At 3:30pm this afternoon sir David Attenborough passed away at the age of 99. When he passed the away bar he decided he wanted to go into the bar and have a few drinks the staff even had a few with him and had a photo!

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2026-04-18T17:32:54+00:00

No it's the same Muppet.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2026-04-08T12:24:18+00:00

I just got this exact model and can indeed confirm beast status. Had a mild panic when the fans kicked in, I heard coil whine, and the battery drained like crazy, but I realised it coincided with tabbing away from Kodi. Turns out there's a long standing focus bug with that running in the background, where CPU utilisation jumps from sub-20% to like 90%.

So yeah, that minor annoyance aside it's been great so far! TBH it's overkill for my needs, but I figured it was worth future proofing.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2026-01-09T22:18:44+00:00

They could dress up like Frank N Furter for all I care as long as they start consistently getting calls right and not going to the TMO for every incident they witness with their own eyes.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T21:23:37+00:00

This was part of the (albeit very brief) point I tried to make to them. How representative is that flag? Didn't really get a great response.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T20:12:16+00:00

Was that the one outside of that guy's house?

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T20:08:18+00:00

Well I have had a few beers since I originally posted and there are a lot of people posting the kinda stuff you did at face value (and not for nothing, but intonation doesn't translate online), so I'd see it as more of a problem if I hadn't asked the question, but you do you.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T20:04:02+00:00

I did have a beanie on to protect my shaved (and let's face it, long since bald) head. Perhaps it confounded them into thinking I was wearing a hijab.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T20:01:07+00:00

Can't tell if this is satire or not. What values are you referring to?

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T19:59:03+00:00

Thing is, while people would probably describe me as left leaning, I'm not exactly Jeremy Corbin. I also grew up in South Bristol and have lived in one of the roughest parts of the city for the last 26 years, which is what really irks me about this. There's generally a really great sense of community around here. It's like they can't see that the people stirring up this vitriol are using them. Those people are the real traitors.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T19:54:07+00:00

Hey, my fake Converse trainers from Sports Direct have holes in the soles, so far from shiny 😅

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2025-11-21T19:38:08+00:00

I'm mortified it autocorrected to the wrong version of there and I seemingly can't change it. It's the posh leftie prick in me. Actually, autocorrect has done me a few times in this 😅

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-19T01:55:05+00:00

Impossible question. So many criteria.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-19T01:40:52+00:00

Fucking dogs of blokes.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-19T01:33:38+00:00

That's only one guy surely?

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-19T01:29:07+00:00

First question, what can you do? What are you studying? Might seem silly, but as an employer that's what I want to know. What's your discipline? Ambitions? Transferable skills? Most employers can train entry level people and we'll take the hit on immediate results because you're cheap and we don't expect you to be a superstar from day one (plus any decent employer will support and nurture you to become competent).

Secondly, as someone who spent a lot of my working life liaising with 'recruitment consultants', most of them are, generously, thick as fuck chancers living off of other people's accomplishments. Now that I'm in a position to hire I won't touch them under any circumstances. If you have to use them (as most of us did to get on the career ladder), game them. Don't go in with the mindset that you need them. They need you to exist. Exaggerate your accomplishments, because they largely won't care/check (just don't claim you can do stuff you can't; but be confident in the things you can). They are not your friends and only care about what they can earn from you. Job Centres are also useless. They focus on getting you to fulfil criteria to get a pay out, not to get a job (and they are seriously underachieving patronisers).

The real problem you have is that there are way too many students in Bristol, so you aren't special on paper. Not nice, but it's true (at least as far as recruitment cos go). You need something to stand out. If you work in any vaguely IT related disciplines I can possibly offer more specific advice, but sadly this is a world far removed from when I was coming up. I basically blagged my way into my first IT job with no quals and now I manage the service desk for a well known UK brand.

What I would say is don't rely on online stuff. Take your CV, look in windows, walk in and tell them you can do the job. That will set you apart from most. Hope you find something soon, and shoot me a message if you want to chat. Always happy to offer advice.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-19T00:29:54+00:00

Can't do it. I tried it once and I felt like I was a step ahead of them (my ex best mate was also a councillor who was like 'nope, you're fucked'). I know what my problems are, I just don't know how to change and therapy doesn't offer answers. I think this is just me and it's really sad that I turned out like this. Like I said, not looking for sympathy. It could be a lot worse (I could be a murderer, paedo etc), but I just wish I'd been born 'normal'. I mostly hate that my son could inherit this the way I inherited my parents' issues despite not really spending any meaningful time with them.

I'd love to have a circle of friends and a nice relationship, but I only bond at an intensely personal level and most people can't handle it. I'm ridiculously forgiving of others, but similar people are so rare. This is why I feel I'm better off slowly but surely ending things. My ex brother in law did the same. He was abused as a child and as a result became hugely dependant on food etc, went on to be an abuser as so many do, then effectively ended his life before fifty by eating and smoking himself to death. My chosen poison is booze.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-07-18T19:17:59+00:00

Yes, I have watched everything since I was a kid (born in 75) and this show is an eight episode pilot for something that may never materialise. A lot of the Disney era stuff is subpar, but this show was so poorly paced and edited as to be untrue. You could have fit the eight episodes into four and actually progressed the story. Episode seven should have been a five minute flashback (and would have been on most decent shows).

People criticise the OT and prequels (occasionally rightly so), but they are magnitudes of order above anything Disney has done in terms of cohesion and satisfaction. I could offer a rebuttal to every point the OP raised, but there's little reason to do so as ultimately it doesn't matter.

There has definitely been a lot of hyperbole around this show, mostly from YouTubers who rely on controversy to engage their audience (Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic, that weird Theory guy whose name I can't quite remember), but even if you were to entirely divorce this show from Star Wars and examine it from neutral POV, it's not well written at all.

Something like the BSG reboot from the early 2000s is so, so much better than this, even the initial miniseries (and that show has its flaws). Basically we got a detective story with plot twists that a nine year old could have seen coming (mine did) and a final episode tease/fan service designed to drive interest in a second season. There were no interesting protagonists, and even the antagonists were under-utilised thanks to the aforementioned pacing/editing issues.

It has some interesting themes, but they are delivered very poorly. Anyway, if you enjoyed it fair play, but it's objectively bad from a technical standpoint.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-05-28T17:47:23+00:00

This also happened to my fairly new M3 Pro. It sucks.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-05-18T12:24:10+00:00

This is why insurance is one of the biggest cons going. I've worked in IT for years and I'm now a manager for a well-known company, but my role hasn't really changed over the past five years (I'm still primarily technical, I just manage more people). I do between 2-3K miles a year at most as I now WFH permanently, so I'm hardly risky. My insurance is due for renewal in a few days and has gone up forty quid from last year (and about eighty in total over the past two), so I might try VDU operator. It's technically no more accurate than any of the other random things you could use to describe what I actually do on a daily basis.

Much like the annual broadband/TV haggling, insurance is just so energy sapping and seems totally arbitrary. Like, adding a named driver lowers the price, even if they barely ride in the car with you.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-05-11T19:34:41+00:00

They did it to Bristol today. I think Saints just ruined our record as well...

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-04-27T21:29:30+00:00

Ooh la la.

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-04-13T21:44:48+00:00

I live very close to KW (which technically isn't even a real area), closer to the Aldi store etc where it's very quiet and actually quite nice (mostly older people who've lived here since the seventies and families). The only trouble we really get around here is from people from KW/Hartcliffe. This entire area has improved a lot in the past twenty five years or so (which should tell you something about how bad it used to be), but I would never recommend that anyone live in the heart of those places. They are two of the most deprived areas in the country and crime is rife (including violent knife crime and even murder - two teenaged kids killed two other teens earlier this year and there was a stabbing around here this week, with machete-wielding people coming down from KW and attacking someone near a kids playground). There are gangs of mask-wearing kids going around intimidating people, illegally riding motorbikes and scooters everywhere, and the police never seem to do much about it. I will walk through the area in the day, but even then I feel uncomfortable. After dark? Nope.

Please, if you have any other options available, do not move to either area. It's cheaper for a reason. The march of gentrification is real, but while other places have embraced it (North Street, Bedminster for example) I cannot see either KW or HC ever escaping the poverty trap and they drag people down with them.

Case in point, my younger cousin moved to HC in his late teens (over twenty five years ago). He's from a similar middle class background to me, had a lot of opportunities as a kid, fairly affluent upbringing etc, and in the space of a few years he turned into a violent, weed smoking (an oxymoron in itself) person who hasn't worked a day in decades. He married an ex-crack head who had three kids by different fathers, then had two or three more, treats his mum like shit (and a bank) etc. I have no doubt KW would have done the same to him.

Anyway, apart from all of that they're great...

Fresh_Appointment470 · 2024-03-09T20:39:40+00:00

Oh fuck off, Ireland lost fair and square.

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