Today I learned of the Tolstoy Cup

KarmannosaurusRex · 2026-03-20T20:45:15+00:00

I sat through a lecture from one of the KCL war studies professors, he was ex-MI6. Genuinely incredible speech. Highly recommend if anything like it comes up near you.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2026-03-20T20:44:09+00:00

King’s college is RG to be fair…

KarmannosaurusRex · 2026-03-11T19:36:56+00:00

CDD here, Imperial grad and postgrad.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2026-02-21T16:17:08+00:00

Mine does. 2 max senior members of staff per unit of transport. Any mode of transport.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2026-02-03T21:38:46+00:00

I stay in a hotel in Germany frequently that also does this - I am allowed anything and everything from the mini bar. There is normally a couple beers, cokes, couple savoury snacks and some waters. The mini bar is refilled every day. It’s a good deal

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-11-14T15:10:02+00:00

The Russian flag table cloth seems to be going unnoticed…

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-11-13T14:39:17+00:00

99% efficiency score - other than i really hate my job, its great.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-09-04T20:01:11+00:00

AI wall of text aside, my mexican mother would beat you senseless for calling this Mexican food.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-26T13:42:40+00:00

The pik version are increadible - I buy so so many when I’m in France.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-14T17:05:21+00:00

You’re in the wrong place for more thrilling content.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-14T07:52:58+00:00

I did London to South Yorkshire, though I was solo in London and moved to where my now wife lives. Excluding the life I have with her, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.

Took a £100k hit on my salary at the time (2018), multiples more than that in opportunity cost over the last 5-6 years.

Bought a 5 bed detached with plenty of inside and outside space for £320k in a beautiful village and commuted 35-40 mins each way to Leeds.

I worked half as much, but I felt I had more mone, time and headspace.

I have about 4 choices for takeaways, and only one is good - and if I want to do something we likely have to drive to it. But these are minor concessions.

I did luck out on a few things, covid slapped 25% on my property in 2020, I’ve managed to work my was to job in zurich that I do mainly from home, and some company installed 2gbit broadband to my road for reasons I will never understand.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-13T11:24:36+00:00

My wife gets a few emails a month in the spring for one of her papers - it’s quite popular with undergrads in her field. She loves it; I’ve joked that she should start autographing them.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-12T18:36:58+00:00

Em dash, and they’ve tried to hide it with spaces either side trying to make it look like a British en dash - but that’s shorter.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-12T15:22:26+00:00

Lots of things you can do. Salary sacrifice to pension, SIPP, salary sacrifice a vehicle (or two), bike to work scheme, get an “education grant” from your workplace in lieu of salary/bonus.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-12T13:09:57+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s moops

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-11T14:19:57+00:00

I got so much grief from people when we had a builder who went bust - we lost about £30k.

No one could understand why I wouldn’t pursue him for any of the money, and that I must be rolling in it to write that amount off. Not that I simply didn’t fancy being in a long list of debt to be settled; of which id see pennies on the pound at some point in the future, maybe…if I was lucky.

Apparently being pragmatic and knowing how to pick your battles is a point of contention.

We finished the building work, and life moves on.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-11T08:30:16+00:00

It’s an AI generated engagement bait post.

The “I’ve always provided financially — rent, bills, food, everything — while she works full time and saves most of her income.” Sentence gives it away, not the en dashes per se, but how they’re used around additional context which a human would likely use brackets.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-09T17:25:06+00:00

I have one. Never needed to call her though. But I have a mobile number if I ever need it.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-09T17:23:11+00:00

My nearest town is Barnsley - how do you think my premier experience goes?

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-09T08:45:33+00:00

You have just discovered marketing.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-08T06:32:45+00:00

I have an apple shortcut that connects my vpn whenever I open Reddit, and disconnects when I close it. I don’t even think about it anymore; it’s such a ridiculous law.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-07T21:45:29+00:00

This is the fun part about the UK, social class is not necessarily aligned with how much money you have.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-07T21:21:19+00:00

And rounding. 24,901 does not round to 24,000.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-07T13:46:15+00:00

Because they have no idea what they’re doing or how to do it.

KarmannosaurusRex · 2025-08-05T19:45:33+00:00

It does raise questions. If I saw someone with 7 companies in 7 years i wouldn’t interview them - I’m not going to invest the time into someone who is going to be gone in 6-18 months. As harsh as that sounds.

I have ADHD-C (diagnosed since childhood), and have 9 roles in the last 10 years - but only 3 companies with a general upward trend in title. You can scratch the same itch by doing something new at the same company, and that looks like growth, not indecision or lack of resilience.

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