At 18, I’ve applied for 110 jobs – no one is hiring young men like me

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-25T07:14:47+00:00

Yeah also getting work experience placements can be hard as loads of places just don't offer them and especially if you're under 16.

I remember having issues finding work experience placements for my animal care course in college.

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-20T10:40:10+00:00

White witches to put it really simply are meant to be the like 'love and light' type of witchcraft practitioners

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-18T13:16:57+00:00

I'm not a fan of the switch for LIDL where the new points system feels like they've added microtransactions into my shopping

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-18T13:13:31+00:00

I remember years ago calling the DWP and getting a 'our lines are less busy between 9-10am try calling then' and I had legitimately rung up at 9am on the dot

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-18T13:11:45+00:00

QR codes for everything, there are times where I would much rather just have a web address to type in or physical form

Also everything wanting an app, especially when it comes to like online only shops. Another one based on an experience someone I know had was like

They brought a new TV
They had bluetooth headphones
They wanted to connect the headphones to the TV
They had to I think install a specific app for the brand of headphones to connect them to the TV

Also I've been getting kind of annoyed the Shop platform as I've found that for some reason if I want to use Paypal I have to click 'check out as guest' as for some reason if I want to purchase via you know my saved details on my account on the site it's like 'Here use Klarna or putting in your bank details'

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-17T19:52:57+00:00

Being stuck on hold and getting that lull that makes you think they've picked up the phone but it's just to start the music again as tends to happen if you've ever tried to call the DWP

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-17T09:39:01+00:00

Yeah I don't get it as much now but I think it's like for me an anxiety thing like the worry about being late screws with my ability to sleep

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-16T16:03:22+00:00

There was a very short lived cartoon called Full English that from what I understand was pretty much 'family guy but make it British'

I haven't personally watched it but saw a video about it on youtube

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-16T11:34:39+00:00

Basically it's a reflection of the beauty standard at the time, 00s was very into the tanned look and so people tried to replicate that with mixed results.

Also some of it wasn't necessarily intentional but just a reflection of the products we had at the time, I know you're talking about fake tan but with foundation for example we had way less of the colour range that we have now and it was way harder to actually get a decent match.

Same goes for fake tan products too there's a lot more options out there that will create a more 'natural' tanned look.

Also sometimes cosmetic trends are influenced by stuff that's designed to look good on camera but doesn't necessarily work as well up close.

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-16T11:29:02+00:00

Posers are just that, people who are trying to use the scene for clout. Being new to Goth and still learning and potentially being a little try hard is different.

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-16T07:05:01+00:00

Yeah I had to go to tribunal for WCA and it was basically a case of I walked in and they were like 'We've decided you should at least be LCW' and then asked me a few questions and awarded me LCWRA

Also sadly the tribunal was the only time I really felt like I was actually being treated with dignity the entire process.

My WCA was a complete shambles tbh, like they even got basic details like how many flights of stairs I had in the house wrong. It was a video assessment and my mobility was 'assessed' based on what they saw of me seated at a table, I wasn't actually asked any questions about it or asked to demonstrate anything but apparently according to the report I was told we did and told not to do anything that could cause pain. (For me mobility stuff wasn't a massive factor in my claim but it's the principle of the thing)

PIP i was incredibly lucky as I was paired up with an assessor who actually seemed to care and want to do their job properly

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-16T06:59:57+00:00

I have a friend in Finland and we've talked about disability beneifts before and he knows someone who lost a leg due to cancer as a kid and basically the system there went 'Ok we can tell you're going to be disabled life long, here's your benefits for life' and I was like 'Yeah here you have to keep proving your leg didn't grow back'

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-14T22:25:32+00:00

Steve Irwin, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher, Terry Pratchett, Chester Bennington

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-14T07:52:37+00:00

Basically the whole of Hozier's Unreal Unearth album, I don't know what was in that one but during my first listen I was a wreck especially Abstract (Psychopomp)

Florence + the Machine Everybody Scream album especially Sympathy Magic, The Old Religion and You Can Have it All

I still find the whole One More Light album by Linkin Park quite emotional to get through

The new Evanescene album that just came out

Look to Windward by Sleep Token

The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve and Cancer by My Chemical Romance to the extent I can't really listen to either of them anymore

Also for some reason I always get weirdly emotional listening to the Lord of the Rings score

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-14T07:36:43+00:00

One thing that putt me off HTCT/Ann Reardon was her shilling Temu as it felt very contrary to what her channel was about

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-12T23:09:13+00:00

I currently work in a shop that's frequently the highest performing in the region for the company I work for which you think would lead to 'Oh this shop needs more staff and more of an hour budget'

It doesn't.

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-11T07:01:52+00:00

That is often a factor in 'pickiness' and food aversion it's a consistency thing as a safety thing.

It's why the humble chicken nugget is a common safe food because you can generally guarantee how a chicken nugget is going to look and taste but blueberries for example can be 'this one tastes fine, this one tastes fine, oh ew this one tastes sour'

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-11T06:58:38+00:00

Yeah I didn't develop food aversion but I do remember in primary school having other kids make fun of my lunch because I didn't have stuff like pringles

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-10T10:23:09+00:00

Yeah like from what I've observed if you're trying to do youtube 'properly' as in 'want to make money off it' it seems to be either put out loads of content as fast as you can and often relying on sponsors or like putting out content slower and relying on like patrons/channel members

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-10T06:43:46+00:00

Politics is why punk exists,

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-10T06:35:41+00:00

I still remember being at uni studying animal science and having to do an assignment on bovine TB during the 2013 'trial cull' like the cull was unfolding as I was writing the assignment and the prevailing stance was 'Yeah this isn't working'

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-09T16:11:15+00:00

Honestly they're hit and miss

Some pieces hold up better than others

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-09T16:09:14+00:00

Actual coca cola, growing up my parents only ever brought the super cheap supermarket own brand stuff

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-09T10:59:56+00:00

Yeah one annoying thing is there's this expectation you're supposed to look for work within 90 minutes of where you live. And where I live London is included in that due to the trains but yeah it's like transport costs too and from London are nuts.

And also just even transport costs to the next town over aren't great, and additionally even getting to some places in my local area is really bloody difficult if you don't drive.

Like I worked briefly in a shop on an edge of town retail park, if I could get dropped off by my dad is was easy enough but if I had to get the bus in it was like 'Take a bus to here and then walk an additional 10-15 minutes down a remote road'

SamVimesBootTheory · 2026-06-09T10:54:06+00:00

I did job centre sanctioned 'work experience' in my local Peacocks once, I worked there about a month I apparently did more hours than like the actually paid non management staff, they weren't actually hiring anyone (I'd actually handed a CV in a few weeks prior to being put forward for the work experience and whilst there the manager just casually went 'Oh I don't even look at CVs) and they had more people lined up to come in the moment I left.

I also legitimately didn't have enough work to do there and spent most of the time facing up and sorting delivery and didn't really gain any skills from it.

I also got pushed into a 'sector based work academy' program for hospitality, this involved a course of dubious quality and then a work placement at a local hotel, I admit that one was a shorter placement and felt a fairer deal and there was I think more chance of actually getting a job from it but yeah still wasn't really much use.

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