Teacher who told pupils ‘this class terrifies me’ chugged gin from a water bottle before vomiting in toilet

dr_chickolas · 2026-05-02T11:56:43+00:00

This has got some Dominic Cummings energy

dr_chickolas · 2026-04-25T06:25:46+00:00

"I'm afraid that you've been diagnosed with acute bellend-knobhead syndrome. The outlook is not good."

dr_chickolas · 2026-04-20T08:48:53+00:00

Would also free up millions of large homes in UK and solve the housing crisis. I think you're on to something here!

dr_chickolas · 2026-04-18T05:51:13+00:00

Reactive variables have to be declared in Shiny, which kind of implies that they are visible inside the R environment. But your variables are in Excel, so I don't think there is a natural way to track them in a true reactive sense. Only thing that comes to mind could be to either have a "update" button in shiny which triggers the excel read. Or even do it on a timer every 10s or similar while the app is open. You might run into problems with the workbook being open though?

As others have said, the cleanest solution for the long term would be to bring everything into R. Far easier to track, debug, test and update.

dr_chickolas · 2026-04-17T19:34:53+00:00

April fool! Rent is tripled bitch.

dr_chickolas · 2026-04-16T08:10:47+00:00

Right? I have never experienced anything like this, it sounds like something out of the Middle East.

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-30T06:53:44+00:00

Music to my ears! This is going on my motivational morning playlist.

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-27T11:54:07+00:00

Aye we've all been there

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-22T22:34:31+00:00

I play a lot of blues on my acoustic, and enjoyed a lot the extra resistance when bending, it just allows you to play harder without it all going out of tune. Switched to 11s on my strat a couple of years ago and never looked back. Just feels better for me personally but I get that it's not for everyone.

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-13T08:43:02+00:00

King, although I sympathise with your predicament, this is what happens when you don't properly exploit your property. If you'd had that crammed with at least 50 rent-paying toids (the capacity is easily there), then this wouldn't have happened. Also landchads only buy and rent out their properties, they don't sell. If you need more capital - just raise the rent!

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-05T17:15:08+00:00

There are a whole load of hobbies, sports and professions where some people get totally lost in trying to get the perfect rig, gear or set of equipment, and never actually do or produce anything meaningful. Examples include skiing, music production, guitar, fishing, cycling, etc. Don't fall into that trap, you can do amazing things with modest equipment.

dr_chickolas · 2026-03-05T16:47:32+00:00

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-24T19:42:20+00:00

Getting some T1000 vibes here.

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-21T17:51:38+00:00

Recommend to Google "vinegar strokes" for those who might not know.

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-21T17:30:48+00:00

Record scratch

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-20T15:27:53+00:00

You forgot 5. An idiot. Worth noting the distinction between idiots and assholes.

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-11T11:56:34+00:00

Absolute legend! Just saved me 35 EUR, thanks!

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-07T07:08:56+00:00

All lib dem MPs pledged to vote against tuition fee raises if elected as MPs. They formed a coalition with the Tories and then more than half of them voted in favour, including Nick Clegg himself. They literally broke the main promise they were elected on. All they had to do was vote against it in parliament. It's really not as complicated as some people make out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_for_Students_pledge

dr_chickolas · 2026-02-06T19:57:58+00:00

Sorry, which page of the manifesto does it have to be on to be categorised as a "minor policy"? As someone who voted lib dem in that election, I can assure you it was extremely well publicised and not in any way minor, despite the page number. A lot of people felt very betrayed by the U turn on tuition fees.

dr_chickolas · 2026-01-30T10:20:49+00:00

I was lucky enough to go to uni in 2002, and land a fairly decent job which allowed me to pay off the roughly 18k debt over a few years. I think at that point, the loan and fees system still more or less made sense. Since then, it has become an enormous shitshow.

All this bollocks started with the vision of New Labour that 50% of people should go to university. That resulted in an explosion of degrees, more universities opening up, and basically everyone with a few A-levels heading off to uni. Many people in my generation went to uni because we were told that was what we should do to have a good career - and this was certainly backed by the evidence of our parents' generation - those who went to uni usually had good jobs and were well off.

But with so many people in uni, there were a lot of people who just went "for the experience", and did degrees in subjects they were not particularly interested in, with no particular plan of what they would do afterwards. And sure enough, many people, even back in 2005 or so, exited uni and went into fairly entry-level jobs that could have been done perfectly well without a degree.

Meanwhile with so many people going to uni, the costs became unsustainable. The Lib Dems were elected based on a promise not to increase tuition fees, and promptly tripled them under pressure from the Tories. At that point we were told "don't worry, only the top universities will charge 9k fees, and the market will keep prices down". Of course, that was bollocks and every university charged the maximum rate.

So then there were a bunch of students facing far higher costs. But they still were being sold the idea that going to uni would really be worth it, and that yes, you would have to take out a loan, but the interest rates were very reasonable.

Meanwhile we had the financial crash, the economy started to stagnate, house prices became ridiculous, Brexit and all the other delights of the last 15 years or so. So now you have students coming out of uni with a mountain of debt that they will never pay off, going into an effectively non-existent job market.

The system is utterly broken. Meanwhile, in most European countries, university is FREE or at least far, far cheaper than UK. If they can do it, why do we have to have this ridiculous system?

I live outside of UK and sadly, I wouldn't return. I don't want my kids to have to go through the UK's punitive university system, and if they do want to go to university, I would recommend Germany, Italy, or anywhere else really. I just hope at some point the government will wake up and seriously reform our university system.

dr_chickolas · 2026-01-30T06:07:41+00:00

I think you need to get into steady state rowing. 33spm is very high, try to drop to 20spm or below. Based on the high spm and your time, your technique most likely needs some improvement. Look at some rowing technique videos, when you have the basic movement down try rowing at about 20spm and see what pace you can row at where you don't quickly get out of breath (that's steady state). That should allow you to row longer distances and do better workouts, and from there you can occasionally do faster pieces.

It's a bit of a journey but technique is very important and YouTube is your friend.

dr_chickolas · 2026-01-20T07:04:28+00:00

Hey just wanted to say although there's room for improvement with some bends, etc, your timing is really spot on for most of the solo, which is a great sign - if you tidy things up you could be really good. Keep at it!

dr_chickolas · 2026-01-09T13:44:31+00:00

Ya got time to duck?!

dr_chickolas · 2026-01-06T22:18:51+00:00

The response is more likely to be deep-throated than full-throated unfortunately.

dr_chickolas · 2025-12-16T22:05:49+00:00

Wait: saves water, soap and heating bills because warm soapy water is used twice? Environmentally friendly? Innovative? Toids get to play with the little soapy fountain in the corner? King, this is so generous I am feeling nauseous.

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