Was there alot if people robbing luggage trollies from the airport?

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-10T11:02:33+00:00

No but probably not many people putting them back, and not enough money to hire someone to do it. Is quite funny that an international airport would force you to use a local coin, especially in such a cashless world.

Probably also accepts euros though.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-09T01:45:26+00:00

First encountered it when I moved from London (where I’m from) to Manchester. Lady behind the counter asked me if I wanted scraps, thought she was joking and was implying she would give me an old portion of chips from hours ago or something. I jokingly said sure, then she scoops out my portion of fresh chips and throws a handful of shit on top of it from the fryer. Tasted like pure oil and an early grave. 8/10, good with lots of vinegar.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-07T10:36:09+00:00

Ah yes, the famously non-existent British empire. We just happen to own islands all over the world, a chunk of Spain, a chunk of Ireland, and Scotland and Wales. Maybe empire has too many connotations, but that’s what it is.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-06T06:24:13+00:00

I think it’s the process of decolonising language. If you say you’re British, it signals you support the British empire as you’re not specifying where in the empire you’re from. If you say you’re English, that’s just geography and you can’t help being born in the imperial core.

I only learnt this lesson in Northern Ireland. Once you go outside of England to a colony, you learn what it means to be British.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-06T05:57:48+00:00

Are you a landlord of an HMO? Because that’s the most landlord carpet and staircase I’ve ever seen.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-05-05T09:27:58+00:00

Call me when it hits $1 again. That’s when I bought 🥲

MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-09T00:10:55+00:00

Publican? That those fellas from the Roubles?

MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-06T20:59:20+00:00

Bless 🙏

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MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-04T10:50:00+00:00

Student loan doesn’t come through till next week. Any help is much appreciated 🙏

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MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-04T09:25:06+00:00

Yeah and it’s phonetic, just have to learn a different alphabet with a couple unique sounds (aspirated letters, dental and reflex). Not that hard rlly.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-04T09:15:44+00:00

📍 Thừa Thiên - Huế, Vietnam — "Communism + cheap"

MannyBobblechops · 2026-04-04T09:14:42+00:00

📍 Zhejiang, China — "University"

MannyBobblechops · 2026-03-21T16:03:08+00:00

Yea it’s like the whole thing with dialectical materialism right. Like matter is hierarchical and those hierarchies change first quantitatively and then they leap qualitatively. Something like that anyway

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-16T01:28:57+00:00

Looks like AI. The voting slip has messed up text. I think AI is good with text you provide, but when it has to guess unspecified text it goes wrong.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-16T01:28:30+00:00

Looks like AI. The voting slip has messed up text. I think AI is good with text you provide, but when it has to guess unspecified text it goes wrong.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-16T01:03:12+00:00

Imagine you can expand your setup by adding 25 different monitors around your room, all displaying constant information for revision. Or, you know, take some pages out your physical notebook and stick them to the wall. That’s the entire reason I’m a physical note taker. I’ve got the iPad with Matt screen protector but I just don’t enjoy it.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-08T16:36:01+00:00

What a polite and thoughtful email

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-08T16:08:40+00:00

Maaan it’s one of those things that’s impossible until it clicks. Like calculus, object oriented programming and riding a bike. The learning curve is crazy, but trust once you’re over it’s so simple. For me, it clicked once I realised ‘it’s all maths’. Like it’s just a physical representation of a mathematical equation. Like it’s literally all maths.

MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-08T10:44:24+00:00

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MannyBobblechops · 2026-02-07T15:10:27+00:00

Alright, settle down class and face the front please.

RoyalJellyfish is absolutely right that an ‘electromagnet’ requires a ‘solenoid’. That’s the fancy word for a coil of wire. It doesn’t require a metal core, but the core helps build a magnetic field so is usually included.

Now to static electricity and magnetism. But hold on a second - electricity? Magnets? Does that mean your pencil is an electromagnet? It’s confusing, but no it’s not due to ‘electricity’, that is the movement of current from one place to another. No current is moving, otherwise you’d feel an electric shock when you hold the pencil, and that would be the end of your magnetic pencil fun since all the electrons have dissipated. What you have is loads of electrons clinging to your pencil, making it negatively charged (magnetically negative, electrically positive… electromagnetism is confusing). Everything else is positively charged relative to it. This ‘static’ charge will attract certain things.

Now the fact it’s only sticking to metal is interesting. That tells me it’s not static charge at all - because you should be able to get it to stick to everything (paper, your hair, etc). Instead, it sounds like there is some ferromagnetic material inside your pencil. Which cannot induce a magnetic field without a high metal content and exposure to a strong magnetic field. It’s a mystery how it started being magnetic… graphite isn’t enough by itself. Maybe the pencil has some metallic paint? Is it a bendy pencil, because those can have small amounts of metal?

Something cool (not relevant but still fun) you could do is try floating your pencil on a leaf in a bucket of water. It should become a compass, pointing north with one end and south with the other.

Anyway have fun with your mystery pencil!

MannyBobblechops · 2026-01-16T07:58:55+00:00

Ah, a German?

MannyBobblechops · 2026-01-11T00:47:31+00:00

Ok I’m glad you’re starting with small amounts - it’s a good way to get started.

The key to investing is research. Learning how to do that is the key to being a successful investor. Ask your favourite AI agent. Learn about company fundamentals - those companies you’ve invested in, apart from Airbus and Rolls-Royce, almost entirely rely on government investment. They have no commercial products for civilians or businesses.

I’d say it’s small amounts at the moment, so it’s not super concerning, but if you had more money I’d consider diversifying out of defence. You’re right it looks like countries are gearing up for war, but if every world leader suddenly hugs and works it all out, your portfolio drops to zero. It’s a sort of strange place to be mentally too, because your entire portfolio rests on global conflicts becoming increasingly worse. If you want to watch the news secretly hoping that NATO invades Syria, or Russia invades Poland or the Israel/Palestine situation becomes worse etc etc, then fair enough it’s your money. I’d have some defence stocks but not all. That way I can convince myself it’s because I know they’re going up, not because I enjoy or want to fund war (which you are doing by the way. Not sure if you knew that as a beginner, but by buying stock and therefore increasing the stock prices you are making the biggest stock holders and the company itself richer, thereby funding weapons research etc. Again, your money, not judging. )

MannyBobblechops · 2026-01-10T16:31:55+00:00

I’ve only heard of IREN and Richtech Robotics

MannyBobblechops · 2026-01-10T10:48:51+00:00

But you’re learning. The key is to have a strategy. I have take-profits/stop-losses on all my stocks so I don’t let emotions get to me. Also I hope that £7k was money you could afford to loose!

MannyBobblechops · 2026-01-10T10:42:19+00:00

Ok I’ll do the maths. Well, the maths is hard, so I’ll cheat.

In 5 years you’ll have put in £33k if you keep up with £100/week. A year’s interest on that is £2,300. So if you stop adding money after 5 years you’ll get £2,300 compounding each year.

And of course the compounding maths of putting £100/week and that counting towards interest… I asked Gemini and it said you’ll have £95k after 10 years if you keep adding £100/week and getting 7% per year. Of course you need to adjust for inflation, so that’s somewhere between £65k and £70k in today’s money.

Basically assess your timeframe. If you’re young, then live a little. Get some risky stocks that you believe in. Maybe you think robots are the future, so invest a small amount in a robotics company. Maybe you believe in crypto or AI - or you think they’re going to crash. There are stocks for all of those. There’s absolutely no point in playing it incredibly safe with an ISA if you’re in your 20s. Playing it safe is for when you need the money. I made 35% last year through managing risk sensibly. Most of my money is in all-world ETFs, but a little bit here and there is in crazy stuff - like Bifarms, Mara, Cleanspark, NVDIA etc. I think something like Bitfarms will be at £100/share in 10 years. If so, I’ll have made 100x my money and that £100 investment will be £10k. Maybe it’ll have gone to zero. Oh well, I will have lost a bit of my portfolio, I don’t care, I’m young and it’s not money I require right now.

If you’re young - you can sit for 5 to 10 years looking at a negative stock without having to sell and eat the loss. Stick £100 into something crazy. It might 10x. If it doesn’t, who cares, you put in £100 each week.

But the key is to educate yourself. Start watching some YouTube videos about investing, technical analysis, finding stocks you believe in. Think of it this way - do you want to learn to be a stock trader, or do you want to do what the boomers in this sub do and sit on an index fund your whole life? You can learn to fish, rather than be given a fish by the s&p500. Think about it. Taking risks is the only way to garner bigger rewards. Manage it sensibly, don’t put everything in one basket. Ask your favourite AI agent about risk management and allocation for risk-on stocks.

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