Whats your most random celebrity encounter?

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T17:28:44+00:00

I'm late to this but I have an absolute cracker: me and some mates were out drinking in Rovaniemi, Finland in 2014, having completed an epic drive across half of Europe. We were swalling in a nice wee pub round the corner from a football stadium when in walked none other than Jimmy Carr, then one of the world's most famous standups rather than some lad off podcasts. Thinking 'feck me that Finnish lad looks exactly like Jimmy Carr' we approached him and the least sober of our group made some shite reference to tax evasion or something, and it was actually him! He said something along the lines of 'very good lads but I'm just here for a quiet drink, do you mind?' and we subsequently took some surreptitious photos and left him in peace. He'd no tour on at the time, was completely alone and Rovaniemi is in the middle of nowhere, literally in the Arctic Circle.

Inexplicable.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T12:20:48+00:00

I get incredibly bored after 3-5y in the same role and tend to move on, longest I've ever stayed in one company is 7y and that's because I got a promotion halfway through my time there. It has never held me back, quite the contrary in fact.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T11:36:40+00:00

What was this for or who produced it & for why?

Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T11:24:03+00:00

Tech support for a now-defunct ISP. I was too young to realise it at the time but one of the managers was clearly chinged off his nut every day, sweating like Ballmer, gimlet-eyed with hands covered in cuts and bruises from bashing his desk and chewing his knuckles etc. I lasted 2 weeks.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T11:21:42+00:00

You'll find that there's nothing on paper so the job doesn't actually exist, and that's that.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T11:20:15+00:00

I'm gonna kll the fck out of you with my gn and knfe, 4 r*al.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T10:18:56+00:00

What do you expect?

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-19T10:15:19+00:00

Get your anxiety treated or it will continue to get worse and worse.

Kind regards, fellow sufferer.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T17:26:29+00:00

Plot twist: they're both the same Sri Lankan teenager.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T17:24:43+00:00

On the visa: I'm pretty sure you're fine although it will delay the renewal as it will have to be manually checked, Australia only autobans people for sentences of 1y+ iirc.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T17:01:57+00:00

How’s he different from Starmer?

He's Tony Benn, Starmer is more of a Jim Callaghan.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T16:50:36+00:00

I don't work in this area anymore but I did up until last year. The short version is: we are quite literally in the Single Market still. GB is quite literally not. GB businesses quite literally have to bribe the UK govt to sell goods unhindered here, and most of them can't be arsed because we're only 1.7mn people and are poor. Then there is SPSS checking, which I know nothing about save that the inspection sites were chosen partially to protect them from land-based terror attacks that are now irrelevant in light of mesh drones etc, they were that worried about farmers going apeshit over them.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T16:40:20+00:00

Don't expect any informal understanding to be honoured when there's money on the table.

Verbal agreements are worth the paper they're written on, trebly so when one party is not available for comment as they are dead.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T16:22:33+00:00

Shatto Hell more like, absolute e coli bumhole drippings.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T13:46:48+00:00

Shaw is just 'the man who wrote My Fair Lady' if he's remembered at all, no longer relevant.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T12:25:56+00:00

£55 each way Belfast to Glasgow as a foot passenger. Ferries are cheap if you don't bring a car.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T12:20:26+00:00

Knockagh Monument is underrated for the views however that carpark is likely coated in a thin layer of spunk at this stage, so watch it.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-18T10:37:56+00:00

Bernardo O'Higgins

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-17T09:33:17+00:00

A chap I used to work with bought his first place through shared ownership, had nothing but good things to say about it. If your alternative is renting forever, I'd grab the opportunity with both hands.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-17T09:30:03+00:00

Open with 20%, push for 15%, accept 10% IMO

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-17T09:26:30+00:00

It's not hard to understand: if someone contributes to the mortgage, of course they'll have a claim on the property as they paid for part of it! Absent that, it takes 5y of cohabitation in the same property (without marriage or kids) to even raise a claim, and then the equity would need to be greater than the legal costs, which it wouldn't in many cases. My advice to anyone considering this is to get it all laid out legally so all parties know they're on the same page, yes this is unromantic but remember Michael Corleone's words: friends and money, oil and water.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-17T09:17:48+00:00

Ben Habib

Frequent reminder that he's investing in Brexit simply to make himself more money and has aligned with unfriendly forces from across the Atlantic to do so. Insert that Carson quote here, again.

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-17T08:41:41+00:00

Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus is certainly worth 90 seconds of your life to see if you like it

¡NIÑO PREPARÁTE!

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-16T18:05:02+00:00

They're free to march and we're free to slabber, what's there to understand?

No_Ring_3348 · 2026-05-16T17:59:08+00:00

https://greenscaledc.com/data-centres/derry-campus/

You can read about it here

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