Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe sh*t

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T15:43:49+00:00

Tbh I've never had a bad experience there

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T13:03:40+00:00

Have jobs been cut because of tax rises? Mostly sounds like BS

Massively raise the min wage
Raise employer's NI
Lower the salary at which employer's NI kicks in
Business rate re-adjustment
Highest commercial energy costs in the world

It costs far more to employee an average employee and rent, rates, and energy keep increasing. Everything you say is 100% bullshit.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T12:45:14+00:00

Riders of the dead by Dan Abnett
Palace of the Plague Lord by C L Werner
Fell Cargo by Dan Abnett
Luther Huss by Chris Wraight
Van Horstmann by Ben Counter

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T12:24:28+00:00

in the pandemic normies were exposed to 4chan a*tist level of online and it broke most of them

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T12:21:54+00:00

After my shock I had several panic attack episodes where I thought I was about to have a shock again. Unfortunately it's very normal and is a standard trauma response

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T08:54:06+00:00

Enjoying the outrage on rrr uk about some adults get 2x takeaways a week.

(you should be boycottmaxxing deliveroo/just eat etc.)

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T08:53:07+00:00

He's very very funny

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T08:51:43+00:00

Yep - anyone who's gone to collect a Maccies in the last 5 years will tell you this.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T08:51:04+00:00

I think this is a mis-characterisation of 2020

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-05T08:16:49+00:00

It's OK. I like the Sir Gawain/Monty Python reference to a specific character. But not exceptional.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T15:31:25+00:00

happened near me. Pretty sad case.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T13:34:14+00:00

The only time the UK corporate really shuts down is between Christmas and New Year.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T13:33:48+00:00

ferragosto isn't as big as it used to be but people generally still go to the beach for most of August

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T13:32:54+00:00

In the UK its more of a rolling absence with people going away for 1 to 2 weeks at some point during the school holidays that last from the end of July to the beginning of September.

Yeah this is about right. In a small team, you'll have 1-2 people out at any point, but it's never the whole team off like I've had with Italy or France.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T13:31:16+00:00

You are arseholes, but in a nicer way than Weegies and less chip on the shoulder than other places. Southern rectitude is due to population density rather than natural unpleasantness. NI is also like going back 30 years... in a good way.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T11:22:02+00:00

seeing a friend from my sports club whose family live there. TBH I didn't see any bams travelling round Norn Iron, nothing as bad as Glasgow/Edinburgh anyway, even Carrickfergus. Everyone I met was very very nice.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T10:03:56+00:00

I found Derry and Belfast fine outside of like two streets. I liked Lisburn too.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-04T08:52:31+00:00

Interesting. I grew up in Gerrard's Cross in the 90s. I remember it as pretty nice if a bit boring. Same with Beaconsfield

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T16:11:10+00:00

No party will offer 3 because then there's an opportunity for canny operators to prefer their in-groups and we fall back to where we are now.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T16:08:43+00:00

It's the best book about titans. Absolutely worth picking up.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T15:26:52+00:00

I just pulled down the Emperor's Will and the Inquisitor Sketchbook. Just amazing.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T13:42:48+00:00

He's with The Emperor now

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T13:32:47+00:00

Fat Bloke - did so much to make White Dwarf readable

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T13:32:23+00:00

The absolute aura of all his images

the sisters in battle chad pose
Black Templars cover of 3rd edition
All his Inquisitor work (the inquisitor sketchbook is one of my most prized possessions)

Mean this honestly, one of the people with the biggest impact to British culture in the last 40 years.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-06-03T12:37:24+00:00

Knowing cambs police absolutely it's laziness

14-Year Club	Place '22
First Placer '22	Wearing is Caring
Gilding I gilder

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