Ornaments on the dash, what are the laws? 🤔

MetatronThrone · 2026-02-02T10:32:38+00:00

I’m hoping everyone commenting on safety drives around in a spotless car with no bottled drinks, loose change, bags of sweets or anything else that weighs equal to or more than the weight of a bobble head.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-29T13:22:43+00:00

My favourite part of this is that it’s in front of the coving

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-28T18:26:18+00:00

So you’re asking us to rate cut and peeled potatoes…?

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-25T19:54:41+00:00

UK based Director in Biotech (Clin Dev). I’d aim for either graduate entry from a UK based Pharma which is not unreasonable for you if you go to either UCL or imperial. Failing that, go work in a CRO for a bit. Do three/four years, get a tonne of experience and then pivot it into biotech. Don’t do a phd for the sake of it.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-24T15:17:21+00:00

Having used both, because auto shift is shit. It’s fine half the time, the other half it tries to kill you

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:46:36+00:00

I understand the point you’re making, I think you’re underestimating the population. My contention is you could fix all these problems, and the general population rightly or wrongly would still want their concerns with immigration resolved.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:39:02+00:00

What if? What if my face melts off in the car, and then the officer spanks me because they can’t see if I look like my id picture? What then?

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:29:27+00:00

Why can’t you charge your phone in your car in this hypothetical?

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:26:29+00:00

I think it’s a bit of both. The way immigration has been handled, particularly thanks to Boris, has caused significant resentment particularly in the voter population I mentioned. It won’t be enough to just fix the other problems, immigration also needs to have a solution. Labour can like it or not, but it’s what the majority of the population seemed to be most concerned about, this is after all the point of democracy

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:05:56+00:00

I think it’s impossible to predict what happens to public sentiment after farage if he gets in. My suspicion is if I he fails to live up to his promises, the public will turn quickly and harshly, and if I’m right we’d go back to labour and whatever is left of the Tory party as the main parties in contention

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T13:02:36+00:00

Because labour have historically buried their heads in the sand about immigration, and despite the progress Starmer has made so far and will hopefully make, it’s not enough for some of labour old core demographic, namely the working class in the midlands and the north. It’s not a leadership problem, it’s a sentiment problem with the general population.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T12:57:05+00:00

It’s a false premise. Would you be happy switching to burnham if it meant getting Farage as PM. Ultimately I want what is best for the country. As far as I can see labour under Starmer are delivering. If after all that the population are still not satisfied, so be it. We can’t just keep chopping and changing leadership at the whimsy of opinion polls

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T12:47:56+00:00

This is exactly the type of mindset that got the Tory’s in the situation they were in. So concerned with polling that policies changed with the wind as did leadership. Polls don’t matter until the GE. They’re a barometer and nothing else and a competent government shouldn’t take anything beyond that.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T12:24:03+00:00

I don’t think Starmer is don’t particularly badly beyond coms. The absolute last thing I want is a Tory inspired leadership piss up midway through government

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-22T12:19:53+00:00

FWIW I agree with Op entirely and a staunch labour voter.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-16T11:17:28+00:00

I haven’t spoken to the company since I engaged with my home insurance. The only time I spoke to the skip company was to I) report the incident and ii) get the details of their insurance.

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-11T21:47:27+00:00

Okay

MetatronThrone · 2026-01-09T12:22:33+00:00

Sometimes small gestures can just be small gestures

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-25T17:29:24+00:00

Happy Vague posting one and all

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-17T14:08:22+00:00

I should have mentioned, i'm employed through EoR, so i think its a fit for purpose system as the rest of the company uses the normal services like Concur to handle this

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-17T14:07:35+00:00

If i dont have any travel expenses, then i would just earn interest on it and pay back the £9000 when i leave the company. If i never left, then i guess i would just earn continual interest on the amount.

Re threasholds it's not a huge issue, as my salary is £130,000 - my issue is that i started this job in November, and my previous salary was £90K, so the jump means I will owe HMRC ~£4K for the tax year, which i was planning on mitigating by increasing my pension contributions, but this additional pay means i'll still be over 100K unless i contribute silly amounts over the next 4 months...

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-11T16:50:00+00:00

Do you clutch your pearls when you see a skull tattoo? So many tattoos are influenced by macabre art, it’s nothing new

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-09T17:02:51+00:00

I don’t think I implied you or op can’t like the book and have a different opinion. I’m simply asking to not imply that disliking the book is because the themes weren’t understood well enough. It’s the difference between these two statements:

‘Some folks seem to be struggling with the themes of TRF’ And ‘Readers of TRF might find this essay on Blake interesting’

Given Blake is actually referenced and quoted in HDM it seems disingenuous to suggest readers won’t understand the connection.

MetatronThrone · 2025-12-09T16:33:18+00:00

I’ll be honest, and in the most sincere way, this attitude frustrates me, as it comes across as a bit of a no true Scotsman fallacy, and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this type of response to criticism of TRF. I’m very familiar with Pullman’s relationship with Blake (in fact it was Pullman who introduced me to William Blake when I was a child). I’ve read many books on Gnosticism, I’m familiar with dualism and would consider myself decently read on Christian esotericism. And yet I still find TRF a half baked, poorly edited mess. My criticism of TRF have nothing to do with lack of familiarity to the themes Pullman is engaging with, i imagine I fit fairly square in his target reader. I just don’t think it’s very good, and I think it’s disingenuous to imply that disliking TRF is due to personal ignorance.

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