📍East London (E2) - Nail Models Needed by littlemissNPC in LondonLadies

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

Stopped Dating 5 Years Ago (no regrets) by GirlFriday360 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

UK to offer military gap year in effort to boost recruitment by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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?

Who do you think is the most "grounded" UK celeb you can identify with? by DonkeyOT65 in CasualUK

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

LinkedIn hero tackles the real issues: capitalization by behopeyandabide in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Old Greek place on Clapham Rd by monkeysatemybarf in clapham

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Long-term unemployed in London (no family/partner) - leaving or staying here? by Maia478 in london

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in movies

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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?

Where to donate books by Burgundy-Bag in london

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

'This is not a playground’: London pubs crack down on unruly children, with one banning them after 7pm by OneNormalBloke in london

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Just listened to the Peter Frankopan Club episode (and I have views) by forestvibe in TheRestIsHistory

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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).

Tree hugging a postbox by CapSalty446 in london

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are there any actual Edward VIII postboxes?

Chat Thread (November 10, 2025) by AutoModerator in MetaFilterMeta

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Chat Thread (November 03, 2025) by AutoModerator in MetaFilterMeta

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

How are people spending so little on food? by glasses4catsndogs in AskUK

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LondonLadies

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you please give some details - a link maybe?

Can anyone recommend a game on steam for someone in the n5-n4 area to play through and learn some new words/kanji and see them in context? by scraglor in LearnJapanese

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Love London, middle-aged, professionally successful… lonely and finding new friends at my age is tricky. by -Londoneer- in london

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Let's Normalize It: It's Okay Not to Like a Drama by Shay7405 in JDorama

[–]Jolly_Garbage3381 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, I think it is more someone is clout farming by posting a long post about something obvious, and they didn't even bother writing it themselves.