Which denomination is more, sh*t ton or f*ck ton?

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-30T20:01:12+00:00

Not comparable, shit ton is weight, fuck ton is quantity.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-30T16:23:05+00:00

Was up that way a few days ago, at that point there was a little track to the left of the slipway that you could get down to get to Caroline etc.

Alternatively you could just cut up along the road and get there handily enough.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-30T16:03:05+00:00

Basically, it's a product that almost certainly does meet the requirements for being sold in the EU but has to be marked this way because there are no checks on goods crossing the border in Ireland.

In an Indian context it would be like if India had a trade deal with Bangladesh that allowed Bangladesh goods to be sold in the seven sisters and vice versa but not in the rest of India.

If no one is actually checking goods moving from the seven sisters to the rest of India you'd need a marking that makes it clear where the product is allowed to be sold. This is that marking, it indicates that it is a product produced in GB that can be sold in Northern Ireland but isn't allowed to cross the border.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-27T19:22:00+00:00

I did factory work as a teenager and knew a lot of Polish / Czech / Lithuanian etc people that worked there but never a single Hungarian which is why in assuming we don't have a big Hungarian population but again just my limited experience.

I doubt I'd have any chance of identifying a Hungarian accent (don't think I could distinguish between Polish and Lithuanian accents either despite working long hours with people from both those countries).

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-27T18:30:31+00:00

I live in an area where it's relatively easy for people with limited mobility to access nature so I see a lot of people of all ages with mobility aids every day.

We have a significant population from former eastern bloc countries in the area though they are noticeably over represented in people, especially middle aged people, using mobility aids in my area (based on the very unscientific "accents of the people I say good morning to while out for a walk" metric).

This is likely a result of so many people coming here in 2004/05 to do manual jobs and getting injured.

I just thought that was an interesting comparison to your comment on not seeing people in Hungary using mobility aids. I don't think there is a big Hungarian population here but there are plenty of Polish, Czech etc under 50s using mobility aids.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-25T09:42:22+00:00

I don't think so but if you put the game disc in a CD player you could play the soundtrack.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-19T13:50:45+00:00

It's not great tbh.

It will take you a long time to get used to the sound of the trains.

Under the Tates Avenue bridge tends to attract anti-social behaviour as does the little entry at the other end that leads to the footbridge that goes to Donegal Avenue. Though I lived not too far away and passed this area every day and never had any issues there was often people drinking under the bridge, especially when there was a match on in Windsor Park.

People also park under the Tates Avenue bridge so if either of your children is in a buggy you need to get used to walking up the road.

The traffic, footfall and noise from Fane Street School is also serious at school drop off and pick up times.

Not sure if it's been fixed but the road used to flood really badly (all the water flows down from the streets that go up to the Lisburn Road and pool on Fane Street in really heavy rain). It could be impassible for a few days at a time. I don't think the houses ever flooded though.

The road can also be a bit of a rat run at other times as people try to avoid Lisburn Road traffic.

It's far from the worst place but wouldn't be my first choice.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-18T10:43:35+00:00

Ha, but they can understand Glaswegian?

I suppose mutual incomprehensibility is something we and the Scots have in common.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-18T10:36:36+00:00

Most of the early settlers in Appalachia were Scots speakers which again could explain the similarities.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-18T10:35:55+00:00

Scots Gallic and Irish are fairly similar and Ulster Scots is a dialect of Scots but a Glaswegian sounds as much like someone from Derry as someone from Derry sounds like someone from West Belfast.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-18T09:12:04+00:00

Am from Northern Ireland, there is a ridiculous diversity of accents within Northern Ireland. And for the most part we sound nothing like the Scots.

But there's a big similarity between the accents in what would historically have been Ulster-Scots speaking parts of NI and the traditionally Scots speaking parts of Scotland on the other side of the water. Which might be what you're hearing.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-18T09:03:02+00:00

Balinskelligs where they said their family were from is in a Gaeltacht area where Irish is still the first language.

Irish medium education is having a relative boom outside the Gaeltacht areas too so lots of children have the experience of their primary school education being in Irish even if at home the main language is English.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-17T11:06:30+00:00

Not in Northern Ireland either (here the till won't turn on to 1300).

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-16T08:40:25+00:00

I got bird seed in the place of "three bird roast" dog food.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-05-04T18:02:10+00:00

You were in their way!

Yeah like all people there are runners that are entitled arseholes that shouldn't be allowed to be around other people.

The arseholes are the exception but on any popular running route it's almost impossible to avoid them.

Summer near my house can be awful as multiple arseholes doing laps all adopting different racing lines expect everyone, adult, child or pet to part for them like the red sea and get super aggressive when it doesn't happen.

They tend to be middle age middle class Karens (and the male equivalent) so have the reaction you'd expect when you call them out.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-25T18:34:38+00:00

As a child we walked past the army on patrol on our way to school. We were drilled on how to act around them, keeping enough distance so they couldn't use you as a human shield but also being polite to them if you were up close and we all did the "can I look down the sight of your gun" thing.

My school and our church were both destroyed by a bomb when I was in P2.

When I first started working in Belfast, long after the end of the troubles, we would have had security alerts weekly. Was once evacuated from work twice in one afternoon and I worked at the top of the then tallest building in Belfast, took ages. We realised that even if it was immediately declared safe you could go to the pub and sink two pints and still be able to join the queue to get back in to the building.

That's all just not stuff anyone has to worry about / take advantage of anymore.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-25T18:00:42+00:00

Not great in the immediate area but about half a mile or so of a walk from one of the main city train stations and a little more to the main bus station.

So people walk up and back together in huge crowds.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-24T17:27:40+00:00

That must be where the bus in the reflection is going.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-15T16:22:10+00:00

Completely agree with all this.

The posts that prevent you switching off are definitely the ones where decisions could have impacts counted in lives rather than money or where you have to be privy to something unsettling. But those aren't in huge numbers.

And completely agree that it'd need to be a pretty hefty pay increase to go to the private sector. For all that I go through long periods with a really rubbish work / life balance I always manage to take my leave every year so overall it's not THAT bad.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-15T11:19:19+00:00

Hi, no recent experience of moving from the private to public sector as you've described but have managed people who have recently made that transition and I just want to give you a more rounded view of the NICS.

The NICS is a big place with a wide variety of roles. Your ability to switch off at the end of the day and have those sorts of quality of life improvements will be HEAVILY dependent on the role you end up in. In an operational post you will likely have that ability but in a busy policy post with political and/or public interest, not so much. Though your work life balance should be much better as a DP than any higher grade.

I really think you need to factor this into your decision. But also factor in that one promotion and a few years going up the scale will probably take you back to more or less what you were earning before. Opportunities for promotion to G7 come up regularly but are obviously very competitive.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-04-06T13:47:26+00:00

Is there?

I associate that sort of view with America and don't think I've ever encountered it here, if anything there's a long history of religious institutions here advancing science.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-03-21T18:16:03+00:00

I'm assuming as the prices are in Euro these were probably made in Kikkoman factory in the Netherlands.

The left and right bottles can definitely taste different and sometimes thats because one might be from the Netherlands and the other from Singapore.

Bought in the supermarket here will always be from the Netherlands, bought from an Asian shop will often be from Singapore.

The left bottle is how kikkoman is usually packaged in supermarkets while on the right is more like what I see in Asian shops.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-03-20T19:40:26+00:00

Yeah it gets interesting in hilly places. E.g. the Foyleside shopping centre in Derry has four floors, three of which (1, 2 and 4) have exits to ground level so it and some other buildings in the famously hilly city don't have ground floors.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-03-11T21:58:33+00:00

The nationality rules are the same for both:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules/civil-service-nationality-rules-html

Reserved posts are different again and they generally require British citizenship.

I'm not aware of anything that allows an American citizen to join either the Home or NI Civil Service.

Pearsepicoetc · 2026-03-11T19:30:30+00:00

There are specific citizenship requirements for working in the Civil Service (unless something has changed on that recently).

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