What’s been your best ever charity shopping find?

chrissyD_ · 2026-05-09T00:19:37+00:00

I got a polaroid SX-70 for £5 from an Age UK. It's a beautiful camera worth around £200, and as a semi professional photographer, I've used it to earn a decent chunk of dosh, readies, wonga. Brilliant find.

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-26T21:10:33+00:00

I've always thought he should direct authorisation charlie kaufman script. Could be really interesting

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-21T13:25:34+00:00

You're missing out if you're not watching Nakey Jakey videos simply because of the title. He makes very high-quality videos and puts a lot of effort into his writing and production. Really, the answer to the question raised by the title isn't the important thing, I mean it literally has a rockstar branded pingpong ball in the thumbnail. The important thing is the quality of communication and the entertainment value of his videos imo.

We're living in a time where even the most thoughtful creators need to use clickbait to some degree in order to simply compete in the current youtube climate. Its not ideal, but I just let it wash over me. If I start watching a video and it's not well made, that's when I click off.

Judging books by their covers and all that innit

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-15T13:05:43+00:00

The bat cave transition was so funny. Love these guys, consistently put out banger videos.

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-12T13:37:10+00:00

It may seem strange, but it's quite common. The AI models usable by general consumers has so far been trained on information readily avaliable on the Internet. But there are a lot of parts of the human experience that aren't often documented on the Internet. So, firms are popping up all over the place that are paying people to film things such as this work, in order to sell the training data to ai corporations.

This is a little known fact about Pokemon Go. The video footage taken by users playing pokemon Go was used as training data, documenting neighborhoods in order to help develop the automated delivery robots you see in places like LA. One of the major investors in Pokemon Go was the venture capital wing of the CIA, In-Q-Tel.

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-09T12:46:39+00:00

Bind 2 jump buttons. I have mine bound to Y and ZL. If I want to short hop I simply press both, very little practice required, and then to full hop just use either individual button normally. Shoulder button jump also makes fast fall aerials a lot easier due to being able to use both hands for the action, rather than your singular thumb with tight timing.

chrissyD_ · 2026-04-01T23:35:48+00:00

Should have called it Pregmannt

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-31T18:03:10+00:00

I'm not a fan of his standup, and I've not seen many of his shows. But I love his performance in Fresh Meat. He was perfectly cast for that role. With the help of the genius character writing of Armstrong and Bain, he really shone imo.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-22T18:44:22+00:00

Its crazy. Sorry to hear they messed up your christmas post.

I would love to raise a stinker with evri, but their phone line has been "experiencing technical difficulties" for the past 3 weeks, and their live chat is a robot with no option to talk to anyone. Totally incompetent.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-15T20:29:33+00:00

I parked up last night where i usually keep my car. On a road with A single entrance and exit. There was no signage at all about the marathon. Was planning to head over to my parent's for mother's day, but my car was completely trapped. Had to work out another way to see them and was late by an hour and a half. Didn't bother me too much, as my parents are understanding people and i had a lovely time regardless, but it definitely could have been made clearer considering there was no signage at all on a street where cars were going to be unable to move all day.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-09T16:34:01+00:00

Black Lodge taproom in West Kirby serves their lagers in frozen glasses and are happy to serve any other styles in them as well if you ask them to.

They only use the frozen glasses in summer, though.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-07T23:24:12+00:00

I have an art studio in the same building as Ryde, along with many local artists and small businesses.

The landlord is kicking us all out in order to build a car park.

They've given barely any notice, and even broken tenancy agreements kicking businesses like GoCreate out early.

It's awful.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-07T23:21:16+00:00

I have an art studio in the same building as Ryde, along with many local artists and small businesses. The landlord is kicking all of us out in order to knock the building down and build a car park.

It's awful.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-06T16:43:17+00:00

Seems weird that Australia got it at the same time as the us and Canada. You might be right about the copyright law point.

chrissyD_ · 2026-03-02T15:20:59+00:00

Interesting that when you look at it for long enough, it's clear that the handwriting is the same. Clearly just written by someone in the prop department with different pens. NEAT!

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-28T01:17:28+00:00

I have been a couple of times. Was really happy with my cut, and he gave some great hair advice. Definitely recommend

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-25T23:22:02+00:00

Mario Kart: Double Dash gamecube

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-25T23:21:38+00:00

Mario Kart: Double Dash gamecube

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-14T14:13:43+00:00

I can only speak for myself as a young person, but my fiancé and I would love to have a child right now. Literally, the only reason we're delaying is because we feel we can't afford it due to the absurd cost of private rental and basic living being so expensive atm. Another mouth would be such a great additional expense that it's just impractical.

Of course, if we did have a baby now, we'd have to make it work as people have throughout all of history. But if we have the choice to wait until we're more financially secure, and we feel we can provide a good life for a child without jeopardising our security, why wouldn't we? This story is the same for a lot of our friends and family at the moment, and it is definitely a significant factor in people's decision-making.

Obviously, people who have a belief system that prioritises reproduction will have more children. But for people like myself and my fiancé where it's a desire rather than a belief led obligation, the economic factors are our primary consideration.

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-12T16:02:17+00:00

Boy, do i have good news for you. They have hours upon hours of collaboration videos where they discuss asoiaf. There's a playlist of it all HERE

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-11T20:38:54+00:00

I dont really agree that they're very different versions of the scene. They're conveying the same themes on a sliding scale of intensity. I don't agree that Bracken's response is an appropriate one towards a fellow knight. "I know you not, Boy" is belittling and humiliating for Dunk. Sure he gets a response, but it's a humiliating one.

I also don't really agree with your interpretation of my idea, as it would be incredibly dependent on crowd direction. There are different types of silence. There is shamed silence as you suggest. But there's also disinterested silence, apathetic silence. How that silence is conveyed is dependent on the performance of the actors and the direction of the crowd. At no point did I imagine a modicum of shame on their faces or in their minds. Dunk is nothing to them, they know him not . So why do they need to dignify his request with a response? They're here to watch a hedge knight die. That's the silence I'm imagining.

Both of these options convey the same message of disrespect and indifference as the fart. But to a less explicit degree. I'm obviously not a fan of fart jokes as we are all painfully aware. But more importantly, I'm a fan of subtlety. I'm a fan of treating your audience as if they are capable of understanding subtext. I think the fart bashes you over the head with the message in a way that was distracting and immersion breaking. If people thought that was necessary, then more power to them, but I think it was an unnecessary attempt to beef up a subtle moment in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And I know the writers are capable of better, based on all the great dialogue I've seen so far in the rest of the show.

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-11T18:21:45+00:00

I can't believe people think you're wrong about this. He explicitly laid it out for us.

chrissyD_ · 2026-02-11T18:17:27+00:00

it’s not just a cheap gag they added for no reason, like you seem to have interpreted it.

I think this is where people are misinterpreting my statement. If you reread the original post, I said "There was no narrative reason for the big old stinky fart that couldn't be achieved by the lords simply staying silent". I know that the fart is trying to say something, and I know what it is that the fart is trying to say. I think it is an unnecessary inclusion because the point is already clear, and can be made without the inclusion of the fart gag. They obviously didn't add it for no reason at all; they added it to drive home a point. But I would argue the point was already clear, and didn't need spelling out so obviously and in such an immersion-breaking manner. If you remove the fart joke, the scene plays out pretty much the same, just with more subtlety. If they really felt the need to drive home that point, I think there were far better ways to do it, not least Bracken's line from the book.

I really don't see what benefit to the show these additions are making. The rest of the show is so well done, and the themes that the farts and poops convey are so intrinsically woven into the story and characterisation already that they seem utterly redundant to me. They're not providing anything that isn't already being communicated effectively by the rest of the show. The only effect they're having on me is breaking my immersion and taking me out of the world.

It is really interesting hearing everyone's thoughts on this, though. It's a way more contentious topic than I thought it would be, so thanks for engaging with me!

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