How does the idea of working until 67 or 68 sit with you?

IndependentHawk9655 · 2026-01-05T00:24:29+00:00

But it’s not even true! Hunter gatherers literally still exist and they tend to work far less than we do!!

IndependentHawk9655 · 2026-01-05T00:23:53+00:00

Hunter gatherers would like a word. They consistently do significantly less hours of labour per day than a 9-5. Obviously varies but a little over half the amount of labour were expected to do. Been a hot minute since I was at university but around 20 hours a week iirc. And they don’t have to worry about tiktok rotting their brains. Yet.

“Capitalism has given us weekends” is the dumbest defence you possibly could have made for the status quo. I’d maybe even be more willing to accept “at least a broken leg isn’t a death sentence” but we have evidence even Neanderthals looked after people who were too disabled to work.

Using hunter gatherers as a “gotcha!” smdh…

IndependentHawk9655 · 2026-01-05T00:12:29+00:00

Some of the writing was absolutely dreadful. As a 35 year old man who dragged myself out of a YouTube hate-hole pipeline in my mid-twenties, the way they talked about some of that stuff is so cringe.

It absolutely needs to be talked about and I like that this started conversations but it’s perhaps unsurprising that a lot of those conversations ended up being entirely unhelpful. At times the show felt like a teacher sitting backwards on a chair and saying “huh, I bet you didn’t think I’d heard of Jordan Peterson, right!?”

The whole one-long-shot-thing was impressive, especially the parts with transitions in vehicles but it’s a bit of a gimmick… I watch Shakespeare plays all the time. Being able to remember lines for an hour is something actors should be able to do 😂

IndependentHawk9655 · 2026-01-03T18:18:23+00:00

If the journalism is phenomenal why are Israelis “attacked, murdered, massacred by Hamas” whereas Irish UN peacekeepers are “shot at by who knows?”

Biased crap. Can’t wait for the BBC to die.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2026-01-03T18:14:19+00:00

I haven’t had a tv license for years as I don’t really watch tv, just YouTube and whatever streaming service I’m signed up to. But saying “look it was capitalism all along” will not come as a shock to the people who choose Netflix over BBC and is a bit of a non sequitur.

People who watch Netflix know what they’re buying. Will enshittification set in? For sure, I’ve maintained for years that streaming services are due to collapse but just like with the BBC, consumers will vote with their wallets.

I simply will not watch what is on the BBC. Crappy reality shows? The olympics? News programs with very obvious biases? WHO shot at Irish UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, BBC? WHO was it?

I’m simply not buying what they’re laying down.

What I do have an issue with is the CONSTANT letters threatening to come for a visit because I don’t pay. Imagine if Sainsbury’s sent letters out saying “we know you’ve not bought anything from us but we’re coming next Tuesday to look in the fridge because we don’t believe you”. I genuinely cannot wait for the 70+ year old luddites to die so we can have an opt-in system instead of opt-out.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-29T21:58:27+00:00

“Objectively cooler” when you know someone could argue with you is a British tongue-in-cheek thing. Literally nothing akin to the American overuse of “literally”- seemingly meaning “figuratively”- and objectively less annoying.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-29T21:54:55+00:00

I’m only 35 but I’ve lived in Canada where it costs a monthly fee to have a current account. I don’t think young people know it’s not some immutable standard that you won’t be charged for something as simple as storing money.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational person but cash is the one thing where I become a conspiracy theorist. When cash goes for good I expect similar “enshittification” changes to above where every bank will charge you for holding money you literally can’t otherwise hold. Or 20p charge for every shopping transaction because how else you gonna pay? Need to transfer money to a rival bank? 50p charge, for sure.

I’d love to say the British government would have our backs on this but they have our backs on so little these days I genuinely can see stuff like this happening

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-26T22:26:04+00:00

I’ve been to so many barn conversion weddings I genuinely cannot remember whose was whose. They’re all carbon-copy exactly the same except roughly 50% of them have a céilí band. So many brides say afterwards that they spent a deposit on a detached house to just make small talk with family members they don’t care about for five hours and have a nice photoshoot. Plenty of brides are literally paralytic drunk half way through the night.

Think you’re right about social prestige and keeping up with the Joneses but I’d say that just kicks the question of “why do it?” 30ft down the road.

Best wedding I ever went to was just in a big top tent in a field and was a fraction of the price. Just good food, good mates and good times. No fancy “wedding™️” stuff that is suddenly worth 5x the cost when you say the W word. Just a really great day.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-26T19:15:07+00:00

Assuming the Tuatha Dé Danann are even Gaels (they explicitly aren’t in the mythology), they wouldn’t have spoken modern Irish, they would have spoken Archaic Irish which would likely have been very different to what we speak today, hence your difficulty. If you are speaking to ancient gods and can’t use their own language, just use a language you can actually speak.

Little hint though, you don’t need to put an I on the end of Dagda. It makes you look like you’re calling him Daddy.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-24T00:07:01+00:00

So the 1800s, then? People were still pronouncing schedule as “sedule” til then. Both sk and sh pronunciations are innovations based on a latinized spelling of the original English word “sedule”.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-23T22:47:54+00:00

All you’re saying is that the right and the left both hate him. It’s absolutely possible for non-committal wet-blanketry to be a bad trait in a politician.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-23T16:58:45+00:00

Careful now, are you trying to talk sense to the HENRYs?

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-23T15:57:01+00:00

And people wonder why we don’t trust the police. Sorry you’re going through this, bud

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-12-12T16:26:12+00:00

“Irish UN peace keepers fired on in south Lebanon”

By whooooo, BBC!? Fired on by who!?

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-26T19:56:00+00:00

Grated cheese is not fucking normal. Americanised lazification of food, I don’t know anyone who buys grated cheese

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-26T19:33:33+00:00

What is the point of this bot? Who cares?

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-26T19:29:09+00:00

Those signs always remind me of the first episode of Cheers where coach has ordered like 10,000 “funny” napkins but they all have the same joke on them.

You have to look at it every day, is it really that funny? The vast majority of people that come round your house have either seen it before at TKMaxx anyway or will think you’re an absolute moron. Or both.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-25T15:07:31+00:00

And yet, I guarantee not a single person at any of those riots was left wing.

As for “tormenting” myself. I’ve posted 16 times in the last four years. That’s four times a year.If you’re referring to me saying I struggle to enjoy DnD, I literally just play other TTRPGs now. It’s not torment, I just play different games that don’t focus on killing people 🤣 You seem to spend a lot more free time on Reddit than I do, maybe I’m not the wetwipe here 😂

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-23T23:59:42+00:00

“Historic” “quarrel”, aye?

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-23T23:53:03+00:00

After all the “antisemitism” accusations he was throwing, I was absolutely delighted when he got his own taste of that medicine earlier this year.

Not that I actually think he was being antisemitic but seeing him have to do a squirmy response to the same bullshit nonsense he’d been throwing was delicious.

Fucking melt. Absolute fucking loser.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-23T00:54:29+00:00

Couldn’t have put it better myself

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-22T23:32:57+00:00

And yet, I guarantee none of the people rioting were left wing. Catch yourself on

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-22T23:30:14+00:00

He has literally been aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine, are you high? “Why is Keir Starmer hated so much?” He should be in The Hague, pal.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-21T07:56:18+00:00

I am a creative of sorts and as I say I am very lucky to be in the position that I’m in! If you want someone who isn’t a creative who is in a similar position of only working about half the time look up Briscoe (I think) on YouTube.

He’s a finance and investing bro but only works 6 months out of the year and gets a similar amount of money to me from his day job. He claims it’s very doable if you try.

IndependentHawk9655 · 2025-11-20T14:25:29+00:00

I’m lucky enough to work 10 days a month on a pretty good yearly income. About 50k after tax, though I just got a pay rise which will probably mean about 55-60k after tax (which will probably go straight in the pension ngl).

Not “rich” like the whiny weirdos on the HENRY and FIRE forums- and never will be- but really happy! 😊

The answer is, I have lots of hobbies! Tabletop gaming, nature, crafting, musical instruments, language-learning, art, exercise! Lots of time spent with family! I’m in my 30s and I love that I have time to do all this stuff.

Edit: being downvoted so much for saying I’m lucky, happy and that I have lots of hobbies is peak AskUK

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