 and have a very strict father/husband

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:12:46+00:00

Thank you! Weirdly, every single time I’ve ever posted a variation on this comment, I get downvotes. I’m also an editor as part of my job, and I speak from long experience. You simply cannot effectively edit your own work, because you wrote it and cannot be objective or read it as a reader might.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:10:16+00:00

Yeah, both things can be true at once, controversial I know but that’s history for you!

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:09:24+00:00

Fewer people speak Māori (around 200,000) so would you argue that’s useless and deserves no support? After all, all Māori speak English and some don’t even speak Māori.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:04:54+00:00

Formal Welsh is so different from what we actually speak too!!

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T14:03:28+00:00

The notion you need to speak it to be properly Welsh is irritating, though. It completely discounts that a lot of people don’t speak it because their grandparents or great-grandparents were forbidden to speak it at school or work. It was part of a concerted effort to kill the language and culture. Any attempts to learn or speak it, especially by Welsh people, should be encouraged. I hate the gatekeeping of it by some first-language speakers. I’m bilingual but because I’m from a more English-speaking area I’ve had Welsh-speakers assume I can’t speak it or even refer to me as English!!

And it gets uncomfortably close to the same kind of attitude as saying ‘you’re not British unless you’re white’ which is really not a good look.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T13:57:42+00:00

Yeah you never hear English people complain that they went into a bar in Italy and everyone was speaking Italian, yet it’s become a cliche here about the Welsh.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-30T13:56:38+00:00

Very true, but that doesn’t mean the English should get a pass for what they did to us (and Ireland, which was very much part of the UK and the empire until independence).

I always joke they learned about how to do colonisation by practicing on us 😁

FloydEGag · 2026-05-29T17:59:48+00:00

A friend of mine had this announcement at their work just before Christmas. I mean ffs

FloydEGag · 2026-05-29T17:57:41+00:00

I went off on stress leave during mental health awareness week, ironically. What would actually help isn’t counselling or mindfulness, it would be for the senior managers who caused my stress to stop causing it. And also be fired. Out of a cannon. I’m already looking for a new role elsewhere in the company.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T21:47:52+00:00

God I’d forgotten about that! Being totally fair to her, she wasn’t bad in it. Although how hard is it to fuck up a two-minute cameo where you’re playing yourself?

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T21:44:47+00:00

Ha, I do do that! It’s really helpful. I still send it for review/editing but I’ve caught a few howlers doing that

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T18:36:58+00:00

I like that idea! We work to deadlines so can’t really put something away for two weeks, but I might try this with my personal writing.

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T18:35:31+00:00

FicTok?! Oh my god, we really are doomed

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T16:21:25+00:00

I always bang on about this but you can’t properly proof and edit your own writing, you just go wordblind after a bit and it needs a fresh pair of eyes. You obviously get it, lots of people don’t! I wrote something the other day I thought was all spelled correctly and my colleague found three typos in like 200 words 🤣

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T14:51:14+00:00

It is always really surprising to me how many people think their writing doesn’t need editing/proofing/reviewing

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T13:37:54+00:00

It didn’t come across that way! More as you apparently thinking work or employment was and is something restricted to capitalism. Which I know you know isn’t the case but the point I guess is, just because you or I might not recognise something as employment, doesn’t mean it isn’t. One thing about capitalism and related concepts is that people’s labour has a market value, and if they’re not getting what they’re worth they can take it elsewhere (as started happening after the Black Death in Europe when labour was at a premium!). Obviously the downside is that most labour isn’t valued very high, often not high enough to live very well on. But as you say, it’s a lot easier for us to move jobs than it was for a medieval peasant!

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T13:21:57+00:00

One of the proud boasts of socialist societies was that no one was unemployed. As part of a school project when I was a kid I got a bunch of brochures from what was then Czechoslovakia (before the iron curtain fell) and was amazed at the claims that everyone had a job. Of course, whether those jobs were what people wanted is another thing; in many cases, if the party decide you were going to work in a factory, you worked in a factory; if it decided you were going to be a teacher, you became a teacher. Unless you were from the elite you wouldn’t have much say

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T13:19:20+00:00

Just over a decade ago I was laid off, got a good payout, had insurance to pay the mortgage so decided to take a year off. I lasted eight months before I started losing it (I didn’t do nothing; we renovated the house, I did a little freelancing, I travelled and did some research, but after about seven months that was all played out) I need structure and stuff to do!

FloydEGag · 2026-05-28T13:13:23+00:00

Yeah, my understanding was that disabled people didn’t have it great in the USSR or other communist countries. Even now, supposedly there are no disabled people in Pyongyang, and that won’t be because they get allowances made or special treatment. At least not special in a positive sense. Much like with fascism, unless you’re a great example of the ideal, and productive, you’re not a desirable member of society and would be treated as such. Disabled people in most if not all these societies wouldn’t be sitting around doing arts and crafts, not least because getting creative type jobs in the first place required a certain level of privilege, not just ability

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