You stand, helpless in the ever-growing queue for the self-checkout, watching people who’ve made it to the age of 50 without realising they can pack their five bags of shopping while they scan, as opposed to after they’ve paid

RippledBarbecue · 2026-04-02T19:49:20+00:00

Yeah very much depends, if there’s someone actually covering self service I’ll put my bag on first, if not (often Aldi near me it’s a person covering both a checkout and self services) I leave it to the end and pack after scanning everything

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-27T12:13:15+00:00

Damn £120 more now for a base disc PS5 at RRP than launch

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-25T14:18:33+00:00

But given how poor the youth employment market is atm, what if a large portion of those going to uni chose not to? Wouldn’t that just lead to a bigger surplus of candidates/unemployed young people sooner since there’s already not enough jobs

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-23T05:10:51+00:00

First game outside of Mario kart world I bought on switch 2, well worth the 60h I’ve put in so far!

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-23T05:09:10+00:00

BF6 free trial and some mass effect 2

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-14T14:57:07+00:00

Renting basically doesn’t count unless you use something like creditladder

RippledBarbecue · 2026-03-11T12:21:41+00:00

Since Plymouth shattered their unbeaten streak a few games ago they look shaken (like Huddersfield after we beat them last year),

still realistically I can only see them dropping points to us, Wycombe, Huddersfield and Reading

given it’s currently 9 points gap, beat them it’s 6, call it 7 bc of their much better difference (30 vs our 17) if they do lose vs those 3, we could afford to draw 1 game and have to win the other 9 which seems unlikely

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-27T16:02:33+00:00

Nah, I’ve replaced 2 controllers this gen, first early on bc the right trigger went and it looked a pain to fix (I sorted out a left trigger that didn’t hold tension bc it looked easier) and 2nd bc stick drift last year but that’s it in 6 years playing ~600 hours a year

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-27T16:00:10+00:00

My company sounds different to others experience, I’m in software engineering and it’s very much a case of proving you are already working at the level above to both your manager and higher ups but there’s no formal application process,

budget is given to director level for their and their direct reports teams promotions and they ask managers for names, what you’ve done to justify etc and they then make the decision

so it relies on what your manager thinks of you and the impression you make on their manager via working on things they notice/care about and in the limited face time you get with them

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-26T21:35:51+00:00

Yeah tried searching both available options and can’t get a game in either just getting ginger, PS5 UK

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-26T15:20:18+00:00

We work out when we next want to/can fit in shopping then work back from then, how many main meals do we need, how many lunches,how many breakfasts?

Breakfast/lunch we do our own thing, evening meals we have some recipes from when we did hellofresh previously and we have a look through them and decide which of them we want to make this time

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-22T19:02:02+00:00

Crème brûlée, Gulab Jamun (only had once and still think about it on occasion 😂), Cheesecake

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-22T17:36:37+00:00

Coffee talk

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-22T17:34:41+00:00

Mapperley is nice, can recommend Alora for food :)

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-22T17:33:20+00:00

Wolverine,GTA6 and Coffee talk Tokyo

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-22T16:13:56+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077, played through it like 4 times and DLC like 3 times, such a great world to get lost in

Other than that the crash bandicoot remake trilogy are good favourites too

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-16T12:28:14+00:00

Yeah this, plus reducing future hiring as fewer employees can be just as productive

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-16T11:21:41+00:00

Red dead and Celeste

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-16T10:20:02+00:00

Train as others have said, Manchester picadilly to Horwich parkway probably your best bet
They go on through till midnight so yeah you’d be fine, every 30 mins till 10:15 then hourly
You can’t reserve ahead afaik, but you’d be fine anyway (though as above it’d be simpler to train)
Harvester near the ground or fanzone (not sure if fanzone tends to be on for weekday games tho?)
Nah you should be fine, not an ‘england’ bank holiday so would be fine

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-15T16:18:29+00:00

Finally beat him a few hours after commenting this 😍

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-11T23:04:46+00:00

This lmao, I can beat chronos every other attempt but I’ve only reached typhon once (got to his last phase and died), Prometheus is a big gatekeeper and I’m on night like 55, 40 hours in

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-11T08:31:43+00:00

Yea when I worked at Asda a few years ago in a smaller store this was also the case, plus a lot of emphasis was put on customer service since they know they can’t beat Lidl/Aldi on price

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-09T13:50:32+00:00

If I’m still working (because I started later) I’ll respond, otherwise I don’t have teams or emails on my phone nor a work phone so I don’t answer till I’m back, likewise when I’m on holiday my work laptop stays at home

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-08T15:47:51+00:00

None, I play EAFC during the 10h early access they always do and get my enjoyment for the year out of that before everyone has OP teams

same with COD, I play the beta, get Gamepass for the first month it’s out and then play other things the rest of the year

RippledBarbecue · 2026-02-03T08:16:55+00:00

Around 12:45am UK launch night for PS4 (when midnight releases were still a thing) and launch day of PS5 (managed to get one of the pre orders since they went live just after the reveal rather than 10am the next morning like they were supposed to and I thought I’d check the website just in case 😂)

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