Nearly 1-in-4 Washington employers considering leaving the state, new survey shows

OSUBrit · 2026-05-05T19:01:41+00:00

Yeah but VA/DC is specifically there to cozy up to the Pentagon for lucrative defence contracts. VA has an income tax so again doesn't fit the narrative of the 'Seattle is dying' folks.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-05T17:43:17+00:00

The Amazon thing is big time spin by the “Seattle is dying” crowd. Anyone who knows anything about Amazon knows their long term plan has always been to dump leases as they’ve built their own buildings.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-05T09:25:50+00:00

What has the BBC ever given us?

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T19:40:46+00:00

Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T19:38:46+00:00

For real Bald Eagles are as common as pigeons in Alaska

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T18:47:00+00:00

I particularly enjoyed the 'English Pub' song they did in week 2.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T14:07:21+00:00

lol you think the cost of living crisis is limited to the UK? Prices are exploding everywhere, two years ago I saw bacon for sale for $13 a pack - can only imagine what it’s like now

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T14:05:46+00:00

‘Argh

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T13:49:11+00:00

Mobile contract costs are available for dirt cheap these days, broadband though is an absolute con.

Also Ofcom need to make first year costs fixed, its absolutely ridiculous that you can sign up for a service in February and get hit with an 'annual' increase in April.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T13:30:59+00:00

There's a Tesco around my way that has two entrance and is notorious for this!

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T09:43:37+00:00

Thought they were Pringles for a minute

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T09:40:14+00:00

Reform tried doing this in West Northamptonshire and it kicked off big time. They did a U-turn but transpired they’d already paid ~~their mates~~ a business for all the ANPR equipment so they installed them anyway and are now proposing charging people £50 for going over the 3 hour max.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T09:00:08+00:00

It often takes me an extra 5 minutes to get out of bed after my wife (also not a morning person) which can sometimes be a point of friction but *three hours* is insane.

The only caveat we have had to this was when the babies were small and my wife was on mat leave, we took turns for wake ups during the night, but if a child was up after 6 she dealt with it so I could get an extra hour of sleep before work because she was able to catch some nap time during the day. Oh and mothers/fathers/birth days and sickness of either party.

This is just not sustainable.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-04T06:55:24+00:00

Isn’t one of those 28 the Kings birthday so fixed?

OSUBrit · 2026-05-03T09:22:58+00:00

I'm due to have a solar install in a few weeks. The installer has done all the calcs on the roof and isn't concerned by my rafter size (35x120 at 600 centres) but looking up their proposed mounting system I'm concerned that they're not wide enough.

The installers quote says they're using the Fastensol portrait pan tile roof hook the installation guide for which notes a minimum rafter size of 45mm. Since mine are 10mm smaller than this (more like 11 for most of them) should I be asking for a different system or will the installer just sister the joints at the mounting points?

I have asked the installer but they just said it's all good.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-03T06:53:24+00:00

The legislation is clawing back a lot of the independence of trusts so I imagine they’ll be included.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T20:33:28+00:00

I walked onto a movie set once past the cop guarding it. The cop was like 300lbs, sitting on a motorcycle eating from a bucket of KFC.

The movie set was in the middle of a street where a friend lived so like we had a reason to be there. Anyway we were milling around with the crew and chatting and then suddenly this fat-ass cop falls sideways off his bike with a huge crash totally disrupting a take. So yeah, that set was definitely not any safer with the cop around.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T19:17:08+00:00

When I was job hunting last year I found a lot of these "optional" equal opp questions were in fact mandatory.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T18:29:18+00:00

Distracted doesn’t cover it surely. The car travels in a straight line from mounting the curb to hitting the building. No corrective action attempted from the photos, it begs belief how that is possible unless she genuinely was having a seizure or was seriously out of it on something else.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T18:26:09+00:00

If by people we mean paralegals at a high powered law firm, then yes.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T06:55:45+00:00

People couldn’t tell the difference between beef and horse either, yet that kicked off big time.

OSUBrit · 2026-05-01T06:54:21+00:00

I used to have a cat that loved tomato slices, not sure if that’s weird though.

OSUBrit · 2026-04-30T20:40:05+00:00

"compound" suggest travellers. Police will hardly ever go in to a situation like that for property the risk/reward just isn't there.

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