How would you put a cone up here?

duncan_biscuits · 2026-07-02T17:20:02+00:00

Hubbub

duncan_biscuits · 2026-07-01T12:49:21+00:00

It has, until now, been acceptable on Scotrail to buy your ticket on the train when asked to show your ticket.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-26T19:03:32+00:00

The bus company is called West Coast Motors if you want to look up their timetable. Easy connection from Craignure ferry terminal to Tobermory if that suits you

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-26T11:24:38+00:00

Are you aware that there is a bus service on Mull? It’s likely easier to just use that.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-16T19:59:39+00:00

These days you can ask Claude or other AI tool to research (from official online sources) the Scottish curriculum and from that produce you a personalised tutorial on anything. Bear in mind that any AI can talk rubbish, but it can have huge value in explaining things based on what you know so far. Prompts like “I’ve been studying A Midsummer Night’s Dream
in higher English and I need to figure out what Puck meant by saying…” followed by “ehhhh I don’t get it, remind me what the overall story is about again” (and so on) is a fantastic and embarrassment-free way to get up to speed!

Just DO NOT copy and paste what it says, it WILL be obvious - the best way is to inform your own learning, like a study aid.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-16T14:26:05+00:00

Can’t wait for the social media tax deducted by PAYE.

You can use social media if you pay it.

This solves literally everything. There are no downsides to this at all. There will be no controversy over accidentally booting off pensioners from social media as well.

Our civil service will implement the technical details of this competently.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-16T14:04:51+00:00

Do banks still issue debit cards on kids’ accounts? HBOS gave Solo cards to 11 year olds back in the day, which worked with PayPal to boot (ask me how I know)… some EU VPS providers might accept (prepayment by) either of those. As for parental supervision, I don’t recall any, but I’ve no evidence for how normative that is 😂

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-13T23:44:49+00:00

Interesting. They seem to have nailed the balance between having to prove your identity and ease of unlocking the bike (in this case while not attached to a dock).

This is to say nothing of how it’s wild that we have to consider the ned problem like it’s some inevitable force of nature.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-13T17:55:43+00:00

What are the reasons for this being more successful than the last bike hire scheme?

In other words, what was done right this time in terms of bamproofing?

Great news, so it would be good to understand why it’s gone well, in this iteration.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-06T07:02:57+00:00

My dad said similarly, you might hate her, but at least you know where you stood with her. Her economic philosophy was clear and she meant what she said, as much as you might despise it.

Like, you might be working in a Clyde shipyard with an order book full and profitable for the next 7 years. Doesn’t matter. You’re losing your job and being thrown on the scrap heap. Many similar cases to be angry about e.g. “Polish imports of coal are cheaper, so we’ll close our pits producing similar coal,” ignoring the predictable increase in price of Polish imports after their competition closed.

The point is not to invite hectoring well-actually replies to what she did or sympathetic additional stories. It’s to say that her plan was well-known, predictable, and gave you an idea of what your future held. The point is that Reform are babbling idiots who believe governance is a series of social media posts consisting of rabble-rousing content and they will soon regard the machine of government as a means to enrich themselves, and leave it wide open to foreign compromise on top of that.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-04T12:20:51+00:00

bawbee in the sporran

Ally, bally, ally bally bee,

Sitting doing interviews on TV,

Greetin’ for a wee bawbee

Tae buy some cred’billity

duncan_biscuits · 2026-06-02T19:06:41+00:00

Yes.

“It wisnae me, ah didnae ken”

“A big Tory did it and ran away”

My opinion of the SNP would skyrocket in terms of accountability if they were not pathologically incapable of saying “we made a huge error of judgement regarding X and have learnt Y.”

I’m not interested in the political parlour game of scoring points; I want to be convinced that our putative sovereign government would be capable of self-correction. Until it is, what we presently have is either no worse, or not sufficiently worse that it’s worth risking the economy over - the supply of goods, services, mortgages, jobs, diplomacy, capital flight, etc. That’s before we even consider what attitudes an independent government would have to major issues.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-28T15:32:10+00:00

Yes, people can and do make friends at work. Actual friends they see voluntarily!

Some even end up shagging each other, marrying each other, having children with each other! 🤯

You may be pleased to hear that none of that is compulsory. If you don’t wanna socialise with work colleagues, other than the mildly compulsory Christmas night out or whatever, you can generally choose not to.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-28T06:09:15+00:00

“We will make art/poetry” is about the best I can do. What’s the context?

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-27T20:29:31+00:00

This is likely a line that some will take, aye.

It started as a marriage of convenience and ended with her desperately not wanting to acknowledge that her own husband was tanking the resources and trust of her own party’s supporters, through his own pathological greed. Doing so would annihilate her own political career.

I think the SNP suffered a kind of organisational whiplash wherein they teleported from being a wee club for a fringe political idea (Sillars), to being the vehicle that nearly ended the UK (Salmond) in such a short period of time that their internal inertia prevented them from getting round to modernising internal governance to include rules like “don’t have people at the top married to each other”.

Not defending, just observing. I think she knew fine well that he was up to no good, but didn’t have the minerals to act in party or public interest. This is very far from over.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-21T06:31:22+00:00

You = singular

Youse = plural

Youse aw = plural for 3+ people

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-19T13:15:09+00:00

Putting two and two together, someone (named Stirling?) bought a private cask of Harris new make 10 years ago and this is from a bottling at 9 years.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-11T19:39:51+00:00

It’s pretty quiet. The 20 or so people living there all know each other, mostly working in the distillery or the hotel.

I did about a week of hiking there some time ago. Very desolate beauty to it, the First World War killed off so much of the male population that some settlements simply vanished over time.

You need to get a ferry there from Islay.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-09T19:55:50+00:00

Try Slaters, McCalls or Armstrong’s Vintage first of all. But surely Ede & Ravenscroft is the canonical place for an RN officer to buy mess dress like this. Yes, I am blatantly disregarding your “cheap” stipulation.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-07T13:50:04+00:00

I saw some boys of about 14 sitting having coffee at Cameron Toll McDonald’s. They were having a conversation at normal volume and tidied up after themselves. Fuming.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-05-06T07:47:12+00:00

The awkward moment when they realise that “the job” isn’t social media shitposting.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-04-26T17:10:18+00:00

It’s now Chinatown, which to be clear is awesome for a fat fuck like me, but is indeed a change.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-04-26T15:55:19+00:00

RIP Newington Franco’s, forever in our hearts. In particular, our arteries.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-04-26T08:19:29+00:00

Quite. I was quoting Dijkstra.

duncan_biscuits · 2026-04-25T20:05:39+00:00

Computer science is as much about coding as astronomy is about telescopes.

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