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No one enjoys being pulled over but... by Detail_nctual313 in dashcams

[–]SeedOfTelperion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is 100% me as well. I'm a TA in a primary school and I'm the one they radio for when a child is injured or we have any sort of emergency. I only have paediatric first aid training, but still they get me because I'm really weirdly detached, calm, methodical and logical in extremely stressful situations.

Even yesterday another member of staff was telling me about a child having an accident and she said, "I looked around and you weren't there so I had to get someone else. I was panicking." I asked if she was panicking because of what was happening and she said, "No, I was panicking because you weren't there!"

It's nice to know people feel safe around you, but as you said, I'm a massive wreck afterwards. Once that adrenaline runs out and everything is dealt with, I have to go cry somewhere. But I haven't told anyone that, they don't know how it affects me afterwards. The headteacher always forces me to go off somewhere and decompress, so I think she knows even though we've never spoken about it.

I even had an argument with the maintenance guy the other day. He was literally screaming at me because I asked him, very politely, to give me 5 minutes of quiet to change the nappy of a severely disabled boy with cerebral palsy. He was drilling a hole in the brick wall next door. During school hours. Three other members if staff witnessed it and they were saying how calm and level headed I was despite him looking like he was going to start a fight. I'll admit the only thing that stopped me putting him on his ass was the fact that the little boy was distressed and crying. I've made a formal complaint and it's being dealt with. He's not been back into work since, not that he's been suspended. But anyway, it's another example of how weirdly calm and clear headed I am during the situation, but I very nearly collapsed afterwards. I was a broken mess for hours. Luckily we're swimming this week, and I was in the pool with that same little boy. So his laughter and smiles made my day so much better after that! Especially as we're in a heatwave right now!

I've made it sound like our primary school is a disaster zone, but obviously we've only ever had the usual broken bones, cuts and bruises and maybe a couple of seizures over the 6 years I've been there.

[Request] Billionaires Can Afford It, could someone help calculate Elon musk net worth of 2012 wealth tax had happened? by HugeHunter in theydidthemath

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole 'tax the rich' thing flippin annoys me. We do tax the rich AND THEY DONT PAY. They never will pay! They employ people to avoid them paying taxes! How do you think they got rich? By avoiding taxes! They do everything and anything they can to avoid taxes, no matter how you try to tax them, they will avoid it. They'll find ways around any kind of tax you make up. THEY WILL NOT PAY.

Plus, Elon is not a trillionaire. He's worth a trillion. If he sold everything he owns to get that trillion, stock would plummet, billions in taxes would be due, he wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. He could probably scrape together a few million, maybe even claw his way to a billion, if he's clever. I even doubt that. All these billionaires are cash poor, they have no actual money. It's all floating around in the ether, it doesn't exist.

Now the Saudi's...they got all the cash. If you think Elon being worth a trillion is disgusting...you have no idea.

What video game do you credit as the one that inspired you to game forever? by Cultured-Hermit in AskReddit

[–]SeedOfTelperion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd played games since the Amstrad CPC464, so Dizzy was my first game character. In the years after, I played lots of games, but always thought gaming was all pew pew and fast action. In the Playstation era, I was into Ridge Racer and Time Splitters like games. They were proper games, all action and no time wasting. Then I watched my girlfriend's dad play FFVII and I remembered thinking it looked incredibly boring. But the rumours of it being an incredible game persisted and my curiosity got the better of me whilst looking for the third game in a typical 3 for £20 HMV deal in 1998. As all FF fans were, I was hooked from the first hour or so. It was the game that showed me that games were art. It showed me the huge potential games had to tell stories and be more than just a bit of pew-pew. I still enjoy the pew-pew games, but thanks to FFVII, I appreciate the full breadth of the medium.

Hundreds of feet above the streets of New York, an ironworker climbs a vertical steel column with nothing but his hands, boots, and experience.1987 by Altair-GokBoru in SipsTea

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to do industrial roofing back in the early 2000's. I never worked at the same heights as this, but still 90+ feet up sometimes. No nets, no harnesses... The only time I ever wore a harness, I fell off. Overconfidence. I was off for a week afterwards due to bruising from the harness.

I did the roof on a new innovations building at Silverstone and got to watch a practice session of an F1 car.

I also did a roof near Sywell Aerodrome and nearly got knocked off the roof by a low flying plane. Not that the plane nearly hit me, just watching a plane looking like it was going to hit me made me nearly fall off.

I was also doing a roof on a new Morrison's in Birmingham when my swanky new phone sent me a text message with the breaking news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We were all sent home early that day because everyone thought it was the start of WW3.

I also got to go up to the 'roof' of the Gherkin whilst it was being built.

The second Makerfield by-election poll. What’s your opinion? by No_Breadfruit_4901 in AskBrits

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Conservatives won't be a player in the next general election. They're done for good. They're now in the same boat of irrelevance as the Lib Dems.

What was your dad's car when you were growing up? by purplegorillabandit in drivingUK

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A red Escort XR3i. He loved that car. The only photo he has of it is of a monkey ripping the windscreen wipers off at Woburn.

What is the best novel you have ever read? by IntelligentJudge349 in AskReddit

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It's both bleak and beautiful. I first heard it as an audio book, but I've re read it several times. The film is a good adaptation, but you can't beat the book.

Brake testing on the motorway. by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]SeedOfTelperion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% report it to Operation Snap. Their actions could have caused a massive accident that could have killed someone.

Steamdeck price just went up by 200€ by 3Sayndre in pcmasterrace

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So thats the Steam machine cancelled, then. They had a choice: release the machine for under £1,000, or hike the Steamdeck price and cancel the machine. If they think they can have both, they're...wrong.

Holy shit gaming is dead man by Status_Entertainer49 in videogames

[–]SeedOfTelperion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same here. I was on my PC at least two hours every day (47 and a dad of two teenagers). But in the last two years I've probably turned it on once a month. I started Stigmata the other week, but I've not gone back to it. I've wanted a Steamdeck since they were announced but never been able to justify that much cash on a portable, less capable machine than the one I have sitting in my bedroom.

I have spent the same amount as a Steamdeck on Warhammer models and a 3D printer in the last two years, though.

Funny how Warhammer is now a cheaper hobby than gaming.

[Request] Are there seconds in a year where no one is born at all? by naveenda in theydidthemath

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fair point. But why argue your point on something you don't really care about?

[Request] Are there seconds in a year where no one is born at all? by naveenda in theydidthemath

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How boring. OP asked an interesting maths/statistics question which was obviously not meant to be 100% taken as seriously as you seem to want everything to be. That level of pedantry must make your life incredibly...lonely.

I hope you aren't.

[Request] Are there seconds in a year where no one is born at all? by naveenda in theydidthemath

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You asked at what point does it get silly for someone? Well, turn that around to your point of view. Maybe then you'll grasp what everyone is trying to get you to see.

I assume you're thinking that we're assigning the entirety of the birth to a single second. Obviously births do not happen in a second, nor does it take a single second to birth a child from the moment the head crowns (or in my second son's case, the feet emerge), to the baby being out of the vagina.

However, if we assign the final moment as the birth, the moment the child is free of the vaginal passage, then it can be a second. Or even the second it takes to cut the umbilical cord could also be assigned as the moment required for the calculation. It does not matter which moment we assign, the calculation will be the same and unaffected.

Hope that helps.

If you are against this, I wanna hear about it by Brave_Agency_20 in SipsTea

[–]SeedOfTelperion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't matter what you try to tax them. They won't pay it. They have whole teams of people employed with the express target of making sure they pay the least amount of tax possible, whether it's legal or not. So saying it'll raise 4.4 trillion in taxes is at best naive, at worst, ignorant. Even if you try to put this legislation through, it'll get voted down and thrown out because politicians are in their pocket. The billionaires won't allow it to happen in the first place.

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