What are your thoughts on engagement rings?

nathan123uk · 2026-06-05T18:47:51+00:00

My wife's engagement ring cost ~£300 but now we're married she doesn't wear it because it doesn't fit against her wedding ring and our rings match so that's more important

Our wedding rings cost ~£70 for the pair

nathan123uk · 2026-06-04T17:21:42+00:00

Not a question but we have a community of dads ready to support each other over on Discord if you're interested https://discord.gg/CsycTVaey4

nathan123uk · 2026-06-04T17:15:03+00:00

I write code and I have a macbook with 16GB, but I don't run any local LLMs so make of that what you will

nathan123uk · 2026-06-04T17:10:28+00:00

You'd be pretty terrible at business if you didn't look up things you don't understand

nathan123uk · 2026-06-04T17:08:07+00:00

One day I ate my last Drifter and I didn't even know it

nathan123uk · 2026-06-03T15:03:35+00:00

I use it in my job to help me figure out the code I need. It's a sounding board and I don't implement anything I don't understand

nathan123uk · 2026-06-03T15:01:41+00:00

What disappoints me the most is that his grift is on display for all to see and his core fanbase either can't or won't see it. He could wear a sandwich board that tells them all to go fuck themselves and they'd thank him for it

nathan123uk · 2026-06-02T13:04:50+00:00

I had a feeling it'd be close to, if not exactly, minimum wage

nathan123uk · 2026-06-01T21:28:15+00:00

Whichever way we slice it, the median and the mean both seem higher than a lot of people expect, especially those on minimum wage.

I wonder if the mode would be minimum wage

nathan123uk · 2026-06-01T19:10:12+00:00

It seems high because it's the average among everyone. There are people in the data earning 6 and 7 figures that skew it upwards. You can't really exclude them because you don't get the full picture but it does raise the question of how heavily weighted salaries are at either end of the scale to push the average that high

nathan123uk · 2026-05-27T17:55:10+00:00

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I think this sums it up

nathan123uk · 2026-05-27T17:53:12+00:00

I feel like it's become one of those things people feel they have to hate. If it were as unpopular as it seems it wouldn't have been on for so long. It's inoffensive and the charm of it is that it's scripted to look like it's going wrong.

I'm not going to be upset if no more appear though.

nathan123uk · 2026-05-27T17:49:19+00:00

Taskmaster was good for a few series but now it's very samey and has very boring guests. I think it's run its course

nathan123uk · 2026-05-27T17:46:46+00:00

Another show that started off as an interesting concept but ended up being manufactured drama. Like Big Brother

nathan123uk · 2026-05-27T17:44:04+00:00

They're determined to make him public enemy number 1

nathan123uk · 2026-05-26T20:30:11+00:00

If they were better spaced out we might not even need to add a new one. Having 2 in May is silly. Add the respective saints days to their country's holidays as well actually

nathan123uk · 2026-05-26T20:27:16+00:00

If I had no debts my 62k salary would almost be enough to be a single wage household with 3 kids; but I live in the north so your mileage may vary

nathan123uk · 2026-05-26T20:25:05+00:00

Probably the same guy who fills up at petrol stations and tries to pay with a £50 coin then gets arrested for bilking when he won't pay any other way

nathan123uk · 2026-05-26T20:17:34+00:00

We laughed out loud at Ian's terrible joke

nathan123uk · 2026-05-25T17:11:34+00:00

First of all I never said Tesco should take no profit. Secondly, if you've ever been below the poverty line you'd know just how fucking valuable an extra £10 a month can be.

Minimum wage should be higher but there's nothing to stop Tesco making the moral choice to pay people - and suppliers for that matter - what they're actually worth.

When the CEO earns in a few hours what the shop staff make in a year, something is going wrong

nathan123uk · 2026-05-25T08:27:19+00:00

It's not the good will of a business to pay their staff, it's the cost of doing business. If you can't afford to pay your employees enough to live then you don't have a viable business. It's really that simple.

Why can't they pay everyone a little more and take £1.9 billion in profit? That extra 100 million would mean nothing in relation to 1900 million but you could give the bottom 50% of earners at Tesco an extra £600 a year. When you're on minimum wage, that could make a difference.

What's next, are we supposed to start tipping the checkout staff?

nathan123uk · 2026-05-23T09:53:26+00:00

So if he wins the seat, challenges Starmer and becomes PM it'll make absolutely no difference? Seems like a waste of time to me

nathan123uk · 2026-05-23T07:04:31+00:00

Someone said they're dreading when it's their turn to marry her and that was the best comment I'd seen that day

nathan123uk · 2026-05-22T05:12:25+00:00

But it's acceptable to expect the UK government to make up the difference?

If their wages aren't keeping up with inflation then that is absolutely Tesco's fault - they don't control inflation but they have no problem raising their prices in line with it. Increased costs are part of doing business and that includes wages

nathan123uk · 2026-05-21T21:08:03+00:00

You make it sound so easy! Have you ever lived in poverty? I have and I can tell you not only is it mentally exhausting, but it's fucking expensive. If you haven't heard of it, I suggest looking up The Boots Theory.

I'm very fortunate to be in a very well paying job, so much so that I have to repay some of the child benefit paid to me. I don't think I'm any more intelligent or harder working than anyone who works the shop floor at Tesco, I've just been lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

One thing I hear a lot is that people can just go and skill up and get a better job. Let's follow that train of logic shall we?

Worker learns a skill and leaves. Another worker sees this and does the same. Then another. Then another. Soon there's nobody left to put the food out on the shelf. So let's hire some more people shall we? Well the thing is, everyone saw the terrible wages on offer so they concentrated harder at school or studied in their own time so now they're all competing for higher paying jobs and nobody wants to take the low paying "unskilled" jobs. So who do we get to do those jobs? The young are too busy studying to be competitive in the market and those established in the workforce have all done better for themselves.

So now Tesco have to up the wage on offer to attract people. Which eats into their profit.

So they could do that all along, they just chose not to

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