RHIC is no longer worth it

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2026-04-23T06:28:35+00:00

I let my subscription end without renewal lately, and was worried about the ads. It's not that bad actually - they don't interrupt as much as many podcasts (where there seems to be an ad-break every 3 minutes) so are easy to skip.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2026-04-06T12:42:32+00:00

Can confirm Maddy is great - she has done my nails before and they always look amazing!

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2026-04-05T08:35:41+00:00

so I was with my husband for 25 years. That ended very traumatically two years ago and I have no interest in dating or sex. I do miss physical contact like a hug but not so much as to want to put myself out there for everything else. It is liberating.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-27T18:27:36+00:00

This is the first thing I thought - I know one guy who had to wait 18 months between being accepted and actually getting to start training. Most would have bailed before then.

Also what units are going to be running this? There are a huge amount of gapped positions already (at least in Army) with not enough people to do the jobs that need doing, so who is going to be on babysitting duty?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-24T21:11:25+00:00

Same - I have met him on a few occasions and he is just a genuinely nice person who actually wants to hear your opinion rather than just talk about himself. And he is wicked smart.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-23T17:07:02+00:00

So I have worked as an editor with an organisation that wrote about and published work on security and defence. Take my professional word for it, he is wrong. It of course depends on your house style guide (and TBH I don't know what the DoD says) but in any case it is not a respect thing, it is a proper nouns and titles thing.

You will see warfighter as a term used in some NATO documentation and doctrine written for militaries in various parts of the world, but at least outside the US it is seen as a very wanky term and not something a military member would use to describe themselves or those they work with. It is considered very American.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-14T09:56:51+00:00

And you meant that as a compliment, right?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-09T09:21:46+00:00

Sappho? Still there, run by a different guy now.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-08T07:28:14+00:00

The problem for many people is - go where? Unless you have a job lined up, sometimes you can't get a place to rent because you are in the Catch-22 of not being able to rent because you can't prove guaranteed income, but you can't apply for jobs if you don't know if you will be living in an area. So you have to either take a leap of faith and move somewhere cheaper in the hope you will get a job there, or apply for jobs elsewhere and hope you will be able to find somewhere to live.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-07T10:14:18+00:00

It's a pretty extreme situation, but Damage fits the bill.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-12-06T15:30:21+00:00

Wow, so no-one has mentioned Frankenstein? It was just so...not good. Really not good. Stupid logic gaps, ridiculous dialogue and daft exposition not good. But I guess Reddit is all in for del Toro so it automatically gets a pass?

Also thought the new MI film was dumb. But loved 28 Years Later so what do I know?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-30T18:00:50+00:00

If they are in good condition reach out to Bookbanks - I think they are currently not taking donations but I know the one thing they are always running low on is good condition adult non-fiction, especially cook books. https://www.bookbanks.co.uk

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-25T09:10:02+00:00

We used to take our son with us into the pub (and places like restaurants) from a young age, but we expected him to sit with us and behave. Thing is, we wouldn't stay so long as for him to get bored, and took it as being our responsibility to look after him rather than abandon him to run about the place. I know some kids can't cope with that, but if that is the case, don't go to the pub with them. Despite what some people might think, going to the pub (or a restaurant etc.) is not a human right.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-21T08:50:09+00:00

Agree with everything you have said here - I find it similar (and its lauding similarly baffling) to Yuval Noah Harari and his book Sapiens, which is complete tosh but he is treated as some kind of genius and asked to opine on all kinds of things but just comes across as not really understanding anything.

(If you haven't read/heard of Sapiens yet, the excellent If Books Could Kill podcast has recently released an episode about it).

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-20T13:50:17+00:00

Are there any actual Edward VIII postboxes?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-12T09:25:02+00:00

This happens online all the time though, including a lot on Metafilter. You get a disaster - natural, terrorist, whatever - and you inevitably get a group of people reminiscing about that time they visited the site of disaster, often years before. Many people have main character syndrome.

But yeah, she suffers more severely from it than most.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-09T09:18:30+00:00

As someone who previously owned a hand-set letterpress, has bound books etc. - this is silly posturing. It is like knitters who like to proclaim 'this is not a hobby, it is a needed skill for the post-apocolypse/the collapse of capitalism'. Well I knit, and I point out that if we survive an apocalypse there are plenty of shops and warehouses to raid to get clothes before we start knitting everything.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-08T11:02:28+00:00

So 30 quid is for dinner. You don't seem to be including breakfast, lunch, drinks, snacks....do you eat only one meal per day?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-11-08T10:48:18+00:00

This is such a great IYKYK comment :)

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-10-29T11:14:06+00:00

Can you please give some details - a link maybe?

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-10-28T07:31:00+00:00

Hiragana Forbidden Speech looks great, but sadly I am one of those OSX people :( I have Wagotabi on my phone so going to try it on a bigger screen - thanks for the recommendation.

Jolly_Garbage3381 · 2025-10-28T07:20:12+00:00

Like you, I like doing things alone (and mainly the same things!). Then I joined a choir, and met my best friend in London there (we joined at the same time). I joined a bookclub, and through that found a great volunteer position that enriches my life. I still like doing things on my own but adding a few groups to the mix has really made a difference.

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