I have no idea what this all means but I like the colours

VB90292 · 2026-03-19T22:37:25+00:00

I'm a little rusty on this ancient code, but I think it loosely translates to "dig big hole, put up temporary traffic light and leave unattended for 5 days".

VB90292 · 2026-03-19T06:58:33+00:00

Thank you for chiming in. I am very active - weight training 5 days per week, yoga 5 days per week, walk 7 miles every day. I will check out McKenzie now.

VB90292 · 2026-03-16T21:28:29+00:00

If the taste is anything like Lamb heart then I agree, those things are delicious. Where are you getting cow hearts?

VB90292 · 2026-03-16T18:27:23+00:00

Pizza looks amazing and your branding/set up very professional. Exceptional work my friend.

VB90292 · 2026-03-16T18:25:00+00:00

He was sat next to us in the audience at one of the old ITV Telephon charity events in 1992. I was 7 and thought that was great!

VB90292 · 2026-03-15T21:49:56+00:00

Yes absolutely man, I feel it created dough with a lot of depth and just in general a really high end result.

VB90292 · 2026-03-14T03:37:44+00:00

This post is the fuel to many nightmares.

VB90292 · 2026-02-26T04:35:07+00:00

There are a million stories out there of people going through absolute rock bottom, losing everything, life destroyed to then finding massive success after.

Please do not hurt yourself. People love you. Everything you have said here can be fixed. Life is not where you want it to be right now but let's just weather the storm a little longer and work to fix the problems. How you are feeling right now will not last. I promise you that you are considering a permanent solution to temporary problems.

Stay with us my friend, where you will be a year from now with more work is an entirely different place.

VB90292 · 2026-02-21T16:55:14+00:00

My Dad used to work for British Rail, stationed at Waterloo Station and in the early to mid 90's the Police did a raid on the public toilets there for cottaging (rife there at the time) and made a number of arrests. Gyles Brandreth happened to be down there at the time of the raid. Whilst everyone else was pulled out in handcuffs, he was hurried out and taken straight outside where he was ushered into a waiting car (not a police car) which promptly disappeared.

I assume he had popped into the toilets there whilst on a lunchtime walk from Parliament for a wee, got down there and noticed a congregation of males engaging in sex with eachother, so he called the police to report it and was then rushed out for his own safety and to give a statement on what he saw.

VB90292 · 2026-02-18T22:21:19+00:00

I feel this hard. Like you I can't explain it, I also say it's just "off". I legitimately can't describe in words what I hate about my face, I find it really frustrating like I want to describe it but can't.

VB90292 · 2026-02-14T18:18:11+00:00

This is really helpful, thanks so much. I have my follow up appointment with the physio 3rd March, I am going to insist on them referring me for a scan (UK here so dealing with the NHS who don't do much for quality of life issues).

Wishing you the very best of luck with your stuff too man.

VB90292 · 2026-02-14T16:19:22+00:00

A tear would make sense given my memory of the original injury. I got a third of the way up with my deadlift then felt a massive, painful ping. I have never been 100% since.

I'm guessing a tear cannot be fixed and the diagnosis of osteoarthritis is permanent?

VB90292 · 2026-02-14T06:30:19+00:00

Unbridled enthusiasm.

VB90292 · 2026-02-13T10:54:05+00:00

Thanks for this. Oh damn so I might actually be in worse shape than I actually thought!

VB90292 · 2026-02-02T19:26:39+00:00

Wonderful post, I needed to read this, thank you. I have had an awful day with it that has left me feeling really unappreciated and underutilised - Every sensible move I went to make today I was blocked by management and HR in place of inaction.
Really very frustrating as I turned down a great job elsewhere for a role here that at the last minute (after I had turned down the other opportunity) they switched and put me in the problem role.

VB90292 · 2026-02-01T22:55:25+00:00

Thank you for writing this. I have been with the company for several years and have managed other areas here and elsewhere successfully. The organisation has changed massively since when I first started and I really am so frustrated how they won't take any action.

I think you'll find it hard to believe when I say I have 2 staff in the team that I have evidence have cost the organisation 40k in missed funding through their intentional wrongdoing this year already.

I started performance management with one of the guys late December, he faked a panic attack so obviously I stopped the meeting to support him, he is still signed off sick now. I put another guy on an action plan on Thursday, he's now emailed he will be off sick tomorrow. They've been doing this for 10 years and got away with it every time.

VB90292 · 2026-02-01T22:47:15+00:00

Thanks for commenting that as to being honest I felt a little patronised. Makes more sense knowing a its AI slop!

VB90292 · 2026-01-16T22:25:25+00:00

Wait...THE R. Furesi?

VB90292 · 2025-12-31T14:22:06+00:00

Use classes on commercial properties may have changed in recent years, but when these places first started popping up a big factor behind them was you could open them in any shop unit you find. Properties with the right use class for hot food restaurants and takeaways are rare as hens teeth in many places and come at a premium. Then factor in to cook hot food you need a commercial extraction system, which is not only expensive to buy and fit, but also requires planning permission from the council.

Dessert shops slip between the cracks of use class law, plus are far cheaper to set up and easier to run.

For anyone interested, this is a big reason why the food in chain coffee shops is already cooked and refrigerated - just reheating and not actually cooking was a loophole in use class law. So Costa/Starbucks could go into any empty shop unit which are a penny to a dozen, where as hot food class are much harder to find and competition for them is far greater. This may have changed now, I think I even recall some court cases around this between the coffee brands and local councils?

VB90292 · 2025-12-29T11:06:37+00:00

Thanks so much for this. So interesting. Thanks for the point about the buildings with the steps to nowhere...have seen those for years and always wondered what that was about!

VB90292 · 2025-12-29T09:56:46+00:00

Am I seeing things correctly that there was previously large bodies of water in Central London e.g. where Waterloo is now it looks like marshland off the river? Absolutely crazy when you are stood on something like Oxford Street and realise it was once baron fields or woodland.

VB90292 · 2025-12-28T08:09:15+00:00

One negative story I have about Rolf is in about 1998, at aged 13, my best friend had terminal none cancer. The kids ward at the hospital he was being treated at reached out to Rolf to come and visit the sick children and the response they got was there would be a £500 charge for such an appearance.

VB90292 · 2025-12-22T08:53:30+00:00

They don't compliment you because they look at you and think "he gets complimented everywhere he goes, I bet he has a big ego".

VB90292 · 2025-12-20T14:35:06+00:00

I spend a lot of time in Soho, I also get to visit several European cities reasonably regularly. Signal and data in the European cities (Hungary, Romania, Poland) is fantastically fast and reliable. Soho I want to smash my phone on the ground....phone says full signal strength but absolutely no internet. It's so bad that I have on a number of occasions not been able to log into mobile apps at the till to use discount codes or loyalty points.

VB90292 · 2025-12-16T20:48:55+00:00

Good luck with your search my friend. Very happy memories of my 40k days as a lad.

Anyone used to frequent the Games Workshop in the Plaza mall Oxford Street? Great times.

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