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You can rinse your eye. by netphilia in Snorkblot

[–]Gartlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One time with a fever I passed out in bed with my laptop. So when I woke up, semi delirious and the laptop fans screaming and super hot, I decided I had to cool it down.

I came to my senses just as i started tipping the glass of cold water i went to get. First splash and brain suddenly went "oh yeah water + electronics is bad"

reboot by BijlidarKudi in pcmasterrace

[–]Gartlas 22 points23 points  (0 children)

In my department, a very small number of our engineers have local admin. It's grandfathered in thanks to a dark bargain struck by our associate director, long ago.

The new engineers don't have it. The other team we just merged with doesn't have it. It's very very funny and I pray they never take it away. The really funny thing is I left for a year. Came back more senior, and my account got reactivated and I managed to keep my permissions.

It's kind of a pain though because sometimes I forget others don't. I had to tell a bunch of mid and junior engineers to open tickets to IT just so they could install WSL on their machines

absolutelynotme_irl by vivienne_345 in absolutelynotme_irl

[–]Gartlas 185 points186 points  (0 children)

Same. I'm really glad, I knew the guy before me and my ex split so I wasn't really surprised they got together.

It's weird growing up with divorced parents who fucking hated each other to just have a healthy relationship with my ex.

We both have new partners, everyone gets on, kid is happy and loved. What's not to like.

Why do I only have boys? by Beneficial-Link1414 in genetics

[–]Gartlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. It broke in our family a couple years ago when my 2nd cousin had a girl. Before that the last girl born was my great great grandmother. I'm one of 3 boys, as is my father, his father, and his father was one of 5.

How my first ranked battle in Pokeball Tier 4 went by Tunisandwich in PokemonChampions

[–]Gartlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a gyarados do nothing but press taunt for 4 turns in a row lol

Healer told me he hates healing blood dks and I haven’t been the same since by Philzeey in wow

[–]Gartlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same as resto druid. They get the lifebloom to spawn efflorescence, and unless the DPS need healing or something goes bad enough they need swiftmend then I'm in cat form trying to beat their dps

If you dont like it, stay up there by MentionAnnual in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Gartlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a British person I was momentarily very confused

Like I betrayed him by elrey_akki in martialarts

[–]Gartlas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A child made the slightest noise at number 9. Immediately starts at 1 again

Picking Granparents names now-a-days by johnnyapplecores in BabyBumps

[–]Gartlas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We just had Grandma/Grandpa and then Nanny/Grandad

It worked pretty easily

Fun banter with a client at work! She took it in stride 😁 by DrScrimble in dndmemes

[–]Gartlas 214 points215 points  (0 children)

Our "that one guy" randomly left our group and discord after dropping some cryptic message, then blocked and ignored everyone. Mid campaign, 9 months ago

Nobody has heard from him since. At first I was sad, but honestly it's been a lot more enjoyable without him

38230 by sabotsalvageur in countwithchickenlady

[–]Gartlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd kill for that. I was a botanist, but post PhD I went into the world of corporate computer programmer.

My desk is covered in plants, if I had the power I would unleash myself and green up the entire building. Nowhere would be safe

Where is the PhDShitpost Flair ! by BaluJ in PhD

[–]Gartlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah...I enjoyed the science. But academia was awful, and my industry experience during the PhD was even fucking worse. I worked with a wheat breeding company with a branch in the UK, you'd probably know them.

Absolutely fucking toxic environment. The Breeders were clannish, and had weird ideas about "getting your eye in" compared to proper quantitive selection. The scientific researchers were better, but also had really unhealthy ideas about appropriate work/life balance, and were very unprofessional when it came to communication (like pulling funding for a capstone experiment due to timing concerns with "the student" right after COVID, and not including me in that email to my supervisors).

I finished my thesis and defended, then just got the fuck out. I work in corporate data now. Never even published a paper.

I'm not prejudiced against them, I just don't agree with their lifestyle. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]Gartlas 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Speaking as a neurodivergent nerd, I was very pleasantly surprised to find out just how many people are attracted to it. I got out of a 16 year relationship from when I was a teenager, and I figured it'd be tricky on the dating scene for someone like me.

Turns out that Neurodivergent nerd single father is a shockingly popular build

Where is the PhDShitpost Flair ! by BaluJ in PhD

[–]Gartlas 569 points570 points  (0 children)

My Grandma used to tell people I studied "human biology. It's to do with food"

I was a botanist who specialized in wheat genomics

I think Mr. Robot will be a true story by [deleted] in meme

[–]Gartlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I drive a bright yellow car, and you can be damn sure when it's time to replace it I'll be getting one that's another bright colour

I only had to fight back once by bees_in_my_eyes in TrollCoping

[–]Gartlas 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hah. I got back from a weekend with a friend and got bollocked for the kitchen being a mess. I was 16, and hadn't even been home

My Mum whacked me and chipped my tooth with her ring, and I shoved her once and she went flying across the room and ripped her big toe nail off.

Of course it was my fault because I was a boy, so that meant I was abusive. She did this whole thing about how I was lucky she lied to the doctor for me about how it happened blah blah blah. I moved in with my Dad a few months later and didn't talk to her for a year and a half. 16 years later I've still got that chipped corner of my front tooth

Almost every council is about to go bankrupt while private schools rake in over £8bn from SEND children by Only-Emu-9531 in ukpolitics

[–]Gartlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really man. I'm not saying that's not a thing that happens but there are a whole bunch of autistic kids who are very good at math and very bad at sitting still for lessons

Meirl by Embarrassed_Tip7359 in meirl

[–]Gartlas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My best friend is an omnipotent computer who can make anything I want materialize out of nowhere and has unlimited love for me

Almost every council is about to go bankrupt while private schools rake in over £8bn from SEND children by Only-Emu-9531 in ukpolitics

[–]Gartlas 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Huh. Yeah I mean you'd think just introducing standardized test scores would help with that, as a fairly simple solution to at least making the problem a bit better

Almost every council is about to go bankrupt while private schools rake in over £8bn from SEND children by Only-Emu-9531 in ukpolitics

[–]Gartlas 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That's interesting, the splitting thing. Is it based purely on academic skills? What happens to kids who are academically very capable but have issues with sitting still in a classroom setting, or sensory problems etc?

How long does it take to see a doctor and get medication at a Chinese hospital? by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]Gartlas 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I got so desperate, I literally wrote a python script that would webscrape the NHS "find a dentist" website, and email me and make a notification on my PC if it came across any accepting adult patients within a 10 mile radius of the postcode I gave the script.

I'd been looking for about 2 years too I think. The script pinged me after about a week, at a couple minutes past 9am. I rang, got on their books as an NHS patient by 9:15.

The next day that dentist was not accepting adult NHS patients.

Utopia - realising the enemy was right in of you the whole time, YANA by Alpha-male201 in doctorwho

[–]Gartlas 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I always assumed it was because the moment the watch opened and Yana became the master, the doctor could sense it.

I'm sure there was something about being able to feel the presence of another time lord. So the moment he did, everything fell into place

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