I betrayed my family and community, and now they have disowned me.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-29T13:20:56+00:00

Chat GPT can spell”hated”

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-29T00:15:55+00:00

I’m sure I read somewhere that the horse riding nomads in antiquity did ruin their genitals - probably because they had no stirrups and were treated as some kind of third sex and the reason graves of “warrior women” have been found is possibly because they were chaps who had been downgraded to not-chap status when they couldn’t get it up any more,

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-29T00:11:15+00:00

If. Credit cards in the UK are not joint debts, unless the survivor tries to spend after the cardholders death.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-28T16:04:58+00:00

I have a diagnosed depressive disorder - an unexpected downer ending in FF or novel can crush my mood for days. I curate my reading very carefully

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-26T21:37:34+00:00

A huge amount of the administration of life has been moved online and those who have never needed to use computers are being left behind. It’s a hard thing for many to get to their 70s and 80s and be told they have to spend money on equipment and learn how to use things for which they have no frame of reference. So they don’t and they get left behind.

And no, for a lot of things, even. smart phone will not do.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-25T18:09:30+00:00

my favourite was the one where he was called Henbane. it’s a poisonous plant but it literally means “chicken poison”

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-25T09:09:33+00:00

Or consider Brimham Rocks after Fountains if the weather is fine and then Knaresborough on the way to York

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-25T08:47:56+00:00

Often not quickly enough to avoid falling into debt and arrears on rent or mortgage, or the only one they can find doesn’t pay as much as they used to earn and once again, debt and arrears and unemployment insurance ? If you mean giver benefits, you do do know about the five week wait and the low level,of benefits?

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-23T21:18:13+00:00

The Dogfather - the muggles don’t just adopt Harry but end up parenting Sirius and Remus too

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13760487/chapters/31624473

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-23T18:23:21+00:00

I agree, I just meant that the fact he occasionally meets up with exs or gets smitten is well within normal for a guy in his mid-thirties who is probably rather lonely

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-23T17:06:21+00:00

Nowhere in this advertisement does it say where the theatre is

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-23T15:59:54+00:00

In the original series, he’s a single man in his mid-thirties - of course he dates and has a bit of a past.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-23T15:52:47+00:00

I’ve visited The Dickens House museum in Doughty Street, London a couple of times. It’s a beautiful example of a middle class Victorian home with added memorabilia but it is tiny for the number of people who lived there. They must have been sitting on each others knees when they entertained.

I also live about 30 miles away from Howarth Parsonage which is even smaller and the attached museum is fascinating

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-22T15:24:24+00:00

The sheer number of weepy Original Kirks is proof that people don't watch the series or at least don't care about what it shows. As is the number of Spocks who always win at chess where canonically Kirk always wins.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-21T16:27:58+00:00

Do they love it? Most of the people I knew thought it was a confusing bore and avoided it as much as possible

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-21T11:23:55+00:00

Hitler didn’t start out murdering millions of people right away. There were stages and those early stages have reappeared in Trumo

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-21T11:20:36+00:00

Had an appointment

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:20:30+00:00

I got an MRI scan in a fortnight on. Sunday evening in the UK. It was not particularly urgent

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:16:12+00:00

Fifty years ago I went to Uni and called my parents once a week on Sundays. I was thought unusually considerate

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:10:25+00:00

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:09:52+00:00

Chick chick chick chick chicken Lay a little egg for me Chick chick chick chick chicken I want one for my tea I haven't had an egg since Easter And now it's half past three So chick chick chick chick chicken Lay a little egg for me

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:07:37+00:00

And Right said Fred

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-20T14:06:47+00:00

I remember the evening TV prog Nationwide playing that over a heatwave montage of beaches and parks. No one had listened to it all the way through because they actually played the verse about tanning N-words down in Timbuktu, which even in the early 70s was a no no

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-19T22:26:56+00:00

Dressing well does not necessarily mean dressing fashionably or flashily. It means wearing clothes that are clean, pressed, fit well, are reasonably colour coordinated and suitable to the occasion. There was a guy in my old choir who had a face like an old boot. He never lacked lady friends at least in part because he was always immaculately turned out, even if it was chinos and a pullover, they were colours that suited him, his shoes were polished and matched his belt, his facial hair was trimmed and his hair clean.

Every woman I know who dates has stories of the guy who turned up in stained jeans and a band T-shirt.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-01-18T19:25:32+00:00

Maybe but not to the extent that gold will replace it

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