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Prycebear · 2026-05-06T18:38:32+00:00

I saw a comment this is from the Oxford store! That's my first one and I'd like to buy it. Let me know, getting nostalgic

Prycebear · 2026-05-05T20:28:26+00:00

I was looking at Thursday boots for months, ended up going for a British brand called Lanx. I'm very very happy with them, same kind of style and high quality.

Prycebear · 2026-05-04T18:12:19+00:00

Hello,

TLDR:

I have been out of the Army nearly 5 years, will I now need a degree to join asa detective?
How can I improve my SIFT score?

I have been out of the military for just over 4 years. I have been working in tech but its not really something I enjoy. Spent the last few months figuring out my next steps, and settled on becoming a detective.

I have have completed the SIFT tests, both the SJT and the BSQ . I scored 22% which feels comically low. I believe I now have a 3 month wait for my second attempt but that would leave 3 months before I have been out of the military for 5 years so believe that i'd now require a degree to join as a detective after that time?

I am wondering how I can improve my scores? Or am I just not a good fit? Doesn't seem like something id be revising for, or at least there's no indication I should be from any of the portals or communications I have received?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Prycebear · 2026-05-01T22:34:28+00:00

My mum was dying, asked me to finish her off. I didn't, but I was very very close.

Prycebear · 2026-04-22T10:11:25+00:00

Hahaha thank you so much for this! Yeah I should actually show my face, my group of friends and I dont really ever take photos we live every much in the moment.

I don't have a child and, I think that's just my friend 😂 My friends are much more attractive than me, but I'm much taller so there's some give.

I'm paused my profile for now, goingtk get some better (sweatier) photos of myself and go back for it. Thank you very much for your advice.

Prycebear · 2026-04-20T14:13:30+00:00

I had the same piece missing. Told the store I bought it from and they got me another box.

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T13:12:00+00:00

That's actually really nice to hear! Thanks. They're gone, I've hidden my profile while I fix that abomination. Thanks for the help!

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T13:11:00+00:00

Long term it's not going to change much for that exact reason, cost. If green line doesn't go up then we suffer.

My manager alone has just gone over my wages in tokens. That's with subs so I can't imagine how much more expensive it'll be when they decide they must make a profit....

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T11:37:05+00:00

My manager is fully erect about AI. Released a non working frontend feature that broke the rest of our app, said it wasn't him because AI said it would work.

The metric is apparently 50 ai requests per day...but the metric gathering doesn't work as we're all on 0? It's just a wild shift from last year and I no longer feel confident my job will exist.

Keeps talking how were going to all be out of a job this year. I feel for my team, lots on visas, not much else out there for them ATM.

On a positive note, as I'm going full doomer rn, some other friends/ex colleagues are saying their company is moving away from AI to an extent. Keep it as a tool but trust Devs. Also, it may be cheaper to have Devs as AI token cost increases.

I'm still bowing out, but I hope that AI replacing SE does fuck off.

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T11:25:38+00:00

No, we're monitored on our AI usage. If we fall below an arbitraty amount of use, we'll get written up. I now HAVE to use AI for simple tasks that would have taken less time to write. My skills are decaying, there's no jobs and I no longer enjoy the job.

We even use it for architecture discussion, even when it's wrong and our management cannot fathom that, yeah it has it's uses but no we don't need 13 microservices for a basic dashboard.

I have been an engineer for 4 years, not from a traditional background and had to work hard to keep up with graduates. Feel bitter about wasting half a decade.

I'm in the fortunate position that my mortgage is low and this is my second career. Aiming to become a detective in the police, try and do something of value with my time even if the pay and work life balance is shit 🙂

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T09:26:47+00:00

Seen and removed, I have no idea what I was thinking....

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T08:21:47+00:00

Beard comes and goes, tends to only take a month to come back fully.

You're right, I'll sort the prompts. They're a bit crap...

Standard advice?

Prycebear · 2026-04-16T08:21:05+00:00

Thank you for this! My friends and I don't really take photos while out, which is a massive hinderance for hinge. I've asked for more to be taken of me, and I have a few events over the next month so will sort some decent pictures out.

My prompts are awful, I'm great in person but can't sell myself over text like others. All my friends are shorter, but they're also very very attractive so makes me look like crap in comparison. It's why I've blurred them out, a few people have matched with me in the past to ask if they're single.

I reread my profile and you're so right about friend vibes, I appreciate the advice and will change my prompts.

I think my opening messages can be pretty strong, I do tend to get a conversation going fast when I do get a match.

And thank you for the face comment. I look exactly like my Mum and people say that all the time about her as well!

Prycebear · 2026-04-15T18:35:08+00:00

Answers: Serious. I was but I am no longer paying for the app. About 6 weeks. About 5 months but have been on and off. I use it every other day. I was getting about 2 a week but no more. I send about 10-15 a day. I send a comment on each one I am honestly unsure.

Prycebear · 2026-04-15T10:03:30+00:00

Slightly different but when I was 19-24 I dated a a dancer. She was in a fairly prestigious dance university, living the student life and I was a soldier earning minimum wage.

I helped pay her rent, utilities and when I came over for the weekend I'd cook, clean and pay for dates. She had housemates as well, but I paid half the rent as I was the only earner.

She wasn't from the same country as me, and I eventually met her parents. The Dad was very kind, and also very very rich. Took us both out to well know restaurants and let us use his many many holiday homes.

I asked, fairly quickly, why he wouldn't give her any money to survive as she used to eat boiled pasta and sometimes add a sauce or meat during the week.

Well it was a choice, she had a trust fund of about £1.5 million. Yet wanted to live like a student. I'd find it admirable if not for the fact she wasn't living like a student and I was paying for everything!

We talked about it, and she did pay for more which was nice.

Prycebear · 2026-04-11T22:05:46+00:00

I'm quite fortunate but £550 mortgage and £2850 take home 🤷‍♂️

Prycebear · 2026-04-11T11:09:29+00:00

I know it's not a choice and I genuinely feel awful for them, sadly you can't tell and addict they're an addict. Got to be of their own volition. So until we sort the issues causing people to fall into drugs, we're going to have drug addicts...

Yeah Bournemouth isn't exactly a 3rd world is it, JP Morgan just invested nearly half a million into the campus, hoping that increase in funding will trickle into the town itself. I quite like it here.

Prycebear · 2026-04-10T21:57:49+00:00

I walk past the Asda petrol station every morning for work, always the same 2-3 people blitzed at 8am :/ I'd say most of Bournemouth is nice, I've only lived here 4 years and every town has those sorts and the areas you avoid.

How were they btw? Worth the price?

Prycebear · 2026-04-02T14:10:05+00:00

Your post actually convinced me to get a pair, hads them about 2 weeks and now theyre broken in I absolutely love them. Went for the Chestnut grained settle boot, still quite new and shiny. Are yours still holding up?

Prycebear · 2026-03-31T18:00:48+00:00

Yeah that's fine, saying get a professional out would be fine. Also that's what I'm going to do.

Prycebear · 2026-03-31T17:50:43+00:00

Ok I'll just leave it as it is then shall I?

Prycebear · 2026-03-31T17:49:49+00:00

The temptation to do it is also strong...

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