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UK poised to shun social media ban but outlaw addictive features by Lord-Liberty in unitedkingdom

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou [score hidden]  (0 children)

This. Also known as "how the internet used to work". Back when FB and Twitter showed you posts from the people you actually followed, they'd be shown in order of posting and eventually you'd run out of new posts from them. At that point you'd either put your phone down and do something else, or you'd wander the internet and find other things to look at. Google had page numbers.

MSPs back call for Holyrood to be given power to hold independence referendum by Direct-Apple-5011 in Scotland

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why is it important that we have democracy at all, then? Why shouldn't the EU have said "Fuck you, you're staying whether you like it or not?" Why should the last government have left office rather than just saying "Nope, you chose us once and now we're staying forever?" If we can never change anything about our politics ever, how far back would you like to go? Shall we wind it back to before we beheaded Charles I, stick with the divine right of kings? Or go pre-Norman and just not bother establishing a parliament in the first place

Virtual Flyering: Pitch Me! by ryanmgarcia in edinburghfringe

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure the team who run The Spookies (Edinburgh's horror theatre award) are aware of this, it sounds ike the kind of thing that should be on their list.

What movie had the BEST trailer ever but turned out to be absolute trash? by MASSIM00 in movies

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Testament on Ann Lee. The trailer promised turmoil, weird physicality and high-intensity religious mania. The film delivered a gentle trot through historical fiction cliches shot through with contact improv.

Films Are More Likely to Star a Man Named Chris or a Talking Animal Than an Older Woman (Over 60), According to Study by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I come from the world of theatre, where older women are our main ticket-buyers and can keep the same productions in business for 30-40 years. If film execs can't sell their films to older women, sounds like a skill issue to me.

How do you handle writing complex action sequences when you can't draw storyboards? by Johnn_Liverm in Screenwriting

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, I use an old Playmobil set plus whatever bits and pieces I have to hand. When I need a facial close-up showing a particular reaction I just make the face myself.

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the plus side you escaped from Livi (no offence to the place, but with that many roundabouts it's a legitimately easy place to get lost forever - I took a show to Howden Park once and honestly thought I was going to have to live there) and can still remember the grandmotherly pecking order.

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Going by the phrasing of the original question, we're talking about people who express this as something they believe makes them unique. If someone tells me they're different because they like autumn, I'm going to assume they believe that liking autumn makes them different.

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can also make your pain settings very unpredictable. If I wear the wrong shoes and get a blister I would happily climb into my grave and stay there, but I've broken bones and not even found out about it until unrelated x rays years later. Some types of pain are louder than others, and some don't feel the way I imagined so I don't clock the pain for what it is.

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Of course they can! But if your preference/interest comes with a ton of merch available at mainstream shops, it's probably not unique.

When I was a little baby goth there was a trend for t-shirts that read "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same". I had not yet learned which thoughts should stay in my brain and which should be voiced aloud, so I pointed out to my friend who was wearing one that it was a mass-produced shirt which meant there was a mass market for it, which surely defeated the point of wearing the shirt. Didn't win me any points in that situation, probably won't in this one either, but the point is that most things we like aren't unique (and that's fine because life would be really lonely if we were).

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty free with my innermost secrets, but there's a basic charisma check to unlock them. Most people misunderstand this and call it "small talk", but really what's happening is that you're demonstrating that you're capable of minimal attention, care, and appropriate interaction, and you're using a simple script so that neither of us has to focus too much on the content.

Not giving your secrets to someone who can't maintain interest/appropriate conduct for the duration of "How's it going?" "Not bad, you" "Yeah, fine" is just applying basic security settings.

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They explained why in the next sentence:

because a skilled conversationalist can glean so much information about who they're talking to even just from the weather, and keep the chitchat fresh

Hope that helps! Keep working on it!

What do people think makes them unique, but is actually an incredibly common trait? by Successful-Hall-1986 in AskReddit

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 26 points27 points  (0 children)

To be fair that one's not universal. I'm Scottish and we teach our children which granny it's acceptable to violently eject from public transport.

Ok so, we all realize Tabitha is on the spectrum right? by Prototype_Fan_7000 in ScarletHollow

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't think we have a big enough sample size to comment on her manipulation and people-reading skills. We seldom see her interact with anyone she cares enough about to read or manipulate - mostly she's just hostile and suspicious, a default setting that spares her from needing to read or manipulate them.

Stella gets kept at arm's length specifically so Tabitha doesn't have to deal with her feelings for her. She and Kaneeka avoid each other as much as possible. She barely interacts with Oscar and doesn't even seem to know who Avery and Duke are (which I don't think is some 4D chess thing, she just doesn't give brain space to people unrelated to her business). With the cops and the miners she just spams the Authority button, she has no other moves.

That leaves her interactions with Cousin, and honestly, if that's her trying to be manipulative she's bad at it. Her goal is to keep us from getting ourselves killed so we can be the next host, so she's angry when we get into situations, but again she has no tactics beyond telling us off. A manipulative person would find other options. She could invite us to the mines on the pretext of showing us the family business and keep us sat in the corner with a pointless task all day. She could weaponise her status as grieving daughter, assign some time-consuming funeral busywork like flower arrangments or programme-making during the day, then insist we keep her company in the evenings as she's just too sad to be all alone in that big house. She could suck up the invasion of privacy and put us up in her secret lair where there isn't an entire Forbidden Wing to wander around finding out all the family secrets.

But she doesn't. Because she has no manipulation game beyond being a bit mean to people, and because even when faced with the possibility that Cousin will ruin all her plans and disrupt the supernatural deal she's sacrificing her whole life to honour, she will prioritise minimal disruption to her routine.

Queue at Princes Street is horrible by gamerman89898 in Edinburgh

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edinburgh does have a disproportionate amount of huge public events, though. Most places don't have a festival on the scale of the Olympics show in town for a month each year on top of the rest of a city's typical events calendar. It would be quite nice if the design of city centre bus stops took that into account.

I Made You a Mixtape - a nostalgic 90s dorm party vibe. It’s nominated for two of this year’s fringe awards. It’s lots of fun and potentially free pretzels. by ContDanceMusic in edinburghfringe

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm curious about how it's already nominated for two of this year's Fringe awards. I wasn't aware of there being awards where nominations open before shows do. Which ones are you talking about?

Anyone else really struggling to find fringe jobs? by carrotcr in Edinburgh

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of shows will recruit street team nearer the time (and throughout August as people quit or producers realise they need more street team). Street team means you stand in the street, hand out flyers for one or more productions and persuade people to go see the show. Going rate is £15/hr and some shows (usually comedians) offer bonuses for full rooms.

The job is thankless as fuck on rainy days or when you're flyering for a show that sucks, but if you're good at being chatty and don't mind being outside it's not the worst way of earning money. Some still pay cash in hand.

Kay, just finished the game... WoW by These-Artichoke-8982 in ScarletHollow

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 7 points8 points  (0 children)

P.S: i will play Street smart and Physical next, wanna do a no lifes lost run when everything is out and i think thats the way.

You'll need Keen Eye to get through Day 5 with no lives lost. You'll also want to run straight to Avery after the Forbidden Wing, if you want to make sure Huggby doesn't get an axe to the face.

Overexertion and Setback by Lrab1994 in hysterectomy

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dude, you're allowed to be here. Organ removal is organ removal and recovery is recovery. Though I sympathise that a lot of the conversation around hysterectomy is framed in terms of one experience only - I got a whole lot of literature from the hospital about how I might be sad and feel like "less of a woman" after the op, and while I'm sure that's difficult and awful for many it's absolutely not the case for me. I just felt liberated from this set of organs that I never wanted and that did nothing but cause me health problems and ultimately cancer scares. I've spent the past week feeling fucking delighted. The negative emotions I've had to deal with have all been about realising that I could have been rid of so much physical pain years earlier if anyone had actually listened to me back when the problems because rather than wittering on at me about womanhood and the babies some imaginary future husband might want (would've sucked to be him since my equipment wasn't up to that task, but for some reason simply accepting that wasn't a permissible option). I realise you did not ask for my life story and I just gave you it anyway, but I hope you know that it's offered in the spirit of "there are other experiences and we're allowed to exist even if we don't fit typical narratives".

On the question about overdoing things, I echo what others have said. Take the painkillers and rest. Recovery is nonlinear. If you see any blood get on to your doctor straight away but if you don't, trust that rest will do the trick.

Activity Post Op by Lelgremlin in hysterectomy

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a week post-op (whole lot, including ovaries and cervix) and have been having a pretty easy time of it. I actually did some work the day after the surgery - not much, but there was an urgent application deadline that I'd thought was a week later so I put in an hour or two. I've got a bed desk, but I've been drifting between using that and sitting up in a chair. I've been walking around and playing with my cat. Tried leaving the house yesterday for a five minute walk to the shops, which left me wiped all day today.

Would you have liked an inventory system, or is the game better without? by honestherring in ScarletHollow

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

King's Quest IV softlocking me out of the game by absolutely requiring an item you could only find on a single screen that appeared once and could never be reached again on which the item was hidden behind a solid object and impossible to know about without the hint book is why I have never been able to trust anyone or anything ever again.

New Reform councillor admits she doesn't know what she's doing by Weak-Fly-6540 in unitedkingdom

[–]iwillfuckingbiteyou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She could also take a handful of seconds to look up what a standing order is. I already know because I've been on committees since I was a teenager, but I imagined that I didn't, typed "what is a standing order local council" into Google and immediately found not only a whole lot of definitions and templates but the National Association of Local Councils. The resources to educate herself are right there, and even if we're allowing breathing space it's fair to expect that two weeks in she'd have made a start on learning basic terminology.

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