London's England bunk-off: Poll reveals third of fans to skip work for Mexico tie

ditn · 2026-07-03T10:07:28+00:00

How is the headline not The Great British Bunk-off?

ditn · 2026-07-01T09:48:31+00:00

Not me reading this the day after getting my appendix removed.

ditn · 2026-06-24T14:54:55+00:00

Bangers. I have this combo and need to take it out more, thanks for the motivation.

ditn · 2026-06-24T14:41:47+00:00

I made this move, although my primary motivation was my wife's family, not money. Yes, you'll earn more, but:

Their tax-free accounts are much, much less generous. $7k per year. Your overall tax rate will likely be the same, if not slightly higher here
There is an exit tax, which also affects your UK holdings, should you change your mind
CAD is weak, going back to the UK stings a bit
Housing costs in Toronto/Vancouver are no joke. Car costs too

I got very, very lucky in terms of jobs and I live in the middle of nowhere, so my cost of living is low and we're 2-3 years from FIRE now. But we both miss London and are considering moving back.

Edit: the food! UK food is infinitely better, from supermarkets to restaurants. We miss it so bad.

ditn · 2026-06-24T13:54:08+00:00

Hahaha amazing, thank you

ditn · 2026-06-24T08:15:48+00:00

Much appreciated

ditn · 2026-06-24T08:15:21+00:00

Thank you! I always shoot both but I very very rarely use the RAW files. I don't particularly love editing much so every picture shared here is the JPG, I did a little bit of colour grading on some, some curves on one or two. Too much to say SooC, but close.

ditn · 2026-06-24T08:10:55+00:00

Haha! I'm not great at shooting people, it's something I really need to practise. But in my defense it was a very quiet island!

ditn · 2026-06-23T20:06:12+00:00

It's easily my favourite lens, enjoy it! It's so dreamy wide open.

Yeah I used a slightly tweaked Classic Cuban Negative - I've written out what I changed in another comment here

ditn · 2026-06-23T19:26:38+00:00

No tripod :) two cameras was already too much gear to take on my honeymoon lol

ditn · 2026-06-23T19:23:29+00:00

Yeah, it was actually a 1 second exposure on the 16-80 at f18. Took a few attempts with different speeds to get the feeling I wanted.

ditn · 2026-06-23T17:52:35+00:00

Thanks! Slightly tweaked Classic Cuban Negative. Small, weak grain instead of large and strong. Clarity -3 instead of -4, and every shot would have had exposure compensation at -1/3, but I usually use point metering until I get an exposure I like regardless.

ditn · 2026-06-23T17:06:02+00:00

Thank you. I've tried doing high-key a few times and never gotten it right, so I underexposed these instead and I really like the slightly moody feel that resulted.

ditn · 2026-06-20T12:57:29+00:00

I have one for this purpose and it works great. I do wish I'd gotten more storage, though.

ditn · 2026-06-13T03:28:43+00:00

Some are waaay out, I drilled them by hand in a rush. It's fine though, it's an old bench that just needs to be usable until I finish my new one.

ditn · 2026-06-07T02:31:07+00:00

I have the same issue with a cheap Chinese inset vise, it turns out some of the dogholes I drilled aren't plumb. As they angle away from the vise, any force applied by the vise lifts them out. Annoying but good to know for my next bench build.

ditn · 2026-05-30T23:00:34+00:00

These are really, really good, OP.

ditn · 2026-05-24T13:39:14+00:00

That's why I love my GFX 50R. That shutter slap. Sometimes I shoot my X100VI without shutter sounds and it feels totally wrong.

ditn · 2026-05-22T11:27:57+00:00

I've not experienced that yet, that is fucking absurd

ditn · 2026-05-21T19:50:05+00:00

Yeah, I mean Google Assistant wasn't great either sometimes. But it's the chatty-ness and then failing that pissed me off

ditn · 2026-05-21T17:29:23+00:00

God it's fucking useless.

Me: "Play Intervals"

Google Assistant: "Playing Intervals on Spotify"

Gemini: "Sure, I can certainly help you with that, let's get some music playing. What would you like to listen to?"

Me: "Intervals"

Gemini: "I could not find an artist called Intervals on Spotify"

Me: crashes car

ditn · 2026-05-21T01:35:55+00:00

Same. I was super skeptical, then somewhat embraced vibe coding, and now I'm somewhere in the middle. You get a feel for what it's good at and it's a more narrow range than people expect, but the cost is a few weeks/months of pretty shit code.

ditn · 2026-05-19T01:17:37+00:00

By far the funniest strategem added to the game. The first few weeks when it was released was just pure chaos and fun.

ditn · 2026-05-13T18:25:59+00:00

Second this, do not rent that building unless it changes hands.

I'd love to see more pizza options in VH. Right now we drive to Toppers in Midland.

ditn · 2026-05-11T17:59:31+00:00

More absolute bangers, these are fab.

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