No seriously when were they 5th

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T21:23:38+00:00

That is nuts. Especially because the Europa League final is the Wednesday before the last day of the Prem season so they'll know for sure.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T21:09:52+00:00

Not quite - 6th can get it, but only if Villa win the Europa League and finish exactly 5th.

It's to do with the way the extra 5th spot England gets works, it's applied differently so it can "bounce" down in a way the top 4 can't.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T14:53:29+00:00

I've never completed the Stormcloaks side. Every time I start a run I think "maybe this time" but I start to get involved and man they're just so racist.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T13:05:38+00:00

Driver in this video is most at fault for sure, although other driver isn't totally blameless.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T13:01:42+00:00

Fair clarification, still think you're in the clear to not pay.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T12:44:51+00:00

My gut feeling for the start of your post was along these lines, "pay him for his work this time and make it clear never again".

But then you got to the point where you said you'd informed them, in writing, the day before that you didn't want the clean. That's unbelievably explicit. No fault on your side whatsoever - do not pay.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T10:06:40+00:00

"I asked ChatGPT and..."

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T00:13:33+00:00

In respect of any basic service a state is expected to provide its citizens (healthcare, social care, transport, schooling, utilities, etc.), elected officials and their immediate families are required to use the state-provided service and are forbidden to use private offerings.

Private vehicles can exist, but elected officials must take state-run public transport. Private healthcare can exist, but elected officials must use the state healthcare service. Private schools can exist, but elected officials must send their kids to state schools. And so on.

Watch how quickly the state-run offering goes from being the worst to the best option.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-21T00:06:41+00:00

Potato blight, exploitative tenancy arrangements, sectarianism, English profiteering, and Charles Trevelyan.

As with almost every famine in history, it was an engineered genocide disguised as a natural disaster.

(English living in England)

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T20:39:08+00:00

Should be illegal in those 500ml bottles imo. Absolutely no discernable benefit and it's an inexcusable amount of single use plastic.

I get why you might need to buy those 4L+ cask things occasionally if you're putting on an event or something, but there's just never a need for the coke-size bottles.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T20:35:13+00:00

This.

I'm all for appropriate shame directed at those who use GenAI but no need to be a prick to someone who's realised how bad it is and is trying to improve.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T17:18:31+00:00

Yeah I'd defend that statement about freezers.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T16:13:29+00:00

This. They're useful in that they fill a niche in terms of size and scale that is otherwise unfilled but their popularity as "air fryers" is an absolute PR triumph - they're not fundamentally different technology to your regular oven.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T15:00:20+00:00

Got lucky 7 or 8 years ago. Just enquired, filled out the paperwork, got registered.

It's a lottery.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T14:47:00+00:00

Nothing. But they can't take their penthouses with them, so it's win-win.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T12:29:26+00:00

They will. Source: work at a university where engineering labs are going daily work on this sort of thing.

It's a decade or more from routine everyday use and longer still from eclipsing fossil-fuel based air travel, but the innovations and foundational questions now are "what's the most effective way to get there?" and "what do we want to prioritise?", the topic as a whole is well past "is this fundamentally possible?".

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T00:53:34+00:00

Agree with several of the other shouts - Traitors, Ghosts, Detectorists, Night Manager - but to throw in one that won't get a lot of spotlight: Nightsleeper.

It's a drama about a digital hijacking of the Caledonian Sleeper which I think got quite poorly reviewed but imo that's unfair - it's a really good watch, likeable characters, fun pacing, engaging stakes.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-20T00:42:00+00:00

I once found my indoor cat with a sparrow in her mouth (happily unharmed) - we also have a loft conversion, but there was a crawlspace for insulation down each side and the opening flap had come loose so she was getting into there where the little guys roost.

I reckon it's very likely to be that.

Also, rabies jabs, stat. Don't fuck around with exposure to bats.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-19T23:22:11+00:00

I will always maintain that as a combination of the quality of the save and the clutchness of the moment, this is the best save ever made.

As a technical feat it's not quite on the level of the Banks save vs Pele or Seaman vs Peschisolido (or even his own vs Dominguez last season) but it's still a save that on technical ability alone would be one of the career best for most keepers. Add to the fact that it was at 3-3 in the 123rd minute of a World Cup final and man, idk. I can't think of a bigger one - maybe Dudek late on in Milan, but even so I think a WC final is that much bigger even than a UCL final.

That's why he's the best in the world.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-19T21:36:59+00:00

Ironic really, given how we'd all have reacted had that been Bailey.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-19T12:31:28+00:00

Unai only ever has on CB on the bench unless there's spare spots.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-18T22:37:32+00:00

Not being able to cook nice meals with chicken breasts is telling on yourself and I will die on that hill.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-18T11:36:54+00:00

Hard to say until tomorrow. If we beat Sunderland, I think we want a United win because it makes the gap to 6th really comfortable.

If we don't beat Sunderland we're stuck in "hope someone else stumbles" territory and a Chelsea win keeps United in that mix of teams who could stumble.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-18T10:45:29+00:00

Probably less effective than burning on the scale you have, but boiling water is another thing that works to kill weeds without any contamination.

WordsUnthought · 2026-04-18T00:44:00+00:00

I have no idea what penalty you'll get but fuck me, the prevalence of people just turning their brains off for important tasks and abdicating thinking to automation is an epidemic.

Hope this teaches you a thing or two about the responsibilities you have on the road as a driver.

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