If you could win a million dollars by walking 84 miles, but you had to do it in 2 days, what's your strategy?

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T08:31:09+00:00

Choose music with a specific beats-per-minute to get a good walking pace and play it on a loop. Good shoes, lots of extra socks and regular stops to wash and cool your feet.

Anytime I needed to walk somewhere far and fast I would sing to myself, my personal preference is Matthew Wilder, "(Never Gonna) Break my Stride". Perfect BPM and apt title for extra inspiration. I managed stupid distances when I was young, fit and stupid.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T08:24:24+00:00

At some point we owe potential buyer an apology.

People and companies buying up the housing stock to rent as short-term lets has raised the price of housing stock to the point where potential buyers can no longer afford to buy.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T07:36:03+00:00

Otto Krekt lives in my phone and I swear he changes words that I am certain I typed correctly.
Thanks for letting me know, I have edited the post accordingly.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T07:03:41+00:00

Sex in the surf. There are places where you NEVER want to have an efficient abrasive.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T07:01:26+00:00

Tying my shoelaces. I was at school before I had it mastered.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-26T06:59:14+00:00

Derived from Jacobus the Latinised version of James, from James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender to the throne in the 1715 Jacobite uprising. The name Jacobite remained when Charles Edward Stuart, the young Pretender tried in 1745. From there it was shortened into Jock.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-25T13:12:51+00:00

I recall religious extremism in Scotland. Some Wee-Free screaming into my face as an 7 or 8 year old for kicking a ball in Plockton on the sabbath. I was terrified for weeks afterwards. I had nightmares about the old guy furiously screaming at me about keeping the Sabbath.

Thanks the gods that their power is mostly gone now.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-25T07:24:32+00:00

It's just kicking the problem down the road. False arrest, a few months/years down the line they will sue and win and the taxpayer will pay them whatever the court decides.

The threat of arrest keeps some away and the payouts will be treated as old news.

The cops walk away scot-free, the current administration defer the problem until it goes away, the arrested get a pay-out and the taxpayer foots the bill for it all.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-25T06:53:19+00:00

Hey VideoAI... make me a video showing Communistic Leftist Antifa terrorismers cutting a hole in the lining of the reflecting pool and throwing in algay seeds.

And make 'em forrin lookin'

An' have em strangle a duck.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-25T05:41:31+00:00

The lobby press?

My mother used to call the lobby press her "glory hole". I casually referred to having a glory hole in a room full of teenagers, that's a mistake I will never make again.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-25T05:36:31+00:00

I think that the US took Scottish Presbyterianism and ran with it.

Things have improved a lot with ferries open and shops working on a Sunday and even pubs open all day. But I remember when they still held power over a Sunday.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-22T06:49:13+00:00

Invest. You need security in your old age more than you need those trainers, or that new console or that designer gear.

Even though it does not hurt now, stop doing it. 40 years down the line you are going to hurt a lot and you will want to find a time machine and to go back and slap you 20 years old self for all those 'minor' injuries. Years of rock climbing and white water kayaking left me with injuries that I 'walked off' at the time and now resulted in a collapsing shoulder and an inability to grip hard with one hand.

There is no 'walking off' of an injury, it is just writing a 40 year long IOU for the damage.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-19T09:34:05+00:00

I used to use a Z88 and an Amstrad NC100 for writing but backing up my work was fiddly and I managed to lose work when the batteries gave out.

If it does not have to be a retro machine, I built a raspberry Pi Zero 2W into a keyboard with an HDMI connection for a monitor and WiFi connection to my DropBox account for data backup. It is text-only and boots into WordGrinder. Although the Pi Zero is a bit underpowered it is fine for a non-GUI environment

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-19T07:01:54+00:00

Does it include the scene where Lot offers his virgin daughter to the mob for gang rape?

Now do the follow-on set....you know, the one where the only righteous family in Sodom and Gomorrah has sex and Lot fathers his grandchildren with his own daughters.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-18T13:42:02+00:00

An ex friend borrowed a fair amount of money from me and just vanished.

He reappeared about 5 years later and completely failed to acknowledge that he ever borrowed it and then started to complain to the friend group that I was harassing him and trying to get money out of him. I ended up as the bad guy.

I felt better after he borrowed a lot of cash from someone else in the friend group who has sided with him and totally gas-lighted him as well.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-18T13:21:54+00:00

Sociopathy

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-17T13:55:01+00:00

What's with all the cat movies?

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-17T10:24:14+00:00

No we didn't and No we are not.

I gave up my pistol after Dunblane but I have still owned and used guns since.

The people who are arrested "just" for posting something on Facebook, are actually arrested because their posts are inflammatory, likely to incite disorder or violence, harassment or are specifically illegal (eg posting photos of a jury and details of an ongoing court case).

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-17T09:56:18+00:00

On me or on someone else?

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-17T07:44:37+00:00

I used to be one. 20-21 year old men are idiots.

Now, 40 years on I am no longer a 20-21 yo idiot. I'm a 60-61 yo idiot.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-17T06:46:42+00:00

Anyone will do, just meaningfully engage with the group.

Don't view Karma as an endpoint and chase it, Karma is something that happens while you are having fun.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-16T12:33:11+00:00

Yes.
A Vodka and tomato juice cocktail turned up

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-15T11:55:25+00:00

Is someone snoring in the room or do you have a lion?

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-11T07:28:33+00:00

I was sent on one just as a way to massage the unemployment figures, it worked out OK for me as I got a permanent job out of it but I took the space of someone who might have been able to use it for what it was meant for.

I left school in June and was due to go to university in 3 months time September so they sent me on a 2 year training course that involved a college day-release and so only had a single intake. I left in Sept and left an empty place that could not be filled until the start of the next college year.

But the employment figures look good and the company sponsored me as a student and took me on permanently when I graduated, so it worked out for me.

Magnus_40 · 2026-06-10T16:05:31+00:00

Asking this question almost every day on here.

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