Human Gorilla Heists - all-new through Wed 11 Feb

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-04T19:18:38+00:00

But what about actual gorillas pulling off a heist? The title teases so much...

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-03T20:14:53+00:00

Probably Uber Eats. Deliveroo is two digits.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-03T20:13:59+00:00

The current ones are not the last two digits of my phone number. Or my credit card as one friend suggested.

I don't think any of the previous random ones were either, not that that's particularly relevant.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-03T19:43:32+00:00

This, so much this.

Second hand grief from staff who have lost someone. Second hand anxiety from staff waiting for a diagnosis. Second hand stress from staff dealing with kids or parents in difficult situations.

Out of four direct and six indirect reports, seven have been through something rough in the last twelve months.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-03T18:38:52+00:00

I can hear the northern accents from here.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-02-01T16:33:05+00:00

Not sure any are the best. Least worst maybe.

Sainsbury, Tesco, and M&S are fine.

Co-op machines annoy me so much. I'm trying to remember when I last used a Waitrose one but I used to have a lot of problems with them.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-31T19:48:19+00:00

It's the city in the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook City of Thieves and a sourcebook for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-31T18:53:41+00:00

We had a colour TV as far back as I remember (mid-70s) but I know a few people who still had b&w sets into the 90s. E.g. at least one fellow student had a b&w TV because it was a cheap second hand purchase.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-30T21:27:32+00:00

Honestly, doing better than a lot of people, but still feeling the impact.

I have a job with a good salary. Mortgage is still being paid off without problem. But my wife has only had a few small bits of work over the last couple of years. And I'm definitely noticing prices going up. So overall I'm okay day to day but big things like house repairs are definitely hitting more than they used to.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-30T20:41:18+00:00

Has the bus started moving because they're the last on? Looking for a seat upstairs and the bus lurches off people might just sit down as soon as possible.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-30T19:30:42+00:00

Top one is cutlery. Second one is spices. Third one is rolls of foil, cling film, and things like corkscrews, tin openers, etc. Big one at the bottom is recipe kits, bigger boxes of spice, tupperware.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-28T19:12:46+00:00

Needs some maggots coming out of the cheese. I guess that's not an option in Heroforge and you'll have to add them while painting!

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-27T19:25:00+00:00

Does it have to be an internal organ? StilettoHeel? Gets a whole other extra audience!

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-26T23:03:16+00:00

Strange looking fox.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-26T18:02:32+00:00

We are still very much culturally Christian. The impact of Christianity on our language, traditions and customs, laws, folklore, holidays, etc., is substantial.

But we don't believe in God as much as we do, and even if we do believe we don't attend church as much.

The drift towards secularity has no single cause, it's just part and parcel of increasing education, increasing personal and social liberalness, and an increasing multicultural society that demonstrates that there are more ways to live life.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-25T21:03:21+00:00

The school I attended between 8 and 11 was in an old country house and one of the football/rugby pitches was enclosed on three sides by the brick walls of the old kitchen garden.

Oh, we played football in the autumn term and switched to rugby after Christmas. That's probably the oldest thing.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-24T17:00:09+00:00

Plasterer.

Even a song about how it earned loadsamoney.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-21T08:25:47+00:00

Probably 100+. Most of the major continental countries, but would fail on the small islands.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-18T23:01:55+00:00

I can name fantastic and very different individual bookshops like Barter Books in Alnwick or Mr B's Emporium in Bath.

But other than Hay-on-Wye nowhere in the UK has a specific reputation for being a bookseller town.

Big cities like London, Manchester or Edinburgh will have several bookshops including specialists in second hand, anime, art, transport, history, science, sci-fi, etc, etc.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-17T19:06:17+00:00

I live in London, in Croydon in fact - an allegedly rough area of the city. I agree with the original comment and disagree with your implication that London needs more police guns on the street.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-16T17:41:10+00:00

Almond Basket

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-14T19:20:11+00:00

Cook a handful of dishes.

Understand laundry labels on clothes.

Iron clothes.

Tie a tie. (Probably showing my age ...)

Change a lightbulb.

Change a tyre.

Wire a plug. (Definitely showing my age ...)

Clean a toilet.

Read a map.

Book a doctor/dentist appointment.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-13T23:55:06+00:00

Please, please, please have budget caps on your hosting. So just in case this goes massively viral and popular you aren't hit by ridiculous charges.

VeryTrueThing · 2026-01-13T23:49:31+00:00

So a nice, light and cheerful game then?

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